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Retro: Indianapolis/Lafayette/Terre Haute Fri, July 4, 1975

from TV Guide-Central Indiana edition

WTWO 2-NBC Terre Haute
5:00 Tomorrow cont'd (NBC ran a special 6 hr edition of the show starting at midnight the previous night; highlights included a 2am report on preparations on Atlanta's Independence Day Parade, and a re-enactment of the British shelling of Baltimore's Fort Henry (the event that inspired the writing of The Star-Spangled Banner at 3 in the morning!)
6:00 sign-off
7:00 Today (a salute to Washington DC launches a series of segments geared to the Bicentennial)
9:00 Celebrity Sweepstakes
9:30 Wheel of Fortune
10:00 High Rollers
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11:00 Jackpot! (moves to 11:30 on Monday, with Magnificent Marble Machine launching here)
11:30 Blank Check (finale, was this show ever cleared in Indy?)
11:55 NBC News
noon News
12:30 Days of Our Lives
1:30 Doctors
2:00 Another World
3:00 Somerset
3:30 Flintstones
4:00 High Chaparral
5:00 Truth or Consequences
5:30 NBC Nightly News
6:00 News
6:30 Pop! Goes the Country (guests Conway Twitty and Jim Ed Brown)
7:00 Sanford & Son
7:30 Chico & the Man
8:00 Rockford Files
9:00 Police Woman
10:00 News
10:30 Tonight Show
mid. Midnight Special (host Frankie Valli is joined by his group the Four Seasons, Freddy Fender, Orleans, and the Hollies)

WTTV 4-Ind Indianapolis
6:30 RFD 4 (Bob Cook)
7:00 Reed Farrell (from Nashville, guest Minnie Pearl)
7:30 Janie
9:00 Movie "Stars and Stripes Forever"
11:00 Studio 4 (Mary Jane Popp)
11:30 News
noon Chuckwagon Theatre
1:00 Movie "Yankee Doodle Dandy" (bw)
3:00 Flintstones
3:30 Debbie's Place
4:30 Mickey Mouse Club "Talent Roundup Day" (bw)
5:00 Gomer Pyle, USMC (bw)
5:30 Andy Griffith (bw)
6:00 Mod Squad
7:00 Diamond Head
7:30 What's My Line?
8:00 Merv Griffin (from Vegas with guests Sammy Davis Jr., Buddy Hackett, Rod McKuen, Totie Fields, and Lola Falana)
9:30 News
10:00 Love, American Style (Mel Tellis guest stars in a segment as someone who can only write songs when he's lovelorn)
11:00 Movie "Curucu, Beast of the Amazon"
12:30 Movie "Tarantula" (bw)
2:00 News
2:25 Movie "Blind Justice" (bw)
4:45 Movie "Devil of Paris"

WRTV 6-NBC Indianapolis
5:00 Tomorrow cont'd
6:00 sign-off
6:40 Today in Indiana
7:00 Today
9:00 Celebrity Sweepstakes
9:30 Wheel of Fortune
10:00 High Rollers
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11:00 Jackpot!
11:30 Jim Gerard
12:25 Saving You Time/Money
12:30 Days of Our Lives
1:30 Doctors
2:00 Another World
3:00 Somerset
3:30 Mike Douglas (from Miami Beach: co-host Robert Goulet/guests Paul Williams, Gabriel Kaplan, the Spinners, and Tom Fry; also Mason Reese learns to pilot the Goodyear Blimp)
5:00 News
5:30 NBC Nightly News
6:00 News
6:30 Hollywood Squares
7:00 Sanford & Son
7:30 Chico & the Man
8:00 Rockford Files
9:00 Police Woman
10:00 News
10:30 Tonight Show
mid. Midnight Special

WISH 8-CBS Indianapolis
7:00 CBS Morning News
8:00 Captain Kangaroo (saluting the Fourth)
9:00 Indy Today
9:30 Gambit
10:00 Tattletales
10:30 Love of Life
10:55 CBS News
11:00 Young & the Restless
11:30 Search for Tomorrow
noon News
12:30 As the World Turns
1:00 Guiding Light
1:30 Edge of Night
2:00 Price is Right
2:30 Match Game
3:00 Dinah! (guests Warren Beatty, Nanette Fabray, Kenny Rogers, and Martin Mull)
4:30 Ironside
5:30 CBS Evening News
6:00 News
7:00 Movie "Yellow Submarine"
8:30 Movie "Alfred the Great"
10:00 News
10:30 Movie "To Kill a Mockingbird" (bw)

WTHI 10-CBS Terre Haute
6:00 CBS Morning News
7:00 Captain Kangaroo (same show as in Indy)
8:00 Mike Douglas (from New Jersey's Great Adventure safari park: co-host George Hamilton/guests Kirk Douglas, Juliet Prowse, and Roger Caras)
9:00 Spin-Off
9:30 Gambit
10:00 Tattletales
10:30 Love of Life
10:55 Take Kerr
11:00 Young & the Restless
11:30 Search for Tomorrow
noon News
12:30 As the World Turns
1:00 Guiding Light
1:30 Edge of Night
2:00 Price is Right
2:30 Match Game
3:00 Musical Chairs
3:30 Merv Griffin (from Vegas with guests Burt Bacharach, Mort Sahl, Lou Rawls, and Edie Adams & hubby Pete Condoli)
4:55 Festival of Family Classics "Yankee Doodle"
5:25 Paul Harvey
5:30 CBS Evening News
6:00 News
6:30 To Tell the Truth
7:00 Movie "Yellow Submarine"
8:30 Movie "Alfred the Great"
10:00 News
10:30 Movie "Twist Around the Clock" (bw)

WLWI 13-ABC Indianapolis (appropriately enough for the day, 13's logo in those days was a 13 surrounded by 13 stars)
6:30 Zoo Time
7:00 AM America (Ralph Story reports from the Statue of Liberty in the last of a 5-parter on America's ethnic heritage)
9:00 All My Children
10:00 Phil Donahue (details not listed, though the station's TVG ad mentions the week's topics including "singers, soap operas, scandals, and Smothers)
11:00 Bob Braun's 50-50 Club
12:30 Let's Make a Deal
1:00 $10,000 Pyramid
1:30 Big Showdown (finale; Rhyme & Reason debuts here Monday)
2:00 General Hospital
2:30 One Life to Live
3:00 Money Maze (finale; You Don't Say! returns here Monday)
3:30 Gilligan's Island
4:00 That Girl
4:30 Bewitched
5:00 News
5:30 ABC Evening News
6:00 To Tell the Truth
6:30 New Candid Camera
7:00 Night Stalker (starting next Friday, ABC airs movies at 7)
8:00 Odd Couple (series finale)
8:30 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (pilot)
9:00 Get Christie Love! (7 Laugh-In alumni play dramatic roles in this episode)
10:00 News
10:30 Mission: Impossible
11:30 Wide World Special "Bachelor of the Year" (a beauty-pageant spoof with hosts Karen Valentine and Ken Berry, with Pat Paulsen with behind-the-scenes commentary)
1:00 Don Kirshner's Rock Concert (guests the Guess Who, and the Average White Band)
2:30 News

WLFI 18-CBS Lafayette (IDed as Lafayette/Kokomo in its TVG ads)
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Tattletales
10:30 Love of Life
10:55 CBS News
11:00 Young & the Restless
11:30 Search for Tomorrow
noon Reed Farrell (same show as ch 4)
12:30 As the World Turns
1:00 Guiding Light
1:30 Edge of Night
2:00 Price is Right
2:30 Match Game
3:00 Musical Chairs
3:30 Spin-Off
4:00 Gambit
4:30 It's Your Bet
5:00 Get Smart
5:30 CBS Evening News
6:00 News
6:30 Police Surgeon "Target Ms. Blue"
7:00 Movie "Yellow Submarine"
8:30 Movie "Alfred the Great"
10:00 News
10:30 Movie "Twist Around the Clock" (bw)

WFYI 20-PBS Indianapolis
10:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
11:00 Sesame Street
noon Ride the Reading Rocket
12:30 Electric Company
1:00 Up, Up & Away
1:30 World Press
2:30 Lilias, Yoga & You
3:00 Sesame Street
4:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
4:30 Villa Alegre
5:00 Electric Company
5:30 Your Public Library
6:00 Aviation Weather
6:30 Black Perspective on the News (last show in this slot, Evening Edition with Martin Agronsky starts here next week)
7:00 Washington Week in Review
7:30 Wall Street Week
8:00 Masterpiece Theatre "Upstairs, Downstairs" pt 8
9:00 Evening at Symphony
10:00 Washington Straight Talk
10:30 Eye to Eye (an art profile of monuments, ranging from Marilyn to the Statue of Liberty)

WVUT 22-PBS Vincennes
1pm 22 Report
1:30 Ride the Reading Rocket
2:00 Up, Up & Away
2:30 Lilias, Yoga & You
3:00 Sesame Street
4:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
4:30 Villa Alegre
5:00 Electric Company
5:30 TBA
6:00 Aviation Weather
6:30 Black Perspective on the News
7:00 Washington Week in Review
7:30 Wall Street Week
8:00 Masterpiece Theatre "Upstairs, Downstairs" pt 8
9:00 World Press
10:00 Statehouse Report
10:30 Tonight on 22

WTIU 30-PBS Bloomington
4pm Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
4:30 Sesame Street
5:30 Villa Alegre
6:00 Electric Company
6:30 Black Perspective on the News
7:00 Washington Week in Review
7:30 Wall Street Week
8:00 Masterpiece Theatre "Upstairs, Downstairs" pt 8
9:00 Aviation Weather
9:30 World Press
10:30 Washington Debates

WIIL 38-ABC Terre Haute
6:30 New Zoo Revue
7:00 AM America
9:00 Movie "Broken Arrow"
10:30 Brady Bunch
11:00 Showoffs
11:30 All My Children
12:30 Let's Make a Deal
1:00 $10,000 Pyramid
1:30 Big Showdown
2:00 General Hospital
2:30 One Life to Live
3:00 Money Maze
3:30 Star Trek
4:30 Uncle Waldo
5:00 Mickey Mouse Club "Talent Roundup Day" (bw)
5:30 ABC Evening News
6:00 Mission: Impossible
6:55 Weather
7:00 Night Stalker
8:00 Odd Couple
8:30 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (pilot)
9:00 Get Christie Love!
10:00 Reed Farrell (no info as to this was the same show carried on ch 4/18)
10:30 Wide World Special "Bachelor of the Year"

WHMB 40-Ind/Rel Indianapolis
2:30pm Lester Sumrall Presents
3:00 New Zoo Revue
3:30 Black Buffalo('s Pow Wow?)
4:30 Captain Hook's Pirae Adventures
5:00 News
5:15 Film
5:30 Jerry Falwell
6:30 Happy Hunters
7:00 Rev. James Helton
7:30 Lester Sumrall Presents "The Amazing Human Mind"
8:00 Abundant Life
8:30 Lakeview Temple
9:00 Lester Sumrall Presents
11:00 News

WIPB 49-PBS Muncie
10:00 Sesame Street
11:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
11:30 Electric Company
noon The Way It Was
12:30 Drink, Drank, Drunk (*hic* :D)
1:30 World Press
2:30 Lilias, Yoga & You
3:00 Sesame Street
4:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
4:30 Villa Alegre
5:00 Electric Company
5:30 Report from the Statehouse
6:00 Showcase
6:30 Sky King (bw)
6:55 Bulletin Board
7:00 Washington Week in Review
7:30 Wall Street Week
8:00 Masterpiece Theatre "Upstairs, Downstairs" pt 8
9:00 Jeanne Wolf with...Barbara Rush
9:30 On Trial: Pornography
10:00 Lilias, Yoga & You
10:30 News
10:35 Eye to Eye (same show as ch 20)
 
Out of curiosity, does anyone know when channel 49 in Muncie changed from commercial to non-commercial? The original call was WLBC-TV. It also had AM-FM affiliates, and for several years (at least in the 1954 Senate hearings about UHF-TV) was hailed as a success story in Muncie.
 
Bluenoser said:
WLWI 13-ABC Indianapolis (appropriately enough for the day, 13's logo in those days was a 13 surrounded by 13 stars)

They weren't the only ones to do so; WTVT 13 in Tampa, FL did likewise for the Bicentennial. Alas, their "13" logo had a bit of differences; namely the font used for the number.
 
TexasTuner said:
Out of curiosity, does anyone know when channel 49 in Muncie changed from commercial to non-commercial? The original call was WLBC-TV. It also had AM-FM affiliates, and for several years (at least in the 1954 Senate hearings about UHF-TV) was hailed as a success story in Muncie.

I don't know how true this is, but Wikipedia has it that the station was sold in 1971 to a non-profit group, & the allocation was changed to non-commercial, & the call letters to the current ones of WIPB. Prior to its current affiliation of PBS (never affiliated with predecessor NET), WLBC-TV affiliated with ABC, NBC, & CBS.
 
Dave said:
TexasTuner said:
Out of curiosity, does anyone know when channel 49 in Muncie changed from commercial to non-commercial? The original call was WLBC-TV. It also had AM-FM affiliates, and for several years (at least in the 1954 Senate hearings about UHF-TV) was hailed as a success story in Muncie.

I don't know how true this is, but Wikipedia has it that the station was sold in 1971 to a non-profit group, & the allocation was changed to non-commercial, & the call letters to the current ones of WIPB. Prior to its current affiliation of PBS (never affiliated with predecessor NET), WLBC-TV affiliated with ABC, NBC, & CBS.

Ball State University bought WLBC-TV on 10/26/71, per the 1972 Broadcasting Yearbook. Channel 49 had been NBC primary and ABC secondary since around 1964, when it dropped CBS. IIRC, they did carry Monday Night Football during its first season and a half.

The fact that it survived 18 years as a low-power (about 140 kW video ERP when it was sold) network affiliate so close to Indy is amazing in itself. Most of those early small-town UHFs were long gone by 1971.
 
wbhist said:
Bluenoser said:
WLWI 13-ABC Indianapolis (appropriately enough for the day, 13's logo in those days was a 13 surrounded by 13 stars)

They weren't the only ones to do so; WTVT 13 in Tampa, FL did likewise for the Bicentennial. Alas, their "13" logo had a bit of differences; namely the font used for the number.

During the Bicentennial year WTVT changed its slogan from "Big 13" to "The Original 13," changing it back after July 4. 1976
(although I hardly noticed or cared; KDFW was about to become my CBS affiliate).
 
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