Johnny Olson's Rumpus Room


Johnny Olson's Rumpus Room is an American television variety show hosted by Johnny Olson. It was broadcast from January 17, 1949, to July 4, 1952, on the DuMont Television Network.

Broadcast history

The show aired at 10 a.m. Eastern Time.
The show was one of the first daytime television shows broadcast from New York City to DuMont's small network of East Coast cities. Olson also hosted the DuMont talent show Doorway to Fame, and DuMont's Saturday-morning children's show Kids and Company.
According to the book What Women Watched: Daytime Television in the 1950s by Marsha Cassidy, the DuMont daytime schedule beginning in January 1949 was:

Olson's career

In the 1940s, Olson hosted a popular radio show also titled Johnny Olson's Rumpus Room at WTMJ in Milwaukee. Sometime after 1943, Johnny moved the show to WMAQ in Chicago as an evening variety show running 10:30 pm to 12 midnight. Olson went on to become a famous announcer on American game shows, including as the announcer on The Price Is Right on CBS Television and first-run syndication from 1972 until his death.