Retro:Charleston-Huntington, West Virginia, Sunday 5/11/80

[classictvfan]

Source:The Parkersburg News Showtime(I did not list PBS affiliate WPBY Channel 33)

WSAZ Channel 3(NBC)
6:30 Christopher Closeup
7:00 This Is The Life
7:30 TV Chapel
8:00 Mormon Tabernacle Choir
8:30 Oral Roberts
9:00 Gospel Singing Jubilee
10:00 Rex Humbard
11:00 Human Dimension
11:30 Bill Dance Outdoors
12:00 At Issue
12:30 Meet The Press
1:00 At Issue Special
2:00 Tony Brown's Journal
2:30 Byron Nelson Golf Classic(live from the Preston Trail Golf Club in Dallas, Texas)
4:30 Movie-Lock, Stock And Barrel(Made For TV, 1971)
6:00 News
6:30 NBC News
7:00 Disney's Wonderful World-Goofy Takes A Holiday
8:00 CHiPs
9:00 Movie-Capicorn One(1978)
11:00 News
11:30 Movie-The Gay Sisters(1942)

WCHS Channel 8(CBS)
6:30 A Better Way
7:00 Jerry Falwell
8:00 Day Of Discovery
8:30 Leonard Repass
9:00 Christian Center
9:30 Robert Schuller
10:30 Ernest Angley
11:30 Face The Nation
12:00 Viewpoint
12:30 Wild Kingdom
1:00 Sports Spectacular-Strongest Man In Football(from Auburn, Alabama), FEI World Cup
Equestrian Championships(from Baltimore, Maryland)
3:30 NBA Basketball-Philadelphia 76ers vs. Los Angeles Lakers or Seattle Supersonics
6:00 News
6:30 CBS News
7:00 60 Minutes
8:00 Archie Bunker's Place(1 hr episode)
9:00 Alice
9:30 Jeffersons
10:00 Trapper John, M.D.
11:00 News
11:30 Movie-Murder Motel(Made For TV, 1975)

WOWK Channel 13(ABC)
7:00 Newsmakers
7:30 Bible Answers
8:00 Evangelistic Outreach
8:30 Lower Lighthouse
9:00 Rev. Jim Franklin
9:30 Rev. R.A. West Revival Hour
10:00 Jimmy Swaggart
11:00 Rev. Henry Mahan
11:30 Animals Animals Animals-The Hawk
12:00 Issues And Answers
12:30 Kids Are People Too
1:30 HI-Q
2:00 Newsmakers
2:30 Tournament Of Champions Tennis(live from the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills, New York)
4:30 Wide World Of Sports-15-round WBC world heavyweight championship between Matthew Saad Muhammad
and Louis Pergaud(live), reports on the Indianapolis 500 time trials (live from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway)
6:00 Tri-State Today And Tomorrow
6:30 ABC News
7:00 The Return Of The King(animated special)
9:00 ABC Sunday Movie-Angel On My Shoulder(Premiere)
11:00 News
11:30 ABC News
11:45 PTL Club
1:45 News

 

[Aljr]

I was living in Charleston then. I'd wake up every Sunday morning,fire up a joint and watch Ernest Angley do his thing.

BTW,my on board handle comes from an ex Charleston radio jock,Al Sahley. Al helped me get the twang out of my on air voice. A great guy.

WCHS had one of the worst TV news teams on the air then. A cross between Ron Burgundy's crew and the SNL news team of the time. They were so bad they were funny.

I won't mention names but I saw a female news anchor at WSAZ duke it out with a female reporter from WCHS on an elevator at the old Charleston Athletic Club. That was a fun town to work in.

 

[dxnemo78]

It seems like a long time ago (and it is now :) that most stations devoted the bulk of their Sunday morning schedule to religious programming. With cable-satellite and most communities having at least 1 full-time religious station, that's pretty much gone.

 

[bk77]

I was living in Charleston then. I'd wake up every Sunday morning,fire up a joint and watch Ernest Angley do his thing.

BTW,my on board handle comes from an ex Charleston radio jock,Al Sahley. Al helped me get the twang out of my on air voice. A great guy.

WCHS had one of the worst TV news teams on the air then. A cross between Ron Burgundy's crew and the SNL news team of the time. They were so bad they were funny.

I won't mention names but I saw a female news anchor at WSAZ duke it out with a female reporter from WCHS on an elevator at the old Charleston Athletic Club. That was a fun town to work in.

I am pretty sure it was WCHS where this happened...

A young female anchor interviews a some politican live. I forgot the question she asked that made the guy so mad but I do remember when he started screaming "..I am going to sue you and I am going to sue WCHS...how dare you ask such a stupid question".

then there was that press conference ( again another guy in politics ) where ( again another young female anchor ) asked the man at the press conference "..do you think your recent stay at a mental hospital will hurt your chances at winning..how do you feel about that?"..

The guy walks into the crowd and punches the woman in the mouth and she screams " ..you motherf*cking SOB" And in pure West Virginia tradition both yelled they were going to sue each other.

I don't remember whatever happpened to all of those who were invovled but I am pretty sure both events took place in the 80s.

 

[Stanislav]

Then there was that press conference ( again another guy in politics ) where ( again another young female anchor ) asked the man at the press conference "..do you think your recent stay at a mental hospital will hurt your chances at winning..how do you feel about that?"..

The guy walks into the crowd and punches the woman in the mouth and she screams " ..you motherf*cking SOB" And in pure West Virginia tradition both yelled they were going to sue each other.

For the love of humanity, someone's gotta find a tape of that and put it on YouTube! ;D

 

[Aljr]

I was living in Charleston then. I'd wake up every Sunday morning,fire up a joint and watch Ernest Angley do his thing.

BTW,my on board handle comes from an ex Charleston radio jock,Al Sahley. Al helped me get the twang out of my on air voice. A great guy.

WCHS had one of the worst TV news teams on the air then. A cross between Ron Burgundy's crew and the SNL news team of the time. They were so bad they were funny.

I won't mention names but I saw a female news anchor at WSAZ duke it out with a female reporter from WCHS on an elevator at the old Charleston Athletic Club. That was a fun town to work in.

I am pretty sure it was WCHS where this happened...

A young female anchor interviews a some politican live. I forgot the question she asked that made the guy so mad but I do remember when he started screaming "..I am going to sue you and I am going to sue WCHS...how dare you ask such a stupid question".

then there was that press conference ( again another guy in politics ) where ( again another young female anchor ) asked the man at the press conference "..do you think your recent stay at a mental hospital will hurt your chances at winning..how do you feel about that?"..

The guy walks into the crowd and punches the woman in the mouth and she screams " ..you motherf*cking SOB" And in pure West Virginia tradition both yelled they were going to sue each other.

I don't remember whatever happpened to all of those who were invovled but I am pretty sure both events took place in the 80s.

The guy who did the punching in that second incident was a lawyer I used to know. When he lost the Democratic nomination for Governor in '84 he formed the Squirrel Party and campaigned on. I don't know what became of him,I lost track of about 10 years ago. A funny guy but a real nutcase.

The pol in the first incident ended up punching someone at a presser in the '84 Senatorial campaign. He was recently the Republican candidate for Governor and is a media mogul in WV.

I guess his take was "If they're going to talk bad about me,I'll buy 'em all up."? He still got thumped in the general election.

 

[mleach]

Richmond, VA's ( Petersburg's ) then WXEX-TV channel 8, I remember them airing that man punching out the woman at that press conference. Of course WXEX did bleep out what the woman said.

Also WXEX made it clear just before they aired the video that it was not their station who was involved since both WXEX and WCHS are on channel 8 and their logos I believe at the time of this were about the same and both were using the Eyewitness News name.