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Retro: Central Florida Sunday, September 8, 1968

From TV Guide, Central Florida Edition:

WESH Ch. 2 Daytona Beach/Orlando (NBC)

8 AM Christophers
8:30 Ronald Reads The Funnies
9 AM Gospel Singing Jubilee
10 AM With This Ring
10:15 Eternal Word
10:30 Movie: "Love Is Better Than Ever"
12 N Home Finder
1 PM Meet The Press
1:30 Topic
2 PM AFL Football: Patriots at Bills
5 PM World Series Of Golf (final round,
time approximate)
6:30 News (time approximate)
7 PM Frank McGee Report
7:30 Walt Disney's Wonderful World
Of Color
8:30 Mothers-In-Law
9 PM Bonanza
10 PM High Chaparral (last show before
moving to Friday 7:30)
11 PM News
11:30 Naked City

WEDU Ch. 3 Tampa (NET)

3:30 French Chef
4 PM Segovia Master Class
4:30 Japanese Time (with T. Mikami, who
used to do Japanese brush painting
on NET)
5 PM Folk Guitar
5:30 Joyce Chen Cooks
6 PM Pathfinders
6:30 Firing Line
7:30 News In Perspective
8:30 NET Playhouse: "Victoria Regina: Spring"
9:30 Warsaw Philharmonic
10:30 Power Of The Dollar
sign off 11 PM

WDBO (WKMG) Ch. 6 Orlando (CBS)

7:55 News
8 AM Light Time
8:15 Living Word
8:30 Christophers
8:45 Social Security In Action
9 AM Faith For Today
9:30 This Is The Life
10 AM Lamp Unto My Feet
10:30 Look Up And Live
11 AM Camera Three
11:30 Breakthru
12 N Big Picture
12:30 Face The Nation
1 PM Washington Report
1:15 See Florida First
1:30 Film Feature: "The Image
Changers"
2 PM Underway For Peace (Navy film)
2:30 Parade Of Champions (putt putt golf)
3 PM U.S. Open Tennis (Men's and women's
singles finals--the favorite in the women's
is "Billie Jean King, a U.S. pro.")
5 PM Tennessee Tuxedo (time approximate)
5:30 Amateur Hour
6 PM 21st Century
6:30 Digest
7 PM Lassie
7:30 Ed Sullivan (90-minute tribute to Irving
Berlin on his 80th birthday--a rerun)
9 PM TBA
10 PM Mission: Impossible
11 PM CBS News (Harry Reasoner)
11:15 Hawaiian Eye

WFLA Ch. 8 Tampa (NBC)

7 AM Bible Story
7:30 Gospel Time
8 AM World Religion
8:30 Ronald Reads The Funnies
9 AM Perspective
9:30 My Favorite Story
10 AM Movie: "Tokyo File 212"
11:30 Rex Humbard
12:30 Poverty In Rural America
1 PM Meet The Press
1:30 News Conference
2 PM AFL Football: Patriots at Bills
5 PM World Series Of Golf (final round,
time approximate)
6:30 Burke's Law (time approximate)
7:30 Walt Disney's Wonderful World
Of Color
8:30 Mothers-In-Law
9 PM Bonanza
10 PM High Chaparral
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Sleep, My Love"

WFTV Ch. 9 Orlando (ABC)

7:25 News
7:30 Agriculture America
8 AM Skylite Cavalcade
9 AM Davey And Goliath
9:15 Living Word
9:30 Word Of Life
10 AM Insight
10:30 School Story
11 AM Church Service (from First
Baptist Church of Orlando,
IIRC)
12 N Florida Agri-World
1 PM Issues And Answers (one-hour
interview with Hubert Humphrey,
Vice President and Democratic
Presidential nominee)
2 PM Movie: "No Down Payment"
4 PM ABC News Special: "Rehearsal
For D-Day"
5 PM Newlywed Game (delay from Saturday
8 PM)
5:30 Viewpoint 9
6 PM Discussion '68
6:30 Thunderbirds
7 PM Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea
8 PM Around The World Of Mike Todd
9 PM ABC Movie: "Under The Yum Yum
Tree"
11:15 ABC News (Keith McBee)
11:30 News
11:45 Movie: "Mardi Gras"

WLCY (WTSP) Ch. 10 St. Petersburg (ABC)

7:10 News
7:15 Film Short: "Design For Winning"
7:30 Sacred Heart
7:45 Focus On Religion
8 AM Allen Revival Hour
8:30 Gospel Hour
9 AM World Today
9:30 Milton The Monster
10 AM Linus The Lionhearted
10:30 Bugs Bunny
11 AM Bullwinkle
11:30 Discovery '68
12 N Meet The Realtors
12:15 Social Security Roundtable
12:30 Growing Things
12:45 Film Short
1 PM Issues And Answers
2 PM Championship Wrestling
From Florida
3 PM Journey Through Africa
3:45 Film Short
4 PM ABC News Special: "Rehearsal
For D-Day"
5 PM Outlaws
6 PM Defenders
7 PM Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea
8 PM Around The World Of Mike Todd
9 PM ABC Movie: "Under The Yum Yum
Tree"
11:15 ABC News
11:30 Joey Bishop (delay from Friday)

WINK Ch. 11 Ft. Myers (CBS)

7:30 Christophers
8 AM The Answer
8:30 Faith For Today
9 AM Tom And Jerry
9:30 Underdog
10 AM Lamp Unto My Feet
10:30 Insight
11 AM Church Service
12 N Herald Of Truth
12:30 Face The Nation
1 PM TBA
3 PM U.S. Open Tennis
5 PM Tennessee Tuxedo (time
approximate)
5:30 Amateur Hour
6 PM 21st Century
6:30 Gidget
7 PM Lassie
7:30 Ed Sullivan
9 PM TBA
10 PM Mission: Impossible
11 PM CBS News
11:15 Movie: "Cornered"

WTVT Ch. 13 Tampa (CBS)

7:35 Weather
7:45 Gospel Singing Jubilee
8:45 Rebels Quartet
9 AM Tom And Jerry
9:30 Underdog
10 AM News
10:05 Church Service
10:30 Look Up And Live
11 AM Camera Three
11:30 Faith For Today
12 N Amateur Hour
12:30 Face The Nation
1 PM Insight (local discussion program)
1:30 College Kaleidoscope
2 PM 77 Sunset Strip
3 PM U.S. Open Tennis
5 PM Tennessee Tuxedo (time approximate)
5:30 21st Century
6 PM News
6:30 Truth Or Consequences
7 PM Lassie
7:30 Ed Sullivan
9 PM TBA
10 PM Mission: Impossible
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Five Graves To Cairo"

WSUN Ch. 38 St. Petersburg (Ind.)

2:30 Victory At Sea
3 PM Men Into Space
3:30 Battle Line
4 PM Big Attack
4:30 Championship Wrestling
5:30 Cross Current
6 PM Movie: "Overland Stage Coach"
7 PM TBA
7:30 The Unexpected
8 PM Pelicula: "LaReina De La Opereta"
sign off 9:30 PM (this station was already
on its last legs)
 
bpatrick said:
From TV Guide, Central Florida Edition:

WLCY (WTSP) Ch. 10 St. Petersburg (ABC)

2 PM Championship Wrestling
From Florida

WSUN Ch. 38 St. Petersburg (Ind.)

4:30 Championship Wrestling

...the same show, by any chance?...
 
bpatrick said:
WSUN Ch. 38 St. Petersburg (Ind.)
sign off 9:30 PM (this station was already
on its last legs)

They would hang on about a year and a half more, going off the air for good in February 1970. Couldn't cope with having lost their ABC affiliation to WLCY-10. The channel would remain vacant until WTTA signed on in the early 90's.
 
Stanislav said:
[WSUN-TV] would hang on about a year and a half more, going off the air for good in February 1970. Couldn't cope with having lost their ABC affiliation to WLCY-10.

And the arrival of WTOG three months later in December 1968 didn't help matters, either.
 
Ultimajock said:
bpatrick said:
From TV Guide, Central Florida Edition:

WLCY (WTSP) Ch. 10 St. Petersburg (ABC)

2 PM Championship Wrestling
From Florida

WSUN Ch. 38 St. Petersburg (Ind.)

4:30 Championship Wrestling

...the same show, by any chance?...

Good chance. In the '70s WTOG used to run the show
Saturdays at 7, and WLCY (WTSP) ran it Sundays at 1.
 
Championship Wrestling from Florida indeed! This was fairly early in Eddie Graham's promoting career. I think Cowboy Luttral was no longer active by this point. The Briscos were not in yet. Jack was in TX or OK just starting out. Jerry came along a year or two later. Dory Funk Jr was NWA World champion so he was definitely making Florida shots. Otherwise I do not know who the mainstays were in 1968. Perhaps Paul Jones and Joe Scarpa to name a few. Of course Scarpa went on to become Chief Jay Strongbow.
 
I remember watching Championship Wrestling
From Florida on Channel 28 in Raleigh/Durham
around 1969, and that was indeed the title
they used. Channel 36 in Charlotte had it
as well in that era.
 
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