[quote name=\'trainman\' date=\'Feb 24 2006, 12:43 AM\']I know it's not February 1975, but I have a Cincinnati-Dayton edition of TV Guide for September 1974. Here's what was going on in Cincinnati network daytime TV at that time...
ABC: Oh,
here's where half the NBC lineup ended up! I'm just going to give you WKRC's entire daytime schedule...
8:00 - Winning Streak
8:30 - Celebrity Sweepstakes
9:00 - High Rollers
9:30 - One Life to Live
10:00 - Somerset
10:30 - $10,000 Pyramid
11:00 - Nick Clooney
12:00 - Password
12:30 - Split Second
1:00 - All My Children
1:30 - Let's Make a Deal
2:00 - Newlywed Game
2:30 - The Girl in My Life
3:00 - General Hospital
3:30 - Movie
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One would assume that the schedule would be adjusted in January 1975 for "Money Maze"--would be embarrassing for the big national break for the station's star personality to not be telecast on his hometown station.
And "The 50-50 Club" was Bob Braun's show and was a fixture for almost 40 years in WLW-land. It started on radio in 1946 as "The 50 Club" (because the audience could only hold 50 people) under Ruth Lyons, the only example I can think of of a station staff organist becoming queen of broadcasting in her hometown. When the show moved to TV in 1949, the studio size doubled and it became "The 50-50 Club." (It remained simulcast on WLW Radio for many years thereafter.) Braun was Lyons' hand-picked successor and replaced her in 1967 when she retired. It was basically a variety show, with a live band, house singers, interviews of celebs passing through town (often in Kenley Players theater productions), audience games, etc. By the late 70s, WLW finally changed the title to "The Bob Braun Show."
ObGameShow: Braun hosted "On the Money," a show produced by Ron Greenberg that originated in Cincy and aired on the Avco stations in 1971--an attempt to take it national failed, despite trade ads proclaiming it as a "Jumping Up and Down and Screaming Greed Game Show."
