Channel 5, also during this period, was coordinated with the New York Herald Tribune on their news coverage, but it wasn't until the launch of "The 10 O'Clock News" in 1967 that they really had anything even resembling a news department.
For more specifics: When Westinghouse started a show called "PM East - PM West" in 1961, WNEW shelved the weeknight "Five Star Movie" (which remained on early Sunday afternoons) to make room for it. But when this program ended in 1962 (and its replacement, "The New Steve Allen Show," snapped up by WPIX), Channel 5 started another long-running movie series, "Hollywood's Finest."
Yep, that's right, 'wm'. When the time came for the major movie studios {or distributors who acquired most of their film inventories} to release their pre-1949 feature films in "packages" to local stations, Channel 5 capitalized on the practice of showing those "inexpensive" movies instead of scheduling a live local program on weeknights- and aired "FIVE STAR MOVIE" (and others) until the mid-'60s, when they got the idea of airing the syndicated "MERV GRIFFIN SHOW" after 11pm- a different era.
. . . replaced by a movie series, "Five Star Movie" (an apparent play on the "All Star Movie" umbrella used in those days by WPIX, with a reference to the channel number), which ran weeknights at 11 through 1961, and then on early Sunday afternoons through the 1980's.
This exact edition was from Nov. 7, 1957. Only ten months to the day after that - Sept. 7, 1958 - WABD changed its call letters to WNEW-TV. The particular '5' logo seen at the end of the program (on the clip with Byron Bentley's review of "Clerambard") would continue in use for about its first year as WNEW-TV.
When Mike Wallace left WABD-TV {Channel 5 in New York} to conduct his interview series on ABC in the spring of 1957 (for the same tobacco sponsor John Wingate is pitching here), "NIGHTBEAT" continued on the station's late-night schedule with John Wingate, but was gone by early 1958....
Channel 5, also during this period, was coordinated with the New York Herald Tribune on their news coverage, but it wasn't until the launch of "The 10 O'Clock News" in 1967 that they really had anything even resembling a news department.
wmbrown6 2 years ago
For more specifics: When Westinghouse started a show called "PM East - PM West" in 1961, WNEW shelved the weeknight "Five Star Movie" (which remained on early Sunday afternoons) to make room for it. But when this program ended in 1962 (and its replacement, "The New Steve Allen Show," snapped up by WPIX), Channel 5 started another long-running movie series, "Hollywood's Finest."
wmbrown6 2 years ago
Yep, that's right, 'wm'. When the time came for the major movie studios {or distributors who acquired most of their film inventories} to release their pre-1949 feature films in "packages" to local stations, Channel 5 capitalized on the practice of showing those "inexpensive" movies instead of scheduling a live local program on weeknights- and aired "FIVE STAR MOVIE" (and others) until the mid-'60s, when they got the idea of airing the syndicated "MERV GRIFFIN SHOW" after 11pm- a different era.
fromthesidelines 2 years ago
. . . replaced by a movie series, "Five Star Movie" (an apparent play on the "All Star Movie" umbrella used in those days by WPIX, with a reference to the channel number), which ran weeknights at 11 through 1961, and then on early Sunday afternoons through the 1980's.
wmbrown6 2 years ago
Parliament recessed filters. Big wow. Why censor that? When I was smoking, Parliaments weren't even that good!
1959AverellHarriman 3 years ago
This exact edition was from Nov. 7, 1957. Only ten months to the day after that - Sept. 7, 1958 - WABD changed its call letters to WNEW-TV. The particular '5' logo seen at the end of the program (on the clip with Byron Bentley's review of "Clerambard") would continue in use for about its first year as WNEW-TV.
wmbrown6 3 years ago
When Mike Wallace left WABD-TV {Channel 5 in New York} to conduct his interview series on ABC in the spring of 1957 (for the same tobacco sponsor John Wingate is pitching here), "NIGHTBEAT" continued on the station's late-night schedule with John Wingate, but was gone by early 1958....
fromthesidelines 4 years ago
Why is youtube censoring the brand of cigarettes?
Meatpies13 4 years ago