Retro: Pittsburgh/Wheeling, August 10, 1957

[crainbebo]

From: Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Affiliations are dated for 1957
Listings start at 9AM
Channels: 2 KDKA Pittsburgh (CBS, ABC, NBC), 6 WJAC Johnstown (NBC, ABC), 7 WTRF Wheeling (NBC, ABC), 9 WSTV Steubenville (CBS, ABC), 16 WENS (IND?)

2 KDKA
9AM: Comedy Jamboree
10AM: Sky King
10:30: Mighty Mouse
11AM: Fury
11:30: Captain Gallant
Noon: Saddle Busters
1PM: Lone Ranger
1:30: Gene Autry
2:30: Spike Jones
3PM: Hollywood Playhouse
4PM: Millionaire
4:30: Meet McGraw
5PM: Wyatt Earp
5:30: Man of Annapolis
6PM: This is Your Life
6:30: News
6:45: Buc Ball
7PM: Bold Journey
7:30: Lawrence Welk
8PM: Julius LaRosa Show
9PM: Charles Boyer
9:30: Waterfront
10PM: Encore Theatre
10:30: Adventure Theatre
11PM: Silent Service
11:30: News
11:45: Movie: He Ran All The Way"
12:30: News
12:45: Swing Shift

6 WJAC
9:30: Cartoon Capers
10AM: Howdy Doody
10:30: Gumby
11AM: Fury
11:30: Captain Gallant
Noon: True Story
12:30: Detective's Diary
1PM: Sermons from Science
1:30: Best Things in Life
2PM: Costa Rica
2:30: Champs All?
3PM: Movie
4PM: Bound for The Carribean
5PM: Dear Nancy
5:30: Big Ones
5:45: Living Word
6PM: Public Defender
6:30: Buccaneers
7PM: Whirly Birds
7:30: People are Funny
8PM: Julius LaRosa Show
9PM: George Sanders
9:30: Golden Playhouse
10PM: Encore Theatre
10:30: Adventure Theatre
11PM: State Trooper
11:30: Late Movie: "Romona"

7 WTRF
9AM: Action Theatre
10AM: Howdy Doody
10:30: Gumby
11AM: Fury
11:30: Western Marshall
Noon: Christian Anderson
12:30: Movie Matinee
1:30: Living Word
1:45: Tour; News
2PM: Cleveland Baseball
4:30: Adventure Album
4:45: Movie Matinee
6PM: This is The Life
6:30: Tee-Vee Frolic
7PM: Moment of Decision
7:30: People are Funny
8PM: Julius LaRosa Show
9PM: George Sanders
9:30: Dollar a Second
10PM: Encore Theatre
10:30: Adventure Theatre
11PM: News
11:15: Movie: "Message To Garcia"

9 WSTV
9AM: Kiddie Corral
9:30: Captain Kangaroo
10:30: Cartoon Time
11AM: Susan's Show
11:30: It's A Hit
Noon: Big Top
1PM: Nine Teen Time
1:45: Outdoors
2PM: Weekend Westerns
4:30: Country Jubilee
5PM: Wire Service
6PM: City Detective
6:30: Sports
6:45: News
7PM: Bob Cummings
7:30: Buccaneers
8PM: Jimmy Durante
8:30: Two For The Money
9PM: Oh Suzanna
9:30: State Trooper
10PM: Gunsmoke
10:30: Lawrence Welk
11:30: Jimmy Dean
Midnight: Movie: "Homicide for Three"

16 WENS
6:30: Bar 16
7:30: Flight No. 7
8PM: Jimmy Durante
8:30: New Horizons
9PM: Movie
10PM: Herald of Truth
10:30: Big Picture
11PM: Sign off

-crainbebo

 

[FreddyE1977]

this would have been just weeks before WIIC (WPXI) 11 took to the air.
I did not realize WENS 16 was still hanging in at the time. WSTV (WTOV) 9
from Steubenville put a huge analog signal into the Pittsburgh Area and provided a good alternative source of programming for many years.

 

[Tim L]

I had done a blog posting about DuMont in Ohio last year, mentioning WDTV-2's unique position as a DuMont O&O, which we've discussed many times before..I got a comment stating the CBS president Frank Stanton in 1953 was behind an idea to move the license of Channel 9 Steubenville (as yet unbuilt) to Pittsburgh as the Pittsburgh CBS affiliate. The FCC Vetoed the move..DuMont then sold WDTV to Westinghouse a year later..

 

[FreddyE1977]

Very interesting, especially since the WTOV digital facility is in Burgettstown, PA, some 15 miles closer to Pittsburgh
than the old stick.