19490305 Fontanne Sisters

Cover feature Fontanne Sisters of WNBQ. A chance to own nice publicity shots of your favorite stars.

Issue is in Fine condition - Cover lays flat with no creases or tears. No spine splits and pages are cream colored and supple. Mailing lable on the reverse.

The first continuously published "TV Guide" type magazine, in the United States was launched in Chicago, on May 9, 1948.  It was called "Television Forecast".  There were 18,500 TV sets in Chicago, and about 300,000 sets in the whole USA.  The owners were Mr. Les Viahon and three other ex-GI buddies.  Each chipped in $250 and started publishing the magazine in the basement classroom of Abbot Hall on the Northwestern University Campus.  They were so broke that they bound their first issue with staplers borrowed from the professors upstairs!

The group managed to obtain (from a TV dealer's association or such) a mailing address list of everyone in the Windy City who had purchased a TV set, and then for several months mailed the publication free, as a "programming service".  On August 8th, they began charging $3.00 per year (Charter members $2.00 per year).  The first issue distribution was 16,000 booklets.  Later press runs were in the tens to hundreds of thousands, but nearly all the copies were tossed out, once the next week's issue became available.
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