"World Of Super Adventure" (i.e. Space Ghost, Herculoids) affiliates

[BoscoGoldBear]

This is from reading various out-of-town newspapers (and of course this board) over the years:

New York - WNEW (now WNYW) - 5
Los Angeles - KTTV - 11
Chicago - WPWR - 50
San Francisco - KICU - 36 (originally)
San Francisco - KBHK (with new calls today) - 44
Boston - WCVB - 5 (I thought that was for weekends only; geez, nobody told me about "Space Ghost" airing on 5 right before "GMA" back in the day)
Boston - WHLL (now WUNI) - 27
Boston - WLVI - 56
Dallas - whatever calls 33 were
Houston - KRIV - 26
Washington - WDCA - 20
Sacramento - whatever KMAX was then - definitely 31
Hartford/New London - WTWS - 26
Pittsburgh - WPGH - 53
St. Louis - KDNL - 30
Seattle - KSTW - 11
Atlanta - WATL - 36

As you can see, "Hanna-Barbera's World Of Super Adventure" was not all that widely syndicated by Hanna-Barbera (later Worldvision) until the Cartoon Network came around in 1992 (and with each cartoon's individual opening sequence rather than the syndicated one). I'm guessing that the reason for that was because these were the very cartoons that the battleaxes at ACT (led by Peggy Charren from beautiful-person-town Concord, MA) were whining about in the first place. I'm also sure that there are some stations which I accidently omitted from this fine list.

 

[clichemoth]

This is from reading various out-of-town newspapers (and of course this board) over the years:

New York - WNEW (now WNYW) - 5
Los Angeles - KTTV - 11
Chicago - WPWR - 50
San Francisco - KICU - 36 (originally)
San Francisco - KBHK (with new calls today) - 44
Boston - WCVB - 5 (I thought that was for weekends only; geez, nobody told me about "Space Ghost" airing on 5 right before "GMA" back in the day)
Boston - WHLL (now WUNI) - 27
Boston - WLVI - 56
Dallas - whatever calls 33 were
Houston - KRIV - 26
Washington - WDCA - 20
Sacramento - whatever KMAX was then - definitely 31
Hartford/New London - WTWS - 26
Pittsburgh - WPGH - 53
St. Louis - KDNL - 30
Seattle - KSTW - 11
Atlanta - WATL - 36

Didn't these shows also come on WTBS at some extremely early morning hour for a while? That's where I remember seeing them in the early 80s.

I don't think they were ever picked up in Birmingham, but I'm sure Huntsville's WZDX-54 carried the block in '84(??) when that station first signed on.

As you can see, "Hanna-Barbera's World Of Super Adventure" was not all that widely syndicated by Hanna-Barbera (later Worldvision) until the Cartoon Network came around in 1992 (and with each cartoon's individual opening sequence rather than the syndicated one). I'm guessing that the reason for that was because these were the very cartoons that the battleaxes at ACT (led by Peggy Charren from beautiful-person-town Concord, MA) were whining about in the first place. I'm also sure that there are some stations which I accidently omitted from this fine list.

I thought ACT's main boogeymen were the more popular shows like GI Joe and Thundercats.

 

[BoscoGoldBear]

I thought ACT's main boogeymen were the more popular shows like GI Joe and Thundercats.


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"G.I. Joe" and "ThunderCats" came much later; ACT popped up in 1968 because of "Space Ghost," "Birdman," "The Herculoids" (all in the "Super Adventure" package) and "Spider-Man." The first two (along with "Frankenstein Jr. and the Impossibles" - also in the package) were ousted in 1968 while "The Herculoids" were banished to afternoons because CBS's Freddy Sliverman and other network execs didn't want any of Peggy Charren's whining about the "violence" in those programs (as compared to the Vietnam War coverage on the newscasts).

 

[TexasTom]

You can add KAYU-TV channel 28 in Spokane to your list. they carried "Hanna-Barbera's World Of Super Adventure" on weekday mornings when they signed on the air in the fall of 1982.

 

[classictvfan]

Channel 33 was KDAF which was later the area's original FOX station.