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night television was ruled by NBC's Tonight Show for years so local
stations ran movies such as the one in the WBBM-TV ad to
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< At left, Kraft, long time television sponsor aired its programs on both NBC and ABC, unusual for the times. |
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| Popular WIND Radio personality Howard Miller was host of this early WBBM-TV talkfest | |||
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| By 1954, the "new" WBKB,
on channel 7 for a year began to attract some old friends from the
channel 4 days, such as Creative Cookery and Garfield
Goose which had
suddenly found themselves on WBBM-TV after the
ABC/United Paramount merger and the sale of channel 4 to CBS. Tom
Duggan and Kukla, Fran, & Ollie moved from WNBQ
although their beginnings also hail from the original WBKB.
Queen for a Day remains one of the most asked about programs in Chicago TV history. |
Sea Hunt, a first-run syndicated
series from Ziv Television, packagers of Science Fiction Theater and The
Cisco Kid; and Ivan Tors, who also brought us Flipper, was a popular
staple of independent WGN-TV line-up for years. The
series starred Lloyd Bridges. Two episodes were actually filmed in
color but the show always aired in black & white.
< Alex Dreier, newsman for WBKB later became an actor appearing in guest shots in such series as Land of the Giants! |
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CHICAGO TELEVISION IN THE 1950s AND 1960s No longer experimental, television in the Windy City burst on the scene with imaginative local programming, popular network fare, and first-run syndication.
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