Retro: Nebraska/Sioux City/Sioux Falls Fri, Jan 8, 1954

[Bluenoser]

from TV Guide-Nebraska edition

KMTV 3-Omaha
8:45 News with Winston Burdette
9:00 Jack Paar
9:30 Wheel of Fortune
10:00 Your TV Home (Bettie Tolson)
10:30 Strike It Rich
11:00 Valiant Lady
11:15 Love of Life
11:30 Search for Tomorrow
11:45 Guiding Light
noon Noon Edition (Bill Talbot)
12:15 Martha's Kitchen Club (Martha Bohlson)
12:30 Garry Moore
1:00 Double or Nothing
1:30 Linkletter's House Party (guest Gail Davis)
2:00 Big Payoff (mink coats are up for grabs)
2:30 Bob Crosby
3:00 You are What You Eat
3:05 Women's Views
3:30 TV Classroom
3:45 Over the Garden Fence (Frank Field)
4:00 Circle 3 Ranch (Rusty)
5:00 Talent Sprouts (Lew Jeffrey)
5:30 South Omaha on Parade (Tom Cary)
6:00 Peter Potter
6:30 TV Feature
7:00 Superman
7:30 Topper
8:00 Playhouse of Stars "Rim of Violence" (host Scott Brady does double duty, as he also is the male lead)
8:30 Our Miss Brooks
9:00 My Friend Irma
9:30 Down You Go
10:00 Weather Sketches (Frank Peddle/B-Nee the weatherbird)
10:05 All the News (NBC's Floyd Kalber was KMTV's News Director in those days)
10:20 Camera on Sports
10:30 Death Valley Days
11:00 KM Starlite Theatre "Sundown"

WOW 6-Omaha
7:00 Today with Garroway (Today in Omaha at 7:25 and 7:55)
9:00 Ding Dong School
9:30 Glamour Girl
10:00 Hawkins Falls
10:15 Three Steps to Heaven
10:30 Bennetts
10:45 Follow Your Heart
11:00 Bride and Groom (marrying Doylestown PA's Barbara Fickes and Oliver Wilson)
11:15 TV Feature
11:40 Daily Meditations (featuring local clergy)
11:45 Midday News
noon Snicker Flickers
12:30 TV Farm Reporter (Mal Hansen)
12:45 Matinee Movie
2:00 Kate Smith (guests Arthur Maxwell and Helena Scott)
3:00 Welcome Travelers
3:30 On Your Account (Win Elliott)
4:00 Connie's Kitchen
4:30 Howdy Doody
5:00 Trail Time
6:00 Stand By for Action
6:20 News/Weather (Ray Clark)
6:30 Eddie Fisher (Eddie's NYC apartment is the setting as he sings some of his RCA Victor songs)
6:45 Camel News Caravan
7:00 Plainclothesman
7:30 From Hollywood: Ford Dealer Show
8:00 Big Story (reporter Nye Beaman of the Waterbury (CT) American looks for (and finds) a hit-and-run driver)
8:30 TV Soundstage "Marked Money"
9:00 Gilette Bouts: a 10-round welterweight fight between Joey Giardello (46-11-5, 14 KO) and Garth Panter (52-12-2, 36 KO)
9:45 Greatest Fights: from July 7, 1952 in Philly, a welterweight fight between Gil Turner and Kid Gavilan
10:00 Omar Weatherman (Chuck Thomas)
10:07 Sports (Jack Payne)
10:15 News (Ray Clark)
10:30 Arlene Dahl's Playhouse
11:00 Charlie Chan

KVTV 9-Sioux City
11:00 Film Subject
11:45 Keyboard Kapers
noon Noon News
12:10 Brighter Day
12:25 Meditation
12:30 Curio Shop
1:00 TV Scrapbook
1:30 Song Shop (Vivien Dale, accompanied on piano and organ by Eddie Osborn)
2:00 Open House (Jan Voss)
2:30 Bob Crosby
3:00 Welcome Travelers
3:30 On Your Account
4:00 Western Roundup
4:30 Howdy Doody
5:00 Crusader Rabbit
5:05 Kids' Korner (Canyon Kid)
5:30 Range Rider (Jack Mahoney)
6:00 Income Tax Program
6:30 News
6:35 Weather (Conrad Johnson)
6:40 TBA
6:45 Camel News Caravan
7:00 Beat the Clock
7:30 Topper
8:00 Times Square Playhouse
8:30 Our Miss Brooks
9:00 Gillette Bouts: Giardello-Panter
9:45 TBA
10:00 Sports (Les Davis)
10:10 Weather
10:20 News
10:30 Musical Moods
10:35 Feature Film "Over the Rainbow"

KFOR 10-Lincoln
5:30pm Comic Club
6:00 News (Av Bondarin)
6:15 Supper Club (Charlie Dugdale)
6:30 Dick Tracy
7:00 Mighty Mitts (lightweight boxing from Lincoln)
7:30 Heart of the City
8:00 City Detective
8:30 Comeback Story (Arlene Francis takes over as permanent hostess)
9:00 We Have Captured
9:30 News
9:45 Weather
9:55 Sports (Jack Bates)
10:00 Candlelight Theater

KELO 11-Sioux Falls
4:30 Garry Moore
4:45 Love of Life
5:00 KELO Lites
5:05 Serial
5:25 Crusader Rabbit
5:30 Gene Autry
6:00 Club Video
6:30 Coke Time (Eddie Fisher welcomes June Keegan)
6:45 Frigidaire News (Bill Wigginton)
6:55 Grain Belt Weather (Gene Platt)
7:00 Dennis Day
7:30 I Love Lucy
8:00 Crusade in the Pacific
8:30 Life with Riley
9:00 TBA
9:30 At Home
9:45 Hunting & Fishing
9:50 At Home
10:00 Old Home Weather (Roger Russell)
10:10 Hamm's Sportsreel (Jim Burt)
10:20 Fenn's News (Wigginton again)

KOLN 12-Lincoln (the station would move later that year to ch 10 after donating ch 12 to the University of Nebraska)
5:30pm Merry & Mr. Bill
6:00 Weather (Joe Kinney)
6:05 Sports (Bud Shaner)
6:15 Lincolnland News (Bob Taylor)
6:20 National & International News
6:30 Make Mine Music
6:45 To Your Health
7:00 RFD No. 12
7:15 TBA
7:30 From Hollywood: Ford Dealer Show
8:00 Curtain Time
9:30 Movie Quick Quiz (Paul Jensen)
9:45 Lincolnland News (By Krasne)
9:50 National & International News (By again)
10:00 Starlight Theater

 

[Corky Marlowe]

I wonder how far back we'd have to go to find an NBC broadcast day with no color shows?

 

[LKellerIII]

There was a show called Wheel of Fortune in 1954? What was it - does anybody know?

 

[bpatrick]

It was an early reality show. People who had done
some sort of good deed came on, emcee Todd Russell
related that person's story, then the person spun the
wheel to determine his or her reward. If that person
hit a special "lucky" space he or she could win an
additional $1000 by correctly answering a question.
In addition to the daytime run, it was a primetime show
on CBS in the summer of 1953.

 

[trusty]

I wonder how far back we'd have to go to find an NBC broadcast day with no color shows?

Just Google "nbc first color program".

 

[Stanislav]

I wonder how far back we'd have to go to find an NBC broadcast day with no color shows?

Just Google "nbc first color program".

Wrong query. There were many, many days of all-B&W programming after the first sporadic colorcasts. The precise (and harder to pin down) question is: what was the last day that NBC (or CBS, or ABC) had not a single color program on the schedule? I'd be willing to bet it was well into the late 50's for NBC, perhaps early 60's for CBS, and mid-60's for ABC.

 

[mleach]

Looking at these listings it may come as a surprise for some that a few of these stations despite being on the air...at the time they did NOT own any TV cameras. I believe it was in the book about Saturday morning local cartoon hosts that came out years ago that had mentioned Sioux Falls's KELO did the "LIVE on FILM" thing meaning that everything that had aired on KELO outside of network programming from commercials to local programs..the only way to air it was to shoot it and run it on film. I believe one of the Lincoln stations had done the same as well. Wonder how much they had spent on chemicals?

 

[bpatrick]

I wonder how far back we'd have to go to find an NBC broadcast day with no color shows?

Just Google "nbc first color program".

Wrong query. There were many, many days of all-B&W programming after the first sporadic colorcasts. The precise (and harder to pin down) question is: what was the last day that NBC (or CBS, or ABC) had not a single color program on the schedule? I'd be willing to bet it was well into the late 50's for NBC, perhaps early 60's for CBS, and mid-60's for ABC.

I'd make a pretty good guess for ABC: September 22, 1962; "The Jetsons" debuted the following night and was offered in color to the full network ("The Flintstones" had been in color only on the o&os, IIRC).

 

[Stanislav]

I wonder how far back we'd have to go to find an NBC broadcast day with no color shows?

Just Google "nbc first color program".

Wrong query. There were many, many days of all-B&W programming after the first sporadic colorcasts. The precise (and harder to pin down) question is: what was the last day that NBC (or CBS, or ABC) had not a single color program on the schedule? I'd be willing to bet it was well into the late 50's for NBC, perhaps early 60's for CBS, and mid-60's for ABC.

I'd make a pretty good guess for ABC: September 22, 1962; "The Jetsons" debuted the following night and was offered in color to the full network ("The Flintstones" had been in color only on the o&os, IIRC).

Yes, but as those were weekly shows, there were clearly many other days of the week when the entire schedule was still in B&W. (You're still missing the point of the question.) It's easy to establish two dates for each network: the first regularly-scheduled colorcast, and the first day the full schedule was in color. Somewhere between those two dates is a point at which, for the last time, an entire broadcast day was still in B&W. This is the type of research best left to someone with a lot of time on their hands, a lot of archival access to TVGs and other schedules, and a real obsessive interest in the subject.

(That's not me, BTW...)

ABC, for example, could only colorcast from film early on, and soaps and prime-time series were still B&W, so apart from the two cartoons and an occasional movie, most individual daily schedules were still all-B&W. Once ABC established a color production facility, and some prime-time shows like Hollywood Palace switched to color, there were still likely a day here and there with no colorcasts.

 

[Corky Marlowe]

Wonder how much they had spent on chemicals?

Not as much as Sid & Marty Krofft, I bet.