Day: November 22, 2016

PROGRAMMING THE DETROIT RADIO DIAL: 11/22/1963

Friday, November 22, 1963

DETROIT FREE PRESS: FRIDAY’S RADIO GUIDE

Friday, November 22, 1963

DETROIT FREE PRESS ‘METRO FINAL’ HEADLINES

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“November the 22nd began, without a hint that it would be remembered. The country awoke, without knowing its President, was to sleep. The morning came, but the sun would set in mid-day. . . . “

— GREGORY PECK, ‘John F. Kennedy, Years Of Lightning, Day Of Drums’ (1964)

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WXYZ 11/22/1963: “WE INTERRUPT THIS PROGRAM . . . “

THE ABC RADIO NEWS * WXYZ (ABC affiliate) * FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1963

01:36 P.M., EST., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1963

THE ABC RADIO NETWORK

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At approximately 1:36 p.m., EST (12:36 p.m., CST; Dallas time), Don Gardiner of ABC News in New York first broke the airways nationwide with a FLASH news bulletin President Kennedy had been shot in Dallas, over the ABC Radio Network (WXYZ; Detroit).

Almost immediately following the ABC report, the CBS (WJR; Detroit) and NBC (WWJ; Detroit) radio networks broke in with bulletins approximately 1:38 p.m. EST. The Mutual Broadcasting System (WKNR; Detroit) began picking up the news feed pouring out of Dallas, breaking radio programming with flash bulletins covering Mutual affiliates nationwide, four-minutes later. Time approximately 1:40 p.m., Detroit time.

By 1:45 to 2:00 p.m., virtually every station on the dial (with the exception of WJLB who had not suspended their Friday scheduled programming) would cease all commercial radio programming in Detroit, and thereafter would remain under the news control of the three major networks out of New York during those four days, November 22-25, 1963.

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WKNR 11/22/1963: MUTUAL BROADCASTING BULLETINS

MUTUAL RADIO BULLETINS * WKNR (Mutual affiliate) * NOVEMBER 22, 1963

01:40 P.M., EST., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1963

THE MUTUAL RADIO NETWORK

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At approximately 1:36 p.m., EST (12:36 p.m., CST; Dallas time), Don Gardiner of ABC News in New York first broke the airways nationwide with a FLASH news bulletin President Kennedy had been shot in Dallas, over the ABC Radio Network (WXYZ; Detroit).

Almost immediately following the ABC report, the CBS (WJR; Detroit) and NBC (WWJ; Detroit) radio networks broke in with bulletins approximately 1:38 p.m. EST. The Mutual Broadcasting System (WKNR; Detroit) began picking up the news feed pouring out of Dallas, breaking radio programming with flash bulletins covering Mutual affiliates nationwide, four-minutes later. Time approximately 1:40 p.m., Detroit time.

By 1:45 to 2:00 p.m., virtually every station on the dial (with the exception of WJLB who had not suspended their Friday scheduled programming) would cease all commercial radio programming in Detroit, and thereafter would remain under the news control of the three major news networks coming out of New York — including the Mutual Network — during those four days, November 22-25, 1963.