Sandy Becker Show WABD New York Part 5

[rty1955]

I did audio for live productions, and also sound effects. u can see my name in the credits of a soupy sales show here on youtube

[peterann1]

How was this kinescope telecine assembled? My buddy put together original AFVN from 2" Ampex which includes himself but won't say how he did it.

Geeba Geeba yo all from Germantown NYC

[rty1955]

@peterann1 A Kinescope was merely a special 16mm film camera mounted in a lightproof housing with a B&W CRT to display images. It was used most times for film copies of live broadcasts. Most local programming in those days were live, with syndicated shows were on 16mm film. In fact, the Dumont Electronicam was a television camera combined with a film camera. They used kinescopes as work prints to edit the camera films for syndication. I worked at WABD and had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Dumont.

[dvtvrich]

@rty1955

what did you do at DuMont?

[Carycomic]

Good thing he didn't request his little home viewers to send in their own art work. My sketch of Gebba-Gebba would've looked more like the love-child of Daredevil and Alfred E. Neuman (lol)!

[1952kid]

1958 NYC TV GUIDE ; Sandy Becker Cartoons 8 AM , CHANNEL 5 . The Sandy Becker Show 8;30 AM. C HANNEL 5 . Sandy Becker Looney Tunes 6;30 pm Channel 5 . All on Monday - Friday 1958 Sandy Becker had 3 shows on .

[143AC]

Dear JuliaFlo, WATV/WNTA TV Ch.13 was not in NYC..it was in

Newark,N.J.

[1952kid]

Thank you ,SANDY BECKER,for giving me wonderful chidhood memories.Five years old,lying on the floor and watching Sandy on black and white TV. This is the closest thing to being five again,thanks for putting this on for all us old farts.

[68lincoln]

I agree with you. I watched his morning show on WNEW Channel 5 in 1963 and 1964 on our Zenith b&w console tv set. I loved Sandy Becker with all of his voices and accents and I used to call some kids Geeba Geeba back then! Great memories of growing up in the early 1960s in the suburbs of NJ.

[fractionstein]

As a sickly kid in in NYC in the 50's, Sandy Becker was a huge part of my day. I named my parakeet after one of his and regularly trumpeted the praises of Geeba Geeba. Now I'm a professional puppeteer myself. All Hail Geeba Geeba!

[castillianwagon500]

My uncle was his neighbor in Douglaston Queens. Sandy had a tall stone wall around his house and vicious dogs. Yes vicious. That was before his divorce. We actually knew him. He was really nice and my cousin was on his show & I saw him on TV. Sandy also had a house in Virginia at the time. I was born & raised in N Y City.

[143AC]

I wish that I knew what Sandy is talking about?

in regards to those instructions in how to draw

Gebba Gebba?

[fromthesidelines]

Channel 13 went on the air as WATV in 1949, and became WNTA in early 1958, after National Telefilm Associates bought the station, in the hopes of making it the flagship station of the "NTA Film Network". Channel 13 actually went off the air in mid 1961, and didn't return until Educational Broadcasting Corp. "won" the station's license in a bidding war among other interested parties, and was rechristened as "educational station" WNDT in September 1962...

[Lester2955]

Having grown up in New York I thought this program was on WNEW? Of course that was 45 years ago, so it is hard to remember all of those things.......

[hoskeebo]

This guy was the greatest! He treated children as if they were actually valuable (Imagine that!)

Thanks for putting p this video.

[Juliaflo]

Do you remember when New York City's Channel 13 was WNTA-TV?

[carmelo3750]

Yes, and for a while they broadcast ap news directly from the teletype with no announcer

[jimpal57]

I remember this show. I remember my little sister crying when Dorshak came on. Each and every time she would cry, but refused to turn away or got mad when the channel was changed.

I would love to see a clip of Dorshak. Is it possible that one exists? I would love to send it to my sister.

[143AC]

Dear Dying Like Flies,

The name of the tv elf on The Sandy Becker

Morning Show is "Jingle Dingle".The station's

original call letters is WABD..not WABC TV Ch.5

in NYC.

[143AC]

The description that Sandy gives to

draw "Gebba Gebba"is bizzare?

I wonder how he got this instructions

to draw this little guy?

Sound more like science fiction.

[mrmom333]

Anyone remember or have a clip of HAMBONE or Norton Nork? I remember how Norton Nork learned how to fold a newspaper so he could read it on a bus.

Yes, I am older than dirt, and Proud of it!

[castillianwagon]

Check out the interview with Soupy Sales , Sandy Becker and Uncle Fred Scott on utube. A Hambone skit is in that interview show.

[143AC]

Dear WM.Brown As far as I know?

"Junior Town Frollics"was only

seen on WATV/WNTA Ch.13 in

The Newark,N.J./NYC viewing

area from1946 to 1960.

[fromthesidelines]

DuMont sold WABD to Metropolitan Broadcasting in 1958, and changed its call letters that year to WNEW (to compliment their radio stations of the same name). Eventually, Metropolitan became "Metromedia"- and they controlled Channel 5 until they sold out to News Corporation {Fox} in 1986. Between 1954 and 1960, WNBT was known as WRCA-TV [and WRCA AM/FM as well], until it officially became WNBC.

[fractionstein]

So long I have waited to hear the name Geeba-Geeba again. Where did yo get these clips from? I remembered Geeba orginally had a beard and then it was removed. Memories from a long time ago. Oh, and before I forget... thanks!

[dyinglikeflies]

What the eff TV station in NYC was WABD? It was channel 5, which was then WNEW. Unless you mean WABC, Channel 7- am I wrong?.

[sandysoup]

Before Channel 5 was WNYW-TV, it was WNEW-TV. And before that, it was the flagship station for the (Allen B.) DuMont Network, as WABD. Astute NYC call-letter junkies (or just the very, very old) know that Channel 4 (Now WNBC) was once WNBT, and before that was W2XBS. Channel 2 (Now WCBS) was once WCBW. Live and learn, right?

[dyinglikeflies]

I love the triv- thanks (but I won't pull that stuff out at parties-I'm already in danger of being lynched when I spout this kind of stuff, and I can see you put yourself in danger like me). So one more question because nobody else knows: Before Channel 13, WNET, went educational and it was still commercial (as a really youngin' I used to watch the Shirley Temple Theatre on 13) what were its call letters? (if you know).

[sandysoup]

WNTA-TV, which was host to the "Junior Frolics" TV show, among others. And I'm in high demand at parties - not for my knowledge of ancient, abandoned TV call letters, but rather for my remarkable ability to come up with exchange names for telephone numbers. Numbers that begin with 754, to pick an example at random, were once referred to as "PLaza 4". There are hundreds of other examples that can entertain party guests for hours on end... and are an absolute chick magnet.

[dyinglikeflies]

Hell, I've been relying on obscure Holocaust trivia and my Richard Widmark impersonation to get chicks- no wonder I've had a 35 year dry spell. Shoulda gone with call letters. (But you're funny- and thanks).

[wmbrown6]

And "Junior Frolics" (or some equivalent thereof), from what I read, also aired on WNJU in its early days of existence (1965). Certainly "Uncle" Fred Sayles was on 'NJU in the days before they became a Spanish-language station.

[dvtvrich]

@sandysoup

i'm remembering 13 as WNDT, but i was only three-and-a-half years-old

name-it and-claim-it at PLaza 2-5000 win a good guy sweatshirt

any tapes/kinescopes of 'Fun at One'?

or how bout the guy on channel 5 who put on a wig and mimed to Beatles songs? huh?

HUH?

[peterann1]

@dyinglikeflies RTV science: NYC VHF channel 13 was placed on the air post-war by a very enterprising 'negro' television tech and engineer from Saint Albans, Queens, NY. Callsign before National Educational Television with those plywood box TVs in school is before my time. Peter, WB2SGT, ck 73

[wmbrown6]

And between WNBT and WNBC-TV, Channel 4 was WRCA-TV. And WABC? Before March 1, 1953, Channel 7 was WJZ-TV.