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Retro: Pittsburgh ( Uniontown, PA ) Thursday, February 29, 1968

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mleach

Pittsburgh TV Listings
Thursday February 29, 1968
From the Uniontown ( PA ) Morning Herald


KDKA channel 2 ( CBS )...
7:00 Eyewitness News
8:00 Capt. Kangaroo
9:00 Contact ( topic-VD )
10:00 Candid Camera
10:30 Beverly Hillbilles
11:00 Andy of Mayberry
11:30 Dick Van Dyke
Noon Eyewitness News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1:00 Mike Douglas
2:30 House Party
3:00 To Tell The Truth
3:30 Edge Of Night
4:00 Secret Storm
4:30 Merv Griffin
6:00 Have Gun Will Travel
6:30 CBS News
7:00 Eyewitness News
7:30 Cimmaron Strip
9:00 Movie ( Spenser's Mountain )
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:30 2 At The Movies ( "Five Finger Exercise" )


WTAE channel 4 ( ABC )
7:30 Casper
8:00 Romper Room
9:00 Pat Boone
10:00 Dating Game
10:30 Dollars Movie ( "Forbidden" )
11:30 Family Game
Noon Everybody's Talking
12:30 Treasure Isle
1:00 The Fugitive
2:00 Newlywed Game
2:30 Baby Game
3:00 General Hospital
3:30 Adventure Theatre ( "Thunder Cloud' )
5:15 Dollars Movie ( "more of "Forbidden"? )
6:00 ABC News
6:30 Perry Mason
7:30 Batman
8:00 Flying Nun
8:30 Bewitched
9:00 That Girl
9:30 Peyton Place
10:00 The Invaders
11:00 News
11:15 Movie ( "When World's Collide" )


WIIC channels 8 & 11 ( NBC )
7:00 Today
9:00 Girl Talk
9:30 Give It A Whirl
10:00 Snap Judgement
10:30 Concentration
11:00 Personality
11:30 Hollywood Squares
Noon Local News
12:30 Eye Guess
12:55 NBC News
1:00 Jeopardy
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2:00 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3:00 Another World
3:30 You Don't Say
4:00 Match Game
4:30 Cartoons
5:30 McHale's Navy
6:00 Local News
6:30 Truth Or Consequences
7:00 Huntley-Brinkley
7:30 Daniel Boone
8:30 Ironside
9:30 Dragnet
10:00 Dean Martin
11:00 Local News
11:30 Johnny Carson


WQED channel 13 ( NET )
8:55 Secondary Development Reading II
9:20 Tell Me A Story
9:35 5th Grade Science
10:00 Sing Children Sing
10:15 Learning Our Language
10:35 Profile In Courage
11:00 6th Grade Science
11:30 The Friendly Giant
11:45 QED Kindergarten
Noon Mister Rogers Neighborhood
12:30 The Measure Man
1:00 5th Grade Science
1:25 Talking Town
1:40 News 1968
2:00 Demand Performance
2:15 6th Grade Science
2:45 Sing Children Sing
3:00 Your Dollar's Worth
4:00 The Friendly Giant
4:15 QED Kindergarten
4:30 Mister Rogers Neighborhood
5:00 What's New
5:30 Teacher's Preview Reading One
6:00 Sets and Systems
6:30 Book beat
7:00 What's New
7:30 Ski Show
8:00 Profile In Courage
9:00 David Suskind Show
10:00 Weekly Report
 
Are you sure Everybody's Talking was still on ABC at noon?
I seem to recall its last telecast on December 29, 1967, with
Bewitched reruns taking over the slot on New Year's Day '68.
 
mleach, did WIIC use channel 8 as a translator in some parts of southwestern Pennsylvania? That's what it appears, but I could not find any reference to that on the Wikipedia WPXI page (not that such should be surprising). It would have made sense, given the region's hilly and even mountainous terrain.
 
Mike Stroud said:
mleach, did WIIC use channel 8 as a translator in some parts of southwestern Pennsylvania? That's what it appears, but I could not find any reference to that on the Wikipedia WPXI page (not that such should be surprising). It would have made sense, given the region's hilly and even mountainous terrain.
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Having been to Uniontown, I too can see WIIC having a translator channel 8 in that city between the fact that there is a giant mountain just to the east of that city plus at the time of these listings Uniontown was a much bigger city ( enough to support three very large shopping malls at the time and this is 1968 we are talking about ) than it is now, much similar to that of Cumberland, Maryland. Come to think of it I think the local radio station WMBS-AM at one point in the early 50's even tried to get FCC to approve a local TV station for Uniontown but that never happened but I do think the local FOX affilate in nearby Morgantown, West Virginia somewhat serves Uniontown today.

The WTAE listings for "Everybody's Talking" and "Adventure Theatre" that was in the listings. I also find it very strange that WTAE didn't offer local news other than at 11pm and that was only for 15 minutes. Didn't Hearst own them at the time? If so that is very unusual considering that Hearst at the time spent LOTS of money beefing up the news on their Baltimore station WBAL-TV channel 11 and like Pittsburgh Hearst in Baltimore had to deal with Group W( WJZ ) being their competition as well.
 
bpatrick said:
Are you sure Everybody's Talking was still on ABC at noon?
I seem to recall its last telecast on December 29, 1967, with
Bewitched reruns taking over the slot on New Year's Day '68.
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...hmmm. Would it be possible that ABC and/or Goodson-Todman would allow for WTAE to run videotapes or kinescopes of Everybody's Talking two months after it left the network? Or that WTAE was actually at least two months behind on delay running the show?...
 
Ultimajock said:
bpatrick said:
Are you sure Everybody's Talking was still on ABC at noon?
I seem to recall its last telecast on December 29, 1967, with
Bewitched reruns taking over the slot on New Year's Day '68.
Click to expand...
...hmmm. Would it be possible that ABC and/or Goodson-Todman would allow for WTAE to run videotapes or kinescopes of Everybody's Talking two months after it left the network? Or that WTAE was actually at least two months behind on delay running the show?...
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I was checking out the listings for Pittsburgh's WTAE through May 1968 and "Everybody's Talking" was still listed in that time slot. I was beginning to think that perhaps this "Everybody's talking" could had been a local show since it was well known that WTAE was quite famous for their local productions.

Then I saw the listings for WTAE in June 1968 and Bewtiched is shown to had aired at Noon. Me thinks it was a typo all along on behalf of the Uniontown Morning Herald even though I did noticed for a paper whose homebase was some distance from Pittsburgh, it still didn't stop WTAE ( and KDKA ) from advertising in the Uniontown paper. Maybe some mis-information on behalf of WTAE?

BTW for the record about WTAE-TV news..the station did begin to offer a 30 minute local newscast by mid summer 1968.
 
Although Jack Barry created "Everybody's Talking" during
a short period when he worked at Goodson-Todman, G-T
did not produce it. Barry took it with him but asked that his
name be kept off the credits when ABC bought the show, since
there were still lingering suspicions about his role in the scandals
in the late '50s. Jerome Schnur Productions was credited with
producing the show. The 1973 revival, "Hollywood's Talking,"
did have Barry's name on it, since his career had been revived as
well; he was hosting "Joker's Wild" by that time.
 
I don't think WIIC ever had a translator in Uniontown. The only translators I can think of in this part of the country were for WPCB, the Christian station, in some outlying counties. And that was not till the late 80's. When WWCP Fox 8 went on the air on Johnstown there was much gnashing of teeth over the short-spacing with Channel 8 in Cleveland. Cable did get a very early foothold here due to the hellacious terrain for over-the-air TV.
 
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