Retro: Evansville, Indiana – Monday May 7, 1984

[Tim-In-Houston]

Source: Hopkinsville “Kentucky New Era”

WTVW-7 (ABC-Evansville, Now Fox)

5:25 – Jim Bakker
6:25 – God’s Five Minutes
6:30 – ABC News This Morning
7:00 – Good Morning America
9:00 – Bewitched
9:30 – Ryan’s Hope
10:00 – Benson
10:30 – Loving
11:00 – Family Feud
11:30 – Tri State
== I believe this was their mid-day newscast, grain and livestock report.
PM
12:00 – All My Children
1:00 – One Life to Live
2:00 – General Hospital
3:00 – Edge of Night
3:30 – Scooby Doo
4:00 – Andy Griffith
4:30 – Happy Days
5:00 – WKRP
5:30 – ABC News
6:00 – News
6:30 – Family Feud
7:00 – Special: “John Ritter, Mr. T…Going Back Home”
8:00 – Movie: “Last Days of Pompeii” (part 2)
10:00 – News
10:30 – Barney Miller
11:00 – Sanford and Son
11:30 – Nightline
AM
12:00 – Jimmy Swaggard
1:00 – Movie: “Velvet Touch”
4:18 – Movie: “Behind Locked Doors”

WFIE-14 (NBC-Evansville)

AM
6:30 – NBC News at Sunrise
7:00 – Today
9:00 – Donahue
10:00 – Wheel of Fortune
10:30 – Dream House
11:00 – Hot Potato
11:30 – News
12:00 – Days of Our Lives
1:00 – Another World
2:00 – Match Game/Hollywood Squares Hour
3:00 – Gilligan’s Island
3:30 – Grizzley Adams
4:30 – People’s Court
5:00 – M.A.S.H
5:30 – NBC News
6:00 – News
6:30 – Wheel of Fortune
7:00 – TV Bloopers and Practical Jokes
8:00 – Movie: “V: The Final Battle” (Part 2)
10:00 – News
10:30 – Tonight Show
11:30 – Rockford Files

WEHT-25 (CBS-Evansville, now ABC)

AM
5:00 – CBS Early Morning News
5:30 – Ag Day
6:00 – CBS Morning News
8:00 – Peggy Mitchell (local children’s show)
8:30 – Good Times
9:00 - $25,000 Pyramid
9:30 – Press Your Luck
10:00 – The Price is Right
11:00 – Young and the Restless
PM
12:00 – No listing
12:30 – As The World Turns
1:30 – Capitol
2:00 – Guiding Light
3:00 – Tattletales
3:30 – Newlywed Game
4:00 – Hour Magazine
5:00 – News
5:30 – CBS News
6:00 – Jeffersons
6:30 – Three’s Company
7:00 – Scarecrow & Mrs. King
8:00 – Kate & Allie
8:30 – Newhart
9:00 – Cagney & Lacey
10:00 – News
10:30 – Hart to Hart
11:30 – Columbo
1:00 – News

 

[classictvfan]

8:00 – Movie: “V: The Final Battle” (Part 2)

Part 1 aired the day before and Part 3 aired the next day

 

[azumanga]

WFIE-14 (NBC-Evansville)
10:00 – News
10:30 – Tonight Show
11:30 – Rockford Files

Apparently, WFIE signed off after Rockford, and never aired "Late Night with David Letterman". Was Evansville a "home office" for its Top 10 List during this time? (I've read that cities whose local NBC affiliate did not carry "Late Night" or CBS station not carry "Late Show" were "home offices" for the Top 10 List.)

Also, any PBS or WEVV listings?

 

[radiorob2.0]

WFIE-14 (NBC-Evansville)
10:00 – News
10:30 – Tonight Show
11:30 – Rockford Files

Apparently, WFIE signed off after Rockford, and never aired "Late Night with David Letterman". Was Evansville a "home office" for its Top 10 List during this time? (I've read that cities whose local NBC affiliate did not carry "Late Night" or CBS station not carry "Late Show" were "home offices" for the Top 10 List.)

Also, any PBS or WEVV listings?

I was visiting the area at the time, but I believe WFIE carried Letterman.

Since the source is from Hopkinsville, 80 miles away, WEVV wasn't really on their radar since they had just signed on. KET should have been included in the listing but maybe not presented here.

 

[Tim-In-Houston]

I chose to leave KET out of the line-up, since it was not an Evansville station (Evansville is served by PBS station WNIN-9).

Hopkinsville is a fringe city for both Evansville and Nashville, TN (though technically part of the Nashville DMA) and the New Era published (and likely continues to publish) listings for both as well as the NBC out of Paducah and the ABC from Bowling Green.

I grew up in the portion of southern Illinois that is part of the EVV market, which is part of the reason I focused my attention there. IIRC, WEVV had been on the air for only about a year at this point.

If WFIE carried Letterman, they didn't bother to send that fact out to the listing services. For many years, even after WTVW went to a 24-hour broadcast day, both WFIE and WEHT signed off sometime after midnight. I don't think it was until perhaps a year or two after NBC began offering "Nightside" that WFIE finally went 24-hours.


Here is the link to the original listings page I used as a source

 

[Cincinnati Kid]

I remember Channel 7 in Evansville being an ABC-TV affiliate. In the Fall of 1963, I saw "The Fugitive" for the first time on that station on a TV in Columbia, Kentucky that had a high antenna.

 

[classictvfan]

Here[/url] is the link to the original listings page I used as a source

Thanks to that link, Tim, I looked around on Google and found an archive
of issues of the Kentucky New Area going to least 1990. Thanks for pointing
me in the right direction, Tim.

 

[Tim-In-Houston]

Thanks to that link, Tim, I looked around on Google and found an archive
of issues of the Kentucky New Area going to least 1990. Thanks for pointing
me in the right direction, Tim.

No problem. I was originally going to post a listing from sometime in 1990, but around that time (as you no doubt noticed) the New Era began using a grid listing service that lacked enough detail on some programs so as to make it useless.

 

[classictvfan]

The Google News Archive has been a godsend to me. Thanks to
it I have been able to find newspaper TV listings for:
Orlando-Daytona Beach
Tampa Bay
South Florida
Albany, New York
Nashua, New Hampshire
Modesto, California
Spokane, Washington
Salt Lake City
Hopkinsville, Kentucky
Birmingham-Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Asheville, North Carolina-Greenville/Spartanburg, South Carolina
Kansas City/Topeka, Kansas

And who knows how many others! Thank you again, Tim!