Boxing from St. Nicholas Arena
Boxing from St. Nicholas Arena | |
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Genre | Sports |
Presented by | Chris Schenkel |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
Production | |
Camera setup | Multi-camera |
Running time | 60–90 mins. |
Original release | |
Network | NBC (1946–1948) DuMont (1954–1956) |
Release | 1946 August 6, 1956 | –
Boxing from St. Nicholas Arena was an American
Broadcast history
Before having their own program, boxing matches from
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 regularly scheduled 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] The last network-aired program was broadcast on August 6, 1956, though a few remaining programs were seen locally on New York's WABD afterward.[4]
With limited finances, DuMont aired many sports programs throughout its history. Boxing, wrestling, basketball, and football were always network mainstays, even during prime time, as they were cheaper than most scripted programs (this in an era before sports rights fees accelerated to their modern levels) and filled large programming blocks that would otherwise have gone unfilled.[6] Most of DuMont's regular series were cancelled on April 1, 1955, and the last non-sports program, the panel show What's the Story, left the airwaves on September 23, 1955, leaving only a few cheaply produced sports programs on the schedule.
However, by August 1956, even DuMont's sports programs, including Boxing From St. Nicholas Arena, were axed.
Episode status
About 60 episodes of the DuMont version, including the final program on August 6, 1956, survive at the
See also
- List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
- List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
- 1954-55 United States network television schedule
- 1955-56 United States network television schedule
- Boxing from Jamaica Arena (July 1940-May 1942, 1946-1949)
- Amateur Boxing Fight Club (September 1949 – 1950)
- Wrestling from Marigold (September 1949 – 1955)
- Boxing from Eastern Parkway (May 1952-May 1954)
- Saturday Night at the Garden (1950-1951)
- HBO Boxing(1973-2018)
References
- ISBN 9780786456642. Retrieved 1 September 2017.
- ISBN 9780810863484. Retrieved 1 September 2017.
- ISBN 9780817351755. Retrieved 1 September 2017.
- ^ ISBN 0-345-31864-1.
- ISBN 9781468465211. Retrieved 1 September 2017.
- ^ The DuMont Television Network Historical Web Site Archived 2010-10-27 at the Wayback Machine
Bibliography
- David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: ISBN 1-59213-245-6
- Alex McNeil, Total Television, Fourth edition (New York: ISBN 0-14-024916-8
- Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows, Third edition (New York: ISBN 0-345-31864-1