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Source; New York Times radio-TV page
WCBS-TV--Channel 2 (CBS O&O)
11:00 AM.-5:00 PM-Test pattern (no regular programming scheduled)
WNBT-Channel 4 (NBC O&O)
Afternoon
1:00-Home Service Club: Tex McCrary and Jinx Falkenberg
1:30-Feature Film: Golgotha
5:30-Howdy-Doody with Buffalo Bob Smith
Afternoon
7:30-Musical Merry-Go-Round-Jack Kilty
7:50-Newsreel-John Cameron Swayze
8:00-Sports. Travel Films
8:30-Stop Me If You've Heard This One
9:00-Sports: Television Newsreel
9:15-Boating Show from Madison Square Garden
10: 30--Telefilms: News
WABD-Channel 5 (DuMont O&O)
Evening
6:05-U. S. Weather Report
6:15-Small Fry Club with Bob Emery
6:45-Walter Compton News from Washington
7:00-Play Room
7:30-Camera Headlines: Films (local news)
8:00-Fashions on Parade
9:30-Film Shorts
9:00-Wrestling, Jamaica Arena
WCBS-TV's spotty schedule in the late winter and early spring of 1948 may be partly the result of re-equipping CBS' New York production centers in preparation for the start of national network service. CBS was in the final stages of a crash program to begin national network service to a group of affiliates in the eastern and midwestern US, line up and prepare feeding programming to potential affiliates before ABC's anticipated summer 1948 rollout. CBS made it, launching its first night of national programming on April 20 with Tonight on Broadway....almost a month ahead of ABC's first network show, Hollywood Screen Test, which had to be put together in haste on an ad-hoc network feeding Baltimore and Washington from Philadelphia because its New York flagship wouldn't be finished until August.
WCBS-TV--Channel 2 (CBS O&O)
11:00 AM.-5:00 PM-Test pattern (no regular programming scheduled)
WNBT-Channel 4 (NBC O&O)
Afternoon
1:00-Home Service Club: Tex McCrary and Jinx Falkenberg
1:30-Feature Film: Golgotha
5:30-Howdy-Doody with Buffalo Bob Smith
Afternoon
7:30-Musical Merry-Go-Round-Jack Kilty
7:50-Newsreel-John Cameron Swayze
8:00-Sports. Travel Films
8:30-Stop Me If You've Heard This One
9:00-Sports: Television Newsreel
9:15-Boating Show from Madison Square Garden
10: 30--Telefilms: News
WABD-Channel 5 (DuMont O&O)
Evening
6:05-U. S. Weather Report
6:15-Small Fry Club with Bob Emery
6:45-Walter Compton News from Washington
7:00-Play Room
7:30-Camera Headlines: Films (local news)
8:00-Fashions on Parade
9:30-Film Shorts
9:00-Wrestling, Jamaica Arena
WCBS-TV's spotty schedule in the late winter and early spring of 1948 may be partly the result of re-equipping CBS' New York production centers in preparation for the start of national network service. CBS was in the final stages of a crash program to begin national network service to a group of affiliates in the eastern and midwestern US, line up and prepare feeding programming to potential affiliates before ABC's anticipated summer 1948 rollout. CBS made it, launching its first night of national programming on April 20 with Tonight on Broadway....almost a month ahead of ABC's first network show, Hollywood Screen Test, which had to be put together in haste on an ad-hoc network feeding Baltimore and Washington from Philadelphia because its New York flagship wouldn't be finished until August.