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Bob1370
Guest
Source; New York Times
Channels/Stations
1-WNBT (NBC, now WNBC ch. 4)
2-WCBW (CBS, now WCBS-TV)
4-W2XWV (DuMont; now WNYW-Fox ch. 5)
AFTERNOON
2:00
2-Test Pattern
2:30
2-Films (to 4:30; no titles listed)
3:30
1-Film; Death Rides The Range (western, 1939); Ken Maynard, Fay McKenzie
EVENING
8:30
1-Fefe's Monte Carlo Floor Show (variety)
9:15
1-Civilian Defense Program
9:25
1-NBC News with Ray Forrest
ore
No programs listed for Channel 4
This listing by request, reflects programs on the final day before U.S. entry into World War II. After Pearl Harbor, TV schedules on the handful of licensed commercial and experimental stations in New York, Philadelphia, New York State's Capital District, Chicago and Los Angeles gradually diminished from a few hours a day to a few hours per week, before gradually rebuilding postwar until TV stations ran 12 to 15 hours daily by 1950. Only a few thousand sets were installed in private homes to watch any of these programs in the NYC area, a few hundred in each of the other cities with stations operating...each of those sets set its owner back about as much as a new Ford or Chevrolet.
Channels/Stations
1-WNBT (NBC, now WNBC ch. 4)
2-WCBW (CBS, now WCBS-TV)
4-W2XWV (DuMont; now WNYW-Fox ch. 5)
AFTERNOON
2:00
2-Test Pattern
2:30
2-Films (to 4:30; no titles listed)
3:30
1-Film; Death Rides The Range (western, 1939); Ken Maynard, Fay McKenzie
EVENING
8:30
1-Fefe's Monte Carlo Floor Show (variety)
9:15
1-Civilian Defense Program
9:25
1-NBC News with Ray Forrest
ore
No programs listed for Channel 4
This listing by request, reflects programs on the final day before U.S. entry into World War II. After Pearl Harbor, TV schedules on the handful of licensed commercial and experimental stations in New York, Philadelphia, New York State's Capital District, Chicago and Los Angeles gradually diminished from a few hours a day to a few hours per week, before gradually rebuilding postwar until TV stations ran 12 to 15 hours daily by 1950. Only a few thousand sets were installed in private homes to watch any of these programs in the NYC area, a few hundred in each of the other cities with stations operating...each of those sets set its owner back about as much as a new Ford or Chevrolet.