During early 1952, Kovacs was also doing a late morning show for WPTZ named "Kovacs on the Corner". Kovacs would walk through an imaginary neighborhood, talking with various characters such as Pete the Cop and Luigi the Barber. As with "Three to Get Ready", there were some special segments. "Swap Time" was one of them: Viewers could bring their unwanted items to the WPTZ studios to trade them live on the air with Kovacs. The show made its debut on January 4, 1952, with Kovacs losing creative control of the program soon after it was begun. "Kovacs on the Corner" was short-lived; it ended on March 28, 1952, along with "Three to Get Ready". Kovacs then began work for WCBS-TV in New York with a local morning show and a later network one. Both programs were canceled; Kovacs lost the local morning program for the same reason as "Three to Get Ready"—the broadcasting time was confiscated by the station's network in 1954.