1947–48 United States Network Television Schedule (weekday)
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1947–48 United States Network Television Schedule (weekday)
The 1947–48 United States network television schedule was nominally from September 1947 to March 1948, but scheduling ideas were still being worked out and did not follow modern standards. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series cancelled after the 1946–47 season. Only NBC and DuMont had networks until CBS joined in May 1948, and coaxial cable connections were only available for a few cities on the East Coast. Most other parts of the United States created local shows or broadcast film programs. Although fewer than twenty television stations were in operation at the end of 1947, more than 30 began broadcasting in 1948. New series and those making their network debuts are highlighted in bold, while series that ended during the season are highlighted in ''italics''. However, as network programming was still in its infancy and in a state of flux, all the new fall series below for this season began in November and December. A m ...
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By Network
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The Swift Show
''The Swift Show'' is an American variety/game show that aired on Thursdays at 8:30pm EST on NBC premiering April 1, 1948 and running to 1949. Overview The series, sponsored by the Swift & Company meat packing company, was mainly a musical variety show hosted by Lanny Ross, although during its first few months, it also featured a quiz show segment. Guest stars included Eileen Barton, Frank Fontaine, Max Showalter, and Susan Shaw. For the first five months, a quiz show segment was included. In September 1948, the show became "Lanny's penthouse with his girlfriend Eileen Barton visiting". In March 1949, the show reverted to a purely musical variety show. Episode status Two episodes, from May 13, 1948 and May 27, 1948, are in the collection of the UCLA Film and Television Archive, and an episode from March 31, 1949 is in the collection of the Paley Center for Media. See also * 1948-49 United States network television schedule *''The Swift Home Service Club ''Swift Home Service Clu ...
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CBS Evening News
The ''CBS Evening News'' is the flagship evening television news program of CBS News, the news division of the CBS television network in the United States. The ''CBS Evening News'' is a daily evening broadcast featuring news reports, feature stories and interviews by CBS News correspondents and reporters covering events around the world. The program has been broadcast since July 1, 1941, under the original title ''CBS Television News'', eventually adopting its current title in 1963. Since July 15, 2019, the nightly broadcast has been anchored by Norah O'Donnell and has been titled ''CBS Evening News with Norah O’Donnell''; since December 2, 2019, the newscast has emanated from CBS News’ bureau in Washington, D.C. Previous weeknight anchors have included Douglas Edwards, Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather, Connie Chung, Bob Schieffer, Katie Couric, Scott Pelley, and Jeff Glor. Saturday and Sunday broadcasts of the ''CBS Evening News'' began in February 1966. On May 2, 2016, CBS an ...
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Quizzing The News
''Quizzing the News'' was an American game show which aired on American Broadcasting Company, ABC between August 11, 1948, and March 5, 1949, at 8:00 PM on Monday nights. Premise Three panelists had to identify events in the news based on spoken clues and drawings. Master of ceremonies Alan Prescott provided the words, and cartoonist Albee Tribler created the sketches, Panelists included Mary Wickes, Robert Garland, Hope Emerson, and Joan Lloyd. People viewing the program on TV also had an opportunity to take part and win prizes. Production The series was produced by Robert Brenner Productions, with Brenner as the producer, Tom DeHuff was the director, and Milton Subotsky was the writer. After initially originating from an independent station with ABC production personnel in charge, it began originating from WABC-TV, WJZ-TV after that station went on the air. Reception A review of the September 6, 1948, episode in the trade publication ''Billboard (magazine), Billboard'' fo ...
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Kiernan's Corner
Walter J. Kiernan (January 25, 1902 – January 8, 1978) was an American radio, television, and print journalist and author, as well as television game show host during the early days of the medium. Career Walter Kiernan began his career as a journalist in New Haven in the early 1920s as a feature writer for the Elm City (Conn.) Clarion and the New Haven (Conn.) Union. He was a writer and editor of the New Haven Register from 1926 to 1928. He wrote for ''The Saturday Evening Post'' and started ''The Town Crier'' newspaper of West Haven, Connecticut in 1930. Kiernan was an Associated Press (AP) correspondent from 1928–29 and joined the now long since defunct International News Service (INS) as manager of its Hartford bureau in 1937. The following year he was moved to New York, serving until 1943 as a roving reporter and special assignment writer for INS, during which he spent a remarkable New Year's Eve with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill on a train ride from the Unite ...
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News And Views (television)
''News and Views'' was an early American evening news program. Broadcast on ABC from 1948 to 1951, it was ABC's first evening news program and one of the first such programs on any television network; Both CBS and NBC also initiated their evening news programs (respectively '' CBS Television News'' and ''Camel News Caravan'', called ''Camel Newsreel Theatre'' at first) that same year, both debuting a few months before the first broadcast of ''News and Views'' on August 11, 1948. The co-anchors (not called that, as that meaning of "anchor" was not yet extant) were H. R. Baukhage and Jim Gibbons. Baukhage was a veteran radio broadcaster whose staccato baritone and gruff and abrupt sign-on, "Baukhage talking", was familiar to radio listeners of that era. Jim Gibbons was less well known. Typical of evening television news programs of the era, it ran for fifteen minutes. Its successor was ''After the Deadlines'' and, ultimately, ''ABC World News Tonight ''ABC World News Tonight'' ( ...
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Toast Of The Town
''The Ed Sullivan Show'' is an American television variety show that ran on CBS from June 20, 1948, to March 28, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the '' CBS Sunday Night Movie''. In 2002, ''The Ed Sullivan Show'' was ranked No. 15 on ''TV Guide''s 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time. In 2013, the series finished No. 31 in ''TV Guide'' Magazine's 60 Best Series of All Time. History From 1948 until its cancellation in 1971, the show ran on CBS every Sunday night from 8–9 p.m. Eastern Time, and it is one of the few entertainment shows to have run in the same weekly time slot on the same network for more than two decades (during its first season, it ran from 9 to 10 p.m. ET). Virtually every type of entertainment appeared on the show; classical musicians, opera singers, popular recording artists, songwriters, comedians, ballet dancers, dramatic actors performing monologues from plays, and circus acts w ...
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Television Playhouse
''Television Playhouse'' is a half-hour American anthology series that was broadcast live on NBC. The series aired from December 4, 1947 to April 11, 1948, generally appearing every third Sunday during its run. The program was in cooperation with the National Theater and Academy, a federally sponsored theater group, and featured live performances of plays, some of which were by well-known authors. The first presentation was ''The Last of My Solid Gold Watches'' by Tennessee Williams. Each episode featured actors and actresses who had not reached stardom. A wide variety of plays was presented on the program. Although short-lived, the "live play" format later became very popular during the early 1950s. Another ''Television Playhouse'' would air in the 1950s (see ''Philco Television Playhouse'' and ''Goodyear Television Playhouse ''Goodyear Television Playhouse'' is an American anthology series that was telecast live on NBC from 1951 to 1957 during the first Golden Age of Telev ...
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Hollywood Screen Test
''Hollywood Screen Test'' is an American talent show that aired on ABC from 1948 to 1953. This program holds the distinction as the first regularly broadcast television series by the American Broadcasting Company. Format Debuting on April 15, 1948, and hosted first by Bert Lytell and then Neil Hamilton, ''Hollywood Screen Test'' sought to give exposure to many up-and-coming actors who were looking for their big break. The relatively unknown actors would be picked to guest star on the show, then they would have half-hour scenes of dialogue with established stage and screen actors. Actors who appeared on ''Hollywood Screen Test'' included Grace Kelly, Jack Klugman, Pernell Roberts, Jack Lemmon, Michael Strong, Tommy Rettig, Susan Cabot, and Ralph Clanton. Martha Wayne and Robert Quarry were assistants on the program. Ted Campbell was the announcer. Lester H. Lewis created the program. He and his wife, Juliette Lewis were the producers. Directors were Frederic Carr and Alton Al ...
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American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television network. It is the flagship property of the ABC Entertainment Group division of The Walt Disney Company. The network is headquartered in Burbank, California, on Riverside Drive, directly across the street from Walt Disney Studios and adjacent to the Roy E. Disney Animation Building. The network's secondary offices, and headquarters of its news division, are in New York City, at its broadcast center at 77 West 66th Street on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Since 2007, when ABC Radio (also known as Cumulus Media Networks) was sold to Citadel Broadcasting, ABC has reduced its broadcasting operations almost exclusively to television. It is the fifth-oldest major broadcasting network in the world and the youngest of the American Big Three television networks. The network is sometimes referred to as the Alphabet Network, as its initialism also represents the first three letters of the ...
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Meet The Press
''Meet the Press'' is a weekly American television news/interview program broadcast on NBC. It is the longest-running program on American television, though the current format bears little resemblance to the debut episode on November 6, 1947. ''Meet the Press'' specializes in interviews with leaders in Washington, D.C., across the country, and around the world on issues of politics, economics, foreign policy, and other public affairs, along with panel discussions that provide opinions and analysis. In January 2021, production moved to NBC's bureau on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. The longevity of ''Meet the Press'' is attributable in part to the fact that the program debuted during what was only the second official "network television season" for American television. It was the first live television network news program on which a sitting president of the United States appeared; this occurred on its broadcast on November 9, 1975, which featured Gerald Ford. The program has ...
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Paley Center For Media
The Paley Center for Media, formerly the Museum of Television & Radio (MT&R) and the Museum of Broadcasting, founded in 1975 by William S. Paley, is an American cultural institution in New York City, New York with a branch office in Los Angeles, dedicated to the discussion of the cultural, creative, and social significance of television, radio, and emerging platforms for the professional community and media-interested public. It was renamed The Paley Center for Media on June 5, 2007, to encompass emerging broadcasting technologies such as the Internet, mobile video, and podcasting, as well as to expand its role as a neutral setting where media professionals can engage in discussion and debate about the evolving media landscape. Locations The New York City location is in the heart of Midtown Manhattan at 25 West 52nd Street (Manhattan), 52nd Street between Fifth Avenue (Manhattan), 5th and Sixth Avenue (Manhattan), 6th Avenues. With a growing collection of content Broadcasting, b ...
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