RETRO: Fairbanks, Alaska (July 17, 1992)

[johnnya2k6]

We start the schedule at 8:00 am. (Source: Fairbanks Daily News-Miner)2-KATN (ABC/NBC; now the former)8:00 Good Morning America continues9:00 Donahue10:00 Home (Left in progress; show must've been expanded to 90 minutes)11:00 Sally Jessy RaphaelNoon Days of Our Lives1:00 All My Children2:00 One Life to Live3:00 General Hospital4:00 Wonderful World of Disney5:00 Head of the Class5:30 The Cosby Show6:00 ABC World News Tonight6:30 Fairbanks News 2 (Katie Markin)7:00 Family Matters7:30 Step by Step8:00 Matlock10:00 20/2011:00 Alaska Statewide News (from sister station KIMO in Anchorage)11:30 NightlineMidnight The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (guests: Paul Reiser, then-CNN anchor Michael Kinsey, and Sounds of Blackness)1:00 Late Night with David Letterman (Larry King and musician Charlie Watts2:00 In Concert4-KJNP (TBN...well, sort of)Noon Beverly Exercise12:30 Gospel Bill (dunno if it was The Gospel Bill Show or Adventures in Dry Gulch)1:00 Praise The Lord (when it was a three-hour show)4:00 Behind The Scenes (though it was listed as "TBN Today")4:30 Laverne and Edith Tripp5:00 Fredrerick K.C. Price6:00 100 Huntley Street7:00 John Hagee Today7:30 John Ankerberg8:00 The 700 Club9:00 Praise The LordMidnight Sign-off100 Huntley Street and John Ankerberg were disappeared from the KJNP schedule sometime around late 1992 or early 1993 as the programming schedule would gradually increase over the years, and after getting a new transmitter in 2003 after being knocked off the air for a few weeks, KJNP FINALLY expanded to a 24/7 schedule.7-K07UU (FOX; they were just starting out and calls would change KFXF in 1995)8:00 Peter Pan and the Pirates8:30 Alvin and the Chipmunks9:00 Movie: Death Race (1976)11:00 The People's Court (double-run)Noon The Joan Rivers Show1:00 Jenny Jones2:00 Love Connection (double-run)3:00 Muppet Babies3:30 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles4:00 Beetlejuice4:30 James Bond Jr.5:00 Video Power5:30 Saved by the Bell6:00 Highway to Heaven7:00 Swans Crossing (short-lived teen soap that, even though it would be clobbered by a well-known show on KTVF at that time (which I'll get to), would mark the beginning of the career of some young girl from New York City who would go on to raise hell in front of Susan Lucci and later have no "Cruel Intentions" in holding any "Grudge"s kicking some vampire booty while becoming one of the most "Simply Irresistible" actresses around whose husband is carrying on the legacy left over by his dad with his own ABC show...who am I kidding; it's my favorite actress SARAH MICHELLE GELLAR!!!!!)7:30 Family Feud8:00 America's Most Wanted9:00 Sightings9:30 Hidden Video10:00 Highway to Heaven (repeat of 6:00 episode)11:00 The Dennis Miller Show (Adam Sandler and King Sunny Ade and the New African Beasts)Midnight Sign-offSometime during its early months, programming from MuchMusic was shown during the overnight hours on Channel 7.9-KUAC (PBS)10:00 3-2-1 Contact10:30 Shining Time Station11:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood11:30 Sesame Street12:30 Reading Rainbow1:00 Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?1:30 Square One TV2:00 Listening to America3:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood3:30 Lamb Chop's Play-Along4:00 Reading Rainbow4:30 Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?5:00 Sesame Street6:00 Nightly Business Report6:30 Alaska Weather7:00 This Old House7:30 Hometime8:00 Washington Week (in Review)8:30 Wall $treet Week (with the late Louis Rukeyser, RIP)9:00 The McLaughlin Group9:30 Conversations with Susan McInnis10:00 MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour11:00 Alive TV11:30 Tony Brown's JournalMidnight Sign-off11-KTVF (CBS/NBC; now the latter)8:00 Today Show continues9:00 The Price is Right10:00 Young and the Restless11:00 Good Morning Fairbanks11:30 Bold and the BeautifulNoon As the World Turns1:00 Guiding Light2:00 The New Family Feud2:30 Doctor Dean3:00 Oprah Winfrey4:00 Tale Spin4:30 Darkwing Duck5:00 ALF5:30 M*A*S*H6:00 Fairbanks Evening News (Ann Secrest and the late Chuck Hinde)6:30 CBS Evening News7:00 Wheel of Fortune (the show that would beat Swans Crossing on K07UU)7:30 Cheers (Jeopardy! didn't finally take over that slot until 1994)8:00 Burt Reynolds' Conversations With...9:00 CBS Friday Night Movie ("Blood River")11:00 Newscenter Final (I'm thinking Marybeth Weber; I was living in South Dakota at the time and didn't move back to Fairbanks until that August)11:30 Inside EditionMidnight Arsenio Hall (no guest info)1:00 Star Trek: The Next Generation2:00 PersonalsA brief history about the News-Miner's weekly TV section:It didn't have a name until they called it "The Family Weekender" in 1974; it became "The Weekender" in 1976 and was just your usual weekend magazine to go along with the TV/radio listings with feature stories, the week's top books and music, and more. In 1984, with the explosion of cable (not to mention the Big Three networks transitioning from landline transmissions to satellite), "Heartland Magazine" was launched and the "Weekender" became solely devoted to TV listings and news.In response to the Alaska Edition of "TV Guide" (which was a flop because of all those confusing channel lineups), "Weekender" became "On The Tube" in 1997 and the grids got a new look. And last year, with more and more channels popping up on cable and satellite, "OTT" became "Select TV".Jonathan Allen