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Retro: Central Indiana, November 30, 1960 Part 1: Morning

Found this at http://www.historiccolumbusindiana.org/whatwewatched/tvguide-a4060.jpg
Channels included: 3 WCIA, 4 WTTV, 6 WFBM, 8 WISH, 10 WTHI, 13 WLWI, 15 WANE, 21 WPTA, 33 WKJG, 49 WLBC
6:00AM (5:00AM)
6, 49 Continental Classroom-Education
COLOR, Chemistry: Tabulating Acids and Bases, Dr. John F. Baxter
6:30AM (5:30AM)
6, 33, 49 Continental Classroom-Education
COLOR, Modern Algebra: Parabolas
7:00AM (6:00AM)
6, 33, 49 Dave Garroway
B&W, Dave welcomes the Mundell Lowe Quartet. Jack Lescoulie, Beryl Pfizer.
7:30AM (6:30AM)
8 Chapel Door-Religious
15 Pepperment Theatre
7:45AM (6:45AM)
8 Cartoons-Children
15 Willy Wonderful-Children
8:00AM (7:00AM)
8, 15 News-Hottlet
13 Five Minutes to Live By
8:05AM (7:05AM)
13 News, Weather
8:10AM (7:10AM)
8, 15 Weather
8:15AM (7:15AM)
8, 15 Captain Kangaroo
"Woodwind Week" continues as Skitch Harrison arrives with clarentist
Dave Weber. (45 min)
8:25AM (7:25AM)
3 Inspiration Time
6 Greatest Headlines
"General Pershing Dies". Highlights from the career of this World War I
general.
*Dave Garroway continues at 8:30AM.*
8:30AM (7:30AM)
3 Tinker Time-Children
13 Susie-Comedy
9:00AM (8:00AM)
3, 10 News-Hottlet
6 Hoosier Hank and The Three Stooges-Comedy
"Three Missing Links". Moe Howard.
8 Movie-Drama
"East of Java". (1935) An american fugitive, fleeing the police, ships
aboard a tramp steamer. Elizabeth Young, Charles Bickford, Frank Albertson.
13 Kindergarten College
15 Movie-Comedy
"She's a Sweetheart". (1945) An elderly woman turns her home into
a canteen for servicemen. Jane Franzee, Larry Parks.
33 Enginner John-Children
49 Movie-TBA
9:10AM (8:10AM)
3, 10 Weather
9:15AM (8:15AM)
3, 10 Captain Kangaroo
See 8:15AM, Ch. 8, for details.
9:30AM (8:30AM)
6 Movie-Police
"Smashing the Money Ring." (1939) A secret service operator is assigned
to uncover a counterfeiting ring. Ronald Reagan, Margot Stevenson, Eddie Foy.
33 Editor's Desk-Jack Gray
9:45AM (8:45AM)
13 Willeford at Random
9:55AM (8:55AM)
33 Faith to Live By
10:00AM (9:00AM)
3, 10 December Bride
Lily and Hilda go uranium-hunting in the desert. Lily: Spring Byington.
Hilda: Verna Felton. Matt: Dean Miller.
13 Texan-Western
"Border Incident." Longley is hired to go to Mexico and buy cattle and he is
arrested. Longley: Rory Calhoun.
21 Movie-Musical
"Rock, You Sinners." (English, 1958) A disc jockey with an ambition to present
his own television series, is convinced that rock 'n' roll is the answer to his
problem. Phillp Gilbert, Adrienne Scott.
33 Dough Re Mi-Gene Rayburn
10:15AM (9:15AM)
8, 15 Debbie Drake
10:30AM (9:30AM)
3, 8, 10, 15 Video Village-Hall
6, 33, 49 Color, Play Your Hunch-Merv Griffin
13 About Faces-Ben Alexander
11:00AM
3, 8, 10, 15 I Love Lucy
Golf pro Jimmy Demaret joins the Richardos and the Mertzes in a whirl around
the golf course. Lucy: Lucille Ball. Ricky: Desi Arnaz. Jimmy: Himself.
6, 33, 49 Color, Price is Right-Cullen
13, 21 Morning Court-Drama
A former high school principal asks for a divorce. William Gwinn presides.
11:30AM (10:30AM)
3, 8, 10, 15 Clear Horizon-Serial
Anne waits for Roy's return.
6, 33, 49 Concentration
13, 21 Love That Bob!-Comedy
"Bob Enters a Photography Contest." Margaret wants Bob to take Chuck's
picture for a contest. Bob: Bob Cummings.
11:55AM (10:55AM)
4 Daily Word-Religion (I wonder why WTTV signed on at 11:55 in the morning?)

-crainbebo
 
WTTV signed on at 11:55 because they were independent. MANy independent tv stations in those years signed on noonish - or even 4pm (as did WCIU, Chicago before the days of Ultrascope and the Stock Market Observer) and WFLD (noon sign on).

I believe the fcc rule was an 8 hour day minimum for the first year of operation. It costs lots of money to make a tv station work.

Independents have an additional problem because they can't just flip the network switch and have programming. In 1960 there were FEWER barter programs around (as there are many today) so deep pockets were necessary, just to pay the electric bill.
 
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