August 24-30, 1957:A Look Back:

TV Guide Ad for "God Is The Answer" from Rex Humbard's Calvary Temple..Later to be Cathedral of Tomorrow.

Photo of Bill Gordon and Dorothy Fuldheim, hosts of the One O Clock Club for most of it's run on WEWS. This 1959 Photo Courtesy Cleveland State University Special Collections.

Photo of Dorothy with Comedian Bob Hope on One O'Clock Club, taken in the early 1960's. A short video clip of this interview (which originally was in 5 parts) is below. Photo also courtesy CSU Special Collections.

TV Guide Ad for Popeye on KYW-TV 3..Starting Sept. 2, 1957.. Anyone that can help improve this picture would be appreciated..

TV Guide Ad for the Channel 8 Debut of Victory at Sea. This award-winning series originally aired on NBC in 1952-53.

Wikipedia Article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_at_Sea

Cleveland Classic Media earlier looked at August 1957...Last Fall to be exact. At the time I was limited in the listings I could get for that period. A recent Trip to the Cleveland Library yielded among other listings, August 24-30, 1957,. That week was Historic as one of the more important Shows in Cleveland TV History debuted, and another show was about to begin a run that wouldnt end until at least the mid 1970's..

Captain Penny's Fun Farm at 9AM and Noon Show had begun a long run several months before.

Jay Miltner at KYW-3 and Court Stanton at WEWS-5 had competing 5 minute newscasts at 8:55 AM daily.

Jim Graner was doing weekend sportscasts at WJW-TV 8 before moving to TV 3, possibly within a few weeks after this..

Ken Coleman and Jim Britt were Televising Indians Baseball Games this season on WEWS-TV 5.

Rex Humbard and "God Is The Answer" aired twice weekly from Calvary Temple., in the same time slots on Channel 8 and WAKR-TV 49.

The two main TV Events at this particular time:

The Debut of the "One O' Clock Club"..Cleveland's first local long-form talk-entertainment show..One O Clock Club made it's bow Monday, August 26, 1957 on WEWS-TV 5. Dorothy Fuldheim hosted from the start..With Ronnie Barrett and The Timekeepers providing the music, the one hour show was a hit from the beginning, expanding to 90 minutes by January 1959 if not before..Also by this time, Bill Gordon came aboard as co-host..The show had a mostly successful 7 year run. The Debut of KYW's Mike Douglas Show in December 1961 hurt One O Clock Club in the ratings eventually and the show was cancelled in 1964.

You Tube Clip of Dorothy Fuldheim and Bill Gordon hosting One O Clock Club, along with part of an interview Dorothy Fuldheim did with Bob Hope..

KYW-TV 3 had not one but two full page TV Guide ads for the coming premiere of Popeye The Sailor Theatrical Cartoons on Channel 3 beginning September 2, 1957. The show began airing 5:30-6PM weeknights. At first, there was no host indicated for the half hour show, but Linn Sheldon, having been at Channel 8 earlier in 1957, most certainly have landed at channel 3 by the end of 1957 to introduce Kid show host Barnaby. Popeye remained on TV 3 with all the theatrical and made for TV cartoons well into the 1970's


King Features Made For TV Popeye Cartoon "Spare Dat Tree"..From the early 1960's.. Special thanks to YouTube member mrmanok. I grew up on these cartoons watching Barnaby and Woodrow..

TV Guide Listings:
Cleveland Edition

Sunday, August 25, 1957

3 KYW NBC Cleveland
5 WEWS ABC Cleveland
8 WJW CBS Cleveland
21 WFMJ NBC Youngstown
27 WKBN CBS/ABC Youngstown
49 WAKR ABC Akron

8AM
3 Sunday School

8:30
3 This Is The Answer

8:55
5 News-Court Stanton

9AM
3 Catholic Hour
5 Prayer Meeting
8 The Lord's Prayer

9:15
8-27 Living Word

9:30
3 Spirituals-Mary Holt
5 Kit Carson
8 Looney Tunes
27 Christophers

10AM
5 Movie-Western-Topeka Terror-Allan "Rocky" Lane
8 Movie-Western-Valley of Fear-Johnny Mack Brown
27 This Is The Life

10:30
3 Headlines-Mary Holt
27 Look Up And Live

10:35
3 Christophers

11AM
3 Movie-Western-Grand Canyon Trail-Roy Rogers
5 Christophers
8-49 Rex Humbard
27 Movie-TBA

11:30
5 Man To Man
21 Faith For Today

11:55
5 Charming Woman-Beauty

Noon
3 Highlights of Opera
5 Gene Carroll
8-27 Let's Take A Trip
21 I Wonder Why
49 This Is The Life

12:30
3 Bride-To-Be
8-27 Wild Bill Hickock
21 Movie-Western-Trigger Fingers-Tim McCoy
49 Allen Revival

1PM
3 Movie-Train of Events-1951
5 Warmup-Bill Veeck
8 Heckle and Jeckle
27 Oral Roberts
49 Movie-Golden Madonna

1:15
5 Baseball-Indians (Was how the listing was presented-Apparently the scheduled game between the Indians and Yankees was Rained out)

1:30
8 Movie-Lawless Frontier-1935
21 Lift Every Voice
27 Movie-House of the Seven Gables-1940

2PM
21 Movie-Murder Among Friends-1941

2:30
3 Circle 3-Kids
Movie-Stage To China-1941

8 Chapel
49 Oral Roberts

3PM
8 Sacret Heart
21 Telerama
49 Movie-Fabulous Suzanne

3:15
8 Christophers
21 That We May See
27 Air Force Digest

3:30
3-21 Mr. Wizard
8 This Is The Life
27 Hopalong Cassidy

4PM
3 Youth Wants to Know-Guest William Bendix (Life Of Riley)
8 Face The Nation
21 American Forum
27 Movie-Idaho

4:15
5 Baseball Scoreboard

4:30
3-21 Zoo Parade-COLOR
5 Televideo Theater
8 Movie-House on 92nd St.-1945
49 Movie-That Man From Tangiers

5PM
3 Sermons from Science
5 Cross Current
21 Catholic Hour
27 You Are There

5:30
3-21 Outlook
5 Movie-Western-Prairie Justice-Bob Baker
27 Theater Time

6PM
3 Meet The Press
8 Heart Of The City
21 Annie Oakley
27 Spike Jones
49 Movie-Western-Drifting Along-Johnny Mack Brown

6:30
3 Lassie-CBS
5 Whirlybirds
8 You Asked For It-ABC
21 Movie (Cowboy Theater)-Down Rio Grande Way-1942
27 Disneyland-ABC

7PM
3 Martin Kane
5 Range Rider
8 Amos N Andy
49 Duffy's Tavern

7:30
3-21 Circus Boy
5 Movie-Meet mr. Callaghan-1954
8-27 My Favorite Husband
49 Movie (Hollywood Film Theater)-China Sky-1945-ABC

8PM
3-21 Steve Allen
8-27 Ed Sullivan

9PM
3-21 Philco/Goodyear TV Playhouse-COLOR-"The Littlest Leaguer" With Brooklyn Dodgers Pitcher Sal Maglie.
5 Film Feature
8 GE Theater
27 Phil Silvers
49 Movie-Daisy Kenyon

9:30
5 Midwestern Hayride-ABC-From Dayton, Ohio-Host Paul Dixon
8-27 Alfred Hitchcock


10PM
3-21 Web
5 Mike Wallace Interviews
8-27 $64,000 Challenge

10:30
3 Sheriff Of Cochise
5 Public Defender
8-27 What's My Line?
21 Waterfront

11PM
3 News-Tom Field
5 Movie-Voice Of The Whistler
8 News-Jim Doney
21-27 News
49 Rex Humbard

11:10
3 Sports-Paul Bedford
8 Sports-Jim Graner
21 Movie-Strange Triangle-1946
27 Movie-More Than A Secretary-1936

11:15
3 Movie-The Long Dark Hall-1951
8 Weather-Ken Armstrong

11:20
8 Movie-The Doctor Takes a Wife-1940

12:30
3 News-Tom Field
5 News-Randy Culver

Monday, August 26, 1957

7AM
3-21 Today
8-27 Jimmy Dean

7:45
8-27 CBS News-Richard Hottelet

8AM
8-27 Captain Kangaroo

8:45
8 Good Idea-Variety
27 Cartoon Classics

8:55
3 News-Jay Miltner
5 News-Court Stanton

9AM
3 Cash On The Line-Tom Haley-Movie-The Clay Pigeon
5 Fun Farm
21 Adelaide Snyder
27 Captain Kangaroo

9:30
5 Paige Palmer

9:45
27 Cartoon Classics

10AM
5 Movie-Sing As We Go
8 Fred Waring
21 Arlene Francis
27 Movie-TBA

10:25
3 Window-Gloria Brown

10:30
3-21 Treasure Hunt
8 Arthur Godfrey

11AM
3-21 Price Is Right-Bill Cullen

11:25
5 Liberace

11:30
3-21 Truth Or Consequences
8-27 Strike It Rich-Warren Hull

11:55
5 News-Court Stanton

Noon
3-21 Tic Tac Dough
5 Noon Show-Captain Penny
8 Hotel Cosmopolitan
27 Cartoon Carnival

12:15
8-27 Love Of Life

12:30
3-21 It Could Be You-Bill Leyden
8 Search For Tomorrow
27 Playhouse

12:45
8 Guiding Light

1PM
3 Movie-Highly Dangerous-1951
5 One O Cluck Club-DEBUT-Dorothy Fuldheim, Ronnie Barrett
8 Movie-Devil Ship-1947
21-27 News
49 Movie-Fabulous Suzanne

1:10
27 Stsnd Up and Be Counted

1:15
21 Kitchen Corner-Marjorie Mariner

1:30
27 Movie-Hired Wife

2PM
5 Stu Erwin
21 Club 60-NBC-COLOR

2:30
3-21 Bride And Groom
5 Susie-Ann Sothern
8 House Party-Art Linkletter
49 Conrad Nagel

3PM
3-21 Matinee Theater-COLOR
5-49 American Bandstand-Dick Clark-Guests include singer Doc Bagley vocal group The Crickets, singing "That'll Be The Day"..Though the program Description does'nt mention Buddy Holly by name.
8-27 Big Payoff-Randy Merriman, Bess Myerson

3:30
8 Bob Crosby
27 Grizzly Pete-Western Serials

4PM
3-21 Queen For A Day
8 Brighter Day

4:15
8 Secret Storm

4:30
5 Theater Five-Kids
8 Edge Of Night
49 Flash Gordon

4:45
3-21 Modern Romances

5PM
3 I Married Joan
5-27 Mickey Mouse Club
8 As The World Turns
21 Fun House Gang
49 Movie-Western-Fighting Bill Carson-Buster Crabbe

5:30
3 Mickey Rooney (Hey Mulligan)
8 Our Miss Brooks

5:45
21 Popeye

6PM
3 Six O Clock Adventure
5 Long John Silver
8 Cartoon Carnival
27 High Adventure-Serial
49 Looney Tunes

6:30
5 News-Dorothy Fuldheim
21-27 News, Sports

6:35
8 Cleveland Today

6:40
8 Sports-John Fitzgerald
49 Sports, Weather, News

6:45
5 Weather-Bill Prentice
8-27 CBS News-Douglas Edwards

6:50
5 News-Ron Penfound, Paul Wilcox

6:55
3 News-Tom Field

7PM
3 Frontier Doctor
5 Waterfront
8 You Are There
21 Death Valley Days
27 Bold Journey

7:15
49 ABC News-John Daly

7:30
3-21 Georgia Gibbs
5 Wire Service-ABC
8 Robin Hood
27 Crossroads-ABC Fri. 8:30
49 Movie-TBA

7:45
3-21 NBC News-Huntley/Brinkley

8PM
3-21 Charles Farrell
8 Burns And Allen
27 Studio 57

8:30
3-21 Action Tonight-Postponed from August 5-Anthology Reruns
5 Bold Journey
8-27 Talent Scouts

9PM
3-21 Twenty-One
5 Quest For Adventure
8-27 Those Whiting Girls
49 Get Set. Go

9:30
3-21 Arthur Murray-COLOR
5-49 Lawrence Welk's Top Tunes/New Talemt
8-27 Richard Diamond-David Janssen

10PM
3-21 Ted Mack's Amateur Hour
8-27 Studio One

10:30
3 State Trooper
5 Boxing-St. Nick's Arena, NYC-Chris Schenkel-Last Remnant from the failed DuMont Network still on the air, Though now in syndication
21 Badge 714-Jack Webb-Dragnet Reruns
49 TV Auction Time

11PM
3 News-Tom Field
8-27 News-Warren Guthrie "Sohio Reporter"
21 News, Sports, Weather
49 Movie-Golden Madonna

11:10
3 Weather-Specs Howard
8 Sports-John Fitzgerald

11:15
3 Sports-Bob Neal (Cleveland Indians Radio announcer with Jimmy Dudley)
5 News-John B. Hughes
8 Weather-Ken Armstrong
27 Movie-One Way Ticket

11:20
3 Jungle-Cesare -Short Form Drama
8 Movie-Sergeant And The Spy-1954
21 Speaking Of Animals

11:30
3 Movie-Witness Chair-1936
5 Bowling Time-Host Sam Levine-Bowlers:Pete Treybig, Houston, Carmen Salvino, Chicago (Salvino would later become famous as one of the founding stars of the Professional Bowlers Association) Guest:Swimmer Florence Chadwick

21 Tonight-Jack Paar (Not aired in Cleveland as yet)

12:30
5 News-Bill Prentice

1AM
3 News-Tom Field

Ernie's Place

TV Guide Ad for KYW-TV 3..Heralding its new on air logo look beginning in January 1961. They would stay with this logo till early 1963 when they would begin using the famous Group W "3" which would be used for over 40 years at Channel 3 in Cleveland and Philadelphia.

TV Guide Ad on the occasion of the premiere of "Ernie's Place" Monday, July 17, 1961.



Another TV Guide Ad for "Ernie Anderson:A Man of Distinction"(?)

Today I'd like to look at one of Cleveland's Television icons of the 1960's..Ernie Anderson..More specifically, "Ernie's Place, a morning movie show hosted by Anderson in 1961 on WJW-TV 8.

Anderson had been a disc jockey in his native New England and Albany, New York before moving to Cleveland around 1958 to work at, and get fired from, WHK-AM 1420..After which he did freelance radio work before being hired by KYW-3 in 1960. While there he met up with a young writer-comic named Tom Conway. The two hit it off quite well and they worked together on commercials, as well as Conway doing skits on KYW's "Big Wilson" Movie show.
After they were let go by channel 3, Anderson moved over to WJW-TV 8 in 1961 as an announcer, bringing Conway with hin as a "director". Though Conway was never a director in his life..

Ernie's Place began July 17, 1961 as an outgrowth of WJW-TV's "Morning Movie" which had aired 9:30-11AM..The first movie shown was "Henry Aldrich Swings It" from 1943.

After it became obvious Conway wasnt a director, Chuck Schodowski was brought in to help smooth things out..Ernie and Chuck became lifelong friends. Ernie's Place was supposed to have guests but they couldnt get any, so Anderson and Conway did comedy skits in between movie breaks..

The show's time was moved up a half hour from 9-11AM September 4, 1961, replacing the Ed Allen exercise Show at 9.

Ernie's Place was actually gaining popularity somewhat..But, by the end of 1961, Tom Conway had gotten offers from Hollywood and was gone much of the time..Ernie felt he couldnt carry on by himself..Eventually the show suffered and was cancelled Friday, January 5, 1962. Tom (Now known as Tim) was preparing for his big break in "McHale's Navy" which would make him a star..Anderson, under contract to Channel 8, continued to be a booth announcer and doing other freelance announcing work until "Ghoulardi" began January 18, 1963.

Ernie's Place was replaced Monday, January 8, 1962 by Kids host Bwana Don at 9, Jack LaLanne at 9:30, One day delay of As The World Turns at 10 and I Love Lucy reruns at 10:30.

I am not absolutely sure, but I think this may have been the last scheduled early-mid morning movie series on any of Cleveland's 3 major tv stations..



Video of the first part of "End of an Era"..with mention of "Ernie's Place" and a small bit of Ernie's Place with Ernie Anderson and Tim Conway..

TV Guide Schedule
Cleveland Edition
Friday, July 21, 1961

Cleveland
3 KYW NBC
5 WEWS ABC
8 WJW CBS

Youngstown
21 WFMJ NBC
27 WKBN CBS
33 WKST ABC
45 WXTV IND

Akron
49 WAKR ABC

6:20
3 News

6:25
3 Farm Fare

6:30
3 Business Guidelines

7AM
3-21 Today-John Chancellor (Concluding his first week as permanent host)
8 Home Economics

7:30
8 Rex Humbard

7:45
8 Clutch Cargo

8:15
8 Captain Kangaroo

8:55
5 News

9AM
3 Funsville-Josie Carey
5 Morning Melodies
8 Ed Allen-Exercises
21 Susie-Ann Sothern
27 CBS News-Charles Kuralt

9:15
5 Cartoon Time
27 Captain Kangaroo

9:30
3 Truth Or Consequences
5 Romper Room
8 Ernie's Place Movie-Down The Stretch 1936
21 Halls Of Ivy

9:55
21 News

10AM
3 Give N Take-Tom Haley
5 Paige Palmer
21 Say When-Art James
27 I Love Lucy

10:30
3-21 Play Your Hunch-COLOR-Merv Griffin
27 Video Village-Monty Hall

11AM
3-21 Price Is Right-COLOR-Bill Cullen
5-33-49 Gale Storm Show
8-27 Double Exposure

11:30
3-21 Concentration-Hugh Downs
5-33-49 Love That Bob!
8-27 Your Surprise Package-George Fenneman

Noon
3 News
5 News
8-27 Love Of Life
21 Truth Or Consequences
33-49 Camouflage

12:10
5 Noon Show-Captain Penny

12:30
3-21 It Could Be You-COLOR
8 Search For Tomorrow
27 News-Dick Minton
33-49 Number Please

12:35
27 Movie-Dulcy-1940

12:45
8 Guiding Light

12:55
3-21 NBC News-Ray Scherer

1PM
3 Movie-Summer Film Festival-I Live My Life-1935
5 One O Clock Club-Dorothy Fuldheim, Bill Gordon
8 Dr. Hudson
21 News
33 Ladies Day
49 Code Three

1:15
21 Kitchen Corner-Marjorie Mariner

1:30
8 As The World Turns
33 Ilka Chase Show
49 Cartoon Time

2PM
8 You Asked For It
21 Jan Muray-COLOR
27 Face The Facts-Red Rowe
33-49 Day In Court

2:30
3-21 Loretta Young
5-33-49 Seven Keys
8-27 House Party

3PM
3-21 Young Dr. Malone
5-33-49 Queen For a Day-From Minneapolis
8-27 Millionaire

3:30
3-21 From These Roots
5-33-49 Who Do You Trust-Johnny Carson
8-27 Verdict Is Yours

4PM
3-21 Make Room For Daddy
5-33-49 American Bandstand (5 and 49 carry 60 minutes-33 90 minutes)
8 Brighter Day
27 Club 27-David Allan

4:15
8-27 Secret Storm

4:30
3 Barnaby, Popeye and Friends
8 Edge Of Night
21 Here's Hollywood
27 Life Of Riley

5PM
5 Captain's Clubhouse-Captain Penny
8 Movie-A Child Is Born-1940
21 Capt. Sailorbird and Susie (Sidesaddle)
27 Three Stooges and Stanley
49 Movie-The Great Meadow-1931

5:15
3 Movie-Armored Attack-1943

5:30
5 Three Stooges-1. Scheming Schemers 2. Blunder Boys
21 Bozo The Clown-Russell
33 Rin Tin Tin-ABC

5:50
27 Sergeant Preston

6PM
33 Barney Bean
45 Harness Highlights

6:10
45 Club Calendar

6:15
45 Pezzenti Show

6:20
27 Supper Time-Rex Humbard
45 Baby Showcase

6:25
45 Weather

6:30
3 News-Bill Jorgensen
5 Dorothy Fuldheim
8 Cannonball
21-27 News
45 Channel 45 Hop-Boots Bell
49 Akron Baptist Temple

6:40
3 Weather-Dick Goddard

6:45
3-21 Huntley Brinkley
5 News-Tom Field
27 CBS News-Douglas Edwards
33-49 ABC News-John Daly

6:55
5 Weather-Carolyn Johnson
8 Weather-Howard Hoffman

7PM
3 Quick Draw McGraw
5 Assignment:Underwater
8 City Camera-Doug Adair
21 Highway Patrol
27 Silent Service
33 Tightrope!
49 News-Jack Fitzgibbons

7:10
8 Sports-John Fitzgerald

7:15
8 CBS News-Douglas Edwards
49 Little League Baseball

7:30
3 Give N Take-Tom Haley-Special Nighttime Edition-Possibly for the summer
5 Sherriff Of Cochise-Syndicated
8-27 Rawhide
21 Happy-NBC-With Ronnie Burns-George Burns' Son
33-49 Matty's Funday Funnies
45 Movie-Trouble In The Glen-English 1954-45 was already repeating the same movie 2-3 times a week..This had been shown the previous Sunday and Wednesday

8PM
3-21 One Happy Family
5-33-49 Harrigan and Son


8:30
3 Dimensions 3-Ronnie Barrett
5-33 Flintstones-Classic Episode "The Hot Piano"
8-27 Route 66
21 Tallahassee 7000
49 Movie-Night Must Fall-1937

9PM
3-21 Lawless Years
5-33 77 Sunset Strip
45 Movie-Destination Big House-1950

9:30
3-21 Preview Theater-Harry's Business-Ray Walston, Elena Verdugo in a Series Pilot that was never picked up
8-27 Adventure Theater-Anthology Reruns-RETURN

10PM
3-21 Michael Shayne
5-33 Detectives-Robert Taylor
8-27 Twilight Zone

10:15
45 Movie-Bal Tabarin-1952

10:30
5 Third Man
8 Dick Powell Theater
27 Person To Person
33 Law and Mr. Jones-ABC
49 Movie-Good News-1947

11PM
3 News-Bill Jorgensen
5 News-Tom Field
8-27 News-Warren Guthrie
21 News
33 Weather

11:05
33 Movie-The Loves Of Carmen-1948

11:10
3 Weather-Jim Gerard
8 City Report-Doug Adair
27 News

11:15
3 PM East/PM West
5 Jack Paar-COLOR
8 Sports-John Fitzgerald

11:20
8 Movie-Love Letters-1945
21 Jack Paar-COLOR

11:25
27 Movie-They Were Expendable-1945

Midnight
49 Passport To Danger

12:45
3 Movie-Barbary Coast Gent-1944

1AM
5 News

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



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..

February 1963-The beginnings of Ghoulardi..

Warren Guthrie's last year of "Sohio Reporter" would be 1963. It was said that Warren didnt care much for local news..so Doug Adair followed with "City Report" at 11:10 (Which eventually morphed into City Camera News) At this point Norm Wagy would have nightly editorials at 11:15 followed by John Fitzgetald Sports at the odd time of 11:18, followed by the night movie at 11:23.

TV Guide Ad for The early evening WJW-TV Newscast with Doug Adair, followed at 7:10 by John Fitzgerald Sports and CBS News at 7:15.

Advertisement for KYW-3's "Early Show"..The Late afternoon/early evening feature film was a staple of KYW/WKYC-TV 3 from at least 1959-into the early 1970's.

WJW-TV 8-Prime Time Monday Night lineup in early 1963.

TV Guide ad for Woodrow the Woodsman (Clay Conroy)..He started out as a sidekick for "Barnaby" but proved popular enough for his own daily show..

Today we will look at February 1963..Cleveland was involved in a long newspaper strike in 1962-63 which apparently resulted in extra TV News coverage, though not apparent in schedules of the period..There was a TV Guide disclaimer that said that there may be more TV News because of the Strike..

The major programming news of the January-February 1963 period had to be the debut of TV 8 announcer Ernie Anderson's "Ghoulardi" on January 18, 1963. Anderson, a Massachusetts native who had previously hosted "Ernie's Place" Movie series with friend Tom (Tim) Conway till January 1962, was under contract to Channel 8.

A Channel 8 executive saw Anderson emceeing an in-house Christmas party in December '62 and suggested Ernie host a series of Horror Films Channel 8 had just acquired. Costumer Ralph Guilko came up with Ernie's Ghoulardi Costume-Fright wig, Beard and dark glasses..and Ghoulardi was born..

Ernie really put himself into the part..The studio was darkened so you could only see his face..He was so popular that his catchphrases, including "Stay Sick", "Turn Blue", Ova Dey", "Purple Knif" and "Cool It with The Boom Booms" were part of Northeast Ohio's vocabulary long after Ernie was gone..

He really pushed the evelope with Channel 8 brass resulting in constant lectures "Now don't do that again". His biggest uproar came with the 11-episode "Parma Place" skit which ran most of 1966..A dead on spoof of popular ABC series "Peyton Place" Ernie played "John" a "Lake Erie Muckraker" who lived with wife Janet..There was also "Handsome downstairs neighbor" Jerry Kreegle. played by show Producer/engineer Chuck Schodowski (who had to practically be beaten up to appear on the air with Ernie)..Jerry had eyes for Janet, but John seemed oblivious to that fact..

The skits gave rise to several Parma assumptions..Love of polka music, Pink flamingos and White socks..which still are assumptions today..The series made such a hit that the City of Parma put pressure on channel 8 to stop the skits..By this time Ernie was ready to leave Cleveland..He was gone to Los Angeles by November 1966. He became very well known as "The voice of ABC" into the 1990's..He passed away in 1997...

In honor of Anderson and the TV 8 horror host tradition, Big Chuck and Lil John will host "Ghoulardifest IV" at the Holiday Inn Independence on Rockside Road..October 17-19, 2008.

More Info here:

http://www.bigchuckandliljohn.com/forums/index.php?topic=2998.0

Some information from "Ghoulardi:Inside Cleveland TV's Wildest Ride" by Tom Feran and RD Heldenfels..Excellent Read if you can find it.. @1996 Gray and Company, Publishers, Cleveland, Ohio.

TV Guide Listings:
Friday, February 8, 1963 (45 years ago today)

3 KYW NBC Cleveland
5 WEWS ABC Cleveland
8 WJW CBS Cleveland
49 WAKR ABC Akron

5:50
3 News

5:55
3 Farm Fare

6AM
3 Continental Classroom

6:30
3 Continental Classroom-COLOR

6:50
8 Meditation

6:55
8 News

7AM
3 Today
8 College Of The Air

7:30
8 Cluitch Cargo

7:45
8 Rex Humbard

8AM
8 Captain Kangaroo

8:55
5 News

9AM
3Woodrow
5 Western Reserve Telecourse-English
8 B'Wana Don

9:30
3 Felix
5 Romper Room-Miss Barbara
8 Jack LaLanne

9:45
3 Tomorrow's Learning Today

10AM
3 Best Of Groucho
5 Paige Palmer
8 As The World Turns

10:30
3 Play Your Hunch-COLOR-Robert Q. Lewis
8 I Love Lucy

10:45
5 TV Classroom-Social Sudies

10:55
49 News

11AM
3 Price Is Right-COLOR Bill Cullen
5-49 Jane Wyman
8 Dale Young Time-An attempt to compete with Mike Douglas and The One O Clock Club-Didnt last long

11:30
3 Concentration-Hugh Downs
5-49 Yours for a Song-Bert Parks

Noon
3 News
5 News-Randy Culver
8 Love Of Life
49 Tennessee Ernie Ford

12:10
5 Noon Show-Captain Penny

12:15
5 King Leonardo

12:25
8 CBS News-Harry Reasoner

12:30
3 Mike Douglas-Guest Hostess Gypsy Rose Lee
5 Noon Show-Continued
8 Search For Tomorrow
49 Father Knows Best

12:45
8 Guiding Light

1PM
5 One O Clock Club-Dorothy Fuldheim, Bill Gordon
8 Adventures In Paradise
49 Movie-The Search Part 2 1948

2PM
3 Merv Griffin-COLOR-Variety
8 Password-Allen Ludden
49 Day In Court

2:25
49 ABC News-Alex Dreier

2:30
5-49 Seven Keys-Jack Narz
8 House Party-Linkletter

2:55
3 NBC News-Floyd Kalber

3PM
3 Loretta Young
5-49 Queen For A Day-Jack Bailey
8 To Tell The Truth-Bud Collyer

3:25
8 CBS News-Douglas Edwards

3:30
3 Young Dr. Malone
5-49 Who Do You Trust-Woody Woodbury
8 Millionaire

4PM
3 Match Game-Gene Rayburn
5 Love That Bob!
8 Secret Storm
49 American Bandstand

4:25
3 NBC News-Sander Vanocur

4:30
3 Barnaby, Popeye and Friends-Linn Sheldon
5-49 Discovery 63 Live
8 Edge Of Night

4:55
5-49 American Newsstand-Bill Lord

5PM
5 Five O Clock Show-Captain Penny
8 Mickey Mouse Club
49 Movie-Luxury Liner 1933

5:05
3 Movie-Singing Guns 1950

5:15
5 Rocky and Friends

5:30
5 Five O Clock Show-Continued
8 Movie-King Of The Jungle 1933

6PM
8 News-Ken Armstrong

6:05
8 Movie-Continued

6:30
3 News-Bill Jorgensen
5 Dorothy Fuldheim
49 Salute To Mental Health

6:40
3 Weather-Dick Goddard

6:45
3 NBC News-Huntley/Brinkley
5 News-Tom Field
49 ABC News-Ron Cochran

6:55
5 Weather-Carolyn Johnson
8 Weather-Howard Hoffman

6:57
8 TV Editorial-Norman Wagy

7PM
3 Quick Draw McGraw
5 Jeff's Collie (Lassie)
8 City Camera-Doug Adair
49 News-Jack Fitzgibbons

7:10
8 Sports-John Fitzgerald

7:15
8 CBS News-Walter Cronkite
49 Weather-Bill McKay

7:30
3 International Showtime-Don Ameche
5 Gallant Men
8 Rawhide
49 Winston Churchill

8PM
49 Father Knows Best

8:30
3 Arms And The Man-SPECIAL
A play presented by the Cleveland Playhouse Road Company..Produced by Dennis Maguire and Directed by Bertram Tanswell. An example of different, eclectic programming Westinghouse presented locally..Pre-empted Mitch Miller and Price Is Right

5-49 Flintstones
8 Route 66

9PM
5 I'm Dickens He's Fenster-Comedy
49 Movie-The Razor's Edge 1946

9:30
5 77 Sunset Sttrip
8 Alfred Hitchcock

10PM
3 Jack Paar-COLOR with The Smothers Brothers, Jackie Mason and Oscar Levant

10:30
5 Third Man
8 Eyewitness

11PM
3 News-Bill Jorgensen
5 News-Tom Field, Joel Daly
8 Warren Guthrie News-Sohio Reporter
49 ABC News-Bill Shadel

11:10
3 Weather-Dick Goddard
8 City Report-Doug Adair
49 Local News

11:15
3 Steve Allen
5 Johnny Carson-COLOR
8 TV Editorial-Norman Wagy
49 Movie-The Man From Dakota 1940

11:18
8 Sports-John Fitzgerald

11:23
8 Movie-Attack Of The Crab Monsters 1957-Ghoulardi (His fourth week)

12:45
3 Movie-Lightning Anne (English-American) 1954

12:58
8 Movie-Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 1939 First in the Rathbone/Bruce Series

1AM
5 News