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Retro: Toronto/Buffalo/Rochester/Erie Fri, June 20, 1958

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from TV Guide-Lake Ontario edition

WGR 2-ABC Buffalo
8:45 Rumpus Room
9:00 Eddie Cantor "Call Me Irving"
9:30 Boston Blackie
10:00 My Little Margie "Conservative Margie"
10:30 Abbott & Costello "The Politician"
11:00 Favorite Story
11:30 Public Defender "End of the Line"
noon Love of Life
12:30 Mid-Day Matinee "One Way Ticket"
2:00 Helen Neville
2:30 Laugh Time
3:00 American Bandstand
3:30 Do You Trust Your Wife?
4:00 American Bandstand
5:00 Buccaneers
5:30 Mickey Mouse Club
6:00 Colonel Bleep
6:30 News
6:45 Comedy Capers
7:00 Sheriff of Cochise "Sheriff Loses Deputy"
7:30 Rin Rin Tin "Rusty's Strategy"
8:00 Jim Bowie "Land Jumpers"
8:30 Mike Hammer "Final Curtain"
9:00 Frank Sinatra "Take Me to Hollywood"
9:30 Frigidaire Summer Theater (premiere) "The Night Goes On"
10:00 Kingdom of the Sea "The Frozen Sea"
10:30 Code Three "The Bite"
11:00 News
11:30 Playhouse
mid. Operation Swing Shift "Dancing in Manhattan"

WBEN 4-CBS Buffalo
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
8:45 News (Stuart Novins)
9:00 Popeye
9:30 You & Your Family
10:00 Garry Moore
11:00 Arthur Godfrey
11:30 Dotto
noon News (Jack Ogilvie)
12:15 Speaker of the House
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1:00 Meet the Millers (c)
1:30 As the World Turns
2:00 Beat the Clock
2:30 House Party
3:00 Big Payoff
3:30 Verdict is Yours
4:00 Brighter Day
4:15 Secret Storm
4:30 Edge of Night
5:00 Fun to Learn
5:15 Children's Theatre
5:55 Weather/News/Sports
6:15 Cisco Kid
6:45 CBS News
7:00 Hawkeye "The Colonel and His Lady"
7:30 Gerald McBoing-Boing
8:00 Trackdown
8:30 Zane Grey "A Gun is for Killing"
9:00 Phil Silvers "Lt. Bilko"
9:30 Schlitz Playhouse "You'll Have to Die Now"
10:00 Lineup "The Glorietta Shakedown Case"
10:30 Person to Person (guest Attorney-General William P. Rogers, interviewed in his Bethesda MD home)
11:00 News
11:30 Friday Feature "Road Demon"

WROC 5-ABC/NBC Rochester
7:00 Today
9:00 Susie "Goodbye Susie Hello"
9:30 Mr. District Attorney
10:00 Dough Re Mi
10:30 Treasure Hunt
11:00 Price is Right
11:30 Truth or Consequences
noon Tic Tac Dough
12:30 It Could Be You
1:00 Feature Movie "Southside 1-1000"
2:30 Home Cooking (McNall)
3:00 Matinee Theater "The Man Without a Country" (c)
4:00 Queen for a Day
4:45 Modern Romances
5:00 Playhouse 5 "Sierra Passage"
6:40 Weather Report
6:45 NBC News
7:00 Mama "The Seventh Age"
7:30 Real McCoys "The Corn Eating Contest"
8:00 Jefferson Drum "The Outlaw"
8:30 Life of Riley "Look, Peg, I'm Dancing"
9:00 M Squad "Shakedown"
9:30 Thin Man "The Acrostic Murders"
10:00 Boxing: from Syracuse, hometown boxer Mike DeJohn (34-4-1, 25 KO) takes on Pittsburgh's Bob Baker (49-11-1, 19 KO) in a 10-round heavyweight bout
10:45 Fight Beat
11:00 News
11:20 Hollywood Feature "The Fake"

CBLT 6-CBC Toronto
2:15pm CBC News
2:30 Matinee "Twist of Fate"
4:00 Open House
4:30 Howdy Doody (CBC did their own version)
5:00 Barney's Gang
5:30 Mighty Mouse
6:00 Willy "Willy and Her High School Romance"
6:30 Movie Museum "The Rocky Road" (histed by Paul Killiam)
6:45 CBC News
7:00 Tabloid
7:30 Leave It to Beaver
8:00 Hawkeye
8:30 One of a Kind
9:00 Big Record (Patti Page welcomes Jeri Southern, and the DeCastro Sisters)
9:30 Country Hoedown (Tommy Hunter welcomes the winners of the square-dancing and fiddling contests)
10:00 Boxing (carrying the NBC bout)
10:45 Sports (Jim Coleman)
11:00 CBC News
11:15 Viewpoint (Lamont Tilden)
11:20 Sports (Steve Douglas)
11:30 Premiere Performance "Week-End in Havana"

WHEC/WVET 10-ABC/CBS Rochester
7:10 Christophers
7:40 Sacred Heart
7:55 News
8:00 Coffee Cup Theater "The Steel Key"
10:00 Garry Moore
11:00 Arthur Godfrey
11:30 Dotto
noon Love of Life
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1:00 Stage One "Desert Encounter"
1:30 As the World Turns
2:00 Beat the Clock
2:30 House Party
3:00 Big Payoff
3:30 Verdict is Yours
4:00 Brighter Day
4:15 Secret Storm
4:30 Edge of Night
5:00 Buccaneers
5:30 Mickey Mouse Club
6:00 Annie Oakley "Dead Man's Bluff"
6:30 News
6:45 CBS News
7:00 Harbor Command
7:30 Highway Patrol
8:00 Trackdown
8:30 Zane Grey "A Gun is for Killing"
9:00 Phil Silvers "Lt. Bilko"
9:30 Schlitz Playhouse "You'll Have to Die Now"
10:00 Lineup "The Glorietta Shakedown Case"
10:30 Person to Person
11:00 News
11:20 Premiere Theater "Deadline at Dawn"

CHCH 11-CBC Hamilton
3pm Movie Matinee "The Purple V"
4:30 Howdy Doody
5:00 Family Theater "Raiders of the Seven Seas"
6:30 News
6:45 CBC News
7:00 Movie at 7 "Crime Doctor's Manhunt"
8:00 Hawkeye
8:30 One of A Kind
9:00 Turn of Fate "The Crowd Pleaser"
9:30 Country Hoedown
10:00 Boxing (NBC)
10:45 Sports
11:00 CBC/Local News
11:30 Chicago Wrestling
12:30 Shock "The Mummy"

WICU 12-ABC/NBC Erie
7:00 Today
8:55 Your Church
9:00 Movie: TBA
10:00 Dough Re Mi
10:30 Treasure Hunt
11:00 Price is Right
11:30 Truth or Consequences
noon Tic Tac Dough
12:30 It Could Be You
1:00 Afternoon Playhouse "20,000 Men a Year"
2:30 Kitty Foyle
3:00 Matinee Theater "The Man Without a Country" (c)
4:00 Queen for a Day
4:45 Modern Romances
5:00 Buccaneers
5:30 Mickey Mouse Club
6:00 Candy Cane Lane
6:30 News
6:45 NBC News
7:00 Boots & Saddles
7:30 26 Men
8:00 Frank Sinatra "Take Me to Hollywood"
8:30 Life of Riley "Look, Peg, I'm Dancing"
9:00 M Squad "Shakedown"
9:30 Ozzie & Harriet "Fixing Up the Fraternity House"
10:00 Boxing
10:45 Fight Beat
11:00 News
11:30 Jack Paar

CKCO 13-CBC Kitchener
3pm Cartoons
3:20 Minister's Study
3:30 News
3:35 Bazaar
4:30 Howdy Doody
5:00 Barney's Gang
5:30 Mighty Mouse
6:00 News
6:05 Telescope (Elaine Cole)
6:35 Sports (Tom Rafferty)
6:45 CBC News
7:00 Oh! Susanna
7:30 Gunsmoke
8:00 Hawkeye
8:30 One of a Kind
9:00 Big Record
9:30 Country Hoedown
10:00 Boxing (NBC)
10:45 Sports
11:00 CBC/Local News
11:40 Texas Wrestling

WBUF 17-NBC Buffalo
7:00 Today
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10:00 Dough Re Mi
10:30 Treasure Hunt
11:00 Price is Right
11:30 Truth or Consequences
noon Tic Tac Dough
12:30 It Could Be You
1:00 Hollywood Playhouse "They Made Me a Killer"/"The Time Bombs"
2:30 Kitty Foyle
3:00 Matinee Theater "The Man Without a Country" (c)
4:00 Queen for a Day
4:45 Modern Romances
5:00 Charles Farrell "The Soft Touch"
5:30 Early Show "Topper Takes a Trip"
6:55 Weather (Rick Azar)
7:00 News/Sports
7:15 NBC News
7:30 Big Game (c)
8:00 Jefferson Drum "The Outlaw"
8:30 Life of Riley "Look, Peg, I'm Dancing"
9:00 M Squad "Shakedown"
9:30 Thin Man "The Acrostic Murders"
10:00 Boxing
10:45 Fight Beat
11:00 News
11:15 Jack Paar
 
How did the WHEC/WVET time share work? I know each was separately licensed...
 
Gridlock Joe asked, "How did the WHEC/WVET time share work? I know each was separately licensed...

They had a system of alternating daytime and nighttime activity. One day WHEC would hold the channel from signon to 6 PM, and then WVET took over in prime time from 6 to signoff...the next day it'd be the reverse, WVET handled daytime and WHEC covered primetime. How they allocated ABC programs, which they also split with then-chennel 5 WROC, had to be a three way negotiation. The share-time ended in 1961 when Transcontinent TV (also the owner of Buffalo's WGR-AM/TV) sold WROC to locally-based Veterans' Broadcasting Company, which in turn sold its WVET share of the Channel 10 license to Gannett Company, which already owned the WHEC half. So from mid-1961 on, Channel 5 and Channel 10 were each controlled by a separate local company that had their respective channel to themselves. The ABC network-sharing lasted one more year, until the summer of 1962 when a third local consortium got the FCC's clearance to build WOKR on Channel 13, the city's third full-power signal and the first full-time ABC affiliate (WROC wound up with NBC and WHEC with CBS). Of course a lot has changed since then...WROC (which moved to Channel 8 in 1962) has been a CBS affiliate since the late 1980s, WHEC wound up with NBC, and only ABC affiliate Channel 13 (whose callsign is now WHAM-TV) is still with the network it orignally signed on with. And all three, which were once locally owned, are now owned by out-of-town group owners.
 
Bob1370 said:
Of course a lot has changed since then...WROC (which moved to Channel 8 in 1962) has been a CBS affiliate since the late 1980s, WHEC wound up with NBC, and only ABC affiliate Channel 13 (whose callsign is now WHAM-TV) is still with the network it orignally signed on with.
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Ironically, at the time of the 1989 switch, WHEC scored the coup getting NBC (and Buffalo Bills football games), and WROC had to "settle" for CBS, getting dumped on again.
 
dhett said:
Bob1370 said:
Of course a lot has changed since then...WROC (which moved to Channel 8 in 1962) has been a CBS affiliate since the late 1980s, WHEC wound up with NBC, and only ABC affiliate Channel 13 (whose callsign is now WHAM-TV) is still with the network it orignally signed on with.
Click to expand...

Ironically, at the time of the 1989 switch, WHEC scored the coup getting NBC (and Buffalo Bills football games), and WROC had to "settle" for CBS, getting dumped on again.
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Well, at the time, WROC was pretty down in the dumps. I thought NBC pulled their affiliation. They wanted a stronger player.

And I also noticed -- no American Bandstand on the schedule in Rochester? So, like Syracuse, did AB not get seen in Rochester during its weekday run in late 50s-early 60s?
 
"And I also noticed -- no American Bandstand on the schedule in Rochester? So, like Syracuse, did AB not get seen in Rochester during its weekday run in late 50s-early 60s?"

IIRC Channel 10 ran Dick Clark's American Bandstand by kinescope for a while on the weekends, and also carried live feeds of his ABC prime-time shows in the late 1950s. But if my memory's correct, 5-day-a-week daytime carriage of AB in Rochester had to wait until WOKR (Channel 13), the city's first and only primary ABC affiliate, signed on at the end of the summer of 1962. 13 carried him through the rest of his weekday run on ABC, and carried his Saturday series until he ended first run production for good in the late 1980s.
 
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