Retro: Wisconsin, October 4, 1972

[charlestondxman]

Here is a retro schedule from the Wisconsin State Journal, in Madison, Wisconsin, from Wednesday Oct. 4, 1972. (From newspaperarchive.com)

Channel Locations
2- WBAY (CBS) Green Bay
3- WISC (CBS) Madison
4- WTMJ (NBC) Milwaukee
5- WFRV (NBC) Green Bay
6- WITI (ABC) Milwaukee
7- WSAU (CBS) Wausau
8- WKBT (CBS) La Crosse
9- WAOW (ABC/PBS) Wausau
10- WMVS (PBS) Milwaukee
11- WLUK (ABC) Green Bay
12- WISN (CBS) Milwaukee
13E- WEAU (NBC) Eau Claire
13R- WREX (ABC) Rockford, IL
15- WMTV (NBC) Madison
17- WTVO (NBC) Rockford, IL
19- WXOW (ABC/PBS) La Crosse
21- WHA (PBS) Madison
23- WCEE (CBS) Freeport-Rockford, IL
27- WKOW (ABC) Madison
34- KFIZ (Ind.) Fond du Lac
40- KDUB (ABC) Dubuque, IA

Wednesday

6:00- 3: Sunrise Semester

6:15- 2: Sunrise Semester, 6:20- 12: Farm Report, 6:25- 8: Sunrise Markets

6:30- 3: Circus Three (with Howie Olson and Cowboy Eddie)
4- Zoo Revue
8, 12- Sunrise Semester
13E- Herald of Truth

6:40- 5: Farm Digest 6- Chapel, RFD, News

6:45- 2: Cheer-Up Time

7- 3, 7, 8, 12: CBS News
6: Funny Farm
13R: Good Morning
15, 4, 5, 13E, 17: Today

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

8- 3, 2, 7, 8, 12, 23: Captain Kangaroo
6- Bullwinkle
11- Rocky (cartoon)
13R- Sesame Street ??? (because many markets did not have PBS in 1972, local stations often carried the show)

8:30- 6: Cartoons (which ones not given)
9, 19: Sesame Street (no PBS in these markets yet)
11: Tennessee Tuxedo

9- 2, 7, 12, 23: Joker's Wild
3: Jack La Lanne (preempts Joker's Wild)
6, 13R: Jeff's Collie (Lassie)
8- Women's World (preempts Joker's Wild)
11- Green Acres
15, 4, 5, 13E: Dinah Shore
17: This Our Country

9:15- 17: People of the World

9:30- 3, 2, 7, 8, 12, 23: The New Price is Right (only in its fifth week)
6, 11: Phil Donahue
13E: Sesame Street
13R: Not for Women Only
15, 4, 5, 17: Concentration
27, 9, 19: Toward Excellence (not known if a public or syndicated show)

10- 3, 2, 7, 8, 12, 23: Gambit
13R- All My Children (weird time for airing, normally at Noon)
15, 4, 5, 17: Sale of the Century
17, 9, 19: Galloping Gourmet

10:30- 3, 2, 7, 8, 12, 23: Love of Life
15, 4, 5, 13E, 17: Hollywood Squares
17, 6, 9, 11, 13R, 19: Bewitched (not aired on 27)

10:40- 21, 10: Electric Company

11- 2: Get-2-Gether (local show, preempts Where the Heart Is)
3, 2 (as printed in Journal), 7, 8, 12, 23: Where the Heart Is
15, 4, 5, 13E, 17: Jeopardy
27, 6, 9, 11, 13R, 19: Password

11:25- 3, 2, 7, 8, 12, 23: CBS News

11:30- 3, 2, 7, 8, 23: Search for Tomorrow
12- Dialing for Dollars
15, 4, 5, 13E, 17- The Who, What, or Where Game
21, 10: Sesame Street
27, 6, 9, 11, 13R, 19: Split Second

11:55- 13E: Today at Noon
15, 4, 5, 17: NBC News

Noon- 2, 7, 8: Noon Show
3- Farm Hour (pre-empts As the World Turns)
4, 6, 17: News (preempts All My Children)
5: Midday
13R: Tete a Tete
15: Movie Game
23: Virginia Graham
27, 9, 11, 19, 40: All My Children

12:15- 13R: News, 17: Underdog

12:30- 7, 8, 12, 23: As the World Turns
15, 4, 5, 13E, 17: Three on a Match (with Dick Enberg)
21, 10: Misterogers
27, 6, 9, 11, 13R, 19, 40: Let's Make a Deal

1- 3, 2, 7, 8, 12, 23: Guiding Light
15, 4, 5, 13E, 17: Days of Our Lives
27, 6, 9, 11, 13R, 19, 40: Newlywed Game

1:30- 3, 2, 7, 8, 12, 23: Edge of Night
15, 4, 5, 13E, 17: Doctors
27, 6, 9, 11, 13R, 19, 40: Dating Game

2- 2: As the World Turns
3, 7, 8, 12, 23: Love
15, 4, 5, 13E, 17: Another World
27, 6, 9, 11, 13R, 19, 40: General Hospital

2:30- 3, 2, 7, 8, 12, 23: Secret Storm
15, 4, 5, 13E, 17: Peyton Place
27, 6, 9, 11, 13R, 19, 40: One Life to Live

3: 3, 2, 7, 8, 12, 23: Family Affair
10: French Chef
12: Search for Tomorrow
15, 4, 5, 13E, 17: Somerset
27, 6, 9, 11, 13R, 19, 40: Love, American Style

3:30- 2: Anything You Can Do
3: As the World Turns
4: Merv Griffin
5, 6, 23: Movie
7: Flintstones
8: Joker's Wild
10: Hodgepodge Lodge
11, 17: The Munsters
12: Big Valley
13E: Concentration
15: Virginian
27, 9, 11, 13R, 19, 40: After School Special
34: Grab Bag

4- 2: Ponderosa
3: What's My Line
7, 13E: Virginian
8: Truth or Consequences
17: Flipper
21, 10: Misterogers

4:30- 3: Big Valley
6: After School Special
8, 12: Wild Wild West
11: Gomer Pyle
17: Daniel Boone
21, 10: Sesame Street
27, 9, 19: Beverly Hillbillies
34- Cartoons
40: The Rogues

5- 2: Gilligan's Island
4: News
5: Truth or Consequences
15: Hogan's Heroes
27, 9, 11, 13R, 19: ABC News

5:30- 3, 2, 7, 8, 12, 23: CBS News
6, 40: ABC News
11, 13R: News
15, 4, 5, 13E, 17: NBC News
21, 10: Electric Company
27, 9, 19: Green Acres
34- Voyage to the Bottom

6: All except 10, 11, 13R, and 21: News
10: College of the Air
11: Dick Van Deke (you know the pronounciation)
13R: Truth or Consequences
21: Hodgepodge Lodge

6:30- 2: Dragnet
4: Young Dr. Kildare
5: Packer Preview
7: Sandy Duncan
8, 17: I Dream of Jeannie
10: Politics of Learning
13E, 34: Hogan's Heroes
13R: Star Trek
15: Parent Game
21: Badger Football
23: Maude
27, 9, 11, 12, 17, 19: To Tell the Truth
40: Roller Game

7- 3, 2, 7, 8, 12, 23: Carol Burnett
4, 5, 13E, 17: Adam-12
10: Public Affair
11: Packerama
15: Top of the Month (preempts Adam-12)
27, 6, 9, 19: Paul Lynde
34: Dragnet

7:30- 15, 4, 5, 15E, 17: Mystery Movie, "Madigan: The Midtown Beat" (with Richard Widmark and Cab Calloway, premiere)
21, 10: NET Playhouse
27, 6, 9, 11, 13R, 19, 40: Movie, "Rolling Man"
34: Tarzan Theatre

8: 3, 2, 7, 8, 12, 23: Medical Center

9: 3, 2, 7, 8, 12, 23: Cannon
10: Soul
15, 4, 5, 13R, 17: Search
21: Long Walk
27, 6, 9, 11, 13R, 19, 40: Julie Andrews
34- Name of the Game

9:30: 27, 6, 9, 11, 13R, 19, 40: Documentary

10: All except 21, 11: News
21, 11: Masterpiece Theater

10:30- 3, 2, 7, 8, 11, 12, 23: Movie
15, 4, 5, 13E, 17: Johnny Carson
27, 9, 13R, 19, 40: Dick Cavett (preempted on 6, aired on WVTV 18)
34: Untouchables

10:40- 6: Movie

11:30- 34: News

Midnight- 4: Movie
13E: John Jardine
15, 5, 13R: News
17: It Takes a Thief

12:05- 15: Westerners, 12:10- 13R: Horizons Unlimited

12:30- 2: Movie 13E: Death Valley Days
3: Rifleman 12: News, I Spy

 

[bpatrick]

Re your statement about "All My Children" at 10 AM:
it is a little early, but "Guiding Light" airs at 10, and
even 9 AM, in some markets. And back in '72 I was
living in Birmingham, and "AMC" came on there at 10
on WBRC (today, on ABC33/40, WCFT and WJSU, it's
seen in pattern at noon).

 

[Ultimajock]

Here is a retro schedule from the Wisconsin State Journal, in Madison, Wisconsin, from Wednesday Oct. 4, 1972. (From newspaperarchive.com)

Channel Locations
2- WBAY (CBS) Green Bay
3- WISC (CBS) Madison
4- WTMJ (NBC) Milwaukee
5- WFRV (NBC) Green Bay
6- WITI (ABC) Milwaukee
7- WSAU (CBS) Wausau
8- WKBT (CBS) La Crosse
9- WAOW (ABC/PBS) Wausau
10- WMVS (PBS) Milwaukee
11- WLUK (ABC) Green Bay
12- WISN (CBS) Milwaukee
13E- WEAU (NBC) Eau Claire
13R- WREX (ABC) Rockford, IL
15- WMTV (NBC) Madison
17- WTVO (NBC) Rockford, IL
19- WXOW (ABC/PBS) La Crosse
21- WHA (PBS) Madison
23- WCEE (CBS) Freeport-Rockford, IL
27- WKOW (ABC) Madison
34- KFIZ (Ind.) Fond du Lac
40- KDUB (ABC) Dubuque, IA

Wednesday

8- 13R- Sesame Street ??? (because many markets did not have PBS in 1972, local stations often carried the show)

...and, in the case of Rockford, they still don't (although some parts of the market can recieve WHA-TV/21 Madison and WTTW/11 Chicago...

8:30- 6: Cartoons (which ones not given)

...WITI usually ran the AAP Popeye and Warner Brothers packages...

10- 17, 9, 19: Galloping Gourmet

...interesting, as the show ended production in 1971 after Graham Kerr's near-fatal car accident...

11:30- 21, 10: Sesame Street

...this was the broadcast of "Sesame Street" that was previously relayed on KFIZ/TV/34 Fond du Lac (via whichever of the two originating stations would provide better reception in FdL that given morning), but shortly before this WPNE-TV/38 Green Bay went on the air as the first Wisconsin PBS affiliate north of Milwaukee or Madison, and KFIZ-TV discontinued their rebroadcasts...

2- 3, 7, 8, 12, 23: Love

...wasn't the full name of this one "Love is a Many-Splendored Thing," after the 1950s novel/movie/hit song?...

3:30- 2: Anything You Can Do
34: Grab Bag

...curiously, while WBAY-TV was running the Gene Wood season of "Anything You Can Do," by this time Don Harron had taken over as emcee of the newly-produced episodes. WBAY-TV, to my knowledge, never ran the Harron version, as they switched rather abruptly one week from the Gene Wood version of "Anything You Can Do" to the Gene Wood version of "Beat the Clock"...

...KFIZ-TV's "Grab Bag" was a local talk show co-hosted by Steve Peterson, then a disc jockey on KFIZ Radio, and a woman simply identified as Wilma, who I think may have been a columnist for the Fond du Lac Commonwealth Reporter newspaper...

4- 2: Ponderosa

..."Ponderosa" was, of course, the syndicated rerun title given "Bonanza" while that series was still in production for NBC...

4:30- 21, 10: Sesame Street
34- Cartoons

...at one point, KFIZ-TV would also rebroadcast this airing of "Sesame Street," but again the crank-up of WPNE-TV put an end to that. When they did carry "Sesame Street," KFIZ-TV would sign on at 11:30 A.M. (at one point 11:00 to add "The Electric Company") and sign back off the air at 12:30, then sign back on at 2:00 with "Make Room for Daddy," "I Love Lucy" at 2:30, "Grab Bag" at 3:00, "Uncle Doug's Cartoon Club" at 3:30 (the "cartoons" listed at this time) and "Sesame Street" at 4:30...

..."Uncle Doug's Cartoon Club" was a local kiddie show starring Uncle Doug McGrath, who was also the farm reporter for KFIZ Radio. The cartoons being shown would be the TV Mr. Magoos, "Bozo," "Hercules," "The Funny Company" and, for a short while, "Roger Ramjet"...

5:30- 34- Voyage to the Bottom

..."of the Sea"...

6:30- 2: Dragnet
13E, 34: Hogan's Heroes
40: Roller Game

...interesting that KDUB would run "Roller Game of the Week" (the L.A. Thunderbirds version with Dick Lane commenting) on a Wednesday early fringe, pre-empting "The Paul Lynde Show" from ABC at 7:00. KFIZ-TV ran it Saturdays from 6:30 to 8:00 P.M., right after either AWA "All-Star Wrestling" or their American International Pictures beach movie package (as "Bikini Theater"). But then again, WBAY-TV did run "Roller Derby" (the S.F. Bay Bombers version) as a late Friday afternoon hour around this time, too...

7- 34: Dragnet

...curious that WBAY-TV and KFIZ-TV would run "Dragnet" in adjacent slots; it was the 1967 revival version both times, although I think KFIZ-TV once ran the '50s b&w original before this period...

7:30- 34: Tarzan Theatre

...I think these were actually the re-edited Ron Ely TV episodes from the mid-'60s...

9: 34- Name of the Game

10:30- 3, 2, 7, 8, 11, 12, 23: Movie
27, 9, 13R, 19, 40: Dick Cavett (preempted on 6, aired on WVTV 18)
34: Untouchables

...Cavett was also pre-empted on WLUK, which chose instead to carry "The CBS Late Movie" which WBAY-TV pre-empted in favour of their own syndicated packages...

..."The Untouchables" was the last syndicated rerun package KFIZ-TV bought; seven weeks after this, the station folded. KFIZ-TV, KFIZ Radio and the Fond du Lac Commonwealth Reporter were all owned by the same corporation, which attempted to sell each property off in mid-1972. KFIZ Radio and the newspaper each got bought, but the TV station couldn't find a buyer (they tried to sell to Gaylord as a satellite of WVTV Milwaukee, which KFIZ-TV was already rebroadcasting a substantial amount of the week anyway, but Gaylord wasn't interested), so it was taken dark and the license returned to the FCC...

11:30- 34: News

...most likely just a tape of news headlines read by Doug McGrath or Steve Peterson under the KFIZ-TV ID slide...

...if anyone else has ANY listings that include KFIZ-TV (it operated from December 16, 1868 to November 19, 1972), PLEASE post them here ASAP ;-) ...

 

[azumanga]

10- 17, 9, 19: Galloping Gourmet

...interesting, as the show ended production in 1971 after Graham Kerr's near-fatal car accident...

"Galloping Gourmet" was syndicated in rerun form through the mid-1970s, until about 1975, when Kerr's new 5-minute series, "Take Kerr", began.

 

[w9wi]

...most likely just a tape of news headlines read by Doug McGrath or Steve Peterson under the KFIZ-TV ID slide...

...if anyone else has ANY listings that include KFIZ-TV (it operated from December 16, 1868 to November 19, 1972), PLEASE post them here ASAP ;-) ...

Yikes, KFIZ-TV was the first TV station in the world?

On a VERY vaguely related note, I'd love to know anything about the apparently very brief (and considerably more recent) life of WHBL-TV ch. 28 in Sheboygan. Yes, it did exist as I did see the station once.

 

[KeithE4]

On a VERY vaguely related note, I'd love to know anything about the apparently very brief (and considerably more recent) life of WHBL-TV ch. 28 in Sheboygan. Yes, it did exist as I did see the station once.

It existed in some form or another from 1985-87, and its original call letters were WMRW-TV. Its current status (as DWHBL-TV) is "Permit canceled," effective 3/30/87.

Link: CDBS Callsign History for WHBL-TV

Another short-lived one from that era was WTHX-TV 16 Manitowoc. I don't know if this one ever made it to air, but its status has been "Permit canceled" since 1988.

 

[bpatrick]

Re "Anything You Can Do": In September 1972
then-ABC affiliate WGHP/8 Greensboro/Winston-
Salem/High Point replaced "To Tell The Truth"
at 6:30 with the year-old Wood episodes of "AYCD."
In the 1973-74 season Channel 8 carried the Harron
episodes of "AYCD," while CBS affiliate WFMY/2
carried the Wood episodes of "Beat The Clock" at 7.

 

[charlestondxman]

KFIZ sounds like a very historic station, even though it was only on for four years.

WPNE, Green Bay's PBS, had just signed on the air about a month earlier, so before that, the local stations in Green Bay probably picked up "Sesame Street" and the other CBS programs.

Surprisingly, the State Journal did not pick up the listings for WVTV in Milwaukee, even though a lot of people probably got it via microwave back in those days.

 

[w9wi]

KFIZ sounds like a very historic station, even though it was only on for four years.

WPNE, Green Bay's PBS, had just signed on the air about a month earlier, so before that, the local stations in Green Bay probably picked up "Sesame Street" and the other CBS programs.

Surprisingly, the State Journal did not pick up the listings for WVTV in Milwaukee, even though a lot of people probably got it via microwave back in those days.

I don't recall WVTV being on cable in Madison when we got cable in our dorm in 1979. ISTR the only out-of-town station was WGN.

2 - HBO
3 - automated weather channel
4 - "WYOU" public access channel
5 - WMTV/NBC
6 - CNN
7 - WKOW/ABC
8 -
9 - WGN
10 -
11 - WHA/PBS
12 - educational access
13 - WISC/CBS

Can't remember what was on channels 8 and 10. Been too many years! Maybe WMVS/Milwaukee was on 10?

 

[Ultimajock]

I don't recall WVTV being on cable in Madison when we got cable in our dorm in 1979. ISTR the only out-of-town station was WGN.

2 - HBO
3 - automated weather channel
4 - "WYOU" public access channel
5 - WMTV/NBC
6 - CNN
7 - WKOW/ABC
8 -
9 - WGN
10 -
11 - WHA/PBS
12 - educational access
13 - WISC/CBS

Can't remember what was on channels 8 and 10. Been too many years! Maybe WMVS/Milwaukee was on 10?

...indeed, WMVS was on 10 by the time I moved to Madison in '83; WTBS was on 8 then...

 

[Darrel M]

On a VERY vaguely related note, I'd love to know anything about the apparently very brief (and considerably more recent) life of WHBL-TV ch. 28 in Sheboygan. Yes, it did exist as I did see the station once.

It existed in some form or another from 1985-87, and its original call letters were WMRW-TV. Its current status (as DWHBL-TV) is "Permit canceled," effective 3/30/87.

Link: CDBS Callsign History for WHBL-TV

Another short-lived one from that era was WTHX-TV 16 Manitowoc. I don't know if this one ever made it to air, but its status has been "Permit canceled" since 1988.

I don't believe the station in Manitowoc ever made it to air, though I recall seeing a story during a local Today Show cutaway on WLUK one Fall 1983 morning about a license being granted (I don't recall any other details in that story besides "Manitowoc" and "Channel 16").

I actually came across two entries tonight in the FCC search for a Channel 16 in Manitowoc that, sure enough, both display the "D" prefix for cancellation. One had a 4/17/1984 start date for the call sign WYJE, while the other was for the above mentioned DWTHX-TV that was cancelled on 3/9/1988.

For what it's worth, Broadcasting & Cable in 1998 published a table of early digital TV channel assignments, and it displayed Manitowoc's Channel 16 with a digital assignment of Channel 19.

And oddly enough, since you mentioned Sheboygan above, W29DJ in Sheboygan (which I don't know if it's still broadcasting or not) spent time earlier this decade on Channel 16, where they currently have a permit to construct a digital signal.