Thursday, May 29, 2008

NBA on CBS Intro-1975 Western Conference Final

With the NBA Finals coming up in the next several days, I thought I would indulge in a bit of NBA nostalgia..I've been an NBA fan since the 1968-69 season when I listened to many of the Cincinnati Royals games on WLW-700 in Cincinnati.

When the Cleveland Cavaliers came in the league in 1970-71 I listened to them on the old WCUE-FM 96.5 (Now WAKS)..WERE 1300, the Cavaliers flagship station for the first 2 Cavs seasons..was and is now unable to be heard in Canton..WEWS Channel 5 carried Cavaliers games from 1970-73..

This clip is from the Chicago-Golden State Western Conference Final Game 7 May 14, 1975. Brent Musberger and Oscar Robertson are the announcers..The main attraction of this clip is the intro theme..very catchy..


Lyrics to "NBA on CBS"

Give it all you got,
Take your your very best shot

And may the best team win.

The time is now, the name of the game is action.

They're on the floor,

And they're ready to score,

So let the game begin,

And let's see how the ball's going to bounce today

Welcome to N-B-A

Come on, and join the roar of the crowd"

Here's another classic about,

To come your way...

You'll see the best in basketball

When you watch the N-B-A,

When you watch the N-B-A on C-B-S.

(N-B-A on C-B-S, N-B-A on C-B-S, ... etc. fading out)


When the NBA moved from ABC to CBS after the 1972-73 season it didnt seem right to me..The NBA BELONGED on ABC..Of course, fans got used to the NBA on CBS over time and these days it doesnt matter..


Thanks to jkygogo for originally posting the clip..

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Cleveland/Akron/Canton Radio-1950's


Akron Beacon Journal Ad for the "Jack Clifton Sunshine Club" on WCUE-AM 1150 Monday through Saturday...(1956)..WCUE was ultimately given away to Family Stations of Oakland, California, who have run a Satellite-fed conservative religious format since November 1986.."Family Radio"


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Station Identification for WTAM-AM/FM Cleveland from January 1956..Karl Bates announcing..Just after Westinghouse took control of the stations, but before the call letter changes


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Set of various sign-on's, sign-offs and jingles from KYW AM/FM from around 1956-into the late 1950's era..

1. Bill Mayer morning show open/close
2. KYW-Boohoo jingle Big Wilson at the end
3. KYW-FM sign off-David Hawthorne
4. KYW-FM sign-on (12 Noon!) "Your Fine Arts Station"
5. KYW-Boohoo jingle with big band type promo
6. KYW-Clapclap jingle
7. KYW-Excitement Jingle
8. KYW-ID Jingle-Joe Finan heard at the end, subbing for Specs Howard
9. KYW Promo-Karl Bates "Is Your Radio Sluggish lately?"
10. KYW AM/FM sign-off with Bill Mayer promo..

Usually best to play these back to back-If You click on any one..The next will automatically play..Still experimenting with this audio stuff..Thanks to Jerry Immel for providing these.

Today I want to give a good look at radio in the mid-1950's..KYW-AM/FM seemed to be a mixture of big band, jazz and classsical music along with some NBC Drama/Comedy shows...The last days of Old Time Radio were upon us and radio was changing more into music and news intensive programmming..Between the Akron Beacon Journal and the Canton Repository, I want to share the Radio Schedules of one particular day..

Monday January 13, 1956 Radio Schedules:
Listing by Frequency

640-WHKK-Mutual Akron (Beacon Journal)

7AM Breakfast Time
9:15 Music-News
9:30 Weatherfords (Gospel singing family)
9:45 Akron Baptist Temple
10AM Back To The Bible
10:30 Christian Jew Hour
10:45 640 Music Hall
11AM News/Story Time
11:30 Queen For a Day
Noon Farms/Music
12:15 Capital Comment
12:30 Melody Roundup (Newscasts Throughout)
3:30 Dick Reynolds (Fulton Lewis at 7PM, Gabriel Heatter at 7:30)
8:30 Sign-off (ABJ continues listings with WHK-1420)

900-WAND-Canton (Repository)

7:15 Morning Melodies (7:30 Weather)
8AM News, Sports, Weather
8:20 Morning Melodies
8:30 Wings of Faith
8:45 Morning Melodies
9AM Hit Tunes
10AM Nick Barry
11AM Star Time
11:30 Bing Crosby
Noon Luncheon Serenade
1PM News, Weather
1:15 Music from the Movies
2PM Pop Hits
3:45 Nick Barry
5PM Hit Tunes
5:30 News, Weather, Stocks, Sports
6PM sign-Off

1060-WCMW-Canton (Repository)

7:15 Rustic Roundup
8AM Rosary Hour
9AM News
9:05 Story Lady
9:30 Rev. Mortenson (He would found WTOF-FM in 1961)
10AM News
10:05 Make Yours Music (News at 11AM)
11:55 Weather
Noon News
12:15 Stock Market
12:20 Massillon Show
12:50 Telechore
1PM News
1:05 Western Hayride (News at 2)
2:30 Tip Top Tunes News at 3, 4)
5:45 News, Sports
6PM Sign-Off

1100 WTAM/KYW-NBC Cleveland (Repository)

7AM Bill Mayer (Mayer of the Morning)
9:30 Mildred (Funnell)/Gloria (Brown)
10:15 Weekday
11:45 KYW Opening Ceremonies
Noon News
12:15 Wes Hopkins
3PM Weekday
3:30 Hotel For Pets
3:45 Doctor's Wise
4PM Right To Happiness
4:15 Young Widder Brown
4:30 Pepper Young's Family
4:45 A Woman In The House
5PM Joe Mulvihill (Tom Manning sports at 6PM 3-Star Extra News at 6:45)
7:30 News
7:45 One Man's Family
8PM News
8:15 Musicale
8:30 Lone Ranger
9PM Telephone Hour
9:30 Nixon Lincoln Day Address
10PM Fibber McGee and Molly
10:15 Night Music (News at 11, Midnight)
1AM Sign-Off

1150-WCUE Cuyahoga Falls/Akron (Beacon Journal)

7AM Jack Clifton (News at 7, 8, 9AM)
9:30 Polka Time (News at 10)
10:30 Kathryn Kuhlman
11AM News/Dr. McKay
11:10 Rick Reighard
Noon News
12:15 Bob Ancell (News at 1)
2PM Jack Chenoweth (News at 2, 3, 4 News and Sports at 5)
6PM Sign-Off

1220 WGAR-CBS Cleveland (Repository)

7AM Tom Armstrong-Jim Martin News (just a guess)
9:30 Ladies Day
10AM Arthur Godfrey
11:30 Make Up Your Mind
11:45 Howard Miller
Noon News
12:15 Hal Morgan
12:30 Helen Trent
12:45 Wendy Warren
1PM Road Of Life
1:15 Ma Perkins
1:30 Dr.. Malone
1:45 Guiding Light
2PM Second Mrs. Burton
2:15 Brighter Day
2:30 Nora Drake
2:45 Aunt Jenny
3PM House Party
3:30 James Taylor
4PM Morgan's Matinee (News, Sports throughout)
6PM News, Stocks, Sports
6:30 Ronnie Bonnie
6:45 Lowell Thomas
7PM Curt Massey
7:30 Bing Crosby
7:45 Edward R. Murrow
8PM Mostly Music
8:30 Talent Scouts
9PM Jack Carson
9:30 Amos And Andy
10PM James Taylor
10:30 Barrett's Garden
11:30 Nixon Address
Midnight Sign-Off

1350 WADC-CBS Akron (Beacon Journal)

7AM News
7:15 Unity Views
7:30 Music, News, Weather
9AM News
9:15 The Humbards
9:30 Woman World
10AM Arthur Godfrey
11:30 Make Up Your Mind
11:45 Howard Miller
Noon Wendy Warren
12:15 News
12:30 Helen Trent
12:45 Our Gal Sunday
1PM Road Of Life
1:15 Ma Perkins
1:30 Dr.. Malone
1:45 Guiding Light
2PM Second Mrs. Burton
2:15 Brighter Day
2:30 Nora Drake
2:45 Aunt Jenny
3PM House Party
3:30 Bob Allen (News at 4, 4:30)
5PM News, Music
6PM Melodies
6:15 Pop Tunes
6:30 Bill Stern
6:45 Lowell Thomas
7PM Curt Massey
7:30 Bing Crosby
7:45 Edward R. Murrow
8PM My Son Jeep
8:15 Johnny Dollar
8:30 Talent Scouts
9PM Jack Carson
9:30 Amos And Andy
10PM The Humbards
10:30 News-Music
10:45 Melody Lane
11PM CBS News
11:15 It's Different
11:30 Race Results
11:45 It's Different
Midnight-Sign-Off

1420 WHK-Mutual Cleveland (Repository)

7AM News
7:15 Bill Gordon (News at 8, 9)
10AM Morning Moods
10:30 News/Eleanor Hanson
11AM Story Time
11:30 Queen For A Day
Moon Local News
12:15 National News
12:30 Tom Fletcher
1PM Cedric Foster
1:15 Dick O' Heren
2PM Pickup
2:30 Bruce Charles
4PM Bill Gordon
5:30 Ken Coleman
5:45 Music, (Harry) Wismer
6PM News
6:15 Dinner Winner
6:30 Bob and Ray
6:45 Hank: Music
7PM Fulton Lewis
7:15 Memories
7:30 Gabriel Heatter
7:45 Les Paul
8PM True Detective
8:30 Tom Steele
9PM Music
9:30 Reporters Roundup
10PM Tom Brown


1480/94.1 FM WHBC-ABC Canton (Repository)

7AM News/Sports
7:15 Three T's (Time, Temperature and Tunes)
8AM News-Top of the Morning
9AM Breakfast Club
10AM Morning Matinee
10:30 When a Girl Marries
10:45 Whispering Streets
11AM Easy Listening
11:30 Feminine Fancy
Noon Keyboard Captions(?)
12:30 Carol's Notebook-Various Ladies portrayed "Carol Adams"..Sort of a "Women's Editor"

1PM Paul Harvey
1:15 Ohio History
1:30 My True Story
2PM Music In The Air
3PM Coffee Break
3:30 Homeward Bound
5:30 Dinah Shore
5:45 Weather
6PM News
6:15 Sports
6:30 Bing Crosby
6:45 Patti Page
7PM Fulton Lewis
7:15 Bill Stern
7:30 Edward P, Morgan News
8PM Opera Auditions
8:30 Good Neighbor
8:45 Join The Navy
9PM Les Brown
9:30 Nixon Address
10PM Pop Concert
11PM News
11:15 Sports Whirl
11:30 Disc Den
1AM Sign-Off

1590-WAKR=ABC Akron (Beacon Journal)

7AM Top of the Morning (News at 7, 9 Martin Agronsky at 8)
10AM My True Story
10:30 When a Girl Marries
10:45 Whispering Streets
11AM Chef Lorenzo
11:15 Top Tunes (News 11:30)
11:45 Top Tunes-Hymn
Noon News/Clubs
12:15 Geyer-Swap Shop
12:30 What's Your Name
3PM Request Matinee (News at 4, 5)
6PM News, Sports
6:15 Sing Cinderella
6:30 News/Stars Sing
6:45 Sports, Weather
7PM News, Markets
7:15 Guy Nunn
7:30 Record Man
7:45 Records, News
8PM Record Man
8:30 Voice Of Firestone
9PM Record Man (News at 9)
10PM Vandercook
10:15 Request Review-Weather
11PM News, Sports
11:15 Request Review

I hope to do the Stan Anderson/Cleveland Press article next about KYW..This post sort of got bigger than I figured..


























Saturday, May 24, 2008

WNBK to KYW- News Media Reaction


TV Guide Ad for a Sunday, February 19th, 1956 CBS/TV 8 showing of "The Honest Man" starring Jack Benny and Zsa Zsa Gabor on GE Theater with Ronald Reagan..Incidentally, this program is currently part of a 40-show Jack Benny DVD set from Mill Creek Entertainment.


TV Guide Ad for what was the last Movie shown on Channel 3 as WNBK Sunday Night February 12, 1956 at 11PM

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KYW-TV 3 sign-off by Gordon Ward from 1956..Not long after the move from Philadelphia..Notice the Catchy Jingle just before the sign-off..KYW was at 815 Superior Avenue at this time..The sign-off was probably on a Saturday night-Sunday Morning. While this is now on the Internet Archive, I'd like to thank Jerry Immel of Atlanta for sharing this clip..He has many others which I'd like to introduce over time..Just click on the player to listen..

In the next couple of articles I'd like to look at News Media reaction to the NBC/Westinghouse 1956 swap in the form of two articles from Radio/TV writers Art Cullison of the Akron Beacon Journal and Stan Anderson of the Cleveland Press..First up:Art Cullison

KYW COMES TO OHIO
WTAM, WNBK Lineusps Revamped

By Art Cullison,
Akron Beacon Journal Radio/TV Writer
Sundsy, February 12, 1956

WTAM and WNBK will officially become KYW and KYW-TV at 11:55 AM tomorrow (2-13-56) as the new owners, Westinghouse Broadcasting Co., shake up the programming lineup but continue to carry NBC radio and television shows.

Here are a few changes coming into effect on KYW Radio this week:

A New farm show will be presented Mondays through Saturdays from 5:30-6 AM. Bill Mayer, the Morning Disk Jockey will be heard from 6-9:30 AM six days a week.

"Mildred and Gloria", a woman's program, will be heard daily from 9:30 to 10:15 AM with NBC's "Weekday" following Mildred Funnell and Gloria Brown.

Mayer will Emcee an Afternoon musical program and Joe Mulvihill will spin platters from 5 to 7:30 PM. "Night Music" will be heard from 10:15 to 1 each evening. The first 75 minutes will stress semi-classical and operetta music. from 11:30 on there will be concert pieces and heavier classics..

(Comment:imagine trying to put heavy classical music on a large AM station today...Or any kind of music for that matter..lol)

By Special Arrangement with the British Broadcasting Co., KYW will present Shakespeare plays every Friday at Midnight. There will be a program of Modern Jazz Saturdays from 1 to 3 PM

At Midnight on Saturdays, KYW will present two-hour symphonies in their entirety. Sunday afternoons there will be a program of sweet popular music hosted by Jerry Liebman,

Dr. Bergen Evans, author and lecturer, will deliver a series of spoken essays "Of Many Things" Sundays at 6:15 PM starting next week, and Dr. Helen Parkhurst, child psychologist, will present a recorded series on juvenile delinquency and child development problems Sundays at 7 PM.

And here are some changes for KYW TV:

Tom Haley will Emcee "Morning Surprise" daily at 9 (AM) There will be remote telecssts from spots around Cleveland, interviews, and news.

"The Big R," a series of live and filmed programs discussing the national education problem and Cleveland in particular, will be seen Saturdays at 2:30 PM. "Juvenile Justice" a "live" show in which guest judges hold simulated court trials for Juvenile offenders will be seen Sundays at 10:30 AM..

Cleveland TV Guide Listings
Saturday, February 18, 1956

KYW-3 NBC

9AM Movie-TBA
10AM Children's Corner-With Pittsburgh's Josie Carey and Fred Rogers (Later Misterogers)
10:30 Pinky Lee
11AM Fury
11:30 Paul Winchell-Jerry Mahoney
Noon-Choose Up Sides-Gene Rayburn
12:30 Mr. Wizard-Don Herbert
1PM Film Short
1:30 Top Ten Dance Party
2:15 Film Short
2:30 The Big R-Education (DEBUT)
3PM Pro Basketball-NBA-Fort Wayne Pistons at Syracuse Nationals (Syracuse won 85-84)
Lindsay Nelson/Curt Gowdy
5PM Film Short
5:30 Zoo Parade-Marlim Perkins
6PM Ramar of the Jungle
6:30 Death Valley Days
7PM Racket Squad
7:30 Big Surprise-Game
8PM Perry Como
9PM Academy Award Nominations for 1955.
10:30 Your Hit Parade
11PM News-Tom Field
11:05 Movie-Close-Up
12:15 News

WEWS-5 ABC

8:55 News
9AM Fun Farm
10AM Movie-Man From Guntown
10:45 Green Thumbs-Gardening
11AM Western Reserve Univ. Telecourse
11:30 Enjoy Yourself-Variety
11:45 Film Short
Noon Mr. Jupiter-ABC
12:30 Variety Show-Jenkins
1PM Movie-Danny Boy
2PM Bandstand-Phil McLean
4PM Texas Jim-Jim Breslin Movie:A Lawman Is Born
5:15 Film-IUE (no idea what this is)
5:30 Film-Gardening
6PM Dollar A Second-ABC Friday 9PM
6:30 Masquerade Party-ABC Wed. 9PM
7PM Lights, Camera, Questions-Quiz
7:30 Lone Ranger-SPECIAL-Hour featuring the Lone Ranger's origin story
8:30 Ozark Jubilee-Red Foley (usually 90 minutes, 30 minutes this week)
9PM Lawrence Welk
10PM Life Begins at 80
10:30 I Led Three Lives
11PM Lone Wolf-Syndicated
11:30 Movie-Dreams Never Lie-Actually a Drama Anthology episode-"Revlon Mirror Theater"-Listed as a "Movie"
Midnight-Movie-The Black Widow
1AM News

WXEL-8 CBS

9:30 Captain Kangaroo
10:30 Winky Dink
11AM Andy's Gang-Andy Devine
11:30 Tales of the Texas Rangers
Noon Big Top
1PM Lone Ranger
1:30 Captain Midnight
2PM Film Short
2:30 National Crime Prevention
3PM Teen Press-Maggie Wulff
3:20 Film Short
3:30 Humbard Family
4PM Wrestling
4:30 Jalopy Derby
5PM Sky King
5:30 Buffalo Bill Jr.
6PM Hopalong Cassidy
6:30 Annie Oakley
7PM Gene Autry-COLOR
7:30 Beat The Clock-Guest-Jackie Gleason
8PM Jackie Gleason (Honeymooners)
8:30 Stage Show-Elvis Presley is among the guests
9PM Two For The Money
9:30 It's Always Jan
10PM Gunsmoke
10:30 Damon Runyon Theater
11PM Movie-Shape of Things to Come
12:30 Movie-TBA

WFMJ-21 Youngstown-NBC

10AM Children's Corner-With Pittsburgh's Josie Carey and Fred Rogers (Later Misterogers)
10:30 Pinky Lee
11AM Fury
11:30 Paul Winchell-Jerry Mahoney
Noon Wooly West
1PM Joe Palooka
1:30 Frankie Laine Show
2PM Teen Party-Ted Conner
3PM Pro Basketball-NBA-Ft. Wayne/Syracuse
5PM Horse Racing-Widener Handicap
5:30 Best of the (Little) Rascals
7PM The Rumpus Room
7:30 Big Surprise-Game
8PM Perry Como
9PM Academy Award Nominations for 1955.
10:30 Your Hit Parade
11PM News/Sports
11:10 Movie-The Limping Man
12:30 Film Short

WKBN 27 CBS/ABC Youngstown

9:30 Captain Kangaroo
10:30 Winky Dink
11AM Western Theater
Noon Big Top
1PM Roy Rogers
2PM The Plainsman
3PM College Basketball-Illinois/Michigan State-Jack Drees
4:45 Cartoon Classics
5PM Hopalong Cassidy
6PM Juke Box
6:30 Sports-Don Gardner
6:40 News
6:50 The Ohio Story-A Day With The Fishing Fleet-Narrator:Nelson Olmsted
7PM Masquerade Party-ABC
7:30 Beat The Clock-Guest-Jackie Gleason
8PM Jackie Gleason (Honeymooners)
8:30 Stage Show-Elvis Presley is among the guests
9PM Two For The Money
9:30 TV Reader's Digest-ABC Monday 8PM
10PM Gunsmoke
10:30 Bowling
11:30 Wrestling

WAKR-49 Akron ABC

Noon-Movie-Galloping Romeo
1PM Movie-Texas Pioneers
2PM Movie-TBA
3:30 Movie-Border Feud
4:30 Movie-Four Faces West
6PM Movie-Louisiana
7PM The Hunter-Syndicated
7:30 Lone Ranger-SPECIAL-Hour featuring the Lone Ranger's origin story
8:30 Ozark Jubilee-Red Foley (usually 90 minutes, 30 minutes this week)
9PM Lawrence Welk
10PM Movie-Good Time Girl
11:30 Movie-Fog Island

Next:Stan Anderson's Cleveland Press Article, Radio Schedules of the time from Cleveland/Akron/Canton, Very rare KYW-1100 Audio from the period..





















Friday, May 16, 2008

Parma Place-The Muckrakers

Here is a repost of a YouTube video from a few weeks back,,Featuring Chuck Schodowski and Ernie Anderson on the final aired episode of "Parma Place" in 1966. This was done on the WJW-TV 8 "Ghoulardi" show weeks before Anderson headed for Hollywood and his ABC-TV voiceover career..Chuck and Bob "Hoolihan" Wells would take over the Ghoulardi time slot in December, 1966..It was said by some that Hoolihan and Big Chuck lost the "edge" that Ghoulardi had and "played it too safe" in their skits. I contend that the show eventually had to have a different texture or it would never have lasted as long as it did..Thanks to bigchuckandliljohn.com for posting this gem..


Tuesday, May 13, 2008

A Fresh look..and a new link..


From November 1957..Ad for Tom Haley's Cash On The Line Movie slot..This was actually one of the first changes Westinghouse made when acquiring WNBK/KYW..The movie show began as "Morning Surprise" ..Apparently changing its name to "Cash on the Line" later on..Tom Haley was the longest running air personality at any one station in Cleveland History..Starting at WNBK-4 in 1948 and ending at WKYC-3 in 1997..49 years!

I apologize for the quality of the picture..Sometimes the microfilm goes dark when it prints..But I felt this was too important not to include..

UPDATE: Thanks to a friend of mine from bigchuckandliljohn.com, "Hugo Sleestak" for inverting the picture for me and making it look a bit better..It is much appreciated..



TV Guide Ad for WJW-TV 8's "Noon Report"..Mid-1960's

Good morning..
I would like to introduce everyone to yet another new link..The Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia have been around since 1962..An association of current and former Philadelphia Radio and TV Broadcasters banding together to preserve Broadcast History in the Philadelphia area..One of their leaders, Gerry Wilkinson, was kind enough to allow me to use a Vintage KYW-TV slide to illustrate the post below about KYW's early days in Cleveland. Their website is a treasure trove of Vintage audio, video and photis from the History of Broadcasting in what is called "The Delaware Valley"..I have enjoyed their site for years and I'm sure you all will too..

Also..I thought I'd freshen up the blog with a new look..Please let me know if you like it..or not..Besides the cosmetic changes, links are now on the left of the page..Have a great day everyone..

Monday, May 12, 2008

WNBK To KYW-February, 1956


KYW-TV 3 Station ID Slide...from likely 1957-58.. Special Thanks to Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia for the use of this image from their Archives



From Jerry Immel:KYW-Radio Transcription Disc Label..



TV Guide listing for Feb. 14, 1957..Probably a highlights show.. along with a Newspaper ad for the "Twin Hearts" Ball At Cleveland Arena that same evening..(Courtesy Jerry Immel)



"WBC" Ad touting how perfect KYW and Cleveland would be for each other..From the same TV Guide as the other ad below..



Ad/Article from TV Guide the week of Feb.11, 1956 on the occassion of WNBK's call letter change to KYW-TV. Courtesy Atlanta area voiceover artist Jerry Immel.

Our first posting in a while will highlight the NBC/Westinghouse swap of 1956-WPTZ-TV-AM to Cleveland (adding FM in the process)(with 3,000,000 dollars) and WNBK-AM-TV to Philadelphia(As WRCV). WPTZ had been bought in 1952 by Westinghouse from Philco Corp...To preserve the KYW Call Letters, then on their AM station at 1060 khz..They transferred them to Cleveland as KYW-TV 3, KYW-AM 1100 and KYW-FM 105.7..KYW had been in Chicago from 1921-34 before moving to Philadelphia..below are TV Guide listings:WNBK's final full day In Cleveland... and the first day of KYW-TV.

TV Guide Cleveland Edition
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
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