Looking Back:December 1952

Television Grid for Wednesday, December 17, 1952 in the Cleveland Press. The Press, being an afternoon paper, would normally publish afternoon/evening programs after 4:00 PM on the Paper's publishing date, then the following day's Morning-afternoon programming..

Today we will take a brief look at December 17-18. 1952 as published in the Cleveland Press.. Stations were doing a lot of local programming especially in the morning and afternoon..CBS was on Channel 5 and DuMont was actually the main network on 9..ABC was still struggling..There was also NBC owned WNBK of course..December 17 was WEWS' 5th anniversary but nothing appeared to be said on the air about it..

4 WNBK-NBC
5 WEWS-CBS
9 WXEL-DuMont-ABC

Wednesday, Dec. 17, 1952-Evening

4PM
4 Kate Smith
5 Western Movie (From 3:30)
9 Handwriting

4:30
9 King Jack

4:45
5 Time For Beany-Puppets

5PM
4 Hawkins Falls-Soap
5 Uncle Jake's House-Gene Carroll
9 Santa Claus

5:15
4 Gabby Hayes
9 By Jupiter

5:30
4 Howdy Doody
5 Western Serial
9 Desert Deputy

6PM
4 Wild Bill Hickock
5 Dinner Platter

6:30
4 Tom Manning, News
5 Dorothy Fuldheim
9 Sports Desk

6:45
4 News, Quick Quiz
5 Weather, Lee Sullivan
9 News, Around House

7PM
4 Sports Review
5 News Parade
9 Captain Video-DuMont

7:15
5 Hollywood (News) Reel

7:30
4 Those Two
5 Douglas Edwards-CBS News
9 Christopher Film

7:45
4 John C. Swayze-NBC-News
5 Perry Como
9 Wayne Mack-Also a Radio DJ at WDOK-AM 1260

8PM
4 I Married Joan
5 Arthur Godfrey And Friends
9 This Is The Life-Syndicated

8:30
4 Scott Music Hall
9 From Hollywood

9PM
4 Kraft Television Theater
5 Crusade In Europe-Syndicated
9 Strike it Rich-CBS

9:30
5 Man Against Crime
9 Millionaire-Appears to be syndicated-"The Millioanaire" was on CBS from 1955-60

10PM
4 This Is Your Life
5 The Unexpected-Syndicated
9 Boxing-Pabst Blue Ribbon-CBS

10:30
4 Safety First
5 Wrestling-Possibly ABC-Chicago

10:45
9 Sports Spot-CBS

11PM
4 News
9 Warren Guthrie (11:10 Ted Malone's Top Story)

11:15
4 Feature Film
9 Sports

11:20
9 Feature Film

1AM
5 News

Thursday, December 18, 1952

7AM
4 Dave Garroway (Today)

8:30
5 News

8:45
5 Wings Of Song-Crandall Hendershott (organ) and Randy Culver (Soloist)

9AM
4 Feature Film
5 Western Reserve Telecourse

9:30
5 Paige Palmer

10AM
4 Home Cooking
5 Arthur Godfrey


10:30
4 Charming Children-Appears to be a preschool series not unlike Romper Room

10:45
9 Film Shorts

11AM
4 Idea Shop
5 (There's) One In Every Family
9 Bargain Barn-Sort of a "garage sale of the air"

11:30
4 Ernie Benedict
5 Strike It Rich
9 Jonathan Story

Noon
4 News, (Tele) comics
5 Bride And Groom
9 News

12:15
5 Love Of life
9 Lazy Listening

12:30
4 Living Fashion
5 Search For Tomorrow
9 Film Shorts

12:45
5 News

1PM
4, 9 Feature Film
5 Women's Window

1:30
5 Garry Moore

2PM
5 Vanity Fair-Local

2:30
4 Chef Lorenzo
5 Guiding Light

2:45
5 Art Linkletter
9 Film, Quiz

3PM
4 Big Payoff
9 Alice Weston

3:15
5 Mixing Bowl

3:30
4 Welcome Travelers

3:45
5 Western Movie
9 Paul Weston (No relation to Alice-Appears to be a musical conductor and arranger..)

Schedule, Image courtesy Cleveland Press