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1/30/44 at 9:30 pm on W2XVW. DuMont flagship broadcast OM PAH PAH (1930), Van Beuren Studios animated short from the "Aesop's Fables'' series, distributed by Pathe before it was merged into RKO. 
1/30/49 at 8:30 pm on WATV. Monogram rounds up the usual suspects for 1941 musical which made its NY TV debut 6/5/44 on WNBT.
1/30/54 from 1 to 3 pm on WABD. Channel 5's Saturday afternoon double feature had been an "entirely undistinguished'' (Frank S. Nugent) double bill at the Criterion in Times Square back in May 1935. Fox threatened legal action against Monogram for using Temple's name in ads.
NY TV debut 1/30/54 at 11:15 pm on WCBS' "The Late Show.'' Chan's second trip to Paris (for a World War I reunion) is a highly topical mystery released in December 1939. Original lessee Unity Television kept 20th's credit off the prints in a failed attempt to fool theater owners.
1/30/59 at 9 pm on ABC's "Walt Disney Presents.'' Letterboxing was first used for debut of 28-minute short made to promote SLEEPING BEAUTY, simulcast in stereo on radio stations before it hit theaters in Technicolor denied to home audiences.
NY TV debut 1/30/59 at 5:30 pm on WCBS' "The Early Show.'' Meredith plays amnesiac in Hively's excellent 1942 noir, unrelated to Paramount's 1930 William Powell-Kay Francis melodrama of the same title.
NY TV debut 1/30/59 from 11:15 pm to 1:30 am on WCBS' "The Late Show.'' Channel 2's ads touted this as a new-to-TV Paramount, but Capra's 1948 political drama was actually a Liberty Films Production released by MGM that later owner Paramount included in MCA's "pre-'48" package.
1/30/64 from 1 to 2:50 am on WCBS' "Late Late Show.'' 1947 comedy was unrelated to Paramount's similarly titled films starring William Powell (1931), Jerry Lewis (1961) and Tim Meadows (2000). NY TV debut 5/4/62 on Channel 2's "Early Show.''
1/30/69 at 11:30 pm on WCBS' "The Late Show.'' Reed's Hitchcockian 1940 thriller made its NY TV debut 8/19/53 on WPIX's "First Show'' under original US title NIGHT TRAIN, its British Fox origins obscured with an "Argyle Films" credit in the title card. Video: @Criterion.
@Criterion 1/30/74 at 4:30 pm on WNBC's "Movie 4'' and 8 pm on WSNL. I have no idea why 1962 Elvis vehicle was being shown day and date on Channel 4 and Channel 67, a Long Island station with a checkered history. At least, according to published listings.
@Criterion 1/30/74 from approximately 10 pm to midnight on "NBC Wednesday Night at the Movies.'' Following Nixon's last State of the Union, coming of age story set in the 1940s is forgotten, without even a DVD. Overshadowed by SUMMER OF '42, released earlier the same year, 1971.
@Criterion 1/30/79 on WOR's "4 O'Clock Movie.'' Wyler's 1951 drama, from a play by Sidney Kingsley, made its US TV premiere 1/27/65 on "NBC Wednesday Night at the Movies.''
Paramount bought Liberty to acquire services of Capra, Stevens & Wyler. Deal also included ownership of IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE, sold by Paramount to M&A Alexander in 1956. Through a series of mergers, Paramount now owns IAWL again. MCA's former subsidiary Universal owns SOTU.
SOTU has circulated for decades (including WHV's Tracy-Hepburn DVD set) in reissue prints that misspell her first name as "Katherine.'' No MGM logo but you can still hear Leo's roar on the soundtrack.
