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Retro: Indianapolis/Terre Haute/Lafayette Tues, Apr 24, 1984

from TV Guide, Central Indiana edition

2 WTWO-NBC Terre Haute * 4 WTTV-Ind Indianapolis * 6 WRTV-ABC Indianapolis *
8 WISH-CBS Indianapolis * 9C WGN-Ind Chicago * 10 WTHI-CBS Terre Haute *
13 WTHR-NBC Indianapolis * 16 WUSI-PBS Olney * 18 WLFI-CBS Lafayette *
20 WFYI-PBS Indianapolis * 22 WVUT-PBS Vincennes * 30 WTIU-PBS Bloomington *
32C WFLD-Ind Chicago * 38 WBAK-ABC Terre Haute * 40 WHMB-Ind Indianapolis *
49 WIPB-PBS Muncie * 59 WPDS-Ind Indianapolis

Morning

5:00
4 Music City USA
8 CBS News Nightwatch
13 Dateline: Indiana
40 Light 'n Lively

5:30
4 Brian Bex
13 Ag Day
40 Lester Sumrall Teaches

5:40
38 NOAA Weather Service

5:45
10 NOAA Weather Service

5:55
2 Weather/Radar/Forecast

6:00
2 Today in Illiana
4 RFD 4
6 ABC World News This Morning
8 Indy Today
9C Chico & the Man
10 Ag Day
13 Morning Stretch
18 CBS Early Morning News
38 Good Morning Terre Haute
40 Fr. John Bertolucci
59 MDTV

6:15
2 News
30 Microcomputers

6:30
2-13 NBC News at Sunrise
4 Cartoon Carnival
8 I Dream of Jeannie
9C Faith 20
10 CBS Early Morning News
18 AM Agriculture
38 ABC World News This Morning
40 Wake Up!
49 To Life! Yoga with Priscilla Presley
59 Jimmy Swaggart

6:45
20-49 AM Weather

7:00
2-13 Today
4 Cowboy Bob's Corral
6-38 Good Morning America
8-10-18 CBS Morning News
9C Top o' the Morning
20 Nightly Business Report
32C Newstalk
40 Jim Bakker
49 Growing Years
59 Peggy's 59er Diner

7:15
22 Personal Finance

7:30
9C Muppet Show
20-49 MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour
32C Mighty Mouse

7:45
22 AM Weather

8:00
4 Janie
9C Bozo
22 Electric Company
32C Tom & Jerry
40 Lester Sumrall Teaches

8:15
30 AM Weather

8:25
49 Paul Harvey

8:30
20-22 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
30 Body Electric
32C Flintstones
40 Jimmy Swaggart
49 Nightly Business Report
59 Munsters

8:45
16 AM Weather

9:00
2-4-18 Phil Donahue
6 Joker's Wild
8-10 Hour Magazine
13 Facts of Life
16 Instructional TV
20-22-30-49 Sesame Street
32C Woody Woodpecker
38 Jim Bakker
40 Today with Lester Sumrall
59 News

9:05
59 Leslie's Bodyfit

9:30
6 Family Feud
9C Beverly Hillbillies
13 Alice
32C Popeye
59 Dick Van Dyke

10:00
2 Facts of Life
4 Braun & Company
6 Family
8-10-18 $25,000 Pyramid
9C Movie "Mozambique"
13 Hot Potato
20-22-30 Electric Company
32C Emergency!
38 Jimmy Swaggart
40 700 Club
49 Trade-Offs
59 News

10:05
59 Millionaire

10:30
2-13 Sale of the Century
8-10-18 Press Your Luck
20-22-30-49 3-2-1 Contact
38 Family
59 I Love Lucy

11:00
2-13 Wheel of Fortune
4 Today in Indiana
6 Benson
8-10-18 Price is Right
16 Electric Company
20 Lilias, Yoga & You
22-30-49 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
32C Breakaway
59 News

11:05
59 Ironside

11:30
2-13 Dream House
4 Newlywed Game
6-38 Loving
16 Instructional TV
20 Burns & Allen
22 3-2-1 Contact
30 Your Children, Our Children
40 Another Life
49 Electric Company

Afternoon

Noon
2-6-8-10-13-18-59 News
4 Perry Mason
9C Family
16-22-49 Sesame Street
20 Magic of Floral Painting
30 Inside Story
32C Hour Magazine
38 Family Feud
40 INN News

12:05
59 Carol Burnett & Friends

12:30
2-13 Search for Tomorrow
6-38 Ryan's Hope
8-10-18 Young & the Restless
20 Kathy's Kitchen
30 New Tech Times
40 Derin's Coffee Shop
59 Woman to Woman

1:00
2-13 Days of Our Lives
4 Jim Gerard
6-38 All My Children
9C-16 News
20 LateNight America
22 Frontline
30 Calligraphy with Ken Brown
32C I Love Lucy
40 Lester Sumrall Teaches
49 Nova

1:30
4 700 Club
8-10-18 As the World Turns
16 Instructional TV
30 Victory Garden
32C I Love Lucy
40 Success-N-Life
59 Green Acres

2:00
2-13 Another World
6-38 One Life to Live
9C Rhoda
20 Matinee at the Bijou
22 Growing Years
30 Last Chance Garage
32C Merv Griffin
40 Bullwinkle
49 Paul Harvey
59 News

2:05
49 BSU Today
59 Phil Silvers

2:30
4 Tennessee Tuxedo
8-10-18 Capitol
9C Andy Griffith
22 3-2-1 Contact
30 Sneak Previews
40 Underdog
49 Lilias, Yoga & You
59 F Troop

3:00
2-13 Match Game/Hollywood Squares
4 Woody Woodpecker
6-38 General Hospital
8-10-18 Guiding Light
9C I Dream of Jeannie
22 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
30 Life in the Universe
32C Great Space Coaster
40 Inspector Gadget
49 Square Foot Gardening
59 Batman

3:30
4 Tom & Jerry & Friends
9C Bugs Bunny
20-49 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
22 Electric Company
30 Lilias, Yoga & You
32C Spider-Man
40 Flintstones
59 He-Man & the Masters of the Universe

3:50
16 Jojo & Joyce Club

4:00
2-4 Scooby-Doo
6 Eight is Enough
8-18 CBS Schoolbreak Special "All the Kids Do It" (8 normally airs Hour Magazine; 18 normally shows Little House on the Prairie)
9C SuperFriends
10 Flintstones
13 Star Trek
16-20-22-30-49 Sesame Street
32C Inspector Gadget
38 He-Man & the Masters of the Universe
40 Little Rascals
59 Wild Wild West

4:30
2 Happy Days Again
4 Pink Panther
9C Scooby-Doo
10 CBS Schoolbreak Special "All the Kids Do It" (normally here: BJ & the Bear at 4:30 and Little House on the Prairie 5-6)
32C He-Man & the Masters of the Universe
38 Grizzly Adams
40 Timmy & Lassie

5:00
2 CHiPs Patrol
4 Brady Bunch
6 Taxi
8 Love Boat
9C Laverne & Shirley
13 WKRP in Cincinnati
16-30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
18 Barney Miller
20-49 3-2-1 Contact
22 News
32C Tom & Jerry
40 Robin Hood
59 Buck Rogers

5:30
4-9C Leave It to Beaver
6 People's Court
10 Lobo
13 M*A*S*H
16-30-49 Electric Company
18 All in the Family
20 Jacques Cousteau
22 This is My Will
32C Flintstones
38 Dick Van Dyke
40 Ozzie & Harriet

Evening

6:00
2-6-8-10-13-18 News
4 Three's Company
9C One Day at a Time
16-30 3-2-1 Contact
22 Masterpiece Theatre
32C What's Happening!!
38 I Love Lucy
40 Jim Bakker
49 Inside Out
59 Lobo

6:25
49 Paul Harvey

6:30
2 NBC Nightly News
4 Little House on the Prairie
9C Alice
10-18 CBS Evening News
16 Doctor Who
20-30-49 Nightly Business Report
32C Happy Days Again
38 Beverly Hillbillies

7:00
2 M*A*S*H
6 ABC World News Tonight
8 CBS Evening News
9C Barney Miller
10 People's Court
13 NBC Nightly News
16-20-22-30-49 MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour
18 Children Running Out of Time (World Vision; 18 normally shows Entertainment Tonight and M*A*S*H)
32C Taxi
38 Andy Griffith
40 700 Club
59 Cannon

7:30
2 Tic Tac Dough
4 Baseball: Cincinnati-Atlanta
6-10 Entertainment Tonight
8 Family Feud
9C Jeffersons
13 Wheel of Fortune
32C Three's Company
38 PM Magazine

8:00
2-13 A-Team
6-38 Foul-Ups, Bleeps & Blunders
8-10-18 American Parade
9C Odd Couple
16 Forum 16
20-22-30-49 Nova
32C PM Magazine
40 Lester Sumrall Teaches
59 Movie "The Harvey Girls"

8:30
6-38 Happy Days
9C Baseball: Chicago Cubs-St. Louis
16 Illinois Press
32C Baseball: Baltimore-Chicago White Sox
40 LaHayes on Family Life

9:00
2-13 Riptide
6-38 Three's Company
8-10-18 Movie "Peter & Paul" (pt 1)
16 SIUC Today
20-30 American Playhouse
22 MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour
40 Today with Lester Sumrall
49 Counterpoint

9:30
6-38 Oh Madeline
16 Outdoors with Art Reid

10:00
2-13 Remington Steele
6-38 Hart to Hart
16 Mystery!
20 Indiana Prime Time
22-30 Third World Report
40 Northwest Assembly of God
49 Candidates Forum: Delaware Co Community School Board
59 News

10:30
4 News
20-22-30 New Tech Times
40 Here's Help with Larry Rice

11:00
2-6-8-10-13-18-22 News
4 Perry Mason
16 Masterpiece Theatre
20 Monty Python's Flying Circus
30 Nightly Business Report
38 Gunsmoke
40 Praise the Lord
49 International Edition
59 Benny Hill

11:30
2-13 Tonight Show
6 Nightline
8-10-18 Magnum, PI
9C News
20-49 LateNight America
30 Do-It-Yourself Show
32C M*A*S*H
59 Twilight Zone

Late Night

Midnight
4-9C INN News
6 Barney Miller
32C Starsky & Hutch
38 Nightline
59 Alfred Hitchcock

12:30
2-13 Late Night with David Letterman
4 Movie "Life Goes to the Movies"
6 Entertainment Tonight
9C A Married Man (conclusion)
38 Eye on Hollywood
49 Paul Harvey
59 Our Miss Brooks

12:40
8-10-18 McCloud

1:00
32C Thicke of the Night
38 NOAA Weather Service
59 News

1:30
2 News
13 CNN Headline News

2:00
8 CBS News Nightwatch
10-13 News
40 God's News Behind the News

2:30
9C Bilko
32C 700 Club
40 Jimmy Swaggart

3:00
9C INN News
40 LaHayes on Fmaily Life

3:30
4 Movie "Treasure of San Geronimo"
9C Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
32C Entertainment Tonight
40 Blackwood Brothers

4:00
9C Movie "Fallen Angel"
40 Today with Lester Sumrall
 
> 9:00
> 2-4-18 Phil Donahue
> 6 Joker's Wild
> 8-10 Hour Magazine
> 13 Facts of Life
> 16 Instructional TV
> 20-22-30-49 Sesame Street
> 32C Woody Woodpecker
> 38 Jim Bakker
> 40 Today with Lester Sumrall
> 59 News
>
> 9:05
> 59 Leslie's Bodyfit

I wasn't even aware of WPDS being on the air until the summer of 1984, so I don't remember anything about their first months on the air. These five-minute news breaks appeared several times throughout the day, but as WXIN they didn't create a news department until 1991, I believe. Where were they getting these news breaks?
 
> I wasn't even aware of WPDS being on the air until the
> summer of 1984, so I don't remember anything about their
> first months on the air. These five-minute news breaks
> appeared several times throughout the day, but as WXIN they
> didn't create a news department until 1991, I believe.
> Where were they getting these news breaks?

All in house. They had a fully staffed newsroom for the first 18 months.
 
> All in house. They had a fully staffed newsroom for the
> first 18 months.
>

Odd question-what were they calling the newscast at the time? WRTV was still going by "The News", WTHR "NewsCenter 13", WTTV "The Ten O'Clock News" (or the "Nine O'Clock News" during summer months), and I believe WISH-TV was "8 On The Scene News". <P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by Stitch on 02/23/06 06:22 AM.</FONT></P>
 
I was afraid someone would ask that. I don't remember. Ken Owen was anchor. Kim Sanders was news director. Chris Denari was sports director.

Doug Quick has a screen capture of a WPDS ID on his website:

http://www.dougquick.com/othertelevisionhistory2.html


> Odd question-what were they calling the newscast at the
> time? WRTV was still going by "The News", WTHR "NewsCenter
> 13", WTTV "The Ten O'Clock News" (or the "Nine O'Clock News"
> during summer months), and I believe WISH-TV was "8 On The
> Scene News".
>
 
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