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TPC - [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I remember very well the 1952 conventions, which were the first ones to be on television. We had four TV channels in those days in Chicago (2-5-7-9) or maybe it was 4-5-7-9, I don't remember, but in any event they had total coverage on all four channels afternoon and evening sessions each of the four days of the convention. There was nothing else to watch even if you had wanted to. PAT]Pat,It looks as though station WBKB was on channel 4 around that time.I found this rather fascinating site on the history of TV in the Chicagoarea:www.chicagotelevision.comRegards,Paul[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Yes, there was a channel 4 in Chicagoin the early 1950's, and no channel 2. Then eventually Channel 2started as WBBM-TV, and Channel 4 was taken away and given to theMilwaukee Journal newspaper where it became WTMJ and what had been onChannel 4 (WENR) then became WBKB; Balaban and Katz movie theatrechain) operating on Channel 7. Channel 5 remained on 5 as the NBCoutlet in Chicago, and Channel 9 was (and still is) WGN, since theChicago Tribune is and always was the (W)orld's (G)reatest (N)ews-paper. No one would hear of Channel 11 -PBS- (W)indow (T)o (T)he(W)orld for a few more years, until it went on the air about 1955 asan exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry, broadcasting five orsix hours from the auditorium of the museum Monday through Friday.A couple years prior to the 1952 politcal conventions which were fulltime coverage on all channels daily, they had a similar commotion ontelevision daily on all channels for several *months* withoutinteruption: the 1950 'Senator McCarthy Hearings'. Those damn thingswent on five days per week from about 9 AM Central to around 3 PMcentral time, with a break for lunch around noon central, at whichpoint channel 9 would run 'Bozo Circus' for about 30-45 minutes thenback to the McCarthy hearings. Joe McCarthy, as older readers willrecall, was the deluded Republican Senator from Wisconsin who found'Communists' everywere he looked and in his daily congressionalhearings must have grilled and interogated every public servant inWashington, DC. His belief was everyone working for the federalgovernment was either a 'Communist' or a homosexual or both which hesaid was often the case.One thing we could count on was McCarthy recessing his luridCongressional hearings each day about 3 central/4 eastern when hegrew bored and wanted to get on with his own life which meant goingout to cruise all the gay bars (in those days) in Our Nation'sCapitol. McCarthy and his foolishness has been well documented inmany places. Then the television stations could get back to theirregular programming. Poor Senator McCarthy ... deluded old man.When Channel 11 first started broadcasting they were on Monday toFriday only, I think a few hours each afternoon with classroom lessonsfor school kids. They were dark -- off the air -- on weekends withthe exception of Sunday evening from 7:55 PM to 9:05 PM. They wouldturn on their power at 7:55 PM, play the National Anthem, and theannouncer would give their call sign and say, "Now, this weeks programfrom Chicago Sunday Evening Club at Orchestra Hall." After thatreligious service ended at 9 PM, the same announcer would come backon and sign the station off the air with the obligitory announcementsabout station, owner, frequency, power, etc and again the NationalAnthem. They stayed at Museum of Science and Industry until the earlyor middle 1960's when one of their major patrons, Edward L. Ryerson,then chairman of Inland Steel Company gave them money to build the'Edward Ryerson Television Center' on the campus of Northern IllinoisUniversity on the northwest side of Chicago. With their move to NIUand the Ryerson Television Center, WTTW went on the air full time andtheir original weekend program (Sunday Evening Club) is still withthem. PAT]
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