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Western Ontario, Daytime 11/02/1962

M

mjlarochelle

Notes at bottom. Listings courtesy The London Free Press.

Stations listed:

2B - WGR Buffalo (NBC)
2B - WJBK Detroit (CBS)
3 - KYW Cleveland (NBC)
4B - WBEN Buffalo (CBS)
4D - WWJ Detroit (NBC)
5 - WEWS Cleveland (ABC)
7 - WXYZ Detroit (ABC)
8C - WJW Cleveland (CBS)
8W - CKNX Wingham (CBC)
9 - CKLW Windsor (CBC)
10 - CFPL London (CBC)
11 - CHCH Hamilton (Ind.)
12 - WICU Erie (ABC)
13 - CKCO Kitchener (CBC)

Friday 5:30 AM
3 Credo (5:45)

6:00
3 Classroom Lectures
4D Classroom

6:30
2B-3 Classroom
2D Air College
7 Funnews

7:00
2B-3-4D Today
2D B'Wana Don
7 Sagebrush
8C Air College
12 Good Morning

7:30
4B Air College
7 Ginger
8C Humbard
8C Cargo (7:45)
12 News, Cartoons

8:00
2D-4B-8C Captain Kangaroo
12 News
12 Scope (8:15)

8:30
7 Jack LaLenne
10 Music Hour
12 For Health

9:00
2B Cartoons
2D Dec. Bride
3 Woodrow
3 Bazaar (9:10)
4D Living
5 Telecourse
7 Playhouse
8C B'Wana Don
9 Chez Helene
9 Nursery School (9:15)
11 Romper Room
12 TV Learning
13 M. Study

9:30
2B Leave it to Beaver
2D Millionaire
3 Best of Groucho
4(?) Your Family
5 Romper Room
8C Jack Lalane
9 National Schools
12 Startime

10:00
2B-4D Say When
2D Connie Page
3 Felix
3 Classroom (10:15)
4B Calendar
5 Paige Palmer
7 Rita Bell (10:15)
8C As the World Turns
9 Romper Room
11 A.M. Show

10:30
2B-3-4D Play Hunch
2D-4B-8C I Love Lucy
5 Classroom (10:45)
7 Dragnet
10 Dr. Brothers
10 Debbie Drake (10:45)
13 Pepper Pot

11:00
2B-3-4D The Price is Right
2D-4B McCoys
5-7-12 Ernie Ford
8C Dale Young
9 Adv. Time
10 Sunshine School
13 Chez Helene
13 Nursery School (11:15)

11:30
2B-3-4D Concentration
2D-4B Pete Gladys
5-7-12 For Song
8(?) Romper Room
13 Cartoons

12:00 PM
2B-4D Impressions
2D-8C Love Life
3-4B-5 News
4B The Speaker (12:15)
5 Noon Show (12:15)
7-12 Jane Wyman
8W Funnies
10 Bugs Bunny
11 Fun-O-Rama

12:30
2B-4D Truth or Consequences
2D-4B-8C Search for Tomorrow
2D-4B-8C Guiding Light (12:45)
3 Mike Douglas
7-12 Camouflage
8W Town & Country
9 News (12:40)
10-13 News
10 Movie (12:45)
13 Elaine Cole (12:40)

1:00
2D Star Performance
2B Matinee
4D Groucho Marx
4B Meet Millers
5 One O'Clock
7 Gale Storm
8C Divorce Court
8W M'Lady Matinee
9 Showtime
11 Matinee
12 Best of Groucho
13 Studio 13

1:30
2D-4B As the World Turns
4D People Are
7 One Step
12 Singers

2:00
2D-4B-8C Password
2B-3-4D Merv Griffin
7-12 Day in Court
8W Chez Helene
8W Nursery School (2:15)
9 Showtime

2:30
2D Divorce Court
4B-8C House Party
5-7-12 Seven Keys
8W-10-13 Misterogers
8W-10-13 Friendly Giant (2:45)
11 Loretta Young

3:00
2B-3-4D-8W-10 Loretta Young
4B-8C Millionaire
5-7-12 Queen Day
11 Randy Dandy
13 Community Calendar

3:30
2B-3-4D Dr. Malone
2D-4B-8C To Tell the Truth
5-7-12 Trust Who?
8W-10-13 Take Thirty
9 Scarlett Hill

4:00
2B-3-4D For Daddy
2D-4B-8C Secret Storm
5 Love Bob
7-12 American Bandstand
8W-10-13 Scarlett Hill
9 Razzle Dazzle

4:30
2B Mickey Mouse Club
2D-4B-8C Edge of Night
3 Barnaby
4D Hollywood
5-7-12 Discovery
8W Cartoons
9 Popeye
10 Salty
11 Huck Hound
13 Big Al Time

American stations were signing on much earlier than Canadian stations at this time; notice that KYW was on the air at 5:45, while there was only one Canadian station on the air before 9 AM, that being CFPL. CKNX wasn't even on the air until 12:15 PM.

Coming soon on Classic Radio - lineups for this region on radio.<P ID="signature">______________
From WNBC-TV New York this is Liiiiive at Fiiiiive!</P><P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by mjlarochelle on 01/15/06 05:36 AM.</FONT></P>
 
> Notes at bottom. Listings courtesy The London Free Press.
>
> Stations listed:
>
> 2B - WGR Buffalo (NBC)
> 2B - WJBK Detroit (CBS)
> 3 - KYW Cleveland (NBC)
> 4B - WBEN Buffalo (CBS)
> 4D - WWJ Detroit (NBC)
> 5 - WEWS Cleveland (ABC)
> 7 - WXYZ Detroit (ABC)
> 8C - WJW Cleveland (CBS)
> 8W - CKNX Wingham (CBC)
> 9 - CKLW Windsor (CBC)
> 10 - CFPL London (CBC)
> 11 - CHCH Hamilton (Ind.)
> 12 - WICU Erie (ABC)
> 13 - CKCO Kitchener (CBC)

Interesting that they didn't choose to list Buffalo's Channel 7, WKBW-TV, which had been on the air at full power since the fall of 1958 and probably reached at least part of the London Free Press circulation area. For the most part their 1962 schedule would have resembled WXYZ in Detroit, as an ABC affiliate, but they aired a lot of locally originated children's programming between 7 and 9 AM and 4 to 5 PM daily, as well as local noontime and early evening newscasts and a late morning local talk show.

WKBW-TV would become a lot more widely watched in Southern Ontario as the '60s went on, and even became an inspiration for the satiric take on local TV that John Candy, Rick Moranis, Eugene Levy and the rest of the SCTV crew would air on CTV and NBC many years later---not to mention the source of Jim Carrey's film "Bruce Almighty" just a couple of years ago.
 
Was London, Ontario served by cable back then??

If so, maybe Buffalo's WKBW-7 wasn't on the local cable system(s).
 
> Was London, Ontario served by cable back then??
>
> If so, maybe Buffalo's WKBW-7 wasn't on the local cable
> system(s).
----------
London was home to the first cablesystem in Canada (and possibly also North America), first operating in 1952. This allowed the television age to come to London before there was even a station in London.

None of the big three Buffalo stations have ever been on cable in London, to my knowledge. In 1966 (four years after these listings) London Cable TV offered 11 channels, and it is my understanding that on the American side, those consisted of a mix of Detroit, Cleveland, and Erie stations.

The Free Press had a bad habit of omitting certain stations. Note that neither CBLT or CFTO were in the listings at that time, and at some point a few years later they dropped listings for WBEN and didn't bring them back until the late 1990s. The Free Press also has never listed WVIZ (PBS) in Cleveland, nor WFXP (Fox) in Erie, both of which are available on some small cablesystems in the peripheries of the region.

My guess is that the following stations were offered prior to 1974 on cable there (I don't know about cable positions, except that WKYC was on cable 3 until it was bumped to make room for Global in 1974, and that WICU was on 12 at that time):

02 WJBK (CBS) Detroit
03 WKYC (NBC) Cleveland
04 WWJ (NBC) Detroit
05 WEWS (ABC) Cleveland
07 WXYZ (ABC) Detroit
09 CKLW (CBC) Windsor
10 CFPL (CBC) London
11 CHCH (Ind.) Hamilton
12 WICU (NBC) Erie
13 CKCO (CTV) Kitchener
35 WSEE (CBS) Erie

CKLW's grade B signal reached the western edge of Middlesex County in the 1960s, before they eventually had a reduction in power. Based on that and the independent nature of the station before it was sold to the CBC, I suspect it was one of the 11 stations offered. The way the listings were shown in the Free Press seems to indicate that WJW was not on cable there.
<P ID="signature">______________
From WNBC-TV New York this is Liiiiive at Fiiiiive!</P><P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by mjlarochelle on 01/16/06 12:18 AM.</FONT></P>
 
>
> > >
> Interesting that they didn't choose to list Buffalo's
> Channel 7, WKBW-TV, which had been on the air at full power
> since the fall of 1958 and probably reached at least part of
> the London Free Press circulation area. For the most part
> their 1962 schedule would have resembled WXYZ in Detroit, as
> an ABC affiliate, but they aired a lot of locally originated
> children's programming between 7 and 9 AM and 4 to 5 PM
> daily, as well as local noontime and early evening newscasts
> and a late morning local talk show.
>
> ABC's late-morning schedule (11 AM-1 PM) was:

11 AM Tennessee Ernie Ford
11:30 Yours For A Song
12 N Jane Wyman Presents
12:30 Camouflage (news at :55)

From 4 to 5:

4 PM American Bandstand
4:30 Discovery (news at :55)

Did WKBW delay or pre-empt any of these shows?
>
 
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