Pittsburgh, October 17-21, 1977

[only1moore]

From Pittsburgh Press

2-KDKA (CBS)

Weekday
5:30AM Urban Lab
6AM Projects
6:30AM Sunrise Semester
7AM News
8AM Captain Kangaroo
9AM Here's Lucy (Delayed from 10AM the previous day)
9:30 That Girl
10AM Yvonne Forston
10:30 The New Price Is Right
11:30 The Love Of Life
12Noon Eyewitness News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1PM The Young and the Restless
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3PM All In The Family
3:30 Match Game
4PM Mike Douglas
5:30 Partridge Family
6PM Eyewitness News
7PM CBS Evening News
7:30 Evening Magazine
8PM CBS Primetime
11PM News
11:30 CBS Late Night

Monday (17th)
8PM Young Dan'l Boone
9PM Betty White
9:30 Maude
10PM Rafferty
11:30 CBS Late Movie (No listing or title)

Tuesday (18th)
8PM The Fitzpatricks
9PM M*A*S*H
9:30 One Day At A Time
10PM Lou Grant
11:30 Kojak
12:30AM CBS Late Movie (No listing or title)

Wednesday (19th)
8PM Good Times
8:30 Busting Loose
9PM CBS Wednesday Night Movie (No listing or title)
11:30 Hawaii Five-0
12:30 CBS Late Movie (No listing or title)

Thursday (20th)
8PM The Waltons
9PM Hawaii Five-0
10PM Barnaby Jones
11:30 CBS Late Movie (No listing or title)

Friday (21st)
8PM Wonder Woman
9PM Logan's Run
10PM Switch
11:30 M*A*S*H
12Mid Kojak
1AM Late Movie (No title or listing)

4-WTAE (ABC)

Weekdays
6:30 Dusty's Treehouse
7AM Addams Family
7:30 Flintstones
8AM AM Pittsburgh
9:45 General Hospital (Delayed from 3:15PM the previous day)
10:30 Edge Of Night (Delayed from 4PM the previous day)
11AM Happy Days
11:30 Family Feud
12Noon The Better Sex
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1PM All My Children
2PM $20,000 Pyramid
2:30 Cross-Wits (Pre-empts One Life To Live)
3PM Liar's Club
3:30 Andy Griffith
4PM Emergency One
5PM My Three Sons
5:30 Odd Couple
6PM Channel 4 Action News
6:30 ABC News
7PM Bowling For Dollars
7:30 Various
8PM ABC Primetime
11PM Chanel 4 Action News
11:30 ABC Late Night
1:30AM Ironside

Monday (17th)
7:30PM Gong Show
8PM San Pedro Beach Bums
9PM Monday Night Football: Bengals vs Steelers
11:45 Channel 4 Action News
12:15AM Jackie Sherrill

Tuesday (18th)
7:30 Hollywood Squares
8PM Happy Days
8:30 Laverne & Shirley
9PM Three's Company
9:30 Soap
10PM Family
11:30 ABC Late Movie

Wednesday (19th)
7:30PM Name That Tune
8PM Eight is Enough
9PM Charlie's Angels
10PM Baretta
11:30 Starsky & Hutch
12:45AM ABC Movie of the Week: "Mr. & Mrs and the Magic Studio Murders"

Thursday (20th)
7:30PM Hollywood Squares
8PM Welcome Back Kotter (Hour-long episode)
9PM Barney Miller
9:30 Carter Country
10PM Redd Foxx
11:30 Police Story
12:45 Thursday Night Special: "A Salute to the Best Years of The Hit Parade"

Friday (21st)
7:30PM Match Game
8PM Donny & Marie
9PM ABC Friday Night Movie
11:30 ABC Late Movie

11-WIIC[Now WPXI] (NBC)

Weekdays
6AM Quest
6:30 Radius
7AM Today
9AM Phil Donahue
10AM To Say The Least (delayed from 12Noon the prevoius day)
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11AM Wheel Of Fortune
11:30 Knockout
12Noon Marcus Welby MD (Not shown: Chico & The Man at 12:30PM)
1PM Joker's Wild
1:30 Days of our Lives
2:30 Doctors
3PM Another World
4PM Sanford & Son (delayed from 9AM)
4:30 The Rookies
5:30 Mary Tyler Moore
6PM Steel City News
7PM NBC Nightly News
7:30 Concentration
8PM NBC Primetime
11PM News
11:30 The Tonight Show
1AM Tomorrow

Monday (17th)
8PM Little House on the Prairie
9PM 79 Park Avenue

Tuesday (18th)
8PM Richard Pryor
9PM 79 Park Avenue (conclusion)

Wednesday (19th)
8PM Life and Times of Grizzly Adams
9PM Oregon Trail
10PM Big Hawaii

Thursday (20th)
8PM CHiPs
9PM Man From Atlantis
10PM Rosetti & Ryan

Friday (21st)
8PM Sanford Arms
8:30 Chico & The Man
9PM Rockford Files
10PM Quincy
1AM Midnight Special

13-WQED (PBS)

Weekdays
9AM Instructional Programming
11:30AM Mr. Rogers
12Noon Sesame Street
1PM Instructional Programming
3PM Cavett
3:30 Various
4:30 Sesame Street
5:30 Electric Company
6PM Mr. Rogers
6:30 Various
7PM Cavett
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8PM PBS Prime Time
11PM Cavett
11:30 ABC News (Closed Captioned)

Monday (17th)
3:30PM Masterpiece Theater
6:30 Once Upon A Classic
8PM David Susskind
10PM Black Perspective
10:30 Black Horizons

Tuesday (18th)
3:30PM Nova
6:30 Zoom
8PM Live From Lincoln Center (3 and half hours)

Wednesday (19th)
3:30PM Evening At Symphony
6:30 Studio See
8PM Nova
9PM Great Performances
10:30 Home Rule, Who Cares?

Thursday (20th)
3:30PM Equality
6:30 Zoom
8PM Once Upon A Classic
8:30 Wodehouse Playhouse
9PM Tour En L'Air
10PM Masterpiece Theater

Friday (21st)
3:30PM Tour En L'Air
6:30 Music
8PM Washington Week In Review
8:30 Wall Street Week
9PM Wodehouse Playhouse
9:30 Harrisburg Report
10PM Lyceum
10:30 The Bottom Line

16-WQEX (PBS)

Weekdays
6:30 As We See It
7PM Villa Alegre

Monday (17th)
5PM Firing Line
6PM Parent Effectiveness
7:30 Lowell Thomas Remembers
8PM Age of Uncertainity
9PM American Short Story
10PM Diamond Rivers
10:30 VTR

Tuesday (18th)
5PM Crockett's Victory Garden
5:30 Nova
7:30 Guten Tag
8PM Images of Aging
9PM Consumer Survival Kit
9:30 Lilias, Yoga & You
10PM Home To The Sea

Wednesday (19th)
5PM Age of Uncertainity
6PM Best of Ernie Kovaks
7:30 Guten Tag
8PM Firing Line
9PM French Chef
9:30 Parent Effectiveness
10:30 Benjamin Franklin Symposium

Thursday (20th)
5:30PM Images of Aging
7:30 Film
8:30 Best of Ernie Kovaks
9PM Hurry Tomorrow
10PM Lilias, Yoga & You
10:30 Public Sector

Friday (21st)
5PM Daniel Foster MD
5:30 Guten Tag
7:30 Once Upon A Classic
8PM Parent Effectiveness
8:30 Lowell Thomas Remembers
9PM Home To The Sea
9:30 TV Quarterbacks
10:30 Benjamin Franklin Symposium

53-WPGH (Ind; Now FOX)

Weekdays
7AM Little Rascals
8AM Good Morning America
9AM Religious
10AM 700 Club
11:30 Dinah
1PM Gong Show (NBC broadcast, delayed from 4PM the previous day)
1:30 Merv Griffin
2:30 Laurel & Hardy
3PM Abbott & Costello
3:30 Archies
4PM Fred Flintstone & Friends
4:30 Marvel Super Adventures
5PM DC Superheroes Cartoons
5:30 Munsters
6PM My Favorite Martian
6:30 Room 222
7PM Gomer Pyle
7:30 Hogan's Heroes
8PM Various
8:30 Celebrity Revue
9:30 700 Club
11PM To tell The Truth
11:30 Best Of Groucho
12Mid Various
1AM 700 Club

Monday (17th)
8PM Candid Camera
12Mid Savaran On Sports
12:30AM Black Forum

Tuesday (18th)
8PM Last Of The Wild
12Mid For You, Black Woman
12:30AM House Call

Wednesday (19th)
7:30 NHL Hockey: Penguins at NY Rangers
12Mid W With Wilma Boyd
12:30AM Viewpoint On Nutrition

Thursday (20th)
8PM Bobby Vinton
12Mid Point Of View
12:30AM Pittsburgh Probe

Friday (21st)
8PM Funny Farm
12Mid Championship Wrestling

 

[bpatrick]

Love Of Life would have been on KDKA at 11:30, since
The Price Is Right had been an hour show since 1975.

 

[only1moore]

Love Of Life would have been on KDKA at 11:30, since
The Price Is Right had been an hour show since 1975.

Thanks for the correction.

 

[azumanga]

...The Price Is Right had been an hour show since 1975.

Not to mention, no longer "New" since 1973.

 

[Kurt Toy]

WIIC didn't use Steel City News for its newscasts until two years later, when they dumped Adam Lynch, Ken Philips, et al and replaced them with Alan Frio and Pat Shingleton.

 

[mleach]

I wouldn't mind seeing the Pittsburgh listings a year later than these since by that time Pittsburgh's WPTT channel 22 was on the air.

Not sure if this is true or not but during the early years of WPTT, their "Captain Pitt" was the same guy who did "Captain Chesapeake" in Baltimore at WPTT's sister station WBFF. The late George Lewis. Both shows were just about the same.

Story goes that Lewis would tape "Captain Pitt" at WBFF and one day the tapes got mixed up. As a result the kids who were expecting to watch Captain Chesapeake got Captain Pitt instead and were treated to a taste of Pittsburgh with references to "Kennywood Amusement Park" and "Monroeville Mall" while Pittsburgh viewers got a taste of Baltimore with Captain Chesapeake.

Whoops !!!!!!!

 

[only1moore]

WIIC didn't use Steel City News for its newscasts until two years later, when they dumped Adam Lynch, Ken Philips, et al and replaced them with Alan Frio and Pat Shingleton.

You're right. I've forgot that they used "Instant News" during that period of this posting.

 

[classictvfan]

Do you have any Saturday or Sunday listings?

 

[only1moore]

Do you have any Saturday or Sunday listings?

Yes. I'll print them later.

 

[DToTheJ]

So in this market, WPGH was the designated dumping ground for unwanted network programming ("Addams Family" reruns take precedence over "Good Morning America"? Seriously??) yet "One Life To Live" was not shown in this market? Amazing that WTAE is still an ABC affiliate!

 

[FreddyE1977]

The ABC Friday Night Movie on Friday the 21st. was Burt Reynolds in "W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings". The date has some personal significance to me, I just happen to recall it.

The Penguins-Rangers hockey game on WPGH on Wed. 10/19, I am pretty sure the play-by-play man was Bob Prince.
(long-time Pittsburgh Pirates broadcaster who was famously and controversially fired in 1975)
He did just a hideous job as I recall. I remember him going on and on and on about why Phil Esposito chose to wear
number 77 while pretty much ignoring the game in progress.

WPTT did come on-air about a year later. I recall a young girl named Taylor who was part of the cast. She would read viewer mail and sometimes get very confused when somebody from Western Maryland (Garrett County, Frostburg, etc., fringe of the Pittsburgh viewing area) would send a letter to Captain Pitt. Obviously she thought she had opened a letter meant for Captain Chesapeake and was about to hit the blooper reel.

 

[mleach]

Amazing that WTAE is still an ABC affiliate!

Back in the 70's and 80's, ABC really was at the mercy of WTAE as not only WTAE was the ABC affiliate of Pittsburgh ( I believe Pittsbugh was a much bigger market then than it is now ) but also WTAE for a good chunk of West Virginia was the only full-time ABC affiliate available as Huntington's WOWK ( then ABC ) didn't reach a good many of West Virginia's major population centers such as Morgantown, Wheeling, Clarksburg, Fairmount..etc and Oak Hill's WOAY...we wont go there.

Over the years I have read some posts on other sites from those who work in the Altoona-Johnstown market where they pretty much said that WTAE did quite well there even though that market had their own ABC..but on UHF though.

 

[Tim L]

Amazing that WTAE is still an ABC affiliate!

Back in the 70's and 80's, ABC really was at the mercy of WTAE as not only WTAE was the ABC affiliate of Pittsburgh ( I believe Pittsbugh was a much bigger market then than it is now ) but also WTAE for a good chunk of West Virginia was the only full-time ABC affiliate available as Huntington's WOWK ( then ABC ) didn't reach a good many of West Virginia's major population centers such as Morgantown, Wheeling, Clarksburg, Fairmount..etc and Oak Hill's WOAY...we wont go there.

Over the years I have read some posts on other sites from those who work in the Altoona-Johnstown market where they pretty much said that WTAE did quite well there even though that market had their own ABC..but on UHF though.

A lot of the history of ABC in Western Pa. goes back to the fact that WTAE didnt come on till 1958. Earlier than that the local TV Guide listed about 9 or so stations(In the above mentioned markets) that had partial affiliations with ABC, including KDKA-2. WKST-45 was listed as full-time ABC. Though it was in New Castle, Pa./Youngstown, it was the closest full time ABC affiliate..

 

[FreddyE1977]

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Back in the 70's and 80's, ABC really was at the mercy of WTAE as not only WTAE was the ABC affiliate of Pittsburgh ( I believe Pittsbugh was a much bigger market then than it is now )
[/quote]

In the early 1950's Pittsburgh ranked as high as the #6 TV market nationally. That in fact kept the DuMont Network running for as long as it did. (due to the freeze WDTV was the only VHF station in Pittsburgh, and DuMont was able to broker time on that station to get clearance in other markets)
At the time of these listings I believe we were still a Top 10 market. We are now #24. This used to be a market where you came to settle and finish your career, unless you really had designs on New York. Now we are just a waystation with constant turnover.

 

[71dude]

Sanford Arms was already gone by this time - CPO Sharkey replaced it on Oct. 21st.

 

[wiifm]

Amazing that WTAE is still an ABC affiliate!

Over the years I have read some posts on other sites from those who work in the Altoona-Johnstown market where they pretty much said that WTAE did quite well there even though that market had their own ABC..but on UHF though.

This is true. WOPC in Altoona (Channel 38) was an ABC affiliate but also kind of a joke. Constant technical problems and a notoriously poor signal.