Retro: New York City, Thursday, September 15, 1949 (Complete)

[Bob1370]

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)
11-WPIX (Ind.; now CW)
13-WATV (Inf.; now WNET-PBS)

MORNING

10:00
13-Sign-on; test pattern
10:30
5-Sign-on; Morning Chapel with Dr.Russell Auman
11-Eucharistic Congress, Cathedral of St. John The Divine
10:45
5-Amanda; music
11:00
5-Television Shopper; Kathi Norris hosts

AFTERNOON

12:00
5-Headline Clues with George Putnam
7-News
12:30
5-Johnny Olsen's Rumpus Room (variety)
11-News and music
1:00
5-Okay, Mother, with Dennis James; Bebe Shepp, guest
7-News
1:30
5-Sidewalk Interviews
1:45
5-Needle Shop with Alice Burrows (instruction)
1:55
7-News
2:00
5-Test Pattern; music
7-Market Melodies with Anne Russell and Walter Herlihy
2:15
13-Music and announcements
2:25
5-Baseball; Cleveland at NY Yankees
2:30
13-Feature Film (title not listed)
3:00
4-Sign-on; Racing; Glendale Steeplechase Handicap at Aqueduct
3:30
13-Stop and Shop; Brooke Stephens, Fred Sayles
3:45
13-Serial; Lightning Warrior (1931; Adventure in 12 episodes)
4:00
7-TV Telephone Game (Quiz)
13-Western film (title not listed)
4:30
2-Sign-on; Music and weather
11-To The Ladies
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
11-Pixie Playtime with Frank Paris (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)
5:55
5-Time for Reflection

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
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)
7:00
2-Your Sports Special with Bob Edge and Van Campen Hellner
4-Kukla, Fran and Ollie; Fran Allison, Burr Tillstrom (children)
5-Captain Video (adventure, children)
7-Ships Reporter
11-Band Box Revue
13-Western Feature
7:15
2-Ted Steele Show (variety)
7-The Fitzgeralds (talk, variety)
7:20
11-Jimmy Powers, sports
7:30
2-CBS Evening News; Douglas Edwards
4-Roberta Quinlan, songs
5-Mahattan Spotlght
7-Lone Ranger (series premiere); 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-Jack Eigen (talk, variety)
7:55
2-Ruthie on the Telephone (comedy sketch); Ruth Gilbert
8:00
2-54th Street Revue (music/variety); Al Bernie, Mort Marshall, John Butler, Russell Arms, Lillian Roth, Harry Sosnik Orchestra
4-RFD America with Bob Murphy
5-Flight to Rhythm; Miguelito Valdez
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-Points of View (public affairs); Robert B. McDougall, moderator
8:15
11-Film; The Clutching Hand (1936, mystery); Jack Mulhall, Rex Lease
8:30
4-Mary Kay and Johnny (situation comedy)
5-Cinema Varieties
13-Feature Film (title not listed)
8:55
11-Sports with John Slater
9:00
2-Film; I Take This Oath (1940, crime drama); Gordon Jones
4-Theater of the Mind; Dr. Houston Peterson, moderator
5-Morey Amsterdam Show; Jerry Bergen, Mavis Mims, Eve Young, guests
7-Crusade in Europe; Film documentary series of Gen. Dwight Eisenhower's Story of World War II; Gen. J. Lawton Collins, guest
11-Wrestling from Ridgewood Grove
9:25
7-PAL Headliner (youth sports)
9:30
4-Village Barn (Variety/music)
5-Film; The Panther's Claw (crime drama, 1942); Sidney Blackmer
7-Blind Date with Arlene Francis
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-Weather
5-News
10:35
4-Jim Fleming, News
10:45
11-Newsreel

No programs listed for WOR-TV Channel 9, which was still under construction and would sign on in a month's time

 

[Cincinnati Kid]

Just noting there was no Channel 9 - WOR - back then.

I wonder if the Bob Murphy shown on "RFD America" at 8 P.M. on Channel 4 is the same person who later did the Mets games on TV and radio?

 

[Bob1370]

"I wonder if the Bob Murphy shown on "RFD America" at 8 P.M. on Channel 4 is the same person who later did the Mets games on TV and radio?"

I wondered that too...but it doesn't appear so. The long-time voice of the Mets we all fondly remember was just getting his start in calling minor league games in the Southwest in the late 1940s, working his way up to the big leagues by 1962, when the Mets played their first game. The Bob Murphy of RFD America (which according to imdb.com was an instructional show about farming) seems to be a different man. The Bob Murphy who called the first 40 years of Mets games was a lifetime sportscaster...

 

[wbhist]

It should be noted that Eve Young who was a guest on The Morey Amsterdam Show on Channel 5 that evening in 1949 later became known as Karen Chandler - and as such, had a hit in 1952 with "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me" (the same number that became a hit for Mel Carter in 1965). Two of the main people involved with Stop the Music - host Bert Parks and musical director Harry Salter - were later involved in those same respective capacities on the early 1960's ABC game show Yours for a Song. And I presume Jim Fleming who anchored the 10:35 P.M. news on Channel 4 was one and the same as the original news anchor on the Today show when it was first launched in 1952. (And wouldn't a certain Mr. Tex Antoine have already done the weather that preceded same, at this point?)

It also would have been around this period that WPIX premiered a test pattern (click here for a recreation) that would be in use through the late 1970's - and also in use everywhere from Cuba (pre-Castro) to Billings, MT (KGHL-TV before it became KULR), Florence, SC (WWBT), and, by the mid-'50's, even WATV across the river.

 

[bpatrick]

Sorry to nitpick, but the Florence, SC, station is WBTW;
WWBT is in Richmond.

 

[Tim L]

5-WABD (DuMont; now WNYW-Fox)

5-Morey Amsterdam Show; Jerry Bergen, Mavis Mims, Eve Young, guests

Just 3 months later, Morey Amsterdam would play a large part in the opening and dedication of major DuMont affiliate WXEL-9, Cleveland..as evidenced in this set of photographs from December, 1949, which I made into a limited edition blog..Interesting how a new TV station cultivated relationships with employees, Networks and sponsors in that era..


http://wxel1949photos.blogspot.com/

 

[wbhist]

Sorry to nitpick, but the Florence, SC, station is WBTW; WWBT is in Richmond.

Sorry 'bout that, chief. But here is how WBTW approximated WPIX's TP, at the start of:
http://www.tv-signoffs.com/clips/WBTW-signon-1980.htm