tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post1726206388748091499..comments2024-03-29T11:16:07.637-04:00Comments on It's About TV: This week in TV Guide: May 19, 1962Mitchell Hadleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08695771505209080030noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-724278723753829722016-05-17T19:25:14.625-04:002016-05-17T19:25:14.625-04:00Ah, I see I didn't look closely enough at the ...Ah, I see I didn't look closely enough at the clearance time: 2:30p, meaning that essentially no CBS programming was likely to have been bumped, and CBS was the primary network for WGAN, as your next post makes clear.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-31768424075510639362016-05-17T19:18:29.702-04:002016-05-17T19:18:29.702-04:00I shall have to look into WGAN, to see if it was a...I shall have to look into WGAN, to see if it was a primary or secondary affiliate of NTA Film Network (Susskind's network, in part, which picked up in some ways where Dumont and the Paramount Television Network left off)...in Portland, I would guess secondary. Though if so, I wonder what they bumped from the primary network feed to run THE PLAY OF THE WEEK...Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-76069877605326164322016-05-17T11:25:43.935-04:002016-05-17T11:25:43.935-04:00If you're my age, you might remember Movietime...If you're my age, you might remember <i>Movietime USA</i>.<br /><br />Circa 1956, RKO Radio Pictures, in need of cash to stay in business after Howard Hughes got bored and left the company busted, sold the TV rights to their entire film library to the C&C Super Corp., a Texas-based store chain.<br />C&C, in its turn, created the <i>Movietime USA</i> package, which they leased to stations <i>in perpetuity</i>.<br />Among the first buyers were the ABC owned-and-operated stations, including channel 7 here in Chicago.<br />So it was that I saw so many of the RKO classics, (<i>King Kong, Citizen Kane,</i> the Astaire-Rogers musicals, the John Ford westerns, Wheeler & Woolsey, et al.), all shorn of RKO's beeping tower logo; this was only restored when Ted Turner acquired the library when he was putting TCM together.<br /><br />By the way, not that it matters, but Lew Ayres's <i>Dr. Kildare</i> movies were made by MGM - which is also now the property of TCM.Mike Dorannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-19933793623022854232016-05-16T19:24:49.912-04:002016-05-16T19:24:49.912-04:00WNAC was owned by RKO General, and as a result, th...WNAC was owned by RKO General, and as a result, they had the exclusive TV rights in Boston to the RKO Radio Pictures library.<br /><br />WNAC did acquire films from other producers, but for a lot of years in the late 1950's and through the 1960's, many (if not most) of the movies they broadcast began with that rotating globe with a radio tower on the North Pole broadcasting lightning bolts while the animated letters "An RKO Radio Picture" drew themselves out on the screen, flanking the tower. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-32695025976690914602016-05-16T18:44:53.403-04:002016-05-16T18:44:53.403-04:00Daytime programming from 6 A.M. until about 5 P.M....Daytime programming from 6 A.M. until about 5 P.M. on Thursday, May 24th on network stations was pre-empted for coverage of the second U.S. manned orbital space flight, during which astronaut Scotti Carpenter orbited the earth there times.<br /><br />The launch was at 8:45 A.M. EDT, but network coverage ran so late because Carpenter landed 200 miles off-target, and the networks stayed on the air 'til he was safely on the recovery ship.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com