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Unusual Lead-In Schedules in Local Broadcasting!
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When Saturday Night Live first started, WIIC in Pittsburgh elected not to air it, so independent WPGH picked it up. Its lead in? The 700 Club.
When you're selling hours to the highest bidder, it's hard to make them line up just right. 
...in the mid-'70s, WLUK/11 Green Bay would use AWA "All-Star Wrestling" as the lead-in to "The 700 Club." That always struck me as odd until I found out "World Class Championship Wrestling" was produced in the mid-'80s through the facilities of the Dallas station Pat Robertson owned then...
...prior to that, there was the time that KFIZ-TV/34 in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, would use its package of American International horror movies as the lead-in to Rex Humbard's weekly sermon...
...prior to that, there was the time that KFIZ-TV/34 in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, would use its package of American International horror movies as the lead-in to Rex Humbard's weekly sermon...
KMUV Channel 31 in Sacramento had Jim Bakker's "The PTL Club" as a lead-in to Spanish Language Programming back in the late 1970's.At that time, it was the only English programming on a predominately Spanish Language TV Station. Today, Channel 31 is Sacramento's official "CW" TV Station. (All In English Of Course!)
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According to Peter Wiggins' post from the TV logs from 1979 to 1980 from the Boston Globe, WCVB had "Hanna-Barbera's World Of Super Adventure" (Space Ghost, Birdman, Herculoids, et al) at 6:30 right before "GMA" with David Hartman and Joan Lunden. I swear to God that the EyeOpener (with Jack Hynes and Anne McGrath, with the News For The Deaf with Derm Keohane and a female hearing-impaired/deaf anchor before him doing sign language) aired from 6 to 7 at that point. On the other hand, my mom never liked those 1960s Hanna-Barbera cartoons in the first place, plus I had to be out the door by 7 am to the bus which would drop me off outside Don Bosco High in downtown Boston, so I never would've seen these awesome toons anyway. BTW, the only one of those "Super Adventure"-era cartoons that my eyes saw that year was "Jonny Quest," both on NBC and on TV38.
"8PM Bishop Fulton Sheen
8:30 Liberace
It might not have been so obvious in 1955, but hindsight.."
Just saw the stage musical Jersey Boys (about the Four Seasons). One of the group is reminiscing about one of their early record producers who is played as obviously gay. He says (paraphrasing here):
"What did we know? Back in the early 60s, everybody thought Liberace was just flamboyant."
8:30 Liberace
It might not have been so obvious in 1955, but hindsight.."
Just saw the stage musical Jersey Boys (about the Four Seasons). One of the group is reminiscing about one of their early record producers who is played as obviously gay. He says (paraphrasing here):
"What did we know? Back in the early 60s, everybody thought Liberace was just flamboyant."
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