Retro: Kentucky Sunday, November 24, 1968

[bpatrick]

From TV Guide, Kentucky Edition:

WAVE Ch. 3 Louisville (NBC)

7 AM Eternal Light ("New Roots For The Uprooted," Part 1
of 3 on the Jewish experience in America. This program
focuses on how the first Jewish congregation in America
was denied citizenship.)
7:30 Farming With Jack Crowner (freeze branding of cattle at a
farm near Milltown, IN)
8 AM Gospel Jubilee
8:55 Jot (animated feature produced by the Southern Baptist
Convention)
9 AM The Story
9:30 This Is The Life
10 AM Michigan History
10:30 Continental Comment
11 AM Outer Limits
12 N Encounter (religious)
12:30 AFL Highlights
1 PM Meet The Press (guest: Sen Birch Bayh, Democrat of Indiana)
1:30 AFL Football: Raiders-Bengals
4 PM AFL Football: Jets-Chargers (time approximate, I think this is
the week after the "Heidi Bowl")
7 PM New Adventures Of Huck Finn (time approximate)
7:30 Walt Disney's Wonderful World Of Color ("The Treasure Of San
Bosco Reef," Part 1 of 2)
8:30 Mothers-In-Law
9 PM Peggy Fleming (her first special, with Gene Kelly, Richard Harris,
Spanky and Our Gang, Olympic medalist Robert Paul (who choreographed
the show), and the Los Angeles Kings hockey team)
10 PM Phyllis Diller (Arte Johnson, Lou Rawls and his 4-year-old son)
11 PM News, Weather And Sports
11:30 Sunday Tonight Show

WLWT Ch. 5 Cincinnati (NBC)

7:25 Moment Of Meditation
7:30 That I May See (the story of Bartimeus, whose sight Christ restored;
Bartimeus gets vain and a wise old man urges him to seek forgiveness,
prompting a trip to Jerusalem to pay homage to God--Raymond Burr
appears as Simon of Cyrene)
8:30 Eternal Light (Part 2 of "New Roots For The Uprooted" focuses on Myra
Kelly, an early-1900s teacher on New York's Lower East Side and how she
encouraged learning among her multiethnic students.)
9 AM Cadle Chapel
9:30 Church By The Road
10 AM World Front
10:30 University Of Cincinnati Horizons
11 AM Adventure Calls
11:30 College Football: Kansas-Missouri, taped yesterday
1 PM Meet The Press
1:30 Movie: "The Road To Rio" (Bob Hope and Bing Crosby, from '47)
3:30 AFL Highlights
4 PM AFL Football: Jets-Chargers
7 PM Conference With The Mayor (time approximate)
7:30 Walt Disney's Wonderful World Of Color
8:30 Mothers-In-Law
9 PM Peggy Fleming Special
10 PM Phyllis Diller
11 PM News, Weather And Sports
11:30 Sunday Tonight Show

WCPO Ch. 9 Cincinnati (CBS)

7 AM Rural America
7:30 Lamp Unto My Feet (the third 20th-anniversary program
looks at Tulsa's "Neighbor For Neighbor" program to help
the city's impoverished North Side--the multiracial group
offers specific services such as food, housing, and employment,
and encourages political action on issues such as employment
and health care, delay from 10 AM)
8:30 Aquaman (delay from 9:30 AM)
9 AM Tom And Jerry
9:30 Cartoons A Go-Go
10:30 Police Call
11 AM Call The Doctor
12 N Movie: "Snowfire"
1 PM NFL Pre-Game Show
1:30 NFL Football: Eagles-Browns
4 PM NFL Football: Giants-Rams (time approximate)
7 PM Lassie (time approximate)
7:30 Gentle Ben
8 PM Ed Sullivan (Eddie Albert, Nancy Wilson, Dusty Springfield,
Rodney Dangerfield, Morecambe and Wise)
9 PM Smothers Brothers (Tony Randall, Jennifer Warren (Warnes),
Semu Huate, medicine man of the Chumash tribe)
10 PM Mission: Impossible
11 PM News, Weather And Sports
11:30 John Gary (Milton Berle, Ken Murray)
1 AM Christophers
1:30 Local News

WHAS Ch. 11 Louisville (CBS)

8 AM Fisbie Funnies
9 AM Tom And Jerry
9:30 Aquaman
10 AM Lamp Unto My Feet
11 AM Lure Of The Library
11:30 Face The Nation (guest: Secretary of State
Dean Rusk)
12 N Challenge (religious)
12:30 NFL This Week
1 PM NFL Pre-Game Show
1:30 NFL Football: Eagles-Browns
4 PM NFL Football: Giants-Rams (time approximate)
7 PM Lassie (time approximate)
7:30 Gentle Ben
8 PM Ed Sullivan
9 PM Smothers Brothers
10 PM Mission: Impossible
11 PM News, Weather And Sports
11:15 CBS News (Harry Reasoner)
11:30 Movie: "Tea And Sympathy"

WKRC Ch. 12 Cincinnati (ABC)

7:15 Living Word
7:30 Gospel Hour
8 AM Rex Humbard
9 AM Day Of Discovery
9:30 Beatles
10 AM Skipper Ryle
12 N Bozo The Clown
12:30 Noel Singers
1 PM Directions (a study of 3000 years of Jewish tradition)
1:30 Issues And Answers (guest: Secretary of Defense Clark
Clifford)
2 PM Land Of The Giants (delay from 7 PM)
3 PM Here Come The Brides (delay from Wed 7:30 PM)
4 PM Movie: "On The Threshold Of Space" (Guy Madison, aka
Wild Bill Hickok, stars, from '56)
6 PM Movie: "Kiss Them For Me"
7:45 News, Weather And Sports
8 PM The FBI
9 PM ABC Movie: "55 Days At Peking"
12 M News, Weather And Sports
12:30 Horse Racing From Latonia
12:45 Movie: "The Young Philadelphians"
2:45 ABC News (Keith McBee)

WFPK (WKPC) Ch. 15 Louisville (NET)
off air on Sunday

WLEX Ch. 18 Lexington (NBC)

7 AM This Is The Life
7:30 Leisure
8 AM Voice Of The Mountains
8:30 Revival Fires
9 AM Gospel Jubilee
10 AM Faith For Today
10:30 Immanuel Baptist Church
11:30 Insight
12 N New Shapes: Education
12:30 Ford Philpot ("The Story," which, IIRC,
originated in Lexington)
1 PM Meet The Press
1:30 AFL Football: Raiders-Bengals
4 PM AFL Football: Jets-Chargers (time approximate)
7 PM UK Basketball Highlights With Adolph Rupp
(time approximate)
7:30 Walt Disney's Wonderful World Of Color
8:30 Mothers-In-Law
9 PM Movie: "Satan Never Sleeps"
11 PM News, Weather And Sports
11:30 Movie: "King Richard And The Crusaders"

WXIX Ch. 19 Cincinnati (Ind.)

2 PM Faith For Today
2:30 Mormon Tabernacle Choir
3 PM Movie: "The Jolson Story"
5 PM Shirley Temple's Storybook: "Mother Goose"
6 PM Movie: "Last Of The Mohicans" (1963 version
from Mexico)
8 PM Combat!
9 PM College Football: Indiana-Purdue (taped yesterday)
11 PM One Step Beyond
sign off 11:30 PM

WKYT Ch. 27 Lexington (CBS)

7 AM Christophers
7:30 America Sings
8 AM God Is The Answer
9 AM Tom And Jerry
9:30 Aquaman
10 AM Movie: "Black Patch"
11:30 Face The Nation
12 N Christian Hour
12:30 Charlie Bradshaw: UK Football
1 PM NFL Pre-Game Show
1:30 NFL Football: Eagles-Browns
4 PM NFL Football: Giants-Rams (time approximate,
Ch. 27 has a newscast at the conclusion of
the game)
7 PM Lassie (time approximate)
7:30 Gentle Ben
8 PM Ed Sullivan
9 PM Smothers Brothers
10 PM Mission: Impossible
11 PM News, Weather And Sports
11:15 CBS News
11:30 Movie: "Guns Of Darkness"

WLKY Ch. 32 Louisville (ABC)

9:30 Movie: "Princess O'Rourke"
11 AM Church Service (possibly Walnut Street
Baptist Church)
12 N College Football '68 (a 45-minute tape of
Indiana-Purdue, plus highlights of other games)
1 PM Under Discussion
1:30 Issues And Answers
2 PM Pastor's Study
2:30 Rawhide
3:30 Agriculture U.S.A.
4 PM Hemingway's Spain: A Love Affair
5 PM Movie: "Separate Tables"
7 PM Land Of The Giants
8 PM The FBI
9 PM ABC Movie: "55 Days At Peking"
12 M News, Weather And Sports
12:15 ABC News
sign off 12:30 AM

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

9 AM Paul Harvey's Bible Stories
9:30 Beatles
10 AM Linus The Lionhearted
10:30 King Kong (animated)
11 AM Bullwinkle
11:30 Discovery (a visit to Lapland, the part of
Finland above the Arctic Circle)
12 N College Football '68
1 PM Directions
1:30 Issues And Answers
2 PM Manion Forum
2:15 Recreation Today
2:45 TBA
3 PM Jacques Cousteau (a study of whales, this may be
a delay from Friday, since Ch. 62/36 carried movies
on Friday nights)
4 PM Hemingway's Spain: A Love Affair
5 PM Movie: "Attack"
7 PM Land Of The Giants
8 PM The FBI
9 PM ABC Movie: "55 Days At Peking"
12 M ABC News
sign off 12:15 AM

 

[radiorob2.0]

WKYT Ch. 27 Lexington (CBS)
12 N Christian Hour
12:30 Charlie Bradshaw: UK Football

The Christian Hour only runs a half hour. The radio version that I ran sixteen years later on WKYT's sister station WVLK was also called "The Christian Hour" but only ran fifteen minutes.

 

[Ultimajock]

WAVE Ch. 3 Louisville (NBC)

4 PM AFL Football: Jets-Chargers (time approximate, I think this is
the week after the "Heidi Bowl")


WLWT Ch. 5 Cincinnati (NBC)

4 PM AFL Football: Jets-Chargers


WLEX Ch. 18 Lexington (NBC)

4 PM AFL Football: Jets-Chargers (time approximate)

...indeed, the Heidi Bowl was the previous Sunday, 17 November...

 

[The King Bee]

It's interesting to look at the old AFL (and NFL) games with the original blackout rules in effect.

With Downtown Louisville only 98 miles from Cincinnati (102 from old Nippert Stadium, where the Bengals first played, and Lexington even closer at 81/85 miles), WAVE-TV and WLEX-TV were just outside the then 75-mile limit.

My cousins who lived in Cincinnati and Dayton (only 50 miles away and always blacked out, too) found their way down here to "The Ville" each and every weekend the brand-new Bengals played at home...other die-hard fans rented motel rooms about 50-75 miles south and southwest of Cincinnati, within the WAVE and WLEX coverage areas. I'm sure Columbus (106 mi) and Indianapolis (108) saw some of these blackout beaters who wanted to see WLWC and WLWI's NBC signals.

Did the networks compensate the blacked-out affiliates such as WLWT and WLWD for lost potential viewership? After all, the Bengals were intended as a regional team and were an ultra-hot ticket in a small stadium being used while Riverfront was being built...I went to a few games, and selling out was NO problem-still, no local TV for 75 miles.

(Funny, most of these were AVCO/Crosley TV stations!)

 

[Cincinnati Kid]

There were many in the Greater Cincinnati area who could receive Louisville's WAVE, Channel 3 then and over the years on their home TV's. In many parts of the areas, it came in much better than WLW-C, Channel 4 in Columbus, Ohio or other NBC-TV affiliates in the region.

 

[bpatrick]

It's interesting to look at the old AFL (and NFL) games with the original blackout rules in effect.

With Downtown Louisville only 98 miles from Cincinnati (102 from old Nippert Stadium, where the Bengals first played, and Lexington even closer at 81/85 miles), WAVE-TV and WLEX-TV were just outside the then 75-mile limit.

My cousins who lived in Cincinnati and Dayton (only 50 miles away and always blacked out, too) found their way down here to "The Ville" each and every weekend the brand-new Bengals played at home...other die-hard fans rented motel rooms about 50-75 miles south and southwest of Cincinnati, within the WAVE and WLEX coverage areas. I'm sure Columbus (106 mi) and Indianapolis (108) saw some of these blackout beaters who wanted to see WLWC and WLWI's NBC signals.

Did the networks compensate the blacked-out affiliates such as WLWT and WLWD for lost potential viewership? After all, the Bengals were intended as a regional team and were an ultra-hot ticket in a small stadium being used while Riverfront was being built...I went to a few games, and selling out was NO problem-still, no local TV for 75 miles.

(Funny, most of these were AVCO/Crosley TV stations!)

I thought WLWI (now WTHR) was an ABC affiliate in 1968, and the station that is now WRTV was NBC in Indianapolis. In fact, I thought the affiliation switch was in 1979.

 

[Ultimajock]

It's interesting to look at the old AFL (and NFL) games with the original blackout rules in effect.

With Downtown Louisville only 98 miles from Cincinnati (102 from old Nippert Stadium, where the Bengals first played, and Lexington even closer at 81/85 miles), WAVE-TV and WLEX-TV were just outside the then 75-mile limit.

My cousins who lived in Cincinnati and Dayton (only 50 miles away and always blacked out, too) found their way down here to "The Ville" each and every weekend the brand-new Bengals played at home...other die-hard fans rented motel rooms about 50-75 miles south and southwest of Cincinnati, within the WAVE and WLEX coverage areas. I'm sure Columbus (106 mi) and Indianapolis (108) saw some of these blackout beaters who wanted to see WLWC and WLWI's NBC signals.

Did the networks compensate the blacked-out affiliates such as WLWT and WLWD for lost potential viewership? After all, the Bengals were intended as a regional team and were an ultra-hot ticket in a small stadium being used while Riverfront was being built...I went to a few games, and selling out was NO problem-still, no local TV for 75 miles.

(Funny, most of these were AVCO/Crosley TV stations!)

I thought WLWI (now WTHR) was an ABC affiliate in 1968, and the station that is now WRTV was NBC in Indianapolis. In fact, I thought the affiliation switch was in 1979.

...indeed, WFBM-TV/6 was the Indianapolis affiliate of NBC in '68...

 

[The King Bee]

Sorry...I misread my notes! Anyway, what about the blacked-out station issue...was it just "sorry, you're out of luck" or was some sort of compensation afforded non-O&Os such as WLWT in this era (e.g. cash, increased spot avails to the station)?