Retro: Fort Wayne/South Bend/Lima Tues, July 8, 1969

[Bluenoser]

40 years ago today, from TV Guide's Northern Indiana edition

WANE 15-CBS Fort Wayne
6:30 Black Heritage (c/black experience in North and South, conclusion)
7:00 CBS News (c)
8:00 Captain Kangaroo (c)
9:00 Movie "Zero Hour!"
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies (c)
11:00 Andy Griffith
11:30 Dick Van Dyke
noon Love of Life (c)
12:25 News (c)
12:30 Search for Tomorrow (c)
1:00 Ann Colone (c)
1:30 As the World Turns (c)
2:00 Love is a Many-Splendored Thing (c)
2:30 Guiding Light (c)
3:00 Secret Storm (c)
3:30 Edge of Night (c)
4:00 Linkletter Show (c)
4:30 Movie "The Story of Dr. Wassell" (c/pt 1; Dialing for Dollars during the movie)
6:00 McHale's Navy
6:30 CBS News (c)
7:00 News (c)
7:30 Lancer (c)
8:30 Red Skelton (c/season finale)
9:30 Doris Day (c)
10:00 60 Minutes (c)
11:00 News (c)
11:30 Paul Harvey (c)
11:35 Movie "Angel Baby" (c)

WNDU 16-NBC South Bend
6:55 Daily Meditations (c)
7:00 Today (c/news at 7:25 & 8:25)
9:00 David Frost (c; series premiered the previous day)
10:30 Galloping Gourmet (c)
11:00 Personality (c)
11:30 Hollywood Squares (c)
noon Jeopardy (c)
12:30 Eye Guess (c)
12:55 NBC News (c)
1:00 Truth or Consequences (c)
1:30 You're Putting Me On (c)
2:00 Days of Our Lives (c)
2:30 Doctors (c)
3:00 Another World (c)
3:30 You Don't Say! (c)
4:00 Match Game (c)
4:25 Doctor's House Call (c)
4:30 Movie "Son of Belle Starr"
6:00 News (c)
6:30 NBC News (c)
7:00 Gilligan's Island (c)
7:30 Star Trek (c)
8:30 Julia (c)
9:00 Movie "The Vikings" (c)
11:15 News (c)
11:45 Tonight Show (c/Flip Wilson subs for Johnny)

WPTA 21-ABC Fort Wayne
8:00 Seaspray (c)
8:30 Ride the Reading Rocket (c)
9:00 Romper Room (c)
9:30 Jack LaLanne (c)
10:00 Lucille Ball (c)
10:30 Merv Griffin (c)
11:30 Bewitched
noon Noon Report (c)
12:30 That Girl (c)
1:00 Dream House (c)
1:30 Let's Make a Deal (c)
2:00 Newlywed Game (c)
2:30 Dating Game (c)
3:00 General Hospital (c)
3:30 Flintstones (c)
4:00 Dark Shadows (c)
4:30 Mike Douglas (c/co-host Joe Namath)
5:40 News (c)
6:00 ABC News (c)
6:30 Of Lands & Seas (c)
7:30 Mod Squad (c)
8:30 Naked City
9:30 NYPD (c)
10:00 Dick Cavett (c)
11:00 Perry Mason
mid. Joey Bishop (c/JIP)
1:00 News (c)

WSBT 22-CBS South Bend
6:30 Black Heritage (c/black experience in North and South, pt 1)
7:00 CBS News (c)
8:00 Captain Kangaroo (c)
9:00 Roy Rogers
9:30 Homemakers' Time (c)
10:00 Lucille Ball
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies (c)
11:00 Andy Griffith
11:30 Dick Van Dyke
noon Love of Life (c)
12:25 CBS News (c)
12:30 Search for Tomorrow (c)
1:00 Afternoon Show (c)
1:30 As the World Turns (c)
2:00 Love is a Many-Splendored Thing (c)
2:30 Guiding Light (c)
3:00 Secret Storm (c)
3:30 Edge of Night (c)
4:00 Linkletter Show (c)
4:30 Mike Douglas (c)
6:00 News (c)
6:30 CBS News (c)
7:00 What's My Line? (c)
7:30 Lancer (c)
8:30 Red Skelton (c/season finale)
9:30 Doris Day (c)
10:00 60 Minutes (c)
11:00 News (c)
11:25 Movie "Stranglehold"

WSJV 28-ABC South Bend
9:00 King Kong
9:30 By-Line (c)
10:00 William Tell
10:30 Movie "The Sheriff was a Lady"
11:50 Fashions in Sewing (c)
noon Bewitched
12:30 That Girl (c)
1:00 Dream House (c)
1:30 Let's Make a Deal (c)
2:00 Newlywed Game (c)
2:30 Dating Game (c)
3:00 General Hospital (c)
3:30 One Life to Live (c)
4:00 Dark Shadows (c)
4:30 Flintstones (c)
5:00 McHale's Navy
5:30 Hazel (c)
6:00 ABC News (c)
6:30 Perry Mason
7:30 Mod Squad (c)
8:30 It Takes a Thief (c)
9:30 NYPD (c)
10:00 Dick Cavett (c)
11:00 Perry Mason
11:30 Joey Bishop (c)
1:00 News (c)

WKJG 33-NBC Fort Wayne
6:30 Wayne Rothgeb (c)
6:55 Faith to Live By (c)
7:00 Today (c/news at 7:25 & 8:25)
9:00 Engineer John (c)
9:30 Editor's Desk (c)
9:45 Fashions in Sewing (c)
9:55 For Your Information (c)
10:00 It Takes Two (c)
10:30 Concentration (c)
11:00 Personality (c)
11:30 Hollywood Squares (c)
noon Jeopardy (c)
12:30 Eye Guess (c)
12:55 NBC News (c)
1:00 News (c)
1:30 You're Putting Me On (c)
2:00 Days of Our Lives (c)
2:30 Doctors (c)
3:00 Another World (c)
3:30 You Don't Say! (c)
4:00 Match Game (c)
4:25 NBC News (c)
4:30 Dennis the Menace
5:00 Girl from UNCLE (c)
6:00 News (c)
6:30 NBC News (c)
7:00 Gilligan's Island (c)
7:30 Star Trek (c)
8:30 Julia (c)
9:00 Movie "The Vikings" (c)
11:15 News (c)
11:45 Tonight Show (c/Flip Wilson subs for Johnny)

WIMA 35-NBC/ABC Lima
7:00 Today (c/news at 7:25 & 8:25)
9:00 Cartoons
9:30 Jack LaLanne (c)
10:00 It Takes Two (c)
10:30 Concentration (c)
11:00 Personality (c)
11:30 Hollywood Squares (c)
noon Jeopardy (c)
12:30 Eye Guess (c)
12:55 News (c)
1:00 Easter's Parade (c)
1:30 You're Putting Me On (c)
2:00 Days of Our Lives (c)
2:30 Doctors (c)
3:00 Another World (c)
3:30 You Don't Say! (c)
4:00 Match Game (c)
4:25 NBC News (c)
4:30 Movie "Riding Shotgun"
6:00 News (c)
6:30 NBC News (c)
7:00 I Love Lucy
7:30 Star Trek (c)
8:30 Julia (c)
9:00 Movie "The Vikings" (c)
11:15 News (c)
11:45 Tonight Show (c/Flip Wilson subs for Johnny)

 

[bpatrick]

I'm surprised to see WNDU pre-empting "Concentration,"
one of NBC's most popular daytime shows at the time.

I'm not so surprised to see "One Life To Live" pre-empted
on WPTA. In that first year, some ABC affiliates were
squeamish about the multi-ethnic character of the show;
one station in that same part of the country, WLKY Louisville,
didn't carry it at the time and, in the '70s, often ran it in
the morning and substituted movies at 3:30. (I'm not sure,
but I think that even today "As The World Turns" on WLKY,
now a CBS affiliate, beats "OLTL" on WHAS at 2 PM.)
WLOS Asheville didn't even bother picking up "OLTL" until
1973, usually showing "Flintstones" reruns at 3:30 instead.
Even WFTV Orlando, one of the most progressive stations
re civil rights in the '60s, ran "OLTL" in the morning during
its first year. And "OLTL" would draw some temporary
pre-emptions around 1976 because of an interracial romance
plotline, but "All My Children" did the same thing a few years
later to virtually no complaints.

 

[Corky Marlowe]

Regarding Channel 15...I think the 9AM movie "Zero Hour" was the movie "Airplane!" was based on. Also, my aunt was on Ann Colone once with some baby pigs. Ann Colone had a long run during the noon hour, from the late 50's to the early-mid 70s. A lot of the old local talk shows were phased out around that time when some of the soaps started expanding from 30 minutes to an hour. IIRC, she was able to get some fairly big-time guests on the show, usually people from CBS prime-time shows who were "taking one for the team" and visiting the affiliates out in flyoverland. I remember Jackie Gleason being in studio once, and I also remember her doing phone interviews with celebrities, back when long distance calls had those tones every minute or so.

 

[oldiesfan6479]

...I also remember her doing phone interviews with celebrities, back when long distance calls had those tones every minute or so.

If you mean the beep tones, they were every fifteen seconds and were on
all calls broadcast on radio/TV, including local.

 

[Stanislav]

...I also remember her doing phone interviews with celebrities, back when long distance calls had those tones every minute or so.

If you mean the beep tones, they were every fifteen seconds and were on
all calls broadcast on radio/TV, including local.

I believe, IIRC, that those tones were required if you were recording a phone conversation for any reason (not just for broadcast) to let the other party know the call was being recorded. (Otherwise it was illegal.) I haven't hear those tones in ages, so the requirement must have been dropped at some point.