KRLD, Channel 4 (CBS)
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Morning
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06:50a
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07:00a
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The Morning Show
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07:55a
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Agricultural News
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08:00a
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Captain Kangaroo
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08:55a
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News
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09:00a
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Garry Moore
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09:30a
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Arthur Godfrey Time
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10:30a
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Strike It Rich
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11:00a
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Valiant Lady
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11:15a
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Love of Life
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11:30a
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Search for Tomorrow
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11.45a
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The Guiding Light
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Afternoon
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12:00p
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News
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12:05p
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TSCW Workshop
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12:30p
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Love Story
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01:00p
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Hair Fashions
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01:15p
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Robert Q. Lewis
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01:30p
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House Party (guest host Jack Slattery, guest Edith
Head)
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02:00p
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The Big Payoff
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02:30p
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Bob Crosby
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03:00p
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The Brighter Day
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03:15p
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The Secret Storm
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03:30p
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On Your Account
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04:00p
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Mary Carter’s Cookbook
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04:15p
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Tricks and Treats
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04:30p
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Variety Fair
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05:05p
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Space Adventures
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05:45p
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Douglas Edwards With the News
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Evening
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06:00p
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Weather,
Sports, News (local)
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06:30p
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Name That Tune
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07:00p
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Phil Silvers
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07:30p
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Navy Log
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08:00p
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Meet Millie
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08:30p
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I Led Three Lives
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09:00p
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The $64,000 Question
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09:30p
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Wrestling
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10:30p
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Famous Playhouse
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11:00p
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Boss Lady
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11:30p
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News Final
(local)
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Bob Crosby, bandleader and host of the eponymously-named show at 2:30pm, is the brother of Bing Crosby. But you probably knew that already.
WBAP, Channel 5 (NBC)
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Morning
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06:50a
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Let’s Go Fishing
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07:00a
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Sunup
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08:00a
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Kitty’s Wonderland
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09:00a
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Ding Dong School
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09:30a
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Ernie Kovacs
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10:00a
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The Home Show
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11:00a
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Texas Living (color)
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11:30a
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Beauty School (color)
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11.45a
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The Jones Place (color)
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Afternoon
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12:30p
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Ann Alden (color)
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12:45p
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Movie – “The
Women of the Town”
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02:00p
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Matinee Theater
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03:00p
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Date with Life
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03:15p
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Modern Romances
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03:30p
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Queen for a Day
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04:00p
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News, Weather
(local)
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04:15p
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Tricks and Treats
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05:00p
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Mickey Mouse Club
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Evening
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06:00p
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Annie Oakley
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06:30p
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Superman
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06:45p
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Camel News Caravan
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07:00p
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Bob Hope (guests Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Yana)
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08:00p
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Jane Wyman
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08:30p
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Armstrong Circle Theater
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09:30p
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Big Town
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10:00p
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News, Weather
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10:30p
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Racket Squad
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11:00p
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Tonight
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Ernie Kovacs, who hosts a 9:30am show, is no stranger to morning television. While working in Philadelphia in 1950, he hosted a 7:00 - 9:00am show on WPTZ called Three to Get Ready, the first early morning show in a major television market. The show was a major success for both Kovacs and WPTZ, and also served as inspiration for NBC's Today, which debuted about two years later. WPTZ was an NBC affiliate, as it happens, and they were eventually forced to cede the time to Today, forcing Ernie to another show.
KCEN, Channel 6 (Temple) (NBC)
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Morning
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06:55a
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Program
Previews
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07:00a
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Today (guest Mrs. Elizabeth Ives, sister of
Adlai Stevenson)
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09:00a
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Ding Dong School
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09:30a
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Ernie Kovacs
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10:00a
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The Home Show
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11:00a
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Tennessee Ernie Ford
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11:30a
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Feather Your Nest
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Afternoon
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12:00p
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Religion in Life
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12:15p
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RFD No. 6
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12:30p
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Movie –
“Undercover Agent”
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01:30p
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Cathy’s Corner
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02:00p
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Matinee Theater
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03:00p
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Hollywood Backstage
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03:15p
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Modern Romances
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03:30p
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Queen for a Day
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04:00p
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Pinky Lee
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04:30p
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Howdy Doody
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05:00p
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Tales of the West – “Rustler’s Hideout”
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Evening
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06:00p
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News, Weather (local)
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06:15p
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Eddy Arnold
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06:45p
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Camel News Caravan
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07:00p
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Bob Hope (guests Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Yana)
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08:00p
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Jane Wyman
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08:30p
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Texas in Review
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09:00p
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Sagebrush Serenade
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09:30p
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From Hollywood
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10:00p
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News, Weather,
Sports
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10:20p
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Late Date Theater – “Heat Wave”
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Following the Kovacs show is NBC's The Home Show, hosted by Arlene Francis, along with her sidekick, Hugh Downs. This makes Arlene another one of What's My Line?'s two-network stars, joining John Daly. For his part, Hugh was an NBC stalwart, later taking his sidekick role to late-night with Jack Paar, then becoming host of Today, and adding the game show Concentration to his portfolio. It isn't until the late '70s, after retiring from NBC and hosting Over Easy on PBS, that he moves to ABC to take over 20/20.
WFAA, Channel 8 (ABC)
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Morning
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06:55a
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Morning Devotional
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09:00a
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Romper Room
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10:00a
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Julie Bennell
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11:00a
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Tennessee Ernie Ford
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11:30a
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Feather Your Nest
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Afternoon
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12:00p
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News
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12:05p
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Magazine
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12:30p
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Movie –
“Village Barn Dance”
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01:30p
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Trouble with Father
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02:00p
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Afternoon Film Festival
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04:00p
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Pinky Lee
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04:30p
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Howdy Doody
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05:00p
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Kiddie Karnival
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05:30p
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Frontier Playhouse
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Evening
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06:00p
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News (Joe
Templeton)
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06:10p
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Weather
(Warren Culbertson)
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06:15p
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John Daly and the News
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06:30p
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Dinah Shore
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07:00p
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The Man Called X (debut)
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07:30p
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The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
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08:00p
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Danny Thomas
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08:30p
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Cavalcade Theater
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09:00p
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The Whistler
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09:30p
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Studio 57
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10:00p
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Final Edition News
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10:15p
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Weather
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10:30p
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Patti Page
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10:45p
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Playhouse 15
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11:00p
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Les Paul and Mary Ford
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11:05p
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Channel 8 Theater – “New Frontier”
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KFJZ, Channel 11 (Ind.)
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Afternoon
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02:30p
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Date with Drama
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03:00p
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Theater 11 – “Kid Monk Baroni”
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04:15p
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Loony Tunes
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04:30p
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Gene Autry Theater
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05:30p
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Looney Tunes
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Evening
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06:00p
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Range Rider
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06:30p
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News, Sports,
Weather (local)
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07:00p
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Looney Tunes
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07:10p
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The Little Rascals
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07:30p
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Million Dollar Movie – “Love Happy”
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08:55p
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News (Dan
Allison)
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09:00p
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Counterpoint
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09:30p
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City Detective
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10:00p
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News (Porter
Randall)
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10:30p
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Starlight Theater – “Dishonored Lady”
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KFJZ, the first independent television station in Texas, is now KTVT, a real tongue-twister until one gets used to it; I think it took me two years until I was able to get comfortable with not saying "KTTV" or something like that. It's also no longer an independent, but is now the CBS affiliate. Times change, don't they? TV
I've been back and forth between this post and my Chicago edition.
ReplyDeleteSeveral of the listings have me scratching my head:
- Dinah Shore did have a network show this week - on NBC, Tuesday and Thursday at 6:30 pm, for fifteen minutes, just before John Cameron Swayze's news.
This was NBC's format that season; Tony Martin had the slot on Monday, Eddie Fisher on Wednesday and Friday.
So what the heck is Dinah doing on the ABC station, in the right slot, but for a half-hour?
And in the hour wherein ABC is carrying Cheyenne?
- In a related story:
Why is the CBS station bypassing Red Skelton in favor of the syndicated I Led Three Lives?
My Chicago edition shows that Skelton's show was in color, but this was CBS's notorious "non-compatible" color system, which you needed special equipment to pick up. Could this be the reason for the Dallas bypass?
- Meanwhile, the NBC station is apparently showing Superman at 6:30, but for 15 minutes, just before the Swayze news.
You don't suppose ...
... maybe the Dallas printing plant switched the Superman and Dinah Shore lines, and Supes is on the ABC station and Dinah is on NBC?
Quick way to check: go to Thursday and see which station Dinah is on then.
Get back to us on that, OK?
- Channel 8's 6:00 news and weather:
Several years after this issue, Warren Culbertson brought his Weather By Radar to Channel 7 in Chicago (also an ABC station), where he held forth for about a decade.
About the time he left to go back to his native Oklahoma, news anchor Joe Templeton, who'd been the main anchor at the ABC station in Washington DC, came in to take over the main anchor chair at the selfsame Channel 7 in Chicago, to replace the network-bound Frank Reynolds. Templeton had a decent run in Chicago before giving way to Joel Daly and Fahey Flynn, and returning to Washington DC.
- ABC didn't have much of a daytime schedule in 1956.
The Afternoon Film Festival consisted of British movies from the J. Arthur Rank library, which ABC picked up at bargain prices in one of the first major sales of cinema product to US commercial TV.
ABC's only other network daytime show was Mickey Mouse Club.
Soon as I get home, I'll find out about the Dinah question. Nothing could be finer, right?
DeleteGreat comments, as usual. I wonder if you aren't right about the color on Skelton - I'll have to make sure I didn't miss anything.
Dinah's on channel 8 Thursday, as she was on Tuesday. Red Skelton's show on Monday night at 10pm in B&W. Don't you love these days?
DeleteTo answer your question, WFAA ran some NBC programming due to the fact that the signal of the NBC affiliate in Ft. Worth, WBAP-TV, didn't reach Dallas very well. That changed in 1957 when NBC threatened to pull the network unless WBAP built a new tower to better serve the entire DFW metroplex. Since that time, Channel 5's tower has been located in Dallas County at Cedar Hill - along with all the other TV and most radio station towers.
ReplyDeleteGood info, Chris. Do you live in DFW right now, or have you had some past experience with the area's television history? I'd love to learn more about it!
DeleteWFAA and WBAP both had radio stations that shared two frequencies until the early 1970's: 570 and 820 kilohertz. Both stations had relationships with the ABC and NBC radio networks.
Delete570 is a 5,000 watt station; 820 has 50,000 watts. During the day, both stations (according to Radio Locator.com) have about equal coverage areas. At night, 820 has a far larger signal area, covering much of the country.
Both stations had NBC and ABC affiliations, but with a twist: NBC was always on 820 (regardless of whether WBAP or WFAA was using it) while ABC was always on 570 (again, regardless of whether WBAP or WFAA was using it).
In the early 1970's, this arrangement ended. WFAA went full-time on 570 (and an affiliation with ABC's American Entertainment Radio Network), while WBAP went 24/7 on 820, as an NBC Radio Network affiliate.
Some years later, WFAA got out of radio and today, 570 is home to KLIF. WBAP still broadcasts on 820.