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Retro: Kentucky Sun, Nov 23, 1958

from TV Guide-Kentucky edition

Louisville (ch 3/11) and Evansville (7/14/50) listed Central Time
Lexington (ch 18/27) and Cincinnati (5/9/12) listed Eastern Time


WAVE 3-NBC Lousiville
9:00 Master Work "Comedy and Literature" (produced by Indiana University)
9:30 Christian Science
9:45 Industry on Parade (showing the designing and manufacturing of safes and burglar alarms)
10:00 Christophers (Joe E. Brown with some of Ben Franklin's wise words)
10:30 This is the Answer
11:00 This is the Life "Decision"
11:30 France: Profile of a Nation
noon Big Picture
12:30 Eternal Life "Shall These Bones Live?" (Theodore Bikel shows how Hebrew, once considered dead, became a modern language)
1:00 Mr. Wizard
1:30 University Today
2:00 Questions of Faith
2:30 What's Ahead for Kentucky (KY Chamber of Commerce leaders discuss the Bluegrass State's prospects for the future)
3:00 Walt Disney "Ambush at Laredo"
4:00 Omnibus "The So-Called Human Race"
5:00 Steve Donovan
5:30 Danger is My Business (Marineland trainer David Brown shows off a handshaking octopus and a waltzing whale)
6:00 Lassie
6:30 Northwest Passage "The Long Rifle" (c)
7:00 Steve Allen (c/guests Claudette Colbert, Jackie Cooper, and Carol Hughes)
8:00 Dinah Shore (c/a Thanksgiving salute with hubby George Montgomery, Maurice Evans, and Gordan & Sheila MacRae)
9:00 Loretta Young "The Woman Between"
9:30 Flight "China Rescue"
10:00 Wyatt Earp "Truth About Gunfighting"
10:30 News/Weather
10:40 Movie "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hide"

WLWT 5-NBC Cincinnati
8:30 Church by the Road
9:00 Catholic Hour
9:30 How We Speak
10:00 UC Workshop
10:30 Cadle Tabernacle
11:00 Movie "Saddle Buster"
11:45 United Steelworkers Meeting
noon Starmaker Revue (c)
12:30 City Manager Reports (c)
12:45 Dateline UN
1:00 World Front
1:30 Bob Braun's Bandstand
3:00 Movie "Flight Command"
5:00 Omnibus "The So-Called Human Race"
6:00 Science Series "The Strange Case of the Cosmic Rays" (c/pre-empts Meet the Press and Chet Huntley Reporting)
7:00 Playhouse
7:30 Northwest Passage (c)
8:00 Steve Allen (c)
9:00 Dinah Shore (c)
10:00 Loretta Young "The Woman Between"
10:30 Decoy
11:00 News/Sports/Weather
11:15 Movie "The Galloping Major"

WTVW 7-ABC Evansville
11:00 Christophers
11:30 Cartoon Capers
noon Popeye
12:30 Decision 1958
12:45 Haven of Rest
1:00 Oral Roberts "Driftwood Set Afire"
1:30 TV Hour of Stars "The Velvet Cage"
2:30 All-Star Golf: Roberto DeVicenzo and Frank Stranahan square off in Boca Raton
3:30 Roller Derby: Hollywood Ravens-NY Chiefs (commentators Ken Nydell and Pat Dillon)
4:30 Bowling Stars: in Chicago, it's Esther Woods v June Kristoff
5:00 Paul Winchell (guests the Agostinos, and Lona and her dogs)
5:30 Lone Ranger "Lady Killer"
6:00 Rescue 8 "Find That Bomb"
6:30 Maverick "Shady Deal at Sunny Acres"
7:30 Lawman "The Badge"
8:00 Colt .45 "Rebellion"
8:30 Errol Flynn
9:00 Command Performance "The Turnabout"
9:30 Man Without a Gun "Reward"
10:00 News/Sports/Weather
10:15 TV Hour of Stars "Thank You, Jeeves"

WCPO 9-ABC Cincinnati (also listed as DuMont, but that net was pretty well out of business by then)
7:00 Rural America
7:30 Know Your World
8:00 Church in the Home
8:30 Faith for Today
9:00 Town Hall
9:30 This is the Life
10:00 We Believe
10:30 Sacred Heart
10:45 Do It Yourself
11:00 Walt's Workshop
11:30 For Home Buyers (9's weathergirl Paula Jane doubled as host of this show)
noon Movie "Fighting Fool"
1:00 School for Talent
1:30 Movie "Pennies from Heaven"
3:30 Movie "Poor Little Rich Girl"
5:00 Paul Winchell (same program as 5pm, ch 7)
5:30 Lone Ranger "Lady Killer"
6:00 Cisco Kid
6:30 Men of Annapolis
7:00 You Asked for It (Frank Dean, inventor of a device to record the speed of quick-draw gunmen, demonstrates with the help of cowboy Bob Jones; also German clown Hoppe shows off his performing pigs)
7:30 Maverick "Shady Deal at Sunny Acres"
8:30 Lawman "The Badge"
9:00 Colt .45 "Rebellion"
9:30 Man Without a Gun
10:00 News
10:15 Venita Kelly
10:30 Hollywood Half Hour
11:00 Movie "Music in My Heart"

WHAS 11-CBS Louisville
8:30 We Believe
9:00 Lamp Unto My Feet "Religion and the Social Order" (eighth of a series of 10th-anniversary programs)
9:30 Look Up & Live "The Creative Response" concludes in a remote featuring modern church music from St. Thomas Church in NYC
10:00 UN in Action
10:30 Camera Three "Seven Wonders of American Architecture"
10:55 CBS News
11:00 Lure of the Library
11:30 Face the Nation (from DC with Arizona GOP Sen. Barry Goldwater)
noon Let's Look It Over
12:30 Inside Football
12:45 Pro Football Kickoff
1:00 NFL: Pittsburgh-Chicago Cardinals (Joe Boland and Paul Christman call the action)
3:45 Learn to Draw
4:00 Case of Dr. Zhivago (Howard K. Smith narrates this special on the novel)
4:30 Dr. Hudson's Journal "The Trance Baby"
5:00 Small World
5:30 Twentieth Century "Peron and Evita"
6:00 Zorro "An Eye for an Eye"
6:30 Bachelor Father
7:00 Ed Sullivan (guests Kathryn Grayson, Herb Shriner, and the Beryozka Russian folk dance troupe)
8:00 GE Theater "A Turkey for the President" (Ronald Reagan and Nancy Davis, that week's cover subject, co-star with Ward Bond)
8:30 Whirlybirds "Time to Kill"
9:00 Keep Talking
9:30 What's My Line? (guest Victor Borge)
10:00 Sammy Kaye (regulars Hank Kanui, Larry O'Brien, Charles Roder, Johnny McAfee, and Joe Mack)
10:30 News/Weather
10:40 Movie: TBA

WKRC 12-CBS Cincinnati
8:30 Praise Hour
9:00 Christophers
9:30 Zero 1960 "They Came for Freedom"
10:00 Skipper Ryle
noon UC in the Home
12:30 Face the Nation
1:00 Championship Bowling
2:00 NFL: Philadelphia-Cleveland (commentary from Ken Coleman and Jim Dudley)
4:30 Touchdown Time
5:00 Prize Playhouse "In a Small Hotel"
5:30 Ted Mack's Amateur Hour (taking on last week's winner: Ernest Lessa (Lynn MA/novelty dancing), the Harmony Honeys (Soddy TN/vocal quartet), Paulette Aunkst (Watertown PA/baton twirler), Eloy Huerta (NYC/tenor), William Johnson (Williamsport PA/drummer), and Paula Franklin (Kew Gardens NY/pop vocalist))
6:00 Small World
6:30 Twentieth Century "Peron and Evita"
7:00 Lassie
7:30 Bachelor Father
8:00 Ed Sullivan
9:00 GE Theater "A Turkey for the President"
9:30 Alfred Hitchcock "Safety for the Witness"
10:00 Keep Talking
10:30 What's My Line?
11:00 News/Sports/Weather
11:15 Movie "Lloyds of London"
1:00 Mr. District Attorney

WFIE 14-NBC Evansville
noon This is the Life "Walls of Pride"
12:30 Eternal Life "Shall These Bones Live?"
1:00 Mr. Wizard
1:30 NBA: St. Louis Hawks-Cincinnati Royals (Curt Gowdy is courtside)
4:00 Omnibus "The So-Called Human Race"
5:00 Science Series "The Strange Case of the Cosmic Rays" (c)
6:00 Saber of London "Where There's a Will"
6:30 Northwest Passage "The Long Rifle" (c)
7:00 Steve Allen (c)
8:00 Dinah Shore (c)
9:00 Loretta Young "The Woman Between"
9:30 Frontier "Salt War"
10:00 Movie "Tampico"

WLEX 18-NBC/ABC Lexington
1:30pm Eternal Life "Shall These Bones Live?"
2:00 Mr. Wizard
2:30 NBA: St. Louis-Cincinnati
5:00 TBA
5:30 Christian Hour
6:00 Science Series "The Strange Case of the Cosmic Rays" (c)
7:00 Football with Collier
7:30 Northwest Passage "The Long Rifle" (c)
8:00 Steve Allen (c)
9:00 Dinah Shore (c)
10:00 Behind Closed Doors "Man in the Moon"
10:30 Uncommon Valor
11:00 News/Sports/Weather
11:20 Movie "The Postman Didn't Ring"

WKYT 27-CBS Lexington
11:45 Church in the Home
12:15 Christian Science
12:30 Face the Nation
1:00 Cartoon Corner
1:30 Pro Football Highlights
2:00 NFL: Philadelphia-Cleveland
4:45 Pro Football Roundup
5:00 This is the Answer
5:30 Ted Mack's Amateur Hour
6:00 Small World
6:30 Movie "The Impatient Years"
8:00 Mr. District Attorney
8:30 I Led Three Lives
9:00 Movie "Jezebel"
10:30 Man Without a Gun (running the 9:30 ET episode that 9 showed)
11:00 News/Sports/Weather
11:15 TBA

WEHT 50-CBS Evansville (moved to 25 in 1964 after Gilmore bought the station from Hilberg Packing)
8:45 Christian Science
9:00 Lamp Unto My Feet "Religion and the Social Order"
9:30 Look Up & Live "The Creative Response" (conclusion)
10:00 UN in Action
10:30 Camera Three "Seven Wonders of American Architecture"
10:55 CBS News
11:00 Playhouse
11:30 Face the Nation
noon Conrad Nagel
12:30 Travelogue 50
12:45 Pro Football Kickoff
1:00 NFL: Pittsburgh-Chicago Cardinals
3:30 Great Outdoors
4:00 Case of Dr. Zhivago
4:30 Ted Mack's Amateur Hour
5:00 Small World
5:30 Twentieth Century "Peron and Evita"
6:00 Lassie
6:30 Bachelor Father
7:00 Ed Sullivan
8:00 GE Theater "A Turkey for the President"
8:30 US Marshal "Arraignment"
9:00 Keep Talking
9:30 What's My Line?
10:00 News/Sports/Weather
10:15 Movie "Great Expectations"
 
WFPK-TV, Channel 15 (ETV) had started operations September 1, 1958, but didn't begin its very limited Sunday schedule until January of 1959. This was pre-NET, the predecesor of PBS, so most educational stations went dark weekends.

By the way, I see a Chicago Cardinals game on WEHT's listings. I know they played at old Comiskey Park until the NFL virtually ordered them out of Chicago to St. Louis in March, 1960 to block any AFL inroads into St. Loo. What radio station in Chicago was their flagship?
 
Both WAVE and WHAS in Louisville carried a few ABC programs, especially the westerns.
There'd been an ABC affiliate on Channel 21, WKLO, but it went dark in the mid-1950s.
WLKY, the ABC affiliate on Channel 32, signed on in September 1961. It's been rumored that both WAVE and WHAS had so much clout that they'd been preventing a third station from cutting into their revenue for years before WLKY finally debuted.
 
The King Bee said:
By the way, I see a Chicago Cardinals game on WEHT's listings. I know they played at old Comiskey Park until the NFL virtually ordered them out of Chicago to St. Louis in March, 1960 to block any AFL inroads into St. Loo. What radio station in Chicago was their flagship?

WCFL.

1958 was their last year at Comiskey. They played at Soldier Field in 1959, then moved to St. Louis.

Link: JJ's Radio Logs - Chicago Tribune, 11/23/1958 (PDF File)
 
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