The 2025 Giants of Broadcasting & Electronic Arts awards ceremony will take place next Friday at Gotham Hall in New York City. For complete details about tickets, please contact the 2025 Giants of Broadcasting Event Producer at [email protected] or (732) 245-7799.

This week's retro TV Guide is from November 1, 1969: Room 222 star Lloyd Haynes sounds off, the Rat Pack wins the week, Amory prescribes more of Marcus Welby, Efron looks at kids' TV, the best of the rest, and much more! The listings come from that Saturday. 🔗in the comments.

Roy Rogers and Trigger at the NBC microphone. (9/26/46)

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NY TV debut 11/4/55 at 6:30 pm on WOR. This seems to be the first showing of any kind in the New York Metropolitan area for Joseph Kane's 1941 musical western.

NY TV debut 11/5/45 at 8:13 pm on WNBT. Marian Marsh's final feature film was double billed with PRC's THE HARD GUY starring Jack La Rue 11/15/42 at the 597-seat Colony in Brooklyn's Bensonhurst neighborhood, which closed its doors ten years later.

#GameShows Alan Thicke hosted the game show "Pictionary" (top) in syndication during the 1997-98 TV season. A similar show, "Win, Lose or Draw" (bottom), premiered in 1987 and aired in both syndication and on NBC. The syndicated series, hosted by Bert Convy, ran until 1990.

NY TV debut 11/5/50 at 10:30 pm on WOR's "Starlit Playhouse.'' Following a triple feature of repeats on "Mystery Movie Night'' starting at 7:30, Poverty Row melodrama that supported Fox's MAN ABOUT TOWN 6/14/32 at the 2,346-seat Loews Boro Park in Brooklyn.

NY TV debut Saturday 11/5/55 at 11:15 pm on WCBS' "The Late Show.'' Noel Coward and David Lean's romantic masterpiece opened 8/24/46 at a Manhattan arthouse via US theatrical distributor Universal.

November 6, 1967 - “The Phil Donahue Show” debuted in Dayton, OH on TV station WLWD. Three years later it would become syndicated nationwide. #Donahue

US TV debut 11/6/55 at 7:30 pm on "NBC Sunday Spectacular.'' First color network movie broadcast took place 20 months before (poorly reviewed) British comedy opened at Manhattan's Plaza (7/25/57). In another first, it went head-to-head with a movie broadcast on another network.

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In the 1950s, many local stations simply signed off at midnight or filled their schedules with live wrestling and stock car races. That changed in 1957, when Universal’s Screen Gems released its “Shock” package of classic horror films. latenighter.com/features/befor…

November 7, 1976 - The epic 1939 film “Gone with the Wind” made its broadcast television debut on NBC-TV. At the time of its broadcast the Oscar-winning film earned a then-record household rating of 47.7 and a 65 share of TV viewers. #GoneWithTheWind

NY TV debut 11/7/55 at 7:30 pm on WOR's "Million Dollar Movie.'' International Pictures, which eventually merged with Universal, sponsored third version of Universal's LITTLE ACCIDENT which starred Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (1930) and Hugh Herbert (1939). 9/14/44 @radiocity.

#QSLfriday This Cleveland, Ohio, radio station was known as WKYC from 1965 to 1972. The station first carried the call letters WTAM from 1923 to 1956. The station re-adopted the WTAM call letters in 1996 to reinforce the station's position on the AM band. #otr

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November 10, 1969 - Sesame Street premiered on PBS. Sesame Street PBS KIDS

NY TV debut 11/10/50 at 11:15 pm on WOR's "Starlit Playhouse.'' Frank Strayer's Poverty Row adventure, retitled VENGEANCE RIDES THE SEA for TV, supported FOX's WHILE PARIS SLEEPS 7/20/32 at Harlem's Roosevelt Theatre. youtube.com/watch?v=h7T1dx…

The 2025 Giants of Broadcasting & Electronic Arts awards ceremony will take place this Friday at Gotham Hall in New York City. For complete details about tickets, please contact the 2025 Giants of Broadcasting Event Producer at [email protected] or (732) 245-7799.