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Retro: Kentucky Saturday, May 2, 1981

From TV Guide, Kentucky Edition:

WAVE Ch. 3 Louisville (NBC)

6:30 Farming With Jack Crowner
7 AM Kentucky Afield
7:30 Blue Apple Clubhouse
8 AM Godzilla/Hong Kong Phooey Hour
9 AM Flintstones Comedy Show
10:30 Daffy Duck
11 AM Batman And The Super 7
12 N Wrestling
1 PM Movie: "Camelot"
4 PM Golf: Michelob Houston Open (third round)
5:30 International Sports Experience (rodeo, harness
racing, skydiving)
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News (Jessica Savitch)
7 PM Dance Fever (musical guest Stacey Lattisaw;
judges Chad Everett, Sheree North, Lou Ferrigno)
7:30 Emphasis
8 PM Barbara Mandrell And The Mandrell Sisters (guests:
the Bellamy Brothers, Bobby Goldsboro)
9 PM BJ And The Bear
10 PM Walking Tall
11 PM News
11:30 Saturday Night Live (from 1978: host Richard Dreyfuss
meets the Coneheads in a takeoff on "Close Encounters
Of The Third Kind")
1 AM Don Kirshner's Rock Concert (Fleetwood Mac, the Commodores,
Steve Forbert, Cindy Bullens)
2:30 Movie: "The Man Who Wanted To Live Forever"

WLWT Ch. 5 Cincinnati (NBC)

6:30 Better Way
7 AM U.S. Farm Report
7:30 Hot Fudge
8 AM Godzilla/Hong Kong Phooey Hour
9 AM Flintstones Comedy Show
10:30 Daffy Duck
11 AM Batman And The Super 7
12 N Wrestling (this is not on NBC, but Chs. 3, 5, and 18
each had a wrestling show at this time)
1 PM Clubhouse
1:15 Baseball: Reds-Cardinals
4 PM Greatest Sports Legends (Billie Jean King, time approximate)
4:30 Outdoor Life (Cale Yarborough fishes for wahoo in Panama)
5 PM Sports Afield
5:30 This Week In Baseball
6 PM News
6:30 In Search Of... (solar energy as an alternative fuel)
7 PM Lawrence Welk (songs with the word "blue" in the title)
8 PM Barbara Mandrell And The Mandrell Sisters
9 PM BJ And The Bear
10 PM Walking Tall
11 PM News
11:30 Saturday Night Live
1 AM SCTV Television Network
1:30 Don Kirshner's Rock Concert (Lou Reed, Roger Daltrey,
Rocky Burnette, comic Jay Johnson)

WCPO Ch. 9 Cincinnati (CBS)

5:55 Farm News
6 AM Sunrise Semester: "Radio, Television, And The New
Technology"
6:30 Call The Doctor (the relationship between neurology
and various muscular diseases such as multiple sclerosis,
rerun from Sun 11 AM)
7:30 Roy Rogers
8 AM Tom And Jerry Comedy Show
8:30 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
10 AM Tarzan/Lone Ranger Adventure Hour
11 AM All-New Popeye Hour
12 N New Fat Albert Show
12:30 Drak Pack
1 PM Jason Of Star Command
1:30 Kidsworld (interviews with Sugar Ray Leonard and Joan
Embery of the San Diego Zoo)
2 PM Movie: "Oklahoma!"
5 PM CBS Sports Saturday: nine-ball elimination competition
among "the world's greatest pool players"; Philadelphia
Supercross
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News (Bob Schieffer)
7 PM Juvenile Court
7:30 To Tell The Truth (Robin Ward)
8 PM WKRP In Cincinnati
8:30 Flo
9 PM CBS Movie: "Rio Lobo" (John Wayne)
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "The New Centurions"
1:30 Here And Now
2 AM News

WHAS Ch. 11 Louisville (CBS)

7 AM Louisville Tonight (rerun of Friday night's show)
7:30 Brady Bunch
8 AM Tom And Jerry Comedy Show
8:30 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
10 AM Tarzan/Lone Ranger Adventure Hour
11 AM Derby 107 (all the pre-race events, including the seven
races leading up to the "Run For The Roses")
5 PM Kentucky Derby (although ABC was televising the race,
WHAS had it at the insistence of Derby officials who weren't
impressed with WLKY's signal--this continued until CapCities
bought ABC and refused to feed its programs to an affiliate
of another network--both WHAS and WLKY aired this Derby
in Louisville, Pleasant Colony won this and the Preakness but
lost in the Belmont)
6 PM Derby 107 Wrap-Up
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Hee Haw (Ed McMahon, the Bellamy Brothers, Jimmy Henley
with Marty Stuart)
8 PM WKRP In Cincinnati
8:30 Flo
9 PM CBS Movie: "Rio Lobo"
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "The Nickel Ride"
1:30 News

WKRC Ch. 12 Cincinnati (ABC)

6:30 Kids Are People Too (Ron Howard, Randi Oakes, Rex Smith,
dancer Moses Pendleton, delay from Sun 10:30 AM)
7:30 Animals, Animals, Animals (animals of the Galapagos islands:
penguins, mockingbirds, tortoises, delay from Sun 11:30 AM)
8 AM World's Greatest Superfriends
9 AM Fonz And The Happy Days Gang
9:30 Richie Rich, Scooby And Scrappy-Doo
10:30 Thundarr The Barbarian
11 AM Heathcliff And Dingbat
11:30 Plastic Man/Baby Plas Super Comedy Show
12 N ABC Weekend Special: "Zack & The Magic Factory" (Part 1
of 2)
12:30 Movie: "My Darling Clementine"
2:30 Solid Gold (co-host Bill Cosby; the Manhattan Transfer,
Crystal Gayle, Dr. Hook)
3:30 Cameras In Motion
4 PM Wide World Of Sports (USSR gymnastics team; reports
from the Kentucky Derby)
5 PM Kentucky Derby
6 PM Wide World Of Sports continues
6:30 Replay (local)
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM Love Boat (a high-seas fashion show with designers Geoffrey
Beene, Halston, Bob Mackie, Gloria Vanderbilt; passengers:
Morgan Brittany, Mike Connors, Jayne Kennedy, Elke Sommer,
McLean Stevenson, Robert Vaughn)
10 PM Fantasy Island (guests: Cleavon Little, Joe Namath, Christopher
Connelly, Trish Stewart)
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Part 2 Walking Tall"
1:45 Movie: "Don't Give Up The Ship" (one of the actresses in this
Jerry Lewis flick is named Diana Spencer, Princess Di's birth name--
since it's from '59 I don't think it's her)
3:40 Movie: "Visit To A Small Planet" (more Jerry Lewis, from '60)

WKPC Ch. 15 Louisville (PBS)

12 N Sesame Street
1 PM So You Wanna Be A Star (two groups trying to make it in
country music: Ira Allen and the Palomino Riders, Lee Rogers
and Stampede Pass)
2 PM Matinee At The Bijou ("It's A Joke Son" features Kenny Delmar
as Senator Claghorn (think a human Foghorn Leghorn), from '47;
Chapter 3 of "Don Winslow Of The Navy" from '42)
3:30 Word On Words
4 PM Living Green
4:30 Feeling Free (children learning to deal with disabled peers)
5 PM Nova ("Life On A Silken Thread" looks at spiders)
6 PM Victory Garden
6:30 This Old House
7 PM Power Game (how President Reagan's budget cuts have affected
the search for alternative fuels)
7:30 Sneak Previews ("Nighthawks" with Sylvester Stallone, "Modern
Romance" with Albert Brooks, "Heaven's Gate" re-edited)
8 PM Movie: "The Lady Wants Mink"
10 PM Song By Song (salute to lyricist Dorothy Fields)
11 PM Movie: "My Gal Sal"

WLEX Ch. 18 Lexington (NBC)

6:30 Ag-USA
7 AM U.S. Farm Report
7:30 Superman
8 AM Godzilla/Hong Kong Phooey Hour
9 AM Flintstones Comedy Show
10:30 Daffy Duck
11 AM Baseball Bunch
11:30 Winner's Circle
12 N Wrestling
1 PM Clubhouse
1:15 Baseball: Reds-Cardinals
4 PM Interdependent Relationships (caring for
the elderly, time approximate)
4:30 Aerobatic Superstars
5 PM 4-H Youth Showcase
5:30 Our Last Frontier: The Sea (Part 2)
6 PM That Nashville Music (Mickey Gilley, Billie Jo
Spears, John Anderson, Buddy Spicher)
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Lawrence Welk
8 PM Barbara Mandrell And The Mandrell Sisters
9 PM BJ And The Bear
10 PM Walking Tall
11 PM News
11:30 Saturday Night Live
1 AM Sha Na Na

WXIX Ch. 19 Cincinnati (Ind.)

6:15 Perspective
7 AM Woody Woodpecker
7:30 Bugs And Porky
8 AM Popeye
8:30 Tom And Jerry
9 AM Monkees
9:30 Laurel & Hardy Laugh Tunes
10 AM Movie: "It Ain't Hay" (Abbott and Costello)
11:30 Movie: "Bruce Lee, His Last Days"
1:30 Movie: "Band Of Angels"
4 PM Movie: "A Funny Thing Happened On The Way
To The Forum"
6 PM Happy Days Again
6:30 M*A*S*H
7 PM Sha Na Na (guest: Johnny Paycheck)
7:30 Sha Na Na (guest: Milton Berle)
8 PM Backstage At The Grand Ole Opry (Bobby Bare,
Lonzo and Oscar, Justin Tubb)
8:30 Pop Goes The Country (Ed Bruce, Dick Feller,
Cristy Lane)
9 PM Porter Wagoner
9:30 Nashville Swing
10 PM Nashville On The Road
10:30 That Nashville Music (Joe Stampley, Lacy J.
Dalton, Leon Everette)
11 PM M*A*S*H
11:30 All In The Family
12 M Monte Carlo Show (Anne Murray, Rod McKuen,
the Swingle Singers, a Ukrainian folk-dancing duo)

WKYT Ch. 27 Lexington (CBS)

7 AM Movie: "Homesteaders Of Paradise Valley" (Allan
"Rocky" Lane, the voice of Mr. Ed, from '47)
8 AM Tom And Jerry Comedy Show
8:30 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
10 AM Tarzan/Lone Ranger Adventure Hour
11 AM All-New Popeye Hour
12 N New Fat Albert Show
12:30 Drak Pack
1 PM Jason Of Star Command
1:30 30 Minutes (Notre Dame head football coach Gerry
Faust, the effects of smoking on young people)
2 PM Kidsworld (same as Ch. 9)
2:30 Tobacco Talk
3 PM Tony Brown's Journal
3:30 Wild Kingdom
4 PM Nashville On The Road (guest: Charly McClain (a
woman, BTW))
4:30 Backstage At The Grand Ole Opry (same as Ch. 19)
5 PM McLain Family Band (local, what I presume to be a
bluegrass band)
5:30 Pop Goes The Country (same as Ch. 19)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM WKRP In Cincinnati
8:30 Flo
9 PM CBS Movie: "Rio Lobo"
11 PM News
11:30 Solid Gold (same as Ch. 12)
12:30 America's Top 10
1 AM Second City Television

WLKY 32 Alive Louisville (ABC)

7 AM Big Blue Marble
7:30 Kidsworld
8 AM World's Greatest Superfriends
9 AM Fonz And The Happy Days Gang
9:30 Richie Rich/Scooby And Scrappy-Doo
10:30 Thundarr The Barbarian
11 AM Heathcliff And Dingbat
11:30 Plastic Man/Baby Plas Super Comedy Show
12 N ABC Weekend Special
12:30 American Bandstand (Kingbees, Rufus)
1:30 Movie: "The Great Race"
4:30 Live From Churchill Downs
5 PM Kentucky Derby
6 PM Wide World Of Sports
6:30 Fight Back! With David Horowitz
7 PM Tales Of The Unexpected
7:30 Medical Line
8 PM Love Boat
10 PM Fantasy Island
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "What's Up, Doc?"
1:20 Movie: "The Horse's Mouth"
3:10 ABC News (Tom Jarriel)

WTVQ Ch. 36 Lexington (ABC)

7:30 Tom And Jerry And Friends
8 AM World's Greatest Superfriends
9 AM Popeye
9:30 1981 Pegasus Parade (taped coverage of
the Derby Parade)
11 AM Derby 107
5 PM Kentucky Derby
6 PM Derby 107 Wrap-Up
6:30 Derby Festival '81 ("Ryan's Hope"'s Nancy Addison
hosts a look at the activities that take place on
Derby Week, including a hot-air balloon race and a
mini-marathon)
7:30 Dance Fever (judges: Wolfman Jack, Anne Lockhart,
Steve Ford)
8 PM Love Boat
10 PM Fantasy Island
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "The Cocoanuts" (the Marx Brothers' first,
from '29)

WDRB Ch. 41 Louisville (Ind.)

7:30 New Shapes: Education
8 AM Space Kidettes
8:30 Jim Bakker
9:30 Wrestling
10:30 Tennis: WCT Challenge Cup--John McEnroe vs.
Ilie Nastase
11:30 Eleventh Annual Senior Olympics
12:30 Car Care Central
1 PM Clubhouse
1:15 Baseball: Reds-Cardinals
4 PM Movie: "Tarzan Goes To India" (time approximate)
5:30 Sha Na Na (guest: Johnny Paycheck, same as 7 PM on Ch. 19)
6 PM Solid Gold (same as Ch. 12)
7 PM Kung Fu
8 PM Lawrence Welk
9 PM That Nashville Music (Bobby Bare, Sylvia, Ed Bruce, Buddy Spicher)
9:30 Wild Kingdom
10 PM Independent Network News
10:30 In Search Of... (evidence that might clear Bruno Hauptman of the
kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby)
11 PM 700 Club
12:30 Ross Bagley

KET Kentucky Educational Television (WKZT/23 Elizabethtown, WKSO/29
Somerset, WKMR/38 Morehead, WKLE/46 Lexington, WKON/52 Owenton,
WCVN/54 Covington, WKMJ/68 Louisville) (PBS)

4 PM General Education Development
4:30 General Education Development
5 PM Matinee At The Bijou
6:30 McLain Family Festival
7 PM Song By Song (same as Ch. 15)
8 PM Search For Solutions (sculptor Henry Moore explains his technique;
16th-century Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe)
9 PM All Creatures Great And Small
10 PM Mystery! ("Sergeant Cribb")
sign off 11 PM
 
Interesting to me that a Lexington TV station would run more Derby coverage than any of the Louisville stations...is this still the case?
 
adam95 said:
Interesting to me that a Lexington TV station would run more Derby coverage than any of the Louisville stations...is this still the case?

WTVQ Derby Day coverage was courtesy of WHAS. It was a clean signal so I'm not sure if it was microwave or off-air. Channel 36 covered their commercials and bumpers. I'm not sure if they continue the coverage. For some reason my memory seems to think they ended the WHAS simulcast by the late eighties.
 
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