Retro: New York City, Christmas Day (Monday, December 25) 1941

[Bob1370]

Source: New York Times

WNBT Ch. 1 (NBC O&O, now WNBC Ch. 4)

Evening
8:30-Hansel & Gretel, musical fairy tale, with Adriana Caselotti, Ivy Dale, others
9:00-Christmas Varieties, with singer Yola Galli, dancers Carla and Fernando, Southernaires Quintet

WCBW Ch. 2 (CBS O&O, now WCBS-TV)

Afternoon
2:30-Police & Fire Department Toy Campaign Christmas Party (until 4 PM)

Evening
8:00-News reports
8:15-Sports with Bob Edge
8:30-CBS Television Quiz with Gil Fates and Frances Buss

W2XWV Ch. 4 (DuMont O&O, later WABD Ch. 5, now WNYW-Fox O&O)
7:30-Selected Films and Tests (until 9:00)

This was the first Christmas for commercial television in the United States.
The CBS Television Quiz was the first regularly scheduled game show on U.S. television and lasted on the air until early 1942.

 

[BMR]

Thanks for posting up this

WCBW Ch. 2 (CBS O&O, now WCBS-TV)


Evening
8:00-News reports
8:15-Sports with Bob Edge
8:30-CBS Television Quiz with Gil Fates and Frances Buss


The CBS Television Quiz was the first regularly scheduled game show on U.S. television and lasted on the air until early 1942.

Any ideas what the prizes were?

 

[bpatrick]

According to Gil Fates, interviewed in Jeff Kiseloff's
"The Box," none. And that's given that the contestants
had been through the ringer: they'd played a proto-"Jeopardy!"
called "Answers In The Questions," they'd performed "Beat The
Clock"-type stunts, and I don't know what else, yet all they got
was a handshake.

I also noticed the name Adriana Caselotti on Ch. 1. She was
the singing voice of Snow White in the Disney classic, and I think
stayed active for several more decades.

 

[FreddyE1977]

8:15-Sports with Bob Edge

Betcha ESPN would just kill to have a guy with a name like BOB EDGE on staff today.
Would be the ideal guy to assign to the X Games.