Retro: Lansing, MI, Sunday, 10/23/83

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From The Lansing State Journal, via Newspapers.com

Part I: Big Three networks

CBS affiliates: WJBK 2 Detroit / WKZO 3 Kalamazoo / WJIM 6 Lansing / WWTV 9 Cadillac / WEYI 25 Saginaw
7:00 (2) World Tomorrow / (3) Music and the Spoken Word / (6) Ernest Angley / (25) Jerry Falwell
7:30 (2) Oral Roberts / (3) With This Ring / (9) Bullwinkle
7:45 (3) Sunday Morning Service
8:00 (2/6) Rex Humbard / (3) Captain Kangaroo / (9) Oral Roberts / (25) Ernest Angley
8:30 (2) Sunday Mass / (6) Oral Roberts / (9) Wesleyan Singers
9:00 (All except 25) Sunday Morning / (25) Jimmy Swaggart
10:00 (25) Jim Whittington
10:30 (2/9) Day of Discovery / (3) My Three Sons / (6) Real to Real / (25) Jack Van Impe
11:00 (2) It Is Written / (3) Dick Van Dyke / (6) Day of Discovery / (9) Jerry Falwell / (25) W.V. Grant
11:30 (2) Focus Detroit / (3/6/25) Face the Nation
12:00 (2) Fred McLeod / (3) WMU Football / (6) Community Calendar / (9) NFL Week / (25) New Generations
12:30 NFL Today
1:00 NFL Football: Detroit at Washington
4:30 (2) Rat Patrol / (3/9) Sports Legends of Football / (6) Movie "White Line Fever" / (25) Waltons
5;00 (2) Charlie's Angels / (3) Nashville Music / (9) Hogan's Heroes
5:30 (3) In Search of... "Shark Worshippers" / (9) Taking Advantage / (25) Tales from the Darkside "Trick or Treat"
6:00 (2/6) News / (3) Input 3 / (25) Flint Generals: Everything Coming Up Rosie
6:30 (2) J.P. McCarthy (legendary WJR-AM morning host) / (6/9) News / (25) Taking Advantage
7:00 60 Minutes
8:00 Alice
8:30 One Day at a Time
9:00 Jeffersons
9:30 Goodnight, Beantown
10:00 Trapper John, M.D.
11:00 News
11:15 (3/6/9) News / (25) Dave Barber
11:30 (2) Taxi / (3) Vega$ / (6) Michigan Replay / (9) Jack Van Impe
11:45 (25) Michigan Replay
12:00 (2/6) Rockford Files / (9) Face the Nation
12:30 (3) Mission: Impossible
1:00 (2) Marcus Welby, M.D. / (6) Health Field
1:30 (6) With This Ring
2:00 (2/25) CBS News

NBC affiliates: WDIV 4 Detroit / WNEM 5 Bay City / WOTV 8 Grand Rapids / WILX 10 Onondaga
7:00 (4) Open Doors / (5) Open Camera / (8) Sunday Morning / (10) Jack Van Impe
7:30 (4) Lone Ranger / (5) It's Your Business / (8) D. Kennedy / (10) Jimmy Swaggart
8:00 (4) Sergeant Preston / (5) Day of Discovery
8:30 (4) Little Rascals / (5) Rex Humbard / (8) Kenneth Copeland / (10) Robert Schuller
9:00 (4) Movie "Thunderbolt and Lightfoot" / (5) Oral Roberts
9:30 (5/8) Sunday Mass / (10) Jerry Falwell (misspelled "Farwell")
10:00 (5) Munsters
10:30 (5) Movie "Bellboy" / (8) Day of Discovery / (10) World Tomorrow
11:00 (8) Grizzly Adams / (10) Lowell Lundstrom
11:30 (4) Agronsky and Company / (10) Kenneth Copeland
12:00 (4/5) Meet the Press (guest U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick) / (8) Bowling
12:30 NFL '83
1:00 NFL Football (Cleveland at Cincinnati)
4:00 NFL Football (Pittsburgh at Seattle)
6:30 (4) News
7:00 (4) Mort Crim's Free 4 All / (all others) First Camera
8:00 Knight Rider
9:00 Movie "Women of San Quentin"
11:00 News
11:30 (4) Sports Final Edition / (5) Movie "A Touch of Class" / (8) Movie "Gumshoe" / (10) How the West Was Won
11:45 (4) Movie "Missiles of October"
12:30 (10) Love Connection
2:30 (4) Christopher Closeup

ABC affiliates: WXYZ 7 Detroit / WJRT 12 Flint / WUHQ 41 Battle Creek
7:00 (7) This Is the Life / (12) Special Report
7:30 (7) Soundings / (12) Kenneth Copeland / (41) Jerry Falwell
8:00 (7) Daedal Doors
8:30 (7) Hot Fudge / (12) World Tomorrow
9:00 (7) Movie "Who Done It?" / (12) Amazing Grace Bible Class / (41) Herald of Truth
9:30 (12) Robert Schuller / (41) Jim Bakker
10:00 (7) Directions
10:30 (7/41) New York City Marathon / (12) Movie "Castle on the Hudson"
12:00 (12) Special Report
12:30 (12) Music City U.S.A.
1:00 (12) Movie "The Brain"
1:30 (7) David Brinkley / (41) Movie "Goodbye Mr. Chips"
2:30 (7) Spotlight on News
3:00 (7) Woman to Woman / (12) Daniel Boone
3:30 (7) HealthBeat
4:00 (7) Pop 'N' Rocker / (12) Movie "Darker Than Amber" / (41) Star Search
5:00 (7) Sports Legends / (41) Solid Gold
5:30 (7) That's Hollywood
6:00 News
6:30 (7/12) News / (41) Taking Advantage
7:00 (7/12) Ripley's Believe It or Not! / (41) Entertainment This Week (Richard Widmark profile)
8:00 Hardcastle and McCormick
9:00 NFL Football (Los Angeles at Dallas)
12:00 (7/12) News / (41) Movie "Power"
12:30 (7) News / (12) Movie "Anatomy of a Seduction"
12:45 (7) At the Movies
1:00 (41) News
1:15 (7) Movie "The President's Plane Is Missing"
2:00 (12) News
2:45 (12) Special Report
3:15 (7) Movie "Assignment K" / (12) Open Door

 

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Part II: Indies

WXMI 17 Grand Rapids
Had just changed calls from WWMA in August
7:00 Flipper
8:00 In Touch Ministries
9:00 Message from Calvary
9:30 Little Rascals
10:00 Movie "Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round"
12:00 Movie "Fluffy"
2:00 Movie "Come September"
4:00 CHiPs Patrol
5:00 Gunsmoke
6:00 How the West Was Won
7:00 Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew
8:00 Salute
9:00 The Saint
10:00 George Perles
11:00 News
11:30 Bo Schembechler
12:00 Rock TV (Duran Duran is featured)

WIHT 31 Ann Arbor
At this time, the station ran the In-Home Theater (IT) pay TV service for part of the day; hours are unclear
8:00 It's Academic
8:30 Kenneth Copeland
9:30 Jerry Falwell (misspelled "Farwell")
10:30 Ann Arbor Free Form (Forum?)
12:00 It's Your Business
12:30 Outdoors U.S.A.
1:00 Drag Racing (IHRA nationals)
2:00 Movie "Pride of the Yankees"
4:15 Movie "Humongous"
6:00 Movie "Happening in Hamelin"
8:00 Movie "Amityville II: The Possession"
10:00 Movie "My Favorite Year"
12:00 Movie "Love Camp"
1:45 Movie "The Tempest"
4:00 Movie "The Concert for Bangladesh"

WFSL 47 Lansing
7:00 Tennessee Tuxedo
7:30 Underdog
8:00 King Leonardo
8:30 Dudley Doright
9:00 Jetsons
9:30 Jonny Quest
10:30 Lorne Greene's New Wilderness
11:00 Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew
12:00 Star Search
1:00 Movie "The Quiet Man"
3:00 Movie "Ghost Breakers"
5:00 Drag Racing (IHRA nationals)
6:00 A Matter of Opinion
6:30 House Call
7:00 Employment Connection
7:30 Taking Advantage
10:00 George Perles
11:00 Entertainment This Week (Richard Chamberlain profile)
12:00 Editor's Desk
12:30 News

WKBD 50 Detroit
7:30 Editor's Desk
8:00 Jimmy Swaggart
9:00 Robert Schuller
10:00 D. James Kennedy
11:00 Pink Panther
11:30 Movie "Young People"
1:00 Movie "Bonnie and Clyde"
4:00 Movie "Killer by Night"
6:00 Star Trek
7:00 Fame
8:00 Solid Gold
9:00 It's Your Business
10:00 News
10:30 Kenneth Copeland
11:30 For My People
12:00 Music Magazine
12:30 Gavin and Lott
1:00 700 Club

 

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Part III: Public Stations (PBS/CBC)

WKAR 23 East Lansing
8:00/9:00/10:00 Sesame Street
11:00 Newton's Apple
11:30 Moving Right Along
12:00 Don't Look Now (see WTVS below)
1:00 This Old House
1:30 Housewarming with Charlie Wing "Heating the House"
2:00 Movie "Wild in the Country"
4:00 Firing Line
5:00 International Edition
5:30 Working Women
6:00 Tony Brown's Journal
6:30 Presente
7:00 Artistry of...
7:30 Bradshaw on the Eight Stages of Man "Cradle Hypnosis"
8:00 Nature
9:00 Masterpiece Theatre "Pictures"
10:00 In Recital
11:00 Michigan Outdoors
11:30 Off the Record

WGVC 35 Grand Rapids
8:00/9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Matinee at the Bijou
11:30 Lawmakers
12:00 Vietnam: A Television History
1:00 West Michigan Week
1:30 Wall Street Week
2:00 Shakespeare Plays "Macbeth"
4:30 Wildlife Management in North America
5:00 All Creatures Great and Small II
6:00 Wild America "Born to Run"
6:30 Ark on the Move
7:00 Pallisers
8:00 Nature
9:00 Masterpiece Theatre (Pictures)
10:00 Ireland: A Television History
11:00 Firing Line
12:00 Austin City Limits (guest Larry Gatlin)

WTVS 56 Detroit
6:00/6:30 American Government Survey
7:00/7:30 Making It Count
8:00 Sesame Street
9:00 Don't Look Now! (a short-lived clone of You Can't Do That on Television from that show's creators, Roger Price and Geoffrey Darby)
10:00 Can Do
10:30 Reading Rainbow
11:00 Detroit Week
11:30 Off the Record
12:00 Video Detroit
12:30 Lawmakers
1:00 Washington Week
1:30 Wall Street Week
2:00 Firing Line
3:00 Presente
3:30 Matinee at the Bijou
5:30 Tony Brown's Journal "George Kirby Presents King Heroin"
6:30 This Old House
7:00 New Tech Times
7:30 Newton's Apple
8:00 Nature
9:00 And Then I Wrote...
No listings for 10pm-12midnight - off air for technical maintenance perhaps?
12:00 David Susskind
1:00 Nature
2:00 Masterpiece Theatre
3:00 And Then I Wrote...
4:00 David Susskind

CBET 9 Windsor
9:00 Agriscope
9:30 Bonanza
10:30 Pets Please
11:00 Performance
11:30 Adventure B.C.
12:00 Meeting Place
1:00 Country Canada
1:30 Hymn Sing
2:00 Wild Canada
3:00 Hockey Heroes
4:00 CFL Football (Edmonton at Winnipeg)
7:00 Fraggle Rock
7:30 Beachcombers
8:00 Vanderberg
9:00 War
10:00 Man Alive
10:30 Just a Little Special
11:00 The National
11:20 News
12:15 Rock 'n' Roll Video

 

[ftballfan]

I noticed the odd inclusion of 9&10 from Cadillac, especially considering that much closer stations (that also had some degree of viewership in the outer ranges of the LSJ circulation area) such as WZZM, WCMU, WFUM, or WXON were not included.

 

[RandTV]

Very clever layout with the network affiliates!