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Retro: Central Florida Tuesday, February 20, 1973

From TV Guide, Central Florida Edition:

WESH Ch. 2 Daytona Beach/Orlando (NBC)

6 AM Your Future Is Now
6:30 Garner Ted Armstrong
7 AM Today (Maureen O'Sullivan, a former "Today"
regular, returns to talk about her play "No Sex,
Please, We're British." Frank McGee hosts.)
9 AM Phil Donahue (cardiologist Meyer Friedman discusses
how to spot likely heart-attack victims among men
35-55)
10 AM Dinah's Place (guest: Don Rickles)
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Sale Of The Century
11:30 Hollywood Squares (John Davidson, Harvey Korman,
Rose Marie, Sally Struthers, columnist Army Archerd,
Wally Cox, Charley Weaver, Paul Lynde)
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 News
12:55 NBC News (Floyd Kalber)
1 PM I Love Lucy
1:30 Three On A Match
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 Return To Peyton Place
4 PM Somerset
4:30 Bonanza
5:30 News
6:30 NBC News (John Chancellor)
7 PM To Tell The Truth
7:30 I've Got A Secret
8 PM NBC Movie: "Fools' Parade"
10 PM NBC Reports: second of two reports on the military
in the '70s examines the need for the billion-dollar
aircraft carrier CVN 70
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show (guest: Lawrence Welk, whose autobiography
"Wunnerful! Wunnerful!" had just been published)

WEDU Ch. 3 Tampa (PBS)

In-school programs until

4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Sesame Street
7 PM Your Future Is Now
7:30 Sew Easy
8 PM Book Beat
8:30 Bill Moyers' Journal (the Catholic Worker movement,
which helps the homeless and destitute)
9 PM Behind The Lines
9:30 Black Journal (commemorating the eighth anniversary
of the assassination of Malcolm X)
10 PM Battle Of Antietam: A View From The Ranks

WDBO (WKMG) Ch. 6 Orlando (CBS)

6:15 Sunshine Almanac
6:30 Sunrise Semester: "Personality Theory And Creativity"
7 AM CBS News (John Hart)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo (from Washington, the Captain visits
the Capitol and discusses the Constitution)
9 AM Perry Mason (watch for Doris Singleton, Carolyn Appleby
on "I Love Lucy")
10 AM Beat The Clock
10:30 Price Is Right
11 AM Gambit
11:30 Love Of Life
12 N Where The Heart Is
12:25 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM News
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Guiding Light
2:30 Edge Of Night
3 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
3:30 Secret Storm
4 PM Merv Griffin (Burt Reynolds, Mike Connors,
Lois Nettleton, actor Jim Hampton)
5:30 Hogan's Heroes
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7 PM Truth Or Consequences
7:30 What's My Line?
8 PM The Cat In The Hat (pre-empts "Maude")
8:30 Hawaii Five-O
9:30 The TV Comedy Years (Ed Sullivan reviews tbe
comedy hits of 1948-73)
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "10 Rillington Place"

WFLA Ch. 8 Tampa (NBC)

6:15 Today In Florida
7 AM Today
9 AM Movie: "The Pumpkin Eater"
10:20 Fashions In Sewing
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Sale Of The Century
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 Who, What Or Where
12:55 NBC News
1 PM News
1:30 Three On A Match
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 Return To Peyton Place
4 PM Somerset
4:30 Merv Griffin
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM What's My Line?
7:30 To Tell The Truth
8 PM NBC Movie: "Fools' Parade"
10 PM NBC Reports
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show

WFTV Ch. 9 Orlando (ABC)

6 AM Sunrise Jubilee
7 AM Bozo
8 AM Mike Douglas (co-host Joe Garagiola; Werner
Klemperer, Prof. Julius Sumner Miller with some
scientific experiments)
9 AM Movie: "Diamond Head"
11 AM Password (George Peppard, Linda Kaye Henning,
one-week delay from 12 N)
11:30 Bewitched
12 N News
12:30 Split Second
1 PM All My Children
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM Movie: "It Came From Outer Space"
5:30 News
6:30 ABC News (Howard K. Smith/Harry Reasoner)
7 PM Audubon Wildlife Theatre
7:30 Thrillseekers
8 PM Room 222 (delay from Fri 9 PM, Ch. 9 flip-flopped
this and "Temperatures Rising")
8:30 ABC Movie: "A Brand New Life" (Cloris Leachman and
Martin Balsam as a couple about to have their first
child after 15 years of marriage)
10 PM Marcus Welby, M.D.
11 PM News
11:30 Dick Cavett (guests: the Louds, subject of PBS's
"An American Family" and the producer of that series,
Craig Gilbert)
1 AM Movie: "Synanon"

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

7 AM Growing Things
7:15 Involvement 10
7:45 News
8 AM Morning Show
8:30 Fran Carlton
9 AM Romper Room
10 AM Leave It To Beaver
10:30 Paul Dixon (the Cincinnati talk-show (if that's
what it was) legend with an unsuccessful syndicated
show, about two years before he passed away)
11 AM I Love Lucy
11:30 Bewitched
12 N Password (Carolyn Jones, Dick Gautier)
12:30 Split Second
1 PM All My Children
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM Movie: "Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte"
6 PM I Dream Of Jeannie
6:30 ABC News
7 PM News (this came as a shock when I first saw this,
because the entire time we lived in the Bay Area--
June 1973 to October 1976--Ch. 10's local news
aired at 5:30, followed by ABC News at 6)
7:30 Let's Make A Deal
8 PM Temperatures Rising
8:30 ABC Movie: "A Brand New Life"
10 PM Marcus Welby, M.D.
11 PM News
11:30 Dick Cavett

WINK Ch. 11 Ft. Myers (CBS)

6:30 Sunshine Almanac
6:45 Good Morning
7 AM CBS News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Jack LaLanne
9:30 Sesame Street
10:30 Merv Griffin
11:30 Love Of Life
12 N Where The Heart Is
12:25 CBS News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Joker's Wild (delay from 10 AM)
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Guiding Light
2:30 Edge Of Night
3 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
3:30 Secret Storm
4 PM Vin Scully (Jack Klugman and Brett Somers
are guests)
4:30 Mike Douglas (co-host Anthony Quinn; Otto
Preminger, singers Karen Morrow and Bobby
Womack)
6 PM News
7 PM CBS News
7:30 Parent Game
8 PM The Cat In The Hat
8:30 Hawaii Five-O
9:30 The TV Comedy Years
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "10 Rillington Place"

WTVT Ch. 13 Tampa (CBS)

6 AM Breakfast Beat
7 AM CBS News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Mike Douglas
10:30 Price Is Right
11 AM Gambit
11:30 Love Of Life
12 N News
12:25 CBS News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Where The Heart Is
1:25 Tampa Bay Topics
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Guiding Light
2:30 Edge Of Night
3 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
3:30 Secret Storm
4 PM Perry Mason
5 PM Bonanza
6 PM News
7 PM CBS News
7:30 Truth Or Consequences
8 PM The Cat In The Hat
8:30 Hawaii Five-O
9:30 The TV Comedy Years
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "10 Rillington Place"

WUSF Ch. 16 Tampa (PBS)

3:30 Sunrise Semester: "The Heavenly Twins--
Astronomy And Astrology" (day-behind,
pre-empted on Ch. 13)
4 PM Anthropology
4:30 Issues In Music
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Sesame Street
7 PM Anthropology
7:30 Sunrise Semester: "Personality Theory
And Creativity"
8 PM Sunrise Semester: "The Heavenly Twins--
Astronomy And Astrology"
8:30 Computer Systems
9 PM Personal Finance
9:30 Chemistry

WBBH Ch. 20 Ft. Myers (NBC/ABC)

6:35 Potpourri
7 AM Today
9 AM What's Happening? (community calendar)
9:05 Man In A Suitcase
10 AM Dinah's Place
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Sale Of The Century
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 Who, What Or Where
12:55 News (local)
1 PM Brad Lacey (local)
1:30 Three On A Match
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 Return To Peyton Place
4 PM Somerset
4:30 Daniel Boone
5:30 Truth Or Consequences
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Hollywood Squares (Nanette Fabray,
Buddy Hackett, Michael Landon, Hope
Lange, Barbara McNair, Jan Murray,
Wally Cox, Charley Weaver, Paul Lynde)
7:30 Dragnet
8 PM NBC Movie: "Fools' Parade"
10 PM Marcus Welby, M.D.
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM The Fugitive

WMFE Ch. 24 Orlando (PBS)

In-school programs until

4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Sesame Street
7 PM French Chef
7:30 Man And Environment
8 PM Book Beat
8:30 Bill Moyers' Journal
9 PM Movie: Sergei Eisenstein's "Ivan The Terrible--
Part 1" (of what was intended as a three-parter
and ended up as only two, from '43)

WXLT (WWSB) Ch. 40 Sarasota (ABC)

9 AM New Zoo Revue
9:30 TV Talk (local)
10 AM Dinah's Place (pre-empted on Ch. 8)
10:30 Joker's Wild (pre-empted on Ch. 13)
11 AM Galloping Gourmet
11:30 Bewitched
12 N Password
12:30 Split Second
1 PM All My Children
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM Love, American Style
4:30 Movie: "Lady From Louisiana"
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News
7 PM Mancini Generation (Mac Davis sings
"Everybody Loves A Love Song")
7:30 Police Surgeon
8 PM Temperatures Rising
8:30 ABC Movie: "A Brand New Life"
10 PM Marcus Welby, M.D.
11 PM News
11:30 Dick Cavett

WTOG Ch. 44 St. Petersburg (Ind.)

11:20 Early Show
11:25 Professor Kitzel
11:30 Ben Casey
12:30 Garner Ted Armstrong
1 PM Movie: "The Last Command"
3 PM New Zoo Revue
3:30 Underdog
4 PM Love, American Style (pre-empted on Ch. 10)
4:30 Addams Family
5 PM Batman (Walter Slezak as the Clock King)
5:30 Gilligan's Island
6 PM Get Smart
6:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
7 PM Petticoat Junction
7:30 Hogan's Heroes
8 PM The Saint
9 PM Movie: "The Private Affairs Of Bel Ami"
11 PM One Step Beyond
11:30 Movie: "The Burglar"
 
bpatrick said:
WLCY (WTSP) Ch. 10 St. Petersburg (ABC)

7 PM News (this came as a shock when I first saw this,
because the entire time we lived in the Bay Area--
June 1973 to October 1976--Ch. 10's local news
aired at 5:30, followed by ABC News at 6)

I believe ch. 10 carried local news at 5:30 and ABC News at 6 through the fall of 1979 at the latest, when the station (following their first year as WTSP) decided to move its local news to 6 (to compete with 8 and 13) and ABC News to 6:30 (to compete with the NBC Nightly News on 8).
 
Even though ABC discontinued the 6 PM feed in 1982,
it was becoming a thing of the past in the Eastern time
zone by 1979; I know that by that time two North Carolina
affiliates which had carried the 6 PM feed for years had moved
their local news to 6 and "World News Tonight" to 6:30: WCTI
and WLOS, and I keep thinking WVEC Norfolk also moved its
news block to 6 PM (local) and 6:30 (ABC) around that time,
but I'm not sure on that one.

But back to Ch. 10: it's odd that, since 1969 at least, it had
had a 5:30 local news followed by ABC News at 6, then for
a short period in the 1972-73 season had ABC at 6:30 and local
at 7, then--within three months after this retro date--was back
to the former setup (and "I Dream Of Jeannie" again following the
network news at 6:30). But IIRC, nothing really worked until Gulf
Broadcasting bought the station and changed the call letters to WTSP,
along with some strong management changes. And now that it's a
CBS affiliate, I can't see the Eye Network dropping it; it's done better
with CBS than it ever did with ABC.

Personally I liked the fact that the Bay Area affiliates staggered the
network news for so many years (ABC at 6, NBC at 6:30, CBS at 7)
since--at least in our house--we watched two network newscasts:
ABC and NBC.
 
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