Retro: Bowling Green, KY Mar 21, 1998

[charlestondxman]

I have found a schedule from the Bowling Green Daily News, from March 21, 1998. It is from Google News Archive, and is from their TV Week section.

The stations are in a weird order, going by cable lineups instead of OTA.

WLKY 32 Louisville (CBS, cable 4 in Bowling Green)

5am CT: NewsChannel 32 This Morning
8: CBS News Saturday Morning
10: Sports Illustrated for Kids
10:30: Weird Al Yankovic Show
11: NewsChannel 32
11:30am: NCAA Division II Championship, Kentucky Wesleyan vs. UC-Davis (from Louisville, UC-Davis won)
2pm: The Final Four Show
2:30: NCAA Tournament, East Regional Final, North Carolina vs. Connecticut (from Greensboro, UNC won 75-64)
5: NCAA West Regional Final, Utah vs. Arizona (from Anaheim, CA, Utah won 76-51)
7: Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (Seven Kinds of Lonely)
8: The Magnificent Seven
9: Walker, Texas Ranger
10: NewsChannel 32
10:30- Baywatch: Homecoming
11:30: Save Our Streets
Midnight: Movie- "Last Stand at Saber River" (1997, Tom Selleck)
2am: NewsChannel 32
2:30- Signoff

WKNT 40 (Fox) Bowling Green (cable 7)

6am: Paid Program
6:30: Paid Program
7: Mowgli: The New Adventures of the Jungle Book
7:30- Ned's Newt
8: Goosebumps
8:30- Toonsylvania
9: Goosebumps
9:30- Space Goofs
10: Eerie, Indiana
10:30- The Silver Surfer
11: World Championship Wrestling
Noon- WWF
1: Paid Program
1:30: Paid Program
2: NHL Hockey (regional coverage, Bruins-Sabres or Avalanche-Sharks or Red Wings-Rangers or Panthers-Lightning or Flyers-Penguins or Coyotes-Kings)
5: Hercules: Journeys
6: Xena: Warrior Princess, The Deliverer
7- Cops (prostitution)
7:30- Cops (Las Vegas)
8: America's Most Wanted: America Fights Back
9: NYPD Blue
10: MAD TV ("En Vogue")
11: Highlander
Midnight: Movie- "Second Best" (1994, William Hurt)
2am: Paid Programs
5:30am: U.S. Farm Report

WSMV 4 (NBC) Nashville (cable 8)
6am: Wild Web
6:30- B. Smith with Style
7- Today
9- Saved By The Bell: The New Class
9:30: City Guys
10- Saved By The Bell: The New Class
10:30- Hang Time
11: NBA Inside Stuff
11:30- Paid Program
Noon: Outdoors
12:30- Travel
1: National Geographic
2- Golf: Bay Hill Invitational (from Orlando)
5: World's Dumbest Criminals
5:30- NBC Nightly News (Jack Ford)
6- Channel 4 News (Cynthia Williams)
7- TV Censored Bloopers '98
8- The Pretender (Amnesia)
9- Profiler (Every Five Minutes)
10: Channel 4 News
10:30- Saturday Night Live (rerun)
Midnight: World's Dumbest Criminals
12:30: Kwik Witz
1am: Comedy Showcase
2: NBC News Nightside
5:30: U.S. Farm Report

WBKO 13 (ABC) Bowling Green (cable 9)
6am: News (national or local?)
6:30: Martha Stewart Living
7: 101 Dalmatians: The Series
7:30: One Saturday Morning: “Recess”
9:30: The Bugs Bunny & Tweety Show
10:30: Jungle Cubs
11: Winnie The Pooh
11:30: Science Court
Noon: Bill Nye The Science Guy
12:30pm: Sing a Story
1: Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf, Second Round (from Ponte Vedra Beach, FL, live)
3:30- Speed Skating (World Speed Skating Championships, from Heerenveen, Netherlands)
4:30: IRL Phoenix 200 Qualifying (from Phoenix, AZ live)
5: Tubby Smith Show (Kentucky basketball)
5:30: ABC World News Tonight (Antonio Mora)
6: News
6:30: Wheel of Fortune
7: America’s Funniest Home Videos
8: Nothing Sacred: Holy Words
9: ABC News Saturday Night (James Earl Ray’s appeal status)
10: News
10:35- The X-Files (Roland)
11:35- Star Trek: DS9
12:35- Honey, I Shrunk The Kids
1:35- Conan (not Conan O’Brien)
2:30- It’s Showtime at the Apollo
3:30- Access Hollywood
4:30- Cops
5- Cops
5:30- News

WTVF 5 (CBS) Nashville (cable 10)

6am: NewsChannel 5 This Morning (preempts CBS News Saturday Morning)
9: Beakman’s World
9:30: CBS Storybreak
10: The New Ghostwriter Mysteries
10:30: Wheel 2000
11: Sports Illustrated For Kids
11:30: NCAA Division II Championship, Kentucky Wesleyan vs. UC-Davis
2pm: The Final Four Show
2:30: NCAA Tournament, East Regional Final, North Carolina vs. Connecticut
5: NCAA West Regional Final, Utah vs. Arizona
7: Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
8: The Magnificent Seven
9: Walker, Texas Ranger
10: NewsChannel 5 at 10
10:35: Walker, Texas Ranger (repeat)
11:35: The X-Files
12:35am: FX: The Series
1:30: Psi Factor: Paranormal
2:35: Walker, Texas Ranger
3:30: Sign-off
5am: Access Hollywood

WKYU 24 (PBS/KET) Bowling Green (cable 11)
Off the air till 8:30am

8:30am: Barney and Friends
9am: Barney and Friends
9:30am: Barney and Friends
10am: Barney and Friends
10:30am: Barney and Friends
11am: Kidsongs
11:30am: Newton’s Apple
Noon: All News Channel
12:30pm: Market (don’t know what this was)
1: America Sews
1:30: Sewing
2: Sewing
2:30: The Victory Garden
3: The Donna Dewberry Show
3:30: Sew Quilts
4: Hometime
4:30: Woodwright’s Shop with Roy Underhill
5: Bill Saiff’s Rod and Reel
5:30: Fly Tying
6: All News Channel
6:30: Main Street
7: Anyplace Wild
7:30: Tracks Ahead
8: Nature (The Crater Lions)
9: Pole to Pole (Ngorongoro Crater trek)
10: Wine 101- Storage
10:30: Cabin Country
11pm sign-off

WKRN 2 (ABC) Nashville (cable 13)

6am: Better Homes & Gardens
6:30am: This Old House
7: 101 Dalmatians
7:30: One Saturday Morning, “Recess” (TVY)
9:30: The Bugs Bunny & Tweety Show
10:30: Jungle Cubs
11: Winnie The Pooh
11:30: Science Court
Noon: Step by Step
12:30pm: Full House
1: Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf, Second Round
3:30: Speed Skating
4:30: Phoenix 500 Qualifying
5: News 2 at 5
5:30: ABC World News Tonight
6: Entertainment Tonight
7: America’s Funniest Home Videos
8: Nothing Sacred- Holy Words
9: ABC News Saturday Night
10: News 2 at 10
10:35: NYPD Blue (Dead and Gone)
11:35: Different World
12:05am: Step by Step
12:35: Beverly Hills 90210
1:35: ABC In Concert
2:05: The Cosby Show
2:35: Full House
Sign-off 3:05am
5am: Full House
5:30am: Wall Street Journal This Week

WKGB 53 (PBS/KET2) Bowling Green (cable 14)
Sign-on 7am

7am: The Book of Virtues
7:30am: The Book of Virtues
8:30am: Virtues
9am: Virtues
9:30: Cross-Stitching
10: Sewing with Nancy
10:30: Quilting with Penny McMorris
11: UK News
11:30: Thinking Allowed
Noon: Out of the Past
1pm: Marketing
1:30: Marketing
2: Taking the Lead
2:30: Taking the Lead
3: KET/GED
3:30: KET/GED
4: Kentucky General Assembly
4:30: Firing Line
5: Country Music
6:30: Austin City Limits, Loretta Lynn
8: Remembering Patsy Cline
9: Willie Nelson: Down Home
10:30pm signoff

WZTV 17 (Fox) Nashville (cable 15)
6am: Dogs
6:30: Beast Wars
7: Mowgli: The New Adventures of the Jungle Book
7:30- Ned's Newt
8: Goosebumps
8:30- Toonsylvania
9: Goosebumps
9:30- Space Goofs
10: Eerie, Indiana
10:30- The Silver Surfer
11: Xena, Warrior Princess
Noon: Hercules, Journeys
1pm: 16th Country Showdown
2: NHL Hockey, Detroit Red Wings at New York Rangers
5: Soapdish (1991, Sally Field)
7: Cops
7:30: Cops
8: America’s Most Wanted: America Fights Back
9: Seinfeld
9:30: Mad About You
10: MAD TV (“En Vogue”)
11: Tales from the Crypt
11:30: Tales from the Crypt
Midnight: Paid Program
12:30am: Bounty Hunters
1:30: Paid Program
2: Almost Live!
2:30am: Paid Programs (till 5am)
5: Andy Griffith
5:30: Paid Program

WDCN 8 (PBS) Nashville (cable 16)
6am: Reflections
6:30: Holy Rosary
7: GED
7:30: GED
8: Décor
8:30: Quilting with Penny McMorris
9am: Sewing With Nancy
9:30: America’s Master Gardener
10: Woof! A Guide to Dog Training
11:30: Animal (don’t know what this is)
Noon: Guide To Dog Training
1pm: Channel Eight Cooks: Celebrity Edition (host Elaine Ganick)
3:30: Katherine Hepburn: All About Me
5: Great Moments in Opera
6:30: Lawrence Welk (with Norma Zimmer)
7:30: Glenn Miller’s Greatest Hits (Kathie Lee Gifford hosts)
9: Keeping Up Appearances
10:30: Sessions at West 54th
11: Our Lady of the Angels Monastery Mass
Midnight: Miracle of Guadalupe
1am: Mother Angelica
2: Catholic
2:30am: Voyage
3: Morality
3:30: Evangel
4: Questions
4:30: Evangel
5: Fatima
5:30: Papal Mass

WXMT 30 (UPN) Nashville
Primetime only
7: Voices from Within (1994, JoBeth Williams, Corbin Bernsen
9: Conan: The Curse of Alice
10: Roc
10:30: It’s Showtime at the Apollo
11:30: Roc

WAVE 3 (NBC) Louisville
Primetime only
7: TV Censored Bloopers ‘98
8: The Pretender
9: Profiler
10: News
10:30: Saturday Night Live

 

[Mike Stroud]

According to that veritable storehouse of information Wikipedia (!), with WNKY, channel 40, now having NBC and CBS subchannels, the Louisville and Nashville stations have all been eliminated from southern Kentucky cable systems. I wonder if longtime viewers miss the likes of WSMV, WAVE, and WTVF, or if nobody really paid attention to them being dropped (I suspect more than latter, given the increasing disinterest in networks and local programming these days).

While it looks strange at first to see Louisville UHF WLKY on the Bowling Green system instead of VHF WHAS, there is an explanation. Local station WBKO had been an ABC affil since the late 1960s. WLKY had been with ABC since its 1961 beginnings, while WHAS was a CBS affil, something the Bowling Green market did not have until, believe it or not, 2007 (on WNKY-DT2). So WHAS took up one channel on the old 12-channel lineup and stayed there until WHAS and WLKY switched networks in 1990. Since it would not have been fair to CBS to have only one station (WTVF), while NBC would have had two (WSMV and WAVE) and ABC a full three (WBKO, WHAS and WKRN), the cable systems in and around southern Kentucky decided to drop WHAS in the early 1990s and use relays, now quite inexpensive, to bring the WLKY signal southward. As for NBC, when WNKY joined the net in 2001, I suspect WAVE at least had already been dropped, and WSMV was likely on the way out, too, if not already gone.

It was a question of balance, dear Watson. Now, in these days of a gazillion niche networks, it is all ancient history.

 

[radiorob2.0]

Interesting WKRN (ABC) is on Cable 13. Besides the ingress issue, I assume during network programming WBKO replaced WKRN.

The last time I looked at a Daily News the only non-Bowling Green OTA still on cable is WTVF burried on a high cable number. The rest of the networks are subchannels of WBKO and WNKY. WTVF has a de-facto status on many cable systems in southern Kentucky. Until recently they were on cable systems as far north as McLean County Kentucky. That changed when Time Warner took over the system and imported the Owensboro line up from adjoining Daviess County. WSMV is found on a few cable systems north of the border but not as frequent as WTVF.

 

[Mike Stroud]

Interesting WKRN (ABC) is on Cable 13. Besides the ingress issue, I assume during network programming WBKO replaced WKRN.

The last time I looked at a Daily News the only non-Bowling Green OTA still on cable is WTVF burried on a high cable number. The rest of the networks are subchannels of WBKO and WNKY. WTVF has a de-facto status on many cable systems in southern Kentucky. Until recently they were on cable systems as far north as McLean County Kentucky. That changed when Time Warner took over the system and imported the Owensboro line up from adjoining Daviess County. WSMV is found on a few cable systems north of the border but not as frequent as WTVF.

Ummm ... things get more interesting since McLean County is actually in the Evansville-Owensboro market. Much of that whole section of western Kentucky must have been a toss-up between Evansville stations and Nashville-Bowling Green ones OTA. I would guess WTVW (then Evansville ABC), WSM/V (Nashville NBC), WLAC/WTVF (Nashville CBS), all VHFs, would have been the preferred configuration for a lot of folk. Some of the cable systems in towns might have thus had a complement of nine stations (including the two PBS outlets, WNIN Evansville, a VHF, and Kentucky Educational Television, all translators on UHF), leaving only three blank for local public access and/or a weather display. These boundary areas between markets are a disappearing species--or perhaps have already disappeared, as the Bowling Green case seems to prove.

 

[radiorob2.0]

Interesting WKRN (ABC) is on Cable 13. Besides the ingress issue, I assume during network programming WBKO replaced WKRN.

The last time I looked at a Daily News the only non-Bowling Green OTA still on cable is WTVF burried on a high cable number. The rest of the networks are subchannels of WBKO and WNKY. WTVF has a de-facto status on many cable systems in southern Kentucky. Until recently they were on cable systems as far north as McLean County Kentucky. That changed when Time Warner took over the system and imported the Owensboro line up from adjoining Daviess County. WSMV is found on a few cable systems north of the border but not as frequent as WTVF.

Ummm ... things get more interesting since McLean County is actually in the Evansville-Owensboro market. Much of that whole section of western Kentucky must have been a toss-up between Evansville stations and Nashville-Bowling Green ones OTA. I would guess WTVW (then Evansville ABC), WSM/V (Nashville NBC), WLAC/WTVF (Nashville CBS), all VHFs, would have been the preferred configuration for a lot of folk. Some of the cable systems in towns might have thus had a complement of nine stations (including the two PBS outlets, WNIN Evansville, a VHF, and Kentucky Educational Television, all translators on UHF), leaving only three blank for local public access and/or a weather display. These boundary areas between markets are a disappearing species--or perhaps have already disappeared, as the Bowling Green case seems to prove.

Actually, Owensboro isn't part of the market name. Speaking of Owensboro, Time Warner still offers WDRB Louisville on cable and has been on the system since the early seventies. The agreement today between the Evansville TV stations and the cable system allows WDRB on the system if offered on a high dial position.

Time Warner Owensboro has swallowed up the surrounding systems and offer the Owensboro line up. IIRC Hancock County, one county east of Owensboro, offered Evansville and Louisville on their line up prior to Time Warner. Ohio County, south of Owensboro and not part of Time Warner, at last check still offered WBKO and possibly WSMV along with Evansville. Madisonville as of 2006 still had WPSD Paducah and WBKO on their cable and that is part of the Evansville DMA.