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Retro: Calgary Mon, Aug 4, 1980

from Calgary Sun (from the paper's first-ever TV supplement)
Spokane stations listed MT

CFAC 2-Ind Calgary
6:00 Doug Hall
6:30 100 Huntley Street
8:00 Hammy Hamster
8:30 It Figures
9:00 Access (Alberta educational programs)
11:00 Klondike Days Parade (from the city that's a swear word in Calgary :D...2&7 usually aired Fry Pan Man at 11, Stan Kann at 11:30, Good Times at noon, and News at 12:30)
1:00 Young & the Restless
2:00 Maude
2:30 Yan Can
3:00 Candid Calgary
4:00 Bewitched
4:30 Hogan's Heroes
5:00 Price is Right
6:00 Ray St. Germain (pre-empts news)
6:30 Magic Palace (this 2&7 produced show was syndied)
7:00 Smith & Smith (guest Mark LaForm)
7:30 Little House on the Prairie
8:30 Flo
9:00 Lou Grant
10:00 Jonathan Winters' Tribute to Baseball
11:00 Street Talk "Have We Accepted Violence as a Way of Life?"
11:30 Nashville Swing
mid. Movie "Blood, Sweat & Fear"
1:50 Dating Game

KREM 2-CBS Spokane
6:55 Down to Earth
7:00 Summer Semester
7:30 Superman
8:00 Monday Morning
8:25 Agriculture '80
8:30 Monday Morning
9:00 Captain Kangaroo
10:00 Jeffersons
10:30 Alice
11:00 Price is Right
noon News
12:19 Topic
12:25 The Butcher
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Young & the Restless
2:00 As the World Turns
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 John Davidson (co-host Gil Gerard/guests Elke Sommer, Maureen McGovern, Gina Hecht, and Gladys Gerard)
5:30 Emergency One!
6:30 News
7:00 CBS Evening News
7:30 Star Trek
8:30 Tic Tac Dough
9:00 Flo
9:30 WKRP in Cincinnati
10:00 M*A*S*H
10:30 House Calls
11:00 Lou Grant
mid. News
12:30 Harry O
1:40 CBS Late Movie "The Conversation"
3:45 Agriculture '80

CFCN 4-CTV Calgary
5:00 700 Club
6:00 University of the Air
6:30 Ed Allen
7:00 Canada AM
9:00 Romper Room
9:30 What's Cooking
10:00 Yoga
10:30 McGowan & Company
11:00 Mad Dash
11:30 Joyce Davidson
noon Bad News Bears
12:30 Uncle Bobby
1:00 Alan Hamel
2:00 Another World
3:00 Texas
4:00 Bugs Bunny/Flintstones
5:00 Six Million Dollar Man
6:00 News
6:30 Definition
7:00 M*A*S*H
7:30 Circus (acts include Gee Gee's Kozak Elephants, Rolan's Roly Poly, Sgt. Dupont & Sparky, the Franciscus family (teeterboard), Billy Van (as The Great Explodo), and Pablo's Aerial Bars)
8:30 Headline Hunters
9:00 Movie "From Here to Eternity: Crossroads and Secrets" (pt 2)
11:00 CTV National News
11:20 News
11:30 Second City Television
mid. Newlywed Game
12:30 Match Game
1:00 Family Feud

KXLY 4-ABC Spokane
6:55 Farm Reports
7:00 Agriculture USA
7:30 Cartoons
8:00 Good Morning America
9:25 Daybreak AM
9:30 Good Morning America
10:00 Donahue
11:00 Love Boat
noon Family Feud
12:30 All My Children
1:30 Dialing for Dollars
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Ryan's Hope
4:30 Flintstones
5:00 Gilligan's Island
5:30 Lucy Show
6:00 Match Game
6:30 News
7:00 ABC World News Tonight
7:30 Sanford & Son
8:00 Joker's Wild
8:30 Carol Burnett & Friends (guest Jim Nabors)
9:00 That's Incredible! (an encounter with a ghost, a woman who recreates faces on skulls, a fire stunt that went wrong)
10:00 ABC Movie "Intimate Strangers"
mid. News
12:30 ABC News Nightline
12:50 Movie: TBA

KHQ 6-NBC Spokane
6:48 Farm & Home Report
7:18 Huckleberry Hound/Yogi Bear
8:00 Today
8:25 Agriculture Today
8:30 Today
9:25 News
9:30 Today
10:00 David Letterman
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 Password Plus
noon Card Sharks
12:30 Doctors
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 Texas
4:00 Gunsmoke
5:00 Merv Griffin (guests Mark Hamill, Peter Ustinov, Gallagher, Jane Seymour, and Kurt Russell)
6:30 News
7:00 NBC Nightly News
7:30 Cross-Wits
8:00 Bob Newhart
8:30 PM Magazine
9:00 Little House on the Prairie
10:00 Movie "From Here to Eternity: Crossroads and Secrets" (pt 2)
mid. News
12:30 Tonight Show
2:00 Tomorrow

KSPS 7-PBS Spokane
off air due to transmitter maintenance, programs returned on the 8th
usual daytime sked...
9:15 AM Weather
9:30 Zoom
10:00 Sesame Street
11:00 Studio See
11:30 Zoom
noon Sesame Street
1:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
1:30 Electric Company
2:00 various programs
3:30 Dick Cavett
4:00 various
4:30 Villa Alegre
5:00 Sesame Street
6:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
6:30 Electric Company
7:00 Zoom
7:30 Over Easy
8:00 MacNeil-Lehere Report
8:30 Dick Cavett

late-night:
mid. Dick Cavett
12:30 Captioned ABC News


CBRT 9-CBC Calgary
10:15 Friendly Giant
10:30 Mr. Dressup
11:00 Sesame Street
noon Coronation Street
12:30 Wok with Yan
1:00 Canadians
1:30 Science Magazine
2:00 Edge of Night
2:30 Take 30 from Winnipeg (during the summer, the normally Toronto-based show was based at various CBC stations...that week: Tues-Sydney, Wed-Ottawa, Thurs-Saskatoon, and Fri-Toronto)
3:00 Summer Festival
4:00 Beyond Reason
4:30 All in the Family
5:00 Beachcombers
5:30 Mary Tyler Moore
6:00 CBC Evening News
6:30 Authors
7:00 Happy Days Again
7:30 House Calls
8:00 White Shadow
9:00 M*A*S*H
9:30 WKRP in Cincinnati
10:00 CBC Newsmagazine
10:30 This Land
11:00 The National
11:27 News
11:45 Robin's Nest

CBRFT 16-SRC Calgary (relay of CBXFT 11-Edmonton)
10:15 En mouvement
10:30 You Hou
10:45 Oum le dauphin blanc
11:00 Magazine-Express
11:30 Un animal, des animaux
noon Les Pierrafeu (Flintstones)
12:30 Sur des roulettes
1:00 Reflets d'un pays
1:55 Le Telejournal
2:00 Documentaires
2:30 Cinema "A pied, a cheval et en voiture"
4:00 Animagerie
4:30 Sol et Gobelet
5:00 La legende des chevaliers aux 108 etolies "Le tresor"
6:00 Ce soir Alberta
6:30 Rencontres
7:00 Pistroli (guests Patsy Gallant, Emile Hache, and Eddy Poirier...based on the guest list, this sounds like this was done out of CBAFT Moncton, my local SRC station)
7:30 A contrepoids
8:00 Scenario "La femme au geranium" (conclusion)
8:30 Tele-Selection "On m'appelle Dollars"
10:30 Le Telejournal
10:50 Derniere edition
11:10 Splendeurs et miseres des courtisanes (pt 7)
12:10 Les grands batailles du passe "La bataille des Dardanelles (1915)"

Calgary's cable line-up at the time...
2 KSPS-PBS
3 KHQ-NBC
4 News/Weather
5 CFCN-CTV
6 CBRT-CBC
7 CFAC-Ind
8 KXLY-ABC
9 Stocks/Shopping Guide/Community News/House of Commons
10 Community Channel
11 CBRFT-SRC
12 KREM-CBS
13 CETC (local educational channel)
 
Not one station in Calgary had an hour-long suppertime newscast? Or was the first Monday of August a holiday in Alberta as it is in Ontario?
 
M.J. said:
Not one station in Calgary had an hour-long suppertime newscast? Or was the first Monday of August a holiday in Alberta as it is in Ontario?

According to the listings, no hour-long news shows in Calgary at that particular time...
 
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