Retro:Pittsburgh area small market stations Prime Time Monday May 12, 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

Monday May 12, 1958

7:30
6-12 Price Is Right-Cullen-COLOR
7 Ozzie And Harriet ABC (Thursdays)
9-10 Robin Hood
56 To Be Announced

8PM
6-7 Restless Gun
9-10 Burns And Allen
12 Frankie Laine-Synd.

8:30
6-7-12 Wells Fargo
9-10-56 Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts

9PM
6-7 Twenty-One
9-56 Voice Of Firestone-ABC
10 Danny Thomas Show
12 Tombstone Territory

9:30
6-7 Goodyear Theater
9 December Bride
10-56 Top Tunes/New Talent-Lawrence Welk-ABC
12 Janet Dean

10PM
6-7-12 Suspicion
9 Studio One

10:30
10 December Bride (Week Delay)

11PM
6-7-9-10-12 News

11:15
6 20th Century Fox Hour
7 Jack Paar

11:20
9 20th Century Fox Hour
10 World's Best Movies-Bride by Mistake 1944
12 Jack Paar

12:20
9 News

12:45
10 Thought For The Day

Notes:

Channels 6 7 and 12 seem to be Primary NBC
9 and 10 CBS

several stations had some ABC shows because Pittsburgh did not have a full ABC affiliate till later in 1958 (WTAE-4)

Sourceittsburgh TV Guide

 

[Joseph_Gallant]

Tim Lones takes us back to markets near (but not including) Pittsburgh on May 12th, 1958:

> 10:30
> 10 December Bride (Week Delay)

Although it aired the previous week in most of the country, there were ways that a filmed show could air on a local station later on the same evening that it was seen on the network.

In 1958, lots of local TV stations got their first VTR's in 1958, and could have taped the network feed of a show, rewound it, re-cued it, and aired it one hour after the rest of the network broadcast it.

Or, a network could send the local affiliate a print of that week's episode, including network spots. It's my understanding that until tape became quite common at local TV stations, networks would often send prints of filmed shows if they could not air them when fed by the network.

As poor in picture quality as kinescope recordings of live shows sometimes were, I would think a kine of a film show was much worse.<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by Joseph_Gallant on 08/22/05 09:45 PM.</FONT></P>

 

[TimL]

> Tim Lones takes us back to markets near (but not including)
> Pittsburgh on May 12th, 1958:
>
> > 10:30
> > 10 December Bride (Week Delay)
>
> Maybe not.
>
> If WFBG-10 had gotten a videotape machine by this time (lots
> of local TV stations got their first VTR's in 1958), they
> could have taped the network feed of "December Bride" at
> 9:30 P.M., rewound it, re-cued it, and aired it at 10:30.
>
> Or, CBS may have sent WFBG a print of that week's episode,
> including network spots. It's my understanding that until
> tape became quite common at local TV stations, networks
> would often send prints of filmed shows if they could not
> air them when fed by the network.
>
> As poor in picture quality as kinescope recordings of live
> shows sometimes were, I would think a kine of a film show
> was much worse.


Joseph:
While your theory might be possible, there is a large hole in it..December Bride according to http://www.getty.net/texts/tv-48-66.txt (1957-58-Monday Night) was shown on CBS Network Mondays at 9:30 (2 KDKA Pittsburgh 9 WSTV Steubenville and 27 WKBN Youngstown) and was a different episode than WFBG showed at 10:30. which would lead me to believe that the 9:30 episode was the "live" network feed and 10:30 was the week delay.

 

[Joseph_Gallant]

Tim:

Thanks for the correction.

I have edited my post to reflect your information and making what I had to say about delayed-broadcasts of network shows circa 1958 more "generic".