Retro: Champaign/Urbana, IL, Friday, October 17, 1975

from The Daily Illini

[03] WCIA (CBS) Champaign
6:55 Farm Feature
7:00 CBS Morning News
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Donahue
10:00 Gambit
10:30 Love of Life
10:55 CBS News
11:00 Young and the Restless
11:30 Search for Tomorrow
12:00 News
12:30 As the World Turns
1:00 Guiding Light
1:30 The Edge of Night
2:00 Match Game
2:30 Tattletales
3:00 Movie "Deadlier than the Male"
5:00 The Flintstones
5:25 Spirit of '76
5:30 News (not mentioned when it's local or national)
6:30 Adam-12
7:00 Big Eddie
7:30 M*A*S*H
8:00 Hawaii Five-O
9:00 Barnaby Jones
10:00 News
10:30 Ironside
11:30 Movie "The Mole People"
1:00 News

[12] WILL (PBS) Urbana
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 The Electric Company
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12:00 Sesame Street
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3:00 Mister Rogers
3:30 Sesame Street
4:30 The Electric Company
5:00 Villa Alegre
5:30 Romagnoli's Table
6:00 Aviation Weather
6:30 Changing Music
7:00 Washington Week in Review
7:30 Wall Street Week
8:00 Masterpiece Theatre
9:00 Book Beat
9:30 Consumer Survival Kit

[15] WICD (NBC) Champaign
6:30 AgUsa
7:00 Today
9:00 Celebrity Sweepstakes
9:30 Wheel of Fortune
10:00 High Rollers
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11:00 Magnificent Marble Machine
11:30 Dinah!
12:30 Days of Our Lives
1:30 The Doctors
2:00 Another World
3:30 Partridge Family
4:00 Gilligan's Island
4:30 Beverly Hillbillies
5:00 News
5:30 NBC Nightly News
6:00 Bewitched
6:30 Wild Kingdom
7:00 Sanford and Son
7:30 Chico and the Man
8:00 Rockford Files
9:00 Police Woman
10:00 News
10:30 Tonight Show with Johnny Carson
12:00 Movie "Soldier of Fortune"
1:55 Today's Woman
2:00 News

[17] WAND (ABC) Decatur
6:50 Closer to God Today
7:00 New Zoo Revue
7:30 Abbott and Costello
8:00 AM America
9:30 Looking In
10:00 You Don't Say!
10:30 Happy Days
11:00 Showoffs
11:30 All My Children
12:00 Ryan's Hope
12:30 Let's Make a Deal
1:00 $10.000 Pyramid
1:30 Rhyme and Reason
2:00 General Hospital
2:30 One Life to Live
3:00 Mike Douglas
4:30 Family Affair
5:00 News (not mentioned when it's local or national)
6:00 Bonanza
7:00 Mobile One
8:00 Movie "The Thief Who Came to Dinner"
10:00 News
10:30 Movie "The Crimson Cult"

south_ferretti said:

from The Daily Illini

[03] WCIA (CBS) Champaign
6:55 Farm Feature
7:00 CBS Morning News
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Donahue
10:00 Gambit
10:30 Love of Life
10:55 CBS News
11:00 Young and the Restless
11:30 Search for Tomorrow
12:00 News
12:30 As the World Turns
1:00 Guiding Light
1:30 The Edge of Night
2:00 Match Game
2:30 Tattletales
3:00 Movie "Deadlier than the Male"
5:00 The Flintstones
5:25 Spirit of '76
5:30 News (not mentioned when it's local or national)
6:30 Adam-12
7:00 Big Eddie
7:30 M*A*S*H
8:00 Hawaii Five-O
9:00 Barnaby Jones
10:00 News
10:30 Ironside
11:30 Movie "The Mole People"
1:00 News

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WCIA (which also serves Springfield, IL) had about a 4-year stretch (IIRC from about fall 1975-spring 1979, based on old TV schedules in my local paper) where "The Price Is Right" was bumped in favor of Donahue at 9AM, then they were still committed to showing midday movies at 3PM (a practice they continued until 1983). So TPIR couldn't air in the afternoon. "Price" finally returned to mid-Illinois around fall 1979.

WCIA's then-Midwest Television (now part of Nexstar) sister station WMBD-31 in Peoria also had a brief time during the '75-76 season where TPIR was bumped after the show expanded to an hour in November '75 (WMBD was already committed to airing "Dinah!" at 9AM). But "Price" played again in Peoria by fall 1976 and hasn't been interrupted locally since (other than Labor Day episodes due to the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon, plus the annual Peoria Santa Claus Parade the day after Thanksgiving annually).

A pretty good time in TV. Rockford Files, Barnaby Jones. I do believe that Rockford moved to the Friday 10PM slot later in its run.