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Retro: Detroit/Toledo/Lansing Sat, Aug 11, 1956

from TV Guide- Detroit edition

WJBK 2-CBS Detroit
7:50 Meditations
7:55 On the Farm Front
8:00 Michigan State University
8:15 Michigan State Conservation
8:30 Farmland USA
9:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:30 Mighty Mouse
10:00 Cartoons
10:30 Texas Rangers
11:00 Big Top
noon Lone Ranger
12:30 Saturday Showtime "The Great Mike"
1:30 Golf
1:45 Sports
2:00 Baseball: Chicago (Sox)-Detroit (Van Patrick and Mel Ott call the action)
4:30 Movie: TBA (listed as drama)
5:00 Sagebrush Shorty
6:00 Sports Mirror
6:30 Beat the Clock
7:00 Jackie Gleason (Honeymooners)
7:30 Stage Show
8:00 Two for the Money
8:30 Russ Morgan (guest Rusty Draper)
9:00 Gunsmoke
9:30 Crunch & Des
10:00 Big Town
10:30 Hollywood Spotlight
11:00 News
11:15 Weather
11:20 Les Paul & Mary Ford
11:25 Nightwatch Theatre "The More the Merrier"/"Blonde for a Day"
2:15 Weather/Meditations

WWJ 4-NBC Detroit
7:50 News
8:00 Industry on Parade
8:30 Mr. Twinky Presents
9:00 Howdy Doody
9:30 I Married Joan
10:00 Fury
10:30 Uncle Johnny Coons
11:00 Captain Gallant
11:30 Mr. Wizard
noon Cartoon Express
1:00 Jimmy Wakely
2:00 Stars on Parade
4:00 Colorland (c)
5:00 Topper
5:30 Roy Rogers
6:00 Hobbies in Action (c)
6:15 Monte Woolley
6:30 Down You Go
7:00 Tony Bennett (premiere; guests June Valli, Ben Blue, the Three Goetschis, and Harvey Stone)
8:00 People are Funny
8:30 Festival of Stars
9:30 Adventure Theater
10:00 Saturday Show
10:30 Ina Ray Hutton
11:00 News
11:15 Weather
11:20 Texas Wrestling
12:20 News

WJIM 6-NBC/CBS/ABC Lansing
9:00 Howdy Doody
9:30 TBA
10:00 Fury
10:30 Uncle Johnny Coons
11:00 Big Top
noon Texas Rangers
12:30 Captain Gallant
1:00 Lone Ranger
1:30 Lassie
2:00 Baseball: ChiSox-Detroit
5:00 Disneyland "Survival in Nature"
6:00 Bob Cummings
6:30 Celebrity Playhouse
7:00 Tony Bennett (premiere)
8:00 This is Your Life (Roy Rogers is honored)
8:30 Festival of Stars
9:30 Adventure Theater
10:00 Playhouse of Stars
10:30 Science-Fiction Theater
11:00 Movie: TBA

WXYZ 7-ABC Detroit
9:00 America on Parade
9:30 Crusade for Christ
10:00 Laurel & Hardy
10:30 Captain Flint
11:30 Ramar of the Jungle
noon Ed McKenzie
2:00 Roundup Time "Red River Range"
4:00 Milky's Party "Riders of the Black Hills"
6:00 Wild Bill Hickok
6:30 Ozark Jubilee (pt 1; Red Foley's on vacation, so we have two hosts: pt 1 is hosted by Tampa's Bobby Lord)
7:00 Convention City (John Daly goes behind the scenes of ABC's coverage of the Democratic Convention the following week)
7:30 Ozark Jubilee (pt 2; host Sonny James)
8:00 Lawrence Welk
9:00 Masquerade Party
9:30 Jumbo Theater
10:00 Secret File USA
10:30 Explorers
11:00 Main Attraction Movie "Secret People"

CKLW 9-CBC Windsor (a letter from a writer in Petersburg asks whether ch 9 is a US or Canadian channel...as if the C at the start of the calls wasn't a clear enough sign ;D)
12:25pm Billboard
12:30 Man to Man
12:45 Cartoons
1:00 Saturday Matinee "North from the Lone Star"/"Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise"/"Saps at Sea"
4:30 Texas Musical Hearts
5:00 Wild Bill Hickok
5:30 Happy's Matinee "Law of the Pampas"
6:30 Space Ranger
7:00 Temple Baptist Church
7:30 Greatest Fights (Baer-Galenta/Loughran-Braddock)
8:00 Country Hoedown
8:30 Million Dollar Movie "Mrs. Mike"
10:00 News/Weather
10:15 Yesterday's Newsreel
10:30 Mr. & Mrs. North
11:00 Movie Date "Lucky Nick Cain"

WSPD 13-NBC/CBS/ABC Toledo
9:00 Mr. Wizard
9:30 Fury (Toledo got this 30 min earlier than Detroit/Lansing)
10:00 Sky King
10:30 Texas Rangers
11:00 Big Top
noon Roy Rogers
12:30 Annie Oakley
1:00 Film Featurette
1:45 Sports Views
2:00 Baseball: ChiSox-Detroit
4:30 Film Featurette
5:00 Captain Gallant
5:30 Wild Bill Hickok
6:00 Death Valley Days
6:30 Beat the Clock
7:00 Jackie Gleason (Honeymooners)
7:30 Stage Show
8:00 Two for the Money
8:30 Russ Morgan
9:00 Gunsmoke
9:30 Wyatt Earp
10:00 Crunch & Des
10:30 Director's Playhouse
11:00 Dollar a Second
11:30 Wrestling
12:30 News

WTVS 56-Edu Detroit
no weekend programming
 
Lansing would not get it's own NBC station until 3/15/1959 when WILX-TV Channel 10 ,based in Jackson at the time, with studios in Jackson, Lansing and Battle Creek signed on in a shared-time arrangement with Michigan State U's. educational/PBS station WKAR-TV, which after being on Channel 60 moved to 10 and the shared-time arrangement would alst until 9/1972 when WKAR-Tv returned on 23,with WILX-TV going solo on 10.

Lansing would not get it's own ABC station until October 1990 with the sign-on of WLAJ-TV 53. Prior to that WJRT-TV 12 Flint and WUHQ-TV (now WOTV) 41 Battle Creek served as surrogate ABC stations for the Lansing market.

Toledo would get it's educational /PBS station in 1960 with WGTE-TV 30, and WTOL-TV CBS 11 signed on in 1958 splitting NBC shows with WSPD-TV (now WTVG) 13 which had ABC shows until WDHO-TV (now WNWO-TV) signed on in 1966. In the 1990's WTVG and WNWO swapped NBC and ABC with each other.
 
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