Milwaukee TV listings—December 10-11, 1994 (listings courtesy of the Milwaukee Sentinel)
Note: December 11[SUP]th[/SUP] was the day that WITI (6), WCGV (24), and WDJT (58) made their affiliation changes; WITI from CBS to Fox, WCGV from Fox to independent (but would join UPN at its launch about a month later), and WDJT from indie to CBS.
Also, I omitted the following stations that were listed in the paper: WAR-43, W46AR (now WYTU-63), WJJA-49 (now WMLW), and Channel 55 (no call letters given, but it was pre-WPXE [Ion]). 43 and 49 were home shopping stations, while 46 was an Univision station (WYTU is currently affiliated with Telemundo); the Sentinel only listed these stations on the prime-time grid anyway. I also split the listings into two parts--VHF stations (4, 6, 10, 12), and the UHFs (18, 24, 30, 36, 58, 65)
The listings go from Saturday 5am to late Sunday/early Monday 2am
WTMJ-TV Channel 4 (NBC)
Saturday
5am NBC News Nightside (cont.)
5:30 Ag-Day
6am Name Your Adventure
6:30 Captain Planet
7am Saturday Today
9am Martha Stewart Living
9:30 Nick News
10am Saved by the Bell: The New Class
10:30 Gladiators 2000
11am NBA Inside Stuff
11:30 Milwaukee Wave Soccer Weekly
12pm Rocko’s Modern Life Holiday Special
1pm Home for the Holidays
2pm This is the NFL
2:30 NFL Live!
3pm NFL: Cleveland @ Dallas (Browns won 19-14)
6pm News (time approximate)
6:30 Wheel of Fortune
7pm NBC Movie: “It’s a Wonderful Life”
10pm News
10:30 Saturday Night Live (Alec Baldwin hosts; The Beastie Boys are the musical guests)
12am It’s Showtime at the Apollo
1am Soul Train
2am News (10pm replay)
2:30 CNN Headline News
3am NBC News Nightside
Sunday
6am On Main Street
6:35 Reflections
7am Sunday Today
8am Meet the Press
9am Sunday Insight with Charles Sykes
9:30 Paid Programming
10:30 Bowling with the Champs
11:30 NFL Live!
12pm Movie: “White Christmas”
2:30 Tough Target
3pm NFL: Denver @ L.A. Raiders (second-to-last home game for the Raiders at the L.A. Coliseum; Raiders won 23-13)
6pm Earth 2 (short-lived NBC sci-fi series)
7pm seaQuest DSV
8pm NBC Movie: “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation”
10pm News
10:40 Sunday Night (long-running public affairs show on ‘TMJ)
11:10 Something Wilder
11:40 Wings (WTMJ always had a history of shifting some of its Thursday night shows to Sundays, for syndicated shows)
12:10 Entertainment Tonight (weekend edition)
1:10 Super Dave (x2)
WITI Channel 6
Saturday—final day as a CBS affiliate
6am Garfield and Friends (x2)
7am The Little Mermaid
7:30 Reality Check
8am News
10am Ask Gus
10:30 Paid Programming
11:30 The Computer Man
12pm Haven
12:30 Beakman’s World
1pm Iron Man
1:30 Fantastic Four
2pm Movie: “Babar: The Movie”
4pm Paid Programming
4:30 Extra (weekend edition)
5:30 CBS Evening News
6pm News
7pm Dr. Quinn: Medicine Woman
8pm The Five Mrs. Buchanans
8:30 Hearts Afire
9pm Walker, Texas Ranger
10pm News
10:30 M*A*S*H
11pm Cheers
11:30 Tales From the Crypt (x2)
12:30am The Extraordinary
1:30 Court TV: Inside America’s Courts
2am Real Stories of The Highway Patrol
2:30 Apollo Comedy Hour
3:30 Movie: “Tycoon”
Sunday—first day with Fox
6am Barry Silberg
6:30 Sunday Mass
7am Word of Faith
7:30 Paid Programming
8am News
9am The World of National Geographic
10am Paid Programming
11am Fox NFL Sunday
12pm NFL: Chicago @ Green Bay (The Pack blew-out their arch-rivals 40-3)
3pm NFL: San Francisco @ San Diego (in a precursor to their Super Bowl meeting a month and half later, the 49ers drubbed the Chargers in this one, 38-15)
6pm New York Undercover
7pm The Simpsons (x2)
8pm Married…with Children
8:30 The George Carlin Show
9pm News
10pm News
11:10 Cheers
11:40 ? (no program shown; my guess, another Cheers episode)
12:15am The Road
1:15 Paid Programming
WMVS Channel 10 (PBS)
Saturday
7am Market to Market
7:25 Victory Garden
8am This Old House
8:35 Hometime
9:10 Outdoor Wisconsin
9:45 Trailside: Make Your Own Adventure
10:20 Frugal Gourmet
10:55 Pierre Franey: Cooking in France
11:30 The Frugal Gourmet Celebrates Christmas
12:30pm Birds of the Backyard
1:35 Joseph Campbell & the Power of Myth (two more episodes follow at 2:45 and 4pm)
5:10 Heart of Christmas
5:45 A Christmas Special with Luciano Pavarotti
6:50 The Lawrence Welk Show
7:50 Great Performances: Natalie Cole’s Christmas
9pm Tibor Rudas Present: The Three Tenors In Concert 1994
11:30 Austin City Limits (sign-off at 12:30am)
Sunday
7am Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood (x2)
8am Sesame Street (x3)
11am The Magic School Bus
11:30 Reading Rainbow
12pm Wall Street Week
12:30 Washington Week in Review
1pm Best of the Week (ten hours of viewers’ favorite shows from the previous week; Channel 10 signs-off for the night after this block)
WISN-TV Channel 12 (ABC)
Saturday
5am Jack Hanna’s Animal Adventures
5:30 U.S. Farm Report
6am Bob Vila’s Home Again
6:30 Teen Forum
7am Sonic the Hedgehog
7:30 Free Willy (the animated series)
8am Tales from the Cryptkeeper (a kid-friendly version of the HBO hit series)
8:30 Reboot
9am Bump in the Night
9:30 The Addams Family (the 1992-93 animated series; John Astin reprises his role as Gomez in this series, along with Rip Taylor [Uncle Fester] and Carol Channing [Grandmama] also providing voices)
10am The Bugs Bunny & Tweety Show
11am Cro
11:30 ABC Weekend Special (no episode listed)
12pm Billy Packer’s Tip-Off Special (obviously syndicated, since Packer was at CBS at this time)
1pm College Basketball: Michigan State @ Nebraska (Cornhuskers won, 96-91)
3pm Golf: Diners Club Matches, day three
5pm Rays of Hope
5:30 ABC World News Saturday
6pm News
6:30 Inside Edition (weekend edition)
7pm The Wonderful World of Disney: 40 Years of Television Magic (Tom Hanks hosts)
9pm Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
10pm News
10:35 The Money Game (Wisconsin Lottery)
11:05 Sightings
12:05am A Current Affair (weekend edition)
1:05 Teen Forum
1:35 Night Flight
3:35 Tony Bennett: A Family Christmas
4:35 Look In
Sunday
5am Wall Street Journal Report
5:30 Christopher Closeup
6am Music and the Spoken Word
6:30 Look In
7am Good Morning America Sunday
8am This Week (local)
8:30 In Reality
9am Real Estate Connection
9:30 This Week with David Brinkley
10:30 Belling & Company
11am Wisconsin Woods & Water
11:30 Paid Programming
12pm Arete Awards for Courage in Sports
1pm College Basketball Preview
2pm Golf: Diners Club Matches, day four
5pm News
5:30 ABC World News Sunday
6pm America’s Funniest Home Videos
7pm ABC Movie: “Hook”
10pm News
10:30 Packers Sunday Night
11:15 The Crusaders (a short-lived newsmagazine)
12:15 Siskel & Ebert
12:45 Emergency Call
1:15 This Week (local; encore)
1:45 News (10pm replay)
Part two in the next post...
Note: December 11[SUP]th[/SUP] was the day that WITI (6), WCGV (24), and WDJT (58) made their affiliation changes; WITI from CBS to Fox, WCGV from Fox to independent (but would join UPN at its launch about a month later), and WDJT from indie to CBS.
Also, I omitted the following stations that were listed in the paper: WAR-43, W46AR (now WYTU-63), WJJA-49 (now WMLW), and Channel 55 (no call letters given, but it was pre-WPXE [Ion]). 43 and 49 were home shopping stations, while 46 was an Univision station (WYTU is currently affiliated with Telemundo); the Sentinel only listed these stations on the prime-time grid anyway. I also split the listings into two parts--VHF stations (4, 6, 10, 12), and the UHFs (18, 24, 30, 36, 58, 65)
The listings go from Saturday 5am to late Sunday/early Monday 2am
WTMJ-TV Channel 4 (NBC)
Saturday
5am NBC News Nightside (cont.)
5:30 Ag-Day
6am Name Your Adventure
6:30 Captain Planet
7am Saturday Today
9am Martha Stewart Living
9:30 Nick News
10am Saved by the Bell: The New Class
10:30 Gladiators 2000
11am NBA Inside Stuff
11:30 Milwaukee Wave Soccer Weekly
12pm Rocko’s Modern Life Holiday Special
1pm Home for the Holidays
2pm This is the NFL
2:30 NFL Live!
3pm NFL: Cleveland @ Dallas (Browns won 19-14)
6pm News (time approximate)
6:30 Wheel of Fortune
7pm NBC Movie: “It’s a Wonderful Life”
10pm News
10:30 Saturday Night Live (Alec Baldwin hosts; The Beastie Boys are the musical guests)
12am It’s Showtime at the Apollo
1am Soul Train
2am News (10pm replay)
2:30 CNN Headline News
3am NBC News Nightside
Sunday
6am On Main Street
6:35 Reflections
7am Sunday Today
8am Meet the Press
9am Sunday Insight with Charles Sykes
9:30 Paid Programming
10:30 Bowling with the Champs
11:30 NFL Live!
12pm Movie: “White Christmas”
2:30 Tough Target
3pm NFL: Denver @ L.A. Raiders (second-to-last home game for the Raiders at the L.A. Coliseum; Raiders won 23-13)
6pm Earth 2 (short-lived NBC sci-fi series)
7pm seaQuest DSV
8pm NBC Movie: “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation”
10pm News
10:40 Sunday Night (long-running public affairs show on ‘TMJ)
11:10 Something Wilder
11:40 Wings (WTMJ always had a history of shifting some of its Thursday night shows to Sundays, for syndicated shows)
12:10 Entertainment Tonight (weekend edition)
1:10 Super Dave (x2)
WITI Channel 6
Saturday—final day as a CBS affiliate
6am Garfield and Friends (x2)
7am The Little Mermaid
7:30 Reality Check
8am News
10am Ask Gus
10:30 Paid Programming
11:30 The Computer Man
12pm Haven
12:30 Beakman’s World
1pm Iron Man
1:30 Fantastic Four
2pm Movie: “Babar: The Movie”
4pm Paid Programming
4:30 Extra (weekend edition)
5:30 CBS Evening News
6pm News
7pm Dr. Quinn: Medicine Woman
8pm The Five Mrs. Buchanans
8:30 Hearts Afire
9pm Walker, Texas Ranger
10pm News
10:30 M*A*S*H
11pm Cheers
11:30 Tales From the Crypt (x2)
12:30am The Extraordinary
1:30 Court TV: Inside America’s Courts
2am Real Stories of The Highway Patrol
2:30 Apollo Comedy Hour
3:30 Movie: “Tycoon”
Sunday—first day with Fox
6am Barry Silberg
6:30 Sunday Mass
7am Word of Faith
7:30 Paid Programming
8am News
9am The World of National Geographic
10am Paid Programming
11am Fox NFL Sunday
12pm NFL: Chicago @ Green Bay (The Pack blew-out their arch-rivals 40-3)
3pm NFL: San Francisco @ San Diego (in a precursor to their Super Bowl meeting a month and half later, the 49ers drubbed the Chargers in this one, 38-15)
6pm New York Undercover
7pm The Simpsons (x2)
8pm Married…with Children
8:30 The George Carlin Show
9pm News
10pm News
11:10 Cheers
11:40 ? (no program shown; my guess, another Cheers episode)
12:15am The Road
1:15 Paid Programming
WMVS Channel 10 (PBS)
Saturday
7am Market to Market
7:25 Victory Garden
8am This Old House
8:35 Hometime
9:10 Outdoor Wisconsin
9:45 Trailside: Make Your Own Adventure
10:20 Frugal Gourmet
10:55 Pierre Franey: Cooking in France
11:30 The Frugal Gourmet Celebrates Christmas
12:30pm Birds of the Backyard
1:35 Joseph Campbell & the Power of Myth (two more episodes follow at 2:45 and 4pm)
5:10 Heart of Christmas
5:45 A Christmas Special with Luciano Pavarotti
6:50 The Lawrence Welk Show
7:50 Great Performances: Natalie Cole’s Christmas
9pm Tibor Rudas Present: The Three Tenors In Concert 1994
11:30 Austin City Limits (sign-off at 12:30am)
Sunday
7am Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood (x2)
8am Sesame Street (x3)
11am The Magic School Bus
11:30 Reading Rainbow
12pm Wall Street Week
12:30 Washington Week in Review
1pm Best of the Week (ten hours of viewers’ favorite shows from the previous week; Channel 10 signs-off for the night after this block)
WISN-TV Channel 12 (ABC)
Saturday
5am Jack Hanna’s Animal Adventures
5:30 U.S. Farm Report
6am Bob Vila’s Home Again
6:30 Teen Forum
7am Sonic the Hedgehog
7:30 Free Willy (the animated series)
8am Tales from the Cryptkeeper (a kid-friendly version of the HBO hit series)
8:30 Reboot
9am Bump in the Night
9:30 The Addams Family (the 1992-93 animated series; John Astin reprises his role as Gomez in this series, along with Rip Taylor [Uncle Fester] and Carol Channing [Grandmama] also providing voices)
10am The Bugs Bunny & Tweety Show
11am Cro
11:30 ABC Weekend Special (no episode listed)
12pm Billy Packer’s Tip-Off Special (obviously syndicated, since Packer was at CBS at this time)
1pm College Basketball: Michigan State @ Nebraska (Cornhuskers won, 96-91)
3pm Golf: Diners Club Matches, day three
5pm Rays of Hope
5:30 ABC World News Saturday
6pm News
6:30 Inside Edition (weekend edition)
7pm The Wonderful World of Disney: 40 Years of Television Magic (Tom Hanks hosts)
9pm Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
10pm News
10:35 The Money Game (Wisconsin Lottery)
11:05 Sightings
12:05am A Current Affair (weekend edition)
1:05 Teen Forum
1:35 Night Flight
3:35 Tony Bennett: A Family Christmas
4:35 Look In
Sunday
5am Wall Street Journal Report
5:30 Christopher Closeup
6am Music and the Spoken Word
6:30 Look In
7am Good Morning America Sunday
8am This Week (local)
8:30 In Reality
9am Real Estate Connection
9:30 This Week with David Brinkley
10:30 Belling & Company
11am Wisconsin Woods & Water
11:30 Paid Programming
12pm Arete Awards for Courage in Sports
1pm College Basketball Preview
2pm Golf: Diners Club Matches, day four
5pm News
5:30 ABC World News Sunday
6pm America’s Funniest Home Videos
7pm ABC Movie: “Hook”
10pm News
10:30 Packers Sunday Night
11:15 The Crusaders (a short-lived newsmagazine)
12:15 Siskel & Ebert
12:45 Emergency Call
1:15 This Week (local; encore)
1:45 News (10pm replay)
Part two in the next post...
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