Chicago started 1948 with one television station. By the end of the year, it had four. Two were owned by radio chains which also set up limited TV network programming before 1948 was done.
(This does not include Zenith’s station used for experimental tests).
When the American Broadcasting Company was still the Blue Network, it applied for commercial television stations in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. The Chicago Tribune reported on September 1, 1944:
Blue Network Proposes Television Station Here
Application for authority to operate a new commercial television radio station in Chicago was filed with the federal communications commission in Washington, D. C., yesterday [Aug. 31] by the Blue network. Authority to open similar stations in New York and Los Angeles also was asked. The company asked that the Chicago and Los Angeles stations be on channel 8 [162,000 to 168,000 kilocycles] and that the New York outlet be on Channel 15 [258,000 to 264,000 kilocycles). The Yankee Network, Inc., Boston, Mass., operator of Station WAAB, Wooster, Mass., applied for a similar station in Boston on channel 2 [60,000-66,000 kilocycles].
On September 18, the FCC placed all of them (with commercial TV applications from Maison Blanche Co., New Orleans, and United Broadcasting Co., Cleveland) in its pending file.
ABC had big postwar plans for TV in Chicago, as Billboard revealed on February 2, 1946.
Chi Video Station Within 18 Months On ABC Agenda
CHICAGO, Feb. 16.—Paul Mowrey, American Broadcasting Company's television director, last week threw his hat into the Chi video ring by announcing that one of the top plans on his agenda is a television station in Chi at the earliest possible date. Mowrey could not give the exact date ABC would have a Chi video station because operation here will only take place after the FCC has granted the local video license for which the net has applied. As nobody knows when the FCC can get around to processing all its video applications, the starting date could not be set as definite, and Mowrey could only say that ABC should have its own station here not later than 18 months from now. Mowrey plans at the beginning of the ABC video station operation here to program primarily in special events remotes an occasional program from one of the ABC studios and accent on a new type of video programing (new here, that is), the picking up of remote dramatic programs from the houses of various amateur theatrical groups such as the Jack and Jill Players and the legit groups at universities.
28 Hours Weekly
Mowrey expects to be able to program, even at the beginning of his operation, the 28 hours weekly that the FCC wants telecasters to air by June 1, 1946.
Mowrey is already starting to line up agreements with the drama groups and special events originating places, such as indoor and outdoor sports arenas.
For his drama pick-up Mowrey plans to use three orthicon cameras—one for close-ups, one for middle shots and one for distant shots. This, he reasons, will enable the video audience to see plays in a manner that could be duplicated only if they bought three seats—one up front, one half way and one at the back of the house.
Chi Shows To Be Telecast
Some of the ABC's present Chi-originated radio shows will also be used for the net's video program content here. Mowrey, will not telecast these at the same time they are broadcast over AM, but he intends to create special video adaptations, using radio personalities and program formats. Breakfast Club and Quiz Kids were among the shows he mentioned as being especially adaptable for video.
There is a possibility that ABC might get into the video picture here even before it can get its own station, Mowrey said, if he is able to work out arrangements to have some ABC-produced shows telecast on either of the two video stations now in operation here.
Formation of an ABC video staff here, Mowrey also said, would be done by having a few of the net's New York video experts come here for a few months to train the net's present AM staff in the why's and wherefore's of television production.
ABC did exactly as Mowrey speculated. It had no TV license in Chicago but found homes elsewhere for its programming. This is from Billboard, July 13, 1946.
ABC Signs Sports On B. & K. in Chi
CHICAGO, July 6.—The American Broadcasting Company, Friday (5) signed to present four sporting events on WBKB, Balaban & Katz tele outlet. They will present boxing and prize fights from the Rainbo Gardens on Wednesday nights starting Wednesday (10). An option has been taken for an additional four scannings and Paul Mowrey, ABC's tele man, states that he hopes to have the shows sponsored even before the first one hits the ether. This makes five stations over which the network without a video outlet is photographing shows; WABD (DuMont), New York; WRGB (G.E.), Schenectady; WPPZ (Philco), Philadelphia and WTTG (DuMont), Washington. Bud Pearse, ABC tele special eventer, will handle the Chi scannings.
Less than two weeks later, ABC had its license.
ABC Gets 1st Video Outlet
WASHINGTON, July 27.—Chicago has a new television station authorized, with announcement by the Federal Communications Commission this week that American Broadcasting Company has been granted a CP for a commercial video station operating on Channel Seven, visual power of 30 kw. And aural power of 15 kw. (Billboard, Aug. 3)
Applications for television (and FM) stations piled up. Factories had to switch over from war mode into manufacturing things for consumers and businesses, things like TV sets and transmitters. Dealing with that took time. The FCC continued to allow deferrals for deadlines to get stations on the air.
We learn from the Hollywood Reporter, Jan. 29, 1948:
ABC Starts Chicago Telev. Construction
Chicago.—Construction of television facilities for ABC's new station WENR-TV in Chicago, are now under way, it was announced yesterday [28] by E. R. Borroff, vice-president in charge of the network's Central division. Although the arrival of supplies and material has been delayed during the past few months, it is anticipated that television operations will commence by September 1 at the latest.
The tower, an RCA superturnstile type, will be installed on the highest ridge of the Civic Opera building, located at 20 N. Wacker Drive. It is 118 feet in height.
Complete construction plans and antenna designs are now in the final process of approval. The main television studios will be located on the 44th floor of the Opera building and outside studio space will be rented temporarily, until such time as permanent studios can be obtained or built. The station will operate on Channel 7, with a frequency of 174 to 180 megacycles. Video is 15 kilowatts and aural is 7.5 kilowatts.
Meanwhile, progress was made on stringing together a Midwest TV feed. Broadcasting, April 26, 1948:
Chicago-Cleveland Coaxial Opened for Phone Use
TELEVISION transmission on the Chicago-Cleveland coaxial cable route moved a step closer April 19 when AT&T's Long Lines Dept. announced that the cable was available for immediate telephone use.
Designed to ease crowded long-distance circuits between the two cities, the 363-mile cable will become an integral part of the Bell System's midwestern inter-city TV network, which also will service Detroit, Milwaukee and St. Louis.
In addition, the cable will tie in with the Philadelphia-Cleveland cable which, when completed at year's end, will link the system's midwestern and eastern television networks. Cable along each route provides one television circuit in each direction.
NBC has authorization for a video station (WNBK) in Cleveland, while ABC, CBS and MBS have applications pending. Lone operating TV station there is WEWS, owned by Scripps-Howard Radio.
In Chicago one network affiliate, WGN-TV (MBS) is on the air. Two other stations, WNBQ and WENR-TV (NBC and ABC), expect to begin operation by September, and application for another, WBBM (CBS), is pending.
ABC’s sales department began lining up sponsors for its soon-to-exist network. From the Hollywood Reporter, July 15, 1948:
More Spots For Bulova
Bulova Watch, pursuing its cornerstone of time signal spots on all TV stations, has signed up three of ABC’s leading projected stations. Thought the Biow, Co., New York, it has bought 17 signals weekly on WENR-TV, Chicago; WXYZ-TV, Detroit, and KGO-TV, San Francisco.
The station wasn’t on the air in time for the Republican Convention in Philadelphia June 21 to 25, but it had a presence there as the station’s mobile unit was seconded for the event.
WENR-TV started hiring staff. This name, from Variety, Aug. 4, 1948, may be familiar, especially if you watched credits on Dean Martin’s TV shows.
Staff recruits for forthcoming WENR-TV include Gregg Garrison, lately of WFIL-TV [Philadelphia]...Garrison as staff director.
A new date was set for WENR-TV’s debut. Variety, Aug. 11, 1948:
ABC-TV’s Sept. Chi BowABC’s WENR-TV beams its first test patterns this week, with the formal teeoff coming Sept. 17. Station studio and offices will be located on the 44th floor of the Civic Opera Building.
Amateur bouts from the Madison Athletic Club are among the shows set for lensing, with “Breakfast Club” and “Ladies Be Seated” earmarked as sure futures. Station also plans to organize a stock company of pros and amateurs.
Chicago Daily News, which has no affiliation with WENR-TV or ABC, will issue a special tele supplement to mark the TV bow.
There was a slight problem. To broadcast a test pattern, you need a test pattern. Variety, Aug. 18, 1948:
No Harm Meant
Chicago, Aug. 17
Engineers ready to telecast the first test pattern of WNER-TV Thursday (12) found that the regular slide hadn’t arrived, so they called a camera shop and got a Walt Disney product. Slide showed the Big Bad Wolf and two little pigs.
Viewers at Chi’s two other tele stations, WBKB and WGN-TV, interpreted the slide as a sly rib, but WENR-TV engineers insist it was used merely because of its linear quality.
The station needed additional studios, post-haste, for September 17. This is from the Tribune, Aug. 24, 1948:
WENR-TV TO CONVERT CIVIC THEATER INTO TELEVISION STUDIO
The Chicago Civic theater, site of legitimate theater productions since October, 1929, will be converted into a television studio by the American Broadcasting company as headquarters for its new video station WENR-
TV, which begins operation Sept. 17, it was announced yesterday by John H. Norton Jr., ABC vice president, and James Thompson, president of the Wacker corporation, owners of the Civic Open building. Extensive reconstruction and redecoration of the theater already is underway and will be completed prior to the opening. The studio, leased for approximately five years, will be equipped with the latest types of studio, motion picture, and field cameras and will accommodate 878 persons.
The WENR-TV transmitter is on the 44th floor of the Civic Opera building and the antenna is on the building's roof.
20 North Wacker Drive, Chicago 6, III. When the station went on the air it had two studios at 20 North Wacker Drive, approximately 25-by-46 feet, plus a 32-by-71-foot studio in the Civic Opera Building. It had six studio cameras, six dollies; two 16mm. and two 35mm. film projectors; two slide projectors; two sets remote equipment; four remote comeras (info from Oct. 1948 issue of Television magazine).
WBKB had been telecasting play-by-play sports a-plenty—hockey, baseball, college football (even installing a circuit to South Bend, Indiana, to pick up the Green Bay Packers). It was natural WENR-TV would want a piece of that. Here’s Variety, Sep. 8, 1948:
Chi TV Deals on Tap For Bears, Cardinals
Chicago, Sept. 7
Local tele expects to come to terms with the Chicago Bears and Cardinals, pro football teams that failed to rush into video this season. ABC already has signed the Card tussle with the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sept. 19, paying a reported $2,000 to carry the game on WENR-TV.
T-Day on September 17, 1948 got closer. The Trib had this preview on the 12th:
WENR-TV, THIRD VIDEO STATION, TO OPEN FRIDAY
Plan 30 Hours a Week of Programs
BY LARRY WOLTERS
Chicago's third television station, WENR-TV, will start regular programming next Friday evening [17]. A gala 4 hour dedicatory show will be presented from 7 to 11 o'clock, most of it emanating from the Civic theater which the station will use as its main studio. WENR-TV will operate on channel 7. It plans to present about 30 hours of programs a week.
Thus, Chicagoland viewers will have considerable choice in video fare henceforth. WGN-TV, W-G-N's television station, operates on channel 9; WBKB, the Balaban and Katz station, on channel 4. And a fourth Chicago station is in prospect. WNBQ, NBC's local video station, expects to be on the air with a test pattern next week and will begin programming sometime this fall. Both WENR-TV and WNBQ will have their transmitters and antennas atop the Civic Opera building, NBC's Studio A atop the Merchandise Mart is being reconverted into a modern television studio for WNBQ.
Opening Night's Show
WENR-TV's opening night's show is to start with a half hour dedicatory feature in which state, city and civic leaders, and representatives of ABC, which will operate the new station, will participate.
The show to follow will be in some measure a preview of the station's programs. It will include film telecasts of Candid Microphone and Bride and Groom, two of ABC's shows. The Breakfast Club gang, regularly heard in the morning on the network, is down for a nocturnal appearance before the cameras. WENR's Amateur Hour will be telecast on the premiere.
Ladies Be Seated, an audience participation show, with Tom Moore as master of ceremonies, will be viewed. This show is to be telecast regularly. Victor Borge, pianist and comedian, will be featured.
Whiteman To Conduct
A one hour variety show will wind up the premiere. Paul Whiteman, ABC's musical chief, will conduct a 60 piece orchestra in a performance of George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue." The "Rhapsody" has been identified as Whiteman's musical signature since he introduced it in Carnegie Hall Feb. 12, 1924. Earl Wild, young pianist-composer-conductor, will be soloist.
WENR-TV will telecast regularly a half hour show tentatively titled Video Varieties. Vocalists, instrumentalists and combinations as well as novelty and dance acts will be featured. Among those already engaged for this series are Jack Owens, the "cruising crooner"; Patsy Lee, songstress of the Breakfast club; the Honey Dreamers; Johnny Hill, baritone; Lola Ameche, radio and night club vocalist; Ralph Martine conducting a Dixieland group: Don Lindley and his Music in Velvet, the Adele Scott trio and the George Barnes octet.
Promises Fine Pictures
Paul Mowrey, television director of the network, said that WENR-TV viewers are assured of the finest reception. "Conclusive evidence of this," he said, "is the overwhelmingly tine response directed towards the station on the excellent clarity of the WENR-TV test pattern which currently is being transmitted."
Mowrey said that channel 7 is "in the middle of the dial"— a position little subjected to interference from nonbroadcast (amateur) transmitters and from industrial, scientific and medical devices.
The Civic Theater gives WENR and WENR-TV a studio with a seating capacity of 878. The Breakfast club's morning radio shows will be aired from this theater.
How did the premiere go? Here’s Variety’s review.
WENR-TV INAUGURALWith Lou Holtz, Paul Whiteman, Victor Borge, Ginny Simms, Jerry Colonna, Buck and Bubbles, Margaret Harris, Szonyis, Montana Jack, Maple City Four, Indian Dancers, "Breakfast Club" with Don McNeill, Jack Owens, Patsy Lee, Fran Allison, and Sam Cowling; "Ladies Be Seated" with Tom Moore; WENR’s "Amateur Hour" with Bob Murphy; Herbie Mintz, Beulah Karney, Herb Newcomb, Wayne Griffin; conductors Rex Maupin, Ed Ballantine and Mary Hartline.
Producer: Harold Stokes
Directors: Jack Gibney, Greg Garrison
4 Hrs., 52 Mins.; Fri. (17), 7 p.m. Sustaining
WENR-TV, Chicago
In preeming the new Civic studio and WENR-TV, its second o-&-o tele station, ABC gave Chicago viewers a modified version of the recent WJZ-TV bow. The "dream bill" device was tossed out, along with any sentimental hark back on vaude. The net simply assembled the best array of talent offered so far on local video. Result couldn't help being the most impressive tele show eyed here to date.
Kickoff cost ABC $7,800 for talent, exclusive of musicians. In relation to the entertainment level of Chicago tele, however, brilliance of the WENR-TV bow was up to that of its New York sister. Preem bucked football and baseball on two other stations, but, according to phone data compiled by ABC researchers, it captured and held 80% of the audience.
In the course of five hours the show inevitably had sagging periods in which quantitative rather than qualitative factors held sway. The entertainment content in one 90-minute stretch might well have been boiled down to 45 minutes, with quarter hours allotted for each of what played as three 30-minute shows. A snack, rather than a full meal, would have sufficed.
"Breakfast Club" came off surprisingly well via the use of visual stunts lifted from its regular format.
The WENR "Amateur Hour" and "Ladies Be Seated" emerged as straight radio shows made visible even to the standing mike in the tyro show. The half-hour remote from the National Television and Electrical Living Show was the weakest seg, offering two male singing groups in close order, plus Indian dances of anthropological interest. Montana Jack's bull whip cracking went best, with a good assist from Don Ward.
Variety show, emceed by Lou Hotz [sic], set a high for NBC and CBS to shoot at when they enter Chi tele. Holtz turned in his standard job, using Lapidus and other stand-by stories throughout.
Buck and Bubbles repeated the sock bits viewed on the WJZ-TV preem. Jerry Colonna punched over two songs via popped optics and eyebrow acrobatics. Margaret Harris, child pianist, was effective in her brief spot. Ginny Simms was plenty sightworthy in lilting her brace of pops. Victor Borge's piano routines were top stuff but his needless worries over mike volume would have been better left to the engineers. Evidently stretching it while the orch set up, his punctuation familiar tapered off for a wan close.
Camera work was skittery at times, especially for the Szonyis terp session in which a payoff over-head lift was dampered. Of the four cameras used, two failed temporarily with consequent limiting of shots. Really choice lensing came during Paul Whiteman's batoning of "Rhapsody In Blue." Sight and sound were expertly interwoven, so expertly in fact that previous camera handling suffered by contrast.
Show went into rehearsal at a late hour, which accounted for some small defects. All in all, however, viewers must have felt that their investment in a receiver had brought a good dividend. Meanwhile until tele is perfected, there won't be perfection. Baxt. (Variety, Sept. 22, 1948)
Two days after the start of programming, the company outlined its programming plans to the Tribune.
WENR-TV, THIRD STATION, TELLS PROGRAM PLANS
Following its debut Friday evening [17] WENR-TV, Chicago's third television station, has started regular daily programming. Shows will be telecast daily during the evening hours, excepting for day time sports events, Harold Stokes manager of the ABC video outlet, announced. A varied schedule of shows ranging from an amateur hour to a Great Books forum has been arranged.
A program fashioned after the Sachs Amateur Hour will be telecast on Sundays. This program completed its 14th consecutive year on the air on Aug. 29 over WENR. Since its inception in 1934 it has offered nearly 9,000 contestants, ranging in age from 4 to 110, a chance for public recognition.
Dollars and Sense, an audience participation program during which contestants will receive cash awards for cunning use of their senses of touch, taste, sight, sound and smell, will be telecast Sunday evenings.
Plan Video Varieties
During the week a musical and variety program tentatively titled Video Varieties, will be telecast, featuring top vocalists, instrumentalists and musical combinations as well as novelty and eccentric dance acts unique to the television field.
Talent which will be seen thruout this series includes Jack Owens, heard regularly on ABC's Breakfast Club; the five swinging Honey Dreamers; Johnny baritone, a recent radio discovery from St. Louis; the Breakfast Club's comely Patsy Lee; Ralph Martire, trumpeter, conducting a Dixieland group; Don Lindley with his Music in Velvet; and the Adele Scott Trio, which has appeared on many commercial radio programs as well as the Arthur Godfrey program in New York.
Candid Microphone, the production in which the "man with the hidden mike" carefully records unexpected and unpremeditated conversations, will be presented on film on Sundays.
A half hour program of mystery and suspense, as yet untitled, will be presented at 9 p.m. Sundays and at 9:30 to closing at 11, a feature film will be telecast. WENR-TV will experiment in a program primarily designed to interest children.
Boxing And Wrestling
Stump the Authors, which permits fans to hear the plots of complete original stories in the making, also will be televised. This program formerly was heard on ABC and received notable praise from critics a few months ago when it was produced over WBKB.
From 9 to 11 p.m, Tuesdays amateur boxing bouts from the Rainbo Arena will be telecast. From 8:30 to 11 p.m. Wednesdays wrestling matches will be presented.
A television program adapted from the Great Books forums which are conducted thruout the nation will be an extraordinary feature of WENR-TV. Chancellor Robert M. Hutchins of the University of Chicago and chairman of the Great Books Foundation will participate in the forum.
Three days after sign-on, ABC had a regional network set-up. The Trib reported on Sept. 20, 1948:
A midwestern television network, with coaxial cable and radio relay facilities provided by American Telephone and Telegraph company, begins operation tonight. Two way service is provided between St. Louis, Chicago, Toledo, Detroit, and Cleveland. Branches will carry programs to Milwaukee and Buffalo, N. Y., but for the present none can be sent back from these points. This Midwestern network will be linked with the east coast video network by the end of the year.
WENR-TV, ABC video outlet here, will originate several programs on the network to be piped to stations in Milwaukee, Toledo and Cleveland. Stump the Authors, on WENR-TV at 7:30p.m., will be carried on the video net, in addition to a variety hour from 8 to 9.
The circuit had to be used by both NBC and ABC. Variety reviewed its “opening night” the following day.
ABC’s Commercial TV Kickoff Gets Nod Over NBC’s Midwest Video Inaugural; 7-City Feed Uneven
Chicago, Sept. 21.
Television networking was born in the midwest last night (20). Both ABC and NBC celebrated the occasion—inauguration of the Bell System's 2,000-mile coaxial circuit from St. Louis to Buffalo—with special programs piped to outlets along the cable. But, on three scores, ABC copped the laurels. For (1), ABC jumped on the circuit at 6 p.m., getting a full-hour beat on NBC in debuting web TV operation; (2) ABC kicked off its networking with a commercial show ("On The Trail," a variety stanza, for Admiral Radio, 6-6:30 p.m.), whereas NBC teed off sponsorless; and (3) ABC announced plans for regular web programming, while NBC confessed that, owing to expense, its three-hour inaugural was a one-shot web affair and no further networking is on the books for the moment. Of course, if a sponsor turns up, that'll be different. Or if a special event warranting it comes along, a web feed will again be ordered. . . .
ABC originated its web debut from its new Chicago owned and operated station, WENR-TV, which took to the air only three days before. New Admiral variety show was fed to WTMJ-TV, Milwaukee; WBEN-TV, Buffalo, and WEWS, Cleveland. It'll be a weekly stanza. Net says at least two or three additional shows, all sustaining, will be fed over the coax skein weekly to start.
Hookup last night marked official identification of WEWS, Scripps-Howard station, and WBEN-TV, Buffalo News-owned, as full TV affiliates of ABC. Web's Detroit station, WXYZ-TV, linked by micro-wave via Toledo, will get into the web picture Oct. 9. . . .
ABC plans networking 10 hours of programming weekly. Initial schedule includes: Sunday—"Dollars and Sense," "What Do You Think?" and as yet untitled half-hour show; Monday—"Stump the Author" and 30-minute variety show; Tuesday—two hours of boxing; Wednesday—two hours of wrestling or auto races; Friday—"Music in Velvet" and "Platter Party"; Saturday—"Skip Farrell Show," "Stand By for Crime" and full-hour "Super Circus."
Commercials set for the ABC net include, besides the Admiral variety show, four Notre Dame grid games starting Saturday (25) with Admiral also as sponsor; balloting results Nov. 2 under Kaiser-Frazer aegis, and a sked of boxing bouts tagged by Motorola. Paramount's WBKB, Chi, has exclusive on ND grid games, so ABC airing will be via affiliates outside the Windy City only. Fact that it has commercial shows ready for the new mid-west coax will be roundly plugged by ABC to cement affiliations.
Once the network was in place, two large events were sent out on WENR-TV. The station aired the World Series, but only the games from Cleveland as there was no coaxial with Boston, where Games 1, 2 and 6 took place (it could be heard on WGN radio). On Election Night, November 2, the station combined with ABC radio’s WLS to bring viewers a preview at 6:45 Central, and then complete returns at 7 p.m. WENR-TV would adopted the WLS call letters in 1968.
The first week’s listings in the Trib look pretty local.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1948
7:00—Official opening of WENR-TV, with Mayor Kennelly, Lt. Gov. Hugh Cross, officials of ABC, Paul Harvey, Beulah Karney, Herbie Mintz, Tommy Bartlett and Bob Elson. 7:30—Candid Microphone (film). 8:00—Breakfast Club with Don McNeill. 9:00—Ladies Be Seated with Tom Moore. 10:00—Variety, with Ginny Simms, Victor Borge, Jerry Colonna, Paul Whiteman’s orchestra.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1948
8:00—Skip Farrell show. 8:30—Mystery Quiz. 9:00—Pickup from Television and Electrical Living show at Colesium.
Chicagoans will have an opportunity to see regular telecasts of Chicago's three video stations—WGN-TV, WBKB and WENR-TV—put on the air at the National Television and Electrical Living show, opening at 11 a.m, today in the Coliseum. The show will continue for nine days. Visitors also may be televised and see themselves on video receivers.
More than 300 television receivers of every type and price—the largest number ever assembled under one roof—will be on exhibition, Harry Alter, chairman of the Electric association, which is sponsoring the show has announced.
A hundred manufacturers and distributors of radio and television, washing machines, refrigerators, vacuum cleaners and various electrical appliances will display their newest wares. A feature of the exposition is a search for Miss Television of Chicago, with a 13 week contract with WENR-TV as one of the rewards. Fifth army headquarters and the navy electronics laboratory at Great Lakes will exhibit the newest in military communications equipment. The show will be open daily from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. (Tribune)
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1948
No programming.
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1948
7:00—News. 7:15—Film. 7:30—“Stump the Authors” with Sidney Breeze. 8:00—Variety Hour with radio and theatre stars.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1948
7:00—News. 7:15—Film. 7:30—Jack Owens. 8:00—Feature Film.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1948
7:00—Sports News. 7:15—Feature Film. 8:30—Remote telecast. 9:00—Remote telecast.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1948
No programming.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1948
7:00—Music in Velvet. 7:30—Platter Party. 8:00—TV Film.
