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Retro: Detroit/Windsor, Tuesday, January 17, 1989

Source: Toledo Blade via Google News Archive.

02 - WJBK (CBS)

5:00 Superior Court
5:30 This Morning's Business
6:00 USA Today
6:30 CBS Morning News
7:00 CBS This Morning
9:00 Regis and Kathie Lee
10:00 Morton Downey, Jr.
11:00 Price is Right
12:00 News
12:30 Young and the Restless
1:30 Bold and the Beautiful
2:00 As the World Turns
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 Cheers
4:30 Benson
5:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Family Feud
7:30 Win, Lose or Draw
8:00 Tour of Duty
9:00 Movie: "Desperate for Love"
11:00 News
11:30 Cheers
12:00 Hill Street Blues
1:00 Arsenio Hall (guests: actress Stepfanie Kramer, country singer Dwight Yoakam)
2:00 News
2:30 Fantasy Island
3:30 Naked City
4:30 Divorce Court

04 - WDIV (NBC)
5:00 Guns of Will Sonnett
6:00 NBC News at Sunrise
6:30 News
7:00 Today
9:00 Geraldo
10:00 Sale of the Century
10:30 Classic Concentration
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 Win, Lose or Draw
12:00 News
12:30 Scrabble
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 Santa Barbara
4:00 Cosby Show
4:30 Inside Edition
5:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Wheel of Fortune
7:30 Jeopardy!
8:00 Matlock
9:00 In the Heat of the Night
10:00 Midnight Caller
11:00 News
11:30 Best of Carson
12:30 Off Shore TV
1:05 Late Night with David Letterman (guests: New York Knicks basketball coach Rick Pitino, actor Charles Grodin, singer Michele Shocked)
2:05 Later with Bob Costas (guest: John Malkovich)
2:35 On Trial
3:05 Improv Tonite (guest host: actor Griffin O'Neal; comics Rob Becker, Bob Duback, Charles Zucker)
3:30 Ironside
4:30 News

07 - WXYZ (ABC)
5:00 Home (continued)
5:30 Body by Jake
6:00 ABC World News This Morning
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Kelly and Company
10:00 Donahue
11:00 Sally
12:00 News
12:30 Loving
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 Who's the Boss?
8:30 Roseanne
9:00 Moonlighting
10:00 thirtysomething
11:00 News
11:30 Nightline
12:00 St. Elsewhere
1:00 Sweethearts
1:30 Entertainment Tonight (scheduled: Robin Williams)
2:00 News
2:30 Relatively Speaking
3:00 Lingo
3:30 Wipeout
4:00 This Week on Pit Road
4:30 Home

09 - CBET (CBC)
9:00 Fitness People
9:30 Doctor, Doctor
10:00 Fred Penner's Place
10:30 Mr. Dressup
11:00 Sesame Street
12:00 Midday
1:00 Nature of Things
2:00 Coronation Street
2:30 Talkabout
3:00 Parenting
3:30 Sun Country
4:00 Mr. Wizard's World
4:30 Edison Twins
5:00 Video Hits
5:30 News
7:00 Babar
7:30 Celebrity Talkabout
8:00 the fifth estate
9:00 Marketplace
9:30 Man Alive
10:00 The National
10:22 The Journal
11:00 News
11:30 Movie: "The Glass House"

20 - WXON (Ind)
5:00 Movie: "Four Girls in Town" (continued)
5:30 Focus Family
6:00 Independent Network News
6:30 Snorks
7:00 Tom and Jerry
7:30 Jem
8:00 Scooby-Doo
8:30 Real Ghostbusters
9:00 Green Acres
9:30 Leave It to Beaver
10:00 Movie: "Death Penalty"
12:00 Bewitched
12:30 Dare to Be Slim
1:00 Movie: "Covert Action"
2:30 Leave It to Beaver
3:00 Dennis the Menace
3:30 C.O.P.S.
4:00 Woody Woodpecker
4:30 The Jetsons
5:00 Finders Keepers
5:30 Punky Brewster
6:00 Wonderful World of Disney
7:00 It's a Living
7:30 All in the Family
8:00 Movie: "The Coca-Cola Kid"
10:00 Rockford Files
11:00 Newlywed Game
11:30 Love Connection
12:00 Dating Game
12:30 Newlywed Game
1:00 Love Connection
1:30 Secrets of Success
2:30 Movie: "The 300 Year Weekend"

50 - WKBD (FOX)
5:30 Twin Star Productions
6:00 CNN Headline News
6:30 Porky Pig
7:00 Double Dare
7:30 G.I. Joe
8:00 Yogi Bear
8:30 Smurfs' Adventures
9:00 Little House on the Prairie
10:00 Beverly Hillbillies
10:30 Morning Break
11:00 700 Club
12:00 I Love Lucy
12:30 Andy Griffith
1:00 CHiPs
2:00 Gilligan's Island
2:30 My Little Pony and Friends
3:00 Alvin and the Chipmunks
3:30 Beverly Hills Teens
4:00 Duck Tales
4:30 Fun House
5:00 Diff'rent Strokes
5:30 Webster
6:00 Silver Spoons
6:30 Facts of Life
7:00 Family Ties
7:30 Three's Company
8:00 Living the Dream: A Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (narrative highlights of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s life are interspersed with musical performances featuring James Cleveland, Andrae Crouch, Aretha Franklin, Tramaine Hawkins and Deniece Williams)
10:00 News
10:30 The Honeymooners
11:00 The Jeffersons
11:30 Sanford and Son
12:00 The Fall Guy
1:00 Movie: "Requiem for a Heavyweight"

56 - WTVS (PBS)

5:00 Personal Finance
5:30 Marketing
6:00 Profiles of Nature
6:30 Instructional programming
7:00 To Life! Yoga with Priscilla Patrick
7:15 AM Weather
7:30 American Government Survey
8:00 Focus on Society
8:30 Zoobilee Zoo
9:00 Instructional programming
10:00 Sesame Street
11:00 Mister Rogers
11:30 3-2-1 Contact
12:00 Square One TV
12:30 Victory Garden
1:00 Instructional programming
2:00 Sesame Street
3:00 Square One TV
3:30 The Beachcombers
4:00 Health Issues
4:30 Bill Moyers' World of Ideas
5:00 America: The Second Century
5:30 Understanding Human Behavior
6:00 Science Journal
6:30 Nightly Business Report
7:00 Newton's Apple
7:30 Wild America
8:00 Nova (the greenhouse effect, rising sea levels, and other environmental disasters)
9:00 MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour
10:00 American Experience
11:00 Alive from Off Center
11:30 Cousteau Amazon
12:30 World of Survival
1:00 Nova (repeat of 8PM)
2:00 American Experience "Sins of Our Mothers" (profiles the relationship between two 19th-century New England women of differing backgrounds)
3:00 South American Journey (reasons for Argentina's decline from a position of wealth to its current impoverished status; part 3 of 8)
4:00 MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour

62 - WGPR (Ind)
6:00 Soul Beat
6:30 Sports View Today
7:00 Heritage Today
8:00 James Robison
8:30 Morning Magazine
9:00 Fletcher Brothers
9:30 Jimmy Swaggart
10:00 Richard Roberts
11:00 Straight Talk
11:30 Insight
12:00 Heritage Today
1:00 Movie: "Catherine the Great"
3:00 Macron I
3:30 Ghostbusters
4:00 Movie: "Woman Chases Man"
5:30 Newscope
6:00 New Dance Show
7:00 He is Risen
8:00 Jerry Falwell
9:00 Heritage Today
10:00 Christ is the Answer
11:00 Insight
11:30 Pat Sajak Show (preempted by WJBK)
1:00 Night Heat
2:00 Home Shopping
 
The Detroit Papers carried the listings for CBET (Channel 9 in Windsor) as well as listings for the nearest Global and CTV affiliates. However, the Detroit Papers are not available via a free archive.

The USA Today show WJBK was showing was intended as a weeknight news magazine and had been launched the previous fall. The fact that it had such a poor slot in a market as significant as Detroit foretold why it didn't last long. WGPR still showed afternoon movies at this point.

That the CBS Detroit affiliate was able to push the network's late night show (Pat Sajak) in favor of Arsenio Hall also foretold the quick demise of that show which wasn't really bad at all.

Independent stations were still independent at this point. An interesting time in TV. Thanks for the post!
 
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