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Retro: Michigan Sat, Apr 16, 1977

from TV Guide-Michigan State edition

WJBK 2-CBS Detroit
6:25 News
6:30 A Better Way
7:00 Bozo
8:00 Sylvester & Tweety
8:30 Clue Club
9:00 Bugs Bunney/Road Runner
10:00 Tarzan-Lord of the Jungle
10:30 Batman (animated)
11:00 Shazam!/Isis
noon Fat Albert
12:30 Soul Train (guests include Archie Bell & the Drells)
1:30 Movie "Curucu, Beast of the Amazon"
3:30 Davis Cup Tennis: US v South Africa
4:30 CBS Sports Spectacular: heavyweight boxing-Howard Smith (15-1) v Earnie Shavers (53-5-1)/middleweight boxing-Michael Spinks v David Ditmar
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Truth or Consequences
7:30 Celebrity Sweepstakes
8:00 Mary Tyler Moore
8:30 Bob Newhart
9:00 All in the Family
9:30 Alice
10:00 Carol Burnett (guest Dinah Shore joins the gang for the famous Gone with the Wind spoof)
11:00 News
11:30 Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
mid. Movie "The Big Lift" (bw)
2:00 Truth or Consequences
2:30 Jerry Visits
3:00 News

WKZO 3-CBS Kalamazoo
6:30 Sunrise Semester "Religions and Civilizations of the Near East"
7:00 U of M Presents
7:30 Options in Education
8:00 Sylvester & Tweety
8:30 Clue Club
9:00 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
10:00 Tarzan-Lord of the Jungle
10:30 Batman (animated)
11:00 Shazam!/Isis
noon Fat Albert
12:30 Ark II
1:00 Razzmatazz (Barry Bostwick presents this young people's special featuring a California brother pop duo aged 11 and 13, a 16-yr-old Kentucky girl with a 350-lb lion as a pet, an aerial tour of the Bay Area from a local traffic reporter, a profile of a circus family, visiting a Texas zoo for endangered animals, and a look at a kite jamboree)
2:00 Ara's Sports World (guest Tom Seaver)
2:30 Big Valley
3:30 Davis Cup Tennis: US v South Africa
4:30 CBS Sports Spectacular
6:00 Input 3
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Lawrence Welk (saluting Hawaii)
8:00 Mary Tyler Moore
8:30 Baseball: Detroit-Kansas City
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "The Naked Jungle"
1:00 Movie "Houseboat"

WWJ 4-NBC Detroit
5:55 News
6:00 Here Comes the Sun
6:30 Oopsy! the Clown
8:00 Woody Woodpecker
8:30 Pink Panther
10:00 Speed Buggy
10:30 Monster Squad
11:00 Space Ghosts/Frankenstein Jr.
11:30 Big John, Little John
noon Land of the Lost
12:30 Kids from CAPER (return)
1:00 At the Zoo (Win Eliot)
1:30 Pro & Con
2:00 Grandstand
2:15 Baseball: Philadelphia-Montreal
5:00 Women's International golf
6:30 News
7:00 Hee Haw (guests Jimmy Dean and Buddy Alan)
8:00 Wonderful World of Magic (performers from the US, France, Germany, Tahiti, Japan, Hungary, and the Netherlands)
8:30 Baseball: Detroit-Kansas City (ch 4 was originating station for the Tigers Network)
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "The African Queen"

WNEM 5-NBC Bay City
7:00 Special Treat "It's a Brand New World" (an animated remedial Bible class for aspiring angels)
8:00 Woody Woodpecker
8:30 Pink Panther
10:00 Speed Buggy
10:30 Monster Squad
11:00 Space Ghosts/Frankenstein Jr.
11:30 Soul Train (guests Teddy Pendergrass and Double Exposure)
12:30 Movie "Atragon"
2:00 Grandstand
2:15 Baseball: Philadelphia-Montreal
5:00 Wild Kingdom "Voyage to the Isles of Enchantment (visiting the Galapagos)
5:30 Andy Williams (guest Florence Henderson)
6:00 News
6:30 Hee Haw (as 7pm, ch 4)
7:30 Bobby Vinton (guests Arte Johnson and the Spinners)
8:00 Brave Victory (TV5 news producer Linda Hunt and cameraman Pete Jonas look back at the Winter Special Olympics, held last February at Shuss Mtn)
8:30 Baseball: Detroit-Kansas City
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "The Bridge on the River Kwai"

WJIM 6-CBS Lansing
6:30 Sunrise Semester "Religions and Civilizations of the Near East"
7:00 Vibrations
7:30 Milestones of Progress
8:00 Sylvester & Tweety
8:30 Clue Club
9:00 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
10:00 Tarzan-Lord of the Jungle
10:30 Wally Gator
11:00 Shazam!/Isis
noon Fat Albert
12:30 Ark II
1:00 Razzmatazz
2:00 Grandstand (NBC, punted from Jackson)
2:15 Baseball: Philadelphia-Montreal (ditto)
5:00 CBS Sports Spectacular (JIP)
6:00 Capitol Connection
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Hee Haw (as ch 4)
8:00 Mary Tyler Moore
8:30 Bob Newhart
9:00 All in the Family
9:30 Alice
10:00 Carol Burnett
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "The Horsemen"

WXYZ 7-ABC Detroit
7:00 Old-Time Comedies "Chumps" (bw)
7:30 Junior Almost Anything Goes (coaches John Byner, William Shatner, and Anson Williams)
8:00 Tom & Jerry/Mumbly
8:30 Jabberjaw
9:00 Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt
10:30 Krofft Supershow
11:30 Superfriends
noon ABC Short Story Special "My Dear Uncle Sherlock"
12:30 American Bandstand (guests England Dan & John Ford Coley, and James Darren)
1:30 L'eggs World Series of Women's Tennis semis
3:00 Pro Bowling: Toledo Open
4:30 ABC Wide World of Sports: US Pro Boxing Championships semis: heavyweight-Larry Holmes (24-0) v Stan Ward ( 8-0-2), welterweight-Wilfredo Benitez (27-0-1) v Randy Shields (29-2), jr lightweight-Francisco Villegas (35-7-2) v Carlos Becceril (11-2)
6:00 MONY Tournament of Champions golf
7:00 Bill Bonds' Detroit (Bill welcomes former National Security Council aide Morton Halperin, who recently beat Nixon, John Mitchell, and H.R. Haldeman in an illegal-wiretapping suit)
7:30 Let's Make a Deal
8:00 Blansky's Beauties
8:30 Fish
9:00 Starsky & Hutch
10:00 Dog & Cat
11:00 News
11:15 ABC News
11:30 Movie "In Cold Blood" (bw)
1:30 Movie "The Pigeon"
3:30 Soundings

WPBN 7-Traverse City/WTOM 4-Cheboygan (NBC)
8:30 Pink Panther (7 & 4 signed-on late on weekends, sleeping in til 9:30 on Sundays)
10:00 Speed Buggy
10:30 Monster Squad
11:00 Space Ghosts/Frankenstein Jr.
11:30 Big John, Little John
noon Land of the Lost
12:30 Kids from CAPER (return)
1:00 Woody Woodpecker (delayed by 5 hrs)
1:30 Friendly Garden Club
2:00 Grandstand
2:15 Baseball: Philadelphia-Montreal
5:00 Women's International golf
6:30 Peter Marshall (guests Rita Moreno and Ron Palillo, Peter welcomes new regulars Jack Knight and Bill Saluga)
8:00 Emergency!
9:00 Movie "McQ"
11:15 News
11:45 Saturday Night (host Elliot Gould/music from Kate & Anna McGarrigle)

WOTV 8-NBC Grand Rapids
7:00 Agriculture USA
7:30 Cartoons
8:00 Woody Woodpecker
8:30 Pink Panther
10:00 Speed Buggy
10:30 Monster Squad
11:00 Space Ghosts/Frankenstein Jr.
11:30 Big John, Little John
noon Land of the Lost
12:30 Kids from CAPER (return)
1:00 Soul Train (guests Roy Ayers' Ubiquity, Gwen McCrae, and Lonnie Liston Smith)
2:00 Grandstand
2:15 Baseball: Philadelphia-Montreal
5:00 Women's International golf
6:30 Brady Bunch
7:00 Muppet Show (guest Charles Aznavour)
7:30 Gong Show (guest celebs Milton Berle, Ruth Buzzi, and Soupy Sales; Gary Owens hosts)
8:00 Emergency!
9:00 Movie "McQ"
11:15 News
11:45 Saturday Night

CBET 9-CBC Windsor
NHL Playoff coverage may pre-empt programs
7:00 Sesame Street
8:00 Movie "Tarzan's Savage Fury" (bw)
9:30 Look Who's Here (repeat of the 1975 series has Gordon Sinclair interviewing Ma Murray)
10:00 Crosspoint
10:30 Klahanie (winter at Yellowstone)
11:00 Saturday Morning
11:30 Frank De Angelis
12:30 Mr. Chips
1:00 Reach for the Top
1:30 Country Canada
2:00 Saturday Sports: international rugby: England v Scotland/Cdn National Cross-Country Championships
4:00 Canadian National Badminton Championships
5:00 Space: 1999
6:00 CBC News: Saturday Report
6:30 Odd Couple
7:00 Man from UNCLE
8:00 Hijack Munich (this German docudrama re-enacts a 1972 hostage-taking to examine whether to bow to terrorist demands in order to save hostages' lives)
10:30 Northern Express
11:00 The National
11:15 Provincial Affairs
11:20 News
11:50 Movie "No Time for Sergeants" (bw)

WWTV 9-Traverse City/WWUP 10-Sault Ste. Marie (CBS)
8:00 Sylvester & Tweety
8:30 Clue Club
9:00 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
10:00 Tarzan-Lord of the Jungle
10:30 Batman (animated)
11:00 Shazam!/Isis
noon Fat Albert
12:30 Ark II
1:00 Razzmatazz
2:00 Flintstones
2:30 Ara's Sports World (guest Mary Jo Peppler)
3:00 Nashville on the Road
3:30 Davis Cup Tennis: US v South Africa
4:30 CBS Sports Spectacular
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Lawrence Welk (as ch 3)
8:00 Mary Tyler Moore
8:30 Baseball: Detroit-Kansas City
11:00 News
11:15 Movie "Damn the Defiant!" (bw)

WILX 10-NBC Jackson
7:00 and 7:30 Little Rascals (bw)
8:00 Woody Woodpecker
8:30 Pink Panther
10:00 Speed Buggy
10:30 Monster Squad
11:00 Space Ghosts/Frankenstein Jr.
11:30 Big John, Little John
noon Land of the Lost
12:30 Kids from CAPER (return)
1:00 Little Rascals (bw)
1:30 Mod Squad
2:30 Lucy Show
3:00 Greatest Sports Legends: Willie Mays
3:30 Music Hall America (Charley Pride welcomes the Statler Brothers, Diana Trask, Ronnie Milsap, Dave & Sugar, and Billy Braver)
4:30 Bill Dance Outdoors
5:00 Women's International golf
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Muppet Show (guest Candice Bergen)
7:30 Let's Make a Deal
8:00 American Life Style (visiting sites significant to the life of Booker T. Washington)
8:30 Baseball: Detroit-Kansas City
11:00 Break the Bank
11:30 TBA
11:45 Saturday Night

WBKB 11-CBS Alpena
8:00 Sylvester & Tweety
8:30 Clue Club
9:00 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
10:00 Tarzan-Lord of the Jungle
10:30 Batman (animated)
11:00 Shazam!/Isis
noon Fat Albert
12:30 Ark II
1:00 Razzmatazz
2:00 Hot Fudge
2:30 Wrestling
3:30 Davis Cup Tennis: US v South Africa
4:30 CBS Sports Spectacular
6:00 Wonders of the Wild
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Hee Haw (as ch 4)
8:00 Mary Tyler Moore
8:30 Bob Newhart
9:00 All in the Family
9:30 Alice
10:00 Carol Burnett
11:00 Peter Marshall (guests David Steinberg, Orson Bean, Mackenzie Phillips, Lee Horwin, and Freddy Fender)

WJRT 12-ABC Flint
6:30 Junior Almost Anything Goes (as 7:30, ch 7)
7:00 Big Blue Marble
7:30 H.R. Pufnstuf
8:00 Tom & Jerry/Mumbly
8:30 Jabberjaw
9:00 Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt
10:30 Krofft Supershow
11:30 Superfriends
noon ABC Short Story Special "My Dear Uncle Sherlock"
12:30 Impressions
1:00 Open Door
1:30 Racers (Indy action from Phoenix)
2:00 Movie "The Return of Giant Majin"
3:30 Wrestling
4:30 ABC Wide World of Sports
6:00 TV12 Close-Up
6:30 News
7:00 Lawrence Welk (as ch 3)
8:00 Blansky's Beauties
8:30 Fish
9:00 Starsky & Hutch
10:00 Dog & Cat
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying"
1:30 ABC News

WZZM 13-ABC Grand Rapids
7:00 Lone Ranger (bw)
7:30 Cartoons
8:00 Tom & Jerry/Mumbly
8:30 Jabberjaw
9:00 Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt
10:30 Krofft Supershow
11:30 Superfriends
noon ABC Short Story Special "My Dear Uncle Sherlock"
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 Antique Furniture Workshop
2:00 Fishin' Hole
2:30 Wrestling
3:00 Pro Bowling: Toledo Open
4:30 ABC Wide World of Sports
6:00 MONY Tournament of Champions golf
7:00 Hee Haw (as ch 4)
8:00 Blansky's Beauties
8:30 Fish
9:00 Starsky & Hutch
10:00 Dog & Cat
11:00 News
11:30 Hogan's Heroes (bw series pilot, the rest of the series was in color)
mid. Movie "King Rat" (bw)
1:30 ABC News

WCMU 14-Mount Pleasant/WCML 6-Alpena/WUCM 19-Flint (PBS)
7:45 (14/6) Davey & Goliath
8:00 (14/6) Villa Alegre
8:30 (14/6) Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Once Upon a Classic "Little Lord Fauntleroy" (pt 2)
10:30 Zoom
11:00 Infinity Factory
11:30 Rebop
noon Carrascolendas
12:30 Crockett's Victory Garden
1:00 Tennis: River Oaks Invitational semis
5:00 Nova "Dawn of the Solar Age" (a look at solar energy)
6:00 (14/6) Americana
6:00 (19) Firing Line (Sen. Gary Hart (D-CO) debates the oil industry)
6:30 (14/6) Firing Line (as ch 19 at 7)
7:00 (19) Rebop
7:30 Once Upon a Classic "Little Lord Fauntleroy" (pt 3)
8:00 (14/6) Lowell Thomas Remembers (1947)
8:00 (19) Jazz is Alive & Well (features the Preston Love Band)
8:30 The Way It Was (a look at the 1964 USC-Notre Dame game, where the Trojans came back from 17-0 at halftime to beat the Irish 20-17)
9:00 Six American Families (pt 2)
10:00 Movie "L'Avventura" (bw)
12:30 (14/6) Soundstage

WKAR 23-PBS Lansing
8:00 Villa Alegre
8:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Once Upon a Classic "Little Lord Fauntleroy" (pt 2)
10:30 Zoom
11:00 Studio See
11:30 Rebop
noon Carrascolendas
12:30 Nova "Dawn of the Solar Age"
1:30 Tribal Eye
2:30 Findings
3:30 Agronsky at Large
4:00 Tele-Revista
4:30 Off the Record
5:00 Washington Week in Review
5:30 Wall Street Week
6:00 Farm Digest
6:30 Black Perspective on the News
7:00 High School Bowl
7:30 The Way It Was (a look at the Negro baseball leagues)
8:00 Rivals of Sherlock Holmes "The Missing QCs"
9:00 Pallisers (pt 11)
10:00 Movie "L'Avventura" (bw)

WEYI 25-CBS Saginaw
7:00 Yogi & Friends
7:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
8:00 Sylvester & Tweety
8:30 Clue Club
9:00 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
10:00 Tarzan-Lord of the Jungle
10:30 Batman (animated)
11:00 Shazam!/Isis
noon Movie "When the Daltons Rode" (bw)
1:30 Movie "Female on the Beach" (bw)
3:00 Pro Bowling: Toledo Open (ABC, not cleared by 12)
4:30 Name of the Game
6:00 Greatest Sports Legends (Rafer Johnson)
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Music Hall America (Ray Stevens welcomes Chet Atkins, Kenny Rogers, Bo Donaldson & the Heywoods, Lonnie Shorr, and Dean Rutherford)
8:00 Mary Tyler Moore
8:30 Bob Newhart
9:00 All in the Family
9:30 Alice
10:00 Carol Burnett
11:00 700 Club
12:30 Don Kirshner's Rock Concert (no info listed)

WGTU 29-Traverse City/WGTQ 8-Sault Ste. Marie/ch 55 Alpena (ABC)
8:00 Tom & Jerry/Mumbly (another UP late riser, Sunday programs didn't start until 11)
8:30 Jabberjaw
9:00 Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt
10:30 Krofft Supershow
11:30 Superfriends
noon ABC Short Story Special "My Dear Uncle Sherlock"
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 Wally's Workshop
2:00 World of Survival (hedgehogs)
2:30 Big Blue Marble
3:00 Pro Bowling: Toledo Open
4:30 ABC Wide World of Sports
6:00 MONY Tournament of Champions golf
7:00 Fishin' Hole
7:30 American (looks at 17th-century English-speaking settlements in the South)
8:00 Blansky's Beauties
8:30 Fish
9:00 Starsky & Hutch
10:00 Dog & Cat
11:00 ABC News
11:15 Movie "The Ghost of Frankenstein" (bw)

WGVC 35-PBS Grand Rapids
8:00 Villa Alegre
8:30 Electric Company
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Once Upon a Classic "Little Lord Fauntleroy" (pt 2)
10:30 Zoom
11:00 Big Blue Marble
11:30 Basically Baseball
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4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Washington Week in Review
5:30 Wall Street Week
6:00 Consumer Survival Kit
6:30 Off the Record
7:00 Thinking of Holland
8:00 Lowell Thomas Remembers (1948 )
8:30 The Way It Was (as 14/6/19)
9:00 Six American Families (pt 2)
10:00 Movie "L'Avventura" (bw)

WUHQ 41-ABC Battle Creek
7:00 Animal World
7:30 Big Blue Marble
8:00 Tom & Jerry/Mumbly
8:30 Jabberjaw
9:00 Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt
10:30 Krofft Supershow
11:30 Superfriends
noon Disco '77 (Rose Royce welcomes Gloria Gaynor, Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, and Carol Douglas)
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 L'eggs World Series of Women's Tennis semis
3:00 Pro Bowling: Toledo Open
4:30 ABC Wide World of Sports
6:00 MONY Tournament of Champions golf
7:00 Space: 1999
8:00 Blansky's Beauties
8:30 Fish
9:00 Starsky & Hutch
10:00 Dog & Cat
11:00 Green Acres
11:30 Movie "The Killer Shrews" (bw)
1:00 ABC News

WKBD 50-Ind Detroit (the only Detroit UHF channel listed)
Primetime programs may be pre-empted for NBA Playoffs
8:00 Jerry Falwell
9:00 Friends of Man
9:30 Big Blue Marble
10:00 Movie "Diplomatic Courier" (bw)
noon Movie "Return of the Badmen"
1:30 Movie "The Seventh Victim" (bw)
3:00 Movie "Bandido"
5:00 Star Trek
6:00 Emergency One!
7:00 Lawrence Welk (as ch 3)
8:00 Movie "Captain Blood" (bw)
10:00 Lou Gordon (The Freep's Bob Talbert and Smokenders' Jackie Rogers discuss how to stop smoking)
11:45 Saturday Night (NBC, not cleared by 4)
 
Especially nice to see CBS' great Saturday night line-up listed here. At the height of the disco era, when many Baby Boomers were single and dating, people stayed home to watch TV on Saturday night.

Now, CBS and the other networks don't even try to program Saturday night, have given up on the idea of getting people to stay home and just chuck in some re-runs.

This, more than anything, shows the sad state of network television.
 
Bluenoser said:
WKZO 3-CBS Kalamazoo
8:30 Baseball: Detroit-Kansas City
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "The Naked Jungle"
1:00 Movie "Houseboat"

WWJ 4-NBC Detroit
8:30 Baseball: Detroit-Kansas City (ch 4 was originating station for the Tigers Network)
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "The African Queen"

WNEM 5-NBC Bay City
8:30 Baseball: Detroit-Kansas City
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "The Bridge on the River Kwai"

WWTV 9-Traverse City/WWUP 10-Sault Ste. Marie (CBS)
8:30 Baseball: Detroit-Kansas City
11:00 News
11:15 Movie "Damn the Defiant!" (bw)

WILX 10-NBC Jackson
8:30 Baseball: Detroit-Kansas City
11:00 Break the Bank
11:30 TBA
11:45 Saturday Night

Something to note here: While WWJ-TV was the flagship of the Tigers' TV network back then, the team was owned by broadcaster John Fetzer -- two of his stations, WKZO-TV and WWTV/WWUP are part of the network. They certainly had all of Michigan covered back then, and if memory serves me right, the games were also carried in Toledo, Ohio (though I forget which station carried them).
 
Did the old WWJ-4 usually clear "Saturday Night Live" in the Spring of 1977 but didn't this particular week since the late news after the baseball game probably didn't end in-time for the station to pick-up "SNL" from the start??
 
Bluenoser said:
WWJ 4-NBC Detroit
1:00 At the Zoo (Win Eliot)

The actual host was longtime WWJ/WDIV weatherman Sonny Elliot. Win Elliot was a New York-based sports commentator.

Bluenoser said:
WNEM 5-NBC Bay City
7:00 Special Treat "It's a Brand New World" (an animated remedial Bible class for aspiring angels)

Apparently delayed from earlier in the week -- WNEM had shown a 4PM afternoon movie at the time.

Bluenoser said:
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "The Bridge on the River Kwai"

It wasn't until shortly after the original "Not Ready For Prime-Time Players" left the show in 1980 that WNEM picked up SNL -- unless you had cable or lucky enough to get a station in an adjacent market, the only exposure to SNL at the time was the prime-time best-of specials.

Bluenoser said:
WXYZ 7-ABC Detroit
noon ABC Short Story Special "My Dear Uncle Sherlock"

The occasional series that became the weekly "ABC Weekend Special" that fall.

Bluenoser said:
WCMU 14-Mount Pleasant/WCML 6-Alpena/WUCM 19-Flint (PBS)

WUCM was licensed to University Center, an unincorporated part of Bay County located centrally between Bay City, Saginaw and Midland; the area is where WUCM's owner, Delta College, is located. WUCM is now WDCQ, operating in the digital age on a license of a former WUCM satellite licensed to Bad Axe -- the story is so convoluted, I'll let this article speak for itself:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WDCQ-TV

As for Flint, at the time it got a marginal signal from WUCM, as well as WKAR East Lansing and WTVS Detroit -- it would not be until 1980 when Flint's own PBS outlet, WFUM (now WCMU satellite WCMZ) goes on the air, and until 2009 when WDCQ moved its transmitter from Bad Axe to closer to Bay City, providing decent digital coverage to Flint and the Tri-Cities.

Bluenoser said:
WGTU 29-Traverse City/WGTQ 8-Sault Ste. Marie/ch 55 Alpena (ABC)

How long did channel 55 in Alpena last? I thought the Alpena area didn't get local ABC coverage until WBKB started their ABC subchannel earlier this year.

Bluenoser said:
WKBD 50-Ind Detroit (the only Detroit UHF channel listed)
Primetime programs may be pre-empted for NBA Playoffs
10:00 Lou Gordon (The Freep's Bob Talbert and Smokenders' Jackie Rogers discuss how to stop smoking)
11:45 Saturday Night (NBC, not cleared by 4)

Lou Gordon, who would die the following month, was normally 90-minutes, but had 15 extra minutes this night only, due to the unseen NBC movie running long.

Rollo-Smokes said:
...
...the Tigers' TV network back then... certainly had all of Michigan covered back then, and if memory serves me right, the games were also carried in Toledo, Ohio (though I forget which station carried them).

I believe WTOL channel 11 carried the Tigers.
 
WWJ 4-NBC Detroit
6:00 Here Comes the Sun


This wasn't a Beatles infomercial, was it? :eek:
 
Joseph_Gallant said:
Did the old WWJ-4 usually clear "Saturday Night Live" in the Spring of 1977 but didn't this particular week since the late news after the baseball game probably didn't end in-time for the station to pick-up "SNL" from the start??
...no. WWJ-TV/4 did not air NBC's Saturday Night/Saturday Night Live at all for its first seasons, dumping the show off to WKBD/50 starting with the 12 June 1976 broadcast http://vintagetoledotv.squarespace.com/print-ads-wkbd/wkbd-tv-50-print-ads/2250289..
 
Joseph_Gallant said:
Maybe "Here Comes The Sun" was a religious program of Sunrise prayers, perhaps produced in cooperation with the churches of the Detroit area.

The listings have it as a discussion, but doesn't give any more info than that... ???
 
When did "Hee Haw" begin airing on WJBK? I know I recall seeing
a Michigan State edition around 1978 or '79 and it stuck out like
a sore thumb that on Saturdays at 7 "Hee Haw" was on Ch. 2 and
Lawrence Welk on Ch. 3 because we had a similar situation here in
North Carolina: "Hee Haw" on WFMY/2 and Lawrence Welk on WBTV/3,
also Saturdays at 7.
 
Let me rephrase that. When did WJBK begin airing the
syndicated version of "Hee Haw"? I'm quite sure
they carried the CBS version.
 
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