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Retro: New York City Sun, June 7, 1981

from TV Guide-New York Metro edition
Where 2 channels listed, second channel is NYC relay

WCBS 2/53-CBS New York
7:00 Mighty Mouse/Heckle & Jeckle
7:30 Three Robonic Stooges
8:00 Marlo & the Magic Movie Machine
8:30 Way to Go!
9:00 CBS News Sunday Morning
10:30 For Our Times
11:00 Channel 2 the People
11:30 Face the Nation
noon Newsmakers
12:30 Public Hearing
1:00 Movie "The Questor Tapes" (pt 1)
2:00 French Open tennis: men's final
4:00 Atlanta Golf Classic
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 60 Minutes
8:00 Archie Bunker's Place
8:30 One Day at a Time
9:00 Tony Awards (hosts Ellen Burstyn and Richard Chamberlain)
11:00 CBS News
11:15 News
11:45 Sports Update
mid. Name of the Game
1:35 News
1:40 Movie "Suspense" (bw)
3:45 Newsmakers
4:15 Public Hearing

WFSB 3-CBS Hartford
6:00 Agronsky & Company
6:30 Economy Watch
7:00 Christopher Closeup
7:30 Shalom Corner
8:00 Tony Brown's Journal
8:30 Barrio
9:30 Comment
10:00 CBS News Sunday Morning
11:30 Face the Nation
noon Up Front
12:30 Car Care Central
1:00 1980 American 500 auto race
2:00 French Open tennis: men's final
4:00 Atlanta Golf Classic
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 60 Minutes
8:00 Archie Bunker's Place
8:30 One Day at a Time
9:00 Tony Awards
11:00 News
11:30 CBS News
11:45 Movie "First You Cry"

WNBC 4/57-NBC New York
6:00 Risking Change
6:30 Freedom's Word
7:00 Children & All That Jazz
7:30 Creative Years of the Child
8:00 Villa Alegre
8:30 Maryknoll World
8:45 Your Sunday Best
9:00 TV Sunday School
9:15 Jewish Scene
9:30 High Feather
10:00 First Estate
10:30 Women & the Law
11:00 Visiones
11:30 Tony Brown's Journal
noon News 4orum
12:30 Meet the Press
1:00 Return to Freedom
2:00 Marcus Welby, MD
3:00 SportsWorld: College World Series championship game
5:30 Mary Tyler Moore
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Disney's Wonderful World "The Wild Country" (pt 1)
8:00 CHiPs
9:00 Movie "Detour to Terror"
11:00 News
11:45 Movie "The Bermuda Triangle"
1:45 Mary Tyler Moore (x2)
2:45 First Estate

WNEW 5/64-Ind New York
6:20 News
6:30 Time for Timothy
7:00 Kenneth Copeland
8:00 Jimmy Swaggart
9:00 Wonderama
10:00 Fantastic Four
10:30 Spiderman
11:00 Movie "Son of Godzilla"
12:30 Movie "Roustabout"
2:30 Movie "Action in the North Atlantic" (bw)
5:00 Bionic Woman
6:00 Movie "The Royal Hunt of the Sun"
8:00 Best of Sullivan (guests Jimmy Durante, Eddie Jackson, Rosemary Clooney, Stiller & Meara, Jackie Vernon, and Morecambe & Wise)
9:00 Man, Myths & Titans
10:00 News
10:30 Sports Extra
11:00 Baxters
11:30 David Susskind "Without Tears-Children Coping with Cancer"/"A Vanishing Breed-The Professional Volunteer"

WABC 7-ABC New York
6:30 News
7:00 Faith for Today
7:30 This is the Life
8:00 Christopher Closeup
8:30 Insight
9:00 Page Seven
10:00 Camp Wilderness
10:30 Kids are People Too (guests Mark Hamill, Neil & Dara Sedaka, Bucky Dent, and Leslie Maynard)
11:30 Animals, Animals, Animals
noon Issues & Answers
12:30 Direcions
1:00 Like It Is with Gil Noble
2:00 Wildlife Adventure
2:30 Outdoor Life
3:00 NCAA Championships: track and field/wrestling/gymnastics
5:00 American Sportsman: Operation Drake (a group of young explorers re-enact Sir Francis Drake's 1577 voyage which made him the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe)
6:00 News
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7:00 Roots: The Next Generation (pt 2)
9:00 Movie "The Pink Panther Strikes Again"
11:00 ABC News
11:15 News
mid. Movie "Two on a Bench"
1:30 Movie "If Tomorrow Comes"
3:00 News

WTNH 8-ABC New Haven
7:00 This is the Life
7:30 Insight
8:00 Catholic Mass
8:30 Eighth Day
9:00 Davey & Goliath
9:15 New Day
9:30 Star Trek
10:30 Kids are People Too
11:30 Animals, Animals, Animals
noon Issues & Answers
12:30 Connecticut: Seen
1:00 Make It Real
1:30 Connecticut High School Quiz
2:00 Star Trek
3:00 NCAA Championships: track and field/wrestling/gymnastics
5:00 American Sportsman: Operation Drake
6:00 News
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7:00 Roots: The Next Generation (pt 2)
9:00 Movie "The Pink Panther Strikes Again"
11:00 News
11:35 Mike Douglas (co-host Susan Anton/guests Dudley Moore and Susannah York)
12:35 ABC News

WOR 9-Ind New York
5:05 News
5:30 Life of Riley (bw)
6:00 Straight Talk
7:00 News
7:30 Christopher Closeup
8:00 James Robison
8:30 Day of Discovery
9:00 Oral Roberts
9:30 Nine on New Jersey
10:00 Catholic Mass
10:30 Point of View
11:00 Life of Riley (bw)
11:30 Rex Humbard
noon Robert Schuller
1:00 Movie "Summer Stock"
3:00 Movie "Touch of Evil" (bw)
5:00 Billy Graham Crusade: highlights from Mexico City and Villahermosa
6:00 Movie "Attack" (bw)
8:00 Dr. D. James Kennedy
9:00 It is Written with George Vandeman
9:30 World Tomorrow
10:00 Jimmy Swaggart
11:00 Benny Hill
11:30 Morecambe & Wise
mid. Movie "The Counterfeit Traitor"
3:00 Movie "Gladiators Seven"

WPIX 11/73-Ind New York
5:00 Family Affair
5:30 Biography (bw)
6:00 I Dream of Jeannie
6:30 Christopher Closeup
7:00 Robert Schuller
8:00 Frederick K. Price
8:30 Day of Discovery
9:00 Jerry Falwell
10:00 Josie & the Pussycats
10:30 Dastardly & Muttley
11:00 F Troop (bw)
11:30 Movie "Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Cops" (bw)
1:00 World of Survival
1:30 This Week in Baseball
2:00 Baseball: White Sox-Yankees (subject to change as there was a possibility of a baseball strike)
5:00 Movie "The Lady and the Outlaw"
7:00 Monte Carlo Show (guests Andy Williams, Mireille Mathieu, Liona Boyd, and Hot Lips & Fingertips)
8:00 Lawrence Welk
9:00 INN News
9:30 Focus: New Jersey
10:00 Black Conversations
10:30 Puerto Rican Day Parade Highlights
11:00 Odd Couple
11:30 Rookies
12:30 FBI
1:30 News
2:00 It's Your Business
2:30 Movie "Stage Struck"
4:30 Abbott & Costello (bw)

WNET 13/75-PBS New York
7:00 Sesame Street (x2)
9:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9:30 Made in New Jersey
10:30 Dateline: New Jersey
11:00 Wall Street Week
11:30 Open Mind
noon Duchess of Duke Street (pt 1)
1:00 Firing Line (guest HEW Secretary Joseph Califano)
2:00 Great Performances "The Girls in Their Summer Dresses and Other Stories by Irwin Shaw"
3:30 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition
5:00 Bill Moyers' Journal
6:00 Kennedy Center Tonight "Sarah in America"
7:00 New Voice
7:30 Making of the Scarlet Letter
8:00 The Scarlet Letter (pt 1)
9:00 Masterpiece Theatre "The Golden Bowl" (conclusion)
10:00 Two Ronnies
10:30 Great Performances (NYC Ballet performs works by George Balanchine)
11:40 World "Yulya's Diary"
12:40 Lillian Hellman: A Profile

WLIW 21-PBS Garden City
Program times subject to change due to pledge period
1pm Free to Choose (pt 1)
2:00 Soccer Made in Germany
3:00 Sports America
4:00 Movie "Call Me Mister"
6:00 Making M*A*S*H
8:00 Movie "The Lion in Winter"

WNYE 25-PBS New York
9:00 Vegetable Soup II
9:30 Instructional Programs
10:30 Once Upon a Classic "The Hills of Heaven" (pt 1)
11:00 History of Space Travel
11:30 Inside Story
noon Cousteau Odyssey "Mediterranean: Cradle or Coffin?"

WNYC 31/79-PBS New York
4pm Once Upon a Classic "Carrie's War" (conclusion)
4:30 Feeling Free
5:00 New Voice
5:30 This Old House
6:00 Kup's Show (guests John Kenneth Galbraith, James Chace, Rep. Dan Rostenkowski (D-IL))
7:00 Tomorrow/Today
7:30 Dennis Wholey's Journal
8:00 Bleacher Bums
9:30 American Perspective: Another View
10:00 Inside Story
10:30 Inside Albany

WXTV 41-SIN Paterson
5:00 Antologia de la Zarzuela cont'd
5:30 Noche a Noche
8:00 Jim Bakker
9:00 Carrascolendas
9:30 Actualidad Semanal
10:00 300 Millones
11:00 Magazine-Para Gente Grande
noon Puerto Rican Day Parade
5:00 300 Millones
6:00 Embajadores de la Musica Colombiana
6:30 Siempre en Domingo
12:15 Round Cero
12:30 Boxeo

WNJU 47/62-Sp/Ethnic Newark
8:00 Korean Program
9:00 At the Table
9:30 Albanian Show
10:00 TBA
11:00 Vision of Asia
12:30 National Greek Show
2:00 Ayer, Hoy y Manana
2:30 Pomeriggio Italiano
4:15 Cucina Italiana con Luisa
4:30 Domenica Sportiva
5:00 Soccer
6:00 Gilda Miros
7:00 Puerto Rican Day Parade
9:00 Galaxy Express
9:30 Young & Dedicated
10:30 Japanese News
11:00 Documentary Japan
11:40 Love, Japanese Style
mid. Japanese Program

WEDW 49-PBS Bridgeport
8:00 Sesame Street
9:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9:30 Sesame Street
10:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
11:00 Nova
noon Soccer Made in Germany
1:00 Once Upon a Classic
1:30 In Performance
2:00 Evening at Symphony
3:00 Affair in the Air
4:00 Search for Alexander the Great
5:00 Firing Line
6:00 Cousteau Odyssey
7:00 Mister Rogers Talks with Parents
8:00 Vic Braden's Tennis for the Future
8:30 Superstar Profile
9:00 Masterpiece Theatre "The Golden Bowl" (conclusion)
10:00 Onedin Line

WNJM 50-Montclair/WNJB 58-New Brunswick (NJN/PBS, TVG listed them as indies)
noon Made in New Jersey
1:00 This Old House
1:30 Antiques
2:00 Food, Wine & Friends
2:30 Here's to Your Health
3:00 Consultation
3:30 Power Game
4:00 Imagenes Latinas
4:30 Crockett's Victory Garden
5:00 Wall Street Week
5:30 McLaughlin's Beat
6:00 Made in New Jersey
7:00 Dad's Army
7:30 Jack Benny (bw)
8:00 Paper Chase
9:00 Mystery!
10:00 Movie "Tin Pan Alley" (bw)

WSNL 67-Smithtown/WWHT 68/60-Newark (Ind/Wometco Home Theatre)
Wometco Home Theatre programs start at 5pm
7:30 Better Living with Rev. Johnnie Coleman
8:00 Sound of Pentecost
8:30 Ernest Angley
9:30 Cathedral of Compassion
10:00 Gene Profeta
10:30 David Grayson Presents
11:00 Korean Program
noon Maria Papadatos
12:30 Rockers '80
1:00 Israel Today
2:00 Gail Archer
3:00 Yugoslav Program
3:30 Yugoslav Sports
4:00 (67) Wrestling
4:00 (68) Takis Papalkas Greek Show
5:00 Movie "Skateboard"
7:00 Casanova
8:00 Movie "Rough Cut"
10:00 Twenty Years of Rock & Roll
11:00 Movie "The Devils"
 
In the early 90's, WCBS' relay channel returned to the air as low-power W53AA, mostly ethnic.

Also, I believe WABC's relay was channel 66, though it may not have been active at this point.
 
The MLB players strike that year started five days later from this date, on June 12th, and lasted 50 days. After the strike, they went to the split-season format...1981 was the last time the Yankees made the playoffs again until the mid-90s.
 
At least there was a world series that year unlike the 1994-95 strike which cancelled the world series that year.
 
Yes, about a week after the strike ended. IIRC, all the teams played a few exhibition games, then the All-Star Game was played -- in late July -- and the regular season restarted around Aug. 1.
ASG was played August 9, season re-started the 10th; I believe the strike officially ended on the 1st, teams played a few exhibitions for a week.
 
When I was in high school, the Spanish-programmed stations apparently did not have enough original content or program inventory, so they signed on at 12 noon or 4 and aired a lot of dubbed programs. I remember "Los Tres Chiflados" technically the three jokers (The Three Stooges) and I remember I Dream of Jeannie was dubbed as well. This was on WNJU-TV. Both 41 WXTV and WNJU 47 gave as their city of license Newark, NJ but technically WNJU was located in Linden and WXTV was Paterson. The FCC is a lot more forgiving now. The double city mention included the studio location and transmitter location I believe.
 
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