Retro: Chicago UHF, Thursday, May 17, 1973

[DM601]

(Source: The Herald, Chicago suburbs)

WXXW 20 (PBS)
(Large gaps were in published schedule)
AM
9:11 Exploring The World of Science
9:29 Memorandum: Interdependency: Metropolitan
10:02 Geography
10:24 Community of Living Things
10:40 Sing Along With Me
11:20 Carrascolendas
PM
1:23 Children of the World
2:10 Cover to Cover
7:05 TV College – Child Development 101
7:55 TV College – Business 271
8:45 TV College – Music 121

WCIU 26
AM
9 Morning Commodity Call
9:10 Stock Market Review
9:30 Newsmakers
10 Business News
10:15 Wills, Trusts and Estates
10:30 Ask an Expert
11 Business News
11:30 Jim Dunlap
11:45 American Stock Exchange
PM
12 Business News
12:20 Ask an Expert
12:30 Geno Inger Report
1 The Market Basket
1:30 Ask an Expert
2 Business News
2:30 News of the World
2:50 Commodity Final
3 Harambee-26
4:30 Soul Train
5:30 A Black’s View of the News
5:45 Informacion-26
6 Mi Dulce Enamorada
7 Ayuda
8 Sylvia and Enrique
9 Tony Quiniona Show
10 Informacion-26
10:30 Muchacan Casarce (listed as Spanish serial)

WFLD 32
AM
11:15 News
11:25 Jack LaLanne
11:55 Popeye Theater
PM
12 The BJ and Dirty Dragon Show
12:30 Garner Ted Armstrong
1 Movie: “The Boy and the Pirates”
2:30 My Favorite Martian
3 Felix the Cat
3:30 Magilla Gorilla and Friends
4 Speed Racer
4:30 The BJ and Dirty Dragon Show
5 Jeff’s Collie
5:30 The Rifleman
6 That Girl
6:30 Petticoat Junction
7 Of Lands and Seas – British Columbia
7:55 Newsbreak
8 Merv Griffin
9:30 Candid Camera
10 Honeymooners
10:30 Movie: “The Children’s Hour”
12:45A What’s Happening
1:05 News

WSNS 44
PM (noon sign-on)
12 Claudio Flores Presenta, “La Fabrica”
1 Movie: “Front Page Story”
2:30 Galloping Gourmet
3 Rin Tin Tin
3:30 Deputy Dawg
4 Mundo Hispano
5 Claudio Flores Presenta en Fiesta Latina
6 T.S.H.B.F.I.A. – Baseball Highlights
6:15 Knot Hole Gang Sports Clinic
6:30 Race Track News
6:35 Porter Wagoner
7 Real McCoys
7:30 Knot Hole Gang
7:45 On Deck
8 Baseball: Chicago White Sox at Minnesota Twins (White Sox won 5-4; source: baseball-reference.com)
10:30 Baseball Report
10:45 Championship Wrestling

 

[Braves2005]

> (Source: The Herald, Chicago suburbs)

>
> WCIU 26

PM
> 10:30 Muchacan Casarce (listed as Spanish serial)
>
Full title of show is Muchacha Italiana Vivar A Casarte(show was rerun throughout the 70's and 80's)

> WFLD 32
> AM
> 11:55 Popeye Theater

Only 5 minutes of Popeye??

>
> WSNS 44
> PM

> 6:15 Knot Hole Gang Sports Clinic
> 7:30 Knot Hole Gang
> 7:45 On Deck
> 8 Baseball: Chicago White Sox at Minnesota Twins (White Sox
> won 5-4; source: baseball-reference.com)
> 10:30 Baseball Report

Was WSNS the flagship station of the Chicago White Sox since WGN carried the Chicago Cubs back then? Also was the Knot Hole Gang a part of the White Sox?

 

[DrBear]

> Was WSNS the flagship station of the Chicago White Sox
> since WGN carried the Chicago Cubs back then? Also was the
> Knot Hole Gang a part of the White Sox?
>
Don't know about the Knot Holers...

But WGN carried both teams until the mid 60s, when the White Sox left to put more games on WSNS. At that point, Phil Wrigley told WGN they could carry all his games. The Sox didn't return to WGN until 1981.

 

[EnbyCee]

> > Was WSNS the flagship station of the Chicago White Sox
> > since WGN carried the Chicago Cubs back then? Also was the
>
> > Knot Hole Gang a part of the White Sox?
> >
> Don't know about the Knot Holers...
>
> But WGN carried both teams until the mid 60s, when the White
> Sox left to put more games on WSNS.

Actually the Sox initially left in 1967 to put games on WFLD. This move was a disaster, as the Sox put a horrible product on the field and few Chicagoans had good UHF reception at the time. After a couple of years WFLD said enough, and the Sox switched to WSNS for most of the 70's.

Their decision to leave WGN in 1967 is often cited as one of the main reasons why the Cubs are the more popular of Chicago's two baseball teams.