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Retro: Michigan Tues, Apr 9, 1968

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from TV Guide-Michigan State edition
note: the MI State TVG didn't carry listings for Detroit UHFs

WJBK 2-CBS Detroit
5:45 On the Farm Scene
5:50 News (c)
6:00 Sunrise Semester "Russian Literature" (c)
6:30 Woodrow the Woodsman (c)
7:30 Captain Kangaroo (c, the Captain tells the history of baseball)
8:30 Mr. Ed
9:00 Merv Griffin (c, guest host Henry Morgan/guests George C. Scott, Ultra Violet, Norm Crosby, Betty Walker, Tiger Haynes, and Lynn Kellogg)
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies (c)
11:00 Andy Griffith
11:30 Dick Van Dyke
noon News (c)
12:25 Fashion (c)
12:30 Search for Tomorrow (c)
12:45 Guiding Light (c)
1:00 Love of Life (c)
1:25 CBS News (c)
1:30 As the World Turns (c)
2:00 Love is a Many-Splendored Thing (c)
2:30 House Party (c)
3:00 Divorce Court (c)
3:30 Edge of Night (c)
4:00 Secret Storm (c)
4:30 Mike Douglas (c/guests Martin Landau, Spanky & Our Gang, Gaylord & Holiday, and Jean-Pierre Hallet)
6:00 News (c)
6:30 CBS News (c)
7:00 Truth or Consequences (c)
7:30 Daktari (c)
8:30 Red Skelton (c/guests Nipsey Russell, and the Association)
9:30 Good Morning World (c)
10:00 Great American Novel (c, Eric Sevareid intros a doc/novel combo with Pat Hingle reading Babbitt with a look at Duluth which was the basis for the novel and Richard Boone reading The Grapes of Wrath as cameras show land deserted by a rural family who has moved to Chicago)
11:00 News (c)
11:30 Movie "Lady Possessed"
1:30 Highway Patrol
2:00 Naked City
2:30 News/Weather (c)

WKZO 3-CBS Kalamazoo
6:45 Sunrise Semester (c)
7:15 Farm Show (c)
7:30 News (c)
8:00 Captain Kangaroo (c/a dog and kittens in the pet corner, this ep ran on all Michigan Eye affiliates outside Detroit)
9:00 Clubhouse (c)
9:30 Magic Carpet (c)
9:45 Operation K-9 (c)
10:00 Secret Storm (c)
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies (c)
11:00 Andy Griffith
11:30 Dick Van Dyke
noon Love of Life (c)
12:25 CBS News (c)
12:30 Search for Tomorrow (c)
12:45 Guiding Light (c)
1:00 Accent (c)
1:25 CBS News (c)
1:30 As the World Turns (c)
2:00 Love is a Many-Splendored Thing (c)
2:30 House Party (c)
3:00 To Tell the Truth (c)
3:25 CBS News (c)
3:30 Edge of Night (c)
4:00 Movie "The Singing Kid"
5:55 Tiger Talk (c)
6:00 News (c)
6:10 Market & Business News (c)
6:15 News (c)
6:30 CBS News (c)
7:00 Movie "I Want a Divorce"
8:30 Red Skelton (c)
9:30 Death Valley Days
10:00 Great American Novel (c)
11:00 News (c)
11:30 Tiger Talk (c/3 was part of the Tigers TV Network, along with WJBK (who originated coverage), WNEM, WJIM, and WWTV)
11:35 Double Feature Movie "The Citadel"/"The Glory Brigade"

WWJ 4-NBC Detroit
6:00 Classroom (looks at crimes of vice and their impact on policing)
6:30 Ed Allen (c)
7:00 Today (c, guests Michael J, Pollard and Haim Ginott, as well as a spring training report; news at 7:25/8:25)
9:00 Steve Allen (c/guests George Jessel, Stella Stevens, John Byner, and the Sunshine Company)
10:00 Snap Judgment (c)
10:25 NBC News (c)
10:30 Concentration (c)
11:00 Personality (c)
11:30 Hollywood Squares (c)
noon Jeopardy (c)
12:30 Eye Guess (c)
1:00 Match Game (c)
1:25 Carol Duvall (c)
1:30 Let's Make a Deal (c)
2:00 Days of Our Lives (c)
2:30 Doctors (c)
3:00 Another World (c)
3:30 You Don't Say! (c)
4:00 Woody Woodbury (c/guests Keir Dullea, Chill Wills, Jerry Shayne, Mara Lynn Brown, Malcolm Hayes, and the Sundae Flavour)
5:30 George Pierrot (c)
6:00 News (c)
6:30 NBC News (c)
7:00 News (c)
7:30 Weekend (c)
8:00 Jerry Lewis (c/guests Mel Torme and Nanette Fabray)
9:00 Movie "Bedtime Story" (c)
11:00 News (c)
11:30 Tonight Show (c, no info listed)
1:00 Beat the Champ
1:30 PDQ (c)

WTOM 4-Cheboygan/WPBN 7-Traverse City (ABC/NBC)
7:00 Today (c, news at 7:25/8:25)
9:00 Junior High Science
9:30 Treasure Isle
10:00 Snap Judgment (c)
10:25 NBC News (c)
10:30 Concentration (c)
11:00 Personailty (c)
11:30 Hollywood Squares (c)
noon Jeopardy (c)
12:30 Eye Guess (c)
1:00 Dream House (c)
1:30 Let's Make a Deal (c)
2:00 Days of Our Lives (c)
2:30 Doctors (c)
3:00 Another World (c)
3:30 You Don't Say!
4:00 Dark Shadows
4:30 General Hospital
5:00 Dating Game
5:30 Newlywed Game
6:00 News
6:30 NBC News (c)
7:00 NYPD
7:30 I Dream of Jeannie (c)
8:00 Jerry Lewis (c)
9:00 Movie "Bedtime Story" (c)
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show (c)

WNEM 5-NBC Saginaw
5:40 Thought for Today
5:45 This is the Life
6:15 Understanding Our World (history of the trombone)
6:45 News/Weather/Sports
9:00 Movie "Raffles"
10:25 NBC News (c)
10:30 Concentration (c)
11:00 Personality (c)
11:30 Hollywood Squares (c)
noon Jeopardy (c)
12:30 Eye Guess (c)
1:00 Mike Douglas (c/guests include Ozzie and Harriet Nelson, Bobby Rydell, Bach Yen, and Eddie Rickenbacker)
2:00 Days of Our Lives (c)
2:30 Doctors (c)
3:00 Another World (c)
3:30 You Don't Say! (c)
4:00 Timmy & Lassie
4:30 Merv Griffin (c, co-host Orson Bean/guests Gore Vidal, Kitty Carlisle, Allen & Rossi, Aldrich & Darling, Judd Strunk, Lee Meza, and Joyce Brothers)
6:00 News
6:30 NBC News (c)
7:00 I Love Lucy
7:30 I Dream of Jeannie (c)
8:00 Jerry Lewis (c)
9:00 Movie "Bedtime Story" (c)
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show (c)
1:00 News
1:05 Movie "Chicken Every Sunday"

WJIM 6-CBS Lansing
7:00 Thought for the Day
7:05 CBS News (c)
7:30 Sunrise Semester "Russian Literature" (c)
8:00 Captain Kangaroo (c)
9:00 Merv Griffin (c, guest host Henry Morgan/guests Eli Wallach, Hans Conreid, and Susan Strasberg)
10:00 Copper Kettle (c)
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies (c)
11:00 Andy Griffith
11:30 Dick Van Dyke
noon News (c)
12:15 Circadia (c)
12:30 Search for Tomorrow (c)
12:45 Guiding Light (c)
1:00 Love of Life (c)
1:25 CBS News (c)
1:30 As the World Turns (c)
2:00 Love is a Many-Splendored Thing (c)
2:30 House Party (c)
3:00 To Tell the Truth (c)
3:25 CBS News (c)
3:30 Edge of Night (c)
4:00 Secret Storm (c)
4:30 Virginia Graham (c)
5:00 Al E. Khatt & the Mayor (c)
5:30 Flintstones (c)
6:00 News (c)
6:30 CBS News (c)
7:00 Formula (c)
7:30 Daktari (c)
8:30 Red Skelton (c)
9:30 Good Morning World (c)
10:00 Great American Novel (c)
11:00 News (c)
11:20 Movie "Hell's Five Hours"

WXYZ 7-ABC Detroit
7:00 Morning Show (c/guests Joe Falls with Tigers opening day ceremonies, and Dr. Robert Ellis)
8:30 Movie "The Keys of the Kingdom"
10:00 Virginia Graham (c/guest Paula Carlesi)
10:30 Dick Cavett (c/guests Dick Benjamin, Paula Prentiss, and Wes Montgomery)
noon Bewitched
12:30 Treasure Isle (c)
1:00 Dream House (c)
1:30 Wedding Party (c)
2:00 Newlywed Game (c)
2:30 Baby Game (c)
2:55 Children's Doctor (c)
3:00 General Hospital (c)
3:30 Dark Shadows (c)
4:00 Dating Game (c)
4:30 News/Weather (c)
5:30 ABC News (c)
6:00 Movie "The Kid from Left Field"
7:30 Garrison's Gorillas (c)
8:30 It Takes a Thief (c)
9:30 NYPD (c)
10:00 Ernie Kovacs (a clip show from his 61-62 specials)
11:00 News (c)
11:30 Joey Bishop (c/Totie Fields pinch hits)
1:00 News

WOOD 8-NBC Grand Rapids
6:30 Ed Allen (c)
7:00 Today (c/news at 7:25 and 8:25)
9:00 Romper Room (c)
9:30 Cartoon Carnival
10:00 Snap Judgment (c)
10:25 NBC News (c)
10:30 Concentration (c)
11:00 Personality (c)
11:30 Hollywood Squares (c)
noon Jeopardy (c)
12:30 News/Weather (c)
1:00 Merv Griffin (c, no info listed)
2:00 Days of Our Lives (c)
2:30 Doctors (c)
3:00 Another World (c)
3:30 You Don't Say! (c)
4:00 Popeye Theater (c)
4:25 News (c)
4:30 Mike Douglas (c/see 5, 1pm for guests)
6:00 News (c)
6:30 NBC News (c)
7:00 Four Winds to Adventure (c)
7:30 I Dream of Jeannie (c)
8:00 Jerry Lewis (c)
9:00 Movie "Bedtime Story" (c)
11:00 News (c)
11:30 Tonight Show (c)

CKLW 9-CBC Windsor
Evening programs may be pre-empted by NHL Playoffs
7:55 Morgan's Merry-Go-Round
8:00 Upside Town
8:30 Bonnie Prudden (c)
9:00 Bozo the Clown (c)
10:00 Mr. Dressup
10:30 Friendly Giant
10:45 Ontario Schools
11:15 Canadian Schools
11:45 Chez Helene
noon Take 30 (1 day delay)
12:30 Movie "The Wrong Man"
3:00 Pat Boone (c/guests Jack Benny, Dennis Day, Don Wilson, Deana Martin, Larry Hankin, and Jan Murray)
4:00 Swingin' Time (c)
5:00 Bozo the Clown (c)
5:30 Fun House (c)
6:00 Dennis the Menace
6:30 F Troop (c)
7:00 Movie "Most Dangerous Man Alive"
8:55 News (c)
9:00 TBA
10:00 Newsmagazine (looks at the new Liberal leader, Pierre Trudeau...no word as to who he said was Number 1 first :D)
10:30 Public Eye (looks at recent events in Eastern Europe, concentrating on Czechoslovakia)
11:00 CBC/Local News
11:30 Movie: TBA
1:00 Window on the World

WWTV 9-ABC/CBS Cadillac
7:15 Farm Show (c)
7:30 News (c)
8:00 Captain Kangaroo (c)
9:00 Bewitched
9:30 University of Michigan Television
10:00 Candid Camera
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies (c)
11:00 Andy Griffith
11:30 Dick Van Dyke
noon Love of Life (c)
12:25 CBS News (c)
12:30 Search for Tomorrow (c)
12:45 Guiding Light (c)
1:00 News/Weather/Sports
1:15 Accent
1:30 As the World Turns (c)
2:00 Love is a Many-Splendored Thing (c)
2:30 House Party (c)
3:00 To Tell the Truth (c)
3:25 CBS News (c)
3:30 Edge of Night (c)
4:00 Secret Storm (c)
4:30 Dating Game
5:00 Journey to the Center of the Earth
5:30 George of the Jungle
6:00 News
6:30 CBS News (c)
7:00 Eye on Michigan
7:30 Daktari (c)
8:30 Red Skelton (c)
9:30 Good Morning World (c)
10:00 Great American Novel (c)
11:00 News
11:30 Route 66

WILX 10-NBC/WMSB 10-NET Jackson/Lansing (WILX was based in Jackson, and WMSB at MSU; the time-share lasted until 1972 when the educational programs moved to ch23 and WILX became full-time NBC)
7:00 Today (c/news at 7:25 and 8:25)
9:00 Today in Michigan
9:25 Pathways to Faith
9:30 Classroom Television "Social Studies"
10:00 Land of Play
10:30 Classroom Television "Art"
11:00 Classroom Television "Music"
11:15 Davey & Goliath
11:30 Understanding Our World "Harp and Violin"
noon Harvest
12:30 Cities of the World "Mary McCarthy's Paris"
1:00 Antiques
1:30 Classroom Television "Art"
2:00 Days of Our Lives (c)
2:30 Doctors (c)
3:00 Another World (c)
3:30 You Don't Say! (c)
4:00 Match Game (c)
4:25 News (c)
4:30 Mike Douglas (c/see 2, 4:30pm for guests)
6:00 News (c)
6:30 NBC News (c)
7:00 Assignment 10 "Who Gets Rich on Wrecks?" (looks at proposed no-fault auto insurance)
7:30 I Dream of Jeannie (c)
8:00 Jerry Lewis (c)
9:00 Movie "Bedtime Story" (c)
11:00 News (c)
11:30 Tonight Show (c)
1:00 News

WJRT 12-ABC Flint
7:00 Circadia (c)
7:30 Rae Deane & Friends (c)
8:30 Dating Game
9:00 Junior High Science
9:30 Pat Boone (c/guests Frank Sinatra Jr., Don Rickles, Cesar Romero, and Judy Carne)
10:30 Dick Cavett (c)
noon Bewitched
12:30 Movie "Lucy Gallant"
2:00 Newlywed Game (c)
2:30 Divorce Court (c)
3:00 General Hospital (c)
3:30 Dark Shadows (c)
4:00 Bozo's Big Top (c)
5:00 Rifleman
5:30 ABC News (c)
6:00 News (c)
6:30 Twilight Zone
7:00 Truth or Consequences (c)
7:30 Garrison's Gorillas (c)
8:30 It Takes a Thief (c)
9:30 NYPD (c)
10:00 Ernie Kovacs
11:00 News (c)
11:30 Joey Bishop (c/guest host Totie Fields)

WZZM-ABC: 13 Grand Rapids/12 Kalamazoo (TVG listed both, as 13-12 with 12 using a white bullet)
6:30 TV College
7:00 Daybreak 13
8:25 Jack LaLanne
8:50 Daybreak 13
9:00 Modern Supervision
9:30 Classroom Television
10:00 Dating Game
10:30 Dick Cavett (c)
noon Bewitched
12:25 News
12:30 Movie "Ghost Diver"
1:55 News
2:00 Newlywed Game (c)
2:30 Baby Game (c)
2:55 Children's Doctor (c)
3:00 General Hospital (c)
3:30 Dark Shadows (c)
4:00 Bozo Circus
5:00 You Asked for It
5:15 News
5:30 ABC News (c)
6:00 McHale's Navy
6:30 Truth or Consequences (c)
7:00 Marshal Dillon (Gunsmoke)
7:30 Garrison's Gorillas (c)
8:30 It Takes a Thief (c)
9:30 NYPD (c)
10:00 Ernie Kovacs
11:00 News
11:30 Joey Bishop (c/guest host Totie Fields)
1:00 Reflections

WKNX 25-CBS Saginaw
7:00 News
7:05 CBS News (c)
7:30 News (c)
8:00 Captain Kangaroo (c)
9:00 Captain Kangaroo (not sure what the story is here, no details listed)
9:30 Jack LaLanne
10:00 Candid Camera
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies (c)
11:00 Andy Griffith
11:30 Dick Van Dyke
noon Love of Life (c)
12:25 CBS News (c)
12:30 Search for Tomorrow (c)
12:45 Guiding Light (c)
1:00 Dream Game (c)
1:30 As the World Turns (c)
2:00 Love is a Many-Splendored Thing (c)
2:30 House Party (c)
3:00 To Tell the Truth (c)
3:25 CBS News (c)
3:30 Edge of Night (c)
4:00 Secret Storm (c)
4:30 Treasure Isle
5:00 Wedding Party
5:30 Baby Game
5:55 Wheel of Fortune
6:00 News
6:30 CBS News (c)
7:00 McHale's Navy
7:30 Daktari (c)
8:30 Red Skelton (c)
9:30 Good Morning World (c)
10:00 Great American Novel (c)
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "Top of the World"
 
By the time I was living in Lansing the time share on Channel 10 had gone away.
Just curious how that worked. Did each station transmit from their own facility, or
did they just hand off the feed and send out over the same transmitter and tower?

If they each had their own, did they do a formal sign-off/sign-on at the handover?
If they each had their own transmitter I suppose you had to go lunging for the
rotor or the rabbit ears several times per day?
 
The switching was done in Onondaga at the transmitter. Occassionally when NBC had a special, like with Bob Hope or something, or a News event like assassinations, space shot or political coverage or a sports event like football or baseball came on WMSB-TV would let WILX-TV have Channel 10. And both stations would do a formal sign-on/off.
 
BobbyNBC10 said:
The switching was done in Onondaga at the transmitter. Occassionally when NBC had a special, like with Bob Hope or something, or a News event like assassinations, space shot or political coverage or a sports event like football or baseball came on WMSB-TV would let WILX-TV have Channel 10. And both stations would do a formal sign-on/off.
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Let's see here ... so, WILX would sign on right before The Today Show, and then do a formal sign-off at 9:30 a.m., when WMSB did its formalities, and then the reverse happened at 2 p.m., when the ETV schedule was finished for the day? Or did each station run its FCC info back-to-back in the morning and after the late news update at 1 a.m., with a brief segue between the two transitions?

I would imagine such a segue at 9:30 a.m. saying something like, "This is WILX-TV, Jackson-Lansing, ending this portion of our broadcast day. We now turn over channel 10 to WMSB-TV, the television station of Michigan State University broadcasting programs from National Educational Television and other sources for the educational needs of the schoolchildren of central Michigan. WILX-TV will return to this channel at 2 p.m. Until then, have a good day." Likewise, at 2 p.m., "WMSB-TV, the educational television station of Michigan State University, now completes its programming day. WMSB-TV is an affiliate of the National Educational Television network; some of the programs seen today were recorded for broadcast. Channel 10 will return to the programs of WILX-TV, your NBC affiliate, in just a moment. In the meantime, thank you for watching and we will return tomorrow (Monday) at 9:30 a.m. with more programs to serve the schoolchildren and the viewers of central Michigan. Have a good day."

Is that plausible, either as a segue or a formal sign-on/off? Man, what one would not give to have an audio recording of such handovers. If I am correct, I believe this situation was the only known time-share arrangement between a commercial and a public broadcaster in the U.S.--it certainly was by 1968.
 
Mike, at 7pm after Huntley-Brinkley WMSB-TV would return for half an hour or an hour most nights for something from WMSB-TV or NET/PBS until 1972. I do remember The Monkees being tape delayed in both seasons by WILX-TV until Saturday afternoon/evening before NBC weekend news and in the second and fourth seasons I Dream of Jeannie was tape delayed til Saturdays and also NBC Saturday Cartoons played on Sundays on WILX-TV. I think WMSB-Tv was on for like 3 or 4 hours unless NBC Sports had football or something on and at 11pm on Sundays WMSB-TV would be on for soemthing from NET/PBS.

I remember WILX-Tv going Full Time NBC in 1972, and WKAR-TV returning the same day 9/10/1972. WMSB is now an FM station licensed to Mississippi State U. at Oxford. And billboards all over Lansing,Jackson and Battle Creek saying "Now There Are Two Full Time Network Stations in Mid-Michigan". The ads were also in TV Guide and every Mid-Michigan newspaper.
 
BobbyNBC10 said:
Mike, at 7pm after Huntley-Brinkley WMSB-TV would return for half an hour or an hour most nights for something from WMSB-TV or NET/PBS until 1972. I do remember The Monkees being tape delayed in both seasons by WILX-TV until Saturday afternoon/evening before NBC weekend news and in the second and fourth seasons I Dream of Jeannie was tape delayed til Saturdays and also NBC Saturday Cartoons played on Sundays on WILX-TV. I think WMSB-Tv was on for like 3 or 4 hours unless NBC Sports had football or something on and at 11pm on Sundays WMSB-TV would be on for soemthing from NET/PBS.

I remember WILX-Tv going Full Time NBC in 1972, and WKAR-TV returning the same day 9/10/1972. WMSB is now an FM station licensed to Mississippi State U. at Oxford. And billboards all over Lansing,Jackson and Battle Creek saying "Now There Are Two Full Time Network Stations in Mid-Michigan". The ads were also in TV Guide and every Mid-Michigan newspaper.
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BobbyNBC10, that info even whets my appetite further. So, there was a switchover for just 30 minutes before NBC prime time. With that, I suspect that neither station would have gone to the trouble to provide a full transition ID spiel. Even so, I wonder how newcomers to the area, not aware of the long-standing arrangement, would have felt when Huntley-Brinkley gave way to documentaries on the American Indian or Julia Child's French Chef, programs even the least sophisticated viewer would know that NBC never aired.

Still, the arrangement made sense, really, when you read about the present WKAR on Wikipedia. According to that story (no guarantees of its veracity), Michigan State tried on UHF channel 60 back in the 1950s, but couldn't make a go of it because of technical conditions and the converters that people would have to buy (and wouldn't, just for an educational channel that they wouldn't watch most of the time anyway). So, with only one VHF frequency available, MSU joined up with the new WILX to share channel 10.

Since, at the time, educational TV was just that--programming meant to aid the teacher in the classroom--it really was not justifiable to have a full-time station for just the school hours in those days, when one thinks about it. Also, with NBC's daytime lineup an unproven commodity (compared to CBS), WILX got the double benefit of cutting operation expenses for part of the day (although losing advertising) and being able to present to the FCC a sterling, spotless reputation for providing "public service" to viewers, a requirement that other stations satisfied by running government films after sign-on and before sign-off or local public affairs snoozefests on Sunday mornings. One drawback would have been NBC's ire at seeing a large part of its broadcast schedule pre-empted in the market; however, some viewers with powerful antennas probably could have reeled in Detroit's WWJ (now WDIV) or maybe Grand Rapids' WOOD for NBC daytime. The pre-emptions probably became a problem as the 1960s wore on and NBC became the dominant network in the mornings (with game shows, while CBS ruled the afternoons with soaps).

What is shocking to me is that other states and colleges didn't explore that option, instead of insisting upon building full-power, full-time stations of their own, stations that, in the 1960s and 1970s, often sat idle for much of the day, in some cases not even signing on at all on weekends (one example being Evansville, Indiana's WNIN, which, from a 1974 listing that I have, did not broadcast on Saturdays, and only in the evening on Sundays). Overhead in terms of salaries might well have been the same for either a part- or full-time NET/PBS operation, though, so maybe that was the factor that propelled most other parts of the country toward stand-alone ETV service.

Of course, with UHF now mandatory in all TV sets (and vastly improved in quality since the 1950s) and with PBS aggressively building a full-day network lineup, MSU decided to bail out of the arrangement (with certain gratitude to WILX for the years of ad revenue sacrifices and heat from NBC it endured) and go full-time again in 1972, this time for good. The explosive popularity of Sesame Street and Mister Rogers probably was another factor--I'm not sure if the arrangement left time for WMSB to run those on the weekdays or not; perhaps you might fill us in on this. We know from previous posts that a parents' group actually bought time on a Shreveport, Louisiana commercial station to run Sesame (no PBS service there at the time), so I'm sure that if it did not run in Lansing, parents were on the warpath there as well.

Any other observations?
 
I do remember in the summer of 1970, or thereabouts, WILX-TV started to tape delay Concentration, Hollywood Squares and Jeopardy! to 3-4:30pm daily before Mike Douglas came on. I was happy when WILX started to air NBC's 3 best game shows. I guess NBC pressured them to carry the shows.

But all of NBC's games and soaps were carried by WILX starting in 9/1972. In the 1960's the only games from NBc WILX aired were You Don't Say and the original Match Game.
 
Mike Stroud said:
What is shocking to me is that other states and colleges didn't explore that option, instead of insisting upon building full-power, full-time stations of their own, stations that, in the 1960s and 1970s, often sat idle for much of the day, in some cases not even signing on at all on weekends (one example being Evansville, Indiana's WNIN, which, from a 1974 listing that I have, did not broadcast on Saturdays, and only in the evening on Sundays).
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The St. Lawrence Valley Educational Television Council in Watertown, New York existed as early as 1958, and broadcast educational programming including NET/PBS programming on WCNY (later WWNY) 7 until 1971, when the council started its own independent PBS station, now known as WPBS.

That's the closest situation I can think of to WILX/WMSB.
 
BobbyNBC10 said:
The switching was done in Onondaga at the transmitter. Occassionally when NBC had a special, like with Bob Hope or something, or a News event like assassinations, space shot or political coverage or a sports event like football or baseball came on WMSB-TV would let WILX-TV have Channel 10. And both stations would do a formal sign-on/off.
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When I lived there they were actually ID'ing themselves as "WILX-TV Channel 10, Onondaga". Filled up the screen
almost as much as the Baycitysaginawmidlandflint stations to the east.

I know the British ITV transmitters had a very formal hand-off, sign-on and sign-off procedure whenever the feed would hand off to another provider. Thought perhaps it was the same here.
 
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