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Retro: New York Sunday, January 22, 1950

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bpatrick

From the New York Herald-Tribune:

WCBS Ch. 2 (CBS)

4:15 Music And Preview
4:30 Lamp Unto My Feet
5 PM Overseas Press Club
5:30 The Chuck Wagon
6:30 Mr. I. Magination
7 PM The Girls (apparently an
early sitcom)
7:30 This Is Show Business
8 PM Toast Of The Town (Ed Sullivan)
(This episode created a cause
celebre; one of the guests was
dancer Paul Draper, who tap-
danced to "Yankee Doodle Dandy."
In the audience was Benson Ford,
of the Ford automobile family;
Lincoln-Mercury sponsored the show
at the time. A few days later Sullivan
learned that Draper was on the blacklist
for his leftist leanings, then had Draper's
segment removed from the kinescope for the
West Coast. Ironically, the conservative
Ford applauded the loudest for Draper.)
9 PM Fred Waring Show
10 PM Pantomime Quiz
10:30 Week In Review

WNBT Ch. 4 (NBC)

10 AM Film; Newsreels
10:30 Children's Hour (simulcast on WNBC radio)
11:30 Magic Clown
11:45 Yesterday's Newsreel
12 N Sign off
4:30 American Forum (simulcast on NBC radio)
5 PM Armed Forces Hour
5:30 Hopalong Cassidy
6:30 Say It With Acting
7 PM Leave It To The Girls
7:30 Aldrich Family ("HenREE! Henry Aldrich!")
8 PM Perry Como
8:30 Colgate Theater: "Two For A Penny"
9 PM Philco Television Playhouse:
"The Marriages"
10 PM Garroway At Large
10:30 WNBT Review; News

WABD Ch. 5 (DuMont)

5:45 Telenews Weekly
6 PM Western Film: "The Law Rides"
with Bob Steele
7 PM Front Row Center
8 PM Chicagoland Mystery Players:
"The Man Who Died Twice"
8:30 Shakespeare Films: "Julius
Caesar" and "Macbeth"
9 PM They Stand Accused
10 PM Bowling Headliners
11 PM Herald-Tribune News

WJZ Ch. 7 (ABC)

4:45 Tot's Time
5 PM Super Circus
6 PM The Singing Lady (Ireene Wicker,
who would also face the blacklist
when someone accused her, falsely,
of signing a petition to get Communist
Party candidate Vito Marcantonio on the
ballot in the NYC mayor's election in 1945.)
6:30 Hollywood House
7 PM Paul Whiteman Show (his Goodyear Revue--
the Teen Club aired Saturdays)
7:30 Crusade In Europe
8 PM Think Fast
8:30 Rex Maupin's Orchestra
9 PM Your Witness
9:30 Mysteries Of Chinatown (Marvin Miller,
of "The Millionaire" fame, here plays
a Charlie Chan-like detective.)
10 PM Celebrity Time
10:30 Youth On The March

WOR Ch. 9 (Ind.)

no programs scheduled

WPIX Ch. 11 (Ind.)

2 PM Music
2:30 Comics With Danny Webb
there's a gap until
6 PM Television Chapel
6:30 News With John Tillman
6:45 The Band Box
7 PM Jimmy Powers (sports)
7:15 Telepix Newsreel
7:30 Voice Of The People
8:30 Evensong With David Ross
8:45 Telepix; News
 
Worth noting: on a January Sunday, the entire sports lineup for the day was:
>
WABD Ch. 5 (DuMont)
>

> 10 PM Bowling Headliners
>

>
> WPIX Ch. 11 (Ind.)

> 7 PM Jimmy Powers (sports)

Granted, no football or baseball, but no college basketball? (CCNY was a powerhouse at the time.) No hockey? Not even boxing or wrestling?
 
> Worth noting: on a January Sunday, the entire sports lineup
> for the day was:
> >
> WABD Ch. 5 (DuMont)
> >
>
> > 10 PM Bowling Headliners
> >
>
> >
> > WPIX Ch. 11 (Ind.)
>
> > 7 PM Jimmy Powers (sports)
>
> Granted, no football or baseball, but no college basketball?
> (CCNY was a powerhouse at the time.) No hockey? Not even
> boxing or wrestling?
>
Nope. The NBA didn't get a network slot until 1953; the
NHL, 1957. No boxing on Sunday, the last network wrestling
show of the week was DuMont's from Chicago on Saturday nights,
and college basketball was not yet a national draw, AFAIK.

Same thing was true on network radio; Sunday afternoons were
largely given over to religious programs, the New York Philharmonic,
"easy-listening" music, things of that sort. The real sports
boom didn't begin until the late '60s or early '70s.

Heck, when I was growing up in the mid-'60s, ABC would have
an NBA game followed by The American Sportsman, CBS would have
the Sports Spectacular, and NBC would have Shell's Wonderful
World Of Golf. They'd all be over by 5 PM, then shows like
GE College Bowl, Ted Mack's Amateur Hour, Wild Kingdom, and
The 20th Century would take over until primetime started at 7.
 
Dr. Bear noted:

> Granted, no football or baseball, but no college basketball?
> (CCNY was a powerhouse at the time.) No hockey? Not even
> boxing or wrestling?

I don't think there were any regular-season college-basketball games played on Sundays until the 1970's.

Back in the early days of television, it was almost impossible (due to the limited number of channels on the coaxial cable/microwave systems being used to transmit television programs from city-to-city) for a local TV station to feed an away game of a local sports team back to the station's home market.

I have heard that prior to 1956, the New York Rangers and New York Knicks both televised some home games before switching to away games. It's my also understanding that in the case of the Rangers, periods two and three were televsied, and the Knicks, the second, third, and fourth quarters.

I do not how many games of each team were televised each season.

The Knicks were at home that day (beating the old Rochester Royals 81-71), but the game wasn't televised, which leads me to think that only a limited number of games of each team were televsied that season.

Traditionally, the Rangers have played a lot of home games on Sunday nights, but according to Shrp Sports.com, the Broadway Blueshirts were playing a rare Sunday away game in Chicago that day/evening (they lost 4-3).

BTW, the Rangers went to the Stanley Cup Finals that year, but lost to Detroit, beaten in triple-overtime of Game 7. I believe it was the only time the seventh game of a Stanley Cup final has ever gone to overtime.
 
> Dr. Bear noted:
>
> > Granted, no football or baseball, but no college
> basketball?
> > (CCNY was a powerhouse at the time.) No hockey? Not even
> > boxing or wrestling?
>
> I don't think there were any regular-season
> college-basketball games played until the 1970's.
>
> Back in the early days of television, it was almost
> impossible (due to the limited number of channels on the
> coaxial cable/microwave systems being used to transmit
> television programs from city-to-city) for a local TV
> station to feed an away game of a local sports team back to
> the station's home market.
>
> I have heard that prior to 1956, the New York Rangers and
> New York Knicks both televised some home games before
> switching to away games. It's my also understanding that in
> the case of the Rangers, periods two and three were
> televsied, and the Knicks, the second, third, and fourth
> quarters.
>
> I do not how many games of each team were televised each
> season.
>
> The Knicks were at home that day (beating the old Rochester
> Royals 81-71), but the game wasn't televised, which leads me
> to think that only a limited number of games of each team
> were televsied that season.
>
> Traditionally, the Rangers have played a lot of home games
> on Sunday nights, but according to Shrp Sports.com, the
> Broadway Blueshirts were playing a rare Sunday away game in
> Chicago that day/evening (they lost 4-3).
>
> BTW, the Rangers went to the Stanley Cup Finals that year,
> but lost to Detroit, beaten in triple-overtime of Game 7. I
> believe it was the only time the seventh game of a Stanley
> Cup final has ever gone to overtime.
>

That Ranger team couldn't use MSG for the Cup finals because the circus ha dthe Garden booked. Ranger "home" games in that series were held in Toronto
 
> From the New York Herald-Tribune:
>
> WCBS Ch. 2 (CBS)
>
> 4:15 Music And Preview
> 4:30 Lamp Unto My Feet
> 5 PM Overseas Press Club
> 5:30 The Chuck Wagon
> 6:30 Mr. I. Magination
> 7 PM The Girls (apparently an
> early sitcom)
> 7:30 This Is Show Business
> 8 PM Toast Of The Town (Ed Sullivan)
> (This episode created a cause
> celebre; one of the guests was
> dancer Paul Draper, who tap-
> danced to "Yankee Doodle Dandy."
> In the audience was Benson Ford,
> of the Ford automobile family;
> Lincoln-Mercury sponsored the show
> at the time. A few days later Sullivan
> learned that Draper was on the blacklist
> for his leftist leanings, then had Draper's
> segment removed from the kinescope for the
> West Coast. Ironically, the conservative
> Ford applauded the loudest for Draper.)
> 9 PM Fred Waring Show
> 10 PM Pantomime Quiz
> 10:30 Week In Review
>
> WNBT Ch. 4 (NBC)
>
> 10 AM Film; Newsreels
> 10:30 Children's Hour (simulcast on WNBC radio)
> 11:30 Magic Clown
> 11:45 Yesterday's Newsreel
> 12 N Sign off
> 4:30 American Forum (simulcast on NBC radio)
> 5 PM Armed Forces Hour
> 5:30 Hopalong Cassidy
> 6:30 Say It With Acting
> 7 PM Leave It To The Girls
> 7:30 Aldrich Family ("HenREE! Henry Aldrich!")
> 8 PM Perry Como
> 8:30 Colgate Theater: "Two For A Penny"
> 9 PM Philco Television Playhouse:
> "The Marriages"
> 10 PM Garroway At Large
> 10:30 WNBT Review; News
>
> WABD Ch. 5 (DuMont)
>
> 5:45 Telenews Weekly
> 6 PM Western Film: "The Law Rides"
> with Bob Steele
> 7 PM Front Row Center
> 8 PM Chicagoland Mystery Players:
> "The Man Who Died Twice"
> 8:30 Shakespeare Films: "Julius
> Caesar" and "Macbeth"
> 9 PM They Stand Accused
> 10 PM Bowling Headliners
> 11 PM Herald-Tribune News
>
> WJZ Ch. 7 (ABC)
>
> 4:45 Tot's Time
> 5 PM Super Circus
> 6 PM The Singing Lady (Ireene Wicker,
> who would also face the blacklist
> when someone accused her, falsely,
> of signing a petition to get Communist
> Party candidate Vito Marcantonio on the
> ballot in the NYC mayor's election in 1945.)
> 6:30 Hollywood House
> 7 PM Paul Whiteman Show (his Goodyear Revue--
> the Teen Club aired Saturdays)
> 7:30 Crusade In Europe
> 8 PM Think Fast
> 8:30 Rex Maupin's Orchestra
> 9 PM Your Witness
> 9:30 Mysteries Of Chinatown (Marvin Miller,
> of "The Millionaire" fame, here plays
> a Charlie Chan-like detective.)
> 10 PM Celebrity Time
> 10:30 Youth On The March
>
> WOR Ch. 9 (Ind.)
>
> no programs scheduled
>
> WPIX Ch. 11 (Ind.)
>
> 2 PM Music
> 2:30 Comics With Danny Webb
> there's a gap until
> 6 PM Television Chapel
> 6:30 News With John Tillman
> 6:45 The Band Box
> 7 PM Jimmy Powers (sports)
> 7:15 Telepix Newsreel
> 7:30 Voice Of The People
> 8:30 Evensong With David Ross
> 8:45 Telepix; News
> was WATV/13 Newark schedules included that particular day? or were they
simply not telecasting for the day?
 
> > From the New York Herald-Tribune:
> >
> was WATV/13 Newark schedules included that particular day?
> or were they
> simply not telecasting for the day?
>
WATV's schedules were not included, which is strange, considering
that I have a Sunday schedule from 1949 which does include WATV.
I'll defer to the New York experts on this.
 
bpatrick said:
> > From the New York Herald-Tribune:
> >
> was WATV/13 Newark schedules included that particular day?
> or were they
> simply not telecasting for the day?
>
WATV's schedules were not included, which is strange, considering that I have a Sunday schedule from 1949 which does include WATV. I'll defer to the New York experts on this.
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I suppose The New York Times would've included WATV's Sunday schedule for this day? Perhaps the Herald Tribune had an anti-New Jersey bias in its station lineup at the time? (It's instructive that in Channel 13's 1958-61 run as WNTA-TV, the station's address was given by the Herald Tribune in their Sunday TV supplement as 10 Columbus Circle in New York [the headquarters of then-owners NTA], while TV Guide gave their address as the Mosque Theatre - a.k.a. 1020 Broad Street - in Newark.)
 
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