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Retro: New York City Wed, Aug 29, 1956

B

Bluenoser

from New York Herald Tribune

WCBS 2-CBS
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 (Peter Lind Hayes guest hosts)
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 (with Betty Holt, Tommy Leonetti, and the New Yorkers)
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 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 Layne Time (guests Mellowlarks, Edith Barstow Dancers, Eydie Gorme, and Los Chavales de Espana)
9:00 Millionaire "The Story of Brian Hendricks"
9:30 I've Got a Secret
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
6:55 Daily Sermonette
7:00 Today
8:55 Herb Sheldon (Josie McCarthy segment in color)
10:00 Ding Dong School
10:30 Bandstand (guests the Four Lads and Art Mooney's orchestra)
11:00 Home (Arlene Francis and High Downs show the use of China paintings in home demonstrations, other guests include Lucille Rivers (skirt making) and puppeteers Bil & Cora Baird (who who how they find material for their shows))
11:25 Window (c/Ostrid Lind)
11:30 Home
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 Theater "The Girl Who Saw Too Much" (c)
10:00 This is Your Life (concentration-camp survivor 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
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 Theater 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"
10:30 Secret File, USA "Mission Istrahan"
11:00 Featurama (Tom Moore) "The Mail Goes Through"/"Death in the Arena"
mid. Prevues/Prayer

WABC 7-ABC
7:45 News (George H. Combs)
8:00 Tinkers 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
12:30 Joe Franklin (which included cartoons in those days)
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 (guest: Glamour editor Kate Lloyd)
9:00 Screen Directors "What Day is It?"
9:30 Eddie Arnold (guests Chet Atkins and Paul Mitchell's group)
10:00 Boxing: from Chicago, White Plains' Rory Calhoun (23-0-1, 12 KO) takes on Chicago's Spider Webb (15-1, 11 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 "Casanova 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 Peddlers
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
1:45 Channel 8 Matinee
2:00 Channel 8 Matinee "The Dear Departed"
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 (Syd Jaffe)
6:40 Weather (Ed Caputo)
6:45 News (Joseph Burns)
7:00 Studio 57 "Farewell Appearance"
7:30 Disneyland "The Goofy Sports Story"
8:30 Amazing Dunninger
9:00 Screen Firectors "What Day is It?"
9:30 Eddie Arnold
10:00 Boxing: Calhoun v Webb
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
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 (r)
11:30 Hour of Danger (r)

WPIX 11-Ind
1pm Christophers "Develop Your Talents" (guests Blanche Seaver and Richard Crooks)
1:30 Jimmy Powers
1:55 Baseball: Yankees host Kansas City (Mel Allen/Jim Woods; Ch 11 usually ran a movie at 1:30, Sightseeing at 3, Candid Camera at 3:30, and a movie at 4)
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)
7:10 Weather (Joe Bolton)
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 Theatre "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
11:58 TV Pastor Marsh
noon Coffee Club (Lyle Reed) "Naval Officers Reserve School"
12:30 Junior Carnival
1:00 Mystery Film "Bluebeard"
2:00 Movie Matinee "There was a Young Lady"
3:15 Jewish Matinee Time (Miriam Kressyn)
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 (repeating the 1pm film)
8:00 Oral Roberts
8:30 Feature Film (repeat of 2pm film)
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 (more on ch 43's history at http://www.hartfordradiohistory.com/WICC-TV.html)
6pm Picture Window
6:15 Film Shorts
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
 
Bluenoser said:
from New York Herald Tribune

WABD 5-DuMont

WICC 43-ABC/DuMont Bridgeport
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Interesting...I can see WABD still listed as "DuMont," since they were still owned by DuMont (which would soon be rebranded as "Metropolitan Broadcasting," later as "Metromedia"), though now operating as an independent, but...WICC? The DuMont network had given up the ghost by then, with regularly scheduled programming having ceased almost a year prior to this schedule, and the last occasional sports feed (a boxing match) having gone out on 8/6/56 (assuming we can trust the dates on You-Know-Who-ipedia). Perhaps WICC picked up these sporadic sports feeds to the bitter end, so still branded themselves as a DuMont affiliate? Or just a case of the TV editor at the paper not having bothered to delete the reference?
 
Stanislav commented: said:
The DuMont network had given up the ghost by then, with regularly scheduled programming having ceased almost a year prior to this schedule, and the last occasional sports feed (a boxing match) having gone out on 8/6/56 (assuming we can trust the dates on You-Know-Who-ipedia)
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Brooks and Marsh also noted that the August 8, 1956 boxing telecast was DuMont's last network program, although it continued locally "in New York (on WABD/WNEW-5) until 1958".
 
Stanislav said:
Bluenoser said:
from New York Herald Tribune

WABD 5-DuMont

WICC 43-ABC/DuMont Bridgeport
Click to expand...

Interesting...I can see WABD still listed as "DuMont," since they were still owned by DuMont (which would soon be rebranded as "Metropolitan Broadcasting," later as "Metromedia"), though now operating as an independent, but...WICC? The DuMont network had given up the ghost by then, with regularly scheduled programming having ceased almost a year prior to this schedule, and the last occasional sports feed (a boxing match) having gone out on 8/6/56 (assuming we can trust the dates on You-Know-Who-ipedia). Perhaps WICC picked up these sporadic sports feeds to the bitter end, so still branded themselves as a DuMont affiliate? Or just a case of the TV editor at the paper not having bothered to delete the reference?
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It was around this time that WABD was indeed being rebranded as an independent. After the collapse of the DuMont network, the parent for both that station and WTTG in Washington, DC was reorganized as the DuMont Broadcasting Corporation. Why the Herald-Tribune (and TV Guide) still listed the station as "DuMont," is anyone's guess. (This persisted up to the renaming of the company as the Metropolitan Broadcasting Corporation in May 1958 in a bid to disassociate themselves from the "failed" past of the DuMont network, followed four months later by WABD changing calls to WNEW-TV; only then [after May or June of '58] did TVG finally refer to Channel 5 in their "Channels Listed" section as "Ind." alongside WNTA-TV, WPIX and WOR-TV.)
 
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