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CTV: The Comedy Network Launch

This is the CTV: Comedy Network launch schedule for the week of April 1, 1991. Formed after the merging of the Comedy Channel and HA! it was rebranded as Comedy Central after two months to avoid problems with the Canadian CTV network

Source: York Sunday News, York, Pennsylvania, Sunday, March 31, 1991

5:00 AM- Allan King (Monday) Short-Attention Span Theater (Tuesday-Friday)
5:30 AM- Young Comedians (Monday)
6:00 AM- Love, American Style
6:30 AM- Phil Silvers
7:00 AM- Lucy Show
7:30 AM- That Girl
8:00 AM- Short Attention Span Theater
9:00 AM- Clash
9:30 AM- Bloopers and Practical Jokes
10:00 AM- Movie (Monday-Thursday) Mystery Science Theater 3000 (Friday)
12:00 PM- Car 54, Where Are You?
12:30 PM- Candid Camera
1:00 PM- Steve Allen
1:30 PM- Jack Benny
2:00 PM- That Girl
2:30 PM- Rhoda
3:00 PM- Phyllis
3:30 PM- Lucy Show
4:00 PM- Sitcom Sanctuary
5:00 PM- McHale's Navy
5:30 PM- CPO Shankey
6:00 PM- Short Attention Span Theater
7:00 PM- Clash
7:30 PM- Bloopers & Practical Jokes
8:00 PM- Two Drink Minimum (Monday), Big Laff-Off (Tuesday), One Night Stand (Wednesday), Young Comedians (Thursday), London Underground (Friday)
8:30 PM- Comics Only
9:00 PM- Stand Up, Stand Up
9:30 PM- Afterdrive
10:00 PM- Saturday Night Live
11:00 PM- Night After Night

Saturday

5:00 AM- Short Attention Span Theater
6:00 AM- Movie
8:00 AM- Lancelot Link
8:30 AM- Bad News Bears (TV Series)
9:00 AM- When Things Were Rotten
9:30 AM- Duck Factory
10:00 AM- Mystery Science Theater 3000
12:00 PM- Quark
12:30 PM- Captain Nice
1:00 PM- Sportsmonster
1:30 PM- Best of Groucho
2:00 PM- Movie
4:00 PM- Candid Camera
4:30 PM- Phil Silvers
5:00 PM- McHale's Navy
5:30 PM- CPO Shakey
6:00 PM- Comedy Specials
7:00 PM- Mystery Science Theater 3000
9:00 PM- Saturday Night Live
10:30 PM- Talent Pool
11:00 PM- Kids in the Hall
11:30 PM- London Underground

Sunday Schedule (taken from April 7, 1991 issue of York Sunday News)

5:00 AM- Kids in the Hall
5:30 AM- Whose Line Is It Anyway?
6:00 AM- Movie- "Parlor, Bedroom and Bath" (1931)
7:30 AM- Spike Jones
8:00 AM- Steve Allen
8:30 AM- Fractured Flickers
9:00 AM- Jack Benny Show
9:30 AM- Your Show of Shows
10:00 AM- Dead Comics' Society
12:00 PM- Ernie Kovacs
12:30 PM- Alan King
1:00 PM- Comedy Shop
1:30 PM- Best of Groucho
2:00 PM- Movie- "The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars" (1976)
4:30 PM- Phil Silvers
5:00 PM- McHale's Navy
5:30 PM- Big Laff-Off
6:00 PM- Gary Shandling Alone in Las Vegas
7:00 PM- Access America
7:30 PM- Life As We Know It
8:00 PM- Alan King
8:30 PM- Big Room
9:00 PM- Random Acts of Variety
10:00 PM- One-Night Stand
10:30 PM- Sportsmonster
11:00 PM- Ernie Kovacs
11:30 PM- Steve Allen
 
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