Retro; New York City, Thursday, October 30, 1947

[Bob1370]

Source: New York Times

WCBS-TV-Channel 2

Evening

8:00-Douglas Edwards, News
8:20-To the Queen's Taste with Dione Lucas
8:50-NYU-Bellevue Medical Center Fund Show of Shows. Madison Square Garden

WNBT-Channel 4

Evening

8:00-Seven Arts Quiz
8:30-Television News, John Cameron Swayze
8:90-Musical Merry-Go-Round
9:00-You Are an Artist-Jon Gnagy
9:10-Film Shorts
9:15-Capital-Citizen

WABD-Channel 5

Evening

6:35-Film Shorts
6:45-Walter Compton News (from WTTG Washington)
7:00-Small fry Club with Bob Emery
7:30-Birthday Party
8:00-Film Shorts
8:15-Bill Williams. Fixit Shop
8:30-Film Shorts
8:45-Jack Eigen Show
9:00-Sports Names
9:05-Wrestling from Park Arena

 

[Ultimajock]

WABD-Channel 5

8:45-Jack Eigen Show

...this was at the height of Fred Allen's use of Eigen's name as a comic device on NBC Radio's Fred Allen Show. Allen was always fascinated with what he thought were unusual-sounding names, and Eigen's was one. In fact, Eigen was a guest on Allen's radio show a few months after this...

 

[Bob1370]

Jack Eigen later had a long (20 year) run in Chicago on NBC O&O WMAQ, where he inherited a late evening show once hosted by Dave Garroway in his pre-TV days. Mike Nichols and Elaine May made Eigen the butt of one of their satirical bits when they did a routine about an especially self-centered talk show host they called "Jack Ego."

Eigen reportedly liked it even though the satire was savage, because it made him better known to a wider audience.