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Title: Retro Boston TV Schedule
Post by: highwayman128 on June 06, 2005, 10:13:26 PM
Here is how Game Shows were carried in Boston in the Fall of 1976

November 10,1976

(4) WBZ (NBC)
(5) WCVB (ABC)
(7) WNAC (CBS)
(38) WSBK (IND)

9AM
(4) Cross-Wits

10:30am
(4) Hollywood Squares
(7) The Price is Right

11am
(4) Wheel of Fortune
(5) Hot Seat

11:30
(4) Stumpers

12pm
(38) 50 Grand Slam (NBC)

12:30
(38) Gong Show (NBC)

1:30pm
(5) Family Feud (ABC)

2pm
(5) The $20,000 Pyramid

3:30pm
(7) Match Game '76

7:30pm
(5) Match Game PM

Ch 4 had "Price is Right" on Tuesdays and Wednesdays; "$25,000 Pyramid" on Thursdays and "Name That Tune" on Fridays

Ch 5 had "Let's Make a Deal" on Tuesdays and Wednesdays

Ch 7 had "Squares" on Mondays and Fridays
Title: Retro Boston TV Schedule
Post by: dzinkin on June 06, 2005, 10:33:05 PM
Source, please?  And no, radio-info.com doesn't count. :-)
Title: Retro Boston TV Schedule
Post by: sshuffield70 on June 07, 2005, 09:26:13 AM
The retro threads are using actual "TV Guide"s collected by members.  Use those.
Title: Retro Boston TV Schedule
Post by: SRIV94 on June 07, 2005, 11:52:49 AM
WBZ didn't clear GONG, or are you not considering GONG to be a game show for purposes of this discussion?

Doug
Title: Retro Boston TV Schedule
Post by: ChuckNet on June 07, 2005, 10:37:13 PM
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WBZ didn't clear GONG, or are you not considering GONG to be a game show for purposes of this discussion?

And while we're on the subject, did Boston not clear Tattletales, Cullen Pyramid, and/or the short-lived 50 Grand Slam? Didn't see those on the sched, either.

Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby")
Title: Retro Boston TV Schedule
Post by: Don Howard on June 08, 2005, 01:09:22 AM
And in Cleveland (Autumn 1976):
WKYC-TV 3
5:30pm ACTION3NEWS-Adair/Landess/Schroeder/Scott
6pm ACTION3NEWS-Adair/Landess/Schroeder/Scott
7pm NBC NIGHTLY NEWS-Chancellor/Brinkley
WEWS-TV 5
6pm EYEWITNESS NEWS-Patterson/Henry/Shanley/Webster/Fuldheim
6:30pm ABC EVENING NEWS-Reasoner/Walters
WJW-TV 8
6pm CITY CAMERA NEWS-Hale/Maynor/Mueller/Goddard
6:30pm CBS EVENING NEWS-Cronkite
WBKF-TV 61
In its second year of being dark.
Title: Retro Boston TV Schedule
Post by: Esoteric Eric on June 08, 2005, 11:47:50 PM
[quote name=\'ChuckNet\' date=\'Jun 7 2005, 07:37 PM\'][quote name=\'SRIV94\']WBZ didn't clear GONG, or are you not considering GONG to be a game show for purposes of this discussion?[/quote]And while we're on the subject, did Boston not clear Tattletales, Cullen Pyramid, and/or the short-lived 50 Grand Slam? Didn't see those on the sched, either.[/quote]Just going off my foggy memory, I can pretty much say for certain that Cullen Pyramid was on WBZ on Thursdays @ 7:30.  I have dim recollections of 50GS on a UHF station (probably WSBK 38.)  The daytime Gong was definitely on 38.  (Unlike the OP, however, ISTR 50GS @ 12:30 and Gong @ 1 PM)

Esoteric Eric coulda sworn that...
-Daytime TT was on 7 (then the CBS affil), though I recall it switching from 4 PM to 11 AM (delayed one day) at some point
-MGPM was on 4 (at least until they jettisoned the 7:30 checkerboard for Evening Magazine); remembering it on Wednesdays, later on Fridays
-only Squares and LMAD had more than one episode a week (in fact, ISTR 7's checkerboard (perhaps of a different year) to be Squares - LMAD - Squares - LMAD - Squares)