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TV Guide Oddity

S

Stanislav

Here's one I've never seen before.

So, recently, I had a few discretionary dollars, and ordered a few random old TV Guides off eBay. (No -- I'm NOT posting any "retro" schedules...) ::)

One is the Northern New England Edition covering Dec. 28, 1968 to Jan. 3, 1969. (This is the week that has the sort of "Pop Art" portrait of Doris Day on the cover.)

On Wednesday, January 1st, there is a listing:

[9:00 pm] (10)(11)(12) NET FESTIVAL: "The Film Generation: the Way We See It." See page A-55. (60 min.)

OK, fair enough...it's referring me to a Close-Up for details. But, you turn to A-55, and here's what you see.

WTF?!? I suppose the show was canceled in the short interval between layout and print, and they didn't want to re-do the layout with that Close-Up panel deleted. But it's a pretty goofy, unprofessional way to do things, no?

Now, I've seen quite a few old TVGs, but I know some of you geeks have seen far more. Have you ever seen this sort of last-minute "guerrilla editing" before?
 
This reminds me of what I saw in a July 1978 edition of TV Guide from Hawaii I had in my collection..

There was an ad for ABC's "Whats Happening". Typical ad with a pic of Roger, Dwayne, Dee, Shirley and Rerun. The difference was the area where they told you what that night's What's Happening episode would be about...that entire area was left blank.

Even though we are talking Hawaii here, I still felt this was a bit strange.
 
mleach said:
This reminds me of what I saw in a July 1978 edition of TV Guide from Hawaii I had in my collection..

There was an ad for ABC's "Whats Happening". Typical ad with a pic of Roger, Dwayne, Dee, Shirley and Rerun. The difference was the area where they told you what that night's What's Happening episode would be about...that entire area was left blank.

Even though we are talking Hawaii here, I still felt this was a bit strange.
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Back in the 70s they didn't use the satellites to beam shows to Alaska & Hawaii the same day.
They would usually show the network shows a week later. On a trip to Hawaii in the 70s I remember watching the Tonight Show a week after it had been on originally back home.
Maybe that's why they didn't list the particular episode.
 
radioman148 said:
Back in the 70s they didn't use the satellites to beam shows to Alaska & Hawaii the same day.
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Sat feeds, even for the formerly Telco-linked lower 48, were not commonplace
(all network shows fed on the bird) until the early 1980s.

In the 1970s, tapes and/or films were shipped to AK and HI stations. There may
have been a few "one-off" exceptions such as network news and certain sports
broadcasts for which limited sat time was purchased.
 
I thought in Hawaii, the Tonight Show aired same day - as soon as it was finished taping in LA, the tape caught the next flight for the islands - resulting in the "Hawaii" schedule, where the 8pm programming might start anywhere from 7:55pm through 8:05pm - whenever it started, it started. And the 10pm late news ran until the tape was ready to air...

Jim
 
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