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Retro: Buffalo Thursday, February 29, 1968

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mleach

Buffalo, NY TV Listings
Thursday, February 29, 1968
From the Warren ( PA ) Times-Mirror & Observer


WGR channel 2 ( NBC )......
6:30 Window On World ( also on WKBW )
7:00 Today
9:00 Pat Boone
10:00 Snap Judgement
10:30 Concentration
11:00 Personality
11:30 Hollywood Squares
Noon Jeopardy
12:30 Mike Douglas
2:00 Days of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3:00 Another World
3:30 You Don't Say
4:00 Divorce Court
4:30 Merv Griffin
6:00 News
6:30 Huntley & Brinkley
7:00 Hazel
7:30 Daniel Boone
8:30 Ironisde
9:30 Dragnet ( the suicide attempt )
10:00 Dean Martin
11:00 News
11:30 Johnny Carson


WBEN channel 4 ( CBS ).......
6:30 Sunrise Semester
7:00 Early News ( CBS? WBEN? )
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Contact
9:30 Strikes Spares Misses
10:00 Candid Camera
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11:00 Andy of Mayberry
11:30 Dick Van Dyke
Noon Midday News
12:25 Dr's House Call
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1:00 Meet The Millers
2:00 Love Is a Many Splendored Thing
2:30 House Party
3:00 To Tell The Truth
3:30 Edge of Night
4:00 Secret Storm
4:30 Truth or Consquences
5:00 Perry Mason
6:00 News ( I think WBEN was using "First Team News" then)
6:30 CBS News
7:00 Movie 4 ( "We're No Angels" )
9:00 Movie 4 ( "Spenser's Mountain" )
11:00 News
11:30 Movie 4 ( "Fox Fire" )


WKBW channel 7 ( ABC ).........
6:30 Window On World
7:00 Eyewitness News
7:30 Rocketship 7
8:55 Dialing For Dollars/Girl Talk
10:30 Donna Reed
11:00 Temptation
11:25 Eyewitness News
11:30 How's Your Mother-In-Law?
Noon Bewitched
12:30 Outrageous Opinions
1:00 Perfect Match
1:30 Dating Game
2:00 Newlywed Game
2:30 Baby Game
2:55 Children's Doctor
3:00 General Hospital
3:30 Cmdr. Tom
4:30 Flitnstones
5:00 I Love Lucy
5:30 Marshall Dillion
6:00 Movie
7:20 Eyewitness News
7:30 Batman
8:00 Flying Nun
8:30 Bewtiched
9:00 Carol Channing
10:00 Operation: Entertainment
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:30 Late Show
 
It wouldn't be long (a matter of months IIRC) until channel 7 synchronized its news schedule with channels 2 and 4. At that time it would lock in its long term anchor team (Irv Weinstein, Tom Jolls with weather, Rick Azar with sports) that would take WKBW-TV to the top of the Buffalo market Nielsen ratings for news by 1970--and #1 is where they would stay until Irv retired in 1998.
 
Bob1370 said:
It wouldn't be long (a matter of months IIRC) until channel 7 synchronized its news schedule with channels 2 and 4. At that time it would lock in its long term anchor team (Irv Weinstein, Tom Jolls with weather, Rick Azar with sports) that would take WKBW-TV to the top of the Buffalo market Nielsen ratings for news by 1970--and #1 is where they would stay until Irv retired in 1998.
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Of course having the top radio station in Buffalo at the time, that being WKBW-AM 1520 I am sure didn't hurt. Didn't the jocks at WKBW radio have an active role at WKBW-TV? Remembering the many of times from listening to "KB Radio 15" in Maryland, WKBW-TV sure used their radio sister quite a bit in those days to promote their news and syndicated line-up but I have often wondered if there was a lot of WKBW radio on WKBW-TV?
 
"Of course having the top radio station in Buffalo at the time, that being WKBW-AM 1520 I am sure didn't hurt. Didn't the jocks at WKBW radio have an active role at WKBW-TV? Remembering the many of times from listening to "KB Radio 15" in Maryland, WKBW-TV sure used their radio sister quite a bit in those days to promote their news and syndicated line-up but I have often wondered if there was a lot of WKBW radio on WKBW-TV?"

Depends on what period of time we're talking about.

In the early years of Channel 7's life, from initial sign-on in 1958 to about 1965, there was a lot of crossover between the two stations, which occupied studio buildings next to each other on Main Street. Longtime anchor and news director Irv Weinstein began on the radio side and moved gradually over to TV during the 60s, while radio personality Jay Nelson also did a TV kids' show in the 1958-63 period as "Jungle Jay" (which gave him a nickname that stuck with him even after he moved on to a long career as Toronto's top morning man on 1050 CHUM).

That faded as Channel 7 gradually developed its own program team and its own news identity during the late 1960s .

By the time I joined KB Radio's news staff in '77 the two stations still did a lot of cross-promotion on air, but rarely shared program or news talent. The two stations had totally separate newsrooms and news staffs, the TV people never appeared on radio and KB's jocks rarely appeared on TV except for the annual Variety Club telethon. After 1979 they moved to separate studio buildings several miles from each other (KB Radio on Delaware Avenue and Channel 7 near the waterfront downtown) which made the rare crossovers even rarer. KB's morning host Danny Neaverth even became a regular on WGR-TV Channel 2's news, and that was prior to the sale of the WKBW stations to separate owners in 1986 as fallout from the Capital Cities/ABC merger which had very briefly made them defacto ABC O&Os.
 
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