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ABC Schedule Wednesday, April 8, 1970

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RALfan

11:00 That Girl
11:30 Bewitched
12:00 The Best of Everything
12:30 A World Apart
1:00 All My Children
1:30 Let's Make a Deal
2:00 The Newlywed Game
2:30 The Dating Game
3:00 General Hospital
3:30 One Life to Live
4:00 Dark Shadows
4:30 Local Programming
7:00 ABC News
7:30 Nanny and the Professor
8:00 The Courtship of Eddie's Father
8:30 Room 222
9:00 The Johnny Cash Show
10:00 The Engelbert Humperdinck Show
11:00 Local Programming
11:30 The Dick Cavett Show

Sources:
The Encyclopedia of Daytime Television by Wesley Hyatt
The Complete Guide of The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows 1946 – Present
by Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh
 
In both this and the October 1969 listings, you have
Bewitched and That Girl backwards; in the daytime,
Bewitched came on first (at night, in the latter part
of the 1968-69 and all of the 1969-70 season, That
Girl was on first). So for October 1969 it should be

12:00 Bewitched
12:30 That Girl

and for April 1970:

11:00 Bewitched
11:30 That Girl

Also, ABC was providing three feeds of the network
news (6, 6:30, and 7 PM), as it did until the summer
of 1982, when the 6 PM feed was discontinued.

Source: The TV Schedule Book by Castleman and
Podrazik.
 
bpatrick said:
ABC was providing three feeds of the network
news (6, 6:30, and 7 PM), as it did until the summer
of 1982, when the 6 PM feed was discontinued.

Source: The TV Schedule Book by Castleman and
Podrazik.
Click to expand...

What about CBS and NBC? Same (or similar) deal there?
 
CBS and NBC did two feeds, at 6:30 and 7.
ABC's early (6 ET) feed was to get affiliates
to carry the broadcast and not have to go
head-to-head with Cronkite and/or Huntley-
Brinkley (John Chancellor beginning in the
summer of 1970 and, yes, I know someone's
going to bring up the rotating-anchor system
of Chancellor, Brinkley, and Frank McGee that
didn't work).

Even with three feeds, ABC didn't get the entire
network on board until August 7, 1972, when
WBRC/6 Birmingham, AL and WJRT/12 Flint, MI
finally began carrying Howard K. Smith and
Harry Reasoner.
 
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