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Retro: Central Ohio Friday, June 23, 1978

From TV Guide, Central Ohio Edition:

WDTN Ch. 2 Dayton (NBC)

6 AM Dick Van Dyke
6:20 Farming Today
6:30 Romper Room
7 AM Today
9 AM Donahue (from the Charleston-Huntington area:
Althea Flynt, wife of Larry Flynt, discusses the
shooting of her husband in March 1978; Larry
Flynt appears in a taped segment)
10 AM Morning Show
10:30 Hollywood Squares (Eileen Brennan, Sid Caesar,
Dom DeLuise, Louise Fletcher, Fernando Lamas,
Marsha Mason, Vic Tayback, Abe Vigoda, Paul Lynde)
11 AM High Rollers
11:30 Wheel Of Fortune
12 N Bob Braun (the five finalists in the Cincinnati Disco Dance
Contest)
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM Movie: "In Like Flint"
6 PM News
7 PM NBC News (John Chancellor/David Brinkley)
7:30 Candid Camera (a supermarket display collapses in a flurry
of cornflakes, a fur box seems to come to life on a store
counter, apparitions appear in a tailor's mirror)
8 PM CPO Sharkey
8:30 Columbo
10 PM News
10:30 Baseball: Reds-Dodgers
1 AM Midnight Special (host Burton Cummings, Patti Smith, Randy
Bachman, Teddy Pendergrass, Ronnie Montrose, time approximate)
2:30 Movie: "In Like Flint"
4:30 Movie: "Arabella" (to 6:30 AM)

Ch. 3 Special Network Channel Columbus (does not indicate what fills the gaps)

7 AM CBS News (Lesley Stahl/Richard Threlkeld, pre-empted on Ch. 10)
10 AM Pass The Buck (pre-empted on Ch. 10)
11:30 Wheel Of Fortune (pre-empted on Ch. 4)
12 N $20,000 Pyramid (Loretta Swit, Peter Bonerz, pre-empted on Ch. 6)
12:30 Gong Show (pre-empted on Ch. 4)
1 PM For Richer, For Poorer (pre-empted on Ch. 4)
4 PM Edge Of Night (odd it's being carried--Ch. 6 has it on delay at 10 AM)
10 PM Quincy (pre-empted on Ch. 4)
11:30 CBS Movie: "C.C. And Company" (pre-empted on Ch. 10)
1:30 News (simulcast with Ch. 7)
2 AM Movie: "The Man With The Golden Arm" (simulcast with Ch. 7)
4 AM Ironside (simulcast with Ch. 7)
5 AM Movie: "Roustabout" (Elvis Presley, simulcast with Ch. 7, to 7 AM)

WCMH Ch. 4 Columbus (NBC)

6:30 Columbus Today
7 AM Today
9 AM Donahue (same as Ch. 2)
10 AM Card Sharks
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11 AM High Rollers
11:30 Partridge Family
12 N News
12:30 Bob Braun (joined in progress)
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM Superman
4:30 Gilligan's Island
5 PM My Three Sons
5:30 Odd Couple
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Cross-Wits (George Maharis, Robert Q. Lewis, Jo
Ann Pflug, Patti Deutsch)
7:30 Gong Show (Rex Reed, Jaye P. Morgan, Jamie Farr--
the trio of judges I remember best)
8 PM CPO Sharkey
8:30 Columbo
10 PM News
10:30 Baseball: Reds-Dodgers
1 AM Midnight Special (time approximate)

WTTV Ch. 4 Indianapolis (Ind.)
Listed EDT

7:30 R.F.D. 4
8 AM Fred Flintstone And Friends
8:30 Janie
10 AM Donahue (from Charleston-Huntington, the topic is
sex and violence on TV)
11 AM Jim Gerard
12 N Mid-Morning
1 PM Bob Braun
2:30 Movie: "The Desert Hawk"
4 PM Cowboy Bob's Corral
4:30 Popeye
5 PM Flintstones
5:30 Superman
6 PM Beverly Hillbillies
6:30 Andy Griffith
7 PM Dick Van Dyke
7:30 Odd Couple
8 PM Gunsmoke
9 PM Joker's Wild
9:30 To Tell The Truth (Peggy Cass, Bill Cullen, Kitty Carlisle,
Dick Clark)
10 PM Newlywed Game
10:30 Baseball: Reds-Dodgers
1 AM News (time approximate)
1:30 Movie: "Atragon"
3:30 Movie: "Woman Of The Year"
5:30 Movie: "A Woman's Face"

WLWT Ch. 5 Cincinnati (NBC)

5:45 Moment Of Meditation
5:50 Good Morning
6 AM PTL Club
7 AM Today
9 AM Donahue (same as Ch. 2)
10 AM Card Sharks
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11 AM High Rollers
11:30 Midday
12 N Bob Braun (same as Ch. 2)
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM Big Valley
5 PM Here Come The Brides (guest: Daniel J. Travanti)
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM To Tell The Truth (Bill Cullen, Kitty Carlisle, Orson Bean,
Peggy Cass)
7:30 Hollywood Squares (Raymond Burr, Diana Canova, Barbara
Eden, George Gobel, Karen Grassle, Gavin MacLeod, Kenny
Rogers, Wayland and Madame, Paul Lynde)
8 PM CPO Sharkey
8:30 Columbo
10 PM News
10:30 Baseball: Reds-Dodgers
1 AM Midnight Special (time approximate)
2:30 Lightouch
2:35 Peyton Place
3 AM Peyton Place
3:30 Peyton Place

WTVN (WSYX) Ch. 6 Columbus (ABC)

6:30 News
7 AM Good Morning America (Loretta Lynn, Hal Linden)
9 AM Emergency One!
10 AM Edge Of Night
10:30 High Hopes (short-lived Canadian soap)
11 AM Happy Days
11:30 Family Feud
12 N News
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1 PM All My Children
2 PM One Life To Live
3 PM General Hospital
4 PM Merv Griffin (Abe Vigoda, Zsa Zsa Gabor, the O'Jays,
Millicent Martin)
5:30 News
6 PM ABC News (Harry Reasoner/Barbara Walters)
6:30 Andy Griffith
7 PM Newlywed Game
7:30 $100,000 Name That Tune
8 PM Tabitha
8:30 Operation Petticoat
9 PM ABC Movie: "40 Carats"
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Blowing Wild"

WHIO Ch. 7 Dayton (CBS)

6:30 Summer Semester: "Alternative Futures"
7 AM CBS News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Daytime Dayton
9:30 Match Game '78 (day-behind from 4 PM)
10 AM Pass The Buck
10:30 Price Is Right
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
12 N News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Young And The Restless
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3:30 All In The Family
4 PM Courtship Of Eddie's Father
4:30 Andy Griffith
5 PM I Dream Of Jeannie
5:30 Bewitched
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7 PM News
7:30 Cross-Wits (Jonathan Harris, Alice Ghostley,
Gregory Sierra, Sally Ann Howes)
8 PM Wonder Woman
9 PM Incredible Hulk
10 PM Husbands, Wives & Lovers
11 PM News
11:30 Summertime '78
12:30 Ironside
1:30 News
2 AM Movie: "The Man With The Golden Arm"
4 AM Ironside
5 AM Movie: "Roustabout"

WCPO Ch. 9 Cincinnati (CBS)

5:55 Farm News
6 AM Summer Semester
6:30 America's Problems And Challenges
7 AM CBS News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Uncle Al
10 AM Pass The Buck
10:30 Price Is Right
11:30 Match Game '78 (day-behind from 4 PM)
12 N Noon Report
1 PM Search For Tomorrow
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3:30 All In The Family
4 PM Movie: "Day Of The Badman"
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Joker's Wild
7:30 In Search Of... (the facts and the fiction behind the
life of Butch Cassidy)
8 PM Wonder Woman
9 PM Incredible Hulk
10 PM Kifarui The Black Rhinoceros (the story of Canadian
biologist John Goddard, who began counting the rhinoceros
population in Africa in 1964 to see if they should be placed
on the endangered-species list)
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Let's Kill Uncle"
2 AM Movie: "Trial"
4 AM Sacred Heart
4:30 Praying The Rosary
4:45 News

WBNS Ch. 10 Columbus (CBS)

6 AM Summer Semester
6:30 Societies In Transition
7 AM Porky Pig
7:25 Chuck White Reports
7:30 Schoolies
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Match Game '78 (day-behind from 4 PM)
9:30 Family Affair
10 AM Joker's Wild
10:30 Price Is Right
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 Loving Free
12 N News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Young And The Restless
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3:30 All In The Family
4 PM Gomer Pyle, USMC
4:30 Brady Bunch
5 PM Hogan's Heroes
5:30 Mary Tyler Moore
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM News
7:30 Family Feud
8 PM Wonder Woman
9 PM Incredible Hulk
10 PM Husbands, Wives & Lovers
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Flight Of The Lost Balloon"
1 AM Movie: "The Creeping Terror"

WKRC Ch. 12 Cincinnati (ABC)

6 AM Make Peace With Nature
6:30 Not For Women Only (dental pain is the subject
of the last of five shows on pain)
7 AM Good Morning America
9 AM Mike Douglas (from Hollywood: co-host Robert Conrad,
Florence Henderson, actors Jeb Adams and Mabel King,
England Dan and John Ford Coley, gadget man Stan Kann)
10 AM Extra! (local, not the tabloid show)
10:30 Edge Of Night
11 AM Happy Days
11:30 Family Feud
12 N Liars Club (Betty White, Dick Gautier, David Letterman, Larry Hovis)
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1 PM All My Children
2 PM One Life To Live
3 PM General Hospital
4 PM Dinah! (Neil Simon, Rob Reiner, Marsha Mason, Quinn Cummings,
Teri Garr)
5:30 News
6 PM ABC News
6:30 Rat Patrol
7 PM America 2Night
7:30 Newlywed Game
8 PM Tabitha
8:30 Operation Petticoat
9 PM ABC Movie: "40 Carats"
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Operation Secret"
1:30 Movie: "Death Curse Of Tartu"
3 AM Soul Train

WPTO Ch. 14 Oxford, OH/WPTD Ch. 16 Dayton (PBS)

3 PM Dick Cavett (songwriting, part 2, with Paul Simon, Sammy
Cahn, Arthur Schwartz, and Joe Raposo)
3:30 Lilias, Yoga And You
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Zoom
6:30 Over Easy (guest: Pat O'Brien (the actor))
7 PM MacNeil/Lehrer Report
7:30 Ohio Journal
8 PM Washington Week In Review
8:30 Wall Street Week
9 PM Firing Line (Raoul Berger, author of "Goverment By Judiciary,"
takes a critical look at the Supreme Court.)
10 PM Fall Of Eagles
11 PM Dick Cavett (author Frederic Dannay, aka Ellery Queen)
11:30 Captioned ABC News

WHIZ Ch. 18 Zanesville, OH (NBC/ABC)

6 AM PTL Club
7 AM Today
9 AM Donahue (second of two on the pressures on men in modern
society; guest is psychologist Herb Goldberg)
10 AM Card Sharks
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11 AM High Rollers
11:30 Wheel Of Fortune
12 N Sanford And Son
12:30 Gong Show
1 PM News
1:15 Farm And Home Report
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM For Richer, For Poorer
4:30 New Mickey Mouse Club
5 PM High Chaparral
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM High Chaparral
8 PM CPO Sharkey
8:30 Columbo
10 PM Quincy
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show (Rob Reiner, Elizabeth Ashley,
comic Johnny Yune)
1 AM Midnight Special

WXIX Ch. 19 Cincinnati (Ind.)

6:15 Perspective
7 AM Romper Room
7:30 New Zoo Revue
8 AM New Mickey Mouse Club
8:30 Popeye
9 AM Tom And Jerry
9:30 Flintstones
10 AM Dennis The Menace
10:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
11 AM Green Acres
11:30 High Hopes
12 N Medical Center
1 PM Movie: "Batman" (from '66 with Adam West, Burt
Ward, Burgess Meredith, Cesar Romero, Frank Gorshin,
and Lee Meriwether as the Catwoman)
3 PM Fred Flintstone And Friends
3:30 Bugs Bunny And Friends
4 PM Tom And Jerry
4:30 Popeye
5 PM Courtship Of Eddie's Father
5:30 Gilligan's Island
6 PM Andy Griffith
6:30 Carol Burnett And Friends
7 PM Mary Tyler Moore
7:30 Odd Couple (guest: singer Paul Williams)
8 PM Star Trek
9 PM Merv Griffin (same as Ch. 6)
10:30 Cross-Wits (June Lockhart, Avery Schreiber, Didi Carr,
David Landsberg)
11 PM Love, American Style
11:30 Movie: "Too Much, Too Soon" (watch for Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
in this '58 account of the life of Diana Barrymore (Dorothy
Malone))
1:30 Perry Mason

WOUB Ch. 20 Athens, OH (PBS)

3 PM Lilias, Yoga And You
3:30 Crockett's Victory Garden
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Zoom
6:30 Over Easy
7 PM Almanac
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8 PM Washington Week In Review
8:30 Wall Street Week
9 PM TBA
10:30 Monty Python's Flying Circus
11 PM Dick Cavett
sign off 11:30 PM

WKEF Ch. 22 Dayton (ABC)

6 AM PTL Club
7 AM Good Morning America
9 AM Mike Douglas (same as Ch. 12)
10 AM Dinah! (salute to "Grease" with Olivia Newton-John,
Dody Goodman, Frankie Avalon, Didi Conn, Eve Arden)
11 AM Happy Days
11:30 Family Feud
12 N $20,000 Pyramid
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1 PM All My Children
2 PM One Life To Live
3 PM New Mickey Mouse Club
3:30 Clubhouse 22
4 PM Brady Bunch
4:30 The Lucy Show
5 PM Gomer Pyle, USMC
5:30 Adam-12
6 PM Odd Couple
6:30 Liars Club (James Darren, Dody Goodman, Dick
Gautier, Larry Hovis)
7 PM Newlywed Game
7:30 Evening (Johnny Walker)
8 PM Tabitha
8:30 Operation Petticoat
9 PM ABC Movie: "40 Carats"
11 PM Adam-12
11:30 Baretta
12:40 Movie: "The Silent Gun"

WOSU Ch. 34 Columbus (PBS)

8:30 Zoom
9 AM Sesame Street
10 AM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
10:30 Electric Company
11 AM Over Easy (Tony Martin and Cyd Charisse)
11:30 Erica (needlework)
12 N Dick Cavett (songwriting, part 2, see Chs. 14 and 16
for the guest list)
12:30 Crockett's Victory Garden
1 PM Families Of The World
1:30 American Enterprise
2 PM Wie Gehts? (German lessons)
2:30 Daniel Foster, M.D.
3 PM Lilias, Yoga And You
3:30 Villa Alegre
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Lilias, Yoga And You
6:30 Over Easy (Pat O'Brien)
7 PM MacNeil/Lehrer Report
7:30 Like It Is (first of eight programs dealing with the nation's
African-American communities; tonight: health care and
the poor)
8 PM Washington Week In Review
8:30 Wall Street Week
9 PM Firing Line
10 PM Austin City Limits (songwriters Guy Clark and Steve Fromholz)
11 PM Dick Cavett
11:30 Captioned ABC News

WLIO Ch. 35 Lima, OH (NBC/ABC)

7 AM Today
9 AM Donahue (guest: Carl Sagan)
10 AM Card Sharks
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11 AM High Rollers
11:30 Wheel Of Fortune
12 N Sanford And Son
12:30 Easter's Parade
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM Little Rascals
4:30 Bewitched
5 PM Here Come The Brides
5:55 Golf Talk
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Emergency One!
8 PM CPO Sharkey
8:30 Columbo
10 PM News
10:30 Baseball: Reds-Dodgers
1 AM Midnight Special (time approximate)

WUAB Ch. 43 Cleveland (Ind.)

7:45 News
8 AM Magilla Gorilla
8:30 Tennessee Tuxedo
9 AM Barnaby
9:30 Romper Room
10 AM Coffee Shoppe
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11 AM Jim Nabors (Helen O'Connell, Doug Kershaw, Ted
Wass, Bill Kirchenbauer)
12 N The Bold Ones (The Senator, with Hal Holbrook)
1 PM Movie: "Captive Girl" (Johnny Weissmuller as Jungle Jim,
with Buster Crabbe, from '50)
3 PM Fred Flintstone And Friends
3:30 Munsters
4 PM Lost In Space
5 PM New Mickey Mouse Club
5:30 Superman
6 PM I Love Lucy (guest: Van Johnson)
6:30 Andy Griffith
7 PM Gomer Pyle, USMC (guest: Don Rickles)
7:30 Hogan's Heroes
8 PM Combat!
9 PM Movie: "Bunny Lake Is Missing"
11 PM America 2Night
11:30 Monty Python's Flying Circus
12 M Monty Python's Flying Circus
12:30 Tennis

WCET Ch. 48 Cincinnati (PBS)

11:30 Sesame Street
12:30 Electric Company
1 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
1:30 Withit
2 PM Lowell Thomas Remembers
2:30 James Michener's World: "The South Pacific:
End Of Eden?" (a look at ancient relics before
Oceania enters the modern world)
3:30 Lilias, Yoga And You
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Lilias, Yoga And You
6:30 Over Easy
7 PM MacNeil/Lehrer Report
7:30 File 48
8 PM Washington Week In Review
8:30 Wall Street Week
9 PM Pro Soccer
10 PM Austin City Limits
11 PM See The U.S.A. (retracing the route of the Lewis
and Clark expedition)
11:30 Captioned ABC News
 
Ch. 3 Special Network Channel Columbus (does not indicate what fills the gaps)

7 AM CBS News (Lesley Stahl/Richard Threlkeld, pre-empted on Ch. 10) WHIO Channel 7 Dayton

10 AM Pass The Buck (pre-empted on Ch. 10) WHIO

11:30 Wheel Of Fortune (pre-empted on Ch. 4) WHIZ Channel 18 Zanesville

12 N $20,000 Pyramid (Loretta Swit, Peter Bonerz, pre-empted on Ch. 6) WKEF Channel 22 Dayton

12:30 Gong Show (pre-empted on Ch. 4) WHIZ

1 PM For Richer, For Poorer (pre-empted on Ch. 4) ????

4 PM Edge Of Night (odd it's being carried--Ch. 6 has it on delay at 10 AM) ????

10 PM Quincy (pre-empted on Ch. 4) WHIZ

11:30 CBS Movie: "C.C. And Company" (pre-empted on Ch. 10) WHIO

1:30 News (simulcast with Ch. 7) WHIO

2 AM Movie: "The Man With The Golden Arm" (simulcast with Ch. 7) WHIO

4 AM Ironside (simulcast with Ch. 7) WHIO

5 AM Movie: "Roustabout" (Elvis Presley, simulcast with Ch. 7, to 7 AM) WHIO


Back in the 1970’s, there were three cable television systems (All-American, Coaxial, and Warner) operating in Columbus, Ohio. You were served by one of the three cable television systems depending on which side of Columbus you lived in.

All three Columbus cable systems had a special network channel on cable channel 3 which carried network shows pre-empted by the Columbus television stations.

The special network channel picked up the pre-empted network television shows from other television stations in Ohio.

I remember the following stations that were carried on the special network channel during network pre-emptions:

ABC Network: WEWS Channel 5 Cleveland, WKEF Channel 22 Dayton, and WAKR Channel 23 Akron

CBS Network: WHIO Channel 7 Dayton, WJW Channel 8 Cleveland, and WTOL Channel 11 Toledo

NBC Network: WKYC Channel 3 Cleveland, WSPD Channel 13 Toledo, and WHIZ Channel 18 Zanesville

Two of the Columbus cable systems (All-American & Coaxial) had a second special network channel (channel 12) on their cable systems in case there were two Columbus television stations pre-empting network television shows at the same time. The second special network channel wasn’t listed in TV Guide, but was listed in the Columbus Dispatch.

When the special network channels wasn’t carrying any network pre-empted shows, it would carry syndicated television shows or movies that were available from the other stations or carry program guide listings of channels on the cable system.
 
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