Retro: Western Illinois Sun, Jan 17, 1965

[Bluenoser]

from Chicago Sunday American

2 KTVI-ABC St. Louis
3 WCIA-CBS Champaign
4r WHBF-CBS Rock Island
4s KMOX-CBS St. Louis
5 KSD-NBC St. Louis
6 WOC-NBC Davenport
7 KHQA-CBS Davenport
8 WQAD-ABC Moline
10 WGEM-NBC/ABC Quincy
11 KPLR-Ind St. Louis
13 WREX-ABC/CBS Rockford
17 WTVP-ABC Decatur
19 WTVH-ABC Peoria
20 WICS-NBC Springfield
25 WEEK-NBC Peoria
31 WMBD-CBS Peoria
33 WCHU-NBC Champaign
35 WEEQ-NBC LaSalle
39 WTVO-NBC Rockford

Morning
6:15
4s Big Picture

6:45
4s Christophers

7:00
4s Repertoire Workshop

7:30
4s Camera Three
8 Youth Speaks

7:45
13 Joe Emerson

7:50
2 Credo/News
10 Lord's Prayer

8:00
2 Fisher Family
4r Heaven's Jubilee
4s Sunday Morning
5 Lester Family Sing
6 Faith for Today (c)
8 Dialog
10 The Answer (c)
13 Sunrise Semester
39 This is the Life

8:15
11 Songs of Faith

8:30
2 Religious Reporter
4s Faith of Our Fathers
5 Christophers
6 Sunday Worship
7 Hour of St. Francis
8 College Close-Up
10 Faith for Today (c)
11 Newsreel
13 Oral Roberts
17-19 Wonderama
39 Herald of Truth

8:45
2 The Answer

8:55
3 Inspiration Time

9:00
3-4r-4s-7-31 Lamp Unto My Feet
5 Metropolitan Church
6 This is the Life
8 Project 8
10 All-American Quartet
11 Gospel Time
13 Rockford Ministerial Association

9:15
2 Message of the Rabbi
39 Industry on Parade

9:30
2 Sacred Heart
3-4r-4s-7-13-31 Look Up & Live
5 This is the Life
6 Cartoon Carnival
8-10-17-19 Beany & Cecil
11 Allen Revival
39 Faith for Today

9:45
2 Catholic Mass

10:00
3-4r-7-13-31 Camera Three
4s Montage
5 Catholic Hour
8-10-17-19 Bullwinkle
11 Frontiers of Science
20-33 Little Rascals
25-35 Light Time
39 Sunday Morning Movie

10:15
25-35 Sacred Heart

10:30
2-8-10-13-17-19 Discovery '65 "All About Snakes"
3-4r Christophers
4s Way of Life
5 Film
6 6 Theater
7 This is the Life
11 Herald of Truth
20-33 Imperial Theater
25-35 The Story
31 Sen. Dirksen Reports

10:45
4r Sacred Heart
31 Sen. Douglas Reports

11:00
2 Pro & Con
3 Big Picture
4r-17-25-35 This is the Life
4s Quiz a Catholic
5 Film
7 Sacred Heart
8 Championship Bowling
10 Mass for Shut-Ins
11 Baptist Church
13 Beany & Cecil
19 Inside Peoria
31 Christophers

11:15
7 Ask a Priest

11:30
2 Viewpoint
3-4r-4s-7-31 Face the Nation
5 Adventures in Sherwood
6 Junior Achievement
10 Cartoon Circus
13 Bullwinkle
17-19 Faith for Today
25-35 Mr. Wizard
39 Championship Bowling

11:45
11 Davey & Goliath

11:55
10 News

Afternoon
noon
2 Big Movie
4r TV Tunes
4s Picture for Sunday
5 Award Theater
6 News/Weather
7 Family Theater
8-17-19 Directions '65
10 Championship Bowling
11 Oral Roberts
13 Kiplinger Report
25-35 Sunday Matinee
31 Davey & Goliath

12:15
4r Matinee Theater
6 Conversation
13 Weekly Report
31 Sunday Playhouse

12:30
6-20-33-39 Catholic Hour
8-17-19 Issues & Answers
11 Challenge Billiards

1:00
6 Kaleidoscope
8-10-17-19 NBA: Los Angeles-St. Louis
11 British Calendar
20-33 Legacy of Light
39 Bowling

1:30
3-4r-4s-7-31 CBS Sports Spectactular (US Grand Prix highlights)
6 Wonderful World
11 Church of Christ
13 Science All Stars
20-33 This is the Life

2:00
2 Championship Bowling
5-6-20-33 Sunday
11 Chuck Norman
13 Desilu Playhouse
39 Quest for Life

3:00
2-8-10-13-17-19 Shell's Wonderful World of Golf: Houston's Dave Marr takes on Brit Bernard Hunt in Sunningdale, England
3-4r-4s-7-31 Alumni Fun
5-6-20-33-39 NBC Sports in Action (c)
11 Wrestling
25-35 Profiles in Courage

3:30
3-4r-4s-7-31 Real McCoys

4:00
2-8-17-19 Science All Stars (guest Dr. Edward Teller)
3-4r-4s-7-13-31 Jack Benny (Jack dreams he's charged with a murder that he didn't do, with Perry Mason defending him)
5-6-10-20-25-33-35-39 Wild Kingdom (c/studying elephants in what is now Botswana)

4:30
2 Central Park
3-4r-4s-7-13-31 Ted Mack's Amateur Hour
5-6-10-20-25-33-35-39 GE College Bowl (c)
8 Midwest Farm Report
11 Super Movie
17-19 Sunday Playhouse

5:00
2 Bullwinkle
3-4r-4s-7-13-31 20th Century "Korea: The Line"
5-6-20-25-33-35-39 Meet the Press (c)
8 Sunday Afternoon Movie

5:30
2 Littlest Hobo
3-4r-4s-7-31 World War I "Over There"
5-6-10-20-33 Profiles in Courage (Gen. Alexander W. Doniphan, who was faced with executing Mormon leaders)
10 Wagon Train
13 Mr. Ed
17-19 Outlaws
25-25 Ricky & Friends
39 Peyton Place

Evening
6:00
2 Sir Francis Drake
3-4r-4s-7-13-31 CBS Special "The Wizard of Oz" (c/hosted by Danny Kaye)
11 Thriller
25-35 Fractured Flickers
39 News

6:30
2-8-17-19 Wagon Train "The Wanda Snow Story"
5-6-10-25-33-35-39 Walt Disney "Chico, the Misunderstood Coyote"

7:00
11 Checkmate

7:30
2-8-17-19 Broadside
5-10-20-25-33-35-39 Bill Dana
6 Rifleman

8:00
2-8-17-19 Sunday Night Movie "Exodus" (c)
3-4r-4s-7-31 CBS Special (c/no info listed)
5-6-10-20-25-33-39 Bonanza "Woman of Fire" (c)
11 Controversy '65
13 No Time for Sargeants

8:30
11 Best of Groucho
13 McHale's Navy

9:00
3-4r-4s-7-13-31 Candid Camera
5-6-10-20-25-33-35-39 Rogues "God Bless You, G. Carter Huntington"
11 Greatest Show on Earth

9:30
3-4r-4s-7-13-31 What's My Line?

10:00
3 10 O'Clock Edition
4r Local News
4s Big News
5 News (Bob Chase)
6-7-10-13-20-25-33-35 Weather/News/Sports
8 8 News
11 77 Sunset Strip
17 Metropolitan Movie
19 Movie
31 Weekend World
39 News (Richardson)

10:10
5-39 Weather

10:15
2 Chiller Theater
4r Theater 4
5 Movie 5 (c)
39 Sports

10:20
6 Premiere Performance "The Red Pony" (c)
8 Science Fiction Theater

10:25
4s Weather
20-33 Naked City

10:30
3-31 Adventures in Paradise
4s Best of CBS
7 Outer Limits
13 Sunday Night Movie
25-35 Premiere
39 Award Movie "Conquest of Cochise"

11:00
11 Million-Dollar Movie

11:15
10 Quest for Adventure

11:30
3 Night Call
7 Weather/News
20-33 Leave It to the Girls
31 High Flight

11:45
10 Weather

Late Night
midnight
2-6-8 News
17-19 Under Discussion

12:05
2 Credo

12:25
4s Late, Late Show

12:30
13 Almanac

1:30
19 Evening Inspirational

1:50
4s News

2:00
4s Give Us This Day

 

[SteveRichards]

Thanks for posting!

 

[Joseph_Gallant]

The NBA game on ABC that day was played in St. Louis, hence, the old St. Louis Hawks (or was it league policy??) blacked-out the game.

I wonder if any of the ABC stations carrying that game could have been picked-up with an outdoor antenna in the St. Louis area.

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

7 KHQA-CBS Davenport

KHQA is actually COL'ed to Hannibal, MO and was/is the CBS affiliate for the Quincy market. (Davenport is served by WHBF).

And was KHQA also carrying some occasional ABC shows during this time, as has been reported prior to the sign-on of the ill-fated WJJY-14 over 4 years after this sked? (http://www.brainmist.com/wjjy_tv/wjjy_tv.htm)

 

[Bluenoser]

7 KHQA-CBS Davenport

KHQA is actually COL'ed to Hannibal, MO and was/is the CBS affiliate for the Quincy market. (Davenport is served by WHBF).

And was KHQA also carrying some occasional ABC shows during this time, as has been reported prior to the sign-on of the ill-fated WJJY-14 over 4 years after this sked? (http://www.brainmist.com/wjjy_tv/wjjy_tv.htm)

Oops...they listed it as Quincy, must have still had Davenport on the brain when typing in the channels listed. Ch 7 did indeed run some ABC programming before the launch of WJJY.

 

[Mike Stroud]

The NBA game on ABC that day was played in St. Louis, hence, the old St. Louis Hawks (or was it league policy??) blacked-out the game.

I wonder if any of the ABC stations carrying that game could have been picked-up with an outdoor antenna in the St. Louis area.

Joe, I think the closest distant ABC signal to the Gateway City would have been a station not listed here, WSIL, channel 3 in Harrisburg, Illinois. Even so, the best reception would have been on the Illinois side of the river, what is usually termed "Metro-East." Even so, WSIL might have been included in the blackout too.

I dunno about NBA policies at the time, but I suspect they weren't a whale of a lot of different from the NFL. If that was so, the league would have taken all steps to insure no OTA signal could be picked up in the region (say, 40 to 50-mile radius). As you will note, all the other ABC affils listed were Us located well outside the St. Louis market's boundaries. The only other possibility than WSIL would have also been on channel 3, KTVO in Kirksville, Missouri, up at the northern edge of the state. The next market to SL's west, Columbia-Jefferson City, didn't get ABC full-time until 1971 when KCBJ, channel 17 (now KMIZ), started up, although CBS affil KRCG or NBC affil KOMU might have cleared it in lieu of their respective networks' sports carriage that day.

I'm interested in the question also because I have always felt that the old St. Louis edition of TV Guide was strange, since it only listed stations from that city, and not from neighboring markets. However, given the strength of the signals of the old "Big Three" back then (KTVI, KMOX, and KSD) and public TV outlet KETC and indie KPLR, I now know it shouldn't be surprising. I'm sure those stations were carried on cable well into central Missouri and the better part of southern Illinois for ages.