Retro: Eastern Virginia Sun, Feb 7, 1982

[Bluenoser]

from TV Guide-Eastern Virginia edition

WTKR 3-CBS Norfolk
6:30 Better Way
7:00 This is the Life
7:30 Bible Study
8:00 Day of Discovery
8:30 Oral Roberts
9:00 CBS News Sunday Morning (profile of Magic Johnson)
10:30 Louis Rukeyser's Business Journal
11:00 Rex Humbard
11:30 Face the Nation
noon NBA: Los Angeles-Boston
2:30 College Basketball: St. John's-Louisville
4:30 Golf: Bing Corsby National Pro-Am
6:30 News
7:00 60 Minutes
8:00 Archie Bunker's Place
8:30 One Day at a Time
9:00 Alice
9:30 Jeffersons (guest star Andrae Crouch)
10:00 Trapper John, MD
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "Concrete Cowboys"

WHSV 3-ABC Harrisonburg
6:30 Ralph Brown
7:00 Jerry Falwell
8:00 Oral Roberts
8:30 Rex Humbard
9:00 Day of Discovery
9:30 Gospel Sing
10:00 Flames of Revival
10:30 Leonard Repass
11:00 Solid Rock
11:30 James Robison
noon This is the Life
12:30 Viewpoint
12:55 Dateline: Religion
1:00 This Week with David Brinkley
2:00 Sportsbeat
2:30 Superstars: men's prelims, pt 3 featuring Steve Mahre, Michael Spinks, Otis Birdsong, and Lou Ferrigno
3:30 USA vs the World: men's and women's gymnastics-US v Japan (at Hakamatsu, Japan)
4:30 ABC Wide World of Sports: Roberto Duran goes for a three-peat (titles in 3 different weight classes) in less than a year as he takes on WBC super-welterweight champ Wilfred Benitez (himself a triple title winner)/World Alpine Skiing Championships slalom
6:00 Conversations
6:30 ABC World News Sunday
7:00 Code Red
8:00 Movie "Superman" (pt 1)
10:00 Today's FBI
11:00 Jim Bakker

WTTG 5-Ind Washington
5:00 Movie "The Comedians" cont'd
6:00 Herald of Truth
6:30 World Tomorrow
7:00 Jimmy Swaggart
8:00 Ever Increasing Faith
9:00 Jerry Falwell
10:00 Superman
10:30 Movie "Footlight Glamour" (bw)
noon Movie "The Heroes of Telemark"
2:30 Movie "Live a Little, Love a Little"
4:00 Movie "Anzio"
6:00 Movie "The Users"
8:00 Lawrence Welk
9:00 Merv Griffin
10:00 News
10:30 John Thompson
11:00 Movie "Little Ladies of the Night"
1:00 David Susskind

WTVR 6-CBS Richmond
7:00 Jerry Falwell
8:00 Focus: Black Religious Life
8:30 Oral Roberts
9:00 CBS News Sunday Morning
10:30 Day of Discovery
11:00 Baptist Church Service
11:30 Face the Nation
noon NBA: Los Angeles-Boston
2:30 College Basketball: St. John's-Louisville
4:30 Golf: Bing Crosby National Pro-Am
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 60 Minutes
8:00 Archie Bunker's Place
8:30 One Day at a Time
9:00 Alice
9:30 Jeffersons
10:00 Trapper John, MD
11:00 News
11:15 CBS News
11:30 Andy Griffith
mid. Beverly Hillbillies
12:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
1:00 Connection

WXEX 8-ABC Petersburg/Richmond
7:00 Crusade for Christ
7:30 Gospel Truth
8:00 Gospel Sing
8:30 Bob Jones
9:00 Rex Humbard
9:30 Jimmy Swaggart
10:30 Changed Lives
11:00 Baptist Church Service
noon Omnibus
12:30 Louis Rukeyser's Business Journal
1:00 Lawrence Welk
2:00 Movie "The Mouse on the Moon"
3:30 USA vs the World
4:30 ABC Wide World of Sports
6:00 News
6:30 ABC World News Sunday
7:00 Code Red
8:00 Movie "Superman" (pt 1)
10:00 Today's FBI
11:00 News
11:30 Outer Limits (bw)
12:30 Big Valley
1:30 Louis Rukeyser's Business Journal
2:00 ABC News

WAVY 10-NBC Norfolk
6:30 Bible Storytime
7:00 Spread a Little Sunshine
7:30 Gospel Sing
8:00 Kenneth Copeland
9:00 Bottom Line
9:30 World Vision
10:30 Ernest Angley
11:30 Baptist Church Service
noon Inside Area 10
12:30 Meet the Press
1:00 Wrestling
2:00 Nashville on the Road
2:30 College Basketball: Notre Dame-UCLA
4:30 NBC SportsWorld: Tadashi Mihara defends his WBA junior-middleweight belt against Davey Moore in Tokyo/World Pro Figure Skating Championship pt 2
6:00 To Climb a Mountain (Emilio Estevez plays a materialistic high school wrestling champ who learns a lesson after visiting the poor parents of an injured opponent)
6:30 Pink Panther
7:00 Peacock Showcase "Earthbound" (conclusion)
8:00 Movie "The Day the Bubble Burst"
11:00 News
11:30 F Troop (bw)
mid. Movie "McHale's Navy Joins the Air Force"
2:00 Bottom Line
2:30 News

WWBT 12-NBC Richmond
6:45 With This Ring
7:00 Light Unto My Path
7:30 Lessons for Living
8:00 Kenneth Copeland
9:00 Robert Schuller
10:00 Southern Sportsman
10:30 Weekend Edition "Angel Dust: The Wack Attack"
11:30 Look at Us
noon Newsmakers
12:30 Meet the Press
1:00 Emergency!
2:00 Goin' Along
2:30 College Basketball: Notre Dame-UCLA
4:30 NBC SportsWorld
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Peacock Showcase "Earthbound" (conclusion)
8:00 Movie "The Day the Bubble Burst"
11:00 News
11:30 Entertainment This Week
12:30 Emergency!

WVEC 13-ABC Norfolk
6:00 Christopher Closeup
6:30 Patterns for Living
7:00 Religion in the News
7:30 World Tomorrow
8:00 Jerry Falwell
9:00 Robert Schuller
10:00 Comedy Time
10:30 Who, What, How Do You Know?
11:00 Fishing with Roland Martin
11:30 This Week with David Brinkley
12:30 Conversation (discussing atheism, an interesting topic given what many Old Dominion stations ran on Sunday mornings )
1:00 Forum
1:30 Dialogue (guests from the Southeast VA Planned Parenthood Association)
2:00 Sportsbeat
2:30 Superstars
3:30 USA vs the World
4:30 ABC Wide World of Sports
6:00 News
6:30 ABC World News Sunday
7:00 Code Red
8:00 Movie "Superman" (pt 1)
10:00 Today's FBI
11:00 ABC News
11:15 News
11:30 Movie "The Red Badge of Courage"
1:00 Conversation

WHRO 15-PBS Norfolk
7:30 Electric Company
8:00 Sesame Street
9:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9:30 Sesame Street
10:30 Electric Company
11:00 Matinee at the Bijou
12:30 Once Upon a Classic
1:00 Washington Week in Review
1:30 Wall Street Week
2:00 Your Tax Return (Robert Guillaume hosts this show giving advice on filing tax returns)
5:00 Masterpiece Theatre "The Flame Trees of Thika" (pt 5)
6:00 Paper Chase
7:00 Understanding Human Behavior
8:00 Nova "Finding His Voice" (profiling cerebral palsy victim Dick Boydell, who communicates by using a typewriter, which provides the only narrative for this program)
9:00 Masterpiece Theatre "The Flame Trees of Thika" (pt 6)
10:00 I Remember Harlem (pt 4)
11:00 Crosstalk (discussing integration and school busing, both past and present)

WTBS 17-Ind Atlanta
5:00 Mission: Impossible cont'd
5:35 Ag-USA
6:05 Between the Lines
7:05 James Robison
7:35 It is Written
8:05 Three Stooges/Little Rascals (bw)
8:35 Cartoon Carnival
9:05 Lost in Space
10:05 Lighter Side of the News
10:35 Movie "Young Winston"
1:35 Movie "Once Upon a Time in the West"
5:05 Last of the Wild
5:35 Wrestling
6:35 Nice People
7:05 Movie "Tammy Tell Me True"
9:05 Week in Review
10:05 News
11:05 Caribbean Nights
11:35 Open Up
12:35 Movie "Run of the Arrow"
2:20 Movie "Adventures of Captain Fabian" (bw)
4:25 Movie "Sherlock Holmes and the Scarlet Claw" (bw)

WDCA 20-Ind Washington
6:00 From the Editor's Desk
6:30 Petey Green's Washington
7:00 700 Club
8:00 Jerry Falwell
9:00 Bugs Bunny/Woody Woodpecker
10:00 Little Rascals (bw)
10:30 Movie "Buck Pirates" (bw)
noon Movie "The Horse Soldiers"
2:00 Movie "The Undefeated"
4:00 Movie "Cahill, United States Marshal"
6:00 Wonder Woman
7:00 Solid Gold
8:00 In Search of...
8:30 Newsweek Bureau Report
9:00 Newsprobe
9:30 Petey Green's Washington
10:00 Kenneth Copeland
11:00 Hour of Prayer

WCVE 23-PBS Richmond
8:00 Sesame Street
9:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9:30 Sesame Street
10:30 Electric Company
11:00 Big Blue Marble
11:30 3-2-1 Contact
noon Masterpiece Theatre "The Flame Trees of Thika" (pt 5)
1:00 Washington Week in Review
1:30 Wall Street Week
2:00 Your Tax Return
5:00 Lawmakers
5:30 Life on Earth (pt 4)
6:30 Virginia Legislature '82
7:30 Once Upon a Classic "The Talisman" (pt 6)
8:00 Nova "Finding a Voice"
9:00 Masterpiece Theatre "The Flame Trees of Thika" (pt 6)
10:00 Paper Chase
11:00 Top of the World

WYAH 27-Ind Portsmouth (station IDed as Continental 27)
6:00 Spectrum
6:30 Deaf Hear
7:00 Lesson
7:30 Larry Jones Ministry
8:00 Jimmy Swaggart
9:00 Time of Deliverance
9:30 TBA
10:00 Faith for Living
10:30 Tom & Jerry
11:30 Movie "Wee Willie Winkie" (bw)
1:00 Movie "Jumping Jacks" (bw)
3:00 Movie "Seven Seas to Calais"
5:00 Crusading for Christ
6:00 Jerry Falwell
7:00 Hardy Boys
8:00 Battlestar Galactica
9:00 Search
9:30 Jack Van Impe
10:00 Kenneth Copeland
11:00 INN News
11:30 Larry Jones Ministry
mid. Spectrum

WVIR 29-NBC Charlottesville
7:00 World Tomorrow
7:30 Daybreak
8:00 Leonard Repass
8:30 Gospel Sing
9:00 Jerry Falwell
10:00 World Vision
11:00 Kenneth Copeland
noon Voice of Calvary Echo
12:30 Meet the Press
1:00 Wrestling
2:00 Southern Sportsman
2:30 College Basketball: Notre Dame-UCLA
4:30 NBC SportsWorld
6:00 Jimmy Houston Outdoors
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Peacock Showcase "Earthbound" (conclusion)
8:00 Movie "The Day the Bubble Burst"
11:00 Jim Bakker

WTVZ 33-Ind Norfolk (Richmond indie WRLH, which would launch on the 20th, was already running ads in TVG; the station shared a logo and the Primetime All the Time slogan with its TVX sibling in Norfolk)
5:00 Movie "Wild Harvest" (bw)
7:00 Crusade for Christ
8:00 Herculoids
8:30 Dastardly & Muttley
9:00 Adventures of Gilligan
9:30 Wheelie & the Chopper Bunch
10:00 Flintstones
10:30 Three Stooges (bw)
11:00 Rifleman (bw)
11:30 Movie "Tarzan Finds a Son!" (bw)
1:00 Movie "King Kong vs Godzilla"
3:00 Movie "The Other Side of the Mountain"
5:00 Movie "The Graduate"
7:00 Solid Gold (guests Rick Springfield, Kool & the Gang, Devo, and the Little River Band)
8:00 In Touch
9:00 Catch the Vision with Wally Odom
9:30 Word of Promise
10:00 Jerry Falwell
11:00 Ernest Angley

WVPT 51-PBS Harrisonburg
8:00 Sesame Street
9:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9:30 Big Blue Marble
10:00 Natural History of a Sunbeam
10:30 Electric Company
11:00 Matinee at the Bijou
12:30 Once Upon a Classic
1:00 Washington Week in Review
1:30 Massanutten Vo-Tech Review
2:00 Your Tax Return
5:00 Shenandoah Valley Music Festival 1981
6:00 Soccer Made in Germany
7:00 Tony Brown's Journal (return/discussing crime in the black community)
7:30 Dick Cavett (guest Maud Morgan)
8:00 Nova "Finding a Voice"
9:00 Masterpiece Theatre "The Flame Trees of Thika" (pt 6)
10:00 Shock of the New (looks at surrealist art)

 

[mleach]

7:00 60 Minutes

WYAH 27-Ind Portsmouth (station IDed as Continental 27)

Even though at the time of these listings WYAH was available on cable systems way beyond Hampton Roads such as being on some systems in the northern Virginia suberbs in DCs, even one or two in Maryland and even though I do remember this even today I still am not sure how WYAH had came up with "Continental 27". However Pat Robertson could had turned WYAH into a nationwide, OK a " continental superstation" the same way Ted Turner had done with WTBS since the old CBN Cable Network also owned by Pat and his WYAH since well there really wasn't much in the way of a difference between two. BUT alas..Pat never did.

 

[azumanga]

I still am not sure how WYAH had came up with "Continental 27". However Pat Robertson could had turned WYAH into a nationwide, OK a " continental superstation" the same way Ted Turner had done with WTBS since the old CBN Cable Network also owned by Pat and his WYAH since well there really wasn't much in the way of a difference between two. BUT alas..Pat never did.

CBN's broadcasting chain, which also included KXTX in Dallas and WANX (WGCL) in Atlanta (perhaps one or two others), was known as the "Continental Broadcasting Network" -- don't know the rationale, other than maybe the fact that he wanted to promote the stations as regular independents, rather than Christian stations. Nevertheless, it was not music to the ears of The Chicago Tribune's broadcasting arm, which at the time was called "WGN-Continental Broadcasting", with the WGN calls added to disambig itself from Pat's company.

As for WYAH becoming a national superstation -- apparently, if there were plans on doing so, it was scotched when the CBN cable channel began to include more secular programming in its schedule, just like its aerial stations.

 

[Mr. Mike]

from TV Guide-Eastern Virginia edition

WDCA 20-Ind Washington
10:30 Movie "Buck Pirates" (bw)

Unless I'm mistaken, I don't think there was a film by the title of "Buck Pirates". The film listed on Channel 20's schedule that you're referring to might actually be the 1941 Abbott and Costello feature "Buck Privates".

 

[DToTheJ]

Mike's right; an IMDB search brings up no such title. Although this result (the movie you were probably referring to) has an interesting result: "Buck Privates (1941) aka "Buck Privates". Whatever... :

 

[Bluenoser]

from TV Guide-Eastern Virginia edition

WDCA 20-Ind Washington
10:30 Movie "Buck Pirates" (bw)

Unless I'm mistaken, I don't think there was a film by the title of "Buck Pirates". The film listed on Channel 20's schedule that you're referring to might actually be the 1941 Abbott and Costello feature "Buck Privates".

You're right...that should read Buck Privates...that's what comes when you go to work at 3am and type stuff before going back to sleep

 

[fortmill]

7:00 60 Minutes

WYAH 27-Ind Portsmouth (station IDed as Continental 27)

Even though at the time of these listings WYAH was available on cable systems way beyond Hampton Roads such as being on some systems in the northern Virginia suberbs in DCs, even one or two in Maryland and even though I do remember this even today I still am not sure how WYAH had came up with "Continental 27". However Pat Robertson could had turned WYAH into a nationwide, OK a " continental superstation" the same way Ted Turner had done with WTBS since the old CBN Cable Network also owned by Pat and his WYAH since well there really wasn't much in the way of a difference between two. BUT alas..Pat never did.

WYAH was never available in northern VA, or anywhere else outside of channel 27's normal OTA broadcast area. That meant out of market cable systems such as Emporia and Hopewell VA, Roanoke Rapids NC, and a few others, but never any further than that.

 

[mleach]

7:00 60 Minutes

WYAH 27-Ind Portsmouth (station IDed as Continental 27)

Even though at the time of these listings WYAH was available on cable systems way beyond Hampton Roads such as being on some systems in the northern Virginia suberbs in DCs, even one or two in Maryland and even though I do remember this even today I still am not sure how WYAH had came up with "Continental 27". However Pat Robertson could had turned WYAH into a nationwide, OK a " continental superstation" the same way Ted Turner had done with WTBS since the old CBN Cable Network also owned by Pat and his WYAH since well there really wasn't much in the way of a difference between two. BUT alas..Pat never did.

WYAH was never available in northern VA, or anywhere else outside of channel 27's normal OTA broadcast area. That meant out of market cable systems such as Emporia and Hopewell VA, Roanoke Rapids NC, and a few others, but never any further than that.

Perhaps but then again why did the old Washington Star newspaper offered listings for WYAH when nobody could had seen them in the first place? For the record the Washington Post was available in most in Virginia back in the day but NOT the Washington Star which was a strictly Washington metro newspaper. I still remember the listings tothis day.

 

[azumanga]

WYAH was never available in northern VA, or anywhere else outside of channel 27's normal OTA broadcast area. That meant out of market cable systems such as Emporia and Hopewell VA, Roanoke Rapids NC, and a few others, but never any further than that.

Perhaps but then again why did the old Washington Star newspaper offered listings for WYAH when nobody could had seen them in the first place?

I also recall seeing listings for WYAH in "The Fayetteville (NC) Times", which is practically farther from Hampton Roads than Washington is.

 

[nomadcowatbk]

Pat did air family friendly secular shows on his stations, as long as they did not have ghosts (no Casper). Did any shows with ghosts air on the old Family Channel?

 

[Marckd]

WYAH TV 27 did have Casper in the early 70's.