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Retro: Cleveland-Akron, Tuesday, April 8, 1980

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

WKYC 3 (NBC) Cleveland
AM
7 Today
9 Dave Patterson
10 Card Sharks
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11 High Rollers
11:30 Wheel of Fortune
PM
12 Chain Reaction
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 Emergency One
6 News
7 NBC News
7:30 Name That Tune
8 Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo
9 Big Show (Hosts: Steve Lawrence, Don Rickles; guests include Nell Carter, Sheilds & Yarnell and Betty White)
10:30 United States
11 News
11:30 Best of Carson (guests include Larry Gatlin and Jack Douglas)
1A Tomorrow (guests include Andre the Giant)

WEWS 5 (ABC) Cleveland
AM
7 Good Morning America
8 Morning Exchange
10 Donahue (Neglected teens discuss issue with their parents)
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 (guests Gore Vidal, Howard Jarvis
6 News
6:30 ABC News
7 Match Game PM
7:30 Tic Tac Dough
8 Happy Days
8:30 Laverne & Shirley
9 Three’s Company
9:30 Taxi
10 Hart to Hart
11 News
11:30 ABC News
11:45 Movie: “Hit”

WJW-TV 8 (CBS) Cleveland
AM
7 Morning
8 Captain Kangaroo
9 Tom & Jerry
9:30 Play The Percentages
10 Jeffersons
10:30 Celebrity WHEW!
11 Price Is Right
PM
12 News
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1 Young And The Restless
2 As The World Turns
3 Guiding Light
4 Movie: “Play It Again, Sam”
5:30 Happy Days Again
6 News
6:30 CBS News
7 Joker’s Wild
7:30 PM Magazine
8 White Shadow
9 Movie: “Roots” Part 3 (??? The grid and a more detailed text schedule below both show this, but a long Associated Press story next to it says the Kenny Rogers movie “The Gambler airs tonight at 9 on channels 8 and 11 (referring to Toledo) locally.”
11 News
11:30 Maude
12 Ironside
1 Movie: “With a Song in My Heart”

WVIZ 25 Cleveland (PBS)
7 a.m.-4 p.m. Instructional programs
PM
4 Sesame Street
5 3-2-1 Contact
5:30 Over Easy
6 Nominating A President
6:30 Communications/Literature
7 MacNeil-Lehrer Report
7:30 Danaceau Report
8 Nova: The Desert’s Edge
9 Mystery: The Racing Game
10 Soundstage
11 Dick Cavett
11:30 Captioned ABC News

WUAB 43 Lorain-Cleveland
AM
7 Star Blazer
7:30 Battle Of The Planets
8 Flintstones
8:30 Bugs Bunny
9 Barnaby
9:30 Romper Room
10:00 43 A.M.
10:30 Dinah! (Note “Dinah and Friends” on Ch. 23 at night. Is one of these wrong??)
11:30 Mike Douglas (Guests include co-host Elliott Gould, Kate Jackson, Rupert Holmes)
PM
1 Movie
3 Little Rascals
4 Flintstones
4:30 Woody Woodpecker
5 Bugs Bunny
5:30 Gilligan’s Island
6 My Three Sons
6:30 Sanford & Son
7 MASH
7:30 Hogan’s Heroes
8 Gunsmoke
9 Movie: “The Bridges at Toko-Ri”
11:30 Make Me Laugh
12A Movie: “Bright Leaf”

WAKR-TV 23 (ABC) Akron
AM
7 Good Morning America
9 700 Club
10:30 Varied Programs
11 Laverne & Shirley
11:30 Real McCoys
PM
12 $20,000 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 Happy Days
8:30 Laverne & Shirley
9 Three’s Company
9:30 Taxi
10 Hart to Hart
11 News
11:30 ABC News
11:45 700 Club
1:15 Movie: “The Death Kiss” (Bela Lugosi, 1933)
2:45 Movie “Stage Door Canteen” (1943)
 
I seem to remember 23 running "Dinah and Friends", though I don't know if it was a different show than the one 43 ran.

I noticed in this schedule a long-standing thing - WEWS/5 running only an hour of "Good Morning America" to start "The Morning Exchange" at 8. Considering the latter program's history in the market, and its inspiration of the ABC show, that's no surprise.

I think WEWS finally relented about 10 years ago, not long before "Morning Exchange" became history.

-OMW
 
I think Akron was considered a separate market
from Cleveland, so there would be no mistake
in the listings showing Ch. 43 airing Dinah & Friends
in the morning, Ch. 23 airing it in access time.
 
Akron is part of the Cleveland TV market, and always has been as far as I know.

I do believe Channel 23 was able to work around this in some ways, due to its nature.
 
I just checked this out on Wikipedia, at Ch. 23's
entry, and yes, Akron and Canton were collapsed
into the Cleveland market by 1952 at the latest.
Ch. 23 got the ABC affiliation because then-ABC
affiliate WJW didn't carry a lot of the network's
shows, but WEWS worked for years to get ABC
to disaffiliate with Ch. 23. After WEWS became
the ABC affiliate, many viewers in Akron tended
to confuse the two, but on the whole Ch. 23
had a tendency to beat the Cleveland stations
in Akron. Perhaps, then, signal problems from some
of the higher Cleveland channels (like Ch. 43) enabled
Ch. 23 to carry some of the same syndicated shows
(like Dinah) that also aired in Cleveland.

Just a guess, as was my thought that Akron was
once a separate market.
 
I know there was syndication duplication on 23, but not much of it.

For example, I seem to remember the station ran "Here's Lucy" reruns well into the late 80's, and that's a show that wasn't exactly on the top of the syndication list at that point in time.

Perhaps WAKR/C was able to negotiate some clearances in unique circumstances...
 
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