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Retro: Western Illinois, Monday, November 23, 1970

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SteveRichards

These listings are interesting (at least to me) because they show the schedule for the ill-fated WJJY-TV/14, an ABC affiliate in Jacksonville that targeted the Quincy market and also reached Springfield. The station went on the air on August 18, 1969 and went dark sometime in April of 1971. You can read more about WJJY-TV here: http://www.brainmist.com/wjjy_tv/wjjy_tv.htm

Channels Listed in the Western Illinois Edition
(C) Indicates color program.

Rock Island
4 WHBF-TV (CBS)

Quincy
7 KHQA-TV (CBS)
10 WGEM (NBC)

Peoria
19 WIRL-TV (ABC) (now WHOI)
25 WEEK-TV (NBC)
31 WMBD-TV (CBS)

Moline
8 WQAD-TV (ABC)

Jacksonville
14 WJJY-TV (ABC) (defunct)

Springfield
20 WICS (NBC) (now ABC)

Ottumwa
3 KTVO-TV (ABC, CBS, NBC) (now exclusively ABC with a CBS subchannel)

Davenport
6 WOC-TV (NBC) (now KWQC)

For Programs on 35 LaSalle, see 25
For Programs on 71 LaSalle-Peru, see 31

Morning

6:15 31 Sunrise Semester (C)

6:30 7 Sunrise Semester (C)
10-20 Jack LaLanne (C)

6:45 31 Farm Report (C)

6:55 4 We Begin This Day (C)
6 Today in Agriculture (C)

7:00 4-7-31 CBS Morning News (John Hart) (C)
6-10-20-25 Today (Hugh Downs) (C)

7:15 8 Sacred Heart (C)
7:30 3 Sesame Street (C) (from PBS)
8 Romper Room
14 Operation Earlybird (C)

7:55 19 Somebody Loves You (C)

8:00 4-7-31 Captain Kangaroo (C)
8 47 Happiness Way (C)
19 Public Affairs (C)

8:30 3 Romper Room (C)
8 Consultation (C)
14 America Sings (C)
19 Kiddie Komics

9:00 3 Smokey Bear (delay from Sunday 8:30AM; is not listed as being in color, but the Sunday 8:30 broadcast on Ch. 14 is
in color)
4-7 Lucille Ball (C)
6-20-25 Dinah Shore (C) (Guest: Burt Bacharach)
8 Classroom
10 Jack LaLanne (C)
14 Film (C)
19 Movie Game (C)
31 Sesame Street (C) (from PBS)

9:20 10 Fashions in Sewing (C)

9:30 3 Underdog (C)
4 Jack LaLanne (C)
6-10-20-25 Concentration (C)
7 Beverly Hillbillies (C)
19 Galloping Gourmet (C)

10:00 3 Wings to Adventure (C)
4-7-31 Family Affair (C)
6-10-20-25 Sale of the Century (C)
8 World Apart (C) (delay from 11:30AM)
14 Classroom (C)
19 Coffee Break (Anne Lane) (C)

10:30 3-8 That Girl (C)
4-7-31 Love of Life (C)
6-10-20-25 Hollywood Squares (C)

11:00 3-8-14-19 Bewitched (C)
4-7-31 Where the Heart Is (C)
6-10-20-25 Jeopardy (C)

11:25 4-7-31 CBS News (Douglas Edwards) (C)

11:30 3-4-7-31 Search for Tomorrow (C)
6-10-20-25 Who, What or Where (C)
8 Georgia on Q
14-19 World Apart (C)

11:55 6 News, Weather and Market Report (C)
10-20-25 NBC News (C)

Afternoon

12:00 3 News and Weather (C)
4 Hazel
7 News, Market Report and Weather (C)
8-20 Galloping Gourmet (C)
10 Paul Harvey (C)
14 All My Children (C)
19 Farm Report (Dick Herm) (C)
25 Rona Barrett (C)
31 Street Scene (Ed Goodman)

12:05 10 TV Party Line (C)
25 Paul Harvey (C)

12:10 25 News, Weather and Interviews (C)
31 Farm Report (C)
12:15 3 Town and Country (C)
7 Hal Barton (C)
31 News, Weather and Market Report (C)

12:20 6 Fashions in Sewing (C)

12:25 25 Conversation (C)

12:30 3-4-7-31 As the World Turns (C)
6-25 Words and Music (C)
8-14-19 Let's Make a Deal (C)
20 Midday Report (C)

12:50 20 Fashions in Sewing (C)

1:00 3-8-14-19 Newlywed Game (C)
4-7-31 Love Is a Many Splendored Thing (C)
6-10-20-25 Days of Our Lives

1:30 3-8-14-19 Dating Game (C)
4-7-31 Guiding Light (C)
6-10-20-25 Doctores (C)

2:00 3-8-14-19 General Hospital (C)
4-7-31 Secret Storm (C)
6-10-20-25 Another World/Bay City (C)

2:30 3-4-7-31 Edge of Night (C)
6-10-20-25 Bright Promise (C)
8-14-19 One Life to Live (C)

3:00 3-8-14-19 Dark Shadows (C)
4-7-31 Gomer Pyle, USMC (C)
6-10-20-25 Another World/Somerset (C)

3:30 3 World Apart (delay from 11:30AM; not indicated as being in color, but some other KTVO network delays are in color)
4 Mike Douglas (C) (Co-hosts: Phyllis Diller and her husband Warde Donovan; guests: Richard Chamberlain, George
Jessel, Sam Levenson and Shani Wallis)
6 Captain Ernie (C)
7 Tri-State Time (C)
8 All My Children (C) (delay from 12:00)
10 Dinah Shore (C) (delay from 9:00)
14 Movie (To Be Announced; all of WJJY's movies this week at this time were TBA)
19 I Love Lucy
20 Hazel (C)
25 Captain Jinks (C)
31 Perry Mason

3:55 7 Mike Douglass (C) (Co-Host: Johnny Mathis; guests: Pete Fountain, Archie Campbell and Corita Kent)

4:00 3 One Life to Live (delay from 2:30; apparently not in color)
8-20 Star Trek (C) (different episodes; ironically, Ch. 20 pre-empted the first season of "Star Trek" on NBC)
10 Words and Music (C) (delay from 12:30)
19 Big Valley (C)
25 Gilligan's Island

4:30 3 All My Children (delay from 12:00)
6 Jeff's Collie
10 Timmy and Lassie
25 Star Trek (C)
31 Flintstones (C)

5:00 3 Let's Make a Deal (delay from 12:30)
4 Flintstones (C)
6-20 Truth or Consequences (C)
8-19 ABC Evening News (C)
10 Cartoon Carnival (C)
14 That Girl (C) (delay from 10:30)
31 Beat the Clock (C)

5:25 7 Weather (C)
10 Stock Market Report (C)
25 Now Playing (C)

5:30 3-14 ABC Evening News (C)
4-7-31 CBS Evening News (Walter Cronkite) (C)
6-10-20-25 NBC Nightly News (C)
8 Perry Mason
19 News, Weather and Sports (C)

Evening

6:00 3-4-6-7-14-20-25-31 News, Weather, Sports (C)
10 Paul Harvey (C)
19 Truth or Consequences (C)

6:05 10 News, Weather, Sports (C)

6:25 6 Comment (Bill Gress) (C)

6:30 3-8-14-19 Young Lawyers (C)
4-7-31 Gunsmoke (C) (Harry Morgan guest stars)
6-10-20-25 Red Skelton (C) (Guest: Mickey Rooney)

7:00 6-10-20-25 Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In (C) (Guest: Desi Arnaz)

7:30 3-8-14-19 Silent Force (C)
4-7-31 Here's Lucy (C)

8:00 3-8-14-19 Pro Football (C) (New York Giants at Philadelphia Eagles)
4-7-31 Mayberry R.F.D. (C)
6 Movie (C): "What a Way to Go" (1964)
10 NBC Monday Night at the Movies (C): "Coogan's Bluff" (1968)
20 Movie: "Run Silent, Run Deep" (1958)
25 Movie (C): "Rage" (1966)

8:30 4-7-31 Doris Day (C)

9:00 4-7-31 Carol Burnett (C) (Guests: Dyan Cannon and Paul Lynde)

10:00 4-6-7-10-20-25-31 News, Weather, Sports (C)

10:30 4-7-31 Merv Griffin (C) (Guests: Steve Lawrence and James Daley)
6-10-20-25 Johnny Carson (C) (From Hollywood; guests: Paul Newman, Buddy Hackett and Rose Marie)

11:00 3-8-14-19 News, Weather, Sports (C) (Time approximate)

11:30 3 Movie: "The Falcon and the Co-eds" (1943)
19 Movie: "Calling Bulldog Drummond" (1951) (News follows the movie)

11:40 8 Movie (C): "Walk the Proud Land" (1956) (News follows the movie)

12:00 4 Tombstone Territory
6 Twilight Zone
7 Weather and News (C)
10 Weather (C)
20-31 News (C)

12:10 31 That's All (C)


Note: Normal late-night fare on the ABC affiliates on nights without football was Dick Cavett on 3 & 14; movies on 8 & 19.
 
Great find! I have been interested in WJJY and to share a listing is awesome!

Any idea if the 7:30 and 8:30am shows were from the state educational system that WJJY used to fill their schedule?
 
I think it's safe to assume that "Classroom" at 10AM was from OSPI/WILL-TV in Urbana. I have no idea about the programs between 7:30 and 10AM. I would imagine the "Film" at 9AM originated at WJJY, but I have no way to verify.
 
And ironically WJJY was the only ABC station in this listing to air "All My Children" in pattern--while the then-10 1/2 month old soap was delayed on KTVO and WQAD and "didn't play in Peoria" on WIRL (now WHOI) at the time.

And when did listings for Iowa Public Television station KIIN-12 (Iowa City--later listed as "12W" in black on white channel bullets) first appear in the Western IL edition? IIRC KIIN may have signed on in '70 as the second station for what is now IPTV (the first being KDIN-11 Des Moines, which dates back to about 1959).
 
I don't know for sure when the Western Illinois Edition started including listings for KIIN. However, there is a KDIN/KIIN ad in this issue for Julia Child at 6:30 on Sunday evening.
 
I remember watching the original sign-on for KIIN on a Sunday afternoon at 4 in either February or March of 1970. And that ended the life of mystery channel 12 when I was a kid. The only channel 12 I knew of was about 200 miles northwest at Mankato MN. So, my imaginary TV station was on channel 12. Another kid in my class said on his TV, channel 12 was all cartoons, all the time. So it was a novelty to finally see clear pictures on channel 12.
 
And ironically WJJY was the only ABC station in this listing to air "All My Children" in pattern--while the then-10 1/2 month old soap was delayed on KTVO and WQAD and "didn't play in Peoria" on WIRL (now WHOI) at the time.
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I'm not sure when Ch. 19 added "All My Children," but Chs. 8 & 19 were running AMC in pattern at noon a long time before Ch. 3 ever did. Over the years, Ch. 3 aired AMC at 4:30, 3:30, 10:00, back to 3:30 (I think when it expanded to an hour), and finally in pattern at noon (in 1981 when the noon news was cancelled).
 
SteveRichards said:
Peoria
25 WEEK-TV (NBC)

For Programs on 35 LaSalle, see 25
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Channel 35 in Lasalle was WEEQ, which would later become WWTO, the TBN O&O targeting the Chicagoland area. WEEQ would close down sometime around 1973 (according to WWTO's Wikipedia article, WEEQ was listed in the 1973 Broadcasting Yearbook but not the 1974 edition). WWTO would sign on channel 35 in 1986.
 
From the looks of this and the Nov. 21 schedule that has just been posted, it appears that other than the noon Farm Report, WIRL (now WHOI) had shut down their news department for some time.
 
In addition to the noon farm report, WIRL had news at 5:30PM and 10PM on weekdays (they were delayed till 11 because of football on this schedule), and 10PM on Sundays.
 
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