Source: TV Guide, Missouri Edition
NOTES about stations:
At the time of these listings, KLMN-TV/24, Fort Smith, Arkansas, was about a month away from signing on. KLMN would be a CBS affiliate (until swapping networks with KFSM in 1980). According to Wikipedia, KLMN signed-on the air on November 12, 1978. The Channels Listed section of this TV Guide still lists KFPW and its satellite, KTVP, as being primary CBS and secondary ABC. The listings demonstrate that KFPW and KTVP are now exclusively ABC with no sign of CBS programming. Also of note, there is a KTVP ad in the issue that still sports the CBS eye! Presumably, KFPW/KTVP went exclusively ABC at or near the beginning of the fall TV season. Although I can’t find any info stating so, it’s possible that KLMN had planned on an earlier sign-on date, but was delayed due to technical and/or other reasons.
KMOS-TV/6 Sedalia: For many years, KMOS was a satellite station of KRCG/13 (CBS) in Jefferson City. The Missouri Edition of TV Guide always listed KMOS on the Channels Listed page, but noted that the station aired the same programs as Ch. 13, and KMOS did not actually appear in the listings. In 1978, KRCG’s owner donated KMOS to Central Missouri State University in Warrensburg to be utilized as a stand-alone PBS station. According to Wikipedia, the university took control of KMOS on August 15, 1978, about two months before this issue of TV Guide. Wikipedia states that KMOS was off the air for 16 months while being upgraded to be a stand-alone PBS station, returning to the air on December 22, 1979. This issue of TV Guide still lists KMOS as a satellite of KRCG, but it’s possible that KRCG failed to inform TVG of KMOS being donated and off the air, or TVG just made a mistake in listing the station. I have a TV Guide from late December of 1978, and KMOS is not listed. Since it’s very likely that KMOS was off the air as of October of 1978, I’m not including it in the Channels Listed section.
I will try to post a schedule from that late December 1978 issue (featuring KLMN-TV) a bit later.
CHANNELS LISTED
Springfield
3 KYTV (NBC)
10 KOLR-TV (CBS)
21 KOZK (PBS)
27 KMTC (ABC)
Joplin
12 KODE-TV (ABC)
16 KTVJ-TV (CBS)
Pittsburg, Kansas
7 KOAM (NBC)
Columbia
8C KOMU-TV (NBC)
17 KCBJ-TV (ABC)
Jefferson City
13 KRCG-TV (CBS)
Fayetteville, Arkansas
13F KAFT (PBS)
29 KTVP (CBS, ABC) (satellite of KFPW-TV/40; no sign of CBS)
Fort Smith, Arkansas
5 KFSM (NBC)
40 KFPW-TV (CBS, ABC) (no sign of CBS)
Tulsa, Oklahoma
2 KTEW (NBC)
6 KOTV (CBS)
8 KTUL-TV (ABC)
11 KOED-TV (PBS)
All programs in color except those designated by (BW)
Chs. 11, 13F, and 21 schedule instructional programs during the day
Morning
5:55
17-27-29-40 PTL Club
6:00
3 Not for Women Only
8-16 PTL Club
12 Good Morning Jesus
6:20
6 Early Morning Show
6:25
7 Today in Agriculture
6:30
3 Lone Ranger (BW)
6 CBS Morning News (Lesley Stahl/Richard Threlkeld) (don’t know if KOTV took the second half of the live East Coast feed, and then switched to the delayed Central feed at 7 a.m., or if the whole hour was on a 30-minute delay).
7 Arthur Smith
6:40
2 News
6:55
13 Emphasis on Agriculture
17 Good Morning Missouri
27 News
29-40 Harvest Time Tabernacle
7:00
2-3-5-7-8C Today (Tom Brokaw)
8 John Chick
10-13-16 CBS Morning News (Lesley Stahl/Richard Threlkeld)
12-17-27-29-40 Good Morning America (David Hartman)
7:30
6 Tulsa Morning
11 Lilias, Yoga and You
8:00
6-10-13-16 Captain Kangaroo
8 Good Morning America (second hour only)
11-13F-21 Sesame Street
9:00
2-7 Phil Donahue (different episodes; 30-min. version on Ch. 7)
3-5 Card Sharks
6-10-13-16 All in the Family
8 Good Morning, Oklahoma
8C It’s a Woman’s World
11-13F-21 Electric Company
12 Sesame Street (from PBS)
17-27-29-40 PTL Club
9:30
3-5-7-8C Jeopardy!
6-10-13 Price Is Right
8 Edge of Night (one-day delay from 3 p.m.)
11 Freestyle
16 PTL Club
10:00
2-3-5-7-8C High Rollers
8-12-17-27-29-40 Happy Days
11 Why?
10:30
2-3-5-7-8C Wheel of Fortune
6-10-13-16 Love of Life
8-12-17-27-29-40 Family Feud
11 Images and Things
10:55
6 Coffee Break (Donnell Green)
10-13-16 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
11:00
2-5-7-8C America Alive! (Ch. 7 carries the first 30 minutes here, with the second 30 minutes delayed to 3:30 p.m.)
3 Hollywood Squares (one-day delay from 12 p.m.)
6-10-13-16 Young and the Restless
8-12-17-27-29-40 $20,000 Pyramid
11 Humanities
11:30
3 Phil Donahue
6-10-13-16 Search for Tomorrow
7 Melody Matinee
8-12-17-27-29-40 Ryan’s Hope
11 Vision On
Afternoon
12:00
2-5-6-7-8C-10-13-16 News
8-12-17-27-29-40 All My Children
12:15
16 Carol Parker
12:25
13 Exercise with Marlyce
12:30
2-3-5-7-8C Days of Our Lives
6-10-13-16 As the World Turns
11 Big Blue Marble
13F Electric Company
1:00
8-12-17-27-29-40 One Life to Live
1:30
2-3-5-7-8C Doctors
6-10-13-16 Guiding Light
11 Self Incorporated
2:00
2-3-5-7-8C Another World
8-12-17-27-29-40 General Hospital
11 All About You
2:30
6-10-13-16 M*A*S*H
11 Vision On
3:00
2 Dating Game
3 America Alive! (delay from 11 a.m.)
5-7-8C Hollywood Squares (delay from 12 p.m.; possibly a re-feed)
6 Dinah!
8 Casper and Friends
10-13-16 Match Game
11-21 Sesame Street
12-17-27-29-40 Edge of Night
3:30
2 Movie: “The Deadly Affair” (English; 1967)
5-10 Little Rascals (BW)
7 America Alive! (delay from 11:30 a.m.; second half of show)
8 Uncle Zeb’s Cartoon Camp
8C Card Sharks (delay from 9 a.m.)
12 Gomer Pyle, USMC
13 My Three Sons
13F Over Easy
16 Batman
17 New Mickey Mouse Club
27 Gilligan’s Island
29-40 Bozo’s Big Top
4:00
3 Dating Game
5 Andy Griffith
6 Six Million Dollar Man
7 Battle of the Planets
8 Little Rascals (BW)
8C Gilligan’s Island (BW)
10 Underdog
11-13F-21 Mister Rogers’ Neigborhood
12 Bugs Bunny and Friends
13 Showtime
16 Merv Griffin
17 Superman (BW)
27 Star Trek
29-40 Bonanza
4:30
3-7 Partridge Family (different episodes)
5 My Three Sons
8 Andy Griffith
8C Brady Bunch
10 Bewitched
11-13F-21 Electric Company
12 Beverly Hillbillies
13 Andy Griffith (BW)
17 Phil Donahue
5:00
3-5 Hogan’s Heroes (different episodes)
6-16-27 News (60 mins. on Ch. 6; 30 mins on Chs. 16 and 27)
7 I Dream of Jeannie
8-12-29-40 ABC World News Tonight
8C Bewitched
10 My Three Sons
11-21 Zoom
13 Beverly Hillbillies
13F Sesame Street
5:30
2-8-29-40 News
3-5-7-8C NBC Nightly News (John Chancellor/David Brinkley)
10-13-16 CBS Evening News (Walter Cronkite)
11-21 Over Easy
12 Andy Griffith
17-27 ABC World News Tonight
Evening
6:00
2 NBC Nightly News (John Chancellor/David Brinkley)
3-5-7-8C-10-12-13-17 News
6 CBS Evening News (Walter Cronkite)
11 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
13F Zoom
16 Gunsmoke
21 Facts of Life (not the NBC sitcom!)
27 Andy Griffith (BW)
29-40 Beverly Hillbillies
6:30
2-10 Newlywed Game
3 $25,000 Pyramid
5 Carol Burnett and Friends
6 Mary Tyler Moore
7 Price Is Right
8 Beverly Hillbillies
8C Marty Robbins’ Spotlight
11 Oklahoma Report
12 Hollywood Squares
13 Muppet Show
13F-21 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
17 Hogan’s Heroes
27 Beverly Hillbillies (BW)
29-40 Green Acres
7:00
2-3-5-7-8C Little House on the Prairie (90 mins.)
6-10-13-16 WKRP in Cincinnati
8-12-17-27-29-40 Welcome Back, Kotter
11 Evening at the Symphony
13F Extension ‘78
21 Catch 21: Reports
7:30
6-10-13-16 People (Phyllis George)
8-12-17-27-29-40 Operation Petticoat
13F Learning and Living
21 Dad’s Army
8:00
6-10-13-16 M*A*S*H
8-12-17-27-29-40 Monday Night Football: Chicago Bears at Denver Broncos (Live)
11 Arts Encounter
13F Nova
21 War and Peace
8:30
2-3-5-7-8C NBC Monday Night at the Movies: “Human Feelings” (Made for TV; 1978)
6-10-13-16 One Day at a Time
11 Sneak Previews
9:00
6-10-13-16 Lou Grant
11 First Churchills
13F Julia Child and Company
21 Evening at the Symphony
9:30
13F Economically Speaking
10:00
2-3-5-6-7-8C-10-13-16 News
11-13-21 Dick Cavett
10:30
2-3-5-7-8C Johnny Carson
6-10-13-16 Rockford Files
11 Movie (BW): “M” (German; 1931)
13F Captioned ABC News
11:00
8-12-27-29-40 News
13F Principles of Real Estate
17 Dick Van Dyke (BW)
11:30
8-12 Lou Holtz: Football
27 Baretta
29-40 Hee Haw Honeys
11:40
6-10-13-16 McMillan & Wife
Early Morning
12:00
2-3-7-8C Tomorrow (Tom Snyder)
12:40
27 Marcus Welby, M.D.
1:00
2 American Religious Town Hall
1:20
6 News
1:30
2 News
1:40
27 News
1:50
6 Early Morning Show
2:00
27 Mission: Impossible
3:00
27 Movie (BW): “Nobody Lives Forever” (1946)
4:55
27 Movie (BW): “Paradise Canyon” (1935)
NOTES about stations:
At the time of these listings, KLMN-TV/24, Fort Smith, Arkansas, was about a month away from signing on. KLMN would be a CBS affiliate (until swapping networks with KFSM in 1980). According to Wikipedia, KLMN signed-on the air on November 12, 1978. The Channels Listed section of this TV Guide still lists KFPW and its satellite, KTVP, as being primary CBS and secondary ABC. The listings demonstrate that KFPW and KTVP are now exclusively ABC with no sign of CBS programming. Also of note, there is a KTVP ad in the issue that still sports the CBS eye! Presumably, KFPW/KTVP went exclusively ABC at or near the beginning of the fall TV season. Although I can’t find any info stating so, it’s possible that KLMN had planned on an earlier sign-on date, but was delayed due to technical and/or other reasons.
KMOS-TV/6 Sedalia: For many years, KMOS was a satellite station of KRCG/13 (CBS) in Jefferson City. The Missouri Edition of TV Guide always listed KMOS on the Channels Listed page, but noted that the station aired the same programs as Ch. 13, and KMOS did not actually appear in the listings. In 1978, KRCG’s owner donated KMOS to Central Missouri State University in Warrensburg to be utilized as a stand-alone PBS station. According to Wikipedia, the university took control of KMOS on August 15, 1978, about two months before this issue of TV Guide. Wikipedia states that KMOS was off the air for 16 months while being upgraded to be a stand-alone PBS station, returning to the air on December 22, 1979. This issue of TV Guide still lists KMOS as a satellite of KRCG, but it’s possible that KRCG failed to inform TVG of KMOS being donated and off the air, or TVG just made a mistake in listing the station. I have a TV Guide from late December of 1978, and KMOS is not listed. Since it’s very likely that KMOS was off the air as of October of 1978, I’m not including it in the Channels Listed section.
I will try to post a schedule from that late December 1978 issue (featuring KLMN-TV) a bit later.
CHANNELS LISTED
Springfield
3 KYTV (NBC)
10 KOLR-TV (CBS)
21 KOZK (PBS)
27 KMTC (ABC)
Joplin
12 KODE-TV (ABC)
16 KTVJ-TV (CBS)
Pittsburg, Kansas
7 KOAM (NBC)
Columbia
8C KOMU-TV (NBC)
17 KCBJ-TV (ABC)
Jefferson City
13 KRCG-TV (CBS)
Fayetteville, Arkansas
13F KAFT (PBS)
29 KTVP (CBS, ABC) (satellite of KFPW-TV/40; no sign of CBS)
Fort Smith, Arkansas
5 KFSM (NBC)
40 KFPW-TV (CBS, ABC) (no sign of CBS)
Tulsa, Oklahoma
2 KTEW (NBC)
6 KOTV (CBS)
8 KTUL-TV (ABC)
11 KOED-TV (PBS)
All programs in color except those designated by (BW)
Chs. 11, 13F, and 21 schedule instructional programs during the day
Morning
5:55
17-27-29-40 PTL Club
6:00
3 Not for Women Only
8-16 PTL Club
12 Good Morning Jesus
6:20
6 Early Morning Show
6:25
7 Today in Agriculture
6:30
3 Lone Ranger (BW)
6 CBS Morning News (Lesley Stahl/Richard Threlkeld) (don’t know if KOTV took the second half of the live East Coast feed, and then switched to the delayed Central feed at 7 a.m., or if the whole hour was on a 30-minute delay).
7 Arthur Smith
6:40
2 News
6:55
13 Emphasis on Agriculture
17 Good Morning Missouri
27 News
29-40 Harvest Time Tabernacle
7:00
2-3-5-7-8C Today (Tom Brokaw)
8 John Chick
10-13-16 CBS Morning News (Lesley Stahl/Richard Threlkeld)
12-17-27-29-40 Good Morning America (David Hartman)
7:30
6 Tulsa Morning
11 Lilias, Yoga and You
8:00
6-10-13-16 Captain Kangaroo
8 Good Morning America (second hour only)
11-13F-21 Sesame Street
9:00
2-7 Phil Donahue (different episodes; 30-min. version on Ch. 7)
3-5 Card Sharks
6-10-13-16 All in the Family
8 Good Morning, Oklahoma
8C It’s a Woman’s World
11-13F-21 Electric Company
12 Sesame Street (from PBS)
17-27-29-40 PTL Club
9:30
3-5-7-8C Jeopardy!
6-10-13 Price Is Right
8 Edge of Night (one-day delay from 3 p.m.)
11 Freestyle
16 PTL Club
10:00
2-3-5-7-8C High Rollers
8-12-17-27-29-40 Happy Days
11 Why?
10:30
2-3-5-7-8C Wheel of Fortune
6-10-13-16 Love of Life
8-12-17-27-29-40 Family Feud
11 Images and Things
10:55
6 Coffee Break (Donnell Green)
10-13-16 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
11:00
2-5-7-8C America Alive! (Ch. 7 carries the first 30 minutes here, with the second 30 minutes delayed to 3:30 p.m.)
3 Hollywood Squares (one-day delay from 12 p.m.)
6-10-13-16 Young and the Restless
8-12-17-27-29-40 $20,000 Pyramid
11 Humanities
11:30
3 Phil Donahue
6-10-13-16 Search for Tomorrow
7 Melody Matinee
8-12-17-27-29-40 Ryan’s Hope
11 Vision On
Afternoon
12:00
2-5-6-7-8C-10-13-16 News
8-12-17-27-29-40 All My Children
12:15
16 Carol Parker
12:25
13 Exercise with Marlyce
12:30
2-3-5-7-8C Days of Our Lives
6-10-13-16 As the World Turns
11 Big Blue Marble
13F Electric Company
1:00
8-12-17-27-29-40 One Life to Live
1:30
2-3-5-7-8C Doctors
6-10-13-16 Guiding Light
11 Self Incorporated
2:00
2-3-5-7-8C Another World
8-12-17-27-29-40 General Hospital
11 All About You
2:30
6-10-13-16 M*A*S*H
11 Vision On
3:00
2 Dating Game
3 America Alive! (delay from 11 a.m.)
5-7-8C Hollywood Squares (delay from 12 p.m.; possibly a re-feed)
6 Dinah!
8 Casper and Friends
10-13-16 Match Game
11-21 Sesame Street
12-17-27-29-40 Edge of Night
3:30
2 Movie: “The Deadly Affair” (English; 1967)
5-10 Little Rascals (BW)
7 America Alive! (delay from 11:30 a.m.; second half of show)
8 Uncle Zeb’s Cartoon Camp
8C Card Sharks (delay from 9 a.m.)
12 Gomer Pyle, USMC
13 My Three Sons
13F Over Easy
16 Batman
17 New Mickey Mouse Club
27 Gilligan’s Island
29-40 Bozo’s Big Top
4:00
3 Dating Game
5 Andy Griffith
6 Six Million Dollar Man
7 Battle of the Planets
8 Little Rascals (BW)
8C Gilligan’s Island (BW)
10 Underdog
11-13F-21 Mister Rogers’ Neigborhood
12 Bugs Bunny and Friends
13 Showtime
16 Merv Griffin
17 Superman (BW)
27 Star Trek
29-40 Bonanza
4:30
3-7 Partridge Family (different episodes)
5 My Three Sons
8 Andy Griffith
8C Brady Bunch
10 Bewitched
11-13F-21 Electric Company
12 Beverly Hillbillies
13 Andy Griffith (BW)
17 Phil Donahue
5:00
3-5 Hogan’s Heroes (different episodes)
6-16-27 News (60 mins. on Ch. 6; 30 mins on Chs. 16 and 27)
7 I Dream of Jeannie
8-12-29-40 ABC World News Tonight
8C Bewitched
10 My Three Sons
11-21 Zoom
13 Beverly Hillbillies
13F Sesame Street
5:30
2-8-29-40 News
3-5-7-8C NBC Nightly News (John Chancellor/David Brinkley)
10-13-16 CBS Evening News (Walter Cronkite)
11-21 Over Easy
12 Andy Griffith
17-27 ABC World News Tonight
Evening
6:00
2 NBC Nightly News (John Chancellor/David Brinkley)
3-5-7-8C-10-12-13-17 News
6 CBS Evening News (Walter Cronkite)
11 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
13F Zoom
16 Gunsmoke
21 Facts of Life (not the NBC sitcom!)
27 Andy Griffith (BW)
29-40 Beverly Hillbillies
6:30
2-10 Newlywed Game
3 $25,000 Pyramid
5 Carol Burnett and Friends
6 Mary Tyler Moore
7 Price Is Right
8 Beverly Hillbillies
8C Marty Robbins’ Spotlight
11 Oklahoma Report
12 Hollywood Squares
13 Muppet Show
13F-21 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
17 Hogan’s Heroes
27 Beverly Hillbillies (BW)
29-40 Green Acres
7:00
2-3-5-7-8C Little House on the Prairie (90 mins.)
6-10-13-16 WKRP in Cincinnati
8-12-17-27-29-40 Welcome Back, Kotter
11 Evening at the Symphony
13F Extension ‘78
21 Catch 21: Reports
7:30
6-10-13-16 People (Phyllis George)
8-12-17-27-29-40 Operation Petticoat
13F Learning and Living
21 Dad’s Army
8:00
6-10-13-16 M*A*S*H
8-12-17-27-29-40 Monday Night Football: Chicago Bears at Denver Broncos (Live)
11 Arts Encounter
13F Nova
21 War and Peace
8:30
2-3-5-7-8C NBC Monday Night at the Movies: “Human Feelings” (Made for TV; 1978)
6-10-13-16 One Day at a Time
11 Sneak Previews
9:00
6-10-13-16 Lou Grant
11 First Churchills
13F Julia Child and Company
21 Evening at the Symphony
9:30
13F Economically Speaking
10:00
2-3-5-6-7-8C-10-13-16 News
11-13-21 Dick Cavett
10:30
2-3-5-7-8C Johnny Carson
6-10-13-16 Rockford Files
11 Movie (BW): “M” (German; 1931)
13F Captioned ABC News
11:00
8-12-27-29-40 News
13F Principles of Real Estate
17 Dick Van Dyke (BW)
11:30
8-12 Lou Holtz: Football
27 Baretta
29-40 Hee Haw Honeys
11:40
6-10-13-16 McMillan & Wife
Early Morning
12:00
2-3-7-8C Tomorrow (Tom Snyder)
12:40
27 Marcus Welby, M.D.
1:00
2 American Religious Town Hall
1:20
6 News
1:30
2 News
1:40
27 News
1:50
6 Early Morning Show
2:00
27 Mission: Impossible
3:00
27 Movie (BW): “Nobody Lives Forever” (1946)
4:55
27 Movie (BW): “Paradise Canyon” (1935)