That future Emmy winner is Ted Knight, who was employed by WCDA (today's WTEN) from 1955-7 before moving to Hollywood.
At one point billed as "Windy" Knight, he was credited with hosting The Early Show, but, as this photo shows, he also had something called Ted Knight & His Clubhouse Gang, which was an after school show.
At the time, WCDA was on channel 41. Channel 29 was WCDB, and while that set of call letters now belongs to the University at Albany's radio station, WCDB-TV morphed into WCDC, based in North Adams, Massachusetts until its closure in 2017-18.
When I was growing up in the 60's & 70's, WTEN had discontinued afternoon children's programming in favor of syndicated reruns of primetime shows (i.e. Perry Mason), and the only children's programming left on weekdays set up Ralph Vartigan and The Good Ship News, which, in turn, led to Captain Kangaroo.
Knight would later return to Albany to take part in the Cerebral Palsy telethons in the 70's & 80's while working on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and, later, Too Close For Comfort.
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