Retro: Iowa-Tuesday, 9/21/93

[Charles]

From TV Guide, Iowa Edition, 9/18-9/24/93

CHANNELS LISTED

DES MOINES/AMES
5-WOI (ABC)
8D-KCCI (CBS)
13-WHO (NBC)
17-KDSM (Fox)

MASON CITY
3M-KIMT (CBS)

QUAD CITIES
4-WHBF (CBS)
6-KWQC (NBC)
8-WQAD (ABC)
18-WLJB (Fox)

KIRKSVILLE/OTTUMWA
3-KTVO (ABC)
15-KYOU (Fox)

CEDAR RAPIDS/WATERLOO
2-KGAN (CBS)
7-KWWL (NBC)
9-KCRG (ABC)
28-KOCR (Fox)

DUBUQUE
40-KDUB (ABC)

BURLINGTON
26-KJMH (Fox)

5:00
2-CBS News
3M 5-This Morning’s Business
6 9-AG Day
8D-A Current Affair
13-Morning Stretch
17-Bullwinkle
28-Hardcastle and McCormick

5:30
3-This Morning’s Business
3M 8D-CBS News
5 8 9-ABC News
6 7 13-NBC News
17-Ducktales
18-Captain Planet
26-AG Day

6:00
2-This Morning
3-AG Day
3M-Goof Troop
4 26-This Morning’s Business
5 6 7 8 8D 9 13-News
15-Rush Limbaugh
17-Power Rangers
18-Darkwing Duck
26-Ducktales
40-ABC News

6:30
3-ABC News
3M-News
4-CBS News
15 28-Darkwing Duck
17-Stunt Dawgs
18-Goof Troop
26-Yogi and Friends

7:00
3 5 8 9 40-Good Morning America
3M 4 8D-This Morning
6 7 13-Today
15-Goof Troop
17-Tale Spin
18-Bonkers
26-Conan the Adventurer
28-New Adventures of Captain Planet

7:30
15 18 28-Power Rangers
17-Tom and Jerry Kids
26-Xuxa

8:00
2-Regis and Kathie Lee
15 18 28-Merrie Melodies
17-Tiny Toons
26-Power Rangers

8:30
15 28-Tale Spin
17-Darkwing Duck
18-Garfield and Friends
26-Pink Panther

9:00
2 4-Vicki!
3 40-Jenny Jones
3M-Murphy Brown
5 6-Phil Donahue
7 13-John and Leeza
8 8D 15-Regis and Kathie Lee
9-Les Brown
17-Little House on the Prairie
18-Matlock
26-Merrie Melodies
28-St. Elsewhere

9:30
3M-Designing Women
26-Children’s Room

10:00
2 3M 4 8D-The Price Is Right
3 40-Home
5-Jerry Springer
6 15-Sally Jessy Raphael
7-Concentration
8-Golden Girls
9-Designing Women
13-Ricki Lake
17-Family Matters
18-In the Heat of the Night
26-Valuevision (until 12:30)
28-Movie: “It Started with a Kiss” (‘59)

10:30
7-Caesars Challenge
8-Designing Women
9-American Journal
17-Family Matters

11:00
2 3M 8D-Young and the Restless
3 7-People’s Court
4-Family Feud
5-Home
6-Les Brown
8-Murphy Brown
9-Rush Limbaugh
13-Caesars Challenge
15-Bertice Berry
17-Jenny Jones
18-Geraldo
40-Loving

11:30
3-Loving
4-Young and the Restless
5 8 9 40-News
7-People’s Court
13-Family Feud

12:00
2 3M 6 7 8D 13-News
3 5 8 9 40-All My Children
15-Designing Women
17-Andy Griffith
18-Bertice Berry
28-Jane Whitney

12:30
2 3M 4 8D-Bold and the Beautiful
6 7 13-Days of Our Lives
15-Love Connection
17-700 Club
26-Family Feud

1:00
2 3M 4 8D-As the World Turns
3 5 8 9 40-One Life to Live
15-Jerry Springer
18-Family Matters
26-Scratch
28-Montel Williams

1:30
6 7 13-Another World
17-Merrie Melodies
18-Somic the Hedgehog
26-Wavelength

2:00
2 3M 4 8D-Guiding Light
3 5 8 9 40-General Hospital
15-Phil Donahue
17-Conan the Adventurer
18-Tale Spin
26-Mr. Bogus
28-Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog

2:30
6-American Journal
7-Phil Donahue
13-Van and Connie
17-Sonic the Hedgehog
18-Tom and Jerry Kids
26-Inspector Gadget
28-Hallo Spencer Show

3:00
2-Garfield and Friends
3 6-Oprah Winfrey
3M-Designing Women
4-Jenny Jones
5-Vicki!
8-Ricki Lake
8M-Les Brown
9-Cosby Show
13-Bertice Berry
15 26 28-Tom and Jerry Kids
17-Goof Troop
18-Tiny Toons
40-Family Matters

3:30
2-Goof Troop
3M-Garfield and Friends
7-Maury Povich
9-Full House
15 26 28-Tiny Toons
17 18-Animaniacs
40-Family Matters

4:00
2 3M-Bonkers
3-Inside Edition
4-Maury Povich
5-Growing Pains
6-Jeopardy!
8-Entertainment Tonight
8D 9-Oprah Winfrey
13-Sally Jessy Raphael
15 26 28-Animaniacs
17-Bonkers
18-Batman
40-Newhart

4:30
2 18-Saved by the Bell
3 7-Jeopardy!
3M-Andy Griffith
5-Cosby Show
6-Paula Sands Live
8-Hard Copy
15 17 26 28-Batman
40-Golden Girls

5:00
2-Cheers
3 7 8 8D 9 13-News
3M 5-M*A*S*H
4-Highway Patrol
15 17 18-Full House
26-Sonic the Hedgehog
28-Wavelength
40-Empty Nest

5:30
2 3M 4 8D-CBS News
3 5 8 9 40-ABC News
6 7 13-NBC News
15-Designing Women
17-Who’s the Boss?
18-Family Matters
26-Highway to Heaven
28-Family Feud

6:00
2 3 3M 4 5 6 7 8 8D 9 13 40-News
15-Murphy Brown
17-Married…with Children
18-Roseanne
28-Hill Street Blues

6:30
2 15-Cops
3 6 7 13-Wheel of Fortune
3M 17 18-Coach
4-Rescue 911
5 9-Roseanne
8-A Current Affair
8D-Inside Edition
26-Entertainment Tonight
40-Golden Girls

7:00
2 3M 4 8D-Rescue 911
3 5 8 9 40-Full House
6 7 13-Saved by the Bell: College Years
15 17 18 26 28-Roc

7:30
3 5 8 9 40-Phenom
6 7 13-Getting By
15 17 18 26 28-Bakersfield P.D.

8:00
2 3M 4 8D-Movie: “Donato and Daughter” (Made for TV, ‘93)
3 5 8 9 40-Roseanne
6 7 13-John Larroquette
15 17 18 26 28-America’s Most Wanted

8:30
3 5 8 9 40-Coach
6 7 13-Second Half

9:00
3 5 8 9 40-NYPD Blue (Debut)
6 7 13-Dateline NBC
15-In the Heat of the Night
17 18-Time Trax
26-Star Trek: The Next Generation
28-Renegade

10:00
2 3 3M 4 5 6 7 8 8D 9 13 40-News
15 17 18 26 28-Chevy Chase

10:35
2 3M 5-Cheers
3 40-Nightline
4 8D-David Letterman
6 7 13-Tonight
8-M*A*S*H
9-Star Trek: The Next Generation

11:00
15-Rush Limbaugh
17-Star Trek: The Next Generation
18 26-Arsenio Hall
28-Movie: “If Looks Could Kill” (‘91)

11:05
2 3M-David Letterman
3 8-Married…with Children
5-Rush Limbaugh
40-In the Heat of the Night

11:30
15-A Current Affair

11:35
3-Jane Whitney
4-Rush Limbaugh
5 8 9-Nightline
6 7 13-Conan O’Brien
8D-Murphy Brown

12:00
15-Movie: “Samaritan: The Mitch Snyder Story” (Made for TV, ‘86)
17-Jenny Jones
18-Star Trek
26-First and Ten

12:05
2-Married…with Children
3M-Star Trek: the Next Generation
4-Jerry Springer
5-In the Heat of the Night
8-News
8D-Designing Women
9-Commercial Program
40-Love Connection

12:30
26-Value vision (until 5:30)

12:35
2-Wonder Years
3-News
6-Cheers
7-Highway Patrol
8D-Designing Women
9-Rush Limbaugh
13-Bob Costas

12:40
8-Inspirations

12:45
8-Home Shopping Spree (until 3:30)

1:00
17-Movie: “Tin Man” (‘84)
18-Love Connection
28-Movie: TBA

1:05
2 3M-News
4 6-Commercial Program
5-Love Connection
7-Who’s the Boss
8D-A Current Affair
9-Jerry Springer
13-Geraldo

1:30
18-Laverne and Shirley

1:35
3M 8D-Up to the Minute (until 5:00)
5-People’s Court
6 7-News

1:40
2-Up to the Minute (until 5:00)

2:00
15-Love Connection

2:05
5 9-Home Shopping Spree (until 5:00)
13-Nightside

2:30
13-News
15-People’s Court

3:00
7-Nightside (until 5:30)
17-Movie: “The Last Chase” (‘81)
28-Movie: “It Started with a Kiss” (‘59)

3:05
13-Nightside

3:30
8-World News Now (until 5:30)
13-News

4:05
13-Nightside

4:30
13-Van and Connie

 

[rugrats1]

> CEDAR RAPIDS/WATERLOO
> 28-KOCR (Fox)

> 1:00AM
> 28-Movie: TBA

Was this during the start of KOCR's "whatever they can get at the video store" stage, or didn't that come until later?

By the looks of things, KOCR had a solid schedule -- hard to realise that a year later, they would go down in blazes.

Also, does Burlington's KJMH ch.26 have a story? A few years later, they would become a satellite of the Quad Cities' KLJB.<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by rugrats1 on 11/03/05 02:46 AM.</FONT></P>

 

[Charles]

>
> Was this during the start of KOCR's "whatever they can get
> at the video store" stage, or didn't that come until later?
>
> By the looks of things, KOCR had a solid schedule -- hard to
> realise that a year later, they would go down in blazes.
>
> Also, does Burlington's KJMH ch.26 have a story? A few years
> later, they would become a satellite of the Quad Cities'
> KLJB.

I can't answer your questions. This is an edition I picked up on vacation. Sorry.

 

[rugrats1]

> I can't answer your questions. This is an edition I picked
> up on vacation. Sorry.
>
I mean anyone in particular.

 

[SteveRichards]

> > I can't answer your questions. This is an edition I
> picked
> > up on vacation. Sorry.
> >
> I mean anyone in particular.
>
KJMH lost its Fox affiliation at some point later on and was an independent. I used to get the Western Illinois Edition of TV Guide, which also carried listings for KJMH. The station just disappeared in TV Guide sometime after the Fox affiliation was gone. I never knew if the station went dark or if TV Guide just dropped them. Sometime later, the station was purchased by the company that owns Channel 18 in the Quad Cities. I believe 18 was simulcast on 26 for a time, and then 26 became a WB affiliate at some point.

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

> > I can't answer your questions. This is an edition I
> picked
> > up on vacation. Sorry.
> >
> I mean anyone in particular.
>
KJMH lost its Fox affiliation at some point later on and was an independent. I used to get the Western Illinois Edition of TV Guide, which also carried listings for KJMH. The station just disappeared in TV Guide sometime after the Fox affiliation was gone. I never knew if the station went dark or if TV Guide just dropped them. Sometime later, the station was purchased by the company that owns Channel 18 in the Quad Cities. I believe 18 was simulcast on 26 for a time, and then 26 became a WB affiliate at some point.

I've always wondered this about KJMH (pre-KLJB repeater days)--had it not been for first-adjacent WQEC-27 (PBS) in Quincy, and if KJMH had the financial backing to upgrade/move to a different channel, could a case had been made to turn KJMH into a drop-in, de facto Fox affiliate for the Quincy/Hannibal market (with a tower either in Lee County, IA or northern Hancock County, IL)? This is despite the fiasco of the ill-fated KTVO-3 effort to enter the Quincy market with its 2000-ft. tower (which collapsed June 2, 1988). Sometimes I have wondered if that could have been part of the intention of channel 26's owners of having two Fox affiliates in the Quad Cities market (even though KLJB-18 briefly lost its Fox affiliation during 1988-90).

 

[crainbebo]

Where's all that horrible programming that KOCR aired? I thought at this time, not only were they renting VHS tapes for broadcast - illegally; but they also aired many programs with "off-key" commercial breaks (I thought one guy said "Crazy Like a Fox" aired on KOCR in July one year with December holiday ads in it). They also had absolutely no ads on air - maybe one advertiser, and promos. Today's Fox on 28 in Cedar Rapids is a heck of a lot better!

-crainbebo

 

[ngriffin]

KJMH's problem is that it really didn't cover anything but Burlington (it was on the KGRS tower), and there just wasn't enough population to make it viable. Before the move to Aledo, there was an LPTV in the Quad Cities on 26.

KJMH definitely would have needed to change channels to make a move to Quincy. There were vacant noncommercial allotments in Ft. Madison and Keokuk which might have been possibilities for a channel swap. I heard secondhand that KTVO had made an offer on the station in the early 90's.

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

No Jeopardy in Des Moines in Sept. 1993? ??? Although wasn't there a period (before this schedule) that J! and WOF aired on two separate Central Iowa stations--J! on KCCI and WOF on WHO (or vice-versa)? I recall seeing old Des Moines schedules from 1990 in which this practice occurred.

 

[ngriffin]

My recollection is that in the late 80''s Jeopardy was on WOI at an early slot (maybe 4:30) and Wheel aired on KCCI at 6:30. This would have been back when WOI ran local news at 5 and M*A*S*H at 6. I think Wheel may have aired on WHO earlier in the decade.

 

[ssetta]

Any listings for PBS?

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

KJMH definitely would have needed to change channels to make a move to Quincy. There were vacant noncommercial allotments in Ft. Madison and Keokuk which might have been possibilities for a channel swap. I heard secondhand that KTVO had made an offer on the station in the early 90's.

That would have been rather interesting if KTVO's offer on KJMH had been successful (at that time KTVO had been a few years removed from their 2000 ft. tower collapse), the channel moved from 26 to one of the vacant Ft. Madison/Keokuk allotments (or even a new station), and became an repeater for primarily the Illinois side of the Quincy/Hannibal market. A new tower could have been built in ground conductivity-rich Hancock County, IL (between Carthage and Dallas City), and would have filled most of the then-ABC white area in western Illinois particularly in an area bordered roughly by Quincy/Macomb/Pittsfield/Beardstown/Jacksonville (which at the time lacked Grade B-level reception of ABC alternatives such former affiliate WAND Decatur, KTVO, WHOI Peoria, KTVI/KDNL St. Louis, and WQAD Moline).

In fact, there were some cable systems in parts of Adams, Brown, and Pike counties in Illinois that were only able to rely on national ABC feeds pre-KHQA 7.2 (including WKRN Nashville and WABC). And although not listed in this edition (but is receptible from Burlington southward), Quincy NBC affiliate WGEM-10 was still carrying "All My Children" on a three-hour tape delay during Sept. 1993.

 

[ngriffin]

Given the costs of building new transmitting facilities and getting the channel moved, I suspect even free as a price for KJMH may have been too much. Certainly more value as a potential move-in for the Quad Cities.

When you start looking at the small market stations that signed on in the 50's and 60's that served very rural areas, KTVO really was fortunate. Being on VHF certainly played a large part of it. I doubt if they had signed on as a UHF station in 1955, they would have survived as a stand alone station. Chances are, they would have either been a repeater for a station in a nearby market or gone dark and been forgotten (like WJJY).

 

[cool_guy82]

Jeoprdy has aired on WOI, KCCI, AND WHO OVER THE YEARS

WHEEL OF FORTUNE HAS AIRED ON KCCI THEN WENT TO WHO IN FALL 1990 I BELEIVE.

 

[The Outsider]

Since they recently opened up free online access to the Cedar Rapids Gazette archives, I've been diving deep into the KOCR saga and yes at that time, the schedule was pretty solid when it came to the first run barter shows they had, especially with kids shows. They had two main problems that were connected to each other. 1. they were undercapitalized. When the station was finally sold, the owner said that he just didn't have the money to run the station the way it needed to be run. That leads to 2. the inferior signal. While the other stations had full market coverage from 1500 to 2000 foot towers, they were operating off of a 500 foot tower at less than the authorized power. When the new owners took over, they broadcast at the max power they were licensed for at the time until they built a 1500 foot tower at 5,000 kw of power a year later.

 

[marklungo]

Please ignore duplicate post. (BTW, is there any way I can delete this?)

 

[marklungo]

KJMH's problem is that it really didn't cover anything but Burlington (it was on the KGRS tower), and there just wasn't enough population to make it viable.

What about cable? Was KJMH carried on cable systems throughout the Quad Cities area?

 

[KS-IL-IA]

According to Wikipedia:

The station signed-on January 6, 1988 as KJMH. It aired an analog signal on UHF channel 26 with an effective radiated power of 200 kilowatts (at a height of 96 meters (315 ft)) from a tower on Winegard Drive in Burlington. KJMH quickly became a Fox affiliate, primarily serving the southern portion of the Quad Cities market. However, the station suffered interference and duplication from the area's other Fox affiliate, KLJB in Davenport serving the northern portions of the area. Finally in 1996, this station became a full-time satellite of KLJB. In 2001, KJMH broke off and became a WB affiliate for the Quad Cities and adopted the KGWB-TV call sign.

 

[The Outsider]

According to Wikipedia:

The station signed-on January 6, 1988 as KJMH. It aired an analog signal on UHF channel 26 with an effective radiated power of 200 kilowatts (at a height of 96 meters (315 ft)) from a tower on Winegard Drive in Burlington. KJMH quickly became a Fox affiliate, primarily serving the southern portion of the Quad Cities market. However, the station suffered interference and duplication from the area's other Fox affiliate, KLJB in Davenport serving the northern portions of the area. Finally in 1996, this station became a full-time satellite of KLJB. In 2001, KJMH broke off and became a WB affiliate for the Quad Cities and adopted the KGWB-TV call sign.

Because of this, there was no reason for Quad Cities area cable systems to pick the station up until they became a WB affiliate.