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NEW YORK TV- LATE SPRING 1970

H

highwayman128

source: New York Times

NEW YORK TV- LATE SPRING 1970

Tuesday June 9, 1970

WCBS-TV 2
6:30 am - Sunrise Semester
7:00 – CBS News
8:00 - Captain Kangaroo
9:00 - Leave It to Beaver
9:30 - The Donna Reed Show
10:00 - The Lucy Show
10:30 - (best of) The Beverly Hillbillies
11:00 - The Andy Griffith Show
11:30 - The Love of Life
Noon - Where the Heart Is
12:30 - Search for Tomorrow
1:00 - The Galloping Gourmet (with Graham Kerr)
1:30 - As the World Turns
2:00 - Love is a Many Splendored Thing
2:30 - The Guiding Light
3:00 - Secret Storm
3:30 - The Edge of Night
4:00 - (best of) Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
4:30 - The Mike Douglas Show
6:00 – Channel 2 News
7:00 - CBS Evening News (with Walter Cronkite)
7:30 – Lancer
8:30 – Red Skelton Show
9:30 – The Governor and J.J
10:00 – 60 Minutes
11:00 - Channel 2 News
11:30 - The Merv Griffin Show
1:00 – News Reports
1:10 am - Late Show Movie: The Garment Jungle (1957)
2:45 am – Late Show Movie 2: Double Crossbones (1951)
4:10 am – Late Show Movie 3: The Son of Dr. Jekyll (1951)

WNBC-TV 4
6:30 am - Education Exchange
7:00 - Today (with Hugh Downs and Barbara Walters)
9:00 - For Women Only
9:30 – Kup’s Show
10:00 - It Takes Two
10:30 - Concentration
11:00 - Sale of the Century
11:30 - The Hollywood Squares
Noon - Jeopardy
12:30 – Who, What, When or Where
1:00 - It's Your Bet
1:30 – Life With Linkletter
2:00 - Days of Our Lives
2:30 - The Doctors
3:00 - Another World
3:30 - Bright Promise
4:00 – Somerset
4:30 - Movie: The Lively Set (1964)
6:00 - Sixth Hour News
7:00 - The Huntley-Brinkley Report
7:30 – I Dream Of Jeannie
8:00 – The Man Hunters
9:00 – Movie: You’re Never Too Young (1955)
11:00 - Eleventh Hour News
11:30 - The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (live from New York!)
1:00 – News Update
1:15 am - Movie: Carry on Admiral (1956)

WNEW-TV 5
8:00 – Cisco Kid
8:30 – Tales of Wells Fargo
9:00 – My Little Margie
9:30 – Cartoon
10:00 – Pixanne
11:00 – Truth or Consequences
11:30 – Queen for A Day
12:00 – Outer Limits
1:00 – Movie- The Big Store (1941)
3:00 – Strange Paradise
3:30 – The Flintstones
4:00 - Wonderama (hosted by Bob McAllister)
5:00 – Eastside Comedy
6:00 – McHale’s Navy
6:30 – My Favorite Martian
7:00 - I Love Lucy
7:30 - Truth or Consequences
8:00 - To Tell the Truth
8:30 - The David Frost Show
10:00 - The Ten O'Clock News (with Bill Jorgensen)
11:00 - Peyton Place
11:30 - Movie: The Gunfighter (1950)
1:09 – Reel Camp
1:54 – The Cheaters

WABC-TV 7
7:00 am – News
7:30 – A.M New York
8:30 - Girl Talk
9:00 - Movie: Incident In Saigon (1960)
11:00 - (best of) Bewitched
11:30 - (best of) That Girl
Noon – Best Of Everything
12:30 – A World Apart
1:00 – All My Children
1:30 - Let's Make a Deal
2:00 - The Newlywed Game
2:30 - The Dating Game
3:00 - General Hospital
3:30 - One Life to Live
4:00 - Dark Shadows
4:30 - The 4:30 Movie: The Best of Everything (1970)
6:00 - Eyewitness News (with Roger Grimsby)
7:00 - ABC Evening News (with Frank Reynolds and Howard K. Smith)
7:30 – The Mod Squad
8:30 – Movie- Honeymoon with a Stranger (1970)
10:00 – Marcus Welby M.D
11:00 - Eyewitness News (with Roger Grimsby)
11:30 - The Dick Cavett Show
1:00 am – Best of Broadway: Vendetta at Sorrento (1963)

WOR-TV 9
8:00 am – Journey to Adventure
8:30 - Joe Franklin Show
9:00 - Romper Room (teacher: Miss Louise)
9:30 – Movie- Bachelor in Paradise (1961)
10:30 – Joe Franklin Show
11:30 – Bozo’s Big Top
12:00 – Romper Room
1:00 – Movie- Ten Thousand Bedrooms (1957)
3:00 – Della Reese Show
3:20 – Stock Market Final
3:30 - Bozo's Circus
4:00 – Movie Game
4:30 – Movie- The Mad Miss Manton (1938)
6:00 - Gilligan's Island
6:30 - Flipper
7:00 – What’s My Line
7:30 - Divorce Court
8:00 – Laredo
9:00 - Million Dollar Movie: Asylum for a Spy (1967)
11:00 - Movie: War Kill (1968)
1:00 - The Joe Franklin Show

WPIX 11
7:30 - Cartoons
9:00 – Sesame Street
10:00 – Fashions in Sewing
10:10 – Jack LaLanne Show
10:30 – The Golden Years
11:00 – Gourmet (David Wade)
11:30 - Gumby
Noon - Underdog
12:30 - Rocky and His Friends (aka "Rocky and Bullwinkle")
1:00 – The Perfect Match
1:30 – The Millionaire
2:00 – Burns and Allen
2:30 – Patty Duke Show
3:00 – Cartoons
4:00 - The Little Rascals
4:30 - Superman
5:00 – Addams Family
5:30 – Abbott and Costello
6:00 – The Munsters
6:30 – F Troop
7:00 – Please Don’t Eat the Daisies
7:30 - Beat the Clock
8:00 – Can You Top This?
8:30 – He Said, She Said
9:00 – N.Y.P.D
9:30 – Win With The Stars
10:00 - News, Sports, Weather (Lee Nelson)
11:00 – Perry Mason
12:00 - News Update
12:15 – Movie- Doctor’s Diary (1937)
 
Odd, Tuesday evening in June 1970 and no Mets game on 9 or Yankees game on 11.
 
Looks like you've settled a bet for me:

> source: New York Times
>
> NEW YORK TV- LATE SPRING 1970
>
> Tuesday June 9, 1970
>

>
> WPIX 11
> 7:30 - Cartoons
> 9:00 – Sesame Street

I coulda SWORN Sesame Street aired on Channel 11 back then (as well as on Channel 13) and now you've proven it. Incidentally, no listings for 13 for that date?

-Sean<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by hubcity on 03/09/06 06:02 PM.</FONT></P>
 
> Incidentally, no listings for 13 for that date?

As was pointed out already in this thread, only the commercial VHFs were listed in the original post.
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> > WPIX 11
> > 7:30 - Cartoons
> > 9:00 – Sesame Street

I wonder what cartoons....Listings were vague on the theatrical cartoons aired on such stations back then. Actually I believe WPIX played a blend that included the old Popeyes from 1933-1959, Felix The Cat, Corageous Cat, and others

> I coulda SWORN Sesame Street aired on Channel 11 back then
> (as well as on Channel 13) and now you've proven it.
> Incidentally, no listings for 13 for that date?

Actually WPIX ran NET Educational programming in the mornings from the early to late 60's for about 4 or 5 hours. Most was gone by 1970. TRhe reason I believe was because 13 WNET did not sign on until 2 or 3 PM initially. Maybe by 1970 it was about Noon. The reason why PBS put Sesame Street on WPIX was because it would be cheaper than to sign on 13 at 8 AM due to lack of other shows and NET/PBS wanted Sesame Street to run in the mornings on a VHF station. The UHF PBS stations also had late sign ons.

In fact back then in most markets outside of New York nearly all Independent commercial stations signed on after 10 AM and in some cases as late as 3 PM.
 
> Odd, Tuesday evening in June 1970 and no Mets game on 9 or
> Yankees game on 11.
>

Very odd, especially since both teams were playing in the eastern half of the country that date (Amazins in Houston, Bombers hosting the Twins).

ixnay
 
I was a kid back then and got the three New York indies (plus WCBS overnights) on cable. I look at the schedules they ran back then and it was a lot better than the 100 plus channels I get now off cable.
 
It is odd to see the network newscasts at 7PM.<P ID="signature">______________
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Indie sign-on times circa '70

> In fact back then in most markets outside of New York nearly
> all Independent commercial stations signed on after 10 AM
> and in some cases as late as 3 PM.

...KFIZ-TV/34 in Fond du Lac, WI, often signed on around 10:00 A.M. for about 90 minutes of educational programming and "Sesame Street" relayed from WHA-TV/21 in Madison. (This was before WPNE-TV/38 in Green Bay first cranked up.) Then 34 would sign off until 2:00 P.M., when they'd run something like a "Make Room for Daddy" rerun...<P ID="signature">______________
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WLSU Wisconsin Public Radio, La Crosse
heard weekly on http://www.radio4all.net/
"Kill Ugly Radio." FRANK ZAPPA</P>
 
> It is odd to see the network newscasts at 7PM.

That statement would make one guess that you are fairly young.

I will turn 50 this year, and it wasn't until I was an adult that the network news started airing earlier than 7:00 ET/PT.<P ID="signature">______________


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> I will turn 50 this year, and it wasn't until
> I was an adult that the network news started
> airing earlier than 7:00 ET/PT.

Assuming your teen years were in a larger market
where it was more likely to have a longer local
news block followed by a 7:00 netcast. In many
medium and smaller ET/PT markets the 6:30 feed
was the norm as the stations did only a half-hour
at 6 (this was well before 5:00--and earlier--
local newscasts on both coasts were common).

Also back in that era, when the PTAR kicked in
(around 1971, IIRC), for the top 50 markets it
allowed airing the network at 7:00 ET/PT only
if it was preceded by one hour of local news.

Now of course there are very few eastern stations
airing the network show at 7:00 and I don't think
there even is a 7:00 PT feed anymore as everyone
on the left coast seems to go at 5:30, 6 or 6:30.
Another clue to that is NBC making available their
webcast of Nightly at 7:00 PT.
 
Re: Indie sign-on times circa '70

> > In fact back then in most markets outside of New York
> nearly
> > all Independent commercial stations signed on after 10 AM
> > and in some cases as late as 3 PM.
>
>
> I recall back from 1971-74 when WDRB Fox 41 in Louisville, KY
would sign on as late as 3 or 3:30 in the afternoon starting
with children's programming. later, around 1974, they pushed
to an earlier startup time of 12 noon with CBN Christian
programming. eventually around 1977 they went full circle
starting up as early as 7:30 a.m. with cartoons.
>
 
KMRichards said: "I will turn 50 this year, and it wasn't until I was an adult that the network news started airing earlier than 7:00 ET/PT."

This wasn't network news but a few years ago (early '00s) UPN38 in Boston ran a local 7:00 P.M. newscast, which was then later moved to 10:00 P.M., and then abandoned altogether in favor of various other programs. (Currently they're showing repeats of Dr. Phil from about a month or so after the original broadcast.)

By the way, I will turn 23 later this year, so it seems I still have a bit to learn here about what was airing at what time slots in past years.

WAIT! When I started getting the Boston stations instead of Detroit (which was 9 years ago), WBZ aired an hour-long 6:00 P.M. newscast and had the CBS Evening News at 7:00. I don't know when WBZ cut back from 60 to 30 minutes but by the time the syndicated Hollywood Squares with Tom Bergeron premiered at 7:00, the CBS News had been put in at 6:30, in line with most eastern stations. (And incidentally, Squares in Boston aired at 7:00 P.M. for all 6 years other than local pre-emptions, but that's for another thread.)<P ID="signature">______________
Davros (aka Mike)</P>
 
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