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Retro: Indianapolis/Terre Haute/Lafayette Wed, Mar 24, 1971

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Bluenoser

from TV Guide: Central Indiana edition

WTWO 2-NBC/ABC Terre Haute
7:00 Today
9:00 Newlywed Game
9:30 Bewitched
10:00 Dinah Shore
10:30 Concentration
11:00 Sale of the Century
11:30 Hollywood Squares
Noon Jeopardy
12:30 Who, What or Where
12:55 NBC News
1:00 Dating Game
1:30 Joe Garagiola's Memory Game
2:00 Days of Our Lives
2:30 Doctors
3:00 Another World
3:30 Bright Promise
4:00 Somerset
4:30 Skyhawks
5:00 Let's Make a Deal
5:30 News/Weather/Sports
6:00 Truth or Consequences
6:30 NBC News
7:00 Newlywed Game
7:30 Men from Shiloh
9:00 Movie "Adventures of a Young Man"
11:30 News/Weather/Sports
Mid. Tonight Show
1:00 News

WTTV 4-Ind Indianapolis
6:45 Panorama
7:30 Kartoon Korner
9:00 Topper
9:30 Jack LaLanne
10:00 Lucille Ball
10:30 Movie Game
11:00 Girl Talk
11:30 News/Weather/Sports
Noon Cartoons
1:00 Movie "Black Hand"
2:50 Fashions in Sewing
3:00 Galloping Gourmet
3:30 Lone Ranger
4:00 Popeye & Janie
5:00 Batman
5:30 Addams Family
6:00 Dick Van Dyke
6:30 Daniel Boone
7:30 Petticoat Junction
8:00 Truth or Consequences
8:30 What's My Line?
9:00 David Frost
10:30 News/Weather/Sports
11:00 TBA
1:00 News

WFBM 6-NBC Indianapolis
6:15 Today in Indiana
7:00 Today
9:00 Virginia Graham
10:00 Dinah Shore
11:00 Sale of the Century
11:30 Hollywood Squares
Noon Jeopardy
12:30 Afternoon/Channel 6
1:30 Joe Garagiola's Memory Game
2:00 Days of Our Lives
2:30 Doctors
3:00 Another World
3:30 Bright Promise
4:00 Somerset
4:30 Mike Douglas (From December 1970: Mike celebrates 10 years on the air- with David Frost as guest host)
6:00 News/Weather/Sports
7:00 NBC News
7:30 Men from Shiloh
9:00 Drama Special: Jane Eyre (pre-empts Music Hall and Four in One)
11:00 News/Weather/Sports
11:30 Tonight Show
1:00 News

WISH 8-CBS Indianapolis
6:30 Sunrise Semester
7:00 CBS News
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Movie "Maxime"
10:25 News (CBS? Chet Huntley is anchor)
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11:00 Family Affairs
11:30 Love of Life
Noon Where the Heart Is
12:25 CBS News
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 News/Weather/Women's Features
1:30 As the World Turns
2:00 Love is a Many-Splendored Thing
2:30 Guiding Light
3:00 Secret Storm
3:30 Edge of Night
4:00 Gomer Pyle, USMC
4:30 Movie "The Accused"
6:00 News/Weather/Sports
7:00 CBS News
7:30 Men at Law
8:30 To Rome with Love
9:00 Medical Center
10:00 Hawaii Five-O
11:00 News/Weather/Sports
11:30 Movie "Our Hearts Were Young & Gay"
1:00 News

WTHI 10-CBS/ABC Terre Haute
7:00 CBS News
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Virginia Graham
10:00 Lucille Ball
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11:00 Family Affair
11:30 Love of Life
Noon Where the Heart Is
12:25 CBS News
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 News/Farm Report/Weather
1:30 As the World Turns
2:00 Love is a Many-Splendored Thing
2:30 Guiding Light
3:00 Secret Storm
3:30 Edge of Night
4:00 Fashions in Sewing
4:10 Movie "The Blue Bird"
5:55 Paul Harvey
6:00 News/Weather/Sports
6:30 CBS News
7:00 Odd Couple
7:30 Men at Law
8:30 To Rome with Love
9:00 Medical Center
10:00 Hawaii Five-O
11:00 News/Weather/Sports
11:30 Merv Griffin

WLWI 13-ABC Indianapolis
6:30 Consultation
7:00 Safety Corner
7:30 Kindergarten College
8:30 Mantrap
9:00 Paul Dixon
10:30 That Girl
11:00 Bewitched
11:30 News/Weather/Markets/Interviews
Noon Bob Braun's 50-50 Club
1:30 Let's Make a Deal
2:00 Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game
3:00 General Hospital
3:30 One Lfie to Live
4:00 Dark Shadows
4:30 Big Valley
5:30 Dragnet
6:00 News/Weather/Sports
6:30 ABC News
7:00 Beat the Clock
7:30 Courtship of Eddie's Father
8:00 Room 222
8:30 Smith Family
9:00 Movie "The Legend of Custer" (WLWI's ads at the time usually included some kind of comment; the ad for the movie reads "Custer gets it in the end")
11:30 News/Weather/Sports
Mid. Dick Cavett (JIP)
1:00 Consultation

WLFI 18-CBS Lafayette
7:00 CBS News
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Burns & Allen
9:30 Romper Room (with Miss Carol)
10:00 Lucille Ball
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11:00 Family Affair
11:30 Love of Life
Noon Where the Heart Is
12:25 CBS News
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Galloping Gourmet
1:30 As the World Turns
2:00 Love is a Many-Splendored Thing
2:30 Guiding Light
3:00 Secret Storm
3:30 Edge of Night
4:00 Gomer Pyle, USMC
4:30 Movie Game
5:00 Perry Mason
6:00 News/Weather/Sports
6:30 CBS News
7:00 Wanted-Dead or Alive
7:30 Men at Law
8:30 To Rome with Love
9:00 Medical Center
10:00 Hawaii Five-O
11:00 News/Weather/Sports
11:30 Merv Griffin

WFYI 20-PBS Indianapolis
4:30 Sesame Street
5:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
6:00 What's New
6:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
7:00 Folk Guitar
7:30 Kukla, Fran & Ollie
8:00 French Chef
8:30 Great American Dream Machine
10:00 Masterpiece Theatre

WVUT 22-PBS Vincennes
4:45 Today on 22
5:00 Sesame Street
6:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
6:30 This is the Life
7:00 TBA
8:00 French Chef
8:30 Great American Dream Machine
10:00 Masterpiece Theatre

WTIU 30-PBS Bloomington
10:00 Sesame Street
11:00 off-air?
4:30 Sesame Street
5:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
6:00 What's News
6:30 Bridge
7:00 Question-Air
8:00 French Chef
8:30 Great American Dream Machine
10:00 Masterpiece Theatre

WLBC 49-NBC Muncie
(WLBC's ad in that week's TVG shows both the NBC "snake" and an early version of the NBC Peacock)
6pm News/Weather/Sports
6:30 The Story
7:00 NBC News
7:30 Men from Shiloh
9:00 Drama Special: Jane Eyre
11:00 News/Weather/Sports
 
> WISH 8-CBS Indianapolis
> 10:25 News (CBS? Chet Huntley is anchor)

Didn't Chet Huntley retire the previous year?
>
> WLBC 49-NBC Muncie
> (WLBC's ad in that week's TVG shows both the NBC "snake" and
> an early version of the NBC Peacock)
> 6pm News/Weather/Sports
> 6:30 The Story
> 7:00 NBC News
> 7:30 Men from Shiloh
> 9:00 Drama Special: Jane Eyre
> 11:00 News/Weather/Sports
>
Apparently, the station didn't do very well in its last years -- no "Today", no daytime and no Carson, plus religious between local news and NBC News ("The Story", I think, was a religious show).
 
> WTTV 4-Ind Indianapolis
> 11:30 News/Weather/Sports
> 10:30 News/Weather/Sports

The 11:30 AM newscast was one of the few programs still broadcast from the Bloomington studio in 1971. It was in black & white (that studio was never equipped for color). The 10:30 PM newscast was from Indy and in color.

> WTIU 30-PBS Bloomington
> 10:00 Sesame Street
> 11:00 off-air?

Yes, they carried Sesame Street for an hour then either went off the air completely or ran color bars (I can't remember which) until late afternoon in those days.
 
> Didn't TV Guide at the time carry the listings for WURD (or WHMB) channel 40?
I definitely remember seeing listings for WURD 40 in the Indianapolis Star TV
magazine and I think WHMB took over channel 40 in either 1971 or 72.

V.Carter
 
> > Didn't TV Guide at the time carry the listings for WURD
> (or WHMB) channel 40?
> I definitely remember seeing listings for WURD 40 in the
> Indianapolis Star TV
> magazine and I think WHMB took over channel 40 in either
> 1971 or 72.
>
>
> V.Carter
>

I don't think they were on the air yet. IIRC, WURD came on the air in late spring (April or May) 1971.
 
> > WTIU 30-PBS Bloomington
> > 10:00 Sesame Street
> > 11:00 off-air?
>
> Yes, they carried Sesame Street for an hour then either went
> off the air completely or ran color bars (I can't remember
> which) until late afternoon in those days.
>
Didn't they have in-school TV programs then? If school was in session at the time, I imagine they would.
 
> > WISH 8-CBS Indianapolis
> > 10:25 News (CBS? Chet Huntley is anchor)
>
> Didn't Chet Huntley retire the previous year?

Note that the other two CBS affils were airing The Lucy Show at 10a. WISH preempted that for the final half hour of a 90 minute 9a morning movie. Lucy aired on WTTV-4. I recall the 10:25 cast as local with news director Lee Giles anchoring.

Other thought. Huntley did a syndicated commentary feature from his Montana home for a few years after retirement. I know there was a radio version. If Huntley was listed as anchor at 10:25a could this have been a TV version of the same?
 
> from TV Guide: Central Indiana edition
>
> WLWI 13-ABC Indianapolis
> 6:30 Consultation
> 7:00 Safety Corner
> 7:30 Kindergarten College
> 8:30 Mantrap
> 9:00 Paul Dixon
> 10:30 That Girl
> 11:00 Bewitched
> 11:30 News/Weather/Markets/Interviews
> Noon Bob Braun's 50-50 Club

I'm surprised to see that 13 wasn't airing Phil Donahue at 10:30a. I thought by '71 all the Avco stations were clearing Donahue after Paul Baby.
 
> > > Didn't TV Guide at the time carry the listings for WURD
> > (or WHMB) channel 40?
> > I definitely remember seeing listings for WURD 40 in the
> > Indianapolis Star TV
> > magazine and I think WHMB took over channel 40 in either
> > 1971 or 72.
> >
> I don't think they were on the air yet. IIRC, WURD came on
> the air in late spring (April or May) 1971.
>
I don't think LESEA took over channel 40 until mid 1972. The channel was dark for some time before returning as WHMB. I remember one of their first telethons to raise money featuring the host: Jim Bakker!
 
>> WLBC 49-NBC Muncie
> > (WLBC's ad in that week's TVG shows both the NBC "snake"
> and
> > an early version of the NBC Peacock)
> > 6pm News/Weather/Sports
> > 6:30 The Story
> > 7:00 NBC News
> > 7:30 Men from Shiloh
> > 9:00 Drama Special: Jane Eyre
> > 11:00 News/Weather/Sports
> >
> Apparently, the station didn't do very well in its last
> years -- no "Today", no daytime and no Carson, plus
> religious between local news and NBC News ("The Story", I
> think, was a religious show).

WLBC had lost it's secondary ABC affiliation by this time. It was a short time later that owner Don Burton (not to be confused with WIFE and the Star stations scandal) "donated" the frequency to Ball State which became WIPB. Burton was a forward thinker. He had signed the television station on the air in 1953, a full year before WISH-TV, and 4 years before WLWI. He put WLBC-FM on the air in 1947 as WMUN. He ran an automated progressive rock format in 70 and 71, then was an automated top 40 by late 72. (I'm thinking Drake/Chenalt) <P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by uh_clem on 02/22/06 09:35 PM.</FONT></P>
 
> I don't think LESEA took over channel 40 until mid 1972.
> The channel was dark for some time before returning as WHMB.
> I remember one of their first telethons to raise money
> featuring the host: Jim Bakker!

I think you're right. They were on as WURD for only a few months, carrying mostly religious programs, a few old sitcoms, and White Sox baseball. They did go dark for several months before LeSea took over the station.
 
> > I don't think LESEA took over channel 40 until mid 1972.
>
> > The channel was dark for some time before returning as
> WHMB.
> > I remember one of their first telethons to raise money
> > featuring the host: Jim Bakker!
>
> I think you're right. They were on as WURD for only a few
> months, carrying mostly religious programs, a few old
> sitcoms, and White Sox baseball. They did go dark for
> several months before LeSea took over the station.

Ahh...can anyone name the 60s instrumental that 40 played in a loop as audio to the color bars while testing for their return under LeSea ownership?
 
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