Metromedia Stations (WNEW vs. KTTV) circa mid-1980s

[RALfan]

Can anyone compare the schedules for WNEW New York and KTTV Los Angeles during the 1984-85 season?

 

[KMRichards]

> Can anyone compare the schedules for WNEW New York and KTTV
> Los Angeles during the 1984-85 season?

I can dig up the fall preview week schedule for KTTV, if someone else can find WNEWs.<P ID="signature">______________


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[highwayman128]

WNEW-TV 5 New York, September 23-29, 1984

Here is a WNEW-TV 5 schedule from the first week of Fall, 1984

WNEW-TV 5 (IND) New York
Metromedia

Source: New York Times

September 23-29, 1984

Sunday September 23, 1984
6:30am- Black News- (news focusing on the African-American community)
7am- Hour of Power with Robert Schuller
8am- Jimmy Swaggart
9am- Bullwinkle
9:30- Bugs Bunny and Porky Pig
10am- Woody Woodpecker
11am- Movie- Tarzan's Secret Treasure (1941)
12:45- Movie- The Hound of the Baskervilles (1982)
2:30pm- Movie- The Way West (1967)
5pm- Fame
6pm- Movie- The Babysitter
8pm- Star Search (with Ed McMahon)
9pm- New Jersey Special- "Left Back... Left Out"
10pm- Ten O'Clock News
10:30- Sports Extra
11pm- Off The Set
11:30- David Susskind
1:30am- MTV Video Awards
3:00am- Sign-Off?

Monday September 24-Friday September 28, 1984
6am- New Zoo Revue
6:30- Popeye
7am- Bugs Bunny and Porky Pig
7:30- He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
8am- Woody Woodpecker
8:30- Plastic Man
9am- I Love Lucy
9:30- WKRP in Cincinnati
10am- Welcome Back, Kotter
10:30- All in the Family (Mon-Thu) Healthbeat (Fri)
11am- The Waltons
12pm- Midday with Bill Boggs
1pm- Hour Magazine
2pm- News (at 2 o'clock, no way!)
2:15- Popeye
2:30- The Flintstones
3pm- Inspector Gadget
3:30- Woody Woodpecker and Bugs Bunny
4pm- Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids
4:30- He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
5pm- The Dukes of Hazzard
6pm- Three's Company
6:30- One Day at a Time
7pm- M*A*S*H
7:30- All In The Family
8pm- Rituals (soap opera)
8:30- P.M Magazine
9pm- Merv Griffin
10pm- The 10 o'clock News- (with John Roland, who else was at the 10 o'clock news on WNEW-New York in '84)
11pm- Taxi
11:30- Charlie's Angels
12:30am- Starsky and Hutch
1:30am- Hogan's Heroes (Mon-Thu) America's Top 10 (Fri)
2am- Rat Patrol (Mon)
Movie- Critic's Choice (1963) (Tue)
Movie- The Amazing World of Psychic Phenomena (1975) (Wed)
Movie- Dear Heart (1965) (Thu)
Movie- Diary of a Murderess (1974) (Fri)

2:30am- Best of Midday (Mon)
3:30am- Off The Set (Mon)
3:35am- Movie- She Demons (Fri)
4am- Sign-Off (Mon, Wed)
4:05am- Sign-Off (Tue)
4:35am- Sign-Off (Thu)
5:10am- Sign-Off (Fri)

Saturday September 29, 1984
7am- The World Tomorrow
7:30- Wonderama
8am- Movin' On
9am- Star Search
10am- Saturday Morning
12pm- Big Valley
1pm- Fame
2pm- Starsky and Hutch
3pm- Movie- Killer Army (1979)
5pm- Mission Impossible
6pm- Blue Knight
7pm- Too Close for Comfort
7:30- Archie Bunker's Place
8pm- no program
8:30- Movie- Ma and Pa Kettle (1949)
10pm- 10 O'Clock News
10:30- Black News
11pm- Movie- Bloody Mama (1970)
12:55am- On Stage America
2:25am- Sign-off?

 

[KMRichards]

KTTV Los Angeles, September 9-14, 1983

Source: TV Guide Fall Preview issue

(Not a perfect match for the WNEW schedule, but hopefully useful.)

Saturday, September 9
5:30am Eyesat
6:00 Essence
6:30 Speak Out
7:00 Good Day L.A.
7:30 New Forces
(apparently Saturday morning was public affairs time; interesting that the title of one P.A. show is now the name of KTTV's morning show)
8:00 This Week in Baseball'
8:30 Hogan's Heroes
9:00 Blue Knight
10:00 Dance Show
11:00 Fame
12:00pm Movie: "The Three Avengers" (1979, Chinese)
2:00 Movie: "Esther and the King" (1960, Italian)
4:00 Movie: "Mad Max" (1979)
6:00 Entertainment This Week
7:00 Three's Company
7:30 Too Close for Comfort
8:00 On Stage America
10:00 News
10:30 Too Close for Comfort
11:00 Movie: "Shocktrauma" (TVG said to see Sunday 4PM for details, but "Mad Max" was erroneously listed there)
1:00am Movie: "You'll Never See Me Again" (1973, Made for TV)
2:00 Movie: "Terror of Mechagodzilla" (1978, Japanese)
4:15 Movie: "Rodan" (1956, Japanese)

Sunday, September 9
5:45am Christopher Close-Up
6:00 CNN Headline News
6:30 Church in the Home
7:00 It Is Written with George Vandeman
7:30 Jimmy Swaggart
8:30 Ever Increasing Faith
9:30 Movie: "Brannigan" (1975)
12:00pm Movie: "The Sad Sack" (1957)
2:00 Movie: "Portrait in Black" (1960)
4:00 Movie (should have been "Shocktrauma" repeated from Saturday 11PM, but as noted above, TVG made a typo)
6:00 Fame
7:00 Star Search
8:00 Movie: "Mad Max" (repeat of Saturday 4PM)
10:00 News
10:30 Entertainment This Week (replay)
11:30 Jerry Falwell
12:00am (apparently) Sign-off

Monday-Friday, September 10-14
5:30am Faith 20
6:00 Amazing Spider-Man
6:30 Battle of the Planets
7:00 Voltron
7:30 Plastic Man
8:00 Flintstones
8:30 Woody Woodpecker
9:00 Incredible Hunk
10:00 Mission: Impossible
11:00 Entertainment Tonight (replay of previous evening's show)
11:30 Southern California Midday
12:30pm PM Magazine
1:00 Alive & Well
2:00 Bugs Bunny & Porky Pig
2:30 Woody Woodpecker
3:00 Plastic Man
3:30 Voltron
4:00 Amazing Spider-Man
4:30 Battle of the Planets
5:00 One Day at a Time
5:30 Jeffersons
6:00 Three's Company
6:30 Alice
7:00 Three's Company
7:30 WKRP in Cincinnati
8:00 Rituals (first run syndicated nighttime soap)
8:30 Entertainment Tonight
9:00 Merv Griffin
10:00 News
11:00 Jeffersons
11:30 Vega$ (except Star Search on Friday)
12:30am Movie:
Mon: "Billion Dollar Brain" (1967, English)
Tue: "Harry in Your Pocket" (1973)
Wed: "Inspector Clouseau" (1968, English)
Thu: "The Long Goodbye" (1973)
Fri: "Midnight Cowboy" (1969)
2:30 CNN Headline News
3:00 Movie (except Monday sign-off)
Tue: "The Black Swan" (1942)
Wed: "Island in the Sun" (1957)
Thu: "Mrs. Miniver" (1942)
Fri: "Deadline U.S.A." (1952)<P ID="signature">______________


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[highwayman128]

Re: KTTV Los Angeles, September 9-14, 1983

> Source: TV Guide Fall Preview issue
>
> (Not a perfect match for the WNEW schedule, but hopefully
> useful.)
>
> Saturday, September 9
> 5:30am Eyesat
> 6:00 Essence
> 6:30 Speak Out
> 7:00 Good Day L.A.
> 7:30 New Forces
> (apparently Saturday morning was public affairs time;
> interesting that the title of one P.A. show is now the name
> of KTTV's morning show)
> 8:00 This Week in Baseball'
> 8:30 Hogan's Heroes
> 9:00 Blue Knight
> 10:00 Dance Show
> 11:00 Fame
> 12:00pm Movie: "The Three Avengers" (1979, Chinese)
> 2:00 Movie: "Esther and the King" (1960, Italian)
> 4:00 Movie: "Mad Max" (1979)
> 6:00 Entertainment This Week
> 7:00 Three's Company
> 7:30 Too Close for Comfort
> 8:00 On Stage America
> 10:00 News
> 10:30 Too Close for Comfort
> 11:00 Movie: "Shocktrauma" (TVG said to see Sunday 4PM for
> details, but "Mad Max" was erroneously listed there)
> 1:00am Movie: "You'll Never See Me Again" (1973, Made for
> TV)
> 2:00 Movie: "Terror of Mechagodzilla" (1978, Japanese)
> 4:15 Movie: "Rodan" (1956, Japanese)
>
> Sunday, September 9
> 5:45am Christopher Close-Up
> 6:00 CNN Headline News
> 6:30 Church in the Home
> 7:00 It Is Written with George Vandeman
> 7:30 Jimmy Swaggart
> 8:30 Ever Increasing Faith
> 9:30 Movie: "Brannigan" (1975)
> 12:00pm Movie: "The Sad Sack" (1957)
> 2:00 Movie: "Portrait in Black" (1960)
> 4:00 Movie (should have been "Shocktrauma" repeated from
> Saturday 11PM, but as noted above, TVG made a typo)
> 6:00 Fame
> 7:00 Star Search
> 8:00 Movie: "Mad Max" (repeat of Saturday 4PM)
> 10:00 News
> 10:30 Entertainment This Week (replay)
> 11:30 Jerry Falwell
> 12:00am (apparently) Sign-off
>
> Monday-Friday, September 10-14
> 5:30am Faith 20
> 6:00 Amazing Spider-Man
> 6:30 Battle of the Planets
> 7:00 Voltron
> 7:30 Plastic Man
> 8:00 Flintstones
> 8:30 Woody Woodpecker
> 9:00 Incredible Hunk
> 10:00 Mission: Impossible
> 11:00 Entertainment Tonight (replay of previous evening's
> show)
> 11:30 Southern California Midday
> 12:30pm PM Magazine
> 1:00 Alive & Well
> 2:00 Bugs Bunny & Porky Pig
> 2:30 Woody Woodpecker
> 3:00 Plastic Man
> 3:30 Voltron
> 4:00 Amazing Spider-Man
> 4:30 Battle of the Planets
> 5:00 One Day at a Time
> 5:30 Jeffersons
> 6:00 Three's Company
> 6:30 Alice
> 7:00 Three's Company
> 7:30 WKRP in Cincinnati
> 8:00 Rituals (first run syndicated nighttime soap)
> 8:30 Entertainment Tonight
> 9:00 Merv Griffin
> 10:00 News
> 11:00 Jeffersons
> 11:30 Vega$ (except Star Search on Friday)
> 12:30am Movie:
> Mon: "Billion Dollar Brain" (1967, English)
> Tue: "Harry in Your Pocket" (1973)
> Wed: "Inspector Clouseau" (1968, English)
> Thu: "The Long Goodbye" (1973)
> Fri: "Midnight Cowboy" (1969)
> 2:30 CNN Headline News
> 3:00 Movie (except Monday sign-off)

KM, it supposed to be September 8-14, 1984, not September 1983
> Tue: "The Black Swan" (1942)
> Wed: "Island in the Sun" (1957)
> Thu: "Mrs. Miniver" (1942)
> Fri: "Deadline U.S.A." (1952)
>
<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by highwayman128 on 08/20/05 04:29 AM.</FONT></P>

 

[Markd]

> > Can anyone compare the schedules for WNEW New York and
> KTTV
> > Los Angeles during the 1984-85 season?
>
> I can dig up the fall preview week schedule for KTTV, if
> someone else can find WNEWs.
>
I have a bunch of WNEW TV Schedules from 1965 all the way to ...well the current WNYW Fox 5 programming days...schedules are similar but with a few differences. Right now I lack time top post any...I Can in a few days...Meanwhile I have posted quite a few WNEW TV Schdules back in the late Fall and early winter on this board...So you can still read them by looking back on this board.
THANKS

 

[KMRichards]

Re: KTTV Los Angeles, September 9-14, 1983

> KM, it supposed to be September 8-14, 1984, not September
> 1983

1. Oops. That WAS the 1984 schedule, I just screwed up the subject line. (I doublechecked against the TV Guide itself to be sure; my first clue was the fact that the Metromedia soap "Rituals" appeared in both my post and the WNEW one ... since it debuted in September 1984, it couldn't possibly have been on a 1983 KTTV schedule!)

2. You HAD to requote my entire schedule post just to add that near the bottom?

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[Rollo-Smokes]

Re: WNEW-TV 5 New York, September 23-29, 1984

> Here is a WNEW-TV 5 schedule from the first week of Fall,
> 1984

> Sunday September 23, 1984
> 6:30am- Black News- (news focusing on the African-American
> community)>

"Black News" was anchored by Bill McCreary and featured contributions from channel five's other African-American reporters. When Fox took over in 1986, this program was moved to Saturday mornings, expanded to one hour, and retitled "The McCreary Report," which continued (later moved to Sunday AM) until 1993.

I would assume this airing is a repeat from the previous evening.

> Monday September 24-Friday September 28, 1984
> 6am- New Zoo Revue
> 6:30- Popeye
> 7am- Bugs Bunny and Porky Pig
> 7:30- He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
> 8am- Woody Woodpecker
> 8:30- Plastic Man>

A morning cartoon lineup that kicked butt.

> 2pm- News (at 2 o'clock, no way!)>

Yes way!! This was dubbed "The New Jersey Report."

Back then, the FCC was really on the backsides of the New York and Philadelphia stations to provide significant news coverage of interest to viewers of the Garden State. WNEW-TV devoted a full 15 minutes (no commercial breaks) to New Jersey news, and promoted their NJ news bureau at the conclusion.

> 2:15- Popeye
> 2:30- The Flintstones
> 3pm- Inspector Gadget
> 3:30- Woody Woodpecker and Bugs Bunny
> 4pm- Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids
> 4:30- He-Man and the Masters of the Universe>

An afternoon cartoon lineup that kicked butt.

> 8pm- Rituals (soap opera)

Metromedia produced and ran this soap on all its stations. I barely remember it myself. How about anyone else?

> 10pm- The 10 o'clock News- (with John Roland, who else was
> at the 10 o'clock news on WNEW-New York in '84)

John Roland's co-anchor was the afore-mentioned Bill McCreary. When Fox took over, he (voluntarily stepped aside -OR- was pushed out) to work exculsively on his own show. He was replaced as Roland's partner by Cora-Ann Mihalik.

> Saturday September 29, 1984
> 7:30- Wonderama

At this point, this reformatted version didn't even deserve to have the legendary Wonderama title. It's a shell of its former self now as a half-hour magazine-type program.

> 10am- Saturday Morning

IIRC, "Saturday Morning Live" was some kind of local variety show hosted by Gene (Match Game) Rayburn. It didn't last very long, though.

> 8pm- no program

Something aired here, anything but a test pattern. Fast-forward to today, and there's another slot filled in by an infomercial.<P ID="signature">______________
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[classictvfan]

I have a bunch of WNEW TV Schedules from 1965 all the way to
...well the current WNYW Fox 5 programming days...schedules
are similar but with a few differences. Right now I lack
time top post any...I Can in a few days...Meanwhile I have
posted quite a few WNEW TV Schdules back in the late Fall
and early winter on this board...So you can still read them
by looking back on this board.
THANKS


Hey, Mark, are you going to do anymore Boston or Philadelphia schedules?

 

[RALfan]

Re: KTTV Los Angeles, September 9-14, 1983

> 12:30pm PM Magazine

Are you absolutely sure that PM Magazine aired at 12:30 in the daytime in LA? I am having a very hard time figuring that one out.

 

[KMRichards]

Re: KTTV Los Angeles, September 9-14, 1983

> > 12:30pm PM Magazine
>
> Are you absolutely sure that PM Magazine aired at 12:30 in
> the daytime in LA? I am having a very hard time figuring
> that one out.

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[rugrats1]

Re: KTTV Los Angeles, September 9-14, 1983

> > > 12:30pm PM Magazine
> >
> > Are you absolutely sure ...?
>
> I was puzzled by that as well, but that time was listed
> consistently every weekday in TV Guide.
>

They weren't the only ones to show PM Magazine outside of Prime-Time Access -- in the Tampa Bay area, WTOG ch.44 showed PM Magazine one year in the mid-1980s at 12 Midnight.

 

[Markd]

> Hey, Mark, are you going to do anymore Boston or
> Philadelphia schedules?
>

Any more? There have been plenty on the board already...I will try to add more 1995-2000 Boston and Philadelphia schedules in the fall when I am less busy. I do have some older Boston and Philadelphia estimated schedules I must hold on to because I have doubts of their accuracy...Meanwhile I will try to get more 1970-75 schedules from those markest in the coming months..

Also I plan on posting more markets as I can get them.