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Retro: Pittsburgh, Friday, April 22, 1994

south_ferretti

south_ferretti

Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via Google News Archive
This paper used all-grid listings, some titles may be incomplete.

KDKA 2 - CBS
5:30 News
7:30 Bonkers
8:00 Goof Troop
8:30 Darkwing
9:00 Rolonda
10:00 Vicki!
11:00 Price is Right
12:00 News
12:30 Young and the Restless
1:30 Bold and the Beautiful
2:00 As the World Turns
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 Ricki Lake
5:00 Oprah Winfrey
6:00 News
7:00 CBS Evening News
7:30 Baseball: Pittsburgh Pirates vs. Atlanta Braves (preempts Diagnosis Murder, Burke's Law and Picket Fences)
10:30 Murphy Brown
11:00 News
11:35 Late Show with David Letterman
12:35 Inside Edition
1:05 Ricki Lake
2:00 The Kids in the Hall
3:00 Hawaii Five-O
4:00 Hawaii Five-O

WTAE 4 - ABC
6:00 News
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Regis and Kathie Lee
10:00 Maury Povich
11:00 Sally
12:00 News
12:30 Loving
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Donahue
5:00 News
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7:00 Hard Copy
7:30 Entertainment Tonight
8:00 Family Matters
8:30 Boy Meets World
9:00 Pittsburgh Bicentennial: 200 Years (preempts Step by Step and Sister, Sister)
10:00 20/20
11:00 News
11:35 Cheers
12:05 Nightline
12:35 Who's the Boss?
1:05 Rush Limbaugh
1:35 Jerry Springer
2:00 In Concert
2:30 All News Channel

WPXI 11 - NBC
6:00 News
7:00 Today
9:00 Geraldo
10:00 Family Feud
11:00 Jenny Jones
12:00 News
12:30 People's Court
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 Bertice Berry
4:00 Cops
4:30 A Current Affair
5:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Wheel of Fortune
7:30 Jeopardy!
8:00 The Horatio Alger Awards
9:00 Movie: "Perry Mason: The Case of the Killer Kiss" (1993)
11:00 News
11:35 Tonight Show with Jay Leno
12:35 Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1:35 Friday Night Videos
2:35 Real Stories of the Highway Patrol
3:05 Movie: "We're No Angels" (1955)

WQED 13 - PBS
6:45 AM Weather
7:00 Sesame Street
8:00 Mister Rogers
8:30 Sesame Street
9:30 Barney and Friends
10:00 Reading Rainbow
10:30 Square One TV
11:00 Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?
11:30 Mister Rogers
12:00 Sesame Street
1:00 Pennsylvania 2000
2:00 TBA
2:30 Gift of Paint
3:00 Barney and Friends
3:30 Lamb Chop's Play-Along
4:00 Mister Rogers
4:30 Shining Time Station
5:00 Reading Rainbow
5:30 Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?
6:00 Wild America
6:30 Nightly Business Report
7:00 MacNeil-Lehrer Newshour
8:00 Washington Week in Review
8:30 Wall Street Week
9:00 Earthkeeping
10:00 Bill Moyers' Journal
11:00 Viewers' Choice
12:00 sign-off

WPGH 53 - FOX
6:00 Inspector Gadget
6:30 The Bots Master
7:00 Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
7:30 Garfield
8:00 Merrie Melodies
8:30 Pink Panther
9:00 Xuxa
9:30 Paid programming
10:30 Wonder Years
11:00 700 Club
12:00 Designing Women
12:30 WKRP in Cincinnati
1:00 The Odd Couple
1:30 Perfect Strangers
2:00 Nick News
2:30 Captain Planet
3:00 Conan the Adventurer
3:30 Tom and Jerry
4:00 Tiny Toon Adventures
4:30 Animaniacs
5:00 Batman
5:30 Take One
6:00 Full House
6:30 Roseanne
7:30 Married... with Children
8:00 The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.
9:00 The X-Files
10:00 Movie: "Invaders from Mars" (1986)
12:00 Paid programming
3:00 Movie: "Escape 2000" (1981)
 
Looks familiar. I was living in Pittsburgh in a house with no cable at the time.

This must have been after WQEX started simulcasting WQED in anticipation of a sale that would
take years to consummate. But before WPGH began trying to produce a newscast (they used to
run a movie at 10PM)

My kids were young at the time. I came to know that WQED schedule like the back of my hand.
 
Rollo-Smokes said:
No listings for channel 22?
Click to expand...
This is the schedule for that day. The scanned paper was a little bit damaged, so I couldn't read well a few names.
https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=gL9scSG3K_gC&dat=19940422&printsec=frontpage&hl=es
WPTT 22 - Independent
6:00 Classic Club
7:00 For Fashion
10:00 HSC Spa
12:00 Benny Hill Show
12:30 Paid programming
1:00 Montel Williams
2:00 Can We Shop?
3:00 Hill Street Blues
4:00 In the Heat of the Night
5:00 By the Sell
5:30 Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog
6:00 Star Trek: The Next Generation
7:00 M*A*S*H
8:00 Movie: "Hombre" (1967)
10:00 Matlock
11:00 Designing Women
11:30 Love Connection
12:00 Paid programming
1:00 Arsenio Hall Show
2:00 Gifts for the Graduate and Bride Week
 
Too bad I asked. That WPTT schedule was bad. Very non-competitive–not the programming, but rather in their arrangement.

It says something about your station if part of the Disney Afternoon is airing on the Group W-owned, VHF CBS affiliate AGAINST YOU in your market.
 
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I believe that at the time WPTT was under the "ownership" of Eddie Edwards, a radio station owner who had once been a newscaster on this station.

I put "ownership" in quotes because it was a ruse for Sinclair to get around ownership rules in effect at the time. The former owners of WPTT sold to Edwards, who was a minority owner. He ran all-home shopping for awhile, and then began a leased-time arrangement with Sinclair.

I believe this schedule is made of spillover programs from their other station, WPGH.
 
Rollo-Smokes said:
It says something about your station if part of the Disney Afternoon is airing on the Group W-owned, VHF CBS affiliate AGAINST YOU in your market.
Click to expand...

Indeed. I imagine that Disney couldn't have been too happy about their shows airing in morning time slots in a big market like Pittsburgh. They really should have been on WPTT in the afternoon.
 
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