Retro: Cleveland/Akron/Youngstown Mon, May 17, 1954

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from TV Guide-Lake Erie edition

3 WNBK-NBC Cleveland
5 WEWS-CBS Cleveland
8 WXEL-ABC/DuMont Cleveland
27 WKBN-CBS/ABC/DuMont Youngstown
49 WAKR-ABC Akron
73 WFMJ-NBC Youngstown

Morning
7:00
3-73 Today (including a film report from the location of the proposed Air Force Academy)
5-27 Morning Show (guests Ivan Sanderson and Cortez Peters)

8:55
8 Preview Corner

9:00
3 Movie "Rhythm Hits the Ice"
5 Wings of Song
8-27 Breakfast Club
73 Movie "Night Hawk"

9:30
5 Western Reserve Telecourse "Principles of Sociology"

10:00
3-73 Ding Dong School (c)
5 Arthur Godfrey Time
8 Maggie Wulff
27 Movie "Lighthouse"

10:30
3-73 One Man's Family
8 Charming Children (Marjorie Harm)
49 Army-McCarthy Hearings

10:45
3-73 Three Steps to Heaven

11:00
3-73 Home (guests Nancy Ayres (Detroit) and Donald Gossard (Richland, WA), who are getting hitched on tomorrow's Bride & Groom)
8 Alice Weston

11:30
5-27 Strike It Rich
8 Rena & Bob

Afternoon
noon
3-73 Bride & Groom (getting hitched: Helen Conaway (Ozone Park LI, NY) and Andrew Hargrove (Staten Island, NY))
5 Valiant Lady
8 Treasure Party
27 News

12:15
3-73 Hawkins Fallas
5-27 Love of Life

12:30
3-73 Betty White
5-27 Search for Tomorrow

12:45
5-27 Guiding Light

1:00
3 Movie "General Spanky"
5 Women's Window (Ethel Jackson)
8-27 Brighter Day
73 News

1:15
8 Portia Faces Life
27 Home Cooking (Resch)
73 Hal's a Poppin' (Hal Fryer; starting tomorrow, Hal and Marjorie Mariner's shows would be live from the Century Foods Exposition for the week)

1:30
5 Garry Moore (celebrating show #1000)
8 Movie "Too Many Winners"

1:45
27 Movie "Paradise Isle"

2:00
5 Double or Nothing
73 Movie "Double Identity"

2:15
3 Maggi Byrne (guest: Christ Child Society National President Mrs. Gregory Weyang)

2:30
3 Art Linkletter
49 Army-McCarthy Hearings
73 Kitchen Corner (Marjorie Mariner, see note for 1pm)

2:45
3 Nancy Dixon

2:55
8 You are What You Eat

3:00
3-73 Kate Smith
5-27 Big Payoff
8 All for You (Weston; holiday entertaining plans)

3:15
8 Joe Portaro (who recently moved his show to 1630 Euclid)

3:30
5-27 Bob Crosby
8 Paul Dixon

4:00
3-73 Welcome Travelers
5 Mixing Bowl (VanCleve)
8-27 Woman with a Past

4:15
8-27 Secret Storm

4:30
3-73 On Your Account
5-27 Robert Q. Lewis
8 King Jack's Toy Box

5:00
3 Pinky Lee
5 Uncle Jake's House
8 Movie "Hawk of Powder River"
27 Grizzly Pete
49 Hinky Dinks
73 Susie Sidesaddle

5:30
3-73 Howdy Doody
49 Summer Matinee

5:45
5 News

5:50
5 Dinner Platter

Evening
6:00
3 Superman
27 Rumpus Room
49-73 News

6:10
49 Social Whirl

6:30
8-73 Sports (Bob Neal on 8, Eddie Lane on 73)
49 Humbard Family

6:25
73 Weather Report

6:30
3-49 Sports (Tom Manning on 3, Wylie on 49)
5 Dorothy Fulheim (listed as news)
8 Weather (Dr. Annear)
27 News Today
73 Western Wonderland

6:40
3 Weather Vein
8 Cleveland Today
27 News at Home

6:45
3 Today's News
5 Sports Page (Graney)
8 Home with the Grahams
27 Sports (Don Gardner)
49 Custom Ranch (Woodell)
73 Industry on Parade

6:55
5-27-49 Weather (Johnny Price on 5; no name listed for 27/49)

7:00
3 Victory at Sea "The Return to Luzon"
5 Polka Time (TVG's Polka of the Week was the Dragnet Polka)
8-27 Captain Video
49 News (Fitzgibbons)
73 Woods 'n Waters

7:10
49 Scores

7:15
8 News Parade (Lang/Dudley)
27 Rambling Reporter
49 ABC News

7:30
3-73 Tony Martin (guests Margaret Whiting)
5-27 CBS News
8 Jamie
49 Chef Lorenzo

7:45
3-73 NBC News
5-27 Perry Como

8:00
3-73 Name That Tune
5 Burns & Allen
8-27 Dollar a Second
49 Sky King

8:30
3-73 Concert (soloist Patrice Munsel)
5 Talent Scouts
8 Who's the Boss?
27 Racket Squad
49 Teen "Who" Club

9:00
3-49 Dennis Day
5-27 I Love Lucy "The Golf Game" (guest star Jimy Demaret)
8-49 Junior Press Conference (guest is atomic energy expert/author Dr. Ralph Lapp, discussing the new superbomb)

9:30
3-73 Robert Montgomery Presents "Skyblock"
5-27 Red Buttons
8 Myrus
49 Boxing (from Eastern Parkway, the 10pm main event sees lightweight Orlando Zulueta (49-19-9, 6 KO) vs featherweight Percy Bassett (61-9-1, 29 KO) in a 10-round bout)

10:00
5-27 Studio One "Castles in Spain"
8 Carlings Bouts (from the St. Nick, world featherweight champ Sandy Saddler (131-12-2, 93 KO) takes on European lightweight Hoacine Khalfi (35-8-4, 12 KO))

10:30
3 Crown Theater "The Buzzer"
73 Movie "Wrecking Crew"

10:45
8 Ring Side Interviews

11:00
3-8-27-49 News (Tom Field on 3, Warren Guthrie's Sohio Reporter on 8/27, Bill Murphy on 49)
5 Music Review (guest Bob Carroll)

11:05
3 Weather (Joe Finan)

11:10
3-49 Sports (Mulvehill on 3, Bob Wylie on 49)
8 Ted Malone (Today's Top Story)
27 News (Sid Davis)

11:15
3 Custom Inn
8 Sports (John Fitzgerald)
27 Movie "T-Men"

11:20
8 Movie "Strange Illusion"

11:30
3 Movie "Lend Me Your Husband"

Late Night
midnight
5-73 News

12:30
27 News

12:45
3 News

[Tim L]

from TV Guide-Lake Erie edition

73 Hal's a Poppin' (Hal Fryer; starting tomorrow, Hal and Marjorie Mariner's shows would be live from the Century Foods Exposition for the week)

73 Kitchen Corner (Marjorie Mariner, see note for 1pm)

3:15
8 Joe Portaro (who recently moved his show to 1630 Euclid)

6:45
5 Sports Page (Graney)
8 Home with the Grahams

7:15
8 News Parade (Lang/Dudley)

11:15
3 Custom Inn
8 Sports (John Fitzgerald)

Several Notes:
Hal Fryar soon after this left for Indianapolis, where he became highly famous as "Harlow Hickenlooper"

Marjorie Mariner was aired weekdays from 1953-well into the mid 1960's..

While WXEL was already doing part of their programming from 1630 Euclid, they would officially move there as WJW-TV in April 1956, and would remain until 1975, when they moved into their own building at 5800 S. Marginal Road..

"The Grahams" were Cleveland Browns QB Otto Graham and his wife and family..

Jack Graney(Sports Page) and Jimmy Dudley(News Parade) were early Cleveland Indians Radio Broadcasters.

"Custom Inn" was hosted by Glenn Rowell, of "Gene (Carroll) and Glenn" radio fame..Carroll was Uncle Jake, kiddie host and also host of The Gene Carroll Show on WEWS-TV from 1948-72..

John Fitzgerald was at WXEL/WJW from 1952-86 as sportscaster, program host and staff announcer..

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While WXEL was already doing part of their programming from 1630 Euclid, they would officially move there as WJW-TV in April 1956, and would remain until 1975, when they moved into their own building at 5800 S. Marginal Road..

WXEL had 1630 Euclid listed as their address in the Channels Listed section...for the record, 3 and 5 were listed as NBC Bldg and WEWS Bldg, respectively.