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1973–74 United States network television schedule |
1974–75 United States network television schedule |
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This is a list of American television -related events in 1974.
Date | Event | Ref. |
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January 31 | CBS broadcasts The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman , a multi-Emmy-winning adaptation of Ernest J. Gaines’ novel of the same name which follows the 110-year life of a former slave from the American Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement. Cicely Tyson is tapped to play the title role. | |
February 1 | KIVI-TV signs-on the air, giving the Boise market its first full-time ABC affiliate. | |
February 8 | After 20 years and 5,195 episodes, The Secret Storm ends its run on CBS’s daytime schedule. Ten days later, the show is replaced by Tattletales , a Bert Convy-hosted game show that is devoted to celebrity gossip. | |
March 11 | The children's special Free to Be… You and Me , produced by comedic actress Marlo Thomas, airs on ABC. | |
March 13 | The Execution of Private Slovik , a made-for-TV film telling the story of Pvt. Eddie Slovik, the only American soldier to be executed for desertion after the American Civil War, airs on NBC. | |
March 18 | CBS's cancellation of Here's Lucy marks the end of the television reign of Lucille Ball, which lasted 23 consecutive years beginning with the 1951 premiere of I Love Lucy . | |
March | Chuck Scarbarough joins WNBC-TV and revamps its format as NewsCenter 4, signaling the debut of the NewsCenter format. | [1] |
April 5 | The Dean Martin Show ends its run on NBC after 264 hour-long episodes. NBC will continue to air periodic editions of The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast over the next 10 years. | |
April 26 | KPVI signs-on the air, giving the Idaho Falls market its first full-time ABC affiliate. | |
July 15 | Christine Chubbuck, a television reporter for WXLT in Sarasota, Florida commits suicide via a gunshot from behind her right ear during a live newscast on Suncoast Digest. | [2] [3] [4] |
August 8 | U.S. President Richard Nixon announces his pending resignation live on television, effective at 12 Noon EDT the next day, at which time Vice President Gerald Ford is sworn in as President. | |
WEVU (now WZVN-TV) signs-on the air, giving the Fort Myers market its first full-time ABC affiliate. | ||
August 25 | Al Ham's music theme Part of Your Life made its debut on WBTV-TV in Charlotte. | [5] |
September 10 | Born Innocent , a controversial film starring Linda Blair, airs on NBC. The film, which involved a fourteen-year-old being sent to what the television preview deemed a women's prison (when in reality it was a reform school), drew heavy criticism due to an all-female rape scene, the first ever seen on American television. The scene was deleted in subsequent re-airings after a group of girls assaulted an eight-year-old with a pop bottle, influenced by the scene in the film. | |
October 6 | Monty Python's Flying Circus , the British sketch comedy series that aired its final episode this year, is first shown on American television when PBS member station KERA-TV in Dallas, Texas airs it at 10 p.m. Central Daylight Time. [6] [7] | |
November 28 | For the fourth time this year, ABC aligns with a new station as WOPC-TV in Altoona, Pennsylvania brings full-time ABC service to the Altoona-State College market. WOPC-TV struggles for viewers and goes dark in 1982; ABC would return to Altoona (and channel 23) in 1988 when Fox affiliate WWPC-TV (then a satellite of WWCP-TV in Johnstown) breaks from its simulcast with WWCP-TV. | |
Date | City of License/Market | Station | Channel | Affiliation | Notes/Ref. |
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February | South Bend/Elkhart, Indiana | WNIT | 34 | PBS | |
February 1 | Nampa/Boise, Idaho | KITC | 6 | ABC | |
March 31 | Orlando, Florida | WOFL | 35 | Independent | |
April 26 | Pocatello, Idaho | KPVI | 6 | ABC | |
May 5 | Los Angeles, California | KVST-TV | 68 | Non-commercial independent | |
July 25 | South Bend, Indiana | WMSH-TV | 46 | Independent | |
August 8 | Naples/Fort Myers, Florida | WEVU | 26 | ABC | |
August 11 | Booneville, Mississippi | WMAE-TV | 12 | PBS | Part of MSETV |
September 9 | Grand Forks, North Dakota | KGFE | 2 | PBS | Part of Prairie Public Television |
September 29 | New York City | WBTB-TV | 68 | Independent | |
October 5 | Hagerstown, Maryland | WWPB | 31 | PBS | Part of Maryland Public Television |
Sacramento, California | KMUV-TV | 31 | Independent | now a CW owned-and-operated station | |
November 28 | Johnstown, Pennsylvania | WOPC | 38 | ABC | Now WATM-TV on channel 23 |
December 1 | New Haven, Connecticut | WEDY | 65 | PBS | Part of the Connecticut Public Television network |
December 15 | Waterloo/Cedar Rapids, Iowa | KRIN | 32 | PBS | Part of Iowa Public Television |
Date | City of license/Market | Station | Channel | Old affiliation | New affiliation | Notes/Ref. |
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August 5 | Bakersfield, California | KJTV | 17 | ABC | CBS | |
October 6 | Monroe, Louisiana | KNOE-TV | 8 | CBS (primary) NBC (secondary) | CBS (exclusive) | |
West Monroe/Monroe, Louisiana | KLAA | 14 | Independent | NBC | Was temporarily off the air from 1971 to 1974 | |
Unknown date | Augusta, Georgia | WJBF-TV | 6 | ABC (primary) NBC (secondary) | ABC (exclusive) | |
WRDW-TV | 12 | CBS (primary) NBC (secondary) | CBS (exclusive) | |||
Date | City of license/Market | Station | Channel | Affiliation | Sign-on date | Notes |
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March 28 | Lebanon, New Hampshire | WRLH | 31 | NBC | September 10, 1966; had been silent from 1968 to August 3, 1971 | |
April 30 | Roanoke, Virginia | WRFT-TV | 27 | ABC | March 4, 1966 | Returned to air September 7, 1974 – February 11, 1975, as WRLU |
Unknown date | Chicago, Illinois | WXXW | 20 | PBS | September 20, 1965 | Would return to the air in February 1983 as WYCC |
Premier | Title | Network |
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January 7 | How to Survive a Marriage | NBC |
Jackpot! | NBC | |
January 15 | Happy Days | ABC |
February 1 | Good Times | CBS |
February 10 | Apple's Way | CBS |
February 18 | Tattletales | CBS |
March 3 | Nova | PBS |
March 13 | The Letter People | PBS |
May 6 | The $10,000 Pyramid | ABC |
July 1 | High Rollers | NBC |
Winning Streak | NBC | |
July 4 | Bicentennial Minute | CBS |
July 29 | Name That Tune | NBC |
August 8 | Just for Laughs | ABC |
September 4 | That's My Mama | CBS |
September 7 | Run, Joe, Run | NBC |
Land of the Lost | NBC | |
Valley of the Dinosaurs | CBS | |
Shazam! | CBS | |
Hong Kong Phooey | ABC | |
September 9 | Rhoda | CBS |
Dinah! | Syndication | |
The $25,000 Pyramid | Syndication | |
September 11 | Little House on the Prairie | NBC |
September 12 | Harry O | ABC |
Paper Moon | ABC | |
September 13 | Chico and the Man | NBC |
The Rockford Files | NBC | |
Police Woman | NBC | |
The Texas Wheelers | ABC | |
Kolchak: The Night Stalker | ABC | |
Planet of the Apes | CBS | |
September 14 | The New Land | ABC |
Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers | CBS | |
September 21 | Nakia | ABC |
December 23 | The Big Showdown | ABC |
Money Maze | ABC |
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This is a list of British television related events from 1974.
This is a list of British television related events from 1972.
This is a list of British television related events from 1971.
This is a list of British television related events from 1970.
This is a list of British television related events from 1969.
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