"The Mother of All Television Listings"--back in the 1960s through the 1980s, the Louisville Courier-Journal's statewide edition carried listings not only for Louisville stations, but for every TV signal that entered the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Every single state (seven in all) that borders Kentucky had a station carried in the listings. Some 33 stations appeared daily on one page. At the time, that was probably a record for any U.S. newspaper, and certainly far more than ever appeared in any one edition of TV Guide.
Here is part one, containing listings for the Louisville area for Friday, August 9, 1974, the day President Richard Nixon resigned his office, with Gerald Ford succeeding him. The listings are those programs that were originally scheduled to air; most of the daytime, from about 7 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. was preempted to broadcast the ceremonies from the White House of Nixon's farewell address and Ford's swearing into office. Later in the day, NBC carried coverage of Nixon's arrival in California via Air Force One at 3 p.m. ET, and broadcast a one-hour recap of the week's traumatic activities in a news special entitled "Five Days in August," at 10 p.m. ET. (INFO: Vanderbilt TV News Archive; http://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu)
Also, it should be remembered that while most of the nation observed an extended Daylight Savings Time that began back in January, Kentucky opted out of this provision. Thus, those areas normally in the Eastern Time Zone in effect observed Central Time, and it was the same time in the entire state. Thus, all Kentucky stations are listed in "slow" time (as it was called in Indiana for many years).
Program listings for Louisville, Kentucky:
WAVE (3) NBC
(now digital 47, PSIP 3)
A.M.
6:45 Today in Louisville--local
7:00 Today Show
9:00 Morning Show--local
9:30 Winning Streak
10:00 High Rollers
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11:00 Jackpot!
11:30 Celebrity Sweepstakes
11:55 NBC News--Edwin Newman
P.M.
12:00 WAVE News
12:30 Jeopardy!
1:00 Days of Our Lives
1:30 The Doctors
2:00 Another World
2:30 Mike Douglas (60-minute version)
3:30 Movie--"House of Bamboo," 1955
5:30 NBC Nightly News--John Chancellor, David Brinkley
6:00 WAVE News
6:30 That Good Ole Nashville Music
7:00 Sanford and Son
7:30 Brian Keith Show
8:00 NBC Movie--"Limbo," 1972 (was probably re-scheduled or cancelled to accommodate NBC News special mentioned above)
10:00 WAVE News
10:00 Tonight Show--Joey Bishop, substitute host
A.M.
12:00 Movie--"Shadow on the Land," 1968
WHAS (11) CBS
(now ABC affiliate on digital 11, PSIP same)
A.M.
5:30 Summer Semester
6:00 CBS Morning News--Hughes Rudd, Bruce Morton
7:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 The Joker's Wild
9:30 Gambit
10:00 Now You See It
10:30 Love of Life
10:55 CBS News--Douglas Edwards
11:00 The Young and the Restless
11:30 Search for Tomorrow
P.M.
12:00 WHAS News
12:30 Omelet--local talk/variety show co-hosted by legendary WHAS radio personality Milton Metz
1:25 WHAS News
1:30 Edge of Night
2:00 The Guiding Light
2:30 Match Game
3:00 As the World Turns
3:30 The Price is Right
4:00 That Girl
4:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
5:00 Mayberry RFD
5:30 CBS Evening News--Walter Cronkite
6:00 WHAS News
6:30 Animal World
7:00 What's Going On--local public affairs; topic: "reports on urban housing and enrollment in black colleges"
7:30 Good Times
8:00 CBS Movie--"The Christmas Tree," 1969
10:00 WHAS News
10:45 Movie--"Remember the Night," 1940
A.M.
12:45 Speakeasy
WKPC (15) PBS
(now part of Kentucky Educational Television; on digital 17, PSIP 15)
A.M.
8:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9:20 Electric Company
9:50 Reading Rocket
10:40 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
11:10 Sesame Street
(station signed off until 4 p.m.)
P.M.
4:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
4:30 Sesame Street
5:30 Electric Company
6:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
6:30 Wall $treet Week
7:00 America in Transition--produced by the National Public Affairs Television Council (?); recap of past week's Presidential events (probably pre-recorded)
10:30 Classic Collections
WLKY (32) ABC
(now CBS affiliate on digital 26, PSIP 32)
A.M.
7:00 Hazel
7:30 New Zoo Revue
8:00 I Love Lucy
8:30 Not for Women Only
9:00 Movie--"Fury of the Sabers," 1964 (listed as "Prize Movie")
10:25 Rap it Up--probably local public affairs
10:30 Brady Bunch (ABC rerun)
11:00 Password
11:30 Split Second
P.M.
12:00 All My Children
12:30 Let's Make a Deal
1:00 The Newlywed Game
1:30 Girl in My Life
2:00 General Hospital
2:30 One Life to Live
3:00 Movie--"Impact," 1949 (listed as "Dial Dollars Movie")
5:00 ABC Evening News--Howard K. Smith, Harry Reasoner
5:30 WLKY News
6:00 The Price is Right (syndicated)
6:30 What's My Line?
7:00 The Six Million Dollar Man (90-minute episode)
8:30 Toma
9:30 PGA Highlights--first two rounds of championship tournament (place unspecified)
10:00 WLKY News
10:30 Perry Mason
11:30 Wide World of Entertainment Special--Desi Arnaz and other celebrities visit landmarks in Southern California
A.M.
1:00 WLKY News
WDRB (41) Independent
(now FOX affiliate on digital 49, PSIP unknown)
A.M.
11:30 Listen Louisville--public affairs
11:45 News Now
P.M.
12:00 It's a New Day
12:30 700 Club
2:00 Charisma
2:30 Bozo's Big Top
3:00 Presto the Clown
4:00 Spider-Man
4:30 Lost in Space
5:30 Leave it to Beaver
6:00 Gilligan's Island
6:30 The Rifleman
7:00 Bewitched
7:30 Lucy Show
8:00 Merv Griffin
9:30 Felony Squad
10:00 The Bold Ones
11:00 Night Gallery
11:30 Movie--"A Hatful of Rain," 1957
A.M.
1:30 Movie--"My Blue Heaven," 1950
Kentucky Educational Television
(see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky_Educational_Television for past and current transmitter locations and channels)
P.M.
2:00 Family Risk Management
2:30 Freehand Sketching
3:00 Sesame Street
4:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
4:30 Electric Company
5:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 New Shapes: Education
6:00 Aviation Weather
6:30 Electric Company
7:00 Washington Week in Review
7:30 Wall $treet Week
Here is part one, containing listings for the Louisville area for Friday, August 9, 1974, the day President Richard Nixon resigned his office, with Gerald Ford succeeding him. The listings are those programs that were originally scheduled to air; most of the daytime, from about 7 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. was preempted to broadcast the ceremonies from the White House of Nixon's farewell address and Ford's swearing into office. Later in the day, NBC carried coverage of Nixon's arrival in California via Air Force One at 3 p.m. ET, and broadcast a one-hour recap of the week's traumatic activities in a news special entitled "Five Days in August," at 10 p.m. ET. (INFO: Vanderbilt TV News Archive; http://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu)
Also, it should be remembered that while most of the nation observed an extended Daylight Savings Time that began back in January, Kentucky opted out of this provision. Thus, those areas normally in the Eastern Time Zone in effect observed Central Time, and it was the same time in the entire state. Thus, all Kentucky stations are listed in "slow" time (as it was called in Indiana for many years).
Program listings for Louisville, Kentucky:
WAVE (3) NBC
(now digital 47, PSIP 3)
A.M.
6:45 Today in Louisville--local
7:00 Today Show
9:00 Morning Show--local
9:30 Winning Streak
10:00 High Rollers
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11:00 Jackpot!
11:30 Celebrity Sweepstakes
11:55 NBC News--Edwin Newman
P.M.
12:00 WAVE News
12:30 Jeopardy!
1:00 Days of Our Lives
1:30 The Doctors
2:00 Another World
2:30 Mike Douglas (60-minute version)
3:30 Movie--"House of Bamboo," 1955
5:30 NBC Nightly News--John Chancellor, David Brinkley
6:00 WAVE News
6:30 That Good Ole Nashville Music
7:00 Sanford and Son
7:30 Brian Keith Show
8:00 NBC Movie--"Limbo," 1972 (was probably re-scheduled or cancelled to accommodate NBC News special mentioned above)
10:00 WAVE News
10:00 Tonight Show--Joey Bishop, substitute host
A.M.
12:00 Movie--"Shadow on the Land," 1968
WHAS (11) CBS
(now ABC affiliate on digital 11, PSIP same)
A.M.
5:30 Summer Semester
6:00 CBS Morning News--Hughes Rudd, Bruce Morton
7:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 The Joker's Wild
9:30 Gambit
10:00 Now You See It
10:30 Love of Life
10:55 CBS News--Douglas Edwards
11:00 The Young and the Restless
11:30 Search for Tomorrow
P.M.
12:00 WHAS News
12:30 Omelet--local talk/variety show co-hosted by legendary WHAS radio personality Milton Metz
1:25 WHAS News
1:30 Edge of Night
2:00 The Guiding Light
2:30 Match Game
3:00 As the World Turns
3:30 The Price is Right
4:00 That Girl
4:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
5:00 Mayberry RFD
5:30 CBS Evening News--Walter Cronkite
6:00 WHAS News
6:30 Animal World
7:00 What's Going On--local public affairs; topic: "reports on urban housing and enrollment in black colleges"
7:30 Good Times
8:00 CBS Movie--"The Christmas Tree," 1969
10:00 WHAS News
10:45 Movie--"Remember the Night," 1940
A.M.
12:45 Speakeasy
WKPC (15) PBS
(now part of Kentucky Educational Television; on digital 17, PSIP 15)
A.M.
8:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9:20 Electric Company
9:50 Reading Rocket
10:40 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
11:10 Sesame Street
(station signed off until 4 p.m.)
P.M.
4:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
4:30 Sesame Street
5:30 Electric Company
6:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
6:30 Wall $treet Week
7:00 America in Transition--produced by the National Public Affairs Television Council (?); recap of past week's Presidential events (probably pre-recorded)
10:30 Classic Collections
WLKY (32) ABC
(now CBS affiliate on digital 26, PSIP 32)
A.M.
7:00 Hazel
7:30 New Zoo Revue
8:00 I Love Lucy
8:30 Not for Women Only
9:00 Movie--"Fury of the Sabers," 1964 (listed as "Prize Movie")
10:25 Rap it Up--probably local public affairs
10:30 Brady Bunch (ABC rerun)
11:00 Password
11:30 Split Second
P.M.
12:00 All My Children
12:30 Let's Make a Deal
1:00 The Newlywed Game
1:30 Girl in My Life
2:00 General Hospital
2:30 One Life to Live
3:00 Movie--"Impact," 1949 (listed as "Dial Dollars Movie")
5:00 ABC Evening News--Howard K. Smith, Harry Reasoner
5:30 WLKY News
6:00 The Price is Right (syndicated)
6:30 What's My Line?
7:00 The Six Million Dollar Man (90-minute episode)
8:30 Toma
9:30 PGA Highlights--first two rounds of championship tournament (place unspecified)
10:00 WLKY News
10:30 Perry Mason
11:30 Wide World of Entertainment Special--Desi Arnaz and other celebrities visit landmarks in Southern California
A.M.
1:00 WLKY News
WDRB (41) Independent
(now FOX affiliate on digital 49, PSIP unknown)
A.M.
11:30 Listen Louisville--public affairs
11:45 News Now
P.M.
12:00 It's a New Day
12:30 700 Club
2:00 Charisma
2:30 Bozo's Big Top
3:00 Presto the Clown
4:00 Spider-Man
4:30 Lost in Space
5:30 Leave it to Beaver
6:00 Gilligan's Island
6:30 The Rifleman
7:00 Bewitched
7:30 Lucy Show
8:00 Merv Griffin
9:30 Felony Squad
10:00 The Bold Ones
11:00 Night Gallery
11:30 Movie--"A Hatful of Rain," 1957
A.M.
1:30 Movie--"My Blue Heaven," 1950
Kentucky Educational Television
(see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky_Educational_Television for past and current transmitter locations and channels)
P.M.
2:00 Family Risk Management
2:30 Freehand Sketching
3:00 Sesame Street
4:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
4:30 Electric Company
5:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 New Shapes: Education
6:00 Aviation Weather
6:30 Electric Company
7:00 Washington Week in Review
7:30 Wall $treet Week