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The Cincinnati Enquirer from Cincinnati, Ohio • 8

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THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER Thursday, August 1, 1968 Today Clianne 19 Goes On The Air 12 noon, 5, 2, 50-50 CLUB (Color), Karen Marrow, currently appearing in "Can-Can" in Dayton. Folk singers Kathle Max, and Steve Heefner, a hippie from Haignt A hUKiimii BY MARTIN HOGAX JR. begins broadcasting on channel 19. The station is headquartered at 801 W. Eighth and its transmitter is located on Bald Knob Enquirer TV Editor AT 3 p.

m. TODAY WXIX-TV, Cincinnati's fourth commercial television station radio in Price Hill. It is owned by the TJ. S. Communications Corp.

Remember this well. The license to broadcast has changed hands twice and the call letters have been changed once. Any similarity to the original station doesnt exist. Originally, the Federal Communications Commission awarded the license to operate a television station on channel 19 to James Lartg, owner of radio station WNOP in Newport. The license then was acquired by Toledo warehousemen Daniel H.

Overmyer and was scheduled to be a part of the Overmyer network. Other stations in major markets were involved but the expense of broadcasting proved too costly for the Overmyer interests. Enter U. S. Communications subsidiary of American Viscose Corp.

U. S. Communications now owns 80 of the stock in the local station-and four other ei: (W' -i, im mi) lummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmlkiM 3 p. 19, INAUGURAL PROGRAM (Color). WXIX begins Its programming with this first broadcast.

Bill Nlmo hosts this program which includes talks by Mayor Ruehlmann, Mayor John Schmitz, Newport, Covington Mayor Claude Hensley. 4 p. 5, VIVIENNE! (Color): The Dee Felice Trio and Johnny Desmond are featured. I 4:30 p. 12, MIKE DOUGLAS (Color): Rossano Brazzl, Monlque Van Dooren, Jack DeLeon, The Freddie Cole Trio and author Rod MacLeish.

6 p. 12, MERV GRIFFIN (Color): Delia Reese, Aliza Kashi, David Frost, Hendra and Ullet, Robbie Porter. 7:30 12. 2, SECOND HUNDRED YEARS (Color): Luke gets out slickered while trying to help a woman gambler. Repeat.

7:30 p. 5, DANIEL BOONE (Color): A magician has designs on Boonesborough's winter fur catch. Repeat. 7:30 p. 9, JOHN GARY (Color): Guests John Davidson, Jackie Gayle, Donna Jean Young, The Pleasure Seekers and Glen Campbell.

i 8p. 48, INSIGHT: Vera Miles and Jeff Hunter star In The lady publisher of a racy magazine reconsiders her policies. 8:30 p. 12, BEWITCHED (Color): Endora calls In a handsome warlock in an attempt to break up Samantha's marriage. Repeat.

8:30 p. 5, IRONSIDE (Color): A beautiful amnesiac, Vera Miles, falls in love with Ironside. Repeat. 9 p.m. 12, 2, THAT GIRL (Color): Ann Marie is the reluctant object of an elderly multimillionaire's persistent attentions.

Repeat. 9:30 p. 5, DRAGNET (Color): Friday and Gannon go underground to tackle a gang whose members pose as vice officers. Repeat. I 10 p.

5, DEAN MARTIN PRESENTS THE GOLDDIGGERS (Color): Guests Include Gail Martin, Frank Sinatra Paul Lynde plus the regular cast of Wisa D'Orso, Barbara Heller, Sklles and Henderson, Stanley Myron Handelman, Times Square Two and Stu Gilliam. inn 19 JOEY RISHOP fHnlorl: Joev's featured Larry Smith And Friends New station, new show stations in addition to an option to buy the remaining 20 from the Overmyer interests. Then, in May the FCC approved new call letters and WSCO-TV became WXIX-TV. XIX, naturally is 19 In Roman. Hence a new name, new owners, new image.

This brings us to August 1, 1968 and channel 19, with full color Jacilities, is on the air. More than $2 million has been appropriated for programming. The station has title to 1200 motion pictures including The 'Lord of the and 'La Dolce The remainder of the schedule will include syndicated programs, sports events and children's programming. Larry Smith, popular young puppeteer will host a children's cartoon show at 3:30 p. m.

Monday through Friday. In addition the station will carry such syndicated discussion programs as those hosted by Melvin Belli and David Susskind. R. Douglas McLarty is general manager. WXTX-TV.

It Is a welcome addition. Situation Stuff? It's Not Dead Yet Leading Lady After a long search, the producers of the forthcoming "That's Life" series on ABC finally have found the srfrl they beileve has the POTATO PANCAKES guest is singer Bill Anderson. 11:30 p. 5, 2, TONIGHT (Color): Joel Grey visits Johnny Carson. Thursday Movies 7 p.

19, "Conquest of Cochise" (1953). John Hodlak, Robert Stack. Western. 9 p. 9, "Joan Of Arc" (1948).

Ingrid Bergman, Jose Ferrer. An adequate production of this classic story. 9:30 p. 19, "Fire Down Below" (1957). Rita Hay-worth, Jack Lemmon, Robert Mitchum.

Partners on a boat decide to transport an adventuress, without passport to another island. 11:30 p. fl, "Rebecca" (1940). Laurence Joan Fontaine. Fine drama.

Four Polish style potato pancakes, with just a hint of onion! Whipped butter, applesauce and either bacon or sour cream. right combination of acting, singing and dancing skills to be Robert Morse's leading lady. She is E. J. Peaker, a blue-eyed blonde with considerable stage musical and television experience.

She has a featured role in the film version of "Hello, and because of that the first few of the weekly one hour "That's Life" shows will be taped in Hollywood. When she is through with the film, Miss Peaker and the video company will come to New York to do the series. 1.25 Perkins Pancake Houses period piece set in the Northwest lumberjack country. Second most popular category for new shows is action, mostly police or private eye action. The five shows include NBC's "The Outsider," in the mood of those old Raymond Chandler private eye books; ABC's "Mod Squad" and CBS's "Hawaii Five," both working the police beat; NBC's Adam 12," which will handle a pair of squad car cops in the manner of "Dragnet" and NBC's major effort, the 90-minute "Name of the Game." Two new variety shows will be added to the growing list-NBC's "Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show" and the offbeat "That's Life" on ABC which will attempt a weekly book musical built around a cast of regular performers playing continuing charac 7770 Reading Road 7764 Cole rain Ave.

6930 Plalnflild Ret. THE M.O.A. IS F.U.N WITH STAN MATLOCK 6-10 A.M. jf 55 HOLLYWOOD UP Situation comedy, out of style and out of favor with network television program makers for the past few seasons, is making a comeback next season. There are seven new series of the genre on the schedules of the three networks.

And a lucky swing of the programming cycle returns them at a time when fiarce physical action and gunplay is, if not taboo, at least radically modified. Television series are usually under construction for one or two years before the public gets its first look a show, so most of these were on the drawing boards long before the public and the networks began worrying about shoot 'em ups and their suspected effects on tender or disturbed minds. On the September docket are CBS "Doris Day Show," the popular film star's first excursion into television. She plays a former band singer, a. widow with two children, adjusting to rural life.

There Is also NBC's "Julia," with Diahann Carroll playing a widowed registered nurse with child. Other nonviolent comedies include CBS' "Blondie," based on a comic strip; ABC's "Ugliest Girl in Town;" NBC's Fantasy. "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir;" CBS' "The Good Guys," and ABC's hour-long "Here Come the Brides," a Thursday Morning Television 0 a Ch. 5 Readies Quarterback Club Program Quarterback Club, a half-hour color show focusing on the AFL's newest team, the Cincinnati Bengals, will premiere on Channel 5 Friday, August 9, at 7 p.

m. Hosted by veteran TV-5 Sports Director, Phil Samp, the action-packed program will feature film clips of the most exciting plays of the preceding week's game; scouting reports of the upcoming contest; interviews with standout players; and interlaced with football comment and philosophy by head coach Paul Brown or other members of the Bengals' coaching staff. The 20-program series runs through December 16 with the first program featuring film clips of the Bengals' first exhibition game of August 3 when they meet the Kansas City Chiefs. Bengals' preseason exhibition games that will be televised by TV-5 include the Denver Broncos game of August 10; Pittsburgh Stealers on August 25, and the New York Jets on August 30. Regular season away games of the Bengals will also be carried by WLWT.

5:30 6i00 6:15 Meditation 6:30 Michigan U. 6:45 Today Showt 7i1S ters. There will also be two new Westerns, CBS "Lancer," and ABC's "Outcasts." ABC will replace a science fiction series, "Voyage to the Botto of the Sea" with another, "The Land of Giants," the only new entry in that category. And it will also add one semi-game program, "The Don Rlckles Show," In which the em-phis in comedy rather than eneupmanshlp. ABC also has the sole anthology series of the season, "Journey to the Unknown," with different plot and performers weekly.

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FORMATi WKRC S50 TIMEi 24 hours. FORMAT; Poo fmiilc nd personilitiei. Nwit On tht hour. WIW 700 TIMEi 24 hours. FORMAT) FtmilKr Music NEWS.

On th hour end hilf hour. 0 BRENDA LEE Features tnd music weuc-fM to.f TIME: 10 a. m. to 10 p. m.

FORMATi Educational features classical music WZIP-fM 92J TIME: 6:15 a. o. m. FORMATi Country and Western music NEWSi Network on tht half-hour. Local: Three minutes before the hour.

WJKW.FM ta WNOP IINMR TIME: m. FOR- 6:30 m. to 9 p. 6:30 a. m.

to 9 D. AT: Network programs inri lau, NEWSi Thursday Afternoon Television TIMEi 6 a. m. to 11 p. m.

FORMATi Religious features and music WJII-FM 94.1 NOW AVAILABL OHEYEAR DIVIDENDS INVESTMENT PUD CERTIFICATES QUARTERLY TIME: 24 hours a day. FORMATi Standards. NEWS: On tht half hour. WCNW'FM 94.9 TIME: 24 hours. FORMATi Country and Western music NEWSi Five minutes before tht hour.

W0XR-FM 97.7 TIMEi 7 p. m. to 1 a. m. FORMATi Standards and too 40.

WAEF-FM 904 TIMEi 6 a. m. to I a. m. FORMATi Dixieland standards.

NEWSi On tht hour. WKKT-FM 100.9 TIMEi 6:45 a. m. to II p. m.

FORMATi Remote broadcasts and recorded music WKRC-FM 101.9 TIMEi 24 Hours. FORMATi Stereo classics, standards tnd show tunes. NEWS: 15 minutes after every hour from ABC-fM. WE1N-FM 101.7 TIME: 24 hours. FORMATi Jan and "lassical.

WHOH-FM 103.5 tn nour. urn io TIME: 24 hours. FORMAT: Pop music talk end rtliqious features. NEWS: On tht hour. WZIP 1050 TIME: 6 a.

midniqht. FORMAT: Country and Western Music. NEWS: On tht half hour. WUBI 1230 TIME: 24 hours. FORMAT: Too 40 music.

MEWS: 20 minutes before and after tht hour. WCIU 1320 TIME: 6 a. m. to 5:45 p. FORMAT, Country and Western music.

NEWS: On the quarter hour. WSAI 136 TIME: 24 hours. FORMATi Top 40 music NEWS: On the hour. WM0H 1450 TIME: 5 a. m.

to 1 a. m. FORMAT: "op music, relioious. NEWS: On the half "our. WCIN 14S0 TIME: 5 a.

m. to midnight. FORMAT: Rhythm and bluet and gospel. NEWS: On the half hour. WCKT 1530 TIME: 24 hours.

FORMAT: Popular music and soorts broadcasts. NEWS: Five minutes before the hour and on tht half hour. WCNW 1560 TIME: 6:15 a. m. to 6:45 p.

m. FORMAT: Country and Western music NEWS: Five minutes before tht hour. REGULAR SAVINGS EYANSTON IUILDING LOAN CO. 7050 BLUE ASH 891-5242 FORMATi classics. TIMEi 6 a.

m. to 1 a. m. oo music, German music. News: on the halt hour.

IWCXl-FM 105.1 TIME: 6 a. m. to midnight. FORMATi Stereo Albums. WPFI-FM 105.9 TIME: 24 hours.

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m. WHIO 7 WLW-0-2 Gov. RONALD REAG1U TOISiOBBOISf 9:30 P.M. Ch. 5 Hospital Mika Douoltl tf i I 2 to 6 UJHRI Semester Capt.

Kangaroo Treasure lilt 6:00 University 3:30 6:30 Inspiration 4:00 :00 Today 5:30 4:00 Paul Dixon 6:00 7:30 8:00 9:00 9:30 Ha IB na Bette Rogoe Girl Talk 10:00 10:30 11:00 10:00 Match Gemt 6:30 10:30 Phil Donahua 7:00 11:30 Bewitched 8:30 12:00 50-50 Club 9:00 1:30 Make A Deal 9:30 2:00 Newlyweds 10:00 2:30 Dating Gamt 11:00 3:00 Another World 1 1 :30 3:00 Ttll Truth 3:30 Merv Griffin 4:30 Uncle Orrio 5:00 Flintstonat 5:30 Trooo 6:00 Big Newt 6:30 NBC News 7:00 Big News 7:30 Hoqans Heroal 8:00 Judd 9:00 Movie 11:00 News 1 1 :30 Evening Thtr. 1:30 Peter Jennings TV 2 Newt NBC Newt Movlt Bewitched That Girl Peyton Plaoa Ironsidt TV 2 Newt Tonight Movie Country Music First Snow Cinemt XIX On Stop Beyond 12:00 Hillbillies Andy Griffith Hollywood Sq. love of lift Tomorrow Guidinq Light Girl Talk World Turns Splendored Houst Party WXIX-19 12:30 12:45 3:00 First Show 7:00 Citliem) for Reagan, lot 640, Topeka, Kansas 66601 Htary lubt. National Chairman Pol. AtV.

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