Retro: Northern Michigan, Fri. May 1, 1964

[mjlarochelle]

From the Sault Daily Star - my comments in italics

2 - CJIC-TV (CBC) Sault Ste. Marie, ON
Of note, CJIC in 1964 had a 50-minute long supper-hour newscast, and they provided a newscast for shift workers at 1:30 AM - pretty good for a small-market Canadian station in 1964. CJIC moved to Channel 5 in 1978 and since 2002 it has been a full-time repeater of Toronto's CBLT. Many of the programs listed here are local or syndicated shows as CJIC did not clear much of the CBC schedule at the time.

5:30 PM - Dennis the Menace
6:00 - Camera on Kincheloe
6:05 - Background
6:10 - Telerama (local news, weather, sports)
7:00 - The New Phil Silvers Show
7:30 - The Rifleman
8:00 - Country Hoedown
8:30 - The Defenders
9:30 - Telescope
10:00 - The Eleventh Hour
11:00 - CBC Television News
11:15 - Late Local News, Weather, and Sports
11:40 - Four Star Spectacular - "Night Fighters"
1:30 AM - Shiftworkers' Newscast and Signoff

3 - CKSO-TV-1 (CBC) Elliot Lake, ON
Satellite of CKSO-TV Sudbury, which seems to have shown significantly more of the CBC schedule than CJIC. Has been a CTV affiliate since 1971 and became CICI-TV-1 around 1980, still rebroadcasting CICI-TV Sudbury today.

3:45 PM - Misterogers
4:00 - Sir Francis Duke
4:30 - After School Show
5:00 - Razzle Dazzle
5:30 - News Summary
5:35 - Gunsmoke
6:30 - Weather
6:35 - Sports
6:50 - World TV News
7:00 - Phil Silvers
7:30 - Andy Griffith Show
8:00 - Country Hoedown
8:30 - The Defenders
9:30 - Telescope
10:00 - Dr. Kildare
11:00 - CBC Television News
11:15 - Weather
11:20 - News
11:30 - Night Sports
11:35 - Zero One
12:05 AM - TV Movie "A Swirl of Glory"
1:30 - Nightcap News

4 - WTOM-TV (NBC) Cheboygan, MI
Satellite of WPBN Traverse City. WTOM was broadcasting In Living Color by about 1961 and my grandparents who lived in the area bought their first color TV so they could watch WTOM in color. Said TV was still operating in 2002.

11:15 AM - Sign On and Industry on Parade
12:00 PM - General Hospital
12:30 - Truth or Consequences
12:55 - NBC News
1:00 - Tennessee Ernie Ford
1:30 - Make Room For Daddy
2:00 - Let's Make a Deal
2:25 - NBC News
2:30 - The Doctors
3:00 - Loretta Young Theatre
3:30 - You Don't say
4:00 - Match Game
4:25 - NBC News
4:30 - Your First Impression
5:00 - Trailmaster
6:00 - News, Sports, Weather
6:30 - Huntley-Brinkley Report
7:00 - Limelight
7:30 - International Showtime
8:30 - Bob Hope Show
9:30 - That Was The Week That Was
10:00 - Jack Paar
11:00 - Final Edition and Weather
11:30 - The Tonight Show
12:30 - News Roundup and Sign Off

10 - WWUP-TV (CBS) Sault Ste. Marie, MI
Satellite of WWTV Cadillac

5:00 PM - Mickey Mouse Club
5:30 - Whirlybirds
6:00 - Regional News
6:15 - Sports
6:25 - Weather
6:30 - CBS News
7:00 - Sea Hunt
7:30 - Great Adventure
8:30 - Route 66
9:30 - Twilight Zone
10:00 - Alfred Hitchcock
11:00 - News and Weather
11:10 - Featrure - "The Burglar"

 

[azumanga]

4 - WTOM-TV (NBC) Cheboygan, MI
11:30 - The Tonight Show
12:30 - News Roundup and Sign Off

Wasn't The Tonight Show 90 minutes back then -- find it funny that the station would bail out after 60 minutes and sign off.

Also found it funny that they didn't carry The Today Show or NBC's morning line-up.

 

[TexasTom]

For that matter, it's surprising to see a CBS affiliate (WWUP) that didn't sign on until 5 PM...

 

[Tim L]

4 - WTOM-TV (NBC) Cheboygan, MI
11:30 - The Tonight Show
12:30 - News Roundup and Sign Off

Wasn't The Tonight Show 90 minutes back then -- find it funny that the station would bail out after 60 minutes and sign off.

Also found it funny that they didn't carry The Today Show or NBC's morning line-up.

Even more odd to me is that WSPD-13 Toledo, Ohio, around this same era, came on the air at 7:20 AM and only carried "Today" from 7:30-9AM. One wonders why they couldnt have just come on a half hour earlier and just carried the whole show, which they eventually did anyway..

 

[mjlarochelle]

4 - WTOM-TV (NBC) Cheboygan, MI
11:30 - The Tonight Show
12:30 - News Roundup and Sign Off

Wasn't The Tonight Show 90 minutes back then -- find it funny that the station would bail out after 60 minutes and sign off.

Also found it funny that they didn't carry The Today Show or NBC's morning line-up.

The Tonight Show was 105 minutes long back then - but apparently only 43 out of 190 NBC affiliates carried The Tonight Show in its entirety at that time. In some cases it was because there was an option for affiliates to opt-out of the first 15 minutes so they could carry a full half-hour newscast, and there was even a separate open for viewers of those stations.

 

[mleach]

Even more odd to me is that WSPD-13 Toledo, Ohio, around this same era, came on the air at 7:20 AM and only carried "Today" from 7:30-9AM. One wonders why they couldnt have just come on a half hour earlier and just carried the whole show, which they eventually did anyway..

Or Harrisonburg, VA's WSVA-TV ( WHSV ) signing on the air at 8am back in the 60's and early 70's ( I believe ) and only airing the last hour of NBC's Today. However back in those days Harrisonburg was pretty much a giant farming community ( even many local retail stores such as the Harrisonburg JC Penney at the time didn't open until 11am or even NOON during the week ) so I guess the attitude of the day was "..get them chores done..then watch TV..and/or shop". I dunno !!

 

[bpatrick]

4 - WTOM-TV (NBC) Cheboygan, MI
11:30 - The Tonight Show
12:30 - News Roundup and Sign Off

Wasn't The Tonight Show 90 minutes back then -- find it funny that the station would bail out after 60 minutes and sign off.

Also found it funny that they didn't carry The Today Show or NBC's morning line-up.

The Tonight Show was 105 minutes long back then - but apparently only 43 out of 190 NBC affiliates carried The Tonight Show in its entirety at that time. In some cases it was because there was an option for affiliates to opt-out of the first 15 minutes so they could carry a full half-hour newscast, and there was even a separate open for viewers of those stations.

The Tonight Show didn't cut back to 90 minutes until January 1967. During that time when only a small percentage of NBC affiliates carried the 11:15-11:30 portion, Johnny wouldn't come out. He wanted to save his monologue until the full network was in place, so Ed and the band would handle the first 15 minutes. (BTW, here in North Carolina only one of five stations carrying The Tonight Show aired the 11:15-11:30 portion: WITN Greenville/New Bern/Washington.)

 

[wbhist]

The Tonight Show didn't cut back to 90 minutes until January 1967. During that time when only a small percentage of NBC affiliates carried the 11:15-11:30 portion, Johnny wouldn't come out. He wanted to save his monologue until the full network was in place, so Ed and the band would handle the first 15 minutes. (BTW, here in North Carolina only one of five stations carrying The Tonight Show aired the 11:15-11:30 portion: WITN Greenville/New Bern/Washington.)

Among the majority of stations that only handled the 90 minutes pre-January 1967, as far back as 1963, was New York's WNBC-TV, from whose 6B studios The Tonight Show was based up to 1972, with at least two repeat visits in November 1972 and May 1973.

 

[Ultimajock]

4 - WTOM-TV (NBC) Cheboygan, MI
11:30 - The Tonight Show
12:30 - News Roundup and Sign Off

Wasn't The Tonight Show 90 minutes back then -- find it funny that the station would bail out after 60 minutes and sign off.

Also found it funny that they didn't carry The Today Show or NBC's morning line-up.

...and picked up General Hospital and The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show from ABC...

 

[mjlarochelle]

Or Harrisonburg, VA's WSVA-TV ( WHSV ) signing on the air at 8am back in the 60's and early 70's ( I believe ) and only airing the last hour of NBC's Today. However back in those days Harrisonburg was pretty much a giant farming community ( even many local retail stores such as the Harrisonburg JC Penney at the time didn't open until 11am or even NOON during the week ) so I guess the attitude of the day was "..get them chores done..then watch TV..and/or shop". I dunno !!

CBC O&O stations were still signing on at 10 AM in the mid-70s, and as late as 1986 most were signing on at 9 AM. Global in Ontario didn't sign on until 3 PM daily during its first season in 1974, and TQS in Quebec didn't sign on until 4:30 PM daily when it launched in 1986.

In the mid-70s in Mexico, XHGC-5 was the only Mexico City station signing on before noon, and they showed educational programming during the morning and early afternoon. The rest of the Mexico City stations didn't sign on until mid-afternoon.

 

[kirkiefan]

Did any of these "sattellite" stations in Northern Michigan produce any programming for that area? I remember at one time passing by the WTOM transmitter building on U.S 23 towards Cheboygan. Good sized building I might add,which makes me wonder if there was a studio in that building in the beginning. Since my wife and I were tourists up there in the 1980s(we both love Mackinac and the Soo) I cannot help but wonder if anything was done locally for that tourist-oriented region by WTOM...it just seems unfair to the northern locals that the programming was seemingly geard to residents in the lower penninsula south of the Mackinac Bridge.

 

[mjlarochelle]

Did any of these "sattellite" stations in Northern Michigan produce any programming for that area? I remember at one time passing by the WTOM transmitter building on U.S 23 towards Cheboygan. Good sized building I might add,which makes me wonder if there was a studio in that building in the beginning. Since my wife and I were tourists up there in the 1980s(we both love Mackinac and the Soo) I cannot help but wonder if anything was done locally for that tourist-oriented region by WTOM...it just seems unfair to the northern locals that the programming was seemingly geard to residents in the lower penninsula south of the Mackinac Bridge.

My understanding is WTOM had separate news programming when it was first established. I'm not sure about WWUP.