NY TV listings observations (questions)

[Vahan_Nisanian]

Jimmy, did you get my PM?

[catnap1972]

January 1976

7:30pm checkerboard (M-F):

WCBS: Bobby Vinton - New Treasure Hunt - Last of the Wild - $25K Pyr - Candid Camera
WNBC: HSQ -  Wild Kingdom - NTT - HSQ - Don Adams Screen Test
WABC: Snakes - MGPM - LMaD - Wild Wild World of animals - LMaD

No game shows at all on WOR or WPIX and only Cross-Wits (8pm) on WNEW

[dale_grass]

Jimmy, did you get my PM?

I don't think a public forum is the appropriate place for such correspondences.  Maybe PM him instead.

[PYLdude]

9 in the morning for Three's a Crowd? Seems a little early for them to be airing a weekly, no?

I thought it was a daily series.

It was available as either daily or weekly.

Then why was its replacement sold as a weekly?

I have to call for citation.

[SRIV94]

Jimmy, did you get my PM?

I don't think a public forum is the appropriate place for such correspondences.  Maybe PM him instead.

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[WarioBarker]

9 in the morning for Three's a Crowd? Seems a little early for them to be airing a weekly, no?

I thought it was a daily series.

It was available as either daily or weekly.

Then why was its replacement sold as a weekly?

I have to call for citation.

I can at least confirm the "available as daily" part -- the 7/24/79 Daily Variety mentions on Page 22 that 3's A Crowd and The Gong Show were going to be shown daily by some stations. The 11/28/79 Weekly issue notes on Page 54 that KNBC was going to preempt Crowd and Gong for a week to test an hour-long daily series called Closer Encounters.

I'm not sure (since all I can do is get partial blurbs), but the 11/14/79 Weekly issue seems to mention that WCBS was airing Crowd as a weekly on Page 54.

As for Camouflage, it's mentioned as being once-a-week on Page 26 of the January 2, 1980 Weekly issue, which also appears to be the earliest mention of the show in the Variety archives.

[Jimmy Owen]

Jimmy, did you get my PM?

I don't think a public forum is the appropriate place for such correspondences.  Maybe PM him instead.

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If it was about Family Feud going twice weekly, yes I got the message.  Twice a week on KNBC started in early 1979 if memory serves.

[snowpeck]

9 in the morning for Three's a Crowd? Seems a little early for them to be airing a weekly, no?

I thought it was a daily series.

It was available as either daily or weekly.

Then why was its replacement sold as a weekly?

I have to call for citation.

http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-BC-IDX/79-OCR/BC-1979-03-05-OCR-Page-0139.pdf

http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-BC-IDX/79-OCR/BC-1979-03-05-OCR-Page-0059.pdf (right hand column under Firestone)

and a mention in this article: http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-BC-IDX/79-OCR/BC-1979-03-19-OCR-Page-0050.pdf

[Vahan_Nisanian]

What do they mean by "260 strip, 52 weekly"? Especially when the show ran from September 17, 1979–February 1, 1980, hardly 52 weeks.

[Jimmy Owen]

The intention was to supply 260 shows (5x52). What the stations did was up to the individual stations. WCBS ran 3ac in the morning until around June of 80.

[catnap1972]

What was the availability of the other Barris shows (NG, DG and Gong Show) by early 1980?  NY had DG 5/week on WOR (7:30) while NG and Gong were only 1/week (all three competed on Friday nights at 7:30)

[SRIV94]

GONG was in strip reruns then (those started in the fall of 1978), as well as the nighttime version (which I think was twice a week in 1979-80).