Source: New York Times
NEW YORK TV- LATE SPRING 1988
Thursday June 9, 1988
WCBS-TV 2
6:00 am - CBS Morning News (with local inserts)
7:00 am- CBS News This Morning
9:00 - The Judge
(produced at CBS affiliate WBNS-TV Columbus, Ohio)
9:30 - Divorce Court
10:00 - The $25,000 Pyramid (not for long-- on July 4th, 1988, the new Family Feud with Ray Combs replaced the Pyramid at this time slot on CBS)
10:30 - Card Sharks (hosted by Bob Eubanks)
11:00 - The Price is Right
Noon - Channel 2 News at Noon
12:30 - The Young and the Restless
1:30 - The Bold and the Beautiful
2:00 - As the World Turns
3:00 - Guiding Light
4:00 - Superior Court
4:30 - The People's Court (with Judge Wapner, Rusty, and Doug)
5:00 - Channel 2 News at 5 (with Jim Jensen and Carol Martin)
5:30 - Channel 2 News at 5:30
6:00 - Channel 2 News at 6 (with Jim Jensen and Michelle Marsh)
7:00 - CBS Evening News with Dan Rather
7:30 - Wheel of Fortune
8:00 - 48 Hours- "Gold Medal Fever"
9:00- NBA Basketball- Game 2 of the 1988 NBA Finals- Detroit Pistons .vs. Los Angeles Lakers
11:00- Channel 2 News (with Mike Schnieder and Michelle Marsh)
11:35 - Night Heat
12:45 am - CBS Late Night Movie: Chase (1985)
2:05 am- CBS News Nightwatch (with Charlie Rose; 4 hrs.)
WNBC-TV 4
5:00 am - Richard Simmons' Slim Cooking
5:30 - Getting In Touch
6:00 - NBC News at Sunrise (with Deborah Norville)
6:30 - Before Hours (business news)
6:45 - News 4 New York update
7:00 - Today (with Bryant Gumbel and Jane Pauley)
9:00 - Geraldo
10:00 - Sale of the Century
10:30 - Classic Concentration
11:00 - Wheel of Fortune
11:30 - Win, Lose, or Draw
Noon - Super Password
12:30 - Scrabble
1:00 - Days of Our Lives
2:00 - Another World
3:00 - Santa Barbara
4:00 - Donahue
5:00 - Live at Five (with Cafferty and Simmons)
6:00 - News 4 New York (with Scarborough and Pat Harper)
7:00 - NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw
7:30 - Out of This World
8:00- The Cosby Show
8:30- Different World
9:00- Cheers
9:30- Night Court
10:00- L.A Law
11:00 - News 4 New York (with Scarborough and Simmons)
11:30- Tonight Show with Johnny Carson
12:30- Late Night with David Letterman
1:30- News 4 New York (repeat of 11 o'clock)
2:00- Wil Shriner
3:00- Hit Squad
3:30- Matchmaker
4:00- Record Guide
4:30- Ben Casey
WABC-TV 7
5:00- Branded
5:30 - Morning Stretch
6:00 - ABC World News This Morning (with local inserts)
7:00 - Good Morning America (with Joan Lunden and Charles Gibson)
9:00 - The Morning Show (aka Live with Regis and Kathie Lee)
10:00 - Sally Jessy Raphael
(produced at ABC affiliate WTNH-TV New Haven, Ct.)
10:30 - (best of) Jeopardy!
11:00 - (best of) Who's the Boss?
11:30 - Home
Noon - Ryan's Hope
12:30 - Loving
1:00 - All My Children
2:00 - One Life to Live
3:00 - General Hospital
4:00 - The Oprah Winfrey Show
5:00 - Eyewitness News (with Ernie Anastos and Roz Abrams)
6:00 - Eyewitness News (with Bill Beutel and John Johnson)
6:30 - ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings
7:00 - Jeopardy!
7:30 - Hollywood Squares (host: John Davidson; with Jm J. Bullock, and Joan Rivers in the center square)
8:00 - Movie- The Concorde- Airport '79 (1979)
11:00 - Eyewitness News (with Ernie Anastos and Kaity Tong)
11:30 - ABC News Nightline (with Ted Koppel) (guest is Vice President George Bush- he would become president in November)
12:30- The Late Movie 1: The Solitary Man (1979)
2:25 - Eyewitness News (repeat from 11:00)
2:55 - The Late Movie 2: Three on a Date (1978)
WNYW 5 (owned by Fox/News Corp.)
6:00 am - Saber Rider
6:30 - He-Man
7:00 - Woody Woodpecker
7:30 - The Flintstones
8:00 - Bugs Bunny
8:30 - My Little Pony and Friends
9:00 - Leave it to Beaver
9:30 - I Love Lucy
10:00 - I Love Lucy
10:30 - Bewitched
11:00 - Dukes of Hazzard
Noon - Starsky and Hutch
1:00 - Hour Magazine (with Gary Collins)
2:00 - Thundercats
2:30 - Bugs Bunny
3:00 - Dennis the Menace (the DIC cartoon series)
3:30 - Real Ghostbusters
4:00 - Ducktales
4:30 - Double Dare
5:00 - Diff'rent Strokes
5:30 - The Facts of Life
6:00 - Three's Company
6:30 - Family Ties
7:00 - Fox News at Seven**
7:30 - A Current Affair (with Maury Povich)
8:00 - Movie: Play Dirty (1969)
10:00 - The Ten O'Clock News (with Roland and Mihalik)
11:00 - Taxi
11:30 - The Late Show (guest: Dick Clark)
12:30 am - WKRP in Cincinnati
1:00 - All in The Family
1:30 - Get Smart
2:30 - Movie- 5 Card Stud (1968)
4:30- I Love Lucy
WWOR-TV 9 (owned by MCA/Universal)
6:00 am - Zoobilee Zoo (children's show starring Ben Vereen)
6:30 - He-Man
7:00 - Beverly Hills Teens
7:30 - The Jetsons (new and classic episodes)
8:00 - Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck
8:30 - Dinosaucers
9:00 - My Favorite Martian
9:30 - I Dream of Jeannie
10:00 - Marcus Welby M.D
11:00 - People Are Talking (hosted by Richard Bey)
Noon - News at Noon (with Sara Lee Kessler)
1:00 - High Rollers (host: Wink Martindale)
1:30 - Love Connection
2:00 - The Newlywed Game
2:30 - The Dating Game
3:00 - Cannon
4:00 - Barnaby Jones
5:00 - Hawaii Five-O
6:00 - T.J Hooker
7:00 - The $100,000 Pyramid
7:30 - Barney Miller
8:00 - Evening Magazine
8:30 - Entertainment Tonight (with Mary Hart and John Tesh)
9:00 - The Morton Downey, Jr. Show
10:00 - The News at Ten (with Roland Smith? and Jennifer Valoppi)
11:00 - The Street
11:30- Baretta
12:30 - Entertainment Tonight (repeat)
1:00 - The Joe Franklin Show
2:00 - Home Shopping Club Overnight (4 hrs.)
WPIX 11 (still owned by the Daily News)
5:00 am - The Twilight Zone
5:30 - INN News: USA Tonight (repeat from previous evening, with local update)
6:00 - Aprenda Ingles
6:30 - Spiral Zone
7:00 - Smurfs
7:30 - Jem
8:00 - The Bionic Six
8:30 - Teddy Ruxpin
9:00 - Little Rascals
9:30- Benson
10:00 - Twilight Zone
10:30 - Best Talk in Town (Host: Nola Roeper)
11:00- The White Shadow
Noon - Movie- The Promise of Love (1980)
2:00- Heathcliff
2:30 - Voltron
3:00 - Ghost Busters
3:30 - Tom and Jerry
4:00 - G.I Joe
4:30- Transformers
5:00 - The Little House on the Prairie
6:00 - Webster
6:30 - The Jeffersons
7:00 - Cheers
7:30 - The Independent News (with Brad Holbrook and Donna Hanover)
8:00 - Hee Haw's 20th Anniversary Celebration
10:00- Solid Gold in Concert
11:00 - USA Tonight (up against WCBS, WNBC and WABC)
11:30 - The Honeymooners
Midnight - Star Trek
1:00 - The Twilight Zone
1:30 - USA Tonight (repeat of national broadcast only)
2:00 - Dempsey and Makepeace
3:00- Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous
4:00- Twilight Zone
4:30- Twilight Zone
WNET-TV 13 (PBS) now 24/7
6:00- Bodywatch
6:30- New Jersey Network News (repeat from last night)
7:00- Sesame Street
8:00- Captain Kangaroo
8:30- Mister Rogers
9:00- Sesame Street
10:00- Cats and Dogs
10:30- From a Country Garden
11:00- Victory Garden
11:30- Woodwright's Shop
12:00- Hometime
12:30- This Old House
1:00- You Gotta Have Art
1:30- Joy of Painting
2:00- French in Action
2:30- French Chef
3:00- Madeline Cooks
3:30- Frugal Gourmet
4:00- Sesame Street
5:00- Mister Rogers
5:30- Reading Rainbow
6:00- Degrassi Junior High
6:30- New Jersey Network News
7:00- Buisness Report
7:30- MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour
8:30- Currents
9:00- Art Effects- "New Jersey Youth Symphony"
9:30- Carnegie Hall Restoration
10:00- Channel Crossings- "The Oppermans" (Part 1 of 2)
12:00- Colette- "Life of French Writer" (Part 2 of 4)
1:00- Monty Python
1:30- MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour (repeat)
2:30- Test Pattern
4:00- Innovation
WLIG-TV 55 (Ind.)
6:30- Eight is Enough
7:00- Quincy
8:00- Movie- Paris Holiday (1958)
10:00- News 55
10:30- Siskel and Ebert
11:00- 700 Club
12:00- Sign-Off
NEW YORK TV- LATE SPRING 1988
Thursday June 9, 1988
WCBS-TV 2
6:00 am - CBS Morning News (with local inserts)
7:00 am- CBS News This Morning
9:00 - The Judge
(produced at CBS affiliate WBNS-TV Columbus, Ohio)
9:30 - Divorce Court
10:00 - The $25,000 Pyramid (not for long-- on July 4th, 1988, the new Family Feud with Ray Combs replaced the Pyramid at this time slot on CBS)
10:30 - Card Sharks (hosted by Bob Eubanks)
11:00 - The Price is Right
Noon - Channel 2 News at Noon
12:30 - The Young and the Restless
1:30 - The Bold and the Beautiful
2:00 - As the World Turns
3:00 - Guiding Light
4:00 - Superior Court
4:30 - The People's Court (with Judge Wapner, Rusty, and Doug)
5:00 - Channel 2 News at 5 (with Jim Jensen and Carol Martin)
5:30 - Channel 2 News at 5:30
6:00 - Channel 2 News at 6 (with Jim Jensen and Michelle Marsh)
7:00 - CBS Evening News with Dan Rather
7:30 - Wheel of Fortune
8:00 - 48 Hours- "Gold Medal Fever"
9:00- NBA Basketball- Game 2 of the 1988 NBA Finals- Detroit Pistons .vs. Los Angeles Lakers
11:00- Channel 2 News (with Mike Schnieder and Michelle Marsh)
11:35 - Night Heat
12:45 am - CBS Late Night Movie: Chase (1985)
2:05 am- CBS News Nightwatch (with Charlie Rose; 4 hrs.)
WNBC-TV 4
5:00 am - Richard Simmons' Slim Cooking
5:30 - Getting In Touch
6:00 - NBC News at Sunrise (with Deborah Norville)
6:30 - Before Hours (business news)
6:45 - News 4 New York update
7:00 - Today (with Bryant Gumbel and Jane Pauley)
9:00 - Geraldo
10:00 - Sale of the Century
10:30 - Classic Concentration
11:00 - Wheel of Fortune
11:30 - Win, Lose, or Draw
Noon - Super Password
12:30 - Scrabble
1:00 - Days of Our Lives
2:00 - Another World
3:00 - Santa Barbara
4:00 - Donahue
5:00 - Live at Five (with Cafferty and Simmons)
6:00 - News 4 New York (with Scarborough and Pat Harper)
7:00 - NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw
7:30 - Out of This World
8:00- The Cosby Show
8:30- Different World
9:00- Cheers
9:30- Night Court
10:00- L.A Law
11:00 - News 4 New York (with Scarborough and Simmons)
11:30- Tonight Show with Johnny Carson
12:30- Late Night with David Letterman
1:30- News 4 New York (repeat of 11 o'clock)
2:00- Wil Shriner
3:00- Hit Squad
3:30- Matchmaker
4:00- Record Guide
4:30- Ben Casey
WABC-TV 7
5:00- Branded
5:30 - Morning Stretch
6:00 - ABC World News This Morning (with local inserts)
7:00 - Good Morning America (with Joan Lunden and Charles Gibson)
9:00 - The Morning Show (aka Live with Regis and Kathie Lee)
10:00 - Sally Jessy Raphael
(produced at ABC affiliate WTNH-TV New Haven, Ct.)
10:30 - (best of) Jeopardy!
11:00 - (best of) Who's the Boss?
11:30 - Home
Noon - Ryan's Hope
12:30 - Loving
1:00 - All My Children
2:00 - One Life to Live
3:00 - General Hospital
4:00 - The Oprah Winfrey Show
5:00 - Eyewitness News (with Ernie Anastos and Roz Abrams)
6:00 - Eyewitness News (with Bill Beutel and John Johnson)
6:30 - ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings
7:00 - Jeopardy!
7:30 - Hollywood Squares (host: John Davidson; with Jm J. Bullock, and Joan Rivers in the center square)
8:00 - Movie- The Concorde- Airport '79 (1979)
11:00 - Eyewitness News (with Ernie Anastos and Kaity Tong)
11:30 - ABC News Nightline (with Ted Koppel) (guest is Vice President George Bush- he would become president in November)
12:30- The Late Movie 1: The Solitary Man (1979)
2:25 - Eyewitness News (repeat from 11:00)
2:55 - The Late Movie 2: Three on a Date (1978)
WNYW 5 (owned by Fox/News Corp.)
6:00 am - Saber Rider
6:30 - He-Man
7:00 - Woody Woodpecker
7:30 - The Flintstones
8:00 - Bugs Bunny
8:30 - My Little Pony and Friends
9:00 - Leave it to Beaver
9:30 - I Love Lucy
10:00 - I Love Lucy
10:30 - Bewitched
11:00 - Dukes of Hazzard
Noon - Starsky and Hutch
1:00 - Hour Magazine (with Gary Collins)
2:00 - Thundercats
2:30 - Bugs Bunny
3:00 - Dennis the Menace (the DIC cartoon series)
3:30 - Real Ghostbusters
4:00 - Ducktales
4:30 - Double Dare
5:00 - Diff'rent Strokes
5:30 - The Facts of Life
6:00 - Three's Company
6:30 - Family Ties
7:00 - Fox News at Seven**
7:30 - A Current Affair (with Maury Povich)
8:00 - Movie: Play Dirty (1969)
10:00 - The Ten O'Clock News (with Roland and Mihalik)
11:00 - Taxi
11:30 - The Late Show (guest: Dick Clark)
12:30 am - WKRP in Cincinnati
1:00 - All in The Family
1:30 - Get Smart
2:30 - Movie- 5 Card Stud (1968)
4:30- I Love Lucy
WWOR-TV 9 (owned by MCA/Universal)
6:00 am - Zoobilee Zoo (children's show starring Ben Vereen)
6:30 - He-Man
7:00 - Beverly Hills Teens
7:30 - The Jetsons (new and classic episodes)
8:00 - Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck
8:30 - Dinosaucers
9:00 - My Favorite Martian
9:30 - I Dream of Jeannie
10:00 - Marcus Welby M.D
11:00 - People Are Talking (hosted by Richard Bey)
Noon - News at Noon (with Sara Lee Kessler)
1:00 - High Rollers (host: Wink Martindale)
1:30 - Love Connection
2:00 - The Newlywed Game
2:30 - The Dating Game
3:00 - Cannon
4:00 - Barnaby Jones
5:00 - Hawaii Five-O
6:00 - T.J Hooker
7:00 - The $100,000 Pyramid
7:30 - Barney Miller
8:00 - Evening Magazine
8:30 - Entertainment Tonight (with Mary Hart and John Tesh)
9:00 - The Morton Downey, Jr. Show
10:00 - The News at Ten (with Roland Smith? and Jennifer Valoppi)
11:00 - The Street
11:30- Baretta
12:30 - Entertainment Tonight (repeat)
1:00 - The Joe Franklin Show
2:00 - Home Shopping Club Overnight (4 hrs.)
WPIX 11 (still owned by the Daily News)
5:00 am - The Twilight Zone
5:30 - INN News: USA Tonight (repeat from previous evening, with local update)
6:00 - Aprenda Ingles
6:30 - Spiral Zone
7:00 - Smurfs
7:30 - Jem
8:00 - The Bionic Six
8:30 - Teddy Ruxpin
9:00 - Little Rascals
9:30- Benson
10:00 - Twilight Zone
10:30 - Best Talk in Town (Host: Nola Roeper)
11:00- The White Shadow
Noon - Movie- The Promise of Love (1980)
2:00- Heathcliff
2:30 - Voltron
3:00 - Ghost Busters
3:30 - Tom and Jerry
4:00 - G.I Joe
4:30- Transformers
5:00 - The Little House on the Prairie
6:00 - Webster
6:30 - The Jeffersons
7:00 - Cheers
7:30 - The Independent News (with Brad Holbrook and Donna Hanover)
8:00 - Hee Haw's 20th Anniversary Celebration
10:00- Solid Gold in Concert
11:00 - USA Tonight (up against WCBS, WNBC and WABC)
11:30 - The Honeymooners
Midnight - Star Trek
1:00 - The Twilight Zone
1:30 - USA Tonight (repeat of national broadcast only)
2:00 - Dempsey and Makepeace
3:00- Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous
4:00- Twilight Zone
4:30- Twilight Zone
WNET-TV 13 (PBS) now 24/7
6:00- Bodywatch
6:30- New Jersey Network News (repeat from last night)
7:00- Sesame Street
8:00- Captain Kangaroo
8:30- Mister Rogers
9:00- Sesame Street
10:00- Cats and Dogs
10:30- From a Country Garden
11:00- Victory Garden
11:30- Woodwright's Shop
12:00- Hometime
12:30- This Old House
1:00- You Gotta Have Art
1:30- Joy of Painting
2:00- French in Action
2:30- French Chef
3:00- Madeline Cooks
3:30- Frugal Gourmet
4:00- Sesame Street
5:00- Mister Rogers
5:30- Reading Rainbow
6:00- Degrassi Junior High
6:30- New Jersey Network News
7:00- Buisness Report
7:30- MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour
8:30- Currents
9:00- Art Effects- "New Jersey Youth Symphony"
9:30- Carnegie Hall Restoration
10:00- Channel Crossings- "The Oppermans" (Part 1 of 2)
12:00- Colette- "Life of French Writer" (Part 2 of 4)
1:00- Monty Python
1:30- MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour (repeat)
2:30- Test Pattern
4:00- Innovation
WLIG-TV 55 (Ind.)
6:30- Eight is Enough
7:00- Quincy
8:00- Movie- Paris Holiday (1958)
10:00- News 55
10:30- Siskel and Ebert
11:00- 700 Club
12:00- Sign-Off