Retro: Chicago Sun, Nov 18, 1973

[Bluenoser]

Since bpatrick has a listing for this day from the South, here's one from the North ;D

from Chicago Daily News

WBBM 2-CBS
6:15 Thought for the Day
6:20 Early Report
6:30 Getting it Together
7:00 Help! It's the Hair Bear Bunch
7:26 In the News
7:30 Amazing Chan & the Chan Clan
7:56 In the News
8:00 Dusty's Treehouse
8:30 Magic Door
9:00 Lamp Unto My Feet
9:30 Look Up & Live
10:00 Camera Three
10:30 Notions & Other Sundries
11:00 Newsmakers
11:30 Face the Nation
noon Bears Today
12:30 NFL Today
1:00 NFL: Da Bears host Detroit
3:30 Pro Football Report
4:00 Classic Tales "Treasure Island"
5:00 Best of Soul Train (guests James Brown, Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, the Temptations, Curtis Mayfield, Jackson Five, Al Green, etc.)
6:00 News
6:30 Thanksgiving Treasure
8:00 Once Upon a Mattress (Carol Burnett and Ken Berry star in a musical based on The Princess and the Pea)
8:30 Barnaby Jones
9:30 New Dating Game
10:00 News
10:15 CBS News
10:30 Two on 2
11:00 Name of the Game
12:45 News
1:00 Movie "The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker"
2:35 Meditation

WMAQ 5-NBC
7:55 Meditation
8:00 Memorandum
8:30 Whys?...and Otherwise
9:00 Some of My Best Friends
9:30 Everyman
10:00 Sunday in Chicago
11:30 Meet the Press
noon NFL: Baltimore-Washington
3:00 Celebrity Bowling
3:30 Holy Land (religious special on how Christians, Jews and Muslims co-exist in a land considered sacred by all three faiths)
4:30 Land of the Giants
5:30 NBC News
6:00 Wild Kingdom
6:30 Wonderful World of Disney "The Flight of the White Stallions" (conclusion)
7:30 Frank Sinatra (guest star Gene Kelly)
8:30 Dinah in Search of the Ideal Man (Dinah Shore is joined by Mike Douglas, Burt Reynolds, Telly Savalas, and Don Knotts, among others)
9:30 Sorting It Out
10:00 News
10:30 Kup's Show
12:30 Meditation

WLS 7-ABC
7:25 Reflections
7:30 Consultation
8:00 Jubilee Showcase (performances by the Pilgrim Jubilee Singers, Bill Moss & the Celestials, and the Katie Davis Singers)
8:30 Interesting News for Kids
9:00 Kid Power
9:30 Osmonds
9:55 Multiplication-Grammar Rock
10:00 H.R. Pufnstuf
10:25 Multiplication-Grammar Rock
10:30 Make a Wish
11:00 College Football '73
12:30 Issues & Answers
1:00 A Matter of Faith (guest Rose Kennedy)
1:30 Black on Black
2:00 Forum
2:30 Feminine Franchise
3:00 Movie "Who's Minding the Mint?"
5:00 Rainbow Sundae "The Pathfinder" (pt 4)
6:00 Ozzie's Girls
6:30 FBI
7:30 Movie "The Hospital"
9:30 News
10:15 ABC News
10:30 Movie "Pendulum"
12:40 Movie "War Kill"
2:45 Reflections

WGN 9-Ind
6:40 Five Minutes to Live By
6:45 News
7:00 Buyers' Forum
7:15 Three Score/Community Calendar
7:30 Growing Edge
7:45 What's New (Jewish affairs, not to be confused with the PBS show)
8:00 Mass for Shut-Ins
8:45 Chicagoland Church Hour
9:30 Issues Unlimited
10:00 Daniel Boone (bw)
11:00 Cisco Kid (bw)
11:30 Lone Ranger (bw)
noon Movie "Charlie Chan in London" (bw)
1:30 Movie "The Long Hot Summer"
3:30 Family Classics "Wilderness Journey"
5:30 Kopycats (guest host Raymond Burr)
6:30 America "The Arsenal" (looks at America's emegence as a world military power)
7:30 Your Right to Say It "An Elementary School Experiment: The Walt Disney Magnet Schools"
8:30 Bobby Goldsboro (guest Jim Nabors)
9:00 Lawrence Welk
10:00 News
10:30 Movie "The Best Years of Our Lives" (bw)
1:55 News (news was listed for 1:55 and 2:25, my guess is 1:55 was a replay of the 10pm newscast, with 2:25 as a news update)
2:30 Five Minutes to Live By

WTTW 11-PBS
7:00 TV College:
* 7:00 Data Processing 101 (bw)
* 8:30 Humanities 201 (bw)
* 10:00 Environmental Studies 101
* 11:00 Law Enforcement 102
* 12:30 Dollar Power
1:00 Book Beat
1:30 Winesburg, Ohio (Jean Peters stars in this story about people's lives in a small town and how a mother tries to help her son escape from small-town life)
3:00 Making Things Grow
3:30 Erica
3:45 Theonie
4:00 Chan-ese Way
4:30 French Chef
5:00 Chicago Sunday Evening Club
6:00 Wall Street Week
6:30 Gilbert & Sullivan "Ruddigore"
7:30 A Tribute to Pablo Casals
9:00 Consumer Game
9:30 Masterpiece Theater "The Man Who Was Hunting Himself"
10:20 Newswatch
10:30 Firing Line
11:30 Lilias, Yoga & You

WXXW 20-PBS
No Sunday programming

WCIU 26-Ind
9:00 Rock of Ages (bw)
10:00 Ministry of Brother Al
10:30 Cinema Special (bw)
11:00 Wrestling (bw)
noon Lou Farina's Chicago Happenings (bw)
1:00 Wrestling
1:30 Spiro Skouras (bw)
2:30 Hellenic Interlude
4:00 Mike Przemyski (bw)
4:30 Bob Lewandowski (bw)
6:00 Italian Variety Show (bw)
7:00 Hellenic Theater (bw)
8:00 Rev. Cleophus Robinson
8:30 Lithuanian TV (bw)
9:00 Cinema Special
9:30 Kathryn Kuhlman
10:00 Good News
10:30 Vernon Lyons & New Life
11:00 Joy of Living
11:30 Bountiful Blessings

WFLD 32-Ind
7:30 Day of Discovery
8:00 Reaching Up
8:30 Hour of Power
9:30 Oral Roberts
10:00 Rifleman
10:30 Movie "Comanche" (bw)
noon Movie "Random Harvest" (bw)
2:30 Movie "Hollywood Party" (bw)
3:30 Roller Game of the Week
6:30 JFK: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums (Gregory Peck narrates this film reviewing JFK's Presidency)
8:00 Point of View
8:30 Our People Los Hispanos
9:00 Soul Searching
9:30 Night Gallery
10:30 Movie "Five Steps to Danger" (bw)
12:05 Consultation

WSNS 44-Ind
7:00 Campmeeting Revival
7:30 Revival Fires
8:00 Rex Humbard
9:00 Kathryn Kuhlman
9:30 Reverend Ike
10:00 Notre Dame Football Highlights
11:00 Roller Derby: Pioneers v Jolters
noon Bob Luce Wrestling: conclusion of World Tag Team title bout between Billy Robinson/Crusher and Nick Bockwinkel/Ray Stevens
1:00 Movie "Dude Bandit" (bw)
2:00 Movie "Les Miserables" (bw)
4:00 Purdue Football Highlights: Purdue-Michigan
5:00 Outdoor Sportsman
6:00 Bull Roar
6:15 Tipoff
6:30 NBA: Bulls at Detroit
8:30 Movie "One of Our Aircraft is Missing" (bw)
10:30 Movie "The Great Flamarion" (bw)

 

[Mike Stroud]

Ah, yes, restarting the Civil War by way of old television schedules ... what a concept--!!!

 

[Ultimajock]

WCIU 26-Ind
11:00 Wrestling (bw)
1:00 Wrestling

WFLD 32-Ind
3:30 Roller Game of the Week

WSNS 44-Ind
11:00 Roller Derby: Pioneers v Jolters
noon Bob Luce Wrestling: conclusion of World Tag Team title bout between Billy Robinson/Crusher and Nick Bockwinkel/Ray Stevens

...hmmm. For several years, the 11:00 wrestling on WCIU was Verne Gagne's AWA All-Star Wrestling, followed at Noon by a half-hour of Bob Luce's version of the Dick "The Bruiser" Afflis' WWA show from Indianapolis. But here, Luce is on WSNS and there's an hour distance between the first and second WCIU packages. Know what the deal is here? Also interested to see Seltzer's Roller Derby on WSNS and Griffiths' Roller Game of the Week on WFLD; just a couple of years earlier, I recall it being the other way around...

 

[dave73]

Since bpatrick has a listing for this day from the South, here's one from the North ;D

from Chicago Daily News

WGN 9-Ind
10:00 News
10:30 Movie "The Best Years of Our Lives" (bw)
1:55 News (news was listed for 1:55 and 2:25, my guess is 1:55 was a replay of the 10pm newscast, with 2:25 as a news update)
2:30 Five Minutes to Live By

I always thought WGN had their news at 9pm. I wonder when WGN moved their news to the 9pm slot. As for the repeat of the news in the overnight hours; I completely forgot about it, until you listed the TV programs for Chicago. I now remember WGN re-airing the evening news well into the 80's. Sometime in the late 80's, or early 90's, they stopped re-airing the news. Now I wonder when in the 70's that WGN went 24 hours. I believe they were the only station that went 24 hours in the 70's, whereas the 3 networks were still signing off into the early 80's. In my opinion, WGN was a better station when they were Independent than as a network today.

 

[FreddyE1977]

the second PBS station did not even bother to sign-on Sundays? Interesting.

 

[Ultimajock]

the second PBS station did not even bother to sign-on Sundays? Interesting.

...as I recall, WXXW/20 was merely WTTW/11's in-school instructional programming outlet, so without any public schools open on Sunday, there was no need for the station to transmit. Plus, wasn't it around this time that WXXW went dark, with the City Colleges' WYCC taking over Channel 20 almost ten years later?...

 

[dave73]

the second PBS station did not even bother to sign-on Sundays? Interesting.

...as I recall, WXXW/20 was merely WTTW/11's in-school instructional programming outlet, so without any public schools open on Sunday, there was no need for the station to transmit. Plus, wasn't it around this time that WXXW went dark, with the City Colleges' WYCC taking over Channel 20 almost ten years later?...

If I'm not mistaken about WXXW, I remember hearing that they were B&W the entire time they were on the air. City Colleges of Chicago took over the license, and signed on in the 80's, and I believe that was around the time it went on the air in color. I vaguely remember programming on WYCC in the 80's, as I normally watched WTTW. In the early days, the only UHF channels I watched were: WFLD 32 (now 31), WPWR 60 & later 50 (now 51), & WFBN/WGBO 66 when they were English. I didn't watch WCIU 26 (now 27) until 1995 when WGBO went Spanish. I also watched WYIN 56 (now 17) with the limited broadcast schedule they had for the first 5-7 years. Too bad I didn't have a VCR back on November 15th, 1987 to record the first sign on, since the station wasn't on the air before under any other call letter. This station simply picked up where the old WCAE left off, when that station (at the time on 50) went off the air in 1983, and Lake Central High School couldn't afford to keep the station on the air, and sold the license to Newsweb. At the same time, the commercial & non-commercial status were swapped on the 50 & 56 licenses, since 50 was at the time, non-commercial (could transmit from Chicago) & 56 was at the time, commercial (60 on the Sears Tower & 55 was transmitting from Pleasant Prairie WI prevented 56 from locating to Chicago).

 

[Ultimajock]

the second PBS station did not even bother to sign-on Sundays? Interesting.

...as I recall, WXXW/20 was merely WTTW/11's in-school instructional programming outlet, so without any public schools open on Sunday, there was no need for the station to transmit. Plus, wasn't it around this time that WXXW went dark, with the City Colleges' WYCC taking over Channel 20 almost ten years later?...

If I'm not mistaken about WXXW, I remember hearing that they were B&W the entire time they were on the air. City Colleges of Chicago took over the license, and signed on in the 80's, and I believe that was around the time it went on the air in color. I vaguely remember programming on WYCC in the 80's, as I normally watched WTTW.

...I watched WYCC when I lived in Kenosha from '84 into '85; I recall they had a Wednesday night/Sunday afternoon series of classic public-domain films (Diabolique, Mister Arkadin, The Stranger, The Gold Rush, Grand Illusion, La Strada and It's a Wonderful Life were the titles I best recall as part of the series), and after the films ended each Wednesday night there was a phone-in discussion about them on WNIB Radio hosted by a City College professor of mass media...