Cleveland Area UHF Independents Saturday, December 21, 1968

[TimL]

17 WJAN Canton
43 WUAB Cleveland
61 WKBF Cleveland

Saturday, December 21, 1968

10AM
61 Modern Woman

10:30

61 Movie:Massacre Canyon 1954

11:30
43 University Showcase

Noon
43 Bugs Bunny COLOR
61 Roller Derby

1PM
43 Stoney Burke
61 Movie-Blondie In The Dough 1947

2PM
43 To Be Announced

2:30
43 Pro Boxing-COLOR
61 Rawhide

3:30
61 One Step Beyond

4PM
43 Ohio State Football-Michigan Replay-COLOR
61 Twilight Zone

4:30
61 Movie-Passing Stranger 1954

5PM
43 Pro Wrestling-COLOR

5:30
17 Hullaballoons

6PM
17 Film-Navy
43 Rat Patrol-COLOR
61 Pro Wrestling-COLOR

6:30
17 Living Lessons
43 Patty Duke

7PM
17 High School Basketball-Akron East/Canton Lincoln Warren/Canton Lehman
From Canton Memorial Fieldhouse
43 Movie Knockout 1941
61 Midwestern Hayride COLOR

8PM
61 Movie The Gamma People 1956

8:30
43 Movie Larceny Inc. 1942

9:30
61 One Step Beyond

10PM
61 News COLOR

10:30
17 Movie-TBA
43 Kup's Show-Irv Kupcinet
61 Alan Douglas-COLOR

Midnight
61 Joe Pyne-COLOR

 

[teamfx]

As you may have guessed, about 1/3 of the programming that day was in color, which was identified as such on TV Guide prior to the mid-1970s. It seems that WUAB was one of the leading UHF independents to show color programming at the time.

 

[tj1212]

Was WKBF owned by Kaiser Broadcasting? I remember WKBD Channel 50 in Detroit came on the air and really performed well throughout the 70's as an independent. I believe Kaiser Broadcasting tryed to sequence the call leters of their stations to include KB.

 

[Firebird]

WKBF was owned by Kaiser Broadcasting. In 1975, Kaiser Broadcasting and United Artists combined the operations of WKBF/61 and WUAB/43. Since duopolies were years away, Channel 61 went off the air. It re-emerged in 1981 under different ownership as WCLQ (now WQHS).

 

[KMRichards]

Kaiser Broadcasting

> WKBF was owned by Kaiser Broadcasting. In 1975, Kaiser
> Broadcasting and United Artists combined the operations of
> WKBF/61 and WUAB/43. Since duopolies were years away,
> Channel 61 went off the air. It re-emerged in 1981 under
> different ownership as WCLQ (now WQHS).

What I always wondered was why WKB"F" in Cleveland and WKB"S" in Philadelphia ...

WKB"D" was Detroit, WKB"G" was due to a joint venture with the Boston Globe, KB"SC" Los Angeles was "Southern California" and KB"HK" San Francisco was "Henry Kaiser", but Cleveland and Philly still remain a mystery to me.<P ID="signature">______________


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[mjlarochelle]

Re: Kaiser Broadcasting

> What I always wondered was why WKB"F" in Cleveland and
> WKB"S" in Philadelphia ...
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WKBS was licensed to Burlington, NJ...which doesn't answer any questions about the "S". Perhaps there is a county in that area that starts with "S", and likewise "F" near Cleveland?

 

[toby]

Re: Kaiser Broadcasting

> > What I always wondered was why WKB"F" in Cleveland and
> > WKB"S" in Philadelphia ...
> -----------
> WKBS was licensed to Burlington, NJ...which doesn't answer
> any questions about the "S". Perhaps there is a county in
> that area that starts with "S", and likewise "F" near
> Cleveland?

Well Burlington is in Southern New Jersey so the "S" could be for South?
The closest "S" county is Somerset, which is in Northern New Jersey. <P ID="signature">______________
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[rugrats1]

Re: Kaiser Broadcasting

> > > What I always wondered was why WKB"F" in Cleveland and
> > > WKB"S" in Philadelphia ...
> > -----------
> > WKBS was licensed to Burlington, NJ...which doesn't answer
>
> > any questions about the "S". Perhaps there is a county in
>
> > that area that starts with "S", and likewise "F" near
> > Cleveland?
>
> Well Burlington is in Southern New Jersey so the "S" could
> be for South?
> The closest "S" county is Somerset, which is in Northern New
> Jersey.
>
And in Cleveland's case -- Ohio's "F" counties are Fairfield, Fayette, Franklin and Fulton -- none of them anywhere near Cleveland.

 

[Markxxx]

Re: Kaiser Broadcasting

> > > > What I always wondered was why WKB"F" in Cleveland and
>
> > > > WKB"S" in Philadelphia ...
> > > -----------
Perhaps

Kaiser Broadcasting System.

In Chicago WFLD-TV 32 used to ID itself as part of the Kaiser Broadcasting System

Was Philly one of the first Kaiser station?<P ID="signature">______________
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[rugrats1]

Re: Kaiser Broadcasting

> In Chicago WFLD-TV 32 used to ID itself as part of the
> Kaiser Broadcasting System

As do all other Kaiser stations -- WKBD regularly mentioned Kaiser in their IDs, as did LA's KBSC and, of course, Cleveland's WKBF.

>
> Was Philly one of the first Kaiser station?
>
As part of their "network" of independents -- I don't know. But none of them was Kaiser's first -- according to the TV and Cable Factbook, Kaiser used to own KITV ch.4 in Honolulu, HI, which they sold off in 1964 before getting into the independent business.