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    Subramania Bharati

    Boxing from St. Nicholas Arena
    GenreSports
    Presented byChris Schenkel
    Country of originUnited States
    Original languageEnglish
    Production
    Camera setupMulti-camera
    Running time60–90 mins.
    Original release
    Network
    • NBC (1946–1948)
    • DuMont (1954–1955)
    • Syndicated, through WABD (1955–1958)
    Release1946 (1946) –
    August 4, 1958 (1958-08-04)

    Boxing from St. Nicholas Arena was an American sports program originally broadcast on NBC from 1946 to 1948, and later on the DuMont Television Network from 1954 to the network's closure in 1955, and was their final regularly-scheduled program. It was later a syndicated program based at WABD television in New York City (the former flagship of DuMont) from 1955 until 1958, mostly under the "DuMont" banner.

    Broadcast history

    Before having their own program, boxing matches from St. Nicholas Arena were broadcast as part of the Gillette Cavalcade of Sports.[1]

    NBC

    NBC broadcast Boxing From St. Nicholas Arena twice a week—at 9:30 p.m. on Mondays and at 10 p.m. on Tuesdays.[2] The series ended on May 9, 1949, as a result of budgetary problems at the sponsoring Gillette Company.[3]

    DuMont

    The DuMont version was hosted by Chris Schenkel; Schenkel took over for Dennis James, who had hosted most of DuMont's boxing telecasts prior to 1954.[4]

    This program, which aired boxing matches from St. Nicholas Arena in New York City on Monday nights, is notable for being the final program to air on DuMont.[5] After a short period of significant decline, DuMont announced in April 1955 that all remaining scripted programming would end on a per-program basis, a process that wrapped up by September and effectively ended regular operations.[6][7] Boxing From St. Nicholas Arena was the only regularly-scheduled show to remain on the lineup, as it was a co-op production and not sponsored.[8][9]

    Boxing transitioned into being a show syndicated from WABD, the former DuMont flagship, to a network of 37 stations under the "DuMont" banner.[10] Most of these stations were affiliates of ABC and aired it on Monday nights, a night ABC did not fully program into. When The Lawrence Welk Show moved to a later start time on ABC, it shifted the start time for Boxing by 30 minutes.[11] WABD continued to distribute Boxing to a dwindling affiliate base until the last broadcast on August 4, 1958, after a price dispute between the station and promoter Teddy Brenner; only five affiliates remained. WABD opted to air feature films in the time slot instead.[12]

    Episode status

    About 60 episodes of the DuMont version survive at the UCLA Film and Television Archive. However, some of these episodes are from the non-network version which continued to run on WABD after the network closed (these are also notable due to the rarity of kinescopes of local programming aired on United States television stations during the 1950s).

    See also

    References

    1. ^ Gamache, Ray (2010). A History of Sports Highlights: Replayed Plays from Edison to ESPN. McFarland. p. 88. ISBN 9780786456642. Retrieved September 1, 2017.
    2. ^ Fearn-Banks, Kathleen (2009). The A to Z of African-American Television. Scarecrow Press. p. 53. ISBN 9780810863484. Retrieved September 1, 2017.
    3. ^ Winn, J. Emmett; Brinson, Susan Lorene (2005). Transmitting the Past: Historical and Cultural Perspectives on Broadcasting. University of Alabama Press. p. 81. ISBN 9780817351755. Retrieved September 1, 2017.
    4. ^ Brooks, Tim; Marsh, Earle (1985). The Complete Directory to Prime-Time Network TV Shows (Third ed.). New York: Ballantine. pp. 113–114. ISBN 0-345-31864-1.
    5. ^ Reed, R. M.; Reed, M. K. (2012). The Encyclopedia of Television, Cable, and Video. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 176. ISBN 9781468465211. Retrieved September 1, 2017.
    6. ^ "DuMont Network To Quit In Telecasting 'Spin-Off'". Broadcasting. August 15, 1955. p. 64. ProQuest 1014914488.
    7. ^ "DuMont Turns Its Corporate Back On TV Network, Leaves It To Die". Broadcasting. August 29, 1955. p. 80. ProQuest 1014916214.
    8. ^ "Du Mont To Drop Two TV Programs: Network Will Retain Boxing Bouts Weekly—Plans New Company". The New York Times. August 15, 1955. p. 35. ProQuest 113354069.
    9. ^ "Radio-Video-TV Films: DuMont Cable Down to a Thread". Varfiety. Vol. 198, no. 7. April 20, 1955. p. 26. ProQuest 962892954.
    10. ^ "At Deadline: N. Y. Boxing Unit Denies Bid for Monday TV Bouts". Broadcasting-Telecasting. Vol. 51, no. 7. August 13, 1956. p. 9. ProQuest 1401218488.
    11. ^ "Radio-Television: ABC-TV Mon. Extension Cues Shift in DuM Bouts". Variety. Vol. 203, no. 11. August 15, 1956. p. 30. ProQuest 963066084.
    12. ^ "Radio-Television: Looks Like Welk's Boxed Out of An Earlier Time Slot". Variety. Vol. 211, no. 10. August 6, 1958. p. 23. ProQuest 1032370235.

    Bibliography

    • David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004) ISBN 1-59213-245-6
    • Alex McNeil, Total Television, Fourth edition (New York: Penguin Books, 1980) ISBN 0-14-024916-8
    • Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows, Third edition (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964) ISBN 0-345-31864-1
    Credit: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxing_from_St._Nicholas_Arena

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