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On Monitor this weekend... Yes, we know that Monitor is not on the air THIS weekend. But it WAS on the air for 32 hours from 8 a.m. to midnight Saturday and 8
a.m. to midnight Sunday 50 YEARS AGO this very weekend! We'll update this page every week (really!) to show how Monitor made good on its premise that "weekends are different -- so is Monitor" and its promise that Monitor would be "going places and doing things" on weekends exactly 50 years ago!
Monitor's Broadcast Schedule Saturday, November 17, 1956 Live from Radio Central Hour-by-hour highlights and guests (all times Eastern) 8-9 a.m. -- News, weather, sports and features. 9-10 a.m. -- News, weather, sports and features. 10-11 a.m. -- News, weather, sports and features. Guest: Archie Moore 11 a.m.-noon -- News, weather, sports and features. Noon-1 p.m. -- "National Farm and Home Hour" at noon (Everett Mitchell, emcee); then Monitor news, weather, sports and features. 1-2 p.m. -- News, weather, sports and features until 1:45 p.m. At 1:45 p.m. -- live coverage of the football game between Army and Pittsburgh 2-3 p.m. -- Live coverage of football (see 1:45 p.m.) 3-4 p.m. -- Live coverage of football (see 1:45 p.m.) 4-5 p.m. -- News, weather, sports and features. 5-6 p.m. -- News, weather, sports and features, including Irving R. Levine's "Report from Moscow" and a report on the Pinehurst, North Carolina, County Club Senior Golf Championship. Guest: Kirk Douglas 6-7 p.m. -- News, weather, sports and features. 7-8 p.m. -- News, weather, sports and features, including a report on the National Swamp Buggy Race from Naples, Florida; and a report on a man being questioned by police for a killing. Guest: Dorothy Lamour 8-9 p.m. -- News, weather, sports and features. Live big-band performances. 9-10 p.m. -- News, weather, sports and features. "The Grand Ole Opry" live from Nashville at 9:30. 10-11 p.m. -- News, weather, sports and features, including a a report by the Lord Mayor of Melbourne, Australia, on preparations for the Olympic Games. Live big-band performances. 11 p.m.-midnight -- News, weather, sports and features. Live big-band performances. Communicators: Frank Blair & Don Russell (8 a.m.-noon), Peter Roberts & Walter Kiernan (noon-4 p.m.), Tom Moore & Bob Maxwell (4-8 p.m.), Morgan Beatty & Mel Brandt (8 p.m.-midnight). Bob and Ray provide live comedy routines, and "Miss Monitor" gives live weather forecasts from around the country and the world. Plus hourly news, sports, comedy, special features, interviews, music and remote pick-ups from all parts of the world.
Monitor's Broadcast Schedule Sunday, November 18, 1956 Live from Radio Central Hour-by-hour highlights and guests (all times Eastern) 8-9 a.m. -- "Great Choirs of America" at 8; "Faith in Action at 8:15; "Bible Study Hour" at 8:30. 9-10 a.m. -- "World News Roundup" at 9; "The Art of Living" at 9:15; "The Voice of Prophecy" at 9:30. 10-11 a.m. -- "National Radio Pulpit" at 10; then Monitor news and features. 11 a.m. -noon -- News, weather, sports and features. Noon-1 p.m. -- News, weather, sports and features. "The Eternal Light" at 12:30. 1-2 p.m. -- News, weather, sports and features. 2-3 p.m. -- News, weather, sports and features. "The Catholic Hour" at 2:30. 3-4 p.m. -- News, weather, sports and features, including a trip in a junk down the Pearl River near Communist China, and a visit aboard a ship carrying Polish refugees who fled after their recent uprising. Guest: Claire Trevor 4-5 p.m. -- News, weather, sports and features, including a hi-fi concert hour. 5-6 p.m. -- News, weather, sports and features, including a report from the Pinehurst, North Carolina, Country Club Senior Golf Championship. Guest: Elizabeth Montgomery 6-7 p.m. -- News, weather, sports and features. "Meet the Press" with host Lawrence Spivak from 6:30 to 7 (guest: Nikolai Khokhlov, former member of the Soviet Intelligence Service). 7-8 p.m. -- News, weather, sports and features, including the first of a series of reports (airing from 7-9 p.m. ET) from London on the forthcoming trip of the replica of the Mayflower. Guest: Cornelia Otis Skinner 8-9 p.m. -- News, weather, sports and features. Guest: Mel Ferrer 9-10 p.m. -- News, weather, sports and features, including a report from Tucson's Color Days celebration. Guest: Betty Field 10-11 p.m. -- News, weather, sports and features. Guest: Jim Backus 11 p.m.-midnight -- News, weather, sports and features. Communicators: Al Capstaff (10:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.); Frank Gallop (2-6 p.m.), Ben Grauer (3:30-7 p.m.), Dave Garroway & Don Russell (7-10 p.m.), Hugh Downs (10 p.m.-midnight). Bob and Ray provide live comedy routines, and "Miss Monitor" gives live weather forecasts from around the country and the world. Plus hourly news, sports, comedy, special features, interviews, music and remote pick-ups from all parts of the world.
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