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RETRO: IOWA, FRIDAY, DEC. 27, 1974

Source: TV Guide, Iowa Edition

Quad Cities
4 WHBF-TV (CBS)
6 WOC-TV (NBC) (now KWQC)
8 WQAD-TV (ABC)

Des Moines
8D KCCI-TV (CBS)
11 KDIN-TV (PBS) (Iowa Public Broadcasting Network, now Iowa Public Television)
13 WHO-TV (NBC)

Ames
5 WOI-TV (ABC)

Fort Dodge
21 KVFD-TV (NBC) (now KTIN and PBS as part of Iowa Public Television)

Iowa City
12 KIIN-TV (PBS) (Iowa Public Broadcasting Network, now Iowa Public Television)

Cedar Rapids
2 WMT-TV (CBS) (now KGAN)
9 KCRG-TV (ABC)

Waterloo
7 KWWL-TV (NBC)

Kirksville-Ottumwa
3 KTVO (ABC)

Classroom programs are telecast during school hours on Channels 11 and 12.
All programs are in color except those designated by (BW).

Morning

6:25 8D Pastor's Study

6:30 2-8D Sunrise Semester
4 New Zoo Revue
8 Morning Inspiration
13 Not for Women Only

6:45 8 Social Security

6:55 6 Today in Agriculture

7:00 2-4-8D CBS Morning News (Hughes Rudd)
6-7-13-21 Today (Jim Hartz/Barbara Walters)
8 Human Dimension

7:25 9 Markets

7:30 3 LeFevers
5 Leave It to Beaver (BW)
8 Story
9 Romper Room

8:00 2-4-8D Captain Kangaroo
3 Sesame Street (from PBS)
5 Tennessee Tuxedo
8 Quad Cities A.M.
9 New Zoo Revue

8:30 5 Magic Window
8 Extension '74
9 Morning Show

9:00 2-4 Joker's Wild
3 Barbara on Friday
5 Truth or Consequences
6-7-13-21 Name That Tune
8 Movie: "Here Come the Girls" (1953)
8D Mary Brubaker
9 Mike Douglas (Guests: Jack Klugman, Beatrice Arthur, Gloria Vanderbilt, Dick Haymes)
11-12 Sesame Street

9:30 2-4-8D Gambit
3 Reed Farrell
5 Mike Douglas (Co-host: Chubby Checker. Guests: Francis Gary Powers, Mert Koplin, Charles Grinker)
6-7-13-21 Winning Streak

10:00 2-4-8D Now You See It
3-9 All My Children (one-day delay from Noon)
6-7-13-21 High Rollers
11-12 Electric Company

10:30 2-4-8D Love of Life
3-5-9 Brady Bunch
6-7-13-21 Hollywood Squares
8 Romper Room
11-12 Villa Alegre

10:55 2 Exercise with Marlyce
4-8D CBS News (Douglas Edwards)

11:00 2-4-8D Young and the Restless
3-5-8-9 Password All Stars
6-7-13-21 Jackpot!
11-12 Adventures of Coslo

11:30 2-4-8D Search for Tomorrow
3-5-8-9 Split Second
6-7-13-21 Celebrity Sweepstakes
11-12 Hodgepodge Lodge

11:55 6-13-21 NBC News (Edwin Newman)
7 Today with Beth

Afternoon

12:00 2-3-7-8D-9-13-21 News (apparently airs for an hour on 21-KVFD)
4 Family Affair
5 Noon Report
6 Noon Edition
8 All My Children

12:15 2 Farm News
3 Town and Country Forum
8D-13 Cartoons

12:30 2-4-8D As the World Turns
3-8-9 Let's Make a Deal
5 Here and Now
6-7 Jeopardy!
13 Movie (BW): "That Kind of Woman" (1959)

1:00 2-4-8D Guiding Light
3-5-8-9 $10,000 Pyramid
6-7 Days of Our Lives
21 Film (from what I understand, KVFD received NBC from an off-air feed of WHO, who pre-empted "Jeopardy!,"
"Days of Our Lives," and "The Doctors," so KVFD was forced to pre-empt those shows, as well)

1:30 2-4-8D Edge of Night
3-5-8-9 Big Showdown
6-7 Doctors
21 Film

2:00 2-4-8D Price Is Right
3-5-8-9 General Hospital
6-7-13-21 Another World

2:30 2-4-8D Match Game
3-5-8-9 One Life to Live
6-7-13-21 How to Survive a Marriage

3:00 2-4-8D Tattletales
3-8-9 Money Maze
5 Big Valley (BW)
6-7-13-21 Somerset
11-12 Maggie and the Beautiful Machine

3:30 2 Dr. Max
3 Movie: "Little Red Riding Hood and Her Friends" (Mexican; 1960)
4 Mike Douglas (same as Ch. 5 at 9:30 A.M.)
6 I Dream of Jeannie
7 Room 222
8 Truth or Consequences
8D Bewitched
9 Gilligan's Island
11-12 Dig It
13 Floppy
21 Eve's Kitchen

4:00 5 Star Trek
6-13 Merv Griffin (Guests: Andy Williams, the Lennon Sisters, Charles Aznavour, Doug Kershaw)
7 Bonanza
8 Addams Family (BW)
8D Partridge Family
9 Lucy Show (BW)
11-12 Mister Rogers
21 New Zoo Revue

4:30 2 Partridge Family
4 Hogan's Heroes
8 That Girl
8D Raymond Burr (syndicated reruns of "Ironside")
9 Mod Squad
11-12 Sesame Street
21 Eve's Guests

5:00 2 Truth or Consequences
3-8 News
4 Gilligan's Island
5 I Dream of Jeannie
7 Dragnet
21 Encounter

5:25 5 News
5:30 2-4-8D CBS Evening News (Walter Cronkite)
3-5-8-9 ABC Evening News (Howard K. Smith/Harry Reasoner)
6-7-13-21 NBC Nightly News (John Chancellor)
11-12 Electric Company

Evening

6:00 2-3-4-6-7-8D-9-13-21 News
5 Truth or Consequences
8 Star Trek
11-12 Aviation Weather

6:25 6 Comment

6:30 2-8D To Tell the Truth (different episodes)
3 New Price Is Right
4 Let's Make a Deal
5 Lucy Show
6-9 Hollywood Squares (different episodes)
7-13 Hee Haw (Guests: Donna Fargo, Tony Lovello)
11-12 Zoom
21 Hee Haw (Guests: Red Steagull, Susan Raye, Lawanda Lindsey)

7:00 2-4-8D Planet of the Apes (rerun of first episode; last show of the series)
3-5-8-9 Kung Fu
6 Sanford and Son
11-12 Washington Week in Review

7:30 6-7-13-21 Chico and the Man
11-12 Wall Street Week (Louis Rukeyser)

8:00 2-4-8D CBS Friday Night Movie: "The Last Run" (1971)
3-5-8-9 Six Million Dollar Man
6-7-13-21 Rockford Files
11-12 Masterpiece Theatre: "Upstairs, Downstairs," Part 8

9:00 3-5-8-9 Night Stalker
6-7-13-21 Police Woman
11-12 Land and Seas

10:00 2-3-4-5-6-7-8-8D-9-13-21 News
11-12 Day at Night

10:30 2 Movie: "Warpath" (1951) (not sure if this is CBS or local)
3-5 Wide World Special (World Professional Karate Championships)
6-7-13-21 Johnny Carson (Guest host: Burt Reynolds. Guests: Cybill Shepherd, Ben Johnson, George Carlin,
Mel Tillis, Linda Bennett)
8 Untouchables (BW)
8D Movie: "King King vs. Godzilla" (Japanese; 1952) (not sure if this is CBS or local)
9 Movie (BW): "The Wolf Man" (1941)
11-12 Movie (BW): "Crazy Quilt" (1966)

10:45 4 Mod Squad

11:30 8 Movie (BW): "Chain Lightning" (1950)

11:45 4 Big Valley

12:00 2 Last Word
5 Don Kirshner's Rock Concert
6-7-13-21 Midnight Special (Spotlight on country music; Charley Pride hosts. Doug Kershaw, Ronnie Milsap,
Gary Stewart, and the Four Guys)
9 Movie (BW): "The Crawling Hand" (1963)

12:15 8 Movie (BW): "Every Day's a Holiday" (1937)

12:45 4 News

1:30 6 News
8 Wide World Special (delay from 10:30 P.M.)
3:00 8 Your Senator's Report
3:15 8 News
 
SteveRichards said:
Fort Dodge
21 KVFD-TV (NBC) (now KTIN and PBS as part of Iowa Public Television)

Sort of -- in 1977, low viewership and advertising numbers forced KVFD to move back to its original 600-foot tower in Fort Dodge and relocated to channel 50, while it sold its taller 1200-foot tower in Bradgate to IPTV, which used the tower and channel 21 for a new IPTV station, KTIN. Alas, a tornado later that year and the station owner's death the following year killed off KVFD, which was never rebuilt.

More here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KVFD-TV
 
I would imagine the move of WHO and the other Des Moines stations to the Alleman tower probably doomed KVFD. With a modest VHF antenna, Fort Dodge viewers would have access to all four networks with a clear picture.

As long as we are on the topic of Iowa TV in the 70's. Prior to the Alleman move, where did the various stations transmit from? I believe KRNT/KCCI was on the tower at 8th and Pleasant and WHO was at the AM site in Mitchellville. What about WOI and KDIN?
 
KDIN I think was on a tower at the Des Moines Tech High School, WOI was on a fairly decent sized tower south of Ames, 900-1000 feet, I think. In Ft. Dodge prior to Alleman, they picked up WOI over the air OK, KRNT had a UHF translator in Ft. Dodge, and of course KVFD was a local. They probably couldn't pick up KDIN.
 
Interesting, I wasn't aware that KRNT had a translator in Fort Dodge. The only channel 8 translators I was aware of were Ottumwa, Caroll, and Clarinda.
 
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