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Pittsburgh (Friday October 3, 1969)

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From the Post-Gazette. Note that all the network shows are colored.

2-KDKA (CBS)

5:55 Farm Report
6AM Communication Is
6:30 Sunrise Semester
7AM Eyewitness News
7:30 CBS News
8AM Captain Kangaroo
9AM Contact
10AM Lucy Show
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11AM Andy Griffith
11:30 Love Of Life
12Noon Eyewitness News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1PM Mike Douglas
2:30 Guiding Light
3PM Secret Storm
3:30 Edge Of Night
4PM Gomer Pyle
4:30 David Frost
6PM Eyewitness News
6:30 CBS News
7PM Eyewitness News
7:30 Get Smart
8PM Merv Griffin Special: "Sidewalks Of New England" (Pre-empts "Good Guys" and "Hogan's Heroes")
9PM CBS Movie: "Double Trouble" (1967)
11PM Eyewitness News
11:30 Late Movie: "The Unforgiven" (1960) (Pre-empts Merv Griffin)
1:55AM Late, Late Movie: "Chain Lightning" (1950)

4-WTAE (ABC)

7AM Sea Hunt
7:30 Three Stooges
8AM Romper Room
9AM Hazel
9:30 Truth Or Consequences
10AM Dialing For Dollars Movie: "Love Is Better Than Ever" (1952)
11:30 Galloping Gourmet
12Noon Bewitched
12:30 That Girl
1PM Dream House
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game
3PM General Hospital
3:30 Paul Shannon's Adventure Time
4:30 Hazel
5PM Perry Mason
6PM Channel 4 News
6:30 ABC News
7PM Dick Van dyke
7:30 Let's Make A Deal
8PM Brady Bunch
8:30 Mr Deeds Goes To Town
9PM Here Comes The Brides
10PM Jimmy Durante Presents The Lemmon Sisters
11PM Channel 4 News
11:30 Late Movie: "The Long Hot Summer" (1958)
1:50AM Late, Late Movie: "Arena" (1953)

11-WIIC[Now WPXI] (NBC)

5:55AM Farm Report
6AM Quest
6:30 TV Partyline
7AM Today
9AM Porky Pig
9:30 Movie Game
10AM It Takes Two
10:30 Concentration
11AM Sale Of The Century
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12Noon Channel 11 News (Pre-empts Jeopardy)
12:30 Name Droppers
1PM Divorce Court
1:30 You're Putting Me On
2PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 Doctors
3PM Another World
3:30 Bright Promise
4PM Letters To Laugh-In
4:30 Million Dollar Movie: "The Great Lover" (1949)
6PM I Love Lucy
6:30 Channel 11 News
7PM Hunter/Brinkley
7:30 High Chaparral
8:30 The Name Of The Game
10PM Braken's World
11PM Channel 11 News
11:30 The Tonight Show
1AM Hotline After Dark

13-WQED (NET)

8:55AM Science 6
9AM Beginning Responsibility (Two shows)
9:35 Yes, No, Maybe
9:55 Reading 2
10:20 I Want To Write
10:40 Sing, Children, Sing
10:55 Demand Performance
11:10 Nature Of Things
11:30 Misterogers
12Noon Pocketful Of Fun
12:30 Once Upon A Day
1PM Meet The Arts
1:30 Talking Town
1:45 People And Their World
2:05 Tell Me A Story
2:20 Let's Go See
2:40 Americans All
3PM Washington News
3:30 Folk Guitar Plus
4PM Pocketful Of Fun (Two shows)
5PM Misterogers
5:30 Teachers Preview (Two shows)
6:30 What's New
7PM Misterogers
7:30 Black Horizons
8PM Harrisburg Report
8:30 NET Playhouse
10:30 Washington News

16-WQEX (NET)

5:30PM Electronics
6PM Hospital Nursing Today
6:30 The Investigator
7PM Electronics
7:30 Spectrum
8PM Insight
8:30 Innovations
9PM Hospital Nursing Today

53-WPGH (Ind; Now Fox)

11:30AM Jack LaLanne
12Noon Where The Heart Is
12:25 CBS News
12:30 One Life To Live
1PM As The World Turns
1:30 Movie: "Escape To Burma" (1955)
3PM Marine Boy
3:30 Rocket Robin Hood
4PM Bozo's Big Top
5PM Underdog
5:30 Superman
6PM Flintstones
6:30 Gilligan's Island
7PM Dark Shadows
7:30 Beat The Clock
8PM To Tell The Truth
8:30 What's My Line
9PM Nine O'Clock Movie: "The Wastrel" (1960)
11PM Honeymooners
11:30 Joey Bishop
 
I'm surprised that the ABC station in Pittsburgh didn't pick up One Life To Live and Dark Shadows and that WPGH carried both especially Dark Shadows airing in the early evenings instead of the 4:00 PM Eastern timeslot. WPGH also picked up 2 CBS shows in daytime, Where The Heart Is and As The World Turns, another surprise here as well. WPGH picked up ABC's Joey Bishop Show(late night) as well but it wouldn't last much longer after that, the last show was the week after Christmas.
 
KDKA for years would program either Mike Douglas or local shows like Pittsburgh 2day in the 1 or 1:30 time slot and not carry As The World Turns. WKBN 27 Youngstown practically from their 1953 sign on through at least the late 1970's maybe early 80's wourld program 12:30 local news and a 12:35-2:00 Movie..pre-empting CBS soaps all that time.
 
Braves2005 said:
I'm surprised that the ABC station in Pittsburgh didn't pick up One Life To Live and Dark Shadows and that WPGH carried both especially Dark Shadows airing in the early evenings instead of the 4:00 PM Eastern timeslot. WPGH also picked up 2 CBS shows in daytime, Where The Heart Is and As The World Turns, another surprise here as well. WPGH picked up ABC's Joey Bishop Show(late night) as well but it wouldn't last much longer after that, the last show was the week after Christmas.
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To touch up on Pittsburgh daytime pre-emptions, KDKA also passed on "Love Is A Many Splendored Thing", which CBS carried at 2PM/ET at the time.
 
How do you figure WPGH was not on long? As far as I know, they are now the FOX affil, or did I miss something? But maybe I'm suffering a senior moment. My memory is U. S. Communications put 5 indies on the air in the mid-late sixties---WPGH, WXIX, WATL, WPHL, and maybe KEMO/20 in San Francisco. The company as a whole encountered serious financial problems, but WPGH, WPHL, and WXIX were able to stick it out and eventually thrive. But I'd be interested in knowing if I'm wrong......
 
fortmill said:
How do you figure WPGH was not on long? As far as I know, they are now the FOX affil, or did I miss something? But maybe I'm suffering a senior moment. My memory is U. S. Communications put 5 indies on the air in the mid-late sixties---WPGH, WXIX, WATL, WPHL, and maybe KEMO/20 in San Francisco. The company as a whole encountered serious financial problems, but WPGH, WPHL, and WXIX were able to stick it out and eventually thrive. But I'd be interested in knowing if I'm wrong......
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I think he meant WPGH-53's short tenure under U.S. Communications, which lasted from its sign-on in January 1969 to its sign-off in February 1971. WPGH would not return to the Pittsburgh TV airwaves until January 1974. Plus you have to remember that this was the station's second attempt to compete in the Pittsburgh TV market; Its first one was from July 1953 to August 1954 when it was WJKF. The reason the station didn't last long in its first two attempts was money and being on a high UHF channel (53).
 
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