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ABC Friday October 1993

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RALfan

6:00 a.m. World News This Morning
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Local Programming
11:00 The Home Show
Noon Local Programming
12:30 p.m. Loving
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Local Programming
6:30 World News Tonight
7:00 Local Programming
8:00 Family Matters
8:30 Boy Meets World
9:00 Step by Step
9:30 Hangin' with Mr. Cooper
10:00 20/20
11:00 Local Programming
11:35 Nightline
12:05 In Concert

Sources: The Encyclopedia of Daytime Television by Wesley Hyatt
The Complete Guide of The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows 1946 – Present
by Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh
 
RALfan said:
10:00 20/20
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"Good Evening, I'm Hugh Downs. And THIS....is 20/20!" ;D

Actually, Barbara Walters had already joined him many years earlier so the only things Hugh ever got to say were "Good Evening, I'm Hugh Downs" and "Well, that's 20/20 for this evening, I'm Hugh Downs". Once Walters came along, he never even got to say "We're in touch so you be in touch" anymore...she always said it.

And it's a good good thing Barbara came along when she did. I'm sure Hugh was getting exhausted just sitting there every Friday night for a few minutes welcoming us and introducing 2 or 3 stories. No wonder he retired. :p ::) ;)
 
The show was 30 minutes and only aired on Fridays, and few affiliates aired the show in pattern. Stations already had syndication deals for programs to air Monday thru Friday after "Nightline." "In Concert" tended to air in most markets following the ABC affiliate's late-night syndicated line-up.

With the huge popularity of country music in 1994, ABC introduced "In Concert Country," which was aired on Saturday nights at 11:30/10:30 CT. Again, most affiliates that carried the show aired it tape-delayed later that night. I believe the country show was an hour.
 
SteveRichards said:
The show was 30 minutes and only aired on Fridays, and few affiliates aired the show in pattern. Stations already had syndication deals for programs to air Monday thru Friday after "Nightline." "In Concert" tended to air in most markets following the ABC affiliate's late-night syndicated line-up.

With the huge popularity of country music in 1994, ABC introduced "In Concert Country," which was aired on Saturday nights at 11:30/10:30 CT. Again, most affiliates that carried the show aired it tape-delayed later that night. I believe the country show was an hour.
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"In Concert" was actually a full hour when it first started going to 30 min. after just a couple of years. But the previous poster is right, many stations delayed to either late Friday or in some cases, late night on Saturday when there was no network programming (except for the country version, which aired for an hour during either the summer of '93 or '94).

And, of course, "In Concert" first aired during the first half of the 70s as part of ABC's late night schedule, albeit on a irregular basis.
 
Why do I remember "In Concert" as being 90 minutes?

The only other thing I remember is that the stereo signal was fed to a local FM station so that people could get a good "concert" feel.

Mike
 
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