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Retro: Mobile/Panama City/Dothan Tues 9/15/87

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from TV Guide: Gulf Coast edition

2 WDIQ-PBS Dozier * 3 WEAR-ABC Pensacola * 4 WTVY-CBS Dothan *
5 WKRG-CBS Mobile * 6 WCTV-CBS Thomasville-Tallahassee *
7 WJHG-NBC Panama City * 10 WALA-NBC Mobile * 11 WFSU-PBS Tallahassee *
12 WSFA-NBC Montgomery * 13 WMBB-ABC Panama City * 13b WLOX-ABC Biloxi *
15 WPMI-Fox Mobile * 18 WDHN-ABC Dothan * 23 WSRE-PBS Pensacola *
35 WFGX-Ind Fort Walton Beach * 42 WEIQ-PBS Mobile * 44 WJTC-Ind Pensacola

Morning
5:00
4-6 CBS Morning News
5 CNN Headline News
15 Ag Day

5:10
10 Coffee with the Parson

5:15
10-12 Before Hours

5:25
3 Down to Earth

5:30
3 Jimmy Swaggart
4 Good Morning Tri-States
5 CBS Morning News
6 News
7-10-12 NBC News at Sunrise
15 Morning Stretch
18 Ag Day

5:45
11 AM Weather
13b ABC World News This Morning/Local News

6:00
3-18 ABC World News This Morning
4 CBS Morning News
5 News
6 Good Morning
7 Daybusters
10 News 10 Today
11 Body Electric
12 Today
13 Jim Wilson Outdoors
15 Transformers
35 Anglers in Action
44 20 Minute Workout

6:15
23 Nightly Business Report

6:30
4 CBS Morning Program
11 Sesame Street
13 ABC World News This Morning
15 GI Joe
35 Jim Wilson Fishing
44 Heathcliff

6:45
3-13b News
42 AM Weather

7:00
3-13-13b-18 Good Morning America
5 CBS Morning News
6 Oprah Winfrey
7-10 Today
15 ThunderCats
23 Body Electric
35 Captain Harlock
44 My Little Pony 'n Friends

7:30
5 CBS Morning Program
11 3-2-1 Contact
15 Silverhawks
23 Captain Kangaroo
35 Robotech
44 Tom & Jerry

7:40
2-42 Jack Horkheimer: Star Hustler

7:45
2-42 AM Weather

8:00
2-42 Instructional Programs
4 Morning Show
6-12 Phil Donahue
11-23 Sesame Street
15 MASK
35 Silverhawks
44 Ghostbusters

8:30
15 Superfriends
35 Zoobilee Zoo
42 Bionic Six

9:00
3 Superior Court
4-6-44 $25,000 Pyramid
5-18 Hour Magazine
7-10-13b Phil Donahue
11-23 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
12 Sale of the Century
13 Richard Roberts
15 James Robison
35 Jerry Falwell

9:30
3 High Rollers
4-6-44 Card Sharks
11-23 Square One Television
12 Classic Concentration
15 Jimmy Swaggart

10:00
3 Geraldo
4-5-6 Price is Right
7-10-12 Wheel of Fortune
11 3-2-1 Contact
13-18-44 Who's the Boss?
13b Good Morning South Mississippi
15 700 Club
23 Business of Management
35 Burns & Allen

10:30
2-11-42 Sesame Street
7-10-12 Win, Lose or Draw
13 Judge
13b Newlywed Game
18-44 Mr. Belvedere
35 Donna Reed

11:00
3-13-13b-18 Ryan's Hope
4-5 Young & the Restless
6 Midday Report
7-10-12 Super Password
15 PTL Club
23 English Composition
35 Big Valley
44 Success N Life

11:30
3-13-13b-18 Loving
6 Young & the Restless
7-10-12 Scrabble
11 Body Electric

Afternoon
Noon
3-13-13b-18 All My Children
4 Farm Report
5 Sally Jessy Raphael
7-10 Days of Our Lives
11 Accent
12 News
15 Richard Roberts
23 Gourmet Cooking
35 Perry Mason
44 Bonanza

12:20
4 News

12:30
4-5-6 Bold & the Beautiful
11 Child Sexual Abuse
12 Days of Our Lives
23 Exercise with Billie

1:00
3-13-13b-18 One Life to Live
4-5-6 As the World Turns
7-10 Another World
15 Rawhide
23 Garden Magic
35 Dick Van Dyke
44 Mister Ed

1:30
11 Modern Maturity
12 Another World
23 Lions of Etosha
35 Father Knows Best
44 Partridge Family

2:00
3-13-13b-18 General Hospital
4-5-6 Guiding Light
7-10 Santa Barbara
11 Living with Animals
15 Infomercial
35 My Three Sons
44 Plastic Man

2:30
2-11-42 Sesame Street
12 Santa Barbara
15 Scooby-Doo
23 To the Manor Born
35 Hazel
44 Jayce & the Wheeled Warriors

3:00
3 Little House on the Prairie
4-10-13-13b Oprah Winfrey
5 Judge
6 Woody Woodpecker
7 Divorce Court
15 Dennis the Menace
18 Entertainment Tonight
23 Sesame Street
35 Jetsons
44 Defenders of the Earth

3:30
2-11-42 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5-6 People's Court
7 Newlywed Game
12 Oprah Winfrey
15 Smurfs' Adventures
18 Gimme a Break!
35 Comic Strip
44 Saber Rider & the Star Sheriffs

4:00
2-23-42 Square One Television
3 Truth or Consequences
4 Diff'rent Strokes
5-6 Jeopardy!
7 Gimme a Break!
10 Magnum, PI
11 Captain Kangaroo
13 Superior Court
13b Judge
15 Inspector Gadget
18 People's Court
35 Smurfs' Adventures
44 Dinosaucers

4:30
2-42 Grunches & Grins
3 M*A*S*H
4 Three's Company
5 Win, Lose or Draw
6 News
7 Jeopardy!
11 Square One Television
12 Gimme a Break!
13-13b People's Court
15 Real Ghostbusters
18 Divorce Court
23 3-2-1 Contact
35 ThunderCats
44 Flintstones

5:00
2-42 Advances in Health
3-6-7-13b-18 News
4 Jeffersons
5 Entertainment Tonight
10 Divorce Court
11 MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour
12 Facts of Life
13 Win, Lose or Draw
15 Silver Spoons
23 Introducing Biology
35 Leave It to Beaver
44 Brady Bunch

5:30
2-42 Joan Baez
3-13-13b-18 ABC World News Tonight
4-5-6 CBS Evening News
7-10-12 NBC Nightly News
15 Good Times
35 McHale's Navy
44 I Dream of Jeannie

Evening
6:00
2-11-42 Nightly Business Report
3-4-5-7-10-12-13-13b News
6 Wheel of Fortune
15 Star Trek
18 Newlywed Game
23 MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour
35 I Love Lucy
44 Punky Brewster

6:30
2-42 For the Record
3 Hollywood Squares
4-5-7-13b Wheel of Fortune
6-12 Entertainment Tonight
10 Gimme a Break!
11 Accent
13 M*A*S*H
18 Dating Game
35 Baseball: Milwaukee-NY Yankees
44 Mork & Mindy

7:00
2-42 MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour
3-13-13b-18 Who's the Boss?
4-5-6 Houston Knights
7-10-12 Matlock
11-23 Live from Lincoln Center
15 Movie "Deja Vu"
44 Movie "Barbarella"

7:30
3-13-13b-18 Growing Pains

8:00
2-42 Live from Lincoln Center
3-13-13b-18 Moonlighting
4-6 Movie "A Soldier's Story"
5 National AIDS Awareness Test
7-10-12 Movie "Killer in the Mirror"

9:00
3-13-13b-18 Barbara Walters (guests: Fawn Hall (Ollie's North's ex-secretary), Bette Midler, Debra Winger)
11-23 Haute Couture: The Great Designers
15 AIDS Cover-Up (Jack Van Impe special)
44 Sports Pros & Cons

9:30
35 One Big Family
44 Baseball: Houston-Los Angeles

10:00
2-42 Haute Couture: The Great Designers
3-4-5-6-7-10-12-13-13b News
11 Seminole Uprising: Football
15 Late Show (guest host Arsenio Hall)
18 Cheers
23 Nightly Business Report
35 Hogan's Heroes

10:30
3 Sanford & Son
5 Jeffersons
6 Movie "Trail of the Pink Panther"
7-10-12 Tonight Show
11 SCTV Network
13 M*A*S*H
13b-18 Nightline
23 Do You Hear the Babies Crying?
35 King of Kensington

10:35
4 WKRP in Cincinnati

11:00
2-42 Jack Horkheimer: Star Hustler
3 Nightline
5 Movie "Trail of the Pink Panther"
13 Jeffersons
13b Crook & Chase
15 Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous
18 Insiders
23 Monty Python's Flying Circus
35 Gunsmoke

11:05
4 Movie "Trail of the Pink Panther"

11:30
3 Love Connection
7-10-12 Late Night with David Letterman
13 Nightline
13b New Honeymooners
23 John McLaughlin One on One

Late Night
Midnight
3 Fall Guy
6 T.J. Hooker
13 Crook & Chase
13b Wanted: Dead or Alive
15 Hawaii Five-O

12:30
5 T.J. Hooker
7 Laurel & Hardy
10 All in the Family
12 M*A*S*H
13b News

12:35
4 T.J. Hooker

1:00
15 Movie: TBA

1:30
5 Infomercial

1:35
4 CBS News Nightwatch

2:00
5 CBS News Nightwatch

3:00
15 Honeymmoners

3:30
15 The Saint

4:00
5 CNN Headline News

4:30
15 Honeymooners
 
>
> 7:40
> 2-42 Jack Horkheimer: Star Hustler
>
Usually, this program is seen when a PBS station signs off, not signing on. (Though APT showed "Star Hustler" at both sign on and signoff.)

> 4:30
> 2-42 Grunches & Grins

I take it that this was a local (or, in APT's case, regional) kids' show.

> 6:30
> 35 Baseball: Milwaukee-NY Yankees

Remember when Yankees baseball was seen everywhere in syndication?

> 8:00
> 5 National AIDS Awareness Test
>
> 9:00
> 15 AIDS Cover-Up (Jack Van Impe special)

I take it that Van Impe's AIDS special had an anti-gay slant. It's also ironic (if not, coincidental) that this special was seen opposite the second half of ch.5's AIDS special.

> 10:30
> 35 King of Kensington

"King of Kensington" was still available in US syndication in the late-1980s? I thought the series flopped after its first (and, apparently, only) season in the US in 1977-1978 (it was seen in Canada on the CBC from 1975 to 1980).

Also I noticed that ch.35 had an early-sign off of 12 Midnight, after "Gunsmoke". Around this time, Family Group Broadcasting (which also used to own WFTS in Tampa Bay and WFTX in Fort Myers, before selling both off) was experiencing financial trouble. WFGX ch.35 would eventually go dark by the late-1980s or early-1990s. Apparently, there wasn't enough room in the Pensacola / Mobile market for three indies (being farther away from the two cities didn't help matters, either).
 
> > 8:00
> > 5 National AIDS Awareness Test
> >
> > 9:00
> > 15 AIDS Cover-Up (Jack Van Impe special)
>
> I take it that Van Impe's AIDS special had an anti-gay
> slant. It's also ironic (if not, coincidental) that this
> special was seen opposite the second half of ch.5's AIDS
> special.

I suspect it was deliberately planned. IIRC, that special was a CBS network production and promoted well in advance. Some stations, like WTVY and the Tallahassee station, chose to take alternate programming.
 
> ...that special was a CBS network production and promoted well in advance.
> Some stations, like WTVY and the Tallahassee station, chose
> to take alternate programming.
>
By the looks of the schedule, CBS apparently offered a double feed with some stations showing "A Soldier's Story", and others showing the AIDS special.

These days, in most cases, if a controversial program is scheduled, you either take the feed, or you're on your own (like last year's "Saving Private Ryan" on ABC).
 
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