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Portland, Maine- April 17, 1970

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highwayman128

Source: Portland Press Herald

PORTLAND, ME TV-

Friday April 17, 1970

WCSH-TV 6 (NBC)
6:40 First Radio Parish
6:45 Farm Market Report
7:00 Today
9:00 Mike Douglas
10:00 It Takes Two
10:30 Concentration
11:00 Sale of The Century
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12:00 Jeopardy!
12:30 Who, What or Where
1:00 Dialing For Dollars
1:15 Swap Shop
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 David Frost
6:00 News Journal
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7:00- My World and Welcome to It
7:30- High Chaparral
8:30- Name of the Game
10:00- Bracken’s World
11:00- News Journal
11:30- The Tonight Show
1:00 Sign-Off

WMTW-TV 8 (ABC)
7:15- News
7:30- Farm and Home
8:00- Rocky and his Friends
8:30- George of the Jungle
9:00- Morning Movie- Easy Living (1949)
10:30- The Movie Game
11:00- Bewitched
11:30- That Girl
12:00- The Best of Everything
12:30 A World Apart
1:00 All My Children
1:30 Let’s Make A Deal
2:00 Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game
3:00 General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4:00 Dark Shadows
4:30 The Munsters
5:00 Gilligan’s Island
5:30 5:30 Report
6:00 ABC Evening News
6:30 Beat the Clock
7:00 To Tell The Truth
7:30 Flying Nun
8:00 The Brady Bunch
8:30 Hollywood’s Finest- “Bugles in the Afternoon
10:00 Love American Style
11:00 11 o’clock report
11:30 Movie 8- Big Money (1958)
1:00 Sign-Off?

WGAN-TV 13 (CBS)
7:00 CBS News
7:30 Leave it To Beaver
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Romper Room
9:30 Gomer Pyle
10:00 Lucy Show
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11:00 Fashions in Sewing
11:30 Love of Life
12:00 Where the Heart Is
12:15 Mid-Day Newsbeat
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Galloping Gourmet
1:30 As The World Turns
2:00 Love is A Many Splendored Thing
2:30 Guiding Light
3:00 Secret Storm
3:30 Edge of Night
4:00 Truth or Consequences
4:30 Afternoon Movie
6:00 Newsbeat
6:30 CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7:00 What’s My Line
7:30 Sail Around the World with 5 Men and A Woman
8:30 Hogan’s Heroes
9:00 CBS Friday Night Movie- The Third Day (1965)
11:00 Newsbeat
11:30 Late Show- House of Strangers (1949)
1:11am- Sign-Off
 
> WGAN-TV 13 (CBS)
> 11:00 Fashions in Sewing
> 11:30 Love of Life

Wasn't Lucille Rivers' show a 10-minute program?

> 12:00 Where the Heart Is
> 12:15 Mid-Day Newsbeat

Wasn't "Heart" 25 minutes, with CBS or local news at 12:25?

I take it the Press-Herald used a grid in 15-minute increments.
 
Regular programming (as listed in the Portland Press-Herald) for WCSH-6, WMTW-8 and WGAN-13 (now WGME) between 7 A.M. and 2:30 P.M. on April 17th, 1970 was pre-empted.

That was the day that the crippled Apollo 13 command module safely splashed-down in the South Pacific, ending an agonizing three-and-a-half day effort to get the three astronuats (Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and the late Jack Swigert) back to Earth safely.

The splashdown itself was a little after 1 P.M., but the networks had started coverage six hours before that to cover critical maneuvers to jettison the damaged service module as well as the lunar module, whose power and oxygen supply had kept Lovel, Haise and Swigert alive. Coverage continued through the three astronauts' arriving by helicopter on the aircraft carrier serving as the recovery ship (around 2) and until the command module itself was hoisted onboard the carrier (just before 2:30).

I watched the splashdown on a TV set in school; I can still remember NBC's John Chancellor (co-anchoring the splashdown coverage with Frank McGee) excitedely yelling "THERE SHE IS!" when the descending command module, under it's three candy-stripped parachutes, appeared for the first time within sight of TV cameras on the recovery ship shortly before splashdown.
 
> Source: Portland Press Herald
>
> PORTLAND, ME TV-
>
> Friday April 17, 1970
>
> WCSH-TV 6 (NBC)
>
>
> 7:00- My World and Welcome to It

What aired Monday at 7:30, when NBC
had this show?
>
>
>
> WMTW-TV 8 (ABC)
>
>
> 8:00 The Brady Bunch
> 8:30 Hollywood’s Finest- “Bugles in the Afternoon

When did Channel 8 begin airing all of ABC's
Friday-night lineup?
>
> 11:30 Movie 8- Big Money (1958)

Was the Friday edition of Dick Cavett delayed
until Sunday? Channel 11 in Atlanta did that.
>
>
> WGAN-TV 13 (CBS)

>
> 7:30 Sail Around the World with 5 Men and A Woman

I believe this was part of Operation 100, a move by
CBS over the last 100 days of the 1969-70 regular
season to overtake NBC with numerous specials. It
worked, but it (and demographics) led to an overhaul
of the CBS schedule that year and the next. A detailed
account of Operation 100 is in Les Brown's "Television:
Behind The Box."
>
> 11:30 Late Show- House of Strangers (1949)

Merv Griffin was on CBS at the time. Did Channel
13 carry him at all, or is the Friday show delayed
to Sunday?
>
>
 
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