Retro: WPTZ-TV/Philadelphia-2/23/42

[Stitch]

From "Television in America: Local Station Histories From Across The Nation", by Michael D. Murray and Donald G. Godfrey. The schedule itself came from the personal collection of Andrew C. McKay.

WPTZ (later WRCV, now KYW-TV): Monday, February 23, 1942:

7pm Last Year's Nest, Episode 5 (Drama)
7:15 Film Short (TBA)
7:30 Elizabeth Jane Taylor, Noted Philadelphia Coloratura Soprano
8pm WNBT Retelecast-Air Raid Warden Instructional Program
8:30 WNBT Retelecast-America Prepares
9pm Philadelphia Council of Defense Presents: "Women in Emergency Relief"
9:20 Film Short (TBA)
9:30 Hale America Presents a Boxing Exhibition
9:45 "See The Skies Tonight" by Armand Spitz
10pm WNBT Retelecast-FDR's Speech
10:15 The Philco News Analyst
10:30 Sign off

The WNBT retelecasts were test programs originating from New York. This setup was basically part of the early stages of the NBC television network.

 

[bpatrick]

> From "Television in America: Local Station Histories From
> Across The Nation", by Michael D. Murray and Donald G.
> Godfrey. The schedule itself came from the personal
> collection of Andrew C. McKay.
>
> WPTZ (later WRCV, now KYW-TV): Monday, February 23, 1942:
>
> 7pm Last Year's Nest, Episode 5 (Drama)
> 7:15 Film Short (TBA)
> 7:30 Elizabeth Jane Taylor, Noted Philadelphia Coloratura
> Soprano
> 8pm WNBT Retelecast-Air Raid Warden Instructional Program
> 8:30 WNBT Retelecast-America Prepares
> 9pm Philadelphia Council of Defense Presents: "Women in
> Emergency Relief"
> 9:20 Film Short (TBA)
> 9:30 Hale America Presents a Boxing Exhibition
> 9:45 "See The Skies Tonight" by Armand Spitz
> 10pm WNBT Retelecast-FDR's Speech
> 10:15 The Philco News Analyst
> 10:30 Sign off
>
> The WNBT retelecasts were test programs originating from New
> York. This setup was basically part of the early stages of
> the NBC television network.
>
I think NBC had three stations at the time: WNBT, WPTZ,
and WRGB Schenectady, NY. Brooks and Marsh mention that
by 1944 Ray Forrest was doing a newscast, at the top of
which he identified the NBC network and the three stations.
Ironically, two of the three are now with CBS. WRGB switched
in 1981; KYW is now a CBS o&o.

I didn't know that any of FDR's speeches were televised, save
for one he gave at the 1939 New York World's Fair. That's
interesting.

And is Andrew C. McKay the Andy McKay who worked with Ernie
Kovacs?

 

[mwebster]

A nit: Philco sold WPTZ to Westinghouse which changed the calls to KYW-TV in 1954. A year later, Westinhouse swapped Philadelphia and Cleveland stations with NBC and NBC changed the calls to WRCV-TV. In 1964, the FCC order the companies to swap back, and the station became KYW-TV again.

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> WPTZ (later WRCV, now KYW-TV): Monday, February 23, 1942:
>