Retro: Harrisonburg, VA Regional Daytime...Monday October 9, 1978

[mleach]

Harrisonburg, Virginia area TV listings for Monday Daytime October, 9, 1978...
From The Harrisonburg Daily News-Record...

Far cry from the previous Harrisonburg listings !!!

WMAR/Baltimore channel 2 ( CBS )
6:30 Sunrise Semester
7:00 CBS News
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Romper Room
9:30 Jokers Wild
10:00 Dating Game
10:30 Price Is Right
11:30 Love Of Life
Noon Young & The Restless
12:30 As The World Turns
1:00 2's Company
1:30 As The World Turns ( thats what the listings had said )
2:30 Guiding Light
3:30 M*A*S*H
4:00 Woody Woodpecker
4:30 Bionic Woman
5:30 Channel 2 News
6:30 CBS News
7:00 Newlywed Game
7:30 Johnny Unitas


WHSV/Harrisonburg channel 3 ( ABC/NBC )
6:30 Romper Room
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 PTL Club
10:00 Card Sharks
10:30 Jeopardy
11:00 Happy Days
11:30 Family Feud
Noon The $20,000 Pyramid
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life To Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Edge Of Night
4:30 New Mickey Mouse Club
5:00 Gunsmoke
6:00 WHSV-TV 3 Action News
6:30 ABC News
7:00 Little House On The Prairie


WRC/Washington channel 4 ( NBC )
5:30 Knowledge
6:00 Not For Women Only
7:00 Today
9:00 Mike Douglas
10:00 Card Sharks
10:30 Jeopardy
11:00 High Rollers
11;30 Wheel Of Fortune
Noon America Alive
1:00 Hollywood Squares
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3:00 Another World
4:00 Bob Newhart
4:30 Mary Tyler Moore
5:00 Mary Tyler Moore
5:30 Newscenter 4
6:30 NBC News
7:00 Newlywed Game
7:30 Name That Tune


WTTG/Washington channel 5 ( Ind. )
6:00 Education
6:30 New Zoo Review
7:00 Tom & Jerry
7:30 Porky Pig
8:00 The Flintstones
8:30 The Archies
9:00 Partridge Family
9:30 Leave It To beaver
10:00 Dick Van Dyke
10:30 Father Knows Best
11:00 Family Affair
11:30 My Three Sons
Noon Maury Povich
2:00 I Love Lucy
2:30 Groovie Goolies
3:00 Mickey Mouse
3:30 The Flintstones
4:00 Tom & Jerry
4:30 The Flintstones
5:00 Battle Of The Planets
5:30 Six Million Dollar Man
6:30 Andy Griffith
7:00 Brady Bunch
7:30 Dating Game


WTVR/Richmond channel 6 ( CBS )
6:00 Sunrise Semester
6:30 Richmond Today
7:00 CBS News
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Phil Donahue
10:00 All In The Family
10:30 Price Is Right
11:30 Love Of Life
Noon Richmond Today
12:30 As The World Turns
1:00 Young & The Restless
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3:30 M*A*S*H
4:00 Match Game
4:30 Three Stooges
5:00 Gilligan's Island
5:30 Get Smart
6:00 News 90
6:30 CBS News
7:00 News 90
7:30 Family Feud


WDBJ/Roanoke channel 7 ( CBS )
6:00 Sunrise Semester
6:30 Mornin
7:00 CBS News
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Dinah
10:00 All In The Family
10:30 Price Is Right
11:30 Love Of Life
Noon Young & The Restless
12:30 As The World Turns
1;00 Roanoke Panaroma
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3:30 Bugs Bunny & Friends
4:00 I Love Lucy
4:30 Merv Griffin
6:00 News 7
6:30 CBS News
7:00 Klassroom Kwiz
7:30 Name That Tune


WJLA/Washington channel 7 ( ABC )
6:30 Public Affairs
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 AM Washington
10:00 Edge Of Night
10:30 $20,000 Pyramid
11:00 Happy Days
11:30 Family Feud
Noon News 7 at Noon
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life To Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Four O' Clock Movie
5:30 News 7
7:00 ABC News
7:30 Tic Tac Dough


WXEX/Richmond channel 8 ( ABC )
6:00 700 Club
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Dinah
10:30 F.Y. I.
11:00 Happy Days
11:30 Family Feud
Noon The $20,000 Pyramid
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life To Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Edge of Night
4:30 Merv Griffin
6:00 TV8 Eyewitness News
6:30 ABC News
7:00 Dating Game
7:30 Mary Tyler Moore


WDVM/Washington channel 9 ( CBS )
6:30 Prisma
7:00 CBS News
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Phil Donahue
10:00 Morning Break
11:00 All In The Family
11:30 Love Of Life
Noon Young & The Restless
12:30 As The World Turns
1:00 Eyewitness News
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3:30 M*A*S*H
4:00 Dinah
5:30 Eyewitness News
7:00 CBS News
7:30 Redskin Sidelines


WSLS/Roanoke channel 10 ( NBC )
6;15 Today On The Farm
7:00 Today
9:00 Phil Donahue
10:00 Card Sharks
10:30 Jeopardy
11:00 High Rollers
11;30 Wheel Of Fortune
Noon America Alive
12:30 TV10 Action News
1:00 Not For Women Only
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3:00 Another World
4:00 For Richer, For Poorer
4:30 Family Affair
5:00 Gunsmoke
6:00 TV10 Action News
6:30 NBC News
7:00 Newlywed Game
7:30 The Rookies



WBAL/Baltimore channel 11 ( NBC )
6;30 Learning To read
7:00 Today
9:00 Phil Donahue
10:00 Baltimore @ 10
10:30 Jeopardy
11:00 High Rollers
11;30 Wheel Of Fortune
Noon Channel 11 Action News
12:30 Bewitched
1:00 Hollywood Squares
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3:00 Another World
4:00 Battle of The Planets
4:30 Six Million Dollar Man
5:30 Mary Tyler Moore
6:00 Channel 11 Action News
6:30 NBC News
7:00 Bowling For Dollars
7;30 Family Feud



WWBT/Richmond channel 12 ( NBC )
6:40 Virginia Almanac
7:00 Today
9:00 The Good Morning Movie
11:00 High Rollers
11;30 Wheel Of Fortune
Noon America Alive
1:00 Hollywood Squares
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3:00 Another World
4:00 Leave It To Beaver
4:30 Addams Family
5:00 Lucy Show
5:30 Green Acres
6:00 The Scene Tonight
6:30 NBC News
7:00 McHales Navy
7:30 Newlywed Game


WSET/Lynchburg channel 13 ( ABC )
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Movie SET
11:00 Happy Days
11:30 Family Feud
Noon The $20,000 Pyramid
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life To Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Edge Of Night
4:30 Six Million Dollar Man
5:30 NewsSET 13
6:00 ABC News
6:30 6:30 Movie SET


WDCA/Washington channel 20 ( Ind. )
7:00 Space Ghost
7:30 Woody, Bugs and Friends Hour
8:30 Abbott & Costello
9:00 Captain 20
9:30 Romper Room
10:00 700 Club
11:30 Life In The Spirit
Noon Prize Movie
2:00 Rebop
2:30 Woody Woodpecker
3:00 Herculoids
3:30 Shazzan
4:00 Superfriends
4:30 Fantastic 4
5:00 Bugs Bunny
5:30 Gilligan's Island
6:00 Bewitched
6:30 Carol Burnett & Friends
7:00 Star Trek


WVIR/Charlottesville channel 29 ( NBC )
7:00 Today
9:00 Charlottesville Today
9:30 PTL Club
11;30 Wheel Of Fortune
Noon America Alive
1:00 Hollywood Squares
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3:00 Another World
4:00 High Rollers
4:30 Mike Douglas
6:00 Dateline News
6:30 NBC News
7:00 Phil Donahue



WVPT/Harrisonburg channel 51 ( PBS )
9:00 In School Programming
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mr. Rogers
5:30 Electric Company
6:00 Zoom
6:30 Over Easy
7:00 MacNeil-Lehrer report
7:30 Dick Cavett
8:00 Do You Enjoy These Retro Listings on Radio-Info?

 

[bpatrick]

Yes, somebody goofed. Search For Tomorrow still
aired on CBS at 12:30; ATWT at 1:30.

And yes, I enjoy the retros; I guess so, since I post
so many of them.

 

[DToTheJ]

WTVR/Richmond channel 6 ( CBS )
6:00 News 90
6:30 CBS News
7:00 News 90

I don't get it... Why the odd name for their newscast? Was it simulcasting on AM 900?

Also, notice WDCA airs Bugs Bunny, but only WTTG has Porky Pig. Did this happen in many markets?

 

[Tim L]

WTVR/Richmond channel 6 ( CBS )
6:00 News 90
6:30 CBS News
7:00 News 90

I don't get it... Why the odd name for their newscast? Was it simulcasting on AM 900?

It was probably because they marketed it as a 90 minute newscast (though CBS news was in the middle of it)
WKYC Cleveland did something similar about 1969-72 called "Newsday 90" from 6-7:30 Monday-Friday

 

[harrisburgpatv]

Someone posted in an earlier thread saying something to the extent of "No wonder 'Card Sharks' died after they moved it to noon"....The same thing could be said for Match Game. 4 CBS stations in these listings, and only *one* aired it. That 4:00 timeslot absolutely killed it.

 

[mleach]

WTVR/Richmond channel 6 ( CBS )
6:00 News 90
6:30 CBS News
7:00 News 90

I don't get it... Why the odd name for their newscast? Was it simulcasting on AM 900?

It was probably because they marketed it as a 90 minute newscast (though CBS news was in the middle of it)
WKYC Cleveland did something similar about 1969-72 called "Newsday 90" from 6-7:30 Monday-Friday

WTVR wasn't the only station in Virginia to had taken this route either. In the late 60's WSVA ( WHSV ) from some of the old listings I had seen called their news being branded as "News 60"..which of course includes 30 minutes of ABC News.

Sounds offbeat but its still way better than WSET's "NewsSET 13" or "worse" yet..Woodstock, VA's WAZT-TV "The Evening Eye"...that and Mount Jackson, VA's WSIG-FM's "EARwitness News" has to rank among the worst titles of any newscast.

 

[oldiesfan6479]

"News 90" also used by KTAR-TV (now KPNX) Mesa (Phoenix market)
in the late 1960s.

Same M.O.: 5:00-6:30 PM block with Huntley-Brinkley in the middle.

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

WTVR/Richmond channel 6 ( CBS )
6:00 News 90
6:30 CBS News
7:00 News 90

I don't get it... Why the odd name for their newscast? Was it simulcasting on AM 900?

It was probably because they marketed it as a 90 minute newscast (though CBS news was in the middle of it)
WKYC Cleveland did something similar about 1969-72 called "Newsday 90" from 6-7:30 Monday-Friday

WTVR wasn't the only station in Virginia to had taken this route either. In the late 60's WSVA ( WHSV ) from some of the old listings I had seen called their news being branded as "News 60"..which of course includes 30 minutes of ABC News.

Sounds offbeat but its still way better than WSET's "NewsSET 13" or "worse" yet..Woodstock, VA's WAZT-TV "The Evening Eye"...that and Mount Jackson, VA's WSIG-FM's "EARwitness News" has to rank among the worst titles of any newscast.

IIRC on the original "Electric Company," wasn't their parody newscast skit called "Earwitness News"? (I remember an episode with a newscast of that name).

 

[bpatrick]

Someone posted in an earlier thread saying something to the extent of "No wonder 'Card Sharks' died after they moved it to noon"....The same thing could be said for Match Game. 4 CBS stations in these listings, and only *one* aired it. That 4:00 timeslot absolutely killed it.

I think I'm the one who blamed the noon timeslot for the death of
"Card Sharks" and I agree with you that 4 PM was a death trap as
well; I think it was around this time that NBC gave 4 PM back to its
affiliates. Not long after this CBS moved "Love Of Life" to 4 PM and
it aired its last episode on February 1, 1980. ABC had "Edge Of Night"
and only about 60% clearance at 4 (mostly in the Central time zone,
where it aired at 3); one of the reasons ABC finally dropped it in 1984
is because a large number of stations had planned to drop it altogether
come January 1985.

 

[DToTheJ]

... Mount Jackson, VA's WSIG-FM's "EARwitness News" has to rank among the worst titles of any newscast.

IIRC on the original "Electric Company," wasn't their parody newscast skit called "Earwitness News"? (I remember an episode with a newscast of that name).
[/quote]

One time, there was a program on Bronx public-access cable titled - I kid you not - "Stinkwitness News."

Well, that's three of the five senses covered!

 

[Tim L]

In 1980 WEWS TV 5 Cleveland aired a short lived series called "Cleveland Comedy Company" Friday Nights..with a young group of actors/comedians and a Local Media celebrity as co-host doing various skits..Sort of a copy of "SNL"..The skits were takeoffs on local Cleveland stuff, even the media..They did a "Newscast skit" unsig the title.."EyewitnessActionCenter News" using parts of the names of the 3 network affiliate newscasts:

WEWS-Eyewitness News
WJW-NewsCebter 8
WKYC-Action 3 News...

There are some YouTube Examples..Wasnt great, wasnt that bad either..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOiGiHlAdTg

 

[wbhist]

They did a "Newscast skit" unsig the title.."EyewitnessActionCenter News" using parts of the names of the 3 network affiliate newscasts:

WEWS-Eyewitness News
WJW-NewsCebter 8
WKYC-Action 3 News...

The closest any real-life news operation came to using this kind of title was in the latter part of the 1970's by WTHR Channel 13 in Indianapolis: Eyewitness NewsCenter 13.