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Retro: Central Indiana Tues, Jan 20, 1981

In honor of President Obama's being re-inaugurated today for a second term, a look at how TV covered President Reagan's first inauguration, from TV Guide-Central Indiana edition

All listings Eastern Time

WTWO 2-NBC Terre Haute
6:00 Today in Illiana
6:15 Agriculture Today
6:30 Country Day
7:00 Today (inauguration coverage, plus profiles of Democratic Senators Gary Hart (CO), Bill Bradley (NJ), and Paul Tsongas (MA)
9:00 Phil Donahue (guest: National Enquirer editor Haydon Cameron)
10:00 Presidential Inauguration (John Chancellor/Roger Mudd til 2, followed by Tom Brokaw/Jane Pauley)
4:00 Petticoat Junction
4:30 Mike Douglas (co-host Susan Anton/guests Don Hom, Bob Hope, Lynda Carter, and T.G. Sheppard)
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 M*A*S*H
7:30 Happy Days Again
8:00 Lobo
9:00 BJ & the Bear
10:00 Flamingo Road
11:00 News
11:30 NBC News Special (Jessica Savitch with a recap of the day's events)
mid. Tonight Show (guests Johnny Mathis, Kelly Monteith, and Marilu Tolo)
1:00 Tomorrow Coast-to-Coast
2:30 News

WTTV 4-Ind Indianapolis
5:30 Brian Bex
6:00 RFD 4
6:30 700 Club
7:30 Cowboy Bob's Corral
8:00 Janie
9:00 Phil Donahue (no details listed)
10:00 John Davidson (co-host Robert Blake/guests Garry Coleman, Johnny Paycheck, and Jane Seymour)
11:00 Mike Douglas (co-host Jerry Lewis/guests Sophia Loren, Cheryl Tiegs, and Lee Salk)
noon Bob Braun
1:30 Jim Gerard
2:00 Your Show
3:00 Fred Flintstone & Friends
3:30 Three Stooges (bw)
4:00 Woody Woodpecker
4:30 Little Rascals (bw)
5:00 Flintstones
5:30 Brady Bunch
6:00 Good Timres
6:30 Welcome Back, Kotter
7:00 Sanford & Son
7:30 All in the Family
8:00 Gunsmoke
9:00 Joker's Wild
9:30 Tic Tac Dough
10:00 News
11:00 Newlywed Game
11:30 Streets of San Francisco
12:30 Movie "Green Dolphin Street" (bw)
3:15 Movie "The Romance of Rosy Ridge" (bw)

WRTV 6-ABC Indianapolis
6:10 Livin' for the City
6:40 Good Morning Indiana
7:00 Good Morning America (3 hr special; look at Inauguration Day)
10:00 Presidential Inauguration (Frank Reynolds/Barbara Walters/and a very busy Ted Koppel, who also hosts Nightline that night)
4:30 Merv Griffin (guests Ron Ely, Randi Oakes, Jim Palmer, Lacy J. Dalton, and Jim Samuels/JIP, Merv usually started at 4)
5:00 Barney Miller
5:30 World of People (interviews with Kris Kristofferson and Graham Nash/aboard the QE II)
6:00 News
7:00 ABC World News Tonight
7:30 Face the Music
8:00 Happy Days
8:30 Laverne & Shirley
9:00 Three's Company
9:30 Too Close for Comfort
10:00 Hart to Hart
11:00 News
11:30 ABC News Nightline
12:30 Medical Center

WISH 8-CBS Indianapolis
6:30 Captain Kangaroo
7:30 Indy Today
8:00 CBS Morning News
9:00 Beverly Hillbillies
9:30 I Dream of Jeannie
10:00 Presidential Inauguration (Walter Cronkite solo)
3:30 Alice
4:00 Hour Magazine (guest Lee Remick/hypnosis)
5:00 Bewitched
5:30 Andy Griffith
6:00 News
7:00 CBS Evening News
7:30 PM Magazine (segments on the Commodores, and St. Jude's Hospital in Memphis)
8:00 White Shadow
9:00 Time for Love (Mike Connors and Florence Henderson with a special on Children's Village USA, which cares for abused children in Southern California)
11:00 News
11:45 Lou Grant
12:55 Movie "The Ultimate Chase" (originally "The Ultimate Thrill")
2:45 News

WGN 9-Ind Chicago
5:40 TBA
6:55 Top o' the Morning
7:25 News
7:30 Bullwinkle
8:00 Ray Rayner
9:00 Bozo Show
10:00 Bewitched
10:30 Your New Day
11:00 Mike Douglas (no info listed)
noon Phil Donahue (ditto)
1:00 Andy Griffith (bw)
1:30 Love, American Style
2:00 Movie "Tender is the Night" (conclusion)
4:00 Bugs Bunny & Friends
4:30 Scooby-Doo
5:00 Flintstones
5:30 I Dream of Jeannie
6:00 Good Times
6:30 Welcome Back, Kotter
7:00 Barney Miller
7:30 Carol Burnett & Friends
8:00 Movie "The Phantom of the Opera"
10:00 News
11:00 Hollywood Squares
11:30 Prisoner: Cell Block H
mid. Movie "The Oregon Trail"
1:45 News
2:15 Movie "Morocco" (bw)
4:05 TBA

WTHI 10-CBS Terre Haute
6:00 Captain Kangaroo
7:00 CBS Morning News
8:00 Hour Magazine (hazards of some baby formulas/guests Susan Clark and Alex Karras)
9:00 One Day at a Time
9:30 Face the Music
10:00 Presidential Inauguration
3:30 Alice
4:00 Tom & Jerry
4:30 Captain Jack
5:00 Leave It to Beaver (bw)
5:30 Andy Griffith (bw)
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 PM Magazine (as ch 8 )
7:30 Tic Tac Dough
8:00 White Shadow
9:00 Movie "When the Circus Came to Town"
11:00 News
11:30 Lou Grant
12:40 Movie "Togetherness"

WTHR 13-NBC Indianapolis
6:00 Brain Game
6:30 Richard Simmons
7:00 Today
9:00 Gilligan's Island
9:30 Dick Van Dyke (bw)
10:00 Presidential Inauguration
4:00 I Love Lucy (bw)
4:30 Rockford Files
5:30 M*A*S*H
6:00 News
7:00 NBC Nightly News
7:30 Family Feud
8:00 Lobo
9:00 BJ & the Bear
10:00 Flamingo Road
11:00 News
11:30 NBC News Special
mid. Tonight Show
1:00 Tomorrow Coast-to-Coast
2:30 News

WTBS 17-Ind Atlanta
5:00 Rat Patrol
5:30 Open Up
6:30 Family Affair
7:00 Funtime
8:00 I Love Lucy (bw)
8:30 I Dream of Jeannie
9:00 Hazel
9:30 Green Acres
10:00 Movie "The Gay Divorcee" (bw)
noon Freeman Reports
1:00 Movie "Odongo"
2:50 Funtime
3:30 Space Giants
4:00 Flintstones
4:30 Gilligan's Island
5:00 Brady Bunch
5:30 Beverly Hillbillies
6:00 Carol Burnett & Friends
6:30 Bob Newhart
7:00 All in the Family
7:30 Sanford & Son
8:00 Movie "Soldier of Fortune"
10:00 News
11:00 Night Gallery
11:30 Movie "Bright Leaf" (bw)
1:45 Movie "Sincerely Yours"
4:10 Movie "Romance of the Conquered"

WLFI 18-CBS Lafayette
6:00 TBA
8:00 CBS Morning News
9:00 Captain Kangaroo
10:00 Presidential Inauguration
3:30 Alice
4:00 One Day at a Time
4:30 My Three Sons
5:00 Beverly Hillbillies
5:30 M*A*S*H
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Rockford Files
8:00 White Shadow
9:00 Movie "When the Circus Came to Town"
11:00 News
11:30 Lou Grant
12:40 Movie "Togetherness"

WFYI 20-PBS Indianapolis
6:45 Writing for a Reason
7:15 AM Weather
7:30 Over Easy (guest Joan Mondale)
8:00 Villa Alegre
8:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Lilias, Yoga & You
10:30 Odyssey "N!ai,, the Story of a !Kung Woman" (following 27 years in the life of a South African Bushwoman)
11:30 This Old House
noon Dick Cavett (Clare Boothe Luce, pt 1)
12:30 MacNeil-Lehrer Report
1:00 Drama: Play, Performance, Perception
2:00 All Creatures Great & Small
3:00 Over Easy (National Institute of Aging director Robert Butler/photography of Imogen Cunningham/journalist Adela Rogers St. John)
3:30 Lilias, Yoga & You
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6:00 3-2-1 Contact
6:30 Writing for a Reason
7:00 Over Easy (repeat from 3pm)
7:30 MacNeil-Lehrer Report
8:00 Nova "Message in the Rocks" (scientists study stones in Greenland, meteorites in Antarctica, and volcanos in search of the earth's origins)
9:00 Mystery! "Malice Aforethought" (pt 1)
10:00 Inauguration Highlights
11:00 Dick Cavett (conclusion from noon)
11:30 Captioned ABC News

WVUT 22-PBS Vincennes
7:45 AM Weather
8:00 Villa Alegre
8:30 Watch Your Mouth!
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Letter Shop
10:30 Writing for a Reason
11:00 3-2-1 Contact
11:30 Presidential Inauguration (Paul Duke, who also does the 10pm recap)
1:30 3-2-1 Contact
2:00 Indiana Outdoors
2:30 Crockett's Victory Garden
3:00 Watch Your Mouth!
3:30 Villa Alegre
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6:00 News
6:30 Growing Years
7:00 Dick Cavett (as ch 20)
7:30 MacNeil-Lehrer Report
8:00 Nova "Message in the Rocks"
9:00 Mystery! "Malice Aforethought" (pt 1)
10:00 Presidential Inauguration
11:00 Dick Cavett
11:30 Captioned ABC News

WTIU 30-PBS Bloomington
8:45 AM Weather
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
10:30 Electric Company
11:00 3-2-1 Contact
11:30 Presidential Inauguration
1:30 3-2-1 Contact
2:00 Trade-Offs
2:30 Thinkabout
3:00 Watch Your Mouth!
3:30 Lilias, Yoga & You
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Focus on Children
6:00 3-2-1 Contact
6:30 Over Easy (as ch 20)
7:00 This Old House
7:30 MacNeil-Lehrer Report
8:00 Nova "Message in the Rocks"
9:00 Mystery! "Malice Aforethought" (pt 1)
10:00 30 Live Tonight "What's Up There in Outer Space"
11:00 Dick Cavett
11:30 Captioned ABC News

WFLD 32-Ind Chicago
7:00 Newstalk
7:30 Three Stooges (bw)
8:00 Tom & Jerry
8:30 Great Space Coaster
9:00 Popeye
9:30 Fred Flintstone & Friends
10:00 Richard Simmons
10:30 Please Don't Eat the Daisies
11:00 Partridge Family
11:30 Green Acres
noon Monkees
12:30 Munsters (bw)
1:00 Underdog
1:30 Tennessee Tuxedo
2:00 I Love Lucy (bw)
2:30 Courtship of Eddie's Father
3:00 Beverly Hillbillies (bw)
3:30 Casper the Ghost
4:00 Mighty Mouse/Heckle & Jeckle
4:30 Woody Woodpecker
5:00 Tom & Jerry
5:30 Brady Bunch
6:00 Happy Days Again
6:30 Sanford & Son
7:00 M*A*S*H
7:30 All in the Family
8:00 PM Magazine (as ch 8 )
8:30 Joker's Wild
9:00 Tic Tac Dough
9:30 To Tell the Truth
10:00 All in the Family
10:30 Honeymooners (bw)
10:55 News
11:00 M*A*S*H
11:30 Benny Hill
mid. Three Stooges "Idle Roomers" (bw)
12:30 Newstalk

WBAK 38-ABC Terre Haute (presented as listed...did 38 really blow off the inauguration to show movies instead? ???)
6:45 Good Morning Valley
7:00 Good Morning America (38 only ran the first 2 hrs that morning)
9:00 PTL Club
11:00 Movie "The Grapes of Wrath" (bw)
2:00 Movie "King Creole" (bw)
4:30 Battle of the Planets
5:00 Star Trek
6:00 Brady Bunch
6:30 Odd Couple (yep, 38 blew off WNT too)
7:00 Let's Make a Deal
7:30 Prisoner: Cell Block H
8:00 Happy Days
8:30 Laverne & Shirley
9:00 Three's Company
9:30 Too Close for Comfort
10:00 Hart to Hart
11:00 News
11:30 ABC News Nightline
12:30 News

WHMB 40-Ind/Rel Indianapolis
5:45 News
6:00 PTL Club
8:00 Lester Sumrall Teaches
8:30 Light 'n' Lively
9:00 Today with Lester Sumrall
10:00 700 Club
11:30 Charisma
noon Today with Lester Sumrall
1:00 Light 'n' Lively
1:30 Lester Sumrall Teaches
2:00 Cartoon Festival
2:30 Banana Splits
3:00 New Zoo Revue
3:30 Bugs Bunny & Friends
4:00 Tennessee Tuxedo
4:30 Underdog
5:00 Bullwinkle
5:30 Leave It to Beaver (bw)
6:00 Community Forum
6:30 Insight
7:00 Revival Fires
7:30 God's News Behind the News
8:00 Lester Sumrall Teaches
8:30 Seeds of Growth
9:00 Today with Lester Sumrall
10:00 Northwest Assembly of God
10:30 Contact
11:00 Praise the Lord
mid. News

WIPB 49-PBS Muncie
8:45 AM Weather
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
10:30 Thinkabout
11:00 Writing for a Reason
11:30 Electric Company
noon Sesame Street
1:00 MacNeil-Lehrer Report
1:30 Second Look
2:00 Nova "Umealit: The Whale Hunters" (Eskimos vs environmentalists over hunting bowhead whales)
3:00 Over Easy (Joan Mondale)
3:30 Lilias, Yoga & You
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Second Look
5:55 News
6:00 3-2-1 Contact
6:30 Over Easy (Butler etc.)
7:00 Dick Cavett (conclusion of Clare Boothe Luce)
7:30 MacNeil-Lehrer Report
8:00 Nova "Message in the Rocks"
9:00 Mystery! "Malice Aforethought" (pt 1)
10:00 Inauguration Highlights
11:00 Dick Cavett (repeat from 7pm)
11:30 Captioned ABC News
mid. News
 
Bluenoser said:
In honor of President Obama's being re-inaugurated today for a second term, a look at how TV covered President Reagan's first inauguration, from TV Guide-Central Indiana edition

WTTV 4-Ind Indianapolis
5:30 Brian Bex

First thought was that Bex was probably quite a happy camper that day. With further consideration I decided that Reagan was likely not conservative enough for Bex.
 
Bluenoser said:
WRTV 6-ABC Indianapolis
4:30 Merv Griffin (guests Ron Ely, Randi Oakes, Jim Palmer, Lacy J. Dalton, and Jim Samuels/JIP, Merv usually started at 4)
5:00 Barney Miller
5:30 World of People (interviews with Kris Kristofferson and Graham Nash/aboard the QE II)

Would have made more sense to bump "Barney Miller" for the day and give Merv his full hour.

Bluenoser said:
WTIU 30-PBS Bloomington
2:00 Trade-Offs
2:30 Thinkabout

The Agency for Instructional Television / Technology, the producers of those programs, is based in Bloomington, though operates independently of Indiana University (the owners of WTIU). Also, "Thinkabout" was a double run (two 15-minute shows), while I imagine some filler followed "Tradeoffs" (which is a 20-minute program), as both are in-school shows.

Bluenoser said:
WBAK 38-ABC Terre Haute (presented as listed...did 38 really blow off the inauguration to show movies instead? ???)
11:00 Movie "The Grapes of Wrath" (bw)
2:00 Movie "King Creole" (bw)
4:30 Battle of the Planets
5:00 Star Trek
6:00 Brady Bunch
6:30 Odd Couple (yep, 38 blew off WNT too)

Did WBAK normally show ABC daytime and World News Tonight? Maybe they scheduled it as they was, as the Terre Haute market also got sufficient ABC coverage from WRTV, WTVW Evansville and WAND Decatur, depending on location, with most systems carrying WBAK and at least one other ABC station.
 
azumanga said:
Bluenoser said:
WRTV 6-ABC Indianapolis
4:30 Merv Griffin (guests Ron Ely, Randi Oakes, Jim Palmer, Lacy J. Dalton, and Jim Samuels/JIP, Merv usually started at 4)
5:00 Barney Miller
5:30 World of People (interviews with Kris Kristofferson and Graham Nash/aboard the QE II)

Would have made more sense to bump "Barney Miller" for the day and give Merv his full hour.

Bluenoser said:
WTIU 30-PBS Bloomington
2:00 Trade-Offs
2:30 Thinkabout

The Agency for Instructional Television / Technology, the producers of those programs, is based in Bloomington, though operates independently of Indiana University (the owners of WTIU). Also, "Thinkabout" was a double run (two 15-minute shows), while I imagine some filler followed "Tradeoffs" (which is a 20-minute program), as both are in-school shows.

Bluenoser said:
WBAK 38-ABC Terre Haute (presented as listed...did 38 really blow off the inauguration to show movies instead? ???)
11:00 Movie "The Grapes of Wrath" (bw)
2:00 Movie "King Creole" (bw)
4:30 Battle of the Planets
5:00 Star Trek
6:00 Brady Bunch
6:30 Odd Couple (yep, 38 blew off WNT too)

Did WBAK normally show ABC daytime and World News Tonight? Maybe they scheduled it as they was, as the Terre Haute market also got sufficient ABC coverage from WRTV, WTVW Evansville and WAND Decatur, depending on location, with most systems carrying WBAK and at least one other ABC station.

WBAK didn't show World News Tonight for years, but normally carried ABC daytime programs. It was in fact due to cable carriage of duplicate ABC affiliates that WBAK didn't clear some programming. Heck, by the end of '81, their local newscast had been dropped and replaced by syndicated programming.
 
RALfan said:
What were the normal weekday schedules for the Indianapolis stations?

WRTV 6
9:00 Bullseye
9:30 Family Feud
10:00 Toni Tennille
11:00 Love Boat
noon News
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Merv Griffin

WISH 8
10:00 Jeffersons
10:30 Alice
11:00 Price is Right
noon News
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Young & the Restless
2:00 As the World Turns
3:00 Guiding Light

WTHR 13
9:00 Movie
11:00 Days of Our Lives
noon News
12:30 Doctors
1:00 Another World
2:00 Texas
3:00 I Love Lucy (bw)
3:30 Space: 1999
4:30 Rockford Files
 
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