Retro: Kansas Thurs, Oct 20, 1977

[Bluenoser]

from Family Happiness-Kansas edition

2 KCKT-NBC Great Bend
3 KARD-NBC Wichita
4 WDAF-NBC Kansas City
4s KSNB-ABC Superior
5 KCMO-CBS Kansas City
5h KHAS-NBC Hastings
6 KTVC-CBS Ensign
7 KAYS-CBS Hays
8 KPTS-PBS Wichita
9 KMBC-ABC Kansas City
10 KAKE-ABC Wichita
11 KTWU-PBS Topeka
12 KTVH-CBS Wichita
13 WIBW-CBS Topeka
27 KTSB-NBC Topeka
41 KBMA-Ind Kansas City

Morning
5:00
41 Andy Griffith

5:30
41 Gomer Pyle

5:45
2-3 Kansas Today

5:55
5 TBA

6:00
2-3-4-4s-27 PTL Club
5h 700 Club
12 Pastor's Study
41 Bozo

6:15
12 Community Window

6:25
5 Sunrise Semester

6:30
9 Good Morning Kansas City
13 Sunrise Semester
41 Romper Room

6:35
12 Morning Agriculture Report

6:45
6-12 News
10 Kansas Scene

6:55
5 Farm Facts

7:00
2-3-4-5h-27 Today
5-6-7-12-13 CBS Morning News
9-10 Good Morning America
41 Archies

7:30
41 Flintstones

8:00
4s Good Morning America
5-6-7-12-13 Captain Kangaroo
8 Sesame Street
41 Popeye

8:30
41 Bullwinkle

9:00
2-3 Dinah Shore
4-5h-27 Sanford & Son
4s All My Children
5 Phil Donahue
6-7-12 Joyce Livingston
8 Electric Company
9 Kaleidoscope
10 Romper Room
11 Sesame Street
13 I Love Lucy
41 700 Club

9:30
4-5h-27 Hollywood Squares
5-6-7-12-13 Price is Right
8 Instructional Programs
9 I Dream of Jeannie
10 Andy Griffith

10:00
2-3-4-5h Wheel of Fortune
4s-10 Happy Days
9 My Three Sons
11 Electric Company
27 PTL Club

10:30
2-3-4-5h Knockout
4s-9-10 Family Feud
5-6-7-12-13 Love of Life
11 Instructional Programs
41 Inspirational Time

11:00
2-3-4-5h-27 To Say the Least
4s-9-10 The Better Sex
5-6-7-12-13 Young & the Restless
41 Not for Women Only

11:30
2-3-5h Chico & the Man
4 News
4s-9-10 Ryan's Hope
5-6-7-12-13 Search for Tomorrow
8 Misterogers' Neighborhood
27 I Love Lucy
41 Gomer Pyle

Afternoon
noon
2-3-4s-5-5h-6-7-9-10-12-13-27 News
4 Bewitched
8 Sesame Street
10 KAKE Kaleidoscope
41 Gong Show

12:15
5h Farm Action

12:20
12 Woman's World

12:30
2-3-4-5h-27 Days of Our Lives
4s Cross-Wits
5-6-7-12-13 As the World Turns
9 All My Children
41 Dick Van Dyke

1:00
4s-10 $20,000 Pyramid
8 Electric Company
41 I Love Lucy

1:30
2-3-4-5h-27 Doctors
4s-9-10 One Life to Live
5-6-7-12-13 Guiding Light
8 Instructional Programs
41 Beverly Hillbillies

2:00
2-3-4-5h-27 Another World
5-6-7-12-13 All in the Family
41 Marcus Welby, MD

2:15
4s-9-10 General Hospital

2:30
5-6-7-12-13 Match Game '77
8 Villa Alegre

3:00
2-3-5h-27 Gong Show
4 Dinah Shore
4s-9-10-13 Edge of Night
5 Family Affair
6-7-12 Tattletales
8 Misterogers' Neighborhood
11 Sesame Street
41 Mickey Mouse Club

3:30
2-3 Flintstones
4s-6-7-12 I Love Lucy
5 Courtship of Eddie's Father
5h Phil Donahue
8 Electric Company
9 $20,000 Pyramid
10 Gilligan's Island
13 Emergency One!
27 Bonanza
41 Tom & Jerry

4:00
2-3 Brady Bunch
4-6-7-12 Mike Douglas
4s I Dream of Jeannie
5 Movie "Man in a Gray Flannel Suit" (pt 1)
8 Sesame Street
9-10 Partridge Family
11 Misterogers' Neighborhood
41 Gilligan's Island

4:30
2-3-41 Emergency One!
4s Brady Bunch
5h Bonanza
9 Odd Couple
10 My Three Sons
11 Electric Company
12 Adam-12
27 Partridge Family

5:00
4h-10 News
8 Zoom
9 Mary Tyler Moore
11 Sesame Street
27 Brady Bunch

5:30
2-3-4-5-5h-6-7-9-10-12-27 Local/Network News (FH didn't differentiate between the two, but I assume that most Midwest affiliates ran network news at 5:30?)
4h Bewitched
8 Robin Hood
41 Rookies

Evening
6:00
2-3-4h-5-5s-6-7-9-12-27 News
4 Cross-Wits
8 As We See It
10 To Tell the Truth
11 Midieval Art

6:30
2-3 Adam-12
4 Hollywood Squares
4s To Tell the Truth
5 Match Game PM
5h Concentration
6 F Troop
7 Wild Kingdom
8-11 MacNeil-Lehrer Report
9 Bowling for Dollars
10 Liar's Club
12 It's Magic
13 Odd Couple
27 Mary Tyler Moore
41 Andy Griffith

7:00
2-3-4-5h-27 CHiPs
4s-9-10 Welcome Back, Kotter
5-6-7-12-13 Waltons
8-11 Robin Hood
41 Joker's Wild

7:30
4s-9-10 What's Happening!!!
8-11 Best of Ernie Kovacs
41 Hollywood Connection

8:00
2-3-4-5h-27 Man from Atlantis
4s-9-10 Barney Miller
5-6-7-12-13 Hawaii Five-O
8 Arkansas River Chronicle
11 Hurry Tomorrow
41 Movie "Operation Petticoat"

8:30
4s-9-10 Carter Country

9:00
2-3-4-5h-27 Rosetti & Ryan
4s-9-10 Redd Foxx
5-6-7-12-13 Barnaby Jones
8 Sources of Country Music
11 Fight Against Slavery

9:30
8 International Animation Festival

10:00
2-3-4-4s-5-5h-6-7-9-10-12-13-27 News
8 Dick Cavett
11 Kansas Archaeology

10:30
2-3-4-5h-27 Tonight Show
4s-10 Police Story
5 Medical Center
6-7-12-13 Movie "Hurricane Hunters"
8-11 Captioned ABC News
9 Carol Burnett & Friends
41 Star Trek

11:00
9 Mary Tyler Moore

11:30
4s-10 A Salute to the Best Years of Your Hit Parade
5 Untouchables
9 Forever Fernwood
41 Avengers

Late Night
midnight
2-3-4-5h-27 Tomorrow
9 Merv Griffin

12:30
5 Movie "Manhattan Melodrama"
13 News
41 Best of Groucho

1:00
2-3-4 News
10 Movies "The Millionairess"/"Carmen Jones"/"Badman's Country"
41 Movie (repeat from 8pm)

2:30
5 News

3:00
41 Love American Style

3:30
41 Night Gallery

4:00
41 Thriller

 

[Bluenoser]

Should have known I'd bung it up

For 5, 5:30 and 6pm programs, ch 4h should read 4s (KSNB).

 

[bpatrick]

I've seen some Kansas TV Guides from that era,
and I'm wondering: has KAKE ever carried "All
My Children"?

 

[X-Man]

KAKE carried All My Children on and off in the 70's, I believe they brought it back in either 82 or 83 but they aired a delay broadcast of the soap at 11am, then it moved to 9am. At one time they pre-empted the soap again for different programming in the mid to late 80's and Fox affiliate KSAS Ch. 24 carried the show for a brief period at it's original time at noon.

 

[mleach]

from Family Happiness-Kansas edition

2 KCKT-NBC Great Bend
3 KARD-NBC Wichita
4 WDAF-NBC Kansas City
4s KSNB-ABC Superior
5 KCMO-CBS Kansas City
5h KHAS-NBC Hastings
6 KTVC-CBS Ensign
7 KAYS-CBS Hays
8 KPTS-PBS Wichita
9 KMBC-ABC Kansas City
10 KAKE-ABC Wichita
11 KTWU-PBS Topeka
12 KTVH-CBS Wichita
13 WIBW-CBS Topeka
27 KTSB-NBC Topeka
41 KBMA-Ind Kansas City

Ah..Family Happiness ! Wonder why this edition didn't feature the Denver stations? Colorado Springs? Omaha? New Mexico? Reason I bring this up, I remember back in the mid 80's seeing a West Virginia edition of Family Happiness and remembering the channel list I bet half of them weren't available anywhere in West Virginia. Buffalo's WIVB & WKBW, Charlotte's WBTV, Lancaster, PA's WGAL, even Nashville's WKRN were listed in the "West Virginia" edition. Wonder why? Almost as odd as seeing the Roanoke-Lynchburg stations listed in the "Maryland" edition, I guess that makes sense since both WDBJ and WSLS's signal is very clear in downtown Baltimore. Ah no they aren't...but still for a kid at the time I have to admit it was interesting to see so many listings for out of town stations ( WAY out of town ) whereas they wouldn't be in the regular TV Guide.

However with that being said Family Happiness did have a problem ( at least it did in Maryland and West Virginia ) over just how accurate those listings were. For example DC's WJLA for many years used to air the 4:00 Movie. That was replaced by syndication in 1983, however as late as December 1984 that program was still listed in the listings. Then in the summer of 1985 I saw another copy of Family Happiness. The listings featured a weekend sports show on Baltimore's WJZ hosted by Randy Blair. Problem? WJZ's Randy Blair had died of a heart attack in January 1983.

Well the price was right anyway. Free !

 

[azumanga]

What kind of magazine was "Family Happiness"? By the sound of it, it seems like something along the lines of "TV Facts", the old freebie TV guides. But by the looks of the title and edition name, it seems like neither television, nor specific locality, is the focus.

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

from Family Happiness-Kansas edition

2 KCKT-NBC Great Bend
3 KARD-NBC Wichita
4 WDAF-NBC Kansas City
4s KSNB-ABC Superior
5 KCMO-CBS Kansas City
5h KHAS-NBC Hastings
6 KTVC-CBS Ensign
7 KAYS-CBS Hays
8 KPTS-PBS Wichita
9 KMBC-ABC Kansas City
10 KAKE-ABC Wichita
11 KTWU-PBS Topeka
12 KTVH-CBS Wichita
13 WIBW-CBS Topeka
27 KTSB-NBC Topeka
41 KBMA-Ind Kansas City

Ah..Family Happiness ! Wonder why this edition didn't feature the Denver stations? Colorado Springs? Omaha? New Mexico? Reason I bring this up, I remember back in the mid 80's seeing a West Virginia edition of Family Happiness and remembering the channel list I bet half of them weren't available anywhere in West Virginia. Buffalo's WIVB & WKBW, Charlotte's WBTV, Lancaster, PA's WGAL, even Nashville's WKRN were listed in the "West Virginia" edition. Wonder why? Almost as odd as seeing the Roanoke-Lynchburg stations listed in the "Maryland" edition, I guess that makes sense since both WDBJ and WSLS's signal is very clear in downtown Baltimore. Ah no they aren't...but still for a kid at the time I have to admit it was interesting to see so many listings for out of town stations ( WAY out of town ) whereas they wouldn't be in the regular TV Guide.

However with that being said Family Happiness did have a problem ( at least it did in Maryland and West Virginia ) over just how accurate those listings were. For example DC's WJLA for many years used to air the 4:00 Movie. That was replaced by syndication in 1983, however as late as December 1984 that program was still listed in the listings. Then in the summer of 1985 I saw another copy of Family Happiness. The listings featured a weekend sports show on Baltimore's WJZ hosted by Randy Blair. Problem? WJZ's Randy Blair had died of a heart attack in January 1983.

Well the price was right anyway. Free !

While traveling with my family in the summer of 1990 in east-central Missouri and staying at a large rural motel along I-70 (which relied only on OTA reception of Columbia/Jeff City and St. Louis stations, and perhaps some weaker Quincy/Hannibal signals popping up too--no cable there), I noticed their edition of the "Family Happiness" (or by then it might have just been titled "Happiness") guide. Not only were channels from markets serving eastern MO viewers as St. Louis, Columbia/JC, Quincy/Hannibal, Kirksville/Ottumwa (KTVO-3 only) and Cape Girardeau/Paducah/Harrisburg listed, but also shown in the publication were Jonesboro, AR's KAIT-8 (ABC), plus stations from both Springfield, MO and Springfield, IL (don't remember if the stations from the Decatur and Champaign portions of the latter market were included), and even the Peoria, IL affiliates (I also don't remember if the Bloomington side of the Peoria market was represented in that Happiness edition with Fox affiliate WYZZ-43). But IMO this edition was probably also distributed to customers in the Quincy market, where (particularly around the Rushville/Beardstown/Macomb areas) it is possible (albeit with a good outdoor antenna) to attain adequate reception of the Peoria and Springfield UHF affiliates.

It would be interesting to have seen what an Illinois edition of "Happiness" might have looked like (if one was available for the Prairie State)--could both Chicago and St. Louis stations have been listed in a single, far-flung edition similar to the one I saw in eastern Missouri in '90?

 

[mleach]

What kind of magazine was "Family Happiness"? By the sound of it, it seems like something along the lines of "TV Facts", the old freebie TV guides. But by the looks of the title and edition name, it seems like neither television, nor specific locality, is the focus.

Family Happiness was ( as I remember it ) a very small freebie publication that was distributed by small businesses such as those local non-chain supermarkets ( well maybe IGA ) or even general stores, motels...small businesses and usually the name of the small business was typed on the front of Family Happiness.

I wish I knew more about what was inside other than the TV listings but I am pretty sure there were quite a bit of religious content in it, maybe a page of Bible verses and the like. Around the same time as Family Happiness was out ( early 80s ), my hometown had their own version of FH called "TV Tempo". Half of it were TV Listings and in that case only the channels offered on the local cable system had their listings published and being a conservative publication the listings for HBO, Showtime, Cinemax, VH1 and MTV were not however they did provide listings for The Nashville Network. TV Tempo even had a "radio section" of course the country and religious stations were listed but the rock stations were not. TV Tempo lasted less than a year ( if that ). I wish I knew when Family Happiness went defunct, which I would imagine it is now.

A Pennsylvania edition of Family Happiness in the 80s would have been interesting to see. Listings for THREE Group W stations ( WJZ, KDKA and KYW ). SIX stations using the "Action News" Brand ( WBAL,WTAE,WPVI, WJET, WLYH and WNEP ), listings for Pittsburgh's WPTT and WPGH along side Philly's WPHL, WTAF and even WKBS and not too mention Baltimore's WBFF and WNUV too. And all of those PBS stations.....with so many stations while it may had been fun for all of us who are into looking at listings for stations we can't pick up but for the average Joe viewer...no wonder they paid the extra money for TV Guide.