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Retro: Minneapolis/St.Paul- Wednesday, January 27, 1988

From The TV section of The Star Tribune


KTCA 2 PBS
6:00 Working Adults
6:30 Business Report
7:00 Anthropology
7:30 3-2-1 Contact
8:00 Sesame Street
9:00 Mr. Rogers
9:30 Captain Kangaroo
10:00 Chinese Cookery
10:30 Magic of Painting
11:00 We're Cooking
11:30 Sesame Street
12:30 Mr. Rogers
1:00 MOVIE " Pot O' Gold
2:30 Motorweek
3:00 3-2-1 Contact
3:30 Square One TV
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mr. Rogers
5:30 Business Report
6:00 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour
7:00 Live From the Met: Turandot
9:30 Beijing Acr'batic
10:00 East-Enders
10:30 Butterflies
11:00 Masterpiece Theatre


WCCO 4 CBS
6:00 This Morning
8:00 Donahue
9:00 Hour Magazine
10:00 The Price is Right
11:00 The Young and The Restless
12:00 News
12:30 The Bold & The Beautiful
1:00 As The World Turns
2:00 Guiding Light
3:00 Hollywood Squares
3:30 Newlywed Game
4:00 Jeopardy!
4:30 Newsday
5:00 News
5:30 CBS News
6:00 News
6:30 Wheel of Fortune
7:00 The Law and Harry McGraw
8:00 Magnum P.I.
9:00 The Equalizer
10:00 News
10:35 Hills Street Blues
11:35 Dating Game
12:05 Barnaby Jones
1:05 Sally Jessy Raphel
1:35 Will Shriner
2:35 Nightwatch



KSTP 5 ABC
6:00 News
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Twin Cities Live
10:00 Geraldo
11:00 Home
11:30 News
12:00 All My Children
1:00 One Life to Live
2:00 General Hospital
3:00 Good Company
4:00 Oprah Winfrey
5:00 News
5:30 ABC News
6:00 News
6:30 A Current Affair
7:00 Perfect Strangers
7:30 Head of The Class
8:00 Hooperman
8:30 The Slap Maxwell Story
9:00 Dynasty
10:00 News
10:35 Nightline
11:05 Hit Squad
11:35 Lou Grant
12:35 High Rollers
1:05 Movie " A Farewell to Arms"
2:50 Movie " The Death Kiss"
4:00 Selected Short Subjects
4:30 Morning Ag Report



KMSP 9 FOX
[It first run with FOX, according to Wikipedia July 1988 the network announced that it would not renew its affiliations with KMSP and Chris-Craft sister station KPTV. FOX would move to KITN 29 in late 88]

6:00 G.I. Joe
6:330 Flintstones
7:00 Ghostbusters
7:30 Woody Woodpecker
8:00 JEM
8:30 Dennis Menace
9:00 My Little Pony
9:30 Dream of Jeannie
10:00 Love Boat
11:00 Twilight Zone
11:30 Hart to Hart
12:30 News
1:00 Love Connection
1:30 Carson Comedy
2:00 What Happening
2:30 Smurfs
3:00 Scooby-Doo
3:30 Duck Tales
4:00 Little House on The Prairie
5:00 Happy Days
5:30 Different Strokes
6:00 Facts of Life
6:30 Family Ties
7:00 Movie " Firecreek
9:00 News (9:15)
10:00 Love Connection
10:35 Jeffersons
11:05 Twilight Zone
11:35 Late Show
12:35 Movie " Great Expectations"
2:35 Movie " The Last Hurrah"
4:30 News


KARE 11 NBC
6:00 News
7:00 Today
9:00 Sale of the Century
9:30 Classic Concentration
10:00 Wheel of Fortune
10:30 Win, Lose or Draw
11:00 Match Maker
11:30 Scrabble
12:00 Days of Our Lives
1:00 Another Worlds
2:00 Santa Barbara
3:00 Magnum P.I.
4:00 Three's Company
4:30 M*A*S*H
5:00 News
5:30 NBC News
6:00 News
6:30 Entertainment Tonight
7:00 Highway to Heaven
9:00 St. Elsewhere
10:00 News
10:35 Cheers
11:00 Tonight Show
12:05 Late Night w/ Letterman
1:05 Alice
1:35 News (r)
2:05 America's Value Network


KTCI 17 PBS
6:00 A.M. Radar Weather
5:pM Sesame Street
6:00 Business Report
6:30 Motorweek
7:00 Anthropology
7:30 Relationships
8:00 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour
9:00 Nanny
10:00 Home Free
10:30 Made in Britain



KTMA 23 Independent
6:00 Off Air
6:30 Ag Day
7:00 Spiderman
7:30 Danger Mouse
8:00 Plasticman
8:30 Zoobilee Zoo
9:00 Jimmy Swaggart
9:30 Father Knows
10:00 Who's Boss?
10:30 Getting In Touch
11:00 Ryan's Hope
11:30 Loving
12:00 Movie " Beau James"
2:00 Mr. Ed
2:30 Dennis The Menace
3:00 Spiral Zone
3:30 Danger Mouse
4:00 Dinosaucers
4:30 Bravestar
5:00 Punky Brewster
5:30 Gomer Pyle
6/6:30 Andy Griffith
7:00 T.J. Hooker
8:00 Movie " Fugitive Family"
10:30 The Untouchables
11:30 Hawaii Five-O
12:30 Mannix



KITN 29 Independent
6:00 Jimmy Swaggart
6:30 Popeye
7:00 Bugs Bunny
7:30 Ghostbusters
8:00 Mighty Mouse
8:30 Teddy Ruxpin
9:00 The 700 Club
10:00 Success N- Life
11:00 Emergency!
12:00 Perry Mason
1:00 Cannon
2:00 Comic Strip
2:30 Bionic Six
3:00 Popeye
3:30 Bugs Bunny & Friends
4:30 Leave it to Beaver
5:00 Silver Spoons
5:30 Hogan's Heroes
6:00 Star Trek
7:00 College Basketball: Minnesota at Michigan State
9:00 Perry Mason
10:00 Mary Tyler Moore
10:30 Honeymooners
11:00 Lucy
11:30 Sandford & Son
12:35 Archie Bunker's Place
1:05 Movie " Topkapi"
3:05 Movie " Crypt pf the Living Dead"




KLXI 41 Independent
6:00 America's Value Network
8:00 Richard Roberts
9:00 PTL Club
10:00 Morning Stretch
10:30 Crook & Chase
11:00 Movie " Che! "
1:00 The Saint
2:00 Daniel Boone
3:00 Cantinflas
3:30 Voltron
4:00 Whirly Birds
4:30 My Three Sons
5:00 Rawhide
6:00 Rockford Files
7:00 Movie " The Best Things in Life Are Free"
9:00 Millionaire
9:30 Have Gun
10/10:35 Phil Slivers
11:05 Rockford Files
12:05 Streets of San Francisco
 
Independent Stations were wonderful. Surprised the Fox affiliate, as brief as that affiliation may have been, wasn't carrying Joan Rivers. It ran until October of '88. If that 'Late Show' listing was it, it was running on an hour delay. Odd for a show that represented the flagship network offering at that point.
 
It is interesting to see the Tonight Show bumped up to 11:05pm on KARE for Cheers at 10:35pm. I don't recall many stations delaying the Tonight Show.
 
It is interesting to see the Tonight Show bumped up to 11:05pm on KARE for Cheers at 10:35pm. I don't recall many stations delaying the Tonight Show.
I found out that Cheers won it time slot and KARE 11's late news was a driving force. That the reason how they got away with moving the Tonight Show 30 minutes delay.
 
It is interesting to see the Tonight Show bumped up to 11:05pm on KARE for Cheers at 10:35pm. I don't recall many stations delaying the Tonight Show.

I believe during this timeframe, in Birmingham, WVTM delayed the Tonight Show by 30 minutes to air syndicated shows after the 10pm late news (usually sitcoms, and I believe one of those was Cheers, when it entered off-net syndication in '87). In the mid-80s, the Milwaukee and Nashville NBC stations deferred the Carson Tonight Show to independents stations in their respective areas.

Meanwhile, as you see with WCCO, there were more and more CBS affiliates (many in major markets not named New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Philadelphia) that avoided airing the network's post-news late-night programming, and we were still another year away from Pat Sajak's talk show debuting (as well as Arsenio Hall's new show, debuting in the same week as Sajak's).
 
Disambiguation: KMSP ran The Real Ghostbusters, and KITN ran Filmation's Ghostbusters.
 
I found out that Cheers won it time slot and KARE 11's late news was a driving force. That the reason how they got away with moving the Tonight Show 30 minutes delay.
It's been my understanding that NBC allowed the Carson tape-delay on KARE because the network couldn't get another Twin Cities station to run Carson at 10:30. I can't speak to the Birmingham situation mentioned in the later post, as I was not aware of WVTM still delaying Carson at that point in time. That being said, I think the number of NBC affiliates that were ever allowed to tape-delay Carson could probably be counted on one hand. I know of four: KARE/Minneapolis, WTMJ/Milwaukee, WVTM/Birmingham (in earlier years), and WTWO/Terre Haute. There might be a few more, but those are the ones I am aware of.
 
Independent Stations were wonderful. Surprised the Fox affiliate, as brief as that affiliation may have been, wasn't carrying Joan Rivers. It ran until October of '88. If that 'Late Show' listing was it, it was running on an hour delay. Odd for a show that represented the flagship network offering at that point.
Joan Rivers was no longer hosting by that point. She had left in May, 1987.
 
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