PBS stations carrying non-public TV fare

[visaman]

Lawrence Welk is now considered PBS fare. Mr. Welk willed his videotape collection to his local PBS station. That being said KCTS 9, Seattle dropped the show, but I can still watch it on WTVS Detroit.

 

[nomadcowatbk]

Some PBS stations in the bible belt air, or used to air, gospel music shows. I assume they removed the preaching,

 

[onairb]

In the San Francisco Bay Area, KCSM(formerly channel 60, now 4.3), located at and owned by the College of San Mateo, dropped its PBS affliliation for MHZ some years back. They have a couple of old sci-fi shows on their schedule: 'Twilight Zone' and 'One Step Beyond'.

 

[FreddyE1977]

WQEX, the somewhat eclectic former sister station of WQED in Pittsburgh,
used to run The White Shadow on weekday afternoons. Never was exactly
sure why.

'QEX/16 also ran "Perry Mason" and "The Honeymooners" and a lot of syndicated fare back in the day! Had more ratings than WQED/13 could ever get!

They also mimicked the British practice of having an in-studio continuity announcer link the shows.
Joe Negri, a Pittsburgh jazz musician known for his recurring role on Mr. Rogers Neighborhood, and P.J. Maloney, a local radio newscaster, were two of those.

The third was a rather engaging British gentleman named Pip Theodore. I never saw him again after QEX dropped this format. Wonder whatever happened to him? He was up there so unlikely he is still alive at this point I guess.

 

[FreddyE1977]

Just remembered that when I lived in Michigan, WKAR out of East Lansing
would show Saturday night reruns of The Prisoner (to British commercial series count?)

 

[Tim L]

In collecting TV Guide listings, I've seen early NET stations (Mid fifties to Mid sixties) carry content like"The Big Picture", "Christophers" and "This Is The Life" presumably just to fill out schedules..

 

[TexasTom]

Just remembered that when I lived in Michigan, WKAR out of East Lansing
would show Saturday night reruns of The Prisoner (to British commercial series count?)

"The Prisoner" ran as a summer series on CBS when it first aired in the US. It later appeared in reruns on quite a few public TV stations...but, yeah, I'd say that it counts.

For that matter, "Doctor Who" ran on a few commercial stations in the US back in the seventies before migrating to public TV in many markets in the eighties and nineties.

 

[azumanga]

KTEH in San Jose, California, in the days before becoming part of KQED, ran some Japanese anime series and movies in the 1990s and early-2000s.

 

[KyDXIn]

Lawrence Welk is now considered PBS fare. Mr. Welk willed his videotape collection to his local PBS station. That being said KCTS 9, Seattle dropped the show, but I can still watch it on WTVS Detroit.

Turn off the bubble machine...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0TSDcPW2Kk&feature=related

 

[FreddyE1977]

Just remembered that when I lived in Michigan, WKAR out of East Lansing
would show Saturday night reruns of The Prisoner (to British commercial series count?)

"The Prisoner" ran as a summer series on CBS when it first aired in the US. It later appeared in reruns on quite a few public TV stations...but, yeah, I'd say that it counts.

For that matter, "Doctor Who" ran on a few commercial stations in the US back in the seventies before migrating to public TV in many markets in the eighties and nineties.

And conversely Monty Python has occasionally run on commercial stations here
(I believe WPGH in Pittsburgh briefly ran it in tandem with SCTV in the late 70's)

 

[crainbebo]

According to a 1986 TV Guide, I see that WHUT 32 in Washington, DC had Peter Gunn at 11:30pm weeknights, and Maryland Public Television had Secret Agent (or Danger Man, the UK title) at the same time, both non-PBS fare I think.

-crainbebo

 

[mjlarochelle]

Some PBS stations have carried The Red Green Show. Although that show was associated with the CBC in later years, it was originally produced by private broadcasters including CHCH Hamilton and CFPL London.

 

[crainbebo]

Some PBS stations have carried The Red Green Show. Although that show was associated with the CBC in later years, it was originally produced by private broadcasters including CHCH Hamilton and CFPL London.

Still is carried on KBTC 28 in Tacoma!

-crainbebo

 

[dave73]

Some PBS stations have carried The Red Green Show. Although that show was associated with the CBC in later years, it was originally produced by private broadcasters including CHCH Hamilton and CFPL London.

Still is carried on KBTC 28 in Tacoma!

-crainbebo

Add WYCC Chicago to that list too.

 

[Limp73]

WOSU-TV Columbus used to air Monty Python's Flying Circus and The Twilight Zone late at night in the late 1970s....then in the 90s on Saturday mornings they would air reruns of the 1950s series Topper.

 

[anotherguyTN]

Some PBS stations in the bible belt air, or used to air, gospel music shows. I assume they removed the preaching,

WKNO in Memphis and WLJT in Lexington/Jackson, TN carry Classic Gospel, which is Bill Gaither's reunion shows of Southern Gospel singers and groups, which is strictly music and no preaching.

Some PBS stations have carried The Red Green Show. Although that show was associated with the CBC in later years, it was originally produced by private broadcasters including CHCH Hamilton and CFPL London.

Wasn't Red Green carried on a commecial cable channel in Canada as well, possibly either TV Land Canada or the Comedy Channel? I wish some cable channel in the US would pick it up (RFD?). WLJT has only used it for filler on Saturday nights after college and high school sports, but now I think they've dropped it completely.

 

[Bob1370]

Back at the beginning of his US syndication run (late 70s/early 80s) Benny Hill was picked up by a few PBS stations which figured he fit in with their airing of Britcoms like Are You Being Served? A few of those included, IIRC, WCNY in Syracuse and WSKG in Binghamton.

Of course Benny HIll was mostly seen on commercial indies like WOR-TV in NYC, WUTV in Buffalo and WUHF in Rochester, and for a while was a singificant syndicated hit. (He was reportedly one of Walter Cronkite's favorite TV comedians--Cronkite thought Hill reminded him of longtime CBS star Red Skelton.) But a few PBS stations joined the parade for his first US syndication run until he caught fire and moved entirely to commercial stations for his second season. Hill retained a following for the rest of his days, and was said not only to be preparing a one-man Broadway show but in talks for a sitcom on CBS when he passed away in 1992.

 

[KyDXIn]

I'm not sure if it only happened here in Louisville, but in the mid 1980s, WKPC played reruns of the original Lassie aka "Jeff's Collie" in the late afternoons. This was the first time I had seen the black-and-white episodes from the beginning til June Lockhart came to the series.

 

[Tim L]

I mentioned earlier in the thread that Jeff's Collie was aired in the mid-80's on WNEO/WEAO Youngstown/Akron. Probably the same package that Louisville was getting..

 

[rjoc]

Some PBS stations have carried The Red Green Show. Although that show was associated with the CBC in later years, it was originally produced by private broadcasters including CHCH Hamilton and CFPL London.

Still carried on Maine Public Broadcasting Saturday nights.