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1/25/49 from 8:30 to 10 pm on WJZ. Valentino's last (1926) and arguably best film was listed as available for TV as early as 1942, but this is the earliest documented broadcast. (link: ) 
NY TV debut 1/25/59 from 11:15 pm to 1:30 am on WCBS' "The Late Show.'' McCarey's 1944 Oscar winner was the first of the pre-1948 Paramounts distributed by MCA to reach TV here. Channel 2 had already shown the studio's Zane Greys, Bulldog Drummonds and Pine-Thomas productions.
1/25/64 at 9 pm on "NBC Saturday Night at the Movies.'' Fontaine, Simmons, Laurie and Dee are cast as sisters in Wise's 1957 wartime romantic drama with young Newman.
NY TV debut 1/25/64 on WCBS' "The Late Show.'' Olivier's 1957 comedy was originally scheduled for 11/24/63, the day after JFK's assassination, when all entertainment programming was preempted for wall-to-wall news coverage.
NY TV debut 1/25/69 on WABC's "Best of Broadway.'' From 1951, Lanfield directs first feature-length biopic of a professional golfer, Ben Hogan.
1/25/74 from 11:30 to 1:40 am on WOR's "Late Movie.'' Dieterle's 1939 masterpiece made its NY TV debut way back on 4/1/44 on WNBT.
1/25/79 from 2:36 to 5:13 am on WNEW's "Hollywood's Finest.'' Curtiz' 1939 followup to his FOUR DAUGHTERS is not a sequel, though all of the original leads are back.
Channel 2 premiered 14 Paramounts over the first eight days, one on "The Late Show'' each night and another on "The Early Show'' from Monday through Saturday 1/26 to 1/31. It was even more heavily promoted than the gradual MGM rollout that began on 12/1/56. NY Times ad 1/30/59.
Widely referred to as "pre-'48s'' because SAG waived residuals for films released before mid-1948, MCA's purchase (like MGM and WB) included virtually all of Paramount's 1948 releases as well as roughly half the films the studio released in 1949.
The New York Times reported that WCBS leased 350 Paramounts from MCA, or about half the "pre-48" library, similar to the number of "pre-'48'' films that Channel 2 had leased from MGM in 1956.
