Retro: Columbus, Ohio
Thursday June 14, 1973
Source: Columbus Dispatch
Note: The Columbus Dispatch was an evening newspaper back then. It carried television listings for each evening from 5:00 p.m. to the end of the broadcast day and also the next day from sign on until 5:00 p.m.
The full day’s program schedules for the Columbus television stations for June 14 were compiled from the June 13, 1973 and June 14, 1973 editions of the Columbus Dispatch.
It must be noted that Columbus didn’t have an independent television station back then. Cable television existed in Columbus in 1973. I remember very well that the Cleveland independent stations WUAB-TV Channel 43 and WKBF-TV Channel 61 were carried in the Columbus cable television system lineup back then.
However, the Columbus Dispatch didn’t carry program listings of the Cleveland independent stations at that time. I believe it wasn’t until sometime during 1974 or 1975 that the cable television program listings would be carried in the Columbus Dispatch.
WLWC-TV Channel 4 NBC
AM
6:00 Sunrise Seminar
6:30 Columbus Today
7:00 News-Today Show
7:25 Five Minutes To Live By
7:30 News-Today Show
8:00 News-Today Show
8:25 Be Feminine With Hanna
8:30 News-Today Show
9:00 Paul Dixon Show
10:30 Baffle
11:00 Sale of the Century
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12:00 Bob Braun 50-50 Club: Comedian Woody Woodbury Guests
1:30 Three On A Match
2:00 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3:00 Another World
3:30 Phil Donahue: Guest is semanticist Dr. S.I. Hayakawa, former president of San Francisco State College.
4:30 Merv Griffin with Sarah Miles, Lloyd Bridges, L.A. Mayor-Elect Tom Bradley, and Eartha Kitt.
6:00 News, Weather, Sports (Note: The local news at 6:00 was The DeMoss Report and NBC News was on at 6:30)
7:00 Beat The Clock
7:30 I’ll See You In Court
8:00 Ironside
10:00 Dean Martin Show with guests William Conrad and Lonnie Shorr.
11:00 News, Weather, Sports (The DeMoss Report)
11:30 Tonight Show with Lorne Greene, Charles Grodin, and comedian Gabe Kaplan.
1:00 Perry Mason
2:00 News and Weather
WTVN-TV Channel 6 ABC
AM
6:55 The Good Word
7:00 News, Weather, Sports
7:30 Romper Room
8:00 Jeff’s Collie
8:30 New Zoo Revue
9:00 Mr. Roberts
9:25 Chuck White Reports
9:30 Jeopardy
10:00 Senate Watergate Hearings
12:30 Split Second
1:00 All My Children
1:30 Lucky Strikes And Misses
2:00 Senate Watergate Hearings
4:30 F-Troop
5:00 Here Comes The Brides
6:00 Truth Or Consequences
6:30 News, Weather, Sports (I believe ABC News was at 6:30 and the local news, News Service, was at 7:00)
7:30 To Tell The Truth
8:00 Mod Squad
9:00 Kung Fu
10:00 Streets of San Francisco
11:00 News, Weather, Sports (News Service)
11:30 Wide World of Entertainment: Dick Cavett Show with Bob Hope and Simon Wiesenthal, Israeli agent who tracked down Adolph Eichmann and other Nazi war criminals.
WBNS-TV Channel 10 CBS
AM
6:00 Sacred Heart
6:15 Farmtime
6:30 America’s Problems and Challenges
7:00 News
7:30 Popeye
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Friendly Junction
9:30 Hollywood’s Talking
10:00 Joker’s Wild
10:30 $10,000 Pyramid
11:00 Gambit
11:30 Love of Life
12:00 News (Eyewitness News)
1:00 Green Acres
1:30 As The World Turns
2:00 Guiding Light
2:30 Edge of Night
3:00 New Price Is Right
3:30 Secret Storm
4:00 Movie: Sleeping City (1950) with Richard Conte and Coleen Gray. Detective joins hospital staff to investigate murder.
(Note: The Movie at 4:00 was called The Early Show hosted by Flippo The Clown)
6:00 News, Weather, Sports (Note: The local news at 6:00 and 7:00 was Eyewitness News and CBS News was at 6:30)
7:30 Wild Kingdom: To Rope A Grizzly
8:00 The Waltons
9:00 Movie: Secret World (drama, 1969) Young French boy lives in a world of retreat.
11:00 News, Weather, Sports (Eyewitness News)
11:30 Movie: All The King’s Men (drama, 1950) starring Broderick Crawford in fictionalization of the life of Louisiana Governor Huey Long. (Note: The Movie at 11:30 was called Armchair Theatre)
1:40 I Believe
WOSU-TV Channel 34 PBS
AM
10:30 Hathayoga
11:00 The Electric Company
11:30 Sesame Street
12:30 Mister Roger’s Neighborhood
1:00 Hodgepodge Lodge
1:30 Perspective
2:00 Karate For Self Defense
2:15 Charlie’s Pad
2:30 Chan-ese Way
3:00 Just Jazz
3:30 Course Of Our Times
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Roger’s Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6:00 Golden Voyage: Land of Bolivar
6:30 Garden Almanac
7:00 Hathayoga
7:30 Kaleidoscope: Artie Kegler, 12 string guitarist
8:00 Senate Watergate Hearings
The Columbus Dispatch also carried program schedules of distant television stations that were seen by viewers living in the Southeastern Ohio region.
Out-of-Town Television
WSAZ-TV Channel 3 NBC
Huntington, W. Va.
Thursday
PM
5:00 Bonanza
6:00 News, Weather, Sports
7:00 Truth or Consequences
7:30 Hollywood Squares
8:00 Ironside
10:00 Dean Martin
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show
Friday
AM
6:15 English
6:45 Corn Cob Report
7:00 Today Show, News
9:00 A.M. with Debbie Thomas
9:30 To Tell The Truth
10:00 Dinah’s Place
10:30 Baffle
11:00 Sale of the Century
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12:00 Jeopardy
12:30 Who, What or Where Game
12:55 News
1:20 Lucille Rivers
1:30 Three On A Match
2:00 Days of Our Lives
2:30 Baseball Cincinnati vs. Chicago
WHTN-TV Channel 13 ABC
Huntington, W.Va.
Thursday
PM
5:00 Wild Wild West cont’d.
5:30 Gomer Pyle
6:00 News
6:30 I Dream of Jeannie
7:00 Let’s Make A Deal
7:30 Beat The Clock
8:00 Mod Squad
9:00 Kung Fu
10:00 Streets of San Francisco
11:00 News
11:30 Wide World of Entertainment: Dick Cavett
1:00 News
Friday
AM
6:20 Farm Reports
6:28 Paul Harvey
6:30 Blue Ridge Quartet
7:00 Jeff’s Collie
7:30 Cartoons
8:00 New Zoo Revue
8:30 Jack La Lanne
8:55 News
9:00 Ben Casey
10:00 Dick Van Dyke Show
10:30 Split Second
11:00 Password
11:30 Bewitched
12:00 News
1:00 All My Children
1:30 Let’s Make A Deal
2:00 Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game
3:00 General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4:00 Love American Style
4:30 Wild Wild West
WTAP-TV Channel 15 NBC
Parkersburg, W. Va.
Thursday
PM
5:00 Andy Griffith
5:30 Death Valley Days
5:55 Our Changing World
6:00 News, Weather, Sports
7:00 The Saint
8:00 Ironside
10:00 Dean Martin
11:00 News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Tonight Show
Friday
AM
7:00 Today Show, News
9:00 Phil Donahue
10:00 Dinah’s Place
10:30 Baffle
11:00 Sale of the Century
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12:00 Jeopardy
12:30 Who, What, Where Game
12:55 News
1:00 Not For Women Only
1:30 Three On A Match
2:00 Days of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3:00 Another World
3:30 Return To Peyton Place
4:00 Somerset
4:30 My Little Margie
WHIZ-TV Channel 18 NBC
Zanesville, Ohio
Thursday
PM
5:00 My Little Margie
5:30 Andy Griffith
6:00 News
7:00 Dick Van Dyke
7:30 Animal World
8:00 Ironside
10:00 Dean Martin
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show
Friday
AM
7:00 Today Show, News
9:00 Phil Donahue
10:00 Dinah’s Place
10:30 Baffle
11:00 Sale of the Century
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12:00 Jeopardy
12:30 Who, What, Where Game
12:55 News
1:15 Farm and Home Report
1:30 Three On A Match
2:00 Days of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3:00 Another World
3:30 Return To Peyton Place
4:00 Somerset
4:30 Comedy Capers
WOUB-TV Channel 20 PBS
Athens, Ohio
Thursday
PM
5:00 Mister Roger’s Neighborhood
5:30 Hodgepodge Lodge
6:00 Sesame Street
7:00 The Electric Company
7:30 Zoom
8:00 Biography: Galileo
9:30 Just Jazz
10:00 Newswatch
Friday
PM
3:00 Extended Learning Program
3:30 Book Beat
4:00 Sesame Street
WGSF-TV Channel 31 PBS
Newark, Ohio
Thursday
PM
5:00 Mister Roger’s Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6:00 Sesame Street
7:00 Land of Legend
7:30 Just Jazz
8:00 Watergate
Friday
PM
4:00 Sesame Street
Thursday June 14, 1973
Source: Columbus Dispatch
Note: The Columbus Dispatch was an evening newspaper back then. It carried television listings for each evening from 5:00 p.m. to the end of the broadcast day and also the next day from sign on until 5:00 p.m.
The full day’s program schedules for the Columbus television stations for June 14 were compiled from the June 13, 1973 and June 14, 1973 editions of the Columbus Dispatch.
It must be noted that Columbus didn’t have an independent television station back then. Cable television existed in Columbus in 1973. I remember very well that the Cleveland independent stations WUAB-TV Channel 43 and WKBF-TV Channel 61 were carried in the Columbus cable television system lineup back then.
However, the Columbus Dispatch didn’t carry program listings of the Cleveland independent stations at that time. I believe it wasn’t until sometime during 1974 or 1975 that the cable television program listings would be carried in the Columbus Dispatch.
WLWC-TV Channel 4 NBC
AM
6:00 Sunrise Seminar
6:30 Columbus Today
7:00 News-Today Show
7:25 Five Minutes To Live By
7:30 News-Today Show
8:00 News-Today Show
8:25 Be Feminine With Hanna
8:30 News-Today Show
9:00 Paul Dixon Show
10:30 Baffle
11:00 Sale of the Century
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12:00 Bob Braun 50-50 Club: Comedian Woody Woodbury Guests
1:30 Three On A Match
2:00 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3:00 Another World
3:30 Phil Donahue: Guest is semanticist Dr. S.I. Hayakawa, former president of San Francisco State College.
4:30 Merv Griffin with Sarah Miles, Lloyd Bridges, L.A. Mayor-Elect Tom Bradley, and Eartha Kitt.
6:00 News, Weather, Sports (Note: The local news at 6:00 was The DeMoss Report and NBC News was on at 6:30)
7:00 Beat The Clock
7:30 I’ll See You In Court
8:00 Ironside
10:00 Dean Martin Show with guests William Conrad and Lonnie Shorr.
11:00 News, Weather, Sports (The DeMoss Report)
11:30 Tonight Show with Lorne Greene, Charles Grodin, and comedian Gabe Kaplan.
1:00 Perry Mason
2:00 News and Weather
WTVN-TV Channel 6 ABC
AM
6:55 The Good Word
7:00 News, Weather, Sports
7:30 Romper Room
8:00 Jeff’s Collie
8:30 New Zoo Revue
9:00 Mr. Roberts
9:25 Chuck White Reports
9:30 Jeopardy
10:00 Senate Watergate Hearings
12:30 Split Second
1:00 All My Children
1:30 Lucky Strikes And Misses
2:00 Senate Watergate Hearings
4:30 F-Troop
5:00 Here Comes The Brides
6:00 Truth Or Consequences
6:30 News, Weather, Sports (I believe ABC News was at 6:30 and the local news, News Service, was at 7:00)
7:30 To Tell The Truth
8:00 Mod Squad
9:00 Kung Fu
10:00 Streets of San Francisco
11:00 News, Weather, Sports (News Service)
11:30 Wide World of Entertainment: Dick Cavett Show with Bob Hope and Simon Wiesenthal, Israeli agent who tracked down Adolph Eichmann and other Nazi war criminals.
WBNS-TV Channel 10 CBS
AM
6:00 Sacred Heart
6:15 Farmtime
6:30 America’s Problems and Challenges
7:00 News
7:30 Popeye
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Friendly Junction
9:30 Hollywood’s Talking
10:00 Joker’s Wild
10:30 $10,000 Pyramid
11:00 Gambit
11:30 Love of Life
12:00 News (Eyewitness News)
1:00 Green Acres
1:30 As The World Turns
2:00 Guiding Light
2:30 Edge of Night
3:00 New Price Is Right
3:30 Secret Storm
4:00 Movie: Sleeping City (1950) with Richard Conte and Coleen Gray. Detective joins hospital staff to investigate murder.
(Note: The Movie at 4:00 was called The Early Show hosted by Flippo The Clown)
6:00 News, Weather, Sports (Note: The local news at 6:00 and 7:00 was Eyewitness News and CBS News was at 6:30)
7:30 Wild Kingdom: To Rope A Grizzly
8:00 The Waltons
9:00 Movie: Secret World (drama, 1969) Young French boy lives in a world of retreat.
11:00 News, Weather, Sports (Eyewitness News)
11:30 Movie: All The King’s Men (drama, 1950) starring Broderick Crawford in fictionalization of the life of Louisiana Governor Huey Long. (Note: The Movie at 11:30 was called Armchair Theatre)
1:40 I Believe
WOSU-TV Channel 34 PBS
AM
10:30 Hathayoga
11:00 The Electric Company
11:30 Sesame Street
12:30 Mister Roger’s Neighborhood
1:00 Hodgepodge Lodge
1:30 Perspective
2:00 Karate For Self Defense
2:15 Charlie’s Pad
2:30 Chan-ese Way
3:00 Just Jazz
3:30 Course Of Our Times
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Roger’s Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6:00 Golden Voyage: Land of Bolivar
6:30 Garden Almanac
7:00 Hathayoga
7:30 Kaleidoscope: Artie Kegler, 12 string guitarist
8:00 Senate Watergate Hearings
The Columbus Dispatch also carried program schedules of distant television stations that were seen by viewers living in the Southeastern Ohio region.
Out-of-Town Television
WSAZ-TV Channel 3 NBC
Huntington, W. Va.
Thursday
PM
5:00 Bonanza
6:00 News, Weather, Sports
7:00 Truth or Consequences
7:30 Hollywood Squares
8:00 Ironside
10:00 Dean Martin
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show
Friday
AM
6:15 English
6:45 Corn Cob Report
7:00 Today Show, News
9:00 A.M. with Debbie Thomas
9:30 To Tell The Truth
10:00 Dinah’s Place
10:30 Baffle
11:00 Sale of the Century
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12:00 Jeopardy
12:30 Who, What or Where Game
12:55 News
1:20 Lucille Rivers
1:30 Three On A Match
2:00 Days of Our Lives
2:30 Baseball Cincinnati vs. Chicago
WHTN-TV Channel 13 ABC
Huntington, W.Va.
Thursday
PM
5:00 Wild Wild West cont’d.
5:30 Gomer Pyle
6:00 News
6:30 I Dream of Jeannie
7:00 Let’s Make A Deal
7:30 Beat The Clock
8:00 Mod Squad
9:00 Kung Fu
10:00 Streets of San Francisco
11:00 News
11:30 Wide World of Entertainment: Dick Cavett
1:00 News
Friday
AM
6:20 Farm Reports
6:28 Paul Harvey
6:30 Blue Ridge Quartet
7:00 Jeff’s Collie
7:30 Cartoons
8:00 New Zoo Revue
8:30 Jack La Lanne
8:55 News
9:00 Ben Casey
10:00 Dick Van Dyke Show
10:30 Split Second
11:00 Password
11:30 Bewitched
12:00 News
1:00 All My Children
1:30 Let’s Make A Deal
2:00 Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game
3:00 General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4:00 Love American Style
4:30 Wild Wild West
WTAP-TV Channel 15 NBC
Parkersburg, W. Va.
Thursday
PM
5:00 Andy Griffith
5:30 Death Valley Days
5:55 Our Changing World
6:00 News, Weather, Sports
7:00 The Saint
8:00 Ironside
10:00 Dean Martin
11:00 News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Tonight Show
Friday
AM
7:00 Today Show, News
9:00 Phil Donahue
10:00 Dinah’s Place
10:30 Baffle
11:00 Sale of the Century
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12:00 Jeopardy
12:30 Who, What, Where Game
12:55 News
1:00 Not For Women Only
1:30 Three On A Match
2:00 Days of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3:00 Another World
3:30 Return To Peyton Place
4:00 Somerset
4:30 My Little Margie
WHIZ-TV Channel 18 NBC
Zanesville, Ohio
Thursday
PM
5:00 My Little Margie
5:30 Andy Griffith
6:00 News
7:00 Dick Van Dyke
7:30 Animal World
8:00 Ironside
10:00 Dean Martin
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show
Friday
AM
7:00 Today Show, News
9:00 Phil Donahue
10:00 Dinah’s Place
10:30 Baffle
11:00 Sale of the Century
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12:00 Jeopardy
12:30 Who, What, Where Game
12:55 News
1:15 Farm and Home Report
1:30 Three On A Match
2:00 Days of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3:00 Another World
3:30 Return To Peyton Place
4:00 Somerset
4:30 Comedy Capers
WOUB-TV Channel 20 PBS
Athens, Ohio
Thursday
PM
5:00 Mister Roger’s Neighborhood
5:30 Hodgepodge Lodge
6:00 Sesame Street
7:00 The Electric Company
7:30 Zoom
8:00 Biography: Galileo
9:30 Just Jazz
10:00 Newswatch
Friday
PM
3:00 Extended Learning Program
3:30 Book Beat
4:00 Sesame Street
WGSF-TV Channel 31 PBS
Newark, Ohio
Thursday
PM
5:00 Mister Roger’s Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6:00 Sesame Street
7:00 Land of Legend
7:30 Just Jazz
8:00 Watergate
Friday
PM
4:00 Sesame Street