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Retro:Cleveland/Akron/Canton , Ohio Monday, December 25, 1967

Source-TV Guide, Cleveland Edition

BW=Black and White program

Aside from being Christmas Day, This was the Debut of John Hambrick at WEWS-TV 5 as 7 and 11PM News Anchor..

3 WKYC-NBC Cleveland
5 WEWS-ABC Cleveland
8-WJW-CBS Cleveland
17 WJAN-IND. Canton
23 WAKR-ABC Akron
25 WVIZ-NET Cleveland

6:20
3 Farm Front

6:30
3 Education Exchange

6:55
3 The Beginning-BW

7AM
3 Today
8 Rex Humbard-BW

7:15
8 News-Murray Stewart

7:25
5 News-BW

7:30
5 Donna Reed-BW
8 Cartoons-BW

8AM
5 Casper-BW
8 Captain Kangaroo

8:30
5 Romper Room-Miss Barbara Plummer

9AM
3 Mike Douglas
5 Light The Dark Street-SPECIAL
8 Franz The Toymaker

9:30
5 Dating Game

10AM
3 Christmas Service-National Cathedral
5 Paige Palmer-"Santa Claus talks about losing weight"
8 Love Of Life
23 Ed Allen

10:25
3 NBC News
8 News-Howard Hoffman

10:30
3 Service Continued
5 Donna Reed-BW
8 Beverly Hillbillies-BW
23 Women's Page-BW

11AM
3 Personality-Larry Blyden
Guests:Sam Levenson, Shelia MacRae, Betsy Palmer. On Film:George Hamilton

5-23 Temptation-Game
8 Andy Griffith-BW

11:25
5-23 Children's Doctor-Lendon Smith

11:30
3 Hollywood Squares-Peter Marshall
Abby Dalton, Jack Carter, Eartha Kitt, Wally Cox, Morey Amsterdam, Sebastian Cabot, Charley Weaver, Barbara Rush and Mike Connors

5-23 How's Your Mother-In-Law?-Wink Martindale
Marty Ingels, Joe E. Ross and Corbett Monica

8 Dick Van Dyke-BW

Noon
3 Jeopardy!-Art Fleming
5 News-Tom Field, Dorothy Fuldheim
8 News-Murray Stewart, Harry Jones, Hoolihan (Bob Wells)
23 Everybody's Talking-Pat Carroll, Milt Kamen, Leonard Nimoy (Final Week)

12:30
3 Eye Guess-Bill Cullen
5 Singing Angels-SPECIAL
8 Search For Tomorrow
23 Kathryn Kuhlman -Probably a special broadcast for Christmas

12:45
8 Guiding Light

12:55
3 NBC News

1PM
3 Three On The Town-Clay Cole and Mark Russell (The same Mark Russell that did all those PBS specials) with guest Ventriliquist Angela Martin
5-23 Fugitive-BW
8 Franz Christmas Special

1:30
3 Let's Make a Deal
8 As The World Turns

2PM
3 Days Of Our Lives
5-23 US Open Highlights-SPECIAL
8 Love Is a Many Splendored Thing

2:15
5-23 North South Shrine Football Game-Keith Jackson/Bud Wilkinson

2:30
3 Doctors
8 House Party

3PM
3 Another World
8 Movie-Mr. Magoo's Storybook-1964-Compilation of episodes of "Famous Adventures Of Mr. Magoo"...Originally aired in the 1964-65 season Saturday nights on NBC-TV

3:30
3 You Don't Say!-Tom Kennedy-With Chad Everett and Patricia Crowley

4PM
3 Match Game-Gene Rayburn-With Phyllis diller and Mitch Miller
17 Rainbow Theatre-BW-Likely a 50's or 60's Dramatic Anthology rerun

4:15
25 London Line-Report-BW

4:25
3 NBC News-Floyd Kalber

4:30
3 PDQ-Dennis James-Barbara Feldon, Dick Gautier and Michael Landon
17 Cartoons-BW
25 Busy Knitter-BW

5PM
3 Movie-The Big Beat 1958-BW
5-23 NBA Basketball-Los Angeles Lakers at San Diego Rockets-With Chris Schenkel and Jack Twyman
8 Young People's Concert-SPECIAL
17 Shotgun Slade-BW
25 Film Feature-BW

5:30
17 Restless Gun-BW
25 Kindergarten-Joyce Marron-BW

6PM
8 News-Doug Adair, Martin Ross, Dick Goddard, Frank Gleiber
17 News-BW
25 What's New?-BW


6:15
17 Sidelight 17-BW

6:30
3 Huntley-Brinkley
8 CBS News-Walter Cronkite
17 Sports Playback-BW
25 Folk Guitar-Laura Weber-BW

7PM
3 News-Virgil Dominic, Wally Kinnan, Jim Graner
5 News-John Hambrick, Don Webster, Gib Shanley
8 Truth Or Consequences-Bob Barker
17 Sherry Lee-BW
23 News-BW
25 Efficient Reading-BW

7:15
23 Women's Page

7:30
3 Monkees
5-23 Cowboy In Africa
8 Gunsmoke
17 Local News-BW
25 Spectrum-BW

7:45
17 Holiday-Travel-BW
25 NET Journal-BW


8PM
3 Man From UNCLE
17 Movie-Miracle On 34th Street 1947-BW

8:30
5-23 Rat Patrol
8 Lucille Ball (Lucy Show)

9PM
3 Danny Thomas Hour
5-23 Felony Squad
8 Andy Griffith
25 Power of the Dollar-DEBUT-BW

9:30
5-23 Peyton Place
8 Family Affair
17 Messiah-BW
25 NET Playhouse-BW (Channel 25 sign-off-10:45)

10PM
3 I Spy
5-23 Big Valley
8 Movie-A Man Called Peter-1955 (11PM News pre-empted)

11PM
3 News-Virgil Dominic
5 News-John Hambrick
23 News-BW

11:15
3 Weather-Wally Kinnan
5 Weather-Ron Penfound
23 Country-Western Music-BW

11:20
3 Sports-Jim Graner
5 Sports-Gib Shanley

11:30
3 Tonight-Guest Host Victor Borge
5-23 Joey Bishop

12:40
8 Movie-Mr. Scoutmaster-1953-BW

1AM
3 Sea Hunt-BW
5 Outdoor World

1:30
3 Tonight School
 
Since this was Christmas, I noticed specials
at 12:30 on Chs. 5 and 23. "Treasure Isle"
aired on ABC at that time; did either or both
channels normally carry it?
 
bpatrick said:
Since this was Christmas, I noticed specials
at 12:30 on Chs. 5 and 23. "Treasure Isle"
aired on ABC at that time; did either or both
channels normally carry it?

Just a guess here, as I have no listing for that week beyond the 25th...WEWS normally had (at least, as of late November 1967) The Noon Show with Captain Penny (12:20-1PM)..It would seem that 23 carried most if not all of the daytime ABC Network shows in pattern..So they may have just pre-empted Treasure Isle that day..
 
>>Aside from being Christmas Day, This was the Debut of John Hambrick at WEWS-TV 5 as 7 and 11PM News Anchor>>

Isn't it strange to debut a new anchor on Christmas? Maybe they figured a slower news day & less audience would be easier on him.
 
radioman148 said:
>>Aside from being Christmas Day, This was the Debut of John Hambrick at WEWS-TV 5 as 7 and 11PM News Anchor>>

Isn't it strange to debut a new anchor on Christmas? Maybe they figured a slower news day & less audience would be easier on him.

I thought it was odd too, but Channel 5 carried a full-page ad for "John Hambrick and The News" on the Monday Night listing pages..While channels 3 and 8 generally ran full page ads every week in TV Guide, 5 was rather hit-and-miss in its advertising..Here, they ran the full-page ad, plus several Bottom-page ads pushing Hambrick's Debut..and continued the smaller ads into the first part of 1968..

Here is a blog I wrote in January 2008 about that time..Hambrick himself has said in interviews that he started at WEWS in 1967..

http://clevelandclassicmedia.blogspot.com/2008/01/john-hambricks-debut-at-wews-december.html
 
Tim L said:
radioman148 said:
>>Aside from being Christmas Day, This was the Debut of John Hambrick at WEWS-TV 5 as 7 and 11PM News Anchor>>

Isn't it strange to debut a new anchor on Christmas? Maybe they figured a slower news day & less audience would be easier on him.

I thought it was odd too, but Channel 5 carried a full-page ad for "John Hambrick and The News" on the Monday Night listing pages..While channels 3 and 8 generally ran full page ads every week in TV Guide, 5 was rather hit-and-miss in its advertising..Here, they ran the full-page ad, plus several Bottom-page ads pushing Hambrick's Debut..and continued the smaller ads into the first part of 1968..

Here is a blog I wrote in January 2008 about that time..Hambrick himself has said in interviews that he started at WEWS in 1967..

http://clevelandclassicmedia.blogspot.com/2008/01/john-hambricks-debut-at-wews-december.html

Well then maybe they just wanted to break him in during holiday week. Kind of break him in gently.
 
Tim L said:
I thought it was odd too, but Channel 5 carried a full-page ad for "John Hambrick and The News" on the Monday Night listing pages..While channels 3 and 8 generally ran full page ads every week in TV Guide, 5 was rather hit-and-miss in its advertising..Here, they ran the full-page ad, plus several Bottom-page ads pushing Hambrick's Debut..and continued the smaller ads into the first part of 1968..

Here is a blog I wrote in January 2008 about that time..Hambrick himself has said in interviews that he started at WEWS in 1967..

http://clevelandclassicmedia.blogspot.com/2008/01/john-hambricks-debut-at-wews-december.html

At the age of 27, he was considered a veteran news anchor? ???
 
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