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Retro repost: Louisiana Wed., Apr. 19, 1972

From TV Guide, Louisiana Edition:

NOTE: If the Apollo 16 mission is on schedule, the Apollo spacecraft will go into lunar orbit at approximately 2:23 PM. Regular programming may be pre-empted for special reports.

WBRZ Ch. 2 Baton Rouge (NBC)

6:30 Weather
7 AM Today (A. Alvarez discusses "The Savage God: Study Of Suicide")
9 AM Sesame Street
10 AM Sale Of The Century (Garagiola version)
10:30 Hollywood Squares (James Brolin, Roy Clark, Arte Johnson, Suzanne Pleshette, Joan Rivers, Karen Valentine, Paul Lynde)
11 AM Jeopardy!
11:30 Who, What Or Where
11:55 NBC News (Floyd Kalber)
12 N Midday In Louisiana
1 PM Days Of Our Lives
1:30 The Doctors
2 PM Another World
2:30 Return To Peyton Place
3 PM Somerset
3:30 Daniel Boone
4:30 Lancer
5:30 NBC News (John Chancellor)
6 PM News, Sports, Weather
6:30 Green Acres
7 PM Adam-12
7:30 McMillan & Wife
9 PM Night Gallery (episodes featuring Leslie Nielsen and German actor Helmut Dantine)
10 PM News, Sports, Weather
10:30 Tonight Show (Johnny's last regular show from New York; the show begins originating in California May 1 and will not return to New York on a regular basis until Jimmy Fallon takes over in 2014; guests: Phyllis Newman, the Ace Trucking Company)
sign off 12 M

KATC Ch. 3 Lafayette (ABC)

7 AM Polycarp And His Pals
8 AM Jack LaLanne
8:30 Movie: "A Stolen Life"
10:30 Bewitched
11 AM Password (Barbara Feldon, Roddy McDowall)
11:30 Split Second
12 N Noon Report (Bob Hamm/Guy Houston)
12:30 Let's Make A Deal
1 PM Newlywed Game
1:30 Dating Game
2 PM General Hospital
2:30 One Life To Live
3 PM Love, American Style (Shari Lewis and Paul Winchell as shy ventriloquists)
3:30 Movie: "The Veils Of Bagdad"
5 PM ABC News (Howard K. Smith, Harry Reasoner)
5:30 Petticoat Junction
6 PM News, Sports, Weather
6:30 Movie: "Battle Cry"
9 PM The Smith Family (Guy Madison, TV's Wild Bill Hickok, as a friend of Chad's (Henry Fonda), an armored-truck driver who may be involved in robbery and murder, delay from 7:30 PM)
9:30 Marty Feldman Comedy Machine (Roger Moore, Honey Cone, delay from 8 PM)
10 PM News, Sports, Weather
10:30 Movie: "Three Sailors And A Girl"
sign off 12:10 AM

WWL Ch. 4 New Orleans (CBS)

6:15 Town & Country Journal
6:30 Sunrise Semester: "Chemistry"
7 AM CBS News (John Hart)
7:30 Cartoons
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM The Lucy Show (guest: Cesare Danova)
9:30 Dick Van Dyke
10 AM Family Affair
10:30 Love Of Life
11 AM Where The Heart Is
11:25 News
11:30 Search For Tomorrow
12 N News, Weather, Sports
12:30 As The World Turns
1 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
1:30 Guiding Light
2 PM Secret Storm
2:30 Edge Of Night
3 PM Amateur's Guide To Love (Joey Bishop, Hugh O'Brian)
3:30 Gilligan's Island
4 PM Big Valley
5 PM News, Sports, Weather
5:30 CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
6 PM News, Editorial, Sports, Weather
6:30 Truth Or Consequences
7 PM It Takes A Lot Of Love (Chad Everett narrates this look at the bond between people who are crazy about animals: a 7-year-old with his first puppy, a 77-year-old woman who turned her home into a beaver sanctuary, a dog warden who prefers to find homes for animals rather than destroy them, a dog who made a six-month trek from Indiana to rejoin its family in Oregon.)
8 PM Medical Center
9 PM Mannix (watch for Eric Braeden, aka Victor Newman on "The Young And The Restless")
10 PM News, Sports, Weather
10:30 CBS Movie: "Grounds For Marriage"
12:20 Here Come The Brides

KALB Ch. 5 Alexandria, LA (NBC)

6 AM Jambalaya (Hardee Saurage/John C. Hudgens)
7 AM Today
9 AM Dinah's Place (Ernest Borgnine prepares an egg-and-zucchini dish.)
9:30 Concentration
10 AM Sale Of The Century
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11 AM Jeopardy!
11:30 Who, What Or Where
11:55 NBC News
12 N Noon Report (Dick Morgan)
12:30 Ethma Odum
1 PM Days Of Our Lives
1:30 The Doctors
2 PM Another World
2:30 Return To Peyton Place
3 PM Somerset
3:30 Green Acres
4 PM Daniel Boone
5 PM I Love Lucy
5:30 NBC News
6 PM News, Sports, Weather
6:30 Wild Wild West
7:30 McMillan & Wife
9 PM Night Gallery
10 PM News, Sports, Weather
10:30 Tonight Show
sign off 12 M

WDSU Ch. 6 New Orleans (NBC)

6 AM News, Weather, Editorial Cartoon
7 AM Today
9 AM Dinah's Place
9:30 Concentration
10 AM Sale Of The Century
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11 AM Jeopardy!
11:30 Who, What Or Where
11:55 NBC News
12 N Midday
1 PM Days Of Our Lives
1:30 The Doctors
2 PM Another World
2:30 Return To Peyton Place
3 PM Somerset
3:30 Movie: "The Vanquished"
5 PM News, Sports, Weather
5:30 NBC News
6 PM News, Editorial Cartoon, Sports, Weather
6:30 Dragnet
7 PM Adam-12
7:30 McMillan & Wife
9 PM Night Gallery
10 PM News, Editorial Cartoon, Sports, Weather
10:30 Tonight Show
12 M Star Trek

KPLC Ch. 7 Lake Charles (NBC)

6:45 Agriculture Outlook
7 AM Today
9 AM Dinah's Place
9:30 Concentration
10 AM Sale Of The Century
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11 AM Jeopardy!
11:30 Galloping Gourmet
12 N Mid-Day (Peggy Creaghan)
12:30 Three On A Match
1 PM Days Of Our Lives
1:30 The Doctors
2 PM Another World
2:30 Return To Peyton Place
3 PM Somerset
3:30 Lost In Space
4:30 Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea
5:30 NBC News
6 PM News, Sports, Weather
6:30 Lassie
7 PM Adam-12
7:30 McMillan & Wife
9 PM Night Gallery
10 PM News, Sports, Weather
10:30 Tonight Show
sign off 12 M

KNOE Ch. 8 Monroe, LA (CBS/ABC)

6 AM Good Morning
7 AM CBS News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM The Lucy Show
9:30 My Three Sons
10 AM Family Affair
10:30 Love Of Life
11 AM Where The Heart Is
11:25 News
11:30 Search For Tomorrow
12 N News
12:05 Lucille Rivers (sewing)
12:15 Open House (Mildred Swift)
12:30 As The World Turns
1 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
1:30 Guiding Light
2 PM Secret Storm
2:30 Edge Of Night
3 PM Amateur's Guide To Love
3:30 The Virginian
5 PM ABC News
5:30 CBS News
6 PM News, Sports, Weather
6:30 Arnie (delay from Sat 8:30 PM)
7 PM It Takes A Lot Of Love
8 PM Medical Center
9 PM Mannix
10 PM News, Sports, Weather
10:30 CBS Movie: "Grounds For Marriage"
sign off 12:20 AM

WVUE Ch. 8 New Orleans (ABC)

6:30 Herald Of Truth
7 AM New Zoo Revue
7:30 Romper Room
8 AM Major Adams (the Ward Bond episodes of "Wagon Train")
9 AM The Saint
10 AM Hazel
10:30 Bewitched
11 AM Password
11:30 Split Second
12 N News (Furnell Chatman)
12:20 Lucille Rivers
12:30 Let's Make A Deal
1 PM Newlywed Game
1:30 Movie: "Raw Edge"
3 PM Love, American Style
3:30 The Virginian
5 PM Get Smart
5:30 ABC News
6 PM News, Sports, Weather
6:30 I Dream Of Jeannie
7 PM Courtship Of Eddie's Father
7:30 Movie: "Two Are Guilty"
10 PM Perry Mason
11 PM News, Sports
11:30 Movie: "Prince Of Foxes"

WAFB Ch. 9 Baton Rouge (CBS)

6:30 Times, Tunes, Cartoons
7 AM CBS News
7:30 Morning Show
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Storyland
9:30 My Three Sons
10 AM Family Affair
10:30 Love Of Life
11 AM Where The Heart Is
11:25 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
11:30 Search For Tomorrow
12 N News, Weather, Sports
12:20 Lucille Rivers
12:30 As The World Turns
1 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
1:30 Guiding Light
2 PM Secret Storm
2:30 Edge Of Night
3 PM Amateur's Guide To Love
3:30 Buckskin Bill (this show created a local brouhaha when the bread company sponsoring it pulled all its advertising from Ch. 9 because the FCC forbade kids'-show hosts to do commercials)
4 PM The Lucy Show (delay from 9 AM)
4:30 Perry Mason
5:30 CBS News
6 PM News, Sports, Weather
6:30 Doris Day (delay from Mon 8:30 PM)
7 PM It Takes A Lot Of Love
8 PM Medical Center
9 PM Mannix
10 PM News, Sports, Weather
10:30 CBS Movie: "Grounds For Marriage"
sign off 12:20 AM

KLFY Ch. 10 Lafayette, LA (CBS)

6 AM Passe Partout
7 AM CBS News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM The Lucy Show
9:30 My Three Sons
10 AM Family Affair
10:30 Love Of Life
11 AM Where The Heart Is
11:25 News
11:30 Search For Tomorrow
12 N Meet Your Neighbor (Bill Beason)
12:30 As The World Turns
1 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
1:30 Guiding Light
2 PM Secret Storm
2:30 Edge Of Night
3 PM Amateur's Guide To Love
3:30 Green Acres
4 PM It Takes A Thief (Bette Davis as a female thief who helps Alexander Mundy on a caper)
5 PM Truth Or Consequences
5:25 Weather (Maria Placer)
5:30 CBS News
6 PM News, Sports, Weather
6:30 I Dream Of Jeannie
7 PM It Takes A Lot Of Love
8 PM Medical Center
9 PM Mannix
10 PM News, Sports, Weather
10:30 CBS Movie: "Grounds For Marriage"
sign off 12:20 AM

WYES Ch. 12 New Orleans (PBS)

9 AM Sesame Street
10 AM In-school programs
1 PM Electric Company
1:30 In-school programs
3:30 Sesame Street
4:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5 PM Electric Company
5:30 Panorama
6 PM New Orleans: Youth
7 PM A Public Affair/Election '72 (the implications of the new Federal Election Campaign Act, which requires national office seekers to record all contributions over $100)
7:30 This Week With Bill Moyers
8 PM Vibrations (Maria Callas performs an excerpt from "Tosca"; rock pianist Jobriath cuts a new album at New York's Electric Lady recording studio; Swedish ballet dancer Niklas Ek performs in "Red Wine In Green Glasses.")
9 PM Soul! (Muhammad Ali, Miriam Makeba, the Delfonics)
10 PM Masterpiece Theatre ("The Last Of The Mohicans," Chapter 4)
sign off 11 PM

KLNI (KADN) Ch. 15 Lafayette, LA (NBC)

7 AM Today
9 AM Sesame Street
10 AM Sale Of The Century
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11 AM Jeopardy!
11:30 Who, What Or Where
11:55 NBC News
12 N C'est Tout
1 PM Days Of Our Lives
1:30 The Doctors
2 PM Another World
2:30 Return To Peyton Place
3 PM Somerset
3:30 New Zoo Revue
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM News, Sports, Weather
5:30 NBC News
6 PM Movie Game
6:30 New Zoo Revue
7 PM Adam-12
7:30 McMillan & Wife
9 PM Night Gallery
10 PM Mantrap
10:30 Tonight Show
sign off 12 M

WGNO Ch. 26 New Orleans (Ind.)

3:55 Sportscope
4 PM General Hospital (pre-empted on WVUE, delay from 2 PM)
4:30 Dating Game (pre-empted on WVUE, delay from 1:30 PM)
5 PM My Three Sons (pre-empted on Ch. 4, delay from 9:30 AM)
5:30 Munsters
6 PM McHale's Navy
6:30 Movie: "Laughing Anne"
8 PM Movie: "Tiberius"
10 PM Alfred Hitchcock Presents
10:30 Dick Cavett (Henry Fonda, Deborah Kerr, Sandy Duncan, and producer Alexander Cohen discuss the Tony Awards, to be held April 23, pre-empted on WVUE)
12 M Movie: "A Woman Rebels"

WRBT (WVLA) Ch. 33 Baton Rouge (ABC/NBC)

9 AM Dinah's Place (pre-empted on Ch. 2)
9:30 Concentration (pre-empted on Ch. 2)
10 AM New Zoo Revue
10:30 Bewitched
11 AM Password
11:30 Split Second
12 N All My Children
12:30 Let's Make A Deal
1 PM Newlywed Game
1:30 Dating Game
2 PM General Hospital
2:30 One Life To Live
3 PM Love, American Style
3:30 Rifleman
4 PM Westerners
4:30 Zane Grey Theater (guests: Barbara Stanwyck, David Janssen)
5 PM ABC News
5:30 Timmy And Lassie
6 PM Munsters
6:30 McKeever And The Colonel
7 PM Courtship Of Eddie's Father
7:30 The Smith Family
8 PM Marty Feldman Comedy Machine
8:30 Persuaders! (Tony Curtis, Roger Moore)
9:30 Honey West (guest: Edd "Kookie" Byrnes as a modern-day Robin Hood)
10 PM Alfred Hitchcock Presents
10:30 Dick Cavett
sign off 12 M
 
Hey bpatrick, do you have any TV listings from Local TV Guides from Louisiana from the mid '70s (1973-1977) for the following listings?

2 - WBRZ Baton Rouge (NBC)
3 - KATC Lafayette (ABC)
4 - WWL New Orleans (CBS)
5 - KALB Alexandria (NBC)
6 - WDSU New Orleans (NBC)
7 - KPLC Lake Charles (NBC)
8M - KNOE Monroe (CBS)
8N - WVUE New Orleans (ABC)
9 - WAFB Baton Rouge (CBS)
10 - KLFY Lafayette (CBS)
12 - WYES New Orleans (PBS)
13 - KLTM Monroe (PBS)
15 - KLNI Lafayette (NBC)
26 - WGNO New Orleans (Ind)
27 - WLPB Baton Rouge (PBS)
33 - WVLA Baton Rouge (ABC)

If you do, then just let me know, and I'd love to see some posted!
 
Hey bpatrick, do you have any TV listings from Local TV Guides from Louisiana from the mid '70s (1973-1977) for the following listings?

2 - WBRZ Baton Rouge (NBC)
3 - KATC Lafayette (ABC)
4 - WWL New Orleans (CBS)
5 - KALB Alexandria (NBC)
6 - WDSU New Orleans (NBC)
7 - KPLC Lake Charles (NBC)
8M - KNOE Monroe (CBS)
8N - WVUE New Orleans (ABC)
9 - WAFB Baton Rouge (CBS)
10 - KLFY Lafayette (CBS)
12 - WYES New Orleans (PBS)
13 - KLTM Monroe (PBS)
15 - KLNI Lafayette (NBC)
26 - WGNO New Orleans (Ind)
27 - WLPB Baton Rouge (PBS)
33 - WVLA Baton Rouge (ABC)

If you do, then just let me know, and I'd love to see some posted!

I'm not going to speak for bpatrick, but I did a retro on a Louisiana edition from November '74 a few years back. Because the search capabilities of this site ain't worth a flip, though, I can't put my finger on it quickly enough--maybe you might want to take a shot.

Here's some tips, though: WBRZ went ABC in '77, with channel 33, then known as WRBT (became WVLA in 1987), getting the Peacock (one of the big downgrades NBC suffered in the disco years). Also, the PBS stations other than New Orleans' WYES didn't get going until '75, when the state finally launched Louisiana Public Broadcasting. The Wikipedia article on LPB will tell you when each translator went online--it was a typical state PBS net gradual roll-out, over a few years until the early '80s, I think.

And, finally, KLNI went out of business by February '75; it was a latecomer, not launched until '68, thus it really didn't have much of a chance against KATC and, especially, KLFY to start with. Lafayette and that whole heart of Cajun country didn't have a big (or, more to the point, affluent) enough population to support three full stations then, and many households still didn't have U-compatible sets, so they got NBC from WBRZ (east) or KPLC (west), both of which put strong signals into southern central Louisiana. Very reminiscent of another, almost identical situation of the time in Augusta, Georgia, where a U, WATU (channel 26, now WAGT) couldn't hack it against two Vs, which got to cherry-pick NBC's best shows, or against Columbia, South Carolina's mammoth WIS signal. In any case, channel 15 went dark for five years until a local businessman, dealing now with a much more prosperous market due to the oil boom of the time, restarted it as indie KADN (now FOX affil), emphasizing programs with local music (Cajun, zydeco, soul, etc.). KLNI, by contrast, didn't do much different than KLFY and KATC, the only programs of special note being French-language news and daytime shows for older residents.
 
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Well then Mike Stroud, do you have any TV listings from Local TV Guides from Louisiana from the time period of 1978-1982 for the following listings?

2 - WBRZ Baton Rouge (ABC)
3 - KATC Lafayette (ABC)
4 - WWL New Orleans (CBS)
5 - KALB Alexandria (NBC)
6 - WDSU New Orleans (NBC)
7 - KPLC Lake Charles (NBC)
8M - KNOE Monroe (CBS)
8N - WVUE New Orleans (ABC)
9 - WAFB Baton Rouge (CBS)
10 - KLFY Lafayette (CBS)
12 - WYES New Orleans (PBS)
13 - KLTM Monroe (PBS)
15 - KADN Lafayette (Ind)
18 - KLTL Lake Charles (PBS)
24 - KLPB Lafayette (PBS)
26 - WGNO New Orleans (Ind)
27 - WLPB Baton Rouge (PBS)
29 - KVHP Lake Charles (Ind)
33 - WRBT Baton Rouge (NBC)

If you do, then just let me know, and I'd love to see some posted!
 
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