Retro: Western Illinois, Monday, May 20, 1968

[SteveRichards]

Source: TV Guide, Western Illinois Edition

CHANNELS LISTED

Rock Island
4 WHBF-TV (CBS)

Quincy
7 KHQA-TV (CBS) (also secondary ABC, but not listed as such)
10 WGEM (NBC, ABC)

Peoria
19 WIRL-TV (ABC)
25 WEEK-TV (NBC)
31 WMBD-TV (CBS)

Moline
8 WQAD-TV (ABC)

Ottumwa, Iowa
3 KTVO-TV (CBS, NBC) (also secondary ABC, but not listed as such)

Davenport, Iowa
6 WOC-TV (NBC)

Springfield
20 WICS-TV (NBC)

Morning

6:30
3 Beatles (from ABC; at least 9-day delay from Saturday 11AM)
31 Summer Semester

7:00
3 Morning Melodies
6-10-20-25 Today (Hugh Downs/Barbara Walters/Joe Garagiola)
7 Summer Semester
31 Farm Report, Weather

7:05
3-31 CBS Morning News (Joe Benti)

7:25
4 We Begin This Day

7:30
3 Morning Report (Oyler)
4-7 CBS Morning News (Joe Benti)
8 TV 8 Morning Report
31 Sunup (Tom Jones)

7:55
4-7 News

8:00
3-4-7-31 Captain Kangaroo
8 Davey and Goliath

8:15
8 Farm Extension

8:30
8 Adventures in Learning
19 Ed Allen

9:00
3-4-7 Candid Camera
6 Especially
8-19 Romper Room (presumably 60 min. on Ch. 8; no listing for Ch. 8 at 9:30 all week)
10-25 Snap Judgment
20 Jack LaLanne
31 Bonnie Prudden

9:25
10-25 NBC News (Dickerson)

9:30
3-7-31 Beverly Hillbillies
4 Jack LaLanne
6-10-20-25 Concentration
19 Movie: “Beyond the Time Barrier” (1959)

10:00
3 Ed Allen
4-7-31 Andy Griffith
6-10-20-25 Personality
8 On Q with Sandy (1 hour?; no listing for Ch. 8 at 10:30)

10:30
3-4-7-31 Dick Van Dyke
6-10-20-25 Hollywood Squares

11:00
3-4-7-31 Love of Life
6-10-20-25 Jeopardy
8-19 Bewitched

11:25
3-4-7-31 CBS News (Joe Benti)

11:30
3-4-7-31 Search for Tomorrow
6-10-20-25 Eye Guess
8-19 Treasure Isle

11:45
3-4-7-31 Guiding Light

11:55
6-10-20-25 NBC News (Edwin Newman)

Afternoon

12:00
3-6-7-10-25 News
4 Divorce Court
8 Dream House
19 Ernest Tubb
20 Virginia Graham
31 Street Scene (John Day)

12:10
31 Farm Report

12:15
3 Town and Country Forum
7 Hal Barton
31 News

12:20
25 Conversation

12:25
6 Almanac Newsreel

12:30
3-4-7-31 As the World Turns
6-10-20-25 Let’s Make a Deal
8 Wedding Party
19 Farm Report

12:55
19 News (Rick James)

1:00
3-4-7-31 Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
6-10-20-25 Days of Our Lives
8-19 Newlywed Game

1:30
3-4-7-31 House Party
6-10-20-25 Doctors
8-19 Baby Game

1:55
8-19 Children’s Doctor (Dr. Lendon Smith)

2:00
3-4-7-31 To Tell the Truth
6-10-20-25 Another World
8-19 General Hospital

2:25
3-4-7-31 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)

2:30
3-4-7-31 Edge of Night
6-10-20-25 You Don’t Say
8-19 Dark Shadows

3:00
3-4-7-31 Secret Storm
6-10-20-25 Match Game
8-19 Dating Game

3:25
6-10-20-25 NBC News (Floyd Kalber)

3:30
3-10 Dark Shadows (from ABC; at least 1-week delay from 2:30PM)
4 Mike Douglas (Guests: Dick Shawn, Lainie Kazan and Al Martino, Richard Blackwell)
6 Mister Ed
7 General Hospital (from ABC; at least 1-week delay from 2PM)
8 Movie: “Flat Top” (1952)
19 Movie: “Bowery Bombshell” (1946)
20 Mike Douglas (Armed Forces Week)
25 Captain Jinks
31 Movie: “Screaming Eagles” (1956)

4:00
3 Baby Game (from ABC; at least 1-week delay from 1:30PM)
6 Captain Ernie
7 Tri-State Time
10 Newlywed Game (from ABC; at least 1-week delay from 1PM)


4:25
3 Children’s Doctor (Dr. Lendon Smith) (from ABC; at least 1-week delay from 1:55PM)
7 Mike Douglas (Guests: Richard Harris, the Singing Coswills, David Douglas Duncan, Jim Webb)

4:30
3 Bewitched (from ABC; at least 1-week delay from 11AM)
10 Cactus Club
25 Mike Douglas (Guests: Connie Francis, Al Martino)

5:00
3 Dream House (from ABC; at least 1-week delay from 12PM)
4 McHale’s Navy
6 Truth or Consequences
10 Newlywed Game (from ABC; at least 9-day delay from Saturday 7PM)
19-20 News
31 Flintstones

5:15
19 ABC News (Bob Young)

5:20
8 News

5:25
7-10 Weather

5:30
3-4-7-31 CBS Evening News (Walter Cronkite)
6-10-20-25 Huntley/Brinkley Report
8 Perry Mason

5:45
19 News (Rick James)

Evening

6:00
3-4-6-7-10-20-25-31 News
19 Truth or Consequences
6:30
3-4-7-31 Gunsmoke
6-10-20-25 Monkees
8-19 Cowboy in Africa

7:00
6-10-20-25 Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In

7:30
3 Win with the Stars
4-7-31 Lucy Show
8 Wackiest Ship in the Army
19 Rat Patrol

8:00
3-4-7-31 Andy Griffith
6-10-20-25 Danny Thomas
19 Movie: “Ivanhoe” (1963)

(Note: Both Chs. 8 and 19 preempted “Felony Squad” from ABC at 8:00)

8:30
3-4-7-31 Family Affair
8 Peyton Place

9:00
3-8 Saga of Western Man (ABC special; “The Big Valley” normally here on ABC)
4-7-31 Carol Burnett
6-10-20-25 I Spy

10:00
3-4-6-7-8-10-19-20-25-31 News

10:25
6 Comment (Bill Gress)

10:30
3 FBI (from ABC; at least 8-day delay from Sunday 7PM)
4 Movie: “Lust for Gold” (1949)
6-10-20-25 Johnny Carson (Guests: Bob Hope, Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, Norman Jewison)
7 Cowboy in Africa (from ABC; at least 1-week delay from 6:30PM)
8-19 Joey Bishop (Guests: Bobby Hatfield, Sam Jaffe, Ken Greenwald)
31 Movie: “Black Orpheus” (French-Italian; 1958)

11:30
3-7 News

11:35
3 Silent Service

12:00
6-8-19 News
10 Weather

12:05
6 Man Called X
19 Wells Fargo

 

[ftballfan]

Did non-primary ABC stations have to wait a week to air programming?

 

[SteveRichards]

Did non-primary ABC stations have to wait a week to air programming?

This schedule is about 2 1/2 years before my time, and someone who was alive at the time and worked at a local station would have a much better understanding of how everything worked. However, I think the following explanation is probably close to right.

Some secondary affiliates likely did not receive a network feed from the secondary network, and if the affiliate did clear a secondary network show at its network time, it was likely from an off-air feed from a station in an adjacent market. Even if a station did receive a clean feed from a secondary network, there's a good chance (depending on the station's equipment) the station couldn't receive its primary network and the secondary network at the same time. So if a station wanted to air a secondary network show on a delay that was fed at the same time the station was carrying its primary network, the secondary network would have to send the station a copy of the show that was to air delayed. Limited videotape capability probably also hampered some stations from doing delays on their own.

That being said, I've been told (but have never confirmed) that KTVO (Kirksville-Ottumwa) depended on over-the-air feeds (mainly from Des Moines) for all of its "live" network programming until the station became a primary ABC affiliate later in 1968. Even then, KTVO aired some afternoon ABC programs on delay so it could continue to air several CBS soaps in their normal time periods. The delayed ABC daytime shows aired at least a week late and were not in color.

 

[oldiesfan6479]

...So if a station wanted to air a secondary network show on a delay that was fed at the same time the station was carrying its primary network, the secondary network would have to send the station a copy of the show that was to air delayed. Limited videotape capability probably also hampered some stations from doing delays on their own...

So we're probably talking about a number of 16mm film prints (or kinnies of tape shows?) being sent to various stations for airing on a delayed basis.

 

[joebtsflk1]

At least in the case of KTVO, by 1968 the secondary ABC shows looked like they were on tape. But I was only about 8 yrs old at the time. I doubt though that they had color tape playback yet...KTVO might not have had color cameras in 1968. I wouldn't know, our house was B&W till '71.

I'm going to say the kinnie era was over by 1968. By then, stations were probably "bicycling" erasable tapes back and forth.

 

[SteveRichards]

Delayed airings of ABC daytime shows on KTVO, WGEM, and KHQA were all in black and white. Most delayed airings of ABC prime-time shows on the same stations were in color (but there are some inconsistencies...perhaps TVG errors). KTVO's delayed broadcast of "The Lucy Show" (from CBS) Saturday at 6PM was apparently in black and white.

KTVO and WIRL were the only stations still doing all local news in black and white. WHBF's 6PM and 10PM newscasts were in color, but the station's 5-minute newscast at 7:55AM was apparently in black and white.

Looking at the Saturday and Sunday listings, KHQA apparently had the ability to do same-day CBS delays in color, but there is an inconsistency there, too (perhaps another TVG error).

In regard to the posted schedule, WQAD delayed "The Rat Patrol" to Saturday at 6PM (in color), and WIRL delayed "Felony Squad" to the same time, also in color. WQAD delayed "Felony Squad" to Thursday at 9PM (in color), and WIRL delayed "The Saga of Western Man" to the same time (in color, and probably where WIRL normally ran "The Big Valley").