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Hee Haw outside the South

KilowattKat said:
KPHO Phoenix - 5:30 Porter Wagoner, 6pm Hee Haw, 7pm Lawrence Welk.

Did other cities also air Porter Wagoner prior to Hee Haw?
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If I remember right, WHIO in Dayton ran Porter at 5:30pm Saturday, ending a block of half-hour Country shows like "That Nashville Music". 6pm News, then Hee Haw at 6:30, not carrying the Saturday CBS Evening News.
 
In the 1970's and early 80's, Hee Haw aired in Iowa on Friday nights at 6:30 on KWWL Waterloo and WHO Des Moines. I don't remember if it also aired on WOC (now KWQC) Davenport at that time. Sanford & Son would air the following Monday night at 6:30 as did Diff'rent Strokes. Neither station aired the short lived Sanford Arms. KWWL eventually moved Hee Haw to weekends, mainly late Saturday afternoons while as was earlier stated, in the Des Moines market, other stations eventally picked it up.
 
Many affiliates ran the show at 6:30 p.m. CT, after the local news. This, of course, ran into the network programming, which was often a 60 min. show. That seemed jarring.
 
It was on KTVI in St. Louis (channel 2, ABC affiliate) for years at 6 pm on Saturdays.
 
In Cleveland, Ohio WUAB Channel 43 ran Hee Haw for many years. During at least part of that time, the station was owned by Gaylord Broadcasting, one of the companies that produced the show. When Gaylord sold WUAB, Hee Haw switched to a competing station, WBNX Channel 55.
 
marklungo said:
In Cleveland, Ohio WUAB Channel 43 ran Hee Haw for many years. During at least part of that time, the station was owned by Gaylord Broadcasting, one of the companies that produced the show. When Gaylord sold WUAB, Hee Haw switched to a competing station, WBNX Channel 55.
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During that period, I suspect that it ran on all the Gaylord stations -- in Seattle/Tacoma, it ran on their KSTW channel 11 in Tacoma.
 
IM42A said:
I always found Hee Haw to be more in the nature of a Southern and Appalachian minstrel show, played into some negative regional stereotypes (think Deliverance), but add to that, they had some excellent musical numbers.

It doesn't get much better than Roy Clark on the guitar or banjo.
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I've read that because of Hee Haw Roy Clark isn't included in the greats on the guitar, much like Glen Campbell who was part of the Wrecking Crew. That's a shame because both could hold their own with many of the rock greats.
 
I suppose Europe qualifies as "outside the South": Hee Haw aired on the American Forces Network Europe, which was intended for U.S. servicemembers but also had a loyal following among European civilians who lived close enough to AFN transmitters or had cable:


Image courtesy of Claus Grimm. (By the way, note the schoolmarmish disclaimer under the SNL listing. At first, I thought it was a joke!)

 
Hee Haw had a strong viewership outside the South. And beyond Country fans; Eddie Van Halen regularly watched just to see Roy Clark play guitar.

It was the centerpiece of KSTW-11's Seattle weekend schedule between wrestling, Mama's Family reruns and off-network movies in the 1980s.(The trailer park audience was KSTW's bread and butter in the 1980s.)
 
A bit late to reply…I worked at KSTS 48 in San Jose, CA in the late 1980’s before they switched to Telemundo. We aired Hee Haw (from 2” quad tape!) on Saturday evening. I always thought that was odd. The population of the Bay Area didn’t seem to be the type to watch that sort of program. But then again, that station aired ANYTHING (especially paid or brokered) to stay on the air.
 
davect said:
A bit late to reply…I worked at KSTS 48 in San Jose, CA in the late 1980’s before they switched to Telemundo. We aired Hee Haw (from 2” quad tape!) on Saturday evening. I always thought that was odd. The population of the Bay Area didn’t seem to be the type to watch that sort of program. But then again, that station aired ANYTHING (especially paid or brokered) to stay on the air.
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I could see people enjoying it
 
It was very popular, and even as silly as or sillier than Beverly Hillbillies and Green Acres.
 
Seems, as I recall, that Hee Haw usually ran on Channel 8 in Cleveland, owned by Storer at one time.
I also recall KDKA carrying it in Pittsburgh; two of its sister Westinghouse stations opted for Lawrence Welk
(KPIX San Francisco and WJZ Baltimore).
 
"Where oh where, are you tonight? Why did you lead me on? I search the world over to find me a true love, you found another and whoop you was gone." Sorry I never forgot that routine. Actually never watched the show more than once or twice. I could never stand Green Acres.
 
TexasTom said:
During that period, I suspect that it ran on all the Gaylord stations -- in Seattle/Tacoma, it ran on their KSTW channel 11 in Tacoma.
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Probably most of the Gaylord stations, but not KTVT in Fort Worth/Dallas.

WBAP/KXAS 5 in Fort Worth/Dallas had Hee Haw for most, of its syndicated run. (It might have been on KDFW for part of the run.)

Likewise, in Houston, KTRK/13 had it for 13 years before it went to Gaylord's KHTV 39 (now KIAH).
 
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