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Retro: Maine/New Brunswick Mon, May 17, 1971

B

Bluenoser

from Bangor Daily News via Google News Archive; additional info from Montreal Gazette

WLBZ-NBC: 2 Bangor/4 Waterville
6:55 University of Maine Farm Program
7:00 Today
9:00 My Backyard
9:30 Dialing for Dollars/Community Cup
10:00 Dinah's Place
10:30 Concentration
11:00 Sale of the Century
11:30 Hollywood Squares
noon Jeopardy!
12:30 Who, What or Where Game
12:55 NBC News
1:00 Galloping Gourmet
1:30 Garagiola's Memory Game
2:00 Days of Our Lives
2:30 Doctors
3:00 Another World
3:30 Bright Promise
4:00 Somerset
4:30 David Frost
6:00 TV2 News Report
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 To Tell the Truth
7:30 From a Bird's Eye View "Never Put It in Writing"
8:00 Laugh-In (Goldie Hawn returns)
9:00 Movie "Do You Take This Stranger"
11:00 TV2 News
11:30 Tonight Show (guests Carl Reiner, Ruth Gordon, and Al Hirt)

CKCW 2-Moncton/CKLT 9-Saint John (CTV) Listed AT
9:30 University of the Air
10:00 Small Talk
10:30 Beat the Clock
11:00 Movie
12:30 First Edition
12:45 Movie
2:15 Peggy's Place
2:30 Something for Everyone
3:00 Man Trap
3:30 Famous Jury Trials
4:00 Somerset
4:30 Trouble with Tracy
5:00 Lobster Trap
6:00 Beat the Clock
6:30 Today
7:00 Truth or Consequences
7:30 Felony Squad
8:00 Flip Wilson
9:00 Room 222 "Now, About That Cherry Tree"
9:30 Carol Burnett (same show as CBS)
10:30 Pig 'n Whistle (guests Christine Scott and Bobby Ash)
11:00 Ironside "Check Mate: and Murder" (pt 1)
mid. CTV National News
12:20 Late News
12:35 University of the Air

CHSJ 4-CBC Saint John Listed AT
9:00 Friendly Giant
9:30 Chez Helene
9:45 Mr. Dressup
10:00 Nova Scotia Schools
11:30 Sesame Street
12:30 News/Weather
12:45 Movie
2:30 Magazine
3:00 Take 30
3:30 Edge of Night
4:00 Galloping Gourmet
4:30 Drop-In
5:00 Flintstones
5:30 Bugs Bunny
6:00 Spectroscope
6:30 News/Weather/Sports
7:00 Arnie
7:30 Green Acres
8:00 Partridge Family "Love at First Sight"
8:30 Front Page Challenge (guest panelist: Mtl Gazette Executive Editor Denis Harvey)
9:00 Bold Ones "Killer on the Loose"
10:00 Man at the Centre "The Years Have Not Betrayed Me" (profile of Barker Fairley)
10:30 Man Alive "The Boy Scouts of Madison Avenue"
11:00 CBC/Local News & Weather
11:30 Pierre Berton

WABI 5-CBS Bangor
6:55 Open Door
7:00 CBS Morning News
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Jack LaLanne
9:30 Movie Game
10:00 Lucy Show
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11:00 Family Affair
11:30 Love of Life
noon Where the Heart is
12:25 CBS News
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Anniversary Game
1:30 As the World Turns
2:00 Love is a Many-Splendored Thing
2:30 Guiding Light
3:00 Secret Storm
3:30 Edge of Night
4:00 Gomer Pyle
4:30 Gilligan's Island
5:00 I Love Lucy
5:30 Truth or Consequences
6:00 Telejournal
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 F Troop
7:30 Gunsmoke
8:30 Here's Lucy
9:00 Mayberry RFD
9:30 Doris Day
10:00 Carol Burnett (guests Dyan Cannon and Paul Lynde)
11:00 Telejournal
11:30 Merv Griffin

WCSH 6-NBC Portland
6:40 First Radio Parish Church
6:45 Farm Market Report
7:00 Today
9:00 Weekday
9:15 Lucille Rivers
9:30 Hazel
10:00 Dinah's Place
10:30 Concentration
11:00 Sale of the Century
11:30 Hollywood Squares
noon Jeopardy!
12:30 Who, What or Where Game
12:55 NBC News
1:00 Dialing for Dollars
1:30 Garagiola's Memory Game
2:00 Days of Our Lives
2:30 Doctors
3:00 Another World
3:30 Bright Promise
4:00 Somerset
4:30 David Frost
6:00 Eyewitness News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 He Said, She Said
7:30 From a Bird's Eye View "Never Put It in Writing"
8:00 Laugh-In
9:00 Movie "Do You Take This Stranger"
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:30 Tonight Show

WEMT 7-ABC Bangor
9:00 King & Odie
9:15 Romper Room
10:00 Movie
11:30 That Girl
noon Bewitched
12:30 A World Apart
1:00 All My Children
1:30 Let's Make a Deal
2:00 Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game
3:00 General Hospital
3:30 One Life to Live
4:00 Password
4:30 Movie
6:00 ABC Evening News
6:30 Sports Forum
7:00 Sports Challenge
7:30 Let's Make a Deal
8:00 Newlywed Game
8:30 It was a Very Good Year (looking back at 1964 with guests Don Schollander, Gower Champion, and Sakata)
9:00 Movie "The City"
11:00 News/Film

WAGM 8-CBS/NBC/ABC Presque Isle
7:00 Today (NBC)
9:00 Captain Kangaroo
10:00 WAGM Bingo
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11:00 Family Affair
11:30 Love of Life
noon Where the Heart is
12:25 CBS News
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Anniversary Game
1:30 As the World Turns
2:00 Love is a Many-Splendored Thing
2:30 Guiding Light
3:00 Secret Storm
3:30 Edge of Night
4:00 Gomer Pyle
4:30 Merv Griffin
6:00 WAGM Newsline
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Evening News
7:30 Gunsmoke
8:30 Here's Lucy
9:00 Movie "Do You Take This Stranger" (NBC)
11:00 WAGM Newsline
11:30 Tonight Show (NBC)

WMTW 8-ABC Poland Spring
7:45 Morning Report
8:00 Farm & Home
8:30 Smokey the Bear
9:00 Snuffy & Barney
9:30 Movie
11:00 Movie Game
11:30 That Girl
noon Bewitched
12:30 A World Apart
1:00 All My Children
1:30 Let's Make a Deal
2:00 Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game
3:00 General Hospital
3:30 One Life to Live
4:00 Password
4:30 Munsters
5:00 Gilligan's Island
5:30 News
6:00 ABC Evening News
6:30 Beat the Clock
7:00 To Tell the Truth
7:30 Let's Make a Deal
8:00 Newlywed Game
8:30 It was a Very Good Year
9:00 Movie "The City"
11:00 News
11:30 Dick Cavett

WCBB 10-Augusta/WMEM 10-Presque Isle/WMEB 12-Orono/WMED 13-Calais (NET)
Italicized programs shown on 10 PI/12/13 only
8:30 A Look at US
9:00 Exploring Nature
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10:00 Sesame Street
11:00 Meet the Arts
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12:30 Maine History
1:00 Listen & Say
1:30 Secondary Reading
2:00 Places in the News
2:20 Come, Read a Poem
---
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Misterogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Hodgepodge Lodge
6:00 Introduction to Anthropology
7:00 Maine News & Comment (discussing mental health programs with Richard Lamping from Bangor's Counselling Center, and Charles Grant from UMaine-Orono's Center for Counselling and Psychological Services)
7:30 (10 Aug) Probe
7:30 Potato Farming Diary
8:00 World Press
9:00 Realities "The Mind of Man"
11:00 Maine News & Comment (r)

WGAN 13-CBS Portland
7:00 CBS Morning News
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Romper Room
9:30 Gomer Pyle
10:00 Lucy Show
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11:00 Family Affair
11:30 Love of Life
noon Where the Heart is
12:25 CBS News
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Anniversary Game
1:30 As the World Turns
2:00 Love is a Many-Splendored Thing
2:30 Guiding Light
3:00 Secret Storm
3:30 Edge of Night
4:00 Truth or Consequences
4:30 Merv Griffin
6:00 Newsbeat
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 What's My Line?
7:30 Gunsmoke
8:30 Here's Lucy
9:00 It Takes a Thief
10:00 Carol Burnett
11:00 Newsbeat
11:30 Movie
 
Bluenoser said:
WMTW 8-ABC Poland Spring
8:30 Smokey the Bear
9:00 Snuffy & Barney
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The famous bear from those PSA's had his own TV show back in the day? You'd have to wonder if he was related to "Snuffy" - get it - "snuff" a fire? Certainly, "Snuffy & Barney" aren't related to the famous elephant from "Sesame Street" and that purple dinosaur... ::)

How did the newspaper distinguish the two Channel 8's in their listings?
 
Bluenoser said:
WCBB 10-Augusta/WMEM 10-Presque Isle/WMEB 12-Orono/WMED 13-Calais (NET)
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First -- wasn't NET replaced with PBS by this time?

Also, interesting that WMED in Calais carried the same shows as the rest of the network -- didn't they have their own schedule at one point in the mid-1970s (as indicated by past retro listings), before rejoining the network?
 
azumanga said:
Bluenoser said:
WCBB 10-Augusta/WMEM 10-Presque Isle/WMEB 12-Orono/WMED 13-Calais (NET)
Click to expand...

First -- wasn't NET replaced with PBS by this time?

Also, interesting that WMED in Calais carried the same shows as the rest of the network -- didn't they have their own schedule at one point in the mid-1970s (as indicated by past retro listings), before rejoining the network?
Click to expand...

You're right- NET was replaced by PBS in 1970, for some reason I thought it was later than that. I think there must have been a separate cable feed for the Maritimes, given that by the fall of '76 the Maritimes edition of TVG had a note telling OTA viewers of WMED to refer to WMEM's listings.
 
DToTheJ said:
Bluenoser said:
WMTW 8-ABC Poland Spring
8:30 Smokey the Bear
9:00 Snuffy & Barney
Click to expand...

The famous bear from those PSA's had his own TV show back in the day? You'd have to wonder if he was related to "Snuffy" - get it - "snuff" a fire? Certainly, "Snuffy & Barney" aren't related to the famous elephant from "Sesame Street" and that purple dinosaur... ::)

How did the newspaper distinguish the two Channel 8's in their listings?
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WAGM was listed as 8, WMTW as 8a.
 
Bluenoser said:
I think there must have been a separate cable feed for the Maritimes, given that by the fall of '76 the Maritimes edition of TVG had a note telling OTA viewers of WMED to refer to WMEM's listings.
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Maybe WMED was distributing tapes to Maritime cable systems, just like what was done with WLBZ and WVII?
 
Didn't see the movie titles on the page at first, so here's the title for the movies:

9:30am- WMTW, Invitation to Happiness
10am- WEMT, your guess is good as mine-it was only listed as Morning Movie
11am- CKCW/CKLT, Portraits of a Monster
12:45pm- CKCW/CKLT, The Enemy Below
12:45pm- CHSJ, The Raging Tide
4:30pm- WEMT, no title listed-just listed as Film
11pm- WEMT, no title here either-listed as Owl Theater
11:30pm- WGAN, Time Travelers

Here's how the stations were listed (NB stations were listed Atlantic Time):
2 WLBZ-NBC Bangor
2a CKCW-CTV Moncton
4 WLBZ-NBC Waterville (W04AK)
4a CHSJ-CBC Saint John
5 WABI-CBS Bangor
6 WCSH-NBC Portland
7 WEMT-ABC Bangor
8 WAGM-CBS/NBC/ABC Presque Isle
8a WMTW-ABC Poland Spring
9 CKLT-CTV Saint Johm
10 WCBB-PBS Augusta *
10a WMEM-PBS Presque Isle *
12 WMED-PBS Orono *
13 WGAN-CBS Portland
13a WMED-PBS Calais *
* listed as (ETV) when programs air on all 4 stations
 
blackgold said:
WHAT? No listings for Radio-Canada?
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Nope...as long as I can remember, CKCW/CKLT and CHSJ/CBAT were the only Canadian channels listed by the BDN, most likely because of OTA reception in Aroostook and Washington Counties.
 
Looking at the old Broadcasting Yearbooks, the only Radio-Canada transmitter in New Brunswick in 1971 was channel 11 in Moncton.

That said, the channel 11 facility today has nearly the same coverage as CKCW, and to my knowledge it did back then as well.
 
"The Smokey the Bear Show" was a cartoon that ran on ABC on Saturdays (or Sundays later on). Obviously this was a delay from Saturday (WMTW). As to "Snuffy & Barney," this had to be the syndicated King Features TV cartoon series from 1963:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XgkblxCozo

"Krazy Kat" & "Beetle Bailey" were syndicated the same way; maybe they were in this half-hour package on WMTW>

cd
 
w9wi said:
Looking at the old Broadcasting Yearbooks, the only Radio-Canada transmitter in New Brunswick in 1971 was channel 11 in Moncton.

That said, the channel 11 facility today has nearly the same coverage as CKCW, and to my knowledge it did back then as well.
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There was another one back then, but it was privately-owned: CJBR-TV-1 Edmundston, repeating CJBR in Rimouski, Quebec. Additionally CHAU in Carleton, Quebec had coverage in northern New Brunswick, and they had a low-power repeater in New Brunswick. At that time CHAU was a Radio-Canada affiliate.
 
M.J. said:
There was another one back then, but it was privately-owned: CJBR-TV-1 Edmundston, repeating CJBR in Rimouski, Quebec.
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Radio-Canada would later buy CJBR-TV in 1977, and later on, convert CJBR-TV-1 to CBAFT-2, a repeater of CBAFT.

CBAFT's repeater network would not start up until 1973, when CBAFT-1 channel 5 opened up in Fredericton.
 
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