Summer 1964:Ernie Anderson and the weather?

TV 5 had a lomg-running association with Northfield Park Harness Track..This show aired Thursday nights at 10:30PM

Early Ad for WYTV-33 News-Notice there is only one "newsreader" alternating weeknights..The 11:10 news follows ABC weeknight news at 11 with Bob Young


TV Guide ad for "Kitchen Corner", long running afternoon show on WFMJ-21..The show ran from 1953-till 1966-67 with hostess Marjorie Mariner..

KYW-TV 3/Westinghouse's answer to "Johnny Carson" on WEWS-TV 5..Weeknights at 11:15PM


TV Guide ad for "Masterpiece Theater"..Ghoulardi's (Ernie Anderson) secondary program Saturday nights at 6 on TV 8 June/July 1964, when Ghoulardi was hitting his peak of popularity.





Competing News ads for WKBN-27 and WAKR-49

Today we'll look at late June-early July 1964 through TV Guide magazine June 27-July 3-Random Highlights:

The PGA's Cleveland Open was contested at Highland Hills Golf Course..While every other ABC affiliate aired it live, WEWS aired it on delay Saturday June 27 and Sunday June 28 at 7:30 PM..Tony Lema was the winner.

"Loretta Young Show" reruns return to the NBC/TV 3 weekday lineup at 2PM Monday, June 29

Ernie Anderson, in addition to his "Ghoulardi" duties and WJW announcing chores, also did weeknight weather at 6:20 PM on channel 8.

Chubby Checker is Co-host on the Mike Douglas Show this week on KYW-3 12:30-2PM Mon-Fri.

On WJW-8, Jim Doney's Adventure Road is shown 6 times a week weekdays at 5 PM and Sunday nights at 9PM-In color..

Over at TV 5, between January and June 1964, the "One-O-Clock Club" had been canceled..In January'64, the show was moved to 1:30, shortened to an hour from 90 minutes, and renamed the Bill and Dorothy Show..In June 1964, channel 5 aired Virginia Graham's Girl Talk at 1PM, The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show on tape delay at 1:30 and Bill Cullen's Price Is Right on delay at 2PM...

Cleveland
3 KYW-NBC
5 WEWS-ABC
8 WJW-CBS

Akron
49 WAKR-ABC

Youngstown
21 WFMJ-NBC
27 WKBN-CBS
33 WYTV-ABC



Sunday June 28, 1964

7:20
8 Meditation

7:25
8 News

7:30
8 This Is the Life

7:50
3 News

8AM
3 Ask a Priest
5 Gospel Singing Caravan
8 Mass For Shut-Ins

8:30
3 TV Sunday School
8 Faith For Today

9AM
3 Frontiers of Faith
5 Vital Faith
8 Rex Humbard
27 Sacred Heart

9:15
27 Americans At Work

9:30
3 International Zone
5 Gospel Singing
27 Summer Semester

10AM
3 Woodrow
5 Casper
8-27 Lamp Unto My Feet
21 Cartoon Time

10:30
5 Sunday Show-Cartoons
8 Moral View
27 look Up And Live

10:55
49 News

11AM
5 Movie-On The Old Spanish Trail-1947
8 Cleveland Caucus-Sidney Andorn
21 Adventure Strip
27 Camera Three
49 Faith For Today

11:30
3 Sea Hunt
8 Movie-China Gate-1957
27-49 This Is the Life

Noon
3 Wyatt Earp
5 Gene Carroll
21 That We May See
27 Word Of Life
33 Fisher Family
49 Top Star Bowling

12:30
3 Religions In America
21 Faith For Today
27 Oral Roberts
33 Footnote

1PM
3 Movie-The Iron Major-1943
5 Polka Varities-Tom Fletcher
21 Holiday Time
27 Catoon Carnival
33 Discovery '64

1:15
8 Dugout Interview-Bob Neal
27 Baseball-Detroit at New York Yankees-Dizzy Dean/Pee Wee Reese

1:30
8-33 Baseball-Cleveland At Boston Bob Neal/Herb Score
(Cleveland lost 8-5 and 4-3 in a doubleheader)
21 Frontiers of Faith
49 Operation Success

2PM
5 Championship Bowling-Fred Wolff
21 Your Neighbor, The World
49 Directions 64

2:26
3 News (The previous movie was listed at 86 minutes-Odd scheduling)

2:30
3 One Step Beyond
21 Baseball-Chicago White Sox at Minnesota-Bob Wolff and Joe Garagiola
49 Championship Bridge

3PM
3 Movie-The Egg and I-1947-First of the Ma and Pa Kettle Movies..
5 Manhunt
49 Discovery 64

3:30
5-49 Issues and Answers-Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.)

4PM
5 Riverboat
49 Chapel on Fir Hill

4:05
8 Baseball Scoreboard

4:15
8 Movie-Slattery's Hurricane-1949
27 Cartoon Carnival

4:30
3 Open Circuit-Murray Seeger
27 American Adventure
33 Gale Storm Show
49 Movie-Adventures of Tom Sawyer-1938

5PM
3 Fair Adventure-Dr. Frank Baxter
5 Empire
21 Sunday-Frank Blair
27 Sports Spectacular-Outdoor Diving Championships-Chris Schenkel, Eddie Cole
33 Cleveland Open-Live-Chris Schenkel is among those reporting the action-Interesting oddity-Schenkel is on 2 networks competing against himself..

5:30
3 Jazz Scene USA
27 Amateur Hour-Ted Mack

6PM
3-21 Meet the Press
5 Ripcord
8-27 Twentieth Century-Cronkite
33 Movie-Mad Doctor of Market Street-1942
49 Hootennanny 49-Dave Davis

6:30
3 Death Valley Days
5 Cheyenne
8 Littlest Hobo
21 Biography
27 Mr. Ed-Introduction of the Post's New Neighbors. The Kirkwoods, after the death of Larry Keating, who played Roger Addison..
49 Roller Derby

7PM
3 Biography
8-27 Lassie
21 Bill Dana Show

7:30
3-21 Disney's World-COLOR
5 Cleveland Open-Tape Delay
8-27 My Favorite Martian
33-49 Empire

8PM
8-27 Ed Sullivan-Frank Sinstra, Bobby Vinton, Ferante and Teicher are among the guests.

8:30
3-21 Grindl
5-33-49 Arrest and Trial

9PM
3-21 Bonanza-COLOR
8 Adventure Road-COLOR
27 Celebrity Game-Carl Reiner

9:30
27 Brenner

10PM
3 Movie-Tea For Two-1950
5 Movie-Moonfleet-1955
(Both stations interrupt the movie for news at 11)
8-27 Candid Camera
21 DuPont Show-COLOR
33 Probe
49 NFL Highlights-Bears at 49ers 10-20-63

10:30
8-27 What's My Line?
33 ABC News Reports

11PM
3 News-Jack Bennett
5 News-Charles Day
8 News-Roger Goodrich
21-27 News
33-49 CBS News-Harry Reasoner (neither 8 or 27 cleared this newscast apparently)

11:05
5 Weather-Court Stanton

11:10
3 Weather-Ken Goodman
5 Sports-Paul Wilcox
8 Sports-John Fitzgerald

11:15
3-5 Movies Continue (from 10PM)
8 Weather-Howard Hoffman
21 Movie-Highway 301-1950
27 Movie-The Unholy Wife-1957
33 News-Fred Koeberle
49 Movie-Above Us The Waves-1955

11:20
8 Movie-The Lost Weekend-1945

11:25
33 Movie-Crash of Silence-English-1953

12:05
5 Roller Derby
49 Living Word

12:20
3 Movie-I walked with a Zombie-1943

1:05
5 News

1:20
8 Movie-Slim-1937

Friday, July 3, 1964

5:50
3 News

5:55
3 Farm Fare

6AM
3 Fair Adventure

6:30
3 Operation Alphabet

7AM
3-21 Today-Hugh Downs

7:05
8 Meditation

7:10
8 News

7:15
8 Summer Semester

7:25
27 Summer Semester

7:45
8 Rex Humbard

7:55
27 News

8AM
8-27 Captain Kangaroo

8:55
5 News

9AM
3 Woodrow-Clay Conroy
5-21-33 Cartoons
8 Franz The Toymaker-COLOR
27 Movie-Fury at Gunsight Pass-1956

9:15
21 World Of Books

9:30
3 Ann Sothern
5 Romper Room-Miss Barbara
8 People's Choice
21 Robin Hood

10AM
3-21 Make Room For Daddy-Guest Tennessee Ernie Ford
5 Paige Palmer
8 As The World Turns
27 CBS News-Mike Wallace
33 Jack LaLanne

10:25
49 Newa

10:30
3-21 Word for Word-Merv Griffin-COLOR
5 Junior Clubhouse
8-27 I Love Lucy
33-49 Price Is Right-Bill Cullen

10:55
3-21 NBC News-Edwin Newman

11AM
3-21 Concentration-Hugh Downs
5-33-49 Get The Message-Robert Q. Lewis
8-27 Mc Coys

11:30
3-21 Jeopardy-Art Fleming-COLOR
5-33-49 Missing Links-Dick Clark
8-27 Pete and Gladys

Noon
3 News
5 Dorothy Fuldheim
8-27 Love of Life
21 Say When-Art James-COLOR
33-49 Father Knows Best

12:15
5 News-Charles Day

12:25
8 News-Bob Irwin
27 CBS News-Robert Trout

12:30
3 Mike Douglas-Chubby Checker co-hosts
5 Noon Show-Captain Penny (Ron Penfound)
8 Search For Tomorrow
21 Truth Or Consequences-Bob Barker-COLOR
27 News-Jack Graham
33-49 Ernie Ford-Guest Mel Torme

12:35
27 Movie-Tarawa Beachead-1958

12:45
8 Guiding Light-To be canceled this year (2009) after over 70 years on radio and TV

12:55
21 NBC News-Ray Scherer

1PM
5 Girl Talk-Virginia Graham
8 Hawaiian Eye
21 News
33 Danger Man
49 Matinee 49

1:15
21 Kitchen Corner-Marjorie Mariner

1:30
5 Ernie Ford
33 Jean Tornello Show
49 Kartoon Karnival

1:55
8 TV Editorial-Norman Wagy

2PM
3-21 Loretta Young
5 Price Is Right-Bill Cullen
8-27 Password
33 Rescue 8
49 Ed Allen (wonder if ABC had a network program that was not shown locally)

2:30
3-21 The Doctors
5-33-49 Day In Court
8-27 House Party-Guest Carl Reiner

2:55
5-33-49 ABC News-Lisa Howard

3PM
3-21 Another World
5-33-49 General Hospital
8-27 To Tell The Truth

3:25
8 News-Bob Irwin
27 CBS News-Douglas Edwards

3:30
3-21 You Don't Say!-Tom Kennedy-COLOR
5-33-49 Queen For A Day-Jack Bailey
8-27 Edge Of Night

4PM
3-21 Match Game-Gene Rayburn
5-33 Trailmaster-Wagon Train Reruns
8-27 Secret Storm
49 TV Hour Of Stars

4:25
3-21 NBC News-Sander Vanocur

4:30
3 Barnaby-Linn Sheldon
8-27 Leave It To Beaver (syndicated)
21 Movie-The She Creature-1956

5PM
5 Caotain Penny's Comedy Clubhouse
8 Adventure Road-Jim Doney-COLOR
27 Rifleman
33 Barney Bean
49 Trailmaster

5:05
3 Movie-Gun That Won Thw West-1955

5:30
5 Magilla Gorilla
27 San Francisco Beat (The Lineup)
33 Rocky and His Friends

5:45
33 News-Bob Spiegel

5:55
33 Weather

6PM
5 News-Tom Field, Dave Buckel
8 City Camera-Doug Adair
21-27 News
33 ABC News-Ron Cochran
49 Professor Jack

6:10
8 Editorial-Norman Wagy

6:15
5 Dorothy Fuldheim
8 Sports-John Fitzgerald
33 Suppertime-Humbards

6:20
8 Weather-Ernie Anderson

6:25
8 News-Joel Daly

6:30
3-21 NBC News-Huntley/Brinkley
5 ABC News-Ron Cochran
8 Rifleman
27 CBS News-Walter Cronkite
33 Maverick

6:45
5 Sports-Paul Wilcox

6:55
5 Weather-Ron Jaye
49 Sports-Bob Wylie

7PM
3 News
5 Huckleberry Hound
8 CBS News-Walter Cronkite
21 Have Gun-Will Travel
27 Love That Bob-Bob Cummings
49 News-Jack Fitzgibbons

7:10
49 Weather-Dave Davis

7:15
49 ABC News-Ron Cochran

7:30
3-21 International Showtime
5-33-49 Olympic Trials-Pre-empts "Destry"
8-27 Great Adventure

8:30
3-21 Bob Hope (Chrysler Theater)-COLOR
5-33-49 Burke's Law
8-27 Route 66

9:30
3-21 That Was The Week That Was
5-33-49 Price Is Right-Bill Cullen
8-27 Twilight Zone

10PM
3-21 Jack Paar-COLOR
5 Battle Line
8-27 Alfred Hitchcock
33-49 Boxing-NYC

10:30
5 Peter Gunn

10:45
33-49 Make That Spare

11PM
3 News-Bud Dancy
5 News-Tom Field
8 News-Joel Daly, Doug Adair
21-27 News
33-49 ABC News-Bob Young

11:10
3 Weather-Dick Goddard
8 Sports-John Fitzgerald
33 News-Paul Burke
49 News-Kenny Halterman

11:15
3 Steve Allen
5 Johnny Carson-COLOR-Johnny begins a 3 week vcation after tonight
8 Weather-Howard Hoffman
49 Race Results-Van Lane

11:20
8 Movie-Ghoulardi-The Cosmic Man-1959
27 Movie-The Sniper-1952
49 Championshp Bowling-Fred Wolf

11:25
33 Hawaiian Eye

11:30
21 Johnny Carson-COLOR

12:20
49 News

12:25
33 News

12:45
3 Movie-Kitty Foyle-1940

1AM
5-21 News
8 Movie-Larceny Inc-1942