Retro: New York City, Tuesday, December 14, 1948

[Bob1370]

Source, NY Times

Channels/stations
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 (Ind, now WNET-PBS)

MORNING

7:00
5-News, Weather
7:15
5-Health Talk, Weather
7:45
5-Your School Reporter
8:00
5-News, Time, Weather
8:30
5-The Baby Sitter with Pat Meikle (children)
9:00
5-Morning Chapel
9:30
5-Amanda (songs); news, weather
10:00
5-Television Shopper
13-Test Pattern (to 5 PM)
10:30
5-Friendship Circle
11:00
5-Stan Shaw

AFTERNOON
12:00
5-News, Weather
12:15
5-Ted Steele (talk, variety)
12:30
2-Program Preview; News, Music, Weather
12:45
2-Film Shorts
5-Weather, time
1:00
2-Vanity Fair with Dorothy Doan (talk)
5-Okay, Mother with Dennis James
1:30
5-News, including women's news
2:45
5-Phil Hanna's Spare Room
3:00
5-The Needle Shop (instruction)
3:15
5-Vincent Lopez Show (music)
3:30
5-Weather, Women's Club
4:00
5-And Everything Nice
4:15
5-News. Weather, Time
4:30
5-Wendy Barrie Show
5:00
5-Time, Weather
11-Comics on Parade
5:15
11-News; Pixie Playtime (children)
5:30
4-Howdy Doody with Buffalo Bob Smith (children)
5:50
11-Tawny L

EVENING

6:00
4-Easy Does It (variety)
5-Small Fry Club with Bob Emery (children)
11-News; Six Gun Playhouse
6:15
2-Program Preview; Weather
6:30
2-Lucky Pup with Doris Brown (children)
4-Hobby Shop
5-Russ Hodges, sports
6:45
2-Bob Howard Show (music, variety)
5-Alan Dale Show (variety); Janie Ford, guest
7:00
2-Roar of the Rails (adventure, children)
4-Natural Treasures with Ivan Sanderson
5-Swing Into Sports
7-News and Views. with Walter Kiernan
11-News, Record Rendezvous
7:15
2-Film Shorts
7-Ship's Reporter
7:30
2-CBS News with Douglas Edwards
4-You Are An Artist with Jon Gnagy (instruction)
5-Camera Headlines (newsreel)
7-Child's World (children)
11-Newsreel
7:40
5-Telenews
11-Sports with Guy LeBow
7:45
2-Face the Music with Johnny Desmond (variety)
7-Film; Handicrafts of India (documentary)
7:50
4-Newsreel, with John Cameron Swayze
8:00
2-Film; Made For Each Other (romantic comedy, 1939), Jimmy Stewart, Carole Lombard
4-Texaco Star Theater with Milton Berle; Lauritz Melchior, guest
5-Film Shorts
7-Film; The Rink (comedy, silent, 1916), Charlie Chaplin
11-Film; Riot Squad (crime drama, 1941), Richard Cromwell, Rita Quigley
8:30
7-America's Town Meeting
9:00
2-We, The People
4-Mary Margaret McBride
5-Boxing from Park Arena
11-Newsreel
9:30
2-College Basketball; Long Island U. vs. Oklahoma A&M at Madison Square Garden
4-Wrestling from St. Nicholas Arena
11-Newsreel
11:00
2-Newsreel

 

[fybush]

This was just six weeks or so into DuMont's great daytime TV experiment, which started Nov. 1, 1948 when WABD began signing on at 7 AM with an all-day lineup of live shows from the Wanamaker's studios.

DuMont, of course, had nothing to lose, unlike NBC, CBS and ABC, which were trying to protect their established daytime radio audiences as best they could.

It was an idea far ahead of its time, though it lasted for three years or so before Dennis James decamped to ABC and WABD reverted to an afternoon sign-on. The WABD daytime programming began to be fed to the network January 12, 1949, though I doubt many stations picked it up.

(David Weinstein's 2006 book, "The forgotten network: DuMont and the birth of American television," is a must-read for its chapter on DuMont's daytime experiment.)

 

[FreddyE1977]

5-Boxing from Park Arena

What and where exactly was Park Arena?

There were boxing and wrestling shows coming from St. Nicholas Arena,
whose history is well-documented. But I can't seem to find any info about
this Park Arena.