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Retro: Albany/Schenectady/Troy, Thursday, March 15, 1979

from Schenectady Gazette
There was no independent station in the region at the time: WXXA (23) signed on in 1982

2 WKTV NBC Utica
7:00 Today (news at 7:25/8:25)
9:00 Donahue
10:00 Romper Room
10:30 All-Star Secrets
11:00 High Rollers
11:30 Wheel of Fortune
12:00 Password Plus
12:30 Hollywood Squares
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 The Doctors
2:30 Another World
4:00 The Odd Couple
4:30 Gilligan's Island
5:00 My Three Sons
5:30 Brady Bunch
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 $25,000 Pyramid
7:30 Mary Tyler Moore
8:00 Little Women
9:00 Quincy, ME
10:00 Mrs. Columbo
11:00 News
11:30 Best of Carson (guests Mike Wallace and Lola Falana)
1:00 sign-off

6 WRGB NBC Schenectady
6:55 Student Spectrum
7:00 Today (news at 7:25/8:25)
9:00 Password Plus
9:30 Courtship of Eddie's Father
10:00 Card Sharks
10:30 All-Star Secrets
11:00 High Rollers
11:30 Wheel of Fortune
12:00 Make Me Laugh
12:30 Hollywood Squares
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 The Doctors
2:30 Another World
4:00 Dating Game
4:30 Mike Douglas
6:00 News
7:00 NBC Nightly News
7:30 In Search of...
8:00 Little Women
9:00 Quincy, ME
10:00 Mrs. Columbo
11:00 News
11:30 Best of Carson
1:00 Tomorrow with Tom Snyder (guest Barbara Jordan)
2:00 sign-off

10 WTEN ABC Albany
6:25 Bugs, Porky & Friends
6:50 Young People's News
7:00 Good Morning America (news at 7:25/8:25)
9:00 Donahue (guest Madalyn Murray O'Hare)
10:00 $20,000 Pyramid
10:30 The Edge of Night
11:00 Happy Days
11:30 Family Feud
12:00 News
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Merv Griffin (guest Betty Ford)
5:00 The Odd Couple
5:30 Mary Tyler Moore
6:00 News
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7:00 Cross-Wits
7:30 Newlywed Game
8:00 Mork & Mindy
8:30 Angie
9:00 Barney Miller
9:30 Soap
10:00 Family
11:00 News
11:30 Starsky & Hutch
12:37 Mannix

13 WAST CBS Albany
7:00 Thursday Morning
7:25 David Allen
7:30 Thursday Morning (cont'd)
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Weekday
9:30 Joker's Wild
10:00 All in the Family
10:30 Price is Right
11:30 Love of Life
11:55 CBS News
12:00 Young and the Restless
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Lucy Show
1:30 As the World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3:30 M*A*S*H
4:00 Battle of the Planets
4:30 Partridge Family
5:00 Emergency One!
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Tic Tac Dough
7:30 Celebrity Charades
8:00 The Waltons
9:00 Hawaii Five-O
10:00 Barnaby Jones
11:00 News
11:30 M*A*S*H
12:05 CBS Late Movie: McCloud

17 WMHT PBS Schenectady
6:45 AM Weather
7:00 Dick Cavett
7:30 Over Easy
8:00 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8:30 Lilias, Yoga & You
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Educational programming
3:00 Lilias, Yoga & You
3:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Over Easy
5:30 The Edge of the Gold
6:30 Art America
7:00 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
7:30 Dick Cavett (guest Vittorio Gassman)
8:00 Nova
9:00 Pledge Break
9:10 National Geographic Special
10:10 Harry S. Truman
11:30 Dick Cavett (repeat of 7:30pm)
12:00 sign-off

Regional superstations
WNEW
6:30 Bugs Bunny & Friends
7:00 Popeye & Friends
7:30 The Flintstones
8:00 Woody Woodpecker
8:30 Giligan's Island
9:00 Andy Griffith
9:30 Partridge Family
10:00 I Love Lucy
10:30 My Three Sons
11:00 Love, American Style
11:30 Midday Live
1:00 That Girl
1:30 Partridge Family
2:00 Gilligan's Island
2:30 Fred Flintstone & Friends
3:00 Popeye & Friends
3:30/4:00 Woody Woodpecker
4:30 Battle of the Planets
5:00 Little Rascals
5:30 The Flintstones
6:00 Brady Bunch
6:30 I Love Lucy
7:00 Brady Bunch
7:30 Carol Burnett & Friends
8:00 Cross-Wits
8:30 Merv Griffin
10:00 News
11:00 Gong Show
11:30 I Love Lucy
12:00 TBA
12:30 Movie "China Gate"

WOR
7:00 News
7:30 PTL Club
8:30 Nine on New Jersey
9:00 Joe Franklin
10:00 Romper Room
11:00 Straight Talk
12:00 News
12:30 Life of Riley
1:00 Movie "The Sky's the Limit"
3:00 Ironside
4:00 Movie "Man of the West"
6:00 Joker's Wild
6:30 Bowling for Dollars
7:00 Dating Game
7:30 Newlywed Game
8:00 NHL: Boston at NY Rangers
10:30 Sports Afield
11:00 Bobby Vinton
11:30 Racing from Roosevelt
12:00 Movie "Hitler's Children"

WPIX
6:30 Mister Magoo
7:00 Tom & Jerry
7:30 Josie & the Pussycats
8:00 Tom & Jerry
8:30 Magilla Gorilla
9:00 The Munsters
9:30 I Dream of Jeannie
10:00 Family Affair
10:30 New York, New York
11:00 Rangel Report
11:30 700 Club
12:30 News
1:00 Dinah!
2:30 Magic Garden
3:00 Tom & Jerry
4:00 Superman
4:30 Batman
5:00 Emergency One!
6:00 Soupy Sales
6:30 Sanford & Son
7:00 The Odd Couple
7:30 News
8:00 Celebrity Charades
8:30 Let's Make a Deal
9:00 Tic Tac Dough
9:30 To Tell the Truth
10:00 News
10:30 New York, New York
11:00 Make Me Laugh
11:30 The Odd Couple
12:00 The Twilight Zone
12:30 News
1:00 Movie "Arrowhead"

WSBK
7:00 Superheroes
7:30 Porky Pig & Bugs Bunny
8:00 Abbott & Costello
8:30 Romper Room
9:00 Tom Larson
9:50 News
10:00 Ironside
11:00 Marcus Welby, MD
12:00 Movie "Red Mountain"
1:55 Spirit of Independence
2:00 Andy Griffith
2:30 Green Acres
3:00 Beverly Hillbillies
3:30 M*A*S*H
4:00 All in the Family
4:30 Emergency One!
5:30 Hogan's Heroes
6:00 My Three Sons
6:30 Adam-12
7:00 Bobby (highlights of the retirement of Bruins' own Bobby Orr)
7:30 NHL: Boston at NY Rangers
10:15 Bruins Wrap-Up
10:30 The Honeymooners
11:00 Hogan's Heroes
11:30/12:00 The Rifleman
12:30 sign-off
 
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