1940's Television: A 2nd 1948 Bumper/ident for WABD (Now WNYW)

[TimL2005]

LaCrosse, Wisc. Tribune Sunday May 9, 1948 (AP)

"Through the cooperation of a five-station hookup, ABC is to put on a one-time telecast of Don McNeill's Breakfast Club simultaneously with it's Wednesday morning broadcast from Philadelphia. The program will be carried by WPTZ, which will do the pickup, and WFIL-TV in Philadelphia

WMAL-TV at Washington, WMAR at Baltimore and WABD New York"

This video is what the article above was referring to/ The air date was Wednesday May 12, 1948

[fromthesidelines]

Because this was an "experimental telecast" on ABC's part ["BREAKFAST CLUB" didn't appear as a daily "simulcast" until February 1954] - they didn't even HAVE a New York affiliate until WJZ-TV {now WABC} signed on in August 1948. Until then, they "leased" time from WABD to present several "ABC" programs, including Henry Morgan's first network TV show, "ON THE CORNER".

[GreenTea200]

i have this kinescope on dvd. some of the program has been on my channel for a while. check them out. i believe this is from may 1948.

[BobWXXI]

This could be from December' 47. Back then, ABC produced shows which fed out over a variety of DuMont, NBC and CBS affiliates while it was getting its own New York station built. If it's December '47, or any time before April '48, neither WGN-TV nor WLS-TV (then known as WENR-TV) were up and running in Chicago--so this likely was produced through WBKB, then on Ch. 4 (which later became WBBM-TV on Ch, 2) which signed on in '46 and handled every network for Chicago until the spring of '48.

[MattTheSaiyan]

Interesting. The clear something up, the date of the program can be determed to some extent, as the entire program is filled with jokes about the election for Dewey vs Truman.

[thegalaxybeing]

I have this and it's apparently from May 12, 1948

[tkaye2]

If this TV simulcast of Don McNeill's Breakfast Club is from December 1948, it's curious that it aired over DuMont's WABD and not ABC's own WJZ-TV (now WABC), which had been on the air since August. Since McNeill originated in Chicago, that also raises the question of which TV station provided the facilities for the simulcast -- DuMont affiliate WGN or ABC's own WENR?

[MattTheSaiyan]

Good questions. I myself am not sure how a ABC Radio program managed to be broadcast on WABD (whose logo appears at the start of the kinescope, complete with their old slogan "New York's Window on the World").

[MrUnidyne]

I believe this was before ABC began a TV service, and was having DuMont film some of their radio shows on kinescope.

[moogyboy6]

FOX 5 as it looked 61 years ago!