Retro: New York City Wed, Aug 29, 1956

[Bluenoser]

from New York Herald Tribune

WCBS 2-CBS New York
6:50 Prevues & Sermon
7:00 Good Morning! (Will Rogers Jr/Ned Calmer/Pamela Good)
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 My Little Margie "Margie's New Boyfriend"
9:30 Amos 'n' Andy "Vive la France"
10:00 Of All Things
10:30 Arthur Godfrey Time (guest host Peter Lind Hayes)
11:30 Strike it Rich
noon Valiant Lady
12:15 Love of Life
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1:00 News (Charles Collingwood)
1:10 Stand Up & Be Counted
1:30 As the World Turns
2:00 Johnny Carson
2:30 Linkletter's Party
3:00 Big Payoff
3:30 Bob Crosby
4:00 Brighter Day
4:15 Secret Storm
4:30 Edge of the Night
5:00 Late Matinee "Wherever She Goes"
5:55 Les Paul & Mary Ford
6:00 World News (Robert Trout)
6:05 New York Report (Ron Cochran)
6:10 Feature (George Skinner)
6:15 Early Show "The Boys from Syracuse"
7:10 Weather (Carol Reed)
7:15 CBS News
7:30 Cartoon Theatre
8:00 Frankie Laine Time (guests Meadowlarks, Edith Barstow Dancers, Eydie Gorme, and Los Chavales de Espana)
9:00 Millionaire "The Story of of Brian Hendricks"
9:30 I've Got a Secret (guest Dorothy Lamour)
10:00 US Steel Hour "The Five Fathers of Pepi"
11:00 News (Ron Cochran)
11:10 Weather (Carol Reed)/Sports (Bill Hickey)
11:15 Late Show "Meet Mr. Callaghan"
12:45 Late Late Show "The Fighting Sullivans"
2:00 News/Sermon

WRCA 4-NBC New York
6:55 Daily Sermonette
7:00 Today
8:55 Herb Sheldon (partially in color)
10:00 Ding Dong School
10:30 Band Stand (guests the Four Lads, and Art Massey's Orchestra)
11:00 Home
11:25 Window (c/Ostrid Lind)
11:30 Home cont'd
noon Tic Tac Dough
12:30 It Could Be You
1:00 One is for Sheldon
1:30 Jinx's Diary (c)
2:00 Richard Willis
2:30 Tennessee Ernie Ford
3:00 Matinee Theater "Yankee Doodler" (c)
4:00 Queen for a Day (guest host Ben Alexander)
4:45 Modern Romances
5:00 It's Always Jan "Stage Door Johnny"
5:30 Evening Theater "It's a Small World"
6:45 News (Ken Banghart)
7:00 Death Valley Days "Kickapoo Run"
7:30 Eddie Fisher (season premiere)
7:45 Camel News Caravan
8:00 National Press Conference
8:30 Father Knows Best "Margaret's Premonition"
9:00 Kraft Theatre "The Girl Who Saw Too Much" (c)
10:00 This is Your Life (former concentration-camp inmate Cantor Bela Herskovits is honored)
10:30 Ina Ray Hutton
11:00 News (J.K.M. McCaffery)
11:10 Weather (c/Tex Antoine)
11:15 Jimmy Powers
11:20 Steve Allen (guests Trudy Richards, and Hall Shaeffer and his trio)
1:00 Sermonette

WABD 5-DuMont New York
8:25 Prevues & Prayer
8:30 It's Fun to Reduce (Margaret Firth)
8:45 Sandy Becker
10:00 Tune In Anytime Theater "The Guv'nor"
noon Freddie the Fireman (Ed McCurdy)
1:00 Tune In Anytime Theatre cont'd
4:00 Wendy Barrie
4:30 Easy Chair
5:00 Food for Thought (Virginia Graham)
5:30 Mr. & Mrs. North "Beauty Prize"
6:00 Captain Video
6:30 Looney Tunes
7:00 News (Mike Wallace)
7:15 Sports (Marty Glickman)
7:30 Playhouse "Knave of Hearts"
8:00 Frontier Theatre "Lone Rider Crosses the Rio"
9:00 Not for Nervous People "The Flying Serpent"
10:15 Secret File, USA "Mission Istrahan"
11:00 Featurama (Tom Moore) "The Mall Goes Through"/"Death in the Arena"
mid. Prevues & Prayer

WABC 7-ABC New York
7:45 News (George H. Combs)
8:00 Tinker's Workshop
9:00 Romper Room (Miss Jane)
10:00 Drama of Life "The Monkey's Paw"
10:30 Road of Romance "Night Visitor"
11:00 Hopalong Cassidy "Hopalong Enters"
noon Time for Fun "The Rag Dog"/"Up in the Air"
12:30 Joe Franklin
1:30 Afternoon Show "Letter from an Unknown Woman"
3:00 Film Festival "Fast and Loose"
5:00 Mickey Mouse Club
6:00 Sky King (Kirby Grant)
6:30 Cisco Kid
6:55 Weather (Janet Tyler)
7:00 Sports (Jack Drees)
7:15 News (John Daly)
7:30 Disneyland "The Goofy Sports Story"
8:30 Amazing Dunniger (Glamour managing editor Kate Lloyd was the guest)
9:00 Screen Directors (Marge & Gower Champion)
9:30 Eddy Arnold
10:00 Boxing: from Chicago Stadium, hometown pugilist Spider Webb (15-1, 11 KO) takes on the unbeaten Rory Calhoun (White Plains NY/23-0-1, 12 KO) in a 10-round middleweight bout
10:45 Sports Page of the Air (Herald Tribune sports editor Bob Cooke)
11:00 News (Cecil Brown)
11:10 Night Show "Casamova Brown"

WNHC 8-ABC/CBS New Haven
6:45 Man to Man
7:00 Good Morning Connecticut (Joe Francis/George Thompson)
9:00 Breakfast Playhouse (Tom Romano)
10:30 Yankee Paddlers (Dog for Adoption/visit by members of Westport Playhouse)
11:00 My Little Margie "The Blond Margie"
11:30 Looney Tunes
noon News (George Thompson)
12:15 Love of Life
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1:00 Nancy's Kitchen (the winner of the Baby Sitters COD contest receives their prize)
1:45 Channel 8 Matinee
2:30 Linkletter's Party
3:00 Film Festival "Fast and Loose"
5:00 Mickey Mouse Club
6:00 Stage 8 "Celebrity"
6:30 Sportscope (Sud Jaffe)
6:40 Weather (Ed Caputo)
6:45 News (Joseph Burns)
7:00 Studio 57 "Farewell Appearance"
7:30 Disneyland "The Disney Sports Story"
8:30 Amazing Dunninger
9:00 Screen Directors
9:30 Eddy Arnold
10:00 Boxing: Webb v Calhoun
10:45 Sports Desk (Syd Jaffe)
11:00 News
11:10 Weather (K. St. George)
11:15 Les Paul & Mary Ford
11:20 Nitecap Theatre "Captain Scarface"
1:00 News

WOR 9-Ind New York
11:00 Screening the World
11:30 Kiddie Video
noon Cartoon Parade
12:30 Fun for Lunch
1:00 Camera 9 Feature "Woman Trouble"
2:00 Ted Steele
2:55 News
3:00 Ted Steele
3:55 News
4:00 Roy Rogers Feature "Bells of Rosarita"
5:00 Ted Steele's Bandstand
6:00 Six O'Clock Movie "Nevada"
7:00 Terrytoons
7:30 Million Dollar Movie "Top Hat"
9:00 Hour of Danger "The Saint in Palm Springs"
10:00 Million Dollar Movie (replay from 7:30)
11:30 Hour of Danger (replay from 9:00)

WPIX 11-Ind New York
1pm Christophers "Develop Your Talents" (guests Blanche Searver and Richard Crooks)
1:30 Jimmy Powers
1:55 Baseball: the Yankees host Kansas City (Mel Allen/Jim Woods)
4:20 Red Barber
4:30 First Show "My Death is a Mockery"
5:30 Cartoon Comics
6:00 Clubhouse Gang (Little Rascals)
6:30 Abbott & Costello "Little Old Lady"
7:00 News (Kevin Kennedy)
7:15 New York News (John Tillman)
7:30 Sheena, Queen of the Jungle "Touch of Death"
8:00 Man Behind the Badge (Charles Bickford)
8:30 Badge 714 (Dragnet) "Big Number"
9:00 Mystery Theater "Iron Woman"
9:30 Highway Patrol
10:00 Federal Men "The Case of the Buried Treasure"
10:30 Science Fiction Theater "A Visit from Dr. Pliny"
11:00 News
11:10 Weather (Joe Bolton)

WATV 13-Ind New York
11:58 TV Pastor Marsh
noon Coffee Club (Lyle Reed) "Naval Reserve Officers School"
12:30 Junior Carnival
1:00 Mystery Film "Bluebeard" (rerun from Tues 11pm)
2:00 Movie Matinee "There was a Young Lady"
3:15 Jewish Matinee Time (Miriam Kressyn on Seymour Rechtzeit's experiences as a choirboy)
3:30 Western Feature "Fighting Shadows"
4:30 Junior Frolics
5:30 Super Serial "Fighting with Kit Carson" (pt 12)
6:00 Western Theater "Heroes of the Hills"
7:00 Mystery Hour (rerun of 1pm movie)
8:00 Oral Roberts
8:30 Feature Film (replay of 2pm movie)
9:30 Yachting (Lewis King)
10:00 House Detective
10:55 News (Guy LeBow)
11:00 Mystery Film "The Trap"

WICC 43-ABC/DuMont Bridgeport
6pm Picture Window
6:35 News (Walter Dibble)
6:45 Family Rosary
7:00 Telecomics
7:15 Film Shorts
7:30 Picture Pastime
8:30 Video Varieties
9:30 Eddy Arnold
10:00 Guided Tour

 

[wbhist]

As for the filmed prime-time shows, which doubtless were reruns:
- On CBS, The Millionaire episode "The Story of Brian Hendricks" (listed by IMDb as "The Brian Hendricks Story") originally aired Feb. 8, 1956
- On NBC, the Father Knows Best episode "Margaret's Premonition" originally aired Nov. 30, 1955
- On ABC, the Disneyland episode "The Goofy Sports Story" originally aired March 21, 1956

On the local front, WRCA's Evening Theatre (which debuted June 4, 1956, after NBC shifted Howdy Doody to a once-a-week Saturday morning schedule) would become known as Movie 4 after Feb. 3, 1957 (yes, I know this was a Sunday-night date, but it was the first day of that title which would be applied to the weekday films after Feb. 4). WABC's Night Show debuted in February 1956 and was that station's first step in expanding their broadcast day past prior sign-off time of 11:30 P.M. It (and a later movie skein, The Goodnight Show which first debuted in 1961) lasted up to Sept. 14/early Sept. 15, 1963 and was replaced the next day by The Best of Broadway which ran to fall 1970.

Also, by this point, WPIX's Night Owl Theatre had ended its run which dated back to about 1950.

As to the baseball game on Channel 11, the Yankees beat the A's 7-6.

 

[gregg75]

"Stand Up & Be Counted" 1,2,3,4,5,6,7.......

Looks like DuMont was in it's prime at this point and almost on par with ABC.

 

[bpatrick]

Actually, DuMont was gone, for all practical purposes; only
one boxing show remained.

As for "Stand Up And Be Counted," it was a part-game/part-
talk show on which contestants would air their problems and
members of the audience would suggest solutions. The best
solution, as determined by a vote of the audience, won the
person who suggested it a prize. This was, I think, the last
entertainment show CBS aired in the 1-1:30 slot until "Y&R"
went to an hour in 1980.

 

[wbhist]

Actually, DuMont was gone, for all practical purposes; only one boxing show remained.

True. At this point, WABD and sister station WTTG in Washington, DC were folded into what was now called the DuMont Broadcasting Corporation, owner of independent TV stations. Because of what was deemed the "failure" of the old DuMont network, the board of the company (which acquired WNEW-AM 1130 in 1957) voted in May 1958 to change its name to the Metropolitan Broadcasting Corporation. Four months later, on Sept. 7, 1958, WABD's calls changed to WNEW-TV (partly to conform to the AM sister as well as an FM station on 102.7 which first took to the air on Aug. 25, 1958; also probably as part of their "de-DuMontization" of their setup). It is presumed that the company petitioned the FCC to change the TV station's calls in the same month as the company name changed; if so, the process took some four months before the FCC gave the OK for the call letter change. As late as May or June 1958, TV Guide channel listings identified Channel 5 as "WABD (DuMont)"; from then to the Aug. 30-Sept. 5, 1958 issue it was characterized as "WABD (Ind.)." It should be noted that beginning in July 1958 "Metropolitan Broadcasting Corporation" was listed in the bottom of Channel 5 ads, but before the call letter change no call letters were mentioned in their advertising. This prefigured the "Metromedia Television" branding on Channel 5 advertising from 1967 into the mid-1980's.

 

[searadiofreak]

I noted a lot of 5-minute newscasts, certainly not unique to NY. In this era it was basically "radio on tv", so 5 minutes was about right.

 

[oldiesfan6479]

WRCA 4-NBC New York
8:55 Herb Sheldon (partially in color)

Partially? What parts were in color and what was in B&W? Studio vs. remote,
or perhaps color film/slides and TK-11 cameras?

 

[Bluenoser]

WRCA 4-NBC New York
8:55 Herb Sheldon (partially in color)

Partially? What parts were in color and what was in B&W? Studio vs. remote,
or perhaps color film/slides and TK-11 cameras?

I don't have the magazine in front of me at the moment, but one segment was in color, with everything else in glorious B&W...