Retro: Evansville/Paducah Fri, Jan 28, 1972

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from TV Guide-Evansville/Paducah edition

WSIL 3-ABC Harrisburg
8:30 Jack LaLanne (bw)
9:00 The Hour (Jim Cox)
10:00 What Every Woman Wants to Know (women's political power/how to buy lettuce/the pill)
10:30 That Girl
11:00 Bewitched
11:30 Password
noon All My Children
12:30 Let's Make a Deal
1:00 Newlywed Game
1:30 Dating Game
2:00 General Hospital
2:30 One Life to Live
3:00 Love, American Style
3:30 Movie "Disraeli" (bw)
5:15 Jerry Stoner
5:30 ABC Evening News
6:00 Cactus Pete
6:25 Weather (Dave Overby)
6:30 Sports Action Profile (premiere/this series, narrated by Chicago TV sports director Bruce Roberts, takes a behind-the-scenes look at well-known sports figures)
7:00 Brady Bunch
7:30 Partridge Family "I Am Curious Partridge"
8:00 Room 222 "We Hold These Truths..."
8:30 Odd Couple
9:00 Love, American Style (pt 1 was a pilot for a Hanna-Barbera animated series about the adventures of Melvin Danger, a bumbling private eye who's a master of disguise and a self-considered chick magnet )
10:00 News/Weather/Sports
11:30 Dick Cavett
mid. Movie "Creature from the Black Lagoon" (bw, followed by news)

WPSD 6-NBC Paducah
7:00 Today (from Washington, an interview with Sen. George McGovern (D-SD), who was running for the Democratic Presidential nomination)
9:00 Dinah Shore (lawyer Edward Bennett Williams and psychiatrist Roderic Gorney discuss drug addiction and the law)
9:30 Concentration
10:00 Sale of the Century
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11:00 Jeopardy!
11:30 Who, What or Where Game
11:55 NBC News
noon News/Farm/Weather
12:15 Pastor Speaks
12:30 Romper Room
12:55 Calendar (Tom Butler)
1:00 Days of Our Lives
1:30 Doctors
2:00 Another World
2:30 Bright Promise
3:00 Somerset
3:30 Popeye
4:00 Gilligan's Island
4:30 Dance Party
5:30 NBC Nightly News
6:00 News/Weather/Sports
6:30 Green Acres
7:00 Sanford & Son
7:30 Chronolog (the January edition of NBC's monthly newsmagazine (which pre-empts the Friday Night Movie) shows films of FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt at Hyde Park entertaining King George VI and their kids, a report on lead poisoning, following Brigitte Bardot and Claudia Cardinale on the set of a Western spoof filmed in Spain, and hitching a ride in a British TV detector truck tracking down deadbeat licence fee payers)
9:30 Felony Squad
10:00 News/Weather/Sports
10:30 Tonight Show (guests Jaye P. Morgan and Orson Bean)

WTVW 7-ABC Evansville
7:00 Star Route 7
8:00 Movie "Shelock Holmes and the House of Fear" (bw)
9:30 Romper Room (Miss Winnie)
10:00 Password
10:30 That Girl
11:00 Bewitched
11:30 News/Weather/Sports
11:50 It's Your Money
noon All My Children
12:30 Let's Make a Deal
1:00 Newlywed Game
1:30 Dating Game
2:00 General Hospital
2:30 One Life to Live
3:00 Love, American Style
3:30 I Love Lucy (bw)
4:00 Dick Van Dyke "One Angry Man" (bw)
4:30 Big Valley
5:30 ABC Evening News
6:00 News/Weather/Sports
6:30 Courtship of Eddie's Father (delay from Wed 7:00, 7 showed Hee Haw 6:30-7:30 on Wed)
7:00 Brady Bunch
7:30 Partridge Family "I Am Curious Partridge"
8:00 Room 222 "We Hold These Truths..."
8:30 Odd Couple
9:00 Love, American Style
10:00 News/Weather/Sports/Paul Harvey
10:35 Movie "Thunder in the Sun" (bw)
12:15 Movie "Abandoned" (bw)

WSIU 8-PBS Carbondale
A late start today...the channel usually signed-on at 8:45 with instructional programs, interrupting them for Sesame Street at 11:30, Electric Company at 12:30, and a 5-min newsbreak at 1, with ITV programs returning at 1:05
3pm Sportempo
3:30 Private Lives of Americans (conclusion)
4:00 Sesame Street (ep 330)
5:00 News
5:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
6:00 Electric Company (ep 70, Rita Moreno plays a post office clerk in a segment about the sound NT)
6:30 Wall Street Week
7:00 Washington Week in Review
7:30 Film Odyssey "Grand Illusion" (bw; Charles Champlin talks with film director Jean Renoir after the film)
9:30 Footnotes to Odyssey (discussing tonight's movie)
10:00 Movie "The Mortal Storm"

KFVS 12-CBS Cape Girardeau
6:00 Film
6:30 Breakfast Show
7:00 CBS Morning News
8:00 Captain Kangaroo (celebrating FDR's birthday, which was 2 days later)
9:00 Lucille Ball
9:30 My Three Sons
10:00 Family Affair
10:30 Love of Life
11:00 Where the Heart is
11:25 CBS News
11:30 Search for Tomorrow
noon News/Farm/Weather
12:30 As the World Turns
1:00 Love is a Many-Splendored Thing
1:30 Guiding Light
2:00 Secret Storm
2:30 Edge of Night
3:00 Gomer Pyle, USMC
3:30 Virginian
5:00 Hazel "High Finance Hits a New Low"
5:30 News/Sports/Weather
6:00 CBS Evening News
6:30 Buck Owens
7:00 O'Hara, US Treasury
8:00 Movie "She Waits"
10:00 News/Weather/Sports
10:30 Merv Griffin
mid. News (bw/Bob Reeves)

WFIE 14-NBC Evansville
6:55 Farm & Family
7:00 Today
9:00 Dinah Shore
9:30 Concentration
10:00 Sale of the Century
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11:00 Jeopardy!
11:30 Who, What or Where Game
11:55 NBC News
noon Midday (Gene Swindell)
12:30 Three on a Match
1:00 Days of Our Lives
1:30 Doctors
2:00 Another World
2:30 Bright Promise
3:00 Somerset
3:30 Movie "Only the Brave" (bw)
5:00 Truth or Consequences
5:30 NBC Nightly News
6:00 News/Weather/Sports
6:30 Adam-12 (delayed from Wed 7:00; 14 counterprogrammed It Takes a Thief at 6:30 against Hee Haw on 7)
7:00 Sanford & Son
7:30 Chronolog
9:30 Dragnet
10:00 News/Weather/Sports
10:30 Tonight Show

WEHT 25-CBS Evansville
6:30 CBS Morning News
7:00 Jeff's Collie (Lassie) "The Frog" (bw)
7:30 Peggy Mitchell
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Lucille Ball
9:30 My Three Sons
10:00 Family Affair
10:30 Love of Life
11:00 Where the Heart is
11:25 CBS News
11:30 Search for Tomorrow
noon News/Weather/Sports
12:20 Lucille Rivers
12:30 As the World Turns
1:00 Love is a Many-Splendored Thing
1:30 Guiding Light
2:00 Secret Storm
2:30 Edge of Night
3:00 Gomer Pyle, USMC
3:30 Little Rascals (bw)
4:00 Flintstones
4:30 Daniel Boone "Daughter of the Devil" (bw; TVG had an article that week about WTEV New Bedford/Providence spiking 37 episodes after complaints from local Indian tribes)
5:30 CBS Evening News
6:00 News/Weather/Sports
6:30 Buck Owens
7:00 O'Hara, US Treasury
8:00 Movie "She Waits"
10:00 News/Weather/Sports
10:30 Merv Griffin
mid. Movie "Most Dangerous Man Alive" (bw)

WDXR 29-Ind Paducah (went dark in 1981, the license was then donated to KET which re-called the channel WKPD)
9:45 Morning Devotion
10:00 Movie "Five Against the House" (bw)
11:35 What's the Answer?
11:50 Lucille Rivers
noon Galloping Gourmet
12:30 Three on a Match (NBC)
1:00 Movie "Mr. Soft Touch" (bw)
2:55 News
3:00 Movie Game (fitting show for a channel that billed itself "Paducah's Movie Station")
3:30 McHale's Navy (bw)
4:00 Bozo's Big Top
5:00 Death Valley Days
5:30 This Week in the NBA
5:55 News
6:00 Movie "Ambush at Tomahawk Gap"
7:25 News
7:30 Movie "The Black Knight"
9:35 Weather/News
10:00 Twilight Zone "The Lonely" (bw)
10:30 Movie "The Face Behind the Mask" (bw)
mid. Sports

Kentucky Educational Network (PBS): WKMU 21-Murray, WKZT 23-Elizabethtown, WKMA 35-Madisonville, WKGB 53-Bowling Green
7:30 Instructional Programs
3:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
3:30 Electric Company (ep 70)
4:00 Sesame Street (ep 330)
5:00 sign-off (sign-off times varied through the week...that week, it was 10:30pm Mon/Tues/Wed and 6pm Thu, both KEN and ch 8 didn't air weekend programming)

 

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WDXR 29-Ind Paducah (went dark in 1981, the license was then donated to KET which re-called the channel WKPD)

Actually WDXR-TV went dark a few years before, IIRC around 1976.

 

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WDXR 29-Ind Paducah (went dark in 1981, the license was then donated to KET which re-called the channel WKPD)

Actually WDXR-TV went dark a few years before, IIRC around 1976.

When did ch 29 become WKPD? I've got conflicting info...Wikipedia's KET page said 1981, but a footnote on the DuMont Memories website says 1978.

 

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WDXR 29-Ind Paducah (went dark in 1981, the license was then donated to KET which re-called the channel WKPD)

Actually WDXR-TV went dark a few years before, IIRC around 1976.

When did ch 29 become WKPD? I've got conflicting info...Wikipedia's KET page said 1981, but a footnote on the DuMont Memories website says 1978.

Francis Nash's book "Towers Over Kentucky" says the station signed on the air May 31,1971 by the McKinney-Smith family as sister to WDXR radio. It doesn't say when they signed off the air but does indicate the license was given to KET in 1978.

 

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Since we're talking about it, here's what WDXR's sked looked like for the rest of that week:

Saturday, January 22
10:00 Bible Story Time
10:30 Movie "Hurricane Island" (bw)
noon Death Valley Days (bw)
12:30 Ultraman
12:55 News
1:00 Movie "Brave Warrior"
2:30 Monroes
3:30 I Led Three Lives
4:00 Science Fiction Theatre "Jupitron" (bw)
4:30 All-Star Wrestling
5:30 Suspense Theater "That He Should Weep for Her"
6:30 Country Music
7:00 Star Trek
7:55 News
8:00 Movie "Hell's Horizon" (bw)
9:35 Weather/News
10:00 For Adults Only
10:30 Avengers
11:30 Hugh Hefner (which also aired at the same time, but with a different guest line-up, on WEHT)
12:25 Sports
12:30 Twilight Zone "Shadow Play" (bw)

Sunday, January 23
7:30 Public Service Film
8:00 Gospel Music
8:30 Bible Baptist
9:00 Baptist Temple
10:00 Consultation
10:30 Gospel Music
11:30 Movie "Born Yesterday" (bw)
1:00 Outer Limits "The Brain of Colonel Barham" (bw)
2:00 Cowtown Rodeo
3:00 Sea Hunt (bw)
4:00 High & Wild
4:30 Untamed World
5:00 The Saint
5:55 News
6:00 Movie "Duck Soup" (bw)
7:25 News
7:30 Movie "The Tall Men"
9:35 Weather/News
10:00 Movie "Boots Malone" (bw)

Weekdays-Daytime
9:45 Morning Devotion
10:00 Movie
11:35 What's the Answer?
11:50 Lucille Rivers
noon Galloping Gourmet
12:30 Three on a Match
1:00 Movie
2:55 News
3:00 Movie Game
3:30 McHale's Navy (bw)
4:00 Bozo's Big Top (29's Bozo, Dick Dyszel, eventually ended up playing the same role at WDCA Washington...more on this at http://kidshow.dcmemories.com/bozopt5.html)
5:00 Death Valley Days

Monday, January 24
Daytime movies...The Tall Men at 10am, Boots Malone at 1pm
5:30 Munsters (bw)
5:55 News
6:00 Movie "Born Yesterday" (bw)
7:25 News
7:30 Movie "Let's Do It Again"
9:35 Weather/News
10:00 Twilight Zone "Back There" (bw)
10:30 College Basketball; Vanderbilt-Kentucky (also simulcast on 14, who blew out Carson (or more accurately, guest host Joey Bishop) and stayed up late to air the game)

Tuesday, January 25
Daytime movies...Let's Do It Again at 10, Count Three and Pray at 1
5:30 Munsters (bw)
5:55 News
6:00 Movie "Three for the Show"
7:25 News
7:30 NHL All-Star Game (live from Bloomington, MN; who originated coverage?)
10:00 Twilight Zone "The Whole Truth" (bw)
10:30 Movie "Footsteps in the Fog"
mid. Sports

Wednesday, January 26
Daytime movies...Footsteps in the Fog at 10, And Baby Makes Three (bw) at 1
5:30 Stan Gunn
5:55 News
6:00 Movie "The Good Humor Man" (bw)
7:25 News
7:30 Movie "Mr. Soft Touch" (bw)
9:35 Weather/News
10:00 Twilight Zone "A Long-Distance Call" (bw)
10:30 Movie "Women's Prison" (bw)
mid. Sports

Thursday, January 27
Daytime movies...Women's Prison (bw) at 10, and Three for the Show at 1
5:30 Bill Dance Outdoors
5:55 News
6:00 Movie "Five Against the House" (bw)
7:25 News
7:30 Movie "Gun Fury"
9:35 Weather/News
10:00 Twilight Zone "Escape Clause" (bw)
10:30 Movie "Count Three and Pray"
mid. Sports

 

[firepoint525]

Did stations not even sign on until their network's programming started? 7:00 a.m. seems late for a sign-on for a network affiliate, but maybe times were different then.

 

[TexasTom]

Did stations not even sign on until their network's programming started? 7:00 a.m. seems late for a sign-on for a network affiliate, but maybe times were different then.

Times were different then, with very small audiences before 7 AM making early morning programming unprofitable. While many network affiliates did sign on at 6:00 or 6:30, those early morning slots were generally filled with public affairs programming to win brownie points with the FCC at license renewal time.

 

[Ultimajock]

Did stations not even sign on until their network's programming started? 7:00 a.m. seems late for a sign-on for a network affiliate, but maybe times were different then.

Times were different then, with very small audiences before 7 AM making early morning programming unprofitable. While many network affiliates did sign on at 6:00 or 6:30, those early morning slots were generally filled with public affairs programming to win brownie points with the FCC at license renewal time.

...or, in highly rural states like Wisconsin and Minnesota, the pre-network schedule was often filled with programs for the agricultural markets, before the farmers went out to milk the cows or plow the fields. Thise were big money makers back in the day. Even the Milwaukee and Minneapolis stations sometimes syndicated their agribusiness shows to smaller markets like La Crosse/Eau Claire and Green Bay...