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PM East/PM West is a late-night talk show hosted by Mike Wallace and Joyce Davidson in New York City (where the PM East portion originated) and San Francisco Chronicle television critic Terrence O'Flaherty in San Francisco (PM West). The program was seen five nights a week from June 12, 1961, to June 22, 1962. The show was syndicated by Group W Productions to Westinghouse-owned television stations in Boston, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, San Francisco, as well as to other stations in Washington D.C., New York, Los Angeles and Dallas, Texas. It was scheduled at the same time as NBC's The Tonight Show, then hosted by Jack Paar. Westinghouse, which was only a broadcaster that syndicated its programs through Group W, attempted to compete with NBC, which had had a monopoly on late-night television since Steve Allen had originated The Tonight Show in 1954. PM East/PM West was never accessible in Chicago, Illinois, the American South, the Pacific Northwest or in the state of Florida. WFAA channel 8 in Dallas, Texas carried it starting with the first episode, but viewers in other Texas cities and in the American Southwest never watched it. (en) |
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PM East/PM West is a late-night talk show hosted by Mike Wallace and Joyce Davidson in New York City (where the PM East portion originated) and San Francisco Chronicle television critic Terrence O'Flaherty in San Francisco (PM West). The program was seen five nights a week from June 12, 1961, to June 22, 1962. PM East/PM West was never accessible in Chicago, Illinois, the American South, the Pacific Northwest or in the state of Florida. WFAA channel 8 in Dallas, Texas carried it starting with the first episode, but viewers in other Texas cities and in the American Southwest never watched it. (en) |
