tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post1449654678422111981..comments2024-03-29T11:16:07.637-04:00Comments on It's About TV: What's on TV? Tuesday, May 20, 1958Mitchell Hadleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08695771505209080030noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-70901559163076897982016-05-10T21:42:55.235-04:002016-05-10T21:42:55.235-04:00cr3861 (may I call you cr?):
For various personal...cr3861 (may I call you cr?):<br /><br />For various personal reasons, I have nothing to do with either Facebook or its mutant sibling Twitter.<br /><br />As to Email, in the two+ years that I've had a confuser at home, I have never been able to get that to function at my end - I can <i>receive</i> at my address, and reply, but I cannot send. <br />Please spare me any advice or instructions; Technoslavian directions are a <i>bête noire</i> of mine.<br />As an alternative, here is my Email, for receiving only:<br /><br />mike.doran9740@att.net<br /><br />You send, and I reply.<br /><br />Warning: it might take me a while; what I said above about scrambled scheduling really gives me the bends.<br /><br />Your call from here on.Mike Dorannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-5019987962975494522016-05-10T19:46:56.085-04:002016-05-10T19:46:56.085-04:00Mike, you don't happen to be in the Facebook g...Mike, you don't happen to be in the Facebook group "Classic TV Listing Lovers?" It so happens I am from Paw Paw and would like you to send me a friend request, as that is my home area(SW Michigan): Or just send me a email of that day's(May 20) listings for WOOD(8) and WKZO(3), as I would like to share them with another Facebook group I am in devoted to vintage Kalamazoo stuff. cr3861@yahoo.comAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00043758767085991440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-77136026005567046112016-05-09T12:34:28.486-04:002016-05-09T12:34:28.486-04:00This has been several weeks in the stewing ...
-...This has been several weeks in the stewing ...<br /><br /> - As it happens, I have two copies of this issue: the Chicago edition, and the Michigan State edition.<br />Michigan State covers seven stations in seven different cities, thus:<br /><br />Ch 3, WKZO-TV, Kalamazoo, ABC/CBS/NBC<br />Ch 5, WNEM-TV, Bay City, ABC/NBC<br />Ch 6, WJIM-TV, Lansing, ABC/CBS/NBC<br />Ch 7, WPBN-TV, Traverse City, NBC<br />Ch 8, WOOD-TV, Grand Rapids, ABC/NBC<br />Ch 13, WWTV, Cadillac, ABC/CBS<br />Ch 57, WKNX-TV, Saginaw, ABC/CBS<br /><br />Here's the wild part:<br />ABC has secondary affiliations with six of the seven stations - <i>but most ABC series don't air on any of them.</i><br />Not only that - the ones that do get on, don't air in their network time slots (a few exceptions, but the few ABC shows that get on are nearly all delayed broadcasts).<br />In the listings, NBC shows that clear the full network have this channel alignment:<br /> 5-6-7-8<br />CBS's alignment:<br />3-13-57<br />That's all seven stations accounted for.<br />ABC grabs what it can in fringe times and odd prime hours on the various stations, almost never in the network slots.<br />Just looking at all the mixing and matching can give you the bends - as it has to me.<br />So I went back to the Chicago edition, which is at least fully represented and organized.<br /><br />You always seem to pick the least interesting nights to do your Monday full-day sum-up.<br />That may be your reason/excuse for the wordplay today.<br />I wish you'd have done Wednesday.<br /><i>The U.S. Steel Hour</i> has a really interesting one this week - it merited a Close-Up in both my copies; I'll guess that it did in yours as well.<br />Challenge:<br />Take a look at this Close-Up - the play is titled "Hour Of The Rat" - and see if you notice anything interesting in what you read there.<br />Get back to me on that, OK?<br /><br /> - This season, Mike Wallace had a Sunday night interview show on ABC.<br />This week, his guest was Aldous Huxley, the author of "Brave New World". He's there to promote a new book of essays titled "Enemies Of Freedom", about threats to freedom in the USA.<br />Wallace's show aired Sunday at 9 pm (CST); CBS had <i>$64,000 Challenge</i>, and NBC had Loretta Young - you can do the math from there.<br />And <i>The Mike Wallace Interview</i> didn't get on any of the Michigan stations -<i>at all</i>.<br />Think about that for a while ...<br /><br />Mike Dorannoreply@blogger.com