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Jukebox Jury
Jukebox Jury was an hour-long television series hosted by disc jockey Peter Potter which aired in the 1953-1954 season on ABC, and was syndicated in 1959.
The program actually began in 1948 in Los Angeles, California on KTSL Channel 2, which became the CBS Television station KNXT in 1951 and is now KCBS-TV. Five years later, "Jukebox Jury" went national for one season. The show has been compared to a radio program replete with commercial endorsements and movie previews.
before eliminating it completely. The station was granted a commercial license (the second in California, behind KTLA) as KTSL on May 6, 1948, and was named for Thomas S. Lee, the son of Don Lee. The station became affiliated with the DuMont Television Network later that year. KTSL also launched Peter Potter's "Jukebox Jury" that year, a musical/quiz series that began to be broadcast nationally during the 1953–1954 season on ABC. Many later well-known entertainers appeared on the program to judge the