Retro: Central Virginia Wed 9/18/85

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from TV Guide, Central Virginia edition

2 WFMY-CBS Greensboro * 3 WHSV-ABC Harrisonburg * 5 WRAL-CBS Raleigh *
5W WTTG-Ind Washington * 6 WVVA-NBC Bluefield * 7 WDBJ-CBS Roanoke *
8 WGHP-ABC High Point * 9B WSWP-PBS Beckley* 10 WSLS-NBC Roanoke *
11 WTVD-ABC Durham * 12 WXII-NBC Winston-Salem * 13 WSET-ABC Lynchburg *
15 WBRA-PBS Roanoke * 20W WDCA-Ind Washington * 51 WVPT-PBS Harrisonburg *
52 WMSY-PBS Marion

Morning

5:00
2 Hogan's Heroes
5 CBS News Nightwatch
12 CNN Headline News

5:30
2 Ag-USA
6 Jim Bakker
12 700 Club

5:55
5W Today in Your Life

6:00
2 Good Morning
3-8-11 ABC World News This Morning
5-7 CBS Early Morning News
5W Panorama

6:15
9B Body Electric

6:30
5 Morning
6-10-12 NBC News at Sunrise
7 Mornin'
13 ABC World News This Morning

6:45
9B AM Weather

6:55
20W Popeye

7:00
3-8-11-13 Good Morning America
5-7 CBS Morning News
5W Great Space Coaster
6-10-12 Today
9B Ascent of Man
20W Bugs Bunny Hour
51 Farm Day

7:15
51 AM Weather

7:30
5W Flintstones
51 Body Electirc

8:00
2 Beverly Hillbillies
5W Fat Albert & the Cosby Kids
9B Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
15-52 Farm Day
20W Voltron
51 Sesame Street

8:15
15-52 AM Weather

8:30
2 Gomer Pyle, USMC
5W Tom & Jerry
9B Sesame Street
15-52 Instructional TV
20W Heathcliff

9:00
2-5-7 Hour Magazine (1000th show)
3 Jim Bakker
5W I Love Lucy
6 Richard Roberts
8 Bonanza
10 Super Password
11-12-13 Phil Donahue
20W WOW
51 Instructional TV

9:30
5W Andy Griffith
9B Body Buddies
10 Let's Make a Deal
20W Romper Room

10:00
2-5-7 $25,000 Pyramid
3 Hour Magazine (1000th show)
5W I Dream of Jeannie
6-10-12 Silver Spoons
8 Love Connection
9B LateNight America
11 Sally Jessy Raphael
13 Big Valley
20W 700 Club

10:30
2-5-7 Press Your Luck
5W Bewitched
6-10 Sale of the Century
8 Alice
11 Here's Lucy
12 Let's Make a Deal

11:00
2-5-7 Price is Right
3-8-11-13 Angie
5W Love Boat
6-10-12 Wheel of Fortune
9B History of Consumer Protest

11:30
3-13 All-Star Blitz
6-10-12 Scrabble
8 Ryan's Hope
11 Alice
20W INN News

Afternoon

Noon
2 Catch Phrase
3-13 Ryan's Hope
5 Live at Noon
5W Panorama
6 Super Password
7-8-10-11-12 News
9B Instructional TV
20W Movie "Swing Time"

12:30
2-5-7 Young & the Restless
3-8-11-13 Loving
6-10-12 Search for Tomorrow

1:00
3-8-11-13 All My Children
5W Merv Griffin
6-10-12 Days of Our Lives

1:30
2-5-7 As the World Turns

2:00
3-8-11-13 One Life to Live
5W Love Songs
6-10-12 Another World
20W Eye on Washington

2:30
2-5-7 Capitol
5W Jayce & the Wheeled Warriors
20W Children's Theatre

3:00
2-5-7 Guiding Light
3-8-11-13 General Hospital
5W Inspector Gadget
6-10-12 Santa Barbara
9B MotorWeek
20W Jetsons

3:30
5W Pink Panther
9B Today's Special
15-52 Secret City
20W MASK
51 Voyage of the Mimi

4:00
2-10 America
3 Happy Days
5-7 Dukes of Hazzard
5W He-Man & the Masters of the Universe
6 Love Connection
8 Dynasty
9B-15-51-52 Sesame Street
11 Diff'rent Strokes
12 Dating Game
13 Scooby-Doo
20W Challenge of the GoBots

4:30
3 America
5W ThunderCats
6 Dating Game
11 Jeffersons
12 Headline Chasers
13 Diff'rent Strokes
20W Voltron

5:00
2 Jeffersons
5 Sanford & Son
5W Star Trek
6 Dukes of Hazzard
7 Hogan's Heroes
8 Divorce Court
9B-15-51-52 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
10-12 People's Court
11 Headline Chasers
13 Gimme a Break!
20W Laverne & Shirley

5:30
2-5-7 Andy Griffith
3 Entertainment Tonight
8 Three's Company
9B-51 Secret City
10 Headline Chasers
11 People's Court
12 Price is Right
13 New Newlywed Game
15-52 Voyage of the Mimi
20W Laverne & Shirley

Eveing

6:00
2-3-5-6-7-8-10-11-12-13 News
5W Happy Days
9B Wild, Wild World of Animals
15-52 Doctor Who
20W Diff'rent Strokes
51 MacNeil-Lehrer NewHour

6:30
2-7 CBS Evening News
3-8-11-13 ABC World News Tonight
5W Mork & Mindy
6-10-12 NBC Nightly News
9B Nightly Business Report
15-52 Video Rock
20W What's Happening!!

7:00
2 News
3-10 Wheel of Fortune
5 CBS Evening News
5W One Day at a Time
6 New Newlywed Game
7 Price is Right
8-13 Entertainment Tonight
9B-15-52 MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour
11-12 Jeopardy!
20W Jeffersons
51 Nightly Business Report

7:30
2-5 PM Magazine
3-10 Jeopardy!
5W-7 M*A*S*H
6-13 Three's Company
8 Newlywed Game
11-12 Wheel of Fortune
20W Benson
51 On the Line

8:00
2-5-7 Stir Crazy (series premiere)
3-8-11-13 ABC News Special: 45/85
5W PM Magazine
6-10-12 Highway to Heaven (2h season premiere)
9B-15-51-52 Abortion Battle
20W Movie "The Only Game in Town"

8:30
5W Movie "Silent Movie"

9:00
2-5-7 Charlie & Company (premiere; Jaleel White, aka Steve Urkel, played Robert)
6-10-12 Hell Town

9:30
2-5-7 George Burns Comedy Week (premiere)

10:00
2-5-7 Equalizer (premiere)
5W News
6-10-12 St. Elsewhere (season premiere)
20W Starsky & Hutch

11:00
2-3-5-6-7-8-10-11-12-13 News
5W WKRP in Cincinnati
9B Adam Smith's Money World
20W Carson's Comedy Classics

11:30
2 Bob Newhart
3-13 Nightline
5 Benson
5W Baretta
6-10-12 Tonight Show
7 Movie "The Awakening of Candra"
8 M*A*S*H
9B LateNight America
11 Entertainment Tonight
20W Benny Hill

Late Night

Midnight
2-5 Movie "I Take These Men"
3-13 Eye on Hollywood
8-11 Nightline
20W Alfred Hitchcock

12:30
3 News
5W Mission: Impossible
6-10-12 Late Night with David Letterman
8 Ironside
9B Jack Horkheimer: Star Hustler
11 Eight is Enough
20W Jim Bakker

1:00
7 New Avengers
8 News

1:30
2-5 New Avengers
5W Movie "Pupper on a Chain"
11 News
20W Jimmy Swaggart

2:00
20W INN News

2:30
2 News
20W Doctor is In

3:00
2 Movie "Bunny Lake is Missing"

3:30
5W Today in Your Life

 

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> > 9:00
> 3 Jim Bakker

Over the years I heard that Harrisonburg, VA's WHSV-TV 3 was one of Bakker's strongest affiliates. He and Tammy were quite popular there. Enough so that many places in the area were offering bus trips to Heritage USA.

> Noon
> 7-8-10-11-12 News

TWO Roanoke stations offering news at Noon !! That is somewhat a big deal back then since it seems that the Virginia stations as a whole ( at least to me ) jumped on the news at noon bandwagon a little later than stations in other states. In Richmond for example, I believe back in 1985 only WTVR 6 offered anything in the way of news at midday and even that was in the form of talk called Richmond Today ( ? ). Both WXEX 8 ( now WRIC ) and WWBT 12 still carried the network fare at noon, though it wasn't long until WWBT started offering news at NOON.

BTW..even though today they do offer news at noon, Richmond's WRIC still only offers a single half-hour local newscast in the evening. Wonder how many markets that are similar ( or even bigger ) than Richmond that do the same?

Norfolk? In the mid 80's, WTKR 3 did news at Noon but WVEC 13 did not. They carried the network at the time. That did change in 1986 when WVEC I think launched a midday newscast..at 11:30AM.

WAVY 10..this gets interesting. I have seen old listings from around this time that showed them airing The Daily News at Noon Monday thru Thursday but some game show at the same time on Fridays. Looking at them, I can't help but wonder if its a misprint or if WAVY really did do this.

Back to Roanoke, it was in 1985 I believe when WSLS went "Eyewitness News".How long did this last? At the time WXEX in Richmond was using that name as well. And within a few years WTKR/ Norfolk, they do went Eyewitness News, even though throughout the 70's that is exactly what WAVY 10 was calling THEIR news.
Today no Virginia station uses it