With the popularity of his radio broadcasts, Dick Sinclair was asked to produce and host a new polka television program for KTLA Channel 5. The "Polka Parade" premiered in December 1955 as a one hour polka variety show on Sundays from 6 to 7PM. The program was sponsored for many years by the Clougherty Meat Packing Company, the makers of "Farmer John" sausage, and soon became the leading television program on the West Coast for polka entertainment.