tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post2862906083246537047..comments2024-03-17T18:19:49.076-04:00Comments on It's About TV: What's on TV? Thursday, September 17, 1970Mitchell Hadleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08695771505209080030noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-27732098390348801442019-12-30T16:54:46.036-05:002019-12-30T16:54:46.036-05:00I looked at THE TENNESSEAN (on www.newspapers.com)...I looked at THE TENNESSEAN (on www.newspapers.com) from this date a bit more. Oddly enough WSM-TV has an ad for NBC Week along w/ the listings where it again shows DRAGNET at 8:30 PM w/ an illustration of Jack Webb and description of him & his costar, Harry Morgan. From what I've seen looking at later Thursday nights on WSM, DRAGNET ran in place of NANCY all season. THE TENNESSEAN made no mention of NANCY at all, as lead actress Renne Jarrett was only mentioned in 1970 in a January MOD SQUAD episode, and Celeste Holm was mentioned that year only for her appearance in John Wayne's Nov. 29 special, "Swing Out, Sweet Land".<br /><br />There is also a good review of the Don Rickles special. Its full name was "The Many Sides of Don Rickles", and it mentions that most of the show was Rickles and his costars Don Adams, Harvey Korman, & Robert Goulet "...sitting around and talking and breaking each other up". (I imagine Korman was broken up the most, based on his well-known "breaking up" on THE CAROL BURNETT SHOW.) The ending has Rickles speaking w/ "a psychiatrist, a sociologist and a doctor about what makes him tick". The reviewer laments that this segment was "too short". I think it would be fun to see this, along w/ THE JIM NABORS HOUR season premiere w/ the Jackson 5.Jonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00483417885845331990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-53633583425183673212019-12-30T16:09:20.624-05:002019-12-30T16:09:20.624-05:00I just looked at this issue again, from Nashville,...I just looked at this issue again, from Nashville, and WSIX-TV & WBKO-TV both had THE SURVIVORS at 9 PM CT. WSM-TV both here & in that day's NASHVILLE TENNESSEAN lists DRAGNET at 8:30 PM, but the NBC network aired the premiere of NANCY that day. This was likely an error by WSM-TV, since it appears in both places.Jonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00483417885845331990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-27456461297052844872018-09-05T23:04:55.782-04:002018-09-05T23:04:55.782-04:00When WLTV-13 first went on the air in 1962, its ca...When WLTV-13 first went on the air in 1962, its call letters stood for "Wonderful Live TV" Throughout the 1960s, and even for a time after the station affiliated with ABC in 1967, WLTV continued to air live gospel and country shows. Best that I can tell, by the very early 1970s, these local music shows began to fade away, so this 1970 schedule probably represents some of the last gasps of that programming.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-72245604947800239412018-09-05T22:59:40.745-04:002018-09-05T22:59:40.745-04:00Yes, in the Bowling Green market, WSIX-8 was tough...Yes, in the Bowling Green market, WSIX-8 was tougher to receive than WSM-4 and WLAC-5, hence the reason WLTV-13 affiliated with ABC. (I know this reception-wise as I have family in that area, and I recall WSIX-8 was the toughest to receive, followed by WSM-4. WLAC-5 came through loud n' clear.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-16250777066225885402016-09-16T14:44:09.932-04:002016-09-16T14:44:09.932-04:00I verified with a copy of this same issue from NYC...I verified with a copy of this same issue from NYC that on ABC the Rickles special was just 60 mins long, followed by the final rerun of THE SURVIVORS. NANCY also premiered this day at 9:30 PM ET on NBC, replacing DRAGNET.<br /><br /><br />WCBS in NYC preceded the CBS sitcom reruns starting at 10 AM ET with reruns of LEAVE IT TO BEAVER and THE DONNA REED SHOW. The network only reran its own sitcoms in its morning programming, but its affiliates, including its O&Os like WCBS, were free to rerun sitcoms which originally appeared on other networks, like those two.Jonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00483417885845331990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-40114422635833114672016-09-14T18:59:51.260-04:002016-09-14T18:59:51.260-04:00According to other sources, DRAGNET was replaced b...According to other sources, DRAGNET was replaced by the debut of NANCY (a sitcom about a country vet and his wife...the President's daughter)Paul Ducanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-55612256358368181092016-09-14T12:11:14.636-04:002016-09-14T12:11:14.636-04:00WSIX was airing The Lucy Show and Beverly Hillbill...WSIX was airing The Lucy Show and Beverly Hillbillies from CBS since WLAC was airing the syndicated Mike Douglas Show at 9 a.m. For a couple of years, WSIX delayed Dark Shadows by a half hour, running it at 3:30 so the teenagers could see it after school. By this point it was beginning to fade so I guess ch. 8 decided to return it to the ABC 3 p.m. Time slot. Robert Sharphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10499054677623275238noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-51766366011630331852016-09-14T10:11:55.078-04:002016-09-14T10:11:55.078-04:00And thus the origin of the DVR! :)And thus the origin of the DVR! :)Mitchell Hadleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08695771505209080030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-62810398079740945242016-09-14T10:11:35.410-04:002016-09-14T10:11:35.410-04:00Don't have the issue in front of me at this se...Don't have the issue in front of me at this second, but you're undoubtedly right. (On both points, that is!)Mitchell Hadleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08695771505209080030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-33156828388637343802016-09-13T23:54:21.293-04:002016-09-13T23:54:21.293-04:00WSIX has the Don Rickles special running from 8:00...WSIX has the Don Rickles special running from 8:00 to 10:00 while WLTV has that same special running from 8:00 to 9:00 with The Survivors airing in the 9-10 slot. I’m guessing that the WSIX listing may be a typo, I mean, I like Don Rickles but I can’t see him insulting people for two solid hours.Richard John Marcejhttp://www.richardjohnmarcej.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-45152757923673018722016-09-12T18:19:34.099-04:002016-09-12T18:19:34.099-04:00Talk about a tough after-school decision on weekda...Talk about a tough after-school decision on weekdays: F TROOP, GILLIGAN'S ISLAND and STAR TREK all on at 3:30 in the afternoon. Halhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09291930694234773688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-79962721684908992342016-09-12T12:13:27.652-04:002016-09-12T12:13:27.652-04:00To add a bit about WLTV out of Bowling Green:
It p...To add a bit about WLTV out of Bowling Green:<br />It premiered as an independent station in 1962 and became an ABC affiliate in March 1967. WBKO probably affiliated with ABC because of the relatively weak signal from WSIX when it was on channel 8. Its original owners sold it in 1971, at which time the call letters became WBKO, which they remain today. It now has subchannels for Fox & CW networks in Bowling Green.Jonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00483417885845331990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-89819779661218549842016-09-12T12:07:46.654-04:002016-09-12T12:07:46.654-04:00My family moved to the Nashville metro area late i...My family moved to the Nashville metro area late in 1976, so I knew these stations pretty well from then until the early 80s, when I started college out of state.<br /><br />In Dec. 1973, WDCN and WSIX switched channels, WDCN moving to channel 8 and WSIX (which means "Where Service Is Excellent" and still remains on an FM radio station having once been also on an AM radio station) moving to channel 2 & changing its call letters to WNGE (meaning With Nashville General Electric). Around 1983 GE sold WNGE to Knight-Ridder, which changed the call letters to WKRN. (Knight-Ridder has since sold the station to Young Broadcasting, which later became Media General & Nexstar, but the call letters remain today.) WDCN (which stood for Davidson County Nashville) received equipment from WNGE to allow local color broadcasting. Its call letters are now WNPT (Nashville Public Television).<br /><br />WSM-TV (meaning "We Shield Millions", the slogan of its then-parent, National Life and Accident Insurance Company) became WSMV in 1981 when the station was sold to a broadcaster named George Gillette. It has been sold a few times since then and now belongs to Meredith Corporation. WSM radio (650 AM) originated in 1925 and still today broadcasts the Grand Ole Opry weekly.<br /><br />WLAC, named for Life and Casualty Insurance, shared its call letters with a radio station (1510 AM) and changed its call letters to WTVF in 1975 when it was sold to the Hobby family of Houston. The long-running CBS & syndicated country music variety show Hee-Haw was taped at WLAC/WTVF studios from its 1969 beginning until well into the 1980s. I still recall hearing about the 1977 passing of Elvis Presley while watching a Gomer Pyle rerun on WTVF.<br /><br />WMCV went out of business about 6 months after this issue, sometime in March 1971, but the station came back early in 1976 as WZTV. I was thrilled finally to be living in a tv market with an independent station with more off-network reruns than the network affiliates had time to run. WZTV at one time ended up with Johnny Carson's Tonight Show when NBC wouldn't allow WSMV to postpone the show by half-hour for Three's Company reruns. WNGE had the Tonight Show for a little while until it found it had been getting better ratings with its MASH reruns, which it restored. Eventually Tonight got back to WSMV, certainly by the Jay Leno era. WZTV is now Nashville's Fox affiliate, and there are other new stations in the 80s & 90s which eventually became the CW & MyNetwork affliates.<br /><br />Jonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00483417885845331990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-51681500169797425112016-09-12T11:42:00.876-04:002016-09-12T11:42:00.876-04:00Did Ch.13 air those afternoon music programs every...Did Ch.13 air those afternoon music programs every day? If they did, that's stunning that in 1970 a small market would air that much local programming--and kudos for them.Al Leosnoreply@blogger.com