RETRO: MILWAUKEE--4/29/1992

[Capemill]

Source: The Milwaukee Sentinel

WTMJ-TV (NBC) Ch-4
5:30am: NBC News at Sunrise
6:00am: News
7:00am: Today
9:00am: Jenny Jones
10:00am: Jerry Springer
11:00am: A Closer Look with Faith Daniels
11:30am: News
12:00pm: Days of Our Live
1:00pm: Another World
2:00pm: Santa Barbara
3:00pm: Jeopardy!
3:30pm: Family Feud
4:00pm: Oprah Winfrey
5:00pm: News
5:30pm: NBC Nightly News
6:00pm: News
6:30pm: Wheel of Fortune
7:00pm: Unsolved Mysteries
8:00pm: The 27th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards
10:00pm: News
10:35pm: The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
11:35pm: Entertainment Tonight
12:05am: Late Night with David Letterman
1:05am: Later with Bob Costas
1:35am: News Rebroadcast
2:10am: CNN News
4:00am: Nightside (to 5:30am)

WITI-TV (CBS) Ch-6
5:00am: This Morning's Business
5:30am: CBS Morning News
6:00am: News
7:00am: CBS This Morning
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: Donahue
5:00pm: News
5:30pm: CBS Evening News
6:00pm: News
6:30pm: A Current Affair
7:00pm: Movie: Batman (1989)
9:30pm: Rescue 911
10:00pm: News
10:35pm: Cheers
11:05pm: Dangerous Curves
12:05am: Now It Can Be Told
12:35am: NightTalk with Jane Whitney
1:35am: Joan Rivers
2:35am: Sally Jesse Raphael
3:35am: Up to the Minute (to 5:00am)

WMVS-TV (PBS) Ch-10
6:00am: To Life!
6:15am: AM Weather
6:30am: Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
7:00am: Sesame Street
8:00am: Captain Kangaroo
8:30am: Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9:00am: Hooked on Aerobics
9:30am: Sit and Be Fit
10:00am: Sewing with Nancy
10:30am: Hometime
11:00am: 3-2-1 Contact
11:30am: Sesame Street
12:30pm: Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
1:00pm: Barney & Friends
1:30pm: Body Pulse
2:00pm: Gourmet Cooking
2:30pm: Cooking in America
3:00pm: Lamb Chop's Playhouse
3:30pm: Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
4:00pm: Sesame Street
5:00pm: Square One TV
5:30pm: Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?
6:00pm: The MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour
7:00pm: Smith & Company
7:30pm: Auction
8:00pm: Arts Place
8:30pm: Latino Focus
9:00pm: National Geographic Special: Braving Alaska
10:00pm: American Playhouse: Thousand Pieces of Gold
12:00am: Off-Air (to 6:00am:

WISN-TV (ABC) Ch-12
5:00am: News This Morning
6:00am: News
7:00am: Good Morning America
9:00am: Maury Povich
10:00am: Home
11:00am: All My Children (a day behind)
12:00pm: News
12:30pm: Milwaukee's Talking
1:00pm: One Life to Live
2:00pm: General Hospital
3:00pm: Live with Regis and Kathie Lee
4:00pm: Who's The Boss?
4:30pm: Perfect Strangers
5:00pm: The Cosby Show
5:30pm: World News Tonight
6:00pm: News
6:30pm: Inside Edition
7:00pm: The Wonder Years
7:30pm: Doogie Howser M.D.
8:00pm: Room for Two
8:30pm: Sibs
9:00pm: ABC News Special: The New Rules of Love
10:00pm: News
10:30pm: The Golden Girls
11:00pm: M*A*S*H
11:30pm: Nightline
12:00am: Hard Copy
12:30am: Simon & Simon
1:30am: News Rebroadcast
2:00am: Paid Programming
2:30am: World News Now (to 5:00am)

WVTV (IND) Ch-18
6:00am: Woody Woodpecker
6:30am: The Jetsons
7:00am: Widget
7:30am: Video Power
8:00am: G.I. Joe
8:30am: The Flinstones
9:00am: Paid Programming
9:30am: ALF
10:00am: Leave It to Beaver
10:30am: The New Leave It to Beaver
11:00am: Carol Burnett & Friends
11:30am: The People's Court
12:00pm: Love Connection
12:30pm: The People's Court
1:00pm: Family Ties
1:30pm: It's A Living
2:00pm: The New Leave It to Beaver
2:30pm: I Dream of Jeannie
3:00pm: Merrie Melodies
3:30pm: Tiny Toon Adventures
4:00pm: Chip 'N Dale's Rescue Rangers
4:30pm: Darkwing Duck
5:00pm: Saved by the Bell
5:30pm: Head of the Class
6:00pm: Full House
6:30pm: Growing Pains
7:00pm: Movie: Death Wish 4- The Crackdown
9:00pm: News
10:00pm: Three's Company
10:30pm: Love Connections
11:00pm: Hunter
12:00am: 21 Jump Street
1:00am: News Rebroadcast
2:00am: Dairyland Greyhound Report
2:30am: Gilligan's Island
3:00am: Gunsmoke
4:00am: Home Shopping (to 7:00am)

WCGV-TV (FOX) Ch-24
6:00am: Romper Room
6:30am: Casper
7:00am: Dennis the Menace
7:30am: James Bond Jr.
8:00am: Muppet Babies
8:30am: Alvin & The Chipmunks
9:00am: Paid Programming
9:30am: Paid Programming
10:00am: The 700 Club
11:00am: Matlock
12:00pm: The Andy Griffith Show
12:30pm: The Andy Griffith Show
1:00pm: Highway to Heaven
2:00pm: The Bullwinkle Show
2:30pm: Peter Pan & The Pirates
3:00pm: Talespin
3:30pm: Darkwing Duck (yep, was also on WVTV. WVTV and WCGV shared rights to The Disney Afternoon block, with each station airing an hour of the two-hour block)
4:00pm: Beetlejuice
4:30pm: Punky Brewster
5:00pm: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
5:30pm: 227
6:00pm: Studs
6:30pm: Married with Children
7:00pm: Star Trek: The Next Generation
8:00pm: Movie: Twins
10:00pm: The Bob Newhart Show
10:30pm: Married with Children
11:00pm: The Arsenio Hall Show
12:00am: The Dennis Miller Show
1:00am: On Scene-Emergency Response
1:30am: Emergency Call
2:00am: The Wild Wild West
3:00am: Perry Mason
4:00am: Paid Programming (to 6:00am)

WMVT-TV (PBS) Ch-36
8:00am: New Yankee Workshop
8:30am: Instructional TV
11:00am: Minds on Science
11:30am: Today's Japan
12:00pm: Computer Works
12:30pm: Computer Works
1:00pm: Instuctional TV
3:30pm: Hatha Yoga
4:00pm: New Yankee Workshop
4:30pm: Streamside
5:00pm: The Machine That Changed the World
6:00pm: Principals of Accounting
6:30pm: Famous American Disaster-The Wall Street Crash of 1929
7:00pm: Today's Japan
7:30pm: America's Interests
8:00pm: The MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour
9:00pm: Nightly Business Report
9:30pm: European Journal
10:00pm: Sneak Previews
10:30pm: Smith & Company
11:00pm: The MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour
12:00am: Off-Air (to 8:00am)

WDJT-TV (IND) Ch-58
7:00am: Success-N-Life
8:00am: Shopping Spree
9:30am: Divorce Court
10:00am: One on One with John Tesh (pre-empted by WTMJ)
10:30am: Classic Concentration (pre-empted by WTMJ)
11:00am: Designing Women (pre-empted by WITI)
11:30am: Family Feud (pre-empted by WITI)
12:00pm: Movie: TBA
2:00pm: News (didn't know they aired news at this point, wonder if it was a rebroadcast from another station. I know WITI aired their coverage of the Jeffrey Dahmer trial on WDJT, so who knows?)
2:30pm: The Saint
3:30pm: The Lone Ranger
4:00pm: The Lone Ranger
4:30pm: Annie Oakley & Friends
5:00pm: Bonanza
6:00pm: The Bowling Game
7:00pm: Movie: The Baron & The Kid
9:00pm: The Mary Tyler Moore Show
9:30pm: The Mary Tyler Moore Show
10:00pm: Bonanza
11:00pm: Hardcastle & McCormick
12:00am: The Saint
1:00am: News
1:30am: Paid Programming
2:00am: Shepherd's Chapel
3:00am: Paid Programming (to 7:00am)

 

[classictvfan]

What other television markets do you have access to?

 

[Capemill]

So far just Milwaukee, but I'll keep looking.

 

[classictvfan]

I would like Minneapolis-St. Paul listings from the 80s
if you could find them, but if not I would understand.

 

[milwaukee_dave]

Thanks for posting this! I was in high school during this time, and this was when I began taking an interest in television as a business.

- It's interesting looking at WTMJ's schedule then, compared to now. Channel 4's daytime schedule today is almost all news after NBC's gazillion hours of "Today." (News these days is programmed on WTMJ from noon to 1 p.m., 3 to 5:30 p.m. and 6 to 7 p.m., and if a snowflake falls from the sky -- as it did two days ago here in Brew City -- all bets are off!)

- Milwaukee, like many other cities, would endure an affiliate shake-up several years later from the New World deal. In late 1994, WITI (Channel 6) became a FOX affiliate, WCGV (Channel 24) would go to UPN a month later (when it was launched) and, in a move that would drastically bolster its presence, WDJT (Channel 58) joined the CBS family.

- Over the years, WDJT has changed drastically from its humble beginnings. (Programming, as one can see in this post, was a lot of shows passed on by network affiliates and public domain stuff.) Despite its changes, the channel has always been under the same ownership -- Weigel Broadcasting -- since its inception in 1988. Weigel today has become a pioneer with its ME-TV channels in Chicago and Milwaukee and its partnership with the This TV channel on digital subchannels. Speaking of Channel 58, I believe the 2 p.m. news was a feed from the All News Channel, a defunct, um, all news channel, that tried at the time to compete with CNN.

 

[DToTheJ]

WISN-TV (ABC) Ch-12
4:30pm: Perfect Strangers

Wow. Now, that is a rarity. An actual, non-Fox, non-independent station airing the show - and at a visible viewing hour, no less. I guess Balki was big in Milwaukee, what can I say...

 

[PaulKTF]

Does anyone remember that WCGV's Kids Club around this time was hosted by Amy (in safari costume) and Dudely The Dinosaur (or maybe he was a dragon? I don't quite remember)? I don't know why I remember that.

 

[umfan]

Syndicated bowling still going in '92. Not bad. 9PM news is a great thing. Chicago and Milwaukee are the only markets I'm aware of that really had it. Detroit had it very briefly when Independent WADL aired an INN produced newscast about eight years ago. Only lasted about three months.