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Pittsburgh, October 16, 1977

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only1moore

From Pittsburgh Press

2-KDKA (CBS)

6AM Faith For Today
6:30 International Zone
7AM You And The Law
7:30 This Is The Life
8AM Not Just Sunday
8:30 On Air
9AM Medix
9:30 Insight
10AM Lamp Unto My Feet
10:30 Look Up And Live
11AM Camera Three
11:30 Face The Nation
12Noon Eyewitness Newsmakers
12:30 NFL Pregame Show
1PM NFL Football: Cardinals at Eagles
4PM NFL Football: Redskins at Cowboys
7PM 60 Minutes
8PM Rhoda
8:30 On Our Own
9PM All In The Family (One hour episode)
10PM Kojak
11PM Eyewitness News
11:30 Movie (no title or listing)
1:45AM Flash Gordon
2AM Campus Connection
2:30 With This Ring

4-WTAE (ABC)

7AM Directions
7:30 Community Outreach
8AM Faith And Today's World
9AM Shalom Pittsburgh
9:30 Adventure Time
10:30 Movie (no title or listing)
12Noon Jackie Sherrill Show
12:30 College Football '77
1PM Junior High Quiz
1:30 Movie: "To Sir With Love"
4PM Issues & Answers
4:30 Kidsworld
5PM Bewitched
5:30 Brady Bunch
6PM Channel 4 Action News
6:30 Wild Kingdom
7PM Donny & Marie
8PM Six Million Dollar Man
9PM ABC Sunday Night Movie: "White Line Fever"
11PM Channel 4 Action News
11:30 Baretta
12:30AM Ironside

11-WIIC[Now WPXI] (NBC)

6:30AM The Mass on TV
7AM Robert Schuller
7:30 Oral Roberts
8AM Rex Humbard
9AM Cartoons
10:30 Notre Dame Football Highlights
11:30 Penn State Football Show
12:30PM NFL '77
1PM Destination America
2PM NFL Football: Browns at Oilers
5PM NFL Football: Broncos at Raiders
7PM Wonderful World Of Disney: "Charlie And The Angel"
9PM 79 Park Avenue (Part 1 of 3)
11PM Instant News
11:30 Movie (no title or listing)

13-WQED (PBS)

3PM Grand Prix Tennis
5PM Firing Line
6PM Harrisburg Report
6:30 French Chef
7PM Civilization
8PM Evening at Symphony
9PM Masterpiece Theater
10PM David Susskind (Two hours)

16-WQEX (PBS)

7PM Nova
8PM Once Upon A Classic (Captioned)
8:30 Best Of Ernie Kovacs
9PM Guten Tag
10PM Visions (Two hours)

53-WPGH (Ind; Now FOX)

7AM Little Rascals
8AM Hot Fudge
8:30 Laurel & Hardy
9AM Abbott & Costello
9:30 Archies
10AM HR Puf'N'Stuf
10:30 Lidsville
11AM Top Cat
11:30 Movie: "Abbott & Costello in the Foreign Legion"
1PM Movie: "Bad Man's River"
2:30 Movie: "Warrior Fox"
4PM Movie: "Sherlock Holmes in Washington"
6PM Space:1999
7PM Movie "Pancho Villa"
9PM Polka Varieties
9:30 700 Club
11PM To Tell The Truth
11:30 Old Time Gospel Hour
 
only1moore said:
11-WIIC[Now WPXI] (NBC)
12:30PM NFL '77
1PM Destination America
2PM NFL Football: Browns at Oilers
5PM NFL Football: Broncos at Raiders
7PM Wonderful World Of Disney: "Charlie And The Angel"
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The game times have to be a mistake... or is this how it was listed?
 
DToTheJ said:
only1moore said:
11-WIIC[Now WPXI] (NBC)
12:30PM NFL '77
1PM Destination America
2PM NFL Football: Browns at Oilers
5PM NFL Football: Broncos at Raiders
7PM Wonderful World Of Disney: "Charlie And The Angel"
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The game times have to be a mistake... or is this how it was listed?
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No mistake and that was how they had it listed that day when it was published. The Press might have not gotten any last minute changes from WIIC but this might be a error before the listing went to press.
 
only1moore said:
From Pittsburgh Press

53-WPGH (Ind; Now FOX)

9:30 700 Club
11PM To Tell The Truth
11:30 Old Time Gospel Hour
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...hmmm -- Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell separated by Joe Garagiola?!!?...
 
Some NFL games did start at 2 PM (ET); I remember
Baltimore Colts games starting at that time. The second
half of NBC's doubleheader had to have been joined in
progress.
 
9PM All In The Family (One hour episode)
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The infamous episode when Edith is attacked by a rapist on her 50th birthday. The late great David Dukes played the rapist on the same night he appeared as a cop on 79 Park Avenue on NBC.

The game was being played in Houston, therefore it would have started there at 1PM.
 
CBS had the doubleheader that week, so the actual lineup was probably:

KDKA 1pm: Cards-Eagles (Gary Bender, Tom Matte)
WIIC 2pm: Browns-Oilers (Jack Buck, Mike Haffner)
KDKA 4pm: Redskins-Cowboys (Pat Summerall, Tom Brookshier)

The Steelers played on Monday night against the Bengals.
 
A 2 PM (ET) start time. That is just weird... I guess it's weird to me living in the current "1/4 PM ET" game timeframe... Thanks for the explanation!
 
The 2 PM ET/1 CT kickoffs were common in the NFL through the 1981 season, after which the league wanted all of its early games kicking off at a uniform start time, which would allow for less disruptions of the late game telecasts.
Baltimore's 'blue laws' at the time did not permit sporting events to start til 2 PM on Sundays, so the league allowed the Colts to retain the 2 o'clock local kickoffs for home games during '81 and '82; the laws were repealed the following year, which, of course, was the Colts' last season in Baltimore.
 
onairb said:
Baltimore's 'blue laws' at the time did not permit sporting events to start til 2 PM on Sundays, so the league allowed the Colts to retain the 2 o'clock local kickoffs for home games during '81 and '82; the laws were repealed the following year, which, of course, was the Colts' last season in Baltimore.
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I remember those Baltimore "Blue Laws" when it came to sports even though my old boss ( who is from Baltimore ) just flat out refuses to believe such laws had ever existed. Forget posting a Wikipedia link about it since in his mind people who post/edit stuff on Wikipedia are "f*cking god-damned liars", .....well thats HIS problem but for some reason I think Pittsburgh had their own blue-laws of their own when it came to broadcasting and/or sports. Just don't remember exactly what they were.
 
mleach said:
onairb said:
Baltimore's 'blue laws' at the time did not permit sporting events to start til 2 PM on Sundays, so the league allowed the Colts to retain the 2 o'clock local kickoffs for home games during '81 and '82; the laws were repealed the following year, which, of course, was the Colts' last season in Baltimore.
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I remember those Baltimore "Blue Laws" when it came to sports even though my old boss ( who is from Baltimore ) just flat out refuses to believe such laws had ever existed. Forget posting a Wikipedia link about it since in his mind people who post/edit stuff on Wikipedia are "f*cking god-damned liars", .....well thats HIS problem but for some reason I think Pittsburgh had their own blue-laws of their own when it came to broadcasting and/or sports. Just don't remember exactly what they were.
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Also, I believe there was an 11pm curfew for Saturday night games at the old stadium, so the O's rarely (if ever) played a Saturday night home game.
 
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