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The Boston Globe from Boston, Massachusetts • 86

Publication:
The Boston Globei
Location:
Boston, Massachusetts
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86
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9 tuf. nosTQ.v srxn.w 27, HOW AT 6 GREAT HERMAN STORES BOSTON CAMBRIDGE MALDEN LYNN SALEM IMAGINE! ALL CHANNEL ft 1954 X'- vV. 'I IQI -Hi if V. 0 fl fn 11 11 WTAO-TV STAFF new television station be-gins operation at 7 tonight, on Ch 56. The staff includes: (L, to R.

Curley, sales; Kay Bullard, traffic; P. Rein-hertz, librarian; P. Steinus, script; P. Errico, bookkeeper; K. Hanlon, sales.

Back row; Frederic S. Bailey, Gen. P. J. Brown, sales; E.

Penney, announcer; T. Pitman, Asst. F. Stein, film director. MlF BUSS injnr JULnJUU Radio and Television By ELIZABETH L.

SULL1VAX For a long time Boston has needed another TV station, and tonight at 7 it begins operation on Channel 56. WTAO-TV's opening will be five minutes of news, followed by a sports telecast and a new scries featuring Frank Leahy, coach of Notre Dame's "Fighting Irish." Leahy's telecast will be followed at 7:45 by a film showing of the Notre Dame-Oklahoma game which was played yesterday. The station will present "Your Evening as the closing feature. The latter will comprise a film, "Long Voyage Home," starring John Wayne and Barry Fitzgerald. WTAO-TV is affiliated with the DuMont network and will eventually get shows from this source.

The station will be on daily from 5:30 'p. m. to 10:45 p. m. The transmitter is atop Mt.

Zion in Woburn, and the studios are located on Waltham st. in Woburn. This new station is making Briehton. who was awarded a trip JyV wm'iimumi miM (V 0- It's the first big cam 0" of the football season I yl 0- TV ALSO Sea ec FRANK LEAHY'S SPORT SHOW VU IV jritl llf" I IS minutes earlier, P. M.

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"lC I I 1 1 II I I A in N' -'X somewhat th name start as our to rlonda, two other Boston TV stations. Early TV viewers will recall that programs were on the air only during the evening hours and most of them were film shows. In due course, the afternoon hours Tresident Eisenhower will open the annual drive of I nitrrl Community Campaigns of America durinc a gala full-hour radio broadcast, "SUn Over America." to he heard over YYBZ, Wf.EI, WVDA and WNAC tonight he-tween 10 and 11. Wallv (Mr. Peepers) Cox, Fibber McGee and Molly, Joan Davis, Ray Bolger am Alex Templeton are a few who will entertain.

Baseball's annual classic, the World Series, under sponsorship of Gillette, will be on both Boston TV stations starting Wednesday. Sept. 30. Telecasting will were utilized, and it became an innovation when morning features were added. When Dave Gar-roway's "Today" opened TV day at 7 a.

m. the industry rubbed its eyes. TV had arrived with this gesture. S0.O0O TILIVISION VIIvVERS HAVI TURNED TO CHANNEL 66! JOIN THE SWINO TO WTAO-TV 'Ask Your TY Serviceman or Dealer How You Can Gel Channel 56! We give this review of TV growth to remind viewers that each station coming on the air has lo grow in stature and WTAO-TV's schedule doesn't seem start at 145 p. with game time set at 1:05 p.

m. If series ex complete, it will be in the months ahead. As more and more ets are tuna tends beyond four games and a Sunday telecast is necessary, the Sunday game will open on TV 1:45 p. with actual game ble to this ultra high frequency lime at p. m.

Frank Frisch will be on the air band and the network feels there is a sizable viewing audience, then bigtime shows will be seen on Ch. 5. each day before game time to interview Yankee and Dodger New TV sets come equipped to receive UHF stations; older sets need a tuning atrip and receivers piayers aoout winning runs that clinched the game of the day MODEL I7T13E1T oerore. Mcl Allen and Red Barber will around live years or age need an adapter. One of these days some again describe the Series which very fine shows are going to show uo on Ch.

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