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Retro: Maine/New Hampshire Sun, July 28, 1968

from TV Guide-Northern New England edition

WLBZ 2-NBC Bangor
noon Faith for Today (c)
12:30 This is the Life (c)
1:00 Meet the Press (c/guest House Minority Leader-and future President-Gerald Ford)
1:30 Frontiers of Faith "Faith and the Bible" (c)
2:00 Movie "Hot News"
3:15 Movie "The Accursed" (re-run of Saturday's late show)
4:30 Big Picture (c)
5:00 Film Feature (c/history of US Navy)
5:30 Campaign & the Candidates (c/Elie Abel hosts this weekly series on the issues, candidates, and '68 election campaign)
6:00 Frank McGee Report (c/looks at how black GIs' readjustment troubles after coming back from Vietnam)
6:30 Animal Kingdom "Dogs in War and Peace" (c)
7:00 Flipper (c)
7:30 Walt Disney "On Vacation" (c)
8:30 Mothers-in-Law (c)
9:00 Bonanza "Stage Door Johnnies" (c)
10:00 High Chaparral (c)
11:00 Route 66
mid. sign-off (WLBZ and WCSH didn't clear the weekend Johnny)

WBZ 4-NBC Boston
6:30 Industry on Parade
6:45 Living Word (c)
7:00 Boomtown
9:30 International Zone (developing small business in Singapore)
10:00 Our Believing Word
10:30 Frontiers of Faith "All Things New" (c)
11:00 Talent Auditions (that week's participants: Moira Gilfeather (Burlington/singer), Russell Barnes (Rowley/comedian), the Fantastic Four (Lowell/pantomime), Janet Lastera & Gail Monaco (North Franklin CT/dancers), Ariel B. Cooper (Providence/singer), Robin Stewart Adams (Oxford/pianist))
11:30 News (c)
noon Movie "Athena" (c)
2:00 Movie "The Ashpalt Jungle"
4:00 Animal Kingdom "Alligator Adventure"
4:30 Starring the Editors
5:00 Campaign & the Candidates (c)
5:30 Movie "The King's Thief" (c)
7:00 News (c)
7:15 First Person Profile
7:25 Weather (c)
7:30 Walt Disney "On Vacation" (c)
8:30 Mothers-in-Law (c)
9:00 Bonanza "Stage Door Johnnies" (c)
10:00 High Chaparral (c)
11:00 News/Weather/Sports (c)
11:30 Tonight Show (c/guests Duke Ellington, Tony Bennett, Steve Allen, Elia Kazan, and Angeline Butler)
1:00 sign-off

WABI 5-CBS Bangor
9:30 Underdog (c)
10:00 Lamp Unto My Feet (a look at black-Jewish relations)
10:30 Look Up & Live (c/from KFRE Fresno, a look at farm worker unemployment and housing)
11:00 Camera Three (c/a look at if modern man could live on prehistoric man's diet)
11:30 Face the Nation (c/guest NY Governor Nelson Rockefeller)
noon This is the Life (c)
12:30 Silver Wings (c)
1:00 Big Picture (c)
1:30 Baseball: Boston-Washington (c/Scoreboard follows the game)
4:00 Atlantic Division Soccer: Washington-New York (c/JIP)
5:00 Tennessee Tuxedo (c)
5:30 Ted Mack's Amateur Hour (c/guests Terry O'Shaughnessy, Richard Triggs, Angela Winter, the Casuals, the Psychedlic Method, Cathy & Co, Pamela Black, and Alfons Grieder)
6:00 21st Century "Cities of the Future" (c)
6:30 Film Feature (Indianapolis 500 highlights)
7:00 Lassie (c)
7:30 Gentle Ben (c)
8:00 Ed Sullivan (c/guests Charlton Heston (who gives a dramatic reading of Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural Address and presents a scene from Planet of the Apes), Smokey Robinson & the Miracles, Frankie Laine, the Young Americans, Myron Cohen, Wayne & Shuster, Peter Gennaro, and the Baranton Sisters)
9:00 Glen Campbell (c/guests Bobbie Gentry, the Everly Brothers, and Mason Williams; Mason also was the show's comedy writer and a 3-minute film done to Classical Gas, which aired on the series premiere, is rerun here)
10:00 Mission: Impossible (c)
11:00 News/Weather/Sports
11:15 CBS News (c)
11:30 sign-off

WHDH 5-CBS Boston
6:30 Across the Fence (c)
7:00 Bozo the Clown (c)
8:00 Insight
8:30 Faith to Faith (c)
9:00 Turning Point (c)
9:15 Sacred Heart
9:30 Builders' Showcase (c)
10:00 Lamp Unto My Feet
10:30 Look Up & Live (c)
11:00 Camera Three (c)
11:30 Face the Nation (c)
noon News/Sports/Weather (c)
12:30 Star Performance
1:00 Baseball Close-Up (c)
1:30 Baseball: Boston-Washington (c/followed by Scoreboard)
4:30 NFL Action (c/looks at Dallas' 1967 campaign)
5:00 Big Bands (c)
5:30 Ted Mack's Amateur Hour (c)
6:00 21st Century "Cities of the Future" (c)
6:30 News/Sports/Weather (c)
7:00 Lassie (c)
7:30 Gentle Ben (c)
8:00 Ed Sullivan (c)
9:00 Glen Campbell (c)
10:00 Mission: Impossible (c)
11:00 News/Sports/Weather (c)
11:30 Movie "OK Nero"
1:00 sign-off

WCSH 6-NBC Portland
7:40 First Radio Parish Church
7:45 News/Weather
8:00 Mack & Meyer
8:30 Davey & Goliath
8:45 Light Time
9:00 Christopher Program
9:30 Sacred Heart
9:45 Living Word
10:00 This is the Life
10:30 Children's Gospel Hour
11:00 Bowling (c/local or relayed from WNAC?)
noon Movie "Tanganyika"
1:45 Movie "Hercules, the Avenger"
3:30 Meet the Press (c)
4:00 Sea Hunt
4:30 Patty Duke
5:00 Lowell Thomas "Men of the Dream Time"
5:30 Campaign & the Candidates (c)
6:00 Frank McGee Report (c)
6:30 Animal Kingdom "Dogs in War and Peace" (c)
7:00 Flipper (c)
7:30 Walt Disney "On Vacation" (c)
8:30 Mothers-in-Law (c)
9:00 Bonanza "Stage Door Johnnies" (c)
10:00 High Chaparral (c)
11:00 News/Weather/Sports (c)
11:15 Twilight Zone
11:45 sign-off

WEMT 7-ABC Bangor
8:00 Cathedral of Tomorrow (c)
9:00 Modern Man
9:30 Milton (c)
10:00 Linus the Lion-Hearted (c)
10:30 Bugs Bunny (c)
11:00 Bullwinkle (c)
11:30 Discovery '68 "Chicago-America's Inland Seaport" (c)
noon Movie "Welcome Stranger"
2:00 Movie "State of the Union"
4:00 Time for Americans "White Racism and Black Education" (c; looks at Boston schools)
5:00 Movie "Brimstone"
7:00 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea "The Lobster Man" (c)
8:00 FBI (c)
9:00 Movie "Hatari!" (c)
mid. News (c)
12:15 Movie "Captain Horatio Hornblower"
1:45 sign-off

WNAC 7-ABC Boston
7:00 Three Stooges
8:00 Milton (c)
8:30 Christopher Program (Ray Bolger discusses The Wizard of Oz)
8:45 This is the Life
9:15 Catholic Mass
10:00 Elephants & Things (c/from the Franklin Park Zoo)
10:30 Journey Out of Africa (c/Harvard science prof Dr. Martin Kilson talks about the impact of Islam in Black Africa)
11:00 Bowling (c)
noon Movie "The Big Circus" (c)
2:30 Movie "Francis Joins the WACs"
4:00 Time for Americans "White Racism and Black Education" (c)
5:00 Movie "The Tall Men" (c)
7:00 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea "The Lobster Man" (c)
8:00 FBI (c)
9:00 Movie "Hatari!" (c)
mid. News (c)
12:15 Movie "Mara Maru"
1:45 sign-off

WMTW 8-ABC Poland Spring
7:30 Insight (c)
8:00 Cathedral of Tomorrow (c)
9:00 Light Time
9:15 Catholic Mass
10:00 Popeye
10:30 Movie "Treasure of Sierra Madre"
1:00 Baseball Close-Up (c)
1:30 Baseball: Boston-Washington (c/followed by Scoreboard)
4:00 Movie "The Iron Curtain"
6:00 Time for Americans "White Racism and Black Education" (c)
7:00 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea "The Lobster Man" (c)
8:00 FBI (c)
9:00 Movie "Hatari!" (c)
mid. News (c)
12:15 Movie "The King and the Chorus Girl"
1:45 sign-off

WMUR 9-ABC Manchester
8:15 Living Word
8:30 Allen's Revival Hour
9:00 Herald of Truth
9:30 Insight "The Least of My Brothers"
10:00 Faith for Today (c)
10:30 Bugs Bunny (c)
11:00 Bullwinkle (c)
11:30 Discovery '68 "Chicago-America's Inland Seaport" (c)
noon People are Funny
12:30 Big Picture (c/combat films from Vietnam showing the 101st Airborne in action)
1:00 TBA
1:30 Issues & Answers (c/guest California Gov.-and future Prez-Ronald Reagan)
2:00 Movie "Ridin' on a Rainbow"
3:00 Roller Derby: Northwest Cardinals v Midwest Pioneers
4:00 Time for Americans "White Racism and Black Education" (c)
5:00 Big Time Wrestling
6:00 Untouchables "The Star Witness"
7:00 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea "The Lobster Man" (c)
8:00 FBI (c)
9:00 Movie "Hatari!" (c)
mid. News (c)
12:15 sign-off

WCBB 10-Augusta/WMEB 12-Orono (NET)
Programs before 6:30pm air on ch12 only
5pm NET Journal "End of a Revolution?"
6:00 Antiques
6:30 Ingrid Bergman (interview from LA)
7:30 NET Symphony (Houston Symphony)
8:30 NET Playhouse "The Friends"
9:30 NET Festival "Carl Sandburg Remembered"
10:30 sign-off

WENH 11-NET Durham
5pm NET Journal "End of a Revolution?"
6:00 Antiques
6:30 Moral Crisis in Medical Science
7:00 Chicago Festival
7:30 NET Festival "Carl Sandburg Remembered"
8:30 NET Playhouse "The Friends"
9:30 Speaking Freely (how the devaluation of the British pound may affect the international monetary system)
10:30 sign-off

WGAN 13-CBS Portland
8:00 Underdog (c)
8:30 Three Stooges (c)
9:00 Word of Life (c)
9:30 Christopher Program
10:00 Lamp Unto My Feet
10:30 Look Up & Live (c)
11:00 Camera Three (c)
11:30 Face the Nation (c)
noon Movie "The Headless Ghost"
1:00 Movie "Jail Busters"
2:00 Ripcord "Air Carnival"
2:30 Leave It to Beaver "Beaver Says Good-bye"
3:00 Atlantic Division Soccer: Washington-New York (c)
5:00 F Troop
5:30 Ted Mack's Amateur Hour (c)
6:00 21st Century "Cities of the Future" (c)
6:30 Harness Racing Sweepstakes (c)
7:00 Lassie (c)
7:30 Gentle Ben (c)
8:00 Ed Sullivan (c)
9:00 Glen Campbell (c)
10:00 Mission: Impossible (c)
11:00 News/Weather/Sports (c)
11:15 CBS News (c)
11:30 Human Jungle "The Flip-Side Man"
12:30 sign-off
 
I couldn't help but notice the late sign-on times for the
Bangor stations. Any reason?

Also, today WLBZ and WCSH are sister stations, both
being owned by Gannett; don't know if they were sister
stations in '68.
 
bpatrick said:
I couldn't help but notice the late sign-on times for the
Bangor stations. Any reason?

Also, today WLBZ and WCSH are sister stations, both
being owned by Gannett; don't know if they were sister
stations in '68.

My guess on the late sign-ons in Bangor is because it was Sunday...WLBZ signed-on at 8 Sat/6:55 weekdays, WABI at 8 Sat/7 weekdays, and WEMT at 8 Sat/9 weekdays. Gannett purchased WLBZ/WCSH in 1997/98, and at one time Maine Broadcasting System (WLBZ/WCSH's pre-Gannett parent) also owned a station in Mason City, IA (KMEG, I believe but not 100% sure on; I saw a letter from MBS in a Stop 'n Shop in Bangor while visiting there in 1996), can't find any info as to when the two stations became siblings at the moment...
 
Bluenoser said:
bpatrick said:
I couldn't help but notice the late sign-on times for the
Bangor stations. Any reason?

Also, today WLBZ and WCSH are sister stations, both
being owned by Gannett; don't know if they were sister
stations in '68.

My guess on the late sign-ons in Bangor is because it was Sunday...WLBZ signed-on at 8 Sat/6:55 weekdays, WABI at 8 Sat/7 weekdays, and WEMT at 8 Sat/9 weekdays. Gannett purchased WLBZ/WCSH in 1997/98, and at one time Maine Broadcasting System (WLBZ/WCSH's pre-Gannett parent) also owned a station in Mason City, IA (KMEG, I believe but not 100% sure on; I saw a letter from MBS in a Stop 'n Shop in Bangor while visiting there in 1996), can't find any info as to when the two stations became siblings at the moment...

I don't have written info in front of me, I'm just relying on my memory and it may be faulty. WLBZ and WCSH have been sister stations for a long time. It may go back as far as the early 60's or even earlier. I believe the Rines family sold out to the owners of MBS during that decade.

The late sign-ons were standard in those days. I remember in the 70's when WLBZ added a movie and signed on at 10 a.m.! I also recall WEMT for a time after running "Topper" and old English movies at 9 a.m. dumped them and signed on when ABC started their programming at 11:30 a.m. weekdays.

Personally, I miss sign-ons/sign-offs and the test pattern, technical information and "The Star Spangled Banner". Sometimes white noise is better than the infomercials.
 
WLBZ/WCSH on schedules in the 1980's both ran Donahue at 12:30pm followed by Search for Tomorrow at 1:30pm, Days aired out of pattern at 9am. I guess there were sister stations back then too.
 
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