Retro: Chicago UHFs, Saturday, May 15, 1976

[DM601]

(Source: The Herald, suburban Chicago)

WXXW 20 (PBS)
No listings

WCIU 26
AM
9 Chesperito
10 Competencia En Patines (Spanish roller games)
11 Best of Soul Train
11:30 Disco Step By Step
PM
12 El Show Jibaro
1 Una Cita Con Palomo
2 Outdoor Sportsman
2:30 Wrestling
3 Chicago Happenings
3:30 The Entertainer
4 W.L. Lillard
5 Country Lanes
6 Polka Party
6:30 Polish Variety
7:30 Rock Of Ages
9 New Life In Christ
9:30 Le Pelicula Del Sabado En La Noche (listed as B&W)

WFLD 32
AM
9 Movie: “Sierra”
10:30 Movie: “African Treasure”
PM
12 Movie: “Bowery Blitzkrieg”
1:30 Movie: “Yog Monster From Outer Space” (“Yog” as listed)
3 Movie: “San Quentin”
4:30 Petticoat Junction
5 Beverly Hillbillies
5:30 Lucy Show
6 Brady Bunch
6:30 Adam 12
7 Mission Impossible
8 Movie: “Honky Tonk”
10 Honeymooners
10:30 Lou Gordon (1: “Who killed Marilyn Monroe?,” with her first husband James Dougherty and closest confidant Robert Statzer; 2: “Is polygamy the answer for a happy marriage?” with Alex Joseph and two of his 11 wives.)
12A Oral Roberts

WSNS 44
AM
10 Life In The Spirit
10:30 The Rock
11 The Lesson
11:30 Bowling Spectacular (World’s top 16 men’s, women’s pros in mixed doubles championship)
PM
1:30 Invisible Man
2 Secret Agent
3 Sports Challenge
3:30 Movie: “California”
5 High Chaparral
6 I Spy
7 Sports & Comment with Bob Elson
7:15 On Deck
7:30 Baseball: White Sox at Royals
10:15 Baseball Report
10:30 Get Smart
11 Spanish Movie Of the Week

 

[KeithE]

Chicago's Channels 20, 38, and 50 in 1976

> (Source: The Herald, suburban Chicago)
>
> WXXW 20 (PBS)
> No listings

WXXW went off the air in 1974. There was no station on Channel 20 in Chicago between then and when WYCC started up in 1983.

I noticed that there was no listing for WCAE Ch. 50 (PBS) St. John, IN. I lived in Franklin Park (a few miles south of O'Hare Airport) at the time and they were weak but viewable on a UHF bowtie. They probably weren't strong enough (nor was there enough interest) in the NW 'burbs to bother with even with an outside antenna, hence no listing in the Arlington Heights-based Daily Herald. They were listed in TV Guide in the late '70s and early '80s.

This was right about the time that WCFC Channel 38 (now WCPX) was getting ready to go on the air. I remember seeing color bars with a WCFL-TV ID in April and May of '76. The call letters went back to a '60s-era CP owned by the Chicago Federation of Labor (WCFL Radio) but never built. It was sold to Christian Communications of Chicagoland in November 1975.

The callsign was changed to WCFC on May 26, 1976 and actual programming began on May 31.

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