Retro: Southeast Missouri, Monday, March 1, 1976

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(Source: Southeast Missourian, Cape Girardeau)

WSIL 3 (ABC) Harrisburg, Ill.
AM
7 A.M. America
9 700 Club
10:30 Happy Days
11 Let’s Make A Deal
11:30 All My Children
PM
12 Ryan’s Hope
12:30 Rhyme and Reason
1 $10,000 Pyramid
1:30 The Neighbor
2 General Hospital
2:30 One Life To Live
3:30 Lassie
4 MGM Theater
6 Cisco Kid
6:30 ABC News
7 Movie: “Young Pioneers”
9 Rich Man Poor Man
10 News, Weather and Sports
10:30 Monday Night Special

WPSD 6 (NBC) Paducah, Ky.
AM
6:25 Arthur Smith
6:55 Pastor Speaks
7 Today
9 Romper Room
9:25 Calendar
9:30 High Rollers
10 Wheel of Fortune
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11 Magnificent Marble Machine
11:30 Take My Advice
11:55 NBC News
PM
12 News Beat ‘76
12:30 Days Of Our Lives
1:30 The Doctors
2 Another World
3 Somerset
3:30 Gilligan’s Island
4 Dragnet
4:30 Ironside
5:30 NBC Nightly News
6 News Beat ‘76
6:30 Pop Goes The Country
7 Rich Little
8 Joe Forrester
9 Jigsaw John
10 News Beat ‘76
10:30 Tonight
12M Tomorrow

WSIU-TV 8 Carbondale, Ill. (PBS)
AM
8:30 Instructional programming (listings not given)
10 Electric Company
10:30 Instructional programming
11:30 Sesame Street
PM
12:30 Instructional programming
3:30 Zoom
4 Sesame Street
5 Evening Report
5:30 Mister Rogers
6 Electric Company
6:30 Bookbeat
7 USA People & Politics
7:30 Presidential Forum
9 Inquiry
10 The Silver Screen

KFVS-TV Cape Girardeau (12) CBS
AM
6 Sunrise Semester
6:30 Breakfast Show
7 CBS Morning News
8 Captain Kangaroo
9 Price Is Right
10 Gambit
10:30 Love of Life
10:55 CBS News
11 Young & The Restless
11:30 Search for Tomorrow
PM
12 Farm Picture
12:05 Noonday News
12:20 Watching the Weather
12:30 As The World Turns
1:30 Guiding Light
2 All In The Family
2:30 Match Game ‘76
3 Tattletales
3:30 Mickey Mouse Club
4 Beverly Hillbillies
4:30 Andy Griffith
5 To Tell The Truth\
5:30 Regional News
5:45 The Scoreboard
5:50 Watching the Weather
6 CBS Evening News
6:30 New Treasure Hunt
7 Rhoda
7:30 Phyllis
8 All In The Family
8:30 Maude
9 Medical Center
10 Channel 12 Reports
10:30 Movie: “Letters from 3 Lovers”
AM
12:30 Late News

 

[rwells2265]

KFVS-TV Cape Girardeau (12) CBS

5:30 Regional News
5:45 The Scoreboard
5:50 Watching the Weather

What's notable is how long KFVS largely kept to the old-style partitioning of news-sports-weather segments. Often the same person did all three. This continued until then owner (and founder) Oscar Hirsch sold Channel 12 to AFLAC in 1979 ... at which point the new owners put in a more conventional 'team' newscast.

Under Hirsch, KFVS was very shoestring and spartan, but otherwise very professional (if stodgy) in execution. WPSD-6/Paducah by far had the most 'up to date' production values in the market, while WSIL-3 .... [insert your own jokes here]

Google News has plenty of vintage Southeast Missourian back issues on their site.

--Russell

 

[firepoint525]

Ah, yes, I remember NewsBeat '76! Beginning in 1977, channel 6 in Paducah dropped the year from the title of their newscasts, and simply called it NewsBeat 6, which actually made more sense, although some of their newscasters had trouble adjusting to it for a while thereafter! ;D They would be "NewsBeat" for another 20 years or so, before becoming "Newschannel 6" sometime during the mid '90s.