T.H.A.T.
(Television History and Trivia)

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Victor Edward Swanson,
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    I now have videos on YouTube, and they are history pieces, and they can be found at the channel for "The Hologlobe Press" (the search term).  One of the videos is about my making of a model of 40 Mile Point Lighthouse, and other videos are about Ms. Anna May Wong, Ms. Sandy Benson (The Naked Lady of The Soupy Sales Show of KABC-TV), and WAYN-AM (of Wayne State University).  By the way, you can use this Videos link to read about my videos.  And I still have a document at the website for The Hologlobe Press entitled A COVID-19 Document that Shows the Rottenness of the CDC, Many in the Medical Community, Many in the Media, and All the Democrats, such as Gretchen Whitmer, Andrew Cuomo, and Joseph Biden, and the document can be reached by using this COVID-19 link.
 
 

- - - T.H.A.T., Edition No. 254 - - -

    Hey, I begin by showing up wrong information about television on Wikipedia.  On Wikipedia, you will find a page related to Uptown Jubilee.  It is a confused page, saying, for example, the show started out as Harlem Jubilee and started out a Uptown Jubilee (and then changed to Harlem Jubilee)--it did both, which leaves a reader in a mess.  In much of 1949, a show called Harlem Jubilee was being readied for broadcast on CBS-TV, and it was being designed to have an all-black cast.  On September 13, 1949, a show called Uptown Jubilee showed up for viewers at 8:00 p.m., and it was a one-hour-long presentation.  The name Harlem Jubilee was never used, even though, for instance, the title exists in the television listings for The New York Times for the show on Tuesday, September 13, 1949.  On the first show were such performers as Willie Bryant (as the host), Louis Armstrong, Harry Belafonte, Kenny Rogers (a comic), and the Don Redman Orchestra.  Uptown Jubilee was the name of the next episode, which was shown on Tuesday, September 20, 1949.  Thelma Carpenter was the main guest for the episode of the Willie Bryant-hosted series of Tuesday, September 27, 1949, airing from 8:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., and the show was called Sugar Hill Times.  By the way, over on NBC-TV for the first three shows as a competing program for ratings called the Texaco Star Theater, which featured Milton Berle, who--as I have been able to find out through old publications--pulled in a lot of white and black viewers, and I am aware that many shows had no power to take away ratings from Milton Berle's show.  On Thursday, October 6, 1949, the fourth episode of the Willie Bryant-hosted series showed up, and it aired from 8:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., and it was called Sugar Hill Times.  And Sugar Hill Times was broadcast on CBS-TV on Thursday, October 20, 1949, airing from 8:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m..  No more shows hosted by Willie Bryant showed up.  Some of the other performers who took part by dancing or singing or doing whatever on the Willie Brytant-hosted series were Maxine Sullivan, Dorothy Donegan, Timmie Rogers (or Timmy Rogers), Avon Long, Moke & Poke, The Charlioteers, The Chocolateers, the Jubileers (six gals), Pearl Bailey, Hot Lips Page, and Dusty Fletcher.  Wikipedia says that "Barry Woods" was the producer of the series hosted by Willie Bryant, but Wikipedia should have had "Barry Wood."  Barry Wood joined CBS-TV in 1948, and, in November 1949, Barry Wood was made the production supervisor for all CBS-TV musical shows, having been only a "producer" at CBS-TV.  Incidentally, Milton Berle's series was getting in around November 1949 twice the ratings number than the next big-audience-pulling shows on network television were of the time.

 Announcement for the novice again (reworked in March 2019): To get useful television-delivered news or Internet-delivered news, try Breitbart News Network (the history of which goes back to 2007), WorldNetDaily.com, Newsmax TV (which was started up in 2014), CNS News (which is on the Internet and which was launched on June 16, 1998), and One America News Network (a.k.a. OAN), since the entities do not blindly support Barack Obama-type people (communists, socialists, progressives, liberals, and Shariaists), as do CNN, MSNBC, NBC-TV, CBS-TV, and ABC-TV (Note: To learn about bad journalism, you might tune in to CNN, MSNBC, NBC-TV, CBS-TV, and ABC-TV from time to time to see how they differ from the better places mentioned).  I note that the Fox News Channel is evolving into a rotten channel, becoming like those that I have put down in this paragraph.  If you are unclear of my intentions, I say in different words that you should boycott CNN, MSNBC, NBC-TV, CBS-TV, and ABC-TV and even now much of what is on the Fox News Channel and hope they lose more ratings and advertising revenues, since they are expendable, and it is time for you to find the guts to be mean and heartless and cancel them--since they are hurting you.  In 2019, "The Drudge Report" was sold, and it should be treated as suspect for now.   [Note: Everyone in the Democratic Party in the country is rotten, and the Republican Party establishment has shown itself to be socialistic and communistic within the last few years, and only a few of the rotten people tied to the Republican Party are U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell, Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush, and Chris Christie.]
    [Note: Here is an example of Chris Christie's rottenness.  On Sunday, February 6, 2022, Chris Christie was a guest on This Week with George Stephanopoulos (of ABC-TV), which had Martha Raddatz as the host, and Chris Christie pushed out crap.  For example, Chris Christie said--"...And let's face it.  Let's call it what it is. January 6 was a riot that was incited by Donald Trump...an effort to intimidate Mike Pence and the Congress into doing exactly what he said in his own words last week--overturn the election.  And he's trying to do a cleanup on aisle one here...." and "...He actually told the truth by accident.  He wanted the election to be overturned....".  That is bullshit!]

    In the past, I have report that, all over the Internet, there is wrong information about when the DuMont Television Network ended, and it ended on September 15, 1955, and I show proof in my video on YouTube--the channel for "The Hologlobe Press"--called "'Dilemma' and the End of the DuMont Television Network".  Given there is so many places that have the wrong information about the end of the DuMont Television Network, I went looking to find out what is being reported about the beginnings of the "commercial" DuMont Television Network and the "commercial" ABC-TV network, the "commercial" CBS-TV network, and the "commercial" NBC-TV network.  Notice I use the term "commercial" in the previous sentence.  To have a "commercial network," the network must have at least two television affiliates that are "commercial" television stations.  Generally speaking, in the 1930s and the1940s, it was the job of the Federal Communications Commission (or the FCC) to hand out experimental television licenses or "commercial" television licenses to entities, which had applied for them.  An experimental station could not air commercials, and a "commercial" television station could aiar commercials.  In early 1940s, for example, the Allen B. DuMont Laboratories had two television stations, which had started out as experimental stations, and they were W2XWV (of New York City, New York) and W3XWT (of Washington, D.C.).  On May 2, 1944, the FCC said that W2XWV was now a commercial station, and it became named WABD-TV.  In the early to middle 1940s, WABC-TV did broadcasts, such as with W3XWT, or they were connected to form (as least on intermittent set-ups) a network.  But since, one station was a commercial station and the other was yet an experimental station, the network was not a "commercial" network.  On November 29, 1946, the FCC said that W3XWT was not a commercial station, and it was now called WTTG-TV.  Incidentally, WABD-TV and WTTG-TV were owned by the Allen B. DuMont Laboratores, and you need not have two commercial stations owned by the same entity to have a "commercial" television network.  On November 29, 1946, both stations carried a wrestling program (which started at (9:15 p.m.) that was held at Jamaica Arena of the Queens, NewYork; the stations--WABD-TV and W3XWT had been airing boxing from Jamaica Arena as a network for several weeks.  That program can be called the first network broadcast for the "commercial" DuMont Television Network.  Now, let me back up in time to cover a "commercial" television network that came before the "commercial" DuMont Television Network.  WPTZ-TV (of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was born out of an experimental station on May 1, 1946.  I have already reported that WABD-TV had become a "commercial" television station in 1944.  WPTZ-TV and WABD-TV became the first two commercial stations to make up the "commercial" ABC-TV network on May 24, 1946.  Hold it!  Are you confused?  In 1946, ABC-TV used WPTZ-TV and WABD-TV as affiliates; it did not own and operate a "commercial" television station or any television station in the New York City area.  You should see that WABD-TV in 1946 was affiliated with the "commercial" ABC-TV first and then the "commercial" DuMont Television Network at least for a while; ABC-TV for a short while would drop WABD-TV as a affiliate in the middle of January 1947, when WABD-TV when off the air so that an new antenna and transmitter setup could be put in place, and WABD-TV would end up back on the air in March 1947, and from March 1947 to August 10, 1948, ABC-TV had some programs on WABD-TV again, and then on August 10, 1948, ABC-TV's station called WJZ-TV would go on the air in New York City.  Now, let me jump to the two true "commercial" television network.  On July 18, 1945, WNBT-TV (of New York City) became a "commercial" television station, and on May 1, 1946, WPTZ-TV became a "commercial" television network (as I have already reported), and on May 3, 1946, both stations carried a sports program that was tied to the "commercial" NBC-TV network.  Now, I come to the last "commercial" television network that I can talk about in the 1940s.  It was on July 18, 1945, when an experimental television station in New York City became a "commercial" television station called WCBW-TV (which would become known as WCBS-TV on November 1, 1946).  In late March 1948, the Columbia Broadcasting System (?) owned WCBS-TV, and the company signed contracts with WMAR-TV (which had become a commercial station on October 30, 1947) and with a station that would become a "commercial" station on May 23, 1948, and that station would become WCAU-TV.  For now, I can only report that WCBS-TV and WMAR-TV made up the first stations of the "commercial" CBS-TV network; I am unable to give an exact day, lacking information about when the contract between WMAR-TV and CBS-TV was signed and what was the first "commercial" program on both stations at the same time.  The information that I have provided is a good and real look at the start of the "commercial" broadcast television networks in the country, and you will find information on the Internet that does not match, especially since the people have not really set out to make a distinction between a simple television network and a true "commercial" television network of the early days of television in the country.
 
 

    Announcement: Recently, I have added some new documents to the collection of my documents at the website for The Hologlobe Press.  One of the documents is entitled A Document that Dispels Myths and Nonsense of Science-Fiction Books, Movies, and Television Shows (A Logic Puzzle), which can be reached through this Myths link.  Another document is And So You Think You're Going to the Moon, Mars, or the Stars..., which can be reached by using this Moon link.  And yet another of the documents is entitled And the Stupid Women Shall Lead--and Lead Every Good Individual into Shit, Driven on by Communism, Feminism, and Defective Female Beliefs and Little-Girl Thinking, which can be reached through this Stupid Women link.  And here are other documents--A Review of What Television Controlled by Socialists and Communists Worked to Sell as Truth in Relation to the U.S. President Donald J. Trump Impeachment (at Impeachment) and T.H.A.T. Special Edition--The First Helicopter-based Traffic Reporters on Radio for the Detroit area of Michigan (at Helicopter Traffic).
 
 

    Remember: The Prisoner with Patrick McGoohan was a television show that was produced across the pond and shown on CBS-TV in the late 1960s, and I urge you to find The Prisoner on DVD, maybe from a library, and watch it, and you should show it--all the episodes--to teenagers, or buy it as a present for teenagers.

 
Stay well!

Vic
 

    P.S.: You are urged to see my document entitled One of "The Rules of Man"--A Rule About Health Care that No Politician May Supersede with Law, which can be reached through this Rule1 link.  I have deduced that all the Democrats and most Republicans support the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 and have no intention of killing it, though it should be killed for violating, for one, "The Rules of Man."  For example, Republicans Jeb Bush and Chris Christie support the rotten law, and that is one reason that I define them as stupid men and not men who are good enough--in this day and age--to be the U.S. President.  I note that the "mandate"--which forces everyone to buy government-approved health-care insurance--violates one of "The Rules of Man," and it is a rule that is attacked in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010.  Anyone who supports the "mandate" is not a good enough person or a smart enough person to be the U.S. president--the mandate is "enslavism," and the "mandate" allows government people--who are often usually bad people, as history shows--decide what health care a person can get, and that is bad.
 

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Date published: June 10, 2025

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