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Retro: Chicago Thurs, Nov 22, 1973

Thanksgiving Day schedule from Chicago Daily News

2 WBBM-CBS
5 WMAQ-NBC
7 WLS-ABC
9 WGN-Ind
11 WTTW-PBS
20 WXXW-PBS
26 WCIU-Ind/Spanish
32 WFLD-Ind
44 WSNS-Ind/Spanish

Morning
5:50
2-9 News

6:00
2 Sunrise Semester
5 Station Exchange

6:05
9 Top o' the Morning

6:25
7 Reflections

6:30
2 It's Worth Knowing About Us
5 Town & Farm
7 Perspectives
9 Romper Room

6:35
5 Today in Chicago

6:55
7 Earl Nightingale

7:00
2 CBS Morning News
5 Today
7 Kennedy & Company
9 Ray Rayner & His Friends
11 Sesame Street

7:25
5 News

7:30
5 Today

8:00
2 All-American Thanksgiving Day Parade
5 Get Me to the Thanksgiving Day Parade on Time
9 Garfield Goose
11 Electric Company

8:30
7 Movie "A Man Called Flintstone"
9 Hazel
11 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood

9:00
5 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
9 I Love Lucy
11 Sesame Street
26 Business News

9:02
20 Educational Programs

9:30
9 Living Easy

10:00
9 Prince Street Players "Cinderella"
11 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
32 Garner Ted Armstrong

10:30
7 Brady Bunch
11 Mission 1: 28 Days in Space
32 Jack LaLanne

11:00
2 NFL Today
5 World's Great Magicians
7 Password
9 BJ & Dirty Dragon
11 All-American Indian Days
32 Newstalk

11:30
2 NFL: Washington-Detroit (Redskins blank Lions 20-0, from databasefootball.com)
7 Split Second
32 Pixanne

11:45
9 News

11:55
5 NBC News

Afternoon
noon
5 News
7 College Football: Air Force-Notre Dame (Irish win 48-15, from http://homepages.cae.wisc.edu/~dwilson/rsfc/history/howell/cf1973gms.txt)
9 Bozo's Circus
11 Oscar Howe: Sioux Painter
32 Magic Circus
44 Cuando Se Quiere Ser Feliz

12:15
11 TV College: Law Enforcement 102

12:30
5 Alice Through the Looking Glass (starring Judi Rolin and the Smothers Brothers)
11 Killers

1:00
9 Movie "The Daydreamer"
32 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
44 Galloping Gourmet

1:30
44 Mantrap

2:00
2 Pro Football Report
5 Pre-Game Show
11 Godspell Goes to Plimouth Plantation
44 Can You Top This?

2:30
2 Classic Tales "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea"
5 NFL: Miami-Dallas (Miami 14, Dallas 7- score from databasefootball.com)
11 Lilias, Yoga & You
32 Jeff's Collie (Lassie)
44 Real McCoys

3:00
9 Thanksgiving: A Light Here Kindled (looks at the Pilgrims in Plymouth in 1627, 7 years after their original landing)
11 Erica
26 Harambee
32 Magilla Gorilla & Friends
44 Prince Planet

3:15
11 Theonie

3:30
2 Movie "Arrowhead"
7 Movie "The Ghost & Mr Chicken" (WLS' ad in the Daily News is captioned "Spend this Thanksgiving with a funny-looking bird"...and shows a pic of the film's star Don Knotts ;D)
9 Gilligan's Island
11 Sesame Street
32 Banana Splits
44 Deputy Dawg

4:00
9 Flintstones
32 Speed Racer
44 Leave It to Beaver

4:30
11 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
26 Soul Train
32 Little Rascals
44 F Troop

4:45
9 News

5:00
7 News
9 I Dream of Jeannie
11 Sesame Street
32 Lucy Show
44 Big Valley

5:30
2 CBS News
5 News
7 College Football: Alabama-Louisiana State (The Tide wins 21-7, from the college score source listed above)
9 Bewitched
26 A Black's View on the News
32 Beverly Hillbillies

5:45
26 Muneca

Evening
6:00
2 News
5 NBC News
9 Andy Griffith
11 Electric Company
32 Mission: Impossible
44 Sports Page

6:15
44 Race Track News

6:30
5 Police Surgeon
9 Dick Van Dyke
11 Zoom
44 Porter Wagoner (guest Johnny Paycheck)

6:45
26 Informacion

7:00
2 Waltons
5 Movie "My Fair Lady"
9 Uncle Sam Magoo (Mr Magoo's take on American history)
11 Godspell Goes to Plimouth Plantation
26 Ayuda
32 Wild, Wild West
44 Roller Derby: Pioneers-Jolters

7:30
11 Changing Seasons (A tour of the Arnold Arboretum in Boston)

8:00
2 Movie "Duel at Diablo"
9 Bonanza
11 Movie World of Ingmar Bergman (hosted by Roger Ebert)
26 Sylvia y Enrique
32 Merv Griffin

8:30
7 ABC News

9:00
7 All Things Bright & Beautiful
9 Perry Mason
26 Tony Quintana
44 Twelve O'Clock High

9:30
32 Honeymooners

9:45
44 Faceoff

10:00
2-7-9 News
11 Football: Lombardi Style
26 Informacion
32 Night Gallery
44 WHA: Chicago-Los Angeles (Chicago wins 4-3, from http://www.shrpsports.com/wha/teamseas.php)

10:15
5 News

10:30
2 Movie "The Lost Continent"
7 Wide World of Entertainment "Salute to Humble Howard" (Tribute to Howard Cosell with Don Rickles, Steve Allen, David Steinberg, Ted Knight, Alex Karras, and others)
9 Movie "The King & I"
11 Man of Destiny
26 La Hiena

10:45
5 Tonight Show

11:00
32 Movie "The Big Wheel"

11:30
11 Lilias, Yoga & You

Late Night
midnight
7 Kennedy at Night

12:15
5 Tomorrow

12:30
2 News
7 Passage to Adventure

12:45
2 Movie "The Family Jewels"

1:10
9 News

1:40
7 Reflections
9 Movie "Island of Doomed Men"

1:45
5 News

1:50
5 Meditation

2:50
2 Movie "Battle Circus"

3:00
9 News

3:05
9 Five Minutes to Live By

4:45
2 Meditation
 
WCIU Ch. 26 was a multi-ethnic station at night but did carry a lot of Spanish-language programming.

WSNS Ch. 44 didn't begin broadcasting in Spanish full-time until 1985, when ON-TV went off the air. It was a mainstream independent in '73. It had begun airing White Sox baseball that year.

The other station in the market (but not always listed in TV Guide and never in any of the Chicago papers, IIRC) in 1973 was WCAE Ch. 50, a PBS station owned by a high school in St. John, IN.
 
Ultimajock said:
Bluenoser said:
Thanksgiving Day schedule from Chicago Daily News

44 WSNS-Ind


10:00
44 WHA: Chicago-Los Angeles (Chicago wins 4-3, from http://www.shrpsports.com/wha/teamseas.php)

...any indication of what normally ran on WSNS at and after 10:00? I'm especially curious if Bob Luce's weeknight strip pro wrestling show ran this early in the station's history...

Ask and ye shall receive ;D

Wrestling did air on 'SNS as follows:
Sun noon/replay Tues 10pm (Bob Luce, that week's highlight was the conclusion of the World Tag Team Match between Billy Robinson?Crusher and Nick Bockwinkel/Ray Stevens)
Fri 10pm (Chicago, highlight was 6-man action: Mencaker/Snyder/Gomez v Heenan/Snyder/Valiant- think I may have the second name of the Heenan team wrong, though)
They showed boxing on Mon/Wed 10pm; weeknights ended with Not for Women Only at 11 and Trails West at 11:30.

WCIU also ran some wrestling as well Sundays 11am & 1pm.
 
Bluenoser said:
44 WSNS-Ind



...any indication of what normally ran on WSNS at and after 10:00? I'm especially curious if Bob Luce's weeknight strip pro wrestling show ran this early in the station's history...

Ask and ye shall receive ;D

Wrestling did air on 'SNS as follows:
Sun noon/replay Tues 10pm (Bob Luce, that week's highlight was the conclusion of the World Tag Team Match between Billy Robinson/Crusher and Nick Bockwinkel/Ray Stevens)
Fri 10pm (Chicago, highlight was 6-man action: Mencaker/Snyder/Gomez v Heenan/Raschke/Valiant
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Corrected 6-man match info above
 
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