Retro: Corpus Christi Wednesday, July 11, 1979

[bpatrick]

By request, from TV Guide, South Texas Edition:

KIII Ch. 3 (ABC)

6 AM PTL Club
7 AM Good Morning America
9 AM Morning Magazine
9:30 Andy Griffith
10 AM Laverne & Shirley
10:30 Family Feud
11 AM $20,000 Pyramid
11:30 Ryan's Hope
12 N All My Children
1 PM One Life To Live
2 PM General Hospital
3 PM Edge Of Night
3:30 Superman
4 PM Adam-12
4:30 Three Stooges & Friends
5:30 ABC News
6 PM News
6:30 Sanford And Son
7 PM Eight Is Enough
8 PM Charlie's Angels
9 PM Vega$
10 PM News
10:30 Police Woman
11:40 Mannix
12:50 News

KRIS Ch. 6 (NBC)

6:25 State Of The Region
6:55 News
7 AM Today
9 AM Card Sharks
9:30 All Star Secrets
10 AM High Rollers
10:30 Wheel Of Fortune
11 AM Password Plus
11:30 News
12 N Days Of Our Lives
1 PM The Doctors
1:30 Another World
3 PM Hollywood Squares
3:30 Odd Couple
4 PM Gilligan's Island
4:30 Brady Bunch
5 PM Bewitched
5:30 NBC News
6 PM News
6:30 Mary Tyler Moore
7 PM Great American Laugh-Off
(with Robin Williams and other
cast members of the 1977 version
of "Laugh-In")
8:30 Sword Of Justice
10 PM News
10:30 Tonight Show (Bert Convy subs
for Johnny)
12 M Tomorrow

KZTV Ch. 10 (CBS)

6:30 New Zoo Revue
7 AM Morning With Bob Schieffer
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM All In The Family
9:30 Whew!
9:55 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
10 AM Price Is Right
11 AM Young And The Restless
11:30 Search For Tomorrow
12 N News
12:30 As The World Turns
1:30 Guiding Light
2:30 M*A*S*H
3 PM Love Of Life
3:30 Little Rascals
4 PM Krofft Superstars
4:30 Gong Show
5 PM South Texas Today
5:30 CBS News
6 PM Bonanza
7 PM Pilot: "Never Say Never"
7:30 Good Times
8 PM CBS Movie: "Rendezvous Hotel"
10 PM News
10:30 Pan American Games (day's highlights)
10:45 Switch
11:55 Kojak

KEDT Ch. 16 (PBS)

6:30 Lilias, Yoga And You
7 AM Over Easy
7:30 Sesame Street
off until
4 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
4:30 Electric Company
5 PM Sesame Street
6 PM Villa Alegre
6:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
7 PM The Long Search
8 PM Great Performances
9:30 Beaux Arts Trio Plays Ravel
10 PM Dick Cavett

KORO Ch. 28 (Ind.)

2 PM Complicadisimo
2:30 Cepillin
3 PM Alejandra
4 PM Hermanos Caraje
5 PM El Chapulin Colorado
5:30 Tele Corpus
6 PM Noticiario
6:30 Rosalia
7 PM Viviana
7:30 La Guerra Imposible
8:30 Pecado de Amor
9 PM Cartas Para una Victima
10 PM 24 Horas
10:45 Noticiario
11 PM Lucha Libre

 

[classictvfan]

When did Corpus Christi get an English language independent?

 

[bpatrick]

Somebody who lives in that area can answer better than I can,
but I have a South Texas edition issue from 2000 that shows
KDF/47, the Fox affiliate. I'm guessing sometime in the late '90s,
but it's just that--a guess.

 

[Tim-In-Houston]

By request, from TV Guide, South Texas Edition:

KRIS Ch. 6 (NBC)
1:30 Another World
3 PM Hollywood Squares

How long was Another World a 90-minute program?

 

[Braves2005]

How long was Another World a 90-minute program?

I believe that Another World stayed a 90 minute program until the soap opera Texas premiered in 1980 and Another World went back to 60 minutes.

 

[briancraig]

Another World was 90 minutes from March 5, 1979 to August 1, 1980.

Along with a huge ratings comeback by General Hospital, my understanding is that 90 minutes really hurt the show and they never recovered.

 

[Smittian]

Thanks for those Coastal Bend listings BPatrick!

 

[bpatrick]

Another World was 90 minutes from March 5, 1979 to August 1, 1980.

Along with a huge ratings comeback by General Hospital, my understanding is that 90 minutes really hurt the show and they never recovered.

There were production problems aplenty on the 90-minute Another World;
actors had to be scheduled in shifts rather than a full day in order to get
everybody who had a part on a given day in.

Another problem, plotwise, was the killing off of practically every member
of the Matthews family, the show's core family since it went on the air
in 1964. That didn't sit well with a lot of viewers, who deserted and never
came back.

But Texas had it even worse. Not only was GH number one by that time,
but Guiding Light was into a ratings comeback, ranking usually fourth.
NBC eventually moved Texas to 11 AM (ET), but soaps have a poor track
record in the morning, and it was gone by the end of 1982.