Retro: Indianapolis/Terre Haute/Lafayette, IN - Tuesday, January 23, 1990

[johnothy]

From TV Guide:

2 WTWO NBC Terre Haute
6:00 Today in Illiana
6:15 News
6:30 NBC News
7:00 Today
9:00 Donahue
10:00 Scrabble
10:30 Concentration
11:00 Golden Girls
11:30 227
12:00 News
12:30 Generations
1:00 Days of our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 Santa Barbara
3:30 Concentration
4:00 Little House on the Prairie
5:00 Crimewatch Tonight
5:30 People's Court
6:00 News
6:30 NBC News
7:00 Family Feud
7:30 Night Court
8:00 Matlock
9:00 In the Heat of the Night
10:00 Midnight Caller
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show
12:30 Late Night with David Letterman
1:30 Later with Bob Costas
2:00 News


4 WTTV Ind. Indianapolis
5:00 Home Shopping Network
6:00 Comic Strip
6:30 Yogi Bear
7:00 Alvin & the Chipmunks
7:30 Jim Henson's Muppet Babies
8:00 Woody Woodpecker
8:30 Scooby Doo
9:00 Highway to Heaven
10:00 Trial By Jury
10:30 Divorce Court
11:00 Regis & Kathie Lee
12:00 Happy Days
12:30 Laverne & Shirley
1:00 700 Club
2:00 Susanne McAlister
2:30 Gumby
3:00 Woody Woodpecker
3:30 Ducktales
4:00 Chip 'N Dale's Rescue Rangers
4:30 Super Mario Bros. Super Show!
5:00 Punky Brewster (Sitcom)
5:30 Facts of Life
6:00 Who's the Boss?
6:30 Kate & Allie
7:00 Who's the Boss?
7:30 Mama's Family
8:00 Movie "The Initiation"
10:00 News
11:00 Jeffersons
11:30 Barney Miller
12:00 Movie "Shame, Shame on the Bixby Boys"
2:00 Home Shopping Network

WRTV 6 ABC Indianapolis
5:30 Ag Day
6:00 ABC News
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Donahue
10:00 Sally Jessy Raphael
11:00 Home
12:00 News
12:30 Loving
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Oprah Winfrey
5:00 News
6:00 News
6:30 ABC News
7:00 Current Affair
7:30 Inside Edition
8:00 Who's the Boss?
8:30 Wonder Years
9:00 Roseanne
9:30 Coach
10:00 Thirtysomething
11:00 News
11:30 Nightline
12:00 Fall Guy
1:00 Family Feud
1:30 Win, Lose or Draw

WISH 8 CBS Indianapolis
5:00 Morning Stretch
5:30 This Morning's Business
6:00 CBS News
6:30 News
7:00 CBS This Morning
9:00 Joan Rivers
10:00 Family Feud
10:30 Wheel of Fortune
11:00 Price is Right
12:00 News
12:30 Young and the Restless
1:30 Bold and the Beautiful
2:00 As the World Turns
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 Geraldo
5:00 News
5:30 News
6:00 News
6:30 CBS News
7:00 Wheel of Fortune
7:30 Jeopardy!
8:00 Loss of Innocents: Working Towards a Solution
9:00 Movie "So Proudly We Hail"
11:00 News
11:35 Entertainment Tonight
12:05 Pat Sajak
1:05 Night Heat
2:05 CBS News Nightwatch
4:05 CBS News Nightwatch Continues

WTHI 10 CBS Terre Haute
6:00 This Morning's Business
6:30 CBS News
7:00 News
7:30 Sally Jessy Raphael
8:30 Geraldo
9:30 Family Ties
10:00 Family Feud
10:30 Wheel of Fortune
11:00 Price is Right
12:00 News
12:30 Young and the Restless
1:30 Bold and the Beautiful
2:00 As the World Turns
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 Oprah Winfrey
5:00 Mama's Family
5:30 Cosby Show
6:00 News
6:30 CBS News
7:00 Wheel of Fortune
7:30 Jeopardy!
8:00 Billy Graham in Hungary
9:00 Movie ""So Proudly We Hail"
11:00 News
11:30 Win, Lose or Draw
12:00 Pat Sajak
1:00 Night Heat

WTHR 13 NBC Indianapolis
6:00 NBC News
6:30 News
7:00 Today
9:00 House Party
10:00 A.M. Indiana with Dick Wolfsie
10:30 Concentration
11:00 Golden Girls
11:30 227
12:00 News
12:30 Generations
1:00 Days of our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 Santa Barbara
4:00 Love Connection
4:30 3rd Degree
5:00 Cosby Show
5:30 People's Court
6:00 News
7:00 NBC News
7:30 Love Connection
8:00 Matlock
9:00 In the Heat of the Night
10:00 Midnight Caller
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show
12:30 Late Night with David Letterman
1:30 Later with Bob Costas


WLFI 18 CBS Lafayette
6:00 CBS News
6:30 Morning Ag Report
7:00 CBS This Morning
9:00 Geraldo
10:00 Family Feud
10:30 Wheel of Fortune
11:00 Price is Right
12:00 News
12:30 Young and the Restless
1:30 Bold and the Beautiful
2:00 As the World Turns
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 Oprah Winfrey
5:00 Entertainment Tonight
5:30 M*A*S*H
6:00 News
6:30 CBS News
7:00 Wheel of Fortune
7:30 Jeopardy!
8:00 Rescue 911
9:00 Movie "So Proudly We Hail"
11:00 News
11:30 Pat Sajak
12:30 Trapper John, M.D.

WMCC 23 Ind. Marion
6:00 I Dream of Jeannie
6:30 Morning Agriculture Report
7:00 Denver, the Last Dinosaur
7:30 Dennis the Menace
8:00 Jetsons
8:30 Heathcliff
9:00 Bewitched
9:30 The Rifleman
10:00 Success N Life
11:00 Perry Mason
12:00 Movie "Crisis"
2:00 Big Valley
3:00 Wanted: Dead or Alive
3:30 Leave it to Beaver
4:00 Gomer Pyle, USMC
4:30 Judge
5:00 CHiPs
6:00 T.J. Hooker
7:00 Bonanza
8:00 Gunsmoke
9:00 Quincy
10:00 Perry Mason
11:00 Saturday Night
11:30 Saturday Night
12:00 Shop-at-Home Store

38 WBAK ABC Terre Haute
6:00 Ducktales
6:30 ABC News
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Trial By Jury
9:30 Divorce Court
10:00 700 Club
11:00 Home
12:00 Perfect Strangers
11:30 Loving
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Super Mario Bros. Super Show!
4:30 Chip 'N Dale's Rescue Rangers
5:00 Highway to Heaven
6:00 Andy Griffith
6:30 ABC News
7:00 Entertainment Tonight
7:30 Love Connection
8:00 Who's the Boss?
8:30 Wonder Years
9:00 Roseanne
9:30 Coach
10:00 Thirtysomething
11:00 After Hours
11:30 Nightline
12:00 Arsenio Hall
1:00 NOAA Weather Service

WXIN 59 Fox Indianapolis
6:00 Smurfs' Adventures
6:30 Bugs Bunny & Friends
7:00 Tom and Jerry
7:30 Flintstones
7:30 C.O.P.S.
8:00 Flintstones
8:30 Maxie's World
9:00 Simon & Simon
10:00 Knight Rider
11:00 Taxi
11:30 I Love Lucy
12:00 Andy Griffith
12:30 Dick Van Dyke
1:00 Movie "The Last Married Couple in America"
3:00 Police Academy
3:30 Real Ghostbusters
4:00 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
4:30 Small Wonder
5:00 Charles in Charge
5:30 Family Ties
6:00 Growing Pains
6:30 Cheers
7:00 Night Court
7:30 Hard Copy
8:00 Movie "The Octagon"
10:00 Star Trek
11:00 Cheers
11:30 Arsenio Hall
12:30 After Hours
1:00 Movie "Hold that Ghost"

 

[umfan]

I know Charles In Charge was in first run syndication by this point, but the new episodes were generally airing on weekends. Surprised they were also be carried in weekday syndication but I guess the show was over 100 episodes by this time.

 

[ftballfan]

Note WTHI's pre-emption of CBS This Morning with Sally Jessy Raphael and Geraldo

 

[RyanHoward]

Please post listings for Saturday 1/20/1990 and Sunday 1/21/1990.

 

[johnothy]

Note WTHI's pre-emption of CBS This Morning with Sally Jessy Raphael and Geraldo

WTHI dropped the CBS Morning News (2 hour broadcast) in August 1985 and began airing talk shows in its place such as Sally Jessy Raphael, Donahue, Hour Magazine, and Geraldo, and then a few months later added a 7:00am newscast which was rare back then for a local station. The 7:00am news was pushed back to 6:30 in the Fall of 1990, when they added CBS This Morning at 7 and Regis & Kathie Lee at 9. I think it was on Labor Day 1990, because I can remember being home for the schedule change and remember it was the first time I'd seen Regis & Kathie Lee.

 

[SteveRichards]

I'm guessing WTHI was one of the smaller (if not the smallest) CBS affiliate to completely dump the CBS morning show? I know a handful of bigger-market CBS affiliates dropped the show at certain times (most notably WWL, but also KDKA, and I think WAGA, etc.).

 

[johnothy]

I'm guessing WTHI was one of the smaller (if not the smallest) CBS affiliate to completely dump the CBS morning show? I know a handful of bigger-market CBS affiliates dropped the show at certain times (most notably WWL, but also KDKA, and I think WAGA, etc.).

Probably so. I remember being a kid and they would cut out the CBS This Morning promos during network programming, but occasionally they would miss one and we'd get to see it. I wondered why they didn't show it. They also didn't show Face the Nation for several years and delayed CBS News Sunday Morning until 10:00am. They never carried CBS News Nightwatch. I'll try to post the weekend listings as someone requested them.

 

[south_ferretti]

I'm guessing WTHI was one of the smaller (if not the smallest) CBS affiliate to completely dump the CBS morning show? I know a handful of bigger-market CBS affiliates dropped the show at certain times (most notably WWL, but also KDKA, and I think WAGA, etc.).

WHDH in Boston preempted CBS This Morning from February 1994 until January 1995. During that time, the program aired on independent station WABU (channel 68).

 

[umfan]

The incarnation of CBS This Morning after Kathleen Sullivan was replaced by Paula Zahn with Harry Smith as the other anchor was a really good show, in many ways as good, or better than Today or GMA. It just never caught traction because a lot of affiliates wouldn't carry it.

 

[johnothy]

The incarnation of CBS This Morning after Kathleen Sullivan was replaced by Paula Zahn with Harry Smith as the other anchor was a really good show, in many ways as good, or better than Today or GMA. It just never caught traction because a lot of affiliates wouldn't carry it.

Yes I really liked the show with Harry and Paula. Paula had a great voice for morning TV.

 

[Ccook55]

Yes, WAGA did drop CBS’s morning show sometime in 1992 in favor of their still-going local show Good Day Atlanta. The CBS show would get picked up by independent WTLK (today WPXA) then by WGNX (WGCL) when it became a CBS affiliate.