TV-GUIDE EDITIONS WHERE NBC WAS NOT THE DOMINANT NETWORK

[anotherguyTN]

Memphis edition, 1996-ff

ABC: 6 Greenville/Greenwood, 7 Jackson, TN; 8 Jonesboro, AR; 24 Memphis
CBS: 3 Memphis, 4 Columbus, MS; 15 Greenwood/Greenville
Fox: 13 Memphis, 16 Jackson, 27 West Point, MS
NBC: 5 Memphis, 9 Tupelo
PBS: 10 Memphis, 11 Lexington, TN; 19 Jonesboro, AR; E Mississippi Public Television

In the mid-2000s during the last years of local editions ABC also had 45 in Tupelo. Also in the early 90's 16 in Jackson had Fox, during the same time that it was on 30 in Memphis and 16 simulcasted 30 all day. That ended when Fox moved to 24 in Memphis and 30 and 16 both started carrying UPN. 16 went back to Fox in 2006 after the UPN/WB/CW merger, but that was after local editions ended.

 

[rwells2265]

Memphis edition, 1996-ff

ABC: 6 Greenville/Greenwood, 7 Jackson, TN; 8 Jonesboro, AR; 24 Memphis
CBS: 3 Memphis, 4 Columbus, MS; 15 Greenwood/Greenville
Fox: 13 Memphis, 16 Jackson, 27 West Point, MS
NBC: 5 Memphis, 9 Tupelo
PBS: 10 Memphis, 11 Lexington, TN; 19 Jonesboro, AR; E Mississippi Public Television

In the '70s, the Memphis Edition was very sparse. 15 (Greenville) wasn't on yet, and 6 (Greenwood) wasn't yet added. 4 (Columbus) wasn't in there, either. As a young'un in Tupelo (which got the Mempho TVG), I wondered why 4 wasn't listed.

11 (Lexington) was at the time just a repeater of WKNO-10. Reference was made to it on the channel legend, reading something like "For programs on (11, Lexington) see [10]"

Anyway, the 1970s:

ABC: 7 (Jackson) - 8 (Jonesboro) - 13 (Memphis)
CBS: 3 (Memphis)
NBC: 5 (Memphis) - 9 (Tupelo)
PBS: 10 (Memphis) - E (Miss. ETV)

3 was the only CBS in there until 1980, when WXVT-15 was added at sign on. But even then it was a couple more years before WABG-6 appeared.

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The Memphis Edition could EASILY have been a larger book .... for one thing, it's distributed in east Arkansas, where the Little Rock stations are also available to some degree (they're on cable in Jonesboro, for instance). This edition was also distributed in the bootheel counties of Missouri, and into northwest Tennessee, where WPSD-6/Paducah (NBC) and KFVS-12/Cape Girardeau, Mo. (CBS) were also options. It would not have made the book too unwieldy to have added white bullets for Little Rock, Paducah and Cape.

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--Russell

 

[bpatrick]

Wasn't there a time (late '50s/early '60s) when Paducah/Cape
Girardeau/Harrisburg was included in the Nashville edition?
Memphis may have been in there as well, making a book to serve
all of West Tennessee.

Also, I thought 16 in Jackson was and is an ABC affiliate. So when
would it have carried Fox programs, and if it switched to Fox, then
who carried ABC in Jackson?

 

[anotherguyTN]

Wasn't there a time (late '50s/early '60s) when Paducah/Cape
Girardeau/Harrisburg was included in the Nashville edition?
Memphis may have been in there as well, making a book to serve
all of West Tennessee.

I found an article in Wikipedia that listed the different TV Guide editions at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_TV_Guide_editions . It had a TN edition like you described until 1960 when the Mempphis and Nashville editions were started with Paducah in the Nashville edition. Then the Evansville/Paducah edition came out in 1962. I started getting TV Guide in the 70's, so it was pretty much like Russell described it at that time.

Also, I thought 16 in Jackson was and is an ABC affiliate. So when
would it have carried Fox programs, and if it switched to Fox, then
who carried ABC in Jackson?

WBBJ 7 has been with ABC since the 60's. 16 started out as an independent and was Fox in the early 90's while they were simulcasting with 30 in Memphis. When Fox moved to 24 in Memphis for a couple of years before finally moving to 13, 16 and 30 were independent again until they went to UPN until 2006. By that time 16 was on its own for the most part and went with Fox again.

 

[bpatrick]

I think I made a mistake. I was thinking about Jackson, MS,
where WAPT/16 is the ABC affiliate. You're obviously referring
to Jackson, TN; the two Jacksons, AFAIK, have never been in
the same edition of TV Guide. Sorry for the error; I knew that
WBBJ has long been ABC in Jackson, TN.

 

[therealjm12]

The geekdom lives on. I recently posted on my Facebook page that I wouldn't be posting for a while because I would be attending the funeral in North Korea. My friend, Henry, responds- bring back a TV Guide.

 

[azumanga]

The geekdom lives on. I recently posted on my Facebook page that I wouldn't be posting for a while because I would be attending the funeral in North Korea. My friend, Henry, responds- bring back a TV Guide.

Which is easier said than done in North America, but still very big in most European countries, where there are SEVERAL to choose from, at various sizes and prices. For example, on a recent trip to Paris, I bought a copy of Z-Tele, a TV magazine of similar size and thickness to what TVG was -- the cost was only €0.39 -- roughly 50 cents US.

 

[therealjm12]

I'll bet North Korea is so primitive, their TV Guide still has local listings!

 

[newsmark]

My classic edition holds true to the original poster's premise:

North Texas edition May 1975

CBS 4 DFW, 6 Wichita Falls, 8 San Angelo, 10 Waco (ABC secondary) (4 stations)
NBC 3 Wichita Falls, 5-DFW, 6 Temple-Waco (ABC secondary), 7 Tyler (ABC/CBS secondary), 9 Abilene, 12 Ardmore (CBS secondary) (6 stations)
ABC 7 Lawton-Wichita Falls, 8 DFW, 12 Abilene (3 stations)

Also included 2 ind. and 1 PBS
Don't recall the exact dates, but the Abilene stations had been added in the past couple of years and San Angelo had been added in the last year. Before that the balance was CBS 3, NBC 5, ABC 2.

For a brief period in 1971-72, the Austin stations were added to this addition: 7-CBS 9-PBS and 42 (later 36)-NBC, which made the count CBS: 3, NBC: 6, ABC: 2. (KVUE-24 in Austin was not on the air yet.) Those stations used the white background with black letters and a notch on each side. The notes in the station page said the stations with a notch could be received by some CATV viewers.)