An ad from the Southern Ohio TV Guide in May, 1970. While this is not Northern Ohio related, I included it because of the station featured-WKTR-16 in Kettering-Dayton. This station was on the air in 1968 as one of several Independent stations to come on at the same time in "68. (WXIX-19 Cincinnati and WSWO-26 Springfield were the others.) by mid-1970 channel 16 had taken the ABC affiliation in Dayton and should have been successful as a coommercial station..However, WKEF-22 took back Dayton's ABC affiliation and 16 was forced off the air, later resurfacing as WPTD-Dayton's Public TV station paired with WPTO-14 Oxford, Ohio.
WEWS-TV 5 ad for one of the first local weather radar systems.."Radar Weatherwatch"
TV Guide Ad for WKYC-TV 3's East Ohio Youth Theater Production of "Ali Baba" Sunday, April 19, 1970.
WAKR-TV ad for 23 "Total News" One of many attempts at a local newscast by WAKR-TV 23 in Akron.
April 18-24 1970..A few weeks before the Kent State Shootings..The flight of Apollo 13, while scheduled to be in progress, had been aborted April 17. On the TV front, "Barnaby" had returned to channel 43 after Linn Sheldon had retired the character from 1966-69 at WKYC-TV 3, because of wanting to do less kid-oriented TV.. Harry Jones and Dave Martin were calling Indians Games on Channel 8. Hoolihan and Big Chuck were hitting their stride, also on Channel 8..The Paige Palmer Show was now known as "Girlwatch"..WJAN-TV 17 aired programming 10:30AM-Midnight..By the end of the year they would sign on at 2 PM.
Friday. April 24, 1970
3 WKYC NBC Cleveland
5 WEWS ABC Cleveland
8 WJW CBS Cleveland
17 WJAN Canton
23 WAKR ABC Akron
25 WVIZ NET Cleveland
43 WUAB Cleveland
61 WKBF Cleveland
6:20
3 Farm Report
6:25
3 Education Exchange
6:30
8 Camera Three
6:55
3 What's Doing?
7AM
3 Today
8 CBS News-Joseph Benti
8AM
5 Cartoons
8 Captain Kangaroo
8:30
5 Uncle Al
9AM
3 Mike Douglas
5 Romper Room
8 Cartoons
9:30
5 Girlwatch
8 Lucille Ball (Lucy Show)
9:55
5 News
10AM
5 Galloping Gourmet
8 Edge Of Night
23 Jack LaLanne
10:25
3 NBC News-Nancy Dickerson
10:30
3 Concentration
5 He Said! She Said!-Joe Garagiola
8 Phil Donahue
17 Milton The Milkman
23 Women's Page
11AM
3 Sale Of The Century
5 Bewitched
17 Ronnee Furman
43 It Is Written
61 Jack LaLanne
11:30
3 Hoillywood Squares-Peter Marshall
5-23 That Girl
8 Love Of Life
43 Underdog
61 Dennis The Menace
Noon
3 Jeopardy!-Art Fleming
5-23 Best Of Everything-Serial
8 News
17 Available Jobs
43 Bugs Bunny
61 Cartoons
12:20
17 Louisville Speaks
12:25
17 Paul Harvey
12:30
3 Who What Or Where
5 News
8 Search For Tomorrow
17 Movie-TBA
23 World Apart
43 Barnaby
12:55
3 NBC News-Floyd Kalber
1PM
3 It Takes Two-Vin Scully
5-23 All My Children
8 Divorce Court
43 Bob McLean-Talk/Variety
61 Movie-Sunday Dinner For a Soldier-1944
1:25
3 Local News
1:30
3 Life with Linkletter
5-23 Let's Make A Deal
8 As The World Turns
2PM
3 Days Of Our Lives
5-23 Newlywed Game
8 Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
43 Movie-Knockout-1941
2:30
3 Doctors
5-23 Dating Game
8 Guiding Light
17 Here's Barbara-Barbara Coleman-Syndicated from Washington, DC
61 Mr. Ed
3PM
3 Another World/Bay City
5-23 General Hospital
8 Adventure Road-Jim Doney
17 Big Valley
61 Huckleberry Hound
3:30
3 Bright Promise
5-23 One life To Live
43 Bugs Bunny
61 Alvin
4PM
3 Another World/Somerset
5-23 Dark Shadows
8 Gomer Pyle
17 Alfred Alligator
43 Spiderman
61 Rocket Robin Hood
4:30
3 Movie-Night Passage-1957
5 Can You Top This?-Game
8 Merv Griffin
23 Discovery
25 Sesame Street
43 Marine Boy
61 Flintstones
5PM
5 To Tell The Truth
17 Jerry Edwards
23 Bewitched
43 Speed Racer
61 Little Rascals
5:30
5-23 News
25 Misterogers
43 Lost In Space
61 Addams Family
5:55
17 Paul Harvey
6PM
3-8-17 News
5 David Frost
23 ABC News Frank Reynolds/Howard K. Smith
25 Senatorial Debate
61 I Love Lucy
6:30
3 NBC News-Huntley/Brinkley
8 CBS News-Walter Cronkite
17 Ben Werk-Local Variety
23 Laramie
43 Patty Duke
61 McHale's Navy
7PM
3 News
5 What's My Line
8 Truth Or Consequences
43 Gilligan's Island
61 Dick Van Dyke
7:30
3 Expo '70-Special
5-23 Flying Nun
8 Get Smart!
17 Big Valley
25 Conversations with James Day
43 Beat The Clock
61 Avengers
8PM
5-23 Brady Bunch
8 Tim Conway Show-Sitcom
25 Advocates
43 Stump The Stars
8:30
3 Name Of The Game
5-23 Ghost And Mrs. Muir
8 Hogan's Heroes
17 Minerva Scene
43 NYPD
61 Candid Camera
9PM
5-23 Here Come The Brides
8 CBS Movie-The Angel Wore Red-1960
17 Here's Barbara
25 Washington Review (Probably Washington Week In Review)
43 Movie-The Devil And The Ten Commandments-French 1963
61 Perry Mason
9:30
17 Country Carnival-Billy Walker
25 World Of Beauty
10PM
3 Hugh O' Brian-"It's A Man's World"-Special
5-23 ABC News Special-Mission:Possible:They Care for the Land-Ecology Report on Florida
17 Suspense Theater
61 News
10:30
25 Inside Opera
61 Honeymooners
11PM
3-5-8 News
17 Paul Harvey
23 Have Gun, Will Travel
61 Alfred Hitchcock
11:05
17 Movie-TBA
11:30
3 Johnny Carson
5-23 Dick Cavett
43 Movie-Syncopation-1942
61 Movie-Tiger Bay-English-1958
11:40
8 Movie-Double Feature
(1) The Demon Planet-Science Fiction-Italian-1965 (Hoolihan/Big Chuck)
(2) Black Panther Of Ratana-Adventure-West German-1962
12:30
5 Senatorial Debate
1AM
3 Movie-Live Fast, Die Young-1958
Your comments on WKTR & WKEF bring back many fuzzy memories of Dayton and Cincinnati TV of that era. My recollection is that something truly illegal happened after WKTR came on the air, with bribery (?) involved in the loss of WKEF's ABC affiliation. In any case, there were some financial shenanigans that eventually caused WKTR to fold, later being resurrected as Dayton's public television outlet.
ReplyDeleteAnother thought occurs -- when growing up just north of Dayton, I often had fun picking up signals from distant stations in Springfield, Cincinnati, Columbus and Oxford OH. The advent of digital-only broadcasting next year will surely erase that little pleasure from people's lives, since either you get a digital signal or you don't -- nothing in between!
I was sporadically able to get Channel 10 from Columbus, Channels 9, 12 and 19 from Cincinnati, Channel 26 from Springfield and Channel 14 from Oxford -- what a hoot! I recall programs like Boris Karloff's "Thriller" and Alfred Hitchcock late night on WXIX-19, and cheesy horror movies on various distant stations each Saturday night.
The absolute best distant signal I ever received occurred sometime in the 1960s, during strange weather when a passing storm front completely obliterated our local Channel 2 in Dayton (then WLW-D) over the air. I then actually saw a very watchable signal from Denver's Channel 2, apparently due to a one-of-a-kind skip in the upper atmosphere! Truly strange, and as suggested earlier, probably something no one will again see with the advent of digital broadcasting. Oh well...