But it WAS on the air for more than 30 hours

from 8 to 10 p.m. Friday night

and

8 a.m. to midnight Saturday

and

10:30 a.m. to midnight Sunday,

September 5, 6 & 7, 1958,

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!

 

NBC Monitor's Broadcast Schedule

Friday night, September 5, 1958

Live from  Radio Central

8-10 p.m. -- News, weather, sports and features, including a musically illustrated interview

          with songwriter Hoagy Carmichael about his career.

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NBC Monitor's Broadcast Schedule

Saturday, September 6, 1958

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, including a railway tour through the Great

          Smoky Mountains.

11 a.m.-noon -- News, weather, sports and features.

Noon-1 p.m. -- News, weather, sports and features, including a visit to the Vatican radio

          station.

1-2 p.m. -- News, weather, sports and features,, including a visit to a theater in Taipei,

          Formosa.  Guest:  Roddy McDowell

2-3 p.m. -- News, weather, sports and features, including the first of a series of live reports

          on the National Tennis championship matches at Forest Hills, Queens (every half-hour

          until 6 p.m.)  Guest:  Betty Hutton

3-4 p.m. -- News, weather, sports and features.  Guest:  Boris Karloff

4-5 p.m. --  News, weather, sports and features, including live coverage of the "Sysonby

          Handicap" horse race from Belmont Park, Long Island.  Guest:  Eddie Fisher

5-6 p.m. -- News, weather, sports and features, including live coverage of the "Miss America

          Turf Handicap" horse race at the Atlantic City race track in New Jersey.

6-7 p.m. -- News, weather, sports and features.

7-8 p.m. -- News, weather, sports and features.

8-9 p.m. --  News, weather, sports and features.

9-10 p.m. -- News, weather, sports and features. Guest: Steve Allen

           Live big-band performances

10-11 p.m. -- News, weather, sports and features, including live coverage of harness racing

           from Yonkers Raceway.  Live big-band performances.

11 p.m.-midnight --  News, weather, sports and features.  Live big-band performances,

           including music from the Embers and from the Roundtable starting at 11:15 p.m.

Communicators: Frank Blair & Don Russell (8 a.m.-noon); Hugh Downs & Peter Roberts (noon-4 p.m.);  Walter Kiernan & Johnny Andrews (4-8 p.m.); Morgan Beatty & Monty Hall (8 p.m.-midnight)

Bob and Ray provide 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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NBC Monitor's Broadcast Schedule

Sunday, September 7, 1958

Live from Radio Central

Hour-by-hour highlights and guests (all times Eastern)

10:30-11 a.m. --News, weather, sports 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. 

          "The Lutheran Hour" at 1:30

2-3 p.m. -- News, weather, sports and features.

          "The Catholic Hour" at 2:30.

3-4 p.m. -- News, weather, sports and features.

4-5 p.m. -- News, weather, sports and features.

5-6 p.m. -- News, weather, sports and features.

6-7 p.m.  -- News, weather, sports and features. 

          Bob Considine at 6:15; "Meet the Press" at 6:30 (guest: Leo A. Hoegh, director of

          the Office of Defense and Civil Mobilization).

7-8 p.m. -- News, weather, sports and features.

 

8-9 p.m. -- News, weather, sports and features.

9-10 p.m. -- News, weather, sports and features. 

           

10-11 p.m. -- News, weather, sports and features.

11 p.m -midnight -- News, weather, sports and features.

Communicators:   Gordon Frasier & Gene Hamilton (10:30 a.m.-2 p.m.);  Ben Grauer & Frank Gallop (2-6 p.m.,); Dave Garroway & Don Russell (7-10 p.m.); Mel Brandt (10 p.m.-midnight.

Bob and Ray provide 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.