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RETRO: New York City TV - Friday, Jan. 31, 1969 (UHF's)

(SOURCE: TV Guide, New York Metropolitan Edition, Jan. 25-31, 1969 issue)
(C) - in color

WNYE-TV 25 (Educational; owned by Board of Education of City of New York)
9:05 Classroom

12:00 Classroom

WNYC-TV 31 ("Independent"; owned by Municipal Broadcasting System)
10:00 Staff Meeting - "All My Rainbows"
11:00 Human Rights Forum - "The Politics of Confrontation" (C)

12:00 Films - 1. "A Shoebox Full of Dreams"
2. "How Good Are Our Schools? - Dr. Conant Reports" (narrated by Ralph Bellamy)
1:00 Interlude
3:00 Young Musical Artists (pianist Craig Sheppard performs selections by Bach, Schumann and Debussy)
3:30 Navy Film (C)
4:00 Around the Clock (produced by New York Police Department)
4:30 Perspective
5:00 Films from France
5:30 Wings to the World

6:00 Staten Island Today - "Staten Island Commerce and Industry" (guest: Edward W. Thompson, president of the Staten Island Chamber of Commerce) (C)
6:30 News - Paul Manacher (C)
7:00 Consultants at Large (guest: Dr. Albert Weeks)
7:30 Brooklyn College (guest: actress Irene Dailey)
8:00 Film
8:30 Astronomy - "The Rotation of the Earth" (lecturer: Professor Harry Crull)
9:00 Sight and Sound (guest: folk singer Robert Edwin) (C)
9:30 News - Herbert Boland (C)
9:45 Film
10:00 In the Law Library
10:30 Latin America - "Latin America on the Eve of Nationhood" and "The Wars for Independence in World Perspective"
followed by sign-off

WNJU-TV 47 (Independent; owned by New Jersey Television Broadcasting Corp.)
5:25 News
5:30 Movie: "Persecsion Sin Tregua" (1947; dubbed in Spanish) - Steve Brodie, Nan Leslie
7:00 Habla El Duque de Casalta (C)
7:30 Club de la Familia (C)
8:00 Movie: "La Marca Del Cuervo" (1958; in Spanish) - Tony Aguilar, Marta Valdes
9:30 Spanish Drama
10:00 Variety Hour with Jose Lanza (C)
10:30 News - Kevin Corrigan (C)
10:45 Variety Hour (continued) (C)
11:15 Movie (repeat of 5:30 P.M. showing)
12:45 News - Arturo Rodriguez
followed by sign-off

(NOTE: WLIW-TV 21 [owned by the Long Island Educational Television Council] and WXTV 41 [owned by Trans-Tel Corp. and affiliated with SIN] were already on the air at this point, but their program listings were not yet in TV Guide; WXTV would be added to the lineup with the June 21-27, 1969 issue, and WLIW-TV would be added in 1970.)
 
These are very interesting schedules for me -- just a few months after this, my family moved from suburban New Joisey to Florida. I remember being quite chagrined upon moving and finding that I could only pick up 4 stations, versus the dozen or so I got in NJ. :mad: We wouldn't have that many channels again until our first venture into cable a couple years later (a basic 12-channel system, though even several of those were "filler").
 
True, it did seem that of the UHF's whose schedules were printed in TV Guide back then, WNYC had the fuller schedule from sign-on to sign-off compared with the others.
 
In the interests of full coverage, here are the listings of WLIW-TV 21 and WXTV 41, plus full listings of WNYE-TV 25, from the Jan. 31, 1969 issues of The New York Times, Daily News and New York Post:

WLIW-TV 21
Morning
9:30-11:30 School Television Service
Afternoon
5:00 Children's Fair
5:30 Survival in the Sea
Evening
6:00 Playing the Guitar
6:30 History of Latin America
7:30 Eye on the Universe
8:00 Open Hearing on Long Island Rail Road
9:00 Special (per New York Post; not mentioned in either Times or Daily News)
followed by sign-off

WNYE-TV 25 (full listings)
Morning
9:05 Board of Education Bulletin
9:10 Come Read to Me a Poem
9:30 Discover New York
9:50 Music U.S.A.
10:10 African Anthology
10:30 Stepping Into Rhythm
10:45 All About You
11:00 United Nations
11:20 Math 7
11:40 Cover to Cover
Afternoon
12:00 Community Report
12:30 Creative Person
1:00 Stepping Into Rhythm
1:15 Magic of Words
1:30 Children of Other Lands
1:50 African Anthology
2:10 Look to the Future
2:30 Feature Story
3:00 Programs of General Interest
3:30 Community Report
4:00 Creative Persons
4:30 sign-off

WXTV 41
(all Evening)
6:00 Comicos y Conciones
6:30 Detras del Muro
7:00 El Reporter (News in Spanish) (C)
7:30 Adriana
8:00 Alegrias Selio Rojo
8:30 Super Show de Los Hermanos Castro
9:00 Dona Macabra
9:30 La Taberna India (C)
10:00 Enganame
10:30 TV Musical
11:00 El Reporter (News in Spanish) (C)
11:25 Focus: New Jersey (C) (In English)
followed by sign-off
 
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