Retro: New York City Mon, June 24, 1957

[Bluenoser]

from New York Herald Tribune

WCBS 2-CBS
7:00 Jimmy Dean (week's guests the Hansen Sisters and Lew Childre)
7:45 News
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
8:45 News
9:00 Stu Erwin "Interior Decorating"
9:30 My Little Margie
10:00 Garry Moore
10:30 Arthur Godfrey Time
11:30 Strike It Rich
noon Valiant Lady
12:15 Love of Life
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1:00 News (Walter Cronkite)
1:10 Stand Up & Be Counted (Bob Russell)
1:30 As the World Turns
2:00 Our Miss Brooks
2:30 Linkletter's House Party
3:00 Big Payoff
3:30 Bob Crosby (guests the Hi-Los)
4:00 Brighter Day
4:15 Secret Storm
4:30 Edge of Night
5:00 Amos 'n' Andy
5:30 Early Show "Between Two Women"
7:00 World News (Robert Trout)
7:05 New York Report (Ron Cochran)
7:10 Weather (Carol Reed)
7:15 CBS News
7:30 Robin Hood Adventures
8:00 Burns & Allen
8:30 Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts
9:00 I Love Lucy
9:30 December Bride "Mother-in-Law Club"
10:00 Studio One Summer Theater "The Goodwill Ambassadors"
11:00 News (Ron Cochran)
11:10 Weather (Carol Reed)/Sports (Bill Hickey)
11:15 Late Show "The Fighting Seabees"
1:09 Late Late Show "The Cat and the Fiddle"

WRCA 4-NBC
7:00 Today (Jack Lescoulie guest hosts while Dave Garroway is on vacation; segment on Kataro Suto, South Florida's version of Johnny Appleseed...guests women's US Open golf champ Kathy Cornelius, Gene Kelly, and former Rep. Fred Hartley)
10:00 Home (a report of progresssive teaching methods with host Arlene Francis joined by Hugh Downs and a teacher)
11:00 Price is Right
11:30 Truth or Consequences
noon Tic Tac Dough
12:30 It Could Be You
1:00 Tex & Jinx (guest Yvonne deCarlo)
1:30 Club Sixty (c/Dennis James)
2:30 Tennessee Ernie Ford
3:00 Matinee Theater "Stopover" (c)
4:00 Queen for a Day
4:45 Modern Romances
5:00 Dear Phoebe
5:30 Movie 4 "Les Miserables"
6:45 News (Gabe Pressman, followed by Ken Banghart at 6:50)
6:55 Weather (Lynn Dollar)
7:00 Highway Patrol
7:30 Nat King Cole
7:45 NBC News
8:00 Sir Lancelot "The Outcast"
8:30 Tales of Wells Fargo
9:00 Twenty One
9:30 Robert Montgomery Presents "Faust '57" (c/Bruce Gordon and Louis Edmonds star in a modern take of the legend)
10:30 Code 3 "The Nelson Case"
11:00 News (J.K.M. McCaffery)
11:10 Weather (Tex Antoine)
11:15 Tonight Show (studio guests Hy Gardner, Earl Wilson, Bob Considine, Irv Kupcinet, and Paul Coates; report on Oklahoma City's semi-centennial celebrations; remote from the Hotel New Yorker with performers Gigi Gryce, Art Taylor, Wendell MArshall, and Duke Jordan)

WABD 5-DuMont
9:00 Sandy Becker
10:00 Weather (Sandy Becker)
10:15 Tune In Anytime Theater "Love, Life and Laughter"
3:00 Liberace
3:30 Edgar Kennedy Comedies
4:00 Wendy Barrie
4:30 Mr. & Mrs. North
5:00 Sheldon's Studio Party
5:30 Captain Video
6:00 Gene Autry
6:30 Looney Tunes
7:00 Ray Milland "The Hangout"
7:30 Judge Roy Bean "The Fugitive"
8:00 Frontier "Assassin"
8:30 Confidential File "Kid Gangs"
9:00 Racket Squad "Kite Squad"
9:30 Boxing Preliminaries
10:00 Tomorrow's Champs
10:30 Boxing: from St. Nicholas Arena, 10-round welterweight action between Valley Stream's Gale Kerwin (23-4-1/5 KO) and Astoria's Tony DiBiase (17-2-1/4 KO)
11:15 At Ringside (Gussie Moran interviews Dan Topping)
11:30 Screen Souvenirs
mid. James Mason Spotlight (James, his wife Pamela, and Richard Burton read from literature)

WABC 7-ABC
7:30 Early Bird Cartoons
8:00 Tinker's Work Shop
8:30 Tinkertoons
9:30 Morning Feature "One Touch of Venus"
11:00 Road of Romance "Taming of the Shrewd"
11:30 Cartoon Comedies
noon Time for Fun
12:30 Joe Franklin
1:30 Afternoon Show "Room Service"
3:00 Afternoon Film Festival "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp" (pt 1)
4:30 Cartoon Club
5:00 Mickey Mouse Club
6:00 Oswald Rabbit & Pals
6:30 Corliss Archer
7:00 Sports (Howard Cosell)
7:15 News (John Daly)
7:30 Wire Service "The Night of August Seventh"
8:30 Bold Journey "Caravan to Niling" (Dr. Michael Hagoplan narrates film of his visit to the village, located 13,000 ft above sea level in the Tibetan Himalayas)
9:00 Press Conference (anti-Civil Rights leader Sen. James O. Eastland (D-MS) discusses the Southern battle against President Eisenhower's Civil Rights program)
9:30 Welk's Top Talent (guests 11-yr-old violinist Dwayne Wear, trombonist Ken Tiffany, and guitarist Lauren Ragland)
10:30 Dr. Christian
11:00 News (John Cameron Swayze)
11:10 Night Show "Adventure in Manhattan"

WNHC 8-ABC/CBS New Haven
7:00 Breakfast Time
8:30 Happy the Clown
9:00 Movietime, USA "Absolute Quiet"
10:30 This, Our Faith
11:00 University of the Air
11:30 My Little Margie
noon News (George Thompson)
12:15 Love of Life
12:30 Bugs Bunny
1:00 Hollywood's Best "The Lottery Bride"
2:45 Meet the Stars
3:00 Live Copy
3:45 Cartoon Carnival
4:00 (American?) Bandstand
5:00 Mickey Mouse Club
6:00 Popeye the Sailor
6:10 News/Sports/Weather
6:30 Stage 8 "Red Wine"
7:00 Sheriff of Cochise "Approach with Caution"
7:30 Wire Service "The Night of August Seventh"
8:30 Bold Journey "Caravan to Niling"
9:00 Tell It to the Mayor
9:30 Welk's Top Talent
10:30 News/Weather
10:45 World's Best Movies "No More Ladies"
12:30 News

WOR 9-Ind
1:30pm Screening the World
2:00 Scrub Club
3:00 Ted Steele (guest: ballet dancer Sano Osata)
4:55 News
5:00 Steele's Bandstand
6:00 Round-Up "Chinese Stick"
6:30 Terrytoon Circus (Claude Kirchner)
7:00 Million Dollar Movie "Born to Kill"
8:30 Greatest Fights (from 1937: Joe Louis v Tommy Farr)
8:40 Happy Felton's Press Box
8:55 Baseball: Dodgers-St. Louis
11:45 Million Dollar Mocie (repeat from 7pm)

WPIX 11-Ind
1:30pm Sightseeing "Colorado Vacationland"
2:00 Marriage "In Older Years"
2:30 Hollywood Movietime "Invisible Wall"
4:00 First Show "Brewster's Millions"
5:30 Clubhouse Gang
6:00 Popeye the Sailor
6:30 Combat Sergeant "Destined for Death"
7:00 News (Kevin Kennedy)
7:10 Weatherman (Joe Bolton)
7:15 News (John Tillman)
7:30 Susie "The Brass Ring"
8:00 Stage Seven "Happy New Year"
8:30 San Francisco Beat "The Wharton Case"
9:00 City Detective "The Cruise Ship"
9:30 Inner Sanctum "Port of Regrets"
10:00 Public Defender "The Forger"
10:30 Fabian of the Yard "Ribbon Trap"
11:00 Inspector Mark Saber "Snowman Murder"
11:30 New York Crusade (Billy Graham)
11:45 News

WATV 13-Ind
noon Junior Carnival
12:30 Western Theater "Overland Trail"
1:30 Feature Film "White Pango"
3:00 Veteran's Coffee Club (in pt 1 host Col. Salvatore A. Bontempo and NJ Dept of Defence chief of staff Gen. James F. Cantrell discuss the new Naval Guard Academy; pt 2 features the Civil Air Patrol)
3:30 This is Fairleigh Dickinson "US Policy in the Middle East" (Dr. Sidney Kronish and his guests discuss the topic)
4:00 Feature Film "I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes"
5:30 Junior Frolics
6:30 Flash Gordon
7:00 Play Ball (Bert Lee Jr.)
7:30 Famous All-Star Movie "Behind Green Lights"
9:00 Command Performance "Quiet Please, Murder"
10:30 Famous All-Star Movie (repeat from 7:30)
mid. Newsreel (John Gleason)
12:05 Foreign Correspondent "Diamonds"
12:30 Ringside with Rasslers (The Bushman takes on Andre Drappe)

WICC 43-ABC/DuMont Bridgeport
9pm TV Press Conference (this was the only program listed)

 

[Cincinnati Kid]

"American Bandstand" did not get on the ABC-TV Network until August of 1957. As such, the "Bandstand" show on WNHC, Channel 8, in New Haven would have been something else. In June of that year, Dick Clark was hosting "Bandstand" on weekday afternoons, but it was only televised live by WFIL-TV, Channel 6, in Philadelphia. It became "American Bandstand" when it went on the network.

 

[MCarney]

It was a local show, starting in October 1956 and the title was "The Connecticut Bandstand" (usually shortened to "Bandstand" in TV listings). It was on at least until the early 1960s. Hosts included Jim Gallant, Diggie Nevins and Mike Sapack. This is from a March 1961 article in Billboard.

 

[Joseph_Gallant]

Although it may have been listed by the New York Herald-Tribune as "Tonight Show", I believe the program was actually titled "America After Dark".

The listing did not indicate who was host that night, but Hy Gardner, Earl Wilson, and Bob Considine were regulars on that show.

Jack Lescoulie had left the show by this time (and returned that week to "Today"; he was guest host on the 24th and became a regular when Dave Garroway returned from vacation), and New York jazz disc jockey Al "Jazzbo" Collins had become host.

I believe that NBC had already decided to cancel "America After Dark" and bring-in Jack Paar to revive the previous talk/variety format ("America After Dark", from what I've heard, was more like a late-night version of "Today") and that Collins was an interim host until Paar and his producers were ready to take over, which was in late July.

There was good reason: Not only did most of the large viewership Steve Allen had dissipated, but the number of NBC stations carrying "Tonight" had dropped by more than half during the "America After Dark" fiasco: At the end, only about 60 (of about 165) NBC stations carried the show. When Paar took over, I believe the number of stations immediately jumped to about 65, and had passed 100 stations by the end of 1957; and by 1959, was seen on all but a handful of NBC stations (and where the NBC station declined to clear it, on another station in that market).

Incidentally, June 24th, 1957 was also the date when the two Group W/Westinghouse stations (WBZ-4 Boston and KYW-3, then in Cleveland) which were affiliated with NBC at the time stopped carrying "America After Dark". WBZ wouldn't carry the show again until 1966, almost four years after Johnny Carson took over; "Tonight" wouldn't be back on the NBC station in Cleveland until some months after NBC swapped KYW with the then-WRCV-3 Philadelphia.

In Boston, the old WHDH-5 began running "Tonight" once it began broadcasting in November of 1957 (and continued carrying it until 1966); in Cleveland, WEWS-5 carried Paar (and later Carson) until after NBC regained an O&O in Cleveland. I believe some sort of contractual arrangement with WEWS prevented the now-WKYC-3 from picking-up Johnny in Cleveland for some months after NBC acquired the station.

 

[FredLeonard]

Just curious: What was NBC4 running at 9am? I assume a local show or did the station take central time feed of the Today Show (a live repeat of the 7am hour)?

Was the 1pm News with Cronkite a local show? It's strange to see network correspondents doing local news broadcasts for CBS2 but this was before Jack Schneider took local news away from the CND (a move portrayed in "Network").

ABC7 did a 15 minute sports show at 7pm leading into network news and no local news?

Wasn't Dumont out of business by this time? Maybe they still held the license for what's now Fox5 but network operations would have ceased.

7:30pm CBS "The Adventures of Robin Hood" A really great show. Cozi and RTV are running it now. It holds up very well. An ensemble of British actors and great writing from Blacklisted US writers working under pseudonyms.

 

[MCarney]

DuMont ceased entertainment programming in September 1955, and sports programming about a year later.

As for Cronkite @ 1p, that was a network newscast leading into "Stand Up and Be Counted".

 

[KeithE4]

Wasn't Dumont out of business by this time? Maybe they still held the license for what's now Fox5 but network operations would have ceased.

The Dumont network was long gone by 1957, but it was still the name of the company that held the WABD license. It wasn't changed to Metropolitain Broadcasting, later Metromedia, until 1958. But for some reason, TV Guide still listed WABD and some other ex-Dumont affiliates as Dumont rather than Independent long after the network shut down.

 

[hubcity]

7:30pm CBS "The Adventures of Robin Hood" A really great show. Cozi and RTV are running it now. It holds up very well. An ensemble of British actors and great writing from Blacklisted US writers working under pseudonyms.

Including Ring Lardner, Jr!

According to Wikipedia, this show had a fairly unique ping-pong broadcast history...

- Produced by ITC Entertainment, Lew Grade's production company, after being enticed by an American distributor and a producer who was really (it would appear) trying to get blacklisted writers some work.
- Premiered on ATV London on September 25, 1955 (a Sunday; ATV London only broadcast on weekends, with Associated-Rediffusion taking over on weekdays.)
- Premiered on CBS in the US the next day.
- Premiered on ATV Midlands a few months later, in February 1956.

 

[Markxxx]

I love how they used to program cartoon and children's shows at 6pm and the like.

 

[bpatrick]

It's a little complicated, but the "Today" show aired live 7-9 AM in
the Eastern time zone. The Central time zone got the second hour
(8-9 ET/7-8 CT) live, then the first Eastern hour aired on tape (or\
was recreated before the advent of tape) as the second Central hour.
Thus, NBC's East Coast affiliates had 9-10 for themselves; the Central
time zone would go straight into the show airing at 10 (ET).

That night on "Twenty-One" a new contestant played the current champion,
Hank Bloomgarden, to a 21-21 tie before defeating him. That man, according to
New York assistant DA Joe Stone, clinched the idea that the show was
rigged. Harold Craig, a dairy farmer from Hebron, NY, who won $106,000,
gave an interview to Life magazine in September in which he said that the
producers had ways of getting rid of contestants they no longer wanted.
Rather than subpoena him, given the distance from New York City, Stone
called Craig and asked him to come down and tell him what he knew. At
first a couple of assistant DAs harassed Craig to the point of tears (literally)
before Stone called them off. Craig said, "I can't lie. I just can't lie." After being
allowed to use the men's room to square himself away, he told Stone everything,
and everything meshed with what Herb Stempel and James Snodgrass had already
told Stone about the show. What made Craig more credible, Stone said years later,
was just who he was; he had no beef with Dan Enright (as Stempel did), nor did he
have some unknown reason to blow the whistle (as Snodgrass did); he was a just a
decent guy whose conscience got the better of him. (BTW, last I heard, Craig was
still living in Hebron; he's now in his 80s and apparently living a quiet life.)

 

[TVCOOL]

from New York Herald Tribune

WCBS 2-CBS
7:00 Jimmy Dean (week's guests the Hansen Sisters and Lew Childre)
7:45 News
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
8:45 News
9:00 Stu Erwin "Interior Decorating"
9:30 My Little Margie
10:00 Garry Moore
10:30 Arthur Godfrey Time
11:30 Strike It Rich
noon Valiant Lady
12:15 Love of Life
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1:00 News (Walter Cronkite)
1:10 Stand Up & Be Counted (Bob Russell)
1:30 As the World Turns
2:00 Our Miss Brooks
2:30 Linkletter's House Party
3:00 Big Payoff
3:30 Bob Crosby (guests the Hi-Los)
4:00 Brighter Day
4:15 Secret Storm
4:30 Edge of Night
5:00 Amos 'n' Andy
5:30 Early Show "Between Two Women"
7:00 World News (Robert Trout)
7:05 New York Report (Ron Cochran)
7:10 Weather (Carol Reed)
7:15 CBS News
7:30 Robin Hood Adventures
8:00 Burns & Allen
8:30 Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts
9:00 I Love Lucy
9:30 December Bride "Mother-in-Law Club"
10:00 Studio One Summer Theater "The Goodwill Ambassadors"
11:00 News (Ron Cochran)
11:10 Weather (Carol Reed)/Sports (Bill Hickey)
11:15 Late Show "The Fighting Seabees"
1:09 Late Late Show "The Cat and the Fiddle"

WRCA 4-NBC
7:00 Today (Jack Lescoulie guest hosts while Dave Garroway is on vacation; segment on Kataro Suto, South Florida's version of Johnny Appleseed...guests women's US Open golf champ Kathy Cornelius, Gene Kelly, and former Rep. Fred Hartley)
10:00 Home (a report of progresssive teaching methods with host Arlene Francis joined by Hugh Downs and a teacher)
11:00 Price is Right
11:30 Truth or Consequences
noon Tic Tac Dough
12:30 It Could Be You
1:00 Tex & Jinx (guest Yvonne deCarlo)
1:30 Club Sixty (c/Dennis James)
2:30 Tennessee Ernie Ford
3:00 Matinee Theater "Stopover" (c)
4:00 Queen for a Day
4:45 Modern Romances
5:00 Dear Phoebe
5:30 Movie 4 "Les Miserables"
6:45 News (Gabe Pressman, followed by Ken Banghart at 6:50)
6:55 Weather (Lynn Dollar)
7:00 Highway Patrol
7:30 Nat King Cole
7:45 NBC News
8:00 Sir Lancelot "The Outcast"
8:30 Tales of Wells Fargo
9:00 Twenty One
9:30 Robert Montgomery Presents "Faust '57" (c/Bruce Gordon and Louis Edmonds star in a modern take of the legend)
10:30 Code 3 "The Nelson Case"
11:00 News (J.K.M. McCaffery)
11:10 Weather (Tex Antoine)
11:15 Tonight Show (studio guests Hy Gardner, Earl Wilson, Bob Considine, Irv Kupcinet, and Paul Coates; report on Oklahoma City's semi-centennial celebrations; remote from the Hotel New Yorker with performers Gigi Gryce, Art Taylor, Wendell MArshall, and Duke Jordan)

WABD 5-DuMont
9:00 Sandy Becker
10:00 Weather (Sandy Becker)
10:15 Tune In Anytime Theater "Love, Life and Laughter"
3:00 Liberace
3:30 Edgar Kennedy Comedies
4:00 Wendy Barrie
4:30 Mr. & Mrs. North
5:00 Sheldon's Studio Party
5:30 Captain Video
6:00 Gene Autry
6:30 Looney Tunes
7:00 Ray Milland "The Hangout"
7:30 Judge Roy Bean "The Fugitive"
8:00 Frontier "Assassin"
8:30 Confidential File "Kid Gangs"
9:00 Racket Squad "Kite Squad"
9:30 Boxing Preliminaries
10:00 Tomorrow's Champs
10:30 Boxing: from St. Nicholas Arena, 10-round welterweight action between Valley Stream's Gale Kerwin (23-4-1/5 KO) and Astoria's Tony DiBiase (17-2-1/4 KO)
11:15 At Ringside (Gussie Moran interviews Dan Topping)
11:30 Screen Souvenirs
mid. James Mason Spotlight (James, his wife Pamela, and Richard Burton read from literature)

WABC 7-ABC
7:30 Early Bird Cartoons
8:00 Tinker's Work Shop
8:30 Tinkertoons
9:30 Morning Feature "One Touch of Venus"
11:00 Road of Romance "Taming of the Shrewd"
11:30 Cartoon Comedies
noon Time for Fun
12:30 Joe Franklin
1:30 Afternoon Show "Room Service"
3:00 Afternoon Film Festival "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp" (pt 1)
4:30 Cartoon Club
5:00 Mickey Mouse Club
6:00 Oswald Rabbit & Pals
6:30 Corliss Archer
7:00 Sports (Howard Cosell)
7:15 News (John Daly)
7:30 Wire Service "The Night of August Seventh"
8:30 Bold Journey "Caravan to Niling" (Dr. Michael Hagoplan narrates film of his visit to the village, located 13,000 ft above sea level in the Tibetan Himalayas)
9:00 Press Conference (anti-Civil Rights leader Sen. James O. Eastland (D-MS) discusses the Southern battle against President Eisenhower's Civil Rights program)
9:30 Welk's Top Talent (guests 11-yr-old violinist Dwayne Wear, trombonist Ken Tiffany, and guitarist Lauren Ragland)
10:30 Dr. Christian
11:00 News (John Cameron Swayze)
11:10 Night Show "Adventure in Manhattan"

WNHC 8-ABC/CBS New Haven
7:00 Breakfast Time
8:30 Happy the Clown
9:00 Movietime, USA "Absolute Quiet"
10:30 This, Our Faith
11:00 University of the Air
11:30 My Little Margie
noon News (George Thompson)
12:15 Love of Life
12:30 Bugs Bunny
1:00 Hollywood's Best "The Lottery Bride"
2:45 Meet the Stars
3:00 Live Copy
3:45 Cartoon Carnival
4:00 (American?) Bandstand
5:00 Mickey Mouse Club
6:00 Popeye the Sailor
6:10 News/Sports/Weather
6:30 Stage 8 "Red Wine"
7:00 Sheriff of Cochise "Approach with Caution"
7:30 Wire Service "The Night of August Seventh"
8:30 Bold Journey "Caravan to Niling"
9:00 Tell It to the Mayor
9:30 Welk's Top Talent
10:30 News/Weather
10:45 World's Best Movies "No More Ladies"
12:30 News

WOR 9-Ind
1:30pm Screening the World
2:00 Scrub Club
3:00 Ted Steele (guest: ballet dancer Sano Osata)
4:55 News
5:00 Steele's Bandstand
6:00 Round-Up "Chinese Stick"
6:30 Terrytoon Circus (Claude Kirchner)
7:00 Million Dollar Movie "Born to Kill"
8:30 Greatest Fights (from 1937: Joe Louis v Tommy Farr)
8:40 Happy Felton's Press Box
8:55 Baseball: Dodgers-St. Louis
11:45 Million Dollar Mocie (repeat from 7pm)

WPIX 11-Ind
1:30pm Sightseeing "Colorado Vacationland"
2:00 Marriage "In Older Years"
2:30 Hollywood Movietime "Invisible Wall"
4:00 First Show "Brewster's Millions"
5:30 Clubhouse Gang
6:00 Popeye the Sailor
6:30 Combat Sergeant "Destined for Death"
7:00 News (Kevin Kennedy)
7:10 Weatherman (Joe Bolton)
7:15 News (John Tillman)
7:30 Susie "The Brass Ring"
8:00 Stage Seven "Happy New Year"
8:30 San Francisco Beat "The Wharton Case"
9:00 City Detective "The Cruise Ship"
9:30 Inner Sanctum "Port of Regrets"
10:00 Public Defender "The Forger"
10:30 Fabian of the Yard "Ribbon Trap"
11:00 Inspector Mark Saber "Snowman Murder"
11:30 New York Crusade (Billy Graham)
11:45 News

WATV 13-Ind
noon Junior Carnival
12:30 Western Theater "Overland Trail"
1:30 Feature Film "White Pango"
3:00 Veteran's Coffee Club (in pt 1 host Col. Salvatore A. Bontempo and NJ Dept of Defence chief of staff Gen. James F. Cantrell discuss the new Naval Guard Academy; pt 2 features the Civil Air Patrol)
3:30 This is Fairleigh Dickinson "US Policy in the Middle East" (Dr. Sidney Kronish and his guests discuss the topic)
4:00 Feature Film "I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes"
5:30 Junior Frolics
6:30 Flash Gordon
7:00 Play Ball (Bert Lee Jr.)
7:30 Famous All-Star Movie "Behind Green Lights"
9:00 Command Performance "Quiet Please, Murder"
10:30 Famous All-Star Movie (repeat from 7:30)
mid. Newsreel (John Gleason)
12:05 Foreign Correspondent "Diamonds"
12:30 Ringside with Rasslers (The Bushman takes on Andre Drappe)

WICC 43-ABC/DuMont Bridgeport
9pm TV Press Conference (this was the only program listed)

that was the last season both the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants would call the New York City Area home. How WOR-TV 9 managed to fill the gaps in their schedule when both teams left for LA & San Francisco after the season.

 

[Cincinnati Kid]

For the 1958 season, one of the New York City stations picked up the games of the Philadelphia Phillies. That did provide some National League baseball to viewers. Not sure if that was WOR, Channel 9 or not. Maybe someone could advise.

 

[FredLeonard]

For the 1958 season, one of the New York City stations picked up the games of the Philadelphia Phillies. That did provide some National League baseball to viewers. Not sure if that was WOR, Channel 9 or not. Maybe someone could advise.

The Phils at the time were the doormats of the league; perpetual cellar dwellers. Watching them get whupped time after time probably did not do much to appease fans betrayed by the Dodgers and Giants.

Mayor Wagner wimped out and did not move aggressively to stop the move. He should have used eminent domain to confiscate the franchises. Then had accountants go through financial records to find some basis for prosecuting Walter O'Malley (like the feds did with Al Capone).