Re: [Swprograms] Re: Bye-bye, 1440 Broadway

["DR" <swl2010@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I believe you are correct about WSKQ - that's a blip in my memory.

Actually WNYW originally the DuMont Telecentre, was an opera house that was
gutted in 1953 to convert into television studios.

It is quite a historic building for television history home to Cavalcade of
Stars which included the Jackie Gleason Show and incorporated original
Hooneymooners "lost" episodes (which later moved to the Adelphi Theatre
where classic 39 episodes which were filmed at the Adelphi Theatre), Captain
Video, The Arthur Murray Dance Party, Bishop Sheen, Wonderama, Sgt. Bilko
(WABD Studio 5 was converted to a film studio to allow Phil Silvers to do
the show in NYC for the first year and a half of the show
http://www.fourminus.freeserve.co.uk/filming.htm - here is a still
http://www.comedyorama.com/philsilvers/philsilvers-graphics/bilko-03.jpg of
a run through in Studio 5 note the overhead grids commonly used for
live/taped television but rarely used for film), Soupy Sales, Ernie Kovacs,
the first two seasons of the Electric Company, the first five years of All
My Children and literally hundreds of forgotten network and syndicated shows
since it's opening in 1954.

Below are some interesting links about DuMont - the great forgotten network.

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/ggninfo/32.htm
http://www.slick-net.com/space/interviews/caddigan1.phtml
http://members.aol.com/cingram/television/dumont.htm

DR

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joel Rubin" <jmrubin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Shortwave programming discussion" <swprograms@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 4:14 AM
Subject: Re: [Swprograms] Re: Bye-bye, 1440 Broadway


> >Yes, it was Sportsradio 1050 for a couple of years.  WHN was purchased by
> >Emmis Broadcasting, made ainto the first sports station and rechristened
> >1050 WFAN until WNBC 66 came up for sale and purchased by Emmis who
switched
> >formats.  They then traded 1050 with WEVD-FM, for their FM station and
WEVD
> >which by that time was a talk station simply moved to 1050 AM where it
> >remeined in the ratings cellar (and still does as ESPN Radio which is
leased
> >to ABC).
>
> I believe Emes sold 1050 to Spanish Broadcasting System (WSKQ) which
> traded with the Forward Association for WEVD-FM.
>
> WEVD, of course, stands for Eugene Victor Debs, the railroad union
> leader and Socialist Party founder/cofounder who ran for President in
> 1920 from Atlanta Federal Prison where he had been sent for making a
> speech protesting WWI.
>
> IIRC, the Fox broadcast center at 205 E. 67th St. is the Trans Lux
> Theater and has been the home of Fox 5 New York (WNYW - now there's a
> set of call letters for an SWL) since it was WABD, owned by Allen B.
> Dumont.
>
>
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