January 25, 2020: This Is WTOL-Television

There are eight additions today, all from December 1958 editions of The Toledo Blade.

There are four additions to the WTOL-TV 11 Ads Gallery 1:

Friday, 12/5/58 ad, for WTOL-TV's very first program, This Is WTOL-Television. See the second Peach Section image below for more details.

Saturday, 12/6/58 ad, for the CBS show, High Adventure with Lowell Thomas, sponsored by Delco.

Sunday, 12/7/58 ad, for The Ed Sullivan Show, on CBS, sponsored locally by Ronson Edsel and Irv Pollock Lincoln-Mercury.

Monday, 12/8/58 ad, for The Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse presentation of "Silent Thunder," with John Drew Barrymore and Earl Holliman.

There are two additions to the WTOL-TV 11 News Ads Gallery 1:

Friday, 12/5/58 ad, for Edison Newstime, sponsored by Toledo Edison.

Monday, 12/8/58 ad, for Watch With Ward (Gordon Ward), sponsored by The Ohio Fuel Gas Company (Columbia Gas).

There are also two additions to The Blade Peach Section Gallery 1:

Wednesday, 12/3/58 "On The Beam" items by Ray Oviatt, about an NBC Opera Company broadcast on WMHE-FM, WTOL-TV's Eye on Toledo, the postponment of a Toledoan's visit to Dick Clark's show on ABC, and an item about channel 11's first program to be broadcast...

Friday, 12/5/58 story, "Special Program Brings In WTOL," about their first program, called This Is WTOL-Television which featured Ohio's newly elected governor and Danny Thomas.

More December 1958 ads, from the online archives of The Toledo Blade, are on the way...