{"id":25600,"date":"2014-06-30T05:32:08","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T09:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=25600"},"modified":"2016-10-23T10:31:58","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T14:31:58","slug":"behind-the-scenes-of-wonderama-wnewthis-6-minute-clip-takes-us-into-the-co","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=25600","title":{"rendered":"Behind The Scenes Of &#8216;Wonderama&#8217;&#8230;WNEW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Behind-The-Scenes-Of-Wonderama...WNEW-This-6-minute-clip-takes-us-into-the-co.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nBehind The Scenes Of &#8216;Wonderama&#8217;&#8230;WNEW<\/p>\n<p>This 6 minute clip takes us into the control room with Sonny Fox as our host some time in the early 60s. From 1944 till 1958 this was WABD, Dumont&#8217;s flagship station in New York, but in &#8217;58 it became WNEW. There is classic Dumont TV equipment everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Wonderama&#8217; was a popular children&#8217;s program that ran for three hours on Sunday mornings on the Metromedia-owned stations from 1955 to 1986, Besides NYC, it ran in five other markets&#8230;WTTG in Washington D.C., KMBC-TV in Kansas City, KTTV in Los Angeles, WXIX-TV in Cincinnati, and WTCN-TV in Minneapolis \u2013 Saint Paul.<\/p>\n<p>In February of &#8217;55, the Dumont network shut down, but their TV stations continued as independents. In May 1958, DuMont Broadcasting changed its name to the Metropolitan Broadcasting Corporation in an effort to distinguish itself from its former corporate parent and the corporate name change to Metromedia came in 1961. Enjoy and share!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wfo5wCwai2Q\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wfo5wCwai2Q<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"SONNY FOX Wonderama Behind The Scenes\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wfo5wCwai2Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Sonny takes his young viewers into the control room of his Sunday morning WNEW-TV program to see how a television show is made. Check out the 1950s DuMont br&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/696036487100570\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Behind The Scenes Of &#8216;Wonderama&#8217;&#8230;WNEW This 6 minute clip takes us into the control room with Sonny Fox as our host some time in the early 60s. From 1944 till 1958 this was WABD, Dumont&#8217;s flagship station in New York, but in &#8217;58 it became WNEW. There is classic Dumont TV equipment everywhere. &#8216;Wonderama&#8217; was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":25601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_popup_image":0,"_vp_format_audio_url":"","_vp_album_images":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail":0,"_vp_custom_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail_cover":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[677,724,686,785,720],"class_list":["post-25600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-behind-the-scenes","tag-cast","tag-control-room","tag-dumont","tag-host"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}