• Get involved.
    We want your input!
    Apply for Membership and join the conversations about everything related to broadcasting.

    After we receive your registration, a moderator will review it. After your registration is approved, you will be permitted to post.
    If you use a disposable or false email address, your registration will be rejected.

    After your membership is approved, please take a minute to tell us a little bit about yourself.
    https://www.radiodiscussions.com/forums/introduce-yourself.1088/

    Thanks in advance and have fun!
    RadioDiscussions Administrators

Retro: Anchorage, AK (July 14, 1984, aka Black Saturday)

Source: Anchorage Daily News "TV News"

I've covered Fairbanks and (most recently) Atlanta; now, it's my hometown of Anchorage!

2-KTUU (NBC)
4-KTBY (Independent, now Fox)
7-KAKM (PBS)
11-KTVA (CBS, now Rewind TV)
13-KIMO (now KYUR (ABC))

5:45 am
13-Bethel Chapel

6:00
2-PTL Club (listed as "Jim Bakker")
11-Captain Kangaroo
13- 20-Minute Workout

6:30
13-CNN Headline News

7:00
2-Flintstone Funnies
4-Waterfront
11-Saturday Supercade
13-One of a Kind

7:30
2-Shirt Tales
4-Gilligan's Island
13-Scooby & Scrappy-Doo

8:00
2-Smurfs
4-The Wild, Wild West
13-Monchhichis/Little Rascals/Richie Rich

8:30
11-Tarzan: Lord of the Jungle

9:00
4-MOVIE: "Lawless Range" (1935)
7-Sesame Street
11-Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show
13- Pac-Man/Rubik Cube

9:30
2-Baseball Pre-Game
11-The Jackson 5ive
WGN-America's Top 10

9:45
2-MLB Baseball (Regional coverage)

10:00
4-MOVIE: "The Lonely Trail" (1936)
7-The Do-It-Yourself Show ("Weatherization")
11-Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
13-The Littles
WGN-Soul Train

10:30
7-The Victory Garden
11-CBS Children's Film Festival
13-Scooby-Doo/The Puppy's Greatest Adventures

11:00
4-MOVIE: "Lucky Texan" (1934)
7-Working Women
11-MOVIE: "They Came from Outer Space" (1967)
13-Alaska: Cameras in the Wild

11:30
7-Justin Wilson's Louisiana Cookin'
13-ABC Weekend Specials ("The Haunted Mansion Mystery", Part 2/2)
WGN-This Week In Baseball

Noon
4-MOVIE: "The New Frontier" (1935)
7-Under Sail
13-American Bandstand

12:30 pm
2-Alvin and the Chipmunks (Time approximate)
7-Motorweek
11-CBS Sports Saturday (Track and Field: Jumbo Eliot Meet and the Kinney Invitational)

1:00
2- Spider-Man/Incredible Hulk
4-MOVIE: "Pals of the Saddle" (1938; their fifth John Wayne movie that day!)
7-Spokeman ("Rear Hub Overall")
13-MOVIE: "Captain Nemo and the Underwater City" (1970)

1:30
7-Sneak Previews

2:00
2-MOVIE: "Career" (1959)
4-MOVIE: "Pride of the Bluegrass" (1939)
7-Matinee at the Bijou
13-(Mutual of Omaha's) Wild Kingdom

2:05
TBS-World Championship Wrestling (once again, no explanation needed on what happened that episode)


2:30
11-Saddleback Superstars

3:00
4-Mission: Impossible
13-Fishing the Northwest

3:30
4-Cartoons (they didn't say, but my guess is either Bugs Bunny (just like on WSB) or Tom and Jerry)
7-Great Chefs of New Orleans
13-The Olympiad ("The Decathlon")

4:00
2-Bonanza
4-The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse
7-Yan Can Cook
11-Hee Haw (Guests: Mickey Gilley, Charly McClain, Tom T. Hall, Mel McDaniel, and David Holt (different episode than the one on WSB))

4:30
4-Harlem Globetrotters (animated series)
7-Magic of Floral Painting ("Primrose")
13-Wide World of Sports

5:00
2-WKRP In Cincinnati
4-The Lone Ranger
7-Alaska Report
11-Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries

5:30
2-At The Movies
4-Sergeant Preston of the Yukon
7-Inside Story ("The Press and Jesse Jackson")

6:00
2-NBC Nightly News
4-Grizzly Adams
7-Washington Week in Review (repeat)
11-CBS Evening News
13-CNN Headline News

6:30
2-Newservice 2
7-Wall Street Week
11-The Twilight Zone
13-Alaska's People
WGN-The Independent News

7:00
2-Diff'rent Strokes
4-The High Chaparral
7-National Geographic ("Sharks")
11-Mama Malone
13-T.J. Hooker

7:30
2-Silver Spoons
11-MOVIE: "Sphinx" (1980)
WGN-Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous

8:00
2-Mama's Family
4-Gunsmoke
7-MOVIE "The Horse Soldiers" (1959)
13-The Love Boat
WOR-WWF Championship Wrestling

8:30
2-People Are Funny

9:00
2-The Rousters
4-MOVIE: "Alice, Sweet Alice" (1976)
13-Fantasy Island

10:00
2-Star Trek ("Day of the Dove")
7-There Was Always Sun Shining Someplace ("Life in the Negro Baseball Leagues")
11-Solid Gold (Guests: Sergio Mendes, The Go-Go's, Christopher Cross, Ronnie Milsap, Human League, Toni Tennille, and Michael Martin Murphey (dunno if this was or wasn't the same episode as on WSB))
13-MOVIE: "Where Eagles Dare" (1969)

11:00
2-Saturday Night Live (Don Novello (as Father Guido Sarducci)/Huey Lewis and the News)
4-$1.98 Beauty Show
7-Monty Python's Flying Circus
11-MOVIE: "Brass Target" (1978)

11:30
4-Rawhide
7-Matinee at the Bijou (repeat of 2:00 pm)

12:30 am
2-MOVIE: "The Big Lift" (1950)

1:00
7-Alaska Is...

1:05
11-MOVIE: "Sea of Grass" (1947)

1:30
13-MOVIE: "Across the Wide Missouri" (1951)

2:30
13-CNN Headline News

Just like Atlanta, a movie-heavy schedule (especially four John Wayne movies on KTBY and one more on KAKM); and of the three I posted from "Black Saturday"...I think Atlanta had more variety being a top 20 market at the time (they're now #7).
 


Back
Top Bottom