Retro: Indianapolis/Lafayette/Terre Haute Sat 3/6/76

from TV Guide: Central Indiana Edition

2 WTWO-NBC Terre Haute * 4 WTTV-Ind Indianapolis * 6 WRTV-NBC Indianapolis *
8 WISH-CBS Indianapolis * 9 WGN-Ind Chicago * 10 WTHI-CBS Terre Haute *
13 WTHR-ABC Indianapolis * 18 WLFI-CBS Lafayette * 20 WFYI-PBS Indianapolis *
22 WVUT-PBS Vincennes * 30 WTIU-PBS Bloomington * 38 WIIL-ABC Terre Haute *
40 WHMB-Ind Indianapolis * 44 WSNS-Ind Chicago * 49 WIPB-PBS Muncie
9/44 listed ET

Morning
6:30
13 Agriscope

7:00
4 Outdoors in Indiana
8 Sunrise Semester
13 Zoo Time

7:30
2 Vegetable Soup
4 Lessons for Living
6 Return to the Planet of the Apes
8 Who, What, How Do You Know?
13 Laurel & Hardy

7:45
9 News

8:00
2-6 Emergency Plus 4
4 Old Time Gospel Hour
8-10-18 Pebbles & Bamm-Bamm
9 US Farm Report
13-38 Hong Kong Phooey
44 TV College

8:30
2-6 Josie & the Pussycats
8-10-18 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
9 H.R. PufNStuff
13-38 Tom & Jerry/Grape Ape

9:00
2-6 Waldo Kitty
4-9 Friends of Man
20-30 Electric Company

9:30
2-6 Pink Panther
4 Jetsons
8-10-18 Scooby-Doo
9 Lost in Space
13-38 Adventures of Gilligan
20-30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood

10:00
2-6 Land of the Lost
8-10-18 Shazam!/Isis
13-38 Superfriends
20-30-49 Sesame Street

10:30
2-6 Run, Joe, Run
4 Wally's Workshop
9 Jetsons

11:00
2 Return to the Planet of the Apes
4 Focus
6 Words-a-Poppin
8-10-18 Space Nuts
9 Movie "Jack Frost"
13-38 Speed Buggy
20 WFYI Membership Pledge Drive
30-49 Electric Company
44 Life in the Spirit

11:30
2-6 Westwind
4 Eisenhower Memorial Foundation Speech Contest
8-10-18 Ghost Busters
13-38 Oddball Couple
20-30-49 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
44 The Rock

11:55
40 Paul Harvey

Afternoon
Noon
2-6 Jetsons
8-10 Valley of the Dinosaurs
13-38 Lost Saucer
18 Fred Shaus: Basketball
20-49 Zoom
40 Little Rascals
44 The Lesson

12:30
2-6 Go-USA
4 Garner Ted Armstrong
8-10-18 Fat Albert
13-38 American Bandstand
20 WFYI Membership Pledge Drive
44 TV College
49 Taking Better Pictures

12:45
9 Your Income Tax

1:00
2-6 College Basketball: Alabama-Kentucky
4 Movie "Crosswinds"
8-10-18 Children's Film Festival "Bag on Bag"
9 Charlando
20-49 Sesame Street
40 Captain Hook's Pirate Adventures

1:30
9 Sportsman's Friend
13 Exercise in Knowledge
38 Movie "Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round"
40 Cartoon Festival

2:00
8 Who, What, How Do You Know?
9 Movie "News Hounds"
10 Dr. Hopp & Friends
13 Bewitched
18 Agriscope
20 Vegetable Soup
22-29 Aetna World Cup Tennis: US-Australia

2:30
8 Big Blue Marble
10 Sportsman's Friends
13 Champions
18 Formby's Antrique Furniture Workshop
20 God of Our Fathers
40 Dennis the Menace
44 Invisible Man

3:00
2-6 College Basketball: Big 10 game
4 Outdoors with Julius Boros
8-10-18 Tennis: Virginia Slims of San Francisco
20 Your Thirty
40 Popeye
44 Secret Agent

3:30
4 News
9 Champions
13-38 Pro Bowling: AMF Dick Weber 5-Star Open
20 African Profiles
40 Abbott & Costello

4:00
4 TBA
20 Time for Timothy
40 Athletes in Action
44 College Basketball: Ohio State-Indiana

4:30
8-10-18 Challenge of the Sexes (Alpine Skiing/Rodeo)
9 Outdoors with Julius Boros
20 Book Beat

5:00
2-6 PGA Golf: Florida Citrus Open
8-10-18 Sports Spectacular (AAU National Indoor Track & Field Championships/South African Grand Prix highlights)
9 Movie "Abbott & Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde"
13-38 Wide World of Sports (World Figure Skating Championships/World Sprint Speed Skating Championships)
20 TBA
40 Outdoors with Ken Calloway

5:30
40 George Otis's High Adventure

Evening
6:00
4 Movie "Paris When It Sizzles"
8-10 News
18 Lawrence Welk
20 Black Journal
22-49 TBA
40 It's a New Day
44 High Chaparral

6:30
2 News
6 Lawrence Welk
8 Teleconference
9 Incredible Flight of the Snow Geese
10 CBS News
13-38 ABC News
20 Antiques
40 Warren Roberts Presents
49 Mr. Lucky

6:55
49 Bulletin Board

7:00
2 TV Sportsman
8-18 Hee Haw
10 That Good Ole Nashville Music
13 Space: 1999
20-22-30 Firing Line
38 Lawrence Welk
44 I Spy
49 It's Hard to Be a Penguin

7:30
2 American Life Style
6 IHSAA Tournament Highlights
9 Illinois State Lottery
10 Candid Camera
40 Lester Sumrall Teaches

8:00
2 Emergency!
4 Merv Griffin
6 High School Basketball: IHSAA Sectional Tournament Championship
8-10-18 Jeffersons
9 Hee Haw
13-38 Almost Anything Goes (Louisiana State finals: Bogalusa v Covington v Hammond; winner takes on Andalusia AL and Columbia MS in Southern Regional Final, which aired the next night)
20-22-30 International Animation Festival
40 Jimmy Swaggart
44 Mary Jane Odell
49 High School Basketball: Muncie Sectional Tournament Championship

8:30
8-10-18 Doc
20 Evacuees
22-30 Ambassador College Concert
40 Ernest Angley Hour

9:00
2 Movie "Young Billy Young"
4-38 SWAT
8-10-18 Mary Tyler Moore
9 Sammy & Company
13 Movie "Open Season"
44 Movie "Rashomon"

9:30
8-10-18 Bob Newhart
40 Community Forum

9:45
6 IHSAA Tournament Highlights

10:00
4 Pop! Goes the Country
6 Emergency!
8-10-18 Carol Burnett
20-22-30 Soundstage
38 Bert D'Angelo
40 Lester Sumrall Presents
49 Zulor Romero

10:30
4 That Good Ole Nashville Music
9 Love, American Style

11:00
2-6-8-9-10-13 News
4 Movie "The Brain That Wouldn't Die"
18 IHSAA Sectional Scoreboard
20 Austin City Limits
38 ABC News
40 Paul Harvey
44 Get Smart
49 Weather

11:15
38 700 Club

11:30
2-6 Weekend
8 Movie "The Chase"
9 Movie "A Shot in the Dark"
10 Movie "Humoresque"
13 Movie "Zorba the Greek"
18 Wild Kingdom
44 Spanish Movie "La Reina de Chantecler"

Late Night
Midnight
18 That Good Ole Nashville Music

12:30
4 Movie "Voyage to a Prehistoric Planet"

1:00
2 Pattern for Living
6 Movie "Drums of Africa"

1:30
9 News
13 Movie "Come Spy with Me"

1:45
9 Movie "Air Force"

2:00
4 Wrestling

2:10
8 Soul Train

3:00
4 News

> Late Night
>
> 2:00
> 4 Wrestling

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WLSU Wisconsin Public Radio, La Crosse
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> 9:00

> 4-38 SWAT
> 13 Movie "Open Season"

So WTHR avoided "SWAT" and "Bert D'Angelo" for movies.

I'm also surprised that WTTV picked up "SWAT".

> > 9:00
>
> > 4-38 SWAT
> > 13 Movie "Open Season"
>
> So WTHR avoided "SWAT" and "Bert D'Angelo" for movies.
>
> I'm also surprised that WTTV picked up "SWAT".

I've seen a few other examples where WTTV aired ABC programs not cleared by WTHR in a 1973 TV Guide I have. I assume this practice ended once WTHR and WRTV flipped affiliation.

> I've seen a few other examples where WTTV aired ABC programs
> not cleared by WTHR in a 1973 TV Guide I have. I assume this
> practice ended once WTHR and WRTV flipped affiliation.


I recall one time during the late 80s after WTHR had picked up the NBC affiliation they refused to air a made-for-TV movie that they evidently felt was a bit too parallel to Dan Quayle's move into politics. I guess the portrayal of the politician in the movie wasn't exactly the most, shall we say ethical? (I am not exactly sure, I didn't see the movie, I just remember the controversy.) Anyway, WTTV picked up the movie.

I also recall one summer (also in the 80s) when WTHR pre-empted the sitcom version of "Love Sidney" (based on the movie) and whatever followed it with reruns of the old Barbara Mandrell variety show. No other station picked up the NBC programming in that case.

> I also recall one summer (also in the 80s) when WTHR
> pre-empted the sitcom version of "Love Sidney" (based on the
> movie) and whatever followed it with reruns of the old
> Barbara Mandrell variety show. No other station picked up
> the NBC programming in that case.
>

A few NBC affiliates refused to carry "Love Sidney", as the central character (played by Tony Randall) was originally slated to be gay. But when the series actually made it to air (based on a TV movie a couple of years earlier), Sidney's relationship was never made public, practically making the series no more controversian than any other sitcom on TV at the time.

Here in Tampa Bay, WFLA ch.8 bumped Sidney for "M*A*S*H" reruns for a few weeks, only to clear the series a few weeks later after learning that the pre-emptions weren't necessary.

ABC in Indy

> I've seen a few other examples where WTTV aired ABC programs
> not cleared by WTHR in a 1973 TV Guide I have. I assume this
> practice ended once WTHR and WRTV flipped affiliation.

WTTV maintained a secondary affiliation with ABC after they lost the network (as primary affiliate) to WLWI (now WTHR) when that station came on the air in 1957. IIRC, that did end when ABC moved to WRTV in '79. I didn't know they ever actually used it other than for coverage of JFK's assasination in '63.

WTTV had been the primary ABC affiliate in Indy for about a year before losing it to WLWI. Before that, ABC had been on WISH and CBS was on WTTV.

> I recall one time during the late 80s after WTHR had picked
> up the NBC affiliation they refused to air a made-for-TV
> movie that they evidently felt was a bit too parallel to Dan
> Quayle's move into politics. I guess the portrayal of the
> politician in the movie wasn't exactly the most, shall we
> say ethical? (I am not exactly sure, I didn't see the
> movie, I just remember the controversy.) Anyway, WTTV
> picked up the movie.

I recall that incident, and saw promos for the movie on WTTV. "Favorite Son" was the title.