May 1947 Part 1

CBS bucked the trend in television in 1947.

New stations were coming on the air and broadcasting live shows from their studios. CBS went the other direction in May 1947 and closed its studios. Its New York station (it wasn’t a network yet) decided to broadcast live events on location. The only exception was the two newscasts. Readers Doug Edwards and Tom O’Connor were mere voices speaking over film and graphics.

The FCC set the channels for the four coming New York stations. What this meant for Bill Still's experimental station isn't clear, as he was licensed to broadcast on Channel 13, though it seems his station was more of a school than anything interested in sending out signals.

The only non-commercial station with programming felt getting out of the studio was a good idea, too. W6XAO’s mobile crew found new locations to shoot sport shows. The station also decided to make the radio show Queen For a Day part of its schedule. It’s hard to say how successful that was; the Los Angeles newspapers were inconsistent about how often they printed the station’s listings.

This month, the Kraft Television Theatre made its debut. It had a healthy life into what we call the Golden Age of Television (1948 into the ‘50s). In Chicago, WBKB put on an actual television series, much like you see on any channel today. It was a detective show. Chicago had many radio actors who went on to fine television careers. This show, one reviewer sniffed, had better than radio actors. If you look at the cast list, no names may stick out, though one went to on play an angry neighbour on an episode of Leave It To Beaver.

A familiar name with a show this month was Buffalo Bob Smith. Howdy Doody wasn’t around just yet.

Other than that, the first half of the month featured lots and lots of baseball, shorts and ‘B’ Westerns.

Thursday, May 1
WCBS-TV Channel 2, New York
1:30 Mexican President Miguel Aleman addressing Joint Session of Congress.
8:15 CBS Television News with Douglas Edwards, sponsored by Gulf.
8:30 “All New York Junior High School Quiz.”
9:00 “Your Song For Tonight,” Judy Lynn.
9:03 Drama: “No More Alice.”
Weather reports sponsored by Reid’s Ice Cream.
WNBT Channel 4, New York
1:30 Mexican President Miguel Aleman.
7:50 Television Newsreel.
8:00 “Juvenile Jury” from NBC’s Studio 8-G with Jack Barry, sponsored by Gaines Dog Food.
8:30 “Birdseye Open House,” interviews by Harriet Van Horne and food with James Beard, sponsored by Birdseye Frozen Foods
9:00 “You Are an Artist” with John Gnagy, sponsored by Gulf Oil.
9:10 Television Newsreel.
WABD Channel 5, New York
3:00 News Tape, from the International News Service.
4:45 Financial News.
7:00 “Small Fry Club” with Bob Emery.
7:30 Film short.
7:45 Soccer Game Preview.
8:00 Show Case, “Cavalleria Rusticana.”
8:30 “Swing For-e Golf.” with Ernie Jones, sponsored by the Perry Blouse Company.
WBKB Channel 4, Chicago
7:30 “Over Shoemaker’s Shoulder,” cartoon drawing show.
7:45 “Let’s Face It.”
8:00 “Humanity’s Heart.”
8:30 Film: Short subjects.
8:45 Milt Hopwood’s Sports Show.
WPLZ Channel 3, Philadelphia
10:00-12:00 Test Chart.
2:15 Baseball at Shibe Park, Phillies vs. Pittsburgh Pirates, play-by-play with Claude Haring.
5:30-7:30 Test Chart.
7:50 NBC program.
8:00 Mac McGuire’s Harmony Rangers, Film, Pete Boyle’s Sketchbook, Sears Visi-Quiz.

KSD-TV Channel 5, St. Louis
2:25 Baseball at Sportsman’s Park, Browns vs. Washington Senators, play-by-play with J. Roy Stockton and Ellis Veech, sponsored by Purity Bakeries.
7:00 Feature film, "Utah Trail" with Tex Ritter and White Flash (Grand National, 1938).
8:10 News and Views.
8:20 Film show, "Yellowstone National Park."
8:30 String quartet from St. Louis Institute of Music.
KTLA Channel 5, Hollywood
3:00-5:00 Film program for television dealers.
7:30 “Tune Up Time”: Test Slides - Recorded Music. 8:00 Valley Television Girl Contest.
8:30 Boxing Bouts.
9:00 “Lest We Forget,” presented by the U.S. Army.
Valley Television Girl
Reviewed Thursday (1), 8-8:30 p.m. Style—Song, dance, dramatic contest. Sustaining over KTLA (Paramount), Hollywood.
Here's an example of an old promotional stunt that still pays off program -wise. KTLA worked a tie with The Valley Times (San Fernando daily) for a contest to name a gal Miss Television of San Fernando Valley. Ballots were sent to the Times with the top 10 vote pullers getting the tele tryout. Viewers called in votes to pick the winner. First prize is a paid appearance on KTLA Hits and Bits seg.
As each of the 19 contestants came on, Dick Lane interviewed the gal as to ambitions, etc. Vocal offerings ranged from pop to opera, while others presented dramatic readings and dance routines. All in all, the 10 contestants made for a well-balanced bill. After each entry, Lane asked the audience to call in their choice when the contest was completed. During each act, cameras gave a full view of the contestant, then moved in for a close-up.
Aside from getting a fairly interesting seg, KTLA undoubtedly aroused considerable interest in tele thru the contest gimmick and resulting generous newspaper space. Outlet expects to work similar ties with other sheets in the area. Lee Zhito. (Billboard, May 10)

Friday, May 2

WNBT Channel 4
2:30 Baseball at the Polo Grounds: Giants vs. Pittsburgh Pirates, Bob Stanton play-by-play.
8:00 “Campus Hoopla” with Clair Bee, coach of the Long Island U. basketball team, sponsored by U.S. Rubber Co.
8:20 “In Town Today” with Buffalo Bob Smith.
8:30 “The World in Your Home,” sponsored by RCA.
8:45 “Gillette Cavalcade of Sports”: Boxing from St. Nicholas Arena. Herb Kronowitz vs. George (Sonny) Horn.
Time Signal sponsored by Benrus.
WABD Channel 5, New York
4:45 Financial News sponsored by Bache and Co.
7:00 “Small Fry Club” with Bob Emery.
8:00 Teletalent.
8:30 Film Shorts.
9:00-11:00 Wrestling from Jamaica Arena.
WBKB Channel 5, Chicago
7:30 “Telechats,” sponsored by The Fair.
7:45 Short subjects.
8:00 “Telequizzicalls,” sponsored by Commonwealth Edison.
8:30 Films.
9:00 Boxing.
[Note: no boxing matches are in the Chicago papers for this evening.]
WPLZ Channel 3, Philadelphia
10:00-12:00 Test Chart.
2:15 Baseball at Shibe Park, Phillies vs. St. Louis Cardinal, play-by-play with Claude Haring.
5:30-7:30 Test Chart.
8:00 NBC program.
8:20 “Handy Man” with Jack Creamer, sponsored by Gimbels.
8:35 “Pleased to Meet You.”
8:45 NBC program.
KSD-TV Channel 5, St. Louis
2:25 Baseball at Sportsman’s Park, Browns vs. Washington Senators, play-by-play with J. Roy Stockton and Ellis Veech, sponsored by Purity Bakeries.
7:00 Feature film.
8:10 News and Views.
8:20 Film show.
8:30 News in Sports, with Harold Grams and J. Roy Stockton. sponsored by Griesedieck Brothers Brewery.

W6XAO Channel 2, Los Angeles
2:50-3:50 Test patterns and music.
3:50-4:06 Film: “Our America” (educational).
4:11-4:22 Film: “Rails to Romance” (BC Govt, 1945).
4:22-4:33-Film: “Tide Pool Life” (animal).
KTLA Channel 5, Hollywood
3:00-5:00 Film program for television dealers.
7:30 “Tune Up Time,” Test patterns, recorded music.
8:00 Baseball from Wrigley Field, Los Angeles Angels vs. Seattle Rainiers.

CBS is eliminating all of its studio television programs and will hereafter confine its schedules to telecasts of sports and special events. A network spokesman made this announcement last night [2]. Effective May 11, a number of engineers and other personnel connected with its television department—reported to total 26—will the taken off the payroll. This entrenchment follows short» after the FCC had rejected Columbia’s plea for permission to go ahead with color television. “We are curtailing research activities in line with our previos statements on the subject,” said President Frank Stanton. “We are concentrating our efforts for the time being on actuality telecasts such as sports and special events.”
CBS is reputed to have spent approximately $2,800,000 on its color television experiment—which was given a knockout blow by the FCC. Dr. Peter C. Goldmark, director of engineering, research and development, who was in charging of the project, is reported to be fighting for the retention of some of his engineers. But CBS headquarters refused to comment on rumor. (NY Daily News, May 3)

Saturday, May 3
WCBS-TV Channel 2, New York
2:00 Baseball at Ebbets Field, Dodgers vs. Cincinnati, play-by-play with Bob Edge, sponsored by Ford and Post cereals.
7:45 CBS Television News with Tom O’Connor.
8:00 Fashion Showcase, latest styles and dancing.
WNBT Channel 4
2:30 Baseball at the Polo Grounds: Giants vs. Pittsburgh Pirates, Bob Stanton play-by-play.
WPTZ Channel 3, Philadelphia
1:45 Baseball at Shibe Park, Phillies vs. St. Louis Cardinals, play-by-play with Claude Haring.
KSD-TV Channel 5, St. Louis
2:25 Baseball at Sportsman’s Park, Browns vs. Washington Senators, play-by-play with J. Roy Stockton and Ellis Veech, sponsored by Purity Bakeries.
7:00 Feature Film.
8:10 Ranger Riders.
8:30 Film show.
8:45 St. Louis Personalities.
KTLA Channel 5, Hollywood
3 p.m. Film program for television dealers.
4:30 p.m. Feature harness race direct from Hollywood Park.
7:30 p.m. Tune Up Time. Test slides - recorded music.
8:00 p.m “Your Town—Los Angeles presents Boys in Command,” a feature of International Boys Week.
8:30 p.m. Western feature film.
FASHION SHOWCASE
With John Butler & Allyn Ann McClerie, Nadine Gae & Tommy Wonder; Mary Alan Heganson, narrator; others
Director: Paul Belanger
Asst. Director: Lucille Hudiburg
Set: Jim McNaughton
30 Mins.; Sat. (3), 8 p.m.
Sustaining
WCBS-TV-CBS, N. Y.
CBS television, which is slated to take an indefinite hiatus from live studio programming starting Sunday (11), shuttered its "Fashion Showcase" series last Saturday (3) night on the same high level the show has held since preeming last fall. It's too bad that televiewers will be deprived henceforth of seeing a show that's been consistently one of the most expertly-staged and ambitious productions on the air.
Under the adept direction of Paul Belanger, who long ago learned the knack of integrating choreography with his camera shots, the show followed the usual format of presenting beauteous models draped in new creations of a top designer, this time Nettie Rosenstein. Belanger abandoned his idea of giving the models some acting to do in favor of letting them merely pose, but more than compensated for this with his trick camera work. Standout was a novel method of superimposition, in which two girls were viewed through the lenses of two different cameras and then paraded side by side from a medium shot to a closeup.

Interspersed with the modelling were two dance numbers by John Butler and Allyn Ann McClerie and one by Nadine Gae and Tommy Wonder. Four terpers, w.k. from their Broadway musical work, were as good as ever. Tying the whole thing together was an interest-sustaining commentary by Mary Alan Hoganson. All that the show lacked was a couple of vocals to go with the dancing, something that Belanger has featured with good results in previous stanzas.
Jim McNaughton, long recognized as top tele set designer, outdid himself on this show with an intricate mounting for the action that took full advantage of the large CBS studio. Both he and Belanger are among those dropped from the payroll under the new video policy, but neither of them should have too much trouble tying op to another station. Expert work of the cameramen also rates a nod for this production. Stal. (Variety, May 7)

Sunday, May 4
WCBS-TV Channel 2, New York
2:00 Baseball at Ebbets Field, Dodgers vs. Pittsburgh, play-by-play with Bob Edge, sponsored by Ford and Post cereals.
7:15 Feature film.
8:15 “Come Into the Kitchen” with Heloise Parker Broeg.
8:30 “Party Line” with Bert Parks.
WNBT Channel 4, New York
2:05 Baseball at the Polo Grounds: New York Giants vs. Chicago Cubs, Bob Stanton play-by-play.
8:00 “At Home With Tex and Jinx,” sponsored by Ipana Toothpaste/Minit-Rub.
8:20 Television Theatre: “Show Business Inc.,” with George Price.
8:50 Sunday Evening Supper, with Lady Mendl.
WABD Channel 5, New York
2:50 Soccer at Yankee Stadium, New York All-Stars vs. Palestine Hapoel.
WBKB Channel 5, Chicago
8:00 Film.
8:30 Circus from Chicago Stadium.
WPTZ Channel 3, Philadelphia
1:45 Baseball at Shibe Park, Phillies vs. St. Louis Cardinals, play-by-play with Claude Haring.
8:00 NBC programs.
KSD-TV Channel 5, St. Louis
7:00 City Art Museum program.
7:15 Film show.
7:30 Cartoon Quiz with Amadee.
7:50 Film show.
8:00 News comment by Dr. Roland G. Usher, “Palestine and Oil.”
8:15 Film show.
8:30 Concert by Metropolitan Church Federation Quartet, G. Calvin Ringgenberg, directing.
KTLA Channel 5, Hollywood
1:00 “Tune Up Time.” Test slides, recorded music.
1:30 Baseball double-header from Wrigley Field, Los Angeles vs. Seattle.
8:00 “Tune Up Time.” Test slides, recorded music.
8:30 Cartoon comedy.
8:40 “Shopping at Home,” presented by leading Los Angeles stores.
8:55 Latest Paramount News highlights.
9:00 “Hits and Bits,” variety show, m.c.’d by Dick Lane.
9:30 “Adventure Is My Hobby,” with explorer Erwin Williamson.

Monday, May 5
WNBT Channel 4, New York
8:00 Western Film.
9:00 Esso Reporter, newsreel narrated by Paul Alley.
9:10 “Gillette Cavalcade of Sports”: Boxing at St. Nicholas Arena. Rocco Rossano vs. Chester Rice.
WABD Channel 5, New York
12:45 News Tape, from the International News Service.
1:00 to 1:15 Financial News.
3:00 News Tape, from the International News Service.
7:00 “Small Fry Club” with Bob Emery.
8:00 N.Y.U. Presents “Atomic Power in Peace.”
8:30 Film shorts.
8:45 Amateur Boxing at Jamaica Arena, Sponsored by American Stores.
WBKB Channel 5, Chicago
8:30 Wrestling from Midway arena, with Russ Davis, sponsored by Keeley Beer.
WPTZ Channel 3, Philadelphia
10:00-12:00 Test Chart.
2:15 Baseball at Shibe Park, Phillies vs. Cincinnati Reds, play-by-play with Claude Haring.
6:30-7:30 Test Chart.
8:00 NBC programs.
KSD-TV Channel 5, St. Louis
3:00 News and Views.
3:15 Weather Forecast and film.
3:25 Occupational therapy demonstration.
3:40 Film.
4:00 Man on the Street, Frank Eschen, m.c.
4:30 Film and Personal Appearance by Hilma Seay, 1947 Queen of Cotton.
7:00 Sports Close-Ups with Harry Caray and Gabby Street, sponsored by Griesedieck Brothers Brewery.
7:20 Film.
7:30 Barbershop Quartet.
8:00 Man on the Street, Frank Eschen, m.c.
8:30 Film.
8:50 Board of Education program.
W6XAO Channel 2, Los Angeles

6:30 Test Patterns, Music.
8:30 Film: “Land for Pioneers.”
8:46 New York Newsreel.
8:46 Film: “Woody Grows.”
9:04-10:04 Film: “Wheels Across India” (Denis-Roosevelt, sponsored by Dodge, 1940)
KTLA Channel 5, Hollywood
8:00 “Tune Up Time.” Test slides and music.
8:30 Ice Capades of 1947.

“Queen for a Day,” Mutual’s daytime airer, will be televised five evenings a week beginning tonight at 10:30 p.m. over Don Lee’s tele-station W6XAO. Show will not be sponsored, since station does not hold commercial license. Products may be advertised, though Don Lee can not accept payment. (Hollywood Reporter, May 5)

Tuesday, May 6
WNBT Channel 4, New York
2:30 Baseball at the Polo Grounds, N.Y. Giants vs. Cincinnati Reds, Bob Stanton play-by-play.
WABD Channel 5, New York
12:45 News ticker from INS, Test Pattern.
1:00 Financial News.
3:00 to 5:00 News ticker from INS, Test Pattern.
7:00 “Movies for Small Fry” hosted by Bob Emery.
7:30 “Cash and Carry” with Dennis James.
8:00 Western Feature Film, sponsored by Chevrolet, relayed to WTTG.
9:30 “Serving Through Science,” sponsored by U.S. Rubber, relayed to WTTG.
[Herald Tribune has no WABD daytime programming.]
WBKB Channel 5, Chicago
7:30 “Behind the Headlines.”
7:45 Film short subjects.
8:00 “Remember the Days.”
8:15 Film short subjects.
8:30 Drama: “Speak of the Devil.”
WPTZ Channel 3, Philadelphia
10:00-12:00 Test Chart.
2:15 Baseball at Shibe Park, Phillies vs. Chicago Cubs, play-by-play with Claude Haring.
KTLA Channel 5, Hollywood
2:00 “Tune Up Time.” Test slides and music.
2:30 Baseball. From Wrigley Field. Los Angeles vs. Hollywood Stars.
8:30 p.m. Boxing from Olympic Auditorium. Main event, state featherweight championship bout. Carlos Chavez vs. Harold Dade.
Olympic Boxing Card
Reviewed Tuesday (6), 8:30-11:30 p.m. Style-Boxing bouts. Remote from Olympic Auditorium. Sustaining over KTLA (Paramount), Hollywood.
This is the type of tele fare that packs the set -selling punch. For the first time in six years, area's living room lookers got into Olympic Auditorium (or any fight arena) to view boxing thru the video eye. Judging by what was seen at this show, dealers may well expect receiver sales to mount, especially since the outlet has put its Olympic visit on a two-a-week sked.
While KTLA has been scanning studio-staged matches for more than two years, the atmosphere of the professional ring, the roaring crowd and the feeling that is the real thing made tonight's offering head and shoulders above any leather-pusher seg yet to be picked up by this outlet. KTLA brought the Olympic's complete card, including the State championship featherweight bout between Carlos Chavez and Harold Dade. Experience gained by lensers in wielding the tele eye at KTLA's studio matches paid off with high dividends. So well were the cameras piloted that not once did the home-viewer miss his ringside seat. Actually, the set watcher had a better-than-ringside seat from his easy-chair. OWO cameras (image orthicons) were used, blanketing all corners of the ring.
Bill Welch turned in an excellent announcing job. Avoiding the perils of radio's right-to-the-body, left-to-the-jaw school of fight patter, Welch let the tele screen speak for itself, stressing mostly identification of the leather-pushers. A tele-wise move on the part of KTLA Chief Klaus Landsberg was the occasional cut-in shots of the crowd, helping to project into the home the ringside atmosphere. Lee Zhito. (Billboard, May 17)

Wednesday, May 7
WCBS-TV Channel 2, New York
1:50 Baseball at Ebbets Field, Dodgers vs. St. Louis Cardinals, Bob Edge announcing, sponsored by Ford and Post cereals.
WNBT Channel 4, New York
2:20 Baseball at the Polo Grounds, N.Y. Giants vs. Cincinnati Reds, Bob Stanton play-by-play.
7:30 “Kraft Television Theatre” Drama: “Double Door” with Eleanor Wilson and others.
8:30 “In the Kelvinator Kitchen” with Alma Kitchell. Relayed to WTTG (DuMont) Washington
WABD Channel 5, New York
12:45 to 5:00 News Tape, from the International News Service.
1:00-1:15 Financial News.
7:00 “Small Fry Club” with Bob Emery.
8:00 “Dawn of Better Living,” sponsored by Wanamaker’s.
8:30 Film Shorts.
8:45-11:00 Boxing at Jamaica Arena, Tony La Bua vs. Cyril Gallie, sponsored by American Stores.
WBKB Channel 5, Chicago
7:30 “The Time and the Girl.”
7:45 Film short subjects.
8:00 A.F.R.A. show.
8:30 Wrestling from Rainbo arena, with Russ Davis, sponsored by Keeley Beer.
WPTZ Channel 3, Philadelphia
10:00-12:00 Test Chart.
2:15 Baseball at Shibe Park, Phillies vs. Chicago Cubs, play-by-play with Claude Haring.
KTLA Channel 5, Hollywood
3:00-5:00 Film program for television dealers.
8:30 p.m. Wrestling from Olympic auditorium. Main event, Enrique Torres vs. Maurice La Chappelle.
DOUBLE DOOR
With Eleanor Wilson, Valerie Cossart, Romola Robb, John Baragrey, John Stephen, Joseph Boley, others
Producer-director: Stan Quinn
Adapted by Edmund Rice from play by Elizabeth McFadden
Tech. dir.; Al Protzman
Set: Bob Wade 60 Mins.; Wed. (7), 7:30 p.m. KRAFT
WNBT-NBC, N. Y.
(J. Walter Thompson)
New series of Kraft-sponsored one-hour dramats got off to a faulty start over WNBT Wednesday (7) night through the unfortunate selection of a dull, overly-done melodrama that has lost whatever merit it might once have possessed through the passage of time. "Double Door," scripted by Elizabeth McFadden, enjoyed a long run on Broadway in 1933 and was filmed the following year by Paramount but, for video purposes, it was too heavy, slow-paced and outdated.

Production on the show, however, was very good, indicating the series should perk up with the selection of better plays, such as "Merton of the Movies," which is slated for next week. J. Walter Thompson producer Stan Quinn got a touch of motion picture trademarking in his opening fadein, via a large blocked "K" (for Kraft) and the accompanying toy-sized tele cameraman dollying into position before the lenses lent a novel touch. Use of a commentary to set the scene and bridge the acts was also good.
Cast, most of them experienced legiters, tried hard with the script but could never make their caricaturish roles ring true. Eleanor Wilson built up the right type of antipathy as the sexless, domineering head of the old Van Brett family but the script, forcing her sudden transformation into a gibbering idiot at the fadeout, negated the character. Romola Robb and John Baragrey seemed cold and ill at ease in the romantic leads, never eliciting the audience sympathy they should have had. John Stephen as the doctor, Joseph Boley as the family attorney and Valerie Cossart as the second spinsterish sister fared better in supporting roles.
Quinn integrated his camera work neatly with the script, receiving good support from technical director Al Protzman. Kraft commercials were unobtrusive and deftly-executed, constituting an okay method of filling the screen between acts. Bob Wade's single set of the family's living room and entrance to the double-doored vault was heavy and cold, adding considerably to the play's motif. Stal. (Variety, May 14)

IN THE KELVINATOR KITCHEN
With Alma Kitchell; Ray Forrest, announcer
Director: Howard Cordery
Tech. dir.: Bill States
Set: Bob Wade
20 Mins.; Wed. 8:30 p.m.
NASH-KELVINATOR
WNBT-NBC, N. Y.
(Geyer, Newell & Ganger)
An interesting enough show, "In the Kelvinator Kitchen" is another of those slanted directly at the housewives that would best be slotted in the afternoon hours. Because of the difficulties inherent in daytime programming presently, ad agencies are experimenting with such packages after dark, hoping the experience gained will give them sufficient knowhow to take advantage of the time when there's a large enough daytime audience to make such shows pay off.

"Kitchen" features Alma Kitchell, prexy of the Assn. of Woman Broadcasters and whose "Woman's Exchange" radio show is aired Mondays through Fridays on the ABC web. As with other shows of this type, Mrs. Kitchell is spotted in a spaciously modern kitchen, where she demonstrates methods of preparing food. In the preem program last Wednesday (7), she broiled a planked steak that looked plenty toothsome.
With her radio background, Mrs. Kitchell speaks her lines well, although it seemed at times as though she was referring too often to a script lying on the table before her. She definitely knows her way around the kitchen and makes the show interesting enough to appeal to whatever male chefs may be in the audience, as well as to the majority of distaffers. Stal. (Variety, May 14)

THE TIME AND THE GIRL
With Bob Dunne, Nancy Elleman
Director-Writer: Lewis Gomevitz
15 Mins., Wednesday [7], 7:30 p.m.
Sustaining
WBKB-Chicago
The very simple, uncomplicated presentation of a 15-minute video show which does nothing but offer glimpse of love match between two nice-looking kids, may be stepping stone to problem of using music in television without worry of criticism from musicians' union.
Program, which is part of series of boy-girl plots, is devoted to singing of two or three romantic ballads by Bob Dunne, bow-tied juvenie, to sweet-faced Nancy Elleman, Catch is that music used for songs, "You Go to My Head," "East of the Sun," and "Goodnight Sweetheart" were ordinary disks with Dunne's voice dubbed in.
Director Lewis Gomevitz did remarkable job of helping Dunne select suitable scores, with odds that audience didn't realize not one of numbers done were in boy's key. Melodies performed were so relaxed, synchronization was not noticeable.
Sets used deserve mention because they were realistic enough to make park and garden scenes authentic. In remainder of series, backgrounds used will include records shops, front parlors and other spots which will create an excuse for a few vocals. Cameras did neat job of following through on actors' smooth performances by not jumping or fading when opposites took over. One camera faux pas of making a scheduled close up a long shot, found hero completely ignoring heroine by looking straight at audience in singing "Goodnight Sweetheart" instead of her. Hunt (Variety, May 14)

Hollywood.—Los Angeles viewers will get regularly scheduled professional fights and wrestling matches on their television receivers under deal made here between Paramount's KTLA and Olympic Stadium. Localites follow example set by New York operators in latching on to the two sports as tops among come-ons to set buying. Coin exchanged, if any, was not revealed.
Deal went into effect tonight (Tues.) [7] with the airing of a State welterweight championship tussle between Carlos Chavez and Harold Dade. It will be further implemented tomorrow night (Wed.) with the coverage of the first wrestling match, and thereafter both will be regularly scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday nights.
Par claims it has a long-term deal, but this is moot since other prospective operators are sure to pressure the Stadium, among them the Los Angeles Times and other radio stations, both of which can hurt or help the stadium with their double-barreled, coverage. Nearly all seven of the prospective video ops should be in action by next year. At that time there should be considerable action on the question of exclusives.
Hollywood Legion Stadium, considerably smaller, also opens itself to bidding this week. Don Lee station, W6XAO, will carry one fight on a special event basis, but thereafter the Stadium- is open to all comers. It's possible that the Par station will also be in these pitching with others. (Variety, May 7)

Young & Rubicam ad agency, continuing experiments with various television formats for General Foods' sponsorship, is lining up a new half-hour show to replace the Harriet Van Home and James Beard 15-minute segments Thursday nights on WNBT (NBC, N. Y.).
New show will plug La France and Satina, both household products, and will be slanted at housewives with a view to making it a potential daytime program. Agency production staff is currently auditioning talent, with none signed yet. Show has been set for six weeks, to follow "Juvenile Jury," other G-F show, on WNBT.
Y. & R. execs emphasized that neither Beard nor Miss Van Home are being replaced, but that they were signed only for seven weeks for experimental purposes. Duo plugged Birdseye frozen foods, and NBC has received more than 500 requests for food recipes introduced by Beard on his "I Love to Eat" segment.
Y. & R. is also prepping a series of one-minute weather commercials to plug Instant Sanka coffee, another G-F product, which will preem on WABD (DuMont, N. Y.), June 2. Commercials, which will run 39 weeks, are being filmed by Audio Productions, N. Y. indie outfit. (Variety, May 7)

Thursday, May 8
WCBS-TV Channel 2, New York
7:45 “All New York Junior High School Quiz.”
8:15 CBS Television News with Douglas Edwards, sponsored by Gulf.
8:30 Baseball from Ebbets Field: Brooklyn Dodgers vs. St. Louis Cardinals, play-by-play with Bob Edge, sponsored by Ford and Post cereals.
Weather reports sponsored by Reid’s Ice Cream.
WNBT Channel 4, New York
7:50 Television Newsreel.
8:00 “Juvenile Jury” from NBC’s Studio 8-G with Jack Barry, sponsored by Gaines Dog Food.
8:30 “Birdseye Open House,” interviews by Harriet Van Horne and food recipes with James Beard, sponsored by Birdseye Frozen Foods
9:00 “You Are an Artist” with John Gnagy, sponsored by Gulf Oil.
9:10 Television Newsreel, Frederick Woltman, guest.
WABD Channel 5, New York
12:45 to 5:00 News Tape, from the International News Service, with Financial Talks.
7:00 “Small Fry Club” with Bob Emery.
7:30 Film short.
8:00 Junior Jamboree.
8:30 “Swing Into Golf” with Ernie Jones, sponsored by the Perry Blouse Company.
WBKB Channel 4, Chicago
7:30 Milt Hopwood’s Sports Show.
8:00 “Over Shoemaker’s Shoulder,” cartoon drawing show.
8:15 “Let’s Face It.”
8:30 Teen Agers of America.
WPTZ Channel 3, Philadelphia
10:00-12:00 Test Chart.
2:15 Baseball at Shibe Park, Phillies vs. Chicago Cubs, play-by-play with Claude Haring.
6:30-7:30 Test Chart.
7:50 NBC program.
8:00 Pete Boyle’s Sketchbook, Film, Sears Visi-Quiz.
KSD-TV Channel 5, St. Louis
3:00 News and Views.
3:15 Film.
3:25 Air Fair Atomic Energy Exhibit.
3:45 Man on the Street.
8:25 Baseball at Sportsman’s Park, Browns vs. Philadelphia A’s, play-by-play with J. Roy Stockton and Ellis Veech, sponsored by Purity Bakeries.
KTLA Channel 5, Hollywood
3:00-5:00 Film program for television dealers.
4:30 “Lest We Forget,” sponsored by the U.S. Army.
8:00 Baseball. From Wrigley Field. Los Angeles vs. Hollywood Stars.

Network television for Chicago came into view yesterday [May 8] with the announcement by William C. Eddy, director of radio station WBKB, that it is ready to telecast, by way of very high frequency (VHF) radio relay, special events from northern Indiana. Construction of relay links, now in their final stage, will connect South Bend with the station’s transmitter at 190 N. State st. This will make it possible to telecast Notre Dame’s home football games next fall. A special two hour program from Indiana, saluting Illinois televiewers, is planned for early in June to celebrate completion of the relay system.
Besides bringing Chicago viewers an expanded coverage of sports and special events, the new video relay system gives promise of providing the necessary link in the summer of 1948 to show the midwest the Republican national convention in Philadelphia. Other television features now carried over the eastern coaxial cable network also are expected.
Further Connections Possible.
The WBKB relay can be tied in with any other similar system that may be developed to the cast, possibly out of Detroit, Toledo, or Cleveland, which either have television stations or soon will have them. The relay also can be linked up with any telecasting that may be done thru coaxial cable systems now being laid by the American Telephone and Telegraph company.
A coaxial cable link between Cleveland and Chicago is scheduled for completion within a year. A coaxial cable is already laid from downtown Chicago southward to the city limits. Another line being laid westward from Cleveland will pass thru South Bend.
Plan Fair Telecast
Eddy said plans are being made to telecast highlights of the La Porte, Ind. fair, perhaps the Columbian yacht races at Michigan City, and other south shore events. Construction of other relay links later will make it possible to show events in Purdue university at Lafayette and in the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.
Construction of the new relay system, with transmitter-receiver towers in Michigan City and New Carlisle, constitutes a major step toward making Chicago the television hub of the nation, Eddy said. (Larry Wolters, Chi. Trib. May 9)

Middletown.—A shortened version of the ’92 Theater Group production, MacBeth, will be televised through General Electric Television station WRGB in Schenectady, N.Y., on May 8, at 7:30 p.m., Ralph Pendleton, director, announced today [3].
Present statistics show that Macbeth will be the first Shakespearean production ever televised, as well as the first Wesleyan play ever televised.
Arthur Weld, ’37, program director for WRGB and former Wesleyan drama star noted for his performance of Herod in the Shearman and the Taylors, originated the idea. The directors of WRGB have shown their enthusiasm by offering to pay the expenses of the 18 persons in the cast.
Members of the cast will leave the campus next Thursday, and have three preliminary rehearsals before showtime. The original costumes will be used. (Hartford Courant, May 3)

Friday, May 9

WNBT Channel 4
2:30 Baseball at the Polo Grounds: Giants vs. Boston Braves, Bob Stanton play-by-play.
8:00 “Campus Hoopla” with Clair Bee, coach of the Long Island U. basketball team, sponsored by U.S. Rubber Co.
8:20 “In Town Today” with Buffalo Bob Smith.
8:30 “The World in Your Home,” sponsored by RCA.
8:47 “Gillette Cavalcade of Sports”: Boxing from St. Nicholas Arena. Willie Beltram vs. Al Guido.
Time Signal sponsored by Benrus.
WABD Channel 5, New York
12:45 News Tape from INS.
1:00 Financial News, sponsored by Bache and Co.
3:30 News Tape from INS.
7:00 “Small Fry Club” with Bob Emery.
7:30 Film Shorts.
8:00 “Open Door”: Television Talent Hunt.
8:30 Film Shorts.
9:00-11:00 Wrestling from Jamaica Arena.
WBKB Channel 5, Chicago
7:30 “Telechats,” sponsored by The Fair.
7:45 Short subjects.
8:00 “Telequizzicalls,” sponsored by Commonwealth Edison.
8:30 Films.
9:00 Boxing at Rainbo arena, Jackie Darthard vs Ray Barnes, welterweight, eight rounds, sponsored by Keeley Beer.
WPLZ Channel 3, Philadelphia
10:00-12:00, 2:00-5:00, 6:30-7:30 Test Chart.
8:00 NBC program.
8:20 “Handy Man” with Jack Creamer, sponsored by Gimbels.
8:35 “Pleased to Meet You.”
8:45 NBC program.
KSD-TV Channel 5, St. Louis
3:00 News and Views.
3:15 Film.
3:25 Southern Baptist Convention Program.
3:45 Man on the Street.
4:00 Film Shows.
8:25 Baseball at Sportsman’s Park, Browns vs. Cleveland Indians, play-by-play with J. Roy Stockton and Ellis Veech, sponsored by Purity Bakeries.
W6XAO Channel 2, Los Angeles
2:30 Test Pattern.
3:30-4:30 Variety Film.
KTLA Channel 5, Hollywood
3:00-5:00 Film program for television dealers. Begins with the 10-minute short "What a Day," produced especially for television with a cast of children.
8:00 Baseball. From Wrigley Field. Los Angeles vs. Hollywood Stars.

HOLLYWOOD, May 10.—Reciprocal news film-strip exchange plan between Don Lee's W6XAO and Columbia's CBS-TV in New York has now reached an active stage and bids fair to become an important tele adjunct in the future, according to Harry Lubcke, Don Lee tele director. Film switch deal was consummated around first of this year and provides for free interchange of news shots deemed of interest to video lookers in both areas.
Exchange to date has been one sided, with Don Lee airmailing eight news strips to CBS. Columbia last week shipped a total of 11 minutes of footage as its first contribution to Coast lookers.
It has been Don Lee's practice to shoot footage on week-ends for inclusion in regularly skedded Monday telecasts, with prints flown to New York the same day. Films are silent, altho Don Lee provides cue sheets for narration and music cues to be edited and produced by CBS in New York. (Billboard, May 17)

Saturday, May 10
WCBS-TV Channel 2, New York
7:45 CBS Television News with Tom O’Connor.
8:00 Variety Showcase.
8:30 Circus from Madison Square Garden, Gil Fates, commentary, sponsored by Ford.
WNBT Channel 4
1:30 Clown Alley, with performer from the Circus.
2:20 Baseball at the Polo Grounds: Giants vs. Boston Braves, Bob Stanton play-by-play.
WPLZ Channel 3, Philadelphia
1:45 Baseball at Shibe Park, Phillies vs. Brooklyn Dodgers, play-by-play with Claude Haring.
KSD-TV Channel 5, St. Louis
3:00 News and Views.
3:15 Film.
3:30 Junior Achievement Fashion Show.
4:00 Film Shows.
8:25 Baseball at Sportsman’s Park, Browns vs. Cleveland Indians, play-by-play with J. Roy Stockton and Ellis Veech, sponsored by Purity Bakeries.

KTLA Channel 5, Hollywood
3 p.m. Film program for television dealers.
4:30 p.m. Feature harness race direct from Hollywood Park.
7:30 p.m. Tune Up Time. Test slides - recorded music.
8:00 p.m “Your Town—Los Angeles presents Music For Everyone.”
8:15 “Adventure is My Hobby” with explorer Irwin Williamson.
8:30 p.m. Western feature film.

Sunday, May 11
WCBS-TV Channel 2, New York
7:15 Feature film.
8:15 “Happy Headlines” with Lawrence Larrier, cartooning oddities in the news.
8:30 “Party Line” with Bert Parks.

WNBT Channel 4, New York
2:05 Baseball at the Polo Grounds: New York Giants vs. Boston Braves, Bob Stanton play-by-play.
8:00 “At Home With Tex and Jinx,” sponsored by Ipana Toothpaste/Minit-Rub
8:30 Feature film: “Turn of the Tide” with Geraldine Fitzgerald (Gaumont, 1935).
[Note: Inquirer says Tex-Jinx, Film, NBC Tele-Theater, Religious Film.]
WPLZ Channel 3, Philadelphia
1:15 Baseball at Shibe Park, Phillies vs. Brooklyn Dodgers, play-by-play with Claude Haring.
8:00 NBC programs.
KSD-TV Channel 5, St. Louis
8:00 Interview with Ralph Edwards of the Truth or Consequences program.
8:10 Film.
8:20 Comment by Dr. Roland G. Usher on "The Strategic Position of Turkey".
8:30 Film.
9:00 Film.
9:10 Art Museum program.
9:30 Southern Baptist convention program; Dr. L. D. Newton, president of the convention; Oklahoma University Glee Club.
KTLA Channel 5, Hollywood
1:30 Baseball double-header from Wrigley Field, Los Angeles vs. Hollywood.
8:00 “Tune Up Time.” Test slides, recorded music.
8:30 Cartoon comedy.
8:40 “Shopping at Home,” with Keith Hetherington and Harrise Brin, presented by leading Los Angeles stores.
8:55 Latest Paramount News highlights.
9:00 “Hits and Bits,” variety show, m.c.’d by Dick Lane.
Killers of the Deep
Reviewed Sunday (11), 9:30-10 p.m. Style—Film plus live running commentary. Sustaining over KTLA (Paramount), Hollywood.
Having ironed out the kinks in its thriller-diller series, Adventure Is My Hobby, outlet's Killers of the Deep episode tonight was its smoothest to date. Opened with telephone operator gimmick, gal telling a "caller" that the show is about to go on. Then a brief shot of a glamour gal operator was faded into a close-up of explorer-narrator Erwin Williamson. Latter then presented a short explanatory intro to the undersea footage, laying the groundwork for the suspenseful material to follow.
Filmed by Williamson off the coast of Florida, footage showed the deadly creatures of the deep. Undersea camera suddenly sprung into action as it was focused on an eel and octopus locked in a death battle. Williamson, providing the live commentary, made the most of the situation in describing the struggle that brought death to the octopus. Williamson's "I was there" patter, was voiced and worded in a manner that had viewers biting their nails.
Roy Rowen [Rowan] this week replaced Dick Lane in the interviewer's slot, definitely improving the question-answer portion of the seg that followed the film. Rowen handled the queries in a straight fashion, giving Williamson the limelight thruout. Audience participation gimmick is worked, with studio audience as well as home viewers calling in questions. Seg is rounded out with a shot of the "phone operator" and "call in your questions next week" routine. Operator's fade-out sequence could be improved by trimming it down to just a brief shot. Lee Zhito. (Billboard, May 17)

Monday, May 12
WCBS-TV Channel 2, New York
1:30 Baseball at Ebbets Field, Brooklyn vs. Boston, play-by-play with Bob Edge, sponsored by Ford and Post cereals.
WNBT Channel 4, New York
8:00 Film: “Idaho Kid” with Rex Bell (Colony, 1936).
9:00 Esso Reporter, newsreel narrated by Paul Alley.
9:10 Gillette Cavalcade of Sports: Boxing at St. Nicholas Arena. Amelio Agramonte vs, Billy Grant.
WABD Channel 5, New York
1:00-1:15 Financial News.
6:45 Sports News,
7:00 “Small Fry Club” hosted by Bob Emery.
7:30 Feature Film.
8:30 Film Shorts.
8:45-11:00 Amateur Boxing at Jamaica Arena, Sponsored by American Stores.
WBKB Channel 5, Chicago
8:30 Wrestling from Midway arena, with Russ Davis, sponsored by Keeley Beer.
WPTZ Channel 3, Philadelphia
10:00-12:00, 2:00-5:00, 6:30-7:30 Test Chart.
8:00 NBC programs.
KSD-TV Channel 5, St. Louis
3:00 News and Views.
3:15 Weather forecast; film.
3:30 Interview with Dorothy and Ernie Lind, sharpshooters.
4:00 Man on the Street, Frank Eschen, M C.
4:30 Film.
7.00 Barbershop quartet and film.
7:30 Sports Close-Ups with Harry Caray and Gabby Street, sponsored by Griesedieck Brothers Brewery.
8:00 Man on the Street.
8:30 Film.
8:45 Board of Education Program.
W6XAO Channel 2, Los Angeles
2:30 Test Patterns and Station Identification.
2:35 Film: “Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons.”
3:03 Test Patterns and Station Identification.
3:30 Film: “India’s Prize Cattle.”
3:41 Film: “Lima.”
3:51 Film: “Strength of the Hills.”
4:01-4:30 Test Patterns and Station Identification.
6:30-8:31 Test Patterns and Station Identification.
8:31 Film: “The 5C Clubs of Cuba.”
8:48 Film: “The Redwood Saga.
8:59 Test Patterns and Station Identification.
9:00 Film: “New Trails Through Mexico.”
9:28 Film: “The Steam Locomotive.”
9:39 Test Patterns and Closing Announcement.
KTLA Channel 5, Hollywood
8:00 “Tune Up Time.” Test slides and music.
8:30 Ice Capades of 1947.

Tuesday, May 13
WNBT Channel 4, New York City
2:00 Opening of RCA Exhibition Hall.
WABD Channel 5, New York City
1:00 Financial News.
1:50 Baseball from Yankee Stadium, Yankees vs. St. Louis Browns, play-by-play with Bill Slater.
7:00 “Movies for Small Fry” hosted by Bob Emery.
7:30 “Cash and Carry” with Dennis James.
8:00 Western Feature Film, sponsored by Chevrolet, relayed to WTTG.
9:30 “Serving Through Science,” sponsored by U.S. Rubber, relayed to WTTG.
WBKB Channel 5, Chicago
1:25 Baseball at Wrigley Field: Cubs vs. Boston Braves, Joe Wilson and Jack Brickhouse announcing, sponsored by Commonwealth Edison and Ford.
7:30 “Behind the Headlines.”
7:45 Film short subjects.
8:00 “Remember the Days.”
8:15 Film short subjects.
8:30 Drama: “Speak of the Devil.”
WPTZ Channel 3, Philadelphia
10:00-12:00 Test Chart.
2:15 Baseball at Shibe Park, Philadelphia A’s vs. Cleveland Indians, play-by-play with Claude Haring.
KTLA Channel 5, Hollywood
3:00 “Tune Up Time.” Test slides and music.
4:00 Film program for television dealers.
4:30 “Your Town—Los Angeles Presents.”
8:30 p.m. Boxing from Olympic Auditorium. Main event, Bobby Zander vs. Fitzy Fitzpatrick, heavyweights.

Wednesday, May 14
WNBT Channel 4, New York
7:30 “Kraft Television Theatre”. Drama: “Merton of the Movies” with Eddie Mayehoff.
8:30 “In the Kelvinator Kitchen” with Alma Kitchell. Relayed to WTTG (DuMont) Washington.
WABD Channel 5, New York
1:00 News Tape, from the International News Service, with Financial Reports.
1:50 Baseball at Yankee Stadium, Yankees vs. St. Louis Browns, play-by-play with Bill Slater.
6:54 Sports News.
7:00 “Small Fry Club” with Bob Emery.
8:00 “Dawn of Better Living,” America's Own Fragrence, sponsored by Wanamaker’s.
8:30 Film Shorts.
8:45-11:00 Boxing at Jamaica Arena, Warren Peterson vs. Andy Peppe, sponsored by American Stores.
WBKB Channel 5, Chicago
1:25 Baseball at Wrigley Field: Cubs vs. Boston Braves, Joe Wilson and Jack Brickhouse announcing, sponsored by Commonwealth Edison and Ford.
7:15 “Name Your Temperature.”
7:30 “Frank Wood, Private Detective.”
8:00 Film short subjects.
8:15 “The Time and the Girl.”
8:30 Wrestling from Rainbo arena, with Russ Davis, sponsored by Keeley Beer.
WPTZ Channel 3, Philadelphia
10:00-12:00 Test Chart.
2:15 Baseball at Shibe Park, Philadelphia A’s vs. Cleveland Indians, play-by-play with Claude Haring.
KTLA Channel 5, Hollywood
8:00 “Tune Up Time.” Test slides and music.
8:30 Wrestling matches at the Olympic Arena, George and Bobby Becker vs. Jules Strongbow and Rebel Russell; Reginald Siki vs. Billy Venable.

New series of Kraft-sponsored full-length plays on WNBT (NBC, N. Y.) is still having trouble getting its best foot forward. After teeing off with a slow-paced melodrama, "Double Door," May 7, the J. Walter Thompson producers came back last Wednesday (14) night with "Merton of the Movies," another slow-paced dramat. Only difference was that "Merton" was supposed to be a comedy—at least that's the way the old Famous Players treated the George S. Kaufman-Marc Connelly script in 1924 and the way Metro hopes its remake of the film will turn out this year.
Chief fault with the televised version of "Merton" is in the direction which never brought the script above the dull, stodgy pattern set in the first act. Eddie Mayehoff, star of the late "Hour Glass" series on WNBT, at several times achieved the pathos inherent in the tragicomic character of the star-worshipping hick who wants to act in "finer things" on the screen." Rest of the cast, including Barbara Joyce as the girl, played their roles competently but without the relish that better direction would have imparted.
After two tries, the series' chief saving grace is its novel method of presentation — which doesn't make for a full hour of entertainment. (Variety, May 21)

WASHINGTON. May 14—-The Federal Communications Commission authorized today four new television stations in the New York metropolitan area.
Making final a proposed decision announced April 15, the commission assigned television channels to Bamberger Broadcasting Service. Inc., operator of station WOR in New York: American Broadcasting Co., Inc., which operates WJZ in New York and other stations: News Syndicate Co., Inc., publisher of “The Daily News” in New York, and Bremer Broadcasting Corp., which operates station WAAT in Newark, N. J.
The commission gave America Broadcasting Co. channel No. 7, Bamberger No. 9, “The News” No. 11, and Bremer No. 13. (Herald Tribune, May 14)

Thursday, May 15

WCBS-TV Channel 2, New York
8:15 CBS Television News with Douglas Edwards, sponsored by Gulf.
8:30 Exhibition Billiards: Willie Hoppe, Charlie Peterson, Jimmy Caras, Jimmy Cattrano.
9:00 Film: “Ticket to a Dance.
Weather reports sponsored by Reid’s Ice Cream.
WNBT Channel 4, New York
7:50 Television Newsreel.
8:00 “Juvenile Jury” from NBC’s Studio 8-G with Jack Barry, sponsored by Gaines Dog Food.
8:30 “Birdseye Open House,” interviews by Harriet Van Horne and food recipes with James Beard, sponsored by Birdseye Frozen Foods
9:00 “You Are an Artist” with John Gnagy, sponsored by Gulf Oil.
9:10 “In Town Today” with Buffalo Bob Smith.
9:20 Television Newsreel.
WABD Channel 5, New York
1:00 News Tape, from the International News Service, with Financial Reports.
6:54 Sports News.
7:00 “Small Fry Club” with Bob Emery.
7:30 Birthday Party with Bill Slater (debut).
8:00 Film short.
8:15 “Swing Into Golf” with Ernie Jones, sponsored by the Perry Blouse Company.
8:30 “Faces to Remember,” sponsored by Mouquin Wine.
8:40 Baseball at Yankee Stadium, Yankees vs. White Sox, play by play with Bill Slater.
WBKB Channel 4, Chicago
1:25 Baseball at Wrigley Field: Cubs vs. N.Y. Giants, Joe Wilson and Jack Brickhouse announcing, sponsored by Commonwealth Edison and Ford.
7:30 “Let’s Face It.”
7:45 “Cavalcade of Medicine.”
8:00 “Over Shoemaker’s Shoulder,” cartoon drawing show.
8:15 Film, short subjects.
8:30 Milt Hopwood’s Sports Review, with western conference championship fencing team.
9:00 “Thoughts and Silhouettes.”
WPTZ Channel 3, Philadelphia
10:00-12:00 Test Chart.
2:15 Baseball at Shibe Park, Philadelphia A’s vs. Detroit Tigers, play-by-play with Claude Haring.
6:30-7:30 Test Chart.
7:50 NBC program.
8:00 University Museum—Once Upon a Time in Music, Film, Sears Visi-Quiz.
KSD-TV Channel 5, St. Louis
3:00 News and Views.
3:15 Film.
3:25 Folk Festival Interview.
3:45 Man on the Street.
4:00 Film shows.
8:10 Sports Closeups with Harry Caray and Gabby Street, sponsored by Griesedieck Brothers Brewery.
8:25 Baseball from Sportsman’s Park, St. Louis Cardinals vs. Boston Braves, sponsored by Purity Bakery.
KTLA Channel 5, Hollywood
3:00 “Tune Up Time.” Test slides and music.
4:00 Film program for television dealers.
4:30 “Lest We Forget,” presented by your regular army.
8:15 Baseball from Gilmore Field, Hollywood Stars vs. San Francisco Seals.
Birthday Party
Reviewed Thursday (15), 7:30-8 p.m. Style—Amateur show. Sustaining over WABD (DuMont), New York.
Concocted by Dave Alber and Lou Dahlman, Birthday Party is a kiddie package geared strictly for the moppet viewer. With veteran Bill Slater playing Uncle Bill to a precocious gang of juveniles at the DuMont studios, each show has as guest of honor some tyke who is celebrating a birthday to make the viewers part of the party, youngsters who have birthdays are invited to send their names in to Slater, who reads them off during the program. Show itself consists of orthodox amateur stuff rendered by the guests at the studio party.
Best portions of the show were those where the kids were spotted doing their acts or sitting at the birthday table. Slater on his own was okay, and his sympathetic and fond handling of the four-year-old chief guest was well done. However, when Slater engaged the older performers in pre-performance chatter, they seemed wooden, ill at ease and acutely conscious of the cameras, at which the kids, without exception, stared.
There were some original touches to the production, with Slater making his entrance via a chimney, to plop on the floor for a camera close-up. However, while the 10 acts presented were capable enough, they offered little variety from the humdrum tap and song stuff. Moreover, excessive mugging and gesturing by most of the performers seem to indicate that, regardless of age, presence of a mike or a camera is sufficient to bring out the ham in a performer. School-agers may find Birthday Party satisfactory fare if greater variety can be instilled init. Sam Chase. (Billboard, May 24)

April 1947 Part 2

There wasn’t very much on television during the daytime in April 1947 other than a baseball game or a test pattern. WPTZ in Philadelphia had an hour-long show directed at housewives but like most programmes in the era, it didn’t last all that long. The expense of bringing in a daytime crew just wasn’t justified.

The stations that aired test patterns seem to have avoided accompanying them with a steady one-kilocycle tone. They played music; there were enough different production libraries around that could be used. The DuMont station did something else. It signed a deal with Hearst’s International News Service to show a news ticker on the screen. Someone at DuMont at the time said it might have been more popular than their night-time programmes.

In April 1947, WABD went one step further. They sold the ticker. Or, rather, a brief business programme built around quotes from the INS business wire. A clever idea.

The NBC station, WNBT, was about to go a step further, preparing a daytime show with those radio chatterboxes, Tex and Jinx Falkenberg. As for CBS’ WCBS-TV, we’ll save that for our next post.

And Bert Parks took over from John Reed King as the host of "Party Line" this month. King would continue to produce the show. Parks didn't "stop the music" (and Fred Allen) on radio for about another year.

The usual news and reviews are below. Dave Garroway gets a TV show; he was based in Chicago before going to New York and taking on the Today show. There was plenty of sports.

By the way, if the references to Wrigley Field are confusing, let me explain. There was (and is) a Wrigley Field in Chicago. There was also one in Los Angeles (photo, left). The same Wrigley family owned them. When major league baseball displaced the Pacific Coast League in the city in 1958, the park was sold. It ended up in the hands of the city, which tore it down in 1969.

Wednesday, April 16
WCBS-TV Channel 2, New York
2:00 Baseball at Ebbets Field, Dodgers vs. Boston Braves, Bob Edge play-by-play, sponsored by Ford and Post Toasties.
6:30 “Come Into the Kitchen,” home economics program with Heloise Parker Broeg.
WABD Channel 5, New York
1:50 Baseball at Yankee Stadium, Yankees vs Philadelphia A’s, Bill Slater play-by-play.
7:59 Program Notes.
8:00 “Butterick Fashions.”
8:30 Film Shorts.
8:45-11:00 Boxing at Jamaica Arena, Tony La Bua vs. Maurice (Lefty) Lachance, Eli Deloach vs Ted Drew. Sponsored by American Stores.
WBKB Channel 5, Chicago
1:15 Book Review.
1:30 Baseball at Wrigley, Cubs vs. Pittsburgh, Joe Wilson and Jack Brickhouse announcing, sponsored by Commonwealth Edison and Ford.
8:30 Wrestling from Rainbo arena, Russ Davis announcing.
WPTZ Channel 3, Philadelphia
10:00-12:00 Test Chart.
2:15 Baseball at Shibe Park: New York Giants vs. Phillies.
KTLA Channel 5, Hollywood
2:00 “Tune Up Time”: Test Slides, Recorded Music.
2:15 World’s Bowling Championship.
8:00 “Tune Up Time”: Test Slides, Recorded Music.
8:30 Baseball Direct from Gilmore Field, Hollywood Stars vs. San Diego Padres.

NEW YORK.—First public action demonstration of a new television lens which telescopes from long full-length shots to close-ups was held this week [16] in the studios of National Broadcasting Company(NBC). Called the Jerry Fairbanks Zoomar lens, invention was developed by Dr. Frank G. Back in collaboration with Fairbanks, who is producing it. Variable magnification, which Zoomar makes possible without switching lenses, constitutes "an out-standing contribution to television technique," according to John F. Royal, NBC vice-president in charge of television.
Major use of the lens probably will be for outdoor and sports events, where dolly and boom cannot be used for close-ups. Also, use with image orthicon camera makes unnecessary current use of a battery of turret lenses. Instead, the Zoomar itself is constructed with a large number of coated lens surfaces. Once it has focused upon a scene, it keeps that shot in focus while making the close-up, by means of simple level adjustments.
Demonstration was made using two image orthicon cameras, one mounted on a movable dolly, and the other stationary, but equipped with the Zoomar. Both switched from long-range to close-ups, the movable camera by rolling in close and the Zoomar by adjusting the lens. Performers were balladeer Tom Scott, ventriloquist Paul Winchell, and dancers Belly Fisher and Jim Starbuck. (Billboard, Apr. 26)

Thursday, April 17

WCBS-TV Channel 2, New York
2:00 Baseball at Ebbets Field, Brooklyn Dodgers vs. Boston Braves, Bob Edge, play-by-play, sponsored by Ford and Post Toasties.
8:15 CBS Television News with Douglas Edwards, sponsored by Gulf.
8:30 “All New York Junior High School Quiz.”
9:00 “Your Song For Tonight,” Peggy Ann Ellis.
9:03 “Come Into the Kitchen,” home economics program with Heloise Parker Broeg.
Weather reports sponsored by Reid’s Ice Cream.
WNBT Channel 4, New York
7:50 Television Newsreel.
8:00 “Juvenile Jury” from NBC’s Studio 8-G with Jack Barry, sponsored by Gaines Dog Food, relayed to WRGB and WPTZ.
8:30 “Birdseye Open House” with Harriet Van Horne, interviews, and James Beard, food.
9:00 “You Are an Artist” with John Gnagy, sponsored by Gulf Oil, relayed to WRGB and WPTZ.
9:11 Television Newsreel.
WABD Channel 5, New York
1:50 Baseball at Yankee Stadium, Yankees vs Philadelphia A’s, Bill Slater play-by-play.
WBKB Channel 5, Chicago
1:15 “Let’s Face It.”
1:30 Baseball: Cubs vs. Pittsburgh, Joe Wilson and Jack Brickhouse announcing, sponsored by Commonwealth Edison and Ford.
7:30 “Over Shoemaker’s Shoulder,” drawing show.
7:45 Film: “Jungle Menace.”
8:00 “Humanity’s Heart.”
8:30 Film: Short subjects.
8:45 Sport show.
WPTZ Channel 3, Philadelphia
10:00-12:00 Test Chart.
2:15 Baseball at Shibe Park: New York Giants vs. Phillies.
7:50 NBC programs.
9:10 Sears Visi-Quiz.
KSD-TV Channel 5, St. Louis
2:25 Pre-Game Interviews, sponsored by Griesedieck Brothers Brewery.
2:40 Baseball from Sportsman’s Park: Browns vs. Detroit Tigers, play-by-play with J. Roy Stockton and Ellis Veech, sponsored by Purity Bakeries.
7:00 Feature film, "Adventures of Chico" (Woodard Productions, 1938)
8:10 "Range Riders."
8:30 News comment by Dr. Roland G. Usher; "French Claims to Western Germany."
8:45, St. Louis Personalities; Harry F. Wahlgren, head of the St. Louis Weather Bureau.
KLTA Channel 5
2:00-4:00 Film program for television dealers.
8:00 Test slides and music.
8:30 Short subject.
8:45 “Your Town—Your Animal Friends.”
9:00 Wrestling Matches at Municipal Stadium, Swedish Angel and Rebel Russell vs. Strangler Lewis and Sam Menacher, Joe Lewis, guest referee.
9:30 “Lest We Forget,” Army show.
With television broadcasters throughout the country bemoaning the lack of any fresh, young production talent for the industry, the American Theatre Wing has come up with what may well be the answer to the problem in its tele course for ex-GI's. Group of Wing students, all of whom had previous showbiz experience but most of whom had never even seen a tele show before signing on for the course, staged a psychological thriller last Thursday (17) night that was as professional in production as many of the top shows produced by N. Y. stations.
Show was the culmination of several months of lectures given by Harvey Marlowe. ABC television production chief and director of the Wing's tele school. Students, however, had had only several weeks' experience in working with live studio equipment. Show was produced on a closed circuit over W2XJT, experimental station operated by William J. Still in Jamaica, N. Y. Still, who hand-tools all his studio equipment as well as receiving sets, has matte his facilities available to the Wing school for the duration of the course.
Under Marlowe's supervision, the students rotate in all positions in the studio so that they they can become acquainted with the work of the cameraman, producer, director, set designer, etc. Students have been divided into two groups, with each group alternating on production every other week while the standby bunch watches the show on a receiving set to offer constructive criticism. Last Thursday's show was naturally lacking in the finished touches, such as on-the-button camera cueing and correct picture framing. Perfection, however, is only attained through practice and the calibre of the work done by these GIs, comprising both men and women, is a vivid illustration of their imagination and future capabilities.
Show produced was an original by Robert Slum, titled "The Three Gifts," a one-acter that could go on any station with a little script-tightening. Script called for some highly-intricate sets and it was in that direction the ex-GIs showed their imagination, coming up with a sliding-door arrangement that rivaled similar sets designed by Jo Mielziner for the Broadway production of "Dream Girl" last year. Set was designed by Kit Kirkbride, David Gaines and Iran Berlow.
Other production credits, for the record, include Don Celentano as producer; Tadeus Kowal, director, and Marc Daniels as technical director. Huss Hinchliffe handled studio direction, with Charles Durand on found. Cameraman included Ted Paul and Frank Graham, with an assist from Jerry Tobias. Cast comprised Theodora Bender, Joe Silver and Berlow.
With four new stations expected to go on the air in N. Y. within the next six months, and other grantees throughout the country pressing for an early start to operations, there's going to be a crying need for just such experienced personnel as the Wing is turning out. It's to be hoped these ex-GIs, who are taking the course under the GI Bill of Rights, have an inside track on the top jobs available. Stal. (Variety, Apr. 23)

Baseball Game
Reviewed Thursday (17), 2 to 3:30 p.m. Presented by the Ford Motor Co. over WBKB, Chicago.
As long as television stations can give the public shows like this one, anyone who buys a set will be repaid plenty for his investment. Furthermore, as long as sponsors can bankroll programs like this, especially when more sets are in the homes, they will be getting their money's worth.
With only two image orthicon cameras, the WBKB staff was able to bring to viewers the color and plays which could have been seen better only by those watching at Wrigley Field, from which the game between the Chicago Cubs and Pittsburgh Pirates was televised. Cameramen Harry Birch and Art Karns had the ball in view constantly and followed each play as it occurred, with close-ups as often as possible. Despite good work by cameramen and Don Cook, who was in charge of pick-ups at the park, the station could present an even better program if at least an-other camera was used.
Announcing chores were handled by Jack Brickhouse and Joe Wilson, with Brickhouse doing the first four and a half innings and Wilson ending the game, Wilson, because he has done plenty of video sporting events in the past, has discovered that television announcers do their best job when they don't talk too much. Brickhouse, an experienced radio sports announcer, still puts in too much verbiage as a result of his radio background, but is starting to improve his television technique al-ready. During the game telecast the preceeding [sic] day his talking was more extensive.
Following the opinion of viewers who reported in a recent survey made by WBKB (The Billboard, April 12) that they preferred commercials at the beginning and end of shows, Ford and its agency, J. Walter Thompson, utilized only two short film commercials and vocal credit messages by the announcers during the game. Films, produced by Thompson's New York office, did a competent but not outstanding selling job. (Billboard, Apr. 26)

Friday, April 18

WNBT Channel 4
2:30 Baseball at the Polo Grounds, Giants vs. Dodgers, Bob Stanton, play-by-play.
8:00 “Campus Hoopla” with Clair Bee, coach of the Long Island U. basketball team, sponsored by U.S. Rubber Co., relayed to WRGB and WPTZ.
8:20 Boys Week Tribute.
8:30 “The World in Your Home,” sponsored by RCA, relayed to WRGB.
9:00 “Gillette Cavalcade of Sports”: Boxing from St. Nicholas Arena, Julio Jiminez vs. Eddie Giosa, lightweight, ten rounds, relayed to WRGB and WPTZ.
Time Signal sponsored by Benrus.
WABD Channel 5, New York
2:30 Baseball from Washington, Yankees vs. Senators, play-by-play from Bob Wolff . Relayed from WTTG.
8:00 Feature Films.
9:00-11:00 Wrestling from Jamaica Arena.
WBKB Channel 5, Chicago
7:30 “Telechats,” sponsored by The Fair.
7:45 Short subjects.
8:00 “Telequizzicalls,” sponsored by Commonwealth Edison.
8:30 Boxing from Rainbo Arena.
WPTZ Channel 3, Philadelphia
10:00-12:00 Test Chart.
2:15 Baseball at Shibe Park, Philadelphia Athletics vs. Boston Red Sox.
6:30-7:30 Test Chart.
8:00 NBC programs.
KSD-TV Channel 5, St. Louis
2:10 Baseball Closeups, Harry Caray with Gabby Street, sponsored by Griesedieck Brothers Brewery.
2:30 Baseball from Sportsman’s Park: Cardinals vs. Chicago Cubs, sponsored by Purity Bakeries.
7:00 Feature Film, “Here’s Flash Casey” (Grand National, 1937).
8:10 Cartoon Quiz.
8:30 Police Quartet.
8:50-9:00 Film Show.
W6XAO Channel 2, Los Angeles
2:00 Test Pattern.
3:05 Various Films.
3:36 Safety Film.
3:43 Fishing.
3:59 “The Story of D.D.T.”
KTLA Channel 5, Hollywood
2:00 Sportsmen’s Show, Gilmore Stadium.
2:00 “Tune Up Time”: Test Slides, Recorded Music.
2:15 World’s Bowling Championship.
8:00 “Tune Up Time”: Test Slides, Recorded Music.
8:30 Baseball Direct from Gilmore Field, Hollywood Stars vs. San Diego Padres.

Saturday, April 19
WCBS-TV Channel 2, New York
3:30 Wood Memorial, Jamaica Race Track.
7:45 CBS Television News with Tom O’Connor. Representative Fred A. Hartley, Jr. interviewed.
8:00 Fashion Showcase.
8:30 Ringing Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus from Madison Square Garden, Gil Fates commentary, sponsored by Ford.
WNBT Channel 4, New York
2:30 Baseball at the Polo Grounds: Giants vs. Dodgers, Bob Stanton play-by-play.
WBKB Channel 5, Chicago
Schedule not available.
WPTZ Channel 3, Philadelphia
1:45 Baseball at Shibe Park, Philadelphia Athletics vs. Boston Red Sox.

KSD-TV Channel 5, St. Louis
2:10 Baseball Closeups with Harry Caray and Gabby Street, sponsored by Griesedieck Brothers Brewery.
2:30 Baseball from Sportsman’s Park: Cardinals vs. Chicago Cubs, sponsored by Purity Bakeries.
7:00 Feature film: “The Shadow Strikes” with Rod LaRocque. (Grand National, 1937).
8:10 “News in Sports” with J. Roy Stockton and Harold Grams, sponsored by Griesedieck Brothers Brewery.
8:30 Ballroom Dancing.
8:50 Film show.
KTLA Channel 5, Hollywood
3:00 Film program for television dealers.
4:30 Feature Harness Race from Hollywood Park.
8:00 “Tune Up Time”: Test Slides, Recorded Music.
8:30 Baseball from Gilmore Field, Hollywood Stars vs. San Diego Padres.

Sunday, April 20
WCBS-TV Channel 2, New York
7:15 Feature Film.
8:00 Drama: “The Wages of Innocence”with Curtis Cooksey and John O’Shaughnessy.
8:30 “Party Line” with John Reed King.
Weather reports sponsored by Reid’s Ice Cream.
WNBT Channel 4, New York
2:30 Baseball at the Polo Grounds: Giants vs. Philadelphia, Bob Stanton play-by-play.
8:00 “Tele-Varities,” sponsored by Ipana Toothpaste/Minit-Rub.
8:30 Musical Miniatures.
8:30 Film short.
8:40 “NBC Television Theatre: A Gentleman Never Tells.
WBKB Channel 5, Chicago
8:00 Short subjects.
8:30 Circus.
WPTZ Channel 3, Philadelphia
1:15 Baseball at Shibe Park, Philadelphia Athletics vs. Boston Red Sox.
8:00 NBC programs.
KSD-TV Channel 5, St. Louis
2:15 Police Circus.
7:00 Film Feature: “Girl Loves Boy” with Eric Linden, Cecilia Parker, Roger Imhof (Grand National, 1937).
8:10 Art Museum program; Mrs. Edwin Grossman.
8:20 Metropolitan Church Federation address.
8:30 Metropolitan Church Federation quartet, G. Calvin Ringgenberg directing.
KTLA Channel 5, Hollywood
1:00 “Tune Up Time,” test slides, recorded music.
1:30 Baseball at Wrigley Field, Los Angeles vs. San Diego (doubleheader), Bill Welch play-by-play.
> 8:00 “Tune Up Time,” test slides, recorded music.
8:30 Cartoon.
8:40 “Shopping at Home.”
8:55 Latest Paramount news highlights.
9:00 “Hits and Bits,” variety show, Mc’d by Dick Lane.
9:30 “Adventure is My Hobby” with Erwin Williamson.

Monday, April 21
WNBT Channel 4, New York
2:00 President Truman at the Associated Press luncheon, Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.
2:30 Baseball at the Polo Grounds, Giants vs. Phillies, Bob Stanton, play-by-play.
8:00 Short subjects.
8:30 Film: “Frozen Freshness” (Jam Handy for the Frigidaire Division of G.M., 1946).
9:00 Esso Reporter, newsreel narrated by Paul Alley.
9:10 “Gillette Cavalcade of Sports”: Boxing at St. Nicholas Arena, Wayland Douglas vs Norman Rubio, welterweight, ten rounds, relayed to WRGB and WPTZ.
WABD Channel 5, New York
8:30 Film short. 8:45 Amateur Boxing at Jamaica Arena, Sponsored by American Stores.
WBKB Channel 5, Chicago
1:30 Baseball at Wrigley Field, Cubs vs. Cincinnati, Joe Wilson and Jack Brickhouse announcing, sponsored by Commonwealth Edison and Ford.
8:30 Wrestling from Midway arena, Russ Davis announcing.
WPTZ Channel 3, Philadelphia
10:00-12:00, 3:00-5:00, 6:30-7:30 Test Chart.
8:00 NBC programs.
KSD-TV Channel 5, St. Louis
3:00 News and Views.
3:10 Film, interview, and film.
4:00 Man on the Street, Frank Eschen, mc.
4:30 Film.
7:00 Barbershop quartet.
7:10 Film.
7:30 Sports Closeups, Harry Caray and Gabby Street, sponsored by Griesedieck Brothers Brewery.
7:50 Film.
8:00 Man on the Street.
8:45 History of light.
W6XAO Channel 2, Los Angeles
2:30 Test slides and music. 3:15 Film: “Stop Forest Fires.”
3:25 Film: “Great Game.”
3:48 Film: “Vet Report No. 1.”
3:56 Test Pattern, Station Identification
4:01 Film: “Flood Weather.”
4:20 Film: “Navy Rocket Test.”
6:30 Test patterns and music.
8:30 Film: “Strategic Materials.”
8:46 Film: “What Price Happiness.”

8:58 FCC (station identification).
8:59 Live: “Come All Ye Faithful.”
9:30 Film: “Let’s Give A Tea” (Simmel-Merservey, 1946) [action-packed scene from this film, right.]
9:52 to 10:02 Film: “Navy Rocket Test” (repeat).
KTLA Channel 5, Hollywood
2:00-4:00 Film program for television dealers.
8:00 Test Slides and Records.
8:30 Live: “Papa Is All.”
Papa Is All
Reviewed Monday (21), 8:30-11 p.m. Style—Full-length legit play. Sustaining over KTLA (Paramount), Hollywood.
The old question of how would full length legit fare go on tele, received its answer definitely in the affirmative with this Paramount scanning of Papa. Appearing at the time at El Patio Theater, the Jan Boris production of Patterson Greene's comedy was moved from the legit house to KTLA's studio with complete cast and stage setting included. This was area's first taste of an unabridged stager and judging by what hit the screen, viewers were duly impressed with versatility of the video mediums and would welcome more programs of equal caliber.
So as to take in the full scope of the widely spread acting area, KTLA's pilot Klaus Landsberg ordered three of his image orthicons to the scene. Lensing trio was placed in the form of an inverted triangle, encircling the entire thesping space. It was good judgment on the part of Landsberg to supplant his usual studio ikes with orths. Latter's greater depth of focus makes the orth more easily adaptable to close-up coverage of a rapidly changing field of action. (Stepped down, high speed image orthicon provides the fullest depth of focus possible in tele.) Thru this camera set-up, lensers were able to take in all the action while at the same time delivering a sharp image. While image quality was "granier" than could have been possible with ikes, sharp focus at all times more than made up for lack of minute detail.
Demands Top Acting
One essential factor was brought to the surface with this scanning: Tele's closer-than-footlight view of a stage production serves to magnify any of its weaknesses, while at the same time demands more of its participants. Reason for this is the closer contact the audience achieves with the players via tele. This calls for highly polished acting wherein each movement, each facial expression must serve a purpose or else mar the entire production as in the case in cinemacting. While the over-all result of the tele version of Papa was highly satisfying, Hugh Murray's enactment of papa, at the El Patio was passable but dipped considerably below par when viewed on tele.
Since company worked as tho it was playing on stage, turning backs to the audience, moving freely from one extremity to the other, KTLA had its hands full of new tele problems it never before faced. So as to avoid extreme panning, Landsberg emphasized lensing of thesps' reactions rather than their actions. This, coupled with studied cross-cutting, gave viewer the full scope of the stage while keeping play's continuity alive. Lee Zhito. (Billboard, May 3)

Tuesday, April 22
WABD Channel 5, New York
1:50 Baseball at Yankee Stadium, Yankees vs Boston Red Sox, Bill Slater play-by-play.
7:00 “Small Fry Club” hosted by Bob Emery.
7:30 “Cash and Carry” with Dennis James. 8:00 Western Feature Film, sponsored by Chevrolet, relayed to WTTG.
9:30 “Serving Through Science,” sponsored by U.S. Rubber, relayed to WTTG.
WBKB Channel 5, Chicago
1:30 Baseball at Wrigley Field, Cubs vs. Cincinnati, Joe Wilson and Jack Brickhouse announcing, sponsored by Commonwealth Edison and Ford.
7:30 “Behind the Headlines.”
7:45 Short subjects.
8:00 “Those Were the Days.”
8:15 Short subjects.
8:30 “Saville’s Dilemma.”
WPTZ Channel 3, Philadelphia
10:00-12:00 Test Chart.
2:15 Baseball at Shibe Park, Washington Senators vs. the Athletics.

KSD-TV Channel 5, St. Louis
2:10 Baseball Closeups with Harry Caray and Gabby Street, sponsored by Griesedieck Brothers Brewery.
2:25 Baseball from Sportsmen’s Park, Cardinals and the Cincinnati Reds, sponsored by Purity Bakeries.
KTLA Channel 5, Hollywood
2:00-4:00 Film program for Television Dealers.
8:00 “Tune Up Time”: Test Slides, Recorded Music.
8:30 Baseball Direct from Gilmore Field, Hollywood Stars vs. Sacramento Solons.

Wednesday, April 23
WCBS-TV Channel 2, New York
2:00 Baseball at Ebbets Field, Dodgers vs. Phillies, Bob Edge play-by-play, sponsored by Ford and Post Toasties.
WABD Channel 5, New York
1:50 Baseball at Yankee Stadium, Yankees vs Boston Red Sox, Bill Slater play-by-play.
8:00 Wanamaker’s Kitchen Romance.
8:30 Film Shorts.
8:45-11:00 Boxing at Jamaica Arena, Tony Larocca vs. Ray Jackson, six rounds. Sponsored by American Stores.
WBKB Channel 5, Chicago
1:30 Baseball at Wrigley Field, Cubs vs. Cincinnati, Joe Wilson and Jack Brickhouse announcing, sponsored by Commonwealth Edison and Ford.
8:30 Wrestling from Rainbo arena, Russ Davis announcing.
WPTZ Channel 3, Philadelphia
10:00-12:00 Test Chart.
2:15 Baseball at Shibe Park, Washington Senators vs. the Athletics.
6:30-7:30 Test Chart.
8:00 Fashion Show; Feature Film.
KTLA Channel 5, Hollywood
2:00“Tune Up Time”: Test Slides, Recorded Music.
2:15 Film program for Television Dealers.
8:00 “Tune Up Time”: Test Slides, Recorded Music.
8:15 Baseball Direct from Gilmore Field, Hollywood Stars vs. Sacramento Solons.
Remember the Days
Reviewed Tuesday (22), 8:15 to 8:45 p.m. Film commentary and interview show presented sustaining on WBKB, Chicago.
Like so many other programs at WBKB, this one was an example of a good idea mishandled, a performance that didn't result in a top show because of insufficient planning and slipshod production.
Program had good talent too: Dave Garroway, top Chi disk jockey, as emsee and old silent films that had plenty of laughs. Interview with Loren Ryder, president of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers (SMPE) and a vice-president of Paramount, WBKB parent company, featured pre-showing discussion of oldies such as the Great Train Robbery. However, Garroway obviously had not prepared any questions to feed to Ryder and often their conversation drifted into inconsequentials. When it did Garroway would try to rescue the show by showing one of the old pix. Timing was bad, however, and by the time he had gone thru futile attempts to change reels, interest lagged.
Production Errs
Production mistake of having musical background override conversation between Ryder and young gal twins during running of films also accounted for confusion. Subdued background show idea was good in that it was an attempt to build a format in which showing of old films could be an important part. These oldies among the little film stuff now available for television release, made good entertainment. But now that this has been discovered, closer attention should be given to an attempt to work up a smooth running show. Garroway should be told, we might also add, that his sly, under-the-breath remarks don't go over on television as they do in radio. Microphone is usually farther away in video and thus much of his material is lost. Cy Wagner (Billboard, May 3)

Westinghouse Electric will bankroll its second experimental television shot over WABD (DuMont, N.Y.), May 7 in a semi-audience participation show titled "Dawn of a Better Living." Company, whose first show appeared on WABD last December, is experimenting with various programming formats before signing on for a series.
Ted Malone will emcee the show, with Grace Deibig featured. Tom Hutchinson is slated to direct for McCann-Erickson agency. (Variety, Apr. 23)

First commercial daytime television studio show in New York is slated to hit the air about May 16, when Swift & Co. makes it video bow over WNBT (NBC, N.Y.). Tentatively titled "Televisitors' Club." the show, will star the Mr. and Mrs. team of Tex McCrary and Jinx Falkenburg and will be staged each Friday from 1 to 1:30 p.m. Agency is McCann-Erickson.
Slanted specifically for the hausfraus, the show will combine guest interviews with "how-to-do" demonstrations. McCrary and Miss Falkenburg plan eventually to take film cameras into the homes of N. Y. celebs, with the film to be integrated later into the program. Original series will run 39 weeks, with contracts signed for three years via 13-week options.
With retail merchants of television sets crying for some kind of daytime programming, the show is expected to provide a much-needed fillip to their sales. Attempts to stimulate interest in video among women shoppers was one of the primary reasons in scheduling it in its daytime slot, according to Lee Cooley, head of the M-E tele department. Since the N.Y. Giants' baseball telecasts on WNBT don't begin until 2:30 p.m. (1:30 for a doubleheader), the Swift show won't conflict with them.
Sold Out in Radio
Tex and Jinx hung up the sold-out sign this week. The McCrarys' WNBC (N.Y.) breakfast table strip was bought for 15-minute, three times weekly sponsorship by Trans-World airlines.
Stanza was a slow starter, sponsor-wise, running eight months sustaining Literary Guild and Bond Clothes picked up segments in February, however, and the inking of TWA now puts "Hi! Jinx" on a paying basis all the way. (Variety, Apr. 23)

Selection of Philadelphia as the scene for the 1948 Republican National Convention represented a consummation of the hope of eastern television interests. They want the Democrats to do the same thing. The offer of free television facilities was one factor in favor of Philadelphia over Chicago.
While Chicago has a television station, and in all likelihood will have three by the summer of 1948, there still is considerable doubt that facilities for network telecasting will be available to Chicago by that time.
The television interests hope to use the convention and campaign as a springboard for general introduction of the new radio art.
David Sarnoff, president of the Radio Corporation of America and a leader in television, has predicted that television will play an important part in the 1948 Presidential campaign. He said that video radio will bear the same relation to it as radio did to the 1924 campaign when Coolidge and Davis made their first appearances before the microphones. (Larry Wolters, Chi. Trib., Apr. 23)

Thursday, April 24
WCBS-TV Channel 2, New York
2:00 Baseball at Ebbets Field, Dodgers vs. Phillies, Bob Edge play-by-play, sponsored by Ford and Post Toasties.
8:15 CBS Television News with Douglas Edwards: Arthur Miller, guest, sponsored by Gulf.
8:30 “All New York Junior High School Quiz.”
9:00 “Your Song For Tonight,” Adele Rasey.
9:03 “Judge For Yourself: The Case of the Missing Payroll.”
9:30 Modern Museum Show (remote).
Weather reports sponsored by Reid’s Ice Cream.
WNBT Channel 4, New York
7:50 Television Newsreel.
8:00 “Juvenile Jury” from NBC’s Studio 8-G with Jack Barry, sponsored by Gaines Dog Food, relayed to WRGB and WPTZ.
8:30 “Birdseye Open House,” interviews by Harriet Van Horne and food with James Beard, sponsored by Birdseye Frozen Foods, relayed to WRGB and WPTZ.
9:00 “You Are an Artist” with John Gnagy, sponsored by Gulf Oil, relayed to WRGB and WPTZ.
9:11 American Newspaper Publishers Association Dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria, Senator Robert A. Taft, speaker.
WABD Channel 5, New York
12:30 News Tape, from the International News Service.
1:50 Baseball at Yankee Stadium, Yankees vs Boston Red Sox, Bill Slater play-by-play.
7:00 “Small Fry Club” with Bob Emery.
WBKB Channel 5, Chicago
7:30 “Cavalcade of Medicine.”
7:45 “Let’s Face It.”
8:00 “Over Shoemaker’s Shoulder.”
8:15 Thoughts and Silhouettes.
8:30 Sports show.

WPTZ Channel 3, Philadelphia
10:00-12:00, 3:00-5:00 Test Chart.
7:50 NBC program.
8:00 Pete Boyle’s Sketchbook; Films Featurette; Sears Visi-Quiz.
KSD-TV Channel 5, St. Louis
2:10 Baseball Closeups with Harry Caray and Gabby Street, sponsored by Griesedieck Brothers Brewery.
2:25 Baseball at Sportsmen’s Park, Cardinals vs. Cincinnati Reds, sponsored by Purity Bakery.
7:00 Feature film.
8:10 News and Views.
8:20 Film.
8:30 Stephens College preview of original dress designs.
KTLA Channel 5, Hollywood
2:00-4:00 Film program for Television Dealers.
8:00 “Tune Up Time”: Test Slides, Recorded Music.
8:30 Grand Opening of Ice Capades of 1947 from the Pan Pacific Auditorium.
Ice Capades
Reviewed Thursday (24), 9-10:30 p.m. Style—Remote of "Ice-Capades." Sustaining over KTLA (Paramount), Hollywood.
Paramount tonight pulled another plum from the tele pic with its all-around scanning of the Ice-Capades. Armed with four image orthicons, Tele Director Klaus Landsberg moved into the Pan-Pacific aid strategically placed his lens-boxes so that viewers could see all phases of what was going on-from the opening night galaxy of pic celebs filing in at the entrance, to a backstage view of the skaters warming up and the scanning of the blade ballet per- forming. To achieve this, one camera was located at the entrance where Dick Lane interviewed the pic names that came by, another lenser was situated backstage, while two were kept literally on ice for shots of the performance.
Since outlet is making Ice-Capades a regular Monday night feature, tonight's offering acted as a teaser in that it concentrated on backstage and out-front scanning and gave viewers only a portion (six numbers) of the full show. (Plan is to show different segs of the show each week and toward end of run, bring the entire production.) Televiewers caught the excitement of opening night, ogled their film faves up close while they were interviewed, and later, met backstage with everyone from the stars Donna Atwood and Bob Specht to girls from the ensemble. Lookers for the first time saw an ice show from the performer's side of the fence—a factor which enhanced the interest in this seg. Skaters warming up and thumbnail interviews, as well as sight of portions of the show will undoubtedly serve to put an edge on the viewer's interest and make him buy a ticket. The way scanning is handled, looker feels he knows the skaters and sees just enough to make him want to see more. Lee Zhito. (Billboard, May 3)

Friday, April 25
WCBS-TV Channel 2, New York
2:00 Baseball at Ebbets Field, Dodgers vs. Bob Edge play-by-play, Giants, sponsored by Ford and Post Toasties.

WNBT Channel 4
8:00 “Campus Hoopla” with Clair Bee, coach of the Long Island U. basketball team, sponsored by U.S. Rubber Co., relayed to WRGB and WPTZ.
8:20 “In Town Today.”
8:30 “The World in Your Home,” sponsored by RCA, relayed to WRGB and WPTZ.
8:47 “Gillette Cavalcade of Sports”: Boxing from St. Nicholas Arena, Steve Belloise vs. Johnny Walker, middleweight, ten rounds, relayed to WRGB and WPTZ.
Time Signal sponsored by Benrus.
WABD Channel 5, New York
1:00 Financial News, sponsored by Bache and Co.
1:50 Baseball from Yankee Stadium, Yankees vs. Washington Senators, Bill Slater play-by-play, relayed to WTTG.
8:00 Feature Film.
9:00-11:00 Wrestling from Jamaica Arena.
WBKB Channel 5, Chicago
7:30 “Telechats,” sponsored by The Fair.
7:45 Short subjects.
8:00 “Telequizzicalls,” sponsored by Commonwealth Edison.
8:30 Boxing from Rainbo Arena.
WPTZ Channel 3, Philadelphia
10:00-12:00 Test Chart.
2:15 Baseball at Shibe Park, Boston Braves vs. Phillies.
6:30-7:30 Test Chart.
8:00 NBC programs.
8:30 “Handy Man” with Jack Creamer, sponsored by Gimbels.
8:45 “Pleased to Meet You.”
9:00 NBC program.
KSD-TV Channel 5, St. Louis
2:10 Baseball Closeups with Harry Caray and Gabby Street, sponsored by Griesedieck Brothers Brewery.
2:25 Baseball at Sportsmen’s Park, Cardinals vs. Cincinnati Reds, sponsored by Purity Bakery.
8:30 Wrestling at Kiel Auditorium, Whipper Billy Watson vs. Lou Thesz, one fall, Wee Willie Davis vs. Mike Sharpe, one fall. Sponsored by Hyde Park Beer.
W6XAO Channel 2, Los Angeles
2:30 p.m. Test Patterns and Music.
3:15 Film: “Swiss Scrapbook.”
3:35 Film “Crime and Prison.”
3:45 Film: “Rubber River” (Warner Bros. 1946)
4:00 Film: “Yosemite.”

4:12 Film: “Man—One Family” (British Information Service, 1946)
KTLA Channel 5, Hollywood
2:00 World's Bowling Championship.
8:00 “Tune Up Time”: Test slides, Recorded Music.
8:15 Baseball from Gilmore Field. Hollywood vs. Sacramento.
HANDY MAN
With Carol Reed, Jack Creamer
Producer: Herbert Horton
15 Mins.; Fri., 8:30 p.m.
GIMBEL BROS.
WPTZ—Philco, Phila.
Gimbel Bros, has come up with a new tele show featuring an old gag that's still plenty good. Listeners (or lookers) are asked to write in for suggestions on how to make life easier at home. For example, how to keep stockings from wrapping themselves to keep the ice cube tray from spilling when you're carrying it from sink to refrigerator; how to put new handles on old pot covers.
Carol Reed, attractive and pleasant-voiced, reads the letters to "Handy Man" Jack Creamer. Creamer knows all the answers and keeps up a witty line of chatter.
Show makes a good frame for Gimbel household ware commercials, since seeing a gadget that makes less work for mother really makes you want to buy it. Audience reaction is that of actually wanting to know where you can get the item and for how much, rather than the usual groan as a program comes up with another commercial. All in all, considering how popular this "household hint" device has always been in the columns and the radio, this seems to be a sound idea for a television show. Shal. (Variety, Apr. 30)

DETROIT, April 25—(AP)—A Detroit television station, WWDT, announced today that a contract had been signed with the Detroit Baseball Company to televised Tiger games twice a week during home appearances.
The schedule will open the first week in June. Ty Tyson, sports editor of radio station WWJ, will handle the play-by-play.

Chicago.—Grabbing up all of the unsponsored portion of WBKB's sports program, local beer account, Keeley Beer, took No. 1 sponsor position on Chi's only video outlet with the largest single block of regularly scheduled sports remotes for its summer promotion. Brewery will use no radio during this time.
Contract pacted Friday (25) between Fred F. Brenk, pier of Keeley Beer, and Capt. Bill Eddy, head of WBKB, calls for 100 hours of boxing and wrestling beginning May 5 for a 13-week period, with priority option for subsequent programs. (Variety, Apr. 30)

Saturday, April 26

WCBS-TV Channel 2, New York
2:00 Baseball at Ebbets Field, Dodgers vs. Giants, Bob Edge play-by-play, sponsored by Ford and Post Toasties.
7:45 CBS Television News with Tom O’Connor.
8:00 Fashion Showcase.
WNBT Channel 4, New York
3:15 Horse Racing at Jamaica Park.
WABD Channel 5, New York
1:50 Baseball from Yankee Stadium, Yankees vs. Washington Senators, Bill Slater play-by-play, relayed to WTTG.
WBKB Channel 5, Chicago
1:30 Baseball at Wrigley Field, Cubs vs. St. Louis Cardinals, Joe Wilson and Jack Brickhouse announcing, sponsored by Commonwealth Edison and Ford.
8:00 Central A.A.U. Swimming Meet.
WPTZ Channel 3, Philadelphia
1:45 Baseball at Shibe Park, Boston Braves vs. Phillies.
KSD-TV Channel 5, St. Louis
2:10 Baseball Closeups. sponsored by Griesedieck Brothers Brewery.
2:25 Baseball at Sportsmen’s Park, Browns vs. Chicago White Sox, play-by-play with J. Roy Stockton and Ellis Veech, sponsored by Purity Bakeries.
7:00 Feature film.
8:10 Range Riders.
8:30 Film show.
8:40 Ballroom Dancing.
KTLA Channel 5, Los Angeles
3:00 Film program for television dealers.
4:30 Feature Harness Race from Hollywood Park.
8:00 “Tune Up Time”: Test slides, Recorded Music.
8:15 Baseball from Gilmore Field. Hollywood vs. Sacramento.

Bache & Co., members of the New York Stock Exchange, became the first brokerage firm to utilize television as a means of communication with the announcement yesterday at a contract has been signed with Allen B. Dumont Laboratories, Inc., operators of television station WABD, for the daily presentation of a financial news program.
Under the current schedule, a review of developments in the nation’s securities and commodities markets vl1l be presented daily at 1 p. m. with a news service tape superimposed on the television screen. The initial program was previewed by the press yesterday in the 21 Club.
The first member firm of the Stock Exchange to use a private wire in transacting its business, Bache & Co. asserted that in using television “It hopes to contribute to the current effort of the financial industry to familarize the largest possible audience with the aims and efforts of the Stock Exchange and its members, and their place in the nation’s economic pattern.” (New York Herald Tribune, Apr. 26)

Sunday, April 27
WCBS-TV Channel 2, New York
2:00 Baseball at Ebbets Field, Dodgers vs. Giants, Bob Edge play-by-play, sponsored by Ford and Post Toasties.
7:15 Life Insurance Film.
8:15 Cancer Foundation Show, with John R. Kilpatrick, Dr. John B. Trunnell.
8:30 “Party Line” with Bert Parks.
Weather reports sponsored by Reid’s Ice Cream.
WNBT Channel 4, New York
8:00 “At Home With Tex and Jinx,” sponsored by Ipana Toothpaste/Minit-Rub
8:20 Musical Miniatures.
8:30 “NBC Television Theatre: Twelfth Night,” with Anne Burr, Vaughn Taylor, Jon McQuade, sponsored by Borden.
WABD Channel 5, New York
1:30 Baseball from Yankee Stadium, Yankees vs. Washington Senators, Bill Slater play-by-play, relayed to WTTG.
WBKB Channel 5, Chicago
1:30 Baseball at Wrigley Field, Cubs vs. St. Louis Cardinals, Joe Wilson and Jack Brickhouse announcing, sponsored by Commonwealth Edison and Ford.
8:00 Film.
8:40 “Night Without End.”
WPTZ Channel 3, Philadelphia
1:15 Baseball at Shibe Park, Boston Braves vs. Phillies (double-header).
8:00 NBC programs.
KSD-TV Channel 5, St. Louis
7:00 Art Museum program.
7:15 Film Feature: “Fury of the Mountains” (General Films, 1946)
7:30 Cartoon Quiz with Amadee.
7:50 Film: “Curiosities.”
8:00 KSD news analyst Dr. Roland G. Usher on “The Austrian Problem.”
8:15 Film.
8:30 Metropolitan Church Federation quartet, G. Calvin Ringgenberg directing.
KTLA Channel 5, Hollywood
1:00 “Tune Up Time,” test slides, recorded music.
1:30 Baseball at Gilmore Field, Hollywood vs. Sacramento (doubleheader).
8:00 “Tune Up Time,” test slides, recorded music.
8:30 Cartoon.
8:40 “Shopping at Home,” presented by leading Los Angeles stores.
8:55 Latest Paramount news highlights.
9:00 “Hits and Bits,” variety show, Mc’d by Dick Lane.
9:30 “Adventure is My Hobby” with Erwin Williamson.

Tex McCrary and Jinx Falkenburg, first Mr. and Mrs. team to make the switch from radio to television, preemed their "At Home with Tex and Jinx" show under Bristol-Myers sponsorship Sunday (27) night over WNBT (NBC, N. Y.). Same show had been staged several weeks ago on an experimental one-shot basis and was good enough then to rate a bankroller. New series, in the 8-8:30 p.m. slot, replaces B-M's former "Tele-Varieties" on the same station.
Sunday night's show followed the same format as the experimental program, with Tex and Jinx greeting a group of interesting personalities in the simulated living room of their home, then cutting into films showing the couple in their week's round of activities and segueing back into the studio for interviews with the guests. As demonstrated in the first show, the couple is perfectly at ease before both the film and tele cameras, keeping the show perking with their lively banter. Photogenic qualities of both also help.
Show was marred somewhat by sluggish camera cutting on the part of WNBT director Roger Muir, who kept his lenses trained on Jinx to the almost total exclusion of Tex, even while the latter was speaking. Plugs for Minit-Rub were good, with the middle spot again showing what can be done with the wise use of film. This sequence depicted the McCrarys and infant son on the lawn of their home, with Jinx bringing Minit-Rub to the aid of her husband's sore muscles after he'd finished mowing the lawn. Agency is Young & Rubicam. (Variety, Apr. 30)

TWELFTH NIGHT
With Anne Burr, Vaughn Taylor, John McQuade, Everett Gammon, Richard Goode, John Baragrey, Charlotte Keane, Don Peters, William Woodson, Doris Belack, Charles Avery, Don Keefer, others Director: Fred Coe
Adapted from play by William Shakespeare
Tech. director: Albert Protzman
Sets: Bob Wade
70 Mins.; Sun. (27), 8:30 p.m.
BORDEN'S
WNBT—NBC, N. Y.
(Kenyon & Eckhardt)
Chalk up another outstanding television production to NBC's credit. With Borden's footing the bill, WNBT last Sunday (27) night took a flyer in introducing Shakespeare to video audiences and came up with what was certainly one of the top tele shows yet seen, and what probably matched many a Shakespearean play staged on Broadway in recent years. Tele broadcasters have long been complaining about the lack of available dramatic material, but if they can do this well with stuff to be found in public domain, then their worries should be about over.
"Twelfth Night" marked more than anything else another notch of triumph in the belt of WNBT director Fred Coe, who cast, staged and directed the show. Bringing a fresh approach to the classics via a young cast sans any trace of the overdramatic hamminess usually associated with Shakespeare. Coe steered his actors through their paces in a way that elicited the maximum of entertainment and still managed to be true to Shakespearean tradition. Comedy sequences among Sir Andrew, Sir Toby and Fester were minor masterpieces. In addition, his camera manipulation in what must have been a vastly overcrowded studio was tops throughout.
Cast was uniformly good, managing to be perfectly lucid with the unfamiliar Shakespearean language. Anne Burr, as the beauteous Viola impersonating a man, was capital, lending a masterful touch to both her comedy and romantic sequences Vaughn Taylor and John McQuade, already well established in the NBC video stellar firmament, again demonstrated their versatility as the doltish Sir Andrew and the court jester, respectively. Richard Goode made a zany Sir Toby Belch and Everett Gammon, as the conceitedly stupid Malvolio, was also standout Others meriting attention included Charlotte Keane as Olivia, John Baragrey as the duke, Don Peters as Antonio, William Woodson as Sebastian. Doris Belack as Maria and Charles Avery as the sea captain.
Kenyon & Eckhardt production staff rates a nod for confining the Borden commercials to opening and closing spots, both of which were well-handled and cleverly executed to tie in with the Shakespearean motif. Bob Wade's sets. Al Protzman's technical direction and other production credits were fine. Stal. (Variety, Apr. 30)

Night Without End
Reviewed Sunday (27), 8:45 to 11 p.m. Special pick-up of full-length performance presented at Eighth Street Theater. Sustaining telecast by WBKB, Chicago.
With this program WBKB opened a new vista for legit in America. By doing a bang-up job of telecasting a full-length legit performance while it was being presented for an audience in the Eighth Street Theater, WBKB proved that a legit performer need no longer perform for only a few hundred. And, if work of WBKB's remote crew tonight can be equaled in quality, there will be little reason for anyone, except those who want a night out, to leave the comfort of home in order to see a dramatic performance.
In our opinion the telecast of tonight's performance was more interesting than the version seen by those in the theater. We witnessed part of the show as it came over the air, and we sat in the theater audience and watched another part. By far the more interest holding, more dramatic was the televised version. There seems to be many reasons for this. Principally, however, was the fact that video close-ups eliminated extraneous stage props and personalities that distract attention, and give a picture of only those engaged in important conversation or action.
Nigth [sic] Without End, a psychological murder mystery written by George Bauerfeind, told an involved story of murder, sex and members of a family in dramatic personality conflict. It used a semi-pro cast made up of Chi radio actors primarily. These actors, not experienced in the techniques of projecting across the footlights, often were ineffectual in playing their roles, and while they did not "project" enough for a theater audience, their acting was forceful enough to be caught by the television cameras and their voice work was good enough to be picked up by six volume-controlled microphones. Last-act courtroom scene was a good case in point. Altho having a courtroom audience on stage was distracting and altho off-camera acting of some members of the cast was entirely unnecessary, video cameras were on only the question-asking lawyer and the person in the witness box. This way all distractions and unnecessary acting was eliminated, and what remained was good.

The actual production technique of the telecast is worthy of mention. The WBKB remote was directed in a top-notch manner by Beulah Zachary. Station used two image orthicon cameras in the theater, one in a box near the stage and one in the rear balcony. Miss Zachary, following a script, gave instructions to the cameramen and the sound engineers who kept in touch with the station and switched cameras. Because she was following a script which she had marked with camera cues at a rehearsal, she knew exactly what action was going to happen, and thus was able to keep cameras on all important action and call for shots that eliminated the. unnecessary and presented only the most dramatic.
Tonight's performance also indicated that television stations are going to have to have a hand in editing scripts. Even tho lines and situations were cleaned up for the telecast, we still wonder whether the FCC or an industry self-policing body will continue to allow "damns" and references to illegitimate children.
The performances proved that image orthicon cameras can not be relied upon to pick up pix in situations of low light level, regardless of what their manufacturer contends. One scene was played with illumination of just an overhead spot, which was not enough light to make characters discernible on the video-receives screen. Cy Wagner. (Billboard, May 10)

Adventure Is My Hobby
Reviewed Sunday [27], 9-9:30 p.m. Style—Film plus live running commentary, interview. Sustaining over KTLA (Paramount), Hollywood.
Here's a seg worthy of a video time-buyer's attention. Judging by the kick-off scanning, outlet's Adventure series is one of the more promising and refreshing bits of tele fare to hit the local glass screens in some time. Featuring marine-jungle explorer Erwin Williamson, seg consisted of footage filmed by Williamson with latter providing running commentary. (Film-live-gab gimmick was used by NBC-New York in scanning the Mrs. Calveth Wells series.)
For the most part, presentation was very well handled. Interest-building intro by Williamson preluded unreeling of film. Williamson's running commentary was well written and capably voiced, aimed at building suspense. This he accomplished with ease, especially footage showing him in diver's gear submerging to the bottom of the ocean in quest of the sunken vessel. As the strange marine life floated by, Williamson was quick to identify it and specify the hazards that lurk in the deep. There were enough man-eating sharks swimming about to keep viewers on edge thru-out. Edited with a climax in mind, this particular episode ended with Williamson narrowly [sic] escaping the multi-clutches of an octopus.
Following the film portion, Williamson was interviewed by KTLA's Dick Lane, and answered questions from the studio audience as well as those phoned in by home viewers. Lane, heretofore quite capable in handling similar ad lib chores, fell flat in tonight's seg, to a point that his efforts proved anticlimactic to what had come before. He over-dramatized the perilous venture with a lot of superfluous side gab which had viewers wishing Williamson could have more of the mike and Lane less.
All in all, seg retained a high pitch from start to finish, and once Lane is toned down for the question-answer portion, this show may well prove to be one of the most interesting studio scanners on the Coast's air today. Lee Zhito. (Billboard, May 3)

Monday, April 28
WCBS-TV Channel 2, New York
11:00 U.N. General Assembly.

WNBT Channel 4, New York
11:00 U.N. General Assembly, Flushing, L. I.
8:00 Film: “Tumbledown Ranch in Arizona” with the Range Busters (Monogram, 1941).
9:00 Esso Reporter, newsreel narrated by Paul Alley.
9:10 “Gillette Cavalcade of Sports”: Boxing at St. Nicholas Arena, heavyweights Johnny Carollo vs. John Thomas, ten rounds, relayed to WRGB and WPTZ.
WABD Channel 5, New York
3:00 News Tape, from the International News Service.
4:45 Financial News, sponsored by Bache and Co.
7:00 “Small Fry Club” with Bob Emery.
7:35 Feature Film.
8:45 Amateur Boxing at Jamaica Arena, Sponsored by American Stores.
WBKB Channel 5, Chicago
8:00 Film: “Invisible Bridge.”
8:30 Wrestling from Midway arena, Russ Davis announcing.
WPTZ Channel 3, Philadelphia
10:00-12:00, 3:00-5:00, 6:30-7:30 Test Chart.
8:00 NBC programs.
KSD-TV Channel 5, St. Louis
3:00 News and Views.
3:15 Film show.
3:30 Interview with Miss Norman Christopher, Miss Rose Queen of the Pasadena Tournament of Roses; film.
4:00 Man on the Street, Frank Eschen. emcee.
4:30 Films.
7:00 Barber Shop Quartet, films.
7:30 Sports Closeups with Harry Caray and Gabby Street, sponsored by Griesedieck Brothers Brewery.
8:00 Man on the Street with Frank Eschen.
8:30 Film Shows.
8:45 Hedda Hopper’s Hats.
W6XAO Channel 2, Los Angeles
2:30 Test slides and music.
3:15 Film: “The Long Road Back” (veterans).
3:25 Film: “Years of Progress” (education-travel).
3:59 Test Pattern, Station Identification
4:00 Film: “Alexis Trembley, Habitant” (NFB, 1943)
4:34-4:35 Closing Announcement (evening).
6:30 Test patterns and music.
8:30 Film: “The Cooper Hawk” (Barr, 1939)
8:40 Film: “First Aid.”
8:50 Film: “Toradja” (Warner Bros., 1938).
9:00 FCC (station identification).
9:01 Film: “Recreation.”
9:29-9:30 Closing Announcement.
KTLA Channel 5, Hollywood 3:00-5:00 Film program for television dealers.
8:00 Test Slides and Records.
8:30 On stage and back stage at the Ice Capades of 1947, from the Pan Pacific Auditorium.

Tuesday, April 29

WCBS-TV Channel 2, New York
4:45 President Truman Greeting President Miguel Aleman of Mexico at Washington National Airport.
WNBT Channel 4, New York
2:30 Baseball at the Polo Grounds, N.Y. Giants vs. St. Louis Cardinals, Bob Stanton play-by-play.
4:45 President Truman Greeting President Miguel Aleman of Mexico at Washington National Airport, relayed to WRGB and WPTZ.
WABD Channel 5, New York
3:00 News ticker from INS, Test Pattern.
4:45 President Truman Greeting President Miguel Aleman of Mexico at Washington National Airport, relayed from WTTG.
7:00 “Movies for Small Fry” hosted by Bob Emery.
7:30 “Cash and Carry” with Dennis James.
8:00 Western Feature Film, sponsored by Chevrolet, relayed to WTTG.
9:30 “Serving Through Science,” sponsored by U.S. Rubber, relayed to WTTG.
WBKB Channel 5, Chicago
7:30 “Behind the Headlines.”
7:45 Short subjects.
8:00 “Remember the Days.”
8:15 Short subjects.
8:30 “Jailbait.”
10:00-12:00 Test Chart.
WPTZ Channel 3, Philadelphia
10:00-12:00 Test Chart.
2:15 Baseball at Shibe Park, Pittsburgh Pirates vs. Phillies.
KTLA Channel 5, Hollywood
3:00-5:00 Film program for Television Dealers.
7:30 “Tune Up Time”: Test Slides, Recorded Music.
8:00 Baseball Direct from Wrigley Field, Los Angeles Angels vs. Seattle Rainiers, Bill Welch play-by-play.

Wednesday, April 30
WCBS-TV Channel 2, New York
2:00 Baseball at Ebbets Field, Dodgers vs. Chicago Cubs, Bob Edge announcing, sponsored by Ford and Post Toasties.
WNBT Channel 4, New York
2:30 Baseball at the Polo Grounds, N.Y. Giants vs. St. Louis Cardinals, Bob Stanton play-by-play.
WABD Channel 5, New York
4:45 Financial News from the INS ticker.
7:00 “Small Fry Club” with Bob Emery.
8:00 Wanamaker’s Musicale “Cavalleria Rusticana.”
8:30 Film Shorts.
8:45-11:00 Boxing at Jamaica Arena, Lefty LaChance vs. Julie Bort; Tommy Houston vs. Danny Ruggerio, sponsored by American Stores.
WBKB Channel 5, Chicago
8:30 Wrestling from Rainbo arena, Russ Davis announcing.
WPTZ Channel 3, Philadelphia
10:00-12:00 Test Chart.
2:15 Baseball at Shibe Park, Pittsburgh Pirates vs. Phillies.
KTLA Channel 5, Hollywood
3:00-5:00 Film program for Television Dealers.
7:30 “Tune Up Time”: Test Slides, Recorded Music.
8:00 Baseball Direct from Wrigley Field, Los Angeles Angels vs. Seattle Rainiers, Bill Welch play-by-play.