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Central Ohio Daytime Fall 1976

ohstuskaterpunk

ohstuskaterpunk

Channels listed in the Central Ohio TV Guide:

Dayton: 2 WDTN (NBC), 7 WHIO (CBS), 22 WKEF (ABC)
Cincinnati: 5 WLWT (NBC), 9 WCPO (CBS), 12 WKRC (ABC), 19 WXIX (Ind.)
Columbus: "4" WCMH (NBC), "6" WTVN (ABC), "10" WBNS (CBS), /3/ Special network channel
Lima: 35 WLIO (NBC, ABC)
Zanesville: "18" WHIZ (NBC, ABC)

Network only:

6 am 9, "10" Sunrise Semester
6.30 7 Sunrise Semester
7 am 2, "4", 5, "18", 35 Today--Brokaw/Pauley (2 hr)
/3/, 7, 9 CBS News--Morton/Rudd (60 min)
"6", 12, 22 Good Morning America--Hartman/Lunden (2 hr)
8 am /3/ Good Morning America--Hartman/Lunden (2 hr)
7, 9, "10" Captain Kangaroo (60 min)
9 am 7 Tattletales--Game
9.30 /3/ Tattletales--Game
10 am "4", 5, "18", 35 Sanford and Son
9, "10" Price is Right--Game
10.30 "4", 5, "18", 35 Celebrity Sweetstakes--Game
[Hollywood Squares moved to this time slot on October 4, 1976]
12 Edge of Night--Serial
11 am 2, /3/, 5, "18", 35 Wheel of Fortune--Game
"6", 22 Edge of Night--Serial
7, 9, "10" Gambit--Game
11.30 2, "4", "18", 35 Hollywood Squares--Game
[Stumpers premiered on October 4, 1976]
"6", 12, 22 Happy Days
7, "10" Love of Life--Serial
11.55 7 CBS News--Douglas Edwards
9 Tattletales--Game
12 pm /3/, 22 Hot Seat--Game
"18", 35 Fun Factory--Game-Variety
[50 Grand Slam premiered on October 4, 1976}
12.30 /3/, "18" Gong Show--Game
"6", 12, 22 All My Children--Serial
7, "10" Search For Tomorrow--Serial
12.55 /3/, "18" NBC News
1 pm /3/ Somerset--Serial
"6", 12, 22 Ryan's Hope--Serial
7, "10" Young and the Restless--Serial
9 Search For Tomorrow--Serial
1.30 2, "4", 5, "18", 35 Days of Our Lives--Serial
"6", 12, 22 Family Feud--Game
7, 9, "10" As the World Turns--Serial
2 pm /3/, 12, 22 $20,000 Pyramid--Game
2.30 2, "4", 5, "18", 35 Doctors--Serial
/3/, 12 One Life To Live--Serial
7, 9, "10" Guiding Light--Serial
3 pm 2, "4", 5, "18", 35 Another World--Serial
7, 9, "10" All in the Family
3.15 /3/, 22 General Hospital--Serial
3.30 7, 9, "10" Match Game
4 pm /3/ Edge of Night--Serial
"18", 35 Somerset--Serial

A few questions:

1. Are there other ABC stations that either delayed or not cleared "One Life to Live" and "General Hospital" at the 2.30 and 3.15 pm ET (1.30 and 2.15 pm CT) slots back in 1976?

2. What NBC stations didn't clear "Wheel of Fortune" and "Hollywood Squares" in 1976?

3. Even though Crosley/Avco sold WLWI (now WTHR) in 1974, WLWC (now WCHM) and WOAI in 1975, and WLWT and WLWD (now WDTN) in 1976, the stations still aired the "Phil Donahue Show" (1967-96) at 9 am ET and "Bob Braun" (1967-84) at 12 pm ET in 1976. Does anyone know why? Was any of these shows seen outside of the former Crosley/Avco family?
 
SteveRichards said:
What was /3/ Special Network Channel?
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Apparently, this was a special cable channel on a Columbus cable system that carried network programming not cleared by the local Columbus systems.

It would be nice, though, if the whole schedule is listed, instead of just the network programs.
 
3. Even though Crosley/Avco sold WLWI (now WTHR) in 1974, WLWC (now WCHM) and WOAI in 1975, and WLWT and WLWD (now WDTN) in 1976, the stations still aired the "Phil Donahue Show" (1967-96) at 9 am ET and "Bob Braun" (1967-84) at 12 pm ET in 1976. Does anyone know why? Was any of these shows seen outside of the former Crosley/Avco family?
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I can answer at least that much. Both Donahue and Braun originated as Avco programs but Donahue was more widely syndicated. I think that after the sale Bob Braun picked up a few more stations but Donahue had more and once it grew, he left Dayton for Chicago and later New York and it became truly nationwide.

When the Crosley stations were sold, multiple ownership and overlap considerations dictated that they could not be sold as a block. I think that as a part of the sale agreement though the buyers were obligated to carry Braun and Donahue both on the stations that they had purchased at least for some period of time. That time may have lapsed when Braun was finally canceled. By the way the demise of BB and move of Donahue eventually gave WLWT the bug to create another local show which gave birth to Jerry Springer and the rest is history. Spinger started out to be more serious like Donahue or maybe Sally Jessy Raphael but it was tanking so the circus acts were the attempt to salvage it.

What was /3/ Special Network Channel?
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I lived in Columbus until 1979 and do not recall any special channel. I lived in the Grandview Heights area and had Warned Cable. Channel 3 was like public access and usually had a text message board. One other system in the central city area had a camera trained on some weather instruments on channel 3.

I remember that there was a lot of animosity between the local stations and cable so they usually asserted their rights to shows that were not on the lineup, so long as they owned the right to broadcast them if they wanted. That made me quite angry because WBNS had the local rights to Star Trek (the original NBC series) and it came on cable from Channel 19 (WXIX) from Cincinnati in the afternoon. Warner was ordered to block it and they picked up some kind of local movie show from WKEF in Dayton as a replacement rather than putting up the "Sorry" slide. When confronted WBNS management said that they had no immediate plans to actually air it but go pound sand and leave us alone. I actually went to a city council meeting with several others to protest but got the same kind of answer as the city said they had no control over programming, just the franchise areas.
 
Braun did pick up several non-Avco/Crosley
stations. Among those that come to mind:

WHAS, then WDRB Louisville
WLEX Lexington, KY
WSAZ Huntington, WV
WZTV Nashville
WBIR Knoxville
even WLFL in Raleigh carried him for a time

When Multimedia bought WLWT, they wanted
to syndicate him but he refused, because he'd
have had to stop using local talent, which (to
him) was what the show was really all about.

As for Donahue (and somebody correct me on
this), I think the first stations outside the Avco/
Crosley group to pick him up were the Storer
stations. I remember WAGA picking him up in
December 1970, and WJBK Detroit may have picked
him up around the same time.
 
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