Retro: Kentucky Friday, November 1, 1968

[bpatrick]

From TV Guide, Kentucky Edition:

WAVE Ch. 3 Louisville (NBC)

6:45 Today On The Farm
7 AM Today
9 AM Morning Show
9:55 News
10 AM Snap Judgment
10:25 NBC News (Nancy Dickerson)
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Personality
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 Eye Guess
12:55 NBC News (Edwin Newman)
1 PM Run For Your Life
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 You Don't Say!
4 PM Wagon Train
5:30 Flintstones
6 PM News, Weather And Sports
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Political Talk By George Wallace
(third-party candidate for President
that year, delay from Mon 7:30)
7:30 High Chaparral
8:30 Name Of The Game
10 PM Billy Graham Crusade (from Pittsburgh)
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Tonight Show (Woody Allen subs for Johnny)

WLWT Ch. 5 Cincinnati (NBC)

6:15 Moment Of Meditation
6:20 Good Morning
6:30 University Of Michigan
7 AM Today
9 AM Paul Dixon
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Personality
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Bob Braun's 50-50 Club
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 You Don't Say!
4 PM Vivienne! (local, with singer
Vivienne Della Chiesa)
5:30 News, Weather And Sports
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Quarterback Club
7:30 High Chaparral
8:30 Name Of The Game
10 PM Star Trek
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Film

WCPO Ch. 9 Cincinnati (CBS)

5:50 Farm News
6 AM Sunrise Semester: "English Literature"
(today, a lecture on "King Lear")
6:30 Young World
7 AM Local News
7:05 CBS News (Joseph Benti)
7:30 Kid Stuff
7:45 Film
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Uncle Al
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11 AM Andy Griffith
11:30 Dick Van Dyke
12 N Noon Report
12:30 Steve Allen
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM Secret Storm
3:25 Republican Political Talk
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Search For Tomorrow
4:25 CBS News (Douglas Edwards--don't know
how Ch. 9 accomplished this since SFT
was 30 minutes, not 25)
4:30 I Spy
5:30 McHale's Navy
6 PM News, Weather And Sports
6:30 CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7 PM Truth Or Consequences
7:30 Wild Wild West
8:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
9 PM Movie: "Love In The Afternoon" (remember
that phrase from ABC daytime promos?)
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Movie: "Kangaroo"
1 AM Jewish Hour
1:30 Local News

WHAS Ch. 11 Louisville (CBS)

6:40 Howdy, Neighbors
7:05 Sunrise Semester
7:35 CBS News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Art Linkletter's House Party
9:25 Republican Political Talk
9:30 Edge Of Night
10 AM The Lucy Show
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11 AM Andy Griffith
11:30 Dick Van Dyke
12 N Love Of Life
12:25 CBS News (Joseph Benti)
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM News, Weather And Sports
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM Secret Storm
3:25 Republican Political Talk
3:30 T-Bar-V Ranch
4:30 Perry Mason
5:30 News, Weather And Sports
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Grand Ole Opry
7:30 Perry Mason
8:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
9 PM CBS Movie: "Quick Before It Melts"
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Movie: "Love Me Or Leave Me"

WKRC Ch. 12 Cincinnati (ABC)

7 AM Word Of Life
7:30 Cartoon Cut-Ups
8 AM Skipper Ryle
9 AM Dark Shadows
9:30 One Life To Live
10 AM News, Weather And Sports
10:30 Dick Cavett
12 N 12 Noon
1 PM Dream House
1:30 Pay Cards! (this must have aired on
all the Taft stations, since I remember
WBRC Birmingham running it at 1:30
Central, delaying The Dating Game to
the following morning)
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 Mike Douglas
5 PM Perry Mason
6 PM Merv Griffin
7:20 News, Weather And Sports
(Ch. 11 in Atlanta was doing something
like this, calling it "Instant News")
7:30 Operation: Entertainment
8:30 Felony Squad
9 PM Don Rickles (Lorne Greene is on the
receiving end of Don's insults)
9:30 Guns Of Will Sonnett
10 PM Judd For The Defense
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Joey Bishop (the Beach Boys are guests)

WFPK (WKPC) Ch. 15 Louisville (NET)

9 AM In-school programs
1:50 In-school programs end; station off the air
8 PM What's New
8:30 NET Playhouse: "The May Fly And The Frog"
9:40 Navy Film
sign off after this

WLEX Ch. 18 Lexington (NBC)

7 AM Today
9 AM Steve Allen
10 AM Snap Judgment
10:25 NBC News
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Personality
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Noon Today
12:30 Eye Guess
12:55 NBC News
1 PM Jeopardy!
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 You Don't Say!
4 PM Match Game
4:25 NBC News (Floyd Kalber)
4:30 Password
5 PM Tales Of The Texas Rangers
5:30 News, Weather And Sports
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Wilburn Brothers
7:30 High Chaparral
8:30 Name Of The Game
10 PM Star Trek
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Film

WXIX Ch. 19 Cincinnati (Ind.)

3:30 Larry Smith Puppets
4 PM Super Heroes
4:30 Johnny Cypher
5 PM Marine Boy
5:30 Superman
6 PM Flintstones
6:30 Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea
7:30 Run For Your Life
8:30 Country And Western Showcase
9 PM Movie: "The Man Between"
11 PM One Step Beyond
sign off 11:30 PM

WKYT Ch. 27 Lexington (CBS)

6:30 TV Party Line
7:30 CBS News
7:55 News And Weather
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Town Talk (Secretary of the Interior
Stewart Udall and former Kentucky
governor Edward Breathitt discuss
Hubert Humphrey's Presidential campaign)
10 AM The Lucy Show
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11 AM Andy Griffith
11:30 Dick Van Dyke
12 N Love Of Life
12:25 Paul Harvey
12:30 Mike Douglas
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM Secret Storm
3:25 Republican Political Talk
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Movie: "Big Leaguer"
5:30 Have Gun, Will Travel
6 PM News, Weather And Sports
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Paul Harvey
7:05 McHale's Navy
7:30 Wild Wild West
8:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
9 PM Movie: "Prince Valiant"
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Movie: "Scaramouche"

WLKY Ch. 32 Louisville (ABC)

7:55 Inspiration
8 AM Uncle Waldo
8:30 Romper Room
9 AM Movie: "Racket Busters"
10:30 Dick Cavett
12 N Bewitched
12:30 Treasure Isle
1 PM Dream House
1:30 Funny You Should Ask
1:55 Children's Doctor
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 Gilligan's Island
4 PM Merv Griffin
5:30 News, Weather And Sports
6 PM Movie: "Rocky Mountain"
7:30 Operation: Entertainment
8:30 Felony Squad
9 PM Don Rickles
9:30 Guns Of Will Sonnett
10 PM Judd For The Defense
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Joey Bishop
1 AM Movie: "Captain Blood"
2:30 Inspiration

WBLG Ch. 62 (WTVQ Ch. 36) Lexington (ABC)

9 AM Romper Room
10 AM Ed Allen
10:30 Dick Cavett
12 N Bewitched
12:30 Treasure Isle
1 PM Dream House
1:30 Funny You Should Ask
1:55 Children's Doctor
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM Dark Shadows
4:30 Perry Mason
5:30 News, Weather And Sports
6 PM ABC News (Frank Reynolds)
6:30 Merv Griffin
7:30 Movie: "The Naked Maja"
9:30 Guns Of Will Sonnett
10 PM Judd For The Defense
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Joey Bishop

 

[Mike Stroud]

WAVE Ch. 3 Louisville (NBC)

7 PM Political Talk By George Wallace
(third-party candidate for President
that year, delay from Mon 7:30)


WLWT Ch. 5 Cincinnati (NBC)

4 PM Vivienne! (local, with singer
Vivienne Della Chiesa)

WCPO Ch. 9 Cincinnati (CBS)

4 PM Search For Tomorrow
4:25 CBS News (Douglas Edwards--don't know
how Ch. 9 accomplished this since SFT
was 30 minutes, not 25)

WHAS Ch. 11 Louisville (CBS)

3:30 T-Bar-V Ranch

WKYT Ch. 27 Lexington (CBS)

9 AM Town Talk (Secretary of the Interior
Stewart Udall and former Kentucky
governor Edward Breathitt discuss
Hubert Humphrey's Presidential campaign)

WLKY Ch. 32 Louisville (ABC)

8 AM Uncle Waldo

WAVE, 7 p.m. and WKYT, 9 a.m.--Three days later, Kentucky, a traditionally Southern Democratic state, would witness Humphrey and Wallace knock their heads together in the voting booth and give the Commonwealth's electoral votes to Richard Nixon. This also happened in neighboring Tennessee.

WLWT, 4 p.m.--Vivienne (actually spelled "Vivian") Della Chiesa died earlier this year, back in January. According to her bio on Wikipedia, she made an unusual transition, from being a full-fledged operatic soprano to doing a lounge act. It mentions that she was an "interview show hostess on live morning television" (an obvious inaccuracy), but does not mention Cincinnati in particular. I take it this was intended to make a trifecta of Crosley/AVCO daytime shows, to accompany Paul Dixon and Bob Braun earlier in the day, and for viewing on the other "WLW" stations in Dayton, Columbus, and Indianapolis. Whatever it was, I do not think it lasted a long time, probably due to her engagements out in Las Vegas and so on.

WCPO 4 and 4:25 p.m.--Yeah, you're right. Channel 9 would have had to do some finagling with the tape in order to squeeze it into 25 minutes, as I am sure CBS would have in no wise given the station permission to delete the commercials. The only reason WCPO probably bothered carrying it was, of course, that Search was a Procter and Gamble (HQ: Cincinnati) soap, knowing that it would be blamed for the embarrassment that would ensue from P&G execs (and the consequent heat CBS would feel) if it were pre-empted. (Some years later, WLWT pre-empted P&G's Somerset, passing it like a hot potato on to ABC affil WKRC, who placed it along with a block of WLWT NBC refusals in the morning)

WHAS, 3:30 p.m. and WLKY, 8 a.m.--both local kiddie shows, I presume. As I have said before, these shows were the marked men of local television schedules around this time period. No one, however, could have foreseen the cataclysmic decline that occurred throughout the U.S. within the next three or so years, though.

 

[bpatrick]

I've seen Ms. Della Chiesa's name spelled both
ways, but you're right, her show didn't last very
long. I've seen old listings where she would appear
on "Voice Of Firestone" (that was in her opera days)
fairly frequently, and when I first heard of this afternoon
show on WLWT I was, frankly, surprised.

"T-Bar-V Ranch" on WHAS dates back to the station's
earliest days, but I don't think it did very well at 3:30
and spent its last months at 9 AM, following "Captain
Kangaroo." It was canceled around 1970, when WHAS
discovered it could make more money with sitcom reruns
and game shows like the syndicated "Beat The Clock."
"Uncle Waldo," on the other hand, is the syndicated title
for "Hoppity Hooper."