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Another TV Guide Anomaly

S

Stanislav

Another old TVG, and something else that I hadn't seen before. In a 1969 Wisconsin Edition, there is one channel number that is duplicated: 6 in Milwaukee (white "6" on black background) and 6 in Marquette (vice-versa). They printed a little "reminder" showing the two bullets with their appropriate cities in the top margin of every single right-hand page throughout the listings!

Is it that complicated that people would forget from one page to the next? I mean, there are far more complicated editions -- basically, the Milwaukee stations are the white-on-black bullets, and everything else is black-on-white. Duh. I've seen editions where there were several duplicated channel numbers, yet they didn't feel compelled to remind you of the distinction on every page!!
 
For years, the North Carolina edition would do
the same thing. That book had two sets of
channels on 2, 3, 9, and 12. So at the top
of each right-hand page there would be two
columns:

White on black: Black on white:

2 Greensboro 2 Columbia, NC
3 Charlotte 3 Wilmington
9 Charlotte 9 Greenville
12 Winston-Salem 12 New Bern

Northern Alabama had two stations on Ch. 4.
White on black was WCBI Columbus, MS; black
on white was WSMV Nashville. They, too, were
listed at the top of every right-hand page.
 
In a 1996 Northern Wisconsin TVG, it had a note on every other odd page where, at the top, mentioned that "6, 13 and 50D are listed in Central Time". This was in reference to WLUC and WNMU in Marquette, and WKBD in Detroit. However, by this time, "50D" was no longer listed -- it was delisted in Northern Wisconsin after UP cable systems switched it for Cadillac's WGKI (now WFQX), after Detroit's affiliation switch.

Just as oddly, WGKI / WFQX was never listed in that edition, before or after the switch.
 
The Kentucky edition, before Louisville went on
Eastern time, would have a "reminder" that Lexington
and Cincinnati stations were an hour later; in fact,
there would be essentially two sets of listings: Central
time for Louisville and Evansville; Eastern for Lexington
and Cincinnati. When Louisville went on Eastern time,
Evansville was dropped from the edition and at some
point the Evansville-Paducah edition was created.
 
Just imagine South Georgia, Montana or even my home edition of Maritimes...they'd have needed half the page just to show which bullet was for which city ;D
 
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