Retro: Kentucky Monday, October 9, 1972

[bpatrick]

From TV Guide, Kentucky Edition:

WAVE Ch. 3 Louisville (NBC)

6:45 Today In Louisville
7 AM Today (a week of reports on the Native
American; today: culture and economy)
9 AM Morning Show
9:55 News
10 AM Dinah's Place (guest: Totie Fields)
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Sale Of The Century
11:30 Hollywood Squares (guests: John Byner,
Marty Feldman, Jan Murray, Totie Fields,
Hugh O'Brian, Dick Smothers, Karen Valentine)
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 News, Weather, Sports
12:55 NBC News (Floyd Kalber)
1 PM Somerset
1:30 Petticoat Junction
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Baseball Playoff: Pirates-Reds (Game 3)
6 PM News, Weather And Sports (time approximate)
6:30 NBC News (John Chancellor)
7 PM To Tell The Truth
7:30 Young Dr. Kildare
8 PM Rowan And Martin's Laugh-In (guest Michael Landon;
cameos: Steve Allen, Della Reese, Henny Youngman)
9 PM NBC Movie: "Firecreek" (personal note: the first time I
ever saw a Kentucky edition of TV Guide, this was WKYT's
late movie on Saturday night)
11 PM News, Weather And Sports
11:30 Tonight Show (Bobby Darin subs for Johnny; Pat Paulsen
is a guest)

WLWT Ch. 5 Cincinnati (NBC)

6:20 Good Morning
6:30 Morehead University
7 AM Today
9 AM Paul Dixon
10:30 Phil Donahue
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Bob Braun's 50-50 Club (Robert Guillaume, pre-"Benson",
is a guest)
1:30 Three On A Match
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Baseball Play-Off (see Ch. 3)
6 PM News, Weather And Sports (time approximate)
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Beat The Clock (guest: Norm Crosby)
7:30 Hollywood Squares (Joey Bishop, William Conrad, Glenn
Ford, Frank Gorshin, Betty Grable, Elke Sommer, Karen
Valentine, Charley Weaver)
8 PM Rowan And Martin's Laugh-In
9 PM NBC Movie: "Firecreek"
11 PM News, Weather And Sports
11:30 Tonight Show

WCPO Ch. 9 Cincinnati (CBS)

5:50 Farm News
6 AM Sunrise Semester: "Law And Morality"
6:30 Impact
7 AM CBS News (John Hart)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Uncle Al
10 AM Joker's Wild
10:30 Price Is Right
11 AM Gambit
11:30 Family Affair (delay from 4 PM)
12 N News, Weather And Sports
1 PM Search For Tomorrow
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Guiding Light
2:30 Edge Of Night
3 PM Secret Storm
3:30 Love Is A Many Splendored Thing (Ch. 9 ran
these two in reverse order.)
4 PM Movie: "Saskatchewan"
6 PM News, Weather And Sports
6:30 CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7 PM Truth Or Consequences
7:30 Doctor In The House
8 PM Gunsmoke (guest: Victor French)
9 PM Here's Lucy (guest: Joe Namath)
9:30 Doris Day
10 PM The New Bill Cosby Show (guests: Diahann Carroll,
Marty Feldman, Hines, Hines and Dad)
11 PM News, Weather And Sports
11:30 CBS Movie: "The Haunted Palace" (Vincent Price)
1:15 Christopher Closeup
1:30 News

WHAS Ch. 11 Louisville (CBS)

6:30 Sunrise Semester
7 AM CBS News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Omelet (on film: Ted Knight)
9:45 News
10 AM Joker's Wild
10:30 Price Is Right
11 AM Gambit
11:30 Love Of Life
12 N Where The Heart Is
12:25 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM News, Weather, Sports
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Guiding Light
2:30 Edge Of Night
3 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
3:30 Secret Storm
4 PM Family Affair
4:30 Dick Van Dyke
5 PM That Girl
5:30 Andy Griffith
6 PM News, Weather And Sports
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Truth Or Consequences
7:30 Lee Corso (not sure if this is UK or U of L
highlights)
8 PM Gunsmoke
9 PM Here's Lucy
9:30 Doris Day
10 PM The New Bill Cosby Show
11 PM News, Weather And Sports
11:30 CBS Movie: "The Haunted Palace"

WKRC Ch. 12 Cincinnati (ABC)

NOTE: If Ted Turner hadn't been stopped from posting his "The
NBC Television Network moves to Channel 17" billboards in Atlanta,
Ch. 12 could have done the same thing in Cincinnati. See why below:

6:30 Education Now
6:55 Prof. Kitzel
7 AM Munsters
7:30 Kaleidoscope
7:55 Carol Duvall (decorating)
8 AM Concentration (pre-empted on Ch. 5)
8:30 Sale Of The Century (pre-empted on Ch. 5)
9 AM Jeopardy! (pre-empted on Ch. 5)
9:30 Who, What Or Where (pre-empted on Ch. 5)
9:55 News
10 AM Dinah's Place (pre-empted on Ch. 5)
10:30 One Life To Live (at last, an ABC program, delay
from 3:30)
11 AM Somerset (pre-empted on Ch. 5)
11:30 Bewitched (Maurice Evans as Sam's dad, out to
deflate Darrin's ego)
12 N Password (guests: Arte Johnson, Linda Kaye Henning)
12:30 Split Second
1 PM All My Children
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 Movie: "The Money Trap"
5:30 News, Weather And Sports
6 PM ABC News (Howard K. Smith/Harry Reasoner)
6:30 Hogan's Heroes
7 PM The Rookies (delay from 8 PM)
8 PM The Adventurer (Gene Barry)
8:30 Bengal Power (the Bengals on the road)
8:55 News
9 PM NFL Football: Oakland-Houston (this, IIRC, was
the game where the Houston fan, frustrated with
his team's performance, gave the camera "the finger,"
and Don Meredith said, "He's saying that the Oilers are
number one.")
12 M Dick Cavett (delay from Fri 11:30, time approximate)

WKPC Ch. 15 Louisville (PBS)

7 AM Sesame Street
8 AM Electric Company
8:35 In-school programs
no programming listed from 2:30-4 PM
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
6:30 Electric Company
7 PM French Chef
7:30 Family Game (not Bob Barker's failed 1967
ABC daytime show produced by Chuck Barris,
but a mini-drama about a couple with two
teenage daughters; the issues are premarital
sex and dropping out of school)
8 PM VD Blues (Dick Cavett hosts a special which lays
off the lectures and uses music and comedy to
explain what different sexually-transmitted diseases
can do to the body.)
9 PM Operation Venus (a hot line that answers questions
about STDs)
9:30 Book Beat (Ted Kennedy discusses "In Critical Condition,"
his not-complimentary book about the American health-
care system.)
10 PM All About TV (first of four programs about television's
coverage of the 1972 campaign)
sign off 11 PM

WLEX Ch. 18 Lexington (NBC)

7 AM Today
9 AM Merv Griffin (Patricia Neal, designer Edith Head,
playwright-director Garson Kanin, producer Al Ruddy)
10 AM Dinah's Place
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Sale Of The Century
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N News, Weather And Sports
12:30 Who, What Or Where
12:55 NBC News
1 PM Jeopardy!
1:30 Three On A Match
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Baseball Play-Off (see Ch. 3)
6 PM News, Weather And Sports (time approximate)
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Mouse Factory
7:30 The Story (religious program locally-originated,
but had a few other stations)
8 PM Rowan And Martin's Laugh-In
9 PM NBC Movie: "Firecreek"
11 PM News, Weather And Sports
11:30 Tonight Show

WXIX Ch. 19 Cincinnati (Ind.)

11 AM New Zoo Revue
11:30 Cartoons
11:55 News
12 N Gomer Pyle, USMC
12:30 Andy Griffith
1 PM Movie: "Titanic" (from '53)
2:55 News
3 PM Larry Smith's Cartoon Club
3:30 Popeye
4 PM Flintstones
4:30 Gilligan's Island
5 PM Petticoat Junction
5:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
6 PM Courtship Of Eddie's Father
6:30 Andy Griffith
7 PM I Love Lucy (the "Maharincess of Franistan"
episode)
7:30 That Girl
8 PM Merv Griffin (Ginger Rogers, Virginia Graham,
Jaye P. Morgan, actress Carole Cook)
9 PM Movie: "The Long, Hot Summer"
11:30 Movie: "Two-Way Stretch"

WKYT Ch. 27 Lexington (CBS)

6:30 Linguistics
7 AM CBS News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Town Talk
10 AM Joker's Wild
10:30 Price Is Right
11 AM Gambit
11:30 Love Of Life
12 N News, Weather And Sports
12:15 How To!
12:25 Bulletin Board
12:30 Death Valley Days
1 PM Secret Storm
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Guiding Light
2:30 Edge Of Night
3 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
3:30 Fury
4 PM Wild Wild West
5 PM Hogan's Heroes
5:30 News, Weather And Sports
6:30 CBS News
7 PM I Dream Of Jeannie (Milton Berle as a con man
trying to bilk Jeannie out of a priceless scarab.)
7:30 Parent Game (another example of what happens
when Chuck Barris plays it straight--this show
lasted one season)
8 PM Gunsmoke
9 PM Here's Lucy
9:30 Doris Day
10 PM The New Bill Cosby Show
11 PM News, Weather And Sports
11:30 CBS Movie: "The Haunted Palace"

WLKY Ch. 32 Louisville (ABC)

8:55 Prof. Kitzel
9 AM New Zoo Revue
9:30 Movie: "Half A Hero"
10:55 Rap It Up
11 AM Love, American Style (delay from 4 PM)
11:30 Bewitched
12 N Password
12:30 Split Second
1 PM All My Children
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 Movie: "Duchess Of Idaho"
5:30 News, Weather And Sports
6 PM ABC News
6:30 Hogan's Heroes
7 PM Let's Make A Deal
7:30 What's My Line? (panel: Jack Cassidy,
Arlene Francis, Anita Gillette, Soupy Sales)
8 PM The Rookies
9 PM NFL Football: Oakland-Houston
12 M News, Weather And Sports (time approximate)
12:30 Twilight Zone

WDRB Ch. 41 Louisville (Ind.)

2:50 News
3 PM Presto The Clown
4 PM Spiderman
4:30 Leave It To Beaver
5 PM Lost In Space
6 PM Addams Family
6:30 Movie: "Blood Alley"
8:30 The Virginian
10 PM Boris Karloff Presents Thriller
11 PM Movie: "The Brothers Rico"

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

8:30 Little Rascals
9 AM Romper Room
10 AM I Love Lucy
10:30 Krafts With Katy (Katy Dacus)
11 AM Dick Van Dyke
11:30 Bewitched
12 N Password
12:30 Split Second
1 PM All My Children
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Divorce Court
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM Love, American Style
4:30 Get Smart
5 PM Mayberry R.F.D.
5:30 To Tell The Truth
6 PM News, Weather And Sports
6:30 ABC News
7 PM Truth Or Consequences
7:30 Young Dr. Kildare
8 PM The Rookies
9 PM NFL Football: Oakland-Houston
12 M News, Weather And Sports (time approximate)

E Kentucky Educational Television (WKZT/23 Elizabethtown,
WKSO/29 Somerset, WKMR/38 Morehead, WKLE/46 Lexington,
WKON/52 Owenton, WCVN/54 Covington, WKMJ/68 Louisville)

8 AM In-school programs
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Window To The Classroom
6:30 In The Arts
7 PM Folk Guitar
7:30 TV High School
8 PM VD Blues
9 PM VD (local follow-up to the PBS special)
9:30 Book Beat
10 PM Washington Week In Review
10:30 Hollis Summers (poetry)

 

[Mike Stroud]

WKRC Ch. 12 Cincinnati (ABC)

NOTE: If Ted Turner hadn't been stopped from posting his "The
NBC Television Network moves to Channel 17" billboards in Atlanta,
Ch. 12 could have done the same thing in Cincinnati. See why below:

6:30 Education Now
6:55 Prof. Kitzel
7 AM Munsters
7:30 Kaleidoscope
7:55 Carol Duvall (decorating)
8 AM Concentration (pre-empted on Ch. 5)
8:30 Sale Of The Century (pre-empted on Ch. 5)
9 AM Jeopardy! (pre-empted on Ch. 5)
9:30 Who, What Or Where (pre-empted on Ch. 5)
9:55 News
10 AM Dinah's Place (pre-empted on Ch. 5)
10:30 One Life To Live (at last, an ABC program, delay
from 3:30)
11 AM Somerset (pre-empted on Ch. 5)

bp, you may remember that last year, I posted the statewide listings from the Louisville Courier-Journal on August 9, 1974, the day of Richard Nixon's resignation from the Presidency. That was a mere two years after this listing, and WKRC was still running a block of WLWT NBC pre-emptions between 8 and 10 a.m. or so. Of course, all those Peacock shows were displaced by the Crosley/AVCO warhorses Paul Dixon and 50-50 Club (Bob Braun), both hour-and-a-half extravaganzas.

I think the matter resolved itself around New Year 1975 due to two factors: the first was the untimely death of Dixon shortly after Christmas, which meant the eventual cancellation of that long-running show, but also ABC's launch of, first, A.M. America, to be succeeded by the present-day Good Morning America later in the year. I do not know for certain, but I would imagine that WKRC probably cleared at least an hour of it, meaning that the NBC slots would no longer be available, at least not in the abundance as in the early 1970s (and perhaps going back to the mid-1960s or so). However, sister Taft station WBRC in Birmingham did not clear GMA for years, preferring its own established local show, so it may not be straightforward as that.

In any case, Cincy had an indie, WXIX. Why in the dickens didn't channel 19 just sign on earlier to run the NBC lineup pre-empted by WLWT? I'm sure that situation was quite embarrassing for execs at 30 Rock, in that one of the then largest markets in the country did not clear up to half of the daytime feed. NBC was pretty much stuck, though, since WKRC and parent Taft had such a close relationship with the Alphabet Channel, and WCPO and Scripps-Howard were likewise cozy with the Eyeball. To be on UHF in a place like Cincinnati (WXIX) would have been unthinkable for NBC, or the other networks, back in the day.

Although we can't determine it from the Kentucky listings, wonder if the competitors to the other Crosley/AVCO outlets also picked up the slack (WLWD in Dayton, WLWC in Columbus, and WLWI in Indianapolis--the latter an ABC affil)? If not, WKRC must have really been money-hungry in the 70s. One wonders what ABC thought about this set-up too (I would suspect not very pleased, but tolerating it because of the Tafts).

 

[gregg75]

I sure miss all the network morning and early afternoon game shows. Looks like there were about 12 at that time. Today it's down to The Price Is Right and Let's Make A Deal. WHAT HAPPENED?

I'd rather see a lot of those game show than the silly talk/info shows the networks are pushing today. "Coming up next, how to get the most out of your dishwasher, stay tuned."

 

[bpatrick]

WKRC Ch. 12 Cincinnati (ABC)

NOTE: If Ted Turner hadn't been stopped from posting his "The
NBC Television Network moves to Channel 17" billboards in Atlanta,
Ch. 12 could have done the same thing in Cincinnati. See why below:

6:30 Education Now
6:55 Prof. Kitzel
7 AM Munsters
7:30 Kaleidoscope
7:55 Carol Duvall (decorating)
8 AM Concentration (pre-empted on Ch. 5)
8:30 Sale Of The Century (pre-empted on Ch. 5)
9 AM Jeopardy! (pre-empted on Ch. 5)
9:30 Who, What Or Where (pre-empted on Ch. 5)
9:55 News
10 AM Dinah's Place (pre-empted on Ch. 5)
10:30 One Life To Live (at last, an ABC program, delay
from 3:30)
11 AM Somerset (pre-empted on Ch. 5)

bp, you may remember that last year, I posted the statewide listings from the Louisville Courier-Journal on August 9, 1974, the day of Richard Nixon's resignation from the Presidency. That was a mere two years after this listing, and WKRC was still running a block of WLWT NBC pre-emptions between 8 and 10 a.m. or so. Of course, all those Peacock shows were displaced by the Crosley/AVCO warhorses Paul Dixon and 50-50 Club (Bob Braun), both hour-and-a-half extravaganzas.

I think the matter resolved itself around New Year 1975 due to two factors: the first was the untimely death of Dixon shortly after Christmas, which meant the eventual cancellation of that long-running show, but also ABC's launch of, first, A.M. America, to be succeeded by the present-day Good Morning America later in the year. I do not know for certain, but I would imagine that WKRC probably cleared at least an hour of it, meaning that the NBC slots would no longer be available, at least not in the abundance as in the early 1970s (and perhaps going back to the mid-1960s or so). However, sister Taft station WBRC in Birmingham did not clear GMA for years, preferring its own established local show, so it may not be straightforward as that.

In any case, Cincy had an indie, WXIX. Why in the dickens didn't channel 19 just sign on earlier to run the NBC lineup pre-empted by WLWT? I'm sure that situation was quite embarrassing for execs at 30 Rock, in that one of the then largest markets in the country did not clear up to half of the daytime feed. NBC was pretty much stuck, though, since WKRC and parent Taft had such a close relationship with the Alphabet Channel, and WCPO and Scripps-Howard were likewise cozy with the Eyeball. To be on UHF in a place like Cincinnati (WXIX) would have been unthinkable for NBC, or the other networks, back in the day.

Although we can't determine it from the Kentucky listings, wonder if the competitors to the other Crosley/AVCO outlets also picked up the slack (WLWD in Dayton, WLWC in Columbus, and WLWI in Indianapolis--the latter an ABC affil)? If not, WKRC must have really been money-hungry in the 70s. One wonders what ABC thought about this set-up too (I would suspect not very pleased, but tolerating it because of the Tafts).

I do remember your posting the complete Courier-Journal listings, but that didn't enter my thinking when I put up that disclaimer; also, remember that not everybody reads every thread. Nevertheless, Cincinnati was a peculiar market in those days, and it wasn't just WLWT; look at WCPO's playing fast and loose with CBS's daytime schedule (why was "Love Of Life" never carried on WCPO, and why did they flip flop "Secret Storm" and "LIAMST" except that "Storm" had been on the network at 3 from 1968 to September 1972?) As for the Taft stations, WBRC ran CBS daytime shows as late as 1968 ("Love Of Life" and "Secret Storm" in particular), even though it was an ABC affiliate; by the time I moved to Birmingham in the summer of '69, WBRC was carrying only ABC programs, although out-of-pattern in a lot of cases.

Perhaps someone can find TV Guide listings for Dayton and Columbus for this same date and we can all find out if WLWD (WDTN) and WLWC (WCMH) handed off NBC shows to the other stations in their markets.

I'm also surprised that nobody has noted that WHAS cleared the entire CBS schedule that day, and in-pattern (I know, somebody's going to say "Sunrise Semester" actually aired at 1 PM but I don't recall any station carrying it at that time; it was always considered an early-morning program, so as far as I'm concerned WHAS carried it in pattern).

 

[RALfan]

WAVE Ch. 3 Louisville (NBC)

3 PM Baseball Playoff: Pirates-Reds (Game 3)

WLWT Ch. 5 Cincinnati (NBC)

3 PM Baseball Play-Off (see Ch. 3)

What were the normal schedule for both of these affiliates? Also, can you list the prime access programs for the Cincinnati stations?

 

[Rollo-Smokes]

Piggybacking on an above post:

Seeing as 1) the Reds were playing in the NLCS that year, and 2) MLB did allow local duplication of postseason games in the home market, did viewers in Cincinnati get the local coverage originated by WLWT, or did they see NBC's national feed?

Louisville and Lexington (then and now) are also part of the Reds' territory, so I wonder if it the same for them as well?

 

[Mike Stroud]

WAVE Ch. 3 Louisville (NBC)

3 PM Baseball Playoff: Pirates-Reds (Game 3)

WLWT Ch. 5 Cincinnati (NBC)

3 PM Baseball Play-Off (see Ch. 3)

What were the normal schedule for both of these affiliates? Also, can you list the prime access programs for the Cincinnati stations?

From 3 to 4:30 ET, NBC's lineup was as follows:

3:00 Another World (then only 30 minutes; expanded to an hour in January 1975)
3:30 Return to Peyton Place (ill-fated and conceived revival of 1960s prime-time sensation)
4:00 Somerset (AW spinoff that ran from 1970 to 1976; as noted earlier, WLWT passed on it and it ran on ABC affil WKRC on a one-day delay)

After 4:30 on WAVE and WLWT is afternoon fringe--in all likelihood, sitcom or drama reruns occupied most of the hour and a half on both stations until the evening news. Local kiddie shows had pretty much signed off by 1972. bpatrick should have full details on the 4:30-6:00 block.

 

[bpatrick]

First, I'm quite sure Chs. 3, 5, and 18 carried NBC's coverage
of the World Series. The normal 3-6 PM lineups:

WAVE 3 PM Another World
3:30 Return To Peyton Place
4 PM Movie
5:30 I Dream Of Jeannie

WLWT 3 PM Another World
3:30 Return To Peyton Place
4 PM Mike Douglas
5 PM Ponderosa (Bonanza)

WLEX 3 PM Another World
3:30 Return To Peyton Place
4 PM Somerset
4:30 Ponderosa
5:30 News (one hour)

Cincinnati access time:

WLWT 7 PM Beat The Clock (Mon-Fri)
UFO (to 8, Sat)
This Is Your Life (Sun)
7:30 Hollywood Squares (Mon)
Circus! (Tue)
Adam-12 (one-week delay, Wed)
Mouse Factory (Thu)
Young Dr. Kildare (Fri)
Sun 10:30 The Protectors

WCPO 7 PM Truth Or Consequences (Mon-Sat)
Impact (local, Sun)
7:30 Doctor In The House (Mon)
Parent Game (Tue)
Amazing World Of Kreskin (Wed)
Let's Make A Deal (Thu)
What Would You Say? (game show, appears to
be local, Fri)
Price Is Right (Sat)
Sun 10:30 Half The George Kirby Comedy Hour

WKRC 7 PM The Rookies (one-week delay, to 8, Mon)
Brady Bunch (Tue, delay from Fri)
Festival Of Family Classics (animated, to 8, Wed)
Wild Kingdom (Thu)
Movie (to 8:30, Fri)
Hee Haw (to 8, Sat)
Untamed World (Sun)

7:30 Wait Till Your Father Gets Home (Tue)
Safari To Adventure (Thu)
News (local, Sun)

 

[Cincinnati Kid]

Seeing as 1) the Reds were playing in the NLCS that year, and 2) MLB did allow local duplication of postseason games in the home market, did viewers in Cincinnati get the local coverage originated by WLWT, or did they see NBC's national feed?

Louisville and Lexington (then and now) are also part of the Reds' territory, so I wonder if it the same for them as well?

I can speak from experience as far as what viewers in Cincinnati received. They got the NBC-TV national feed with Curt Gowdy. Normally, the local station (Channel 5) would have had their local announcers, but at this time, there was some kind of problem involving the engineers at WLW-T. I don't think it was necessarily a strike, but as a result, Channel 5 wound up taking the network feed.

As to my knowledge back then, the the other stations on what would be the Reds TV Network during the regular season got the NBC-TV feed (so long as they were an NBC-TV affiliate) and only those watrching on WLW-T got the home announcers.

An interesting sidelight to this involved the second game of that best-of-five NLCS played the day before in Pittsburgh. Because of NBC-TV doing NFL games that day (Sunday), the network did not do that game. It wound up locally that WCPO-TV, Channel 9, originated the telecast with Tom Hedrick, Waite Hoyt and Jack Moran doing the announcing. Hedrick and Hoyt had done the TV announcing that season for the Reds TV Network and Moran was a part of that game because of him being with Channel 9. It marked the first work Hoyt and Moran worked together since being the announcers on the Reds radio games from 1955-1961.

 

[Tim L]

I can speak from experience as far as what viewers in Cincinnati received. They got the NBC-TV national feed with Curt Gowdy. Normally, the local station (Channel 5) would have had their local announcers, but at this time, there was some kind of problem involving the engineers at WLW-T. I don't think it was necessarily a strike, but as a result, Channel 5 wound up taking the network feed.

I looked up an article from the Dover (Ohio) Times-Reporter from that particular week..Didnt read the whole thing, but it appears there was a NABET strike/work stoppage involving the Avco stations at this time. The NBC Network engineers apparently didnt honor the picket line..

I got the following info from newspaperarchive.com..If your local library subscribes to it, you might be able to get online access free from home..Mostly small newspapers, but its a decent resource worth checking out..

 

[Charles1]

Lee Corso was the head football coach at Louisville from 1969-72, so this would have been the U of L highlights show. He posted a 28-11-3 record in his four seasons there. After the season, he moved to Indiana, where he served as head coach of the Hoosiers for the next ten seasons.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Corso

 

[RALfan]

Cincinnati access time:

WLWT 7:30 Adam-12 (one-week delay, Wed)

So what aired at 8 on Wednesday?

 

[bpatrick]

WLWT carried its own movie on Wednesday 8-10,
while NBC had "Adam-12" and the "NBC Wednesday
Mystery Movie." IIRC, WKRC picked up the "Mystery
Movie" and aired in late night on Saturday. The
"Mystery Movie" (Wednesday) segments that year
were "Banacek," "Cool Million," and "Madigan"; on
Sundays, "Columbo," "McCloud," "McMillan And Wife,"
and "Hec Ramsey."