CBS Broadcast Center…50th Anniversary Special Report
CBS Broadcast Center…50th Anniversary Special Report
You’ll want to save a link to this or copy and paste this as it is a one of a kind presentation. This is, to the best of our knowledge, the most complete list of Daytime shows and their originating studios on CBS in the fall of 1964.
When television operations moved from Grand Central to the Broadcast Center in August of ’64, so did a lot of shows that CBS had produced in the many theater properties they had in New York like the very busy Liederkranz Hall, with four studios and of course all the activity in GC studios 41-44.
In the fall of 1964, the CBS daytime lineup was as follows…
(please send me any corrections or additions)
8am Captain Kangaroo (Broadcast Center; Studio 45)
10am CBS Morning News With Mike Wallace (?)
10:30 I Love Lucy (film repeats)
11:00 Andy of Mayberry (film repeats)
11:30 The Real McCoys (film repeats)
12pm Love of Life (Broadcast Center, Studio 44)
12:25 News (New Room Studio,33)
12:30 Search for Tomorrow (Broadcast Center; studio 43)
12:45 The Guiding Light (Broadcast Center; studio 45)
1pm Sunrise Semester (Studio 46, BC)
1:30 As the World Turns (Studio 65, Hi Brown Theater)
2pm Password (Studio 52)
2:30 Art Linkletter’s House Party (Studio 41,Television City)
3pm To Tell the Truth (Studio 52)
3:25 News (?)
3:30 The Edge of Night (Studio 61, Monroe Theater)
4pm The Secret Storm (Broadcast Center; Studio 46)
4:30 Jack Benny (film repeats)
Evening CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite (News Room Studio 33, BC)
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According to a specialized (and expensive) book I own, the national schedule in the fall of 1964 was
10 AM–THE REAL MCCOYS
10:30–I LOVE LUCY
11 AM–ANDY OF MAYBERRY (ANDY GRIFFITH)
11:30–LOVE THAT BOB
12 PM–no network feed
12:30–SEARCH FOR TOMORROW
12:45–THE GUIDING LIGHT
1 PM–LOVE OF LIFE
1:30–AS THE WORLD TURNS
2 PM–PASSWORD
2:30–HOUSE PARTY
3 PM–TO TELL THE TRUTH
3:30–THE EDGE OF NIGHT
4 PM–THE SECRET STORM
Not only did CBS stop programming in the 4:30 slot the previous year, it’s unlikely they would air Jack Benny shows, as he had just let the network (actually, he was cancelled by then CBS-TV president James Aubrey) and moved over to NBC–or back, as he left there in 1949.
Real mccoys was a film show
Wasn’t “The McCoys” listed here “The Real McCoys” with Walter Brennan?
“Sunrise Semester” at 1 pm?? Was that a pre-feed for some stations?
Wow, this must’ve been a tight turnaround, assuming both shows were live:
2pm Password (Studio 52)
3pm To Tell the Truth (Studio 52)
I assume both shows had audiences; I wonder if the same folks would watch both shows? Otherwise the pages would have had a busy half hour chasing one audience out and schlepping the next audience in.
That’s a great photo!!!