WDCN, Channel 2 (NET)
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Afternoon
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03:00p
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Sesame Street
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04:00p
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What’s New (B&W)
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04:30p
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The Friendly Giant (B&W)
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05:00p
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Yoga For Health (B&W)
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05:30p
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Navy: Underway For Peace (B&W)
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Evening
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06:00p
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Consumer Report (B&W)
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06:30p
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Misterrogers (B&W)
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07:00p
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NET Jazz (B&W)
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07:30p
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Book Beat
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08:00p
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International Magazine (B&W)
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09:00p
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Soul! (guests Kim Weston, Bobby Hebb, Alice
Coltraine, Archie Shepp, Isacc Douglas and the Isaac Douglas Singers)
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If you read enough TV Guides, one of the things you notice is that each edition has its own little quirks. For example, during the Iran hostage crisis, some markets labeled ABC's late night news wrap-up as "ABC News," while others used the name that ABC had recently given the update: Nightline. You see another example of that at 3:30, with Misterogers, which is the original title of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. It appears that the show went by both titles at this point; throughout the 1970 broadcasting season, the episode slide, which was shown on-air with the sponsor names, reads Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, while the graphic on the opening scene itself says Misterogers' Neighborhood. Our TV Guide in the Twin Cities used Mister Rogers. You say to-mato, I say to-mahto.
WSM, Channel 4 (NBC)
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Morning
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06:00a
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Morning Show
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07:00a
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Today (guests Humphrey Wakefield, Clare
Conley, James Graham)
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09:00a
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It Takes Two (guests Gary Crosby, Pat Harrington,
Gordon and Meredith MacRae)
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09:25a
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NBC News (Nancy Dickerson)
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09:30a
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Concentration
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10:00a
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Sale of the Century
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10:30a
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The Hollywood Squares (guests Marty Allen, Ernest Borgnine, Stu
Gilliam, Paul Lynde, Juliet Mills, Susan Saint James)
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11:00a
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Jeopardy
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11:30a
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Who, What or Where Game
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11:55a
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NBC News (Floyd Kalbur)
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Afternoon
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12:00p
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Noon Show
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01:00p
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Days of Our Lives
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01:30p
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The Doctors
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02:00p
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Another World/Bay City
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02:30p
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To Tell the Truth
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03:00p
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Another World/Somerset
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03:30p
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Star Trek
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04:30p
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Ralph Emery
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05:25p
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Weather
(local)
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05:30p
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The Huntley-Brinkley Report
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Evening
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06:00p
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News, Weather and Sports (local)
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06:30p
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The Virginian
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08:00p
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Kraft Music Hall (Carol Lawrence, Bob Denver, Val
Doonican)
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09:00p
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The Champions
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10:00p
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News, Weather
and Sports (local)
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10:30p
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The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
(guests Ray Stevens,
Ace Trucking Company)
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12:00a
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The Avengers
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Ah, there's seldom a time when you can't find The Avengers on television somewhere. I don't mean the comic book superheros, of course, although I think Mrs. Peel is something of a superhero myself.
Ralph Emery, host of the 4:30 pm program, remains a legend in the world of country music television and radio; his TV programs on WSM ran from the mid '60s to the early '90s, and was also the host of several country programs in syndication and on The Nashville Network.
WLAC, Channel 5 (CBS)
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Morning
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05:45a
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Country Journal
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06:00a
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CBS Morning News with Joseph Benti
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06:30a
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Jake Hess
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06:55a
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Morning Watch (incl. Dialing For Dollars)
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08:00a
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Captain Kangaroo
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08:30a
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Mike Douglas (co-host Sammy Davis Jr., guests Sarah
Vaughan, Barbwire Theatre, Henny Youngman) (incl. Dialing For Dollars)
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10:00a
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Andy Griffith
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10:30a
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Love of Life
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11:00a
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Where the Heart Is
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11:25a
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CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
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11:30a
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Search For Tomorrow
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Afternoon
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12:00p
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News (local)
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12:05p
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Singing Convention (incl. Dialing For Dollars)
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12:30p
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As the World Turns
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01:00p
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Love is a Many-Splendored Thing
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01:30p
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The Guiding Light
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02:00p
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The Secret Storm
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02:30p
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The Edge of Night
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03:00p
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Gomer Pyle, USMC
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03:30p
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Gilligan’s Island
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04:00p
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Movie – “Three
Guys Named Mike” (B&W) (incl. Dialing
For Dollars)
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05:25p
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Weather
(local)
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05:30p
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CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite
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Evening
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06:00p
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News, Weather and Sports (local)
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06:30p
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Hee Haw (guests Merle Haggard, Bonnie Owens)
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07:30p
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You’re In Love, Charlie Brown (special)
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08:00p
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Medical Center
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09:00p
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Hawaii Five-O
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10:00p
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News, Weather
and Sports (local)
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10:30p
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Merv Griffin
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Dialing For Dollars looks to have been pretty much a mainstay of WLAC's programming throughout the day; as I mentioned in my obituary on Bud Kraheling last Friday, it's the kind of unique local touch that seems to have all but disappeared from television nowadays.
WSIX, Channel 8 (ABC)
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Morning
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06:30a
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McHale’s Navy (B&W)
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07:00a
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Bozo
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08:50a
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Lucille Rivers
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09:00a
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Barbara Moore
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09:30a
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He Said, She Said
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10:00a
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Bewitched
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10:30a
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That Girl
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11:00a
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Best of Everything
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11:30a
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A World Apart
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Afternoon
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12:00p
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All My Children
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12:30p
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Let’s Make a Deal
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01:00p
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The Newlywed Game
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01:30p
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The Dating Game
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02:00p
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General Hospital
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02:30p
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One Life to Live
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03:00p
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Dark Shadows
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03:30p
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The Beverly Hillbillies
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04:00p
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The Lucy Show
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04:30p
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The Real McCoys (B&W)
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05:00p
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ABC Evening News with Frank Reynolds
and Howard K. Smith
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05:30p
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Dick Van Dyke (B&W)
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Evening
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06:00p
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News, Weather and Sports (local)
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06:30p
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Nanny and the Professor
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07:00p
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The Courtship of Eddie’s Father
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07:30p
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Room 222
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08:00p
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Johnny Cash (guests O.C. Smith, Hank Williams Jr.,
Linda Ronstadt, Lawrence Reynolds)
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09:00p
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Engelbert Humperdinck (guests Gina Lollobrigida, Kaye
Ballard, Lou Rawls, Roger Whittaker)
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10:00p
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News, Weather
and Sports (local)
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10:30p
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Movie – “A
Certain Smile” (B&W)
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My first question: why is Channel 8 called WSIX? Why isn't it Channel 6? The always-reliable Wikipedia comes to the rescue: "The call letters came from the 638 Tire Company in nearby Springfield, where the Draughon brothers had started WSIX in 1930; neither the radio nor the television stations have ever had the number six in their frequencies, which would explain it otherwise."Good old Wikipedia. Today, the station is called WKRN, and it's on Channel 2.
WLTV, Channel 13 (Bowling Green) (ABC)
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Morning
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10:00a
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Bewitched
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10:30a
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That Girl
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11:00a
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Best of Everything
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11:30a
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A World Apart
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Afternoon
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12:00p
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All My Children
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12:30p
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Let’s Make a Deal
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01:00p
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The Newlywed Game
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01:30p
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The Dating Game
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02:00p
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General Hospital
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02:30p
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One Life to Live
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03:00p
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Dark Shadows
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03:30p
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Divorce Court
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04:00p
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Movie – TBA
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05:30p
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ABC Evening News with Frank Reynolds
and Howard K. Smith
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Evening
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06:00p
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News, Weather and Sports (local) (B&W)
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06:30p
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Nanny and the Professor
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07:00p
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The Courtship of Eddie’s Father
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07:30p
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Room 222
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08:00p
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Johnny Cash (guests O.C. Smith, Hank Williams Jr.,
Linda Ronstadt, Lawrence Reynolds)
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09:00p
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Engelbert Humperdinck (guests Gina Lollobrigida, Kaye
Ballard, Lou Rawls, Roger Whittaker)
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10:00p
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News, Weather
and Sports (local) (B&W)
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10:30p
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Dick Cavett (guests Beverly Sills, Leonard Frey)
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Here you can see ABC's late-night dilemma first-hand: WSIX doesn't carry it, while WLTV does. How does a show build up a successful audience when it can't get clearance on all the network's affiliates?
WMCV, Channel 17 (Ind.)
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Afternoon
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03:20p
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News/Community
Calendar (B&W)
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03:30p
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News, Weather,
Sports (B&W)
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03:45p
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Laurel and Hardy (B&W)
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04:30p
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Topper (B&W)
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05:00p
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The Munsters (B&W)
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05:30p
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My Favorite Martian
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Evening
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06:00p
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I Spy
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07:00p
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Run For Your Life
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08:00p
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The Movie Game
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08:30p
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Movie – “Watch
on the Rhine” (B&W)
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Another of the part-time stations we used to see so much of in the '50s and '60s. It's actually a pretty good lineup, comparable to what you might see on Me-TV or Cozy. The 8:30 pm movie, "Watch on the Rhine," is billed as starring Bette Davis, and it's true she was in the movie. So was Paul Lukas, who incidentally won Best Actor for this movie at the Academy Awards that year. I just saw him in an episode of The Man From U.N.C.L.E. last week. Hey, a guy's gotta work, right? TV
--Wonder why "Another World" is split in two? When "Another World" got a spinoff in 1970, the new soap was called "Another World/Somerset" and the original show renamed "Another World/Bay City". Soon the spinoff simply becamed "Somerset" and the parent show returned to its original name.
ReplyDelete--Those lineups from "Soul!" have always amazed me. I mean mixing the Motown sound of Kim Weston with the avant-garde jazz of Alice Coltrane and Archie Shepp? Why somebody hasn't repackaged old "Soul!" episodes for DVD surprises me.
--The last station starting at 10am? I know early on lots of ABC affiliates started late due to the network's late start time, but to see this in 1970 is still surprising.
Clearance of ABC affiliates was also a problem for many of the prime time shows throughout the mid to late 1960's; I would even see hits like Batman and F Troop pre-empted in prime time and aired instead during the afternoon on weekends on a lot of TV Guides I have from the 1965-70 period. I remember reading that sometimes up to 10% of the affiliates would pre-empt. For an idea of the impact, take a 28 share (normally would get a show cancelled in that era) and add 10%--that becomes a 30.8 share, likely good for renewal. Little wonder that you look at the season-ending rankings for (say) 66-67 or 67-68 and see only 4 or 5 of the top 30 airing on ABC.
ReplyDeleteI grew up with tv in Nashville from late 1976 until fall 1983, and then I saw it a couple summers after that. A Facebook friend, Bob Williams, has a great site about tv in Nashville: http://www.nashvilletv.org/
ReplyDeleteIn Dec. 1973, WSIX-TV (I heard or read that the call letters meant "Where Service Is eXcellent".) switched channels with WDCN-TV, giving WDCN-TV considerable $ or equipment for swapping channels and changed its call letters from WSIX-TV to WNGE-TV (With Nashville General Electric). I got to tour the WNGE-TV/WSIX radio studios in 1980 since my dad worked for GE. A year later GE sold the station to Knight-Ridder and became WKRN-TV, as you stated.
WLAC-TV became WTVF in 1975. Hee-Haw was taped at WLAC-TV studios in downtown Nashville near the state capitol building until it moved production to a studio near the Grand Ole Opry House in the 1980s.
WSM-TV became WSMV around 1981 when it was sold to a man named George Gillette. I got to take a tour of WSM-TV studios in 1980, seeing production of The Noon Show from offstage. A year later The Noon Show lost its anchors, Teddy Bart & Elaine Ganick, to WKRN-TV, where they anchored the news. Teddy Bart eventually went back to WSMV and passed away just a few years ago. Longtime WSMV anchor, Dan Miller, moved to the West Coast, eventually ending up as announcer for Pat Sajak's CBS late night talk show. Sajak had been WSM-TV's anchorman until about 1975. Miller went back to Nashville and WSMV, passing away in 2009. George Goldtrap was WSM-TV's longtime weekend weatherman who gave up weather to become a fulltime minister. He had a gimmick of tossing his chalk in the air, catching it in his suit pocket, while saying "That's the weather - by George!". I love how WSM-TV in 1970 went right from Today into It Takes Two. By the time I was aware of WSM-TV, it was preempting NBC's 9-10 AM CT game shows for trash like Donahue, and in the 1980s it horrendously preempted NBC's 10-11 AM CT game show for The Big Valley reruns! :( I was happy when I was in college in Waco that KCEN-TV did carry $ale of the Century at 9 AM, just after Today, instead of preempting NBC's 9-10 CT block for a talk show.
WMCV-TV was Nashville's first attempt at an independent station. You can see that the station was already on a reduced schedule by then. It gave up in March 1971, coming back stronger as WZTV, an independent station that eventually became Nashville's Fox affiliate, in March 1976.
Correction: George Goldtrap replaced Pat Sajak when Pat went to CA. Goldtrap left WSM TV to devote full time to his talent agency Happy Talk Int'l, which we eventually sold 2008 to Speaker Connect, Atlanta GA. Ministry was an avocation from which he retired in the late 90's
DeleteThank you, George Goldtrap
Jr, Ormond Beach FL. 386-235-3900
Nancy Dickerson, who did a five-minute morning newscast on NBC, was the mother of John Dickerson, who recently became the new moderator of "Face The Nation".
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