Pittsburgh, November 25-29, 1968 (Part 1: Pittsburgh stations)

[only1moore]

From The Pittsburgh Press

2-KDKA (CBS)

Weekday
6AM The Thing About Money
6:30AM Sunrise Semester
7AM News
8AM Captain Kangaroo
9AM Contact
10AM The Lucy Show
10:30 The Beverly Hillbillies
11AM Andy Griffith
11:30 Dick Van Dyke
12Noon News at Noon (pre-empts The Love of Life)
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1PM Mike Douglas (Not shown: As The World Turns at 1:30 and Love Is A Many Splendored Thing at 2PM)
2:30 Guiding Light
3PM Secret Storm
3:30 Edge Of Night
4PM The Linkletter Show
4:30 Merv Griffin
6PM News
6:30 CBS News
7PM News
7:30 CBS Primetime
11PM News
11:30 Late Movie

Monday (25th)
7:30 Gunsmoke
8:30 Here's Lucy
9PM CBS Special: Francis Albert Sinatra Does His Thing (In this timeslot, Mayberry RFD airs here, followed by Family Affair at 9:30)
10PM Carol Burnett
12:45AM "La Dolce Vita" (Pt. 1, 1964)

Tuesday (26th)
7:30 Lancer
8:30 Red Skelton Hour
9:30 Doris Day
10PM 60 Minutes
12:45AM "La Dolce Vita" (Pt. 2, 1964)

Wednesday (27th)
7:30 Special: "Click, Click, It's A Film" (Pre-empts Daktari)
8:30 Good Guys
9PM Beverly Hillbillies
9:30 Green Acres
10PM Johnathan Winters
12:45AM "Tammy Tell Me True" (1958)

Thursday (28th) (Thanksgiving Day)
9AM Thanksgiving Day Parades (From New York, Detroit, Toronto, Philadelphia, and Charlotte)
12Noon NFL Football: Eagles at Lions
3:30PM CBS Special: Operation Armed Forces
4:30 Merv Griffin (60 minutes)
5:30 News
6PM NFL Football: Redskins at Cowboys (On Thursdays, this is what CBS would've carry: Blondie at 7:30 and Hawaii Five-0 at 8PM)
9PM CBS Thursday Night Movie: "Marco The Magnificent"
11:30 "Umbrellas At Cherbourg" (1965)
1:30AM Movie TBA

Friday (29th)
7:30 Wild, Wild West
8:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
9PM CBS Friday Night Movie: "North By Northwest" (1942)
11:30 "Casablanca" (1942)
1:30AM "Escape In The Desert" (1945)

[color=maroon[color=black][/color]]4-WTAE (ABC)[/color]

Weekdays
7AM Delayed ABC Cartoons
7:30 Sea Hunt
8AM Romper Room
9AM Dark Shadows (Delayed from 4PM the previous day)
9:30 Steve Allen
10:30 Dialing For Dollars Movie (Not Shown: Dick Cavett)
12Noon Bewitched
12:30 Treasure Isle
1PM Dream House
1:30 Funny You Should Ask
2PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game
3PM General Hospital
3:30 Paul Shannon's Adventure Time (Pre-empts One Life To Live)
4:30 Afternoon Movie
6PM Channel 4 News
6:30 Perry Mason
7:30 ABC Primetime
11PM Chanel 4 News
11:30 Late Movie
1:30AM Joey Bishop

Monday (25th)
7AM Spiderman (10AM Saturdays)
10:30AM "The Thief" (1942)
4:30PM "Ma & Pa Kettle At Home"
7:30 The Avengers
8:30 Peyton Place
9PM The Outcasts
10PM Big Valley
11:15 "Temptation" (1946)

Tuesday (26th)
7AM Adventures of Gulliver (9:30AM Saturdays)
10:30AM "Vengeance Valley" (1951)
4:30PM "Gamma People" (1956)
7:30 Mod Squad
8:30 It Takes A Thief
9:30 NYPD
10PM Movie: "Up Periscope" (1959) (pre-empts That's Life; 15 minute News break in-between film at 11PM)
12:30AM Joey Bishop

Wednesday (27th)
7AM The Beatles (Sunday Mornings 9:30AM)
10:30AM "First Time" (1956)
4:30PM "Blondie Brings Up Baby"
7:30 Here Comes The Brides
8:30 Peyton Place
9PM ABC Wednesday Night Movie: "Under Two Flags" (1936)
11:30 "It Happened In Broad Daylight" (1960)

Thursday (28th) (Thanksgiving Day; ABC ended its primetime at 10:30 PM)
7AM Linus The Lionhearted (Sunday mornings 10AM)
10:30AM "The Mob" (1951)
12:30PM ABC Special: "Cinderella"
2PM Paul Shannon's Adventure Time
3PM NCAA Football: Texas A&M at Texas
7:30 ABC special: A Thanksgiving Visitor
8:30 NHL Hockey: Penguins at Black Hawks (On Thursdays, this is what ABC would've carry: The Ugliest Girl In Town at 7:30, The Flying Nun at 8PM, Bewitched at 8:30, That Girl at 9PM, and Journey To The Unknown at 9:30)
11:30 "Sea Wife" (1957)

Friday (29th)
7AM King Kong (Sundays 9AM)
9AM Steve Allen
10AM Casper Cartoon Show
10:30 "Powder River"
12Noon Adventures of Gulliver
12:30 Fantastic Voyage
1PM ABC Special: Mean Mr. Firecracker
4:30 "The Magic Carpet"
7:30 Special: Holiday In A Toy Store (Not Shown: Operation: Entertainment)
8:30 ABC Special: All-American College Show (Not Shown: Felony Squad)
9PM Ella Fitzgerald Show (Not Shown: Don Rickles Show and The Guns Of Will Sonnett at 9:30)
10PM ABC Special: Man And His Universe (Not Shown: Judd: For The Defense)
11:30 "Footsteps in the Fog" (1955)

11-WIIC[Now WPXI] (NBC)

Weekdays
6:30 AM Quest
7AM Today
9AM Make Room For Daddy
9:30 As The World Turns (No Typo, Channel 11 did carry it!)
10AM Snap Judgement
10:30 Concentration
11AM Personality
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12Noon News (pre-empts Jeopardy)
12:30 Eye Guess
1PM Divorce Court
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 Doctors
3PM Another World
3:30 You Don't Say
4PM Match Game
4:30 Cartoons
5PM F Troop
5:30 News
6PM I Love Lucy
6:30 Truth or Consequences
7PM Huntley/Brinkley
7:30 NBC Primetime
11PM News
11:30 The Tonight Show
1AM Hotline After Dark

Monday (25th)
7:30 I Dream Of Jeannie
8PM Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
9PM NBC Monday Night At The Movies: "Charade" (1964)

Tuesday (26th)
7:30 Jerry Lewis
8:30 Julia
9PM NBC Tuesday Night At The Movies: "Something For A Lonely Man"

Wednesday (27th)
7:30 The Virginian
9PM Bob Hope Special (Kraft Music Hall airs here)
10PM The Outsider

Thursday (28th) (Thanksgiving Day)
10AM Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
12Noon Special: Alakazam The Great
1:30PM AFL Football: Oilers at Chiefs
4PM AFL Football: Bills at Raiders
7PM News
7:30 Daniel Boone
8:30 Ironside
9:30 Dragnet 1968
10PM Dean Martin

Friday (29th)
7:30 High Chaparral
8:30 Name Of The Game
10PM Star Trek

13-WQED (NET)

Weekdays
11:30AM Friendly Giant
11:45 Kindergarten
12Noon Mr. Rogers
12:30 What's New
1PM NET/Local
4PM Kindergarten
4:15 Friendly Giant
4:30 Mr. Rogers
5PM What's New
5:30 Actors Company
6:30 Mr. Rogers
7PM NET/Local

Monday (25th)
1PM Toy That Grew Up
2PM Eugene McCarthy Seminar
3PM Challenge For Modern Women
3:30 Book Beat
7PM En France
7:30 Playing The Guitar
8PM Black Journal
9PM Bergmann Festival
10:30 Week In Review

Tuesday (26th)
1PM And No Bells Ring
1:30 Greater Hartford Forum
3PM Black Journal
7PM Let's Lip Read
7:30 NET Festival
8:30 Wars Of The Roses
9:30 Scapin

Wednesday (27th)
1PM Mass Media: Liberating or Perverting?
2PM Eugene McCarthy Seminar
3PM Let's Lip Read
3:30 Women's Window
7PM World We Live In
7:30 The Place
8PM Your Dollars Worth
9PM French Chef
9:30 Firing Line

Thursday (28th)
1PM World We Live In
1:30 Science Reporter
2PM Mass Media: Liberating or Perverting?
3PM Your Dollars Worth
3:30 Book Beat
7PM Let's Lip Read
7:30 Folk Guitar Plus
8PM The Fanatics
9PM David Susskind

Friday (29th)
1PM The Fanatics
2PM Eugene McCarthy Seminar
3PM Let's Lip Read
3:30 French Chef
5:30 Toy That Grew Up
7PM Book Beat
7:30 Black Horizons
8PM Twelfth Night
10:30 Key To The City

16-WQEX (NET)

Monday (25th)
10AM Management By Objectives
2:30PM Efficient Reading
3:30 Developing Communication Skills
5:30 Electronics at Work
6PM Exploring The Arts: Pottery
6:30 Gardener's Notebook
7PM Home Grounds Improvement
8PM Home Handyman
8:30 Playing The Guitar
9PM Folk Guitar Plus
9:30 Ski School

Tuesday (26th)
4PM Electronics at Work
5:30 Electronics at Work
6PM Nursing Home Report
6:30 Medical Report
7PM Medicated Society
8PM Health In The Troubled City

Wednesday (27th)
10AM Efficient Reading
2:30PM Management By Objectives
4PM Electronics at Work
5:30 Electronics at Work
6PM Unicef
7:30 Film
8PM Film
1:30 Greater Hartford Forum

Thursday (28th)
4PM Electronics at Work
5:30 Electronics at Work
6PM Home Grounds Improvement
6:30 Ski School
7PM Auto Mechanics
7:30 Home Handyman
8PM Playing The Guitar
8:30 Folk Guitar Plus
9PM Gardener's Notebook

Friday (28th)
4PM Electronics at Work
5:45 Electronics at Work
6PM Medicated Society
7PM Observing Eye
7:30 Spectrum
8PM Science Reporter
8:30 World We Live In
9PM Health In The Troubled City

 

[fortmill]

NONE of the local Pittsburgh stations had live local color by 1968? Seems hard to believe. I think all the NC locals had local color by that time....

 

[only1moore]

4-WTAE (ABC)
Wednesday (27th)
9PM Movie: "Under Two Flags" (1936)

Actually, channel 4 pre-empted the ABC Wednesday Night Movie "For Love Or Money" (1965) at this time.

 

[Tim L]

NONE of the local Pittsburgh stations had live local color by 1968? Seems hard to believe. I think all the NC locals had local color by that time....

Not to speak for Only1moore, but it seems probable that he simply decided not to designate shows in color, or the original listings didnt indicate color shows..

 

[mleach]

NONE of the local Pittsburgh stations had live local color by 1968? Seems hard to believe.

Several years ago there was a book about Pittsburgh's Kennywood Amusement Park that discussed the Spring of 1968 grand opening of the massive Thunderbolt roller coaster which had got its name thanks to WTAE. The book said that WTAE was airing the dedication/grand opening...IN COLOR so I would imagine by the time of these lsitings at least WTAE had live local color.

Be kinda odd for WTAE to use "color" only for Kennywood but "black & white" say for the local news.

 

[Stanislav]

NONE of the local Pittsburgh stations had live local color by 1968? Seems hard to believe.

Several years ago there was a book about Pittsburgh's Kennywood Amusement Park that discussed the Spring of 1968 grand opening of the massive Thunderbolt roller coaster which had got its name thanks to WTAE. The book said that WTAE was airing the dedication/grand opening...IN COLOR so I would imagine by the time of these lsitings at least WTAE had live local color.

Be kinda odd for WTAE to use "color" only for Kennywood but "black & white" say for the local news.

If I'm not mistaken, even at the network level news programs were one of the last live/tape genres to go color. Switching to color for a static daily show like the news meant at the very least refurbishing a studio (the color scheme of the set mattered little in B&W, but was paramount for color), new lighting, etc. In some cases, an entirely new space was built or modified to do regular studio-bound color broadcasts. All this took some time (and money) and a "serious" genre like news, where it was probably felt color would add little of substance, would have been low on the totem pole of priority. Covering a one-time location shoot like Kennywood in color was pretty straightforward (except for lugging the equipment) as there would be natural lighting, no set to build, etc., and color would enhance the viewer experience, whereas most folks watching the news couldn't care less whether the anchor has a blue or brown tie, or what color the weathergirl's eyes are.

 

[BRNout]

Actually, the color scheme of a studio DID matter for black and white telecasts. However, the colors and designs that were used would not look particularly palatable in color. They tended to be base colors that were chosen based on what shade of gray they would depict on a black and white set. Basically, for contrast. So, it mattered what the set looked like or what color the anchor's suit was....but the choices were made based on how something would look in B & W.

I heard that, in the early days of the 50s, some on-screen folks were made to wear brown lipstick and outlandishly colored makeup so that their facial features would show well on early black and white sets.

Once shows went to color, all of the sets needed to be redone to showcase all of the different colors and shades of color that this "new" technology could provide. Look at reruns of those color shows from the mid to late 1960s and you'll see all these lovely colors showcased. Particularly light blues, yellows and pinks. Showing off to sell the public on color TVs, basically.

 

[Kurt Toy]

In 1968, WTAE ran the afternoon movie from either 4:25 or 4:30 until 5:55, then ran a five-minute local newscast with a guy named Ed Mullen followed by the "ABC Evening News" at 6 p.m.