Retro: Pittsburgh, Wednesday, Dec. 6, 1950

[crainbebo]

From: Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Channels Listed: 3 WDTV Pittsburgh (CBS, NBC, ABC, DuMont), 13 WJAC Johnstown (NBC, ABC, CBS, DuMont)
Networks are listed as known.

3 WDTV
11AM: Test Pattern
1PM: Concert Hall (NBC or local?)
1:15: Kay's Kitchen (Local show? Unknown at this time)
1:45: Matinee Theatre (This was an NBC show from '55-'58, so it could be a local show)
2:55: Headlines (local news)
3PM: Mohawk Showroom (NBC)
3:15: Mailbox Magic (local?)
3:30: Concert Hall (NBC or local?)
4PM: Homemaker's Exchange (CBS)
4:30: Concert Hall (NBC or local?)
5PM: Showtime, USA (ABC)
5:30: Howdy Doody (NBC)
6PM: Video Adventure (local?)
6:30: News (local)
6:45: Home is Happiness (local?)
7PM: Captain Video (DuMont)
7:30: News; Sports
7:45: Pitt Parade (local)
7:55: Viz Quiz (unknown)
8PM: Duquesne Time (local?)
8:30: Arthur Godfrey and His Friends (CBS)
9PM: Story Theatre (unknown)
9:30: Steeler Hilites (unknown)
10PM: Wrestling (ABC, since CBS showed Boxing instead)
Midnight: News
12:05: Diamond Theatre
1:20: Previews

13 WJAC
1:30: Garry Moore Show (CBS)
2:30: First 100 Years (CBS)
2:45: Robert Q's Matinee (CBS)
3:30: Bert Parks Show (NBC)
4PM: Kate Smith Hour (NBC)
5PM: Telenews (local)
5:15: Panhandle Pete and Jennifier (CBS)
5:30: Howdy Doody (NBC)
6PM: Cactus Jim (unknown)
6:30: Perry Como (NBC)
6:45: Kaledioscope (unknown)
7PM: Kukla, Fran and Ollie (NBC)
7:30: Mohawk Showroom (NBC)
7:45: Camel News Caravan (NBC)
8PM: Arthur Godfrey and His Friends (CBS)
9PM: Stars over Hollywood (I don't know)
9:30: You Bet Your Life (NBC)
10PM: Wrestling (ABC, since CBS aired wrestling on Wednesday Nights in the 1950-51 season)
Midnight: Preview (local?)

-crainbebo

 

[mbayus]

1PM: Concert Hall (NBC or local?)

In 1950, My parents lived in Grindstone Pa. with my mom's parents. They didn't have a tv, but they went next door to Mrs. Subolish's and watched her tv. My dad remembers Concert Hall as being a program where in Music was played and a slide of music notes was put up on the screen. He remembers the program as being something to fill in time when no other programing was available. I was born in 1952. By 1954, My dad had trained to become a tv repair man and Chessler, The local tv sailsman, new about it. When my Grandparents, bought a new tv from him he told my dad, "I have a tv here that doesn't work. I turn it on and nothing happens. I can't sell it so if you can fix it, you can have it." It was a Muntz tv on 4 long legs. It was taller than I was, and the speaker was at my nees. We also had an Airking table model. So we went from having to go to Mrs. Subolish's house to watch tv in 1950, to having 2 tvs in the same room at our house in 1954. In 1955, we moved to Flint Michigan and took the smaller one with us and left the big Muntz for my Grandparents.

 

[FreddyE1977]

these are before my time, but I do recall my parents talking about some of them.
(ahhh, the days when Test Patterns were actually listed in the TV section!)

Pitt Parade was a newsreel-type show that was an early precursor to lifestyle features on local news. They would show daily footage from parades, spelling bees, ribbon cuttings, and other upbeat local events. KDKA retained a vast storeroom of this footage when they acquired WDTV, and it is a historical treasure-trove of Pittsburgh during its heyday. KD was running some of these for nostalgia towards the end of their 6PM newscast as recently as the late 90's. Would be great if they could someday make them available on DVD. (bits and pieces of them frequently show up in the Rick Sebak PBS specials that circulate nationally).

Duquesne Time was I believe a local variety show sponsored by the defunct Duquesne Brewery. They were a long-time #2 to Iron City locally, and went out of business in the early 70's.

Steeler Hilites is self-explanatory. Although it should have been titled Steeler Lowlites. The Steelers did not give us much to cheer about at that point in their history.

 

[oldiesfan6479]

...sponsored by the defunct Duquesne Brewery. They were a long-time #2 to Iron City locally, and went out of business in the early 70's.

There is a broadcasting reference in this question...trust me.

Which brewery produced (the Rege Cordic specialty beer) Olde Frothlingslosh?

 

[KeithE4]

...sponsored by the defunct Duquesne Brewery. They were a long-time #2 to Iron City locally, and went out of business in the early 70's.

There is a broadcasting reference in this question...trust me.

Which brewery produced (the Rege Cordic specialty beer) Olde Frothlingslosh?

IIRC, that was Iron City.

 

[FreddyE1977]

Pittsburgh Brewing still produces Olde Frothingslosh around the holidays (or at least they did, before a recent bankruptcy and re-emergence as Iron City Brewing Co.)
Allegedly it is just Iron in a nostalgic Olde Frothingslosh can. The big girl in the swimsuit is gone, just a cartoon image of Cordic and the story behind The Pale Stale Ale for the Pale Stale Male. (fewer and fewer of us are left around here who recall Cordic. I was too young for his radio career but recall him as a movie host on WTAE-TV 4).

"Ahrn" is the only local brew left in these parts (if you don't count Stoney's, the brand originated by Shirley Jones' great-grandfather....that is now produced by Iron City too). Duke bit the dust in the early 70's and Rolling Rock was sold to Anheuser Busch a few years ago and production moved to New Jersey. (Ironically, only to have InBev, the Belgian brewer who sold off The Rock, acquire all of A-B a few years later).

 

[crainbebo]

What about Kay's Kitchen or Mailbox Magic? Are they NBC, CBS, or local?

-crainbebo

 

[Tim L]

Duquesne Time was I believe a local variety show sponsored by the defunct Duquesne Brewery. They were a long-time #2 to Iron City locally, and went out of business in the early 70's.

Duquense Brewery also sponsored The Dorothy Fuldheim News/Commentary program early evenings usually at 6:30, On WEWS-TV 5 in Cleveland for a number of years..

 

[FreddyE1977]

Interesting! I had no idea that Duquesne was distributed as far away as Cleveland.
(To this day I have a tough time finding Iron City in Ohio). I believe that Carling's Black
Label was the preferred beer and major TV sponsor in Cleveland at that time.