RETRO: Albuquerque, Tuesday, Sept. 21, 1982

[DM601]

(Source: Santa Fe New Mexican)

KOB-TV 4 (NBC)
AM
6 Diff’rent Strokes
6:30 Early Today
7 Today
9 Texas
10 The Doctors
10:30 Search for Tomorrow
11 Days Of Our Lives
PM
12 Another World
1 Fantasy
2 The Waltons
3 Gilligan’s Island
3:30 Tom & Jerry
4 CHiPs
5 Laverne & Shirley & Co.
5:30 NBC News
6 Eyewitness News
6:30 PM Magazine
7 Father Murphy (2 hr. show)
9 NBC White Paper: The Men Who Shot the Pope: A Study in Terrorism
10 News
10:30 Tonight
11:30 Couples
12M Late Night w/David Letterman
1 NBC News Overnight

KNME 5 (PBS)
AM
8 Lilias, Yoga and You
8:30 Over Easy
9 Sesame Street
10 Mr. Rogers Neighborhood
10:30 Electric Company
11 Varied programs (not specified)
11:30 Dick Cavett
PM
12 MacNeil-Lehrer Report
12:30 Varied programs (not specified)
3:30 Mr. Rogers Neighborhood
4 Sesame Street
5 Varied programs (not specified)
6 Dick Cavett
6:30 MacNeil-Lehrer Report
7 Matters of Life & Death
7:30 Business Report
8 National Geographic Special - Etosha: Place of Dry Water
9 Mystery!
10 PBS Late Night
11 Alfred Hitchcock

KOAT 7 (ABC)
AM
5 CNN Headline News
6 ABC News
7 Good Morning America
9 Love Boat
10 Family Feud
10:30 Ryan’s Hope
11 All My Children
PM
12 One Life to Live
1 General Hospital
2 Edge of Night
2:30 Movie
4:30 News
5 MASH
5:30 ABC News
6 News
6:30 Happy Days Again
7 Happy Days
7 Laverne & Shirley
8 Three’s Company
8:30 Too Close For Comfort
9 Hart to Hart
10 News
10:30 MASH
11 Nightline
11:30 Fantasy Island
12:40A CNN Headline News

KGGM 13 (CBS)
AM
6 CBS Morning News
8 One Day At a Time
8:30 Alice
9 Donahue
10 Young and the Restless
11 As The World Turns
PM
12 News
1 Price is Right
2 Guiding Light
3 Rockford Files
4 Hour Magazine
5 CBS News
5:30 News
6 You Asked For It
6:30 Entertainment Tonight’
7 Movie: “Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie”
8 Movie: “Hero at Large”
10 News
10:30 Entertainment Tonight
11 Quincy
12M McMillan & Wife

KGSW 14
AM
6:30 Varied programs (not specified)
7 Batman
7:30 Popeye
8 700 Club
9:30 Accent
10 Gomer Pyle
10:30 Jack La Lanne and You
11 Love American Style
11:30 INN News
PM
12 Ironside
1 Movie
3 Space: 1999
4 Batman
4:30 Munsters
5 Addams Family
5:30 Muppet Show
6 Little House on the Prairie
7 Movie: “The Pleasure of His Company”
9:30 INN News
10 Hogan’s Heroes
10:30 Movie “The Silence” (followed by signoff)

KNAT 23
AM
6 News
7 New Zoo Revue
7:30 Scooby Doo
8 Flintstones
8:30 Richard Simmons
9 Woman’s Page
10 Divorce Court
11 Perry Mason
PM
12 Movie
2 Merv Griffin
3 Bugs Bunny/Porky Pig
4 Bewitched
4:30 Beverly Hillbillies
5 Good Times
5:30 Sanford & Son
6 Charlie’s Angels
7 Hawaii Five-O
8 Movie: “Sarah T: Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic”
10 Starsky and Hutch
11 Benny Hill
11:30 Movies all night

 

[BobbyNBC10]

What ?. No syndicated game shows at night in Albuquerque then?. Did anyone before and after this date carry Family Feud PM, The Joker's Wild and Tic Tac Dough in Albuquerque. What did Albuquerque outlets have against syndicated game shows then?. This is as bad as Fort Wayne and toledo not having TJW and TTD then. But nighttime WOF in 1983 and Jeopardy's return in 1984 changed all TV stations' thoughts about syndie game shows.

 

[BobbyNBC10]

Did KOB ever carry daytime Wheel from NBC?.

 

[DToTheJ]

Look at Merv Griffin on an indie station.

What a weird market.

 

[BobbyNBC10]

Look at Merv Griffin on an indie station.

What a weird market.

Weird indeed!. In Sacramento, Merv's syndie show was on KOVR-TV, then KXTV,then KTXL and at the end KQCA-TV (then KSCH -TV) when Merv ended his show in 1986, the same year 58 signed on.

During Merv Griffin's last or last two years, he was also on WOR-TV 9 NYC (now WWOR TV My 9).

If had KOAT-TV had dropped movies by the time 14 and 23 signed on, then there would have been room on Channel 7 for TTD,TJW and maybe nighttime Family Feud and another game show.

 

[azumanga]

During Merv Griffin's last or last two years, he was also on WOR-TV 9 NYC (now WWOR TV My 9).

Kind of unusual, considering that Merv was synonymous with WNEW ch.5's prime time during his Metromedia years.

 

[BobbyNBC10]

Yes. And WOR in 1986 was owned by RKO before they sold all their TV holdings.

 

[wbhist]

However, when Merv's first syndicated show (by Westinghouse) began in 1965, WPIX-11 ran the program in its first year before it went on to WNEW. So Merv was seen, at one time or another, on all three NYC indies, plus two of the networks (his 1962-63 NBC daytime show and, of course, his 1969-72 late night CBS endeavor).

 

[BobbyNBC10]

Although, when he was on CBS , he was right up there with NBC's Johnny Carson , he just couldn't make a dent in his ratings. And CBS destroyed every Merv Griffin show The Big Eye did.

 

[jwgreek8606]

I never cared for Albequerque anyways Bob I guess ppl in Albequerque are not into game shows.

 

[BobbyNBC10]

Jame, when you can , study the scheds listed and pick which damn station should've have syndie games in 1982, and what you would've have done to put Pyramid and CHild's Play on in AlBQ.

 

[BobbyNBC10]

OOPS, In the words of Britney Spears, I did it again, I goofed I guess that day above was the last week for ALice and One Day At A Time reruns, so I guess KRQE DID air Pyramid and Child's Play. I was thinking of Tattletales 1982-84 which 13 did not air, also the CBS soap Capitol.

KOB should've put WOF on instead of The Doctors which was on life support then, but it died opposite Family Feud and Y&R or local and CNN Headline News.

 

[Markd]

Merv Griffin was syndicated by Metromedia and King World together from the 70's till March of 86 when Fox bought the Metromedia stations. Fox also bought Metromedia production facilities as well. WNEW TV ran Merv Griffin in prime time until mid March of 1986 when Fox bought the station in a corporate deal with the rest of them except for WCVB 5 Boston which went to hearst. When Channel 5 was sold to Fox calls changed to WNYW. They also dropped Merv Griffin locally and WOR TV picked it up in their daytime schedule. Fox replaced Merv with movies from the 20th Century Fox library that other stations did not have broadcast rights to. Fox was preparing for launching their own network which they began very gradually 6 months later. Fox did continue producing Merv Griffin in 1986 while dropping it from their own stations. This was Metromedia's baby not Fox's. The show was getting lower and lower ratings so Fox ended the Merv Griffin Show early September of 1986, partly because of lack of interest. Most of the prime stations the show aired on were dropping it. 6 WPVI TV had Merv till the end but was dropping it for the then new Oprah Winfrey Show.