Classic TV Guide Editions: Most and Fewest Stations Listed?

[genius]

Also in addition in 1954 the Chicago edition just had five stations as well: WBBM, WNBQ, WBKB, WGN, and WTMJ from Milwaukee.

[Mark]

Here's a fun site that lists TV Guide Editions

http://www.angelfire.com/ne/msittel/Tvged.html

[MikeyBos]

Actually, when the Western and Eastern New England editions were broken up around 1979 or 1980, WFSB was listed in the (1) NY Metro, (2) Hartford/New Haven, (3) Springfield/Chicopee/Holyoke, (4) Worcester and (5) Providence editions.  Then sometime in the mid/late-80s, the separate Worcester Edition was sort of annexed into the Boston edition, with not only ch. 3 WFSB but also chs. 22 WWLP and 57 WGBY from Springfield being added to the Boston edition for Worcester viewers as well.  All three channels would eventually be removed from the edition by the early 90s.

So WFSB was carried in FIVE editions of the TV Guide...something not terribly uncommon in southern New England.  Chs. 4 WBZ-TV, 5 WCVB and 7 WNAC/WNEV were all carried in the (1) Boston, (2) Providence, (3) Worcester, (4) Springfield/Chicopee/Holyoke and (5) New Hampshire editions in the early/mid-80s.  I also know at times WBZ-TV has been included in the Vermont edition...not sure if that might have been the case at that time which would mean that it would appeared in six editions simultaneously.

WFSB-TV (CBS) channel 3 of Hartford, CT was in the Hartford/New Haven, New York Metropolitan, Springfield/Chicopee/Holyoke and Providence Editions. I think they even had a spot in the old Boston Edition (along with WWLP) back when Boston had a regular "Channel Listed In" page (before the cable conversion chart took it over).

[bk77]

KLZ 7 (CBS - Not sure when they became KMGH except for the fact it was in the 1970s.  They would switch to ABC in September 1995)
KBTV 9 (ABC - Would become KUSA sometime in the 1980s in an effort to stay competitive with Channel 4.  They would switch to NBC in September 1995)

Cheers

KLZ became KMGH in 1972. Actually there is an interesting story about that switch, it was featured in a movie !!
The 1972 Monte Markham/ Telly Savalas horror/sci-fi flick Visions of Death. The movie about a mad bomber declaring war on the state of Colorado by planting bombs in and around Denver, there is one scene I remember where Markham is seen watching a newscaster ( I am pretty sure it was Bob Palmer ) on KLZ-TV 7. One can even hear the announcer saying "This is KLZ TV 7 Denver". Then later in the same movie after a bomb was defused ( the bomber planted one under I-25 and Colfax Ave (?) ) I noticed a TV car with the call letters "KMGH" on it. So those calls must've changed while they made this movie.  Good luck in trying to find this flick. I heard the movie people ran into a problem with the King Soopers supermarket chain as the movie filmed some scenes of one their stores without the OK from King Sooper's owner Kroger and I have been told that Kroger actually took legal action against CBS who made the movie after the movie aired once or twice. But even so, Visions of Death has been known to pop up late at night on some cable channels though.

Now for KUSA which was until the mid 80s, KBTV this brings up a Denver TV mystery.

The 1969 John Forsythe/Jean Simmons/Bobby Darin/Shriley Jones flick "The Happy Ending" was filmed in Denver. Simple story..a bored Denver housewife decides to walk out on her husband to try to find herself.  In one scene Jean Simmons is leaving a downtown Denver department store ( I heard the movie was filmed in the long defunct Denver Dry Goods chain ). As she leaves the store she gets into a taxi. On the back of the taxi is an ad for KBTV. It says...

9 at 9
in color KBTV Denver

Did KBTV offer a 9pm newscast in 1968/1969 when this flick was made? Was this 9@9 a local Denver talk show that aired at 9am? Years ago I had a friend who for a brief time worked at KUSA and he was saying even they couldn't figure out that sign on the back of the taxi in "The Happy Ending".  Anybody know with this 9@9 was?

[MACK184]

Interestingly on the flip side the Southeast Pennsylvania edition carried all of Baltimore and WTTG from DC.

The odd thing is, that for the SE PA edition - 2, 11, and 13 were carried, but it wasn't until 1985 or 1986 that 45 was added to the edition.

The Montana edition of the TVG is the one I've seen the most broadcast stations in. South Georgia also comes close.

Oh how I miss TVG.....

Having lived in Montana a long time ago, my guess is that next to Alaska, Montana had probably the fewest stations in the country, the edition covered virtually all of the state, plus the imported signals from ND, Wyoming, Denver and if I'm not mistaken Seattle as well. Watching TV in Montana back in those days was a real adventure, since most of the in-state stations were affilitated with all 3 networks, the local PDs tended to pick and choose the week's offerings and it wasn't unusual to see the "Tuesday Night Movie" running on Friday night and so on. Ahh...the good old days.

[bpatrick]

Was Spokane in the Montana edition?  I seem to
recall seeing those stations.

[jvparent]

Not sure if PAT responded about KREZ, but at various times in the 70s and early 80s KREZ was listed, along with KREY-10 Montrose right next to KREX-5 Grand Junction.  There were a few instances where the three stations split apart to provide public service programming, mostly in the mid-afternoon during the 70s. 

[KML-224]

From the "Channel Listed In" pages the TV stations there used to send me, I seem to remember channels 2 (CBS), 4 (ABC), 6 (NBC) and 7 (PBS) from Spokane getting listed in the Montana Edition. I don't remember if they were listed under broadcast or cable/pay TV.