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Lucy on WYCC Channel 20 PBS????

Markxxx

Markxxx

Tonight on WYCC Channel 20 (a second PBS station in Chicago) there was an episode of "The Lucy Show." They showed it at 7pm

Anyone know what's up with this? I have never seen a commerical show like that on a PBS affiliate. Plus WWME-CA Channel 23, a low power station (Owned by Full Power WCIU-TV Channel 26) airs "The Lucy Show" at 1:30am and 2:30am

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According to the WYCC website, "The Lucy Show" will air at least the next 5 Friday nights.

> Tonight on WYCC Channel 20 (a second PBS station in Chicago)
> there was an episode of "The Lucy Show." They showed it at
> 7pm
>
> Anyone know what's up with this? I have never seen a
> commerical show like that on a PBS affiliate. Plus WWME-CA
> Channel 23, a low power station (Owned by Full Power WCIU-TV
> Channel 26) airs "The Lucy Show" at 1:30am and 2:30am
>
 
There are some PBS affiliates that do run some "commercial" fare. KETC Channel 9 in St. Louis used to show old dramas from the 70s & 80s like "St Elsewhere" & "Streets of San Fransisco", and 50s/60s Sitcoms like "Leave it to Beaver" & "I Love Lucy"

> Tonight on WYCC Channel 20 (a second PBS station in Chicago)
> there was an episode of "The Lucy Show." They showed it at
> 7pm
>
> Anyone know what's up with this? I have never seen a
> commerical show like that on a PBS affiliate. Plus WWME-CA
> Channel 23, a low power station (Owned by Full Power WCIU-TV
> Channel 26) airs "The Lucy Show" at 1:30am and 2:30am
>
 
Believe it or not, I have seen a few PBS affilates run commercial fare (minus, of course, the commercials). WVIA/44 from Wilkes-Barre, PA used to run "I Love Lucy" and "Star Trek" as well as some of the Universal Pictures classic horror flicks from the 30's and 40's. Pub-caster WENH/11 in Durham, NH (and the entire NHPTV network) as well as WPBT/2 in Miami used to run "Twilight Zone" episodes. WSBE-TV/36 in Providence, RI used to run the black and white "The Jackie Gleason Show" episodes from the mid 1960's. And WGBY/57 from Springfield, MA used to run "George Burns & Gracie Allen" shows late at night in the late 1970's. So, what WYCC was doing does not set a precedent for PBS affilates. It seems rather refreshing.


73,

Peter Q. George (K1XRB)
Whitman, Massachusetts


> According to the WYCC website, "The Lucy Show" will air at
> least the next 5 Friday nights.
>
> > Tonight on WYCC Channel 20 (a second PBS station in
> Chicago)
> > there was an episode of "The Lucy Show." They showed it at
>
> > 7pm
> >
> > Anyone know what's up with this? I have never seen a
> > commerical show like that on a PBS affiliate. Plus WWME-CA
>
> > Channel 23, a low power station (Owned by Full Power
> WCIU-TV
> > Channel 26) airs "The Lucy Show" at 1:30am and 2:30am
> >
> <P ID="signature">______________
Peter Q. George (K1XRB)
Whitman, Massachusetts</P>
 
Don't stations that run shows like the "The Lucy Show" usually have exclusive rights within their market?

I know "The Lucy Show," has been on Channel 23 WWME-CA since they started with the ME-TV thing.<P ID="signature">______________
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Who cares, Channel 20 sucks except for the few shows that 11 doesn't show, like "Barbacue University" and the BBC news.

They are run out of a broom closet at Daley College (no joke, trust me).

And as far as Lucy, that show was weak compared to "I Love Lucy" which never gets old.

I will say Mr. Mooney is a trip!!!!!!!!
 
> Anyone know what's up with this? I have never seen a
> commerical show like that on a PBS affiliate.

...sure you have, if you saw any of WTTW's 10-year-plus run of "Dave Allen at Large" on Sunday nights. They used the Time-Life Television commercial edit of the show, not the BBC original eddition...<P ID="signature">______________
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> > "Dave Allen at Large"

Awesome, totally awesome!
 
> Who cares, Channel 20 sucks except for the few shows that 11
> doesn't show, like "Barbacue University" and the BBC news.
>
> They are run out of a broom closet at Daley College (no
> joke, trust me).
>
> And as far as Lucy, that show was weak compared to "I Love
> Lucy" which never gets old.
>
> I will say Mr. Mooney is a trip!!!!!!!!
>


In Akron/Youngstown, Ohio WNEO/WEAO 45/49 has shown Burns And Allen and George Burns' Series "Wendy And Me" (1964-65, ABC) I have heard of some PBS affiliates (sadly, not in Northeast Ohio) show Tennessee Ernie Ford's NBC Variety Show (1956-61) and 45/49 showed Color Country Music Films from the 1950's (Thursday, 9:00 PM) for years, though not recently.
 
> Don't stations that run shows like the "The Lucy Show"
> usually have exclusive rights within their market?
>
Maybe WYCC's Lucy are the public domain episodes (similar to the DVDs that you can get for cheap anywhere).
 
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