Cleveland TV..December 1956

Plain Dealer ad for "Morning Surprise" with Tom Haley and "Mr. Rivitz" on KYW-TV 3


Ad for "Toyland Express" presented by something called the "Toy Guidance Council"



"Brod" Crawford stars in Highway Partol sponsored by Kroger on WKBN-27 Youngstown Tuesdays at 9:30, Preempting Red Skelton..



Ad for "Merry Christmas Mr. Baxter" on the Alcoa Hour Sunday, December 2 at 9:00 on NBC (3-21)





November 16, 1957..The first mention I could find in Halles advertising for Mr. Jingeling(Max Ellis), who may have begun playing the Character on TV in 1957



For our first holiday posting, I thought we'd look at December 1956, partly through the pages of Cleveland TV Guide, December 1-8, 1956..



WEWS was well into the "Holiday Spirit" with shows like Toyland Express(15 minutes) with Jimmy Nelson and his Dummies, shown Saturday at 10:45 and 11:30 and Sunday at 9:45 and 11:45 AM..



Santa Claus Monday, Thursday and Friday at 4:45..



There was also"Toy Preview" weekdays at 12:40 and 6:25 PM..My guess here is that Halles sponsored this, though it's not said so in the listings and no host is mentioned. While Mr. Jingeling was created for Halles in 1956, it appears he only made store appearances and possible other personal appearances.."Mr. Jingeling" as noted above was not mentioned by name in Halles ads till November 1957..

WJW-TV 8 featured Nelson Olmstead's "Ohio Story" weeknights at 6:30 with stories including Medina, Ohio as "Bee Captital" of the world..(To this day, Medina High School Sports Teams are nicknamed "The Bees") Toledo Zoo in Wintertime, and"Darling Nellie Gray" writer Ben Hamby..

Ron Penfound was doing WEWS sign-on news Saturdays at 8:55 and possibly hosting Fun Farm, as Mary Ellen Sussex had left for Florida a month earlier..

Romper Room was carried on WJW-TV 8 weekdays at 9AM with "Miss Pat" (Pat Ryan Dopp)The franchise moved to Channel 5 in 1958 with Barbara Plummer until 1971..

"Mr. Rivitz" was a character played by Jay Miltner in the Saturday morning "Nuts and Bolts" series on KYW-TV 3 and as part of Tom Haley's "Morning Surprise" weekdays at 9AM..A similar character, Mr. Rivets, was played by a different actor at WPTZ/WRCV-3 in Philadelphia from 1954-56..

Saturday, December 1, 1956:

3 KYW-NBC

7:30 This Land Is Ours
8:30 Nuts and Bolts-Mr. Rivitz
9:30 Teachers Meeting-Cleveland Schools
10AM Howdy Doody
10:30 Sheena of the Jungle
11AM Fury
11:30 Buffalo Bill Jr.
Noon Roy Rogers
12:30 Duke Jenkins-Music
1PM Football Preview
1:15 Army/Navy College Football-Lindsey Nelson/Red Grange
4:45 Football Scoreboard
5PM 77th Bengal Lancers
5:30 Ramar of the Jungle
6PM Bowling-Chicago
7PM Racket Squad
7:30 People Are Funny-Art Linkletter
8PM Perry Como-COLOR Carol Channing, Nat King Cole
9PM Caesar's Hour
10PM George Gobel-Guest Angela Lansbury
10:30 Your Hit Parade
11PM News-Tom Field
11:05 Movie-Johnny Come Lately-1943
12:30 News-Tom Field

5 WEWS-ABC

8:55 News-Ron Penfound
9AM Fun Farm
10AM Story of TV
10:30 Friendly Giant
10:45 Toyland Express
11AM Mr. Lollipops-Joe Berg
11:30 Toyland Express
11:45 Learn To Draw-Jon Gnagy
Noon Double Feature Western Movie
2PM Bandstand-Phil McLean Patty Rowe
4PM Movie-Kansas Terrors-1939
5PM Movie-Call of the Mesquiteers-1938
6PM Kit Carson
6:30 Gene Autry
7PM Old Dutch Revue-Johnny Andrews
7:30 Famous Film Festival-Hamlet Part One (Sir Laurence Olivier)
9PM Lawrence Welk
10PM Masquerade Party
10:30 Police Call
11PM I Spy-Anthology about spying and espionage
11:30 Conrad Nagel Theater
Midnight Movie-A Matter of Murder
1AM News-Randy Culver

8 WJW CBS

8:30 Movie-Six-Gun Man
9:30 Captain Kangaroo
10:30 Mighty Mouse
11AM Looney Tunes
11:30 Texas Rangers
Noon Big Top
1PM Lone Ranger
1:30 Humbard Family
2PM Science Sermons-Likely from Moody Bible Institute
2:30 Animal Fair
3PM Teen Press-Maggie Wulff
3:30 Salute-Documentary
4PM Movie-Six-Gun Man (Repeat from 8:30)
5PM Sky King
5:30 Captain Midnight
6PM Hopalong Cassidy
6:30 Annie Oakley
7PM Beat The Clock-Bud Collyer
7:30 Buccaneers
8PM Jackie Gleason
9AM Oh Susanna
9:30 Hey, Jeannie
10PM Gunsmoke
10:30 Frontier
11PM News-Warren Guthrie
11:10 Sports-John Fitzgerald
11:15 Movie-I Am The Law-1938
12:45 Movie-Love From A Stranger-1947

21 WFMJ-Youngstown NBC

10AM Howdy Doody
10:30 I Married Joan
11AM Fury
11:30 Cowboy Theater-Monty Hall
1PM To Be Announced
1:15 Army-Navy Football
5PM Funhouse Gang
6:15 Jungle Jim
6:45 Hollywood Backstage
7PM Rumpus Room
7:30 People Are Funny-Art Linkletter
8PM Perry Como-COLOR Carol Channing, Nat King Cole
9PM Caesar;s Hour
10PM George Gobel-Guest Angela Lansbury
10:30 Your Hit Parade
11PM News
11:15 Movie-The Secret People-1952

27 WKBN-Youngstown CBS/ABC

9:30 Captain Kangaroo
10:15 Toyland Express
10:30 Cartoon Classics
11AM Western Movie
Noon Big Top
1PM Movie-The Old Barn Dance
2PM Movie-Fighting Pioneers
3PM Movie-The Quitter-1934
4PM Western Movie
5PM Bowling Champs
6PM Uncovered
6:30 News
7PM Ozzie And Harriet-ABC
7:30 Buccaneers
8PM Jackie Gleason
9AM Lawrence Welk-ABC
10PM Gunsmoke
10:30 Ford Theater
11PM Polka Party
Midnight Wrestling Time

49 WAKR-Akron ABC

12:30 Movie-Cowboy Holiday-1934
1:30 Humbard Family
2PM Mr. and Mrs. North
2:30 Akron University
3PM Movie-I Met My Love Again-1938
4PM Movie-Gentleman From Texas-1946
6PM Movie-Musical
7PM Grand Ole Opry
7:30 Famous Film Festival-Hamlet Part One (Sir Laurence Olivier)
9PM Lawrence Welk
10PM Movie-More Than A Secretary-1936
11:30 Movie-Fall Guy-1947



Thursday, December 6, 1956

3 KYW NBC

7AM Today
9AM Morning Surprise-Tom Haley
10AM Ding Dong School
10:30 Price Is Right-Bill Cullen
11AM Home-Arlene Francis
11:25 Window-Women
11:30 Home-Continues
Noon Tic Tac Dough
12:30 It Could Be You
1PM Movie-The Flying Irishman-1939
2:30 Tennessee Ernie
3PM Matinee Theater-COLOR "The Refugee"
4PM Queen For A Day
4:45 Modern Romances
5PM I Married Joan
5:30 Mr. District Attorney
6PM Six O'Clock-Adventure-My Hero (Robert Cummings)
6:30 Six O'Clock Adventure-Colonel March (Boris Karloff)
6:55 News-Tom Field
7PM Soldiers Of Fortune
7:30 Dinah Shore
7:45 Huntley/Brinkley Report
8PM You Bet Your Life-Groucho Marx
8:30 Dragnet
9PM People's Choice-Jackie Cooper, Pat Breslin
9:30 Ford Show-Tennessee Ernie Ford-Guest Ken Murray
10PM Project 20-"The Jazz Age" with host Fred Allen (Lux Video Theatre is off tonight)
11PM News-Tom Field
11:10 Weather-Joe Finan
11:15 Sports-Joe Mulvihill
11:20 Big Wilson-Music
11:30 Steve Allen Tonight Show
12:30 My Little Margie
1AM News-Tom Field

5 WEWS ABC

8:55 News-Bill Prentice
9AM Fun Farm
9:45 Paige Palmer
10AM Western Reserve University Telecourse
10:30 Movie-Blonde Ice-1948
11:55 News-Ron Penfound-Probably a voiceover with a slide, as Penfound was likely already in his "Captain Penny" train outfit for his show at Noon

Noon Captain Penny
12:40 Toy Preview
12:45 Beulah-The Play
1:15 Stu Erwin-Yvette
1:45 Susie-Too Much Spring
2:15 Liberace
2:45 Music Masters-Songs
3PM Afternoon Film Festival-It Started In Paradise (English:1953)
4:30 Little Rascals
4:45 Toyland Santa
5PM Mickey Mouse Club
6PM Three Musketeers-The Marshal and Milady
6:25 Toy Preview
6:30 Dorothy Fuldheim
6:45 Weather-Bill Prentice
6:50 News-Paul Wilcox, Ron Penfound
7PM Stories Of The Century-Kate Bender
7:30 Lone Ranger-Decision For Chris McKeever
8PM Circus Time-Paul Winchell
9PM Wire Service-The Avengers
10PM Ozark Jubilee-Red Foley
10:30 Public Defender-The Hitchhiker
11PM Weather-Paul Wilcox
11:05 Movie-The Groom Wore Spurs-1951 (IMDB)
12:30 News-Court Stanton

8 WJW CBS

7AM Good Morning-Will Rogers Jr. with Norman Vincent Peale, Mitch Miller
8AM Captain Kangaroo
9AM Romper Room-Miss Pat
9:30 Heart Of The City
10AM Garry Moore
10:30 Arthur Godfrey
11:30 Strike It Rich-Warren Hull
Noon Valiant Lady
12:15 Love Of Life
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1PM Our Miss Brooks-Thanksgiving
1:30 As The World Turns
2PM Alice Weston
2:30 House Party-Linkletter
3PM Blackboard-Maggie Wulff (Pre-empted Big Payoff today only)
3:30 Bob Crosby-Bob sings brother Bing's holiday hit, "White Christmas"
4PM Brighter Day
4:15 Secret Storm
4:30 Edge Of Night
5PM Movie-Blind Alley-1939 (IMDB)
6:15 News-Roger Kennedy
6:30 Ohio Story-segment on Cleveland Police's Bureau of Scientific Investigation-Nelson Olmstead narrates

6:40 News-Roger Kennedy
6:45 CBS News-Douglas Edwards
7PM Dr. Christian
7:30 Sergeant Preston
8PM Bob Cummings (Love That Bob)-Chuck Buys A Hot Rod
8:30 Climax! Savage Portrait
9:30 Playhouse 90-Made In Heaven with Imogene Coca and Robert Preston
11PM News-Warren Guthrie
11:10 Sports-John Fitzgerald
11:15 Weather-Ken Armstrong
11:20 Les Paul/Mary Ford
11:25 Movie-Parole Racket-1937

21 WFMJ NBC Youngstown

7AM Today
9AM Adelaide Snyder
10AM Ding Dong School
10:30 Price Is Right-Bill Cullen
11AM Home-Arlene Francis
Noon Tic Tac Dough
12:30 It Could Be You
1PM Local News
1:15 Kitchen Corner-Mariner
1:45 Hal's A-Poppin-Hal Fryar
2:30 Tennessee Ernie
3PM Matinee Theater-COLOR "The Refugee"
4PM Queen For A Day
4:45 Modern Romances
5PM Funhouse Gang
6PM Popeye
7PM Dr. Christian
7:30 Dinah Shore
7:45 Huntley/Brinkley Report
8PM You Bet Your Life-Groucho Marx
8:30 Dragnet
9PM People's Choice-Jackie Cooper, Pat Breslin
9:30 Ford Show-Tennessee Ernie Ford-Guest Ken Murray
10PM Project 20-"The Jazz Age" with host Fred Allen (Lux Video Theatre is off tonight)
11PM News/Weather/Sports
11:20 Living Word
11:30 Steve Allen Tonight Show

27 WKBN CBS/ABC Youngstown

7AM Good Morning-Will Rogers Jr. with Norman Vincent Peale, Mitch Miller
8AM Captain Kangaroo
9AM To Be Announced-(Nothing listed-On occasion 27 would run Captain Kangaroo Twice-this may be the case here)

10AM Fashions-Esther Sonntag
10:15 Movie-Charlie Chan In Rio-1941
11:30 Strike It Rich-Warren Hull
Noon Cartoon Carnival
12:30 Playhouse
1PM CBS News-Charles Colligwood
1:10 Stand Up-Women
1:30 Movie-Pearl Of Death-1944
2:45 Casteel's Carousel
3PM Big Payoff
3:30 Western Movie
4:45 Clancy's Clubhouse
5PM Mickey Mouse Club-ABC
6PM Annie Oakley
6:30 Sports/News
6:45 CBS News-Douglas Edwards
7PM Crunch and Des
7:30 Sergeant Preston
8PM Bob Cummings (Love That Bob)-Chuck Buys A Hot Rod
8:30 Climax! Savage Portrait
9:30 Playhouse 90-Made In Heaven with Imogene Coca and Robert Preston
11PM News-Warren Guthrie
11:10 Local News
11:15 Movie-Conflict Of Wings-1955

49 WAKR ABC Akron

1PM Movie-Johnny In The Clouds-1945
2:30 Chef Lorenzo
3PM Afternoon Film Festival-It Started In Paradise (English:1953)
4:30 Adventure
5PM Movie-Paradise Canyon-1935
6PM Local News
6:30 Dinner Spinner-Music
7PM News
7:15 ABC News-John Daly
7:30 Chef Lorenzo
8PM Movie-Four Days Leave-1950 (IMDB)
9:30 Movie-Guest Wife-1945
11PM Movie-Shadow On The Range-1946

Some movie dates courtesy IMDB Movie Database



1956 episode of the 15 minute NBC Dinah Shore Show.

Looking back:January 1958

"Susie"-Syndicated title for "Private Secretary", which had aired on CBS from 1953-57 Ann Sothern returned to series TV in the "Ann Sothern Show" from Fall 1958-Spring 1961..After a few months. cast changes were made that essentially made the show "Private Secretary" in a Hotel setting..Ann Sothern was best known on TV as "Mother" in the 1965-66 NBC series "My Mother The Car"


"Sherrif of Cochise" aka as "US Marshal" Thursdays at 10:30 PM on KYW-TV..Smaller Low power networks still show this on occasion


Ad for the Syndicated "Douglas Fairbanks Jr." on WEWS Friday nights at 10:30PM



Rev. Rex Humbard, from the Calvary Temple, which became Cathedral of Tomorrow

Wednesday, January 29, 1958:US Steel Hour Starring Andy Griffith on CBS:and Ozzie And Harriet on ABC, in their sixth season..


Hello
For our first pure historical posting in awhile I thought we'd look at January 1958.

Doug Adair was doing a 9:55AM News bulletin weekdays on channel 8..

The Syndicated "Liberace" aired weekdays at 11:30 on channel 5

8:55 AM News was being aired by Channel 3 (Tom Haley) and 5 (Court Stanton or Bill Prentice)

Tom Field returned to Cleveland at WEWS-5 from WRCV-3 Philadelphia, replacing John B. Hughes..

In a letter to TV Guide, One Bill Sanders of Canton was not pleased with the change: "I understand that Ton Field is returning to Cleveland to replace JOHN B. HUGHES AND THE NEWS on Channel 5. Why? I have enjoyed Hughes and his staff and the manner in which they give the news coverage. I doubt that Tom Field can offer anything close in this line of service."

John Daly News was aired weeknights at 7:15 on WKST-45 and WAKR-49..

In Pro Basketball, on NBC The Minneapolis Lakers took on the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden Saturday, Jan. 25 at 2PM (Knicks won 128-116)

"Spirtuals" was the name of the program Mary Holt hosted on Sunday mornings at 9:30on KYW-TV 3..Miss Holt passed away last week at the age of 89..

Sitcom, "Date With The Angels", with Betty White and Bill Williams, ends its ABC Run Friday, Jan. 31, 1958 at 9:30, being replaced the next week by a sketch variety show starring..Betty White! She is enjoying a well deserved surge of popularity these days, helped by starring in the TV Land original series, "Hot In Cleveland"


NBC:Portion of It Could Be You with Bill Leyden in a Nighttime Episode from September 1958..Sort of a takeoff on "This Is Your Life" Or "Queen For A Day"

TV Listings Cleveland Edition TV Guide
Saturday, January 25, 1958

3-KYW Cleveland NBC
5-WEWS Cleveland ABC
8-WJW Cleveland CBS
12 WICU Erie ABC-NBC
21-WFMJ Youngstown NBC
27-WKBN Youngstown CBS
35 WSEE Erie CBS
45-WKST Youngstown ABC
49-WAKR Akron ABC

7:30
3 This Land Is Ours

8AM
8 Camera Three

8:30
3 Numbers and Space

8:55
5 News-Ron Penfound

9AM
3 Geophysical Year
5 Cowboy G-Men
8 Looney Tunes

9:30
3 Kartoons For Kids
5 Cartoon Time
8-27 Captain Kangaroo

10AM
3-21 Howdy Doody
5 Christophers
12 Toy Time

10:30
3-21 Ruff and Reddy
5 Movie-Code Of The Lawless (Kirby Grant)
8 Mighty Mouse
27 Cartoon Classics

11AM
3-21 Fury
8-27 Heckle and Jeckle-Return
12 Movie-To Be Announced

11:30
3-21 Andy's Gang-Andy Devine
5 Liberace
8 Adventures In Music
27 Saturday Playhouse
49 Get Set, Go!-Variety

Noon
3-21 True Story
5 Mr. Lollipop
8 RFD
12 Ramar
27-35 Jimmy Dean
49 Devotional Time

12:30
3-21 Detective's Diary
5 Telvideo Theater
8 Tomorrow-Science
12 High School Wrestling
27 Celebrity Theater
49 Movie-The Lost Trail (Johnny Mack Brown)

1PM
3 Movie-Along The Rio Grande (Tim Holt)
5 Movie-Riders Of The Range-1942 (Bob Steele)
8 Lone Ranger
21-35 Movie-TBA
27 Gene Autry

1:30
8-49 Rex Humbard

2PM
3-12-21 NBA Basketball-Minneapolis Lakers at NY Knicks
5 New Horizons-Industry
8-27-35 NHL Hockey-Detroit at Boston (Bruins win 5-3)
49 Bowling Stars

2:30
5 Movie-Old Chisolm Trail (Johnny Mack Brown)
49 Medical Society-Public Service

3PM
45 Film Drama
49 Movie-The Man From Utah (John Wayne)

3:30
5 All-Star Golf
45 Film Drama

4PM
3 Through The Hooping Glass (cute)
21 Popcorn Party-Kids
45-49 All-Star Golf

4:15
12 Civil Defense-Public Service

4:30
3-21 Horse Race-Royal Palm Handicap from Hialeah
5-27 College Basketball-Jack Drees Iowa at Minnesota
8 Bandstand-Phil McLean
12 All-Star Golf
35 New Horizons

5PM
3 Meet Corliss Archer
21 Popeye
35 Man To Man-Religion
45 Movie-TBA
49 Movie-Ghost and Mrs. Muir 1947

5:15
35 Off To Adventure

5:30
3 TV Auction Party-Big Wilson
8 Frontier
12 Chalk it Up-Religion
35 Little Rascals
45 Film Drama

6PM
3 Mr. Wizard
5 Bowling Stars
8 Hawkeye
12 Rin Tin Tin
27 News, Sports
35 Movie-TBA
45 Travel Time

6:30
3 Lights, Camera, Questions
8 Annie Oakley
12 Broken Arrow-ABC
21 Get Set, Go!

6:45
5 Liberace
45 Our Miss Brooks

7PM
3 City Detective
5 Jamboree
8 Charlie Chan
12 Navy Log-ABC
21 Rumpus Room
27 Range Rider
45 Teen Time
49 Movie-Summer Holiday 1947

7:20
27 Ohio Story

7:30
3-12-21 People Are Funny-Art Linkletter
5-45 Keep It In The Family
8-27-35 Perry Mason

8PM
3-12-21 Pery Como-Color
5-45 Country Music Jubilee

8:30
8-27-35 Dick and The Duchess
49 Country Music Jubilee

9PM
3-12-21 Polly Bergen Show
5-45-49 Lawrence Welk
8-27-35 Oh! Susanna

9:30
3-12-21 Gisele McKenzie
8-35 Have Gun Will Travel
27 My Little Margie (You could say WKBN-27 had The Gale Storm Hour)

10PM
3-12-21 End Of The Rainbow
5-45 Mike Wallace
8-27-35 Gunsmoke
49 Movie-Parnell 1937

10:30
3-12-21 Your Hit Parade-Color
5 Four Star Theater
8 Silent Service
27 News Tonight
35 Championship Bowling
45 Movie-TBA

10:40
27 Movie-Lloyds of London 1936

11PM
3 News-Jay Miltner
5 Movie-The Whistler 1944
8 News-Jim Doney
12 Star Performance
21 Sports. Weather

11:05
3 Sports-Johnny Bell

11:10
3 Movie-Cry Havoc 1943
8 Sports-Doug Adair

11:15
8 Weather-Scotty Armstrong
21 Championship Bowling

11:30
12 Movie-The Wolf Man 1941
27 Wrestling
35 Movie-Footlight Serenade 1942
49 Movie-Laugh Your Blues Away 1943

12:15
21 Movie-The Caribbean Mystery 1945

12:30
3 News-Pete French

12:30
3 Movie-Betrayal Of The East

1AM
5 News-Court Stanton
8 Movie-The Mask Of Dijon 1946

Monday, January 27, 1958

7AM
3-12-21 Today-Dave Garroway

7:55
8 Morning Meditation

8AM
8-27 Captain Kangaroo

8:45
8 Mr. Banjo-Davey Herbert
27 Cartoon Carnival

8:55
3 News-Tom Haley
5 News-Court Stanton
12 Your Church-Religion

9AM
3 Movie (Cash On The Line)-The First Hundred Years 1938-Tom Haley
5 Fun Farm
12 Movie-TBA
21 Adelaide Snyder
27-35 Captain Kangaroo

9:15
8 Susie-Ann Sothern

9:30
5 Paige Palmer

9:45
27-35 CBS News-Richard C. Hottelet

9:55
8 News-Doug Adair

10AM
8-27-35 Garry Moore
12-21 Arlene Francis

10:15
5 Movie-Doorway To Suspicion 1954

10:25
3 Window-Women

10:30
3-12-21 Treasure Hunt-Jan Murray
8-27-35 Arthur Godfrey

11AM
3-12-21 Price Is Right-Bill Cullen

11:30
3-12-21 Truth Or Consequences-Bob Barker
5 Liberace
8-27-35 Dotto-Jack Narz-In its fourth daytime week-The show that began suspicion that game shows may be fixed, though Narz himself was cleared of any wrongdoing

Noon
3-12-21 Tic Tac Dough-Gene Rayburn
5 News-Court Stanton
8-35 Hotel Cosmopolitan-serial
27 Cartoon Carnival

12:05
5 Noon Show Ron Penfound as Captain Penny

12:15
8-27-35 Love Of Life

12:30
3-12-21 It Could Be You-Bill Leyden
8-35 Search For Tomorrow
27 Movie-Appointment In Berlin-1943


12:45
8-35 Guiding Light

1PM
3 Movie-Wild Cargo 1934 Big Wilson
5 One O Clock Club-Dorothy Fuldheim
8 Movie-Glamour For Sale 1940
12 Tex and Jinx-Had been in radio since the 1940's. This was apparently their last TV series..
35 Hy Yaple-Women
49 Movie-Salute To The Marines-1943-Apparently a repeat from Sunday 9PM

1:15
21 Kitchen Corner-Marjorie Mariner

1:30
12 Howard Miller-Color
35 As The World Turns

2PM
5 Our Niss Brooks
21 Howard Miller-Color
27-35 Beat The Clock-Bud Collyer

2:15
8 Alice Weston-Debut

2:30
5 Stu Erwin
8-27-35 House Party-Art Linkletter
12-21 Kitty Foyle-serial

2:55
3 News-Pete French

3PM
3-12-21 Matinee Theater-Matinee Theater was normally in color, but today appears to be in B@W unless there was a mistake on TV Guide's part-"Soldier's Boy"
5-45 American Bandstand-Dick Clark
8-27-35 Big Payoff-Randy Merriman
49 Movie-Private Nurse 1941

3:30
5-45 Do You Trust Your Wife?-Johnny Carson (Later changed title to Who Do You Trust?)
8-27-35 Verdict Is Yours

4PM
3-12-21 Queen For A Day
5-45-49 American Bandstand
8-35 Brighter Day
27 Caroon Classics

4:15
8-27-35 Secret Storm

4:30
8-35 Edge Of Night
27 Colonel Bleep (With other cartoons I would think..Can't see 90 minutes straight of Colonel Bleep..)

49 Operation Blackboard

4:45
3-12-21 Modern Romances

5PM
3 Dear Phoebe-Peter Lawford sitcom-NBC
5-12-45 Superman-George Reeves
8 As The World Turns
21 Fun House Gang
35 Movie-The Return Of Daniel Boone 1941
49 Movie-Valley Of Fear Johnny Mack Brown

5:30
3 Popeye-Linn Sheldon as Barnaby
5-12-45 Mickey Mouse Club
8 Beat The Clock

5:45
21 Popeye

6PM
3 Six O Clock Adventure-Brave Eagle, followed by Sky King
5 Captain Penny
8 Action at Six
12 Candy Cane Lane
27 My Little Margie
35 Popeye
45 What's New For You?
49 Looney Tunes

6:10
45 Weather, News, Sports

6:30
5 Dorothy Fuldheim
8 News, Sports
12-21-27 News, Sports, Weather
35 Gene Autry

6:45
5 News-Tom Field
8-27 CBS News-Douglas Edwards
12-21 Huntley-Brinkley Report
45 Our Miss Brooks


6:55
3 News-Pete French
5 Weather-Bill Prentice
49 Weather,News

7PM
3 Frontier Doctor
5 Waterfront
8 Badge 714 (Dragnet)
12 Walter Winchell
21 Death Valley Days
27 State Trooper
35 Erieland Newsreel

7:15
35 CBS News
45-49 ABC News-John Daly

7:30
3-12-21 Price Is Right-Color
5 Meet Your Schools
8-27-35 Robin Hood
45 Duffy's Tavern
49 Movie-Adam Had Four Sons 1941 (also aired Sunday Jan. 26 at 1PM)

8PM
3-12-21 Restless Gun
5-45 Love That Jill
8 Burns and Allen
27 Studio 57
35 Amos 'N' Andy

8:30
3-12-21 Wells Fargo
5-45 Bold Jouirney
8-27-35 Talent Scouts-Arthur Godfrey

9PM
3-12-21 Twenty-One-Jack Barry
5-45-49 Voice Of Firestone-Howard Barlow
8-27-35 Danny Thomas

9:30
3-12-21 Alcoa Theater
5-45-49 Top Tunes-Lawrence Welk
8-27-35 December Bride

10PM
3-12-21 Suspicion
8-27-35 Studio One

10:30
5 Bob Cummings Show (NBC-Tuesday 9:30)
45 News Sports Weather
49 TV Auction Party

11PM
3 News-Pete French
5 News-Tom Field
8-27 News-Warren Guthrie
12-21-35 News, Sports, Weather
45 Confidential File
49 Movie-Broadway Melody of 1938 (1937)

11:10
3 Weather-Joe Finan
8 Sports-John Fitzgerald

11:15
3 Sports-Bob Neal
5 Tonight-Johnathan Winters
8 Weather-Ken Armstrong
27 Movie-Thirteen Rue Madeline 1946
35 Movie-Tight Shoes 1941

11:20
3 Movie-Idiot's Delight 1939
8 Movie-The Flanagan Boy English 1954
21 University Story

11:30
12 Wrestling-Buffalo
21 Tonight-Jonathan Winters
45 Travel Time-Documentary

1AM
5 News-Bill Prentice

Ken Goodman Weather-KYW-TV 3-1962, 1964

Ken Goodman Weather report slide-1962


KYW-TV Logo from 1961-63...The program promos for One Step Beyond and Biography feature this logo prominently..



Hello:
I mentioned in our last posting from December 30 that I hoped the coming year would bring more Vintage Cleveland TV Video to light..I honestly didnt think anything would come along this soon..Just found this on YouTube..A series of commercials and two late night weather forecasts by KYW-3's Ken Goodman from the 1962-64 era..Commercials included two Vernors spots and a White Rock Beverages ad..Along with two program promos for "One Step Beyond" and David L. Wolper's "Biography" shows. Some other thoughts:

The first Weather Forecast was sponsored by Sinclair Oil and the announcer was Jay Miltner..It was on a Sunday Night during the "Big Movie"..Goodman says to "Check With Dick Goddard" during the Noon Eyewitness News the next day about an arctic air mass coming through the Cleveland area..

The second (Saturday Night) weather report was sponsored by Vernors and I think I caught Ken saying "Stay tuned now for Gib (Shanley)" but the video cut off at "Gib"..While the video is clocked at 15:11, there are several blank spots..The video actually ends at around 14:00-14:30..Thanks to hhg on YouTube, who uploaded this in October 2010..Some of the video isnt in real good shape, but to have this at all is a real find..

Looking at Thanksgiving:Thursday November 28,1957...

Two pages of TV Guide Thursday, November 28, 1957...Including ads for Sgt. Preston, Climax! and Zorro


Gloria Brown "Window" ad-KYW.And an ad for "O Henry Playhouse" on WEWS



TV Highlights of Thanksgiving..Thursday, Nov. 28, 1957..

WEWS-Mr. Jingeling-second season for Santa's Chief Elf "Keeper of the Keys"..Sponsored by Halles Deptartment Store-10:10AM, 12:25 and 6:25PM
WEWS, WAKR JL Hudson Parade 10:15AM
WJW, WKBN NFL Football-Green Bay at Detroit Noon (same as 2009)
KYW, WFMJ College Football Texas at Texas A&M 2:15
KYW, WFMJ Ford Show-Tennessee Ernie Ford welcomes Charles Laughton 9:30PM
WEWS, WKST, WAKR Pat Boone-Guest Red Foley (Pat's Father-In-Law), Celeste Holm
9PM
KYW, WFMJ Rosemary Clooney-COLOR-Sisters Gail Stone and Betty Clooney and Brother Nick Clooney are guests-10PM

A bit surprisingly, Macy's Thanksgiving Parade isnt shown on the networks this year apparently..

TV Listings;
Thursday, November 28, 1957

Cleveland

KYW-3 NBC

7AM Today
8:55 News-Jay Miltner
9AM Cash On The Line-Tom Haley
Movie:The Overlanders English-1948
10:25 Window-Gloria Brown
10:30 Treasure Hunt-Jan Murray
11AM The Price Is Right-Cullen
11:30 Truth Or Consequences-Barker
Noon Tic Tac Dough
12:30 It Could Be You-Bill Leyden
1PM Movie-The Flame Within-1935
2PM Football Warmup
2:15 College Football-Texas/Texas A&M-Mel Allen, Bill Fleming
5PM Blondie
5:30 Popeye-Barnaby
6PM Six O Clock Adventure-Soldiers of Fortune
6:55 News-Pete French
7PM Death Valley Days
7:30 Tic Tac Dough-COLOR
8PM Groucho Marx
8:30 Dragnet
9PM People's Choice
9:30 Ford Show/Tennessee Ernie Ford
10PM Rosemary Clooney-COLOR
10:30 Sherriff of Cochise
11PM News-Pete French
11:10 Weather-Joe Finan
11:15 Sports-Bob Neal
11:20 Jungle-Cesare
11:30 Movie-Strange Interlude-1932
1:30 News-Pete French

WEWS-5 ABC

8:55 News-Bill Prentice
9AM Fun Farm
9:30 Paige Palmer
10:10 Mr. Jingeling-Max Ellis
10:15 JL Hudson Parade-Jimmie Dodd hosts
11AM Film Drama
11:30 Telecourse-Western Reserve Univ.
Noon News-Court Stanton
12:05 Captain Penny Noon Show-Ron Penfound
12:25 Mr. Jingeling
12:30 Noon Show Continues
1PM One O Clock Club-Dorothy Fuldheim
2PM Stu Erwin Show
2:30 Bamberger's Thanksgiving Parade-SPECIAL
3PM American Bandstand
3:30 Do You Trust Your Wife?
4PM American Bandstand
4:45 Santa's Toyland Party
5PM Woody Woodpecker
5:30 Mickey Mouse Club
6PM Kit Carson
6:25 Mr. Jingeling
6:30 News-Dorothy Fuldheim
6:45 Weather-Bill Prentice
6:50 Sports-Ron Penfound, Paul Wilcox
7PM O'Henry Playhouse
7:30 Circus Boy
8PM Zorro
8:30 Real McCoys
9PM Pat Boone
9:30 O.S.S
10PM Navy Log
10:30 Star Performance
11PM News-John B. Hughes
11:15 Tonight-Jack Paar
1AM News-BillPrentice

WJW-TV 8 CBS
7AM Jimmy Dean
7:45 CBS News-Richard C. Hottelet
8AM Captain Kangaroo
8:45 Good Idea-Variety-Including "Amos and Andy"
10AM Garry Moore
10:30 Arthur Godfrey
11:30 Strike It Rich-Warren Hull
Noon NFL Football-Green Bay At Detroit-Bob Kelly, Joe Boland
3PM What's New In Fashion?
3:30 The Verdict Is Yours
4PM The Brighter Day
4:15 Secret Storm
4:30 Edge Of Night
5PM As The World Turns (delay)
5:30 Beat The Clock-Bud Collyer(delay)
6PM Action At Six
6:40 Cleveland Today
6:45 CBS News-Douglas Edwards
7PM Hawkeye
7:30 Sgt. Preston
8PM Harbourmaster
8:30 Climax!
9:30 Playhouse 90
11PM News-Warren Guthrie
11:10 Sports-John Fitzgerald
11:15 Weather-Ken Armstrong
11:20 Movie-Brigham Young-1940
12:45 Movie-Black Midnight-1949

Youngstown

WFMJ-TV 21 NBC

7AM Today
9AM Adelaide Snyder
10AM Arlene Francis
10:30 Treasure Hunt-Jan Murray
11AM The Price Is Right-Cullen
11:30 Truth Or Consequences-Barker
Noon Tic Tac Dough
12:30 It Could Be You-Bill Leyden
1PM To Be Announced
1:15 Kitchen Corner-Marjorie Mariner
2PM Football Warmup
2:15 College Football-Texas/Texas A&M-Mel Allen, Bill Fleming
5PM Fun House Gang
5:45 Popeye
6:30 News
6:45 Huntley/Brinkley
7PM Hawkeye
7:30 Tic Tac Dough-COLOR
8PM Groucho Marx
8:30 Dragnet
9PM People's Choice
9:30 Ford Show/Tennessee Ernie Ford
10PM Rosemary Clooney-COLOR
10:30 Jane Wyman
11PM News
11:20 Living Word
11:30 Tonight-Jack Paar

WKBN-TV 27 CBS

7AM Jimmy Dean
7:45 CBS News-Richard C. Hottelet
8AM Captain Kangaroo
8:45 Cartoon Classics
9AM Captain Kangaroo (listed twice-don't know why)
10AM Garry Moore
10:30 Arthur Godfrey
11:30 Strike It Rich-Warren Hull
Noon NFL Football-Green Bay At Detroit-Bob Kelly, Joe Boland
3PM Big Payoff-Randy Merriman, Bess Myerson
3:30 The Verdict Is Yours
4PM The Brighter Day
4:15 Cartoon Classics
4:30 Grizzly Pete
6PM My Little Margie
6:30 News
6:45 CBS News-Douglas Edwards
7PM Dr. Hudson
7:30 Sgt. Preston
8PM Harbourmaster
8:30 Climax!
9:30 Playhouse 90
11PM News-Warren Guthrie
11:10 To Be Announced
11:15 Movie-The Missing Juror-1944

New Castle, Pa.

WKST-45 ABC

3PM American Bandstand
3:30 Do You Trust Your Wife?
4PM American Bandstand
5PM Woody Woodpecker
5:30 Mickey Mouse Club
6PM News
6:45 Kingdom Of The Sea
7:15 ABC News-John Daly
7:30 Circus Boy
8PM Zorro
8:30 Real McCoys
9PM Pat Boone
9:30 Janet Dean
10PM Navy Log
10:30 News
11PM Sherlock Holmes
11:30 Film Drama

Akron
WAKR-TV 49 ABC (No titles for Ch. 49 Movies)

10:15 JL Hudson Parade
11AM Movie
1PM Movie
2:30 Movie
4PM Operation Blackboard
4:30 American Bandstand
5PM Movie-Western
6PM Looney Tunes
6:40 Sports/Weather/News
7:15 ABC News-John Daly
7:30 Movie
8:50 Ohio Story
9PM Pat Boone
9:30 Movie
11PM Movie

I hope everybody is having a good and safe Thanksgiving..

Cleveland Broadcasting Heritage Museum

Since I've had access to the Internet on a regular basis..Over 10 years or so, Ive learned a great deal about the fine Museums in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago that celebrate Television and Radio Heritage..I always thought, with Cleveland's radio history, there should be something similar, albeit on a smaller scale, for Cleveland and Northeast Ohio..

In the last several months, Jim Davison has opened such a museum at the Colonial Arcade, 530 Euclid Avenue in Downtown Cleveland, filled with memorabilia of Radio in Cleveland, mostly from the top 40 era, but also dating as far back as the 1930's. The Museum is located in the basement of the Colonial Arcade, sharing space with the Baseball Heritage Museum.

From a late January visit to the Museum, here are pictures of some of the exhibits:





Early Poster of Alan Freed's "Moondog" Show on WJW Radio..sponsored by "Record Rendezvous"



KYW-1100 Poster with pictures of the airstaff..This would be around 1963-65..


WJW-85 Welcome sign, with a WDOK 102.1 T-shirt, among other items..


Full Page Ad of Bill Randle of WERE-1300 from a Trade Magazine in the 1950's..



Vintage 1960's WCRF-FM Microphone..



1947 WGAR "Range Riders" Calendar


From 2 different eras..a 1944 Presidential Election Poster from WTAM and What I believe are some 1970's pictures of the WGAR Air Staff..


WTAM program schedule from the early 1950's. Johnny Andrews is featured here on the "Morning Bandwagon" Jay Miltner was a featured singer in the WTAM Orchestra before becoming an icon as WNBK/KYW/WKYC announcer for over 30 years..

Uncle Jake Record from Gene Carroll's early days at WEWS. While he had been known as half of comedy duo Gene and Glenn on NBC Radio in the 1930's..Few realize Carroll played Lena the Maid on NBC Radio's Fibber McGee and Molly in part of the 1946-47 season..

These are just a few of the exhibits. The Museum is generally open 11AM-1:30PM Monday-Friday and Admission is free..

Friday, December 6, 1957

Early KYW-TV ad for Popeye Cartoons with Barnaby...Only having premiered a couple months before..As I said earlier in these pages, Popeye was aired continuously on Channel 3 from 1957-mid 1970's at least..

WJW-TV ad for the Syndicated"Last of the Mohicans" airing twice a week..Unusual for 1957..

A Pair of ad for part of the November-December 1957 CBS Lineup-Friday Nights-Trackdown at 8PM and Schlitz Playhouse of Stars at 9:30..

TV Guide:Ad for the "Voice of Firestone"Muisc/Opera/Fine Arts series..Originally on NBC Radio and Television from 1928-54..One of the few "highbrow" music series to have a long run on network TV..After it's cancellation by ABC in 1958, Firestone returned to ABC in Fall 1962 Sundays at 10PM but was cancelled again permanently in 1963.

Today we'll take a look at what was aired on my birthday, and during the week of November 30-December 6, 1957. just for the fun of it, (as all of this is, actually) something we did last year, highlighting 1960..This time, we will be looking at my avtual birth date in Canton, Ohio 12-6-57..

Editors Note:I do apologize for the not-so-good quality of the ads presented here. Quality of microfilm of early Magaines from Cleveland Public Library can be spotty at best, which is where I get most of my TV Guide listings from 1953-58....Sometimes you can only do so much with it..You can click any of the ads to read them a little better..

Weekday notes:

CBS-TV was trying to find a program to somewhat compete with the first hour of "Today"..In December 1957 Jimmy Dean held forth in the 7-8 AM hour with country music and variety..

WJW-TV had a Variety Show called "Good Idea", which aired from 8:45-10AM (Capt. Kangaroo was only 45 minutes in length).."Good Idea" was a program with guest interviews and music wrapped around syndicated sitcoms such as The Goldbergs, Halls of Ivy and Amos n Andy.

At 8:55 AM KYW-TV had a news break with Jay Miltner

Also at 8:55, WEWS had a news break with Court Stanton on Monday and Wednesday, and Bill Prentice Tuesday, Thursday and Friday..

News Crews:

Weekdays:

KYW:

News Pete French 6:55 and 11PM

Weather:Joe Finan 11:10

Sports:Bob Neal 11:15

WEWS

News-Court Stanton Noon

Dorothy Fuldheim 6:30 PM

John B. Hughes 11PM

Sports:Ron Penfound, Paul Wilcox 6:50 PM

Weather:Bill Prentice 6:45 PM

WJW

6:40 Cleveland Today-No anchors listed

News:

Warren Guthrie 11PM-Sohio Reporter

Sports

John Fitzgerald 11:10
Weather

Scotty Armstrong 11:15

Weekend

KYW

News Jay Miltner

Sports Johnny Bell

(Saturday only-No Sunday newscasts-Movie at 10:30 PM)

WJW

News-Jim Doney

Sports-Jim Graner and Doug Adair (rotated Satrurdays and Sundays)

WEWS

No weekend newscasts

Captain Penny's Fun Farm was on at 9AM on Channel 5..As well as Mr. Jingeling at 12:25 and 6:25 PM

NBC actually had a couple of Color afternoon programs Howard Miller (WFMJ-21) at 1PM and Matinee Theatre, a Five-a-week series of original teleplays..Very ambitious for afternoon programming..

"Ohio Story" a series of 10 minute shows on Ohio's History and development, aired at 3:50 PM Sundays on Channel 3..and 8:50 PM Thursdays on Channel 49.

Friday December 6, 1957

TV Guide Cleveland Edition..

Cleveland

KYW-3 NBC

7AM Today

8:55 News-Jay Miltner

9AM Cash On The Line-Tom Haley

Movie:Friends and Lovers-1931

10:25 Window-Women
10:30 Treasure Hunt-Jan Murray

11AM Price Is Right-Bill Cullen

11:30 Truth Or Consequences-Bob Barker

Noon Tic Tac Dough
12:30 It Could Be You-Bill Leyden

1PM Movie-The Secret Heart-1940

2:25 Window-Women

2:30 Bride And Groom

3PM Matinee Theatre-COLOR

4PM Queen For A Day-Jack Bailey

4:45 Modern Romances

5PM Blondie

5:30 Popeye-Barnaby

6PM Six o'Clock Adventure-Various half hour syndicated shows

6:55 News-Pete French

7PM Studio 57

7:30 Saber Of London

8PM Court Of Last Resort

8:30 Life Of Riley

9PM M Squad

9:30 Thin Man

10PM Gillette Boxing

10:45 Red Barber-guest Branch Rickey

11PM News-Pete French

11:10 Weather-Joe Finan

11:15 Sports-Bob Neal

11:20 Jungle-Cesare

11:30 Movie-Julia Misbehaves-1948

1AM Movie-Bewitched-1945 (Mystery)

2:30 News-Pete French

WEWS-5 ABC

8:55 News-Bill Prentice

9AM Fun Farm-Ron Penfound

9:30 Paige Palmer

10AM Movie-Undercover-1943

11:30 Telecourse

Noon News-Court Stanton

12:05 Capt. Penny Noon Show-Ron Penfound

12:25 Mr. Jingeling-Max Ellis

12:30 Capt. Penny

1PM One O Clock Club-Dorothy Fuldheim, Bill Gordon

2:30 Beulah

3PM American Bandstand

3:30 Do You Trust Your Wife?-Johnny Carson

4PM American Bandstand

4:45 Santa's Toyland Party

5PM Buccaneers

5:30 Mickey Mouse Club

6PM Capt. Penny-This appears to be the first week of the evening show..started Monday December 2, 1957

6:25 Mr. Jingeling
6:30 Dorothy Fuldheim

6:45 Weather-Bill Prentice

6:50 Sports-Paul Wilcox, Ron Penfound

7PM Foreign Legionnaire

7:30 Rin Tin Tin

8PM Jim Bowie

8:30 Patrice Munsell-Music

9PM Frank Sinatra

9:30 Date With The Angels-Betty White

10PM Colt 45

10:30 Diamond Playhouse
11PM News-John B. Hughes

11:15 Tonight-Jack Paar-NBC
1AM News-Court Stanton

WJW-8 CBS

7AM Jimmy Dean
7:45 CBS News Richard C. Hottelet

8AM Captain Kangaroo

8:45 Good Idea-Variety

10AM Garry Moore

11:30 Strike It Rich-Warren Hull

Noon Hotel Cosmopolitan-Soap

12:15 Love Of Life

12:30 Search For Tomorrow

12:45 Guiding Light

1PM Movie-Within These Walls-1945

2:30 House Party-Linkletter

3PM Big Payoff-Randy Merriman/Bess Myerson

3:30 Verdict Is Yours

4PM Brighter Day
4:15 Secret Storm

4:30 Edge Of Night

5PM As The World Turns

5:30 Beat The Clock

6PM Action At Six-Kids

6:40 Cleveland Today

6:45 CBS News-Douglas Edwards

7PM Victory At Sea

7:30 Leave It To Beaver

8PM Trackdown

8:30 Zane Grey Theater

9PM Mr. Adams and Eve

9:30 Schlitz Playhouse

10PM The Lineup

10:30 Person To Person

11PM News-Warren Guthrie

11:10 Sports-John Fitzgerald

11:15 Weather-Scotty Armstrong

11:20 Movie-Everything Happens at Night -1939

12:45 Movie- The Man Who Walked Alone-1945

Youngstown

21-WFMJ NBC

7AM Today

9AM Adelaide Snyder

10AM Arlene Francis
10:30 Treasure Hunt-Jan Murray

11AM Price Is Right-Bill Cullen
11:30 Truth Or Consequences-Bob Barker

Noon Tic Tac Dough

12:30 It Could Be You- Bill Leyden

1PM To Be Announced

1:15 Kitchen Corner-Mariner

2PM Howard Miller-COLOR

3PM Matinee Theatre-COLOR

4PM Queen For A Day

4:45 Modern Romances

5PM Fun House Gang

5:30 Popeye

6PM Sky King

6:30 News

6:45 Huntley-Brinkley

7PM Foreign Legionnaire

7:30 Saber Of London
8PM Court Of Last Resort
8:30 Life Of Riley
9PM M Squad
9:30 Thin Man
10PM Gillette Boxing
10:45 Red Barber-guest Branch Rickey
11PM News
11:20 This Concers You
11:30 Tonight-Jack Paar


WKBN-27 CBS

7AM Jimmy Dean
7:45 CBS News
8AM Captain Kangaroo
8:45 Cartoon Classics
9AM Captain Kangaroo
9:45 Cartoon Classics
10AMGarry Moore
11:30 Strike It Rich
Noon Cartoon Carnival
12:15 Love Of Life
12:30 Movie-Laugh Your Blues Away-1943
2PM Beat The Clock
2:30 House Party
3PM Big Payoff
3:30 Verdict Is Yours
4PM Cartoon Classics
4:15 Secret Storm
4:30 Grizzly Pete
6PM My Little Margie
6:30 News
6:45 CBS News
7PM The Crusader
7:30 Leave It To Beaver
8PM Trackdown
8:30 Zane Grey Theater
9PM Mr. Adams and Eve
9:30 Schlitz Playhouse
10PM The Lineup
10:30 Person To Person
11PM News-Warren Guthrie
11:15 Movie-The Raven 1935



WKST -45 ABC

3PM American Bandstand
3:30 Do You Trust Your Wife
4PM American Bandstand
5PM Buccaneers
5:30 Mickey Mouse Club
6PM News
6:45 Flash Gordon
7:15 ABC News-John Daly
7:30 Rin Tin Tin
8PM Jim Bowie

8:30 Patrice Munsell
9PM Frank Sinatra
9:30 Date With Rge Angels
10PM Colt 45
10:30 News, Weather, Sports
11PM Duffy's Tavern
11:30 Film Drama

Akron

WAKR-49 ABC

2:30 Movie-Twist Of Fate-English/1954
4PM Operation Blackboard
4:30 American Bandstand
5PM Movie-ShadownOf Death
6PM Looney Tunes
6:40 Sports, Weather, News
7:15 ABC News-John Daly
7:30 Movie-Conquest-1937
9:30 Date With The Angels
10PM Movie-Beachhead-1953


To conclude, I want to thank WIXY Grad for the kind Birthday greetings on his blog..Most of our next few blogs will focus on Christmas Season..My favorite time of the year..

WNBK-Early 1950's..

From TV Today January 1953:"Impact Television" ad for the 6-7PM weeknight WNBK offerings, including Tom Manning, who goes back to the 1930's at WTAM/WNBK

From December, 1952 TV Today:Ad for the "Ladies Shows" on WNBK-TV. Mildred and Gloria were also on WTAM Radio for a number of years..Gloria Brown was at channel 4, then channel 3 until the early 60's..

Full 2-Page TV Guide ad from 1953 showing the nightly at 6PM westerns block on WNBK-4. In the early years of television, western shorts were a staple of programming on just about all channels.

Second of a series on WKYC-TV's 60th anniversary..focusing more on the early 1950's.

As we said earlier, The first early-morning TV programming in Cleveland premiered January 14, 1952, with the debut of Dave Garroway's Today Show on NBC..Channel 4 was becoming established as Cleveland's "Community Station" with a lot of local programming..News was still an afterthought, with only Camel News Caravan and a five minute report at 6:45 and 11PM weeknights. Most everything was live, as announcers like Jay Miltner and Tom Haley did some newsbreaks and hosted shows throughout the weekdays at Channel 4..

Below is the programming schedule for April 19-25, 1952 for WNBK..About a year before upping their power and changing from Channel 4 to Channel 3..

Saturday, April 19, 1952

2PM Zorro Rides Again
2:30 Robinson Crusoe
3PM Red Ryder-Series
4PM Hopalong Cassidy
5PM Wild Bill Hickok
5:30 Youth Wants to Know
6PM Cisco Kid
6:30 WNBK Presents
7PM Lone Ranger
7:30 One Man's Family
8PM All Star Revue-Jimmy Durante, Bette Davis
9PM Your Show of Shows
10:30 Your Hit Parade
11PM Celluloid Playhouse
Midnight News
12:15 Dagmar's Canteen

Sunday, April 20, 1952

Noon NBC Symphony
1PM Frontiers of Faith
1:30 American Inventory
2PM Battle Report (Korea)
2:30 American Forum of the Air
3PM Fairmeadows USA-Serial
3:30 TV Recital Hall
4PM Meet The Press
4;30 To Be Announced
5PM Zoo Parade
5:30 Meet the Masters-Music
6PM Roy Rogers
6:30 Magic Gate
7PM Royal TV Showcase
7:30 Young Mr. Bobbin
8PM Colgate Comedy Hour
9PM Philco Television Playhouse
10PM Red Skelton
10:30 To Be Announced
11PM Feature Film-Mainline Theatre
Midnight World News

Daily-Monday-Friday April 21-25, 1952

7AM Today-According to TV Today, including national and local segments by Tom Haley, Today was three hours long..I suspect the Haley segments were called "Ohio Today" and the 9-10 hour was hosted by Haley in Cleveland-This was Today's fourth month on the air..

10AM Home Cooking-Louise Winslow
10:30 Winner Take All-Bill Cullen
11AM Charming Children
11:30 It's A Problem-Discussion
Noon Ruth Lyons' 50 Club- Brief NBC National version of what became a Cincinnati Institution..
12:30 Idea Shop-Mildred (Funnell) and Gloria (Brown)
1PM One O Clock Playhouse
2:30 Living Fashion-Maggie Byrne
3PM Big Payoff-Randy Merriman, Bess Myerson
3:30 Ralph Edwards
4PM Kate Smith Hour
5PM Hawkins Falls
5:15 Gabby Hayes
5:30 Howdy Doody
6PM Buckskin Billy
6:45 Today's News
6:50 Around The House-Ken Ward
7PM Kukla Fran and Ollie

7:15 MWF-Goldbergs
Tuesday-Bob and Ray
Thursday-Ilka Chase

7:30 MWF Those Two
TTh Dinah Shore

7:45 Camel News Caravan-John Cameron Swayze

Prime Time
Monday April 21, 1952

8PM Paul Winchell
8:30 Voice Of Firestone
9PM Lights Out
9:30 Robert Montgomery Presents
10:30 Who Said That-Quiz
11PM Front Page News
11:05 Sports Scene
11:10 Hollywood Theatre
Midnight-Final Edition

Tuesday, April 22, 1952

8PM Texaco Star Theater-Milton Berle
9PM Fireside Theatre
9:30 Armstrong Circle Theatre
10PM Original Amateur Hour-Ted Mack
10:45 Bob Considine
11PM Front Page News
11:05 Sports Scene
11:10 Hollywood Theatre
Midnight Final Edition

Wednesday April 23, 1952

8PM Kate Smith Evening Hour
9PM Kraft Television Theatre
10PM Your Prize Story
10:30 WNBK Presents Speak Up
11PM Front Page News
11:05 Sports Scene
11:10 Hollywood Theatre
Midnight-Final Edition

Thursday April 24, 1952

8PM You Bet Your Life
8:30 Treasury Men in Actiom
9PM Dragnet On TV (How it was listed)
9:30 James Melton
10PM Martin Kane, Private Eye
10:30 TV Star Spotlight
11PM Front Page News
11:05 Sports Scene
11:10 Hollywood Theatre
Midnight-Final Edition

Friday, April 25, 1952


8PM Ezio Pinza
8:30 We, The People
9PM Big Story
9:30 Aldrich Family
10PM Gilette Cavalcade of Sports-Boxing
10:45 Greatest Fights
11PM Front Page News
11:05 Teleplay
11:35 Hollywood Theatre
Midnight-Final Edition


From Channel 3:50 Golden Years:Features on the early days of live TV with Tom Haley and host Del Donahoo..Carrying over to the Westinghouse Years..Material Copyright National Broadcasting Company, Westinghouse and Gannett

Our final 2 posts of this series will be Encore postings of earlier KYW/WKYC articles to round out the 60 year WKYC series..Also soon I will have a Ghoulardifest review and a Big Chuck! Book review..

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

Channel 3 in Cleveland-60 years old in 2008.

On October 31, 2008 WKYC-TV Channel 3 will celebrate their 60th anniversary on the air. While I would hope personally that Gannett would be planning an appropriate celebration, I'd like to begin the celebration a bit early..

In learning how to use YouTube, I have tried different software to edit videos..Been using Windows Movie Maker to make most of the things I have on YouTube..Thought Once again I would try something different..A Slideshow History of WKYC-TV..


Using the 35th Anniversary Video I featured awhile back with the 50's-60's vintage Audio clips from Jerry Immel, I have created a 5-minute slideshow featuring Faces, logos and ID's Through the History of TV 3 up to 1983..One problem..There is only between 3-4 minutes of slides and 5 minutes of audio..

Featured either in audio or video/slide form:

Linn Sheldon
Clay Conroy
Bud Dancy
Jim Graner
Wally Kinnan
Virgil Dominic
Doug Adair
Pete French
Jay Miltner
David Hawthorne
Gordon Ward
Tom Field
Mile Douglas
Jerry G. Bishop
Del Donahoo
Mona Scott
Dave Patterson
Judd Hambrick

Jay Miltner-WKYC-TV Sign-Off June 1976

WKYC-TV3, Cleveland - Sign-Off, mid-1976
Uploaded by tvnut

Again from tvnut..Repost Of WKYC-TV sign-off from 1976 with veteran announcer Jay Miltner-He was with WKYC/KYW/WNBK and WTAM before that-From 1948-The mid 1980's at least..Probably the most familiar announcing voice in Cleveland TV History..We see a snippet of the end of "Credo"..WKYC's interfaith "Thought for the day" program which ran from the 60's into the 80's..

Cleveland TV:August 1957 (Conclusion)

Creative Ad for the Linn Sheldon hosted Movie Package on WJW-TV 8..TV Guide February, 1957..Just months before Debuting "Barnaby" at KYW-TV 3


TV Guide Ad for "The Ford Show" Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford on Channel 3 and 21-February 1957


TV Guide Ad for WJW-CBS/Playhouse 90..February 1957


We conclude our look at August 1957 today by taking a closer look at Monday, August 5. Ron Penfound ws doing the "Noon Show" as Captain Penny on WEWS Channel 5, Not long after starting what would be a 14 year run (to 1971). Paige Palmer was on at 9:30..Tom Haley was hosting a weekday morning movie with "Cash on the Line" at KYW-TV 3. and earlier in 1957 Linn Sheldon was hosting a late afternoon movie on WJW-TV 8, very shortly before moving across to Channel 3 to begin his long stint as "Barnaby"..Possibly the most loved Childres's host ever in Cleveland..Network shows included Lawrence Welk's Top Tunes (ABC), Robin Hood and Burns and Allen (CBS) Arthur Murray and Ted Mack's Amateur Hour on NBC..Syndicated Shows included Frontier Doctor (Channel 3)Get Set, Go (49) Badge 714 (21) Stu Erwin (5) and Susie (Private Secretary) (5)

Schedule-Monday August 5, 1957

KYW-3 NBC Cleveland

7AM Today-Garroway-Among the Guests in-studio is Cleveland Indians Pitcher Herb Score, weeks (May 7) after being injured in the eye from a Line Drive from the New York Yankees' Gil Mc Dougald.

8:55 News-Jay Miltner
9AM-Cash on the Line Movie-Tom Haley-The Bamboo Blonde
10AM Home-Arlene Francis
10:30 Window-Women
10:45 Home-Conclusion
11AM Price Is Right-Cullen
11:30 Truth Or Consequences-Barker
Noon Tic Tac Dough
12:30 It Could be You
1PM Movie-Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men-1933
2:30 Bride And Groom
3PM Matinee Theatre-COLOR
4PM Queen For A Day
4:45 Modern Romances
5PM Open Cameras-Variety
5:30 Meet Corliss Archer
6PM Six-O-Clock Adventure
6:55 News-Tom Field
7PM Frontier Doctor
7:30 Georgia Gibbs
7:45 Huntley/Brinkley NBC News
8PM Charles Farrell
8:30 Action Tonight
9PM 21
9:30 Arthur Murray-COLOR
10PM Ted Mack's Amateur Hour
10:30 State Trooper
11PM News-Tom Field
11:10 Weather-Specs Howard (DJ on KYW-1100)
11:15 Sports-Bob Neal
11:20 Jungle-Animal Series
11:30 Movie-Outcasts of Poker Flat-1937
1AM News-Tom Field

WEWS-5 ABC Cleveland

8:55 News-Court Stanton
9AM Fun Farm-Captain Penny
9:30 Paige Palmer
10AM Movie-Penny Paradise
11:25 Liberace
11:55 News-Court Stanto
Noon Noon Show-Captain Penny
1PM Stu Erwin
1:30 Susie
2PM Star Performance
2:30 Dateline Europe
3PM American Bandstand-DEBUT Guests:Chordettes, Billy Williams
4:30 Theater Five-Kids
5PM Mickey Mouse Club-Kids
6PM Long John Silver
6:30 News-Dorothy Fuldheim
6:45 Weather- Bill Prentice
6:50 News-Paul Wilcox, Ron Penfound(Sports may have been here too)
7PM Waterfront
7:30 Wire Service
8:30 Bold Journey
9PM Quest For Adventure (ABC Presents)
9:30 Top Tunes-Lawrence Welk
10:30 Boxing-St. Nicholas Arena-Chris Schenkel-Syndicated..Last show of the DuMont Network, carrying on in Syndication
11:15 News-John B. Hughes
11:30 Lonely Heart-DEBUT
"A Lovely Lady each night will present advice to the "lovelorn" in a rather pleasant surrounding"..(One can only imagine..for just 5 minutes yet)

11:35 Bowling Time--Sammy Levine
12:30 News-Bill Prentice

WJW-8 CBS Cleveland

7AM Jimmy Dean
7:45 CBS News-Richard C. Hottelet
8AM Captain Kangaroo
8:45 CBS News-Hottelet
9AM Kid-Bits-Davey Herbert
9:30 Your Town-Maggie Wulff, Linn Sheldon
10AM Fred Waring
10:30 Arthur Godfrey
11:30 Strike It Rich-Hull
Noon Valiant Lady
12:15 Love Of Life
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1PM Movie-Snafu-1946
2:30 House Party-Linkletter
3PM Big Payoff
3:30 Bob Crosby
4PM Brighter Day
4:15 Secret Storm
4:30 Edge Of Night
5PM As The World Turns
5:30 Our Miss Brooks
6PM Cartoon Carnival
6:40 Sports-John Fitzgerald
6:45 CBS News-Douglas Edwards
7PM You are There-Walter Cronkite
7:30 Robin Hood
8PM Burns And Allen
8:30 Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts
9PM Those Whiting Girls
9:30 Richard Diamond
10PM Studio One
11PM Warren Guthrie-Sohio Reporter
11:10 Sports-Fitzgerald
11:15 Weather-Ken Armstrong
11:20 Movie-Let Us Live-1939

WFMJ-21 NBC Youngstown

7AM Today-Garroway
9AM Adelaide Snyder-Women
10AM Home-Arlene Francis
11AM Price Is Right-Cullen
11:30 Truth Or Consequences-Barker
Noon Tic Tac Dough
12:30 It Could be You
1PM News
1:15 Kitchen Corner-Mariner
2PM Club 60-COLOR
2:30 Bride And Groom
3PM Matinee Theatre-COLOR
4PM Queen For A Day
4:45 Modern Romances
5PM Fun House Gang
5:45 Popeye
6:30 News, Sports
7PM Star Performance
7:30 Georgia Gibbs
7:45 Huntley/Brinkley NBC News
8PM Charles Farrell
8:30 Action Tonight
9PM 21
9:30 Arthur Murray-COLOR
10PM Ted Mack's Amateur Hour
10:30 Badge 714
11PM News, Weather, Sports
11:20 Speaking Of Animals
11:30 Tonight-Jack Paar

WKBN-27 CBS/ABC Youngstown

7AM Jimmy Dean
7:45 CBS News-Richard C. Hottelet
8AM Captain Kangaroo
8:45 Cartoon Classics
9AM Captain Kangaroo (again)
9:45 Cartoon Classics
10AM Movie-TBA
11:30 Strike It Rich-Hull
Noon Cartoon Carnival
12:15 Love Of Life
12:30 Playhouse
1PM News
1:10 Stand Up and Be Counted
1:30 Movie-Merrily We Live-1938
3PM Big Payoff
3:30 Grizzly Pete
5PM Mickey Mouse Club-ABC
6PM High Adventure
6:30 News, Sports
6:45 CBS News-Douglas Edwards
7PM Bold Journey-Mon. 8:30 ABC
7:30 Crossroads-Fri. 8:30 ABC
8PM Studio 57-Dyndicated
8:30 Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts
9PM Those Whiting Girls
9:30 Richard Diamond
10PM Studio One
11PM Warren Guthrie-Sohio Reporter
11:15 Movie-Crime Doctor's Hunt

WAKR-49 ABC Akron

1PM Movie-The Dark Man
2:30 Conrad Nagel-Drama
3PM American Bandstand-DEBUT
4:30 Flash Gordon
5PM Movie-Six-Gun Man
6PM Looney Tunes
6:40 Sports, Weather, News
7:15 ABC News-John Daly
7:30 Movie-Lost Moments
9PM Get Set, Go!
9:30 Top Tunes-Welk
10:30 TV Auction Tine
11PM Movie-Notorious

Comment:KYW-3 was carrying Tonight on delay in February 1957, but by August 1957, after Jack Paar began hosting Tonight had been dropped in favor of Movies on KYW. WEWS was not carrying "Tonight" in August..Presumably they started carrying Tonight in 1957 and would do so until fall 1965 when Tonight would return to NBC owned WKYC-TV 3. For a while in Cleveland, "The Tonight Show" was not being carried at all..

Listings courtesy TV Guide..Some information from the Brooks/Marsh Prime Time Directory