Retro:Cleveland/Akron/Canton/Alliance, Ohio Thursday, December 19, 1974

[Tim L]

Source:TV Guide, Cleveland Edition

Thursday, December 19, 1974

3 WKYC-NBC-Cleveland
5 WEWS-ABC
8 WJW-CBS
25 WVIZ PBS
43 WUAB
61 WKBF

17 WJAN Canton
23 WAKR-ABC Akron
45 WNEO-PBS Alliance

5:45
3 News

5:50
3 Farm Fare

5:55
3 Knowledge

6:20
8 News

6:25
3 Nor For Women Only
8 First Edition

6:30
8 Sunrise Semester

6:55
3 What's Doing?
5 News

7AM
3 Today
5 Inner Circle
8 CBS News-Hughes/Rudd

7:30
5 Cartoons

8AM
5 Morning Exchange-Fred Griffith, Liz Richards, Joel Rose
8 Captain Kangaroo

9AM
3 Mike Douglas-Liberace CoHost (Today Only) In a salute to the 1950's-Douglas had 5 differesnt cohosts (one each day) saluting a different decade..

8 Mayberry RFD

9:30
8 Tattletales-Bert Convy-Amanda Blake, Gary Burghoff, Gene Rayburn and spouses

10AM
5 Split Second
8 Joker's Wild

10:20
23-43 News

10:30
3 Winning Streak
5 I Dream Of Jeannie
8 Gambit
23-61 Jack LaLanne (he is still doing infomercials at 95 years old!)
43 Coffee Shoppe

11AM
3 High Rollers-Alex Trebek
5 $10,000 Pyramid-Dick Clark-Betsy Palmer. Leonard Nimoy
8 Now You See It-Jack Narz
23-43 Romper Room
61 News

11:30
3 Hollywood Squares-Peter Marshall
5-23 Brady Bunch
8 Love Of Life
43 Barnaby
61 Huck and Yogi

Noon
3 Jackpot!-Geoff Edwards
5 Password All-Stars-Allen Ludden
8 News
43 Speed Racer
61 Banana Splits

12:30
3 Celebrity Sweepstakes-Jim McKrell
5 News
8 Search For Tomorrow
23 Split Second
43 Spiderman

12:55
3 NBC News-Edwin Newman

1PM
3 Name That Tune
5-23 All My Children
8 Young And The Restless
43 Movie-Two Guys From Milwaukee-1946
61 I Love Lucy

1:30
3 Jeopardy!
5-23 Let's Make a Deal
8 As The World Turns
61 The Lucy Show

2PM
3 Says Of Our Lives
5-23 Newlywed Game
8 Guiding Light
61 Make Room For Daddy

2:30
3 Doctors
5-23 Girl in My Life
8 Edge Of Night
17 Movie-What a Life-1939 First Henry Aldrich Movie
61 New Zoo Revue

3PM
3 Another World
5-23 General Hospital
8 Price Is Right-Bob Barker
43 Superman
61 Magilla Gorilla

3:30
3 How To Survive A Marriage
5-23 One Life To Live
8 Match Game (74)-Gene Rayburn
43 Bullwinkle
61 Three Stooges

3:55
43 Mr. Jingeling-Earl Keyes

4PM
3 Somerset
5 Dinah!-Dinah Shore-With Robert Goulet, Ken Berry and Chet Atkins
8 Adventure Road-Jim Doney
17 Milton The Milkman-Cartoons
23 $100,000 Pyramid-Betsy Palmer, Leonard Nimoy
25-45 Sesame Street
43 Hilarious House Of Frightenstein
61 Little Rascals

4:30
3 Room 222
8 Merv Griffin
23 Santa Claus
43 Gilligan's Island

4:45
17 Louisville Schools Report

5PM
3 Partridge Family
5 Bonanza
17 Our Day In Canton
23 Choral Christmas-St. Hilary's Choir
25-45 Misterogers Neighborhood
43 Gomer Pyle
61 Flintstones(2 episodes)

5:30
3 News
23 Davey and Goliath
25-45 Villa Allegre
43 Green Acres

5:45
23 Hour Of Power Singers-Dave Lombardi-Trinity Gospel Temple in Canton, Ohio

6PM
3-5-8-23 News
17 Journey To Adventure
25 Your Future Is Now
43 Bewitched
45 Electric Company
61 Beverly Hillbillies

6:30
5-23 ABC News-Howard K. Smith, Harry Reasoner
8 CBS News-Walter Cronkite
17 American Ski Scene
25-45 Zoom
43 Love, American Style
61 Andy Griffith

7PM
3 News-John Chancellor
5 To Tell The Truth-Garry Moore
8 Truth Or Consequences-Bob Barker
17 Galloping Gourmet-Graham Kerr
23 Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea
25 Electric Company
43 Hogan's Heroes
45 Aviation Weather
61 Star Trek

7:30
3 Hollywood Squares
5 Police Surgeon
8 Treasure Hunt-Geoff Edwards
17 Not For Women Only-Barbara Walters
25 Behind The lines
43 WHA Hockey-Cleveland Crusaders at Michigan Stags (Detroit)-Steve Albert and Paul Wilcox report-Crusaders lost 1-0..(shrpsports.com). The Michigan (Former Los Angeles Sharks) team would move to Baltimore (1-19-75) before the end of the 1974-75 season and fold at the end of the season..

45 Inside/Out

8PM
3 Mac Davis Show-Return
5 Fron Sea To Shining Sea-Historical Drama
8 The Waltons
17 Hee Haw
23 Odd Couple
25-45 The Way It Was-1953/54 Stanley Cup-Detroit/Montreal
61 Dealer's Choice-Jack Clark

8:30
23 Paper Moon
25 Kamm's Corner-Cleveland Press editor Herb Kamm hosted this discussion show, Though the program title was a play on the name of a Far West side Cleveland Neighborhood, Kamm's Corners..

45 Religious America
61 What's My Line?-Larry Blyden

9PM
3 Ironside
5-23 Streets Of San Francisco
8 CBS Movie-Catlow-1971
17 PTL Club-Jim Bakker
25-45 Soul!
61 Movie-Moonfleet-1955

10PM
3 Movin' On
5-23 Sadat-Action Biography
17 Christmas With Oral Roberts-Florence Henderson. Charley Pride
25 Life Of Leonardo Da Vinci
43 Rodeo
45 High Cost Of Healing

11PM
3-5-8 News
17 Movie-Wharf Angel-1934
23 Buck Owens
25 Closed Caption ABC News
43 One Step Beyond
61 Best Of Groucho

11:30
3 Johnny Carson
5-23 Wide World Special
43 Movie-Beasts of Marseilles -English 1957
61 Movie-The Pathfinder -1952

11:40
8 Movie-Rogue's Gallery-1968

1AM
3 Tomorrow-Ton Snyder
5-23-43 News

1:20
8 Movie-Donovan's Reef-1963

2AM
3 News

3:20
8 News

 

[bpatrick]

"Louisville Schools Report": is Louisville a suburb of
Akron or Canton? That's the only thing that makes
sense to me about a program with that name and this
is not Louisville, KY, nor would anyone in northern Ohio
be likely to care about their schools.

Also, the following Monday would see some changes
in ABC's daytime schedule, with "$20,000 Pyramid" replacing
"Newlywed Game" at 2, "The Big Showdown" replacing "The
Girl In My Life" at 2:30, and "The Money Maze" taking over
"Pyramid""s 4 PM slot. Since WEWS had been carrying "Pyramid"
in the morning, did they do the same thing with "Money Maze"?

 

[Tim L]

BPatrick:
Yes, that would be Louisville, Ohio..WJAN-TV 17's original studio and transmitter were located at the corner of Reno Drive and California Ave. In Louisville, but just beyond the edge of the Canton City limits. So 17 would occasionally but not that often) do shows to highlight Louisville..

Re:Money Maze. it seems that 5 carried it in the same slot as Pyramid, but I dont have the following week's TV Guide listings to check..

 

[Stanislav]

Yes, that would be Louisville, Ohio..WJAN-TV 17's original studio and transmitter were located at the corner of Reno Drive and California Ave. In Louisville, but just beyond the edge of the Canton City limits. So 17 would occasionally but not that often) do shows to highlight Louisville..

There's a Louisville in Alabama, as well (pop. 612 -- sa-LUTE! -- yet, nonetheless, the city of license for one of APT's transmitters), but I'm pretty sure that one is pronounced like "Lewis-ville" instead of "Louie-ville." (Which is actually more like a Yankee's rendering of the name of the more notable Kentucky metropolis -- I believe locals pronounce it more like "Lou-uh-ville." I'm sure this old transplanted Yankee will be summarily corrected, if needed, by any Bluegrass State natives -- or linguists -- that happen to be on this forum.....) ;D

 

[bpatrick]

The town in Alabama is indeed pronounced "Lewisville";
I think the APT station you're referring to is WGIQ/43.

 

[nsa6210]

This was only 3 or 4 months before the demise of WKBF/61 in the spring of '75

 

[bpatrick]

Was that Kaiser Broadcasting? I remember their Philadelphia
station, WKBS/48, going belly-up, but WKBD/50 Detroit continues
to thrive under different ownership.

 

[wbhist]

Was that Kaiser Broadcasting? I remember their Philadelphia station, WKBS/48, going belly-up, but WKBD/50 Detroit continues to thrive under different ownership.

Actually, WKBS, by the time of its 1983 demise, had been run by Field Communications which took over Kaiser's stations in 1977 - but Field was imploding, and they never got their asking price for the station. But at the point WKBF was 86'd in '75, Kaiser decided to co-own WUAB with United Artists Broadcasting - until 1977, after Field acquired Kaiser, and Channel 43 was sold to Gaylord Broadcasting.

 

[Ultimajock]

There's a Louisville in Alabama, as well (pop. 612 -- sa-LUTE! -- yet, nonetheless, the city of license for one of APT's transmitters)

...before Wisconsin Public Broadcasting's WPNE-TV/38 was licensed to Green Bay, the original city of license was to be Chilton, 2000 population 3,708. WPB had most of its radio stations of the time licensed to small communities that had no other broadcast licenses (Auburndale, Delafield, Brule, and Highland were among the others). WPNE's predecessor, WHKW, had been licensed to Chilton, directly across Lake Winnebago from Oshkosh, and although the studios were to have been at UW-Oshkosh, Chilton would still have been the city of license. Eventually, before the CP was secured, WPB decided to move WHKW's city of license, both radio and TV, to Oshkosh while maintaining the Chilton tower site. Eventually, as things worked out, WHKW was moved entirely to UW-Green Bay and given the new call sign WPNE before the TV station finally took to the air in 1972...

 

[Firebird]

Was Channel 61's schedule of B/W shows a result of their eventual shut down in May '75 or did Kaiser just give up and program the station on the cheap? Channel 43's schedule had a lot more programs in color. It would be interesting to see WKBF's final schedule and WUAB's new schedule when 43 and 61 merged.

 

[nsa6210]

Was Channel 61's schedule of B/W shows a result of their eventual shut down in May '75 or did Kaiser just give up and program the station on the cheap? Channel 43's schedule had a lot more programs in color. It would be interesting to see WKBF's final schedule and WUAB's new schedule when 43 and 61 merged.

The majority of WKBF's shows would wind up on CH43 over the following months/years, including Star Trek, Andy Griffith, most of the H-B cartoons like the Flintstones, 3 Stooges, Little Rascals, Lucy Show, Beverly Hillbillies, etc.

A few of the older, more obscure and/or B&W WKBF shows wouldn't be seen in Cleveland again until the 80's when WCLQ, WOIO and WBNX came on the air. I don't think WUAB ever picked up "I Love Lucy" (they preferred the color episodes of the Lucy Show). And "The Ghoul" wouldn't be seen in Cleveland after WKBF's demise until the early '80s

 

[Firebird]

The majority of WKBF's shows would wind up on CH43 over the following months/years, including Star Trek, Andy Griffith, most of the H-B cartoons like the Flintstones, 3 Stooges, Little Rascals, Lucy Show, Beverly Hillbillies, etc.

A few of the older, more obscure and/or B&W WKBF shows wouldn't be seen in Cleveland again until the 80's when WCLQ, WOIO and WBNX came on the air. I don't think WUAB ever picked up "I Love Lucy" (they preferred the color episodes of the Lucy Show). And "The Ghoul" wouldn't be seen in Cleveland after WKBF's demise until the early '80s

I vaguely remember WKBF's last day, but I do recall seeing a Channel 43 promo on Channel 61. I thought it was unusual at the time as I did not know the stations were merging.

The last show on WKBF was "I Love Lucy" before the station manager came on with an announcement. I recall that John Herrington, who by then was at WKYC, did a report of Channel 61 going off the air during the next day's news.

Though folks complain about the lousy programming on TV today, could a Channel 61 with its quirky programming thrive today? Does any station even show The Three Stooges these days?