RETRO: MILWAUKEE--10/18/1994

[Capemill]

WTMJ-TV (NBC) Ch-4
5:00am: NBC News at Sunrise
5:30am: News
7:00am: Today
9:00am: Sally Jesse Raphael
10:00am: Donahue
11:00am: Susan Powter
11:30am: News
12:00pm: Days of Our Lives
1:00pm: Another World
2:00pm: Jerry Springer
3:00pm: Family Feud
3:30pm: Jeopardy!
4:00pm: News
5:00pm: News
5:30pm: NBC Nightly News
6:00pm: News
6:30pm: Wheel of Fortune
7:00pm: Wings
7:30pm: Wings
8:00pm: Frasier
8:30pm: The John Larroquette Show
9:00pm: Dateline NBC
10:00pm: News
10:35pm: The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
11:35pm: Entertainment Tonight
12:05am: Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1:05am: Rush Limbaugh
1:35am: Later with Greg Kinnear
2:05am: Last Call
2:35am: News Rebroadcast
3:10am: Nightside

WITI-TV (CBS) Ch-6
5:00am: This Morning's Business
5:30am: News
8:00am: Gordon Elliott
9:00am: The Young and the Restless (a day behind)
10:00am: The Price is Right
11:00am: Montel Williams
12:00pm: News
12:30pm: The Bold and the Beautiful
1:00pm: As the World Turns
2:00pm: Guiding Light
3:00pm: Geraldo
4:00pm: News
5:00pm: News
5:30pm: CBS Evening News
6:00pm: News
6:30pm: Real Stories of the Highway Patrol
7:00pm: Rescue 911
8:00pm: Movie: Sleeping with the Enemy (1991)
10:00pm: News
10:35pm: M*A*S*H
11:05pm: Cheers
11:35pm: Extra
12:05am: Top Cops
12:35am: Jones and Jury
1:05am: Jenny Jones
2:05am: Marilu Henner
3:05am: Suzanne Somers
4:05am: Rescue 911
4:35am: Up to the Minute

WMVS-TV (PBS) Ch-10
6:00am: Morning Business
6:15am: A.M. Weather
6:30am: Bloomberg Business
7:00am: Sesame Street
8:00am: Shining Time Station
8:30am: Barney & Friends
9:00am: Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9:30am: Sit and Be Fit
10:00am: Sewing with Nancy
10:30am: Kidsongs
11:00am: Barney & Friends
11:30am: Sesame Street
12:30pm: Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
1:00pm: Barney & Friends
1:30pm: Hooked on Aerobics
2:00pm: Gourmet Cooking
2:30pm: Storytime
3:00pm: Lamb Chop's Play-Along
3:30pm: Sesame Street
4:30pm: Kidsongs
5:00pm: Reading Rainbow
5:30pm: Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?
6:00pm: The MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour
7:00pm: Bill Nye the Science Guy
7:30pm: Future Quest
8:00pm: Nova
9:00pm: Frontline
11:30pm: Mystery!
12:30am: Off-Air (to 6:00am)

WISN-TV (ABC) Ch-12
5:00am: World News This Morning
5:30am: News
7:00am: Good Morning America
9:00am: Live with Regis and Kathie Lee
10:00am: All My Children (a day behind)
11:00am: Rolonda
12:00pm: News
12:30pm: Mike and Maty (joined in progress)
1:00pm: One Life to Live
2:00pm: General Hospital
3:00pm: Hard Copy
3:30pm: A Current Affair
4:00pm: Oprah Winfrey
5:00pm: News
5:30pm: World News Tonight
6:00pm: News
6:30pm: Inside Edition
7:00pm: Full House
7:30pm: Me and the Boys
8:00pm: Home Improvement
8:30pm: Grace Under Fire
9:00pm: NYPD Blue
10:00pm: News
10:35pm: Empty Nest
11:05pm: The Golden Girls
11:35pm: Nightline
12:05am: Judge for Yourself
1:05am: News Rebroadcast
1:35am: Paid Programming
2:05am: World News Now (to 5:00am)

WVTV (IND) Ch-18
5:30am: Toon Town
6:00am: The Bots Master
6:30am: Biker Mice from Mars
7:00am: Garfield and Friends
7:30am: Mighty Max
8:00am: Sonic the Hedgehog
8:30am: The Pink Panther
9:00am: Paid Programming
9:30am: Paid Programming
10:00am: Webster
10:30am: Out of This World
11:00am: The Wonder Years
11:30am: The Wonder Years
12:00pm: Webster
12:30pm: Family Matters
1:00pm: The Brady Bunch
1:30pm: Growing Pains
2:00pm: Saved by the Bell
2:30pm: Exosquad
3:00pm: Darkwing Duck
3:30pm: Goof Troop
4:00pm: Bonkers
4:30pm: Aladdin
5:00pm: Family Matters
5:30pm: Doogie Howser M.D.
6:00pm: Roseanne
6:30pm: Full House
7:00pm: Movie: Aliens (1986)
10:00pm: Cops
10:30pm: In the Heat of the Night
11:30pm: The Odd Couple
12:00am: Night Court
12:30am: Night Court
1:00am: Dairyland Greyhound Report
1:30am: Movie: Hercules and the Amazon Women (1994)
3:30am: RoboCop: The Series
4:30am: Lonesome Dove: The Series

WCGV-TV (FOX) Ch-24
5:00am: Diff'rent Strokes
5:30am: Paid Programming
6:00am: Captain Planet and the Planeteers
6:30am: Conan the Adventurer
7:00am: Samurai Syber-Squad
7:30am: Transformers: Generation 2
8:00am: Bobby's World
8:30am: Rimba's Island
9:00am: The 700 Club
10:00am: Paid Programming
10:30am: Paid Programming
11:00am: The A-Team
12:00pm: The Andy Griffith Show
12:30pm: Magnum P.I.
1:30pm: Mama's Family
2:00pm: Mr. Belvedere
2:30pm: Tiny Toon Adventures
3:00pm: Taz-Mania
3:30pm: Animaniacs
4:00pm: Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers
4:30pm: VR Troopers
5:00pm: Ricki Lake
6:00pm: The Fresh Prince of Bel Air
6:30pm: Married with Children
7:00pm: Movie: Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot (1992)
9:00pm: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
10:00pm: The Newz
10:35pm: Matlock
11:35pm: Dear John
12:00am: 227
12:30am: 227
1:00am: Gimme a Break!
1:30am: Gimme a Break!
2:00am: Paid Programming
2:30am: Paid Programming
3:00am: Diff'rent Strokes
3:30am: Too Close for Comfort
4:00am: Too Close for Comfort
4:30am: Paid Programming

WMVT-TV (PBS) Ch-36
7:00am: Marketing
8:00am: Business File
8:30am: Instructional TV
11:00am: QED
11:30am: College Algebra
12:00pm: Economics USA
1:00pm: Instructional TV
3:30pm: Lillias!
4:00pm: Introductory Geology
5:00pm: Literary Visions
6:00pm: Taking the Lead
6:30pm: Taking the Lead
7:00pm: Today's Japan
7:30pm: Journal
8:00pm: The MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour
9:00pm: Nightly Business Report
9:30pm: To the Contrary
10:00pm: Worlds of Childhood
10:30pm: Worlds of Childhood
11:00pm: Mathline
12:00am: Off-Air (to 7:00am)

WDJT-TV (IND) Ch-58
7:00am: Tale Spin
7:30am: Scooby-Doo: Where Are You?
8:00am: The Flinstones
8:30am: Paid Programming
9:00am: Bewitched
9:30am: I Dream of Jeannie
10:00am: I Love Lucy
10:30am: I Love Lucy
11:00am: The Beverly Hillbillies
11:30am: The Beverly Hillbillies
12:00pm: Love Connection
12:30pm: The Best of Love Connection
1:00pm: Paid Programming
1:30pm: The Twilight Zone
2:00pm: The Other Side (pre-empted by WTMJ)
3:00pm: Little House on the Prarie
4:00pm: Beverly Hills 90210
5:00pm: The Cosby Show
5:30pm: The Cosby Show
6:00pm: Northern Exposure
7:00pm: Banacek
8:30pm: The Twilight Zone
9:00pm: Perry Mason
10:00pm: All in the Family
10:35pm: Late Show with David Letterman (pre-empted by WITI)
11:35pm: Shirley
12:35am: Barnaby Jones
1:35am: Paid Programming
2:00am: Shepherd's Chapel
3:00am: Paid Programming (to 7:00am)

 

[classictvfan]

What is your source for this schedule?

 

[Capemill]

What is your source for this schedule?

The Milwaukee Journal

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

WDJT-TV (IND) Ch-58

10:35pm: Late Show with David Letterman (pre-empted by WITI)
11:35pm: Shirley

The "Big Switch" in Milwaukee was 47 days away (Dec. 11, 1994--WITI-6 from CBS to Fox, and CBS going to WDJT).

It's ironic that WDJT had picked up the "Late Show" bumped by WITI, and was still airing it with the switch less than 2 months away (although by this time it was still uncertain what Milwaukee UHF station would pick up CBS--or if the network would even go unseen in Milwaukee).

 

[Capemill]

WDJT-TV (IND) Ch-58

10:35pm: Late Show with David Letterman (pre-empted by WITI)
11:35pm: Shirley

The "Big Switch" in Milwaukee was 47 days away (Dec. 11, 1994--WITI-6 from CBS to Fox, and CBS going to WDJT).

It's ironic that WDJT had picked up the "Late Show" bumped by WITI, and was still airing it with the switch less than 2 months away (although by this time it was still uncertain what Milwaukee UHF station would pick up CBS--or if the network would even go unseen in Milwaukee).

WDJT picked up The Late Show after WCGV (which had been carrying it for almost a year previously) dropped it. When WDJT picked the show up, CBS had not yet signed an affiliation deal with the station.

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

WDJT-TV (IND) Ch-58

11:35pm: Shirley

Was this "Shirley" as in reruns of the short-lived NBC 1979-80 Shirley Jones series?

 

[Capemill]

WDJT-TV (IND) Ch-58

11:35pm: Shirley

Was this "Shirley" as in reruns of the short-lived NBC 1979-80 Shirley Jones series?

No, it was a Canadian produced talk show featuring Shirley Solomon, a Canadian journalist.

 

[dave73]

WDJT-TV (IND) Ch-58

10:35pm: Late Show with David Letterman (pre-empted by WITI)
11:35pm: Shirley

The "Big Switch" in Milwaukee was 47 days away (Dec. 11, 1994--WITI-6 from CBS to Fox, and CBS going to WDJT).

It's ironic that WDJT had picked up the "Late Show" bumped by WITI, and was still airing it with the switch less than 2 months away (although by this time it was still uncertain what Milwaukee UHF station would pick up CBS--or if the network would even go unseen in Milwaukee).

If CBS hadn't worked out an affiliation deal in Milwaukee, then for cable viewers, CBS would have gotten a waiver to allow cable systems carry an out of market CBS station, such as carrying the CBS affiliate out of Green Bay, Madison, or the CBS O&O from Chicago. OTA viewers would have been out of luck, except for those who lived in overlapping broadcast markets, to where they could either get Chicago, Green Bay, or Madison stations OTA, had an affiliation not been worked out. While WDJT might have been the least popular choice, it was better than having no affiliation at all. From what I heard, that was CBS's last choice.

 

[ShawnHill1]

WDJT-TV (IND) Ch-58

10:35pm: Late Show with David Letterman (pre-empted by WITI)
11:35pm: Shirley

The "Big Switch" in Milwaukee was 47 days away (Dec. 11, 1994--WITI-6 from CBS to Fox, and CBS going to WDJT).

It's ironic that WDJT had picked up the "Late Show" bumped by WITI, and was still airing it with the switch less than 2 months away (although by this time it was still uncertain what Milwaukee UHF station would pick up CBS--or if the network would even go unseen in Milwaukee).

If CBS hadn't worked out an affiliation deal in Milwaukee, then for cable viewers, CBS would have gotten a waiver to allow cable systems carry an out of market CBS station, such as carrying the CBS affiliate out of Green Bay, Madison, or the CBS O&O from Chicago. OTA viewers would have been out of luck, except for those who lived in overlapping broadcast markets, to where they could either get Chicago, Green Bay, or Madison stations OTA, had an affiliation not been worked out. While WDJT might have been the least popular choice, it was better than having no affiliation at all. From what I heard, that was CBS's last choice.

I've always thought that WCGV would have been the natural choice to carry CBS, because they were practically the Eye's secondary affiliate there. I lived in Milwaukee in the mid-80s, and Channel 24 carried the CBS Late Night lineup, up to Nightwatch, which was on WITI. Of course, WDJT was still a start-up operation, while WCGV (and WVTV) was well-established in the market, and from what I read elsewhere it pretty much took Channel 58 getting the CBS affiliation to be placed on most of the other Milwaukee-area cable systems.

 

[dave73]

I've always thought that WCGV would have been the natural choice to carry CBS, because they were practically the Eye's secondary affiliate there. I lived in Milwaukee in the mid-80s, and Channel 24 carried the CBS Late Night lineup, up to Nightwatch, which was on WITI. Of course, WDJT was still a start-up operation, while WCGV (and WVTV) was well-established in the market, and from what I read elsewhere it pretty much took Channel 58 getting the CBS affiliation to be placed on most of the other Milwaukee-area cable systems.

I sometimes wonder if CBS now wished they kept then WXIX, so that they wouldn't have had to affiliate with another station. WVTV was WXIX in the early days of Milwaukee TV, and was a CBS O&O back then. I don't know if CBS approached WVTV or WCGV, as I couldn't find any information on that. I only found that CBS approached WTMJ, WISN, & WJJA for affiliation, but were rejected. For WVCY, they were trying to buy the station since it was a religious station operating on a commercial license, but that was even rejected. I wonder since WDJT's affiliation with CBS as to how well it's done. Weigel Broadcasting usually does best running independent station in my eyes, but I won't rule out them running network stations, as they've had to do that in South Bend on LP stations (wanting to sell those stations to focus on Chicago & Milwaukee).

 

[dustintv]

CBS may have encountered the same problems they had in Detroit when approaching WADL who while always picking up pre-empted network shows from WJBK made some unreasonable demands. Or like Dallas and Phoenix where the other stations where already in contract with nets like The WB and UPN so they went another indy.

 

[dave73]

CBS may have encountered the same problems they had in Detroit when approaching WADL who while always picking up pre-empted network shows from WJBK made some unreasonable demands. Or like Dallas and Phoenix where the other stations where already in contract with nets like The WB and UPN so they went another indy.

Except the only way to keep CBS in Detroit was to buy a low profile station (worse than WDJT), which was then WGPR, and later changed to WWJ. That is the only CBS O&O without a local news department. Like WDJT, WWJ was on a high channel number too.