Retro: Central & Southern Indiana/Eastern Illinois Tues, Sept 28, 1982

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2 WTWO-NBC Terre Haute
3 WCIA-CBS Champaign
4 WTTV-Ind Indianapolis
6 WRTV-ABC Indianapolis
7 WTVW-ABC Evansville
8 WISH-CBS Indianapolis
9 WGN-Ind Chicago
10 WTHI-CBS Terre Haute
12 WILL-PBS Urbana
13 WTHR-NBC Indianapolis
14 WFIE-NBC Evansville
15 WICD-NBC Champaign
17 WAND-ABC Decatur/W68AA Danville
17a WTBS-Ind Atlanta (listed Central time)
18 WLFI-CBS Lafayette
20 WFYI-PBS Indianapolis
20s WICS-NBC Springfield
25 WEHT-CBS Evansville
38 WBAK-ABC Terre Haute

Morning

5:00
4 Movies Till Dawn "The Kissing Bandit" cont'd
7 Mary Tyler Moore
9 Flash Gordon
17a News

5:30
4 Brian Bex
7 Farm Show
8 Ag Day
9 Faith 20
13 Statehouse Report

5:40
2 Weather/Today in Indiana
38 Weather

5:50
17 Jim Bakker

5:55
7 Jim Bakker

6:00
2-18 Country Day
3-38 Jimmy Swaggart
4 RFD 4
6 ABC World News This Morning
8 Indy Today
9 Top o' the Morning
10 Weather
13 Dick Van Dyke
25 CBS Morning News

6:05
17a SuperStation Fun Time

6:15
10 Cartoons/News

6:30
2-13-14-15-20s Early Today
3 Captain Kangaroo
4 700 Club
6-38 Morning Stretch
9 Bullwinkle
10 Ag Day
18 AM Agriculture

6:35
17a I Dream of Jeannie

6:45
20 Focus on Society

6:50
17 Closer to God Today

7:00
2-13-14-15-20s Today
3-8-10-18 CBS Morning News
6-7-17-38 Good Morning America
9 Bozo

7:05
17a My Three Sons

7:15
20 AM Weather

7:30
4 Cowboy Bob
20 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood

7:35
17a That Girl

7:45
12 AM Weather

8:00
4 Janie
12-20 Sesame Street
25 Peggy Mitchell

8:05
17a TBS Theatre "Dear Ruth"

8:30
9 Bullwinkle

9:00
2-3-4-14 Phil Donahue
6 So You Think You Got Troubles
7-13-15-20s Richard Simmons
8 Mary Tyler Moore
9 Morning Movie "Johnny Eager"
10 Hour Magazine
12 Instructional Programs
17 People's Court
18-25 $25,000 Pyramid
20 Electric Company
38 Jim Bakker

9:30
6 Family Feud
7 Ryan's Hope
8 Bewitched
13 Odd Couple
15-20s Wheel of Fortune
17 So You Think You Got Troubles
18-25 Child's Place
20 Frugal Gourmet

10:00
2-13-15-20s Texas
3-8-18-25 Price is Right
4 Joker's Wild
6-7-17-38 Love Boat
10 Richard Simmons
14 People's Court
20 Lilias, Yoga & You

10:05
17a News

10:30
4 Tic Tac Dough
10 $25,000 Pyramid
14 Diff'rent Strokes
20 Nova

11:00
2-14-15-20s Doctors
3-8-10-18 Young & the Restless
4 Bob Braun
6 All My Children
7-17-38 Family Feud
9 Big Valley
13 Diff'rent Strokes
25 Tattletales

11:05
17a Mike Douglas' People Now

11:30
2-7-17 News
13-14-15-20s Search for Tomorrow
20 Over Easy
25 Young & the Restless
38 Ryan's Hope

Afternoon
noon
2-15-20s Days of Our Lives
3-6-8-10-13-14-18 News
4 Jim Gerard
7-17-38 All My Children
9 You Asked for It
20 Dick Cavett

12:05
17a TBS Theatre "It's a Great Feeling"

12:30
3-8-10-18-25 As the World Turns
4 Perry Mason
6 Ryan's Hope
9 News
13 Wheel of Fortune
14 Days of Our Lives
20 MacNeil-Lehrer Report

1:00
2-13-15-20s Another World
6-7-17-38 One Life to Live
9 Dick Van Dyke
20 Great Performances

1:30
3-8-10-18-25 Capitol
4 Your Show
9 Andy Griffith
14 Another World

2:00
2-15-20s Fantasy
3-8-10-18-25 Guiding Light
6-7-17-38 General Hospital
9 I Dream of Jeannie
13 Days of Our Lives

2:05
17a SuperStation Fun Time

2:30
4 Casper & Friends
9 Cartoons
12 Electric Company
14 Fantasy
20 Writer's Workshop

2:35
17a Flintstones

3:00
2 Search for Tomorrow
3 Early Show "Winning" (pt 1)
4 Kartoon Karnival
6-18 Muppet Show
7-17-38 Edge of Night
8 Hour Magazine
10 Tattletales
12-20 Sesame Street
13 Soap World
15-20s Scooby-Doo
25 Big Valley

3:05
17a Muppet Show

3:30
2-7 Scooby-Doo
4 Woody Woodpecker
6 Charlie's Angels
10 Underdog
13 Alice
14 Bugs Bunny
15-20s Tom & Jerry
17 Soap World
18 CBS Children's Mystery "The Zertigo Diamond Caper" (aired Wed. 3pm on ch 3; not cleared in Indy, Terre Haute or Evansville)
38 Terrytoons

3:35
17a Leave It to Beaver

4:00
2 Happy Days Again
4 Tom & Jerry
7 Andy Griffith
8 Indianapolis Afternoon
10 Muppet Show
12-20 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
13 More Real People
14-38 Beverly Hillbillies
15-20s Brady Bunch
17-25 Hour Magazine

4:05
17a Brady Bunch

4:30
2 CHiPs Patrol
6 People's Court
7 Happy Days Again
9 Muppet Show
10 Little House on the Prairie
12 3-2-1 Contact
13-18 M*A*S*H
14 Hogan's Heroes
15-20s Laverne & Shirley & Company
20 Electric Company
38 I Love Lucy

4:35
17a Beverly Hillbillies

5:00
3-14 More Real People
4 Good Times
6-8-13-25 News
7 Sanford & Son
9 Welcome Back, Kotter
12 Sesame Street
15-20s Happy Days Again
17 WKRP in Cincinnati
18 All in the Family
20 3-2-1 Contact
38 Rawhide

5:05
17a Carol Burnett

5:30
2-14-20s NBC Nightly News
3-10-18-25 CBS Evening News
4-9 Laverne & Shirley
7 ABC World News Tonight
15-17 News
20 Voyage

5:35
17a Bob Newhart

Evening
6:00
2-3-7-10-14-18-20s News
4 Little House on the Prairie
6-17-38 ABC World News Tonight
8 CBS Evening News
9 Barney Miller
12 Nightly Business Report
13-15 NBC Nightly News
25 Good Times

6:05
17a Gomer Pyle

6:30
2-14 M*A*S*H
3 PM Magazine
6-17 Entertainment Tonight
7-8 Family Feud
9 Baseball: Cubs-NY Mets
10 More Real People
12-20 MacNeil-Lehrer Report
13 You Asked for It
15-20s Jeffersons
18 Barney Miller
25 Three's Company
38 Dick Van Dyke

6:35
17a Andy Griffith

7:00
2-13-14-15-20s Father Murphy (season premiere)
3-8-10-18-25 Bring 'Em Back Alive
4 7pm Movie "Night of the Grizzly"
6-7-17-38 Happy Days (season premiere)
12 Over Easy
20 Indiana Primetime

7:05
17a Tuesday Movie "Fathom"

7:30
6-7-17-38 Laverne & Shirley (season premiere)
12 Moneymakers
20 Nightly Business Report

8:00
2-13-14-15-20s NBC Movie "Seems Like Old Times"
3-8-10-18-25 CBS Movie "Shadow Riders"
6-7-17-38 Three's Company (season premiere)
12-20 National Geographic

8:30
6-7-17-38 9 to 5 (return)

9:00
4 News
6-7-17-38 Hart to Hart (season premiere)
12-20 Mystery! "Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde" (pt 1)

9:05
17a News

9:30
9 News

9:35
17a Baseball: Atlanta-San Francisco

10:00
2-3-6-7-8-10-13-14-15-17-18-20s-25 News
4 Hawaii Five-O
12 Doctor Who
20 Dick Cavett
38 Marshall Dillon (Gunsmoke)

10:30
2-13-14-15-20s Tonight Show (Joan Rivers pinch hits for Johnny)
3 M*A*S*H
6-17-38 ABC News Nightline
7 You Asked for It
8-10-18-25 Quincy
9 Charlie's Angels
12-20 Captioned ABC News

11:00
3 Hawaii Five-O
4 Film Festival "Elephant Walk"
6 Benny Hill
7 All in the Family
17-38 Fantasy Island
20 PBS Late Night

11:30
2-13-15-20s Late Night with David Letterman
6 Fantasy Island
7 ABC News Nightline
9 WGN Presents "Condominium" (pts 1 & 2)
14 Rockford Files

11:40
8-10-18-25 McMillan & Wife

Late Night
midnight
3 Midnight Movie "Duck Soup"
7 Fantasy Island

12:30
2-13-14-15-20s NBC News Overnight

12:40
6 Entertainment Tonight

12:50
17a TBS Theatre "Talent for Loving"/"Sabaka"

1:00
4 Movies Till Dawn "Lost Weekend"
7 All-Night Show "Body Snatcher"/All in the Family/"Yellow Canary"

1:30
13 Rat Patrol

2:00
9 Nightbeat

3:05
4 Movies Till Dawn "Grand Hotel"

4:30
7 All in the Family
9 Sea Hunt

4:35
17a World at Large

 

[DToTheJ]

9:00
6 So You Think You Got Troubles

9:30
17 So You Think You Got Troubles

Short-lived advice show?

Oh, and I had no idea TBS cleared The Muppet Show...

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

7-8 Family Feud

Other than ABC's daytime FF, I did not see any other references for the syndicated Feud in the rest of these listings. By fall '82, was syndie FF no longer cleared in the Terre Haute and Champaign/Decatur/Springfield markets? (If that was the case, to me that's a shocker--because I thought the nighttime Feud was still going strong in that final year before the nighttime "Wheel of Fortune" debuted).

Also, the 9:30 AM reference to "Child's Place" on 18-25 is actually the CBS game show "Child's Play" with Bill Cullen (which did not get cleared in Indy, Terre Haute or Champaign).

And in 1982 it appears that during DST (which of course Indiana did not observe at the time of this listing) the Indiana network affiliates did not pick up the Mountain Time Zone network feeds yet (to match the 8-11 prime time observed during EST in the Hoosier State). When did the time-shifting of network programming in Indiana begin (I know by 1994 this was standard practice at least in Indy).

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

10:00

3-8-18-25 Price is Right

It appears that you could add Terre Haute to the list of markets with CBS affiliates that have bumped TPIR over the years (when was the overall time frame that the "Price" bumpings occured on WTHI?).

 

[bpatrick]

"Child's Play" deserves at least a footnote in
daytime TV history; the show that replaced it
was "Press Your Luck."

 

[oldiesfan6479]

And in 1982 it appears that during DST (which of course Indiana did not observe at the time of this listing) the Indiana network affiliates did not pick up the Mountain Time Zone network feeds yet (to match the 8-11 prime time observed during EST in the Hoosier State). When did the time-shifting of network programming in Indiana begin (I know by 1994 this was standard practice at least in Indy).

NBC's Mountain Time Zone feeds began circa 1985 or 1986, initially for prime time
and late-night, later expanding to the entire schedule. ABC and CBS did not offer
(and still don't, to my knowledge) a regular feed to the "time zone the networks
forgot"--they do so only in special instances.

I have some newspaper clippings from spring 1987 which indicate the three Indy
affils would shift to "late prime" with the start of DST (instead of "early prime" as
done in past summers). While the NBC affil had the luxury of using the Mountain
zone feed for this, the ABC/CBS stations each had to do a one-hour tape delay.

Another article infers that WTHR (NBC) had already been doing this for part or
all of the previous DST period (1986). It's unclear whether they started it in
April or with the fall season in September (through the end of October).

 

[gr8oldies]

As I recall (and I have slept since then), WTHR began carrying the mountain time feed to match up with an 8-11 EDT/CDT prime time in September of 1986, to start the new fall schedule. Daytime stayed as it was. I don't remember if by the following summer the other affiliates had gotten the equipment to do it or not. I'm pretty sure if so it was prime time/late night only for at least the first year. Eventually the idea was the same schedule all year round, but WRTV, WXIN, and WISH would have to purchase equipment to do the delay. Lafayette followed suit, and while I was there we had three one inch machines which we rolled 45 minutes apart with around 5 to 10 minutes of overlap. We'd match the timing, match the colors and then the master control op would make the switch. We also ran backups in the same sequence on 3/4 inch. We even hired an extra person to take care of tape delay. What a mess!

WISH would do something a little interesting. They would sneak an extra minute of spots into the net feed throughout the night.

 

[oldiesfan6479]

As I recall...WTHR began carrying the mountain time feed...(for) prime time in September of 1986, to start the new fall schedule.

Aha! That confirms what was I trying to "read" out of the newspaper article.
It was actually a quote from a viewer's letter, rather than from the Corkster
at WTHR, so it was a bit hazy as to the start date.

Lafayette followed suit, and while I was there we had three one inch machines which we rolled 45 minutes apart with around 5 to 10 minutes of overlap. We'd match the timing, match the colors and then the master control op would make the switch. We also ran backups in the same sequence on 3/4 inch.

When you said "three" one-inch machines (not four), I wondered about a
backup, then as I read on--3/4" cassettes. U-Matic? How often did you
have to use the backup and how (bad) did it look on air?

WISH would do something a little interesting. They would sneak an extra minute of spots into the net feed throughout the night.

WISH was CBS, correct? Then it was probably on the up-and-up. CBS allowed
Mountain zone affils to add :30 (or maybe it was :60) to prime time breaks to
help compensate for the costs of tape delaying the network. One would assume
WISH also qualified as they were also doing in effect the same kind of delay.
With an extra :60 or :30, a station would begin prime at 6:59:00 or 6:59:30 and
add the spot(s) in a local station break, stopping delay playback for that amount
of time.

 

[gr8oldies]

The 3/4 would get used occasionally (it was not U-Matic) and looked fine. In fact we recorded a lot of our syndicated feeds on 3/4. We had five one inch machines in a row, using three for tape delay and two for production. We would put a "spot reel" on one of the decks to play back spots for the newscast (the insertion system we had was horrid so we pre-recorded the breaks for the newscasts).

That's interesting about Mountain CBS affiliates being able to add an extra spot to cover tape delay expenses. I'm assuming that was the same for WISH. We were also CBS at WLFI and that did not seem to be an option for us. Of course, we got permission to carry the Chicago Bears instead of the NFL "Southwestern feed", plus pre-empted a night or two of CBS prime every week during basketball season to carry the Boilermakers, so that may have been the maximum amount CBS intended to let us get away with.

Right the time I left we were going to everything being recorded and played on S/VHS.