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Retro: Detroit/Windsor, Thursday, April 24, 1997

south_ferretti

south_ferretti

Source: Toledo Blade via Google News Archive.

02 - WJBK (FOX)
6:00 News
9:00 Fox After Breakfast
10:00 Crook and Chase
11:00 Extra
11:30 Access Hollywood
12:00 News
12:30 Real TV
1:00 Geraldo Rivera
2:00 Dating Game
2:30 Newlywed Game
3:00 Ricki Lake
4:00 Rosie O'Donnell (guests: Steven Seagal, Roma Downey)
5:00 News
6:30 Cheers
7:00 Access Hollywood
7:30 Extra
8:00 Martin
8:30 Living Single
9:00 New York Undercover
10:00 News
11:00 Cheers
11:30 M*A*S*H
12:00 Who's the Boss?
12:30 Cosby Show
1:00 Dating Game
1:30 Newlywed Game
2:00 News
3:30 Hitchhiker
4:00 Adventures of Sinbad

04 - WDIV (NBC)
6:00 News
7:00 Today
9:00 Maury Povich
10:00 Jerry Springer
11:00 Jenny Jones
12:00 News
12:30 Jeopardy!
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 Sally
4:00 Montel Williams (overcoming infidelity)
5:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Wheel of Fortune
7:30 Jeopardy!
8:00 Friends
8:30 Suddenly Susan
9:00 Seinfeld
9:30 Fired Up
10:00 ER
11:00 News
11:35 Tonight Show with Jay Leno (guests: Bill Paxton, animal expert Joan Embery, country singer LeAnn Rimes)
12:35 Jenny Jones (women with natural breasts face off against females with implants)
1:35 TBA
2:05 Late Night with Conan O'Brien (guests: actor Steven Weber, music guest Radish)
3:05 Later with Bob Costas
3:35 Leeza
4:30 NBC News Nightside

07 - WXYZ (ABC)
6:00 News
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Regis and Kathie Lee
10:00 In Person with Maureen O'Boyle
11:00 Rolonda
12:00 News
12:30 Daytime to Remember
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Oprah Winfrey
5:00 News
7:00 ABC World News Tonight
7:30 Entertainment Tonight
8:00 High Incident
9:00 Movie: "The Specialist" (1994)
11:00 News
11:35 Nightline
12:05 Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher (guests: comic Steve Allen, psychic Joe Nickell, "Crossfire" co-host Bill Press)
12:35 American Journal
1:05 Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher (repeat)
1:35 Matlock
3:05 Caryl and Marilyn: Real Friends
4:05 ABC World News Now

09 - CBET (CBC)
7:00 CBC Morning News
9:00 Playground
9:15 Guess What?
9:30 Sesame Park
10:00 Theodore Tugboat
10:15 Playground
10:30 Mr. Dressup
11:00 Wimzie
11:30 Lead
12:00 Midday
1:00 Encore to Pamela Wallin
2:00 E.N.G.
3:00 Coronation Street
3:30 Urban Peasant
4:00 Jonovision
4:30 The Bill
5:00 Futureworld
5:30 News (local news at 5:30PM, at 6PM relays CBLT's newscast)
7:00 Empty Nest
7:30 Stanley Cup Playoffs: New Jersey Devils vs. Montreal Canadiens (Eastern Conference quarterfinal, game 4)
10:30 The National
10:52 The Magazine
11:30 News
12:00 Stopwatch
12:30 Movie: "A Masculine Ending" (1992)
3:00 sign-off

20 - WXON (WB)
6:00 Samurai Pizza Cats
6:30 The Flintstones
7:00 Bruno the Kid
7:30 Masked Rider
8:00 Gargoyles
8:30 Woody Woodpecker
9:30 Harry and the Hendersons
10:00 In the Heat of the Night
11:00 Simon and Simon
12:00 Beverly Hills, 90210
1:00 Baywatch
2:30 Bananas in Pajamas
3:00 Garfield
3:30 Quack Pack
4:00 Bugs 'n' Daffy
4:30 Animaniacs
5:00 America's Funniest Home Videos
5:30 Family Matters
6:00 A Different World
6:30 Family Matters
7:00 Cops
7:30 LAPD: Life on the Beat
8:00 Movie: "Predator 2" (1990)
10:00 Mama's Family
10:30 A Different World
11:00 Real Stories of the Highway Patrol
11:30 Judge Judy
12:00 Strange Universe
12:30 Genuine Article
1:30 Movie: "The Little Drummer Girl"
3:30 Harry and the Hendersons

50 - WKBD (UPN)
6:00 Darkwing Duck
6:30 Mega Man
7:00 Reboot
7:30 Spider-Man
8:00 M.A.S.K.
8:30 Sky Dancers
9:00 Adventures of Batman and Robin
9:30 Dinosaurs
10:00 Blossom
10:30 Charles in Charge
11:00 Sunset Beach (preempted by WDIV)
12:00 The Jeffersons
12:30 All in the Family
1:00 Sanford and Son
1:30 Good Times
2:00 King Arthur and the Knights of Justice
2:30 Aladdin
3:00 Bobby's World
3:30 Spider-Man
4:00 Beetleborgs
4:30 Power Rangers
5:00 Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
5:30 Hangin' with Mr. Cooper
6:00 The Simpsons
6:30 Martin
7:00 Home Improvement
8:00 Movie: "Boiling Point" (1993)
10:00 News
11:00 Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
11:30 Married... with Children
12:00 Star Trek: The Next Generation
1:00 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
2:00 sign-off

56 - WTVS (PBS)
6:00 Ancestors
6:30 Adventures of Dudley the Dragon
7:00 Magic School Bus
7:30 Arthur
8:00 Theodore Tugboat
8:30 Shining Time Station
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Barney and Friends
10:30 Magic School Bus
11:00 Storytime
11:30 Reading Rainbow
12:00 Lamb Chop's Play-Along
12:30 Puzzle Place
1:00 Sesame Street
2:00 Barney and Friends
2:30 Big Comfy Couch
3:00 Arthur
3:30 Magic School Bus
4:00 Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?
4:30 Wishbone
5:00 Kratts' Creatures
5:30 Bill Nye the Science Guy
6:00 Newshour with Jim Lehrer
7:00 Nightly Business Report
7:30 Backstage
8:00 New Yankee Workshop
8:30 This Old House
9:00 Fred Trost's Practical Sportsman
9:30 Great Lakes Outdoors
10:00 Mystery!
11:30 New Red Green Show
12:00 New Yankee Workshop
12:30 This Old House
1:00 Fred Trost's Practical Sportsman
1:30 Great Lakes Outdoors
2:00 Mystery!
3:30 Encore
4:00 Clive James
4:30 Death: Trip of a Lifetime

62 - WWJ (CBS)
6:00 First Business
6:30 CBS Morning News
7:00 CBS This Morning
9:00 Rockford Files
10:00 Guiding Light
11:00 Price is Right
12:00 WKRP in Cincinnati
12:30 Young and the Restless
1:30 Bold and the Beautiful
2:00 As the World Turns
3:00 Gordon Elliott
4:00 Murphy Brown
4:30 Designing Women
5:00 Mad About You
6:00 Seinfeld
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Hard Copy
7:30 Rescue 911
8:00 Diagnosis Murder "Physician Murder Thyself"
9:00 Diagnosis Murder "Murder in the Air"
10:00 48 Hours
11:00 Late Show with David Letterman (guests: actress Lisa Kudrow, music group The Verve Pipe, 84-year-old shoe cobbler Umberto Succigrossi)
12:05 Hard Copy
12:35 Late Late Show with Tom Snyder (guest: comedian Howie Mandel)
1:35 Gordon Elliott (the proponents and opponents of extreme fighting)
2:35 CBS News Up to the Minute
 
Jerry Springer was about at his apex that year. He moved to WXON in 2000, I think. UPN and WB were still developing a consistent prime time schedule and ABC was in significant transition itself. Longtime hits 'Coach' and 'Roseanne' ended in 1997 with not much to replace them. ABC made the regrettable choice of making Jamie Tarses its President which ended badly a few years later.

The trend towards a lot of infomercials for overnight programming still hadn't taken hold meaning there was actual programming to watch in overnight hours.
 
Spot-on about Springer...I was a high school junior around this time, and his show aired locally in Los Angeles at 11pm Monday-Saturday night, while competing against the news on KCBS, KNBC, and KABC. He often beat KNBC and KCBS in the ratings in that hour.
 
WDIV had all the Trash TV shows at this time (Maury and Jerry of course, and Jenny Jones was trashy at this time). Also, WWJ aired Letterman at 11pm at this time. Was it that same night's show or a day delay?
 
Letterman was the same day show. CBS fed it to WWJ early for the 11PM broadcast. (I lived in Detroit at the time. WWJ didn't have much going for it, but they could promote Letterman@11.)
 
south_ferretti said:
You asked me the same on a previous post, and I told you that The Toledo Blade only listed English-speaking stations.
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Also, Radio-Canada never had any cable carriage on the American side of the border. AFAIK, the Blade never included another Canadian besides CBET.

The Detroit papers never included Radio-Canada in their listings AFAIK, but they did have (in their statewide listings) CBET, CHBX, CJIC, and CKCO (and possibly TVO).
 
Most of the Canadian stations near Detroit were either low-power or positioned farther away from Detroit. When I lived there, CBET/9 was the only Canadian station I could receive off-air.

I know TVO was on some cable systems, but it wasn't on mine.
 
newsmark said:
Letterman was the same day show. CBS fed it to WWJ early for the 11PM broadcast. (I lived in Detroit at the time. WWJ didn't have much going for it, but they could promote Letterman@11.)
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I never knew they did that. Makes sense since they didn’t have news.

I assume another episode of Mad About You aired at 5:30 since I don’t see anything listed for that time?
 
For those who may not know, CBET was the former commercial CKLW-TV, which, like the AM station, targeted Detroit. Pick any random Big 8 aircheck and you'll hear an ad for CKLW-TV




newsmark said:
Most of the Canadian stations near Detroit were either low-power or positioned farther away from Detroit. When I lived there, CBET/9 was the only Canadian station I could receive off-air.

I know TVO was on some cable systems, but it wasn't on mine.
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ftballfan said:
Also, Radio-Canada never had any cable carriage on the American side of the border. AFAIK, the Blade never included another Canadian besides CBET.

The Detroit papers never included Radio-Canada in their listings AFAIK, but they did have (in their statewide listings) CBET, CHBX, CJIC, and CKCO (and possibly TVO).
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The Free Press at least did indeed carry CBEFT 54 listings during the '80s, at least in the local edition. I don't know about the News, as my family didn't subscribe.
 
Interesting seeing Judge Judy carried at 11:30 at night. It was still in its first season then and I wonder if anyone anticipated the massive success that was to come. I believe Judge Judy was aired on WWJ 62 when I started watching in 2000 or so, then moved to Fox 2 in 2001 where it remains to this day.
 
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