Retro: Dallas/Ft. Worth Thursday, April 17, 1980

[bpatrick]

From TV Guide, Dallas/Ft. Worth Edition:

KDFW Ch. 4 (CBS)

4:30 News
5 AM Joyce Davidson (there's something I'm
forgetting about her--was she Canadian,
or married to David Susskind, or both?)
5:30 Sunrise Semester
6 AM Morning With Bob Schieffer
7 AM Captain Kangaroo (don't know if this is
a one-day delay or Ch. 4 was carrying the
Eastern feed)
8 AM Dinah! & Friends
9 AM The Jeffersons
9:30 Celebrity Whew!
9:55 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
10 AM Price Is Right
11 AM Young And The Restless
12 N News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow (CBS had two feeds
at this point, on a clock-time schedule for
the Eastern and Central time zones, since
Y&R usually aired at 1 PM ET/11 AM CT.)
1 PM As The World Turns
2 PM Guiding Light
3 PM Rhoda
3:30 One Day At A Time
4 PM Sanford And Son
4:30 Carol Burnett And Friends
5 PM News
5:30 CBS News (Cronkite is still there)
6 PM News
6:30 Newlywed Game
7 PM Palmerstown, U.S.A.
8 PM Hagen (cop show with Chad Everett, post-
Medical Center; and Arthur Hill, post-Owen
Marshall)
9 PM The Contender (Part 3 of 5)
10 PM News
10:30 All In The Family
11 PM Columbo
12:45 Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (CBS was
showing the reruns)
1:45 News

KXAS Ch. 5 (NBC)

6 AM Newsworthy
6:30 Good Morning
7 AM Today
9 AM Charlie Rose (he started his show at Ch. 5
around this time, then later went to PBS)
9:30 Donahue
10:30 Wheel Of Fortune
11 AM Chain Reaction
11:30 Password Plus
12 N Days Of Our Lives
1 PM The Doctors
1:30 Another World
3 PM Merv Griffin
4:30 M*A*S*H
5 PM News
5:30 NBC News (John Chancellor and David
Brinkley are still teamed)
6 PM News
6:30 Family Feud
7 PM Buck Rogers In The 25th Century
8 PM Quincy
9 PM Rockford Files
10 PM News
10:30 Tonight Show (George Carlin subs for
Johnny)
12 M Tomorrow
1 AM Odd Couple
1:30 Charlie Rose
2 AM News

WFAA Ch. 8 (ABC)

6 AM Country Daybreak
6:15 Dallas Lift
6:30 Peppermint Place
7 AM Good Morning America
9 AM People (Michael Brown, Sandra's
husband)
9:30 Edge Of Night
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 Movie: "The Lawyer" (Barry Newman plays
the title role in this one from 1970; four
years later he was playing another lawyer,
Petrocelli.)
5 PM News
5:30 ABC News (Reynolds/Jennings/Robinson)
6 PM News
6:30 PM Magazine
7 PM Mork & Mindy
7:30 Benson
8 PM Barney Miller
8:30 The Associates
9 PM 20/20
10 PM News
10:30 Movie: "Jane Eyre"
12:35 Nightline
12:55 News
1:25 Charlie's Angels
2:35 Baretta
3:45 Movie: "Dallas" (not the series but
a 1950 Western with Gary Cooper)
5:30 Que Pasa?

KTVT Ch. 11 (Ind.)

6:40 News
7 AM Slam Bang Theatre
8 AM Krofft Superstars
8:30 New Zoo Revue
9 AM Leave It To Beaver
9:30 My Three Sons
10 AM Maverick
11 AM Ironside
12 N News
12:30 Movie: "Otney"
2:30 Popeye & Friends
3:30 Banana Splits
4 PM Bugs And Porky
4:30 Gilligan's Island
5 PM I Love Lucy
5:30 Dick Van dyke
6 PM Bewitched
6:30 Adam-12
7 PM Gunsmoke
8 PM The Gossip Columnist
10 PM News
10:15 Movie: "Young Winston" (Churchill)
12:45 News

KERA Ch. 13 (PBS)

5:45 A.M. Weather
6 AM ABC Captioned News
6:30 Humanities
7 AM English
7:30 Psychology
8 AM News Day
8:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9 AM Sesame Street
10 AM Electric Company
10:30 In-school programs
12 N Business
12:30 3-2-1 Contact
1 PM In-school programs
2:30 Nova
3:30 Over Easy
4 PM Zoom
4:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5 PM Sesame Street
6 PM Electric Company
6:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
7 PM Newsday
7:30 Here's To Your Health
8 PM World At War
9 PM Jacques Cousteau
10 PM Opera From San Francisco:
La Gioconda (Tony Randall
acts as a sort of interpreter,
explaining the plot.)
11 PM Memories Of Eubie (Blake)

KXTX Ch. 39 (Ind.)

5:30 Ross Bagley
6 AM Romper Room
6:30 Tom & Jerry
7 AM Bugs Bunny & Friends
7:30 Popeye
8 AM Mighty Mouse
8:30 Little Rascals
9 AM 700 Club
10:30 Get Smart
11 AM Marcus Welby, M.D.
12 N Big Valley
1 PM Green Acres
1:30 Andy Griffith
2 PM Superfriends
2:30 Popeye And Bugs Hour
3:30 Flintstones
4 PM Tom And Jerry
5 PM Brady Bunch
5:30 Hogan's Heroes
6 PM Star Trek
7 PM Jim Rockford, Private
Investigator
8 PM 700 Club
9:30 Festival Of Praise
10 PM Jack Van Impe
10:30 Something Special
11 PM Faith Temple
11:30 Life Of Riley

 

[classictvfan]

Any Dallas-Fort Worth TV Guides from 1985-87?

 

[SteveRichards]

11 AM Young And The Restless
12 N News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow (CBS had two feeds
at this point, on a clock-time schedule for
the Eastern and Central time zones, since
Y&R usually aired at 1 PM ET/11 AM CT.)

There was only one feed at this point. CBS moved Y&R to Noon CT when the show was expanded to an hour. It was fairly common for affiliates in the Central Time Zone to show Y&R on a one-day delay at 11AM. CBS aired "Search for Tomorrow" nationally at 11:30 CT. Many stations, as did KDFW, did a same-day tape delay on SfT to 12:30. After lackluster ratings, CBS moved Y&R to 11:30 CT and SfT moved to 1:30. Many CT stations continued to run Y&R on a one-day delay at 11 until CBS introduced the Y&R split feed (11 or 11:30) in 1982.

 

[johnfox]

What memories, One question, I see news at 4:30am on KDFW. Anyone remember if that was local or CBS news. Also KDFW ran reruns of All In The Family up to the early 90s and was then replaced by The Golden Girls.

 

[Braves2005]

KDFW - Channel 4 (CBS)

3:30 PM One Day At A Time

This was CBS' daytime reruns of the show and a 30 minute delay as it was shown at 3:00 PM Central Time at this time before CBS moved it to mornings at 9:00 AM a year later.

KXAS - Channel 5 (NBC)

9:00 AM Charlie Rose
9:30 AM Donahue

I see that Card Sharks wasn't even shown in Dallas because it aired in the mornings at that time.

WFAA - Channel 8 (ABC)

9:30 AM Edge Of Night

One day delay, I think, from 3:00 PM Central

 

[bpatrick]

A few answers:

1. No, I don't have any DFW editions from 1985-87
but I'm always on the lookout for them.

2. I think Channel 4's 4:30 AM newscast was local,
since CBS didn't have an overnight newscast at
the time, and the only early-morning newscast
was "Morning."

3. I had left Dallas and gone back to the Eastern time
zone by this time, although I remember now that someone
else mentioned the one-day delay of Y&R in the Central
time zone at the time. At least CBS didn't take as long
to get the Y&R/SFT situation straight as it did putting Guiding
Light's morning stations on same-day as the afternoon ones.

4. I had to leave Dallas and move back to Greenville, SC before
I saw Card Sharks. KXAS never, to my knowledge, carried it
at 9 AM.

5. It's been nearly thirty years since I left Dallas, and I had
always thought Edge Of Night came on at 3 PM on WFAA
right to the end. But Channel 8 wasn't doing anything
unusual; in Atlanta, WXIA carried it a day behind at 10:30
(and WSB at 9:30 when they went to ABC), while in Greenville
WLOS didn't carry it at all. It's been said that the cancellation
of EON was an agreement between ABC and Procter & Gamble,
since several stations planned to drop the show the first week
in January 1985 (that from Wikipedia, if you trust it).

I was working at WGHP Greensboro/Winston-Salem/High Point
back in 1982 and '83, when the station was still an ABC affiliate.
One afternoon I was talking with my supervisor and noticed Edge
on the screen. I did a double-take, since we pre-empted Edge and
ran People's Court at 4 PM. Turns out he had a special set that
picked up the network feed. At any rate, I asked him if they got
a lot of complaints when Edge switched networks (it had always
done well on CBS affiliate WFMY), and he emphatically said yes.
(WFMY could have kept Edge when WGHP turned it down, as
several CBS affiliates did.)

 

[newsmark]

I think KDFW/4's 4:30 a.m. newscast was a replay of the 10 p.m. newscast.

6-8 a.m. was the East Coast feed for Morning and Captain Kangaroo.

11 a.m. Y&R was actually the same day's episode. Before the satellite split-feeds, CBS prefed it at around 3 a.m. Central for stations that wanted to run it at 11 instead of 11:30. (As I've written before, probably boring some of you to death, the station I worked for, KXII, picked up KDFW's off-air feed from 11-12 for Y&R, since no one was at the station for the prefeed. The off air signal looked pretty bad. Eventually we rigged up a VTR to record the prefeed, and just used KDFW for backup.)

WFAA/8 eventually dropped The Edge of Night altogether. During General Hospital, they would always cover Edge promos with a local news promo, although sometimes you'd see a second or two of the Edge promo slip through.

 

[bpatrick]

IIRC, KDFI/27 picked up Edge Of Night during its
last few months and ran it at 9:30 AM.

At WGHP, when an Edge promo came on (say,
during General Hospital), we'd put up a graphic:
"This show will not be seen on TV8."

 

[SteveRichards]

Now that you mention it, Newsmark, I remember you telling us about the 3AM pre-feed of Y&R. It was pretty obvious my local CBS affiliate at the time was showing Y&R on a one-day delay, as they would cover CBS promos for shows airing "tonight," etc. with generic CBS News promos. Occasionally, a CBS promo for a show that actually aired the night before would slip through.

 

[newsmark]

It was pretty obvious my local CBS affiliate at the time was showing Y&R on a one-day delay, as they would cover CBS promos for shows airing "tonight," etc. with generic CBS News promos. Occasionally, a CBS promo for a show that actually aired the night before would slip through.

Guess they didn't have an overnight person to do the recording, either. I can only imagine the headache of covering all of those promos to keep them from running AFTER the show they were promoting--especially on those stations that tape-delayed a lot of shows.