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Bob1370
Guest
Source; New York Times
TELEVISION
WNBT
Channel 1
Morning
10:30-11:00 A. M.-Air Warden's Basic Course, Lesson II
11:30 A. M.-12:00-Air Warden's Basic Course, Lesson II
Afternoon
3:00-3:30-Air Warden's Basic, Course
3:30=National Safety Council 'Style show
4:00-4:30-Air -Warden's -Basic Course
Evening
8:00-Air Warden's Basic Course
8:30-Thrills and Chills, With Doug Allen and Capt. Bob Bartlett
9:00-9:30-Air Warden's Basic Course
9:45-11:15--Basketball: L. I. U. vs. Toledo, Madison Square Garden.
WCBW
Channel 2
Afternoon
2:30-News Reports ,
2:45-Table Talk . -
3.15-Children's. Story
Evening
9:00-News 'Reports; Music
8:25-Civilian Defense Program
8:35-Country Dance
9:25-9:30-News Summary
W2XWV
Channel 4
10 AM-5 PM; Selected films and test programs
This is what the several thousand TV homes in the New York area saw on their sets 70 years ago this week.
As you can see, WNBT (predecessor of today's WNBC channel 4) spent most of its air time broadcasting war-related instruction programming meant for viewing in local armory venues where civil defense training was being conducted. WCBW Channel 2 (predecessor of today's WCBS-TV) conducted a schedule much like it had done in pre-war months, marked mostly by entertainment programming presented on a shoestring (sponsors were relatively scarce back then). DuMont's W2XWV (predecessor of WABD, now known as WNYW Fox 5) still had only an experimental license. Experiments involving presentation of films and an occasional studio show to learn just what could be done with the state of the art were what they were doing while waiting for the FCC to grant a full commercial license.
This is pretty much what TV viewers in New York continued to get through the end of the war in the late summer of 1945, although when DuMont got its commercial license for WABD in 1944 it started presenting more regular schedules of programming. It would take until 1947 for all the New York stations to broadcast seven days a week, and 1949 for any of the stations to program regularly before noon.
In those few other American communities that had regularly operating TV stations by the start of the war (Albany/Schenectady, Philadelphia, Chicago, and an experimental station in Los Angeles) TV was similarly part-time and low-budget.
TELEVISION
WNBT
Channel 1
Morning
10:30-11:00 A. M.-Air Warden's Basic Course, Lesson II
11:30 A. M.-12:00-Air Warden's Basic Course, Lesson II
Afternoon
3:00-3:30-Air Warden's Basic, Course
3:30=National Safety Council 'Style show
4:00-4:30-Air -Warden's -Basic Course
Evening
8:00-Air Warden's Basic Course
8:30-Thrills and Chills, With Doug Allen and Capt. Bob Bartlett
9:00-9:30-Air Warden's Basic Course
9:45-11:15--Basketball: L. I. U. vs. Toledo, Madison Square Garden.
WCBW
Channel 2
Afternoon
2:30-News Reports ,
2:45-Table Talk . -
3.15-Children's. Story
Evening
9:00-News 'Reports; Music
8:25-Civilian Defense Program
8:35-Country Dance
9:25-9:30-News Summary
W2XWV
Channel 4
10 AM-5 PM; Selected films and test programs
This is what the several thousand TV homes in the New York area saw on their sets 70 years ago this week.
As you can see, WNBT (predecessor of today's WNBC channel 4) spent most of its air time broadcasting war-related instruction programming meant for viewing in local armory venues where civil defense training was being conducted. WCBW Channel 2 (predecessor of today's WCBS-TV) conducted a schedule much like it had done in pre-war months, marked mostly by entertainment programming presented on a shoestring (sponsors were relatively scarce back then). DuMont's W2XWV (predecessor of WABD, now known as WNYW Fox 5) still had only an experimental license. Experiments involving presentation of films and an occasional studio show to learn just what could be done with the state of the art were what they were doing while waiting for the FCC to grant a full commercial license.
This is pretty much what TV viewers in New York continued to get through the end of the war in the late summer of 1945, although when DuMont got its commercial license for WABD in 1944 it started presenting more regular schedules of programming. It would take until 1947 for all the New York stations to broadcast seven days a week, and 1949 for any of the stations to program regularly before noon.
In those few other American communities that had regularly operating TV stations by the start of the war (Albany/Schenectady, Philadelphia, Chicago, and an experimental station in Los Angeles) TV was similarly part-time and low-budget.