Retro; New York City, Wednesday, Oct. 27, 1948

[Bob1370]

Source; New York Times

STATIONS
Channel;
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, Newark (Ind.; now WNET New York, PBS)

MORNING

10:00
13-Music, test pattern

AFTERNOON

12:30
2-Sign-on; music, program preview, weather
12:45
2-Soil Conservation Series (instruction)
1:20
2-Film Short; Woman's World
1:30
2-Missus Goes A' Shopping (fashion); sign off at end of program
2:45
13-Sign-on; music & announcements
3:00
13-Feature film (title not listed)
4:00
13-Western feature (title not listed)
5:00
11-Sign-on; Pixie Playhouse (children)
13-Junior Frolic (children)
5:30
4-Sign-on; Howdy Doody Time with Buffalo Bob Smith (children)
7-Sign-on; The Singing Lady with Ireene Wicker (children)
13-Film Serial; Sign of the Eagle
5:45
11-Comics on Parade with Danny Webb (children)
5:50
13-Camera Highlights

EVENING

6:00
5-Sign-on; Small Fry Club with Bob Emery (children)
11-Records
6:15
2-Sign-on; Music, weather, program preview
6:30
2-Lucky Pup (children)
5-Russ Hodges (sports)
6:45
2-Bob Howard Show (variety)
5-Alan Dale Show (variety)
7:00
2-Recording of Ultrafax Demonstration
5-Birthday Party
7-News & Views with Walter Kiernan
11-News; Teenage Charm School
13-Film; Oklahoma Cyclone (Western, 1930); Bob Steele, Rita Rey
7:15
7-The Fitzgeralds (talk, interviews)
7:30
2-CBS News with Douglas Edwards
4-You Are An Artist with Jon Gnagy (instruction)
5-Camera Headlines and Films (news)
7-Critic at Large with Norman Cousins (interview); Pare Lorentz, Fairfield Osborne, E. L. DeGolyer, guests
11-Newsreel
7:40
11-Voice of the People (forum); topic, Election Prospects; Edward Flynn, Thomas Curran, Harry Fleischman, Leo Linder, panelists
7:45
2-Face the Music; Johnny Desmond, Sandra Deel Tony Mottola Trio
7:50
4-Newsreel Theater
8:00
2-Kobbs Corner with Stan Fritts, Joe Hurt and Hope Emerson (variety); guests, Remi Martel, Denise Alexander, Butch Cavell
4-Girl About Town with Kyle McDonnell (variety); Ellsworth and Fairchild, guests
5-Photographic Horizons; Roy Pinneys, guest
7-Gay Nineties Revue with Joe Howard (variety, nostalgia)
13-Film; I Am A Criminal (Crime Drama, 1938); John Carroll, Kay Linaker (sign off at film's conclusion)
8:20
4-NBC Presents
11-NHL Hockey; New York Rangers vs. Detroit Red Wings
8:30
2-Winner Take All (quix); Bud Collyer, emcee
4-Ted Steele Show (variety)
5-Growing Paynes (situation comedy); John Harvey, Judy Parrish
7-Candid Microphone with Allen Funt (show later known as Candid Camera)
9:00
2-Film; The Dewey Story (paid campaign infomercial), then film shorts
4-Play; "Biography", starring John Forsythe, Virginia Gilmore
5-Boxing from Jamaica Arena (sign-off at conclusion)
7-Wrestling from Washington, DC (sign-off at conclusion at 11:00)
9:30
2-Boxing; Westchester County Center
10:10
Newsreel
10:45
2-News (sign-off at conclusion)
11-Newsreel (sign-off at conclusion)
11:00
4-Village Barn (variety/comedy/country music); Dick Thomas, host; Romolo DiSpirito (sign-off at conclusion)

 

[wbhist]

This would have been eighteen days after the third of ABC's original O&O's, Detroit's WXYZ-TV (now owned by the Scripps media empire), first took to the air on Oct. 9, 1948. (The second, in Chicago, which went on as WENR-TV on Sept. 17, 1948 - one month and ten days prior to this schedule - later became WBKB (TV), and is today WLS-TV.)

 

[bpatrick]

"Village Barn" was an actual nightclub in Greenwich Village that
specialized in country music; it had been founded in the late 1930s
and had proven quite successful. In his book "I Looked And I Listened,"
New York Daily News TV critic Ben Gross asked the founder how such
a place could thrive in supposedly-sophisticated New York. The man
laughed, "Don't you know? This is the biggest hick town in the world!"