Retro: Kentucky Sat., July 7, 1973

[bpatrick]

From TV Guide, Kentucky Edition:

WAVE Ch. 3 Louisville (NBC)

6:30 Farm Report
7 AM Houndcats (delay from 8 AM)
7:30 Movie: "Fluffy" (Tony Randall and a domesticated lion, from '65)
9 AM Jetsons
9:30 Pink Panther
10 AM Underdog
10:30 The Barkleys
11 AM Sealab 2020
11:30 Runaround
12 N Around The World In 80 Days
12:30 Wimbledon: Men's singles final (taped)
2 PM Baseball Pre-Game Show
2:15 Baseball: Yankees-Twins or Red Sox-White Sox
5 PM Wimbledon: Women's singles final and men's doubles (time approximate, taped)
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News (Garrick Utley)
7 PM To Tell The Truth (Kitty Carlisle, Peggy Cass, Bill Cullen, Gene Rayburn)
7:30 The Adventurer (Gene Barry in international intrigue)
8 PM Emergency!
9 PM NBC Movie: "The Honey Pot"
11:30 News
12 M Movie: "The Intruders"

WLWT Ch. 5 Cincinnati (NBC)

7:30 Farm Front
8 AM Houndcats
8:30 Roman Holidays
9 AM Jetsons
9:30 Pink Panther
10 AM Underdog
10:30 The Barkleys
11 AM Sealab 2020
11:30 Runaround
12 N Around The World In 80 Days
12:30 Wimbledon: Men's singles final (taped)
2 PM Baseball Pre-Game Show
2:15 Baseball: Yankees-Twins or Red Sox-White Sox
5 PM Wimbledon: Women's singles final and men's doubles (taped, time approximate)
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM UFO
8 PM Emergency!
9 PM NBC Movie: "The Honey Pot"
11:30 News
12 M Movie: "Help!"
2 AM Star Trek
3 AM Girl From U.N.C.L.E.
4 AM Star Trek
5 AM Girl From U.N.C.L.E.

WCPO Ch. 9 Cincinnati (CBS)

5:50 Farm News
6 AM Summer Semester: "Practical English For Hispanic Americans"
6:30 Call The Doctor (rerun from Sun 11 AM)
7:30 Bugs Bunny (delay from 8 AM)
8 AM Play It Safe
8:30 Sabrina, The Teenage Witch
9 AM Amazing Chan And The Chan Clan
9:30 New Scooby Doo Movies: "The Frickert Fracas" with an animated Jonathan Winters as himself and Maude Frickert
10:30 Josie And The Pussycats In Outer Space
11 AM Flintstones Comedy Hour
12 N Archie's TV Funnies
12:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
1 PM CBS Children's Film Festival: "The Little Ones" ('65, from England)
2 PM Vision On
2:30 Movie: "Conspirator" (Elizabeth Taylor's first movie as an adult, from '49)
4 PM Daktari
5 PM Suspense Theatre
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News (Roger Mudd)
7 PM National Geographic (a portrait of Australia, focusing on the Aussie's love of sports and life in the outback)
8 PM All In The Family
8:30 Bridget Loves Bernie
9 PM Mary Tyler Moore
9:30 Bob Newhart
10 PM Mission: Impossible
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "By The Light Of The Silvery Moon"

WHAS Ch. 11 Louisville (CBS)

7 AM Summer Semester
7:30 Cartoon Circus
8 AM Bugs Bunny
8:30 Sabrina, The Teenage Witch
9 AM Amazing Chan And The Chan Clan
9:30 New Scooby Doo Movies
10:30 Josie And The Pussycats In Outer Space
11 AM Flintstones Comedy Hour
12 N Archie's TV Funnies
12:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
1 PM CBS Children's Film Festival
2 PM Movie: "Gay Purr-ee"
3:30 Movie: "20 Mule Team" (no, this is not an episode of "Death Valley Days," sponsored by 20-Mule-Team Borax, but it does take place in Death Valley)
5 PM UFO
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Hee Haw (Tennessee Ernie Ford, Sammi Smith, Charlie McCoy)
8 PM All In The Family
8:30 Bridget Loves Bernie
9 PM Mary Tyler Moore
9:30 Bob Newhart
10 PM Mission: Impossible
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Dead Ringer"

WKRC Ch. 12 Cincinnati (ABC)

7 AM Curiosity Shop (the subject is emotions: the Committee creates a symphony from sounds connected with fear, sadness, joy, and love; a sequence on frustration centers on squeezing into a phone booth with a balloon, delay from Sun 10 AM)
8 AM H.R. Pufnstuf
8:30 Jackson Five
9 AM The Osmonds
9:30 ABC Saturday Superstar Movie: "Nanny And The Professor" returns as an animated spy story as the boys get possession of a secret microdot.
10:30 Brady Kids
11 AM Skipper Ryle's Pinbusters
12 N Movie: "Nine Hours To Rama"
2 PM Wrestling
3 PM NFL Action '73 (Jim Brown narrates "Year Of The Runner": O.J. Simpson, Larry Brown, Franco Harris)
3:30 Soul Train (Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, Chuck Jackson, the Jackson Sisters)
4:30 Superstars Of Rock (Tower of Power, Olivia Newton-John, Delbert and Glen, Steve Goodman)
5 PM Wide World Of Sports (the Schaefer 500 USAC race from Pocono International Raceway; U.S.-Russian wrestling meet)
6:30 Hogan's Heroes
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM Partridge Family
8:30 Paul Lynde Show
9 PM Burns And Schreiber Comedy Hour (Ruth Buzzi, singer Maxine Weldon)
10 PM The Vernons Sing A New Song (gospel-singing family and guests Pat Boone, Dan Issel, and the Rev. Ard Hoven)
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "The Adventures Of Tartu"
1:30 In Concert (Buddy Miles, Rare Earth, Deep Purple, Rory Gallagher, delay from Fri 11:30 PM)

WKPC Ch. 15 Louisville (PBS)

7:30 Sesame Street
8:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9 AM Sesame Street
10 AM Electric Company
10:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
11 AM Sesame Street
12 N Electric Company
12:30 Sesame Street
1:30 Electric Company
2 PM Zoom
2:30 Electric Company
3 PM Fashion Focus
3:30 America, Be Fit
3:45 Living Better
4 PM Lilias, Yoga And You
4:30 Book Beat
5 PM Harambee
5:30 Between The Lines
6 PM Garden Show
6:30 Who Is Man?
7 PM Firing Line
8 PM The Session (folk-rock singer Don Crawford)
8:30 Playhouse New York Biography (Stacy and James Keach as the Wright Brothers)
10 PM Portrait Of The Hero As A Young Man (George Washington leads a hastily-recruited Virginia regiment against numerically superior French forces in 1754.)
11:30 Cinema Showcase
sign off 12 M

WLEX Ch. 18 Lexington (NBC)

7 AM Agriculture U.S.A.
7:30 Leisure (travelogue)
8 AM Houndcats
8:30 Roman Holidays
9 AM Jetsons
9:30 Pink Panther
10 AM Underdog
10:30 The Barkleys
11 AM Sealab 2020
11:30 Runaround
12 N Around The World In 80 Days
12:30 Wimbledon: Men's singles final (taped)
2 PM Baseball Pre-Game Show
2:15 Baseball: Yankees-Twins or Red Sox-White Sox
5 PM Wimbledon: Women's singles final, men's doubles (time approximate, taped)
6 PM Porter Wagoner
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Lawrence Welk (a salute to Canada)
8 PM Emergency!
9 PM NBC Movie: "The Honey Pot"
11:30 News
12 M Early Start (religious program)
12:10 Movie: "The Brigand Of Kandahar"

WXIX Ch. 19 Cincinnati (Ind.)

7:30 Bugs Bunny (different from the CBS show)
8 AM Popeye
8:30 Porky Pig
9 AM Rocky And His Friends
9:30 Jonny Quest
10 AM Daniel Boone
11 AM Rifleman
11:30 Movie: "The Chinese Cat" (Charlie Chan)
1 PM Movie: "Masterson Of Kansas" (George Montgomery, not Gene Barry, as Bat Masterson, from '54)
2:30 Rifleman
3 PM Wrestling
4 PM Roller Derby
5 PM Dennis The Menace
5:30 Andy Griffith
6 PM I Love Lucy
6:30 Courtship Of Eddie's Father (guest: Apollo 13 astronaut L. Gordon Cooper)
7 PM Gomer Pyle, USMC
7:30 Gilligan's Island
8 PM Boris Karloff Presents Thriller
9 PM Movie: "The Mad Magician"
11 PM Twilight Zone
11:30 Roller Games

WKYT Ch. 27 Lexington (CBS)

7:30 Sabrina, The Teenage Witch (delay from 8:30 AM)
8 AM Bugs Bunny
8:30 Death Valley Days
9 AM Amazing Chan And The Chan Clan
9:30 New Scooby Doo Movies
10:30 Josie And The Pussycats In Outer Space
11 AM Flintstones Comedy Hour
12 N Archie's TV Funnies
12:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
1 PM CBS Children's Film Festival
2 PM Bill Anderson
2:30 Tobacco Talk
3 PM Wrestling
4 PM Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea
5 PM The Waltons (delay from Thu 8 PM)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM All In The Family
8:30 Bridget Loves Bernie
9 PM Mary Tyler Moore
9:30 Bob Newhart
10 PM Mission: Impossible
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Man-Made Monster"

WLKY Ch. 32 Louisville (ABC)

7 AM Curiosity Shop (same show as Ch. 12)
8 AM H.R. Pufnstuf
8:30 Jackson Five
9 AM The Osmonds
9:30 ABC Saturday Superstar Movie
10:30 Brady Kids
11 AM Bewitched
11:30 Wrestling
12:30 Lidsville
1 PM Action '73 (Vicki Lawrence, Foster Sylvers, Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods)
2 PM Kid Power (delay from 11:30 AM)
2:30 Funky Phantom (delay from 12 N)
3 PM Movie: "Gold Raiders" (the Three Stooges appear in an otherwise-straight Western from '52)
4 PM Boxing: Sammy Goss vs. Jose Fernandez, junior lightweights, 12 rounds, from Madison Square Garden
5 PM Wide World Of Sports
6:30 Reasoner Report
7 PM Thrillseekers
7:30 This Is Your Life (Dana Andrews is surprised by his wife Mary Todd (yes) Andrews, John Gavin, and John Volpe)
8 PM Partridge Family
8:30 Paul Lynde Show
9 PM Burns And Schreiber Comedy Hour
10 PM Jigsaw
11 PM Twilight Zone
11:30 Movie: "The Unearthly Stranger"
1:10 ABC News (Sam Donaldson)
1:25 Movie: "Robbery Roman Style"

WDRB Ch. 41 Louisville (Ind.)

10 AM New Shapes: Education
10:30 Rap
11 AM Cartoons
11:30 Wally's Workshop (wallpapering with a minimum of fuss)
12 N Sports Action Pro-File (Montreal Expos manager Gene Mauch)
12:30 Movie: "The Wagons Roll At Night" (circus wagons in this case, with Humphrey Bogart, from '41)
2 PM Wrestling
3 PM Roller Derby
4 PM Trip (Curtis Mayfield is interviewed in this program about the drug problem in Louisville.)
4:30 Lost In Space
5:30 Flipside (Roberta Flack, jazz flutist Yusef Lateff, and Atlantic Records vice president Joel Dorn show how a record is made.)
6 PM Soul Train
7 PM Movie: "Phantom From Space"
8:30 Movie: "Invasion Of The Animal People"
10 PM Boris Karloff Presents Thriller
11 PM Wrestling
12 M Movie: "Bundle Of Joy" (Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher were married, IIRC, when they made this one in '56.)

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

8 AM H.R. Pufnstuf
8:30 Jackson Five
9 AM The Osmonds
9:30 ABC Saturday Superstar Movie
10:30 Brady Kids
11 AM Bewitched
11:30 Kid Power
12 N Funky Phantom
12:30 Lidsville
1 PM Action '73
2 PM Movie: "Men In Her Life"
3 PM Championship Wrestling
4 PM Boxing (see Ch. 32)
5 PM Wide World Of Sports
6:30 Lee Trevino's Golf For Swingers (guests: Willie Shoemaker and McLean Stevenson)
7 PM UFO
8 PM Partridge Family
8:30 Paul Lynde Show
9 PM Burns And Schreiber Comedy Hour
10 PM Jigsaw
11 PM ABC News
11:15 News
11:30 Movie: "The Bride Came C.O.D."

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) (PBS)
off air on Saturday

 

[skipeastport]

How odd that WKYT delayed The Waltons to Saturdays at 5pm. Anyone know if this was a one-off or their usual schedule?

 

[anabate123]

Hey bpatrick, when are you going to post

Retro: Bristol/Kingsport/Johnson City Mon., July 5, 1999?

 

[bpatrick]

How odd that WKYT delayed The Waltons to Saturdays at 5pm. Anyone know if this was a one-off or their usual schedule?

At the time WKYT carried a movie at 7 PM Thursdays, making a double feature with the CBS movie at 9. Also remember that "The Waltons" struggled through its first (1972-73) season, not cracking the top 20 until summer 1973; Flip Wilson still dominated the Thursday 8-9 slot in the 1972-73 season. I suspect that once John-Boy and company began moving up ("The Waltons" finished second behind "All In The Family" in the 1973-74 season, resulting in Flip's cancellation in 1974), WKYT began airing "The Waltons" in pattern. But in the summer of 1973 Saturdays at 5 was the regular timeslot for "The Waltons" in Lexington.

 

[gregg75]

42 Louisville, I guess that was their first Independent station. What year did it debut? I doubt it is Independent today. Does Louisville have any Independent(s) in 2014?

 

[SteveRichards]

At the time WKYT carried a movie at 7 PM Thursdays, making a double feature with the CBS movie at 9. Also remember that "The Waltons" struggled through its first (1972-73) season, not cracking the top 20 until summer 1973; Flip Wilson still dominated the Thursday 8-9 slot in the 1972-73 season. I suspect that once John-Boy and company began moving up ("The Waltons" finished second behind "All In The Family" in the 1973-74 season, resulting in Flip's cancellation in 1974), WKYT began airing "The Waltons" in pattern. But in the summer of 1973 Saturdays at 5 was the regular timeslot for "The Waltons" in Lexington.

Fred Silverman, who was the head of programming at CBS at the time, said in his Archive of American Television interview that when "The Waltons" was announced as a series, many affiliate managers thought CBS was nuts for putting a show like "The Waltons" up against Flip Wilson. Silverman stated that CBS had a tough time maintaining its clearances for "The Waltons," as many affiliates wanted to preempt it. Silverman didn't say how many CBS affiliates initially delayed or outright preempted "The Waltons," but WKYT was obviously one of them.

Silverman also stated that CBS' philosophy in regard to "The Waltons" vs. Flip Wilson scenario was that if CBS was going to get killed in the time slot, at least CBS would die with dignity.

 

[bpatrick]

42 Louisville, I guess that was their first Independent station. What year did it debut? I doubt it is Independent today. Does Louisville have any Independent(s) in 2014?

It's Channel 41 and I think it went on the air around 1970 or '71. It's Louisville's Fox affiliate today. I don't think there are any independents; Channel 21 is ION, Channel 34 is (I believe) the CW, and Channel 58 is with MyNetwork (somebody correct me on these). And as you probably know, Channel 11 is the ABC affiliate; Channel 32, CBS, a switch that was made in 1990.

 

[bpatrick]

No one will ever know for sure, but one thing that possibly helped was a print campaign in the major newsmagazines, the New York Times, and the Washington Post in late 1972 (I remember seeing this ad in Time in December of that year) on the part of CBS titled "Save The Waltons," urging people to give the show a try. Whatever effect the ad had, the ratings began to build in the "second season," and the show cracked the top 20 in the summer of 1973.

The biggest loser, lest we forget, was "Mod Squad" on ABC. In 1971 the FCC had granted ABC a waiver of the access rule to keep it on Tuesdays at 7:30/6:30, but that waiver was not renewed for fall 1972 and "Mod Squad" was moved to Thursdays at 8/7. It was probably hopelessly dated by that time anyway, but the show was canceled at the end of the 1972-73 season. I remember the ABC affiliate in Tampa/St. Petersburg pre-empted it for movies from 7 to 9 on Thursdays.

 

[skipeastport]

At the time WKYT carried a movie at 7 PM Thursdays, making a double feature with the CBS movie at 9. Also remember that "The Waltons" struggled through its first (1972-73) season, not cracking the top 20 until summer 1973; Flip Wilson still dominated the Thursday 8-9 slot in the 1972-73 season. I suspect that once John-Boy and company began moving up ("The Waltons" finished second behind "All In The Family" in the 1973-74 season, resulting in Flip's cancellation in 1974), WKYT began airing "The Waltons" in pattern. But in the summer of 1973 Saturdays at 5 was the regular timeslot for "The Waltons" in Lexington.

Thanks for the info bpatrick. I love your posts.

I know The Waltons wasn't an out of the box hit, but I guess I'm surprised that Lexington would be the one to preempt it. Wouldn't have raised my eyebrow in a large, urban market. I thought it probably performed much better in the smaller, more rural markets, and it seems like the type of series that would appeal to Kentuckians. As a Southerner, I guess I'm exposing my prejudice. I'd love to know what kind of ratings it got on Saturday afternoons.

And although it wasn't a top 20 series for its first season, it performed much better than CBS anticipated. Somewhere I have an article reporting that CBS hoped it would at least get 10% of the audience, and it averaged 15-20% from the beginning. There was also a spike in the ratings during November 1972 where it landed in the top 30 for one week, and that prompted CBS to give it a full season order.

I find it hilarious that CBS went through its rural purge only a season before, and its next great hit would be another rural show.

 

[Unregistered]

42 Louisville, I guess that was their first Independent station. What year did it debut? I doubt it is Independent today. Does Louisville have any Independent(s) in 2014?

That's WDRB, Ch. 41, which is now the Fox station in Louisville.

 

[bpatrick]

I don't think there's any question that "The Waltons" had a strong appeal in Kentucky and the rest of the South; I remember that WGHP, then the ABC affiliate for Greensboro/Winston-Salem/High Point, would delay "Welcome Back, Kotter" so as not to go againt the Walton clan on WFMY. And WBTV Charlotte and WSPA Greenville/Spartanburg/Asheville would delay the show a week and air it at 7:30 so as to get a half-hour's head start on ABC and NBC and thus secure the night (they used 8:30 as their access time on Thursday night).

It does sound strange that CBS had just gone through the "rural purge" and yet put this rural-appeal show on, but Fred Silverman insisted it be made into a series after he saw "The Homecoming," the 1971 Christmastime made-for-TV movie that introduced the Walton clan. He did, however, see the focus being on John-Boy, and only Richard Thomas and Ellen Corby, of the main actors, were carried over to the series (Andrew Duggan was replaced by Ralph Waite as John Walton, Patricia Neal by Michael Learned as Olivia, and Edgar Bergen by Will Geer as Grandpa), which eliminated the need for some high-priced actors.

The CBS 1972-73 season was one of those that programmers kill for; four of its new shows (besides "The Waltons," there were "M*A*S*H," "Maude," and "The Bob Newhart Show") became long-running hits ("Barnaby Jones" debuted in January 1973 and also had a long run); "Bridget Loves Bernie" made the top 10 but was canceled for a couple of reasons: (1) some negative reaction to a Jewish-Catholic marriage, and perhaps more importantly, (2) a mass tuneout Saturdays at 8:30; "All In The Family" at 8 was attracting about 50 million viewers, Mary Tyler Moore at 9 had about 40 million, but "Bridget Loves Bernie" had about 30 million. A new show in the hammock (between two established hits) should not squander 40% of its lead-in's audience. The next year "M*A*S*H" was in the 8:30 slot but the dropoff was not as drastic:

1972-73: All In The Family 33.3 rating average for the year
Bridget Loves Bernie 24.2

1973-74: All In The Family 31.2
M*A*S*H 25.7

And as we know, "M*A*S*H" never looked back from then until it ended in 1983.

Source: Brooks and Marsh, "The Encyclopedia of Prime Time Television"

And even better for CBS, it had nine of the top 10 shows in 1973-74; "Sanford And Son" on NBC being the exception; Jim Aubrey had pulled off the same thing ten years earlier, with "Bonanza" (NBC) being the only non-CBS show in the top 10 (this was before his scheduling of three flops produced by his buddy Keefe Brasselle).

 

[bpatrick]

I should add my guess that WKYT, in putting together its 1972-73 schedule, was aware of Flip's dominance of the Thursday 8-9 slot; also, CBS had had no luck in that timeslot the previous year, losing first with "Bearcats!", then with "Me And The Chimp" and "My Three Sons" (on its last legs anyway). To Channel 27 it must have been like all those ABC stations that pre-empted the first two hours on Friday nights in the late '60s (before the "Brady Bunch"/"Partridge Family" combo changed the network's fortunes on that night) in favor of movies.

Interestingly, the logic behind the scheduling of "The Waltons" against Flip (that it would appeal to an older, more rural audience) was duplicated to a point in 1978 when CBS put "The Paper Chase" against "Happy Days" and "Laverne & Shirley," only this time CBS was hoping for an older, better-educated, and more upscale audience. Not enough people seemed to care about a bunch of clever, occasionally-backstabbing law students nor their cultivated professor (I don't care, no one but John Houseman could play Kingsfield), yet "The White Shadow" plowed similar ground more successfully (again, I think viewers related to a high-school basketball team and Ken Howard seemed more like a regular guy than Houseman).

 

[skipeastport]

The 1972-73 season will always hold a special place in my heart as that is the first TV season I recall very clearly, and was no doubt the impetus for my lifelong interest in television broadcasting. Recently I discussed with a friend the fact that I literally grew up with MASH. It debuI remember Bridget Loves Bernie quite well and all of the controversy surrounding it, though at the time, the religious conflicts went over my head. To be a naive six year old with no prejudices again...

As for WKYT, I imagine it was also a matter revenue. By preempting The Waltons, running one of their movies, and selling local ad time, it was probably more profitable for the station than clearing a series everyone believed to be doomed.

I did some research last night, and the curious thing about The Waltons was the inconsistency of its ratings that first year. It debuted in 46th place. The following week it dipped to #58 of 62 primetime series. In November, it tied for 22nd place one week. After that, its Nielsen ratings vacillated wildly between a low 15 rating and a high of 19. The first time it beat The Flip Wilson Show was March 1, 1973. That week, The Waltons tied for 11th place in the weekly Nielsens, with Flip coming in at #14. Three weeks later on March 22, The Waltons beat Flip again. According to the article I read on Google News Archive, CBS renewed the series based on its successful March performances. From what I've read, the ratings became far more consistent during the summer reruns, where it finally ascended to a certified hit. Now I'm curious if those March episodes were first-run eps up against reruns of Flip...

 

[harrisburgpatv2]

That's how I feel about the 1979-1980 season. That's the first one I can vividly remember things, too, and I had turned 5 that October. Among the things I remember:

* "Happy Days" being replaced by "Laverne and Shirley" in the ABC daytime lineup (this happened in April of '79 but I vividly remember the "Happy Days" reruns too)
* "White Shadow" moving from Monday nights to Tuesday nights
* "Diff'rent Strokes" airing at 8pm Friday nights

Also, 1979 was also the year that arguably the biggest hits of the '70s finally hit syndication - "All in the Family", "M*A*S*H*", and "Happy Days" all got the 5-day-a-week strip. Equally fascinating to me was "Happy Days" getting "again" added to the title for syndication..

 

[radiorob2.0]

It's Channel 41 and I think it went on the air around 1970 or '71. It's Louisville's Fox affiliate today. I don't think there are any independents; Channel 21 is ION, Channel 34 is (I believe) the CW, and Channel 58 is with MyNetwork (somebody correct me on these). And as you probably know, Channel 11 is the ABC affiliate; Channel 32, CBS, a switch that was made in 1990.

WDRB signed on in 1971. The original owner had a choice of allocations in other cities but chose Louisville since WLKY paved the way for UHF viewership. Channel 21 signed on in the early fifties at WKLO-TV but ceased operations like many early UHF attempts. The current Channel 21 signed on in the early eighties. Channel 34 also signed on in the early eighteis serving southern Kentucky from Campbellsville. It became a Fox affiliate then moved the antenna as close to Louisvlle as possible to be the market's WB affiliate, now CW. Channel 58 appeared in the nineties.

 

[onairb]

By 1974, CBS knew M*A*S*H could succeed without needing Archie Bunker as a lead in, so they moved it to Tuesday...where it gained two ratings points, even though it was 'down' to 5th place after being fourth the year before.
However, CBS decided that something called "Paul Sand in 'Friends and Lovers' " deserved the post-AITF slot. In retrospect, we wonder, 'Who the heck was Paul Sand, and why did he deserve 'above the title' billing?' I have no idea if CBS thought sand was another 'up and coming star'..or if they were just holding the spot until 'The Jeffersons' was ready to go. Since the sand ran out of Paul's hourglass(oops, wrong network!) in January, the network probably had no long-term faith in the show, anyway.