Retro: Milwaukee Wed, Feb 1, 1989

[EddieTheRapFan]

A listing from the day I was born taken from The Milwaukee Sentinel

I took it from Google Archive, so some numbers and text were very diffficult to read. I apologize for any mistake.

4 WTMJ (NBC)
6 WITI (CBS)
8 W08BY (Ind)
10 WMVS (PBS)
12 WISN (ABC)
18 WVTV (Ind)
24 WCGV (Fox)
30 WVCY (Ind)
36 WMVT (PBS)
58 WCIU (Ind)
65 W65BT (Ind)

MORNING

6:00
4 CNN News
6 This morning
8 Movie "Dark Journey" (1937)
10 To life
12 News
18 Study in the word
24 Smurfs
36 Body pulse
65 Conservative investor

6:15
10 AM weather

6:30
4 News
10 Nightly business report
18 Finders keepers
24 Teddy Ruxpin
36 Hatha Yoga
65 W.V. Grant

7:00
4 Today
10 Sesame street
12 Good morning America
18 Double dare
24 Dennis the menace
36 Business of management
65 Faith 20

7:30
18 Bugs Bunny & Porky Pig
24 Gumby
36 Business of management
65 Oral Roberts

8:00
6 Group One Medical
8 Music videos
10 Captain Kangaroo
18 Woody Woodpecker
24 Snorks
36 Yan Can Cook

8:30
6 Relatively speaking
10 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
18 Scooby Doo
24 Little Pony
36 Instructional programming
58 Morning stretch
65 News

8:50
65 Ask an expert

9:00
4 Sale of the century
6 Young and the restless
8 Foodsaver
10 Body pulse
12 Regis & Kathie Lee
18 Couch potatoes
24 TBA
58 700 Club

9:15
65 Business newsmakers

9:30
4 Classic Concentration
10 Bodywatch
18 Weight loss
24 Growing pains

10:00
4 Wheel of fortune
6 The price is right
8 Kitchen slicer
10 Fun with watercolors
12 Superior court
18 Gimme a break
24 Hollywood squares

10:30
4 Magnum
8 Cellulite
10 Housemanship
12 Wipeout
18 Wipeout
24 Newlywed game
65 Stock market observer

11:00
6 Sally Jessy Raphael
8 Liar's club
10 Frugal Gourmet
12 All my children
18 Diff'rent strokes
24 Dating game
36 Teaching ready comprehension
65 News

11:30
4 Scrabble
8 Strange paradise
10 Sesame street
18 The Ropers
24 Gong show
36 French in action
65 S. M. Observer

12:00
4 Days of our lives
6 12 65 News
8 Cashflo
18 Get Smart
24 TBA
36 Principles of accounting
58 Movie "The stranger" (1946)

12:30
6 Bold and the beautiful
10 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
12 Family medical center
18 McCloud
24 Movie "Beast of the city" (1932)
36 ComputerWorks
65 S. M. Observer

AFTERNOON

1:00
4 Another world
6 As the world turns
8 Movie "Billy the Kid trapped" (1942)
10 World of survival
12 One life to live
36 Instructional TV
65 News

1:30
10 Body pulse
65 S. M. Observer

2:00
4 Santa Barbara
6 Guiding light
8 Cellulite
10 Gourmet cooking
12 General Hospital
18 Flintstones
58 Medical center
65 Conservative investor

2:30
8 Deal-A-Meal
10 Victory garden
18 Popeye
24 Yogi Bear

2:35
65 S. M. Observer

3:00
4 Oprah Winfrey
6 Hart to Hart
8 Music videos
10 Quilting
12 Geraldo
18 C.O.P.S.
24 Alvin & the chipmunks
30 Jerry Falwell
58 Uncle Waldo

3:05
65 Richard Ney report

3:20
65 Market Wrap-Up

3:30
10 Today's special
18 Jetsons
26 Fun house
36 Body pulse
58 Tennessee Tuxedo
65 700 Club

4:00
4 Family Feud
8 Donahue
10 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
12 MASH
18 Real Ghostbusters
24 Duck Tales
30 CNN News
36 Yan Can Cook
58 Dudley Do-Right

4:30
4 Jeopardy
10 Sesame street
12 People's court
18 Tom & Jerry
24 Punky Brewster
30 Devil at the wheel
36 European journal
58 Lone ranger
65 TV Mujer

5:00
4 6 News
12 Cosby
18 Leave it to beaver
24 Welcome back, Kotter
36 Square One TV
58 Courtship of Eddie's Fater

5:30
4 ABC News
6 CBS News
10 3-2-1 Contact
12 ABC News
18 Webster
24 Kate & Allie
30 On Eagles' Wings
36 TV High School
58 Gilligan's Island
65 Noticiero Univisión (so 65 was an Univisión secondary affiliate...)

6:00
4 6 12 News
8 Gentle Ben
10 MacNeil/Lahrer Newshour
18 Family ties
24 Star trek
30 Washington report
36 Marketing perspectives
58 Bewitched
65 Señora

6:30
4 Wheel of Fortune
6 Inside edition
8 Meeting the challenge
12 Win, lose or draw
18 New leave it to Beaver
30 CNN News
36 Faces of culture
58 Gidget

7:00
4 Unsolved mysteries
6 TV 101
8 Liar's club
10 American playhouse
12 Growing pains
18 Movie "Mafia Princess" (1986)
24 Perry Mason
30 In focus
36 Business of management
58 Movie "Captain Kidd" (1945)
65 Primavera

7:30
8 Movie "The Black Book" (1949)
12 Head of the class
36 Open for business frontrunners

EVENING

8:00
4 Night court
6 The equalizer
12 Wonder years
24 Movie "Salem's Lot" (1979)
30 Faith 20
36 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour
65 Encadenados

8:30
4 Starting from scratch
12 Hooperman
30 Harold Saia

9:00
4 Nightingales
6 Wiseguy
12 China Beach
18 News
30 D. James Kennedy
36 Smith & Coompany
58 Man from UNCLE
65 Hablemos de cine

9:30
8 Movie "The faboulous Dorseys" (1947)
18 On trial
36 Nightly business report
65 Aquí está Álvarez Guedes

10:00
4 6 12 News
10 Wild America
18 Three's company
24 Bob Newhart
30 Psychiatry & You
36 Doctor Who
58 Bewitched
65 Noticiero

10:30
4 Newhart
6 Cheers
10 Smith & Company
12 MASH
18 Tonight show
24 Arsenio Hall
30 CNN News
26 EastEnders
58 Movie "Sno-Line" (1985)
65 Niña bonita

11:00
4 Entertainment tonight
6 Pat Sajak show
8 Music videos
10 Wisconsin magazine
12 Love conecction
36 Sewing with Nancy

11:30
4 Late night
8 Strange paradise
12 Nightline
18 Movie "Portrait of a mobster" (1961)
24 All in the family
65 Movie "TBA"

LATE NIGHT

12:00
8 Music videos
10 Tax tips on tape
12 Hill Street Blues
24 Movie "Killer Bees" (1974)

12:30
4 Later w/ Bob Costas
6 Morton Downey Jr.

1:00
4 Crook & Chase
12 Liar's club

1:30
4 CNN News
6 USA Today
12 News
18 Movie "The assassination bureau" (1969)

2:00
6 News

 

[classictvfan]

The call letters of Channel 58 are WDJT, not WCIU. That is
an entirely different independent station in Chicago.

 

[EddieTheRapFan]

The call letters of Channel 58 are WDJT, not WCIU. That is
an entirely different independent station in Chicago.

Thanks for the correction.

 

[azumanga]

The call letters of Channel 58 are WDJT, not WCIU. That is
an entirely different independent station in Chicago.

Thanks for the correction.

That being said, I would think at the time Channel 65 was a low-powered repeater of WCIU, as it carried stock market programming by day and Univision by night, just like WCIU.

 

[dave73]

The call letters of Channel 58 are WDJT, not WCIU. That is
an entirely different independent station in Chicago.

Thanks for the correction.

That being said, I would think at the time Channel 65 was a low-powered repeater of WCIU, as it carried stock market programming by day and Univision by night, just like WCIU.

WCIU was repeated on a number of translators within Indiana, Illinois, & Wisconsin. I don't know about other states. I know Weigel was on translators in South Bend, Rockford, Milwaukee. I know they had other translators, but not sure where those were. They continued it until WGBO was bought by Univision because WCIU refused to be a fulltime Univision affiliate. So when WGBO in Chicago (Licensed to Joliet, IL) became a Univision owned station, WCIU ended their simulcast on all of the out of market translators to be an independent station in English. They did move their brokered ethnic programming to low power WFBT-CA (a former translator used for The JukeBox that they acquired), & they kept the simulcast going on the Rockford IL translator, but eventually gave that station call letters. I don't know when they switched the call letters to WFBN-LP. The South Bend translator (don't remember the call letters) was on channel 69 & made a WB affiliate and call letters were changed to WMWB-LP in 1995. I wonder when Weigel ended the simulcast of the ethnic programming in Milwaukee. If Milwaukee has enough of a Chinese & Polish population, I believe WCIU 26.6 (FBT) should be simulcasted on one of WBME's subchannels and bring the brokered ethnic programming back to Milwaukee. It's not quite like it was years ago, but it still serves its purpose.

 

[only1moore]

There are other errors:

WDJT aired "The 700 Club" from 9-10AM
At 10:30AM WISN aired "Wipeout". WVTV aired something else at that time.
At 4PM WITI aired "Donahue." WO8BY had music videos during that hour.