Retro: Ocala, Florida Wed, July 15, 1970

[Bluenoser]

from TV Screen Day by Day
Listings begin at 7am

WESH 2-NBC Daytona Beach Cable 2 in Ocala
7:00 Today (State News/Weather at 7:25/8:25)
9:00 Hazel
9:30 Dennis the Menace
10:00 Snap Judgment
10:25 NBC News
10:30 Concentration
11:00 Personality
11:30 Hollywood Squares
noon Jeopardy
12:30 Eye Guess
12:55 NBC News
1:00 Newscope
1:30 Hidden Faces
2:00 Days of Our Lives
2:30 Doctors
3:00 Another World
3:30 You Don't Say!
4:00 Mike Douglas
5:30 News
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7:00 I Love Lucy
7:30 Virginian
9:00 Kraft Music Hall (Des O'Connor welcomes Vikki Carr, George Gobel, Mrs. Mills, and Roy Hudd)
10:00 Then Came Bronson
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show
1:00 News

WEDU 3-NET Tampa Cable 3
Evening listings only
5:30 What's New
6:00 World History
7:00 American History
8:00 Maggie & the Beautiful Machine
8:30 Evening at Pops (guest Peter Nero)
9:30 Book Beat
10:00 Matters of State

WJXT 4-CBS Jacksonville Cable 4
7:00 Cartoon Fair
7:30 CBS News
7:55 News/Weather
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Girl Talk
9:30 Merv Griffin
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11:00 Andy Griffith
11:30 Dick Van Dyke
noon Love of Life
12:25 CBS News
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Midday
1:30 As the World Turns
2:00 Love is a Many-Splendored Thing
2:30 Guiding Light
3:00 Secret Storm
3:30 Edge of Night
4:00 Linkletter Show
4:25 CBS News
4:30 Mike Douglas
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Dick Van Dyke
7:30 Here's Huddles
8:00 WJXT Wednesday Night Movie "The Thrill of It All"
10:00 Hawaii Five-O
11:00 News
11:30 Merv Griffin
1:00 News

WUFT 5-NET Gainesville Cable 5
Evening listings only
6:15 Sunshine Almanac
6:30 Misterogers' Neighborhood
7:00 What's New
7:30 Color Us Black
8:00 Maggie & the Beautiful Machine
8:30 Evening at Pops
9:30 Book Beat

WDBO 6-CBS Orlando Cable 6
7:00 Channel 6 News
7:30 Leave It to Beaver
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Romper Room
9:30 Merv Griffin
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11:00 Andy Griffith
11:30 Dick Van Dyke
noon Love of Life
12:25 CBS News
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Girl Talk
1:30 As the World Turns
2:00 Love is a Many-Splendored Thing
2:30 Guiding Light
3:00 Secret Storm
3:30 Edge of Night
4:00 Linkletter Show
4:25 CBS News
4:30 Flintstones
5:00 Gilligan's Island
5:30 Truth or Consequences
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Wednesday Night Movie "Back Street"
9:00 Medical Center
10:00 Hawaii Five-O
11:00 News
11:30 Merv Griffin

WFLA 8-NBC Tampa Cable 8
Evening listings only
5:30 What's My Line?
6:00 News
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7:00 Death Valley Days
7:30 Virginian
9:00 Kraft Music Hall
10:00 Wagon Train
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show

WFTV 9-ABC Orlando Cable 9
7:00 Cartoons
8:00 Robin Hood
8:30 Exercise for Modern Woman
9:00 Morning Movie: TBA
11:00 Tom Hallick
noon Bewitched
12:30 Funny You Should Ask
1:00 Dream House
1:30 Let's Make a Deal
2:00 Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game
3:00 General Hospital
3:30 Early Movie: TBA
5:30 News (ABC at 6?)
6:30 Of Lands & Seas "Utah-A Different World"
7:30 Nanny & the Professor
8:00 Spotlight on the Stars (Paul Anka and Lana Cantrell are featured)
9:00 Johnny Cash Presents the Everly Brothers Show (guests Arlo Guthrie, Marty Robbins, and Jackie DeShannon)
10:00 Smothers Brothers Summer Show (guests Peter Lawford, Pat Paulsen, Mac Davis, and Sunday's Child)
11:00 News
11:30 Night Owl Theatre "Tension at Table Rock"

WLCY 10-ABC St. Petersburg Cable 10
7:00 Accent on Learning
7:15 Open Mike
7:45 Newsmorning
8:00 Russ Byrd's Morning
8:30 Exercise for Modern Woman
9:00 Romper Room
10:00 Loretta Young
10:30 Morning Movie: TBA
noon Bewitched
12:30 Funny You Should Ask
1:00 Dream House
1:30 Let's Make a Deal
2:00 Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game
3:00 General Hospital
3:30 One Life to Live
4:00 Dark Shadows
4:30 Leave It to Beaver
5:00 Gilligan's Island
5:30 News (ABC at 6?)
6:30 Travel-Adventure
7:00 Dick Van Dyke
7:30 Nanny & the Professor
8:00 Courtship of Eddie's Father
8:30 Room 222
9:00 Johnny Cash Presents the Everly Brothers Show
10:00 Smothers Brothers Summer Show
11:00 News
11:30 Dick Cavett

WFGA 12-NBC Jacksonville Cable 12
Evening listings only
5:30 News
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7:00 Compass 12
7:30 Virginian
9:00 Kraft Music Hall
10:00 Madison Square Garden Boxing: Dick Tiger v Emile Griffiths
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show

WTVT 13-CBS Tampa Cable 13
Evening listings only
5:30 Truth or Consequences
6:00 News
7:00 CBS Evening News
7:30 Here's Huddles
8:00 Gomer Pyle, USMC
8:30 Beverly Hillbillies
9:00 Medical Center
10:00 Hawaii Five-O
11:00 News
11:30 Merv Griffin
1:00 David Frost

WTOG 44-Ind St. Petersburg Cable 11
Evening listings only
5:30 Batman
6:00 Mr. Ed
6:30 Addams Family
7:00 Alfred Hitchcock
8:00 Run for Your Life
9:00 Detectives
10:00 MSG Boxing (same combattants as on 12; was this NBC or syndied?)
11:00 Buck Owens
11:30 Late Show "Last Posse"

Cable 7 in Ocala was a Weather/Music channel.

 

[Cincinnati Kid]

That's a nice cable line-up. A good many stations available and some of them from what appear to be distant points.

By the 1990's, it seems some cable companies were not carrying stations that duplicated shows (such as two NBC Network affiliates that had the same show on at the same time) and would only carry the one for that specific market.

 

[cd637299]

The year must be incorrect.

"Eye Guess", "Personality," "You Don't Say" & "Snap Judgment" (NBC daytime) were gone by then.

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[BobbyNBC10]

And the original Match Game was gone too,by 1970. only to return on CBS as Match Game '73.

 

[azumanga]

I take it that "TV Screen Day by Day" was one of those freebie TV magazines that practically only care on what played in prime-time -- a probable reason why some of the channels only had nighttime listings.

Does anyone have any TVG listings, or TV listings from the Ocala Star-Banner, to compare?

 

[cd637299]

I noticed: "Where's Huddles" (shown as "Here's Huddles" above) was indeed a 1970 show. Seems as if the daytime listings are wrong, but the nighttime ones are correct.

Also on ABC daytime, "Funny You Should Ask" was only late '68 to mid 69. I do not have my reference book handy at this time.

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[radiorob2.0]

That's a nice cable line-up. A good many stations available and some of them from what appear to be distant points.

By the 1990's, it seems some cable companies were not carrying stations that duplicated shows (such as two NBC Network affiliates that had the same show on at the same time) and would only carry the one for that specific market.

That is thanks to something called syndex (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syndication_exclusivity).

 

[bpatrick]

Ch. 10 carried ABC News at 6, except for a brief time
early in 1973 when it aired at 6:30, through most of
the '70s; I think there was one period in 1977 when it
aired at either 6:30 or 7.

ABC had two unsuccessful soaps in the noon-1 PM slot:
"The Best Of Everything" and "A World Apart" (the latter
being Irna Phillips' last creation, about the estrangement
between herself and her adopted daughter--and with the
end of "As The World Turns" there will no longer be any
Irna Phillips shows unless you count "Days Of Our Lives,"
since she sat in on some of the early bouncing-ideas-back-
and-forth meetings).

NBC's daytime schedule at this point:

10 AM It Takes Two (replaced by "Dinah's Place" on Aug. 3)
10:25 NBC News
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Sale Of The Century
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 Who, What Or Where
12:55 NBC News
1 PM (Local)
1:30 Life With Linkletter (replaced by "Words And Music" on Sept. 28)
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World (then being called "Another World/Bay City")
3:30 Bright Promise
4 PM Somerset (then being called "Another World/Somerset")

"Another World" and "Somerset" reverted to their more familiar titles
sometime in 1971.

 

[cd637299]

"Syndex" meant also that the "Superstations" (WTBS, WWOR, WGN + a few others) would have part of their schedule blacked out, or replaced, because the local station who carried the same show that the superstation did, wanted THEIR sponsors to be viewed.

WWOR in the early 90s had something called the EMI service, which was at the ready when certain shows would be blocked out. WWOR's service I recall had something called "Comedy Wheel", which were reruns of short-lived TV sitcoms which, I suppose, were never out there for other syndicators to grab, due to so few episodes. The Alan Young/Phyllis Newman sitcom "Coming of Age" was one of them.

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[azumanga]

WWOR in the early 90s had something called the EMI service, which was at the ready when certain shows would be blocked out. WWOR's service I recall had something called "Comedy Wheel", which were reruns of short-lived TV sitcoms which, I suppose, were never out there for other syndicators to grab, due to so few episodes. The Alan Young/Phyllis Newman sitcom "Coming of Age" was one of them.

The EMI Service early on used Universal's library of old programming to fill the Syndex gaps, not just the "Comedy Wheel" shows, but also other old series such as "Laredo", "Run For Your Life" and "It Takes A Thief". (At the time, Universal owned WWOR.) I also recall EMI airing some original programming, such as programs from The Christian Science Monitor like "The Children's Room" (which would make typical E/I programming today) and "Fifty Years Ago Today" (World War II headlines from the Monitor); they also showed truly throwaway originals such as "Cinemattractions" (movie trailers) and "Newsworthy" (video press releases).

As for WTBS -- the only blackouts I have seen were for any games involving the Rays and Braves in St. Pete (I live in the Tampa Bay area). Apparently, when there was talk about Syndex being developed, TBS would buy only older programming and make sure their originals (such as Captain Planet) never get Syndexed. This way, all TBS programming would be cleared nationwide (except for the prerequisite public affairs programming in Atlanta).

 

[bpatrick]

There are errors in the CBS daytime schedule as well.
"Love Of Life" was no longer at noon, and Art Linkletter
was at NBC. The CBS schedule:

10 AM The Lucy Show
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11 AM Andy Griffith Show
11:30 Love Of Life
12 N Where The Heart Is
12:25 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM (Local)
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM Secret Storm
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Gomer Pyle, USMC

And, so I don't have to add another posting, here's ABC's:

11 AM Bewitched
11:30 That Girl
12 N The Best Of Everything
12:30 A World Apart
1 PM All My Children
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM Dark Shadows

 

[radiorob2.0]

WWOR in the early 90s had something called the EMI service, which was at the ready when certain shows would be blocked out. WWOR's service I recall had something called "Comedy Wheel", which were reruns of short-lived TV sitcoms which, I suppose, were never out there for other syndicators to grab, due to so few episodes. The Alan Young/Phyllis Newman sitcom "Coming of Age" was one of them.

The EMI Service early on used Universal's library of old programming to fill the Syndex gaps, not just the "Comedy Wheel" shows, but also other old series such as "Laredo", "Run For Your Life" and "It Takes A Thief". (At the time, Universal owned WWOR.) I also recall EMI airing some original programming, such as programs from The Christian Science Monitor like "The Children's Room" (which would make typical E/I programming today) and "Fifty Years Ago Today" (World War II headlines from the Monitor); they also showed truly throwaway originals such as "Cinemattractions" (movie trailers) and "Newsworthy" (video press releases).

As for WTBS -- the only blackouts I have seen were for any games involving the Rays and Braves in St. Pete (I live in the Tampa Bay area). Apparently, when there was talk about Syndex being developed, TBS would buy only older programming and make sure their originals (such as Captain Planet) never get Syndexed. This way, all TBS programming would be cleared nationwide (except for the prerequisite public affairs programming in Atlanta).

WGN had the same issue. Prior to Syndex, they ran "Cheers" and "Night Court" back to back at 6p CT/7pET. They had national rights to "Cheers" but only local rights to "Night Court". So after Syndex "Cheers" would clear nationally and "Night Court" was pulled for either "Abbot and Costello" or "Captain Nice".

A victim of Syndex were local ads; part of the charm of the superstations. They were replaced with PSA's and Per Inquiry.

 

[azumanga]

WGN had the same issue. Prior to Syndex, they ran "Cheers" and "Night Court" back to back at 6p CT/7pET. They had national rights to "Cheers" but only local rights to "Night Court". So after Syndex "Cheers" would clear nationally and "Night Court" was pulled for either "Abbot and Costello" or "Captain Nice".

I think it was the other way around -- "Night Court" was seen nationally; "Cheers" was syndexed.

As for "Captain Nice" -- it, along with "My World and Welcome To It", "Good Morning World" and "Theater of the Stars" (among a few others) was part of the WGN national schedule for the first week or two, until they were pulled and replaced with something else.

A victim of Syndex were local ads; part of the charm of the superstations. They were replaced with PSA's and Per Inquiry.

The local ads did continue during shows that were cleared locally and nationally. WWOR did this until the national feed ended in 1996; WGN would eventually replace all local ads with PSAs and per inquiry, and eventually regular national commercials, on the national feed.

 

[radiorob2.0]

WGN had the same issue. Prior to Syndex, they ran "Cheers" and "Night Court" back to back at 6p CT/7pET. They had national rights to "Cheers" but only local rights to "Night Court". So after Syndex "Cheers" would clear nationally and "Night Court" was pulled for either "Abbot and Costello" or "Captain Nice".

I think it was the other way around -- "Night Court" was seen nationally; "Cheers" was syndexed.

As for "Captain Nice" -- it, along with "My World and Welcome To It", "Good Morning World" and "Theater of the Stars" (among a few others) was part of the WGN national schedule for the first week or two, until they were pulled and replaced with something else.

A victim of Syndex were local ads; part of the charm of the superstations. They were replaced with PSA's and Per Inquiry.

The local ads did continue during shows that were cleared locally and nationally. WWOR did this until the national feed ended in 1996; WGN would eventually replace all local ads with PSAs and per inquiry, and eventually regular national commercials, on the national feed.

You're right about the Cheers/Night Court distribution. Twenty years causes brain fade.

 

[BobbyNBC10]

WGN later in the summer of 1990 got I Dream of Jeannie and Bewitched ,they also got Abbott & Costello. In the fall of 1990, in place of a Disney Toon (can't think of which one) they got an assortment of 'toons from The Program Exchange , including Space Kiddettes, Tennessee Tuxedo, Go Go Gophers, and segments of Bullwinkle. They later traded them in for The Flintstones.

I am glad to see Bewitched and Jeannie back on WGN.