Retro: Western New England - Saturday April 8, 1972

[MCarney]

Source – TV Guide, Western New England edition

This is 3 weeks after WCVB took over channel 5 and joined ABC - CBS went to WNAC 7

3 – WTIC Hartford (CBS)
4 – WBZ Boston (NBC)
5 – WCVB Boston (ABC)
7 – WNAC Boston (CBS)
8 – WNHT New Haven (ABC)
10 – WTEN Albany NY(CBS)/19 – WCDC North Adams MA
18 – WHCT Hartford (Ind)
20 – WATR Waterbury (NBC)
22 – WWLP Springfield(NBC)/32 – WRLP Northfield
24 – WEDH Hartford (PBS)
27 – WSMW Worcester (Ind)
30 – WHNB West Hartford (NBC)/79 – WHNB Torrington
40 – WHYN Springfield (ABC)
57 – WGBY Springfield (PBS)

6:00a
10 Sunrise Semester

6:25a
7 Agriculture U.S.A.

6:30a
4 Man in Space
8 Captain Noah
10 Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
30 Agriculture on Parade

6:55a
7 News

7:00a
4 Rocky and His Friends
5 Jonny Quest
7 F Troop
8 The Cisco Kid
10 Josie and the Pussycats
30 Consumer Report

7:30a
3 Sunrise Semester
4 Captain Fathom
5 All Around You
7-30 Tennessee Tuxedo
8 Reluctant Dragon and Mr. Toad
10 Mr. Magoo

8:00a
3-7-10 Bugs Bunny
4-20-22-30 Dr. Dolittle – cartoon
5 Pixanne
8-40 Jerry Lewis – cartoon

8:30a
3 Mr. Magoo
4-2-22-30 Deputy Dawg
5-8-40 Road Runner
7-10 Scooby Doo

9:00a
3-7-10 Harlem Globetrotters – cartoon
4 Earth Lab (science show hosted by Rex Trailer, replacing the Saturday airing of Boomtown)
5-8-40 Funky Phantom
20-22-30 Woody Woodpecker

9:30a
3-7-10 Help! It’s the Hair Bear Bunch!
5-8-40 Jackson Five – cartoon
20-22-30 Pink Panther

10:00a
3-7-10 Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm
4-20-22-30 The Jetsons
5-8-40 Bewitched

10:30a
3-7-10 Archie’s TV Funnies
4-2-22-30 Barrier Reef – drama
5-8-40 Lidsville

11:00a
3-7 Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
4-20-22-30 Take a Giant Step
5-8-40 Curiosity Shop
10 CBS Children’s Film Festival “Hand in Hand”

11:30a
3-7 Josie and the Pussycats

12:00p
3 RFD #3
4-20-22-30 Mr. Wizard
5 Candlepin Bowling – Don Gillis
7 Dig – cartoon (special on the history of the earth)
8 Jonny Quest
27 Bowling – Worcester
40 I Spy

12:30p
3-7-10 You Are There – history
4-20-22-30 The Bugaloos
5 Junior Bowling – Bill O’Connell

1:00p
3-7 CBS Children’s Film Festival “Tico and the Shark”
4 News, Sports, Weather
8 All About Faces
10 CBS Golf Classic
20 My Little Margie
22 Wrestling
27 Roller Game of the Week
30 Between You and Me
40 Roller Derby

1:30p
4 Call of the West
5 Young Reporters
8 Outdoors
20 Film
30 K Through 12 – grade 7 teachers discuss methods and goals of public school teaching

1:55p
4 Red Sox Warm Up (WBZ got the Sox games when WHDH went off the air and would have them through 1974)

2:00p
3-7 ABA Play-Off (special) – at press time either a divisional semifinal or final-round game was scheduled; Don Criqui and Pat Summerall report (2 games played that day – New York @ Kentucky and Denver @ Indiana)
4 Pre-game Show
5 Movie “Scared Stiff” 1953; Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis
8 Sports – Dick Gallette
10-40 Film
20-22-30 Baseball Pre-Game Show

2:10p
8-10-40 Baseball – New York Mets @ Pittsburgh Pirates

2:15p
4 Baseball – Boston Red Sox vs. Detroit Tigers (local broadcast – announcers were Ken Coleman, Bob Wilson and Johnny Pesky)
20-22-30 Baseball – Boston Red Sox vs. Detroit Tigers (NBC broadcast – announcers were Curt Gowdy and Tony Kubek); alternate game – Baltimore Orioles vs. New York Yankees
18 Baseball – New York Yankees vs. Baltimore Orioles

2:30p
27 Woolner Brothers

3:00p
Movie “The Calling of Dan Matthews” 1936

4:00p
3-7 CBS Golf Classic (time approximate)
5 Lloyd Bridges’ Water World (debut)
27 Bill Anderson
57 Sesame Street

4:30p
5 Outdoors
8-40 To be announced
10 Black Paper
18 This Week in the NBA
27 Racing – Suffolk Downs

5:00p
3-7-10 Golf Tournament (special) – 3rd round play of the Masters
4 Movie “The Incredible Shrinking Man” 1957 (time approximate after baseball)
5-8-40 Auto Race (special) – the National Grand American Stock-Car Championship from Winston-Salem, NC
18 Gunsmoke (time approximate after baseball)
20 Film
22 Star Trek (time approximate after baseball)
30 Bill Russell (time approximate after baseball)
57 Zoom

5:30p
27 Timmy and Lassie
57 Electric Company

6:00p
3-4-7 News, Sports, Weather
10 To be announced
18 I Spy
20 Film
22 As Schools Match Wits
27 Worcester County High School Quiz
30 Black Exposure
57 Soul!

6:30p
3-7-10 CBS News – Roger Mudd
4-22-30 NBC News – Garrick Utley
5-8 News, Sports, Weather
27 Movie “Saps at Sea” 1940 Laurel and Hardy
40 Dragnet

7:00p
3 National Geographic (episode on French Polynesia)
4 Norman Corwin Presents
5 National Geographic (episode on insects)
7 Lawrence Welk
8 Earth Lab
10-22 News, Sports, Weather
18 Roller Derby
20 NBC News – Garrick Utley
30 Hee Haw
40 12 O’Clock High
57 Thirty Minutes – interview

7:30p
4 Sixteen ‘72
10 Untamed World
20 Film
22 Hogan’s Heroes
57 Masterpiece Theater “The Last of the Mohicans” chapter 2

8:00p
3-7-10 All in the Family “Archie in the Lock-Up”
4-20-22-30 Emergency
5-8-40 Bewitched
18 Lawrence Welk
27 Engelbert Humperdinck (reruns of his previous ABC series)

8:30p
3-7-10 Mary Tyler Moore (Rhoda’s mother comes to visit)
5-8-40 Movie “The Reluctant Heroes” 1971
57 Eye to Eye

9:00
3-7-10 The New Dick Van Dyke Show
4-20-22-30 Movie “Raid on Rommel” 1971
18 Johnny Mann’s Stand Up and Cheer
27 Boxing from the Forum
57 Forsyte Saga, chapter 5

9:30p
3-7-10 Arnie
18 Lowell Thomas

10:00p
3-7-10 Mission: Impossible
5-8-40 Sixth Sense
18 Zane Grey Theater
27 Roller Game of the Week
57 Hollywood Television Theater “The Andersonville Trial”

10:30p
18 Oral Roberts

11:00p
3-4-5-7-8-10-22-30 News, Sports, Weather
18 Omar and Walter
20 Marshal Dillon
40 ABC News – Sam Donaldson

11:15p
5-8 ABC News – Sam Donaldson
40 News, Sports, Weather

11:25p
3 Movie Double Feature “Jumbo” 1962 and “Private Potter” 1962

11:30p
4-20 Johnny Carson (repeat)
5 Movie “The Angry Hills” 1959
7 Movie “Boeing Boeing” 1965
8 The Saint
10 Movie “The List of Adrian Messenger”
22 Movie “Duck Soup” Marx Brothers
27 Big Time Wrestling
30 Movie “Black Friday” 1940
40 Sherlock Holmes

12:30a
8 Movie “Charlie Chan at the Opera” 1937

1:00a
4 Movie “Blanche Fury” 1948

1:30a
5 Zenker: Hot Seat (hosted by Arnold Zenker, who replaced Walter Cronkite on the CBS Evening News in 1967 when AFTRA called a strike – he worked at WCVB in the early days)

 

[Joseph_Gallant]

I thought that WWLP-22 Springfield/WRLP-32 Northfield were part of the Boston Red Sox TV network packaged by WBZ-4 Boston from 1972 through 1974.

On the other hand, NBC's deal with Major League Baseball may have precluded local telecasts of games picked up by NBC from being seen in the "outer" portions of a team's regional footprint (i.e. NBC's broadcast may have been blacked-out in the cities of teams involved in games and on NBC stations within 50 miles of such cities).

 

[MCarney]

WWLP and WRLP were part of the Sox network that year - they carried the Sunday afternoon game that week.

 

[KYLEBOOK]

WWLP at that time was usually hit or miss on carrying the local Red Sox network telecasts on Saturday afternoons. Generally, if NBC was carrying the Red Sox game on a Saturday, they would show the NBC feed. If the Red Sox Saturday afternoon game was an important one, say against the Orioles, Tigers, Yankees or A's, and it wasn't on NBC, 22 would make an exception and carry the Red Sox TV Network telecast. I suspect it was due to WWLP wanting to maintain a good relationship with NBC, given that they were a UHF station, and as a result, at that time, on shakier ground than a VHF affiliate like WBZ. And if I'm not mistaken, didn't NBC place the Saturday Game Of The Week on WSBK during WBZ's tenure as Sox TV flagship?

For this particular weekend, listing any MLB games is a moot point, anyway, as all games were cancelled this weekend due to the players strike. The Red Sox 1st game of the '72 season would be exactly 1 week later, on April 14th, in Detroit.

I thought that WWLP-22 Springfield/WRLP-32 Northfield were part of the Boston Red Sox TV network packaged by WBZ-4 Boston from 1972 through 1974.

On the other hand, NBC's deal with Major League Baseball may have precluded local telecasts of games picked up by NBC from being seen in the "outer" portions of a team's regional footprint (i.e. NBC's broadcast may have been blacked-out in the cities of teams involved in games and on NBC stations within 50 miles of such cities).

 

[KML0224]

To correct the original poster, channel 8 of New Haven, CT was WNHC-TV and then became WTNH-TV in April of 1971. The only WNHT-TV I'm aware of was for channel 21 of Concord, NH in the 1980s. They were an independent station and then briefly a CBS affiliate until it went dark in 1989. Today, they're WPXG-TV (ION), a satellite of WBPX-TV (ION) channel 68 of Boston.

 

[MCarney]

That's my error - sorry I didn't catch it when I posted.

Thanks