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Retro: Boston - Wednesday, October 4, 1967

Source – Boston Daily Globe

Game 1 of the 1967 World Series between the Boston Red Sox and St. Louis Cardinals was played this day. NBC had the rights to the Series, and the games would be carried on WBZ in Boston. Red Sox games during the season aired on WHDH. By a special arraignment WHDH was allowed to pick up the NBC feed and air it simultaneously with WBZ. I have no idea why NBC would acquiesce to this arrangement, nor can I find any stories in the Globe that week explaining the reason.

2 - WGBH Boston (NET)
08:30a Science Reporter
09:25a Imagine That
09:40a Land and Sea
09:55a You Come Too
10:30a Exploring Nature
11:00a Accent on Music
12:00p Misterogers
12:30p What’s New?
01:00p Parlons Francais 3
01:15p Land and Sea
01:30p Imagine That
01:45p Parlons Francais 2
05:00p Misterogers
05:30p What’s New?
06:00p Exploring the Crafts
06:30p News – Louis Lyons
06:45p Backgrounds
07:00p Expository English
07:30p Jazz Series (color)
08:00p News in Perspective
09:00p On Crime
09:30p Kaleidoscope
10:00p The Toy That Grew Up “Ella Cinders”, silent movie

4 – WBZ Boston (NBC)
06:15a Sign-On Seminar
06:45a Daily Almanac
07:00a Today Show (color)
09:00a Contact – Bob Kennedy
10:00a Snap Judgment (color)
10:25a NBC News (color)
10:30a Concentration (color)
11:00a Personality (color)
11:30a Hollywood Squares (color)
12:00p News, Weather (color)
12:30p World Series Report with Sandy Kofax (color) – this may have only been shown in Boston and St. Louis
01:00p World Series – Boston Red Sox vs. St. Louis Cardinals from Fenway Park; presented by Chrysler and Plymouth (color)
The following programs are preempted: The Mike Douglas Show, Days of Our Lives, The Doctors, Another World, You Don’t Say, The Match Game
04:30p Merv Griffin Show – guests: Tony Randall, Rip Taylor, Adam Wade, Debbie Drake (color)
06:00p Leave It to Beaver
06:30p News, Weather (color)
07:00p Huntley-Brinkley Report (not listed as color)
07:30p The Virginian – Deputy Ryker helps an old friend with a past start a new life (color)
09:00p Kraft Music Hall – “Give My Regards to Broadway”; Bobby Darrin as George M. Cohen with Liza Minnelli, Kay Stevens and Dennis Day (color)
10:00p Run For Your Life (color)
11:00p News, Weather (color)
11:30p Tonight Show – guests: Rick Nelson, Don Rickles, Rose Marie, Sidney Miller, Lassie (color)
01:00a Movie “The Nevadan”

5 – WHDH Boston (CBS)
06:00a Sunrise Semester
06:30a N.E. Farmer (color)
06:45a We Believe (color)
07:00a News (color)
07:05a Bozo the Clown (color)
08:00a Captain Kangaroo (color)
09:00a Romper Room (color)
09:30a Classroom 5 (color)
10:00a Candid Camera
10:30a The Beverly Hillbillies
11:00a Andy of Mayberry
11:30a Dick Van Dyke Show
12:00p News, Weather (color)
12:25p CBS News (color)
12:30p Pre-Game Show (locally produced with Red Sox announcers Ken Coleman, Mel Parnell and Ned Martin; color not denoted)
Search for Tomorrow is preempted
12:45p The Guiding Light (color)
01:00p World Series (color) – game is followed by a postgame show hosted by Don Gillis
The following programs are preempted: Love of Life, As the World Turns, Love is a Many-Splendored Thing, To Tell the Truth, The Edge of Night, The Secret Storm
04:30p Movie “The Canadians” (color)
06:00p News, Weather (color)
06:30p CBS Evening News – Walter Cronkite (color)
07:00p Family Affair – Jody has an invisible bear as an imaginary playmate (color; delayed from Monday @ 9:30p – WHDH ran a movie on Mondays)
07:30p Lost In Space – The Robinson party is threatened by a tribe of aborigines ruled by a machine (color)
08:30p The Beverly Hillbillies (color)
09:00p Green Acres (color)
09:30p He and She – Harry loses his job with the fire department (color)
10:00p Dundee and the Culhane
11:00p News, Weather (color)
11:30p Movie “Winning Team”

6 – WTEV New Bedford (ABC)
06:15a B’wana Don
06:45a News – Jack Delaney
07:00a Funtime (color)
07:30a Magilla Gorilla (color)
08:00a Community – Bob Bassett (color)
08:30a Jack LaLanne (color)
09:00a Funtime (color)
09:30a Romper Room (color)
10:00a The Dating Game (color)
10:30a Dateline Hollywood (color)
10:55a Children’s Doctor
11:00a Honeymoon Race (color)
11:30a The Family Game
12:00p Everybody’s Talking
12:30p Donna Reed Show
01:00p The Fugitive
02:00p The Newlywed Game (color)
02:30p Dream Girl of ’67 (color)
02:55p ABC News – Marlene Sanders (color)
03:00p General Hospital
03:30p Dark Shadows (color)
04:00p Lassie
04:30p The Munsters
05:00p no programming listed
05:20p News, Weather (color)
05:30p ABC News (color)
06:00p The Flintstones (color)
06:30p Gilligan’s Island (color)
07:00p Please Don’t Eat the Daisies (color)
07:30p Custer (color)
08:30p The Second Hundred Years (color)
09:00p ABC Movie “The Trouble With Harry” (color)
11:00p News, Weather
11:30p Joey Bishop Show (color)

7 – WNAC Boston (ABC)
06:25a Farm and Market Report
06:30a Understanding Our World
07:00a Cartoon Carnival
07:45a The King and Odie
08:00a The Beagles
08:30a Dream Girl of ’67 (delayed from 2:30p) – not shown in color
09:00a General Hospital (delayed from 3p) – show went to color 10/23
09:30a Girl Talk
10:00a The Newlywed Game (delayed from 2p) – not shown in color
10:30a Dateline Hollywood (color)
10:55a Children’s Doctor
11:00a Honeymoon Race (color)
11:30a The Family Game
12:00p Everybody’s Talking
12:30p Donna Reed Show
01:00p The Fugitive
02:00p Movie “Love Nest”
03:55p News (color)
04:00p The Dating Game (color)
04:30p Dennis the Menace
05:00p Three Stooges (color) – this is either (most likely) Major Mudd or the Three Stooges cartoons
05:15p News, Weather (color)
05:30p ABC News (color)
06:00p Mister Ed
06:30p McHale’s Navy
07:00p F Troop
07:30p Custer – Custer must take orders from an arrogant civilian in charge of delivering the U.S. gold used to buy Alaska from the Russians (color)
08:30p The Second Hundred Years – Psychological tests prove Luke is obsolete for the 20th century (color)
09:00p Movie “Diary of Anne Frank”
12:05a News, Weather (color)
12:35a Joey Bishop Show (color)

9 – WMUR Manchester (ABC) – they would not have live studio color until 1972
09:30a The Beatles (delayed from Saturday @ 12p)
10:00a The Dating Game (color)
10:30a Dateline Hollywood (color)
10:55a Children’s Doctor
11:00a Honeymoon Race (color)
11:30a The Family Game
12:00p Everybody’s Talking
12:30p Donna Reed Show
01:00p The Fugitive
02:00p The Newlywed Game (color)
02:30p Dream Girl of ’67 (color)
02:55p ABC News – Marlene Sanders (color)
03:00p General Hospital
03:30p Dark Shadows (color)
04:00p Uncle Gus
05:00p Local Feature
06:00p ABC News (color)
06:30p News, Weather
07:00p Let’s Go to the Races (color)
07:30p Custer (color)
08:30p The Second Hundred Years (color)
09:00p ABC Movie “The Trouble With Harry” (color)
11:00p News, Weather
11:15p Film Featurette
11:30p Joey Bishop Show (color)

10 – WJAR Providence (NBC)
06:30a TV Classroom
07:00a Today Show (color)
09:00a Talk of the Town (color)
09:30a World Around Us
10:00a Snap Judgment (color)
10:25a NBC News (color)
10:30a Concentration (color)
11:00a Personality (color)
11:30a Hollywood Squares (color)
12:00p Jeopardy (color)
12:30p Eye-Guess (color)
12:55p Doctor’s House Call
01:00p World Series (color)
The following programs are preempted: The Gypsy Rose Lee Show, Let’s Make a Deal, Days of Our Lives, The Doctors, Another World, You Don’t Say, The Match Game
04:30p Leave It to Beaver
05:00p Perry Mason
06:00p News, Weather (color)
06:30p Huntley-Brinkley Report (not listed as color)
07:00p McHale’s Navy
07:30p The Virginian (color)
09:00p Kraft Music Hall (color)
10:00p Run for Your Life (color)
11:00p News, Weather (color)
11:30p Tonight Show (color)

11 – WENH Durham (NET)
08:00a Shorthand
09:40a Land and Sea
10:30a Exploring Nature
11:00a From Franklin to Frost
12:00p Misterogers
12:30p Shorthand
01:00p Parlons Francais 3
01:15p Land and Sea
01:45p Parlons Francais 2
02:00p Singing, Listening, Doing
02:30p Shorthand
03:00p Your Dollar’s Worth
05:00p Misterogers
05:30p What’s New?
06:00p Weather; musicale
06:30p News – Louis Lyons
06:45p Backgrounds
07:00p Expository English
07:30p It’s a Dog’s Life
08:00p Exploring the Crafts
08:30p Local Issues “Jet Age, Jet Problems”
09:00p News in Perspective
10:00p Chicago Festival
10:30p Shorthand

12 – WPRI Providence (CBS)
06:30a The Christophers (color)
07:00a Popeye, Three Stooges
07:30a CBS News – Joseph Benti (color)
07:55a Jobs Are Waiting
08:00a Captain Kangaroo (color)
09:00a Dialing for Dollars (color)
10:00a Movie “Look Back in Anger”
11:30a Dick Van Dyke Show
12:00p Love of Life (color)
12:25p CBS News (color)
12:30p Search for Tomorrow (color)
12:45p The Guiding Light (color)
01:00p Girl Talk
01:30p As the World Turns (color)
02:00p Love is a Many-Splendored Thing (color)
02:30p House Party (color)
03:00p To Tell the Truth (color)
03:25p CBS News – Douglas Edwards (color)
03:30p The Edge of Night (color)
04:00p F Troop (color)
04:30p Mike Douglas Show
06:00p News, Weather (color)
06:30p CBS Evening News – Walter Cronkite (color)
07:00p Truth or Consequences (color)
07:30p Lost In Space (color)
08:30p The Beverly Hillbillies (color)
09:00p Movie “Wonderful Country” (color)
11:00p News, Weather (color)
11:30p Merv Griffin Show (color)

38 – WSBK Boston (Ind) – secondary ABC, CBS and NBC
11:30a Jack LaLanne Show (color)
12:00p Jeopardy (color) NBC
12:30p Eye-Guess (color) NBC
12:55p NBC News – Edwin Newman (color) NBC
01:00p Yoga for Health
01:30p Let’s Make a Deal (color) NBC – the show did not air due to the World Series and I have no idea what WSBK would air in its place
02:00p Dark Shadows ABC (delayed from 3:30p)
02:30p Willie Whistle Cartoons
05:00p Colonel Bleep (color)
05:30p Prince Planet
06:00p Marine Boy
06:30p Thunderbirds (color)
07:00p Sea Hunt
07:30p NFL Highlights – Eastern Division games (color)
08:00p Pat Boone in Hollywood – guests: Burt Reynolds, Joanie Sommers, Hermione Gingold (color)
09:30p Alfred Hitchcock Presents
10:00p Mystery Hours
11:00p Movie “Miraculous Journey”

56 – WKBG Boston (Ind)
10:00a Topper
10:30a Carlton Fredericks (color)
11:00a Dickory Doc – Bob Barker, host (color)
12:00p Kimba (color)
12:30p Movie “Men in the Vault”
02:00p Woody Woodbury Show (color)
03:30p Captain Boston (color)
05:00p Astro Boy
05:30p Little Rascals
06:00p Superman (color)
06:30p The Flintstones (color)
07:00p Gilligan’s Island (color)
07:30p Truth or Consequences – Bob Barker, host (color)
08:00p I Love Lucy
08:30p Hazel (color)
09:00p Combat
10:00p Movie “Young Racers”
 
"Dickory-Doc" with host Bob Barker? Must be a different
Bob Barker; the one who reminded us to have our pets
spayed and neutered was hosting the syndicated version
of "Truth Or Consequences" as well as "The Family Game"
on ABC.

There is a later case when a network allowed another
network's affiliate to carry a sports event, putting the same
broadcast on two channels. WHAS/11 had carried the Kentucky
Derby since 1950 and all through the years CBS had it. When the
Derby moved to ABC and WLKY/32 in 1975, the Derby people insisted
that ABC feed the race to both stations; first, because of the longtime
association with WHAS and second, because of WLKY's weaker signal.
ABC did this until CapCities bought the network in 1985 and refused to
allow ABC programs to appear on another network's affiliate. (ABC just
did outbid CBS for the rights to the race in 1990, a reason that's been
given for WHAS's switching to ABC that year but, IIRC, CBS was having
rating problems at the time.) After NBC (WAVE/3) acquired the race in 2000,
all that became moot.
 
I can tell you it wasn't an issue of signal disparity. I know that WHDH claimed a right to a local broadcast a playoff game if there was one. I still can't believe that WBZ did not complain and try to stop it.
 
I thought that TV flagships of Major League Baseball teams prior to 1976 could simulcast network coverage of World Series games.

WSBK-38, which became the Red Sox TV flagship in 1975, simulcast NBC's coverage of that year's World Series between the Red Sox and Cincinnati Reds.
 
Joseph_Gallant said:
I thought that TV flagships of Major League Baseball teams prior to 1976 could simulcast network coverage of World Series games.

WSBK-38, which became the Red Sox TV flagship in 1975, simulcast NBC's coverage of that year's World Series between the Red Sox and Cincinnati Reds.

I think it was 1984 when that network exclusivity kicked in, at least as far flagship television stations being allowed to televise their own coverage of the League Championship Series. There's a couple of clips on YouTube (unless they took it down) of WFLD Chicago's telecasts of one of the ALCS games between the White Sox and the Baltimore Orioles.
 
From 1969 through 1983, local TV stations that held rights to hometown Major League Baseball clubs were allowed to produce their own broadcasts of League Championship Series games involving those teams.

I recall WSBK-38 in Boston originating their own broadcasts of the 1975 American League Championship Series between the Red Sox and the Oakland Athletics and the infamous 1978 division tiebreaker game between the Sox and the New York Yankees (In fact, I think WSBK's remote truck not only provided the video coverage for WSBK's own broadcast of the 1978 playoff game, but it's video coverage was also used for ABC's telecast of the game.

Local flagship stations were never allowed to produce their own World Series coverage, but as mentioned above, could simulcast network coverage of the Series through 1983.
 
TV 38 had play by play with Dick Stocton and Ken Harrleson for 75ALCS using NBC video For 75 World series Both Dick Stockton and Ned Martin did play by play on NBC TV and Radio for Boston games. Ned Martin did the call of Fisk's Home Run on NBC Radio. For Cincy games only Marty Breennaman did play by play on NBC TV I beleive Ken Coleman was doing Cincy TV games from 75-78
 
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