Seattle Retro: December 4, 1986 (from Seattle Times)

[seatownmedia]

Seattle: December 4, 1986 (from Seattle Times)

4 - KOMO (ABC)
5 - KING (NBC)
7 - KIRO (CBS)
9 - KCTS (PBS)
11 KSTW (Ind.)
13 KCPQ (Ind. but transitioning to the new Fox network)

7 AM

4 - Good Morning America
5 - Today
7 - CBS Morning News
9 - Sesame Street
11- Rangers/Jetsons
13- 700 Club

8 AM

4,5,7 (continued)
9 - Captain Roo/Mister Rogers
11- Scooby Doo/My Little Pony
13- Centurions/Zoobilee Zoo

9 AM

4 - Hour Magazine
5 - Good Company (local)
7 - Oprah Winfrey
9 - Sesame Street
11 - Love Boat
13 - Family Ties/Sale of the Century

10 AM

4 - Fame Fortune
5 - Wheel Of Fortune/Scrabble
7 - Price Is Right
9 - Educational Programming
11 - Divorce Court/Confessions
13 - Big Valley

11 AM

4 - Ryan's Hope/Loving
5 - Password/Sally Jesse Raphael
7 - Young And The Restless
9 - Educational Programming
11 - The Judge/Divorce Court
13 - Strike It Rich/Crosswits

12 Noon

4 - All My Children
5 - Days Of Our Lives
7 - KIRO Eyewitness News At Noon
9 - Educational Programming
11 - Channel 11 Midday Movie
13 - Pyramid/Card Sharks

1 pm

4 - One Life To Live
5 - Another World
7 - As The World Turns
9 - Educational Programming
11 - Midday Movie (cont'd)
13 - Channel 13 Afternoon Movie

2 pm

4 - General Hospital
5 - Santa Barbara
7 - Guiding Light
9 - Wndr/Wks ??
11 - Bewitched/GoBots
13 - Afternoon Movie (cont'd)

3 pm

4 - Northwest Afternoon (local)
5 - Hollywood Squares/Card Sharks
7 - Matt Houston
9 - Wild America/Landscape
11 - M.A.S.K/Transformers
13 - Trapper John MD

4 pm

4 - Jeopardy/$1 million dollar chance
5 - Donahue
7 - Peoples Court/KIRO Eyewitness News at 4:30
9 - Sesame Street
11 - Rambo/Smurfs
13 - Little House On The Prairie

5 pm

4 - KOMO News 4
5 - KING 5 News
7 - KIRO 7 Eyewitness News
9 - Mister Rogers/Business Report
11 - Mork & Mindy/Different Strokes
13 - Fall Guy

6 pm

4 - ABC World News Tonight
5 - NBC Nightly News
7 - CBS Evening News
9 - MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour
11 - Gimme A Break/Three's Company
13 - Happy Days/Benson

7 pm

4 - Wheel of Fortune/Jeopardy
5 - Entertainment Tonight/Evening (local)
7 - Newlywed/Dating Game
9 - Animals/Survival
11 - MASH/Taxi
13 - Carson/Odd Couple

8 pm

4 - Our World
5 - Cosby Show/Family Ties
7 - Twilight Zone/Simon & Simon
9 - Operation Drake
11 - Making of Superman II
13 - Move: "The Glitter Dome"

9 pm

4 - The Colbys
5 - Cheers/Night Court
7 - Simon & Simon (cont'd)/Designing Women
9 - Mystery!
11 - Billy Graham Crusade
13 - movie (cont'd)

10 pm

4 - 20/20
5 - L.A. Law
7 - Knots Landing
9 - Masterpiece Theater
11 - KSTW 10:00 News
13 - Soap/Love Connection

11 pm

4 - KOMO News 4
5 - KING 5 News
7 - KIRO 7 Eyewitness News
9 - Nightsite
11 - Benny Hill
13 - Late Show with Joan Rivers

11:30

4- ABC Nightline
5 - The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson
7 - All In The Family
9 - McNeil/Lehrer news hour
11 - Financial Report
13 - Late Show with Joan Rivers (cont'd)

Midnight

4 - Breslin's People
5 - Tonight (cont'd)
7 - Night Heat
9 - McNeil/Lehrer (cont'd)
11 - Off The Wall
13 - Paid Program

12:30 am

4 - Breslin's People (cont'd)
5 - Late Night with David Letterman
7 - Night Heat (cont'd)
9 - Sign-off
11 - Saturday Night
13 - Movie "The Salzburg Connection"

 

[Wright County Guy]

2pm on channel 9 is probably "WonderWorks" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WonderWork

 

[seatownmedia]

2pm on channel 9 is probably "WonderWorks" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WonderWork

Thanks, I think you are correct, but that was what The Seattle Times listed.

Also, I noticed that I left out the 6:30-7 pm slot for the network affiliates. Just for the record all three were local news in this slot, though KING5's offering was called "Top Story", which concentrated on just that. Didn't last very long.

For those who follow such things, my educated guess is the main anchor teams on Seattle TV news in late '86 were KOMO4-Jim Harriott/Kathy Goertzen, KING5-Mike James/Jean Enerson, and KIRO7-John Marler/Gary Justice, with Aaron Brown at 11. Of the above, Harriott and Goertzen are deceased, and the others are out of tv news, though Enerson does special reports for KING5.

 

[installLSC]

Number of things to note:
--All three affiliates put local/syndie shows in the 9am slot, which definately wasn't the case in E. Washington.
--Interesting that Ch.13 did a lot of pre-empted daytime network shows, while Ch.11 didn't. Plus both stations having afternoon movies in 1986 is pretty odd.
--Was "Rangers" "Ranger Charlie and Roscoe"? (forest ranger with racoon puppet show?)
--Wonder why neither Ch.2 (CBC out of Vancouver) or Ch.12 (Indie out of Bellingham) weren't listed; I swear I saw those in some Seattle listings back then.

 

[seatownmedia]

Number of things to note:
--All three affiliates put local/syndie shows in the 9am slot, which definately wasn't the case in E. Washington.
--Interesting that Ch.13 did a lot of pre-empted daytime network shows, while Ch.11 didn't. Plus both stations having afternoon movies in 1986 is pretty odd.
--Was "Rangers" "Ranger Charlie and Roscoe"? (forest ranger with racoon puppet show?)
--Wonder why neither Ch.2 (CBC out of Vancouver) or Ch.12 (Indie out of Bellingham) weren't listed; I swear I saw those in some Seattle listings back then.

Hi installLSC,

My source was the Seattle Times TV page and they indeed did include 2 out of Van and 12 out of Bellingham, though it was on the right side of the listings along with HBO, Showtime, and ESPN. Yes, Seattle cable carried these channels, but I chose to stick with just the Seattle VHF's for this post, as anything else would have been mostly cable, which was not as prevalent as today.

I think both 11 and 13 were at the end of their afternoon movie stint, especially since Fox was coming in on 13, and there were many more syndication options for both.

 

[crainbebo]

I used to go to the Bellevue (WA) KCLS Library...a LOT, and pull off Seattle Times microfilm for Radio Discussions. If you look back in the archives for 2012/13, you'll see a lot of old microfilm listings from the 1980s and 90s. Anyways, I will say that 2 and 12 were in the Times in 1986. A couple years back, CHAN-8 (BCTV) Vancouver was included. TV Guide's Western Washington edition kept CHAN-8, and CKVU-21/10, and CHEK-6 up through the end of the small size version.
I miss doing that, but whenever I can hit the Downtown Yakima Library, I can get Yakima Herald microfilm, which included most of the Seattle stations in the '80s, KAYU Spokane, and surprisingly, CBC *North*! Yes...no CBUT on the listings, instead the Arctic feed, which was carried on C-Band.
Unless it was a different show, Simon & Simon reruns aired at 9AM weekdays on KIRO-7 in 1992-1993.

 

[seatownmedia]

I used to go to the Bellevue (WA) KCLS Library...a LOT, and pull off Seattle Times microfilm for Radio Discussions. If you look back in the archives for 2012/13, you'll see a lot of old microfilm listings from the 1980s and 90s. Anyways, I will say that 2 and 12 were in the Times in 1986. A couple years back, CHAN-8 (BCTV) Vancouver was included. TV Guide's Western Washington edition kept CHAN-8, and CKVU-21/10, and CHEK-6 up through the end of the small size version.
I miss doing that, but whenever I can hit the Downtown Yakima Library, I can get Yakima Herald microfilm, which included most of the Seattle stations in the '80s, KAYU Spokane, and surprisingly, CBC *North*! Yes...no CBUT on the listings, instead the Arctic feed, which was carried on C-Band.
Unless it was a different show, Simon & Simon reruns aired at 9AM weekdays on KIRO-7 in 1992-1993.

Re: Simon & Simon...Yep, same show, primetime in 1986, likely syndicated in '92. But 9 AM?, that is a bit weird.