Some earlier posts mentioned one of Mike's Providence stations was WPRI. I know in 1977, they pulled him from their daytime schedule and had a week's worth of shows on Saturday nights, starting at 11:30 pm. They billed it as "Mike All Night". To me it looks like they had decided not to renew the show, and burned off the remaining episodes that way. I don't know who if anyone in Providence picked it up from there, but of course anyone in that market could still see it on WBZ Boston. Speaking of which, for a time in the early 70s, maybe later, they had, as an occasional weekend afternoon filler, something called, "The Mike Douglas Show You Missed". It was an episode that, for some reason, usually a network pre-emption, WBZ hadn't carried. They could go back several months. There was no set time period, just apparently wherever there were 60 or 90 minutes to fill.
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What stations do you know that used to carry The Mike Douglas Show?
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...in Green Bay, the Westinghouse version was carried by WLUK-TV/11 in the late '60s and early '70s; WLRE-TV/26 picked up both the Syndicast version of Douglas' show and Westinghouse's John Davidson replacement...
Here's more stations that carried Douglas:
WISN, WITI and WTMJ/Milwaukee
WMC/Memphis
WHBF/Rock Island
KHON/Honolulu
WISN, WITI and WTMJ/Milwaukee
WMC/Memphis
WHBF/Rock Island
KHON/Honolulu
WKRC Channel 12 (then the ABC affiliate) aired the hour-long version of Mike Douglas at 7 p.m. from 1975 to perhaps 1977. I know because I watched it. The BCR were on the show a lot and I wanted to see them.
The show premiered on WKYC in Cleveland in December 1961, but wasn't syndicated until September 1963. Syndication boosted the weekly budget to about $6,000--with the co-host supposedly getting about 1/3 of that.
Douglas was on WCLQ from Noon to 1, but only lasted until June 26. It was replaced by Another Life (a soap opera produced by CBN) and The Newlywed Game.Tim L said:
In 1980, KDKA-2 (CBS) Pittsburgh started to carry John Davidson, which meant WIIC-11 (now WPXI) began to carry the Syndicast Mike Douglas.
wbhist said:
Wait, what?
Corky Marlowe said:
In late 1965, the two were on the show. Zsa Zsa was attempting to tell a joke, and presumably wasn't doing it up to Morey's satisfaction, so he interrupted her, causing her to blurt out the term of endearment. ;D
Was WBZ-4 Boston the only Group W/Westinghouse station to continue broadcasting "The Mike Douglas Show" when Group W dropped him and Syndicast began distributing the show??
When Westinghouse switched from Mike to John Davidson,
WAGA elected to stay with Group W/Davidson; WSB picked
up the Syndicast Douglas show and put it on at 10 AM (WSB
was about to move from NBC to ABC at the time and had passed
on David Letterman's NBC morning show, as it also did the soap
"Texas," both of which were on WXIA before the switch officially
took place). I think Mike lasted about a year on Channel 2 before
they replaced him with "Match Game" and "Joker's Wild."
WAGA elected to stay with Group W/Davidson; WSB picked
up the Syndicast Douglas show and put it on at 10 AM (WSB
was about to move from NBC to ABC at the time and had passed
on David Letterman's NBC morning show, as it also did the soap
"Texas," both of which were on WXIA before the switch officially
took place). I think Mike lasted about a year on Channel 2 before
they replaced him with "Match Game" and "Joker's Wild."
Denver's KBTV (now KUSA) carried him in the 70s at 6PM. The station's "Dialing For Dollars" interstitial with weatherman Stormy Rottman always noted during the Noon News that it would be back during the Douglas show.
spencerkarter85 said:
Was that before or after he moved the show from Cleveland to Philly?
And while we await the answer...
I didn't move to the Baltimore market until I was almost 24 in 1985, so I don't know who in Crabtown (or DC) aired Douglas. Whose asterisk-spangled set btw was the COOLEST!!!
IIRC the John Lennons and the NYC bar band they'd linked up with, Elephant's Memory, were cohosts with Mike for a week in 1972.
ixnay
It happened after the show moved to Philly. It was briefly carried live on KYW at 12;30. Not after Zsa Zsa though.
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