Retro:Pittsburgh area Prime Time Tuesday May 13, 1958

[TimL]

Johnstown Pa.
6 WJAC All Networks
56 WARD ABC CBS (Network shows listed only)

Clarksburg, W VA
12 WBOY NBC ABC

Altoona, Pa.

10 WFBG CBS ABC

Wheeling W. Va
7 WTRF NBC ABC

Steubenville, Ohio
9 WSTV CBS ABC

Pittsburgh
2 KDKA CBS-ABC
11 WIIC NBC
13 WQED NET

Youngstown
21 WFMJ NBC
27 WKBN CBS
45 WKST ABC

7:30
2-9-10-27-56 Name That Tune
6 Harbor Command-Synd.
7-12-21 Treasure Hunt
11 Ozzie And Harriet-ABC (Wednesdays)
13 Action At Law
45 Sugarfoot-ABC

8PM
2 Phil Silvers
6-7-11-12-21 Eddie Fisher-COLOR
9-27 Mr. Adams And Eve (CBS Fridays 9PM)
10 Frank Sinatra-ABC
13 Mathematics
56 To Be Announced

8:30
2 O Henry Playhouse
9 Wingo-CBS
10 Wyatt Earp-ABC
13 Advanced Shorthand
27 San Francisco Beat-Synd.
45 Our Miss Brooks

9PM
2 Studio 57
6-7-11-21 McGraw
9-10-27-56 To Tell The Truth
12 O Henry Playhouse
13 Understanding the Stock Market
45 Broken Arrow-ABC

9:30
2 Red Skelton-COLOR-CBS Network Feed
6-7-11-12-21 Bob Cummings
9 Racket Squad-Syndication
10 Richard Diamond-CBS
13 Ideas And Ideals
45 Pantomime Quiz-ABC

10PM
2-9-10-27-56 Phil Silvers On Broadway-Special
6-7-11-12-21 Californians
13 Sense Of Poetry
45 West Point-Syndicated

10:30
6 Alfred Hitchcock (Sundays, CBS)
7 Boots And Saddles-Syndicated
11 Big Story-Synd.
12 Sea Hunt
13 Briefing Session
21 Charlie Chan
45 Starlite Theater-Green Hell 1940

11PM
2-6-7-9-10-11-12-21-27 News

11:15
2 Gateway Studio:You Cant Escape Forever 1942
6 O Henry Playhouse
7-11 Jack Paar
27 Playhouse 27-Thunderhead Son Of Flicka 1945

11:20
9 Tri-State Theater Blind Alley 1939
10 World's Best Movies-Black Legion-1937
12-21 Jack Paar

11:45
6 Public Defender

12:45
10 Thought For The Day

1AM
2-9-11 News

1:10
2 Movie
Swing Shift Theater-Lifeboat 1944

2:25
2 Sermonette

 

[Joseph_Gallant]

Tim Lones takes us back to the Steel City on May 13th, 1958:

> Pittsburgh
> 11 WIIC NBC

Considering that this station was (and today, as WPXI, still is) an NBC affiliate, could the original call letters have stood for "11 Color"??

> 9:30
> 2 Red Skelton-COLOR-CBS Network Feed

Red Skelton's show, IIRC, was broadcast in color a few times a year from 1956 through the Spring of 1964, and went to color every week in September of 1964, which would make it one of the first CBS shows to go to color in the network's mid-1960's conversion from black-and-white to color broadcasting.

> 11:15
> 2 Gateway Studio:You Cant Escape Forever 1942

I suspect KDKA-2's late-night movie series was titled "Gateway Studio" because the station was basede for many years (is it still??) at Pittsburgh's Gateway Center, which I believe was completed around the same time Group W/Westinghouse acquired KDKA (then WDTV) from DuMont.

> 11:20
> 12-21 Jack Paar

These two stations missed the first few minutes of Paar's monologue (or else aired kinescopes or tapes of the previous night's show).

 

[bpatrick]

> 10PM
> 2-9-10-27-56 Phil Silvers On Broadway-Special
>
>Pre-empts The $64,000 Question. Several specials
starring Phil Silvers and Jack Benny separately or
together aired on CBS in the summer of 1963 as
Comedy Hour Specials; it was the summer replacement
for Danny Thomas and Andy Griffith that year. This
may have been one of them, since all of them originally
aired in the late '50s.
> <P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by bpatrick on 08/22/05 09:55 PM.</FONT></P>