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RETRO: New York City TV - Friday, Nov. 22, 1963 (Other Stations)

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wbhist

[SOURCE: TV Guide, New York-Metropolitan edition, Nov. 16-22, 1963;
additional info from New York Times and Daily News TV listings, TV.com, and IMDb]
All listings from 2:00 PM onward cancelled due to JFK assassination;
listings up to 1:30 will be separated from the cancelled entries by three lines ( - - - )
(C) - in color

WNEW-TV 5 (Independent; owned by Metropolitan Broadcasting Television)

7:05 Call to Prayer
7:15 News
7:30 Columbia Seminars
8:00 Sandy Becker Show
8:45 King and Odie
9:00 Sandy Becker
9:30 Topper - "Topper Tells All" [original airdate 10/8/54]
10:00 The 10 O'Clock Movie: "The Man in the Trunk" (1942) - Lynne Roberts, George Holmes
11:20 Metropolitan Memo
11:25 News
11:30 Romper Room

12:30 Cartoons with Fred Scott
1:00 Cartoons with Ed Ladd
1:25 News
1:30 Movie (repeat of 10:00 A.M.)
- - -
2:50 Metropolitan Memo
2:55 News
3:00 Doorway to Destiny - "The Last Days of Nick Pompey" [original airdate 7/6/60]
(NOTE: This was another name for a 1959-60 British-made drama series, The Four Just Men.)
3:30 The Texan - "Image of Guilt" [original airdate 9/21/59]
4:00 Hall of Fun (host: Fred Hall)
5:30 Sandy's Hour with Sandy Becker

6:30 Mickey Mouse Club
7:00 The Gallant Men - "Some Tears Fall Dry" [original airdate 11/23/62]
8:00 The Roaring 20's - "Pie in the Sky" [original airdate 2/25/61]
9:00 Bronco - "Backfire" [original airdate 4/7/59]
10:00 The Detectives - "The New Man" [original airdate 9/16/60]
10:30 The D.A.'s Man - "Bajour" [original airdate 5/23/59]
11:00 News
11:10 Hollywood's Finest: "God Is My Co-Pilot" (1945) - Dennis Morgan, Dane Clark [rescheduled for 12/27/63]
1:05 Call to Prayer

WOR-TV 9 (Independent; owned by RKO General)

9:10 Farm Report
9:15 News and Weather
9:30 Movie: "Private Lives" (1931) - Norma Shearer, Robert Montgomery
11:00 Quest for Certainty - "Law and the Family"
11:30 Greatest Drama

12:00 News - John Wingate
12:15 Joe Franklin's Memory Lane (guests: Henny Youngman, Larry Gates)
1:30 Movie (repeat of 9:30 A.M.)
- - -
3:00 News - Joseph King (one of WOR's staff announcers at the time)
3:15 Looney Tunes (the circa 1935-43 B&W cartoons then controlled by Guild Films, not the a.a.p. package run by WNEW-TV)
3:30 The Funny Company
5:00 Movie of the Week: "Prehistoric Women" (1950) - Laurette Luez, Alan Mixon

6:30 Maverick - "The Resurrection of Joe November" [original airdate 2/28/60]
7:30 Million Dollar Movie: "The Unholy Wife" (1957) - Rod Steiger, Diana Dors (C)
9:30 Foreign Film Festival: "La Forza del Destino" (1949) - Tito Gobbi, Nelly Corradi
11:00 Million Dollar Movie (repeat of 7:30 P.M.)
1:00 News and Weather

WPIX 11 (Independent; licensor WPIX, Inc., owned by New York Daily News)

8:30 Operation Alphabet(?)
9:00 Jack La Lanne
9:30 En France (hosted by Dawn Addams; this ran on Channel 11 throughout the 1960's)
10:00 Movie: "Too Late for Tears" (1949) - Lizabeth Scott, Dan Duryea
11:30 Bozo the Clown (with Bill Britten)

12:15 Rocky and His Friends
12:30 Laurel and Hardy
12:50 News
1:00 Seven League Boots - "The Strongmen of Persia"
1:30 Star for Today - "The Joyful Lunatic" [original airdate 7/8/56]
(NOTE: This episode originally aired on Telephone Time.)
- - -
2:00 People Are Funny
2:30 How to Marry a Millionaire - "Loco and the Cowboy" [original airdate 4/10/58]
(NOTE: This was the 1957-59 TV series adaptation of the 1953 movie, starring Merry Anders, Barbara Eden and Lori Nelson.)
3:00 The Best of Groucho
3:30 Broken Arrow - "Indian Medicine" [original airdate 12/31/57]
4:00 Adventures of Superman - "The Unknown People (Part 1)" [original airdate 11/23/51]
4:30 The Mighty Hercules (host: Joe Bolton)
5:00 Chuck McCann Show
5:55 Zacherley

6:30 Supercar - "The Sky's the Limit" [original airdate 3/18/62]
(This was an early production from Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, whose Space: 1999 would air on WPIX for many years beginning in 1975.)
7:00 Three-Star News - Kevin Kennedy (national/world), John Tillman (local), Gloria Okon (weather)
7:30 The Honeymooners - "The Sleepwalker" [original airdate 11/5/55]
8:00 Life with Father - "Father Buys a Horse" [original airdate 2/21/55]
(This was the 1953-55 TV series adaptation of the Howard Lindsay/Russell Crouse play; Leon Ames played the father.)
8:30 You Asked for It
9:00 Navy Log
9:30 Allie Sherman - Sports
10:00 Danger: Continent 7 (a documentary about the Antarctic and explorers Robert Scott, Roald Amundsen, and Admiral Richard E. Byrd; narrated by Admiral George Dufek)
11:00 News - John K.M. McCaffrey
11:10 Weather - Lynda Lee Mead
11:15 Steve Allen Show (guests: Cliff Arquette, Gil Lamb)
(This was the 1962-64 syndicated talk show produced by Westinghouse; WPIX would also air his later talk show starting in 1969, picking it up from WOR-TV.)
12:45 Racket Squad (A big-time racketeer gets a dose of his own medicine)

WNDT 13 (Educational)

8:55 Tri-State Deadline
9:00 Profile: New Jersey (with Rep. William B. Widnall, R-N.J.)
9:30 Art of Language
9:50 Issue and the Challenge - "West Germany: The Continuing Crisis"
10:10 Parlons Francais II
10:25 Wonder of Words
10:45 Young in Art
11:05 Sounds to Say . . .
11:20 (repeat of 9:30 A.M.)
11:40 This Is Connecticut

12:00 En Francais
12:30 American Memoir: "The Hero in the 20th Century"
1:00 Fun at One
1:30 Planet Earth - "Sea of Grass: The Plains"
1:50 Parlons Francais II
- - -
2:05 Tell Me a Story ("Otto in Africa" is read)
2:25 (repeat of 9:30 A.M.)
2:45 Magic of Words
3:00 Books for Our Time
4:00 Learn to Read Music
4:30 New Biology - Lesson: "Acquisition of Energy by Biological Systems"
5:00 Once Upon a Day
5:30 What's New

6:00 Operation Alphabet
6:30 Profile: New Jersey (guest: Sol Hurok)
7:30 The Compleat Gardener
7:45 British Calendar
8:00 To Be Announced
8:30 Saki (Debut) - series of dramatizations of plays by H.H. Munro (a.k.a. "Saki") - "The Stampeding of Lady Bastable," "Sredni Vashtari," "The Way to the Diary" and "A Defensive Diamond"
9:30 What Can I Do? (special)
10:00 The World at Ten
10:30 At Issue - "The Next Step for East and West"
11:00 Engineering Journal - "Lasers"
12:00 Reflections
 
An amendment to the WNEW-TV schedule:
The 1:30 PM repeat of the film aired at 10 AM on The 10 O'Clock Movie, went by the umbrella of the Late Lunch Movie.

From what I read, after 2 PM WNDT carried CBS News' coverage of the JFK assassination.
 
wbhist said:
From what I read, after 2 PM WNDT carried CBS News' coverage of the JFK assassination.
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This may have been asked before (but not answered definitively, IIRC), but what aired on 5, 9, and 11 once the JFK story took over the network affiliates? Did any of them repeat any network coverage, do any local coverage, did they even stay on the air, etc.?
 
Stanislav said:
This may have been asked before (but not answered definitively, IIRC), but what aired on 5, 9, and 11 once the JFK story took over the network affiliates? Did any of them repeat any network coverage, do any local coverage, did they even stay on the air, etc.?
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I can only presume that the "indies" primarily repeated coverage from CBS and/or NBC - but I doubt ABC, especially given their news operation's public access-style setup of the time and uber-dead-last ratings when the dust settled. "Public access-style setup," come to think of it, seems to have been the description of WOR-TV's facilities and production values in all the years when RKO General ruled the roost. The only one of the indies who had any true commitment to news (such as it was) in those days was WPIX, with the likes of local anchor/news director John Tillman and national/world anchor Kevin Kennedy. 'PIX may well have juxtaposed the network(s) feed with local reportage. This was less than 3.5 years before WNEW launched The 10 O'Clock News, so their news operation pretty much didn't exist back then - and WOR-TV's news outfit pretty much consisted those days of WOR Radio's John Wingate, they didn't really have anything resembling an actual news operation until 1970.
 
A few other mods to this schedule:
- The 9:30 A.M. and 1:30 P.M. airings on Channel 9 were under the All-Star Movie banner.
- The 10 A.M. movie on Channel 11 was shown under the umbrella of The Morning Movie.
 
wbhist said:
I can only presume that the "indies" primarily repeated coverage from CBS and/or NBC - but I doubt ABC, especially given their news operation's public access-style setup of the time and uber-dead-last ratings when the dust settled. "Public access-style setup," come to think of it, seems to have been the description of WOR-TV's facilities and production values in all the years when RKO General ruled the roost. The only one of the indies who had any true commitment to news (such as it was) in those days was WPIX, with the likes of local anchor/news director John Tillman and national/world anchor Kevin Kennedy. 'PIX may well have juxtaposed the network(s) feed with local reportage.
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...of course, at the time WPIX-TV/11 and WPIX/101.9 (the FM station had been acquired a few weeks prior to the assassination, IIRC) were co-owned with the New York Daily News ("New York's Picture Newspaper," hence the call sign)...
 
Stanislav said:
This may have been asked before (but not answered definitively, IIRC), but what aired on 5, 9, and 11 once the JFK story took over the network affiliates? Did any of them repeat any network coverage, do any local coverage, did they even stay on the air, etc.?
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To bring this back to life . . . a look at the Dec. 2, 1963 issue of Broadcasting magazine shows that, besides WNDT, CBS News' coverage of the JFK assassination and subsequent funeral was simulcast on WOR-TV and WPIX. WNEW-TV, on the other hand, went with ABC's.
 
wbhist said:
To bring this back to life . . . a look at the Dec. 2, 1963 issue of Broadcasting magazine shows that, besides WNDT, CBS News' coverage of the JFK assassination and subsequent funeral was simulcast on WOR-TV and WPIX. WNEW-TV, on the other hand, went with ABC's.
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Have the weekend schedule for NYC?
 
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