This week, we come to you from Pittsburgh.
KDKA, Channel 2 (CBS)
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Morning
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05:55a
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Farm Report
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06:00a
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Thing About Money
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06:30a
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Sunrise Semester
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07:00a
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CBS Morning News with John Hart
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08:00a
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Captain Kangaroo
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09:00a
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Contact
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10:00a
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The Lucy Show
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10:30a
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My Three Sons
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11:00a
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Family Affair
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11:30a
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Love of Life
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Afternoon
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12:00p
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News (local)
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12:30p
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Search for Tomorrow
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01:00p
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David Frost
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02:30p
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The Guiding Light
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03:00p
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The Secret Storm
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03:30p
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The Edge of Night
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04:00p
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Mike Douglas (co-host Shirley Bassey)
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05:30p
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I Dream of Jeannie
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Evening
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06:00p
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News (local)
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06:30p
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CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite
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07:00p
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News (local)
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07:30p
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David Frost Revue (guests Robert Klein, Charles Nelson
Riley)
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08:00p
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Gunsmoke
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09:00p
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Here’s Lucy
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09:30p
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Doris Day
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10:00p
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Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour (guests George Burns, David Clayton
Thomas)
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11:00p
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News (local)
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11:30p
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Movie –
“Penelope”
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I just barely remember David Frost's talk show, which airs in many markets either at the same time or after The Tonight Show. Here, it shows at 1:00pm. But for the life of me, I have absolutely no recollection of the David Frost Revue. Do you? Is it true that there's no such thing as too much David Frost?
WPSX, Channel 3 (University Park) (PBS)
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Morning
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08:30a
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Classroom (B&W)
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10:00a
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Sesame Street
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11:00a
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The Electric Company
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11:30a
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Classroom (B&W)
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Afternoon
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01:00p
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Classroom (B&W)
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03:00p
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University of the Air
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03:30p
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Physical Education
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04:00p
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Sesame Street
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05:00p
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Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
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05:30p
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The Electric Company
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Evening
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06:00p
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Weather
(local)
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06:15p
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Farm, Home and Garden
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06:30p
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Commonwealth
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07:00p
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Hodgepodge Lodge
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07:30p
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Behind the Lines
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08:00p
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Between Time and Timbuktu (special)
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09:30p
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Book Beat (guest Ellie Wiesel)
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10:00p
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Martin Agronsky: Evening Edition
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10:30p
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Rogandus
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11:00p
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Sound of Progress (B&W)
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Book Beat was a favorite of my wife's, and for years host Bob Cromie interviewed authors from almost every walk of life; this week, Ellie Wiesel's book Souls on Fire presents portraits of 18th and 19th century Jewish leaders.
WTAE, Channel 4 (ABC)
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Morning
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06:50a
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News (local)
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07:00a
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New Zoo Revue
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07:30a
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The Three Stooges (B&W)
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08:00a
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Romper Room
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08:30a
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Leave It to Beaver (B&W)
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09:00a
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Perry Mason (B&W)
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10:20a
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Lucille Rivers
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10:30a
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Phil Donahue
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11:30a
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That Girl
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Afternoon
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12:00p
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News (local)
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12:30p
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Password (panelists Jack Cassidy, Betty Grable)
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01:00p
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To Tell the Truth (panelists Kitty Carlisle, Peggy Css,
Bill Cullen, Nipsey Russell)
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01:30p
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Let’s Make a Deal
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02:00p
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The Newlywed Game
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02:30p
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The Dating Game
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03:00p
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General Hospital
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03:30p
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Hazel
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04:00p
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The Munsters (B&W)
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04:30p
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Dick Van Dyke (B&W)
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05:00p
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The Big Valley
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Evening
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06:00p
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News (local)
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06:30p
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ABC Evening News with Howard K. Smith
and Harry Reasoner
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07:00p
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Dragnet
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07:30p
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What’s My Line? (panelists Arlene Francis, Anita
Gillette, Gene Rayburn, Gene Shalit)
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08:00p
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Billy Graham Crusade (special)
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09:00p
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Movie – “Lord
Jim” (conclusion)
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10:30p
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Who Do You Think You Are? (special)
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11:00p
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News (local)
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11:30p
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Movie –
“Untamed Youth” (B&W)
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01:10a
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Dick Cavett (guest host Florence Henderson, guests
James Caan, Hattie Winston)
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I've never thought of Florence Henderson as a talk show host, but here she is filling in for Dick Cavett the whole week. I wonder how it went?
WDTV, Channel 5 (Weston) (CBS)
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Morning
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07:00a
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CBS Morning News with John Hart
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08:00a
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Captain Kangaroo
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09:00a
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Around the Bend (B&W)
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09:30a
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New Zoo Revue
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10:00a
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The Lucy Show
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10:30a
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My Three Sons
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11:00a
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Family Affair
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11:30a
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Love of Life
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Afternoon
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12:00p
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Where the Heart Is
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12:25p
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CBS News
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12:30p
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Search for Tomorrow
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01:00p
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News (Wade
Dotson)
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01:30p
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As the World Turns
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02:00p
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Love is a Many Splendored Thing
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02:30p
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The Guiding Light
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03:00p
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The Secret Storm
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03:30p
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The Edge of Night
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04:00p
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Jim Bowie (B&W)
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04:30p
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Movie – “Mr.
Moto in Danger Island” (B&W)
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Evening
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06:00p
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News (local)
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06:30p
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CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite
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07:00p
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The FBI
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08:00p
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Billy Graham Crusade (special)
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09:00p
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Here’s Lucy
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09:30p
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Doris Day
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10:00p
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Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour (guests George Burns, David Clayton
Thomas)
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11:00p
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News (local)
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11:30p
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Movie –
“Penelope”
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Nothing says the '70s quite like Sonny & Cher, does it?
WFBG, Channel 10 (Altoona) (CBS)
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Morning
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06:05a
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Farm, Home and Garden (B&W)
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06:30a
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Sunrise Semester
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07:00a
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CBS Morning News with John Hart
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07:30a
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Cartoons
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08:00a
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Captain Kangaroo
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09:00a
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Sesame Street
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10:00a
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The Lucy Show
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10:30a
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My Three Sons
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11:00a
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Family Affair
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11:30a
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Love of Life
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Afternoon
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12:00p
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Where the Heart Is
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12:25p
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CBS News
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12:30p
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Search for Tomorrow
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01:00p
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John Riley
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01:30p
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As the World Turns
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02:00p
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Love is a Many Splendored Thing
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02:30p
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The Guiding Light
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03:00p
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The Secret Storm
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03:30p
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The Edge of Night
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04:00p
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Gomer Pyle, USMC
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04:30p
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I Love Lucy
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05:00p
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Green Acres
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05:30p
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I Dream of Jeannie
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Evening
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06:00p
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News (local)
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06:30p
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CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite
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07:00p
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Dragnet
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07:30p
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What’s My Line? (panelists Alan Alda, Arlene Francis,
Meredith MacRae, Soupy Sales)
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08:00p
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Gunsmoke
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09:00p
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Here’s Lucy
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09:30p
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Doris Day
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10:00p
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Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour (guests George Burns, David Clayton
Thomas)
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11:00p
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News (local)
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11:30p
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Movie –
“Penelope”
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Here's an example - there's another one later on - of a commercial station broadcasting Sesame Street in a market which isn't served by an educational channel. I always find examples like this very interesting - like the case of CBS affiliates showing Lawrence Welk in areas without an ABC affiliate, it's a case of the local station knowing the likes and needs of its audience.
WIIC, Channel 11 (NBC)
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Morning
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06:25a
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Farm Report
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06:30a
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Quest (B&W)
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07:00a
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Today (report on Florida primary)
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09:00a
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Captain Jim
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10:00a
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Dinah Shore (guests Merv Griffin, Satchel Paige)
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10:30a
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Concentration
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11:00a
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Sale of the Century
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11:30a
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The Hollywood Squares (panelists Virginia Graham, Arte
Johnson, Shirley Jones, Paul Lynde, Hugh O’Brian, Karen Valentine)
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Afternoon
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12:00p
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News (local)
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12:30p
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Who, What or Where Game
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01:00p
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Somerset
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01:30p
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Three on a Match
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02:00p
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Days of Our Lives
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02:30p
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The Doctors
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03:00p
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Another World
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03:30p
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Bright Promise
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04:00p
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Movie – “The
Last Wagon”
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Evening
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06:00p
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News (local)
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07:00p
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NBC Nightly News with John Chancellor
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07:30p
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Let’s Make a Deal
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08:00p
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Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In
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09:00p
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Bob Hope (guests Elke Sommer, Dyan Cannon,
Connie Stevens, Eva Gabor) (special)
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10:00p
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Johnny Carson Presents Sun City
Scandals ’72 (guests
Bette Davis, Ethel Waters, Jack Oakie, Eddie Foy Jr., Beatrice Kay, Matty
Malneck, Harry Ruby, Shelton Brooks, Sammy Fain, Irving Caesar, Gene Sheldon,
Sun City Cuties) (special)
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11:00p
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News (local)
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11:30p
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The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
(guest host Richard
Harris, guest Malachy McCourt)
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01:00a
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Hotline
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Here The Today Show is, in Florida, covering the Florida Primary on March 13. Here we are, on March 15, watching the Florida Primary on television. The more things change...
WQED, Channel 13 (PBS)
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Morning
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07:45a
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Guten Tag
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08:00a
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Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
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08:30a
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Life Style
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09:00a
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Classroom (B&W)
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11:30a
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Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
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Afternoon
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12:00p
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Sesame Street
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01:00p
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Classroom (B&W)
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03:00p
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Hodgepodge Lodge
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03:30p
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Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
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04:00p
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Sesame Street
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05:00p
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What’s New
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05:30p
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Sesame Street
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Evening
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06:30p
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Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
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07:00p
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The Electric Company
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07:30p
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WPIAL Basketball (special)
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09:00p
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Newsroom
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09:30p
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Between Time and Timbuktu (special)
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11:00p
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Newsroom
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WPIAL, which stands for the Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic League, covers several counties in western Pennsylvania. This high school basketball tournament seems the perfect kind of sports programming for a PBS affiliate.
WFMJ, Channel 21 (Youngstown) (NBC)
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Morning
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07:00a
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Today (report on Florida primary)
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09:00a
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Lucille Rivers
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09:10a
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Tele-View
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09:30a
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Sesame Street
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10:30a
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Concentration
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11:00a
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Sale of the Century
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11:30a
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The Hollywood Squares (panelists Virginia Graham, Arte
Johnson, Shirley Jones, Paul Lynde, Hugh O’Brian, Karen Valentine)
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Afternoon
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12:00p
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Jeopardy
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12:30p
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Who, What or Where Game
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01:00p
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Dinah Shore (guests Merv Griffin, Satchel Page)
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01:30p
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Three on a Match
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02:00p
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Days of Our Lives
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02:30p
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The Doctors
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03:00p
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Another World
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03:30p
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Bright Promise
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04:00p
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Somerset
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04:30p
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The Virginian
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Evening
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06:00p
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News (local)
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06:30p
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NBC Nightly News with John Chancellor
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07:00p
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Get Smart
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07:30p
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Andy Griffith (B&W)
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08:00p
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Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In
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09:00p
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Bob Hope (guests Elke Sommer, Dyan Cannon,
Connie Stevens, Eva Gabor) (special)
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10:00p
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Johnny Carson Presents Sun City
Scandals ’72 (guests
Bette Davis, Ethel Waters, Jack Oakie, Eddie Foy Jr., Beatrice Kay, Matty
Malneck, Harry Ruby, Shelton Brooks, Sammy Fain, Irving Caesar, Gene Sheldon,
Sun City Cuties) (special)
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11:00p
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News (local)
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11:30p
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The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
(guest host Richard
Harris, guest Malachy McCourt)
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I recall that when Johnny Carson retired from The Tonight Show, it was thought that he'd do several comedy/variety specials for NBC, much like the one that's being broadcast tonight. To my knowledge, he never did.
WKBN, Channel 27 (Youngstown) (CBS)
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Morning
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06:30a
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Sunrise Semester
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07:00a
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CBS Morning News with John Hart
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08:00a
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Captain Kangaroo
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09:00a
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Romper Room
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09:30a
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Cartoons
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10:00a
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Search for Tomorrow
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10:30a
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As the World Turns
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11:00a
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The Electric Company
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11:30a
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Love of Life
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Afternoon
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12:00p
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Where the Heart Is
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12:30p
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CBS News
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12:35p
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Movie – “Ma
and Pa Kettle”
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02:00p
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Love is a Many Splendored Thing
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02:30p
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The Guiding Light
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03:00p
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The Secret Storm
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03:30p
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The Edge of Night
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04:00p
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Gomer Pyle, USMC
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04:30p
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Movie – “Three
Young Texans” (B&W)
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Evening
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06:00p
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News (local)
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06:30p
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CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite
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07:00p
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Truth or Consequences
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07:30p
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I Dream of Jeannie
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08:00p
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Gunsmoke
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09:00p
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Here’s Lucy
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09:30p
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Doris Day
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10:00p
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Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour (guests George Burns, David Clayton
Thomas)
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11:00p
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News (local)
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11:30p
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Movie –
“Penelope”
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Here's another commercial station showing PBS programming for kids - in this case, The Electric Company.
WYTV, Channel 33 (Youngstown) (ABC)
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Morning
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08:00a
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Dennis the Menace (B&W)
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08:30a
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New Zoo Revue
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09:00a
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The Flintstones
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09:30a
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Here’s Beverlee
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10:00a
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Movie –“Aaron
Slick from Punkin Crick” (B&W)
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11:30a
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That Girl
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Afternoon
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12:00p
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Bewitched
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12:30p
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Password (panelists Jack Cassidy, Betty Grable)
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01:00p
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All My Children
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01:30p
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Let’s Make a Deal
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02:00p
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The Newlywed Game
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02:30p
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The Dating Game
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03:00p
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General Hospital
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03:30p
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One Life to Live
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04:00p
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Love, American Style
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04:30p
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Star Trek
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05:30p
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News (local)
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Evening
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06:00p
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ABC Evening News with Howard K. Smith
and Harry Reasoner
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06:30p
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Billy Graham Crusade (special)
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07:30p
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Dragnet
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08:00p
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Monday Night Sports (special)
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09:00p
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Movie – “Lord
Jim” (conclusion)
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10:30p
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Who Do You Think You Are? (special)
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11:00p
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News (local)
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11:30p
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Dick Cavett (guest host Florence Henderson, guests
James Caan, Hattie Winston)
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Remember the Billy Graham Crusades, which would preempt local programming for three nights straight? You knew it was worthwhile, important programming, and that you ought to watch it - but at the same time you couldn't help but resent how it inevitably preempted your favorite show. TV
Mitchell, always happy to help you with upstate New York editions.
ReplyDeleteThanks, John! I may have another one in my batch, but if not I'll look for them when I have to buy some more, which ought to be in the next month or so!
DeleteI will round up a couple of mine from the 60's and loan them to you.
DeleteJust found the March 16-22, 1968 upstate NY edition. featuring The Flying Nun on the cover..a young Sally Field and Alejandro Rey. I am happy to "loan" it to you.
DeleteAnd a future college coach of renown is listed as a guard for the Army basketball team that is playing Notre Dame in the NIT.....
DeletePlus a lot of "Save Star Trek" in the Letters...
Deletejdrowe30@gmail.com
Delete"The David Frost Revue" was produced in New York and lasted for two years (1971-73), co-produced by Group W/Westinghouse (which distributed his 1969-72 syndicated U.S. talk/variety show) and London Weekend Television (the Metropolitan London franchisee for Britain's commercial ITV network from Friday evening to late Sunday night; Thames had the London ITV franchise from Monday morning until early Friday evenings). Group W syndicated it in the 'States; LWT fed it to ITV in Britain.
ReplyDeleteIt was a satirical comedy/variety show, much like the kind Frost did in England during the 1960's, but not topical. It was taped, and it was impractical in the early 1970's to make 200 copies of a tape and send them by air express to as many stations to allow a program of a topical nature distributed by copying and sending tapes to air within 48 hours of taping.
My late Mom was an avid David Frost fan (going back to the days of the U.S. version of Frost's "That Was The Week That Was" in 1964), and of course, she enjoyed "The David Frost Revue".
Had "The David Frost Revue" been produced in the mid-1980's instead of the early 1970's, it would have been much more topical since it could have been distributed by satellite. If the show were done "live-on-tape" and taped early enough in the day, it might have been shown on a same-day basis in both the U.S. (early-evening) and the UK (late-evening).
It would have been a heck of a lot more topical, and probably would've been far more successful.
Very interesting! Your thought at the end, that it would have been more successful if done in the mid '80s, makes a lot of sense to me. Love the info!
DeleteHoping you have Michigan Edition TV GUIDE's with the emphasis in my case on the Grand Rapids-Kalamazoo market(email me at cr3861@yahoo.com if you need any technical assistance): Your readers can get plenty of Pittsburgh listings by going to news.google.com/newspapers with daily listings from back in the day from the Post-Gazette and Press. Keep up the good work!
ReplyDeleteI will look for issues from that area when I make my next buy, which should be in the next little while - I'll let you know when I do. Thanks much!
DeleteDid Warner Brothers sell THE F.B.I. into syndication before it ended its network run? Otherwise, why is a CBS affiliate being airing it--on Monday in prime access? And what did WTAE put into the extra 20 minutes of PERRY MASON?
ReplyDeleteHi Paul,
DeleteI'm not sure about the extra 20 minutes in Perry Mason, although I'm hoping someone from the area might know. In the absence of any other info, I'd take a guess that they might have filled it with some kind of local filler - possibly a local host with some kind of "Dialing for Dollars"-type feature.
This is a slice of my Upper Ohio Valley youth that I was thrilled to read. I was a devoted Dragnet fan as a pre-teenager, and remember that WTAE ran it for years. The one odd thing is that Wheeling WV's WTRF, the local NBC affilate at the time, and Steubenville OH's WSTV, which was the local CBS affilate at the time. (They switched in 1979.) And both were a lot closer than WDTV in Weston,WV is practically in the middle of West Virginia, near Clarksburg.
ReplyDeleteGreat stuff as always Mitchell. How weird is it to see a 1970's CBS daytime schedule without "The Price Is Right," which wouldn't debut until September, or an ABC morning schedule without "Good Morning America?"
ReplyDeleteI know - it just doesn't feel right!
DeleteI would be happy to help sometime with some listings around Pennsylvania/Baltimore/DC in the '60s and '70s. I very much enjoyed this one! I also think it's worth noting that of the CBS stations that you listed in this entry, WTAJ was the *only* one that ran the entire CBS daytime schedule in pattern. KDKA pre-empted the 1:30-2:30pm and 4:00 CBS offerings, Channel 5 pre-empted the 4:00 "Gomer Pyle" rerun, and Channel 27 pre-empted the 10:00-11:30am offerings in order to timeshift soaps and also toss "The Electric Company" in.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Aaron - I'm likely to take you up on that!
DeleteFlorence Henderson had two stints on "Today", first in the 60s as the "Today Girl" (doing light features) and then in '99 for "Later Today", an hour-long talker that eventually got folded into (or consumed) by "Today" in 2000.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if that was the longest stretch between appearances as a "regular" on "Today," or on any other show for that matter?
DeleteWhere's Channel 6 from Johnstown? When I grew up in the 70's in Pittsburgh they were our "backup" NBC affiliate. Weren't they around in 1972?
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