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Retro: St. Louis, Monday, July 13, 1998

south_ferretti

south_ferretti

from St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Channels 40 and 46 aired infomercials 24 hours a day

2 KTVI Fox St. Louis
5:00 CNN Headline News
5:05 Real TV
5:30 News
8:00 Maury Povich
9:00 Geraldo Rivera
10:00 Designing Women
10:30 Murphy Brown
11:00 Pictionary
11:30 News
12:00 Grace Under Fire
12:30 Mama's Family
1:00 Beetleborgs Metallix
1:30 Life with Louie
2:00 Spider-Man
2:30 Power Rangers: Power Playback
3:00 Rosie O'Donnell
4:00/4:30 Judge Judy
5:00 News
6:30 Real TV
7:00/7:30 Damon
8:00 Ally McBeal "The Blame Game"
9:00 News
9:30 Extra
10:00 News
10:35 Grace Under Fire
11:05 The Magic Hour
12:05 Married... with Children
12:35 Cops
1:05 News
2:05 Access Hollywood
2:35 Strange Universe
3:05 Real Stories of the Highway Patrol
3:35 Happy Days
4:05 CNN Headline News
4:30 First Business

4 KMOV CBS St. Louis
5:00 News
8:00 This Morning
9:00 Regis and Kathie Lee
10:00 Montel Williams
11:00 Price is Right
12:00 News
12:30 Bold and the Beautiful
1:00 As the World Turns
2:00 Guiding Light
3:00 Inside Edition
3:30 Hard Copy
4:00 Young and the Restless
5:00 News
5:30 CBS Evening News
6:00 News
6:30 Entertainment Tonight
7:00 Cosby
7:30/8:00 Everybody Loves Raymond
8:30 Cybill "Ka-Boom!" (series finale)
9:00 48 Hours
10:00 News
10:35 Late Show with David Letterman
11:37 American Journal
12:07 Late Late Show with Tom Snyder
1:07 Dating Game
1:37 Newlywed Game
2:07 News
2:42 CBS News Up to the Minute
4:30 This Morning's Business

5 KSDK NBC St. Louis
5:00 News
7:00 Today
9:00 Martha Stewart Living
9:30 Gayle King
10:00 Sunset Beach
11:00 Sally Jessy Raphael
12:00 News
1:00 Another World
2:00 Days of Our Lives
3:00 Show Me St. Louis
3:30 Jeopardy!
4:00 Oprah Winfrey
5:00 News
5:30 NBC Nightly News
6:00 News
6:30 Wheel of Fortune
7:00 Dateline NBC
8:00 Movie "The Odyssey" (2/2)
10:00 News
10:35 Tonight Show with Jay Leno
11:37 Jerry Springer
12:37 Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1:36 Later
2:05 Show Me St. Louis
2:30 Leeza
3:30 Howie Mandel
4:30 NBC News at Sunrise

9 KETC PBS St. Louis
5:00 New Literacy
5:30/6:00 Psychology: Study of Human Behavior
6:30 Bloomberg Business News
7:00 Body Electric
7:30 Arthur
8:00 Sesame Street
9:00 Barney and Friends
9:30 Teletubbies
10:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
10:30 Big Comfy Couch
11:00 Wimzie's House
11:30 Sesame Street
12:30 Glass with Vicki Payne
1:00 Cucina Amore
1:30 Kidsongs Television Show
2:00 Reading Rainbow
2:30 Bill Nye the Science Guy
3:00 Kratts' Creatures
3:30 Wishbone
4:00 Magic School Bus
4:30 Arthur
5:00 Barney and Friends
5:30 Theodore Tugboat
6:00 Newshour with Jim Lehrer
7:00/8:00 World War II Aviation (two episodes)
9:00 The Berlin Airlift (hosted by Paul Duke)
10:00 Nightly Business Report
10:35 I Spy
11:30 Charlie Rose
12:30 Travels in Europe
1:00 Nightly Business Report
1:30 Healthy Lives
2:00 Newshour with Jim Lehrer (repeat)
3:00 Masterpiece Theatre

11 KPLR WB St. Louis
6:00 Fantastic Four
6:30 X-Men
7:00 Tiny Toon Adventures
7:30 Adventures of Captain Planet
8:00 Mummies Alive!
8:30 Extreme Ghostbusters
9:00 Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
10:00 In the Heat of the Night
11:00 Matlock
12:00 Jenny Jones
1:00 Paid programming
2:00 Bananas in Pajamas and the Crayon Box
2:30 Mr. Men
3:00 Bugs 'n' Daffy
3:30 Animaniacs
4:00 Pinky and the Brain
4:30 New Batman/Superman Adventures
5:00 Boy Meets World
5:30 Full House
6:00 Hangin' with Mr. Cooper
6:30 Roseanne
7:00 7th Heaven "Time to Leave the Nest"
8:00 Buffy the Vampire Slayer "Angel"
9:00 News
10:00 Seinfeld
10:30 Cheers
11:00 Mad About You
11:30 Roseanne
12:00 Vibe
1:00 Jenny Jones

24 KNLC Ind St. Louis
5:00 Pattern for Living
5:30 This is the Life
6:00 Kenneth Copeland
6:30 Larry Rice
7:00 Popular Mechanics for Kids
7:30 The Mask
8:00 Bookmice
8:30 New Zoo Revue
9:00 Sunshine Factory
9:30 Eternally Fit
10:00 Dobie Gillis
10:30 Family Showcase
11:30 James Robison
12:00 Life in the Word
12:30 Larry Rice
1:00 Creflo A. Dollar Jr.
1:30 Men from Shiloh
3:00 Garfield and Friends
3:30 Dennis the Menace
4:00 Extreme Dinosaurs
4:30 DuckTales
5:00 Mighty Ducks
5:30 101 Dalmatians: The Series
6:00 Amen
6:30 Larry Rice
7:00 Bonanza
8:00 Little House on the Prairie
9:00 Gunsmoke
10:00 LAPD: Life on the Beat
10:30 Larry Rice
11:00 Tarzan
11:30 Paid programming
12:30 Larry Rice
1:00 Cope
2:00 Larry Rice
2:30 Home Life
3:00 Movie "Bad Man of Deadwood"
4:30 Z Music

30 KDNL ABC St. Louis
5:00 ABC World News This Morning
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Ricki Lake
10:00 The View
11:00 People's Court
12:00 All My Children
1:00 One Life to Live
2:00 General Hospital
3:00 Ricki Lake
4:00 Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
4:30 Home Improvement
5:00 News
5:30 ABC World News Tonight
6:00 Home Improvement
6:30 The Simpsons
7:00 America's Funniest Home Videos
8:00 The Stand "Part 2"
10:00 News
10:35 Nightline
11:06 Frasier
11:36 M*A*S*H
12:06 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
1:06 Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher
1:36 Blossom
2:06 Forgive or Forget
3:06 ABC World News Now
 
The only other switched Fox affiliate I know of that carried the Fox Kids line following the 1994-96 switch was WALA/channel 10 in Mobile AL. All the other new Fox affiliates deferred to another station in their markets.
 
KTVI was airing Fox Kids at 1pm? Of course the kids were well into summer vacation at that point, but was KTVI doing that DURING the school year as well? Seemed like a stupid move if so.
Guessing KPLR went into infomercials at 1AM, or were they signing off? Strange that LAPD aired on a Christian station in St. Louis.
 
crainbebo said:
KTVI was airing Fox Kids at 1pm? Of course the kids were well into summer vacation at that point, but was KTVI doing that DURING the school year as well? Seemed like a stupid move if so.
Guessing KPLR went into infomercials at 1AM, or were they signing off? Strange that LAPD aired on a Christian station in St. Louis.
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The paper didn't list infomercials, so I don't know if that station signed off during the night. Actually, I put "paid programming" where a spot was missing.
I checked some KTVI listings from November 1998 and the station had removed the Fox Kids cartoons from its schedule.
 
crainbebo said:
KTVI was airing Fox Kids at 1pm? Of course the kids were well into summer vacation at that point, but was KTVI doing that DURING the school year as well? Seemed like a stupid move if so.
Guessing KPLR went into infomercials at 1AM, or were they signing off? Strange that LAPD aired on a Christian station in St. Louis.
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Wikipedia says KNLC has often aired secular syndicated series, more recent examples of which include Celebrity Page, Judge Hatchett, Forensic Files and Leverage.
 
south_ferretti said:
The paper didn't list infomercials, so I don't know if that station signed off during the night. Actually, I put "paid programming" where a spot was missing.
I checked some KTVI listings from November 1998 and the station had removed the Fox Kids cartoons from its schedule.
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This is true; the Post-Dispatch weekly TV book at the time did not list infomercials. However, glancing at the TV grid from the 7/13/98 paper itself, I can confirm what KPLR did show that overnight:
2:00 Paid programming
2:30 Paid programming
3:00 Paid programming
3:30 Nightman
4:30 WKRP in Cincinnati
 
KDNL cancelled Port Charles in February of 1998, citing low ratings, and replaced it initially with Doogie Howser reruns at 11:30 am. The Post-Dispatch listed Port Charles as having a 1.5 rating (about 16,500 St. Louis households) and a 4 share. Not great, but apparently over four times the ratings KDNL had received with the previous 11:30 soap, The City.
 
Scott2013 said:
BTW, why no Port Charles on KDNL?
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Thanks for pointing that out. I didn't notice it was missing at 11:30am. I wouldn't think they would have been bothered by low ratings (since the station overall is low rated) and carried all ABC shows considering that is all they are to the St. Louis market is a source for ABC programs.
 
johnothy said:
Thanks for pointing that out. I didn't notice it was missing at 11:30am. I wouldn't think they would have been bothered by low ratings (since the station overall is low rated) and carried all ABC shows considering that is all they are to the St. Louis market is a source for ABC programs.
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Not only is/was KDNL a weak ABC affiliate, all the ABC affiliates in markets surrounding St. Louis are/were historically weak or nonexistent
 
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