Retro: Iowa Sat, June 9, 1956

[Bluenoser]

from TV Guide-Iowa edition
Programs listed CST

2 WMT-CBS Cedar Rapids
3 KTVO-CBS/NBC Ottumwa
3* KGLO-CBS Mason City
4 WHBF-CBS/ABC Rock Island
5 WOI-Edu/ABC Ames
6 WOC-NBC/ABC Davenport
7 KWWL-NBC Waterloo
8 KRNT-CBS Des Moines
9 KCRG-ABC Cedar Rapids
13 WREX-CBS/ABC Rockford
13* WHO-NBC Des Moines
21 KQTV-NBC Fort Dodge
39 WTVO-NBC Rockford

Morning
7:00
8 Farm News

7:30
2-4-8 Captain Kangaroo
6 Cartoon Carnival

8:00
6-7-13* Pinky Lee (season finale, Howdy Doody airs here next week)

8:15
13 Cartoon

8:30
2-3-4-8-13 Mighty Mouse Playhouse
6-7-13* I Married Joan "Pop Retires"

9:00
2-4-8-13 Winky Dink
3-6-7-13* Fury

9:30
2 Hopalong Cassidy
3-4-8 Texas Rangers "Rough, Tough West"
6-13* Uncle Johnny Coons
13 Come & See

9:45
13 Film Short

10:00
2-8 Movie: TBA (ch 8's movie was listed as a Western)
3-4-13 Big Top
6-13* Captain Gallant "Twenty Fathoms Under the Desert"

10:30
6-13* Winchell & Mahoney (season finale, Mr. Wizard airs here next week)

10:35
3* This I Believe

10:40
3* Farm Bureau

10:45
3* Industry on Parade

11:00
2-3*-4-8-13 Lone Ranger "Man of the House"
6 Comic Cutups (Wagner)
13* Your Pet Corner

11:30
3 Film Short
3* Adventures of Blinky
4 Flight Into Time
6 Make Believe (Bloom)
8 Sky King
13 Roundup RFD
13* Your Air Force Reporter

11:45
2 Almanac
13* Film Short

Afternoon
noon
4-6 Cartoon Carnival
5 General Delivery
8 Hopalong Cassidy Movie
13 Film Short

12:15
2-3-3*-4-13-13*-21 Baseball Preview (Cincinnati coach Frank McCormick is the guest)

12:25
2-3-3*-4-13-13*-21 Baseball: Brooklyn-Cincinnati

12:30
5 Big Picture

12:45
39 Industry on Parade

1:00
5 Remedial Reading
6 Movie: TBA (Western)
8 Farm News
39 Action in the Afternoon

2:00
6 Big Picture
8 Movie "Urubu"

2:30
3 Big Picture
5-6 Movie: TBA (5's was a Western)

3:00
3 Movie: TBA
13 VM Teen Time
13* Film Short
39 Cowboy G-Men

3:30
2 Sports
3* Movies "Wild Horse Stampede"/"Ambush Trail"/"Check Your Guns"
4 Movie "Outlaws of Sonora"
5 Kid Stuff
8 Don Bell's Teen Dance
13 Wild Bill Hickok

3:45
2 Film Short
13* Sen. Thomas Martin

4:00
6 What's Your Trouble?
13 Annie Oakley
13*-21-39 Movie: TBA

4:15
6 Pastor's Desk

4:30
2 Sky King
3 Roy Rogers Movie
4-5-9 Gabby Hayes
6 Our Good Earth
13 Saturday Serials
13* TBA
21 Fury

5:00
2 Lassie
4-7 Big Picture
5 Joe Palooka
6 Roy Rogers "The Kid from Silver City"
8 Do You Trust Your Wife?
9 Herb the Ranch Hand
13 Disneyland
13* Watch the Birdie
21 Mr. Wizard
39 Big Picture

5:30
2-3-4-8 Beat the Clock
6-7-13*-39 Big Surprise
21 Outdoors in Iowa

5:45
21 Mom's Night Out

Evening
6:00
2 Ramar of the Jungle
3 Gene Autry
4 Little Opry House
5 This Week in Pictures
6-7-13*-21-39 Perry Como (season finale with guests Kim Novak, Patti Page (who takes over the timeslot next week), Buddy Hackett, and Mickey Mantle)
8 Stories of the Century
9 News/Sports
13 Phil Silvers

6:30
2 My Friend Flicka
3 Headline
4 Wyatt Earp
5 Ruggles
8 Steve Donovan
9 Theater of Stars
13 Jackie Gleason

7:00
2-3*-4-8-13 Two for the Money
3 TBA
5-9 Lawrence Welk (featured: Alice Lon, Jerry Burke, Larry Hooper, Buddy Merrill, and Dick Dale)
6-7-13*-21-39 Max Liebman Presents "Holiday"

7:30
2 Susie (Private Secretary, per another thread)
3 Mayor of the Town
3*-4-8-13 It's Always Jan

8:00
2-3-3*-4-8-13 Gunsmoke
5-9 Chance of a Lifetime

8:30
2-3-3*-4-13 Damon Runyon "The Blond Mink"
5-9 Ozark Jamboree (guest Sonny James)
6-7-13*-21-39 Your Hit Parade (season finale, Adventure Theatre is here next week)
8 Man Behind the Badge

9:00
2-3-3*-4-8 Jackie Gleason (Honeymooners, the "Hello Ball" episode)
6 Kit Carson
7 Bowling Time
13 TV Readers Digest
13* Count of Monte Cristo
21 Barn Dance
39 News

9:10
39 Wrestling

9:30
2 Highway Patrol
3-4-8 Stage Show (guests Jack Durant, and the Colts)
3* National Dairy Cattle Congress
6 Turning Point
13 Times Square Playhouse
13* Science Fiction Theater

10:00
2 It's Always Jane
3-3*-8-9-13* News
4 Navy Log "Sacrifice"
5-7 Wrestling
6 TV Readers Digest "The Man Who Dreamt Winners"
13 Movie "The Silver Queen"
39 Movie: TBA

10:15
3 Wrestling
3* Movie "Winter Carnival"
9 Movie "Courageous Mr. Penn"
13* Movie "Captive City"

10:20
8 Whistler

10:30
2 News
4 Masquerade Party
6 Big Town "Vacation City"
21 Movie: TBA

10:45
2 Movie "The Red House"

10:50
8 Movie "International Lady"

11:00
4-13 News
5 Movie: TBA
6 Les Paul & Mary Ford

11:05
6 Movie "Captive City"

11:15
3 Movie: TBA

 

[jh]

Thanks for posting this. I grew up in Cedar Rapids and am very familiar with the Iowa Edition. This may be the earliest listing I've seen for KQTV/21 in Ft. Dodge, a small operation that took NBC off air from WHO/13.

This is interesting:
12:15
2-3-3*-4-13-13*-21 Baseball Preview (Cincinnati coach Frank McCormick is the guest)

12:25
2-3-3*-4-13-13*-21 Baseball: Brooklyn-Cincinnati

All CBS stations, except WHO and KQTV.

 

[bpatrick]

CBS was the only network carrying baseball on Saturday at the time.
"Baseball Preview" would have been on at 2:15 (EDT) followed by the
game, so I'm betting this was CBS's network game that day, with Dizzy
Dean and (probably) Buddy Blattner doing the call. For whatever reason,
the CBS affiliate in Des Moines chose to pre-empt, so WHO picked up the
game (and fed it to KQTV). The following summer NBC began airing games
in competition with CBS, with the pregame shows hosted by Dizzy Dean (CBS)
and Leo Durocher (NBC).

 

[Joseph_Gallant]

Until 1965, weekend afternoon network baseball games were broadcast under contracts with individual teams and not the league; and were blacked-out in cities with Major League teams, even if the local team wasn't playing on the network telecast.

For example: If the Cleveland Indians hosted the Detroit Tigers in a Saturday matinee and had the Indians signed a deal with NBC for weekend afternoon rights, and the Tigers had a similar deal with ABC, NBC would have had the rights to that game given it was in Cleveland.

But neither the then-KYW-3 Cleveland nor the then-WWJ-4 Detroit could carry it (or any other Saturday network game); rights in the local cities went to whoever held the local TV rights to those teams.

In 1965, Major League Baseball finally got umbrella rights to Saturday afternoon network telecasts, and signed a one-year deal with ABC for those games. It was only a one-year deal because MLB's deal with NBC for the All-Star Game and World Series also ended after the '65 season.

In 1966, the two packages were combined and NBC picked it up.