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Retro: Gainesville, FL, Thursday, November 11, 1982

from Gainesville Sun

2 WESH NBC Daytona Beach
4 WJXT CBS Jacksonville
5 WUFT PBS Gainesville
7 WJCT PBS Jacksonville
9 WFTV ABC Orlando
12 WTLV ABC Jacksonville
17 WJKS NBC Jacksonville
20 WCJB ABC Gainesville

Morning
5:25
9 Celebrity Revue

5:30
2 NBC News Overnight

6:00
4 Tom Cottle: Up Close
9 Sunrise
12 Skytrack Radar
20 ABC News This Morning

6:30
2-17 Early Today
4 CBS Early Morning News
9 ABC News This Morning
12 Good Morning Jacksonville

6:45
7 AM Weather
9 News

7:00
2-17 Today
4 CBS Morning News
7 Sesame Street
9-12-20 Good Morning America

8:00
7 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood

8:15
5 AM Weather

8:30
5 Lilias, Yoga and You
7 The Electric Company

9:00
2-20 Richard Simmons
4 Donahue "Latchkey Children" (guests researchers Tom and Lynette Long; young children responsible for self-supervision and their parents)
5 Sesame Street
7 TBA
9 Movie "The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker"
12 You Asked For It
17 Kojak

9:30
2 So You Think You Got Troubles
12 Tic Tac Dough
20 Family Feud

10:00
2-17 Diff'rent Strokes
4 Richard Simmons
5 The Electric Company
12 Bullseye
20 Take My Word For It

10:30
2-17 Wheel of Fortune
4 Couples
5 3-2-1 Contact
12 Family Feud
20 Romance Theatre

11:00
2-17 Texas
4 Price is Right
5 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9-12-20 The Love Boat

11:30
5 MacNeil/Lehrer Report

Afternoon
12:00
2 Soap World
4-9-12 News
5 5 Live Report
7 TBA
17 The Doctors
20 Kim Edstrom

12:30
2 News
4 Young and the Restless
5 Over Easy (guest Larry Hagman)
9-12-20 Ryan's Hope
17 Search for Tomorrow

1:00
2-17 Days of Our Lives
5 Movie "Eternally Yours"
9-12-20 All My Children

1:30
4 As the World Turns

2:00
2-17 Another World
9-12-20 One Life to Live

2:30
4 Capitol
5 Man of Letters

3:00
2-17 Fantasy
4 Guiding Light
7 PBS Latenight with Dennis Wholey
9-12-20 General Hospital

3:30
5 The Electric Company

4:00
2 Little House on the Prairie
4 The Waltons
5-7 Sesame Street
9 Merv Griffin (guests Laurie Beechman, Morgan Fairchild, John Houseman, Isabella Rossellini and Regine)
12 Soap World
17 Hour Magazine (Deborah Kerr (pt 3); Loni Anderson; part 4 of compulsive overeating)
20 The Edge of Night

4:30
12 Charlie's Angels
20 Andy Griffith

5:00
2 Laverne and Shirley and Company
4 Bob Newhart
5-7 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9 All in the Family
17 One Day at a Time
20 Bonanza

5:30
2 People's Court
4 Entertainment Tonight
5-9 News
7 The Electric Company
12 Barney Miller
17 The Jeffersons

Evening

6:00
2-4-9-12-17-20 News
5 Doctor Who
7 3-2-1 Contact

6:30
2-17 NBC Nightly News
4 CBS Evening News
5 Best of Groucho
7 Over Easy (guest Candice Bergen)
9-12-20 ABC World News Tonight

7:00
2 The Muppets (guest Jonathan Winters)
4 PM Magazine (the author of "Thin Thighs in 30 Days" gives reducing tips; a man who lives like a pirate)
5-7 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
9-17 Joker's Wild
12 More Real People (upside-down margaritas; a married couple who are professional jockeys; indoor tanning)
20 Little House on the Prairie

7:30
2 Entertainment Tonight (interview with Michael Warren)
4 People's Court
5 5 Live
7 Out the Door
9-17 Family Feud
12 M*A*S*H

8:00
2-17 Fame
4 Magnum, PI
5 Sneak Previews (Neal Gabler and Jeffrey Lyons review "Jimmy, the Kid" and "The Sender")
7 Nova "Here's Looking at You, Kid" (the story of a young boy's fight to recover from severe burns suffered in a home accident)
9-12-20 Joanie Loves Chachi

8:30
5 Alfred Hitchcock Presents
9-12-20 Star of the Family

9:00
2-17 Cheers
4 Movie "Private Benjamin"
5 The Twilight Zone
7 Mystery! "Father Brown: The Head of Caesar"
9-12-20 Too Close for Comfort

9:30
2-17 Taxi
9-12-20 It Takes Two

9:50
5 Star Hustler

10:00
2-17 Hill Street Blues
5 Classic Country (guests Ray Price, Minnie Pearl, Jordanaires, Johnny and Jack)
7 The Lawmakers (with Linda Wertheimer, Cokie Roberts and Paul Duke)
9-12-20 20/20

10:30
7 Tony Brown's Journal "Black Soap" (examining the dilemma in daytime soap operas created by new storylines and black characters)

11:00
2-4-9-12-17-20 News
5 Morecambe & Wise
7 Dick Cavett (guest Jonathan Miller; part 4)

11:30
2-17 Tonight Show with Johnny Carson (guest Martin Mull)
4 Entertainment Tonight (see 2, 7:30pm)
5 Father, Dear Father
7 PBS Latenight with Dennis Wholey
9-12-20 ABC News Nightline

Late night
12:00
4 Quincy, ME
9-12-20 The Last Word (Phil Donahue?)

12:30
2 Late Night with David Letterman (guests Merv Griffin; punk rock musician Captain Beefheart)
17 News

1:00
9 Movie "Spellbound"
12 Gunsmoke

1:10
4 McCloud

1:30
2 NBC News Overnight

2:30
2 Entertainment Tonight (see 2, 7:30pm)
4 CBS News Nightwatch (JIP)

3:00
2 Romance Theatre
9 Movie "Kings of the Sun"

3:30
2 NBC News Overnight

4:30
2 NBC News Overnight (maybe the program was repeated back-to-back during the night)
 
Surprised at the lack of an independent station. These listings came during the ill fated run of 'Joanie Loves Chachi'.
 
Surprised at the lack of an independent station. These listings came during the ill fated run of 'Joanie Loves Chachi'.

Gainesville was a short market until fairly recently. The big surprise was the lack of listings for WCPX (now WKMG) from Orlando when the other two VHFs from Orlando were listed. Did they have a weaker signal?
 
Gainesville was a short market until fairly recently. The big surprise was the lack of listings for WCPX (now WKMG) from Orlando when the other two VHFs from Orlando were listed. Did they have a weaker signal?

Also notably missing from Orlando/Daytona Beach are WMFE-24 (PBS) and WOFL-35 (Independent), and Jacksonville had already had two independent stations on the air at the time, channels 30 and 47 (now co-owned), but both were still fairly new at the time; 47, at the time, was transitioning into a general independent from being mostly religious. Maybe like Orlando's Channel 6, those other stations' signals may not have reached Gainesville at the time.
 
Or perhaps WJXT was their default CBS affiliate, much like Dothan's WTVY was to Panama City up to 2012. Then again, I could be wrong (again) as the listings clearly show two NBC and three ABC outlets.
 
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