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RETRO: Fairbanks, Alaska (November 4, 1991)

Source: Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Weekender; y'all know what the channel lineup was.

6:00 AM
2-World News This Morning
11-NBC News at Sunrise

7:00
2-Good Morning America
11-Today

9:00
2-Donahue
11-The Price Is Right

10:00
2-The Home Show
9- 3-2-1 Contact
11-Young and the Restless

10:30
9-Shining Time Station (when George Carlin replaced Ringo Starr as Mr. Conductor)

11:00
2-Sally Jerry Raphael
9-Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
11-Designing Women

11:30
9-Sesame Street
11-Good Morning Fairbanks

Noon
2-Days Of Our Lives
4-Beverly Exercise
11-As The World Turns

12:30 PM
4-Circle Square
9-Reading Rainbow

1:00
2-All My Children
4-TBN Praise-a-Thon (though the grid said "Praise The Lord"); continues till 6:00
9-Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?
11-Guiding Light

1:30
9-Square One TV

2:00
2-One Life to Live
9-Cooking for a Healthy Heart
11-Santa Barbara

3:00
2-General Hospital
9-Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
11-The Bold and the Beautiful

3:30
9-Shining Time Station
11-Family Ties

4:00
2-Wonderful World of Disney
9-Reading Rainbow
11-Tale Spin

4:30
9-Carmen Sandiego
11-Darkwing Duck

5:00
2-Head of the Class
9-Sesame Street
11-ALF

5:30
2-The Cosby Show
11-M*A*S*H

6:00
2-Fairbanks News 2 (dunno who anchored, but Mike Shultz was their weather guy until he was plucked from KTVF months later)
4-100 Huntley Street
9-Nightly Business Report
11-Fairbanks Evening News (Chuck Hinde/Ann Secrest)

6:30
2-World News Tonight
9-Alaska Weather
11-CBS Evening News

7:00
2-Monday Night Football: Giants at Eagles (I'll explain why at the bottom of this post)
4-To Be Announced
9-Childhood (Part 4 of 7)
11-Wheel of Fortune

7:30
4-America's Backyard
11-Cheers

8:00
4-The 700 Club
9-American Experience ("The Johnstown Flood")
11-Evening Shade

8:30
11-Major Dad

9:00
4-Praise-a-Thon continues (until sign-off at 2:00 AM)
9-C. Everett Koop M.D. ("A Time for Change", part 3 of 5)
11-Murphy Brown

9:30
11-Designing Women

10:00
2-Movie: "The Gambler Returns: Luck of the Draw" (Part 2; Nightline would be bumped to midnight, preempting The Tonight Show)
9-MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour
11-Northern Exposure

11:00
9-Black Adder
11-Newscenter Final

11:30
9-Alaska Report
11-Arsenio Hall (Guests: Bronson Pinchot, Luke Perry, and Kenny Loggins)

Midnight
2-Nightline

12:30 AM
2-Alaska Statewide News (From sister station KIMO in Anchorage; I believe it was fed to KATN via microwave rather than satellite)
11-Personals (remember that show?)

1:00
2-Late Night with David Letterman
11-Night Games (remember THAT show?!?! Now we know why Johnny Carson wanted to call it a career!)

2:00
2-Later with Bob Costas

From the mid-'80s until 2004, Monday Night Football was tape-delayed in Fairbanks and Anchorage at 7:00 pm (later 6:00 after a five-minute news update), while Juneau would see it live at 5:00.

And I did say on the newsgroups that with only two network stations in '91, there was not much syndicated shows. Thankfully at that time I was living in Rapid City, South Dakota for a year before moving back to Fairbanks in August 1992. It was in Rapid City where, thanks to the News-Miner that was subscribed for me back in Fairbanks by Grandma, I noticed a slight change in the TV listings: A new station, Channel 7 (Fox), was on the air!!! The rest as they say was history.

Jonathan Allen
 
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