source: The Boston GlobeRETRO BOSTON/PROVIDENCE TV- Sunday December 17, 1978BOSTONWGBH-TV 2 (PBS)8am- Sesame Street9am- Mister Rogers9:30- Electric Company10am- It’s Everybody’s Business11am- The Growing Years12pm- Sports Weekly1pm- Great Performances2pm- Evening at Symphony3pm- Long Search4pm- Europe5pm- Black Perspective5:30- Say Brother6:30- Turnabout7pm- Crockett's Garden7:30- Julia Child and Company8pm- Simple Gifts9pm- Duchess of Duke Street10pm- Movie- Harlan County USA (documentary)11:45pm- Sign-offWBZ-TV 4 (NBC)6:30- Living Word6:45- Davey and Goliath7am- Show of Faith7:30- Nosotros Theatre 10am- Insight10:30- A Show of Faith11am- Community Auditions11:30- Eyewitness News12pm- Meet the Press12:30- Patriots '781pm- NFL Football- Cleveland Browns @ Cincinnati Bengals4pm- World of Survival4:30- Last of the Wild5pm- Interrogation in Budapest6pm- Eyewitness News6:30- NBC News7pm- Hallmark Hall of Fame- “Stubby Pringle’s Christmas”8pm- Drama Special- “Winds of Kitty Hawk”10pm- Sword 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RETRO BOSTON/PROVIDENCE TV- Sunday December 17, 1978
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Peter J. Wiggins said:[snip]12:30- NFL Football- New York Giants @ Philadelphia Eagles4pm- NFL Football- Minnesota Vikings @ Oakland Raiders[snip]Didn't NFL Today air at 12:30 et in those days, with the early games airing at 1 pm et (except in Baltimore where due to blue laws they aired at 2 pm et?As for those matchups, I can tell you that this Philadelphia area native and Eagles fan attended that game at Veterans Stadium. Phi 20, NYG 3, finishing a 9-7 season. Then the Birds had to await the outcomes of Min@Oak and GB@LA Rams, both of which were blacked out in Philly, although I read at the time where some of the Eagles watched the Minnesota game at Bookbinders in Society Hill on closed circuit. The Eagles, in order to gain a wild card (Atl had clinched the other wc in the NFC), needed, besides winning their own game, losses by either the Vikes or the Pack. Both Min and GB lost (WIP 610 carried GB/Rams after the Eagles/Giants game ended), giving the Eagles more help than they needed to end an 18-year playoff drought. Thanks, Peter, for rekindling one of my high school senior year memories.[snip]WSMW-TV 27 (Ind.)[snip]Isn't TV 27 licensed to Worcester? I watched some of its Univision programming when I visited Boston recently. The first time I had ever watched Univision or Galavision via an affiliate rather than my DirecTV.ixnay
Yep. It must have been listed differently in the Globe.Certain games in the Central time zone also started at 2 Eastern/1 Central up until 1980 or so. Apparently most NFL games started at 1pm local time at one point.ixnay said:
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12:30- NFL Football- New York Giants @ Philadelphia Eagles
4pm- NFL Football- Minnesota Vikings @ Oakland Raiders
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Didn't NFL Today air at 12:30 et in those days, with the early games airing at 1 pm et (except in Baltimore where due to blue laws they aired at 2 pm et)?
As for those matchups, I can tell you that this Philadelphia area native and Eagles fan attended that game at Veterans Stadium. Phi 20, NYG 3, finishing a 9-7 season. Then the Birds had to await the outcomes of Min@Oak and GB@LA Rams, both of which were blacked out in Philly, although I read at the time where some of the Eagles watched the Minnesota game at Bookbinders in Society Hill on closed circuit. The Eagles, in order to gain a wild card (Atl had clinched the other wc in the NFC), needed, besides winning their own game, losses by either the Vikes or the Pack. Both Min and GB lost (WIP 610 carried GB/Rams after the Eagles/Giants game ended; I listened to it), giving the Eagles more help than they needed to end an 18-year playoff drought.
Thanks, Peter, for rekindling one of my high school senior year memories.
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WSMW-TV 27 (Ind.)
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Isn't TV 27 licensed to Worcester? I watched some of its Univision programming when I visited Boston recently. The first time I had ever watched Univision or Galavision via an affiliate rather than my DirecTV.
ixnay
P.S. This is a redoing of my first contribution to this thread, reformatted for better readability.
12:30- NFL Football- New York Giants @ Philadelphia Eagles
4pm- NFL Football- Minnesota Vikings @ Oakland Raiders
-snip-
Didn't NFL Today air at 12:30 et in those days, with the early games airing at 1 pm et (except in Baltimore where due to blue laws they aired at 2 pm et)?
As for those matchups, I can tell you that this Philadelphia area native and Eagles fan attended that game at Veterans Stadium. Phi 20, NYG 3, finishing a 9-7 season. Then the Birds had to await the outcomes of Min@Oak and GB@LA Rams, both of which were blacked out in Philly, although I read at the time where some of the Eagles watched the Minnesota game at Bookbinders in Society Hill on closed circuit. The Eagles, in order to gain a wild card (Atl had clinched the other wc in the NFC), needed, besides winning their own game, losses by either the Vikes or the Pack. Both Min and GB lost (WIP 610 carried GB/Rams after the Eagles/Giants game ended; I listened to it), giving the Eagles more help than they needed to end an 18-year playoff drought.
Thanks, Peter, for rekindling one of my high school senior year memories.
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WSMW-TV 27 (Ind.)
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Isn't TV 27 licensed to Worcester? I watched some of its Univision programming when I visited Boston recently. The first time I had ever watched Univision or Galavision via an affiliate rather than my DirecTV.
ixnay
P.S. This is a redoing of my first contribution to this thread, reformatted for better readability.
The episode of Battlestar Galactica that aired that night was "Fire In Space".
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