Dinah Shore Show: NBC, 1952

Yesterday in the KTLA Anniversary video, Dinah mentioned her NBC show and here’s a shot from it at NBC. Originally, ‘The Dinah Shore Show’ was broadcast on Tuesday and Thursday nights from Los Angeles from November 1951 to January 1956. For most of the program’s run, it aired from 7:30 to 7:45 ET both nights.

During the program’s final season in (1956-57), it was cut back to Thursday nights only, with the Tuesday night slot going to The Jonathan Winters Show. However, during this season, Shore was given an opportunity to host a full hour-long, color variety show on Friday nights the next season. That was called ‘The Dinah Shore Chevy Show’ and over the years, it ran on varying nights and different timeslots, for a total of seven seasons. Her last 15-minute show was discontinued following the 1956-57 season as was the 15 minute show format at NBC. From then on, most shows went to 30 minutes, but oddly, it would take till 1963 for network news to go to 30 minutes. The show started at NBC Radio City studios at Sunset and Vine but later moved to Burbank. This photo is probably from the Radio City studios.

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