Retro: Detroit-Windsor-Toledo Prime Time 10/11 April 1968

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CHANNEL GUIDE
2: WJBK (Detroit, CBS)
4: WWJ (Detroit, NBC)
7: WXYZ (Detroit, ABC)
50: WKBD (Detroit, Ind.)
56: WTVS (Detroit, NET)
9: CKLW (Windsor, CBC)
11: WTOL (Toledo, CBS/NBC)
13: WSPD (Toledo, ABC/NBC)
24: WDHO (Toledo, NBC/CBS/ABC)
*Indicates cherry-picked or dumped show


PRIME TIME -- WEDNESDAY 10 APRIL 1968

6:00 PM
2, 4, 11, 13: News
7: Movie (When Worlds Collide, '51)
9: Dennis the Menace
24: Movie (The Barbarian King, '64)
50: Flintstones
56: Friendly Giant

6:15 PM
2: Editorial
4: Weather
56: Merlin the MAgician

6:20
2: Weather
4: Sports

6:25
2: Sports

6:30
2: CBS News
4, 11*: NBC News
9: Gilligan's Island
13: ABC News
50: McHale's Navy
56: What's Mew

7:00
2: Truth or Consequences
4: News, Weather, Sports
9: Movie (Along the Great Divide, '51)
11: News
13: Twilight Zone
50: Munsters
56: No Doubt About It

7:30
2, 11: Lost in Space
4, 24: The Virginian
7, 13: The Avengers
50: I Love Lucy
56: Cities of the World

8:00
50: Hazel
56: International Magazine

8:30
2, 11: Beverly Hillbillies
7, 13: Dream House
50: Honeymooners

8:55
9: News

9:00
2, 24*: Green Acres
4, 11*: Kraft Music Hall
7, 13: Movie (Move Over Darling, '63)
9: Twilight Zone
50: Perry Mason
56: The Antkeeper

9:30
2, 24*: He and She
9: Festival
56: U.S.A.

10:00
2, 11: Jonathan Winters
4, 24: Run for Your Life
50: Les Crane
56: Innoivations

10:30
56: Skoda Master Class

11:00
2, 4, 7, 11, 13: News
9: CBC News
24: Movie (Cry of the Bewitched, '60, Mexican)
50: Movie (Confessions of a Nazi Spy, '39)

11:15
2: Editorial
4: Weather
7: Weather

11:20
2, 13: Weather
4, 11: Sports
9: Local News

11:25
2, 7: Sports
13: Editorial

11:30
2: Movie (The Deadly Companions, '61)
4, 11*: The Tonight Show
7, 13: Joey Bishop
9: Wrestling

1:00
4: Beat the Champ
7: News
9: Window on the World

1:30
2: Dobie Gillis
4: PDQ (guests: Bill Bixby, Pat Henry, Sue Anne Langdon)

2:00
2: Naked City

2:30
2: News, Weather


PRIME TIME -- THURSDAY 11 APRIL 1968

CHANNEL 9 NOTE: The Montreal Canadiens meet the Eastern Division's third place team in a quarter-final game. The time of the game was not known at press time.

6:00 PM
2, 4, 11, 13: News
7: Movie (Wings of the HAwk, '51)
9: Dennis the Menace
24: Movie (Vulcan, Son of Jupiter, '63 Italian)
50: Flintstones
56: Friendly Giant

6:15 PM
2: Editorial
4: Weather
56: Sing Hi, Sing Lo

6:20
2: Weather
4: Sports

6:25
2: Sports

6:30
2: CBS News
4, 11*: NBC News
9: F Troop
13: ABC News
50: McHale's Navy
56: What's Mew

7:00
2: Truth or Consequences
4: News, Weather, Sports
9: Movie (Nightmare in the Sun, '53)
11: News
13: Twilight Zone
50: Munsters
56: NET Festival

7:30
2, 24*: Cimmaron Strip
4, 11*: Alan King (Daniel Boone pre-empted)
7, 13: Second Hundred Years
50: I Love Lucy

8:00
7, 13: Flying Nun
50: Hazel
56: French Lesson

8:15
56: French Panorama

8:30
4, 11*: Bob Hope (Ironside pre-empted)
7, 13: Bewitched
50: Honeymooners
56: U.S.A.

8:55
9: News

9:00
2, 24*: Movie (Kings of the Sun, '53)
7, 13: That Girl
9: Twilight Zone
50: Perry Mason
56: Rainbow Quest

9:30
4, 11*: Dragnet
7, 13: Peyton Place
9: Telescope

10:00
4, 11*: Dean MArtin
7: Untouchables
9: Secret Agent
13: It Takes a Thief (2-day delay)
50: Les Crane
56: Man From Life

10:30
56: No Doubt About It

11:00
2, 4, 7, 11, 13: News
9: CBC News
24: Movie (Lost Battalion, '62)
50: Movie (Loss of Death, '47)

11:15
2: Editorial
4: Weather
7: Weather

11:20
2, 13: Weather
4, 11: Sports
9: Local News

11:25
2, 7: Sports
13: Editorial

11:30
2: Movie (The Last Blitzkrieg, '59 and Last Stagecoach West, '57)
4, 11*: The Tonight Show
7, 13: Joey Bishop
9: Twenty Grand

1:00
4: Beat the Champ
7: News
9: Window on the World

1:30
4: PDQ (guests: Bill Bixby, Pat Henry, Sue Anne Langdon)

2:30
2: Highway Patrol

3:00
2: Naked City

3:30
2: News, Weather

 

[Joseph_Gallant]

> PRIME TIME -- WEDNESDAY 10 APRIL 1968
>
> 9:00
> 7, 13: Movie (Move Over Darling, '63)

The Academy Awards ceremonies, postponed from Monday April 8th due to the funeral of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., ended up being held on Wednesday the 10th.

ABC, which carried the Oscar show, probably had to pre-empt this movie. Does anyone know if the Oscar show started at 9 P.M. ET, or started at 10?? And if the Oscar show began at 10, does anyone know if ABC replaced the movie with a one-hour special, or aired the movie earlier in the evening, pre-empting other scheduled programming??

One other note: Looking over these listings, it appears to be obvious that the only CBC programs the then-CKLW-9 broadcast were programs not seen on American networks. Back then, much of CBC's program schedule was (as most of today's CTV and Global program schedules still are) made up of American imports.

The CRTC (or it's predesescor agency; I'm not sure if the CRTC was yet around in 1968) may have prevented CKLW from broadcasting CBC programs also seen on American networks, given that the station's transmitter and antenna were (and today as CBET, still are) on the banks of the Detroit River in Windsor, just a couple of hundred yards across the river from downtown Detroit with a signal that penetrated into much of Eastern Michigan and Northwest Ohio.

 

[rugrats1]

> > PRIME TIME -- WEDNESDAY 10 APRIL 1968
> >
> The CRTC (or it's predesescor agency; I'm not sure if the
> CRTC was yet around in 1968) may have prevented CKLW from
> broadcasting CBC programs also seen on American networks,
> given that the station's transmitter and antenna were (and
> today as CBET, still are) on the banks of the Detroit River
> in Windsor...

First of all, the CRTC's pre-1968 predecessor was the BBG, the Board of Broadcast Governors.

Secondly, today's CBET still blacks out American shows seen on CBC, like "the Simpsons", Disney, and some films. However, I don't know if they currently suspended this practice, due to the lockout of CBC's unionised staff. The US programming blackout on CKLW/CBET isn't by government order, but mainly due to copyright, especially for programming that's also seen on American networks.

There is, at least, one example of a CBC-produced non-sports program that was blacked out on CKLW -- "The Whiteoaks of Jalna" was blacked out on CKLW when it was first broadcasted in 1972, as the CBC hoped to get the series on an American network (and, ergo, on a Detroit station) -- Jalna was never seen in the states, and Windsorites missed out on this series (which was cut short by a technicians strike at the CBC that year).

Finally, CBET's tranny moved several years ago to an antenna farm near McGregor, a small town south of Windsor -- they had to give up on their prime riverfront tranny, as a railroad company (which, presumably, owned the tunnel underneath) owned the property the tranny was sitting on, and they had other plans for the property. (The CBC still owns the studios adjacent to it.)