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Retro: Boston/Manchester/Providence Sat, Feb 19, 1977

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Bluenoser

By request, from Boston Herald American

WGBH 2-PBS Boston
8:00 Villa Alegre
8:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 David Copperfield
10:30 Zoom
11:00 Infinity Factory
11:30 Rebop
noon Carrascolendas
12:30 Agronsky at Large
1:00 Washington Week in Review
1:30 Wall Street Week
2:00 National Geographic Special "The New Indians"
3:00 In Search of the Real America "There's No Business Like Big Business"
3:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Infinity Factory
5:30 Electric Company
6:00 Vision On
6:30 Zoom
7:00 Rebop
7:30 Once Upon a Classic "David Copperfield"
8:00 Classic Theatre Preview
8:30 Classic Theatre "Macbeth"
11:00 Soundstage (guests Judy Collins and Leonard Cohen)

WBZ 4-NBC Boston
6:00 International Zone
6:30 Carrascolendas
7:00 Something Else
7:30 For Kids Only
8:00 Woody Woodpecker
8:30 Pink Panther
10:00 Speed Buggy
11:00 Space Ghost/Frankenstein Jr.
11:30 News/Sports
noon Land of the Lost
12:30 Muggsy
1:00 Supersonics
1:30 Ara Parseghian's Sports
2:00 Survival
2:30 Wild Kingdom
3:00 Last of the Wild
3:30 Wild Kingdom
4:00 College Basketball: Notre Dame-West Virginia
6:30 News
7:00 Mzizi/Roots (Sarah-Ann Shaw, NCAA attorney Nat Jones, Rev. Jesse Jackson)
7:30 For Kids Only
8:00 Emergency!
9:00 NBC Movie "Rio Lobo"
11;15 News/Sports
11:45 Saturday Night (Mardi Gras special)
1:15 Movie "Gimme Shelter"
2:45 Insight

WCVB 5-ABC Boston
6:00 A Better Way
6:30 Come Along
7:00 Jabberwocky (a few years ago, 5 was still airing repeats of this 70s series at 6am on Saturdays)
7:30 Animals, Animals, Animals
8:00 Journey to the Center of the Earth
8:30 Kidsworld
9:00 Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt
10:30 Krofft Supershow
11:30 Superfriends
noon Candlepin Bowling
1:00 Candlepin Superbowl
2:30 Lone Ranger
3:00 Pro Bowlers Tour
4:30 ABC Wide World of Sports
6:00 Glen Campbell Los Angels Golf Open
7:00 News
7:30 Third World
8:00 Blansky's Beauties
8:30 Fish
9:00 Starsky & Hutch (the boys get Huggy Bear started as a PI)
10:00 Most Wanted
11:00 News/Sports
11:30 Movie "A Double Life"
1:30 Movie "Crosswinds"
3:30 5 All Night
3:45 ABC News
4:00 Third World
4:30 Good Day!

WTEV 6-ABC New Bedford
6:00 Characteristics of Learning Disabilities
6:30 Farmer's Corner
7:00 Little Rascals
7:30 Leave It to Beaver
8:00 Tom & Jerry/Mumbly
8:30 Jabberjaw
9:00 Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt
10:30 Krofft Supershow
11:30 Superfriends
noon Oddball Couple
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 Hee Haw (what a lead-in :D)
2:30 Celebrity Bowling
3:00 Pro Bowlers Tour
4:30 ABC Wide World of Sports
6:00 Glen Campbell Los Angeles Golf Open
7:00 Kidsworld
7:30 Public Affairs
8:00 Blansky's Beauties
8:30 Fish
9:00 Starsky & Hutch
10:00 Most Wanted
11:00 News/Sports
11:30 Movie "Jitterbugs"
1:00 Don Kirshner's Rock Concert
2:30 ABC News

WNAC 7-CBS Boston
6:30 School Law Trends
6:50 Reflections
7:00 Hudson Brothers
7:30 Far Out Space Nuts
8:00 Sylvester & Tweety
8:30 Clue Club
9:00 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
10:00 Tarzan
10:30 Batman
11:00 Shazam-Isis Hour
noon Fat Albert & the Cosby Kids
12:30 Ark II
1:00 RKO Rok (station was owned by RKO General at the time)
2:00 ECAC Hockey: Cornell-Brown
4:30 CBS Invitational Tennis (JIP)
5:00 CBS Sports Spectacular: MLB players from both leagues square off in the Major League All-Star Softball Game
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Lawrence Welk
8:00 Mary Tyler Moore
8:30 Bob Newhart
9:00 All in the Family
9:30 19th Annual Grammy Awards (host Andy Williams; pre-empts Alice and Carol Burnett)
11:30 News/Sports
mid. Movie "Hunchback of Notre Dame"
2:00 Movie "Devil Ship Pirates"

WMUR 9-ABC Manchester
8:00 Tom & Jerry/Mumbly
8:30 Jabberjaw
9:00 Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt
10:30 Krofft Supershow
11:30 Superfriends
noon Oddball Couple
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 Film
2:00 Championship Wrestling
3:00 Pro Bowlers Tour
4:30 ABC Wide World of Sports
6:00 Glen Campbell Los Angeles Golf Open
7:00 Basketball Barnstorming
8:00 Blansky's Beauties
8:30 Fish
9:00 Starsky & Hutch
10:00 Most Wanted
11:00 News/Sports
11:15 Movie "Passage to Marseille"

WJAR 10-NBC Providence
7:00 Dusty's Treehouse
7:30 Marianne's Greenhouse
8:00 Bewitched
8:30 Pink Panther
10:00 Speed Buggy
11:00 Space Ghost/Frankenstein Jr.
11:30 Big John, Little John
noon Movie "Batman"
2:00 Movie "Night of the Grizzly"
4:00 Star Trek
5:00 FBI
6:00 News
6:30 Gong Show (pre-empts first half of Space: 1999)
7:00 College Basketball: Providence College-LaSalle (spikes second half of Space: 1999 and Emergency!)
9:00 NBC Movie "Rio Lobo"
11:15 News/Sports
11:45 Saturday Night
1:15 Movie "She"

WPRI 12-CBS Providence
7:00 Sunrise Semester
7:30 Hot Fudge
8:00 Partridge Family
8:30 Clue Club
9:00 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
10:00 Tarzan
10:30 Batman
11:00 Art Train
11:30 Front & Center
12:15 Imagenes d'Portugal
12:30 Area 12
1:00 Wrestling
2:00 Movie "War of the Planets"
3:30 CBS Invitational Tennis
5:00 CBS Sports Spectacular
6:00 News
6:30 Lawrence Welk
7:30 Andy Williams (guest Anthony Newley)
8:00 Mary Tyler Moore
8:30 Bob Newhart
9:00 All in the Family
9:30 19th Annual Grammy Awards
11:30 News/Sports
mid. Mike Douglas

WSMW 27-Ind Worcester
9:30 Agriculture & You
10:00 Wally's Workshop
10:30 Daytime
11:30 That (Good Ole) Nashville Music
noon Wrestling
1:00 Outdoors
1:30 F Troop
2:00 World Championship Tennis: Nastase v Solomon
3:30 UFO
4:30 Boris Karloff Thriller
5:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
6:00 Movie "Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd"
7:30 College Basketball: Army-Holy Cross
9:30 World Championship Tennis (Repeat from 2:30)
11:00 David Susskind

WSBK 38-Ind Boston
10:00 Villa Alegre
10:30 Carracolendas
11:00 Hot Fudge
11:30 David Niven's World
noon Soul Train
1:00 American Bandstand (not cleared by 5)
2:00 Laurel & Hardy
3:30 Daniel Boone
4:30 Movie "Pack Up Your Troubles"
6:00 Hogan's Heroes
6:30 Andy Griffith
7:00 Dick Van Dyke
7:30 King of Kensington (CBC import syndied in the US)
8:00 Music Hall America
9:00 Movie "Dog of Flanders"
11:00 Racers "Puyallup Trans-Am Motocross"
11:30 Champions (Certs World Cup Ski Races/International Blown Fuel Drag Boat Races)
mid. Viewpoint on Nutrition
12:30 Human Dimension

WGBX 44-PBS Boston
4pm Once Upon a Classic "David Copperfield" (pt 6)
4:30 Zoom
5:00 Nova "Hunters of the Seal"
6:00 Upcountry
6:30 Erica
6:45 Theonie
7:00 Black Perspective on the News
7:30 Play Bridge with the Experts
8:00 Consumer Survival Kit
8:30 In Search of the Real America (as 3pm, 2)
9:00 National Geographic Special (as 2pm, 2)
10:00 Austin City Limits (guests Bobby Bridger and B.W. Stevenson)

WLVI 56-Ind Boston
8:30 Oral Roberts
9:00 Old Time Gospel Hour
10:00 Music & the Spoken Word (produced by the Mormons, whose Star-Spangled Banner film aired on TV38 for years)
10:30 People Power
11:00 Wrestling
noon Outer Limits
1:00 Movie "Godzilla"
2:30 Movie "Godzilla vs the Smog Monster"
4:00 Movie "Viva Las Vegas"
6:00 Brady Bunch
6:30 Partridge Family
7:00 Star Trek
8:00 Movie "The Maltese Falcon"
10:00 Movie "The Vengeance of Fu Manchu"
 
Bluenoser said:
WNAC 7-CBS Boston

1:00 RKO Rok (station was owned by RKO General at the time)
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...and their co-owned AM radio station in Boston was the Top 40 powerhouse WRKO/680. Considering that fact, would it be reasonable to assume that this series was a rock music show competing with American Bandstand on WSBK/38?...
 
Ultimajock said:
Bluenoser said:
WNAC 7-CBS Boston

1:00 RKO Rok (station was owned by RKO General at the time)
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...and their co-owned AM radio station in Boston was the Top 40 powerhouse WRKO/680. Considering that fact, would it be reasonable to assume that this series was a rock music show competing with American Bandstand on WSBK/38?...
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Given the title, I'd say you're right on the money...any of the New Englanders on the board know any more about this show?
 
IIRC it was hosted by WRKO's Dale Dorman. I have a hazy memory of seeing the video for ABBA's "SOS" on that show. I can't remember if there was a studio audience or if it was just early videos. When WNAC became WNEV in 1981 they also had a daily video show.
 
MCarney said:
IIRC it was hosted by WRKO's Dale Dorman. I have a hazy memory of seeing the video for ABBA's "SOS" on that show. I can't remember if there was a studio audience or if it was just early videos. When WNAC became WNEV in 1981 they also had a daily video show.
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Would that video show be Hit Video USA? Ch 7 aired that show in the mid 80s IIRC...
 
WBZ seemed to run nearly the entire NBC Saturday cartoons and seemed less preemption happy during the week as well. WCVB also seemed less preemption happy as well during the week though they preempted a chunk of ABC Saturday cartoons and ran nothing from ABC Sunday Morning. WNAC 7 preempted Children's Film Festival but ran SUnday Morning cartoon reruns Saturday Morning and a week behind. During the week they also preempted an hour of CBS shows. In Providence Channel 10 preempted a chunk of NBC shows. 12 WPRI ran only a third of the CBS cartoons and certainly no Sunday Morning cartoon reruns. Still between the 2 cities you could get most every network show with a couple those being preempted in both places. Children's Film Festival was not seen at all.

WMUR I believe eventually ran the ABC Sunday Cartoons on Saturday Mornings but still at that point ran them Sunday evening before prime time shows. WMUR had low quality shows and it was ABC that gave WMUR the good programming.

WSBK and WLVI were strong with cartoons during the week and had some stuff Sunday mornings but like the stations in Philadelphia these two stations did not even bother competing for kids on Saturdays. Both ran rather weak Saturday morning shows but that was common for indepednents in some places. By the way WLVI's two monster movies were under the title Creature Double Feature. This was a company wide Field/Kaiser practice to have this type of marketing. WLVI had some similarities to WKBS but did not have the exact same shows. Still both seemed to be pretty strong stations.
 
Bluenoser said:
MCarney said:
IIRC it was hosted by WRKO's Dale Dorman. I have a hazy memory of seeing the video for ABBA's "SOS" on that show. I can't remember if there was a studio audience or if it was just early videos. When WNAC became WNEV in 1981 they also had a daily video show.
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Would that video show be Hit Video USA? Ch 7 aired that show in the mid 80s IIRC...
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Yes - that was the name. It aired at 4p, right after "Guiding Light".
 
WTEV 6-ABC New Bedford
7:00 Kidsworld

And to think years later, they would be airing a "bra infomercial" in this very same time slot... :D
 
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