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Retro: Central Florida Thursday, December 12, 1968

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bpatrick

From TV Guide, Central Florida Edition:

WESH Ch. 2 Daytona Beach/Orlando (NBC)

6:15 Sunshine Almanac
6:30 TV Classroom
7 AM Today
9 AM Hazel
9:30 Dennis The Menace
10 AM Snap Judgment
10:25 NBC News (Nancy Dickerson)
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Personality
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 Eye Guess
12:55 NBC News (Edwin Newman)
1 PM News
1:30 Let's Make A Deal (would move
to ABC and Ch. 9 Dec. 30)
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 You Don't Say!
4 PM Mike Douglas
5:30 Newscope
6 PM News
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Rifleman
7:30 Daniel Boone
8:30 Ironside
9:30 Dragnet 1969
10 PM Dean Martin
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show

WEDU Ch. 3 Tampa (NET)

8:50 In-school programs
3:15 American Economy
3:45 House Party (nothing to do with
Art Linkletter)
4:15 Folk Guitar Plus
4:45 Friendly Giant
5 PM What's New
5:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
6 PM Front Desk
6:30 Industry On Parade
6:45 TBA
7 PM What's New
7:30 Adelante
8 PM Apollo 7
8:30 Joyce Chen Cooks
9 PM Sports
9:30 Chicago Roundtable
10 PM Minneapolis Symphony
sign off 11 PM

WDBO (WKMG) Ch. 6 Orlando (CBS)

6:10 News
6:15 Sunshine Almanac
6:30 Sunrise Semester: "Philosophy"
7 AM News
7:05 CBS News (Joseph Benti)
7:30 Leave It To Beaver
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Romper Room
9:30 Merv Griffin
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11 AM Andy Griffith
11:30 Dick Van Dyke
12 N Love Of Life
12:25 CBS News (Joseph Benti)
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Girl Talk
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Love Is A Many Splendored
Thing
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM Secret Storm
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Linkletter Show
4:25 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
4:30 Flintstones
5 PM Gilligan's Island
5:30 Truth Or Consequences
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7 PM Hunting And Fishing
7:30 Blondie
8 PM Hawaii Five-O
9 PM CBS Movie: "Lisa"
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Close To My Heart"

WFLA Ch. 8 Tampa (NBC)

6:30 RFD Florida
7 AM Today
9 AM Steve Allen
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Personality
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 Eye Guess
12:55 NBC News
1 PM News
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Hazel
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 You Don't Say!
4 PM Match Game
4:25 NBC News (Floyd Kalber)
4:30 Merv Griffin
6 PM News
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM America! (travelogue, not
Alistair Cooke's series)
7:30 Daniel Boone
8:30 Ironside
9:30 Dragnet 1969
10 PM Dean Martin
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show

WFTV Ch. 9 Orlando (ABC)

6:55 News
7 AM Fantastic Voyage (Ch. 9 pre-empted
all of ABC's Saturday-morning lineup
and scattered the shows out through
the week.)
7:30 Sir Lancelot
8 AM Robin Hood
8:30 Fran Carlton
9 AM Dream House
9:30 One Life To Live
10 AM Dark Shadows
10:30 Dick Cavett
12 N Bewitched
12:30 Tom Hallick
1:30 Funny You Should Ask
1:55 Children's Doctor
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 Movie: "Masters Of The Congo
Jungle"
5:30 News
6 PM ABC News (Frank Reynolds)
6:30 Of Lands And Seas
7:30 Ugliest Girl In Town (interesting that
this is the same network with Ugly Betty)
8 PM Flying Nun
8:30 Bewitched
9 PM That Girl
9:30 Journey To The Unknown
10:30 Don Rickles (delay from Fri. 9 PM)
11 PM News
11:20 Editorial
11:30 Joey Bishop

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

7 AM Accent On Learning
7:15 Open Mike
7:45 News
8 AM Good Morning
8:30 Fran Carlton
9 AM Romper Room
10 AM Loretta Young
10:30 Dick Cavett
12 N Bewitched
12:30 Treasure Isle
1 PM Dream House
1:30 Funny You Should Ask
1:55 Children's Doctor
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM Dark Shadows
4:30 Gilligan's Island
5 PM Leave It To Beaver
5:30 News
6 PM ABC News
6:30 I Love Lucy
7 PM Bishop Sheen
7:30 Ugliest Girl In Town
8 PM Flying Nun
8:30 Bewitched
9 PM That Girl
9:30 Journey To The Unknown
10:30 Peyton Place (delay from Wed. 8:30)
11 PM News
11:30 Joey Bishop

WINK Ch. 11 Ft. Myers (CBS)

6:30 Edison Jr. College
7 AM Informacast
7:05 CBS News
7:30 Sunshine Almanac
7:45 Industry On Parade
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Jack LaLanne
9:30 Merv Griffin
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11 AM Andy Griffith
11:30 Dick Van Dyke
12 N News
12:25 CBS News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Love Of Life
1:25 News
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Love Is A Many Splendored
Thing
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM Secret Storm
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Linkletter Show
4:25 CBS News
4:30 Mike Douglas
6 PM News
7 PM CBS News
7:30 Blondie
8 PM Hawaii Five-O
9 PM CBS Movie: "Lisa"
11 PM News
11:20 Movie: "Once Upon A
Honeymoon"

WTVT Ch. 13 Tampa (CBS)

6 AM A.M.
7 AM News
7:05 CBS News
7:30 News
7:45 A.M.
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Mike Douglas
10:30 Weather
10:35 Linkletter Show
11 AM Andy Griffith
11:30 Dick Van Dyke
12 N News
12:20 Farm Report
12:25 CBS News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Love Of Life
1:25 Tampa Bay Topics
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Love Is A Many Splendored
Thing
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM Secret Storm
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Flintstones
4:30 Perry Mason
5:30 News
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Truth Or Consequences
7:30 Blondie
8 PM Hawaii Five-O
9 PM CBS Movie: "Lisa"
11 PM News
11:20 Editorial
11:30 Movie: "Gunman's Walk"

WSUN Ch. 38 St. Petersburg (Ind.)

2:30 Film
3 PM Movie: "Lady Possessed"
4:30 Bozo The Clown
5 PM Kimba The White Lion
5:30 Tombstone Territory
6 PM The Deputy
6:30 Highway Patrol
7 PM Wonderful World (travelogue with
John Cameron Swayze)
7:30 Movies: "Night Without Stars" and
"Friendly Enemies"
sign off 10 PM
 
I don't know when WTOG was added; I know that
I was visiting relatives in Brevard County in the summer
of 1969, and both WTOG and WBBH/20 (NBC, Ft. Myers)
were being listed. For that matter, WRDU (WRDC)/28
Raleigh/Durham signed on around the first of November
1968 but was not being listed in the North Carolina edition
in December.

To qualify for inclusion in a particular edition, a station
had to cover at least 15% of the edition's circulation area.
TV Guide might not have had that information for WTOG or
WRDU that quickly. While TV Guide might have known the
counties in each station's DMA, it might not have known how
much of the DMA the stations were actually reaching.
 
bpatrick said:
WFTV Ch. 9 Orlando (ABC)

6:55 News
7 AM Fantastic Voyage (Ch. 9 pre-empted
all of ABC's Saturday-morning lineup
and scattered the shows out through
the week.)
7:30 Sir Lancelot
Click to expand...

What did WFTV run on Saturday mornings in place of the ABC cartoons? This is long before the days of successful weekend morning news shows, after all.
 
Movies, adventure shows like "Robin Hood,"
and wrestling. "Championship Wrestling From
Florida" aired at 10:30 AM.

Even today it's been a struggle on ABC's part
to get Ch. 9 to clear the kids' block because
of local news. They carry it, but I don't think
it's the whole three hours.
 
bpatrick said:
Even today it's been a struggle on ABC's part
to get Ch. 9 to clear the kids' block because
of local news. They carry it, but I don't think
it's the whole three hours.
Click to expand...

Actually, ABC Kids is a four hour block (9AM to 1PM ET), though many stations only carry the first three hours, just to get their E/I points.
 
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