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Retro: Kentucky Wednesday March 14, 1979

From TV Guide, Kentucky Edition:

WAVE Ch. 3 Louisville (NBC)

6:30 Today In WAVE Country
7 AM Today (Patty Duke Astin is interviewed.)
9 AM Morning Show
9:30 The Doctors (delay from 2 PM)
10 AM Card Sharks
10:30 All Star Secrets (Frankie Avalon, Norm Crosby,
Bill Daily, Charlotte Rae, Isabel Sanford)
11 AM High Rollers
11:30 Wheel Of Fortune
12 N Midday
12:30 Mike Douglas (co-host Glen Campbell; Peter Strauss,
Little Richard, country fiddler Doug Kershaw)
1:30 Days Of Our Lives (Chs. 3, 5, and 18 follow the lead
of most Central Time Zone stations and carry this
now instead of 1 PM (ET).)
2:30 Another World
4 PM Movie: "Crossfire"
5:30 News
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News (John Chancellor/David Brinkley)
7 PM Cross-Wits (Jim Backus, Lyle Waggoner, Rhonda Bates,
Kathie Lee Johnson (Gifford))
7:30 Wild Kingdom
8 PM Supertrain
9 PM Studs Lonigan (a pre-"L.A. Law" Harry Hamlin stars in this
three-part miniseries; this is part 2)
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show (Peter Strauss, Jim Henson and the Muppets)
1 AM Tomorrow (Cochise, who claims to be the grandson of the
original Cochise)

WLWT Ch. 5 Cincinnati (NBC)

5:50 Good Morning
6 AM PTL Club
7 AM Today
9 AM Donahue
10 AM Card Sharks
10:30 All Star Secrets
11 AM The Doctors
11:30 Midday
12 N Bob Braun
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 Another World
4 PM Bionic Woman
5 PM Streets Of San Francisco
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Dating Game
7:30 Match Game PM (Avery Schreiber, Gary Burghoff,
Fannie Flagg, Elaine Joyce, Brett Somers)
8 PM Supertrain
9 PM Studs Lonigan (Part 2 of 3)
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Tomorrow

WCPO Ch. 9 Cincinnati (CBS)

5:45 Praying The Rosary
6 AM Sunrise Semester: "Content Area Teaching"
6:30 Police Call (rerun from Sun 8:30 AM)
7 AM Morning With Bob Schieffer
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Uncle Al
10 AM Match Game '79 (Daryl Anderson, Patti Deutsch, Richard
Paul, Donna Pescow, Charles Nelson Reilly, Brett Somers--
a comparison with the North Carolina edition indicates that
this is the same show airing in pattern at 4 PM today.)
10:30 Price Is Right
11:30 All In The Family (delay from 10 AM, pre-empts "Love Of Life"
(I never knew why that show did so poorly in Cincinnati) and
CBS News)
12 N Noon Report
1 PM Search For Tomorrow (delay from 12:30 PM)
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3:30 M*A*S*H
4 PM Movie: "Our Man In Havana" (Alec Guinness is the star but watch
for Ernie Kovacs, from '60)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7 PM Joker's Wild
7:30 Price Is Right
8 PM Edward The King (Part 9)
9 PM One Day At A Time
9:30 The Jeffersons
10 PM All-Star Salute To Pearl Bailey (with Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah
Vaughan, Billy Daniels, Betty Ford, husband Louis Bellson,
Foster Brooks, Rich Little, Gary Coleman, Nipsey Russell)
11 PM News
11:30 Your Turn: Letters To CBS News (Iowa governor Robert Ray
responds to a CBS documentary on Vietnamese refugees;
viewers' opinions on a documentary about mental-health care.)
12 M Rockford Files
1:10 Kojak
2:20 News

WHAS Ch. 11 Louisville (CBS)

6 AM Moral Side Of The News (rerun from Sun 12 N)
6:30 Ed Allen Time
7 AM Morning With Bob Schieffer
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Search For Tomorrow
9:30 Young And The Restless (delay from 12 N)
10 AM Omelet (Milton Metz/Faith Lyles)
10:30 Price Is Right
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
12 N News
12:30 Bob Braun
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3:30 M*A*S*H
4 PM Bonanza
5 PM Carol Burnett And Friends
5:30 Mary Tyler Moore
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Married: The First Year (week-behind from 8 PM)
8 PM Edward The King (Part 9)
9 PM One Day At A Time
9:30 Carol Burnett And Friends
10 PM All-Star Salute To Pearl Bailey
11 PM News
11:30 Your Turn: Letters To CBS News
12 M Rockford Files
1:10 Kojak
2:20 News

WKRC Ch. 12 Cincinnati (ABC)

6 AM Ask Your Lawyer
6:30 Not For Women Only
7 AM Good Morning America
9 AM Edge Of Night (delay from 4 PM)
9:30 $20,000 Pyramid (delay from 12 N)
10 AM Mike Douglas (co-hostess Lucille Ball; Florence
Henderson, Gale Gordon, Gavin MacLeod)
11 AM Happy Days
11:30 Family Feud
12 N Extra! (local)
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1 PM All My Children
2 PM One Life To Live
3 PM General Hospital
4 PM Dinah! (Charo, "comic Jay Leno," Marty Robbins, Shalamar,
travel expert Marty Leshner)
5:30 News
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7 PM Newlywed Game
7:30 Tic Tac Dough
8 PM Eight Is Enough
9 PM Charlie's Angels
10 PM Vega$
11 PM News
11:30 Police Woman
12:40 Mannix

WKPC Ch. 15 Louisville (PBS)

7:30 Sesame Street
8:30 Electric Company
9 AM In-school programs
12 N Sesame Street
1 PM Electric Company
1:30 In-school programs
3 PM Over Easy (second of two with Mary Martin and her
son, Larry Hagman; the causes and treatment of
alcoholism; inexpensive travel for senior citizens;
a profile of painter Marc Chagall)
3:30 Lilias, Yoga And You
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Studio See
6:30 Over Easy (Broadway composer Jule Styne; oral hygiene)
7 PM MacNeil/Lehrer Report
7:30 Book Beat (Sam Levenson discusses his collection of folk
humor, "You Don't Have To Be In Who's Who To Know
What's What.")
8 PM The Shakespeare Plays: "Romeo And Juliet"
11 PM Dick Cavett (romance novelist Barbara Cartland)
11:30 Captioned ABC News
12 M Lilias, Yoga And You

WLEX Ch. 18 Lexington (NBC)

5:30 Arthur Smith
6 AM PTL Club
7 AM Today
9 AM Donahue
10 AM Card Sharks
10:30 All-Star Secrets
11 AM High Rollers
11:30 The Doctors
12 N News
12:30 Bob Braun
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 Another World
4 PM Batman (David Wayne as the Mad Hatter)
4:30 Addams Family
5 PM Beverly Hillbillies
5:30 News
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Sanford And Son
7:30 That Nashville Music (Mel and Pam Tillis, Leroy
Van Dyke, Jack Clement)
8 PM Supertrain
9 PM Studs Lonigan (Part 2 of 3)
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Tomorrow

WXIX Ch. 19 Cincinnati (Ind.)

6:15 Perspective
7 AM Romper Room
7:30 New Zoo Revue
8 AM Fred Flintstone & Friends
8:30 Groovie Goolies And Friends
9 AM Tom And Jerry
9:30 Flintstones
10 AM Dennis The Menace
10:30 Courtship Of Eddie's Father
11 AM Andy Griffith
11:30 Bewitched
12 N Medical Center
1 PM Movie: "Captain Horatio Hornblower"
3 PM Woody Woodpecker
3:30 Popeye
4 PM Tom And Jerry
4:30 Spider-Man
5 PM Gilligan's Island
5:30 Superman
6 PM Brady Bunch
6:30 Carol Burnett And Friends (guest: Vincent Price)
7 PM Mary Tyler Moore
7:30 Odd Couple
8 PM Gunsmoke
9 PM Merv Griffin (self-made millionaires Sir Freddy Laker,
Percy Ross, Orville Redenbacher, Fred Sands, Anastasios
Kyriakides)
10:30 Cross-Wits (Peter Isacksen, Misty Rowe, Bernie Kopell,
Polly Holliday)
11 PM Gong Show (Arte Johnson, Jaye P. Morgan, Rip Taylor)
11:30 Medical Center
12:30 Ironside

WKYT Ch. 27 Lexington (CBS)

7 AM Morning With Bob Schieffer
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Flintstones
9:30 All In The Family (day-behind from 10 AM)
10 AM Kentucky Morning
10:30 Price Is Right
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS News
12 N Young And The Restless
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Match Game '79 (again, this appears to be the
same show airing in pattern at 4 PM)
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3:30 Dating Game
4 PM M*A*S*H (day-behind from 3:30 PM)
4:30 Petticoat Junction
5 PM Andy Griffith
5:30 News
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM My Three Sons
7:30 Woody Woodpecker (Ch. 11 does the same thing with
Bugs Bunny on Friday nights.)
8 PM Married: The First Year
9 PM One Day At A Time
9:30 The Jeffersons
10 PM All-Star Salute To Pearl Bailey
11 PM News
11:30 Your Turn: Letters To CBS News
12 M Rockford Files
1:10 Kojak

WLKY 32 Alive Louisville (ABC)

6:30 Romper Room
7 AM Good Morning America
9 AM Donahue
10 AM Green Acres
10:30 Edge Of Night
11 AM Happy Days
11:30 Family Feud
12 N $20,000 Pyramid (Richard Paul, Kelly Garrett)
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1 PM All My Children
2 PM One Life To Live
3 PM General Hospital
4 PM Emergency One!
5 PM Dating Game
5:30 News
6 PM ABC World News Tonight
6:30 Tic Tac Dough
7 PM Joker's Wild
7:30 The Next Step Beyond
8 PM Eight Is Enough
9 PM Charlie's Angels
10 PM Vega$
11 PM News
11:30 Make Me Laugh
12 M Police Woman (30-minute delay)
1:10 Mannix (30-minute delay)

WDRB Ch. 41 Louisville (Ind.)

7:45 News
8 AM New Zoo Revue
8:30 Bugs Bunny (these could be the pre-'48s, but I
don't know which were here and which were on 11)
9 AM PTL Club
11 AM News/Introspect
11:30 Hi Doug (religious talk show with CBN's Doug Oldham)
12 N 700 Club
1:30 Love, American Style
2 PM Not For Women Only (Part 3 on medical emergencies;
guests are Joe Graedon, author of "The People's Pharmacy,"
and a pediatrician)
2:30 Partridge Family
3 PM Bugs Bunny And Pals
3:30 Popeye
4 PM Three Stooges
4:30 Battle Of The Planets
5 PM I Love Lucy
5:30 Gilligan's Island (guest: Zsa Zsa Gabor)
6 PM Six Million Dollar Man
7 PM Sanford And Son
7:30 My Three Sons
8 PM Gunsmoke
9 PM Merv Griffin (Linda Lavin, Dody Goodman, "comedian
David Letterman," actor Robert Logan)
10:30 Odd Couple (opera singer Marilyn Horne guests as Felix's
new discovery, who won't appear in his opera unless Oscar
is in it too)
11 PM Love, American Style
11:30 Movie: "The Glory Brigade"

WTVQ Ch. 62 (Ch. 36) Lexington (ABC)

5:30 700 Club
7 AM Good Morning America
9 AM General Hospital
10 AM Marcus Welby, M.D.
11 AM Happy Days
11:30 Family Feud
12 N $20,000 Pyramid
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1 PM All My Children
2 PM One Life To Live
3 PM Gilligan's Island
3:30 Happy's Hour
4 PM Tom And Jerry
4:30 Brady Bunch
5 PM Get Smart
5:30 News
6 PM ABC World News Tonight
6:30 Sha Na Na (guest: Freddy Cannon)
7 PM Joker's Wild
7:30 Newlywed Game
8 PM Eight Is Enough
9 PM Charlie's Angels
10 PM Vega$
11 PM News
11:30 Police Woman
12:40 Mannix

E 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)

In-school programs until

3:30 Over Easy (see 3 PM Ch. 15)
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Studio See
6:30 Writing For A Reason
7 PM MacNeil/Lehrer Report
7:30 Dick Cavett (same as Ch. 15)
8 PM The Shakespeare Plays: "Romeo And Juliet"
sign off 11 PM
 
bpatrick said:
WKRC Ch. 12 Cincinnati (ABC)
=
4 PM Dinah! (Charo, "comic Jay Leno"...)

And I'm sure when actor Jim Carrey started making the talk show circuit in the early stages of his career, he was billed as a "comic," too. ::)
 
Probably so. It just seems odd, from the standpoint of
2012, that in 1979 Leno and Letterman had to be identified by what
they did ("comic," "comedian").
 
They had to start somewhere! Letterman wasn't even 'that guy in the morning on NBC' at that point, let alone late night!
Speaking of which, a total shutout of 'Hollywood Squares' among the affiliates in that edition's coverage area; no wonder that show was in trouble in '79. Isn't this the period when it was airing at either 12:30 or 4 Eastern, depending on affiliates who actually bothered to carry it?
And who was Bob Braun...some regional Mike Douglas wannabe?
 
Point taken about Leno and Letterman; Letterman's morning show
didn't start until the summer of 1980, and in the late '70s I seem to
recall seeing him mostly as a semiregular panelist on "Liars Club."
Oh, well, Johnny Carson probably had to be identified by profession
before "The Johnny Carson Show," if not "Who Do You Trust?".

In North Carolina "Squares" was carried at 12:30 on WECT/6 Wilmington,
WITN/7 Greenville/New Bern/Washington, WXII/12 Greensboro/Winston-
Salem/High Point, and what is now WRDC/28 Raleigh Durham; and at
2:30 on what is now WCNC/36 Charlotte (which aired "Another World"
at 9 AM). But all three NBC affiliates in the Kentucky edition had commitments
at that time, as they did at 4, which brings me to...

Bob Braun: He replaced Cincinnati legend Ruth Lyons on the long-running "50-50
Club" on WLWT when she retired in 1967. I've always thought of him as a Mike
Douglas wannabe (he sang and did interviews, much as Mike did), and at one time
Multimedia, which owned WLWT, wanted to put him into national syndication. He
refused, saying he preferred to spotlight regional talent, so his show was carried
primarily in Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Tennessee, and West Virginia (although we
got him in Raleigh briefly in the early '90s). I don't think he would have lasted
nationally, not because he lacked ability, but his onetime Avco stablemate, Phil
Donahue, had become the dominant daytime talk-show host by the time Multimedia
approached Braun about going national, and both Mike and Merv were experiencing
declining ratings and demographics.
 
bpatrick said:
Bob Braun: He replaced Cincinnati legend Ruth Lyons on the long-running "50-50
Club" on WLWT when she retired in 1967. I've always thought of him as a Mike
Douglas wannabe (he sang and did interviews, much as Mike did), and at one time
Multimedia, which owned WLWT, wanted to put him into national syndication. He
refused, saying he preferred to spotlight regional talent, so his show was carried
primarily in Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Tennessee, and West Virginia (although we
got him in Raleigh briefly in the early '90s)
. I don't think he would have lasted
nationally, not because he lacked ability, but his onetime Avco stablemate, Phil
Donahue, had become the dominant daytime talk-show host by the time Multimedia
approached Braun about going national, and both Mike and Merv were experiencing
declining ratings and demographics.

Did you mean early eighties? Bob Braun was off the air by 1984.
 
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