Retro: Pittsburgh, Friday, Jan 9, 1987

[south_ferretti]

from Pittsburgh Press

2 KDKA CBS Pittsburgh
4 WTAE ABC Pittsburgh
6 WJAC NBC Johnstown
7 WTRF CBS Wheeling
9 WTOV NBC Steubenville
10 WTAJ CBS Altoona
11 WPXI NBC Pittsburgh
13 WQED PBS Pittsburgh
16 WQEX PBS Pittsburgh
22 WPTT Ind Pittsburgh
40 WPCB Ind Pittsburgh
53 WPGH Fox Pittsburgh

Morning
5:00
2-10 CBS News Nightwatch
6 More Real People
40 Jack Hayford
53 Sanford & Son

5:30
2-9 Morning Stretch
6 AgDay
11 Talkin' Pittsburgh
40 700 Club
53 Kidsworld

6:00
2 Today's Business
4 ABC World News This Morning
6-11 NBC News at Sunrise
7 Jim & Tammy
9 700 Club
10 Jimmy Swaggart
22 Headline News
53 Pittsburgh Tomorrow

6:30
2 CBS Early Morning News
6 News
10 Today's Business
11 Starting Today
22 Centurions
40 Hatch
53 Jimmy Swaggart

7:00
2-7-10 CBS Morning News
4 Good Morning America
6-9-11 Today
13 Profiles of Nature
22 Challenge of the GoBots
53 M.A.S.K.

7:30
13 Sesame Street
22 He-Man & Masters of the Universe
40 Ron Hembree
53 Transformers

8:00
22 She-Ra: Princess of Power
40 100 Huntley Street
53 Scooby-Doo

8:30
13 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
22 Jayce & the Wheeled Warriors
53 My Little Pony & Friends

9:00
2 Oprah Winfrey
4-7-10 Donahue
6 Hour Magazine
9-53 The Flintstones
11 Press Your Luck
13 Captain Kangaroo
16 Body Electric
22 Day of Restoration
40 Heritage Singers

9:30
9 The Muppets
11 Wheel of Fortune
13 Instructional programming
16 Job Bank
22 Jimmy Swaggart
40 Learning
53 Picture Pages, followed by Zoobilee Zoo

10:00
2-7-10 $25,000 Pyramid
4 Bingo Mania
6-9-11 Sale of the Century
16 Woodwright's Shop
22 Richard Roberts
40 Jimmy Swaggart
53 700 Club

10:30
2-7-10 Card Sharks
4 Hollywood Squares
6-9-11 Blockbusters
16 Job Bank
40 Origins

11:00
2-7-10 Price is Right
4 Fame, Fortune & Romance
6-9 Wheel of Fortune
11 The Judge
16 Colorsounds
22 Jim & Tammy
40 Kingdom Living

11:30
4 Webster
6-9-11 Scrabble
13 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
16 Write Course
40 Paul Gaudino

Afternoon
noon
2-4-6-7-10-11 News
9 Super Password
13 Sesame Street
16 Frugal Gourmet
22 Candid Camera
40 700 Club
53 Partridge Family

12:30
2-7-10 Young and the Restless
4 Loving
6-9-11 WordPlay
16 Job Help Network
22 Get Smart
53 Mork & Mindy

1:00
4 All My Children
6-9-11 Days of Our Lives
13 Joy of Painting
22 I Love Lucy
40 Getting Together
53 Look at Me

1:30
2 Capitol
7-10 As the World Turns
13 This Old House
16 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
22 McHale's Navy
53 Andy Griffith

2:00
2 Pittsburgh 2Day
4 One Life to Live
6-9-11 Another World
13 We're Cooking Now
16 Sesame Street
22 My Favorite Martian
53 Gomer Pyle

2:30
7-10 Capitol
13 Magic of Oil Painting
22 Munsters
40 Ron Hembree
53 Beverly Hillbillies

3:00
2-7-10 Guiding Light
4 General Hospital
6-9-11 Santa Barbara
13 Captain Kangaroo
16 Innovations
22 Defenders of the Earth
40 Zola Levitt
53 Thundercats

3:30
13 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
16 Here's to Your Health
22 Ghostbusters
40 Susie & Bonita
53 G.I. Joe

4:00
2 Hour Magazine
4 Three's Company
6-53 Smurfs
7-10 Magnum, PI
9 Dukes of Hazzard
11 The Judge
13 Sesame Street
16 Matinee at the Bijou
22 Heathcliff
40 Gospel Bill

4:30
4 Benson
6 The Fall Guy
11 Divorce Court
22 Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers
40 Joy Junction
53 Dennis the Menace

5:00
2 Wheel of Fortune
4 M*A*S*H
7 $1,000,000 Chance of a Lifetime
9 Happy Days
10 Superior Court
11 Newlywed Game
13 Reading Rainbow
22 Rambo
40 Jimmy Swaggart
53 Diff'rent Strokes

5:30
2-7 Jeopardy!
4 M*A*S*H
6 All in the Family
9 Dating Game
11 People's Court
13 3-2-1 Contact
16 Sesame Street
22 Batman
40 Weekend Gardener
53 The Facts of Life

Evening
6:00
2-4-6-7-9-10-11 News
13 MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour
22 Star Trek
40 Focus on Issues
53 One Day at a Time

6:30
6-9-11 NBC Nightly News
10 CBS Evening News
16 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
40 Lightmusic
53 Gimme a Break!

7:00
2-7 CBS Evening News
4 ABC World News Tonight
6 PM Magazine
9 Divorce Court
10 Newlywed Game
11 Entertainment Tonight
13 Nightly Business Report
16 Captain Kangaroo
22 Happy Days
40 700 Club
53 Too Close for Comfort

7:30
2 Evening Magazine
4-6 Hollywood Squares
7 Wheel of Fortune
9-11 Newlywed Game
10 $1,000,000 Chance of a Lifetime
13 Pittsburgher of the Year
16 Doctor Who
22 All in the Family
53 Alice

8:00
2-7-10 Scarecrow & Mrs. King
4 Webster
6-9-11 Stingray (season premiere)
13 Washington Week in Review
16 Risk Takers
22 Movie "Yankee Doodle Dandy" (colorized)
40 Getting Together
53 NHL: Pittsburgh at Washington

8:30
4 Mr. Belvedere
13 Wall Street Week
16 Risk Takers

9:00
2-7-10 Dallas
4 Gung Ho
6-9-11 Miami Vice
13 All Creatures Great & Small
16 Ten Who Dared

9:30
4 Dads
40 Living by the Word

10:00
2-7-10 Falcon Crest
4 Starman
6-9-11 Crime Story
13 Nuclear Legacy
16 News
40 In Touch

10:30
16 Sports Talk
22 Hollywood Closeup
53 INN News

11:00
2-4-6-7-9-10-11 News
13 Alive from Off Center
16 Nightly Business Report
22 What's Happening!!
40 Hatch
53 Late Show

11:30
2 Barney Miller
4 Nightline
6-9-11 Tonight Show
7 Keep on Cruisin' (premiere)
10 Sportsbeat
13 Sneak Previews
16 Butterflies
22 All in the Family

Late night
mid.
2 Movie "An American Werewolf in London"
4 Ask Dr. Ruth
10 Dating Game
22 Movie "The Blue Max"
40 Lightmusic
53 Tales of the Unexpected

12:30
4 Sally Jessy Raphael
6-9-11 Friday Night Videos
7 McGarrett (?)
10 Movie "Two Minute Warning"
40 Jimmy Swaggart
53 Falcon Crest

1:00
4 Love Connection
40 Getting Together

1:30
53 Cannon

2:00
2 Movie "Bringing Up Baby"
6 Entertainment Tonight
10 Headline News
11 Dance Fever

2:30
6 Alfred Hitchcock
9 News
11 Dream Girls
40 Changed Lives
53 Check It Out

3:00
6 Kojak
11 News
40 100 Huntley Street
53 Movie "Paradise"

3:30
11 Route 66

4:00
2 Movie "Strictly Dynamite"
6 Mission: Impossible
40 Heirborn

4:30
11 Strike It Rich

 

[FreddyE1977]

from Pittsburgh Press

7 McGarrett (?)

That's the original Hawaii Five-O. CBS ran them late nights during the period when they had no late night talk shows.
In order to avoid confusion with the syndicated airings they titled it as McGarrett.

 

[WheelRob]

Wheel of Fortune at 5:00 PM Eastern? The only time I've ever seen that is during the final few years of WLNY New York's carriage of the show. It eventually moved up from 6:30, then it and other syndies were dropped when WCBS bought them out.

 

[nelsonincharlotte]

Wheel of Fortune at 5:00 PM Eastern? The only time I've ever seen that is during the final few years of WLNY New York's carriage of the show. It eventually moved up from 6:30, then it and other syndies were dropped when WCBS bought them out.

WBTV in Charlotte aired Jeopardy at 5 Eastern, followed by Wheel until 1988ish, then switched their timeslots until 1990, when they moved to WSOC. I think WBTV may have aired Jeopardy at 4 or 4:30 for a year or so. WSOC aired Wheel of Fortune at 7:30 but actually aired Jeopardy at 11:30am for a while. I don’t think either did very well on that station. Jeopardy moved to WCNC around 1992 or 1993 where it began airing at 7, Wheel followed in 1996, at 7:30, and it remains that way today. Jeopardy has also aired at 4 or 4:30 in the past on WCNC but hasn’t for a while.

 

[johnothy]

Wheel of Fortune at 5:00 PM Eastern? The only time I've ever seen that is during the final few years of WLNY New York's carriage of the show. It eventually moved up from 6:30, then it and other syndies were dropped when WCBS bought them out.

WBTV in Charlotte had Jeopardy! at 5 and Wheel of Fortune at 5:30 in the mid-late 80s. They had a one hour newscast at 6, the CBS Evening News at 7, and PM Magazine at 7:30.

 

[FreddyE1977]

Starman, Gung Ho. We were deep in the trend of popular movies being turned into
failed TV shows.

And in the awful trend of colorizing classic movies.

I think this was also towards the end of the practice of WQED running instructional programming
during the day. Once VCRs became ubiquitous schools just started keeping libraries of their own programs.

 

[umfan]

I liked the Gung Ho TV series. It was one of Scott Bakula's early roles. I think both it and Starman suffered in the Friday timeslots against still popular established programs.

I didn't get into Starman because I was a big Crime Story fan. Crime Story never got the ratings it deserved either IMO.

We were also almost at the end of PM Magazine which saw WoF and Jeopardy moved into the 7PM timeslot in markets where that became open.

 

[FreddyE1977]

I am kind of surprised that with all of the old cop shows in heavy rotation on cable stations and diginets
Crime Story does not appear to be among them.

 

[johnothy]

It's hard to believe channel 4 showed the low rated 11:00 AM and 11:30 AM offerings by ABC and not Ryan's Hope.

 

[FreddyE1977]

WTAE ran reruns in that slot for a long time.
I remember my mom would sit down and watch Who's the Boss? nearly every day.

 

[nelsonincharlotte]

We were also almost at the end of PM Magazine which saw WoF and Jeopardy moved into the 7PM timeslot in markets where that became open.

PM Magazine continued until 1990 on WBTV. But it would be replaced at 7:30 by Inside Edition. Wheel and Jeopardy would move to WSOC that year, then to WCNC where they remain today.