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Retro: Miami - Saturday, March 1, 1969

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The day of The Doors' infamous Miami concert at the Dinner Key Auditorium.

NOTE: Network programming subject to interruption for news coverage of President Nixon's European tour.

2 WTHS (NET)
No Saturday programming.

4 WTVJ (CBS)
6:15 Sunrise Semester
6:45 News (Noticias) en Espanol
7:00 Cartoon-a-Ville
8:00 Forest Rangers
8:30 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour
9:30 Wacky Races
10:00 Archie Show
10:30 Batman/Superman Hour
11:30 Herculoids
NOON Shazzam
12:30 Jonny Quest
1:00 Moby Dick and the Mighty Mightor
1:30 Lone Ranger
2:00 Mr. Ed
2:30 Movie: "The Little Foxes" (1941) - Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, Dana Andrews
4:30 Horse Racing: Hialeah Turf Cup
5:00 Lost in Space
6:00 News Weekend - Guest: Jimmy Doolittle, also at 11:00
6:30 Perry Mason
7:30 Jackie Gleason (from Miami Beach; Gleason participated in Miami's "Rally for Decency", along with Anita Bryant and the Lettermen at the Orange Bowl, in the wake of the Doors' concert held in Miami that night)
8:30 My Three Sons
9:00 Hogan's Heroes
9:30 Petticoat Junction
10:00 Mannix
11:00 News Weekend
11:30 Joe Pyne (one year before his death) - Guest: gambler John Reppert

6 WCIX (Ind.)
3:00 (PM) Roller Derby
4:00 Movie: "Detective Story" (1951) - Kirk Douglas, Eleanor Parker, William Bendix
6:00 Movie: "The Three Faces of Eve" (1957) - Joanne Woodward (Best Actress Oscar Winner), Lee J. Cobb, David Wayne, Nancy Kulp
8:00 Movie: "Detective Story" (repeat from)
10:00 United Cerebral Palsy Telethon (to 6:00 PM Sunday; from Miami Beach Auditorium) - Hosts: Leonard Nimoy, Ilene Woods (voice of Disney's Cinderella), Johnny Whittaker (Jody of Family Affair)

7 WCKT (NBC)
7:30 Untamed World
8:00 Batman (x2)
9:00 Super 6
9:30 Top Cat
10:00 Flintstones
10:30 Banana Splits Adventure Hour
11:30 Junior College Review (college courses; locally pre-empting Underdog)
NOON University of Miami Roundtable
12:30 Youth and Issue
1:00 Camera
1:30 Outdoorsman
2:00 Championship Bowling
2:30 GE College Bowl - Robert Earle
3:00 NCAA Basketball: Tennessee vs. Auburn
5:00 John Gary - Guests: Billy Daniels, Jim Bishop, Jimmie Rodgers
6:00 George Skinner News
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7:00 F-Troop
7:30 Adam-12
8:00 Get Smart
8:30 Ghost and Mrs. Muir
9:00 NBC Saturday Night at the Movies: "Some Like it Hot" (1959) - Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon
11:00 Big News
MIDNIGHT Weekend Tonight Show (July 2, 1968) - Guests: Buddy Hackett, David Frost, Geraldine Page, Margaret Hamilton, Ramsey Clark

10 WLBW (ABC)
6:45 Give Us This Day; News
7:00 Cartoon Capers
8:00 Beatles (cartoon)
8:30 Dennis the Menace
9:00 Jumpin' Jack Show (local kids' show, pre-empting The New Casper Cartoon Show and The Adventures of Gulliver)
10:00 Spider-Man
10:30 Fantastic Voyage
11:00 Journey to the Center of the Earth
11:30 Fantastic Four
NOON News (this and the following pre-empting George of the Jungle and American Bandstand)
12:15 Saturday Hop
1:00 Bogart Theater: "Casablanca"
2:30 Wrestling
3:30 Racing Revolution
4:00 Doral (FL) Open Golf Tournament
5:00 ABC's Wide World of Sports: World Figure Skating Championships, from Colorado Springs (home of the U.S. Figure Skating Association)
6:30 Safari
7:30 Dating Game
8:00 Newlywed Game
8:30 Lawrence Welk
9:30 Hollywood Palace - Host: Bing Crosby; Guests: Victor Borge, Guy Marks, Frank Sinatra Jr., Gary Crosby, the Temptations
10:30 All-Ameica College (Talent) Show
11:00 Movie: "Freud" (1962) - Montgomery Clift, Susannah York, Larry Parks

23 WAJA (Spanish Ind.)
3:00 (PM) Pelicula: "Muerte al amanacer" ("Death at Dawn") (1961) - Antonio Pilar, Jose Maria Cordero
4:30 Pelicula: "El casco blanco" ("The White Helmet") (1960) - Jose Luis Ozores, Elisa Montes
6:00 Los Enredos de Pablito (Leave It to Beaver, dubbed in Spanish)
6:30 Noticiera 23
7:00 El Marina de McHale (McHale's Navy, dubbed in Spanish)
7:30 Gaspar Pumajero
8:00 El Mayordomo (The Butler)
8:30 Problemas y problemas
9:00 Estrellas en Miami (Stars Over Miami)
9:30 Pelicula: "El traje de oro" ("Gold Suit") (1960) - Antonio Borrero, Jose Calvo, Alberto Closas
11:30 Pelicula: "El sol sale todos las dias" ("The Sun Rises Every Day") (1958) - Marisa de Leza

51 WSMS (Ind.) Fort Lauderdale
9:30 Saturdaytoons
10:00 Mr. Magoo
10:30 Cap'n Zero
11:00 Ultra Man
11:30 The Vikings
NOON Comedy Theatre: "Campus Rhythm" (1943) - Johnny Downs, Gale Storm, Robert Lowery
1:00 The Buccaneers
1:30 Movie: "Flaming Gold" (1934) - William Boyd, Pat O'Brien, Mae Clarke
2:30 Movie: "The Cuckoos" (1930) - Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey
4:00 Movie: "Love on a Bet" (1936) - Gene Raymond, Wendy Barrie, Helen Broderick
5:30 Sports Album
6:00 Gold Coast News
6:30 High and Wild
7:00 My Mother the Car
7:30 Hey, Landlord
8:00 Outer Limits
9:00 MacKenzie's Raiders
9:30 Gallant Men
10:30 Boston Blackie
11:00 Gold Coast News
11:15 Movie: "The Fabiani Affair" (1962; French) - Charles Aznavour, Raymond Pellegrin, Giovanna Ralli
 
For the record (no pun intended), the guest performers on American Bandstand were Arthur Conley and Smokestack Lightnin' (band). It's likely that Miami received those ABC shows pre-empted from channel 10 on West Palm Beach affiliate WEAT channel 12.
 
WTVJ's Forest Rangers at 8 AM pre-empted The Go-Go Gophers from CBS.
 
How odd that 6 a VHF independent station, WCIX 6, only signs on at 3pm? The Fort Lauderdale UHF independent is on by 9:30am. This is 1969, not 1959. Nearly all homes had a TV in the 1960s and Miami wasn't THAT small a market. It wasn't as large as it is today but it was still Florida's largest market.

Same for WTHS 2. It's a non-commercial NET station. But again, it's on VHF. Every home could get it. I could understand a non-commercial station waiting to sign on until Saturday and Sunday evening in those days, since on weekdays, it probably ran classroom programming in the daytime. But not to be on the air AT ALL on weekends?
 
Gregg. said:
How odd that 6 a VHF independent station, WCIX 6, only signs on at 3pm? The Fort Lauderdale UHF independent is on by 9:30am. This is 1969, not 1959. Nearly all homes had a TV in the 1960s and Miami wasn't THAT small a market. It wasn't as large as it is today but it was still Florida's largest market.

Same for WTHS 2. It's a non-commercial NET station. But again, it's on VHF. Every home could get it. I could understand a non-commercial station waiting to sign on until Saturday and Sunday evening in those days, since on weekdays, it probably ran classroom programming in the daytime. But not to be on the air AT ALL on weekends?
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Up until the early 70s, it was more commonplace for NET/PBS stations to have one or both weekends off.
 
Moreso about Miami's Channel 2...

Up until 1979, it was a time-shared station, with what's now Miami-Dade County Public Schools and the Community Television Foundation of South Florida sharing ownership of the station. The school district also owned (and still does today) and launched then-WSEC Channel 17 as a secondary station in 1962. However in '79, Miami-Dade County Schools relinquished ownership of Channel 2 back to the Community Television Foundation, and focused on Channel 17 as their main TV operation. That same year, 2 was essentially "re-launched" with call letters--WTHS becoming WPBT, while 17 became WLRN-TV in 1973.
 
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