Live, Out Of town TV comes to Cleveland..

Notice to WEWS Viewers on an attempt to bring a live telecast of a Red Sox/Tigers game from Detroit Septmber 20, 1948.

Notice in the Plain Dealer September 21, 1948 on the success of the "Live" experiment..An ABC Dedication broadcast was shown later that night (The first live network broadcast to Cleveland)..WNBK was about a month away and would already be connected to NBC's Midwest Network..

      September 1948 was the beginning of big things in Northeast Ohio Television.Plans were put in motion for live, network broadcasts to Cleveland..The first of these was a Detroit/Boston American League Baseball Game September 20, 1948..As we see in the above articles, it was a mammoth undertaking just to air one Baseball Game from Detroit to Cleveland..About this time also WEWS aired an ABC-TV Inaugral Show live from Chicago..These were the first "On Location" telecasts ever seen live in Cleveland..When we compare with how easily and relatively cheaply remote telecasting is done today..Very Intriguing.

September 29, 1948 TV Schedule: Cleveland Plain Dealer

WEWS-TV 5

10AM Test Pattern
1:30 News
1:40 Dugout Interviews
1:55 Baseball Chicago White Sox at Indians
4:15 Fans In The Stands
5PM Just For Kids
6:30 News
6:45 Face The Music-Johnny Desmond (CBS)
7PM Feminine Features
7:20 Film Short
7:30 Winner Take All (CBS)
8PM Places Please (CBS)
8:15 Know Your Neighbors
8:30 As Others See Us
8:50 Film Short
9PM Videovaudeville
9:20 Film Short
9:30 Tune Time
9:45 Film Shorts
10PM Hot Rod Auto Races (ABC)
Midnight News

Cleveland Comedy Company-1980

Here, from 1980 courtesy of Cleveland Memory Grenade, are a couple of parts of what appears to be an hour comedy special, reminiscent of Satuday Night Live. This show may have been a monthly series, but am not sure about that as yet. Paul Tapie heads up a young comedy troupe in a number of blackouts and comedy sketches, with guest Jay Lawrence, then of WBBG-1260AM. Lawrence earlier had been at KYW/WKYC-1100AM from 1961-67. He is credited with the long drawn out "laugh" that ended many of the Channel 8 Hoolihan and Big Chuck skits over the years. Bill Ward, later of WJW-TV, is the announcer. Here are what I consider the most interesting parts of the special..As with most shows of this type, some of the jokes work better than others, but It is interesting to see how much of Channel 5, in particular gets spoofed here and what they got away with..This show was aired on a Friday Night at 11:30PM

The "related videos" should have the parts I don't post here, as well as some promo spots for the show..Cleveland Radio Legend Bob James produced the show.

Opening segment


Highlights:A "retro-look" WEWS station ID..An opening disclaimer "No white socks or Kielbasa here"..

The Best overall part in my mind:


A funny spoof of local Cleveland TV News in 1980 with "Smiling Mona Mona" and "Overpaid Doug Hambrick" "EyewitnessActionCenterNews"

Paul Tapie, in a YouTube Comment, says that they almost sold this show to Paramount in Syndication. Interesting artifact of the early 1980's..Anybody with more info about the date this show aired, or if it was a series..email or comment..Thanks..

Classic Cleveland Personalities-1954

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Joe Portaro, Beauty and Fashion Expert, moved over from WNBK-Channel 3 to WXEL-8 recently. His show aired daily from 3:00=3:15PM. It was apparently a big ticket according to this TV Guide ad, even for a 15-minute show..

Here is a wonderful photograph from Cleveland Memory Project/Cleveland Press Collection..Original photo descruption:

Seven veterans.

"In point of service, these are the oldest performers on WEWS which is celebrating its seventh birthday today. From upper left to the bottom: Paige Palmer, Crandall Hendershott, Rachel VanCleve, Bob Dale, Randy Culver, Dorothy Fuldheim, and Gene Carroll. WXEL observes its fifth year on the air today." End quote

This would appear to be from on or about December 17, 1954. Brief profiles below:

Paige Palmer, Beauty/exercise hostess
Rachel Van Cleve-Hosted "Mixing Bowl" cooking show
Randy Culver-Announcer, Newsman, musical soloist on various programs
Crandall Hendershott-Organist-Teamed with Culver on several shows
Bob Dale-Hosted many variety shows-Probably the most popular personality on WEWS at the time. More on Dale Below
Dorothy Fulheim-News Commentator
Gene Carroll-Kids Host "Uncle Jake", Gene Carroll Talent Show


TV Guide Ad Map advertising WNBK-TV's coverage area due to it's recent (April 25, 1954) move from channel 4 to channel 3..This was done to reduce/eliminate interference with WWJ-4 in Detroit and WEWS-5.


Bob Dale at the "weatherboard" from his days at KNSD 7/39, the NBC-TV affiliate in San Diego. Special thanks to Kerrie Briggs, Art Director of KNSD 7/39 for the use of the photo.


The main reason for this blog post is to mention one of the fine early performers of Cleveland Television, Bob Dale, who passed away May 26, 2008 at the age of 83.He was born Robert Dale Bergmayr in Canton March 26, 1925. After serving in World War II, he attended Case Western Reserve University on the GI Bill. He began at WEWS-TV 5 around May, 1948. He jokes that "They were looking for anyone over 21 who could talk." Dale, like many performers in early TV did many kinds of programs..Among them The Bob Dale Show, and Ten Thirty Theater. He also appreared on such shows as TV IQ, Fun With Charades, and Pooch Parade, which was revived as a segment of "Captain Penny's Camedy Clubhouse" in the 1960s. He was best known in Cleveland for Dinner Platter, a informal show featuring other WEWS employees and special guests, generally airing at varied times around 4-6PM weeknights. He also served as weatherman.

After winning several awards as most popular performer in Cleveland TV, he moved out to San Diego, Califoria in 1956. Because of a World War II injury to his ears, doctors suggested he move out west to help the healing process. He started at KFMB-8, the CBS affiliate, where he did many of the same things he did at WEWS. His popularity was such that he became an Icon in San Diego, Hosting Movie Shows, doing weather and many other kinds of programs. His biggest regional/national success was Zoorama, featuring the San Diego Zoo, broadcast locally from the 50's, on CBS in 1965 and in national syndication 1968-70.

Dale moved across town to KNSD-7/39, San Diego's NBC affiliate in January, 1978 where he was part of the weather team and did other shows and specials until his retirement in 2001.

Condolences to his wife Marilyn and his family.

Link to Plain Dealer Article:

http://www.cleveland.com/obituary/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news-1/1212222781195010.xml&coll=2

Link to San Diego Union-Tribune Article:
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20080528-2152-bn28dale2.html

Much of the information comes from these two articles.

TV Guide Listings:
Cleveland Edition

Channels:
3 WNBK NBC
5 WEWS CBS
8 WXEL-DuMont/ABC
27 WKBN CBS/ABC/DuMont Youngstown
49 WAKR ABC Akron
73 WFMJ NBC Youngstown

Friday, April 30, 1954
7AM
3-73 Today
5-27 Morning Show-Guest John F. Kennedy and his recent bride Jacqueline Lee Bouvier

8:55
8 Preview Corner

9AM
3 Movie-A Guy Could Change
5 Mixing Bowl-Rachel Van Cleve
8-27 Breakfast Club-Don McNeil-ABC
73 Movie-Danger, Women at Work

9:30
5 Western Reserve Telecourse

10AM
3-73 Ding Dong School
5-27 Jack Paar
8 Maggie Wulff

10:30
3-73 One Man's Family
8 Charming Children

10:45
3-73 Three Steps to Heaven

11AM
3-73 Home-Arlene Francis
5 Dionne Lucas-Cooking
8 Alice Weston-Cooking
27 I'll Buy That-CBS

11:30
5-27 Strike It Rich-Warren Hull
8 Rena and Bob Ledyard

Noon
3-73 Bride and Groom
5 Valiant Lady
8 Treasure Party-Bob Neal
27 News

12:15
3-73 Hawkins Falls
5-27 Love Of Life

12:30
3-73 Betty White Show

12:45
5-27 Guiding Light

1PM
3 Movie-My Dog Shep
5 Women's Window-Cooking
8-27 Brighter Day-CBS
73 News

1:15
8 Portia Faces Life-CBS
27 Home Cooking-Resch
73 Hal's A Poppin-Hal Fryar

1:30
5 Garry Moore
8 Fan Fare-Wullf-"Maggie and Pre-Game Interviews"

1:45
5-27 Garry Moore
8 Baseball Previews-Danny Landau

2PM
5 Double Or Nothing
8-Baseball-Cleveland Indians at New York Yankees-Jim Britt/Ken Coleman (Indians won 9-4)
27-Movie-Adventures of Casanova
73 Movie-Meet The Missus

2:15
3 Maggi Byrne

2:30
5 Art Linkletter-Jack Slattery subs for Art
73 Kitchen Corner-Marjorie Mariner

2:45
3 Nancy Dixon-Shopping

3PM
3-73 Kate Smith
5-27 Big Payoff

3:30
5 Bob Crosby

4PM
3-73 Welcome Travelers
5 Dinner Platter-Bob Dale
27 Woman With A Past-CBS

4:15
27 Secret Storm

4:30
3-73 On Your Account
5-27 Robert Q. Lewis

4:45
8 Scores and Squaws-(Yes, that was the name of the post-game show)

5PM
3-Pinky Lee
5 Uncle Jake's House-Gene Carroll
8 Movie-Riding The Dusty Trail
27 Barker Bill-CBS
49 Hinky Dinks-Kids
73 Susie Sidesaddle

5:15
27 Grizzly Pete

5:25
5 News

5:30
3-73 Howdy Doody
5 Movie-Texas Buddies
49 Corral Time

6PM
3 Supper Time Comics
49-73 News

6:10
49 Social Whirl

6:15
8 Sports-Bob Neal
49 Humbard Family
73 Sports-Eddie Lane

6:25
5 Professor Pet
73 Weather

6:30
3 Dports-Tom Manning
5 Dorothy Fuldheim
8 TV Weatherman-Dr. Annear
27 News Today
49 Adventure Time
73 In Our School

6:40
3 Coyne for Auditor
8 Cleveland Today

6:45
3 Today's News
5 Sports Page-Jack Graney
8 Home with the Graham-Browns QB Otto Graham and Family
27 Sports-Don Gardner
49 Custom Ranch-Western

6:55
5 Weather-Johnny Price
27 Weather-Stu Wilson
49 Weather

7PM
3 Badge 714
5 Primary Preview
8-27 Captain Video-DuMont
49 News-Jack Fitzgibbons
73 Turn Of a Card

7:10
5 TV IQ-Bob Dale
49 Sports-Bob Wylie

7:15
5 The Greatest Drama
8 News Parade-Bob Lang/Jimmy Dudley
27 Rambling Reporter-Stu Wilson
49 ABC News-John Daly
73 Telerama-Film

7:30
3-73 Eddie Fisher
5-27 CBS News-Douglas Edwarda
8-49 Stu Erwin-ABC

7:45
3-73 Camel News Caravam-John Cameron Swayze
5-27 Perry Como

8PM
3-73 Dave Garrpway
5 Mama-CBS
8 Ozzie and Harriet-ABC
27 TBA
49 Teen WHO Club

8:30
3-73 Life Of Riley
5-27 Topper
8-49 Pepsi Cola Playhouse-ABC

9PM
3-73 Big Story
5-27 Schlitz Playhouse Of Stars
8 Life Begins at 80-DuMont
49 Paul Hartman Show-ABC

9:30
3-73 TV Soundstage
5-27 Our Miss Brooks
8 Boston Blackie-Syndicated
49 American Of The Year-Danny Thomas

10PM
3-73 Boxing
5-27 My Friend Irma
8 Chance of a Lifetime-DuMont
49 Movie-Miraculous January

10:30
5 I Led Three Lives
8 Down You Go-DuMonr
27 Person to Person-CBS

10:45
3-73 Greatest Fights

11PM
3 News-Tom Field
5 Movie-13 Lead Soldiers
8-27 News-Warren Guthrie
49 News-Bill Murphy
73 Stage 73-Swamp Fire

11:05
3 Weather-Joe Finan

11:10
3 Sports-Joe Mulvihill
8 Today's Top Story-Ted Malone
27 News-Sid Davis
49 Sports-Bob Wylie

11:15
3 Custom Inn-Cy Kelly, Glenn Rowell
8 Carling's Sports Final-John Fitzgerald
27 Movie-Welcome, Mr. Washington

11:30
3 Movie-Crown Jewels

Midnught
73 Late News

12:30
3 Hoot Gibson
5-27 Local News

12:45
3-News

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

October 1965-Changes on the Horizon..

Here is a listing for a somewhat unusual special..A chance for Ernie to shine outside the "Ghoulardi" persona..The Skits on this special have been shown for years on the Hoolihan and Big Chuck/Big Chuck and Lil John Show..


Ad for the Locally programmed "Friday Night Movie" on WEWS Channel 5

Ad for an early evening showing of the syndicated "Sea Hunt" on WAKR-TV 49

Ad for "3 On The Town"..In its first incarnation..As we mentioned in a series last year on this program, This show lasted 3 years and went through so many changes it seemingly couldnt build an audience..

There was a Monday Night Movie on Channel 8..What was unusual about it was the movie would run an hour, then break for 20 minutes of news at 11, then continue the movie to its conclusion

October 1965 ad for Wally Kinnan, newly arrived from Philadelphia to become TV 3's main weather forecaster..Recently I did a profile on Kinnan here on the blog..

Today we'll take an in depth look at October, 1965..specifically the 23rd-29th of October..The major News Story was the Gemini 6 Manned spaceflight..All the networks covered the event thouroughly on their news programs..

Other Highights of the week:

Saturday, October 23..

8AM WJW-8-Franz the Toymaker was doing a Saturday Hour-Long version of his daily 9AM program

5PM WJW-8-Ghoulardi-The Fury of Hercules (Italian-French 1961)

6PM WKYC-3 Debut of Montage, Emmy-winning profile series

7PM WKYC-3 Jerry G (Bishop) and Company-Jerry Van Dyke, Singer Barbara Lewis, the Barbarians and Cannibal and the Headhunters

7PM WJW-8-Ernie Anderson Special-Described above

11:45 WEWS-5 Johnny Carson Rerun-Don Rickles, Godfrey Cambridge, Marie Wilson and Frankie Randall..

Sunday, October 24..Weekend News Crews:

WKYC-3 (Color) Carl Stern Saturday, Bud Dancy Sunday..Weather Ken Goodman Sports Gib Shanley

WEWS-5 Ted Wygant, Weather Court Stanton Sports Don Calo and Gordon Cobbledick

WJW-8-(Color) Martin Ross Saturday Frank Leslie Sunday Weather-Saturday Howard Hoffman/Sunday Hoolihan Sports John Fitzgerald

Monday October 25

11AM-WEWS-5 Alan Douglas

Noon-WJW 8 News Martin Ross, Harry Jones, Hoolihan

Tuesday, October 26
6:30 WEWS-5 High School Football Highlights

9PM WVIZ-25 Big Picture-Army program that had been shown as filler on many a tv schedule over the years

9:30- WJW-8 Conversation-Martin Ross-Public Affairs Show in Prime Time-Discussion of the Mayor's Race with Incumbent Ralph Locher, Carl Stokes, Ralph Perk and Ralph McAllister.

Wednesday, October 27

4:30-WKYC-3 Woodrow-With the recent Ownership Change to NBC, Linn Sheldon cut back "Barnaby" to weekends, leaving the 4:30 spot weekdays for Clay Conroy's Woodrow the Woodsman.

Thursday, October 28

4PM WKYC-3 Match Game-Gene Rayburn welcomes Edgar Bergen and a young Candace Bergen as panelists..

Friday, October 29

1:30 WJW-8 PDQ-Game Show-would move to Channel 3 at 4:30 PM later in the Fall/Winter

7:30 WEWS-5 Flintstones-"Fred and Barney stumble upon a Time Capsule occupied by a tiny green man"..Possibly the first appearance of the "Great Gazoo"..Voiced by Harvey Korman

10:30 WAKR-49 High School Football-Akron Buchtel/Barberton

Weeknight News Crews-

WKYC-3 News-Pat Murray Weather Wally Kinnan Sports Jim Graner
WEWS-5 7PM Bill Jorgensen and Dorothy Fuldheim

11PM News Tom Field Sports Paul Wilcox Dorothy Fuldheim commentary

WJW-8 News Doug Adair, Joel Daly Weather Hoolihan Sports Ken Coleman (6) John Fitzgerald (11)

TV Guide Listings

Sunday, October 24, 1965

WKYC-3-NBC

6:55 News
7AM Let's Discuss It
7:30 Farm Front-COLOR
8AM Home And Garden
8:30 First Look-COLOR
9AM All God's Children
9:30 Barnwood Playhouse-Barnaby/Woodrow
11AM Whirlybirds
11:30 Report To The People
Noon The Catholic Hour
12:30 Dialogues Of Faith
1PM Mett The Press
1:30 Open Circuit-COLOR
2PM AFL Football-Denver at Buffalo-COLOR
5PM Wild Kingdom-COLOR-Marlin Perkins
5:30 College Bowl-Robert Earle-COLOR
6PM Frank McGee Report-COLOR
6:30 Bell Telephone Hour-COLOR
7:30 Disney's World-COLOR
8:30 Branded-COLOR
9PM Bonanza-COLOR
10PM Wackiest Ship In The Army-COLOR
11PM News-Bud Dancy-COLOR
11:10 Weather-Ken Goodman-COLOR
11:15 Sports-Gib Shanley-COLOR
11:20 Movie-One Desire-1955-COLOR
1:25 Educational Exchange
1:55 News

WEWS-5-ABC

7:45 Christopher Program
8AM Cartoon Fun
8:30 Vital Faith
9AM TV Gospel Time
9:30 Bullwinkle
10AM Astroboy
10:30 Beany and Cecil-COLOR
11AM Movie-Nighttime in Nevada-1948
Noon Gene Carroll
1PM Polka Varities
2PM Championship Bowling
3PM Wide World Of Sports
4:30 Jimmy Dean(ABC Thursday 10PM)
5:30 Dobie Gillis
6PM Cheyenne
7PM Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea-COLOR
8PM FBI-COLOR
9PM ABC Sunday Night Movie-A Farewell To Arms-1958 COLOR
11:45 News-Ted Wygant
11:50 Weather-Court Stanton
11:55 Sports-Don Calo
Midnight Gordon Cobbledick-Probably Sports Commentary-Cobbledick was the recently retired Cleveland Plain Dealer Sports Editor..
12:05 TV Bowl Tournament
1:05 News

WJW-8 CBS

7AM This Is The Life
7:30 Faith For Today
8AM Mass for Shut-Ins
8:30 Moral View
9AM Rex Humbard
10AM Lamp Unto My Feet
10:30 Cleveland Caucus
11AM Laurel and Hardy
11:30 Movie-Apache Woman-1955
1PM Best Of The Browns
1:15 NFL Football-Cleveland Browns at New York Giants
4:30 Movie-Siren Of Bagdad-1953-COLOR
5:55 City Camera News-COLOR
6PM Twentieth Century-Walter Cronkite
6:30 Stingray-COLOR
7PM Lassie-COLOR
7:30 My Favorite Martian-COLOR
8PM Ed Sullivan-COLOR
9PM Perry Mason
10PM Candid Camera
10:30 What's My Line?
11PM News-Frank Leslie
11:10 Sports-John Fitzgerald
11:15 Weather-Bob Wells (Hoolihan)-COLOR
11:20 Movie-The Great Lover-1949
1AM Movie-The Way Of All Flesh 1940

WVIZ-25 NET

6PM What's New
6:30 Classical Civilization
7PM Intertel-SPECIAL
8PM Creative Person-Rudolf Bing
8:30 Dateline-United Nations-Jim Fleming
9PM Festival Orchestra
10PM Sign-Off

WAKR-49 ABC Akron

9:44 News
9:45 Council Of Churches
10:15 Univ. Of Akron
10:30 Beany and Cecil-COLOR
11AM Bullwinkle-COLOR
11:30 Discovery '65
Noon Championship Bowling
1PM TV Bowl Tournament
2PM Gospel Singers
2:30 Range Rider
3PM Wide World Of Sports
4:30 Cartoon Fun-COLOR
5PM Annie Oakley
5:30 Amateur Hour-Ted Mack-CBS (unusual, as Channel 49 rearely carried another network's shows)
6PM Civic Forum
6:30 Meet The Candidates
7PM Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea-COLOR
8PM FBI-COLOR
9PM ABC Sunday Night Movie-A Farewell To Arms-1958 COLOR
11:45 ABC News
Midnight Local News
12:05 Great Moments in Music
12:20 Rev. Elvin Brown
1AM Living Word

Thursday, October 28, 1965

WKYC-3 NBC

6:20 News
6:25 Farm Fare
6:30 Educational Exchange
7AM Today-COLOR
7:25 What's Doing-Linn Sheldon
7:30 Today Continues
9AM Mike Douglas
10AM Fractured Phrases-COLOR
10:30 Concentration
11AM Morning Star-COLOR
11:30 Paradise Bay-COLOR
Noon Jeopardy-Art Fleming-COLOR
12:30 Let's Play Post Office-COLOR
1PM Three On The Town-COLOR
1:30 Let's Make a Deal-Monty Hall-COLOR
2PM Moment Of Truth
2:30 Doctors
3PM Another World
3:30 You Don't Say-Tom Kennedy-COLOR
4PM Match Game-Gene Rayburn-COLOR
4:30 Woodrow-COLOR
5PM Movie-The Girl Most Likely-1957-COLOR
6:30 Huntley Brinkley
7PM News-COLOR
7:30 Daniel Boone-COLOR
8:30 Laredo-COLOR
9:30 Mona McCluskey-COLOR
10PM Dean Martin-COLOR
11PM News-Pat Murray-COLOR
11:15 Weather-Wally Kinnan-COLOR
11:20 Sports-Jim Graner-COLOR
11:30 Movie-Backfire-1950
1:20 Playhouse-Drama Anthology Reruns
1:50 Educational Exchange
2:20 News

WEWS-5 ABC

8:40 News
8:45 Telecourse
9:15 Board Of Education
9:30 Romper Room-Miss Barbara
10AM Paige Palmer
10:30 Junior Clubhouse
11AM Alan Douglas
11:30 Young Marrieds
Noon News
12:15 Noon Show-Captain Penny (Ron Penfound)
1PM Ben Casey
2PM Nurses
2:30 A Time For Us
2:55 ABC News-Marlene Sanders
3PM General Hospital
3:30 Merv Griffin
4:30 Where The Action Is
5PM Comedy Clubhouse-Captain Penny-COLOR
6:15 ABC News-Peter Jennings
6:30 Huckleberry Hound-COLOR
7PM News-Bill Jorgensen
7:15 Dorothy Fuldheim
7:30 Shindig
8PM Donna Reed
8:30 OK Crackerby-COLOR
9PM Bewitched
9:30 Peyton Place
10PM Long Hot Summer
11PM News-Tom Field
11:10 Sports-Paul Wilcox
11;20 Dorothy Fuldheim
11:30 Johnny Carson-COLOR
1AM News

WJW-8 CBS

6:40 News
6:45 Sunrise Semester
7:15 Rex Humbard
7:30 CBS News-Mike Wallace
8AM Captain Kangaroo
9AM Franz The Toymaker-COLOR
9:55 News-Howard Hoffman
10AM As The World Turns
10:30 McCoys
11AM Andy Griffith
11:30 Dick Van Dyke
Noon News-Martin Ross, Harry Jones, Hoolihan
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1PM Love Of Life
1:25 CBS News-Mike Wallace
1:30 PDQ-Dennis James-COLOR
2PM Password
2:30 House Party
3PM To Tell The Truth
3:25 City Camera News-COLOR
3:30 Edge Of Night
4PM Secret Storm
4:30 Leave It To Beaver
5PM Adventure Road-Jim Doney-COLOR
6PM City Camera News-Doug Adair, Joel Daly, Ken Coleman, Hoolihan
6:30 CBS News-Walter Cronkite
7PM Zorro
7:30 Munsters
8PM Gilligan's Island-COLOR
8:30 My Three Sons-COLOR
9PM CBS Thursday Night Movie-Mary, Mary-1963-COLOR
11:15 News-Adair, Daly
11:25 Sports-John Fitzgerald
11:30 Weather-Hoolihan-COLOR
11:35 Movie-Sealed Verdict-1948
1:05 Movie-Valiant is the Word for Carrie-1936 Trivia-The Three Stooges played on this movie title in "Violent Is the Word for Curly" a 1938 Columbia Short..

WVIZ-25 NET

9:15 Social Studies 3-4
9:35 Literature 4-5
10:35 Social Studies 5-6
11AM Music 4-6

12:30 Previews for Teachers-Science 3-4
12:45 Previews for Teachers Language Arts 3-4

1:50 Music K-2
2:10 Science 3-4
2:50 Math 6-7

6PM What's New
6:30 Classical Civilization
7PM Managers in Action
7:30 Nasa
8PM Conversations
8:30 Legacy-DEBUT
9PM French Chef
9:30 Heritage
10PM Sign-Off

All Channel 25 programs were Black and White-Gaps in the programming seem to indicate the station was off the air between classroom shows

WAKR-49 ABC Akron

10:20 News
10:30 Ed Allen
11AM Young Set
Noon Donna Reed
12:30 Father Knows Best
1PM Ben Casey
2PM Nurses
2:30 A Time For Us
2:55 ABC News-Marlene Sanders
3PM General Hospital
3:30 Young Marrieds
4PM Never Too Young
4:30 Where The Action Is
5PM Cisco Kid
5:30 Professor Jack
6PM ABC News-Peter Jennings
6:15 Sea Hunt
6:45 High School Preview
6:55 Sports, News, Weather
7:15 Women's Page-Ann Thomas-Moore
7:30 Shindig
8PM Donna Reed
8:30 OK Crackerby-COLOR
9PM Bewitched
9:30 Peyton Place
10PM Long Hot Summer
11PM News
11:20 Nightlife-Les Crane
1AM News

Commentary:TV as always was changing..WKYC was setling into its NBC ownership..Virgil Dominic would become main News Anchor in a few weeks..Channel 5, outside of Dorothy Fuldheim, seemed to not fully commit to news, although they had some good personnel..City Camera was in full swing at Channel 8..Color TV was making inroads locally as evidenced by the amount of hours of Color by each station in the 2 days indicated...

Channel 3-25 hrs. 50 min.

Channel 5-8hrs. 45 min.

Channel 8-11 hrs. 55 min.

Channel 25-None

Channel 49-6 hrs. 15 min.

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..

Tuesday, December 16, 1947-The night before TV Day.. In Cleveland

Part of a Cleveland Press special section about the opening of WEWS-TV..Included is an FM primer and a TV 5 coverage area map

Cleveland Press Radio Guide for Tuesday night-Wednesday December 16-17, 1947


I thought we'd share another of our relatively rare postings on Radio... Focusing on Cleveland AM/FM radio the night before WEWS-TV 5 signed on the air for the first time..The last night that Cleveland would be a "Radio-only" city. Cleveland radio personalities of the era included Jimmy Dudley of WJW-850, Tom Manning at WTAM-1100, Bob Neal at WGAR-1220 and Dorothy Fuldheim, already doing commentary at WEWS-102.1 FM in advance of Channel 5's sign-on (WEWS-FM had only been on the air about 3 weeks at this time) The main AM stations in Cleveland were joined by WSRS 1490 and WJMO 1540..As well as a number of FM statons..

Tuesday Night December 16, 1947
5PM-1AM
Courtesy Cleveland Press

WJW-850 ABC

5 Santa Claus
5:15 Terry And The Pirates
5:30 Jack Armstrong
6 News:Dudley-Cato
6:15 Johnny Edwards
6:30 Clambake
7 Jimmy Dudley:Sports
7:15 Tello Test
7:30 Green Hornet
8 Youth aaks Government
8:15 Monitor/News Views
8:30 Town Meeting
9:30 Boston Symphony
10:30 Bandstand
11 News, Sports
11:15 Time For Tunes
11:30 This Is Goodnight
Mid. Anything Goes

WTAM-1100 NBC

5 When A Girl Marries
5:15 Portia Faces Life
5:30 Just Plain Bill
5:45 Front Page Farrell
6 News, Music
6:15 Tom Manning
6:30 Affectionately Yours
6:45 Three Star Extra
7 Supper Club
7:15 World News
7:30 Maurice Spitalny
8 Milton Berle
8:30 A Date With Judy
9 Amos n Andy
9:30 Fibber McGee And Molly
10 Bob Hope
10:30 Red Skelton
11 News:Tom Manning
11:15 Fancy Free
11:30 Frankie Carle
Mid. News, Nusic
12:15 Design For Listening
12:30 Harry George
12:55 News

WGAR-1220 CBS

5 Lum and Abner
5:15 Melody Market
5:30 Range Rider
6 Sidney Andorn:Van Patrick
6:15 News:Bob Neal
6:30 Frank Leahy
6:45 Lowell Thomas
7 Beulah
7:15 Jack Smith
7:30 Club 15
7:45 Edward R. Murrow
8 Big Town
8:30 Mr. And Mrs. North
9 We The People
9:30 Studio One
10:30 Peter Donald
10:45 To Be Announced
11 News, Sports
11:15 UN Digest
11:30 Charlie Spivak
Mid Morgan's Musical Inn
12:15 News:Morgan's Musical Inn

WHK-1420 Mutual

5 Lady Fare
5:15 Superman
5:30 Captain Midnight
5:45 Tom Mix
6 News:Godley
6:15 Monmtana Cowboys
6:30 Dinner Winneer
6:45 Eyesd On Tomorrow
7 Fulton Lewis
7:15 News:Dinner Date
7:30 Newscope
7:45 Inside Of Sports
8 Mysterious Traveler
8:30 Official Detective:Rose
9 Gabriel Heatter
9:15 Real Stories
9:30 Zane Grey Show
10 10 O'clock Tunes
10:30 Club 321
11 News
11:15 Morton Downey
11:30 Disc Digger (Records)
12:30 Lee Castle

WSRS-1490 FM 95.3

5 News
5:15 Kiddie Kart
5:30 Concert Moderne
5:45 Stardust Melodies
6 Ed Falkenstein
6:15 John Lynn:Sports
6:30 Sound Stage
7 News
7:15 Nat Brandywine Orchestra
7:30 Orchestra Hall
8 News:Music
8:30 Melody Mill
9 Trio Time
9:15 Show Time
9:30 Music For Tuesday
10 News
10:15 This Is Music
11 News, Sports
11:15 Al Lewis
Mid News
12:15 Sign-Off

WHKX=FM 100.7

5 Music In The Air
5:30 Gay Nineties
5:45 News:Music
6 SupperTime
7 At Your Service
7:30 South Of The Border
7:45 Vocal Harmonies
8 Great Classics
9 Golden Days
9:15 Piano Moods
9:30 Litle Show
9:45 Name Bands
10 Music Hopper
10:30 Sinfonietta
11 All The News
11:15 Organ Moods

WEWS-FM 102.1

5 News:Musical Cocktail
6 News:Dinner Serenade
7 Dorothy Fuldheim
7:15 Romance In Music
8 News:Footlight Review
9 News:Evening Symphony
10 News:Curtain Call
11 News:Nocturne
Mid Sign-Off

WJMO-1540
(Daytime Only-No programming Thursday night)

Schedule for Friday December 17, 1947

7:45 Jake And Lena (Gene Carrroll)
8 News:Jake/Lena
9 News:Jake/Lena
9:15 Polish Program
9:30 Hungarian Program
9:45 Czech Program
10 News:Your Town
10:15 Songs Of Faith
10:30 Morning Musicale
11 News:Hayloft Gang
11:30 Mysta Time (Parts of the Schedule were hard to read..so may be some guesses from here on out)
Noon News:Cleveland Story
12:15 Noon Timeclock
1 News:Howie Lund
1:15 Flashes:Ballads
1:30 Polka Parade
2 News:Memory Music
2:30 Songs of the Range
3 News:Here's Howie
4 News:Here's Howie
4:45 Mysteries:D. M.
5 Sign-Off

By 1950, TV would pretty much copy the major radio schedule patterns at ths time:News/Light entertainment in the mornings.."Dramas" in the afternoon..News in the early evening and Prime time about 8-11PM..While Radio by 1960 completely changed to music and news..almost no entertainment peograms except for a few soaps on CBS, Gunsmoke, Suspense
and "Johnny Dollar"

I would love to have heard WJMO-1540 is this time period..seems like it might be quite entertaining..