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Retro:WKBF-TV Channel 61 Cleveland, Ohio February 10-11-12, 1968

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Tim L

The First week Channel 61 was listed in TV Guide. Sign on date was January 19, 1968. This schedule was pretty typical of all Kaiser Broadcasting stations at the time..

C=Color


Saturday February 10, 1968

10:30 Movie-The Lost Tribe 1949 Tarzan
Noon Roller Derby
1PM Wrestling-C
2PM Dennis The Menace
2:30 Rawhide
3:30 One Step Beyond
4PM Twilight Zone
5PM Movie-Count Of Monte Cristo 1934
7PM Combat!
8PM Hazel-C
8:30 Woody Woodbury-C Guests JoAnne Worley,Leonard Barr
10PM Alan Douglas-DEBUT-Long time announcer/program host..Eventually became the first host of WEWS-TV's "Morning Exchange" in January, 1972.

11:30 Alan Burke

Sunday, February 11, 1968

10:30 Hy Lit-C Guests:Marvin Gaye,Arthur Prysock, John Fred and the Playboys, 1910 Fruitgum Company, Soul Survivors-From Philadelphia's WKBS-TV 48..Hy Lit was a Rock Radio Icon in Philly.

11:30 Superman
Noon Movie-Journey to the Lost City 1960
2PM Midwestern Hayride
3PM Movie-Blondie's Lucky Day
4:30 Dennis The Menace
5PM McHale's Navy
5:30 Perry Mason
6:30 Movie Court Martial (English) 1955
8:30 David Susskind
10:30 Joe Pyne-C

Monday February 12, 1968

10AM Jack La Lanne-C
10:30 Carlton Fredricks
11AM Virginia Graham-C
11:30 Gypsy Rose Lee-C
Noon Cartoons-C (Capt. Cleveland probably)
1PM Movie-A Night To Remember 1943
3PM Mr. Ed
3:30 Cartoons-C (Capt. Cleveland)
5PM Superman-C
5:30 Eighth Man
6PM Flintstones-C
6:30 McHale's Navy
7PM Twilight Zone
7:30 I Love Lucy
8PM Hazel-C
8:30 Alfred Hitchcock
9PM Movie-Seduced and Abandoned French/Italian 1964
11PM Les Crane-C-DEBUT-Guests inclde Timothy Leary
 
Tim L said:
Sunday, February 11, 1968

10:30 Hy Lit-C Guests:Marvin Gaye,Arthur Prysock, John Fred and the Playboys, 1910 Fruitgum Company, Soul Survivors-From Philadelphia's WKBS-TV 48..Hy Lit was a Rock Radio Icon in Philly.
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Boy, that takes the cake as far as weird scheduling goes. 10:30 on Sunday morning for a DANCE SHOW??? Didn't WKBF know that the potential adult audience for it was probably sound asleep, trying to fend off hangovers from the previous night's partying? Even excluding that, many teenagers were forced by their parents to go to church at that hour back in those days, so not many kids were watching. Why not 7 p.m. on Saturday, instead of a Combat! rerun? Kaiser stations must have had a lot of quirks like that--probably the reason the company didn't last out the Seventies.
 
I suppose scheduling a dance show on a Sunday morning was a worthwhile experiment in counter-programming what was usually on TV at that hour on Sundays back then...you wouldn't have seen this from a VHF station, but an independent UHF station back then would've been more open to experimentation. Kind of like FM radio back then.

For teens, if they went to church at 9 AM and got home in time, this would be the perfect time for them.
 
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