Retro: Wisconsin, Friday, February 2, 1973

[mstgator]

from TV Guide (Wisconsin edition)

2 WBAY-TV (CBS) Green Bay // 3 WISC-TV (CBS) Madison
4 WTMJ-TV (NBC) Milwaukee // 5 WFRV-TV (NBC) Green Bay
6 WITI-TV (ABC) Milwaukee // 6M WLUC-TV (CBS,ABC) Marquette, Michigan
7 WSAU-TV (CBS) Wausau // 9 WAOW-TV (ABC) Wausau
10 WMVS-TV (PBS) Milwaukee // 11 WLUK-TV (ABC) Green Bay
12 WISN-TV (CBS) Milwaukee // 12R WAEO-TV (NBC) Rhinelander
13 WEAU-TV (NBC) Eau Claire // 15 WMTV (NBC) Madison
18 WVTV (Ind.) Milwaukee // 21 WHA-TV (PBS) Madison
27 WKOW-TV (ABC) Madison // 38 WPNE-TV (PBS) Green Bay

For programs on (3) Escanaba, Mich, see (5)
Classroom programs are telecast during school hours on 10, 12R, 21 and 38.

MORNING

6:00
4 Ruff 'N Ready

6:15
2 Sunrise Semester

6:20
12 Badger Farm Report

6:30
3-12 Sunrise Semester
4 New Zoo Revue
6 Sportscope
13 Bible Answers

6:40
5 Town And Country

6:45
2 Cheer Up Time
6 RFD

6:50
6 News/Editorial

7:00
3-6M-7-12 CBS News
4-5-12R-13-15 Today [Classroom programs are telecast on 12R from 9-10 AM]
6 Funny Farm
11 Leave It To Beaver ("A Night In The Woods")

7:30
2 Flintstones
11 New Zoo Revue
12 Morning Show
21 Hodgepodge Lodge

8:00
2-3-6M-7-12 Captain Kangaroo
6 Curiosity Shop
11 Underdog/Rocky
38 Book Beat

8:30
11 Tennessee Tuxedo

9:00
2-6M-12 Joker's Wild
3 Jack LaLanne
4-5-13-15 Dinah Shore
6 Jeff's Collie
7 Romper Room
9-27 Film (Navy)
11 Green Acres

9:30
2-3-6M-7-12 Price Is Right
4-5-15 Concentration
6 Phil Donahue
9-27 New Zoo Revue
11 Phil Donahue
13 Sesame Street

10:00
2-3-6M-7-12 Gambit
4-5-12R-15 Sale Of The Century
9-27 Galloping Gourmet
10 How Do Your Children Grow?

10:30
2-3-6M-7-12 Love Of Life
4-5-12R-13-15 Hollywood Squares
6-9-11-27 Bewitched

10:40
10-21-38 Electric Company

11:00
2 Fashions In Sewing
3-6M-7-12 Where The Heart Is
4-5-12R-13-15 Jeopardy
6-9-11-27 Password

11:15
2 Barbara Hill

11:25
3-6M-7-12 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)

11:30
2-3-6M-7 Search For Tomorrow
4-5-12R-13-15 Who, What Or Where
6-9-11-27 Split Second
10-21-38 Sesame Street
12 Dialing For Dollars

11:55
4 Rona Barrett, Hollywood
5-12R-15 NBC News (Floyd Kalber)
13 News (Lyle Johnsen)

AFTERNOON

12:00
2-7 Noon Show
3 Farm Hour
4-6 News
5 Mid-Day
6M-9-11-27 All My Children
12 Film (Canadian)
15 Not For Women Only

12:30
4-5-12R-13-15 Three On A Match
6-9-11-27 Let's Make A Deal
6M-7-12 As The World Turns
10-21 Mister Rogers (Learning to develop ideas; different kinds of mushrooms.)

1:00
2-3-6M-7-12 Guiding Light
4-5-12R-13-15 Days Of Our Lives
6-9-11-27 Newlywed Game

1:30
2-3-6M-7-12 Edge Of Night
4-5-12R-13-15 Doctors
6-9-11-27 Dating Game
18 All About Faces

2:00
2 As The World Turns
3-6M-7-12 Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
4-5-12R-13-15 Another World
6-9-11-27 General Hospital
18 Crafts With Katy

2:30
2-3-6M-7-12 Secret Storm
4-5-12R-13-15 Return To Peyton Place
6-9-11-27 One Life To Live
18 Felix The Cat

3:00
2-3-6M-7 Vin Scully
4-5-12R-13-15 Somerset
6-9-11-27 Love, American Style
10 Maggie And The Beautiful Machine
12 Search For Tomorrow
18 Popeye
38 Book Beat

3:30
2 Beat The Clock
3 As The World Turns
4 Merv Griffin
5 Movie (to be announced)
6 Movie ("The Last Time I Saw Archie" -1961)
6M Love, American Style
7 Flintstones
9-27 Green Acres
10 Hodgepodge Lodge
11 Munsters
12 Big Valley
12R Dinah Shore
13 Concentration
15 Truth Or Consequences
18 Speed Racer

4:00
2 Bonanza ("Dark Star")
3 Get Smart
6M Password
7 Gilligan's Island
9-27 Gomer Pyle, USMC
10-21-38 Mister Rogers
11 Batman
12R Concentration
13 Virginian
15 Gilligan's Island
18 Flintstones

4:30
3 Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea
6M Brady Bunch
7 Petticoat Junction
9-27 Andy Griffith
10-21-38 Sesame Street
11 Gomer Pyle, USMC
12 Wild Wild West
12R Western Theater
15 Munsters
18 Gomer Pyle, USMC

5:00
2 Gilligan's Island
4 News (John McCullough)
5-7 Truth Or Consequences
6M News
9-11-27 ABC News (Howard K. Smith/Harry Reasoner)
12R Wisconsin Outdoors
15 Hogan's Heroes
18 I Love Lucy

5:30
2-3-6M-7-12 CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
4-5-13-15 NBC News (John Chancellor)
6 ABC News (Smith/Reasoner)
9-27 Beverly Hillbillies
10 Wisconsin Outdoors
11 News (Ray Wheeler)
12R Today On 12
18 Dick Van Dyke ("The Masterpiece")
21-38 Hodgepodge Lodge

EVENING

6:00
2-3-4-5-6-7-9-12-13-15-27 News
6M Kung Fu ("An Eye for an Eye")
10-21-38 Your Future Is Now
11 Dick Van Dyke
12 NBC News (John Chancellor)
18 Jeannie

6:30
2 Price Is Right
4 Lawrence Welk
5 Wait Till Your Father Gets Home
7 Dragnet ("The Prophet")
9-27 To Tell The Truth
10-21-38 Electric Company
11-12 To Tell The Truth
12R News
13 Safari To Adventure
15 Jeannie
18 Bowling For Dollars

7:00
2-3-6M-7-12 Much Ado About Nothing (Special)
5-12R-13-15 Sanford And Son
6-9-11-27 Brady Bunch
10-21-38 Washington Week In Review
18 Bonanza ("Gift of Water")

7:30
4-5-12R-13-15 Little People
6-9-11-27 Partridge Family
10-38 World Press
21 Wall Street Week

8:00
4-5-12R-13-15 Circle Of Fear ("Legion of Demons")
6-9-11-27 Room 222 ("The Hand That Feeds")
10 Fabulous Sixties
18 Movie ("Tarzan and the She-Devil" -1953)
21 Soul!
38 Evening At Pops

8:30
6-9-11-27 Odd Couple

9:00
4-5-12R-13-15 Bobby Darin
6-9-11-27 Love, American Style
10-38 Wall Street Week
21 Hathayoga

9:30
10-21-38 David Susskind
18 Gomer Pyle, USMC

10:00
2-3-4-5-6-6M-7-9-11-12-12R-13-15-27 News
18 Perry Mason ("The Lonely Heiress")

10:30
2 Movie ("Cape Fear" -1961)
3-6M-7-11-12 Movie ("Heaven with a Gun" -1969)
4-5-12R-13-15 Johnny Carson (Scheduled guest host: Jerry Lewis)
9-27 In Concert

10:45
6 Movie ("The Valley of Decision" -1945)

11:00
18 Candid Camera

11:30
18 News

12:00
4-12R-13 Midnight Special (Debut episode)
5-15 News
9-27 Christophers

12:05
15 Twilight Zone ("The Howling Man")

12:15
9-27 With This Ring

12:30
2 Movie ("Revenge of the Creature" -1955)
7 Movie ("The Man Who Could Cheat Death" -1959)
12 News

12:35
15 Twilight Zone ("Eye of the Beholder")

12:40
12 Movie ("Killers from Space" -1954)

1:15
6 News

1:25
6 In Concert

2:55
6 Editorial

3:00
6 Laurel And Hardy ("Kidnapped" -1938)

 

[DrBear]

Note how early the first Green Bay station signs on - nowadays, all the stations are well into morning newscasts.
> 6:15
> 2 Sunrise Semester
>
> 6:45
> 2 Cheer Up Time
(cartoons)

> 4-5-12R-13-15 Today [Classroom programs are telecast on 12R
> from 9-10 AM]
In those days Wisconsin Public Television was just starting to grow in the state, and in areas where there was no Public TV station, local stations would carry an hour or two of in-school TV.

> 9:00
> 9-27 Film (Navy)
In those days, WAOW-Wausau and WKOW-Madison were pretty much a simulcast, except for news programs.
>
> 11:00
> 2 Fashions In Sewing
> 11:15
> 2 Barbara Hill
Hmmm...I'm surprised they weren't carrying a network soap.

>
> 11:30
> 4-5-12R-13-15 Who, What Or Where
> 6-9-11-27 Split Second
Two very underrated game shows

> 11:55
> 4 Rona Barrett, Hollywood
> 5-12R-15 NBC News (Floyd Kalber)
> 13 News (Lyle Johnsen)
Interesting - the Milwaukee station plugs in a syndicated item, Eau Claire does its own 5-minute news and the others stay with the network.

> AFTERNOON
> 12:00
> 2-7 Noon Show
> 3 Farm Hour
> 5 Mid-Day
In the days before news made money. WBAY might have had "Greyhound Sweepstakes" while WFRV's Mid-Day included good old "Dialing for Dollars"

5:30

> 11 News (Ray Wheeler)
WLUK had re--started doing news two years earlier after several years off, and since it showed ABC's news at 5, went local at 5:30 to counterprogram. Wheeler, a classic reader in the Ted Baxter mold, was there for most of the 70s before getting into radio station ownership.
>
>

> 10:30
> 2 Movie ("Cape Fear" -1961)
> 3-6M-7-11-12 Movie ("Heaven with a Gun" -1969)

> 9-27 In Concert
Hmmm... WLUK 11 (ABC) picking up the CBS movie while the CBS station runs its own...and no "in concert"

 

[bpatrick]

>>
> >> > 11:00
> > 2 Fashions In Sewing
> > 11:15
> > 2 Barbara Hill
> Hmmm...I'm surprised they weren't carrying a network soap.

The CBS soap airing at 11 AM (CT), "Where The Heart Is," was
on its last legs; it was replaced by "The Young And The Restless"
on March 26. That same day, "Love Is A Many Splendored Thing"
was replaced by "The Price Is Right" at 2 PM (CT), with "$10,000
Pyramid" taking the 9:30 AM slot. For the record, the CBS daytime
schedule as of March 26 (all times Central):

9 AM Joker's Wild
9:30 $10,000 Pyramid
10 AM Gambit
10:30 Love Of Life
10:55 CBS News--Douglas Edwards
11 AM Young And The Restless
11:30 Search For Tomorrow
12 N (Local)
12:30 As The World Turns
1 PM Guiding Light
1:30 Edge Of Night
2 PM Price Is Right
2:30 Hollywood's Talking (revival of the
1960s game Everybody's Talking)
3 PM Secret Storm
>
> >
> > >
> >
>
>> >
>
> > 10:30
> > 2 Movie ("Cape Fear" -1961)
> > 3-6M-7-11-12 Movie ("Heaven with a Gun" -1969)
>
> > 9-27 In Concert
> Hmmm... WLUK 11 (ABC) picking up the CBS movie while the CBS
> station runs its own...and no "in concert"

Did WLUK run "In Concert" on delay? Atlanta's Channel 11 ran
it on Monday night/Tuesday morning at 12:40 AM.
>

 

[RobertMoore]

This brings back a lot of memories of Milwaukee TV in the 1970s:
> MORNING

> 7:00
> 6 Funny Farm(Featuring AAP WB/Popeye, Max The 2000 Year Old Mouse, Dick Tracy and Mighty Mouse Cartoons)

> 8:00
> 6 Curiosity Shop(Delayed from Sunday mornings because of religious and public affairs shows)

> 11:30
> 12 Dialing For Dollars(Actully it was a hour long show in 1973)

> AFTERNOON

> 12:00
> 6 News(WITI pre-empted "All My Children" at the time)
> 12 Film (Canadian)(Tourism Ontario; IIRC almost all the Milwaukee stations used to air them. BTW "Dialing For Dollars" was a hour-long show so the film must've been a filler at the time).

> 1:30
> 18 All About Faces(right after the 2 hour test pattern)

> 2:30
> 18 Felix The Cat(In between the two parters, The Three Stooges)

> 3:00
> 12 Search For Tomorrow(delayed; would be pre-empted by the Summer of '73 and would not be seen again in Milwaukee until 1982 when it moved to NBC, although WTMJ would later drop it by that following Summer)

> 18 Popeye('61-'63 TV version; WITI still had the Famous/Paramount versions at that time)


> EVENING

> 6:30
> 4 Lawrence Welk("Sanford & Son" was delayed to 6:30pm Saturdays)


> 8:00
> 18 Movie ("Tarzan and the She-Devil" -1953)(Friday nights were always reserved for the "Tarzan" Films, unless WISN pre-empted a CBS movie for Milwaukee Bucks or Marquette University basketball game)

> 10:30
> 2 Movie ("Cape Fear" -1961)
> 3-6M-7-11-12 Movie ("Heaven with a Gun" -1969)(Now here's a rarity:WLUK carrying a CBS Late Movie!)

> 11:30
> 18 News(read off-camera; Sign-off at 11:45)

> 1:25
> 6 In Concert(Delayed from 10:30pm; WITI had a habit of airing ABC's late-night programming after 12:30am)

> 3:00
> 6 Laurel And Hardy ("Kidnapped" -1938)(WITI was always the last station in Milwaukee to sign-off at the time; Usually between 4:30 and 5AM).

 

[KMRichards]

> > 11:30
> > 18 News(read off-air; Sign-off at 11:45)

I think you meant "off-camera", as in a staff announcer reading news over a slide; the way you phrased it would mean the transmitter was off while the news was on!<P ID="signature">______________


</P>

 

[RobertMoore]

> > > 11:30
> > > 18 News(read off-air; Sign-off at 11:45)
>
> I think you meant "off-camera", as in a staff announcer
> reading news over a slide; the way you phrased it would mean
> the transmitter was off while the news was on!

Yeah, thats the word I was looking for. Thanks for the correction.

 

[classictvfan]

I would like to point out that at this time, syndicated reruns of Bonanza were
called Ponderosa. They were given back the name Bonanza in September 1973.

 

[tj1212]

> 5:30

> 11 News (Ray Wheeler)
WLUK had re--started doing news two years earlier after several years off, and since it showed ABC's news at 5, went local at 5:30 to counterprogram. Wheeler, a classic reader in the Ted Baxter mold, was there for most of the 70s before getting into radio station ownership.

I'm not sure the exact year that Stanley Siegel left Ch 11, but this was right around the time that Ch 11 teamed Stanley with Ray Wheeler on news which was a novel concept for Green Bay television in the early 70's. Bob Schulz was sports snchor and Peggy Wantke did weather. This was a newsacast not to miss.

 

[Smittian]

> schedule as of March 26 (all times Central):
>
> 9 AM Joker's Wild
> 9:30 $10,000 Pyramid
> 10 AM Gambit
> 10:30 Love Of Life
> 10:55 CBS News--Douglas Edwards
> 11 AM Young And The Restless
> 11:30 Search For Tomorrow
> 12 N (Local)
> 12:30 As The World Turns
> 1 PM Guiding Light
> 1:30 Edge Of Night
> 2 PM Price Is Right
> 2:30 Hollywood's Talking (revival of the
> 1960s game Everybody's Talking)
> 3 PM Secret Storm


When did Match Game '73 premiere?

 

[mstgator]

> When did Match Game '73 premiere?
>

July 2, 1973... I think it took over the "Hollywood's Talking" time slot.<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by mstgator on 02/09/06 05:01 AM.</FONT></P>

 

[RobertMoore]

> > When did Match Game '73 premiere?
> >
>
> July 2, 1973... I think it took over the "Hollywood's
> Talking" time slot.

Bingo!

 

[DrBear]

> > 5:30
>
> > 11 News (Ray Wheeler)
> WLUK had re--started doing news two years earlier after
> several years off, and since it showed ABC's news at 5, went
> local at 5:30 to counterprogram. Wheeler, a classic reader
> in the Ted Baxter mold, was there for most of the 70s before
> getting into radio station ownership.
>
> I'm not sure the exact year that Stanley Siegel left Ch 11,
> but this was right around the time that Ch 11 teamed Stanley
> with Ray Wheeler on news which was a novel concept for Green
> Bay television in the early 70's. Bob Schulz was sports
> snchor and Peggy Wantke did weather. This was a newsacast
> not to miss.
>
Indeed, it was a classic. Siegel (who later did a local New York talk show that gave Donahue a run for his money in the late 70s before fading) was totally miscast in news, he was the "host" and introduced silly features, doing many himself. (The one that probably got him fired was donning a wet suit and climbing into a tubful of Jello to emphasize with fruit. He also drove a VW Beetle into a creek to see if it would float; VW actually featured him in an ad after that.)
Schulze was a veteran sportscaster who later replaced Wheeler as main anchor and finally left in about 1980 for private business. Actually, I think Bob Thomas was doing the weather at that point; WLUK started in 1971 with no weatherman, just Wheeler reading the forecast and temps. That didn't last long.

But, indeed, a classicly strange newscast. Wish I had some tapes.

 

[tj1212]

>> >
> Indeed, it was a classic. Siegel (who later did a local New
> York talk show that gave Donahue a run for his money in the
> late 70s before fading) was totally miscast in news, he was
> the "host" and introduced silly features, doing many
> himself. (The one that probably got him fired was donning a
> wet suit and climbing into a tubful of Jello to emphasize
> with fruit. He also drove a VW Beetle into a creek to see if
> it would float; VW actually featured him in an ad after
> that.)
>
You may be correct about Stanley and the floating Beetle. Your correct,VW picked up the ad and used in their print ads which ran prominatelly in TIME, Newsweek etc. But if memory serves correct, Stanley did a feature piece investing "personalities" in GB. He took a film crew to rummage through the trash-can as it sat on the curb waiting for pick-up the next morning of the news anchor Don Sidney of WFRV Ch 5. Stanley found some liquor bottles in the trash and Stanley aired it. The flack the next day from Ch 5 was ugly.

I also remember ABC airing the movie Spartacus. The movie ended at 10. Ch 11 began the 10 PM news with Stanley, Ray Wheeler and Bob Schulz sitting on the news set, dressed in togas. Again, it was a newscast not to be missed.

 

[techboywi]

> 6 WITI-TV (ABC) Milwaukee

Just a slight side note on this (thanks for the great list btw) May 21st marks WITI's 50th anniversary!<P ID="signature">______________
Bob Colon
www.bobs-world.net
"Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today"-James Dean</P>

 

[bpatrick]

> > When did Match Game '73 premiere?
> >
>
> July 2, 1973... I think it took over the "Hollywood's
> Talking" time slot.
>
It did, although Match Game's premiere was delayed a week
by coverage of the Watergate hearings (I want to say by
John Dean's testimony, but I don't recall for certain).

Despite the instant popularity of Match Game '73, it had
no impact on the ratings of the fading Secret Storm, which
followed at 4 (ET)/3 (CT). That had been Storm's timeslot
from 1962 (when it went from 15 to 30 minutes) to 1968, but
a couple of timeslot changes and a LOT of screwing around with
characters and storylines had alienated many fans of the show.
CBS had put Storm back in its old timeslot in March, but it was
too late; the soap was canceled February 8, 1974, after 20 years
and a week. Its replacement was Tattletales.

I felt a bit of nostalgia the other day on discovering that GSN
runs Match Game at 3:30 (ET), and that right now they're running
those early 1973 shows; Gene Rayburn is shown explaining the rules
to the contestants, so you know the show hadn't been on long when
these episodes originally aired.