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Rerto: Western IL-Northeast MO Sunday, April 5, 1970 Including WJJY Ch.14

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This one includes the fabled, short-lived WJJY-TV, Channel 14 from Jacksonville, IL. It was on the air from August 1969 to April 1971. I'm not old enough to really remember it, or if we even received it here (approximately 100 miles west of Jacksonville), but given the wattage they used, we probably could have. I believe my parents Magnavox console had UHF capabilities.

From The Quincy Herald-Whig:

3 KTVO Kirksville-Ottumwa ABC, CBS (NBC??)

6:45 Lester Family
7:00 Popeye
7:15 Victory Revival Hour
7:30 Revival Fires
8:00 Herald of Truth
8:30 Country Style Gospel Time (B&W)
9:30 Gospel Light Telecast (B&W)
10:00 Gospel Hour
10:30 Lester Family
11:00 Favorite Hymns
11:30 Central Chinchilla
12:00 All-American Quartet
12:30 Issues and Answers
12:55 New Beginning
1:15 Cardinal Baseball (St. Louis at Kansas City)
4:00 Walt Disney
5:00 Bonanza (I might have a VERY vague memory of KTVO carrying these two NBC shows)
6:00 Land of the Giants
7:00 The F.B.I.
8:00 ABC Sunday Night Movie
10:00 Local News
10:30 Movie

7 KHQA Hannibal-Quincy (CBS)

6:45 Sacred Heart
7:00 This Is the Life (B&W)
7:30 Revival Fires
8:00 Cathedral of Tommorow
9:00 Lamp Unto My Feet
9:30 Look Up and Live
10:00 Camera Three
10:30 Tom & Jerry
11:00 Batman
11:30 Face the Nation
12:00 Israel:Special
3:30 Stanley Cup Previews
4:00 Killy Challenge
4:30 Masters Highlights
5:00 Local News
5:30 CBS News
6:00 Lassie
6:30 To Rome With Love
7:00 Ed Sullivan
8:00 Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
9:00 Mission:Impossible
10:00 Local News
10:30 CBS News
10:45 Run for Your Life
11:45 Weather, News

10 WGEM Quincy (NBC)

6:40 Lord's Prayer
6:45 The Big Play-Air Force
7:00 The Answer
7:30 Faith for Today
8:00 Consultation
8:30 Oral Roberts
9:00 Mormon World Conference
10:00 Bishop Sheen
10:30 Mass for Shut-ins
11:00 Skippy
11:30 McHale's Navy
12:00 News
12:05 All-American Quartet
12:30 Possum Holler Opry
1:00 Viewpoint
1:15 Cardinal Baseball (StL vs KC)
4:00 Experiment in TV
5:00 Frank McGee Report
5:30 College Bowl
6:00 Wild Kingdom
6:30 Walt Disney
7:30 Bill Cosby Show
8:00 Bonanza
9:00 The Bold Ones
10:00 Local News
10:30 Tonight Show
12:00 Weather

14 WJJY Jacksonville (ABC)

8:00 Lester Family
8:30 Dudley Do Right
9:00 Fantastic Voyage
9:30 Spiderman
10:00 Bullwinkle
10:30 Discovery
11:00 Echoes from Heaven
11:15 This Is the Life
11:45 Stained Glass Window
12:00 Directions
12:30 Issues and Answers
1:00 NBA Basketball
3:00 American Sportsman
4:00 Questionable Matters
4:25 It
4:30 Matinee
6:00 Land of the Giants
7:00 The F.B.I.
8:00 ABC Sunday Night Movie
10:00 Local News
10:30 Theater 14
 
Nice to finally see a schedule from WJJY-TV. I think KTVO carried "Bonanza" from NBC till it was canceled...I believe it was the last NBC show cleared by KTVO.
 
Here's a website devoted to the ill-fated WJJY-TV in Jacksonville from a former station employee:

http://www.brainmist.com/wjjy_tv/wjjy_tv.htm

Also, as the website stated, WJJY regarded themselves as a "Jacksonville-Springfield-Quincy" station and covered parts of the Quincy and Champaign-Decatur-Springfield markets (although I'm not exactly sure if Morgan County was still in the Quincy market during WJJY's two years on the air as opposed to C-D-S today), even though the Illinois state capitol was adequately served by their market's then-ABC affiliate, WAND-17 in Decatur (which flipped to NBC Sept. 5, 2005, with ABC moving to WICS-20 Springfield and its sister station WICD-15 Champaign on that same date). Ironically, WAND lost their transmitter in the same Easter 1978 central Illinois ice storm (still talked about frequently here in Springfield) that claimed the then-defunct WJJY's tower near Bluffs, IL.

Channel 14 in Jacksonville is now WSEC, a much lower-power PBS station that is the flagship of the "Network Knowledge" group of PBS stations for western and west central Illinois (WSEC, WQEC-27 Quincy, WMEC-22 Macomb; plus one translator on channel 8 in Springfield), with its studios in Chatham, IL (an affluent Springfield suburb). Interestingly, had the old WJJY tower not fallen there were efforts to get channel 14 back on the air on that old Bluffs tower as a PBS station for the same area covered by the three separate stations and the Springfield translator, plus additional coverage as far south as Alton and Litchfield, IL.

BTW, when did Morgan County, IL switch from the Quincy-Hannibal market to Champaign-Decatur-Springfield? In addition, some websites have even put neighboring Cass County as part of the Champaign-Decatur-Springfield market (although they are adequately covered by the Springfield stations in the market), but Nielsen has always, IIRC, placed Cass in the Quincy-Hannibal market.
 
Bumping a 13 year old thread. I actually found the old WJJY-TV studios in Jacksonville, ILL
OldWJJYStudio.jpg
It is now a "Elm City Rehabilitation Center" building.
 
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