Retro: Los Angeles, October 7, 1949

[crainbebo]

Channels: 2 KTSL, 4 KNBH, 5 KTLA, 7 KECA, 9 KFI, 11 KTTV, 13 KLAC

2 KTSL
6:45: Test pattern
7PM: Prg: Telenews
7:15: Lee's Lair
7:30: Story of Glaciers
8PM: Touchdown
8:30: Boxing
10:30: Telenews
10:45: Sign off

4 KNBH
1PM: Test pattern
6PM: Jerry Malowne
6:12: Safety Rangers
6:24: Royal Mounted
6:45: Cyclone Malone
7PM: Kukla, Fran and Ollie
7:30: News, Weather
7:45: Morton Downey
8PM: TBA
9:30: Big News
10PM: Late News
10:15: Sign off

5 KTLA
5PM: Test pattern
5:30: News, Music
6PM: Cowboy Thrills
6:15: Telescout Club
6:30: Time for Beany
6:45: Handy Hints
7PM: Melody Menu
7:30: Yer Old Buddy
7:45: Newsreel
8PM: Mutiny on Elsinore
9PM: Meet Me in Hollywood
10PM: Sign off

7 KECA
6:15: Test pattern
6:45: Sleepy Joe
7PM: Think Fast
7:30: Blind Date
8PM: Comedy Theatre
8:30: Wrestling
9:30: Sign off

9 KFI
Noon: News
12:10: Ladies Day
12:45: Guestbook
1PM: Shop, Look, Listen
1:15: Meet World
1:45: Cook's Corner
2PM: Joy of Living
2:30: Nancy Martin
2:50: Are Ya Lookin'?
3:35: World of Garden
3:45: Report to Mrs. America
4:05: Bridge Club
4:15: Apples for Teacher
4:40: Mailbag
5PM: Magic Lady & Boko
5:10: Burrit Wheeler
5:30: Film
5:45: Sports; News
6PM: Sign off

11 KTTV
2PM: Test pattern
6PM: Cowboy Slim
6:30: Pet Exchange
7PM: News
7:15: The Meakins
7:30: Bozo's Circus
8PM: Movie: "No Limit"
9:15: Movie: "Okinawa Invasion"
10:30: Sign off

13 KLAC
1PM: Test pattern
6PM: Kemper's Kapers
6:30: Mickey O' Day
6:45: Western Film
7PM: Racing News
7:15: Eddie and Ev
7:30: Hail Champ
8PM: Baseball Playoffs
10PM: Sign off

-crainbebo

 

[oldschooler1]

I know this posting has been here for a week or more -- but it's curious how few network shows are on this schedule. Even on the NBC affiliate, on a Sunday night.

I know, the coax cable from the east wouldn't be around for another 2 years or so...Wasn't Jerry Lewis & Dean Martin's Colate Comedy Hour shows done live for the west coast from LA, then kine'd for the rest of the country, at this time?

BTW...The local cable outlet, on an access channel, will run the public-domain shows, and I caught an entire episode of Colgate Comedy hour with them last night. Excellent quality, with original spots and sponsor billboards. A real gem, a national treasure in the archives.

 

[KeithE4]

I believe the LA network lineups in 1949 were as follows:

KTSL Ch. 2 was Dumont.
KNBH Ch. 4 was NBC (O&O).
KTLA Ch. 5 was Paramount (Dumont O&O - see below).
KECA-TV Ch. 7 was ABC (O&O).
KFI-TV Ch. 9 was an independent.
KTTV Ch. 11 was CBS (partial O&O - co-owned by CBS and the LA Times)
KLAC-TV Ch. 13 was an independent.

The Paramount Television Network existed from 1949 to 1953. It distributed 5 shows - the best-known one was A Time For Beany - to 40 affiliates at its peak in 1950. But since Paramount had a stake in Dumont as well, the FCC considered KTLA to be a Dumont O&O, despite Dumont programming being aired on KTSL rather than KTLA.

 

[Tim L]

I never thought of Paramount as a "Network" between 1949-53..Which brings to mind the question,,Why did Paramount basically allow the DuMont Network to fold, when they could have, between their's and DuMont's resources, possibly sustained a Fourth network in the 1950's?

 

[KeithE4]

I never thought of Paramount as a "Network" between 1949-53..Which brings to mind the question,,Why did Paramount basically allow the DuMont Network to fold, when they could have, between their's and DuMont's resources, possibly sustained a Fourth network in the 1950's?

By today's (or even later in the '50s) standards it wasn't. But with no direct connection to the east coast in those days, it was just as much a "network" as any that distributed programming via kinescope back then - as did CBS, NBC, ABC, and Dumont prior to 1951.

 

[oldiesfan6479]

I know, the coax cable from the east wouldn't be around for another 2 years or so...Wasn't Jerry Lewis & Dean Martin's Colate Comedy Hour shows done live for the west coast from LA, then kine'd for the rest of the country, at this time?

Brooks & Marsh indicate that while The Colgate Comedy Hour premiered on 09/10/50, its first El Lay originated-broadcast was not until 09/30/51. Prior to then it was "live from New York, it's Sunday night!" or however they opened it. The left coast probably saw it via kinescope, some days or a week later.

Apparently the El Lay-originated shows were back-hauled live to the east from the get go, since according to this 1951 article, AT&T had the transcontinental cable up and running in time for the first coast-to-coast TV broadcast--a speech by President Truman on 09/04/51.

It also notes the transcon Telco lines were available for regular broadcasts in either direction on 09/28/51, two days before Colgate went "live from Hollywood."

The See It Now broadcast of 11/18/51 was probably the first instance of a program to have live shots from both coasts.