Retro: Tampa/Orlando/Ft. Myers, Tuesday, September 17, 1968

[trainman]

And more from the Central Florida edition of TV Guide. Posting the Tuesday listings because of a couple of interesting prime-time pre-emptions...

Channel 3, WEDU (NET) Tampa

9:10 Classroom Programming
3:15 To Be Announced
3:45 Homemaking Today
4:15 Invitation to Art
4:45 Friendly Giant
5:00 What's New (Children)
5:30 Misterogers
6:00 Front Desk
6:30 To Be Announced
7:00 What's New (Children)
7:30 Adelante
8:00 William F. Buckley Jr.
9:00 U.S. Senate Race '68
10:00 Pathfinders
10:30 Navy (Film)

Channel 8, WFLA-TV (NBC) Tampa

6:30 RFD Florida
7:00 Today
9:00 Pat Boone
10:30 Concentration
11:00 Personality
11:30 The Hollywood Squares
12:00 Jeopardy!
12:30 Eye Guess
12:55 NBC News (Edwin Newman)
1:00 News, Sports, Weather
1:30 Let's Make a Deal
2:00 Hazel
2:30 The Doctors
3:00 Another World
3:30 You Don't Say!
4:00 The Match Game
4:25 NBC News (Floyd Kalber)
4:30 The Merv Griffin Show
6:00 News, Sports, Weather
6:30 NBC News (Chet Huntley/David Brinkley)
7:00 Movie ("Cat!")
9:00 NBC Tuesday Night Movie ("I'll Take Sweden")
11:00 News, Weather, Sports
11:30 The Tonight Show

Channel 10, WLCY-TV (ABC) St. Petersburg

7:00 Home and Garden
7:15 Open Mike
7:45 News
8:00 Good Morning
8:30 Fran Carlton
9:00 Romper Room
10:00 The Loretta Young Show
10:30 The Dick Cavett Show
12:00 Bewitched
12:30 Treasure Isle
1:00 Dream House
1:30 It's Happening
1:55 Children's Doctor
2:00 The Newlywed Game
2:30 The Dating Game
3:00 General Hospital
3:30 One Life to Live
4:00 Dark Shadows
4:30 Gilligan's Island
5:00 Leave It to Beaver
5:30 News, Sports, Weather
6:00 ABC News (Frank Reynolds)
6:30 I Love Lucy
7:00 Travel/Adventure
7:30 Dennis Day (Special)
8:30 It Takes a Thief
9:30 N.Y.P.D.
10:00 The Invaders (Last show of the series)
11:00 News, Weather, Sports
11:30 The Joey Bishop Show

Channel 13, WTVT (CBS) Tampa

6:00 A.M. (Variety)
7:00 News, Weather
7:05 CBS News (Joseph Benti)
7:30 News, Weather
7:45 A.M. (Variety)
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 The Mike Douglas Show
10:30 Art Linkletter's House Party
10:55 News, Weather
11:00 The Andy Griffith Show
11:30 The Dick Van Dyke Show
12:00 News, Weather
12:20 Farm Report (Baxter)
12:25 CBS News (Joseph Benti)
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Love of Life
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 The Flintstones
4:30 Perry Mason
5:30 News, Sports, Weather
6:00 News, Sports, Weather
6:30 CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7:00 The Look of a Winner (CBS fall preview)
7:30 Gunsmoke
8:30 Mike and Liberace (Mike Douglas special)
9:30 Good Morning World (Last show of the series)
10:00 CBS Reports
11:00 News, Weather, Sports
11:20 Editorial, News
11:30 Movie ("The Flying Fontaines")

Channel 38, WSUN-TV (Ind.) St. Petersburg

2:30 (PM) Film
3:00 Movie ("Catherine the Great")
4:30 Bozo the Clown
5:00 Astro Boy
5:30 Bat Masterson
6:00 Texas Rangers
6:30 Highway Patrol
7:00 Around the World
7:30 Movie ("Cardinal Richelieu")

Channel 2, WESH-TV (NBC) Daytona Beach

6:15 Sunshine Almanac
6:30 TV Classroom
7:00 Today
9:00 News, Editorial, Weather
9:15 Focus 2 (Interview)
9:30 Hazel
10:00 Snap Judgment
10:25 NBC News (Nancy Dickerson)
10:30 Concentration
11:00 Personality
11:30 The Hollywood Squares
12:00 Jeopardy!
12:30 Eye Guess
12:55 NBC News (Edwin Newman)
1:00 News
1:05 The Match Game
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 The Mike Douglas Show
5:30 Newscope
6:00 News, Weather, Sports
6:30 NBC News (Chet Huntley/David Brinkley)
7:00 M Squad
7:30 The Jerry Lewis Show
8:30 Julia (Debut)
9:00 Movie ("Betrayed")
11:00 News, Sports, Weather
11:30 The Tonight Show

Channel 6, WDBO-TV (CBS) Orlando

6:10 News, Weather
6:15 Sunshine Almanac
6:30 Summer Semester
7:00 News
7:05 CBS News (Joseph Benti)
7:30 Leave It to Beaver
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Romper Room
9:30 The Merv Griffin Show
10:30 The Beverly Hillbillies
11:00 The Andy Griffith Show
11:30 The Dick Van Dyke Show
12:00 Love of Life
12:25 CBS News (Joseph Benti)
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Virginia Graham
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 Art Linkletter's House Party
4:25 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
4:30 The Flintstones
5:00 Gilligan's Island
5:30 Truth or Consequences
6:00 News, Sports, Weather
6:30 CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7:00 Death Valley Days
7:30 Perry Mason
8:30 Showtime
9:30 Good Morning World (Last show of the series)
10:00 CBS Reports
11:00 News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Movie ("Witness for the Prosecution")

Channel 9, WFTV (ABC) Orlando

6:55 News, Weather
7:00 The Adventures of Gulliver (see note)
7:30 Linus the Lionhearted
8:00 Circus Parade
9:00 Dream House
9:30 One Life to Live
10:00 Dark Shadows
10:30 The Dick Cavett Show
12:00 Bewitched
12:30 Tom Hallick Show
1:30 It's Happening
1:55 Children's Doctor
2:00 The Newlywed Game
2:30 The Dating Game
3:00 General Hospital
3:30 Movie ("Gun Fury")
5:30 News, Sports, Weather
5:55 Editorial
6:00 ABC News (Frank Reynolds)
6:30 Of Lands and Seas (Travel)
7:30 Movie ("Merrill's Marauders")
9:30 N.Y.P.D.
10:00 The Invaders (Last show of the series)
11:00 News, Weather, Sports
11:20 Editorial, Sports
11:30 The Joey Bishop Show

Channel 11, WINK-TV (CBS) Ft. Myers

6:45 Sunshine Almanac
7:00 Edison Junior College
7:30 CBS News (Joseph Benti)
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Jack LaLanne
9:30 McHale's Navy
10:00 The Lucille Ball Show
10:30 The Beverly Hillbillies
11:00 The Andy Griffith Show
11:30 The Dick Van Dyke Show
12:00 News, Weather
12:25 CBS News (Joseph Benti)
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Love of Life
1:25 News
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 Art Linkletter's House Party
4:30 The Flintstones
5:00 The Mike Douglas Show
6:30 News, Sports, Weather
7:00 CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7:30 Daktari
8:30 Showtime
9:30 Good Morning World (Last show of the series)
10:00 CBS Reports
11:00 News, Weather, Sports
11:20 Movie ("I'm Still Alive")

Note: WFTV's 7:00-8:00 AM schedule, consisting mostly of ABC's weekend morning programming... Monday: Casper the Friendly Ghost, The Beatles; Tuesday: The Adventures of Gulliver, Linus the Lionhearted; Wednesday: Spider-Man, King Kong; Thursday: Fantastic Voyage, Sir Lancelot; Friday: The Bullwinkle Show, Sir Lancelot
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[bpatrick]

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> 10:30 Concentration

I've posted Central Florida schedules from
1962, and for years WFLA would not carry
NBC's 10 AM show. It wasn't until the fall
of 1973 that they finally began doing so;
NBC was running Dinah's Place at the time.
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> 2:00 Hazel

I never did understand what WFLA had against
Days Of Our Lives for so long. About a year
after these schedules, Channel 8 had Allen
Ludden's Gallery, a failed talk show, from
1:30-2:30 (Let's Make A Deal had moved to
ABC and Channel 10 by then). WTOG/44 was
running Days. By 1971 at the latest, Days
was finally on 8. But I wonder why they
held out for so long.
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Within a year, Channel 13's local news would be
airing 6-7, with Cronkite at 7.
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> 12:30 Tom Hallick Show

I wonder if this is the same Tom Hallick who
became a Los Angeles personality in the '70s,
and who was on The Young And The Restless in
its early years.
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[rugrats1]

> > Channel 8, WFLA-TV (NBC) Tampa
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> > 9:00 Pat Boone
> > 10:30 Concentration>
> I've posted Central Florida schedules from
> 1962, and for years WFLA would not carry
> NBC's 10 AM show. It wasn't until the fall
> of 1973 that they finally began doing so;
> NBC was running Dinah's Place at the time.

And after Dinah left NBC for her syndicated talk show, ch.8 showed "Romper Room" at 10AM, after ch.10 dropped the show -- this remained at this time on ch.8 until around 1982.

> > 2:00 Hazel
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> I never did understand what WFLA had against
> Days Of Our Lives for so long. By 1971 at the latest, Days
> was finally on 8. But I wonder why they
> held out for so long.

As I heard, Des Moines held out the longest -- WHO ch.13 didn't clear Days until around 1984.

 

[rugrats1]

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> Channel 38, WSUN-TV (Ind.) St. Petersburg
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> 2:30 (PM) Film
> 3:00 Movie ("Catherine the Great")
> 4:30 Bozo the Clown
> 5:00 Astro Boy
> 5:30 Bat Masterson
> 6:00 Texas Rangers
> 6:30 Highway Patrol
> 7:00 Around the World
> 7:30 Movie ("Cardinal Richelieu")
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The old ch.38 was already on its last legs, with its later sign on and earlier sign-off, after losing the lucrative ABC affiliation to ch.10 in 1965. The death knell probably came at the end of 1968, when WTOG ch.44, launched and owned by the deeper-pocketed Hubbard Broadcasting (until they sold it to Viacom in 1996), went on the air. Ch.38 would go dark for good in February 1970, and it would be 20 years until ch.38 lights up Tampa Bay screens again, as WTTA.

By the way -- did TVG had any listings for Orlando's NET station, WMFE ch.24 (they signed on in 1965)?

 

[bpatrick]

> > > Channel 8, WFLA-TV (NBC) Tampa
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> > > 9:00 Pat Boone
> > > 10:30 Concentration>
> > I've posted Central Florida schedules from
> > 1962, and for years WFLA would not carry
> > NBC's 10 AM show. It wasn't until the fall
> > of 1973 that they finally began doing so;
> > NBC was running Dinah's Place at the time.
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> And after Dinah left NBC for her syndicated talk show, ch.8
> showed "Romper Room" at 10AM, after ch.10 dropped the show
> -- this remained at this time on ch.8 until around 1982.
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> I don't think that happened immediately. I was living
in Tampa in the summer of '74 and remember Ch. 8 carrying
the short-lived version of Name That Tune that Dennis James
emceed; that was the show that replaced Dinah on NBC.
(If I wanted to watch a game show at 10 AM that was my only
pick; Ch. 13 didn't carry Joker's Wild.) Romper Room may
have moved to 8 around 1975 or '76, but since I left Florida
for Texas in '76 I honestly don't recall.
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[trainman]

> By the way -- did TVG had any listings for Orlando's NET
> station, WMFE ch.24 (they signed on in 1965)?

Not this TV Guide, at least -- I included all the listed channels in these posts.

When I bought this TV Guide on eBay, I was kind of hoping WTOG would be included. Guess I missed it by a couple of months. I interned there in the summer of 1993, and remember that their reception area contained a framed copy of what I figured out was the first page of their master control log from the day they first signed on -- but obviously, I couldn't remember the exact date. (1968 is memorable, though, because of the jingle they were using on-air throughout 1988: "20 years together, 44 and you!" I don't remember them promoting their 25th anniversary in 1993.)<P ID="signature">______________
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