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19 paź 2020 · In short order, The Ghoul also appeared on Kaiser’s WKBD affiliate in Detroit. He was a smash. A few other cities picked up the show, but Sweed just didn’t click there as he did in Cleveland and Detroit.
2 maj 2002 · It wasn't until he started showing good numbers in Detroit that Kaiser officials decided to take The Ghoul national. From there the show went to WKBG-TV 56 (later WLVI-TV) in Boston, WKBS-TV 48 Boston, KBHK-TV 44 San Francisco. The Ghoul's reached his peak when the show went to WFLD-TV 32 in Chicago, which it bought from Field Enterprises.
In 1970, Sweed approached Ernie Anderson with a proposal to revive Anderson's "Ghoulardi" character. Anderson was not interested, but gave Sweed his blessing to revive the character on his own. With that blessing, Sweed took "The Ghoul" to Cleveland's Kaiser Broadcasting station WKBF-TV (channel 61) in 1971.
7 paź 2019 · Detroit TV station WKBD Channel 50 added the show to their lineup in the early 70's and it soon became the most popular late-night show in the area. And the audience ate it up. Of course, there were some parents out there who wrote letters of complaint.
31 paź 1996 · The Ghoul Vs Count Scary. RIPeices Ron Sweed, (b 1/23/1949 d 4/1/2019), aka The Ghoul, who was on Kaiser TV stations in the 1970s. He was one overday zany guy as a horrible horror movie host.
8 lut 2019 · The Ghoul Shows. The Ghoul (Ron Sweed) heir to Ghoulardi's (Ernie Anderson) fright wig and Goatee carried on the outrageous Shock Theater Tradition in Cleveland from 1971-1975 on WKBF Channel 61, in the 80's in WCLQ Ch 61, then again in the 1990's on WBNX Channel 55. Also in Detroit on WKBD Ch 50.
3 kwi 2019 · Ron Sweed, the horror host who became a hit on early 1970s Detroit TV in a haze of firecrackers, absurdist humor and the never-ending torture of his sidekick Froggy, has died in Cleveland at...
