With the upcoming celebration of CFRN-TV's 60th anniversary, and the arrival of television in Edmonton, I thought it made sense to turn things around and look at the Last Day of Radio before Television arrived.
The schedule begins at 5:00 p.m. on Saturday. At 3:00 p.m. on Sunday, CFRN-TV signed on.
Since it seems unlikely that there were any major schedule changes this quickly after television first signed on in Edmonton, I've also include the full Monday schedule.
As well as a lot of network programming, much of it OTR (Old Time Radio) classics, you can also see some of the Radio Names that were then local Edmonton personalities. Here are a few that I caught: Keith Rich, Stu Davis, Curley Gurlock, Bob McGavin, George Payne. The one local name that I didn't recognize was CKUA's morning man, Al Burton.
I'm assuming that the listing for Bill Good (Sr.) late Saturday night on CBC is networked out of Vancouver.
And, by the way, before you pass by "Rawhide" at 7:00 pm on Monday on CBC, thinking it was the radio predecessor of the TV series of just a few years later: that was Max Ferguson's show. A few years later, when TV had done its damage to radio ratings, it would become, with the possible exception of play-by-play sports coverage, CBC Radio's most listened to program.