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Retro: Western Illinois-Northeast Missouri January 31, 1966

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dxnemo78

This was 2 days after I was born ;D
At the time, I think all 3 local stations had a secondary affiliation with ABC, or at least they seem to have carried some ABC programs. Channel 3 (KTVO) went full-schedule ABC around 1968.

From the Quincy Herald-Whig:

10 WGEM-TV Quincy

6:55 Lord's Prayer
7:00 Today Show
7:25 Today in Quincy
7:30 Today Show
9:00 Eye Guess (Probably a game show ???)
9:30 Concentration
10:00 Morning Star
10:30 Paradise Bay (I have no clue what these 2 were ???)
11:00 Jeopardy
11:30 Let's Play Post Office ( ;D)
12:00 Noon Show
12:30 Let's Make a Deal (And behind Door#3, it's a '66 Impala ;)
1:00 Days of Our Lives
1:30 The Doctors
2:00 Another World
2:30 You Don't Say
3:00 Match Game
3:30 Where the Action Is
4:00 Cartoon Circus
4:15 Rocky & Friends
4:30 Cartoon Circus
4:45 Cactoon Club
5:00 Woody Woodpecker
5:25 Weather
5:30 Huntley-Brinkley
6:00 News, Weather, Sports
6:30 Hullabaloo
7:00 John Forsythe Show
7:30 Dr. Kildare
8:00 Andy Williams
9:00 The Fugitive
10:00 News, Weather, Sports
10:30 Tonight Show
12:00 Weather

7 KHQA Hannibal-Quincy

7:35 News
7:55 Morning Report
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 I Love Lucy
9:30 The McCoy's
10:00 Andy of Mayberry :)
10:30 Dick Van Dyke
11:00 Love of Life
11:30 Search for Tommorow
11:45 Guiding Light (15 minute soaps?? Man I feel ollld ;D)
12:00 News, Weather, Sports
12:15 Hal Barton
12:30 As the World Turns
1:00 Password
1:30 House Party
2:00 To Tell the Truth
2:30 Edge of Night (That THEME SONG :eek:)
3:00 Secret Storm
3:30 Young Marrieds (Before they became young & restless ::) ;D)
4:00 Interview Time
4:15 Coffee Break (Sounds good, I'll take mine with a pinch of sugar ;D)
4:30 Ben Casey
5:30 CBS News
6:00 News, Weather, Sports
6:30 To Tell the Truth
7:00 I've Got a Secret
7:30 Lucy Show
8:00 Andy Griffith
8:30 Hazel
9:00 Hollywood Talent Scouts
10:00 News, Weather, Sports
10:30 Long Hot Summer
11:30 Weather & News

3 KTVO Kirksville-Ottumwa

7:00 Morning Melodies
7:05 CBS Morning News
7:30 Morning Report
8:15 Captain Kangaroo (Just 45 min. ???)
9:00 Conversational Spanish
10:00 Andy of Mayberry
10:30 Romper Room
11:00 Love of Life
11:30 Search for Tommorow
11:45 Guiding Light
12:00 Mid-Day Report
12:15 Town & Country
12:30 As the World Turns
1:00 Password
1:30 House Party
2:00 To Tell the Truth
2:30 Edge of Night
3:00 Secret Storm
3:30 KTVO Forum
4:00 Casper the Ghost
4:30 Americna Bandstand
5:00 Shindig
5:30 CBS News
6:00 News, Weather, Sports
6:30 To Tell the Truth
7:00 I've Got a Secret
7:30 Lucy Show
8:00 Andy Griffith
8:30 Hazel
9:00 Combat
10:00 News, Weather, Sports
10:20 Hollywood Palace
11:20 Tommorow's News Tonight
 
dxnemo78 said:
10 WGEM-TV Quincy

9:00 Eye Guess (Probably a game show ???)
3:30 Where the Action Is
6:30 Hullabaloo


3 KTVO Kirksville-Ottumwa

7:05 CBS Morning News
7:30 Morning Report
8:15 Captain Kangaroo (Just 45 min. ???)
4:30 Americna Bandstand
5:00 Shindig
10:20 Hollywood Palace
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...indeed, "Eye Guess" was a game show, Bill Cullen's first daytime game show (on NBC) after the original "The Price is Right" was cancelled by ABC if I recall correctly. I wonder if "Captain Kangaroo" on KTVO was simply picked up on the network line after the first commercial break, or if it was tape-delayed by a day and a segment dropped by the station to fit into that slot. Also interesting to see all the network rock music shows of the period run on the same day within four hours of each other between two different stations, and "The Hollywood Palace" used as competition against Carson...
 
Ultimajock said:
dxnemo78 said:
10 WGEM-TV Quincy

9:00 Eye Guess (Probably a game show ???)
3:30 Where the Action Is
6:30 Hullabaloo


3 KTVO Kirksville-Ottumwa

7:05 CBS Morning News
7:30 Morning Report
8:15 Captain Kangaroo (Just 45 min. ???)
4:30 Americna Bandstand
5:00 Shindig
10:20 Hollywood Palace
Click to expand...

...indeed, "Eye Guess" was a game show, Bill Cullen's first daytime game show (on NBC) after the original "The Price is Right" was cancelled by ABC if I recall correctly. I wonder if "Captain Kangaroo" on KTVO was simply picked up on the network line after the first commercial break, or if it was tape-delayed by a day and a segment dropped by the station to fit into that slot. Also interesting to see all the network rock music shows of the period run on the same day within four hours of each other between two different stations, and "The Hollywood Palace" used as competition against Carson...
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Thanks for the info on "Eye Guess". First game show I can remember Bill Cullen hosting was "Three on a Match", which I think was in the VERY early 70's on NBC.
I have no clue about the abreviated version of good ol' Capn' K., your guess is probably better than mine. KTVO has been ABC for as far back as MY memory goes, BUT.... in the first half of the 70's, as a kid of about 5-8 y.o., I watched Sesame Street at 9:00 AM weekdays on KTVO. I found the quantity of teeny-bopper music shows interesting
too. The inclusion of Hollywood Palace seems to indicate that KTVO was seriously flirting with an ABC affiliation by '66.
 
dxnemo78 said:
Ultimajock said:
dxnemo78 said:
10 WGEM-TV Quincy

9:00 Eye Guess (Probably a game show ???)
3:30 Where the Action Is
6:30 Hullabaloo


3 KTVO Kirksville-Ottumwa

7:05 CBS Morning News
7:30 Morning Report
8:15 Captain Kangaroo (Just 45 min. ???)
4:30 Americna Bandstand
5:00 Shindig
10:20 Hollywood Palace
Click to expand...

...indeed, "Eye Guess" was a game show, Bill Cullen's first daytime game show (on NBC) after the original "The Price is Right" was cancelled by ABC if I recall correctly. I wonder if "Captain Kangaroo" on KTVO was simply picked up on the network line after the first commercial break, or if it was tape-delayed by a day and a segment dropped by the station to fit into that slot. Also interesting to see all the network rock music shows of the period run on the same day within four hours of each other between two different stations, and "The Hollywood Palace" used as competition against Carson...
Click to expand...

Thanks for the info on "Eye Guess". First game show I can remember Bill Cullen hosting was "Three on a Match", which I think was in the VERY early 70's on NBC.
I have no clue about the abreviated version of good ol' Capn' K., your guess is probably better than mine. KTVO has been ABC for as far back as MY memory goes, BUT.... in the first half of the 70's, as a kid of about 5-8 y.o., I watched Sesame Street at 9:00 AM weekdays on KTVO. I found the quantity of teeny-bopper music shows interesting
too. The inclusion of Hollywood Palace seems to indicate that KTVO was seriously flirting with an ABC affiliation by '66.
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Wasn't KTVO in '66 primarily a CBS affiliate but carried some selected NBC and ABC shows? I remember reading something about this before. I don't think it was until about 1970 that they became a full-fledged ABC affiliate (but even after that switch, KTVO continued to carry "As the World Turns" and perhaps another CBS soap opera during the early '70s--similar to what neighboring WGEM in Quincy did with "All My Children" and perhaps other ABC soaps until at least the mid-90s, except during the year KTVO had their 2000-ft. tower geared toward serving the Quincy market before it collapsed in June 1988).
 
SteveRichards said:
7 KHQA Hannibal-Quincy

7:35 News
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Was this CBS or local news?
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I really don't know. The listing I found at the library just said "News". The web sites of these stations offer basically nothing so far as "back-in-the-day" info, and I've pretty much scoured the web but haven't found much worthwile. KTVO has a bit more station history on their site than the other two. Shame.... :-\
 
KTVO technically became a primary ABC affiliate in 1968, although as Tim said, the station continued to carry a handful of CBS and NBC shows thru the early 1970s. KTVO did continue to carry "As the World Turns" from CBS for a number of years. I also believe (but not sure) that KTVO aired "Bonanza" from NBC until the show went off the air.

I would imagine it's safe to assume that KHQA in Quincy, and even possibly KRNT (now KCCI) in Des Moines, had pressured CBS to abandon its primary affiliation with KTVO, since the KTVO viewing area severely overlapped that of the other two CBS affiliates. From what I understand (from what I remember from a Mike Seaver post from several years back, who worked at both KTVO and KHQA at different times), ABC, which still didn't have many primary affiliates in small markets, offered a comp package to KTVO that the station just couldn't turn down. And since Kirksville-Ottumwa was technically a single-station market, KTVO probably figured it had little to lose, at least revenue-wise, by flipping to primary ABC from primary CBS. The switch also enabled viewers in northeast Missouri and southeast Iowa the chance to see ABC on a full-time basis.
 
"Morning Star" and "Paradise Bay" were two attempts
by NBC to have morning soaps; "Morning Star," IIRC,
was created by the same people who did "Days Of
Our Lives," and "Paradise Bay" may have been, too.
The two shows debuted September 27, 1965 and were
canceled July 1, 1966. "Morning Star" was replaced by
"Chain Letter," a game in which contestants had to name
an item in a category starting with the last letter of the
previous player's word (Stefan Hatos and Monty Hall
produced, and this was Jan Murray's last hosting job).
"Paradise Bay" was replaced by "Showdown" (not the
Jim Peck "Big Showdown"), hosted by the era's most
acerbic talk-show host, Joe Pyne, and which featured
breakaway chairs which sent a player out of sight when
he or she gave a wrong answer.
 
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