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Message from WKIC's Paul Combs on 1949 broadcasts

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June 22nd 1949 (Morning)

6:00 Morning Madhouse with WKIC’s Jerry Leighton 

6:45  Berean Baptist Church

7:00 Morning Newspaper - WKIC News

7:15  Morning Madhouse with Jerry Leighton (continued)

7:45 Plantation Party (WKIC Music Show)

8:00 Editor’s Diary

8:15 Lothair Church of Christ - with Evangelist Charles Brown from Lexington
This special daily broadcast was heard for a few weeks to coincide with Brown's revival in Lothair

8:30  Sons of the Hills

8:45 Daily Devotional (local pastors of various churches participate) 

9:00 Cecil Brown - MBS

9:15 The Singing Miner 

9:30 Ernest Sparkman and his Kentucky Hilltoppers (western swing band) 

9:45  Les Brown - MBS News

10:00  Ringing Your Bell (sponsored by Miner's Department Store)

10:15 Bible’s Market Basket (WKIC announcer Jerry Leighton broadcasts live from Bible's Market on Main street. There are plenty of interviews and prizes are given away). 

10:30 Against the Storm (Mutual Soap Opera)

11:00 Taulbee’s Talent Scout (with WKIC’s Jerry Leighton & Don Smith) Daily talent show broadcast from Taulbee Furniture in Hazard. Different bands played "live." 

11:15 Checkerboard Jamboree (Mutual)

11:30  Club Club - local announcements

11:45 Ernest Sparkman and his Kentucky Hilltoppers (western swing band)

12:00 Cedric Foster News (Mutual)

Afternoon

12:15  The Singing Miner

12:30 Man On The Street (Daily "live" interview program with people on the streets of Hazard. The show was hosted by WKIC’s Hugh Dunbar in front of People’s Bank on Main street and Begley Drug (now Huff Drug) on East Main street. Sponsored by Baker Motor Company. Large crowds would gather to watch Dunbar do the show. 

12:45  Passing Parade

1:00 PM "Queen For A Day" hosted by Jack Bailey (Mutual)

   Mutual Network Station Break

1:30  Brooklyn at Cincinnati (baseball) 

3:30  1340 Club (later 1390 Club)

3:55 Report From Washington

4:00 WKIC Music Show

4:30 Downbeat with Don (WKIC music show sponsored by Don’s Restaurant)

4:40 Sports Headlines

4:45 String and Ballad Music

    5:00 Superman (Mutual) 

5:30 WKIC News with News Director Paul Combs

  5:45 Tom Mix (Mutual)  

6:00 News with Fulton Lewis (Mutual Network)

6:15 ShowTime from Hollywood

6:30 News with Gabriel Heatter (Mutual)

6:45 Inside Of Sports (Mutual)

7:30  Hazard Bombers Baseball game: Hazard vs. Morristown: 
Jerry Leighton provides play by play, Don Smith has color comments

9:30  Mutual Newsreel

9:45  Concert Notebook

10:00  All The News (Mutual)

10:15  Tommy Carlyn - MBS

10:30  Phil Napoleon - MBS

10:55 Mutual News

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