Retro: Iowa Mon, Mar 20, 1972

[Bluenoser]

from TV Guide-Iowa edition

2 WMT-CBS Cedar Rapids
3 KTVO-ABC/NBC/CBS Ottumwa
4 WHBF-CBS Quad Cities
5 WOI-ABC Ames
6 WOC-NBC Quad Cities
7 KWWL-NBC Waterloo
8 WQAD-ABC Quad Cities
8* KRNT-CBS Des Moines
9 KCRG-ABC Cedar Rapids
11 KDIN-PBS Des Moines
12 KIIN-PBS Iowa City
13 WHO-NBC Des Moines
21 KVFD-NBC Fort Dodge
40 KDUB-ABC Dubuque

Morning
6:30
2 Sunrise Semester "Latin-American Literature" (c)
8* Sunrise Semester "Chemistry"

6:45
40 Psychology of Drug Use & Abuse (c, sign-off 7:30)

6:55
6 Market Report (c)

7:00
2-4-8* CBS Morning News (c)
3 Bill Anderson (c)
6-7-13-21 Today (c/guests Sen. Margaret Chase Smith (R-ME), Jeanette Rankin (first female elected to the House, she did it in 1916), and Diana Sands)
8 Sacred Heart (c)

7:15
8 Georgia on Q (c/guests Bruce Robbins and Esther Clark)

7:30
3 Sesame Street (c/ep 365)
5 Astroboy
8* Breakfast Club (c)

7:40
4 News (c)

7:45
8 News (c)

7:50
4 CBS Morning News (c)

8:00
2-4-8* Captain Kangaroo (c)
5 Tennessee Tuxedo (c)
8 Galloping Gourmet (c)

8:25
9 Market Report (c)

8:30
3 Underdog (c)
5 Magic Window (c)
8 Consultation (c)
9 Jack LaLanne (c)
11-12 Canterbury Tales

9:00
2 What Every Woman Wants to Know (c)
3 Reluctant Dragon & Mr. Toad
4-5 Jack LaLanne (c)
6-7-13-21 Dinah Shore (c/guests Martin Milner and Nancy Lyon)
8 Classroom
8* Mary Brubaker (c)
9 Morning Show (c/Fashions in Sewing at 9:20)
11-12 Sesame Street (c/ep 366)

9:25
2 Exercises with Marlyce (c)

9:30
2-8* My Three Sons (c)
3 Jack LaLanne (c)
4 What Every Woman Wants to Know (c)
5 Classroom (c)
6-7-13-21 Concentration (c)
9 Galloping Gourmet (c)

10:00
2-4-8* Family Affair (c)
3 Mantrap (c/premiere)
5 Movie Game (c)
6-7-13-21 Sale of the Century (c)
8 Romper Room (c/Miss Jean)
9 All My Children (c)
11-12 Classroom (to 3pm)

10:30
2-4-8* Love of Life (c)
3-5-8-9 Bewitched (c/new time)
6-7-13-21 Hollywood Squares (c)

11:00
2-4-8* Where the Heart is (c)
3-5-8-9 Password (c)
6-7-13-21 Jeopardy (c)

11:25
2-4-8* CBS News (c)

11:30
2-3-4-8* Search for Tomorrow (c)
5-8-9 Split Second (c/premiere)
6-7-13-21 Who, What or Where Game (c)

11:55
6-7 News (c)
13-21 NBC News (c)

Afternoon
noon
2-3-8*-9-13-21 News (c)
4 Hazel (c)
5 Noon Report (c)
8-40 All My Children (c)

12:15
2 Farm News (c)
3 Town & Country (c)
13 Cartoons (c)

12:20
6 Lucille Rivers (c)

12:25
7 Today with Beth (c)

12:30
2-3-4-8* As the World Turns (c)
6-7 Three on a Match (c)
8-9-40 Let's Make a Deal (c)
13 Movie "East of Sudan" (c)
21 Treasure Chest (c)

1:00
2-4-8* Love is a Many-Splendored Thing (c)
3-5-8-9-40 Newlywed Game (c)
6-7 Days of Our Lives (c)
21 Films (c)

1:30
2-4-8* Guiding Light (c)
3-5-8-9-40 Dating Game (c)
6-7 Doctors (c)

2:00
2-4-8* Secret Storm (c)
3-5-8-9-40 General Hospital (c)
6-7-13-21 Another World (c)

2:30
2-4-8* Edge of Night (c)
3-5-8-9-40 One Life to Live (c)
6-7-13-21 Bright Promise (c)

3:00
2-4-8* Gomer Pyle, USMC (c)
3-5-9-40 Love, American Style (c)
6-7-13-21 Somerset (c)
8 Georgia on Q (c)
11-12 High School: Problems & Possibilities (c)

3:30
2 Lucille Ball (c)
3 All My Children (c)
4 Dick Van Dyke
5 Flintstones (c)
6 Cap'n Ernie (c)
7 Virginian (c)
8 Love, American Style (c)
8* Munsters (c)
9 Gilligan's Island (c)
11-12 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (c)
13 Floppy (c)
21 Eve's Kitchen (c)
40 Movie "The Sword of Ali Baba"

4:00
2 Doctor Max (c)
3 Password
4 Mike Douglas (c/co-host Shirley Bassey; guests Woody Herman and Rep. Bella Abzug (D-NY))
5 Gilligan's Island (c)
8 Green Acres (c)
8* Star Trek (c)
9 Big Valley (c)
11-12 Sesame Street (c/366)
13 Movie "I'd Rather Be Rich" (c)

4:30
2 Flintstones (c)
3 Let's Make a Deal
5 Daniel Boone (c)
6 To Tell the Truth (c)
8 Mayberry RFD (c)
21 New Zoo Revue (c)

4:55
2 Sports Club (c)

5:00
2-6 Truth or Consequences (c)
3 News (c)
4 Batman (c)
7 Green Acres (c)
8-9 ABC Evening News (c)
8* I Love Lucy
11-12 Electric Company (c/ep 106)
21 People in Today's News (c)
40 Jonny Quest (c)

5:25
5 News (c)

5:30
2-4-8* CBS Evening News (c)
3-5-40 ABC Evening News (c)
6-7-13-21 NBC Nightly News (c)
8 Perry Mason
9 News (c)
11-12 What's New (c)

Evening
6:00
2-3-4-6-7-8*-13-21-40 News (c)
5 Truth or Consequences (c)
9 Star Trek (c)
11-12 Reading (c)

6:25
6 Comment (c)

6:30
2-6 I Dream of Jeannie (c)
3 Bill Anderson (c/guest Faron Young)
4 F Troop (c)
5 Movie "Sail a Crooked Ship"
7 Death Valley Days (c)
8-13 This is Your Life (c/June Allyson is honored)
8* Lassie (c)
11-12 Consultation (c)
21 Sanford & Son (c)
40 Bill Cosby (c)

7:00
2-4-8* Gunsmoke (c)
3-8-9-40 Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau "The Unsinkable Sea Otter" (c)
6-7-13-21 Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (c/cameos from Jean Stapleton, Sandy Duncan, Joe Namath, Charles Nelson Reilly, and Jo Ann Pflug)
11-12 What Did You Learn at School Today? (c/reports on contrasting ways of learning)

8:00
2-4-8* Here's Lucy (c)
3-5-8-9-40 Movie "The Caper of the Golden Bulls" (c)
6-7-13-21 Movie "Banacek" (c)

8:30
2-4-8* Doris Day (c)
11-12 Kukla, Fran & Ollie (c/the puppets make the hippie scene)

9:00
2-4-8* Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour (c/guest Merv Griffin, and a cameo from Miss Universe 1971)
11-12 Book Beat (c)

9:30
11-12 Why You Smoke (c/pt 4)

10:00
2-3-4-5-6-7-8-8*-9-13-21-40 News (c)
11-12 Masterpiece Theatre "Elizabeth R" (c/conclusion)

10:30
2-4-8* Movie "Doctor, You've Got to Be Kidding!" (c)
3-40 Dick Cavett (c/F. Lee Bailey hosts a discussion of prison reform and the law with guests Melvin Belli, George McGrath and a former Attica inmate)
5 Dimension 5 (c)
6-7-13-21 Tonight Show (c/Dom DeLuise subs for Johnny with guest Erma Bombeck)
8 Movie "Twinkle in God's Eye" (c)
9 Movie "The Lady from Texas" (c)

Late Night
midnight
7 David Frost (c/the Olympics are the night's topic with guests Dick Schaap, Clifford Buck, and current and former Olympians along with hopefuls)
8 Opportunity Line (c)
9 Dick Cavett (c/see 10:30, 3/40 for info)

12:30
2 Last Word (c)
8 News (c)

 

[SteveRichards]

Did KTVO really run "Password" a second time at 4PM, or is that a misprint? I would imagine they aired "Split Second" at 4, which they pre-empted at 11:30 to run "Search for Tomorrow" from CBS.

 

[bk77]

Checking out these listings very much reminded me of a movie I can remember seeing in church back in the 1983. The movie was very similar to the Kirk Cameron movie "Left Behind" but this one was shot in Des Moines in the early 70's. Sadly I don't remember the title.

One scene I can remember, after the rapture had taken place the woman who was "left behind" was flipping between WHO and KRNT ( their logos were seen ) only to have their newspeople tell the viewers of Des Moines that for "identification" they would need to recieve a tattoo of numbers behind their left ear...I.E. The mark of the beast.

I have searched IMDB in the past trying to find the title of this movie but I never did find it.

Also on a similar note..didn't one of these stations ( in this edition of TV Guide ) make an appearance in the 1971 comedy with Dick Van Dyke & Bob Newhart "Cold Turkey"?

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

6:30

21 Sanford & Son (c)

Do you have Iowa edition listings for Friday, March 24, 1972--or for that matter any other Friday in Iowa between fall 1971 and summer 1979?

I remember reading about this issue in threads on various Google message boards around 2001-02, but was the reason for the tape-delayed broadcast of "Sanford and Son" on the ill-fated KVFD Fort Dodge* on that Monday night due to "Hee Haw" bumping Sanford on Friday night?

The threads on the Google boards regarding Hee Haw in Iowa have strongly indicated that between at least 1971-79, most of the state's NBC affiliates, with the possible exception of WOC (now KWQC) in the Quad Cities (and based on the earlier Mar. 18, 1972 schedule, perhaps KWWL Waterloo at least in spring '72), aired HH at 6:30 on Friday nights, bumping "Sanford and Son" and other NBC programs during those eight years that aired in the 7PM slot (e.g. Waverly Wonders, Diff'rent Strokes, Sanford Arms) to tape-delay status. Did that actually happen, or is that a Google message board urban legend?

Also, the same message boards have indicated that WHO did not clear "Days of Our Lives" until 1984, in favor of 12:30PM movies.

*KVFD's studio and transmitter were destroyed in a tornado in 1977--just right after the FCC forced the station to move to channel 50 so an Iowa Public Television repeater could use channel 21 in Fort Dodge, and IIRC about the same time WHO increased their power and moved their TV transmitter from alongside their AM stick near Mitchellville to near Alleman, IA.

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

from TV Guide-Iowa edition

2 WMT-CBS Cedar Rapids
3 KTVO-ABC/NBC/CBS Ottumwa
4 WHBF-CBS Quad Cities
5 WOI-ABC Ames
6 WOC-NBC Quad Cities
7 KWWL-NBC Waterloo
8 WQAD-ABC Quad Cities
8* KRNT-CBS Des Moines
9 KCRG-ABC Cedar Rapids
11 KDIN-PBS Des Moines
12 KIIN-PBS Iowa City
13 WHO-NBC Des Moines
21 KVFD-NBC Fort Dodge
40 KDUB-ABC Dubuque

This edition could have been more accurately referred to as the "Eastern Iowa Edition" as IIRC I do not think even Mason City/Austin/Rochester stations would later be included in this edition, as were most notably stations in markets serving the western half of Iowa (Omaha, Sioux City, Sioux Falls). This would have ironically relegated TV Guide subscribers in parts of western Iowa to receiving the Nebraska edition to get their home markets' local stations. ??? ???

Also, do you also have any of the Des Moines Register's TV listings, particularly from the 1980s? Back in 1986 and again around 1996 I noticed that their Sunday TV section not only included Des Moines/Ames stations, but also those of most every station whose market area covered parts of central and eastern Iowa (i.e. Cedar Rapids/Waterloo, Quad Cities, Mason City/Austin/Rochester, Hannibal/Quincy, Kirksville/Ottumwa, LaCrosse). Interestingly, unless there was a separate TV section for western Iowa, as with the "Iowa Edition" of TV Guide none of the stations in markets that included some western Iowa counties (i.e. Omaha, Sioux City, Sioux Falls, Mankato) were included in the Register's TV listings that I have seen before. Why was that? ??? ???

 

[bpatrick]

I also seem to recall "Days Of Our Lives" being pre-empted in
Des Moines in favor of a 12:30 movie, and this is even after
"Days" went to an hour and was on at 12:30 (CT).

And yes, Sioux City was in the Nebraska edition, as was
Sioux Falls-Mitchell, SD.

 

[jh]

I remember reading about this issue in threads on various Google message boards around 2001-02, but was the reason for the tape-delayed broadcast of "Sanford and Son" on the ill-fated KVFD Fort Dodge* on that Monday night due to "Hee Haw" bumping Sanford on Friday night?

Yes, Hee Haw was on Fridays 6:30-7:30. Sanford and Son was on Saturdays at 6:30 on WHO and KWWL, but KVFD ran Lawrence Welk Saturdays 6-7.

The threads on the Google boards regarding Hee Haw in Iowa have strongly indicated that between at least 1971-79, most of the state's NBC affiliates, with the possible exception of WOC (now KWQC) in the Quad Cities (and based on the earlier Mar. 18, 1972 schedule, perhaps KWWL Waterloo at least in spring '72), aired HH at 6:30 on Friday nights, bumping "Sanford and Son" and other NBC programs during those eight years that aired in the 7PM slot (e.g. Waverly Wonders, Diff'rent Strokes, Sanford Arms) to tape-delay status. Did that actually happen, or is that a Google message board urban legend?

WHO and KWWL ran Hee Haw Fridays at 6:30. I'm not sure about the Quad Cities, but I think Hee Haw was on WHBF. Hee Haw was very popular, and that was sort of the natural place to put it since NBC had a half-hour show at 7 that could be delayed. Hee Haw wouldn't work Saturday 6-7 as they had local news at 6. KTIV, Sioux City, also had Hee Haw on Fridays.

Also, the same message boards have indicated that WHO did not clear "Days of Our Lives" until 1984, in favor of 12:30PM movies.

That's true, too. Since KVFD took their NBC programming off-air from WHO, they had to fill with "Film Feature" and other fill programming 12:30-2pm.

*KVFD's studio and transmitter were destroyed in a tornado in 1977--just right after the FCC forced the station to move to channel 50 so an Iowa Public Television repeater could use channel 21 in Fort Dodge, and IIRC about the same time WHO increased their power and moved their TV transmitter from alongside their AM stick near Mitchellville to near Alleman, IA.

The FCC didn't force KVFD to move from 21 to 50. KVFD built a new, taller tower northwest of Ft. Dodge to expand their signal, but it had a weaker signal in Ft. Dodge. So KVFD sold their new tower and channel 21 transmitter to IPTV. KVFD then put a higher-power channel 50 transmitter on their old, lower tower in Ft. Dodge. It was the old tower that was destroyed in the tornado. The studio wasn't, the building is now part of the Iowa Central Community College campus.

 

[jh]

Also, do you also have any of the Des Moines Register's TV listings, particularly from the 1980s? Back in 1986 and again around 1996 I noticed that their Sunday TV section not only included Des Moines/Ames stations, but also those of most every station whose market area covered parts of central and eastern Iowa (i.e. Cedar Rapids/Waterloo, Quad Cities, Mason City/Austin/Rochester, Hannibal/Quincy, Kirksville/Ottumwa, LaCrosse). Interestingly, unless there was a separate TV section for western Iowa, as with the "Iowa Edition" of TV Guide none of the stations in markets that included some western Iowa counties (i.e. Omaha, Sioux City, Sioux Falls, Mankato) were included in the Register's TV listings that I have seen before. Why was that? ??? ???

At one time, the Des Moines Register included all of those markets you listed in the Sunday TV section plus St. Joseph. They also carried all those stations in the state edition of the daily paper. The Des Moines local daily edition had the Des Moines/Ames stations (and maybe Ft. Dodge) plus Des Moines radio listings.

Sometime in the 70s, I think, they divided the TV listings into two editions, all of the eastern markets plus Des Moines/Ames in one; the western markets plus Des Moines/Ames in the other, which may have also included Ottumwa, Mason City/Austin/Rochester.

 

[only1moore]

I'm not sure about the Quad Cities, but I think Hee Haw was on WHBF.

You're right. "Hee Haw" was on WHBF/Rock Island during this period.

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

I'm not sure about the Quad Cities, but I think Hee Haw was on WHBF.

You're right. "Hee Haw" was on WHBF/Rock Island during this period.

And circa 1979-80, HH bumped "The Incredible Hulk" on Fridays at 7 (as a natural lead-in to the Dukes and Dallas), leaving the Hulk unseen in the Quad Cities during that time.

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

WHO and KWWL ran Hee Haw Fridays at 6:30. I'm not sure about the Quad Cities, but I think Hee Haw was on WHBF. Hee Haw was very popular, and that was sort of the natural place to put it since NBC had a half-hour show at 7 that could be delayed. Hee Haw wouldn't work Saturday 6-7 as they had local news at 6. KTIV, Sioux City, also had Hee Haw on Fridays.

And another reason for HH not being able to be shown on those Iowa NBC stations on Saturdays 6-7: the fact that most of the ABC stations in the state (the Quad Cities the exception again) aired Lawrence Welk in that slot--and in Iowa it would be "sacreligious" to put those two shows against each other. In the Quad Cities, Welk was aired on WHBF from 6-7 Saturdays.

And even though Hee Haw aired on WHBF, from seeing old listings around 1978-80, WOC (now KWQC) was also in the habit of bumping the Friday 7-8 PM programming on NBC for the likes of "Name that Tune," Bob Newhart Show reruns, and "Wild Kingdom."

 

[Bluenoser]

Did KTVO really run "Password" a second time at 4PM, or is that a misprint? I would imagine they aired "Split Second" at 4, which they pre-empted at 11:30 to run "Search for Tomorrow" from CBS.

According to the schedule, they did run Password at 4 on that day at least. It was a regular episode at 4, with ABC airing the first of a tournament of champions on the daytime broadcast.

 

[Bluenoser]

Did KTVO really run "Password" a second time at 4PM, or is that a misprint? I would imagine they aired "Split Second" at 4, which they pre-empted at 11:30 to run "Search for Tomorrow" from CBS.

According to the schedule, they did run Password at 4 on that day at least. It was a regular episode at 4, with ABC airing the first of a tournament of champions on the daytime broadcast.

And in re-checking those listings, Password was on weekdays at 4.

 

[jh]

Here's a cut-and-paste from the DM register listing for April 25, 1972:

Ottumwa 3-KTVO (ABC)
7:00 Songs 2:00 Gen. Hosp.
7:30 Sesame St. ' 3:00 Love, Am.
8:30 Underdog 3 30 My Children
9:00 Cartoons 4.00 Split Second
9.30 Wmn., Know 4:30 Make Deal
10.00 Mantrap 5.00 News
10.30 Bewitched 5.30 ABC News
11:00 Password 6-00 News
11:30 Search Tmw. 6:30 Mod Squad
12.00 News 7 3D ABC Movie
12:15 Town, C'ntry 9.00 M. Welby
12 30 World Turns 10:00 News
1.00 Nnvly.veds 10.30 Dick Cavett
1 30 Dating Game

 

[jh]

In doing some more searching in the DM Register listings, ABC had just changed the previous week their morning schedule from:
10:30 That Girl
11:00 Bewitched
11:30 Password

to:
10:30 Bewitched
11:00 Password
11:30 Split Second

Either KTVO make a mistake in their listings, or they were delaying the 11:30 ABC offering by a week.

 

[SteveRichards]

I always thought it was interesting that KTVO didn't utilize its secondary CBS affiliation to continue airing "Captain Kangaroo," which it would have aired as a primary CBS affiliate until sometime in 1968. ABC offered no programming that early in the morning, and the Captain and "Sesame Street" would have complimented each other nicely.