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Retro: New York City, Thursday, October 6, 1949

B

Bob1370

Guest
Source; NY Times

Channels:
2-WCBS-TV (CBS)
4-WNBT (NBC; now WNBC)
5-WABD (DuMont; now WNYW-Fox)
7-WJZ-TV (ABC; now WABC-TV)
9-WOR-TV (Ind.; now WWOR, MyNet)
11-WPIX (Ind.; now CW)
13-WATV (Ind.; now WNET-PBS)

MORNING

10:00
9-Sign-on; test pattern
13-Sign-on; test pattern
10:30
5-Sign-on; Morning Chapel
10:45
5-Amanda; music
11:00
5-Television Shopper; Kathi Norris hosts

AFTERNOON

12:00
5-Johnny Olsen's Rumpus Room (variety
7-News
12:15
5-Okay, Mother with Dennis James
12:25
11-Sports Talk with John Kieran and guests
12:30
2-Music, weather, films
12:45
2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11-Baseball; World Series live coverage, Dodgers vs. Yankees at Yankee Stadium
2:15
13-Sign-on; music, announcements
2:30
13-Feature film (title not listed)
3:30
7-Market Melodies with Anne Russell and Walter Herlihy
13-Homemaker's Guide; Fred Sayles, Brooke Stephens
3:45
13-Film; Vanishing Legion
4:00
13-Western film (title not listed)
4:30
2-Music, weather
7-TV Telephone Game (Quiz)
13-Western film (title not listed)
4:45
2-Classified Column
5:00
2-Vanity Fair with Dorothy Doan
11-Comics on Parade with Danny Webb (children)
13-Junior Frolic (children)
5:15
4-Judy Splinters with Shirley Dinsdale (children)
11-Mr. Magic with Norman Jensen (children)
5:30
2-Chuck Wagon with Bob Dixon (children)
4-Howdy Doody with Buffalo Bob Smith (children)
11-Six Gun Playhouse (western film)
13-Feature Film (title not listed)
5:50
5-Time for Reflection
5:55
5-Camera Headlines

EVENING

6:00
4-Western Adventure with Bob Steele
5-Small Fry Club with Bob Emery (children)
7-News
6:30
2-Lucky Pup (children)
4-Easy Does It with Johnny Andrews (variety)
5-Magic Cottage with Pat Meikle (children)
11-News with John Tillman
6:40
11-Song Parade
13-Serial; Lightning Warrior (replay of 3:45)
6:45
2-Bob Howard Show (variety)
7-Tot's Time (children's film); Sleepy Joe
7:00
2-Cooking with Dione Lucas
4-Kukla, Fran and Ollie; Fran Allison, Burr Tillstrom (children)
5-Captain Video (adventure, children)
7-Kieran's Kaleidoscope (newsreel, commentary)
11-Band Box Revue
13-Western Feature
7:15
7-World Series Postgame, with Jackie Robinson and Bill Corum
7:20
11-Jimmy Powers, sports
7:30
2-CBS Evening News; Douglas Edwards
4-Roberta Quinlan, songs
5-Mahattan Spotlght
7-Lone Ranger (western); Clayton Moore, Jay Silverheels
11-Rube Goldberg Show (comedy)
7:45
2-Sonny Kendis Show with Gigi Durston (variety)
4-Camel News Caravan; John Cameron Swayze
5-Vincent Lopez (talk, variety)
7:55
2-Ruthie on the Telephone (comedy sketch); Ruth Gilbert
8:00
2-Front Page (drama); John Daly, Mack Roberts, Philip Truex, Richard Boone
4-Hollywood Premiere (film); "Walter Fortune", with Howard DaSilva
5-Film; One Frightened Night; Wallace Ford, Mary Carlisle
7-Stop The Music (game); Bert Parks, MC; Estelle Loring, Jimmy Blaine, Betty Ann Grove, Harry Salter Orchestra
11-Hollywood in New York with Lois Wilson
13-Feature Film (no title listed)
8:15
11-This Is Your City
8:30tor,
2-Sugar Hill Times (music, variety); Willie Bryant, Dottie Saulters, Hot Lips Page, The Rockets
4-Mary Kay and Johnny (situation comedy)
9:00
2-Ed Wynn Show (variety); premiere, with Gertrude Niesen, Francis and Giselle Szonvi and others
4-Fun for All (variety); Olson & Johnson, hosts; Marty May, J.C. Olsen, June Olsen, Bill Hayes, Lynn Duddy Singers, Sanford Orchestra
5-Morey Amsterdam Show; Roberta Quinlan, Eric Victor, guests
7-Crusade in Europe; Film documentary series of Gen. Dwight Eisenhower's Story of World War II; Earl Compton, guest
11-Wrestling from Ridgewood Grove
13-Point of View with Robert McDougall (discussion); topic, Murder At Home; Walter Brown, Lt. Hugh Boyle, Charles Lister, panelists
9:25
7-PAL Headliner (youth sports)
9:30
2-Film Feature
5-Boxing from Sunnyside Garden
7-Drama; Mungihara, starring Boris Karloff
10:00
2-Jeanne Bargy, songs
4-Martin Kane, Private Eye (crime drama series); William Gargan
7-Roller Derby
10:15
2-Newsreel
10:30
4-World Series Highlights (film)
10:45
11-Newsreel
11:15
7-Film; Ships Reporter
 
I wonder: Was the Bob Howard who hosted a variety show bearing his name on WCBS-TV at 6:45 the same as a longtime broadcast veteran who worked at WNEW 1130 from the late 1950's to the mid-'60's, then on to a long career with 1010 WINS as one of their key anchormen (as well as a voiceover for many radio and TV ads) and finally (as Robert M. Howard) at KFWB News 98 in Los Angeles in the '80's and into the '90's - or someone completely different?
 
I somehow doubt it. The Bob Howard listed here was an
African-American singer-pianist nicknamed "The Jive Bomber."
He was also a regular on CBS's Saturday-night radio-TV game
show "Sing It Again". There's a story that one night his bench
collapsed (he weighed about 300 pounds); he picked himself up
off the floor, laughing and joking, "That's a first." From offstage,
somebody said, "And that's a last. Get him a double-duty bench."
 
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