Campus Hoopla

Campus Hoopla
Genre	Game show, Sport
Country of origin	United States
Production
Running time	30 minutes
Release
Original network	NBC
Original release	December 27, 1946 –; December 12, 1947

Campus Hoopla is an American game show that ran on the NBC Television network from December 27, 1946,[1] until it ended on December 12, 1947.[2]

Format

The show was centered on a group of teenagers ("complete with 'cheerleaders' and 'students'")[3] in a soda shop. Episodes included up-to-date sports scores and film footage from recent games.[3]

Cast

Lou Little - Host[4]
Bob Stanton - Sports Reporter[4]
Eva Marie Saint - Commercial Spokeswoman[3]
Carleton Carpenter - A soda shop dancer

Long Island University basketball coach Clair Bee was also featured on the program.[5]

Owen Davis, Jr. was the producer.[6]

Episode status

Episode segments of live TV broadcasts (video and audio) of Campus Hoopla dating from 1947 exist in the Hubert Chain Collection of the earliest kinescopes still in existence, as preserved in the Library of Congress (Moving Image Collection). Audio recordings of live TV broadcasts of this show are also on file at the Library of Congress from the 1946–47 period, as recorded from WNBT-TV in New York (NBC's original flagship station in New York City, today's WNBC-TV).

Eva Marie Saint, the cheerleader who did live Keds sneakers commercials on this program, also talks about her performance on this early TV show along with photos in 1947 and 1949 issues of Life magazine. The show was sponsored by U.S. Rubber (makers of Keds).[7] Billboard reviews from 1946–47 pan the show as an example of TV mediocrity, but it had a loyal following on early TV.

References

IMDB. "Campus Hoopla".
"U.S. Rubber Telecasts" (PDF). Broadcasting. December 22, 1947. p. 18. Retrieved 1 September 2017.
Brooks, Tim; Marsh, Earle F. (2009). The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946-Present. Random House Publishing Group. p. 214. ISBN 9780307483201. Retrieved 1 September 2017.
Woolery, George W. (1985). Children's Television: The First Thirty-Five Years, 1946-1981, Part II: Live, Film, and Tape Series. The Scarecrow Press. pp. 95–96. ISBN 0-8108-1651-2.
"Short Scannings". Billboard. January 11, 1947. p. 12. Retrieved 1 September 2017.
Wilson, Earl (February 10, 1957). "Just Plain Actress". Independent Press-Telegram. California, Long Beach. p. 26. Retrieved August 31, 2017 – via Newspapers.com.
Hood, John McDonald (2005). Selling the Dream: Why Advertising is Good Business. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 84. ISBN 9780275984359. Retrieved 1 September 2017.

External links

Campus Hoopla on IMDb

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[IMDB-1] IMDB. "Campus Hoopla".

[2] "U.S. Rubber Telecasts" (PDF). Broadcasting. December 22, 1947. p. 18. Retrieved 1 September 2017.

[cd-3] Brooks, Tim; Marsh, Earle F. (2009). The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946-Present. Random House Publishing Group. p. 214. ISBN 9780307483201. Retrieved 1 September 2017.

[Woolery-4] Woolery, George W. (1985). Children's Television: The First Thirty-Five Years, 1946-1981, Part II: Live, Film, and Tape Series. The Scarecrow Press. pp. 95–96. ISBN 0-8108-1651-2.

[5] "Short Scannings". Billboard. January 11, 1947. p. 12. Retrieved 1 September 2017.

[6] Wilson, Earl (February 10, 1957). "Just Plain Actress". Independent Press-Telegram. California, Long Beach. p. 26. Retrieved August 31, 2017 – via Newspapers.com.

[7] Hood, John McDonald (2005). Selling the Dream: Why Advertising is Good Business. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 84. ISBN 9780275984359. Retrieved 1 September 2017.