Retro: Minneapolis/St.Paul November 22nd 1979

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KTCA 2 (PBS)

7.30 Soup/Weather
8.00 Sesame Street
9.00 Electric Company
9.30 Studio See
10.00 Nova
11.00 Trade Offs
11.30 Sesame Street
12.30 Zoom
1.00 Electric Company
1.30 Footsteps
2.00 Over Essay
2.30 Dick Cavett
3.00 Poldark
4.00 Mr.Roger's Neighbourhood
4.30 Sesame Street
5.30 Electric Company
6.00 Zoom
6.30 MacNeill/Leher
7.00 Dick Cavett
7.30 Sneak Preview
8.00 Creatures
9.00 Connections
10.00 Reginald Perrin
10.30 Meeting
12.00 Movie: The Man in Glass Booth
2.00 Camera Three
2.30 Close

WCCO 4 (CBS)

6.00 Channel 4 Morning News
7.00 Donahue
8.00 Thanksgiving Parades
11.00 NFL Football Chicago @ Detroit
2.30 Classic: The Three Musketeers
3.30 Mike Douglas
5.00 Channel 4 News
5.30 CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite
6.00 Channel 4 News
6.30 PM Magazine
7.00 The Waltons
8.00 Movie: Letters from Frank
10.00 Channel 4 News
10.30 Marcus Welby
11.30 Bonanza
12.30 Channel 4 News
1.00 Donahue
2.00 CBS Overnight News

KTSP 5 (ABC)

7.00 Good Morning America
9.00 Twin Cities Today
10.00 Laverne and Shirley
10.30 Family Feud
11.00 Pyramid
11.30 Ryan's Hope
12.00 All my Children
1.00 One Life to Live
2.00 General Hospital
3.00 Match Game
3.30 Starsky and Hutch
4.30 Happy Days
5.00 Hogan's Heroes
5.30 ABC World News Tonight
6.00 Channel 5 News
6.30 Baxters
7.00 Laverne and Shirley
7.30 Benson
8.00 B.Miller
8.30 Soap
9.00 20/20
10.00 Channel 5 News
10.30 Police Woman
11.30 Baretta
12.45 Hop Hopalong Cassidy
2.00 Channel 5 News
2.30 Dr Who
3.00 Hines-Sight

KMSP 9 (INTV)

6.00 700 Club
7.00 Underdog
7.30 Rocky and Bullwinkle
8.00 Popeye
8.30 The Archies
9.00 Dinah
10.30 Gong Show
11.00 Medical Center
12.00 Noon Nine
12.30 Room 222
1.00 Bold Ones
2.00 Best of Groucho Marx
2.30 Kroffts
3.00 Casper the friendly Ghost
3.30 Popeye
4.00 The Munsters
4.30 Gilligan's Island
5.00 The Brady Bunch
5.30 Dick van Dyke
6.00 Tic Tac Dough
6.30 Good Times
7.00 Gunsmoke
8.00 Kojak
9.00 Sanford and Son
9.30 News
10.00 All in the Family
10.30 The Rockford Files
11.40 The Streets of San Francisco
12.50 Perry Mason
1.55 Twilight Zone
2.20 News

WTCN 11 (NBC)

6.00 Today
8.00 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
11.00 Mindreaders
11.30 Password
12.00 Days of our Lives
1.00 The Doctors
1.30 NFL' 79 - Quarterback Sneak
3.00 NFL Football: Houston @ Dallas
6.00 NBC Nightly News
6.30 Thanksgiving
7.00 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
8.00 Quincy
9.00 Kate Loves a Mystery
10.00 Channel 11 News
10.30 Tonight Show with Johnny Carson
12.00 Tomorrow
1.00 Reruns

Source: Star Tribune

 

[johnothy]

I guess no Edge of Night for Minneapolis at 3pm on KSTP or otherwise.

 

[SteveRichards]

There wasn't any "CBS Overnight News" in 1979; "CBS News Nightwatch" was nearly 3 years away at this point, premiering in October of 1982.

 

[blackgold]

Also, the Iran Hostage Crisis was taking place at the time, so any ABC late programming would be delayed by 15 minutes for the latest on the crisis. That day, 13 of them-mostly women-came home. The others would not be released until President Reagan came to power in '81.

 

[umfan]

Was INTV a network?

 

[Corky Marlowe]

I'm guessing "INTV" just means it's an independent station; Looks like a pretty typical indie lineup from the period.

 

[ShawnHill1]

I'm guessing "INTV" just means it's an independent station; Looks like a pretty typical indie lineup from the period.

From the date of this listing, it had been more than eight months since the three-way network swap between Channels 5 (NBC to ABC), 9 (ABC to independent), and 11 (independent to NBC). You'll notice too that 9 was also clearing CBS' late night lineup since WCCO elected to go with its own late night programming.

 

[Wright County Guy]

A few clarifications, if I may....

Channel 4 did offer all-night news, of sorts: it was a series of computer graphics with their FM-sister station playing in the background. You can see it here at the end of this recording: https://tcmedianow.com/wcco-tv-10pm...er-ann-rubenstein-dr-walt-lyons-tom-hanneman/

The Tribune's TV grid had the four network logos over the station call letters/channel position. For Channel 9, someone made up the INTV logo. They were an independent station.

Channel 9's late night programming wasn't from CBS at this point. The programs listed were in syndication, but KMSP ran an altered schedule that was similar to the CBS Late night movie. KMSP did run the CBS Late Night Movie during its waning days as an ABC affiliate (because when you feel snubbed, you do things like that, I guess). I have seen listings where they kept running the CBS Late Night Movie through the spring and summer of '79.

Finally, "Edge of Night" was never cleared by KSTP since KMSP had not cleared it before the March of '79 affiliate swap.