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Retro: Eastern North Carolina Sat, Oct 6, 1990

from TV Guide-Eastern North Carolina edition
Not listed: WYED 17-HSN Goldsboro

WFMY 2-CBS Greensboro
5:00 Movie cont'd
6:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
7:00 Home Again with Bob Vila
7:30 Pee-wee's Playhouse
8:00 Jim Henson's Muppet Babies
9:00 Garfield & Friends
10:00 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
11:00 NWA Wrestling
noon College Football: Georgia Tech-Maryland
3:30 College Football: Florida State-Miami (JIP)
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Hee Haw (guests Vern Gosdin, and Baillie & the Boys)
8:00 ALCS, Game 1: Oakland-Boston, the A's won 9-1 and would sweep the Sox in 4 straight, with Roger Clemens getting ejected in Game 4; more on the Clemens incident and highlights of the series at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990_American_League_Championship_Series (The As didn't do so well against Cincinnati in the World Series, getting done unto them what they did to the Sox (the Reds took down Pittsburgh in 6 to get there)
11:00 News
11:30 On Scene: Emergency Response
mid. Movie "Private Benjamin"
2:00 Movie "The Child Stealer"
3:40 Movie "Goodbye, Raggedy Ann"

WWAY 3-ABC Wilmington
6:30 New Kids on the Block
7:00 Bugs Bunny & Tweety
8:00 Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
8:30 Captain Planet & the Planeteers
9:00 Slimer! & the Real Ghostbusters
10:00 Beetlejuice
10:30 Soul Train
11:30 Infomercial
noon American Angler
12:30 Infomercial
1:00 Images
1:30 Webster
2:00 Infomercial
2:30 Family Ties
3:00 Infomercial
3:30 College Football: teams TBA, ABC hadn't made up its mind at presstime
7:00 Hee Haw
8:00 Young Riders
9:00 China Beach
10:00 Twin Peaks
11:00 News
11:30 Arsenio Hall (guest Christie Brinkley; Grand Strand/Pee Dee viewers got the weekend Arsenio Sun 11:30 on WBTW, with the Triangle getting it 30 min earlier on WLFL)
12:30 Infomercial
1:00 NWA Wrestling
2:00 sign-off

WRAL 5-Raleigh/WKFT 40-Fayetteville (CBS)
WKFT, normally an indie, was relaying WRAL's programs after a tower collapse in December 1989...WRAL's new tower would start operations on October 25th
5:00 Headline News
6:30 US Farm Report
7:00 Southern Sportsman
7:30 Pee-wee's Playhouse
8:00 Jim Henson's Muppet Babies
9:00 Garfield & Friends
10:00 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
11:00 Sparks
11:30 ACC Football Magazine
noon College Football: Georgia Tech-Maryland
3:30 College Football: Florida State-Miami (JIP)
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous
8:00 ALCS-Game 1
11:00 News
11:15 Sports Saturday
11:30 Big Break (guest James Ingram)
12:30 Movie "Hunters are for Killing"
2:30 (5) Night Flight (segments with the Rolling Stones, Fr. Guido Sarducci, Lou Reed, and the Residents; plus clips from The Terror of Tiny Town)
2:30 (40) Movie "Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell"
4:30 Headline News

WTTG 5-Fox Washington DC
5:00 Movie cont'd
6:00 Bullwinkle (1 hr)
7:00 Bugs Bunny's Buddies
8:00 Bobby's World
8:30 Zazoo U
9:00 Tom & Jerry Kids
9:30 Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
10:00 Piggsburg Pigs
10:30 Fun House
11:00 WWF Wrestling
noon Movie "Teachers"
2:00 Movie "Warning Sign"
4:00 Tiny Toon Adventures
4:30 What a Dummy (fitting show for DC, given the overabundance of them in Congress ;))
5:00 A Current Affair: Extra
6:00 News
6:30 Off the Record
7:00 Family Ties
7:30 Who's the Boss?
8:00 Totally Hidden Video
8:30 Haywire (host Ritch Shydner)
9:00 Cops (LA)
9:30 American Chronicles (visiting the famous Sturgis bike rally)
10:00 News
11:00 Comic Strip Live (guests Thomas Kenny, Mike Dugan, Lisa Gay Tremblay, and Raspyni Brothers)
mid. Pump It Up!
1:00 A Current Affair: Extra
2:00 Movie "Riot"
4:00 Movie "The Haunting Passion"

WECT 6-NBC Wilmington
7:00 Rocky & His Friends (Bullwinkle)
7:30 Tennessee Tuxedo
8:00 Camp Candy
8:30 Captain N/Super Mario Bros. 3
9:30 Rick Moranis in Gravedale High
10:00 Kid 'n Play
10:30 Chipmunks Go to the Movies
11:00 Saved by the Bell
11:30 Guys Next Door
noon College Football: Georgia Tech-Maryland
3:30 Silver Spoons
4:00 Kenny Rogers' Weekend Classic (the 3rd annual event from his home in Athens GA sees athletes and celebs playing basketball, tennis, golf, and fishing for bass...the guest list includes Michael Jordan, Charles Barkley, Payne Stewart, Tim Mayotte, and Mark Harmon)
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Highway to Heaven
8:00 Parenthood
8:30 Working It Out
9:00 Golden Girls
9:30 Empty Nest
10:00 Carol & Company
10:30 American Dreamer
11:00 News
11:30 Saturday Night Live (host Susan Lucci/music by Hothouse Flowers)
1:00 sign-off

WITN 7-NBC Washington NC
7:00 Kid n' Play
7:30 Chipmunks Go to the Movies
8:00 Camp Candy
8:30 Captain N/Super Mario Bros. 3
9:30 Rick Moranis in Gravedale High
10:00 Superboy
10:30 Super Force
11:00 Saved by the Bell
11:30 Guys Next Door
noon College Football: Georgia Tech-Maryland
3:30 Infomercial
4:00 Kenny Rogers' Weekend Classic
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Hee Haw
8:00 Parenthood
8:30 Working It Out
9:00 Golden Girls
9:30 Empty Nest
10:00 Carol & Company
10:30 American Dreamer
11:00 News
11:30 Saturday Night Live (host Susan Lucci/music by Hothouse Flowers)
1:00 Christopher Closeup
1:30 sign-off

WFXI 8-Fox Morehead City
6:00 Monsters
6:30 Reunion
7:00 Underdog (x2)
8:00 Bobby's World
8:30 Zazoo U
9:00 Tom & Jerry Kids
9:30 Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
10:00 Piggsburg Pigs
10:30 Fun House
11:00 NWA Wrestling
noon This Week on Pit Road
12:30 Wheel Power
1:00 NASCAR: All Pro 300
4:00 My Secret Identity
4:30 Out of This World
5:00 What a Dummy
5:30 Charles in Charge
6:00 Friday the 13th: The Series
7:00 Star Trek: The Next Generation
8:00 Totally Hidden Video
8:30 Haywire
9:00 Cops
9:30 American Chronicles
10:00 Comic Strip Live
11:00 American Gladiators
mid. Tiny Toon Adventures (and no, I don't know what WFXI's schedulers were smoking :D)
12:30 MTV Music Video Awards (Arsenio Hall hosts the 7th annual event)
2:30 sign-off

WGHP 8-ABC High Point
6:00 Family Ties
6:30 Little Rosey
7:00 Infomercial
7:30 Widget
8:00 Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
8:30 Wizard of Oz
9:00 Slimer! & the Real Ghostbusters
10:00 Beetlejuice
10:30 New Kids on the Block
11:00 Bugs Bunny & Tweety
noon Soul Train
1:00 New Music Report
1:30 Dracula
2:00 Infomercials (speaking of bloodsuckers...;D)
3:00 Success Stories
3:30 College Football: teams TBA
7:00 Star Search
8:00 Young Riders
9:00 China Beach
10:00 Twin Peaks
11:00 News
11:30 Rockford Files
12:30 Dracula
1:00 America's Top 10
1:30 Night Flight (same playlist as in the Triangle)
3:30 sign-off

WNCT 9-CBS Greenville
7:00 ACC Football Magazine
7:30 Southern Sportsman
8:00 Jim Henson's Muppet Babies
9:00 Garfield & Friends
10:00 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
11:00 Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures
11:30 Pee-wee's Playhouse
noon Dink the Little Dinosaur
12:30 CBS StoryBreak
1:00 TBA
2:00 College Football: Florida State-Miami
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 A Current Affair: Extra
8:00 ALCS-Game 1
11:00 News
11:30 Soul Train (guests Force MDs, Lakeside, and Mellow Man Ace)
12:30 Movie "Charro!"
2:30 sign-off

WTVD 11-ABC Durham
6:00 A Pup Named Scooby-Doo
6:30 Little Rosey
7:00 Young Universe
7:30 Widget
8:00 Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
8:30 Wizard of Oz
9:00 Slimer! & the Real Ghostbusters
10:00 Beetlejuice
10:30 New Kids on the Block
11:00 Bugs Bunny & Tweety
noon Soul Train
1:00 America's Top 10
1:30 Superboy
2:00 Super Force
2:30 T.J. Hooker
3:30 College Football: teams TBA
7:00 News
7:30 Wheel of Fortune
8:00 Young Riders
9:00 China Beach
10:00 Twin Peaks
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "Scott Joplin"
1:30 ABC News
1:45 News
2:15 sign-off

WCTI 12-ABC New Bern
6:00 Little Rascals (bw)
6:30 Telestory
7:00 Diff'rent Strokes
7:30 Little Rosey
8:00 Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
8:30 Wizard of Oz
9:00 Slimer! & the Real Ghostbusters
10:00 Beetlejuice
10:30 New Kids on the Block
11:00 Bugs Bunny & Tweety
noon WWF Wrestling
1:00 Fall Guy
2:00 Infomercial
2:30 TBA
3:00 Diff'rent Strokes
3:30 College Football: teams TBA
7:00 Star Search
8:00 Young Riders
9:00 China Beach
10:00 Twin Peaks
11:00 News
11:15 ABC News
11:30 Arsenio Hall
12:30 It's Showtime at the Apollo (guests TKA, Tony! Toni! Tone!, and Danny Gans)
1:30 Fall Guy
2:30 sign-off

WBTW 13-CBS Florence
5:00 Movie cont'd
6:00 Krypton Factor
6:30 Super Force
7:00 Superboy
7:30 Widget
8:00 Jim Henson's Muppet Babies
9:00 Garfield & Friends
10:00 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
11:00 NWA Wrestling
noon College Football: Georgia Tech-Maryland
3:30 College Football: Florida State-Miami (JIP)
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 A Current Affair: Extra
8:00 ALCS-Game 1
11:00 News
11:30 It's Showtime at the Apollo
12:30 Byron Allen (guest the Boys)
1:30 Movie "Trigger Jr." (followed by 2 chapters of Son of Zorro in glorious B&W)
3:30 Movie "Strange Holiday" (bw/followed by 2 chapters of B&W serial G-Men vs the Black Dragon)

WPDE 15-ABC Florence
6:00 Webster
6:30 Bullwinkle
7:00 Underdog
7:30 Puppet Love
8:00 Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
8:30 Wizard of Oz
9:00 Slimer! & the Real Ghostbusters
10:00 Beetlejuice
10:30 New Kids on the Block
11:00 Bugs Bunny & Tweety
noon Little Rosey
12:30 A Pup Named Scooby-Doo
1:00 NASCAR: All Pro 300
4:00 College Football: teams TBA (JIP)
7:00 Star Search
8:00 Young Riders
9:00 China Beach
10:00 Twin Peaks
11:00 News
11:15 Sports
11:30 WWF Wrestling
12:30 American Gladiators
1:30 Tales from the Darkside
2:00 sign-off

WLFL 22-Fox Raleigh
7:00 Bullwinkle (x2)
8:00 Bobby's World
8:30 Zazoo U
9:00 Tom & Jerry Kids
9:30 Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
10:00 Piggsburg Pigs
10:30 Fun House
11:00 Krypton Factor
11:30 Tiny Toon Adventures
noon NWA Wrestling
1:00 Movie "Three the Hard Way"
3:00 Movie "Mr. Majestyk"
5:00 Reunion
5:30 Video Challenge
6:00 21 Jump Street
7:00 Star Trek: The Next Generation
8:00 Totally Hidden Video
8:30 Haywire
9:00 Cops
9:30 American Chronicles
10:00 Comic Strip Live
11:00 It's Showtime at the Apollo
mid. Byron Allen
1:00 Friday the 13th: The Series
2:00 sign-off

WJKA 26-CBS Wilmington
7:00 Wonderful World of Disney
8:00 Jim Henson's Muppet Babies
9:00 Garfield & Friends
10:00 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
11:00 Superboy
11:30 Super Force
noon America's Top 10
12:30 Infomercial
1:00 Wonderful World of Disney
2:00 College Football: Florida State-Miami
6:00 Big Break
7:00 Star Trek: The Next Generation
8:00 ALCS-Game 1
11:00 Star Search
mid. Entertainment This Week
1:00 Friday the 13th: The Series
2:00 sign-off

WPTF 28-NBC Durham
5:00 Home Shopping Spree
6:00 American Gladiators
7:00 Dracula
7:30 Dragon Warrior
8:00 Camp Candy
8:30 Captain N/Super Mario Bros. 3
9:30 Rick Moranis in Gravedale High
10:00 Kid 'n Play
10:30 Chipmunks Go to the Movies
11:00 Saved by the Bell
11:30 Guys Next Door
noon Pump It Up!
1:00 Dracula
1:30 Movie "Three Amigos!"
3:30 InSport (profiling Kevin Johnson, a day in Dan Marino's life)
4:00 Kenny Rogers' Weekend Classic
6:00 Jesse Jackson
7:00 Star Search
8:00 Parenthood
8:30 Working It Out
9:00 Golden Girls
9:30 Empty Nest
10:00 Carol & Company
10:30 American Dreamer
11:00 News
11:30 Saturday Night Live
1:00 Night Music (guests Marianne Faithful, John Zorn, Aaron Neville, and Rob Wasserman)
2:00 Preview
3:00 Home Shopping Spree

WGGT 48-Ind Greensboro
6:00 Movie "Countdown" (feature version of 3 Lassie episodes filmed at Cape Canaveral)
7:30 Dragon Warrior
8:00 Real Estate Classifieds
8:30 Travel, Travel
9:00 Auto Channel
10:00 WWF Wrestling
11:00 NAWA Wrestling
noon Movie "The Couch Trip"
2:00 Movie "The Marsupials: The Howling III"
4:00 Monsters
4:30 My Secret Identity
5:00 Out of This World
5:30 Charles in Charge
6:00 Big Break
7:00 It's Showtime at the Apollo
8:00 Krush Rap
9:00 On the Beam (features on MC Hammer and the O'Jays)
10:00 WWF Wrestling
11:00 Infomercial
11:30 Smash Hits (profile of Aerosmith)
mid. Red Hot & Cool (guest Jimmy McGriff)
12:30 Night Music (see 28 for line-up)
1:30 sign-off

WFCT 62-Ind Fayetteville
6:30 Fishing the West
7:00 Sportsman's Showcase
7:30 Outdoors South
8:00 Movie "Slice of Death" (not what you may think by the title, this was kung-fu)
10:00 Infomercial
10:30 America's Backyard
11:00 Lone Ranger (bw)
11:30 Infomercial
noon WWF Wrestling
1:00 Auto Racing: details not listed, did they carry syndied NASCAR as WFXI and WPDE did?
4:00 Powerboat Racing
4:30 Ebony/Jet Showcase
5:00 Red Hot & Cool
5:30 Dance Electric
6:00 America's Top 10 (new artists of the 90s, videos include Nelson and Maxi Priest)
6:30 New Music Report (videos by Michel'le, 2 Live Crew, and Ice Cube...no word as to whether 62's studios were turned into a parking lot after the 2 Live Crew video was broadcast :D)
7:00 High School Football: Terry Sanford-Cape Fear (1 day delay)
9:30 Witness to Survival
10:00 Infomercial
10:30 Tales from the Darkside (episode written by Stephen King)
11:00 ICW Wrestling (given the time period, this is likely the NJ promotion)
mid. Home Shopping Network
3:00 sign-off

NC Center for Public Television (UNC TV, PBS)
WUNC 4-Chapel Hill, WUND 2-Columbia, WUNJ 39-Wilmington, WUNK 25-Greenville, WUNL 26-Winston-Salem, WUNM 19-Jacksonville, and WUNP 36-Roanoke Rapids
7:00 GED
7:30 Personal Finance & Money Management
8:30 Business File
9:30 Business of Management
10:30 Business & the Law
11:30 Discovering Psychology
12:30 Growing Years
1:30 Raising America's Children
2:00 Doctor Who
4:00 Victory Garden
4:30 Vintage: History of Wine
5:00 Woodwright's Shop
5:30 This Old House
6:00 New Yankee Workshop
6:30 Frugal Gourmet
7:00 Wild America
7:30 Wild, Wild World of Animals
8:00 Movie "Marty" (bw)
9:30 Men Will Be Boys
10:00 Austin City Limits (guests Keith Whitley and Skip Ewing)
11:00 Movie "Sagebrush Trail" (bw)
mid. sign-off
 
Bluenoser said:
WRAL 5-Raleigh/WKFT 40-Fayetteville (CBS)
WKFT, normally an indie, was relaying WRAL's programs after a tower collapse in December 1989...WRAL's new tower would start operations on October 25th

...

2:30 (5) Night Flight (segments with the Rolling Stones, Fr. Guido Sarducci, Lou Reed, and the Residents; plus clips from The Terror of Tiny Town)
2:30 (40) Movie "Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell"

So WKFT still aired its own programming against WRAL, which I assume could be seen on cable during the tower structure? What other programs during that week did WKFT, as it were, go rogue with?
 
Bluenoser said:
WPTF 28-NBC Durham
1:00 Night Music (guests Marianne Faithful, John Zorn, Aaron Neville, and Rob Wasserman)

Local show?
 
DToTheJ said:
Bluenoser said:
WRAL 5-Raleigh/WKFT 40-Fayetteville (CBS)
WKFT, normally an indie, was relaying WRAL's programs after a tower collapse in December 1989...WRAL's new tower would start operations on October 25th

...

2:30 (5) Night Flight (segments with the Rolling Stones, Fr. Guido Sarducci, Lou Reed, and the Residents; plus clips from The Terror of Tiny Town)
2:30 (40) Movie "Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell"

So WKFT still aired its own programming against WRAL, which I assume could be seen on cable during the tower structure? What other programs during that week did WKFT, as it were, go rogue with?

Here goes (WRAL's programs at that time in brackets) ;D

Sun/7th
7:7:30am Infomercial (Robert Schuller)
7:30-8 Great Bear Scare (World Tomorrow)
8-8:30 Captain Planet & the Planeteers (Presbyterian Service 8-9)
8:30-9 Time for Praise
10:30-11:30 Bread from Heaven (WRAL ran Face the Nation til 11, followed by Assignment: Sunday)

WKFT split in late night the rest of the week, while WRAL ran news at 1:40, and Headline News overnight starting at 2:10 (40 would JIP HN after the second movie)...
Mon/8
1:40-3:40am Movie "Kings Row"
3:40-5:40 Movie "Three on a Date"

Tues/9
1:40-3:40 Movie "Obsessed with a Married Woman"
3:40-5:40 Movie "Stranger in Our House"

Wed/10
1:40-3:40 Movie "Sam Marlowe, Private Eye"
3:40-5:40 Movie "Too Far to Go"

Thurs/11
1:40-3:40 Movie "Transplant"
3:40-5:40 Movie "A Vacation in Hell"

Fri/12
1:40-3:40 Movie "The War Between the Tates" ('RAL ran Football Friday at 2:10, delaying HN to 2:40)
3:40-5:40 Movie "The Girls in the Office"
 
Bluenoser said:
WFXI 8-Fox Morehead City

mid. Tiny Toon Adventures (and no, I don't know what WFXI's schedulers were smoking :D)

Kinda surprised that FOX had even allowed this. Reason I say that is that some years back I can recall reading in Broadcasting & Cable about some local station who had wanted to air The Simpsons & The Family Guy in the morning right after Regis & Kelly only to get a "..oh no you don't" from FOX". I don't remember exactly why FOX was so against the idea of it though.

Even though there is no shortage of 24/7 networks who do the round-the-clock cartoon thing, for some reason when it comes to showing such things in offbeat hours like overnights or mid-mornings on local TV..it tends to be looked down by many ( Family Guy and the like is an exception ). I can recall when Baltimore's WBFF channel 45 back in the late 70's for a very brief time aired The Flintstones at 11pm but viewers complained, saying that the idea was "dumb" so after just one week the station went to airing reruns of I Love Lucy in that slot.
 
Oh man the memories, I need to dig up some of my local TV Guides as well, I would have been 8 in 1990 and I remember the Saturday morning cartoon blocks quite well, as well as some of the local programming, such as Southern Sportsman and Sparks (the former has full episodes on Youtube, but I cannot find anything from the latter, and would love to dig up a VHS copy of it--I know Sparks was WRAL produced).

As for that local music show "Sunday Night" I believe it gave way to the syndicated music video show "Radio Vision" as that aired on Saturday nights from 1993-1995 if memory serves me correctly.

WKFT did air some Durham Bulls games back when they were a Single A team affiliate of the Atlanta Braves (up through 1996 by my memory) and a few syndicated shows, though the majority of their programming was what you would see on the .2, .3, .4 etc sub-channels of today, old movies, TV shows, etc.
 
I remember that ALCS Game 4. The A's completely owned the Sox that series. Clemens pitched a decent Game 1, but as soon as he left in the 7th, the A's dominated. The A's were heavy favorites to win the Series, but were beaten, pretty soundly by the Reds. Striking how much decent programming was available OTA without needing subchannels. The expansion of cable seems to have just led to more and more infomercial filler where decent programming once aired.
 
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