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Retro: Kentucky Sunday, July 13, 1958

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bpatrick

From TV Guide, Kentucky Edition

Chs. 5, 9, 12, 18, 27 listed Eastern Time
Chs. 3, 7, 11, 14, 50 listed Central Time

WAVE Ch. 3 Louisville (NBC)

10 AM Are You Positive?
10:15 Christophers
10:45 Our Geologic History
11:15 This Is The Answer
11:45 This Is The Life
12:15 Big Picture
12:45 Industry On Parade
1 PM University Today (doesn't say if UK,
U of L, or IU)
1:30 Russia: Faces Of A Giant
2 PM Questions Of Faith
2:30 Summer Theater
3 PM Mr. Wizard
3:30 Youth Wants To Know
4 PM Frontiers Of Faith
4:30 America Presents America
5 PM Summer Youth Orchestra
5:30 Outlook (Chet Huntley)
6 PM Bold Journey
6:30 No Warning!
7 PM Steve Lawrence And Eydie Gorme
(PREMIERE/COLOR)
8 PM Chevy Show (COLOR)
9 PM Decision (replaces Loretta Young
for the summer)
9:30 Boots And Saddles
10 PM Wyatt Earp (ABC, delay from Tue 7:30 CT)
10:30 News And Weather
10:40 Movie: "Volcano"

WLW-T Ch. 5 Cincinnati (NBC)

8:30 Church By The Road
9 AM Through The Portals (I remember a show
called "Through The Porthole," and wonder
if it's the same.)
9:15 The Ten Commandments
9:30 Gardening
10 AM Drive Right
10:30 Cadle Tabernacle
11 AM Movie: "Sunset Serenade"
12 N Starmaker Revue (COLOR)
12:30 City Manager (COLOR)
12:45 United Steelworkers
1 PM Situation Wanted
1:30 Movie: "No Leave, No Love"
3:15 Dugout Dope
3:30 Baseball: Reds-Dodgers (the first
major-league game telecast from
the West Coast)
6 PM Baseball Scoreboard (time approximate)
6:15 All About Sports
6:30 Movie: TBA
7:30 No Warning!
8 PM Steve Lawrence And Eydie Gorme
(PREMIERE/COLOR)
9 PM Chevy Show (COLOR)
10 PM Decision
10:30 Harbor Command
11 PM News, Weather And Sports
11:15 Movie: "A Guy Named Joe"

WTVW Ch. 7 Evansville (ABC)

11:30 Christophers
12 N Popeye
12:30 Movie: "Six Gun Gold"
1:30 TBA
2 PM Quest For Adventure
2:30 Movie: "Hat, Coat And Glove"
4 PM Flash Gordon
4:30 College News Conference
5 PM Baseball Corner (a guest is Bobby
Thomson, whose homer won the
National League pennant for the
Giants in 1951)
5:30 Lone Ranger
6 PM Casey Jones
6:30 Maverick
7:30 Anybody Can Play (George Fenneman
hosted this show and proved he was
better as Groucho's straight man.)
8 PM Baseball Corner
8:30 Open Hearing
9 PM Mike Wallace Interviews
9:30 Movie: "They Met In Argentina"
sign off following the movie

WCPO Ch. 9 Cincinnati (ABC/still showing DuMont
in the listings)

7 AM Rural America
7:30 Know Your World
8 AM Church In The Home
8:30 Faith For Today
9 AM America's Religious Town Hall
9:30 This Is The Life
10 AM We Believe
10:30 Sacred Heart
10:45 Do It Yourself
11 AM Walt's Workshop (not to be confused
with Wally Bruner's '70s show "Wally's
Workshop")
11:30 Flash Gordon
12 N Movie: "Fighting Trooper"
12:30 Star And Story
1 PM School For Talent
1:30 Pool Party
4 PM Movie: "You'll Never Get Rich" (the
original title of Phil Silvers' "Sgt. Bilko,"
but this has no relation to that classic)
5 PM Baseball Corner
5:30 Lone Ranger
6 PM Cisco Kid
6:30 Men Of Annapolis
7 PM Sherlock Holmes
7:30 Maverick
8:30 Anybody Can Play
9 PM Baseball Corner
9:30 Hollywood Half Hour
10 PM Mike Wallace Interviews
10:30 Movies: "Tonight And Every Night"
and "A Desperate Chance For Ellery
Queen"

WHAS Ch. 11 Louisville (CBS)

9 AM Lamp Unto My Feet
9:30 Look Up And Live
10 AM The Way
10:30 Camera Three
10:55 CBS News (Harry Reasoner)
11 AM Eye On New York
11:30 Cartoon Circus
12:30 Bugs Bunny Theater
1 PM Compass
1:30 Lure Of The Library
2 PM Let's Look It Over
2:30 Western Movie (title not given)
3:30 Foreign Legionnaire
4 PM The Last Word
4:30 Face The Nation
5 PM The Search (topic: deafness in
children)
5:25 CBS News (Allan Jackson)
5:30 Air Power (Walter Cronkite narrates)
6 PM Zorro (delay from Thu 7 PM CT)
6:30 The Brothers (Gale Gordon and Bob
Sweeney)
7 PM Ed Sullivan
8 PM GE Theater
8:30 Whirlybirds
9 PM $64,000 Challenge
9:30 What's My Line?
10 PM Mr. Adams And Eve (delay from Tues
7 PM CT)
10:30 News And Weather
10:40 Western Film Feature

WKRC Ch. 12 Cincinnati (CBS)

8:30 Praise Hour
9 AM Christophers
9:30 My Little Margie
10 AM Skipper Ryle
12 N University Of Cincinnati In
The Home
12:30 Modern Science Theater
1 PM Championship Bowling
2 PM Movie: "99 River Street"
3:30 Movie: "Law Of The North"
4 PM Billy Graham
4:30 All Star Theater
5 PM The Last Word
5:30 Face The Nation
6 PM Search
6:25 CBS News
6:30 Air Power
7 PM Lassie
7:30 The Brothers
8 PM Ed Sullivan
9 PM GE Theater
9:30 Alfred Hitchcock Presents
10 PM $64,000 Challenge
10:30 What's My Line?
11 PM News, Weather And Sports
11:15 Movie: "The Diary Of A Chambermaid"

WFIE Ch. 14 Evansville (NBC)

1:30 Christophers
2 PM This Is The Life
2:30 Week-End Appointment
3 PM Mr. Wizard
3:30 Youth Wants To Know
4 PM Frontiers Of Faith
4:30 Comment
5 PM Meet The Press
5:30 Outlook
6 PM Noah's Ark (COLOR)
6:30 No Warning!
7 PM Steve Lawrence And Eydie Gorme
(PREMIERE/COLOR)
8 PM Chevy Show (COLOR)
9 PM Decision
9:30 O. Henry Playhouse
10 PM Movie: "A Lady Takes A Chance"
sign off after the movie

WLEX Ch. 18 Lexington (NBC/ABC)

2 PM TBA
3:30 Baseball: Reds-Dodgers
6 PM Meet The Press (time approximate)
6:30 Outlook
7 PM Noah's Ark (COLOR)
7:30 No Warning!
8 PM Steve Lawrence And Eydie Gorme
(PREMIERE/COLOR)
9 PM Chevy Show (COLOR)
10 PM Decision
10:30 Florian ZaBach (known as "the Liberace
of the violin")
11 PM News, Weather And Sports
11:20 Movie: "Girl In 313"

WKYT Ch. 27 Lexington (CBS)

12 N Cartoon Corner
12:15 Pageant
12:45 Christian Science
1 PM Championship Bowling
2 PM Public Issues
2:30 Movie: "Sabre Jet"
3:30 Oral Roberts
4 PM Church In The Home
4:30 Quest For Adventure
5 PM The Last Word
5:30 Face The Nation
6 PM The Search
6:25 CBS News
6:30 Movie: "Boston Blackie Booked
On Suspicion"
8 PM Movie: "Adventures Of Robinson
Crusoe"
10 PM News And Weather
10:15 I Led Three Lives
10:45 Mr. District Attorney
11:15 Movie: "The Diary Of A Chambermaid"

WEHT Ch. 50 (Ch. 25) Evansville (CBS)

8:45 Christian Science
9 AM Oral Roberts
9:30 Look Up And Live
10 AM Eye On New York
10:30 Camera Three
10:55 CBS News
11 AM Playhouse 50
11:30 Cisco Kid
12 N Peppo The Clown
12:45 Sports Page (Jim McKay)
12:55 Baseball: White Sox-Yankees
(Dizzy Dean and Buddy Blattner
call the game)
3:55 Sports (Chick Anderson, time
approximate)
4 PM The Last Word
4:30 Face The Nation
5 PM The Search
5:25 CBS News
5:30 Air Power
6 PM Lassie
6:30 The Brothers
7 PM Ed Sullivan
8 PM GE Theater
8:30 Topper
9 PM $64,000 Challenge
9:30 What's My Line?
10 PM News, Weather And Sports
10:15 Movie: "One Man's Journey"
sign off after the movie
 
bpatrick said:
WKYT Ch. 27 Lexington (CBS)
6:30 Movie: "Boston Blackie Booked
On Suspicion"
8 PM Movie: "Adventures Of Robinson
Crusoe"
10 PM News And Weather
10:15 I Led Three Lives
10:45 Mr. District Attorney
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What kind of crummy CBS affiliate was this? Sunday night and no
Ed, GE, Hitch, or Line? (Not to mention Lassie-less too.)

If I was Paley's TV net prez, I'd yank their affiliation...or at the
very least prohibit them from using the eyeball in any local ID
slides, promotion, etc.
 
My thoughts exactly when I posted this.
I don't think there was a lot of love lost
between Taft Broadcasting, which owned
WKYT and WKRC at the time, and CBS; in
1961 Taft switched both stations, and WBRC
Birmingham, from CBS to ABC. WKYT went back
to CBS around 1968 and has been one of the
network's best under Kentucky Central Television,
then Gray Communications. As I'm sure most
people on this website know, WKRC is also back
with CBS and has been since the mid-'90s (WBRC
became a Fox o&o in '94 but its contract with ABC
didn't expire until '96; it's no longer an o&o but is
a Fox affiliate).

Just for the record, in 1958 WKYT carried only a
few CBS programs:

Mon-Fri Daytime 10 AM For Love Or Money
10:30 Play Your Hunch
11 AM Arthur Godfrey
12 N Love Of Life
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party
3:30 Verdict Is Yours
4 PM Brighter Day
4:15 Secret Storm

Primetime

Mon 7:30 Robin Hood
Tue 7:30 Name That Tune
Wed 7:30 Sing Along (a forerunner of "Sing
Along With Mitch," hosted by WNEW
radio disc jockey Jim Lowe, who had
a hit record in 1956 with "Green Door")
Thu none
Fri 8 PM Trackdown
8:30 Destiny (drama anthology
9 PM Phil Silvers (Bilko)
9:30 Schlitz Playhouse Of Stars

Sat all day 11 AM Captain Kangaroo

And what's listed on the schedules I posted.
One does have to wonder how it kept its CBS affiliation
as long as it did.
 
Situation similar to the early days of Akron, Ohio, WAKR-TV 49..from 1953-65 they carried relatively little ABC programming..especially in Prime-Time, opting for old Movies, syndicated shows and local programming..I think in Fall 1965 was when they made a big deal out of "Now carrying the full ABC lineup.."Of course, with WEWS Channel 5 Cleveland so close..it was a rather unique situation..
 
radioman148 said:
I never knew that Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme had their own show that long ago. I knew they were on Steve Allen regularly.
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This show was Steve Allen's summer replacement. Steve (Lawrence)
and Eydie were associated with Allen from the days when he hosted
"The Tonight Show." In one of his books about comedians, Allen
said that Steve Lawrence may have been the most naturally funny
of any of his gang (and with the likes of Don Knotts, Louis Nye, and
Tom Poston, that's saying a lot); he recalled some sort of cast reunion
in which he was speaking and said he'd better hurry up and finish before
his suit went out of style; Lawrence piped up, "That happened several
years ago."
 
bpatrick said:
radioman148 said:
I never knew that Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme had their own show that long ago. I knew they were on Steve Allen regularly.
Click to expand...

This show was Steve Allen's summer replacement. Steve (Lawrence)
and Eydie were associated with Allen from the days when he hosted
"The Tonight Show." In one of his books about comedians, Allen
said that Steve Lawrence may have been the most naturally funny
of any of his gang (and with the likes of Don Knotts, Louis Nye, and
Tom Poston, that's saying a lot); he recalled some sort of cast reunion
in which he was speaking and said he'd better hurry up and finish before
his suit went out of style; Lawrence piped up, "That happened several
years ago."
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Interesting--thanks for that info.
 
Just curious, bpatrick...what ABC-TV shows were being shown on WAVE-TV and WHAS-TV Louisville at the time of WLKY-TV's sign on September 16, 1961 and, therefore, had to move to WLKY (ABC primary)?

(For those not in the know, Louisville was one of the largest and last 2 commercial station markets...a try at ABC-TV affiliation by WKLO-TV, Channel 21, in 1953 was short-lived due to poor UHF market penetration and the politically-inspired switching of Channel 7 from Louisville to Evansville.)

Besides "The Lawrence Welk Show," hadn't ABC shows already been purged from WHAS (CBS primary) and WAVE (NBC primary)?
 
The King Bee said:
Just curious, bpatrick...what ABC-TV shows were being shown on WAVE-TV and WHAS-TV Louisville at the time of WLKY-TV's sign on September 16, 1961 and, therefore, had to move to WLKY (ABC primary)?

(For those not in the know, Louisville was one of the largest and last 2 commercial station markets...a try at ABC-TV affiliation by WKLO-TV, Channel 21, in 1953 was short-lived due to poor UHF market penetration and the politically-inspired switching of Channel 7 from Louisville to Evansville.)

Besides "The Lawrence Welk Show," hadn't ABC shows already been purged from WHAS (CBS primary) and WAVE (NBC primary)?
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Right offhand, with the March 18, 1961, issue
of TV Guide at hand, I'll give you these:

WAVE Walt Disney (Mon 6:30, delay from
Sun 5:30--he'd move to NBC that fall)

Harrigan And Son (Mon 9:30,
delay from Fri 7 PM)

Peter Gunn (Tue 9:30, delay from
Mon 9:30)

My Three Sons (Thu 6:30, delay
from Thu 8 PM)

Maverick (Fri 6:30, delay from Sun
6:30)

Real McCoys (Fri 10 PM, delay from
Thu 7:30)

Matty's Funday Funnies (Sat 11 AM,
delay from either Sun 5 PM or Fri 6:30)

Rocky And His Friends (Sat 11:30 AM,
delay from either Sun 4:30 or Thu 5:30)

Donna Reed (Sat 5 PM, delay from Thu
7 PM)

Lawrence Welk (Sat 9:30, delay from 8 PM,
but at least a week)

The Rifleman (Sat 10 PM, delay from Tue 7 PM)

Lawman (Sat 10:30, delay from Sun 7:30)

Naked City (Sat 11 PM, delay from Wed 9 PM)

Pip The Piper (Sun 12 Noon, delay at least a week
from 12:30)

Winston Churchill: The Valiant Years (Sun 6 PM,
delay at least a week from 9:30)

The Flintstones (Sun 6:30, delay from Fri 7:30)

Wyatt Earp (Sun 10 PM, delay from Tue 7:30)


WHAS Guestward Ho! (Wed 10 PM, delay from Thu 6:30)

Alcoa Presents (Fri 10 PM, delay from Tue 9 PM)

Ozzie And Harriet (Sat 10 PM, delay from Wed 7:30)

Take A Good Look (Sun 6 PM, delay from Thu 9:30)

Offhand, this is the best I can do, but WLKY signed on just as
the 1961-62 season was beginning.
 
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