Retro: Central Oregon Wed, Jan 3, 1979

[Bluenoser]

from TV Guide-Eugene edition

KATU 2-ABC Portland
6:30 Town Hall (Gerry Pratt; pt 1 of a 2-parter on the MacLaren School for Boys, a reform school in Woodburn)
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 AM Northwest (looks at the problems of Vietnam vets)
10:00 Happy Days
10:30 $20,000 Pyramid
11:00 Mary Tyler Moore
11:30 Ryan's Hope
noon All My Children
1:00 One Life to Live
2:00 General Hospital
3:00 Edge of Night
3:30 Family Feud
4:00 Dinah! (guests Jack Klugman, Susan Sullivan, Jim Stafford, and Carl Sagan)
5:00 News
6:00 ABC World News Tonight
6:30 News
7:00 Cross-Wits
7:30 Match Game PM
8:00 Eight is Enough
9:00 Charlie's Angels
10:00 Vega$
11:00 News
11:30 Police Woman
12:40 SWAT

KVDO 3-PBS Salem
8:00 Once Upon a Classic "The Secret Garden" (pt 4)
8:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9:00 Otto: Zoo Gorilla (the title primate, a 400 lb gorilla at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago, is the focus of this doc on how he and 26 of his friends were moved to new quarters)
10:00 Electric Company
10:30 Freestyle
11:00 Instructional Programs
noon TBA
12:30 Gettin' Over
1:00 Instructional Programs
2:30 Over Easy (guest: writer Anita Loos)
3:00 Idea Thing
3:30 MacNeil-Lehrer Report
4:00 New You
4:30 Inner View
5:00 Third Testament
6:00 Sesame Street
7:00 Dick Cavett (guest: artist Raplh Fasanella)
7:30 TBA
8:00 Julia Child & Company
8:30 Book Beat
9:00 Movie "What Price Glory" (bw)

TelePrompter Cable 4-Eugene
relays programs from indies KTVU Oakland and KTXL Sacramento
6:30 New Mickey Mouse Club
7:00 Cartoon Town
8:30 Romper Room
9:00 I Love Lucy (bw)
9:30 Room 222
10:00 Big Valley
11:00 Phil Donahue (guests Hugh and Christie Hefner)
noon Cross-Wits
12:30 Truth or Consequences
1:00 Movie "Back Street"
3:00 Woody Woodpecker
4:00 Tom & Jerry
4:30 Spiderman
5:00 Captain Cosmic & His Wonder Robot 2-T-2
5:30 Bewitched
6:00 Six Million Dollar Man
7:00 Odd Couple
7:30 Dating Game
8:00 Kennedy's Ireland (recalling JFK's 1963 visit to the Emerald Isle)
9:00 Lynn Anderson's Country Welcome (from the Grand Ole Opry, Lynn welcomes Tina Turner, Chet Atkins, Eddie Rabbit, and England Dan & John Ford Coley)
10:00 News (not sure from where, both source channels had 10pm news)
11:00 Love Experts
11:30 Movie "Company of Killers"
1:30 Movie "The President's Lady" (bw)
3:30 Movie "Where the Sidewalk Ends" (bw)

KOBI 5-ABC/CBS Medford
6:00 Captain Kangaroo
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Family Feud
9:30 Price is Right
10:30 $20,000 Pyramid
11:00 Young & the Restless
11:30 Ryan's Hope
noon All My Children
1:00 One Life to Live
2:00 General Hospital
3:00 Edge of Night
3:30 Ironside
4:30 Courtship of Eddie's Father
5:00 News
5:30 ABC World News Tonight
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Alice (delayed from Sun 8:30)
7:30 Candid Camera
8:00 Eight is Enough
9:00 Charlie's Angels
10:00 Vega$
11:00 News
11:30 Police Woman
12:40 SWAT

KOIN 6-CBS Portland
6:00 Sunrise Semester "English Language Arts"
6:30 Gary Randall
7:00 CBS Morning News
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Phil Donahue (anthropology prof Alan Dundee talks about his interpretation of football as a ritual)
10:00 KOIN Kitchen
10:30 Love of Life
10:55 CBS News
11:00 Young & the Restless
11:30 News
12:30 As the World Turns
1:30 Guiding Light
2:30 All in the Family
3:00 Match Game
3:30 Mike Douglas (co-host Jimmy Stewart/guests Jimmy's wife Gloria, Lucille Ball, Billy Crystal, David Copperfield, A Taste of Honey, and Joyce DeWitt)
5:00 News
6:00 CBS Evening News
6:30 Carol Burnett & Friends (guest William Conrad)
7:00 Merv Griffin (guests Betty White, Pam Dawber, and Jerry Van Dyke)
8:00 Jeffersons
8:30 Good Times
9:00 Movie "Some Kind of Miracle"
11:00 News
11:30 Rockford Files
12:40 Kojak
1:50 Peter Gunn (bw)
2:20 Star Performance (bw)
2:50 Mr. Lucky (bw)

KOAC 7-PBS Corvallis
8:00 Over Easy (Anita Loos)
8:30 TBA
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Instructional Programs
12:30 Villa Alegre
1:00 Electric Company
1:30 Instructional Programs
2:30 Lilias, Yoga & You
3:00 Active Life
3:30 Japan: The Changing Tradition
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6:00 Grin & Repair It
6:30 Folk Guitar
7:00 MacNeil-Lehrer Report
7:30 TBA
8:00 Cousteau Odyssey "Calypso's Search for the Britannic" (the Cousteau team go 370' into the Agean Sea in search of the Titanic's sister ship, sunk in 1916 while serving as a hospital ship)
9:00 Great Performance "Mourning Becomes Electra" (conclusion)
10:00 Bartleby the Scrivener (an adaptation of Herman Melville's story, set in 1850)
11:00 Dick Cavett (guest Lilli Palmer, pt 1)
11:30 Captioned ABC News

TelePrompter Cable 7-Eugene
6:15 simulcasts KGW
7:00 off air
8:00 simulcasts KOAC for the rest of the day

KGW 8-NBC Portland
6:15 Gettin' Over
6:45 Exercises (Joe Loprinzi)
7:00 Today
9:00 Card Sharks
9:30 Jeopardy!
10:00 High Rollers
10:30 Wheel of Fortune
11:00 America Alive! (8 only aired 30 min)
11:30 Newlywed Game
noon News
12:30 Days of Our Lives
1:30 Doctors
2:00 Another World
3:00 Movie (The Afternooner) "Grand Slam"
5:00 News
6:00 NBC Nightly News
6:30 News
7:00 Evening (Hansen/Linnman)
7:30 Sha Na Na (guests Ronnie Spector & the Ronettes)
8:00 Tony Orlando (a mainly one-man show from Lake Tahoe, with guests Valerie Harper and John Cassavetes)
9:00 Movie "Pleasure Cove" (a 1979 TV film starring Tom Jones)
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show (guests Robert Klein and opera singer Brenda Boozer)
1:00 Tomorrow (discussing magic with David Copperfield, Ricky Jay, and John Scarney)

KEZI 9-ABC Eugene
6:00 Creative Living
6:30 Romper Room
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Good Morning Oregon
9:30 700 Club (guests include children's author Ethel Barrett)
11:00 The Rock
11:30 Ryan's Hope
noon All My Children
1:00 One Life to Live
2:00 General Hospital
3:00 Edge of Night
3:30 I Love Lucy (bw)
4:00 Flintstones
4:30 Gilligan's Island (bw)
5:00 Six Million Dollar Man
6:00 News
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7:00 Joker's Wild
7:30 Carol Burnett & Friends (guest Jack Klugman)
8:00 Eight is Enough
9:00 Charlie's Angels
10:00 Vega$
11:00 News
11:30 Police Woman
12:40 SWAT

TelePrompter Cable 11-Eugene
local programs from KOZY, plus simulcasts of KATU and KGW
10:00 simulcasts KATU
11:30 PTL Club
1:30 Cable Spotlight
2:30 TBA
3:00 Robin Hood (bw)
3:30 simulcasts KATU
5:00 News (not sure from where, both 2 and 8 had news at that hour)
6:00 NBC Nightly News
6:30 News (see above note)
7:00 simulcasts KATU
8:00 700 Club
9:30 Survival (bw)
10:00 Movie "Pimpernel Smith" (bw)

KPTV 12-Ind Portland
6:30 Not for Women Only (pt 3 of a discussion of homosexuality focuses on a group for parents of gays)
7:00 New Zoo Revue
7:30 Ramblin' Rod
8:30 Archies
9:00 Marcus Welby, MD
10:00 Bonanza
11:00 Tic Tac Dough
11:30 New Joker's Wild
noon Perry Mason (bw/pro footballers Lon Chuy, Roman Gabriel, and Lamar Lundy guest star in an episode where a team owner is suspected of killing her husband)
1:00 Movie "Pony Express"
3:00 Andy Griffith (bw)
3:30 New Mickey Mouse Club
4:00 Flintstones
4:30 Gilligan's Island
5:00 Bewitched
5:30 Adam-12 (former wrestler Hardboiled Haggerty guest stars as a rampaging bar patron)
6:00 Emergency One!
7:00 I Love Lucy (bw)
7:30 Hogan's Heroes
8:00 Movie "The Virgin Queen"
10:00 News
10:30 Newsmakers (Ted Warren)
11:00 Chico & the Man
11:30 Everyday (guests Smokey Robinson and Victoria Principal)
12:30 Gambit

KVAL 13-NBC/CBS Eugene
7:00 Today
9:00 Card Sharks
9:30 Jeopardy!
10:00 High Rollers
10:30 Wheel of Fortune
11:00 America Alive!
noon News
12:30 Days of Our Lives
1:30 Doctors
2:00 Another World
3:00 Hollywood Squares
3:30 Bugs Bunny & Friends
4:00 Bewitched
4:30 Andy Griffith
5:00 Brady Bunch
5:30 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Mary Tyler Moore
7:30 Newlywed Game
8:00 Tony Orlando
9:00 Movie "Pleasure Cove"
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show
1:00 Tomorrow

KTVZ 21-NBC/CBS Bend
7:00 Today
9:00 Card Sharks
9:30 Jeopardy!
10:00 High Rollers
10:30 Wheel of Fortune
11:00 America Alive!
noon Match Game
12:30 Days of Our Lives
1:30 Doctors
2:00 Another World
3:00 Hollywood Squares
3:30 All in the Family (1 hr delay)
4:00 Mike Douglas (co-hosts Susan Lucci and Richard Shoberg/studio guests Brett Somers and Eric Carmen/on-set interviews at Battlestar Galactica with Laurette Spang, Herb Jefferson Jr, and costume designer Jean-Pierre Dorleac)
5:30 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Incredible Hulk
8:00 Tony Orlando
9:00 Movie "Pleasure Cove"
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show
(21 didn't clear Tomorrow)

 

[Mike Stroud]

Boy, how about that. Cable 4 picking up signals from Sacramento and Oakland via relay from nearly 500 miles away! And with northern California's and southern Oregon's rugged, mountainous terrain at that. Wonder how it would have been worth it economically for TelePrompter (then a national chain of cable franchises) to do that? Seems like Seattle's KSTW or KCPQ would have been easier, but I don't know.

 

[Braves2005]

I noticed that the Oregon stations weren't airing the M*A*S*H reruns at 2:30 PM which were airing on CBS at this time instead putting in All In The Family reruns at its old time of 2:30 PM. In September 1978, All In The Family moved from 3:30 PM Eastern/2:30 Central to 10:00 AM Eastern/9:00 AM Central on CBS.

 

[DToTheJ]

Cable 4 picking up signals from Sacramento and Oakland via relay from nearly 500 miles away! ...

I'd be interested in having someone decipher which programming was KTVU and which was KTXL. That being said, I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that "Captain Cosmic And His Wonder Dog 2-T-2" was a KTVU (Channel 2) show. ;D

 

[onairb]

Cable 4 picking up signals from Sacramento and Oakland via relay from nearly 500 miles away! ...

I'd be interested in having someone decipher which programming was KTVU and which was KTXL. That being said, I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that "Captain Cosmic And His Wonder Dog 2-T-2" was a KTVU (Channel 2) show. ;D

That's 'Wonder Robot'! ;D The 'Captain' was played by Bob Wilkins, longtime host of the late-night 'Creature Features' horror-movies, which were an institution on KTVU (and KTXL) in the '70s and '80s. 'Captain Cosmic' was one of the last attempts to do a local, studio-based show with an 'in-character' host introducing reruns(in this case, they showed campy foreign sci-fi shows such as the Japanese 'Specterman', 'Ultraman', and 'Star Blazers', and the British 'Captain Scarlet'.
As a longtime Bay Area resident, this looks like it was about 90 % a KTVU lineup of that era. I remember 'Cartoon Town'(reruns of Paul Terry cartoons, including 'Mighty Mouse' and 'Heckle and Jeckle') airing at 7 AM on KTVU until the early 80s. 'Romper Room', 'I Love Lucy', 'Room 222' and 'Big Valley' also aired on channel 2, though I only remember 'BV' airing at noon. Everything from 1 PM til 8 matched KTVU's lineup in those days.
I think 'Cross-Wits' and 'Truth or Consequences' came from channel 40. In the late '70s and early '80s, living on the SF peninsula, we could get KTXL via TCI cable, but it was only a shared channel for much of that era, and so we never received anything after noon(the other channel was Spanish-language KDTV, channel 14, from SF).
As for the evening listings, both usually had 8 o'clock movies, as well as a 10 PM newscast. Infrequently, they might substitute some kind of special, but I can't say for sure if one or both of them might have aired that 'JFK' and country programming instead of a movie.
No idea about 'Love Experts', but the overnight movies may have been KTXL, because channel 2 used to air old crime dramas like 'The FBI' and 'The Untouchables' late at night, and would have signed off before 3:30 AM.

 

[spb]

from TV Guide-Eugene edition

KOIN 6-CBS Portland
9:00 Phil Donahue (anthropology prof Alan Dundee talks about his interpretation of football as a ritual)
10:00 KOIN Kitchen
10:30 Love of Life

KOIN was one of a few CBS affiliates which pre-empted The Price is Right at 9:30 with Phil Donahue at 9:00 and a half-hour program at 10:00. CBS stations in Seattle, Kansas City and Wichita did the same. Were there others?

 

[onairb]

KPIX in San Francisco pre-empted 'TPIR' for many years, as documented in threads elsewhere on this forum. Most of that occurred when the show aired at 10 AM PT, time, but KPIX had dropped it, in favor of a local talk show, even while 'TPIR' was still airing at 9:30, in the late '70s.

I'm a little surprised that both Oregon ABC affiliates listed above were pre-empting the daytime Family Feud in early '79; I thought that was still considered the show's heyday, and the pre-emptions in other markets were still a year or so away?

 

[spb]

KPIX in San Francisco pre-empted 'TPIR' for many years, as documented in threads elsewhere on this forum. Most of that occurred when the show aired at 10 AM PT, time, but KPIX had dropped it, in favor of a local talk show, even while 'TPIR' was still airing at 9:30, in the late '70s.

I'm a little surprised that both Oregon ABC affiliates listed above were pre-empting the daytime Family Feud in early '79; I thought that was still considered the show's heyday, and the pre-emptions in other markets were still a year or so away?

Good point regarding KPIX and their frequent preemption of TPIR. To clarify my question a bit, I was wondering if other CBS stations besides Portland, Seattle, Kansas City and Wichita essentially preempted TPIR with Donahue prior to April 1979. Donahue would air at 9:00, causing those CBS affiliates to air something else at 10:00 (such as a tape delayed All in the Family from 9:00). When CBS moved TPIR to 10:00 in April 1979, each of the above-listed stations brought TPIR back. KPIX probably did not.

KATU 2-ABC Portland
3:00 Edge of Night
3:30 Family Feud

The KATU listing shows Feud at 3:30. I trust this is a tape delay of the ABC daytime Feud and not the syndicated nighttime version.

 

[azumanga]

KOIN was one of a few CBS affiliates which pre-empted The Price is Right at 9:30 with Phil Donahue at 9:00 and a half-hour program at 10:00. CBS stations in Seattle, Kansas City and Wichita did the same. Were there others?

I recall WEYI in Saginaw also having pre-empted TPIR in the late-1970s, after expanding to one hour and moving to mornings. I think by the start of the 1980s, they brought it back onto their schedule.

I've heard that WTOP / WDVM in Washington had also bumped TPIR during the 1970s and 1980s, leading to ABC affiliate WJLA picking it up at one point.