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2/23/49 at 5 pm on WJZ. No title was identified, but most likely New York's Channel 7 was showing one of the 16 westerns that Wayne made for Lone Star Productions, released by Monogram between 1933 and 1935. They turned up the following year on WOR. 
NY TV debut 2/23/54 at 11:15 pm on WCBS' "The Early Show.'' Norman Foster (posthumously Oscar snubbed recently for THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND) directs nifty 1939 mystery set at the Golden Gate International Exposition, aka the San Francisco World's Fair.
NY TV debut 2/23/59 at 7:30 pm on WOR's "Million Dollar Movie.'' Written by William Wister Haines, Enright's 1937 programmer about power linemen was reworked without credit four years later as Walsh's MANPOWER with Raft, Robinson and Dietrich replacing Fonda, O'Brien and Lindsay.
NY TV debut 2/23/64 at 8 pm on WOR's "The Big Preview.'' Chayefsky and Mann's less successful 1957 follow-up to the hugely successful MARTY was featured on Channel 9's long-running Sunday night showcase. Many of the films ran subsequently on "Million Dollar Movie.''
NY TV debut 2/23/69 at 11:30 pm on WNBC's "Film Festival.'' Channel 4's showcase originally succeeded "Movie 4'' on Saturday nights, then swapped slots with NBC's Sunday night reruns of "The Tonight Show,'' which ran into the 1970s.
US TV debut 2/23/74 on NBC. Touted in an hour-long episode of ABC's "Disneyland'' series on 12/8/54, TV audiences finally got to see all of Fleischer's epic, and in color, more than 19 years later.
2/23/74: Schatzberg's drama of Upper West Side addicts made its "World Television Premiere'' (or so the ad claims) on WABC's "11:30 Movie,'' which ran on Saturday nights as a successor to "The Best of Broadway.''
2/23/79 on WNEW's "11:30 Movie.'' Channel 5 also had a showcase with this name, wrapping up a week of Wayne movies with one of his best and most ubiquitous, thanks to National Telefilm Associates' failure to renew the copyright in 1975.
2/23/79: Superstation WTCG (soon renamed WTBS) arrives on Teleprompter cable system covering northern Manhattan. Ad touts library of 3000 feature films, none listed in newspaper TV listings of 40 years ago.
