Retro:WNBK/KYW 3 Cleveland Sun.-Mon. February 12-13, 1956

[Tim L]

Below are the schedules for the last full day for WNBK Channel 3 and the first day of KYW at the time of the Westinghouse/NBC ownership switch in 1956, though I have an audio station ID that indicates Westinghouse actually took ownership of WNBK in late 1955..

From:TV Guide

Sunday February 12, 1956
WNBK-TV 3

8AM TV Sunday School
8:30 The Christophers
9AM Catholic Hour
9:30 Spirituals
10:30 Youth Wants to Know
11AM American Forum
11:30 Pat Patterson
Noon Tomorrow
12:30 Norman Vincent Peale
12:45 Strange Adventure
1PM Movie-Japanese War Bride
2:30 Movie-In Old Sacramento
4PM Wide Wide World-Dave Garroway
5:30 Captain Gallant
6PM Meet The Press
6:30 Roy Rogers
7PM It's A Great Life-Comedy
7:30 Frontier
8PM Colgate Comedy Hour-Johnathan Winters, Peter Donald, Stan Freberg-Must have been a laugh riot!
9PM Philco/Goodyear TV Playhouee
10PM Loretta Young
10:30 Justice-Syndicated
11PM Movie-Best Of Hollywood-Spitfire

Monday, February 13, 1956

7AM-Noon WNBK
Noon-Onward-KYW

7AM Today
9AM Variety Hour
10AM Ding Dong School
10:30 Ernie Kovacs
11AM Home-Arlene Francis
11:45 KYW-TV-Opening Ceremonies
Noon Tennessee Ernie Show
12:30 Feather Your Nest
1PM Movie-I Love Trouble
2:30 My Little Margie
3PM Matinee Theater
4PM Date With Life
4:15 Modern Romances
4:30 Queen For A Day
5PM Pinky Lee
5:30 Howdy Doody
6PM Ramar Of The Jungle
6:30 Watch the Birdie
6:35 Sports-Tom Manning
6:45 News
7PM My Little Margie
7:30 Tony Martin
7:45 John Cameron Swayze-NBC News
8PM Sid Caesar
9PM Medic
9:30 Robert Montgomery Presents-Gene Rayburn in dramatic role
10:30 Man Behind The Badge-Syndicated
11PM News
11:05 Weather-Joe Finan
11:10 Sports
11:15 Little Theater
11:30 VP Richard Nixon-Lincoln Day Dinner Speech-Special
Midnight-Tonight-Steve Allen

 

[mjlarochelle]

Question - did WNBK have much in the way of local programming, being an NBC O&O? I don't see a local newscast for WNBK but that may be because it was a Sunday.

 

[Tim L]

Question - did WNBK have much in the way of local programming, being an NBC O&O? I don't see a local newscast for WNBK but that may be because it was a Sunday.

WNBK had as much local programming as any station in the 1950's In the 1952-55 era they had hosts such as Maggi Byrne, Louise Winslow, Gloria Brown and Mildred Funnell hosting Women's Shows..News/Weather/Sports was handled by Ed Wallace, Tom Field, Joe Finan, Tom Haley and Tom Manning..Looking at 1954-55 TV Guides, Nobody really did local news on Sunday in that era..

Movie hosting was done by Haley and Lawson Demming, who later assisted Woodrow the Woodsman (He did puppet voices) at KYW and WJBK Detroit and later became known as Sir Graves Ghastly on Detroit TV..

 

[Tim L]

I should also mention that "TV Sunday School" and "Spirituals" with hostess Mary Holt on the Sunday Schedule were local shows..Pat Patterson was also local..An outdoor living/sports host

 

[bpatrick]

Question - did WNBK have much in the way of local programming, being an NBC O&O? I don't see a local newscast for WNBK but that may be because it was a Sunday.

You'd be hard-pressed to find local news on weekends anywhere in the 1950s. I think I've posted some Atlanta schedules where WAGA would have five minutes at 11 PM on Saturday and Sunday, then go into a movie; traditional market leader WSB wouldn't even do that. I suspect that situation, or something like it, existed everywhere; after all, local news wasn't a profit center in those days.