Retro: Evansville/Paducah Sun, Jan 23, 1972

[Bluenoser]

from TV Guide-Evansville/Paducah edition

WSIL 3-ABC Harrisburg
7:15 This is the Life
7:45 The Story
8:15 Phelps Brothers
8:30 Oral Roberts
9:00 Old Time Gospel Music
10:00 Bullwinkle
10:30 Make a Wish
11:00 Reluctant Dragon & Mr. Toad
11:30 Here Come the Doubledeckers
noon Directions (conclusion of a 2-parter on poet William Blake)
12:30 Issues & Answers
1:00 NBA: New York-Seattle
3:30 Movie: TBA
5:00 Championship Wrestling
6:00 Wild Kingdom (Arctic polar bears and walruses)
6:30 This is Your Life
7:00 FBI (John Davidson plays a rock star whose career is being taken over by a loan shark)
8:00 Movie "Duel in the Sun"
10:45 ABC News
11:00 Movie "The Charge of the Light Brigade" (bw)

WPSD 6-NBC Paducah
7:00 Faith for Today
7:30 Gospel Singing Jubilee
8:30 Devotion
9:15 Hamilton Brothers
9:30 Herald of Truth
10:00 Christopher Closeup
10:30 Deputy Dawg
11:00 Dr. Dolittle
11:30 No Miracle But Love (a look at the world of the mentally disabled, filmed at Wisconsin's Bethesda Lutheran Home)
noon Meet the Press (guest is Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott (R-PA))
12:30 TBA
1:00 Dean Martin Tucson Open golf
2:30 TBA
2:45 Commercial Film
3:00 NFL All-Star Game (live from LA)
6:00 News/Weather/Sports
6:30 Wonderful World of Disney "The Family Band" (pt 1; originally titled The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band)
7:30 Jimmy Stewart (Jimmy reunites with Philadelphia Story co-star Ruth Hussey)
8:00 To Europe with Love (with Peggy Fleming and Andy Williams; pre-empts Bonanza)
9:00 Bold Ones "Short Flight to a Distant Star"
10:00 News/Weather/Sports
10:30 Movie "Munster, Go Home"

WTVW 7-ABC Evansville
7:00 Lewis Family
7:30 Calvary Temple
8:00 Rev. Schwambach
8:30 Oral Roberts
9:00 Cathedral of Tomorrow
10:00 NewHope
10:30 Make a Wish
11:00 Living Way
11:30 Mass for Shut-Ins
noon Moral View
12:30 Issues & Answers
1:00 NBA: New York-Seattle
3:30 Movie "The World in His Arms"
6:00 Lawrence Welk (guest Doc Severinsen)
7:00 FBI
8:00 Movie "Duel in the Sun"
10:45 ABC News
11:00 News/Weather/Sports
11:15 Movie "The Fastest Gun Alive" (bw)

WSIU 8-PBS Carbondale
4:30pm Insight
5:00 Defenders "Nobody Asks What Side You're On..."
6:00 Zoom
6:30 French Chef
7:00 Firing Line (a look at the youth vote in the 1972 election)
8:00 Masterpiece Theatre "The Six Wives of Henry VIII" (pt 4)
9:45 Cartoon Instruction
10:00 David Susskind "A Hundred Years Behind Bars...Tough Ex-Cons Damn Our Prisons" (9 ex-cons speak out on prison life and suggest reforms)

KFVS 12-CBS Cape Girardeau
6:00 Christopher Closeup
6:30 News/Weather
7:00 The Answer
7:30 Herald of Truth
8:00 Tom & Jerry
8:30 Groovie Goolies
9:00 Revival Fires
9:30 Look Up & Live (a review of the Ecumenical Witness religious conference on the Vietnam War)
10:00 Camera Three (performance by the National Dance Troupe of Sierra Leone)
10:30 Face the Nation (guest: Alabama Gov. George Wallace)
11:00 Lamp Unto My Feet (profile of Dr. Paul Tillich)
11:30 This is the Life
noon Glory Road
12:30 Lester Family
1:00 NHL: Buffalo-Boston
3:30 NFL Action "The Glorious Game" (series return)
4:00 Kid Talk (premiere, with guests Greg Morris and George Plimpton)
4:30 Animal World (return/Barbary apes in Gibraltar)
5:00 60 Minutes
6:00 Lassie
6:30 Movie "The Bridge on the River Kwai" (conclusion)
8:30 Cade's County
9:30 Forum
10:00 CBS News
10:15 News/Weather/Sports
10:30 Virginian
mid. Living Faith

WFIE 14-NBC Evansville
11:00 Christopher Closeup
11:30 No Miracle But Love
noon Meet the Press
12:30 Rebels
1:00 Dean Martin Tucson Open golf
2:30 Commercial Film
2:45 Film
3:00 NFL All-Star Game
6:00 Wild Kngdom (visiting the Great Barrier Reef)
6:30 Wonderful World of Disney "The Family Band" (pt 1)
7:30 Jimmy Stewart
8:00 To Europe with Love
9:00 Bold Ones "Short Flight to a Distant Star"
10:00 News/Weather/Sports
10:25 Movie "Warkill"

WEHT 25-CBS Evansville
7:30 Music & the Spoken Word
8:00 Tom & Jerry
8:30 Groovie Goolies
9:00 Lamp Unto My Feet
9:30 Look Up & Live
10:00 Camera Three
10:30 Face the Nation
11:00 St. Mark's Lutheran Church
noon Treehouse Club
12:30 With This Ring
12:45 Film
1:00 NHL: Buffalo-Boston
3:30 NFL Action "The Glorious Game" (return)
4:00 Kid Talk (premiere)
4:30 Animal World (return)
5:00 60 Minutes
6:00 Flying Nun
6:30 Movie "The Bridge on the River Kwai" (conclusion)
8:30 Cade's County
9:30 Wilburn Brothers
10:00 News/Weather/Sports
10:30 Movie "These Thousand Hills" (bw)
12:45 Outta Sight
1:15 Law of the Land

WDXR 29-Ind Paducah
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"
1:00 Outer Limits "The Brain of Colonel Barham" (bw)
2:00 Cowtown Rodeo
3:00 Sea Hunt (bw)
3:30 Victory at Sea (bw)
4:00 High & Wild
4:30 Untamed World
5:00 Saint
5:55 News
6:00 Movie "Duck Soup" (bw)
7:25 News
7:30 Movie "The Tall Man"
9:35 Weather/News/Sports
10:00 Movie "Boots Malone" (bw)

Kentucky Educational Network (PBS): WKMU 21-Murray, WKZT 23-Elizabethtown, WKHA 35-Hazard, WKGB 53-Bowling Green
6pm Zoom
6:30 French Chef
7:00 Firing Line (same program as ch 8 )
8:00 Masterpiece Theatre "The Six Wives of Henry VIII" (pt 4)
9:45 David Littlejohn: Critic at Large "Selling the Moon" (a wry look at NASA PR)

 

[RyanHoward]

from TV Guide-Evansville/Paducah edition


Kentucky Educational Network (PBS): WKMU 21-Murray, WKZT 23-Elizabethtown, WKHA 35-Hazard, WKGB 53-Bowling Green
6pm Zoom
6:30 French Chef
7:00 Firing Line (same program as ch 8 )
8:00 Masterpiece Theatre "The Six Wives of Henry VIII" (pt 4)
9:45 David Littlejohn: Critic at Large "Selling the Moon" (a wry look at NASA PR)

That should be WKMA-35 Madisonville. Hazard is in the eastern part of Kentucky.

 

[Bluenoser]

from TV Guide-Evansville/Paducah edition


Kentucky Educational Network (PBS): WKMU 21-Murray, WKZT 23-Elizabethtown, WKHA 35-Hazard, WKGB 53-Bowling Green
6pm Zoom
6:30 French Chef
7:00 Firing Line (same program as ch 8 )
8:00 Masterpiece Theatre "The Six Wives of Henry VIII" (pt 4)
9:45 David Littlejohn: Critic at Large "Selling the Moon" (a wry look at NASA PR)

That should be WKMA-35 Madisonville. Hazard is in the eastern part of Kentucky.

You're right, should read WKMA...that's what I get for including the calls and location ...TVG only listed channels.

 

[firepoint525]

from TV Guide-Evansville/Paducah edition
Kentucky Educational Network (PBS): WKMU 21-Murray, WKZT 23-Elizabethtown, WKHA 35-Hazard, WKGB 53-Bowling Green

That should be WKMA-35 Madisonville. Hazard is in the eastern part of Kentucky.

Elizabethtown is fairly "eastward" in Kentucky, too. It is on eastern time. Personally, I think that Kentuckians may be directionally challenged. After all, "Western" Kentucky University is in Bowling Green. You can go about another 150 miles or so west from Bowling Green before you would cross the Mississippi River into Missouri.

Meanwhile, the Paducah-Evansville market is a strange one. It is too far south for St. Louis, too far north to be Memphis, and too far west to be Nashville. I grew up in Obion County, Tennessee, and the Paducah-Evansville edition of TV Guide was the one sold there. Dyer County, the next county to the south of us, received the Memphis edition, from what I understand. Needless to say, we did not receive any of the Evansville stations. But we had Memphis and Nashville on cable. But, hey, we're Tennesseans.

Newspapers were almost as strange. The Jackson Sun (Jackson, TN, newspaper) was sold in Obion County, but Obion County was NOT in their official coverage area. Go figure.

 

[DaveArnold]

WDXR-TV sister station to WDXR Radio-Paducah.

 

[briancraig]

So, I guess the only 2 channels in the Paducah-Evansville edition that one would receive in Obion County would be WPSD and KFVS. I would think you would get WBBJ for ABC and WLJT for PBS.

It seems like when I stayed overnight in a motel in Union City back around 1991 that NBC was WPSD, ABC was WBBJ and CBS was WTVF instead of KFVS.

Seems like there would be no edition of TV Guide that could be of much use in Northwest Tennessee although I remember the Jackson Sun having a pretty good Sunday TV magazine in those days.

 

[Cincinnati Kid]

I remember the Evansville station on Channel 7 had a very good over-the-air signal as far back as 1963. I recall picking it up in Columbia, Ky. which is in the south-central part of the state.

 

[DaveArnold]

KFVS covered Western Kentucky over the air quite well.

 

[firepoint525]

So, I guess the only 2 channels in the Paducah-Evansville edition that one would receive in Obion County would be WPSD and KFVS. I would think you would get WBBJ for ABC and WLJT for PBS.

We also got WDXR (when it was on) and KBSI.

It seems like when I stayed overnight in a motel in Union City back around 1991 that NBC was WPSD, ABC was WBBJ and CBS was WTVF instead of KFVS.

WTVF was indeed on the cable system there back then. Maybe still is.

 

[azumanga]

So, I guess the only 2 channels in the Paducah-Evansville edition that one would receive in Obion County would be WPSD and KFVS. I would think you would get WBBJ for ABC and WLJT for PBS.

We also got WDXR (when it was on) and KBSI.

Did the system get Channel 29's successor, WKPD?

 

[firepoint525]

So, I guess the only 2 channels in the Paducah-Evansville edition that one would receive in Obion County would be WPSD and KFVS. I would think you would get WBBJ for ABC and WLJT for PBS.

We also got WDXR (when it was on) and KBSI.

Did the system get Channel 29's successor, WKPD?

Isn't that a PBS station? At any rate, I don't know. I moved away from there in '92, and we had cable by then. We could get WDXR with just rabbit ears! ;D

 

[azumanga]

So, I guess the only 2 channels in the Paducah-Evansville edition that one would receive in Obion County would be WPSD and KFVS. I would think you would get WBBJ for ABC and WLJT for PBS.

We also got WDXR (when it was on) and KBSI.

Did the system get Channel 29's successor, WKPD?

Isn't that a PBS station? At any rate, I don't know. I moved away from there in '92, and we had cable by then. We could get WDXR with just rabbit ears! ;D

WKPD is the KET outlet for paducah.

 

[firepoint525]

So, I guess the only 2 channels in the Paducah-Evansville edition that one would receive in Obion County would be WPSD and KFVS. I would think you would get WBBJ for ABC and WLJT for PBS.

We also got WDXR (when it was on) and KBSI.

Did the system get Channel 29's successor, WKPD?

Isn't that a PBS station? At any rate, I don't know. I moved away from there in '92, and we had cable by then. We could get WDXR with just rabbit ears! ;D

WKPD is the KET outlet for paducah.

Yeah, I was thinking that it was educational television, hence my question. We got our PBS from WLJT-TV, Lexington/Martin, TN. (Meanwhile, WKZT, which was the callsign of the radio station in Fulton, KY, back when I worked there, is now the calls for a KET station in KY, as per earlier in this thread.)

 

[KyDXIn]

I remember the Evansville station on Channel 7 had a very good over-the-air signal as far back as 1963. I recall picking it up in Columbia, Ky. which is in the south-central part of the state.

Channel 7 in Evansville had such a good signal it was on Cardinal Cable system in Corydon, Indiana, just 20 miles west of Louisville, KY in the 80s and 90s.

 

[Charles1]

Was Channel 7 carried on the Corydon cable system because of its signal strength, or was it to give subscribers an Indiana-centric newscast? Having lived in Louisville during the mid-80's, I don't recall 3, 11 or 32 offering much Hoosier content in their newscasts unless it related to either Jeffersonville or New Albany.