As promised, here is a schedule from July 1981, when "General Hospital" -- hot off the heels of the Luke & Laura wedding; it even made the cover of "Newsweek" -- and other ABC Daytime soaps were NOWHERE in the listings!!
Source: Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
2-KTTU (changed from KFAR-TV; NBC/ABC)
9- KUAC (PBS)
11-KTVF (CBS/ABC)
7:00am
2 Today
11 Morning with Charles Kuralt
8:00
11 Good Morning America
9:00
2 A Touch Of Love (what kind of show is that?)
11 Captain Kangaroo
10:00
2 Wheel of Fortune
11 Health Field
10:30
2 Card Sharks
11 Alice
11:00
2 Praise The Lord (still don't know if this was the "PTL Club" or the "Praise The Lord" from TBN)
11 The Price is Right
Noon
2 Our Town with Heidi Harnit (must be a local show)
11 The Young and the Restless
12:30
2 Days of our Lives
1:00
11 As the World Turns
1:30
2 Another World
2:00
11 Search for Tomorrow
9 Masterpiece Theatre Festival of Favorites
2:30
2 Texas (short-lived AW spinoff)
11 Guiding Light
3:00
9 Over Easy
3:30
2 The Doctors
11 The John Davidson Show
4:00
2 Las Vegas Gambit
9 Sesame Street
4:30
2 Blockbusters
5:00
2 Wedding Day
9 The Electric Company
11 One Day at a Time
5:30
2 ABC World News Tonight (Frank Reynolds)
9 Studio See ("Last Show")
11 The Jeffersons
6:00
2 News on Two (I think)
9 Erica something; I made microfilm copies of these listings
11 Fairbanks Evening News (anchors at that time unknown)
6:30
2 NBC Nightly News (John Chancellor)
9 Aviation Weather (from Anchorage PBS station KAKM; renamed Alaska Weather sometime in the mid-'80s)
11 CBS Evening News (Dan Rather)
7:00
2 Fantasy Island (created by Aaron Spelling, RIP)
9 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
11 Alice
7:30
11 The Jeffersons
8:00
2 Little House on the Prairie
9 Great Performances ("Bernstein Conducts Mahler's Symphone No. 9: Four Ways to Say Farewell")
11 WKRP in Cincinnati
8:30
11 The Tim Conway Show
9:00
2 Flamingo Road
9 Hot Stuff: The Restaurants of New Orleans
11 M*A*S*H
9:30
11 House Calls
10:00
11 CBS Reports: The Defense of the United States (Part 2 of five)
11:00
2 Roots: The Next Generations (Part 3)
9 Dick Cavett
11 NewsCenter Final (I think)
11:30
11 Quincy, M.E.
9 Captioned ABC News
12:40am
11 Harry O
Yes, as noted in the daytime listings, there was not ONE SINGLE ABC DAYTIME SHOW on either 2 or 11 at that time! I wonder what life here in Fairbanks was like in the summer in 1981 without a single dose of General Hospital, All My Children, Ryan's Hope, One Life to Live, or even Family Feud (nobody cared about Edge of Night anymore)...it was probably boring even with cable still new.
Jonathan Allen
Source: Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
2-KTTU (changed from KFAR-TV; NBC/ABC)
9- KUAC (PBS)
11-KTVF (CBS/ABC)
7:00am
2 Today
11 Morning with Charles Kuralt
8:00
11 Good Morning America
9:00
2 A Touch Of Love (what kind of show is that?)
11 Captain Kangaroo
10:00
2 Wheel of Fortune
11 Health Field
10:30
2 Card Sharks
11 Alice
11:00
2 Praise The Lord (still don't know if this was the "PTL Club" or the "Praise The Lord" from TBN)
11 The Price is Right
Noon
2 Our Town with Heidi Harnit (must be a local show)
11 The Young and the Restless
12:30
2 Days of our Lives
1:00
11 As the World Turns
1:30
2 Another World
2:00
11 Search for Tomorrow
9 Masterpiece Theatre Festival of Favorites
2:30
2 Texas (short-lived AW spinoff)
11 Guiding Light
3:00
9 Over Easy
3:30
2 The Doctors
11 The John Davidson Show
4:00
2 Las Vegas Gambit
9 Sesame Street
4:30
2 Blockbusters
5:00
2 Wedding Day
9 The Electric Company
11 One Day at a Time
5:30
2 ABC World News Tonight (Frank Reynolds)
9 Studio See ("Last Show")
11 The Jeffersons
6:00
2 News on Two (I think)
9 Erica something; I made microfilm copies of these listings
11 Fairbanks Evening News (anchors at that time unknown)
6:30
2 NBC Nightly News (John Chancellor)
9 Aviation Weather (from Anchorage PBS station KAKM; renamed Alaska Weather sometime in the mid-'80s)
11 CBS Evening News (Dan Rather)
7:00
2 Fantasy Island (created by Aaron Spelling, RIP)
9 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
11 Alice
7:30
11 The Jeffersons
8:00
2 Little House on the Prairie
9 Great Performances ("Bernstein Conducts Mahler's Symphone No. 9: Four Ways to Say Farewell")
11 WKRP in Cincinnati
8:30
11 The Tim Conway Show
9:00
2 Flamingo Road
9 Hot Stuff: The Restaurants of New Orleans
11 M*A*S*H
9:30
11 House Calls
10:00
11 CBS Reports: The Defense of the United States (Part 2 of five)
11:00
2 Roots: The Next Generations (Part 3)
9 Dick Cavett
11 NewsCenter Final (I think)
11:30
11 Quincy, M.E.
9 Captioned ABC News
12:40am
11 Harry O
Yes, as noted in the daytime listings, there was not ONE SINGLE ABC DAYTIME SHOW on either 2 or 11 at that time! I wonder what life here in Fairbanks was like in the summer in 1981 without a single dose of General Hospital, All My Children, Ryan's Hope, One Life to Live, or even Family Feud (nobody cared about Edge of Night anymore)...it was probably boring even with cable still new.
Jonathan Allen