Retro: Eastern Illinois Tues, Dec 3, 1963

[Bluenoser]

from TV Guide-Eastern Illinois edition

WCIA 3-CBS Champaign/WMBD 31-CBS Peoria (and W71AE LaSalle/Peru, which relays WMBD)
7:00 Sunrise Semester "Ethics"
7:30 Tinker Time (Sheriff Sid)
7:55 Weather (Ed Mason)
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 CBS News (Mike Wallace)
9:30 (3) Country Crossroads
9:30 (31) I Love Lucy
10:00 Real McCoys
10:30 Pete & Gladys
11:00 Love of Life
11:25 CBS News (Robert Trout)
11:30 Search for Tomorrow
11:45 Guiding Light
noon News/Market Reports/Weather
12:15 (31) Debbie Drake
12:30 As the World Turns
1:00 Password (guests Darren McGavin and Eva Gabor)
1:30 House Party
2:00 To Tell the Truth (on the panel: Lena Horne, Barry Nelson, Sam Levenson and Phyllis Newman)
2:25 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
2:30 Edge of Night
3:00 Secret Storm
3:30 Lee Phillip (guest Denise Darcel)
3:45 (3) Popeye/Sheriff Sid
3:45 (31) Street Scene (Jack McCarthy)
4:00 (3) Movie "I Met Him in Paris"
4:00 (31) Movie "Arkansas Traveler"
5:30 CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
6:00 News (Ron Cochran)
6:25 (3) News (Paul Davis)
6:30 (3) Yogi Bear
6:30 (31) Biography (Fiorello H. LaGuardia, former NYC Mayor)
7:00 Red Skelton (guests Raymond Burr and Kessler Twins)
8:00 Petticoat Junction
8:30 Jack Benny
9:00 Garry Moore (guests Mel Torme, Alan King and Roy Castle)
10:00 News/Weather/Sports
10:30 (3) Movie "You Pay Your Money"
10:30 (31) Movie "Challenge to Lassie"

WTVP 17-ABC Decatur (and W70AF Champaign/Urbana)
8:25 Columbia Seminars "International Law"
8:55 Meditations
9:00 Cartoon Playtime
10:00 Price is Right (Bill Cullen)
10:30 Seven Keys (Jack Narz)
11:00 Tennessee Ernie Ford
11:30 Father Knows Best
noon General Hospital
12:30 Country Journal (Al Pigg; insert your own joke here )
1:00 M Squad
1:30 Day in Court
1:55 ABC News (Lisa Howard)
2:00 Queen for a Day
2:30 Who Do You Trust?
3:00 Trailmaster
4:00 Mickey Mouse Club
4:30 Mighty Hercules
5:00 Cheyenne
6:00 ABC News (Ron Cochran)
6:15 News/Weather/Sports
6:30 Combat!
7:30 McHale's Navy
8:00 Greatest Show on Earth
9:00 Fugitive "The Glass Tightrope" (Leslie Nielsen co-stars)
10:00 Weather/News
10:15 News (Murphy Martin)
10:25 Sports (Frank Monte)
10:30 Movie "The Bounty Hunter"
11:50 News (Bob Billman)

WTVH 19-ABC Peoria (and W78AC LaSalle/Peru, a TVG station ad also mentions Streator and Ottawa)
8:30 Columbia Seminars "The New Ideologies"
9:00 Cartoon Playtime
10:00 Price is Right
10:30 Seven Keys
11:00 Tennessee Ernie Ford
11:30 Father Knows Best
noon General Hospital
12:30 Farm Market Reports
1:00 M Squad
1:30 Day in Court
1:55 ABC News
2:00 Queen for a Day
2:30 Who Do You Trust?
3:00 Trailmaster
4:00 Mickey Mouse Club
4:30 Mighty Hercules
5:00 Cheyenne
6:00 ABC News (Ron Cochran)
6:15 News/Weather/Sports
6:30 Combat!
7:30 McHale's Navy
8:00 Greatest Show on Earth
9:00 Fugitive "The Glass Tightrope" (Leslie Nielsen co-stars)
10:00 News (Murphy Martin)
10:15 Movie "A Dangerous Profession"
11:35 Sea Hunt

WICS 20-NBC Springfield/WICD 24-NBC Danville/WCHU 33-NBC Champaign (20/33 colorcasted, 24 didn't)
7:00 Today (Hugh Downs)
9:00 Say When
9:25 NBC News (Edwin C. Newman)
9:30 Word for Word (Merv Griffin)
10:00 Concentration
10:30 Missing Links (panelists Ossie Davis, Kitty Carlisle and Abe Burrows)
11:00 Your Best Impression (panelists Dorothy Lamour, Jack Whitaker and Dennis James; host Bill Leyden)
11:30 Truth or Consequences (Bob welcomes Frank Sinatra Jr, Max Baer and Guy Williams)
11:55 NBC News (Scherer)
noon Girl Talk (Virginia Graham welcomes Constance Ford, Hildy Parks and Judith Crist)
12:30 (20) At Your Service
12:30 (24/33) Table Talk
1:00 People Will Talk (Dennis James)
1:30 Doctors
2:00 Loretta Young
2:30 You Don't Say! (Tom Kennedy's guests: Julie Adams and Sheldon Leonard)
3:00 Match Game (Dorothy Kilgallen and Tom Poston guest)
3:25 NBC News (Sander Vanocur)
3:30 Make Room for Daddy
4:00 Funny Company
4:45 Rocky & Friends
5:00 (20) Magic Circle
5:00 (24) Bookworm Junction
5:00 (33) Uncle Otto's General Store
5:15 (24) At Your Service
5:30 NBC News (Huntley/Brinkley)
6:00 News/Weather
6:15 Local News
6:30 Mr. Novak
7:30 Redigo
8:00 Richard Boone
9:00 Bell Telephone Hour (Maurice Chevalier headlines this week's show)
10:00 News/Weather/Sports
10:30 Tonight Show
mid. News

WEEK 43-NBC Peoria (and WEEQ 35-Urbana)
7:00 Today (Hugh Downs)
9:00 Say When
9:25 NBC News (Edwin C. Newman)
9:30 Word for Word (Merv Griffin)
10:00 Concentration
10:30 Missing Links (panelists Ossie Davis, Kitty Carlisle and Abe Burrows)
11:00 Your Best Impression (panelists Dorothy Lamour, Jack Whitaker and Dennis James; host Bill Leyden)
11:30 Truth or Consequences (Bob welcomes Frank Sinatra Jr, Max Baer and Guy Williams)
11:55 NBC News (Scherer)
noon News/Weather
12:20 Popeye
12:30 King & Odie
12:45 Barbara Barry
1:00 People Will Talk (Dennis James)
1:30 Doctors
2:00 Loretta Young
2:30 You Don't Say! (Tom Kennedy's guests: Julie Adams and Sheldon Leonard)
3:00 Match Game (Dorothy Kilgallen and Tom Poston guest)
3:25 NBC News (Sander Vanocur)
3:30 Make Room for Daddy
4:00 Captain Jinks
5:00 Quick Draw McGraw
5:30 NBC News (Huntley/Brinkley)
6:00 News/Weather/Sports
6:30 Mr. Novak
7:30 Redigo
8:00 Richard Boone
9:00 Bell Telephone Hour (Maurice Chevalier headlines this week's show)
10:00 News/Weather/Sports
10:30 Tonight Show

 

[w9wi]

WEEK 43-NBC Peoria (and WEEQ 35-Urbana)

WEEQ was listed as Urbana? The city of license was LaSalle - it was operating on the same assignment as is used today by TBN's WWTO.

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

Do you have that same day's listings from the Western Illinois edition? (which included the Quad Cities, Quincy, and Peoria stations plus KTVO-3 Kirksville, MO/Ottumwa, IA--I don't think Springfield's WICS-20 was included in the Western IL edition until about the late '60s).

 

[Bluenoser]

Do you have that same day's listings from the Western Illinois edition? (which included the Quad Cities, Quincy, and Peoria stations plus KTVO-3 Kirksville, MO/Ottumwa, IA--I don't think Springfield's WICS-20 was included in the Western IL edition until about the late '60s).

Unfortunately, I don't...all I've got from Illinois from that week is the Eastern edition.

 

[zman]

WEEK 43-NBC Peoria (and WEEQ 35-Urbana)

WEEQ was listed as Urbana? The city of license was LaSalle - it was operating on the same assignment as is used today by TBN's WWTO.

The transmitter was located just east of Tonica near where my parents live. Oddly enough, they received a better signal from Channel 43 and later 25 than they got on Channel 35 despite living closer to the WEEQ transmitter. They had the same thing happen with channel 71. They picked up a better signal from channel 31. they did get a better signal on channel 78 than on 19 though. They took down the transmitter tower a couple years ago. Also the TVG ad for channel 78 including Ottawa and Streator would make sense as both towns are near La Salle Peru.

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

WEEK 43-NBC Peoria (and WEEQ 35-Urbana)

WEEQ was listed as Urbana? The city of license was LaSalle - it was operating on the same assignment as is used today by TBN's WWTO.

The transmitter was located just east of Tonica near where my parents live. Oddly enough, they received a better signal from Channel 43 and later 25 than they got on Channel 35 despite living closer to the WEEQ transmitter. They had the same thing happen with channel 71. They picked up a better signal from channel 31. they did get a better signal on channel 78 than on 19 though. They took down the transmitter tower a couple years ago. Also the TVG ad for channel 78 including Ottawa and Streator would make sense as both towns are near La Salle Peru.

Do you know when WEEQ-35 went dark? (I do remember when WWTO signed on at channel 35 in 1986, and I also remember you once saying that WMBD kept their Tonica translator at channel 71 until perhaps as recently as 1980 when they upgraded their signal).