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Retro Schedule: Detroit/Windsor Feb. 15, 1971

S

Stitch

Dedicated to bierkenstock:

TV Guide: Detroit Edition-Monday, February 15, 1971 PART 1

(C)-Indicates Color Program

Detroit
[2] WJBK (CBS)
[4] WWJ-TV (NBC)
[7] WXYZ-TV (ABC)
[50] WKBD-TV (Ind.)
[56] WTVS (PBS)
[62] WXON-TV (Ind.)

Windsor, Ont.
[9] CKLW-TV (CBC)

WJBK-TV [2]

6:25AM ON THE FARM SCENE (C)
6:30 SUNRISE SEMESTER (C)
7:00 CARTOON CARNIVAL (C)
7:30 TV-2 EYEWITNESS NEWS (C)
8:00 CAPTAIN KANGAROO
9:00 MR. ED
9:30 THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES
10:00 FAMILY AFFAIR (C)
10:30 PHIL DONAHUE (C)
11:30 LOVE OF LIFE (C)
12:00 TV-2 EYEWITNESS NEWS (C)
12:25 FASHIONS (C)
12:30 MOVIE GAME (C)
1:00 SEARCH FOR TOMORROW (C)
1:30 AS THE WORLD TURNS (C)
2:00 WHERE THE HEART IS (C)
2:25 CBS NEWS (C)
2:30 GUIDING LIGHT (C)
3:00 THE SECRET STORM (C)
3:30 EDGE OF NIGHT (C)
4:00 GOMER PYLE, USMC (C)
4:30 MIKE DOUGLAS SHOW (C)
6:00 TV-2 EYEWITNESS NEWS (C)
6:30 CBS EVENING NEWS-Cronkite (C)
7:00 TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES (C)
7:30 GUNSMOKE (C)
8:30 HERE'S LUCY (C)
9:00 MAYBERRY, RFD (C)
9:30 DORIS DAY (C)
10:00 CAROL BURNETT SHOW (C)
11:00 TV-2 EYEWITNESS NEWS (C)
11:30 DOUBLE FEATURE-Where The Bullets Fly (1966)/Man or Beast (1960)
3:00 NEWS, WEATHER UPDATE (C)

WWJ-TV [4]

6:30AM CLASSROOM
7:00 TODAY (C)
9:00 VIRGINIA GRAHAM-Women (C)
10:00 DINAH SHORE-Variety (C)
10:30 CONCENTRATION (C)
11:00 SALE OF THE CENTURY (C)
11:30 THE HOLLYWOOD SQUARES (C)
12:00 JEOPARDY! (C)
12:30 NEWS 4 (C)
1:00 ANOTHER WORLD IN SOMERSET (C)
1:30 JOE GARAGIOLA'S MEMORY GAME (C)
2:00 DAYS OF OUR LIVES (C)
2:30 THE DOCTORS (C)
3:00 ANOTHER WORLD (C)
3:30 BRIGHT PROMISE (C)
4:00 WILD, WILD WEST (C)
5:00 GEORGE PIERROT-Travel (C)
6:00 NEWS 4 (C)
6:30 NBC NEWS (C)*
7:00 NEWS 4 (C)
7:30 PROFILES IN BLACK (Preempts Red Skelton)
8:00 ROWAN & MARTIN'S LAUGH-IN (C)
9:00 BOB HOPE SPECIAL (C)
10:00 GOLDIE HAWN SPECIAL (C)
11:00 NEWS 4 (C)
11:30 TONIGHT SHOW (C)
1:00 NEWS UPDATE (C)

WXYZ-TV [7]

7AM TV COLLEGE
7:30 THE RIFLEMAN
8:00 BOB HYNES-Variety (C)
9:30 MANTRAP (C)
10:00 MOVIE-"Peggy" (1950)
11:30 THAT GIRL (C)
12:00 BEWITCHED (C)
12:30 WORLD APART (C)
1:00 ALL MY CHILDREN (C)
1:30 LET'S MAKE A DEAL (C)
2:00 THE NEWLYWED GAME (C)
2:30 THE DATING GAME (C)
3:00 GENERAL HOSPITAL (C)
3:30 ONE LIFE TO LIVE (C)
4:00 DARK SHADOWS (C)
4:30 THE 4:30 MOVIE-"The Horizontal Lieutenant" (1962)
6:00 WXYZ-TV NEWS (C)
6:30 ABC EVENING NEWS (C)
7:00 WXYZ-TV NEWS (C)
7:30 LET'S MAKE A DEAL (C)
8:00 THE NEWLYWED GAME (C)
8:30 REEL GAME (C)
9:00 ABC MOVIE OF THE WEEK-"The St. Valentine's Day Massacre" (1967)
11:00 WXYZ-TV NEWS (C)
11:30 DICK CAVETT SHOW (C)
1:00 NEWS UPDATE

CKLW-TV [9]

7:20 NEWS
7:30 UNCLE BOBBY-Children (C)
8:00 ONTARIO SCHOOLS-Education
10:30 THE FRIENDLY GIANT-Children
11:00 BOZO-Children (C)
12:00 TAKE 30-Women
12:30 WOMAN'S WORLD (C)
1:00 MOVIE-"Nightmare in Chicago" (1967)
3:00 CANDID CAMERA
3:30 BOZO (C)
4:30 FLIPPER (C)
5:00 GET SMART (C)
5:30 DICK VAN DYKE
6:00 IT TAKES A THIEF (C)
7:00 THE SAINT (C)
8:00 HERE COME THE '70s-Talk (C)
8:30 NASHVILLE NORTH-Variety (C)
9:00 CBC NEWS (C)
9:30 FRONT PAGE CHALLENGE (C)
10:00 NATURE OF THINGS (C)
10:30 MAN AT THE CENTER (C)
11:00 NEWS (C)
11:30 MOVIE-"Theater of Death" (1967) (C)
1:30 JURY TRIALS-Drama (C)

*Had Huntley retired by then?

UHF STATIONS IN PART 2
 
> WJBK-TV [2]
>
> 12:00 TV-2 EYEWITNESS NEWS (C)
> 12:25 FASHIONS (C)

My guess was that this is supposed to be Lucille Rivers' "Fashions in Sewing", wasn't it?

>
> CKLW-TV [9]
>
> 7:20 NEWS
> 7:30 UNCLE BOBBY-Children (C)
> 8:00 ONTARIO SCHOOLS-Education
> 10:30 THE FRIENDLY GIANT-Children
> 11:00 BOZO-Children (C)
> 12:00 TAKE 30-Women

Was "Mr. Dressup" a daily program by 1971? Or didn't CKLW just not clear it?

Apparently, CKLW also didn't clear "Sesame Street", which began its CBC run in 1970.

> 8:00 HERE COME THE '70s-Talk (C)
> 8:30 NASHVILLE NORTH-Variety (C)

Both of these were CTV programs that CKLW picked up. Some CTV shows would be part of ch.9's schedule into the early-1980s -- even after 1975, when ch.9 became a CBC O&O as CBET, and CKCO opens ch.42 for Sarnia and Windsor.

> 9:00 CBC NEWS (C)
> 11:00 NEWS (C)

Was CBC's "The National" a half-hour program at 9PM at this time? I always thought "The National" was 20 minutes at 11PM until 1982 (and if so, not cleared by CKLW in 1971). If "The National" was not cleared by CKLW, this could be the weekly "CBC Newsmagazine".<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by rugrats1 on 11/14/05 04:37 AM.</FONT></P>
 
Stitch took us back to Detroit (including Windsor) on February 15th, 1971:

> WWJ-TV [4]

> 6:30 NBC NEWS (C)*

He then asked:

> *Had (Chet) Huntley retired by then?

Yes. Chet Huntley's last broadcast as NBC's co-anchor was the previous July. I do know that for a short time thereafter, NBC rotated John Chancellor, David Brinkley, and Frank McGee as "Nightly News" anchors. Usually, any one or two of them were anchoring on a typical evening; I don't think all three ever appeared together on the same night.

I don't know if Chancellor had become the solo weeknight anchor as early as February, 1971. If he wasn't, he did become solo weeknight anchor within a few months.
 
> I don't know if Chancellor had become the solo weeknight
> anchor as early as February, 1971. If he wasn't, he did
> become solo weeknight anchor within a few months.
>
Though Brinkley would stay on to do commentary at the end of the newscast. Both John and David would share the anchordesk by the late-1970s.
 
> Though Brinkley would stay on to do commentary at the end of
> the newscast. Both John and David would share the anchordesk
> by the late-1970s.

I believe David Brinkley's return to the anchor desk to share it with Chancellor came in the Spring of 1976, and was the result of several major TV critics praising the team's work co-anchoring NBC's coverage of the Iowa caucus and the New Hampshire primary early that year.

I think Chancellor and Brinkley were together as co-anchors from the Spring of 1976 until the Summer of 1979.
 
> Was "Mr. Dressup" a daily program by 1971? Or didn't CKLW
> just not clear it?

"Mr. Dressup" debuted on the CBC on Monday February 13, 1967 at 11AM as a daily program. Which means they[CKLW] might've pre-empt it during the shows' run.

IIRC CKLW didn't carry some of the CBC schedule until the CBC took over the station from RKO.
 
> > 12:25 FASHIONS (C)
> >
> >My guess was that this is supposed to be Lucille Rivers' "Fashions in Sewing", wasn't it?

"FASHIONS" was all TV Guide listed, though you're probably correct.

> > 9:00 CBC NEWS (C)
> > 11:00 NEWS (C)
>
> Was CBC's "The National" a half-hour program at 9PM at this
> time? I always thought "The National" was 20 minutes at 11PM
> until 1982 (and if so, not cleared by CKLW in 1971). If "The
> National" was not cleared by CKLW, this could be the weekly
> "CBC Newsmagazine".
>
I should have put the actual listing, which reads as follows:
9:00 NEWS-West/Conacher (C)

The TV Guide listed this program for the entire week. There was no weekend listing (Hockey ran on Saturday, and a program called "Manipulator" ran at 9pm Sunday).

The 11pm simply read "News", also in Color (well, technically it was News, Weather, and Sports). The 'editorial comment' in the form of the local news branding was via research and particularly, print ads in the issue from WJBK and WXYZ. Each listing for local news read "NEWS" or "NEWS, WEATHER, & SPORTS".

Off topic-but another print ad in that edition from WTOL featured the new "Eyewitness News". Though others I've talked to never recalled WTOL actually using that branding (unless it was used for such a short time that no one remembers it). I'll try to have Toledo listings from that issue up in a later date.
 
> > > 12:25 FASHIONS (C)
> > >
> > >My guess was that this is supposed to be Lucille Rivers'
> "Fashions in Sewing", wasn't it?
>
> "FASHIONS" was all TV Guide listed, though you're probably
> correct.
>
> It's possible that this is Lucille Rivers' show, since
it was on in 1971, but I recall that it lasted 10 minutes;
WGHP/8 Greensboro/Winston-Salem/High Point used to run it
from 10:50-11 AM, following the morning movie and before
Bewitched (which was delayed from 12 Noon because of local
news). Atlanta's Channel 11 ran it from 12:20-12:30 for a
time in 1972. The TV Guide listing in this part of the
country always read "LUCILLE RIVERS--Sewing."
>
>
<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by bpatrick on 11/14/05 01:25 PM.</FONT></P>
 
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