A number of interesting notes this week; I think they speak for themselves, so we'll get to it. The edition in question is the Minnesota State Edition, so of course you're treated once again to a look at KCMT, the station available in The World's Worst Town™.
KTCA, Channel 2 (PBS)
Morning
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09:30a
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Film (B&W)
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10:00a
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The Electric
Company
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10:30a
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Film (B&W)
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11:10a
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Film (B&W)
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Afternoon
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12:00p
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Sesame Street
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02:15p
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Film (B&W)
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03:00p
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German
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04:00p
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Mister
Rogers’ Neighborhood
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04:30p
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Sesame Street
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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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Performance
Reviews (B&W)
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06:30p
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Wall $treet
Week
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07:00p
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Washington
Week in Review
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07:30p
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Lenox Quartet
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08:00p
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Your
World This Week
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08:30p
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Thirty Minutes
With
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09:00p
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To Be
Announced
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Now we're starting to see Channel 2 morph into the PBS affiliate we all know and love. Wall $treet Week was a staple of Friday nights in our household for years; I not only learned a lot about economics, I loved Louis Rukeyser's droll, pun-filled presentation.
KGLO, Channel 3 (Mason City) (CBS)
Morning
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06:30a
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Sunrise
Semester (Astronomy and Astrology)
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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 (guest Dr.
Joyce Brothers)
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09:00a
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The Joker’s
Wild
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09:30a
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The
$10,000 Pyramid (Tony Randall,
Rita Moreno)
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10:00a
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Gambit
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10:30a
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Love
of Life
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10:55a
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CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
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11:00a
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The
Young and the Restless
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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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12:30p
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As
the World Turns
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01:00p
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The Guiding
Light
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01:30p
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The
Edge of Night
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02:00p
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The New Price
is Right
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02:30p
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Hollywood’s
Talking
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03:00p
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The Secret
Storm
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03:30p
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Sesame
Street
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04:30p
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Tennessee
Tuxedo
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05:00p
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Hazel
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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 (local)
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06:30p
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That
Good Ole Nashville Music (guests Jim Ed
Brown, Barbara Mandrell, Dave Dudley)
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07:00p
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Mission:
Impossible
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08:00p
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CBS
Friday Night Movie – “Chubasco”
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10:00p
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News (local)
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10:30p
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CBS
Late Movie – “Speedway”
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12:30a
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Naked City (B&W)
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I'm always interested to see Sesame Street show up on a commercial station in an area where no PBS affiliate exists. I'm assuming there must have been some kind of special arrangement in those areas to enable commercial stations to pick it up.
WCCO, Channel 4 (CBS)
Morning
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06:30a
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Sunrise
Semester (Astronomy and Astrology)
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07:00a
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Carmen
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07:30a
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Clancy
and Willie
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08:00a
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Captain
Kangaroo (guest Dr.
Joyce Brothers)
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09:00a
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The
Joker’s Wild
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09:30a
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The $10,000
Pyramid (Tony Randall,
Rita Moreno)
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10:00a
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Gambit
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10:30a
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Love of Life
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10:55a
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Live
Today
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11:00a
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The Young and
the Restless
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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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Midday
(guest Abigail McCarthy)
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12:30p
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As the World
Turns
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01:00p
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The
Guiding Light
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01:30p
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The Edge of
Night
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02:00p
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The
New Price is Right
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02:30p
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Hollywood’s
Talking
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03:00p
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The
Secret Storm
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03:30p
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Movie – “The Night of the Grizzly”
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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 (local)
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06:30p
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Talk with the
Manager
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07:00p
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Mission:
Impossible
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08:00p
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CBS Friday
Night Movie – “Chubasco”
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10:00p
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News (local)
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10:50p
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Movie – “Man on the Flying Trapeze” (B&W)
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12:00a
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Movie – “Speak
Easily” (time approximate) (B&W)
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01:50a
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Movie – “Baghdad”
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WCCO and KSTP were the last stations in the Twin Cities to have local children's programming. While Channel 9 preserved Grandpa Ken and Romper Room, WCCO continued with Clancy, Willie, and Carmen - all of whom I met in the day.
KSTP, Channel 5 (NBC)
Morning
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06:00a
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Minnesota
Today
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06:30a
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Not for Women
Only
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07:00a
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Today
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09:00a
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Dinah’s Place (guest Carol Lynley)
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09:30a
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Baffle
(Demond Wilson, Jo Anne Worley)
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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 (Pearl Bailey,
Amanda Blake, Richard Crenna, Peter Lawford, Jan Murray, Karen Valentine,
Demond Wilson, Paul Lynde, Charley Weaver)
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11:00a
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Jeopardy
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11:30a
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The
Who, What, or Where Game
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11:55a
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NBC News (Floyd Kalber)
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Afternoon
|
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12:00p
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News (local)
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12:15p
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Dial
5 (guest Misha
Dichter)
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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
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02:30p
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Return
to Peyton Place
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03:00p
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Somerset
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03:30p
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Mike
Douglas (co-host
Shirley Bassey, Marty Allen, Richard Thomas, Jimmy Damon, Rhyder McClure)
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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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Hogan’s
Heroes
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05:30p
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NBC Nightly
News with John Chancellor
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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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Circus!
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07:00p
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Sanford and
Son
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07:30p
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Weird
Harold (special)
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08:00p
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Circle of Fear
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09:00p
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The
Bold Ones (return)
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10:00p
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News (local)
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10:30p
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The
Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (guests
Sandy Duncan, McLean Stevenson)
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12:00a
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The Midnight
Special (host Johnny
Nash, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Kenny Rankin, the Raspberries, Chi
Coltrane, Jack Andrews)
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For years and years Channel 5 showed Hogan's Heroes at 5:00 p.m. After their local news expanded to fill the timespace, it moved to other local channels; I don't think there's anywhere in the country where the show can't be seen.
KAUS, Channel 6 (Austin) (ABC)
Morning
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06:25a
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Markets
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08:00a
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Town and Country
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08:30a
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Movie – “The
Unholy Wife”
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10:30a
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Bewitched
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11:00a
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Password
(Lois Nettleton, Tom Kennedy)
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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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Love,
American Style
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03:30p
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Movie – “Kill, Baby, Kill”
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05:00p
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ABC
Evening News with Howard K. Smith and Harry Reasoner
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05:30p
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News (Gary Paterson)
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Evening
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06:00p
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Truth or
Consequences
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06:30p
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Green
Acres
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07:00p
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The Brady
Bunch
|
07:30p
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The
Partridge Family
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08:00p
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Room 222
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08:30p
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The
Odd Couple
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09:00p
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Love, American
Style
|
10:00p
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News (local)
|
10:30p
|
Jack Paar
Tonite (guests Jerry
Stiller and Anne Meara, Joe Garagiola)
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The matinee movie "Kill, Baby, Kill" tells the story of unusual deaths being linked to supernatural forces. Fine after-school programming.
KCMT, Channel 7 (Alex) (NBC, ABC)
Morning
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06:55a
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Market
Report
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07:00a
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Today
|
09:00a
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Dinah’s
Place (guest Carol
Lynley)
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09:30a
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Baffle (Demond Wilson, Jo Anne Worley)
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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 (Pearl Bailey,
Amanda Blake, Richard Crenna, Peter Lawford, Jan Murray, Karen Valentine,
Demond Wilson, Paul Lynde, Charley Weaver)
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11:00a
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Jeopardy
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11:30a
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The Who, What,
or Where Game
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11:55a
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NBC
News (Floyd Kalber)
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Afternoon
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|
12:00p
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Farm
Today (local)
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12:20p
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Trading Post
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12:30p
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Three
on a Match
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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
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02:30p
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Return
to Peyton Place
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03:00p
|
Somerset
|
03:30p
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Fashions
in Sewing
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03:40p
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Welcome Inn
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04:30p
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Lidsville
(B&W)
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05:00p
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Underdog
|
05:30p
|
NBC
Nightly News with John Chancellor
|
Evening
|
|
06:00p
|
News (local)
|
06:30p
|
Mutual of
Omaha’s Wild Kingdom
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07:00p
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The
Brady Bunch
|
07:30p
|
The Partridge
Family
|
08:00p
|
Circle
of Fear
|
09:00p
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The Bold Ones (return)
|
10:00p
|
News (local)
|
10:30p
|
The Tonight
Show Starring Johnny Carson (guests
Sandy Duncan, McLean Stevenson)
|
One of the reasons I chose to spotlight this day is that it gives you a good example of how KCMT picked and chose its programming to appeal to its older, rural demographic. On Fridays, it's obvious that The Brady Bunch and The Partridge Family were still better choices for that demographic than Sanford and Son, which they moved to Sunday at 9:30 p.m. In the six years I lived in The World's Worst Town™, I never saw one black person.
KMSP, Channel 9 (ABC)
Morning
|
|
07:00a
|
CBS
Morning News with John Hart
|
08:00a
|
News and Views
|
08:30a
|
Grandpa
Ken
|
09:00a
|
Romper Room (Miss Jody)
|
10:00a
|
Hazel
|
10:30a
|
Bewitched
|
11:00a
|
Password
(Lois Nettleton, Tom Kennedy)
|
Afternoon
|
|
12:00p
|
All
My Children
|
12:30p
|
Let’s Make a
Deal
|
01:00p
|
The
Newlywed Game
|
01:30p
|
The Dating
Game
|
02:00p
|
General
Hospital
|
02:30p
|
One Life to
Live
|
03:00p
|
Love,
American Style
|
03:30p
|
Beat the Clock
(Marty Allen)
|
04:00p
|
Green
Acres
|
04:30p
|
The Ghost and
Mrs. Muir
|
05:00p
|
News (Carl
Rochelle)
|
05:30p
|
ABC Evening
News with Howard K. Smith and Harry Reasoner
|
Evening
|
|
06:00p
|
To Tell the
Truth (panelists
Kitty Carlisle, Peggy Cass, Bill Cullen, Gene Rayburn)
|
06:30p
|
Truth
or Consequences
|
07:00p
|
The Brady
Bunch
|
07:30p
|
The
Partridge Family
|
08:00p
|
Room 222
|
08:30p
|
The
Odd Couple
|
09:00p
|
Love, American
Style
|
10:00p
|
News (local)
|
10:30p
|
Movie – “Death of a Gunfighter”
|
12:30a
|
To Be
Announced
|
01:00a
|
News
|
I've mentioned this before, but having the CBS Morning News on our ABC affiliate confused the hell out of me when I was little, especially the way KMSP had to scramble to avoid showing the commercials for CBS programs.
KROC, Channel 10 (Rochester) (NBC)
Morning
|
|
07:00a
|
Today
|
09:00a
|
Dinah’s Place (guest Carol Lynley)
|
09:30a
|
Baffle
(Demond Wilson, Jo Anne Worley)
|
10:00a
|
Sale of the
Century
|
10:30a
|
The
Hollywood Squares (Pearl Bailey,
Amanda Blake, Richard Crenna, Peter Lawford, Jan Murray, Karen Valentine,
Demond Wilson, Paul Lynde, Charley Weaver)
|
11:00a
|
Jeopardy
|
11:30a
|
The
Who, What, or Where Game 55 NBC News (Floyd
Kalber)
|
Afternoon
|
|
12:00p
|
News (local)
|
12:05p
|
Fashions in
Sewing
|
12:15p
|
Take
Ten
|
12:30p
|
Three on a
Match
|
01:00p
|
Days
of Our Lives
|
01:30p
|
The Doctors
|
02:00p
|
Another
World
|
02:30p
|
Return to
Peyton Place
|
03:00p
|
Somerset
|
03:30p
|
The Munsters (B&W)
|
04:00p
|
Ponderosa
|
05:00p
|
Petticoat
Junction
|
05:30p
|
NBC
Nightly News with John Chancellor
|
Evening
|
|
06:00p
|
News (local)
|
06:30p
|
The Mouse
Factory (B&W)
|
07:00p
|
Sanford
and Son
|
07:30p
|
Weird Harold (special)
|
08:00p
|
Bellevue
(special)
|
09:00p
|
The Bold Ones (return)
|
10:00p
|
News (local)
|
10:30p
|
The Tonight
Show Starring Johnny Carson (guests
Sandy Duncan, McLean Stevenson)
|
12:00a
|
The
Midnight Special (host Johnny
Nash, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Kenny Rankin, the Raspberries, Chi
Coltrane, Jack Andrews)
|
The 8:00 p.m. special, Bellevue, narrated by Stacy Keach, is a documentary on New York's famous hospital, which is usually a synonym for mental health thanks to TV and movies, but in fact it also has a fine trauma and emergency room care.
WTCN, Channel 11 (Ind.)
Morning
|
|
07:00a
|
The
New Zoo Revue
|
07:30a
|
Popeye and
Porky
|
08:30a
|
Mister
Ed (B&W)
|
09:00a
|
The
Flintstones
|
09:30a
|
I
Dream of Jeannie
|
10:00a
|
Father Knows
Best (B&W)
|
10:30a
|
Andy
Griffith
|
11:00a
|
Gomer Pyle,
USMC
|
11:30a
|
What’s
New?
|
Afternoon
|
|
01:00p
|
Movie –
“Rooney” (B&W)
|
03:00p
|
I Dream of
Jeannie
|
03:30p
|
Petticoat
Junction
|
04:00p
|
The
Flintstones
|
04:30p
|
Gilligan’s
Island
|
05:00p
|
Andy Griffith
|
05:30p
|
Star
Trek
|
Evening
|
|
06:30p
|
That
Girl
|
07:00p
|
The High
Chaparral
|
08:00p
|
Merv
Grifiin (guest Jack
Benny)
|
09:30p
|
News (Gil Amundson)
|
10:00p
|
Perry
Mason (B&W)
|
11:00p
|
Movie – “Touch of Evil” (B&W)
|
I'm not positive, but I think the Merv Griffin episode we see here, with Jack Benny as his sole guest, is the same episode that shows up on the box set collection. I'm too lazy to get up and check it out, though.
KEYC, Channel 12 (Mankato) (CBS)
Morning
|
|
07:00a
|
CBS
Morning News with John Hart
|
08:00a
|
Captain
Kangaroo (guest Dr.
Joyce Brothers)
|
09:00a
|
The
Joker’s Wild
|
09:30a
|
The $10,000
Pyramid (Tony Randall,
Rita Moreno)
|
10:00a
|
Gambit
|
10:30a
|
Love of Life
|
10:55a
|
CBS
News (Douglas Edwards)
|
11:00a
|
The Young and
the Restless
|
11:30a
|
Search
for Tomorrow
|
Afternoon
|
|
12:00p
|
News (local)
|
12:30p
|
As the World
Turns
|
01:00p
|
The
Guiding Light
|
01:30p
|
The Edge of
Night
|
02:00p
|
The
New Price is Right
|
02:30p
|
Hollywood’s
Talking
|
03:00p
|
The
Secret Storm
|
03:30p
|
Afternoon Show
|
04:30p
|
Rocky
and His Friends
|
05:00p
|
Hazel
|
05:30p
|
CBS
Evening News with Walter Cronkite
|
Evening
|
|
06:00p
|
News (local)
|
06:30p
|
Bill Anderson (guests Sons of the Pioneers)
|
07:00p
|
Mission:
Impossible
|
08:00p
|
CBS Friday
Night Movie – “Chubasco”
|
10:00p
|
News (local)
|
10:30p
|
CBS Late Movie
– “Speedway”
|
I well remember The Bill Anderson Show, which aired on KCMT as well. An interesting example of one of country music's big stars hosting a syndicated show. Those country programs, like That Good Ole Nashville Music, Hee Haw (when it moved to syndication), and The Porter Wagoner Show, were exceptions to the rule of cheap, substandard programming in those Local Access timeslots - see Police Surgeon, for example.
WEAU, Channel 13 (Eau Claire) (NBC)
Morning
|
|
06:30a
|
The
Bible Answers
|
07:00a
|
Today
|
09:00a
|
Dinah’s
Place (guest Carol
Lynley)
|
09:30a
|
Sesame Street
|
10:00a
|
Sale
of the Century
|
10:30a
|
The Hollywood
Squares (Pearl Bailey,
Amanda Blake, Richard Crenna, Peter Lawford, Jan Murray, Karen Valentine,
Demond Wilson, Paul Lynde, Charley Weaver)
|
11:00a
|
Jeopardy
|
11:30a
|
The Who, What,
or Where Game
|
11:55a
|
News (local)
|
Afternoon
|
|
12:30p
|
Three
on a Match
|
01:00p
|
Days of Our
Lives
|
01:30p
|
The
Doctors
|
02:00p
|
Another World
|
02:30p
|
Return
to Peyton Place
|
03:00p
|
Somerset
|
03:30p
|
Baffle
(Demond Wilson, Jo Anne Worley)
|
04:00p
|
The Virginian
|
05:30p
|
NBC
Nightly News with John Chancellor
|
Evening
|
|
06:00p
|
News (local)
|
06:30p
|
Safari to
Adventure
|
07:00p
|
Sanford
and Son
|
07:30p
|
Weird Harold (special)
|
08:00p
|
Circle
of Fear
|
09:00p
|
The Bold Ones (return)
|
10:00p
|
News (local)
|
10:30p
|
The Tonight
Show Starring Johnny Carson (guests
Sandy Duncan, McLean Stevenson)
|
12:00a
|
The
Midnight Special (host Johnny
Nash, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Kenny Rankin, the Raspberries, Chi
Coltrane, Jack Andrews)
|
Weird Harold, preempting Brian Keith's series The Little People, was an animated special set in the world of Fat Albert, with Bill Cosby back as the voice. TV
When you mentioned children's programming, you listed call letters KSTP along with WCCO, but then you mentioned channel 9 with channel 4. Channel 9's call letters were KMSP. Was KSTP named for St. Paul exclusively?
ReplyDeleteI also noticed that KCMT had LIDSVILLE, a color program, in B&W. I wonder if that's a typo or if KCMT was running B&W tapes (or kines) of LIDSVILLE instead of ABC's color videotapes.
Looking at the lineup I'd like to ask a question. Would it be fair to say that the "Brady Bunch" was the last of the truly "wholesome" family situation comedies?
ReplyDeleteGeorge E.
Metromedia's independent stations ran "Merv Griffin" in prime-time during much of the 1970's and early 9180's.
ReplyDeleteMay just be me, but I liked the old version of the channel lineup better, Mitchell...sort of nostalgic..maybe add little TV's to this one???
ReplyDeleteMitchell, the new channel listings are much easier to read for those of us with ever-failing eyesight - nice improvement! Mike in British Columbia
ReplyDeleteAre the ABC listings missing Split Second at 11:30 a.m.?
ReplyDeleteThis date marked the 9th anniversary of Another World.
In the mid-70s my local ABC affiliate (KHGI Kearney, NE) aired some CBS shows because the CBS affiliate (KOLN Lincoln) chose to air Romper Room at 9 a.m. The Joker's Wild, Spin-Off, and the first hour-long seasons of The Price Is Right. That went away when TPIR moved to 10, where it is today. KOLN had local kids' shows like Romper Room (hosted by the wife of the then Nebraska Secretary of State) and Cartoon Corral at 3:30 into the 80s. There was also a religious-oriented kids' show on Sunday mornings called For Children Only. It was hosted by Rev. Dale Holt with the puppet Mordecai "Mordy" Mouse. That show had Hanna-Barbera and WB cartoons on it, and also religious programs like Davey & Goliath and Jot.
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ReplyDeleteI remember KGLO(KIMT today) running Sesame Street. I THINK it was allowed to do so if there wasn't a public TV station in that market. Once there was a public TV station(Channel 24 an Iowa Public Television station) they had to stop running it.
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