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| WICS-TV/DT Channel 20/42 Springfield, Illinois History-Part 2 |
| Page
2: WICS/Cook Street and
becoming Full Color(1967-1978 ) |
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WICS
Made Many Improvements during the 1960's WICS like other stations in the market made the complete change to color during the late 1960's. Plains Television Partners made major investments in the physical plants at WICS as well as at WCHU/WICD in Champaign-Danville. The Champaign-Danville signals which served as a satellite repeater for NBC programming would be combined with a new frequency at Channel 15, with the call letters of WICD. After a rough start, when the broadcast tower at Fithian fell during an ice storm, it was going to be several more months before the new station would be broadcasting NBC in full color. The WICS translator at Mattoon, on Channel 75 was shut down with the completing of the WICD facilities. When WICS moved from the former Leland Hotel studios, the station moved into a large facility which would house the station for many years to come. It was spacious and allowed for cars to be driven into the studio, as well as for the many children's shows to include a studio audience as well as a panel of local kids. Unfortunately, those local children's shows would end with the abundance of local sitcoms which filled the bill for younger viewers....as well as the syndication of more adult fare in the form of "The Mike Douglas Show" and "The John Gary Show" and "The Merv Griffin Show." |
News anchors like Douglas Kimball would be replaced by Wayne Cox who would anchor throughout much of the 1970's. Other weathercasters, sportscasters included Dale Coleman, Nick Alexander, Kyle Hill, Dave Lange, Tony Trent and others. Most of the syndicated shows were of the video taped syndicated talk shows like "The Mike Douglas Show," "The John Gary Show," "The Merv Griffin Show." One of the more interesting syndicated shows would fall into the sports category, with the broadcast of "Roller Derby" on Saturday afternoons outside of baseball season, then at 5pm during baseball season. "Superman" would also show up to fill 30-minute holes in the schedule. After WICS would not show "Star Trek" during the first season, it apologized to central Illinois viewers by bringing it back in syndication by 1971. The NBC off network adventure show "Daniel Boone" would also end up in late afternoon syndication for a time in the 1970's. More about Pegwill Pete and other Children's Participation Shows During the 1960's kids TV was a staple, and most stations offered locally produced programs with one of the staffers as hosts, interspersed with cartoons and local kids in the studio participating in games to win prizes. One's that come to mind at WICS was "Pegwill Pete's Circus"(sponsored by Pegwill Weiners---"We love Pegwill wieners...good ole' Pegwill wieners...they're the best in all the land....") hosted by Wild Bill Wingerter and Jo and Joey Mack. The sponsor Pegwill Meats had proof of purchase seals on them, and each product had different point values. A few times each year the Pegwill Auction would be held and kids could bid on toys and other merchandise based on the points they collected. Other children's shows included Popeye and Kim Wilson, Bugs Bunny and Clickity T. Clack, the Funny Company and others. WICS also had it's own dance party show with "Marty's Pepsi Dance Party" during the early-mid 60's. During the 60's and 70's afternoon kids programming consisted of "The Three Stooges", syndicated off network programming such as "Gilligan's Island," "The Brady Bunch" along with games shows like "To Tell the Truth," "Wheel of Fortune," and talk shows like "Virginia Graham", "The Mike Douglas Show," "Merv Griffin," "Donohue." (Check out pictures from WICS early children's shows below.) WICS' NBC Pre-emptions Frustrate Central Illinois viewers WICS pre-empted NBC programming and aired their own local programming, presumably to broadcast more local commercials. During the first season of Star Trek on NBC, WICS aired off network reruns of "Laramie." WICS also preempted the first couple of seasons of "Saturday Night Live" to air movies. WICS Sunday Morning and Sunday Night Movie One piece of programming which was unique was the "Sunday Morning Movie" which ran for many years, every Sunday morning at 9:30AM. Commercials were done live, as the movie was sponsored for a time by "Railsplitter Lincoln-Mercury" and featured cars driven through the new WICS studios on Cook Street. The Sunday night rerun of the "The Tonight Show" was also pre-empted by WICS's "Sunday Night Movie." Acri Creature Feature Many might remember the "Acri Creature Feature" which ran late Saturday nights. It was hosted by Chuck Acri, a businessman who also ran a home improvement company from the Quad Cities. This popular horror movie feature was actually syndicated from WQAD-TV in Moline, Illinois and was syndicated to Cedar Rapids, Iowa and KCRG-TV, to Peoria, Illinois and WEEK-TV and across central Illinois on WICS and WICD. Chuck Acri starred as himself with a cast of characters including Vincent Hedges(a vampire), Emmit(the hunchback), Beauregard(the werewolf), The Missing Link(the caveman) along with Bertie and Bernie(the skull). The dog was played by Fang, the wonderdog. A website has all the details about the Acri Creature Feature. Satellite TV Stations Extend the Coverage Area of WICS and NBC From 1959, WICS also fed local programming to it's sister station(s), WCHU, channel 33, Champaign and WICD, channel 24, Danville as well as a translator station W-75-AD in Mattoon by the early 1960's. In 1967, WCHU and WICD were combined on channel 15 and retained the WICD call letters. The stations in Champaign and Danville covered local commercials with their own from the east side of the market, as well as locally produced programming, such as the afternoon children's programming and local news. |
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(right): The new WICS studios constructed in the early 1960's and utilized by the station from the mid 1960's to the present day. The main studio includes a couple of large overhead garage doors which opened the studio for vehicles and it's use for live TV commercials for local auto dealers. It was more generally used by Railsplitter Lincoln-Mercury which sponsored the Sunday morning movie and featured live commercials which featured new and used vehicles. The studio was also home to several local productions including the children's programming such as "Kim and Popeye" as well as "Pegwill's Circus." |
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(left): A shot of the large studio of WICS right after moving to the 3680 East Cook Street location. Things to look for: the teleprompter set up on camera one with the zoom lens and what appears to be a "shotgun" microphone mounted on the front of the camera. Camera two was less equipped with it's older style studio mount. The tall ceilings had fiberglass insulation attached to the sidewalls for sound absorption and insulation from the concrete and brick side walls. That same insulation is visible in some later studio shots from the late 1970's and early 1980's at the bottom of the History of WICS-Page 3. (photo courtesy of Randy Miller) |
| Below, a TV Guide Close-Up with
details on a Motown Music NBC Special starring Diana Ross and the
Supremes and the Temptations. These "Specials" were frequently
seen during ratings periods, pre-empting many regular series.
Since many TV series each year would produce up to 30+ episodes, by
scheduling specials occasionally in various time slots, this would
reduce the number of reruns each year. |
"The following program was brought to you in living color on NBC." |
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| "Bonanza"
continued it's run on NBC through 1973. The cast included Lorne
Green, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker and David Canary(as
"Candy"). The sponsor of the series was "Chevrolet" for
most of it's run during the late 1960's and into the early 1970's. |
By
halfway into the 67-68 TV season, "The
Man From U.N.C.L.E." had reached the end of it's run. A
last season attempt to bring some realism to the spy series, didn't
work. It was replaced on the schedule by Rowan and Martin's
Laugh-In in January of 1968. |
"I Spy" was another NBC spy series
which was nearing it's end. The Robert Culp and Bill Cosby spy
adventure series would end it's run with the beginning of the 69-70
season. |
A
full 90-minutes of NBC prime time was occupied by this long running
western series. "The Virginian"
ran for 9 years, ending it's run in 1971. |
1968
was the last year for this long running NBC series. "Run for Your Life" starred Ben
Gazzara as a successful lawyer who found he had an incurable
disease. He was told he had two years to live....the series
lasted three years. He didn't die during the series run. |
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By 1967-70 NBC's prime time lineup consisting of the following shows: Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color, Mothers-in-Law, Bonanza, High Chaparral, The Monkees, Man from U.N.C.L.E., Danny Thomas Hour, I Spy, I Dream of Jeannie, The Jerry Lewis Show, The Virginian, Kraft Music Hall, Run for your Life, Daniel Boone, Ironside, Dragnet, The Dean Martin Show, Tarzan, Accidental Family, Bell Telephone Hour, Maya, Get Smart, The New Adventures of Huck Finn, The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show, Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, Julia, The Outsider, The Name of the Game, Star Trek(2nd season aired), Adam-12, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Bill Cosby Show, The Bold One's(The New Doctors, The Lawyers, The Protectors, The Lawyers), My World and Welcome To It, The Debbie Reynolds Show, Then Came Bronson, Bracken's World, The Andy Williams Show, Wild Kingdom, The Red Skelton Show, The Don Knotts Show, Men from Shiloh, McCloud, San Francisco International Airport, Night Gallery, The Psychiatrist, The Flip Wilson Show, Nancy. WICS would often pre-empt network programming with locally originating programming in order to air more local commercials during prime time. Those series listed above in red may not have appeared as they were often pre-empted. The "Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show" was pre-empted by WICS running the syndicated "John Gary Show." The first season of "Star Trek" was pre-empted by syndicated off network reruns of "Laramie." |
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| "I
Dream of
Jeannie" was evolving with several changes during it's run.
Having premiered in 1965, it was needing an update. Some of the
changes included promotions for Tony(Larry Hagman) and Roger(Bill
Daily). Even a new "antagonist" was added in the form of Barbara
Eden(Jeannie) playing her own evil twin sister. "Jeannie" would
end it's run in September of 1970....to live in syndication forever. |
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| Ok,
they weren't the Beatles, but it was the closest NBC could get.
They were "The Monkees" and
included David Jones, Peter Tork, Micy Dolenz and Mike Nesmith. "The Monkees" ran on NBC from 1966
through 1968. |
With
all of the spy TV shows, it was only time before a spy satire sit com
would be developed. This one was developed by the comedy genius
of Mel Brooks and Buck Henry. "Get
Smart" starred Don Adams and Barbara Feldon as Agents 86 and
99. The series also starred Edward Platt as "The Chief" as well
as a cast of regulars including Dave Ketchum, Bernie Kopell, Dick
Gautier, Victor French and Jane Dulo. |
"Julia" starred Diahann Carroll and
Lloyd Nolan as a nurse and doctor employed by a aerospace factory
in California. Diahann Carroll thus became the first
African-American female to star in her own series according to
many. (Although, "The
Beulah Show" ran from 1950-53 and starred Ethel Waters as
Beulah. This made Ethel Waters the first African-American female
to star in her own series...most forgot this one!) |
"Star Trek" aired on NBC from 1966
to 1969. Unfortunately, the programming and sales departments at
WICS/WICD determined that the show would not be a hit. The
stations would pre-empt the sci-fi series for reruns of "Laramie" in
which the stations would insert local commercials instead. It was
a great way to get larger commerical rates from local advertisers plus
run more of them to boot. During the second season of "Star Trek" it finally appeared on
the schedule having been moved by NBC to Friday nights at 7:30pm CT,
and later to 9pm CT.. |
Bill
Cosby, right off the run of "I Spy" starred in his own sit com, "The Bill Cosby Show.". This
time he played a character even more dangerous than an international
spy....this time he was a high school coach. Chet Kincaid was a
P.E. teacher and coach of an intercity high school. Lillian
Randolph and later Beah Richards played his mother, Rose. This
half hour sit com would air from 1969 through April of 1971 and was a
part of the Sunday night schedule for most of it's run. |
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| This
series was loosely based on the work of James Thurber. "My World and Welcome To It" starred
William Windom as a cartoonist who would enter his own comic strip in
which his family would also star. The big difference was that he
was actually rather wimpy, while his cartoon persona was king.
"My World..." ran on NBC on Monday's from 1969 to 1970. It also
ran on CBS in reruns during the summer of 1972. |
Michael
Parks starred as Jim Bronson in "Then
Came Bronson" which ran on NBC from 1969-70. Bronson head
out on his motorcycle across the country after the death of his best
friend. Out there, he would enteract with various people across
America. For more see "The Fugitive," "The Invaders," "Run for
Your Life," "Route 66," and any of several others with similar themes. |
"Bracken's World" was one of network
TV's first prime time soaps. This time in the world of a movie
studio. The first episodes of the series didn't even star
"Bracken" who was talked about, referred to, but never seen, just
heard.. Eventually, the gag had to go, and Leslie Nielsen played
the role. In the early episodes, the voice of Warren Stevens was
only heard. Others in the cast included Peter Haskell, Eleanor
Parker, Dennis Cole, Madlyn Rhue and Jeanne Cooper. "Bracken..."
aired on Friday nights at 9pm CT on WICS. |
Dennis
Weaver originally as "Chester" in "Gunsmoke" couldn't shed the cowboy
hat even when he became a contemporary deputy Marshall, Sam
McCloud. "McCloud" ran
on NBC from 1970 through 1977. McCloud was a "fish
out of water" police drama loosely based on the Clint Eastwood movie
"Coogan's Bluf." He was a southwestern Marshall who went to the
big city to find an escaped prisoner who escaped from him. It was
part of the "Four in One" series
which also included "San Francisco
International Airport," "Night Gallery" and "The Psychiatrist." |
"The Andy Williams Show" was one of
NBC's longest running variety series, running from 1962 to 1971.
The variety series also co-starred a number of other singers, comedians
and performers including Jimmy Gaines, Marian Mercer, The Osmonds, The
Good Time Singers, the Mike Post Orchestra, Jonathan Winters, Ray
Stevens, The Lennon Sisters and Charlie Callas. During 1967, he
would do specials, three times a year. The other years he would
do a complete season of shows. |
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| "Jeopardy" was fast becoming popular
during the 1960's while it was still on the NBC daytime schedule.
It aired at 11am CT on WICS. (I continue to search for a
color picture.) |
Daytime
serials were a daytime must for "housewives" of the late 1960's.
By 1968, NBC was airing the following "soaps:" "Days of Our
Lives"(1pm), "The Doctors"(1:30pm) and "Another World"(2pm). Daytime game shows in 1969 include the following: (9:30am), "Concentration""Personality"(10am), "Hollywood Squares"(10:30am), "Jeopardy"(11am), "Eye Guess" 11:30am, "It Takes Two"(Noon-actually prerecorded from it's network time at 9am), "You're Putting Me On" (12:30pm), "You Don't Say"(2:30pm) and "The Match Game"(3pm). |
Tom
Kennedy was the host for the long running "You Don't Say." This daytime
game show aired at 2:30pm CT weekday afternoons on NBC and WICS. |
For
several years during the late 1960's and early 1970's "The Mike Douglas Show" was
syndicated and aired weekday afternoons for 90 minutes each day
at either 3 or 3:30pm on WICS. (I continue to search for a color picture) Here Mike Douglas is pictured with Stevie Wonder. |
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![]() "Sale of the Century" was one of the game shows produced by NBC in color which helped to sell color TV's to the masses for RCA. It seems that an emphasis was made to make sure the daytime schedule was in color, so retailers could demonstrate color TV's to the buying public while most stores were open. |
![]() "The Bullwinkle and Rocky Show" was one of the syndication incarnations of "Bullwinkle." This of network prime-time series found it's way to being a kids classic, with an adult edge. The Jay Ward produced cartoon series contained a lot of cold war satire from the early 1960's and included voices from the days of network radio including Bill Scott, June Foyey, Paul Frees, Charles Ruggles, Hans Conried, Walter Tetley and Edward Everette Horton. This ran in syndication from time to time on WICS during the late 1960's and early 1970's. |
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| The nighttime version of "The Hollywood Squares" hit prime
time in 1968 hosted by Peter Marshall. It also ran on the daytime
schedule from 1966 to 1980. It also continued in syndication with
a variety of hosts thorugh the early 2000's. |
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As the decade of the 1970's were beginning the NBC prime time schedule included the following new programs from 1970 to 1978: Men from Shiloh, Nancy, The Jimmy Stewart Show, Sarge, The Funny Side, McMillin and Wife, Columbo, Nichols, The D.A., The Partners, The Good Life, Hec Ramsey, Madigan, Cool Million, Banacek, Search, Sanford and Son, Little People, Ghost Story, Banyon, Emergency, Losta Luck, Diana, Chase, The Magician, Police Story, Madigan, Tenafly, Faraday and Company, The Snoop Sisters, Love Story, NBC Follies, The Girl With Something Extra, Needles and Pins, Brian Keith Show, Amy Prentiss, Born Free, Little House on the Prairie, Lucas Tanner, Petrocelli, Sierra, Movin' On, Chico and the Man, The Rockford Files, Police Woman, Family Holvak, McCoy, Invisible Man, Joe Forrester, Doctors' Hospital, The Montefuscos, Fay, Ellery Queen, Medical Story, Quincy M.E., The Big Event, Baa Baa Black Sheep, The Practice, The Quest, Gemini Man, NBC's Best Sellers, Van Dyke and Company, Serpico, Richard Pryor Show, Mulligan's Stew, CHiPS, Man from Atlantis, Rosetti and Ryan, My Friend Tony, Sanford Arms, Bionic Woman, Lifeline, Grandpa Goes to Washington, Dick Clark's Live Wednesday, Project U.F.O., W.E.B., Waverly Wonders, Who's Watching the Kids, Eddie Capra Movies and Sword of Justice. It's important to note that WICS would often pre-empt network programming with locally originating programming in order to air more local commercials during prime time. |
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| "McMillan
and Wife" was part of the rotating series under the title of "NBC Mystery Movie." The
series starred Rock Hudson and Susan Saint James. This series
shared the title with "Columbo"
and "McCloud." McMillan was the San Francisco Police Commissioner
with Sally his wife until she was written out of the series after a
contract dispute. The series ran from 1970 to 1977 and was
another of the Universal Studios produced series. |
Although
hosted by Gene Rayburn, this version of "The Match Game" is different that
the one most often refered to today. This version, produced by
Goodson-Todman as well, featured two teams, each with one non-celebrity
and two celebrities. Each tried to match their team mates answers
to questions. It ran on NBC and WICS from 1962 to 1969. |
"Hec
Ramsey" was one fourth of the rotating series "NBC Sunday Mystery
Movie." Hec Ramsey was played by Richard Boone as a an aged
gunfighter who used science to solve crimes in the old west. "Hec
Ramsey" aired on NBC from 1972 to 1974. |
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By 1969 the anchor lineup at WICS consisted of News Anchor Wayne Cox, Nick Alexander(weather) and Dave Lange(sports). |
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| "Columbo" was another of the series
under the heading of "The NBC
Mystery
Movie." The series had one star, with Peter Falk as Lt.
Columbo. This series ran on NBC from 1971 to 1977. It was
revived by ABC in in 1989. |
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![]() On Sunday mornings when other stations were offering religious programming WICS was giving us the "Sunday Morning Movie." During most of it's run in the late 1960's and 70's it was sponsored by local Lincoln-Mercury dealer, Railsplitter Motors." Most commercials were recorded live on tape or done live during the movie as cars would be driving into the new WICS studio where as up to 4 cars could be featured at one time! |
"The GE College Bowl" was a weekend game show of sorts which presented representatives from Universities around the country competing by answering seemingly impossible questions based on literatures, mathematics, physics, science and psychology. Here a local team from Millikin University was competing with the University of Colorado. "Go Blue!" I've never been able to determine who won, or who the participants were. If you know, drop me an e-mail. The names include: ?, Terry Lass, Thomas ?, Brian ? |
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| "The
Ghost and Mrs. Muir" began it's multi year run on NBC in 1968,
where it
ran for one season before moving to ABC the following year when it ran
for two more seasons. The show starred Hope Lange, Edward Mulhare
and Reta Shaw....and for those of you who have wondered what Charles
Nelson Reilly did other than "The Match Game", he played Claymore Gregg
the nephew of the ghost. It was based on the movie with Gene
Tierney and Rex Harrison. |
Roger
Moore before he was 007, he was "The
Saint" Simon Templar. This modern day Robin Hood ran on
NBC from 1967 to 1968. The character of Simon Templar originated
in the 1930's on radio and was played by among others Vincent Price on
radio. This British import was also rerun as part of the CBS Late
Movie. |
Robert
Fuller, former star in "Laramie"
was the star in "Emergency" which
aired on NBC from 1972-77. Also starring Julie London and real
life husband Bobby Troup along with Kevin Tighe, Randolph Mantooth and
others. This show was produced by Jack Webb(who was the former
husband of co-star Julie London, go figure!) |
Anthony
Blake was played by Bill Bixby. Tony was an ex-con who spent time
in prison for a crime he didn't commit, but now he was a professional
magician(illusionist) and felt compelled to help others.
Interestingly enough, Bixby was an amateur magician and performed his
own illusions. "The Magician"
ran on NBC from 1973 to 74. |
This
NBC series ran from 1973 to 1977, but could trace it's roots back to
1953 when an earlier show used the title of "Police Story" as well. This
police anthology was created by former LAPD Joseph
Wambaugh. This series also spawned the Angie
Dickinson series "Police Woman." |
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![]() "Sanford and Son" starred long time comedian Redd Foxx with Demond Wilson as his son. Fred and Lamont were a father/son partnership in the junk business in south L.A.. This was Norman Lear's second hit following "All in the Family." At the end of the run of the series, the cast fell apart and the show was later called "Sanford Arms" after Red Foxx left the series in a contract dispute. |
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"The Rockford Files" was
a modern day continuation of the
1950's "Maverick" series. James Garner played Jim Rockford, a
P.I. who had the same attitude as his original character.
Rockford was an ex-con who was sent up for armed robbery he didn't
commit. He lived ina trailer, drove a Firebird and used an
answering machine. It premiered on September 13, 1974 and ran
through April 20, 1999. OK, it was a revival series. The
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"Quincy M.E."
premiered on October 3, 1976 on NBC where it
ran through May 11, 1983. Jack Klugman starred as a
crusading Medical Examiner in Los Angeles, who would find clues that
everyone else would miss. Other stars included James
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"The Richard Pryor Show" pushed the envelope. That's probably why it lasted only one month. It began on September 13, 1977 and ended one month later on October 20, 1977. After his success in movies, it seemed a natural to be on TV, unfortunately, he began by appearing total nude except for a body suit that basically gave him the properties of a Ken doll. He opened the show saying that he didn't have to give up anything by doing this show for NBC. The censors did more battle with him....eventually contributing to his cancellation. Of course, being on opposite "Happy Days" on ABC didn't help either. | "The Bionic Woman" originally a spin off of ABC's "The Bionic Man" where it aired from 1976 to 1977. In September of 1977 it moved to NBC where it aired for one season. | Vincent Baggetta starred as Eddie Capra on "The Eddie Capra Mysteries" which ran on NBC from September 1978 for one season before moving to CBS and where reruns aired during the summer of 1980. | ||||||||||||||||
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![]() The NBC "snake" logo was replaced by the twin trapezoid "N" in 1976. Unfortunately, a very similar logo was used by Nebraska Educational Television...and NETV sued. A settlement was reached , while NBC updated the "N" with the most recognizable logo for NBC in 1979....the peacock, with 12 feathers....shown right. More "proud as a Peacock logos in the next part of the History of WICS. |
(Right): "The Men From Shiloh" was the new title for "The Virginian." the series changed to a number of TV movie specials. |
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