4 WBBM (CBS)
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9:00
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Arthur Godfrey Time—Variety
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10:00
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News At Ten—Late Report
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10:05
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There’s One in Every Family
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10:30
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Strike It Rich—Warren Hull
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11:00
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“Three Weird Sisters”
MOVIE
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12:00
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Luncheon With Billy—Musical
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12:25
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Midday News—Late Report
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12:30
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Garry Moore Show
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1:00
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Double Or Nothing—Quiz
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1:30
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Art Linkletter’s House Party
Guest: Audie Murphy
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2:00
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Big Payoff—Quiz For Men
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2:30
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Eddie Albert Show—Variety
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3:00
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Shopping With O’Reilly
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3:15
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“Those We Love”
MOVIE
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4:30
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Garfield Goose And Friend
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5:00
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Kids Karnival Kwiz—Games
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5:30
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Silhouettes Of The West—Film
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5:45
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Chgo. Weather—Russ Reed
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5:50
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Guest Star—Carmelita Pope
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6:00
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Sports & Comments—Elson
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6:15
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News With Fahey Flynn
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6:30
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CBS News—Douglas Edwards
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6:45
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Perry Como Show
Guest: Peggy Lee
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7:00
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ARTHUR GODFREY & FRIENDS
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8:00
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STRIKE IT RICH—Quiz Contest
Host: Warren Hull
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8:30
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MAN AGAINST CRIME—Drama
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9:00
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BLUE RIBBON BOUTS—Boxing
Joe Miceli vs. Pierre Langlois
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9:45
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SPORTS SPOT—Review
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10:00
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VIC PERRY—Man On The Street
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10:15
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HARRINGTON ON SPORTS
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10:20
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CHGO. WEATHER—Russ Reed
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10:30
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OUR SONG—Favorite Tunes
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11:00
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KUP’S COLUMN—Gossip
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11:30
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MURDER BEFORE MIDNIGHT
“File 113”
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12:00
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“ONE THIRD OF A NATION”
MOVIE
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1:20
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LATE WORLD NEWS
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I've mentioned Irv Kupcinet before, when his syndicated talk show pops up in various issues. Kup's Column, his 11:00 p.m. show, takes its name from the column Kupcinet writes for the Chicago Sun-Times; that column started in 1943 and ran almost until his death in 2003. His later talk show, the syndicated one, runs from 1959 to 1986. He also finds time to act as the color commentator on radio broadcasts of Chicago Bears football from 1953 to 1977, alongside Jack Brickhouse, who does the Cubs game today on WGN.
5 WNBQ (NBC)
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6:45
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Town And Farm—Discussion
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7:00
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Today—News & Commentary
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9:00
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Ding Dong School—Nursery
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9:30
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Animal Playtime—Kid’s Fun
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10:00
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Ask Washington—News Panel
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10:30
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Mrs. U.S.A.—Film Short
(Or UN General Assembly Meeting)
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11:00
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Creative Cookery—Recipes
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12:00
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Noontime Comics—Kiddie Fun
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12:30
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Film Short
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12:55
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News Report—Late Information
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1:00
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“Paradise Isle”
MOVIE
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2:00
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Break The Bank—Quiz Show
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2:30
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Welcome Travelers—Chats
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3:00
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Kate Smith Hour—Musical
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4:00
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Hawkins Falls—Sm. Town Tale
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4:30
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Howdy Doody Show—Puppets
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5:00
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Elmer, The Elephant—Movie
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5:30
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Industry On Parade—Film
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5:45
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Something To Talk About
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5:50
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Clifton Utley And The News
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6:00
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Joe Wilson’s Sports Corner
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6:15
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Town Crier—Tony Weitzel
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6:30
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Those Two—Comedy Skits
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6:45
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News Caravan—John Swayze
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7:00
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I MARRIED JOAN—Comedy
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7:30
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CAVALCADE OF AMERICA
“The Gingerbread Man”
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8:00
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KRAFT THEATER—Drama
“Rain No More”
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9:00
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THIS IS YOUR LIFE—Tale
Host: Ralph Edwards
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9:30
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CURTAIN TIME—Drama
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10:00
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WEATHERMAN—Clint Youle
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10:10
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DORSEY CONNORS—New Tips
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10:15
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CLIFTON UTLEY & THE NEWS
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10:30
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HERBIE MINTZ SHOW—Musical
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11:00
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“YOU CAN’T BEAT THE LAW”
MOVIE
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Clifton Utley had worked for NBC Radio and the Chicago Daily News before moving in front of the camera with WNBQ, which will soon change its call letters to WMAQ. He also does news and commentary for the network before heart problems leave him partially paralyzed. If the name sounds familiar to you, it's probably because he had a son named Garrick who went into the news business as well and had a pretty good career. One of his daughters-in-law, Carol Marin, has had a long and successful career at WMAQ. Talent runs in that family.
7 WBKB (ABC)
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9:45
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INS Newsreel—Information
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10:00
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Beulah Karney Presents—Tips
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10:30
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Let’s Exercise With Ed Allen
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10:50
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Your Weather—Wayne Griffin
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10:55
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News With Ulmer Turner
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11:00
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Bob & Kay Show—Variety
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11:30
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Breakfast With Danny O’Neil
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11:45
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News With Ulmer Turner
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12:00
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Happy Pirates—Fun For Kids
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12:30
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Time For Fun—Nick Francis
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12:55
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News With Ulmer Turner
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1:00
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All About Baby—Discussion
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1:15
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Movie—To Be Announced
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2:25
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News With Ulmer Turner
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2:30
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“Fangs Of The Wild”
MOVIE
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3:55
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News With Ulmer Turner
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4:00
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Lucky 7 Ranch—Western Film
“Devil Riders”
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4:45
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Rootie Kazootie—Puppet Fun
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5:00
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Laugh Time—Film Shorts
“Charlie Chase”
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5:30
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Adv. Time With Bob Atcher
“Three Musketeers”
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6:00
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Austin Kiplinger & The News
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6:10
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Sports Highlights—Jack Drees
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6:25
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Your Weather—Wayne Griffin
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6:30
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Date With Judy—Comedy
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7:00
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CHARLIE CHASE TIME—Film
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7:30
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STU ERWIN SHOW—Comedy
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8:00
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THE CARUSO SHOW
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8:30
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WRESTLING FROM RAINBO
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9:30
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LIBERACE SHOW—Musical
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10:00
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FOREIGN INTRIGUE—Drama
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10:30
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COMEDY CAMEO—Film Short
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11:00
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NEWS WITH ULMER TURNER
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11:10
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“FALSE FACES”
MOVIE
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12:15
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WHAT’S NEW?—Current News
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Jack Drees, who gives the 6:10 p.m. sports, had a long career of his own, mostly with CBS. He does Pabst Blue Ribbon Bouts for many years (that's the Wednesday night fight, for those of you scoring at home, and even for those just reading); I remember him from his work calling football games for CBS in the late 1960s. He also spends five seasons calling games for the Chicago White Sox. Great announcing voice.
9 WGN (DuMONT)
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9:00
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Your Figure Ladies—Fogarty
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9:30
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Clete Roberts World Report
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9:45
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Earl Nightingale Program
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10:00
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A To Z Of Cookery—Recipes
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11:00
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Bride & Groom—John Nelson
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11:15
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Love Of Life—Serial Story
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11:30
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Search For Tomorrow—Drama
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11:45
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Guiding Light—Drama Serial
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12:00
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Hi Ladies—Jack Payne
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12:45
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News Of The Day—S. Allen
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1:00
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Batting Practice—Warm Up
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1:10
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Lead Off Man—Interviews
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1:25
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Baseball—Cubs vs Cincinnati
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3:45
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Tenth Inning—Interviews
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4:00
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Trail Blazers’ Theater—Film
“Trigger Fingers”
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5:00
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Time For Beany—Puppet Fun
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5:15
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Junior Edition—News
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5:30
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Robert F. Hurleigh—News
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5:45
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Sports Review—Brickhouse
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6:00
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Captain Video—Adventures
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6:30
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Spencer Allen And The News
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6:45
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Chicagoland Newsreel—Data
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7:00
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“TAKE IT BIG”
MOVIE
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8:00
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FRONT PAGE DETECTIVE
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8:30
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CAMERA CLASSROOM
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9:00
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OLD AMERICAN BARN DANCE
Host: Bill Bailey
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10:00
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“HARPOON”
MOVIE
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11:30
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NEWS—Les Nichols Comments
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In case you were going to ask, the Clete Roberts who hosts World Report at 9:30 a.m. is the very same Clete Roberts who plays himself on M*A*S*H. Of course, that's only part of the story; after Korea, he heads for Los Angeles, where he'll be a legendary local news figure into the 1980s, often traveling to cover national and international stories, shooting his own footage on his Bell & Howell camera. TV
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ReplyDeleteDuring the week and date in question, I was (approx.) two-and-a-half years old; thus, my first-hand memories are - well, I don't really have any …
But Chicago Local TV had a considerable shelf life, and many of the names here had histories with which I grew up, So There Too.
- This was just after the ABC-Paramount Theatres merger; WBKB-Channel 4, which had been the CBS station, was owned by Paramount theaters, ABC owned WENR-Channel 7, and these two assets had to be consolidated; thus, ABC-Par kept the WBKB call letters and the State-Lake studios, while staying at Ch7.
Meanwhile, CBS established WBBM at Channel 4; many WBKB personalities had contracts that had to be burned off, and it took the better part of a year to do so.
Story goes that when CBS took over Ch4, the new news boss walked into the newsroom and announced that everybody in the place was fired - except for Frank Reynolds.
CBS moved the operation into the Wrigley Building and put their radio newspeople on TV, and there you are.
ABC got to keep Austin Kiplinger and Ulmer Turner, and that was it for local news at ch7 for a lot of years - but that's another story …
- To try and explain the many Chicago notables of whom you've never heard would use up my characters almost instantly; if you really want to know, just ask.
- Meanwhile, a correction:
Charley Chase was a popular movie comedian at the Hal Roach Studios, a contemporary of Our Gang and Laurel & Hardy.
When the L&H and Our Gang shorts were sold to TV (Ch7 was one of the first buyers), Charley Chase's shorts were a throw-in, but they achieved a level of popularity on their own for a while - thus their presence here.
- You'll note that there are a bunch of movies here, at various times during the day; these are mainly low-budget "programmers" from Poverty Row, the first "feature films" to be sold to local stations - and when you see them crammed into hour and half-hour time slots, you may safely assume that a lot of cutting was done to accommodate commercials (most of these "Bs" were barely over an hour to start with).
- Another correction:
You seem to have missed 10:30 pm.
The shows you've got at that time all started at 10:45.
For the record, here are the 10:30 shows:
Channel 4: Chicago At Night with Chuck Bill, an old 'BKB hand who would move to Ch7 the following year (that merger/contract thing I mentioned above).
Channel 4: Let's Look At Sports, which featured the volatile Tom Duggan; in a year's time, Duggan would move to ch7, with a show that wasn't limited to sports (though many Chicagoans thought it should have been limited from everything - but that's another story …).
Channel 7: This Is Charles Laughton, a 15-minute syndicated offering of Mr. Laughton doing dramatic readings; tonight's show has him "the story of Noah's Ark and the 104th Psalm, a meditation on the power and providence of God." (How you, of all people, missed this one …)
(Ch7 had different shows each night: this was Wednesday only.)
Channel 9: Their nightly movie started at 10 pm, and ran for 90 minutes; since ch9 was working from the same pool of "Bs" that the other stations were, I'll make the guess that they were selling a whole lot of commercial time (my recollection was that car dealers were the main purchasers).
- As long as I'm here:
"Harry Kari, Japanese singer", was actually Harry Stewart, an American dialect comedian, who had had several hit comedy records (78rpm) from the '40s on; Eddie Cantor would have known him from radio.
Harry Stewart's best-known guise was "Yogi Yorgesson", under which name he'd had a comedy hit called "I Yust Go Nuts At Christmas", which still gets trotted out in season, especially in the Midwest (Admit it, you've probably it heard a time or two in Minnesota during Yuletimes …).
As I said above: any questions, you know where I am.
I notice here that HOUSE PARTY was on at 1:30 PM CT, the same time slot where CBS kept it for its 15+ years on the air. I read somewhere that the NBC soap opera, THE DOCTORS, finally knocked it off the air early in 1969.
ReplyDeleteI remember watching Carol Marin on Nashville's WSM-TV before she left for WMAQ-TV in 1978. She left that station almost 20 years later to protest Jerry Springer's being added as a news commentator on the station. Now it seems that Jerry's more believable than a lot of what I see on the news.
Also WGN had Search For Tomorrow and Guiding Light. Both CBS shows. I guess WBBM didn't clear them, so WGN picked them up
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