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azumanga said:
As a kid who bounced around between the West Coast and the Midwest as kid, I remember seeing Solid Gold on KCOP in Los Angeles (Saturday 10pm--they didn't have weekend news back then), WVTV in Milwaukee (again, Saturday evenings--either at 6 or 9pm), WQRF in Rockford (Saturdays at 9pm), and I forget what station had SG in Chicago (I'm certain it was WFLD or WPWR), but I believe it may have aired at the same time as in Milwaukee or Rockford. As a matter of fact, the stations in the Milwaukee, Rockford, Chicago, and Madison markets always tend to air their syndicated shows at the same time as the others.
bpatrick said:
Actually KDKA was the second station to carry "Hee Haw." WTAE-4 was first, followed by KDKA, WPXI-11 and WPTT-22 (Now WPMY).
In Milwaukee "Hee Haw" alternated between WVTV-18 (1971-78 and 1986-93) and WISN-12 (1978-86).
In Memphis WREG-3 stuck with "Hee Haw" throughout its syndicated run.
Uh-oh, next thing you know, someone is gonna bring up that other 80's Saturday night staple ...
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chuckydoll
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It aired in Hartford (WHNB-30) and New Bedford/Providence (WTEV-6) on Saturday at 7 PM. I recall the sound was compressed, a hint that the syndicator was willing to pay good money to transmit the show over AT&T Long Lines.
chuckydoll said:
When the NBC affiliate in Chattanooga, Channel 3, showed Hee Haw Saturdays at 7 during its first couple of seasons, I recall the sound being AT&T Long Lines-compressed. Think maybe those stations which showed Hee Haw Saturdays at 7 during its first few syndication seasons got an AT&T line feed rather than a tape?
retrothoughts said:
It's possible that WLAC-TV/WTVF in Nashville, which originated Hee Haw, also served as the distribution hub ... and in Chattanooga's case, the only separating the two stations is 100-some odd miles of I-24 (and a mean downhill slalom on Monteagle Mtn.!).
I'm not familiar with the Hee Haw distribution arrangement, except guessing that WTVF-5 perhaps fed other stations which then fed others in a daisy-chain. I'd guess that's the case, as I've seen more than a few TV GUIDE editions where a 'de facto' network existed for the show, all carrying the same episode at the same time. I imagine sending many copies of the same episode to stations, instead of bicycling, would've cost far more than setting up AT&T loops.
--Russell
Sorry if I was late, but I do remember KTVF here in Fairbanks running "Hee Haw" and Lawrence Welk on Sunday afternoons sometime in the '70s to mid-'80s. As for "Solid Gold", KTTU (KATN) showed it I think late nights on Saturdays before Saturday Night Live.
But having lived in Fairbanks for a brief period in 1983 before moving back to Arizona, the one show I wanted to see growing up as a little kid was not Hee Haw or Lawrence Welk, but SOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUULLLLLLL TRAIN...but none of the two Fairbanks or three Anchorage network stations at the time carried the show. Thankfully, we would get our chance in the mid-'80s thanks to Superstation WGN after parent company Tribune started syndicating "Soul Train" nationwide.
If Soul Train had been carried here in Fairbanks and Anchorage in the '70s (and until 1984, syndicated shows back then were rarely seen here), we would rather watch that than American Bandstand! Give me Don Cornelius over Dick Clark any day!
Jonathan Allen
But having lived in Fairbanks for a brief period in 1983 before moving back to Arizona, the one show I wanted to see growing up as a little kid was not Hee Haw or Lawrence Welk, but SOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUULLLLLLL TRAIN...but none of the two Fairbanks or three Anchorage network stations at the time carried the show. Thankfully, we would get our chance in the mid-'80s thanks to Superstation WGN after parent company Tribune started syndicating "Soul Train" nationwide.
If Soul Train had been carried here in Fairbanks and Anchorage in the '70s (and until 1984, syndicated shows back then were rarely seen here), we would rather watch that than American Bandstand! Give me Don Cornelius over Dick Clark any day!
Jonathan Allen
A friend of my dad's who worked at WFMY Greensboro
for many years took us on a tour of the station one day
in 1978, and we saw someone making a "dub" of Hee Haw.
He told us that the master tape would then be sent to the
next station on the list (I think it was WNCT Greenville, NC),
which would also make a "dub."
Since there were only about ten stations dubbing off the
same master (and there were something like 20 masters
circulating so as to serve all the stations), it was possible
for the entire country to see the same episode of Hee Haw
(or Welk) the same week.
I've pointed out in the past that Dallas was always a week
ahead of Atlanta on the Merv Griffin show; Dallas got the
show the same week as New York and Los Angeles (all in
the top 10 markets in the '70s), while Atlanta, in the second
10 then, got a master from one of the top ten markets for
dubbing and airing the following week.
for many years took us on a tour of the station one day
in 1978, and we saw someone making a "dub" of Hee Haw.
He told us that the master tape would then be sent to the
next station on the list (I think it was WNCT Greenville, NC),
which would also make a "dub."
Since there were only about ten stations dubbing off the
same master (and there were something like 20 masters
circulating so as to serve all the stations), it was possible
for the entire country to see the same episode of Hee Haw
(or Welk) the same week.
I've pointed out in the past that Dallas was always a week
ahead of Atlanta on the Merv Griffin show; Dallas got the
show the same week as New York and Los Angeles (all in
the top 10 markets in the '70s), while Atlanta, in the second
10 then, got a master from one of the top ten markets for
dubbing and airing the following week.
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cspotrun
Guest
I'm sure Hee Haw was a big hit in Da Hood... saturday night and your choices are Lawrence Welk or Hee Hawww... somebody shoot me!!!!bpatrick said:
In Cleveland, the first eight years of syndicated Hee Haw were on the CBS affiliate on Saturday nights at 7 p.m. It then moved over (at the same time) to independent WUAB until about '82, when it slowly started getting shown later: first 10 p.m., then 11, then 1 a.m.. By 1987, it was being shown Sunday "nights" at midnight.
While working at WUTR in Utica master control, I know we ran the show off a 2" tape from the syndicator and then shipped it out. Utica is a small market, but we ran the same show as the larger markets around us.
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FredLeonard
Guest
Wow! Six years between posts. Some kind of record.
Earlier in this thread, it's said WJBK-TV ran Hee-Haw.
A 1977 Retro shows it on WWJ-TV (channel 4).
Earlier in this thread, it's said WJBK-TV ran Hee-Haw.
A 1977 Retro shows it on WWJ-TV (channel 4).
KTVT Channel 11 in Ft.Worth, TX had more than a slight problem during 1983 when 3 of the syndicated country music shows they aired as a lead-in to "Championship Sports" (the wrestling show that for the whole 15 years it ran against NBC's "Saturday Night Live" totally clobbered it in the ratings week after week) went out of production. Those series were "Pop Goes the Country," "Nashville on the Road," and "Backstage at the Grand Ole Opry." One of three was replaced by "This Week in Country Music" which introduced the world outside of Nashville to Lorianne Crook and Charlie Chase. But that still left an hour to be filled with quality programming. KXAS Channel 5, which since the early 70's had aired "Hee Haw" after their local 5pm newscast on Saturday afternoon, must have thought "Hee Haw" was too rural when compared to everything else Ch. 5 was airing on their schedule so KTVT wound up stealing it and it aired on KTVT all the way until May 1993 as "Hee Haw Silver" (that last classic season of "Hee Haw" did not air summer reruns that year).
It is very fascinating to note that KTVT's "Championship Sports" wrestling telecasts, which were known earlier as simply "Saturday Night Wrestling," sometimes had triple the ratings of "SNL" even when Chevy Chase, Bill Murray, John Belushi, Gilda Radner, etc. were starring on that program. Thus, the Dallas/Ft.Worth market was the ONLY one to this day that had a program that defeated "SNL" in the ratings. People really loved the Von Erich wrestling family and that's proof positive of that fact. In fact, it could be argued that the Von Erichs were in fact bigger than the Dallas Cowboys in that area back in the early 1980's.
It is very fascinating to note that KTVT's "Championship Sports" wrestling telecasts, which were known earlier as simply "Saturday Night Wrestling," sometimes had triple the ratings of "SNL" even when Chevy Chase, Bill Murray, John Belushi, Gilda Radner, etc. were starring on that program. Thus, the Dallas/Ft.Worth market was the ONLY one to this day that had a program that defeated "SNL" in the ratings. People really loved the Von Erich wrestling family and that's proof positive of that fact. In fact, it could be argued that the Von Erichs were in fact bigger than the Dallas Cowboys in that area back in the early 1980's.
FredLeonard said:
I'm thinking that around 1978 "Hee Haw" moved from Channel 4 to Channel 2
in Detroit; that's what I am trying to determine, because I seem to recall seeing
a Michigan edition of TV Guide that showed "Hee Haw" on Channel 2 in Detroit and
Channel 6 in Lansing on Saturdays at 7, while Lawrence Welk was on Channel 3
in Grand Rapids/Kalamazoo and Channel 9 in Traverse City/Cadillac. I know I'm
overdoing this, but it just reminds me of the situation here in North Carolina, where
"Hee Haw" was on Channel 2 in Greensboro and Welk on Channel 3 in Charlotte,
and all of these stations were CBS affiliates (and, except for WJBK, still are).
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