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Retro: Boston, Mass. Sat., Nov. 29, 1980

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bostonmediaguy

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1980

Source: TV Guide

WBZ-Ch. 4 (NBC)
6:00 AM International Zone
6:30 AM Carrascolendas
7:00 AM Que Pasa, USA?
7:30 AM For Kids Only—Ron Robin
8:00 AM Godzilla, Hong Kong Phooey
9:00 AM Flintstones
10:30 AM Daffy Duck
11:00 AM Batman
12:00 PM Jonny Quest
12:30 PM Drawing Power
1:00 PM Get Off Your Block
1:30 PM Monte Carol Show
2:30 PM Over Easy
3:00 PM Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol
4:00 PM Sportsworld
5:30 PM Fight Back with David Horowitz
6:00 PM Eyewitness News
6:30 PM NBC Nightly News—Jessica Savitch
7:00 PM Solid Gold
8:00 PM Barbara Mandrell
9:00 PM Movie: “Oklahoma Crude” (1973)
11:00 PM Eyewitness News
11:30 PM Road Show
1:00 AM Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert
2:30 AM Movie: “The Magic Christian” (1969)
4:00 AM Movie: “Steel Bayonet” (1958)
5:30 AM Women Alone

WCVB-Ch. 5 (ABC)
6:00 AM Better Way
6:30 AM Jabberwocky
7:00 AM So the Story Goes
7:30 AM Captain Bob
8:00 AM Superfriends
9:00 AM Fonz
9:30 AM Richie Rich, Scooby and Scrappy-Doo
10:30 AM Thundarr
11:00 AM Candlepin Bowling
12:00 PM College Football Pre-Game Show
12:25 PM College Football
3:45 PM Army-Navy Game
7:00 PM Lawrence Welk
8:00 PM Breaking Away
9:00 PM Love Boat
10:00 PM Fantasy Island
11:00 PM NewsCenter 5
11:30 PM Movie: “You’ll Never Get Rich” (1941)
1:30 AM Five All Night/Live All Night—Matt Siegel
3:00 AM Wanted: Dead or Alive
3:30 AM Lone Ranger
4:00 AM ABC News
4:15 AM Five All Night
4:30 AM Good Day!

WNAC-Ch. 7 (CBS)
6:30 AM For Our Times
7:00 AM Weekday!—Ted O’Brien
8:00 AM Mighty Mouse/Heckle and Jeckle
8:30 AM Tom and Jerry
9:00 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
10:30 AM Popeye
11:30 AM Drak Pack
12:00 PM Fat Albert
12:30 PM Tarzan/Lone Ranger
1:30 PM 30 Minutes
2:00 PM Kung Fu
3:00 PM Streets of San Francisco
4:00 PM Candlepin Pros—O’Connell
4:30 PM Sports Spectacular
6:00 PM Black News: An Anniversary
7:00 PM Dance Fever
7:30 PM Sha Na Na
8:00 PM WKRP in Cincinnati
8:30 PM Tim Conway
9:00 PM Movie: “Desperate Voyage” (1980)
11:00 PM Newsroom 7
11:30 PM Movie: “Genesis II” (1973)
1:00 AM Movie: “Lady Luck” (1946)
2:30 AM News

WXNE-Ch. 25 (Ind.)
6:00 AM News
6:30 AM Cartoons
7:00 AM Thunderbirds
7:30 AM Josie and the Pussycats
8:00 AM Jackson Five
8:30 AM Leave It to Beaver
9:00 AM Lassie
9:30 AM Father Knows Best
10:00 AM Movie: “Cattle Drive” (1951)
11:30 AM Virginian
1:00 PM High Chaparral
2:00 PM Bonanza
3:00 PM Big Valley
4:00 PM Alias Sith and Jones
5:00 PM Grizzly Adams
6:00 PM Battlestar Galactica
7:00 PM Bionic Woman
8:00 PM Hee Haw
9:00 PM College Basketball: Notre Dame at UCLA
11:00 PM Movie: “Santa Fe Trail” (1940)

WSBK-Ch. 38 (Ind.)
7:00 AM Faith for Today
7:30 AM Viewpoint on Nutrition
8:00 AM Public Affairs
8:30 AM Villa Alegre
9:00 AM Carrascolendas
9:30 AM Hot Fudge
10:00 AM Ask the Manager—Dimino
10:30 AM Movie: “A-Haunting We Will Go” (1942)
12:00 PM Land of Giants
1:00 PM NHL Hockey: Edmonton at Boston
3:30 PM Wild, Wild West
4:30 PM Gift of Winter
6:00 PM What’s Happening!!
6:30 PM Bob Newhart
7:00 PM What’s Happening America?—Shana Alexander
8:00 PM Movie: “Miracle on 34th Street” (1973)
10:00 PM INN News
10:30 PM Forum 38
11:00 PM Rockworld
12:00 AM SCTV Television Network
12:30 AM Movie: “Charlie Chan in Reno” (1939)
2:00 AM Our Miss Brooks

WLVI-Ch. 56 (Ind.)
7:30 AM Music and the Spoken Word
8:00 AM Rex Humbard
9:00 AM Oral Roberts
9:30 AM Jimmy Swaggart
10:30 AM De Todo Un Poco
11:00 AM Wrestling
12:00 PM Rookies
1:00 PM Movie: “Attack of the Puppet People” (1958)
2:30 PM Movie: “Attach of the Mushroom People” (1963)
4:00 PM Movie: “Gay Purr-ee” (1962)
6:00 PM Happy Days Again
6:30 PM Sanford and Son
7:00 PM Star Trek
8:00 PM Movie: “Knute Rockne-All American” (1940)
9:30 PM Movie: “G-Men” (1935)
11:00 PM After Benny, Thames Presents
11:30 PM Tales of the Unexpected

WQTV-Ch. 68 (Ind.)
7:30 AM Christopher Closeup
8:00 AM Rex Humbard
9:30 AM Cliffhangers
11:00 AM Soul Train
 
bostonmediaguy said:
WBZ-Ch. 4 (NBC)
2:30 PM Over Easy

WNAC-Ch. 7 (CBS)
7:00 AM Weekday!
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1. Didn't this show usually air on PBS?

2. On the weekend? Really?
 
DToTheJ said:
bostonmediaguy said:
WBZ-Ch. 4 (NBC)
2:30 PM Over Easy
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1. Didn't this show usually air on PBS?
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That being said, WBZ also carried "Que Pasa USA?", which was another PBS program (as was "Carrascolendas", though that series also got clearance on some commercial stations).

mysticnitekatt said:
Where's 2, 44 and 27?
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Did the TV Guide edition it came from from an edition other than Boston? I believe New Hampshire and Springfield had listings for WGBH (with NH also listing WGBX). As for 27, were they carrying subscription television all day, if there were no listings?
 
mysticnitekatt said:
Where's 2, 44 and 27?
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WGBH-2 (PBS)
8:00 AM Sesame Street
9:00 AM Mister Rogers
9:30 AM Electric Company
10:00 AM Sesame Street
11:00 AM 3-2-1 Contact
11:30 AM Feeling
12:00 PM Washington Week in Review
12:30 PM Victory Garden
1:00 PM Over Easy
1:30 PM Over Easy
2:00 PM Over Easy
2:30 PM Over Easy
3:00 PM Over Easy
3:30 PM Kup's Show
4:30 PM Matinee at the Bijou
6:00 PM La Plaza--Raquel Ortiz
6:30 PM Elliot Norton Reviews
7:00 PM Sneak Previews
7:30 PM Up and Coming
8:00 PM Connections
9:00 PM Connections
10:00 PM Movie: "Galileo" (1975)
12:20 AM Dick Cavett

WSMW-27 (Ind.)
5:30 AM Ag-USA
6:00 AM Solid Gold
7:00 AM Movie: "The World of Abbott and Costello" (1965)
8:30 AM Movie: "Tarzan and His Mate" (1934)
10:00 AM Inside Worcester
10:30 AM Candid Camera
11:00 AM Bowling
12:00 PM Wrestling
1:00 PM Chico and the Man
1:30 PM Solid Gold
2:30 PM Wild Kingdom

WGBX, for whatever reason, is not listed.
 
bostonmediaguy said:
WGBX, for whatever reason, is not listed.
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What TVG edition did these listings come from? As it excluded WGBX, it apparently was from an edition not local to Boston.
 
azumanga said:
bostonmediaguy said:
WGBX, for whatever reason, is not listed.
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What TVG edition did these listings come from? As it excluded WGBX, it apparently was from an edition not local to Boston.
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Boston edition.

Upon further research, WGBX was off the air from November through December of 1980 for transmitter repair.
 
Speaking of public TV as we were, I had a strange dream that I was watching a Carrascolendas episode with Agapito screaming in horror at something. Then the screen faded to black and Dick Cavett was saying "Daily Reading Time Part 2...." And there was a sign language interpreter at the top right of the screen. After that, I don't remember.
I'll tell you, I used to watch Carrascolendas and Villa Alegre in the 1970s. I liked the bilingual format of both shows, and I guess it gave me a love for learning Spanish. Today, with different Spanish radio and TV stations here in Boston, it's hard to escape it. Amazing, isn't it? We've come from bilingual TV shows to Hispanic media in 3 decades.
 
blackgold said:
Speaking of public TV as we were, I had a strange dream that I was watching a Carrascolendas episode with Agapito screaming in horror at something. Then the screen faded to black and Dick Cavett was saying "Daily Reading Time Part 2...." And there was a sign language interpreter at the top right of the screen. After that, I don't remember.
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Wow...I thought MY dreams were strange... ::)

blackgold said:
I'll tell you, I used to watch Carrascolendas and Villa Alegre in the 1970s. I liked the bilingual format of both shows, and I guess it gave me a love for learning Spanish.
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I was a big fan of Que Pasa, USA?, the very well-produced 3-camera sitcom from WPBT. I always said that, even if you're not bilingual, you'll still get half the jokes! ;D
 
WQTV-Ch. 68 (Ind.)
7:30 AM Christopher Closeup
8:00 AM Rex Humbard
9:30 AM Cliffhangers
11:00 AM Soul Train



Why so little programming. Had they just signed on as a new station or did they carry subscription programming during the rest of the day.
 
zman said:
WQTV-Ch. 68 (Ind.)
Why so little programming. Had they just signed on as a new station or did they carry subscription programming during the rest of the day.
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The latter was correct -- they had subscription TV service at the time called Star TV, which ran evenings and weekends. WQTV expanded their general programming after Star TV succumbed to rampant piracy in 1983.
 
azumanga said:
zman said:
WQTV-Ch. 68 (Ind.)
Why so little programming. Had they just signed on as a new station or did they carry subscription programming during the rest of the day.
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The latter was correct -- they had subscription TV service at the time called Star TV, which ran evenings and weekends. WQTV expanded their general programming after Star TV succumbed to rampant piracy in 1983.
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That's a Myth - it wasn't rampant piracy.

It was having to compete with PREVIEW on ch.27, 27 had a better advantage - being centrally located in Worcester, MA they had a greater market reach than 68. The 40 miles difference between the two transmitters made all the difference.

Did Piracy eventually do in ch27? That and the growth of Cable Television.
 
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