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Bob1370
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Source; New York Times
Channels/stations;
2-WCBS-TV (CBS)
4-WNBT (NBC, now WNBC)
5-WABD (DuMont, now WNYW-Fox)
No morning transmissions from any station aside from test patterns
AFTERNOON
1:00
5-News, music (to 4 PM)
EVENING
7:50
4-Television Reporter (news)
8:00
4-Televues Films
5-Film; Lady In The Morgue (mystery, 1938); Preston Foster, Patricia Ellis
8:30
4-Boxing from St. Nicholas Arena (to 11 PM)
9:00
5-Boxing from Jamaica Arena (to 11 PM)
Channels 4 and 5 sign off at 11 PM; no programming scheduled on Channel 2 this day.
Late in 1946, by some estimates, there were perhaps a little over 100,000 television-equipped homes in the entire U.S., over half of them in the greater New York City area. There were three commercially licensed stations in NYC, still the only city with more than one fully licensed station on the air. (Albany-Schenectady, Philadelphia, Washington, and Chicago had one each telecasting a few hours a day, and Los Angeles had an experimental station programming a few days a week and preparing to go fully commercial with a daily schedule in January of 1947). With only a relatively few sets for programmers and advertisers to reach, programming remained sparse for another year or so until national receiver population doubled during 1947, and then exploded in 1948-49 as dozens of cities got their first stations.
Channels/stations;
2-WCBS-TV (CBS)
4-WNBT (NBC, now WNBC)
5-WABD (DuMont, now WNYW-Fox)
No morning transmissions from any station aside from test patterns
AFTERNOON
1:00
5-News, music (to 4 PM)
EVENING
7:50
4-Television Reporter (news)
8:00
4-Televues Films
5-Film; Lady In The Morgue (mystery, 1938); Preston Foster, Patricia Ellis
8:30
4-Boxing from St. Nicholas Arena (to 11 PM)
9:00
5-Boxing from Jamaica Arena (to 11 PM)
Channels 4 and 5 sign off at 11 PM; no programming scheduled on Channel 2 this day.
Late in 1946, by some estimates, there were perhaps a little over 100,000 television-equipped homes in the entire U.S., over half of them in the greater New York City area. There were three commercially licensed stations in NYC, still the only city with more than one fully licensed station on the air. (Albany-Schenectady, Philadelphia, Washington, and Chicago had one each telecasting a few hours a day, and Los Angeles had an experimental station programming a few days a week and preparing to go fully commercial with a daily schedule in January of 1947). With only a relatively few sets for programmers and advertisers to reach, programming remained sparse for another year or so until national receiver population doubled during 1947, and then exploded in 1948-49 as dozens of cities got their first stations.