Retro: Cleveland-Akron, Monday, Oct. 8, 1979

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Source: The Chronicle-Telegram, Elyria
Listings start at 7 a.m.

WKYC 3 (NBC)
AM
7 Today
9 Dave Patterson
10 Card Sharks
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11 High Rollers
11:30 Wheel of Fortune
PM
12 Mindreaders
12:30 Password Plus
1 Days Of Our Lives
2 The Doctors
2:30 Another World
4 Mary Tyler Moore
4:30 Bob Newhart
5 Dating Game
5:30 Newlywed Game
6 News
7 NBC News
7:30 Family Feud
8 Little House On The Prairie
9 NBC Theatre: “When Hell Was In Session”
11 News
11:30 Tonight (guest host David Letterman)

WEWS 5 (ABC)
7 Good Morning America
8 Morning Exchange
10 Phil Donahue
11 Laverne & Shirley
11:30 Family Feud
PM
12 News
12:30 Ryan’s Hope
1 All My Children
2 One Life To Live
3 General Hospital
4 Afternoon Exchange
5 Merv Griffin
6 News
6:30 ABC News
7 Match Game PM
7:30 Tic Tac Dough
8 All-Star Family Feud
9 Monday Night Football: Raiders 13, Dolphins 3 (source: nflhistory.com)
12M News
12:30 FBI

WJKW 8 (CBS)
AM
7 Morning
8 Captain Kangaroo
9 Tom & Jerry
9:30 Joker’s Wild
10 Beat The Clock
10:30 WHEW!
11 Price Is Right
PM
12 News
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1 Young and the Restless
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3:30 One Day At A Time
4 Movie
5:30 Tom & Jerry
6 News
6:30 CBS News
7 Joker’s Wild
7:30 PM Magazine
8 White Shadow
9 MASH
9:30 13th Annual Country Music Awards (Host: Kenny Rogers)
11 News
11:30 Maude
12M Ironside
1 Movie: “Fraulein”

WAKR 23 (ABC) Akron
AM
7 Good Morning America
9 700 Club
10:30 Varied Programs
11 Laverne & Shirley
11:30 Real McCoys
PM
12 Junior Partner Pyramid
12:30 Ryan’s Hope
1 All My Children
2 One Life To Live
3 General Hospital
4 Edge of Night
4:30 Get Smart
5 I Dream of Jeannie
5:30 Family Feud
6 News
6:30 ABC News
7 Dinah and Friends
8 All-Star Family Feud
9 Monday Night Football
12M News
12:30 700 Club

WVIZ 25 (PBS)
AM
8 Instructional programs (not individually listed)
11 Electric Company
11:30 Sesame Street
PM
12:30 Back to the instructional programs…
4 Sesame Street
5 Mister Rogers Neighborhood
5:30 Over Easy
6 Dimensions in Culture
6:30 Growing Years
7 MacNeil-Lehrer Report
7:30 Black Perspective
8 Paul Robeson (biographical play starring James Earl Jones)
10 Connections: Death In The Morning
11 Dick Cavett (Guest: musician Larry Adler)
11:30 Captioned ABC News

WUAB 43
AM
7 Star Blazer
7:30 Battle Of The Planets
8 Flintstones
8:30 Bugs Bunny
9 Barnaby
9:30 Romper Room
10 43 A.M.
10:30 Ed Allen
11 Dinah!
PM
12 Mike Douglas
1:30 Movie
3 Little Rascals
3:30 Krofft Superstars
4 Flintstones
4:30 Woody Woodpecker
5 Bugs Bunny
5:30 Gilligan’s Island
6 Andy Griffith
6:30 Sanford and Son
7 MASH
7:30 Hogan’s Heroes
8 Gunsmoke
9 Movie: “The Last of the Belles”
11 Benny Hill
11:30 Make Me Laugh
12M Gong Show
12:30 Movie: “The New Interns”

 

[ShawnHill1]

As sort of a side question for any Clevelanders/Northeastern Ohioans, as I imagine WEWS not clearing every ABC show, how was WAKR's signal into Cleveland/Cuyahoga County proper?

 

[azumanga]

how was WAKR's signal into Cleveland/Cuyahoga County proper?

Assuming that it was powerful then as WVPX is now (5000kw, 296m HAAT), the signal goes past Cleveland, about 20 miles into Lake Erie:

http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/FMTV-service-area?x=TV574044.html

 

[chuckydoll]

... how was WAKR's signal into Cleveland/Cuyahoga County proper?

WAKR-TV had its tower in Akron, so its OTA coverage was in the Akron/Canton corridor. The Elyria newspaper carried the listings because the station was on cable in Elyria.

 

[Ultimajock]

...WKYC didn't carry "Tomorrow with Tom Snyder"? Odd, since (a) WKYC was an NBC O&O and (b) Snyder had been a Channel 3 anchor in the mid-60s (when it was KYW-TV)...

 

[74WIXYGrad]

As sort of a side question for any Clevelanders/Northeastern Ohioans, as I imagine WEWS not clearing every ABC show, how was WAKR's signal into Cleveland/Cuyahoga County proper?

At that time, I lived about a mile from the lake, and the signal for WAKR wasn't all that great. When ABC was first looking for affilates in the fifties, from what I understand, they were looking for somebody, anybody to carry their programs. If you recall, ABC was dead last in the ratings until about 1976.

 

[bpatrick]

If you've noticed Akron/Cleveland retros from the
'50s and especially the early '60s, WAKR pre-empted
a lot of ABC shows that WEWS carried. I suppose it
wasn't until the late '60s that it became advantageous
to have both.

 

[Tim L]

In the earliest days of Cleveland area TV, WNBK-4 (later 3) being NBC Owned-Operated, was of course the NBC affiliate. WEWS-TV 5 was at first full-time CBS while then-WXEL-9 was primarily DuMont and secondary ABC. I found some copies of an early TV magazine (Tele-Vue) from January-March 1949 that had WEWS carrying some ABC shows months before WXEL signed on (December 1949)

On March 1, 1955, WJW-8..Now owned by Storer Broadcasting, switched affiliations from ABC (DuMont was pretty well done by this time) to CBS, while WEWS-5 likely reluctantly, changed over to ABC from CBS