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Retro: Washington, DC Thursday, July 29, 1954

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From The Washington Post:

WNBW (WRC) Ch. 4 (NBC)

6:45 News
6:50 Religious Program
7 AM Today (Dave Garroway)
9 AM Kitchen Cupboard
9:30 Figure; Weaver (don't know
about this, I figure--no pun--
that at least part of this was
an exercise show)
9:45 Joe Campbell
10 AM Ding Dong School
10:30 A Time To Live (one of NBC's
unsuccessful morning soaps
in the '50s)
10:45 Three Steps To Heaven (another one)
11 AM Home (Arlene Francis)
12 N Bob Smith Show (yes, Buffalo Bob with
a variety show)
12:30 Mike Hunnicutt
1 PM People's Playhouse: "Folly To Be Wise"
(sponsored by People's Drug Stores, a
large chain in D.C. and Virginia)
2 PM Inga's Angle
2:30 Here's How
3 PM One Man's Family
3:15 Golden Windows
3:30 First Love
3:45 Concerning Miss Marlowe
4 PM Hawkins Falls
4:15 Bride And Groom (a live wedding each day)
4:30 Betty White
5 PM Pinky Lee
5:30 Howdy Doody
6 PM Footlight Theater
6:45 News, Weather, Sports
7 PM Wild Bill Hickok
7:30 World Of Mr. Sweeney
7:45 Camel News Caravan (John Cameron Swayze)
8 PM Best Of Groucho
8:30 Justice
9 PM Dragnet
9:30 Ford Theater
10 PM The Marriage
10:30 Your TV Theater
11 PM News, Weather, Sports, Film
11:30 Armchair Theater: "Counterpunch"
12:45 Inspiration

WTTG Ch. 5 (DuMont)

9:45 Sign On, Cartoons
10 AM Romper Room
11 AM Early Bird Theater: "The Pointing
Finger"
12 N 'Round The Town
12:30 Hoppity Hippety (children's stories)
1 PM Art Lamb Session
1:30 Pete Johnson's Matinee For You:
"Thanks For Listenin'"
2:30 Hazel Markel's Bazaar
3 PM Paul Dixon Show
4 PM Brighter Day (pre-empted on Ch. 9)
4:15 Secret Storm (pre-empted on Ch. 9)
4:30 On Your Account (pre-empted on Ch. 9)
5 PM Art Lamb Session
6 PM Hoppity Hippety
6:30 Headline Edition
6:45 Sports And Weather
7 PM Captain Video
7:15 Movie Quick Quiz
7:30 Interlude: "Man In A Cave"
8 PM What's The Story?
8:30 Johns Hopkins Science Review
9 PM Pursuit (there was a show on CBS in the
1958-59 season with this same title)
10 PM Royal Theater
10:30 Arthur Murray Dance Party
11 PM News, Weather, Sports, Night Owl Theater:
"The Pointing Finger"
12:45 News

WMAL (WJLA) Ch. 7 (ABC)

8:30 Cartoon Capers
9 AM Breakfast Club (short-lived effort to bring
Don McNeill's classic radio show to television)
10 AM Movie Club: "Master Of Bankdom"
11:45 Cartoon Concert
1 PM Just For Fun
2 PM Hollywood Matinee: "The Quitter"
3 PM Modern Woman
4 PM Pirate Bill (Bill Wells)
5 PM Family Playhouse: "Sons Of The Desert"
(one of Laurel and Hardy's most famous)
6 PM Black Phantom
6:30 News With Bryson Rash
6:45 Jim Gibbons Show
7:15 John Daly And The News
7:30 Lone Ranger
8 PM Melody Tour
9:30 Kraft Theater
10:30 Racket Squad
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:15 7-Star Theater: "Turnabout"
sign off 12:45 AM

WTOP (WUSA) Ch. 9 (CBS)

6:55 Morning Meditations
7 AM The Morning Show (Walter Cronkite)
9 AM Billy Johnson Show (he'd be on Atlanta's
Channel 11 in the early '60s)
9:45 Mark Evans
10 AM Garry Moore
10:30 Arthur Godfrey
11:30 Strike It Rich
12 N Valiant Lady
12:15 Love Of Life
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM Portia Faces Life
1:15 The Seeking Heart
1:30 Welcome Travelers
2 PM Robert Q. Lewis (Imagine! A time when
As The World Turns was not on CBS's
daytime schedule. It premiered April 2,
1956.)
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party
3 PM Big Payoff
3:30 Allen Jeffreys
4 PM Pick Temple's Ranch: "Border Bandits"
5:30 Bob Crosby (delay from 3:30)
6 PM Starlight Theater
6:30 News
6:45 Esso Reporter
7 PM Waterfront
7:30 Douglas Edwards With The News
7:45 Summer Holiday
8 PM What's In A Word?
8:30 Four Star Playhouse
9 PM What Do You Have In Common?
9:30 Big Town
10 PM The Telltale Clue
10:30 Favorite Story
11 PM Ron Cochran News, then Weather,
Sports, Police Blotter
11:30 Late Show: "Escape By Night"
sign off approximately 1 AM
 
It has always been very easy to pick up Baltimore TV in Washington and vice versa, even with an indoor antenna---its only 39 miles from downtown to downtown. Its only on cable or satelite that you cannot pick up the other city's stations, unfortunately.
 
fortmill said:
It has always been very easy to pick up Baltimore TV in Washington and vice versa, even with an indoor antenna---its only 39 miles from downtown to downtown. Its only on cable or satelite that you cannot pick up the other city's stations, unfortunately.
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That is very true with the systems in around "the cities" as in DC and Baltimore. But once you head west, say about 30 or so miles things are a bit different. For some reason in Front Royal, VA Direct TV offers Baltimore's WMAR-TV alongside the DC locals.Why just WMAR is a good question. Meanwhile in Winchester ( 72 miles west of DC ), WBAL and WJZ are still offered on the local Comcast system there. However all of this DC and Baltimore TV being available there may be a thing of the past within a year or so as both Winchester and Front Royal are expected to be taken out of the DC market and be placed into Harrisonburg, VA's. Since that market doesnt have a CBS affilate, I would imagine that WJZ and WUSA would be safe. Maybe Hagerstown's WHAG for NBC unless Charlottesville's WVIR is interested in the northern part of Virginia ( I have my doubts though ), but the other channels such as WJLA, WDCA and WTTG , that becomes interesting since Harrisonburg has their own FOX and MY affilates.

Now with Hagerstown,MD their system gets WJZ and WMAR from Baltimore and I think Frederick, MD gets the best of both worlds on cable, All of the DC stations AND Baltimore's WMAR, WJZ and WBAL as well.
 
Back in the '80s, when WBAL was a CBS affiliate,
they carried the CBS Evening News at 6:30, while
Channel 9 in DC carried it at 7. Ronald Reagan was
watching WBAL's feed in the White House one night,
heard something he didn't like, and called Dan Rather
on the spot--and Rather was on live! So at least
in one DC location, you can get Baltimore.

But I wouldn't personally know; I've lived in Laurel,
where the Baltimore stations come in slightly better
than the DC ones (but I preferred the DC newscasts),
 
What in the world makes you think Front Royal and Winchester are going to be moved from the DC market to the Harrisonburg market? Both cities are closer to DC than Harrisonburg and have always gotten their TV service from there. Both are fast becoming suburbs of Washington and are in the Washington MSA. The only commercial TV station in Harrisonburg, WHSV, has a tiny coverage with their 8,000 watt analog transmitter and 80K UHF digital transmitter that does not really reach either city over the air. True, WHSV has started a faux TV station in Winchester which is not available over the air or on satelite. And of course, the DC stations will never sit still for a change that makes no sense whatsoever. Keep dreaming.
 
fortmill said:
What in the world makes you think Front Royal and Winchester are going to be moved from the DC market to the Harrisonburg market? Both cities are closer to DC than Harrisonburg and have always gotten their TV service from there. Both are fast becoming suburbs of Washington and are in the Washington MSA. The only commercial TV station in Harrisonburg, WHSV, has a tiny coverage with their 8,000 watt analog transmitter and 80K UHF digital transmitter that does not really reach either city over the air. True, WHSV has started a faux TV station in Winchester which is not available over the air or on satelite. And of course, the DC stations will never sit still for a change that makes no sense whatsoever. Keep dreaming.
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Actually WHSV's Winchester feed IS available over the air ( I have friends who live in Hagerstown, MD who actually are regular viewers and they prefer WHSV's Winchester newscast to that of WHAG's ) but only to those with HDTV. I have heard from some of the local businesses that do business with WHSV that WHSV choose NOT to put their Winchester feed on satellite but I myself believe its more than just that.

Myself makes no sense to me but WHSV recently went to the FCC somehow managed to expand the Harrisonburg market
to include Winchester and Frederick County, VA. Of course the DC stations ( and I think even a Baltimore station or two )
tried to fight it but the FCC ruled in WHSV's favor. Again makes no sense to me.

I found this online...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV3_Winchester

yeah, its wikipedia but more/less the same story appeared in the two Winchester newspapers ( The Star and Northern Virginia Daily ). I am sure its online someplace on the Winchester Star's website in their archives but for some stupid reason the Star uses Dates to find an article not what the story was about.
 
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