RETRO: Minneapolis/St. Paul, Saturday, October 4, 1969

[Wright County Guy]

From the Minneapolis Tribune (via newspapers.com). Listings come again from a grid with a few programming highlights listed with the grid. Of note (and mentioned in an article above the listings): CBS slipped to 3rd place for the first time in network history during the week of September 22-28, 1969, behind NBC (1st) and ABC (2nd).

KTCA-2 NET

No programming listed

WCCO-4 CBS

7:00 Jetsons
7:30 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
8:30 Dastardly and Muttley
9:00 Penelope Pitstop
9:30 Scooby Doo
10:00 Archie
11:00 Monkees
11:30 Wacky Races
12n News
12:30 Hobby-Jobs
1:00 Thunderbirds
2:00 Movie: “Abbott and Costello Go to Mars” (1953 clunker with Bud and Lou)
3:30 Movie: “Francis” (1950 movie that started “The Talking Mule” series)
5:00 Lassie
5:30 CBS News (Roger Mudd)
6:00 News
6:30 Jackie Gleason
7:30 My Three Sons
8:00 Green Acres
8:30 Petticoat Junction
9:00 Mannix (Mike Brady himself, Robert Reed, guest stars)
10:00 News
10:45 Movie: “Tip on a Dead Jockey” (1957)
12:45 This Must be the Place (Local music show)

KSTP-5 NBC

7:00 Heckle and Jeckle
8:00 The Grump
8:30 Pink Panther
9:00 H.R. Pufnstuf
9:30 Banana Splits Adventure Hour
10:30 Jambo
11:00 Flintstones
11:30 Football Pregame (either a typo or an odd programming choice since…)
12n MLB Playoffs: Minnesota at Baltimore
3:00 MLB PLayoffs: NY Mets at Atlanta
6:00 News
6:30 Andy Williams (with guests Kate Smith, Johnny Cash, and Jonathan Winters)
7:30 Adam-12
8:00 Movie: “Arabesque” (1966, Sophia Loren)
10:15 News
10:45 Tonight Show
12:15 Movie: “Spellbound” (Gregory Peck)

KMSP-9 ABC

7:00 Casper
7:30 Smokey the Bear
8:00 Cattanooga Cats
9:00 Hot Wheels
9:30 Hardy Boys
10:00 Skyhawks
10:30 Adventures of Gulliver
11:00 Fantastic Voyage
11:30 American Bandstand
12:30 Stories of the Century
1:00 Movie: “Curse of the Werewolf” (Oliver Reed, 1961)
2:30 Movie: “McHale’s Navy Joins the Air Force” (1966, Tim Conway and company)
4:00 Wide World of Sports (Power boat racing and parachute championships!)
5:30 Mister Roberts
6:00 All-American College Show (with Dean Martin, Lee Grant, and Glenn Ford)
6:30 Dating Game
7:00 Newlywed Game
7:30 Lawrence Welk
8:30 College Football: Mississippi/Alabama
11:30 Movie: “Sea Chase” (you got a choice of John Wayne movies tonight)

WTCN-11 Ind.

7:00 Inspiration; News
7:30 Military Report
8:00 Farm Forum
8:30 4-H Show
9:00 Hi, Jerry
9:30 Junior Auction
10:00 To Be Announced
11:00 This Week in Pro Football
11:55 Baseball Pregame
12n MLB Playoffs: Minnesota at Baltimore
3:15 Scoreboard
3:30 Skippy
4:00 Outdoors (incomplete title)
4:30 Scene 70
5:30 Death Valley Days
6:00 Wrestling
7:30 Wagon Train
9:00 Playboy After Dark (Don Rickles, Shecky Greene, and um… Bill Cosby)
10:00 Tightrope
10:30 Movie: “Sands of Iwo Jima” (1949 Action classic with John Wayne)
12:30 Movie: “South of Tahiti” (1941 adventure yarn)

KTCI-17 Educ.

No programming listed

 

[RandTV]

Just about a year before the Minneapolis-based "Mary Tyler Moore Show" debuted, and boosted CBS's ratings. I have the Twin Cities schedule from its debut day (September 19, 1970).

 

[Joseph_Gallant]

In the early years of Major League Baseball's League Championship Series, not only could a regular season TV flagship of a participating team carry that series, but could originate their own telecasts.

I recall that in 1975, the Boston Red Sox played the Oakland Athletics in the American League Championship series, and the Red Sox regular season TV flagship WSBK-38 produced their own broadcasts of the games.

Today, local TV flagships of MLB clubs can't carry postseason games. Local radio flagship stations can produce local radio broadcasts of postseason games, but I believe they must carry commercials also aired on the national (ESPN Radio) broadcast and in the case of the World Series, only the flagship station can carry the local broadcast with the other stations of the team's regional radio network required to carry the national radio broadcast. I believe that the same situation exists for the Super Bowl, the Stanley Cup finals, and the NBA finals.