Boxing from St. Nick's (DuMont/WABD, November 5, 1956)

This match features Howie Turner and Wayne Bethea. Unfortunately this kinescope only has excerpts of the fight because it was made for the sponsor, El Producto cigars.

[@enricosanchez894]

Great.

[@fromthesidelines]

Consolidated Cigar marketed El Producto at the time. Joe O'Brien later became one of the New York WMCA "Good Guys" disc jockeys in the early 1960's.

[@wmbrown6]

Sounds like Lou Steele read the Castro ad. Both he and fellow booth announcer Tom Gregory first joined the station in the waning DuMont network days (apparently within a week of each other in December 1955), and both would be mainstays all through the years as WNEW-TV (with Gregory sticking around at the onset of the Fox/WNYW period). (Ed Ladd was a relative latecomer to Channel 5; though he would've been a colleague of Gregory's and Steele's at WPAT in Paterson, NJ in the early 1950's, from about 1952-53 to 1959 he was an announcer at the Mutual Broadcasting System, and may've done some local work at WOR Radio and/or WOR-TV, who knows?)

[@micmac99]

This was actually AFTER DuMont officially ceased operations as a national network

[@Witzlaw]

I agree-the official end of network operations was April 1, 1956, wasn’t it?

[@LaptopLarry330]

Although the Dumont Television Network ceased network broadcasting in 1955, the parent company was still contractually obligated to provide boxing programs until 1957. WABD Channel 5, New York, New York, and any other former affiliates that were interested, broadcast the boxing matches to fulfill their contract with the New York boxing promoters. This was the final remaining program in 1957, of Dumont Television Network.

[@orbyfan]

That sounds like Chris Schenkel calling the fight.

[@Witzlaw]

DuMont might not have been that successful as a network, but they definitely provided talent to the others! I want to say Jackie Gleason had his TV start here, and it wouldn’t surprise me if Chris Schenkel did as well.