Helen Rogers/Tacoma News Tribune, August 23, 1953–
Perhaps a lot of televiewers have heard the pounding sound of hammers in the background at various times while local shows were being aired at KTNT-TV—well, the reason will be exposed to view in early September when Channel 11 begins using its new L-shaped studio.
The studio, KTNT-TV’s major building and development project this summer, is located in the mid-section of the station site. The large room of the studio measures 28 by 45 feet and is done in neutral tones to provide ample leeway for rapid change of sets.
Partitioned off from the main room is a small one, comprised of a kitchen and measuring 20 by 25 feet. The kitchen sounds delightful—it’s finished in birchwood and boasts complete electrical appliances, including an automatic dishwasher.
It will be in this kitchen that Miss Connie Paige, who has done radio and television work in San Francisco and Seattle, will preside over KTNT-TV’s hour-long Home Show. The program featuring cooking and hints on homemaking, will be aired from noon to 1 o’clock the first few weeks and then will move to 10:30 a.m.
On KMO-TV’s Mity Mike Kitchen Wednesday, Keith Hetherington will emcee and introduce Miss Ruth Vernon, table-setting expert.
Thursday night on KMO-TV Laraine Day will appear with husband Leo Durocher of baseball fame on their weekly program, Double Play.
When Laraine appears on Channel 11 Thursday night, though, she’ll forget baseball awhile to concentrate on her role as a distraught wife of a pilot whose plane has crashed. The Video Theater selection, “Women Who Wait,” shows how the tension of Laraine’s vigil is heightened when she realizes that another woman awaits Laraine’s pilot-husband just as fervently.
Former All-American linebacker Les Richter from the University of California will be the guest of Bob Robertson, KMO-TV’s sports director, on Spinnin’ Through Sports Thursday p.m. on Channel 13. Les currently is player-coach for the Fort Lewis Rockets football team.
TV Tidbits—For many years Jack Benny has been insisting that he learned the violin under Yale’s great violin professor, Hugo Kortschak, but all of his audiences just laughed—they were familiar with Benny’s screeching “Love in Bloom.”
Professor Kortschak often was told by his Yale colleagues that Benny had mentioned his name on the air and the professor couldn’t figure out why. He remembered quite well a 15-year-old boy named Benny Kubelsky, whom he regarded as quite promising, but not a person named Jack Benny.
Well, last week a Honolulu newspaperman arranged a reunion at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel. The retired professor, who now resides in Honolulu, learned for the first time that Jack Benny, who has been vacationing in Hawaii, really did study under him for three years at the Chicago Musical College — Benny Kubelsky.
6:30 P.M.—WHAT’S MY LINE?
PLUS these other Great shows:
2:00 ………….. Adventure
3:30 ………….. Your Playtime
5:30 ………….. Stork Club
9:00 ………….. Plainclothesman
9:30 ………….. Rocky King
10:00 ………….. The Web
10:30 ………….. The Big Playback
AND . . . Tomorrow’s Daytime Shows
10:30 A.M. ………….. Linkletter’s House Party
2:00 P.M. ………….. Strike It Rich
3:45 ………….. Garry Moore Show
5:30 ………….. Doug Edwards and News
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KTNT-TV Channel 11
