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Retro: Kansas City, July 4-5, 1953

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DM601

(Source: Atchison, Kans., Daily Globe 7/3/53)

WDAF-TV, Channel 4, was an CBS-NBC-ABC-Dumont affiliate and had been Kansas City's lone station since 1949; that would soon change as KMBC-TV and KCTV would sign on by the end of 1953.

Saturday, July 4, 1953
AM
9 Space Patrol (ABC)
9:30 TBA
10 The Big Top (CBS)
11 TBA
11:30 Hopalong Cassidy (syndicated)
PM
12:00 Wild Bill Hickok (syndicated)
12:30 Indiana Drifters (local)
1 Date With Judy (ABC, delayed from Wednesday night)
1:30 The Doctor (NBC from Sunday night; last night was 6/28/53, so this was probably the last show of the series)
2 TBA
2:30 Down You Go (Dumont from Friday night)
3 Super Circus (ABC from Sunday)
4 Beat the Clock (CBS from Saturday night)
4:30 Name’s The Same (ABC from Tuesday night)
5 News, Sports
5:15 Invitation Playhouse
5:30 My Son Jeep (NBC)
6 My Hero (NBC)
6:30 Ted Mack Amateur Hour (NBC)
7 Saturday Night Revue (NBC) (summer replacement for Your Show Of Shows)
8:30 Private Secretary (NBC)
9 Cavalcade of America (NBC from Wednesday night)
9:30 News
9:40 Sports
9:45 TBA
10 Wrestling (Dumont)
11 The Big Picture (syndicated by U.S. Army)
11:30 Sign off

Sunday, July 5, 1953
AM
9:30 This is the Life (ABC)
10 Trouble With Father (syndicated Stu Erwin Show reruns)
10:30 TBA
11 The Hippodrome
11.30 Frontiers of Faith
PM
12 Telenews Weekly
12:15 Three Guesses
12:30 Laugh Time
1 Roundup Time
1:30 The Lone Ranger (ABC from Thursday night)
2 TBA
2:30 Hollywood Half Hour
3 Recital Hall
3:30 Masquerade Party (CBS from Monday night)
4 The Cisco Kid (syndicated)
4:30 Cases of Eddie Drake (Dumont)
5 Pulpit Portraits
5:05 Sports
5:15 News
5:25 Weather
5:30 Mr. Peepers (NBC)
6 The Big Payoff (NBC)
7 GE Theater (CBS)
7:30 I Love Lucy (CBS from Monday night)
8 TBA
8:30 Dragnet (NBC from Thursday night)
9 I’m The Law (syndicated)
9:30 News
9:40 Weather
9:45 Lilli Palmer
10 You Asked For It (ABC from earlier Sunday)
10:30 Rocky King (Dumont)
11 Plainclothesmen (Dumont)
11:30 Sign off
 
I seem to recall reading that Ted Mack's Amateur Hour
originated from Kansas City one Saturday night around
this time (this is when it was on NBC Saturdays at 8:30
EDT), and it almost didn't get on because the technical
people at WDAF were on strike. Apparently the strike
was settled only hours before airtime. Do you know
anything about this?
 
According to Clarke Ingram's excellent DuMont Network Histroy site, DuMont bought Herbert Mayer's Permit for KCTY-UHF channel 25 to make it a full DuMont O&O..The transaction was Completed January 1, 1954. By February 28, 1954 DuMont gave up, as there were by this time 3 Solid Kansas City VHF's..DuMont was already in trouble and there were not enough UHF viewers in KC to merit the expense..Full story at the link below..

http://members.aol.com/cingram/television/dumont6.htm

(Part of a larger article about UHF in the 1950's generally)
 
bpatrick said:
I seem to recall reading that Ted Mack's Amateur Hour
originated from Kansas City one Saturday night around
this time (this is when it was on NBC Saturdays at 8:30
EDT), and it almost didn't get on because the technical
people at WDAF were on strike. Apparently the strike
was settled only hours before airtime. Do you know
anything about this?
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The only thing I've discovered about the strike was that it was around Memorial Day 1953; can't find anything about exact dates or when the strike was resolved.
 
Actually, May sounds right; I knew it was in the spring
or early summer. All I'm sure of is that Ted had planned
to do his show from Kansas City, and that the strike was
settled just in time for him to do so.
 
DM601 said:
WDAF-TV, Channel 4, was an CBS-NBC-ABC-Dumont affiliate and had been Kansas City's lone station since 1949; that would soon change as KMBC-TV and KCTV would sign on by the end of 1953.
Click to expand...

Right after the FCC freeze was lifted.

KMBC-TV was on Channel 9 then and now. KCTV signed on as KCMO-TV on Channel 5; the call letters were changed in 1983.
 
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