Retro: Mobile/Pensacola/Biloxi/New Orleans Wednesday, February 2, 1983

[Mario500]

From the Mobile Press-Register:


WKRG-TV Channel 5 (CBS)

5:00 AM: News (Headline News)
6:00 AM: News (Local)
7:00 AM: CBS Morning News
9:00 AM: Donahue
10:00 AM: The Price is Right
11:00 AM: Richard Simmons
11:30 AM: The Young and the Restless
12:30 PM: As the World Turns
1:30 PM: Capitol
2:00 PM: Guiding Light
3:00 PM: Tattletales
3:30 PM: What’s Happening!!
4:00 PM: The Jeffersons
4:30 PM: People’s Court
5:00 PM: Entertainment Tonight
5:30 PM: CBS Evening News
6:00 PM: News
6:30 PM: M*A*S*H
7:00 PM: The Scarlet and the Black: Gregory Peck, Christopher Plummer, and John Gielsgud star in the true story of the courageous and clandestine efforts of Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty to conceal thousands of Allied POW escapees in German-occupied Rome during World War II
10:00 PM: News
10:30 PM: Hart to Hart: Jonathan and Jennifer become involved in a life or death struggle with a band of killers when their mansion is stripped by sophisticated thieves
11:40 PM: Movie: “The Solitary Man” (1979) Earl Holliman, Carrie Snodgress. The world of a blue-collar family man is torn part when his wife inexplicably demands a divorce
1:00 AM: CBS News Nightwatch

WWL-TV Channel 4 (CBS)

5:00 AM: CBS Early Morning News
5:30 AM: Good Morning Tri-States
6:00 AM: CBS Morning News
8:00 AM: Morning
9:00 AM: The New $25,000 Pyramid
9:30 AM: Child’s Play
10:00 AM: The Price is Right
11:00 AM: The Young and the Restless
12:00 PM: Gene Ragan
12:30 PM: As the World Turns
1:30 PM: Capitol
2:00 PM: The Guiding Light
3:00 PM: Tattletales
3:30 PM: Scooby Doo
4:00 PM: The Brady Bunch (Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. Baptist Message on Fridays)
4:30 PM: Mork and Mindy
5:00 PM: Happy Days Again
5:30 PM: CBS Evening News
6:00 PM: News
6:30 PM: M*A*S*H
7:00 PM: The Scarlet and the Black: Gregory Peck, Christopher Plummer, and John Gielsgud star in the true story of the courageous and clandestine efforts of Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty to conceal thousands of Allied POW escapees in German-occupied Rome during World War II
10:00 PM: News
10:30 PM: Hart to Hart: Jonathan and Jennifer become involved in a life or death struggle with a band of killers when their mansion is stripped by sophisticated thieves
11:40 PM: Movie: “The Solitary Man” (1979) Earl Holliman, Carrie Snodgress. The world of a blue-collar family man is torn part when his wife inexplicably demands a divorce
1:00 AM: CBS News Nightwatch

WALA-TV Channel 10 (NBC)

6:00 AM: Mighty Mouse and Friends
7:00 AM: Today
9:00 AM: Hour Magazine
10:00 AM: Wheel of Fortune
10:30 AM: Hit Man
11:00 AM: Just Men
11:30 AM: Search for Tomorrow
12:00 PM: Days of Our Lives
1:00 PM: Another World
2:00 PM: Fantasy
3:00 PM: Lie Detector (Soap World on Fridays)
3:30 PM: One Day at a Time
4:00 PM: Alice
4:30 PM: Three’s Company
5:00 PM: News
5:30 PM: NBC Nightly News
6:00 PM: News
6:30 PM: Family Feud
7:00 PM: Shogun: Lady Mariko (Yoko Shimada) is assigned to teach Blackthorne the language and customs of Japan with civil war about to erupt. Toranaga claims the title of Shogun and elevates Blackthorne to the position of samurai warrior (Part 3)
9:00 PM: Quincy: Quincy reluctantly agrees to work with a psychic to solve the murders of teen-age girls by a psychopathic strangler
10:30 PM: Tonight: Host: Johnny Carson: Guests: Alan King, Florence Sperbeck, a 73-year-old private eye
11:30 PM: Late Night with David Letterman: Guests: Deborah Harry of Blondie, comedian Jay Leno.
12:00 AM: NBC News Overnight
1:30 AM: Romance Theatre

WEAR-TV Channel 3 (ABC)

5:55 AM: Good News America
6:30 AM: ABC News This Morning
7:00 AM: Good Morning America
9:00 AM: Here’s Lucy
9:30 AM: Carol Burnett and Friends
10:00 AM: Love Boat
11:00 AM: Family Feud
11:30 AM: Ryan’s Hope
12:00 PM: All My Children
1:00 PM: One Life to Live
2:00 PM: General Hospital
3:00 PM: Edge of Night
3:30 PM: Tom and Jerry and Friends
4:00 PM: Waltons
5:00 PM: Beverly Hillbillies
5:30 PM: World News Tonight
6:00 PM: News
6:30 PM: More Real People
7:00 PM: Tales of the Gold Monkey
8:00 PM: The Fall Guy: Colt and Howie trail a charming beauty who romances wealthy men or cruise ships and then robs them just before docking
9:00 PM: Dynasty: Alexis gains power over Blake and plots to override Adam’s machinations, and Fallon flies to Haiti for a divorce
10:00 PM: News
10:30 PM: ABC News Nightline
11:00 PM: The Last Word
12:00 AM: Sha Na Na
12:30 AM: News

WLOX-TV Channel 13 (ABC)

6:00 AM: South Mississippi R. F. D.
6:15 AM: ABC News This Morning
7:00 AM: Good Morning America
9:00 AM: Good Morning South Mississippi
9:30 AM: Good Times
10:00 AM: Love Boat (Rerun)
11:00 AM: Family Feud
11:30 AM: Ryan’s Hope
12:00 PM: All My Children
1:00 PM: One Life to Live
2:00 PM: General Hospital
3:00 PM: Edge of Night
3:30 PM: Hogan’s Heroes
4:00 PM: Big Valley
5:00 PM: News
5:30 PM: World News Tonight
6:00 PM: News
6:30 PM: M*A*S*H
7:00 PM: Tales of the Gold Monkey
8:00 PM: The Fall Guy: Colt and Howie trail a charming beauty who romances wealthy men or cruise ships and then robs them just before docking
9:00 PM: Dynasty: Alexis gains power over Blake and plots to override Adam’s machinations, and Fallon flies to Haiti for a divorce
10:00 PM: News
10:30 PM: ABC News Nightline
11:00 PM: The Last Word

WPMI-TV Channel 15 (Independent)

6:30 AM: Financial News Network Wrap-Up
7:00 AM: Cartoon Carnival
8:00 AM: Great Space Coaster
8:30 AM: New Zoo Revue
9:00 AM: Good News America
9:30 AM: Jimmy Swaggart
10:00 AM: Jim Bakker
11:00 AM: Independent Network News
11:30 AM: Movie (The Gossip Columnist on Fridays)
1:30 PM: I Love Lucy
2:00 PM: Cartoon Capers
3:00 PM: The Flintstones
4:00 PM: Superfriends
4:30 PM: The Addams Family (The Munsters on Tuesdays and Thursdays)
5:00 PM: Charlie’s Angels
6:00 PM: Buck Rogers
8:00 PM: How the West Was Won: On the trail to Oregon, Luke (Bruce Boxleitner) is shot while protecting a member of a religious sect called the Simonites from three ruffians (Part 1)
10:15 PM: Independent Network News
10:45 PM: In Search Of…
11:15 PM: Kojak
12:15 PM: Independent Network News

WEIQ-TV Channel 42 (Alabama Public Television/PBS)

7:45 AM: A. M. Weather
8:00 AM: Your Future is Now (Multigan Stew on Tuesdays, Educational Programming on Fridays)
8:30 AM: Prose, Poetry, and Pasttimes (Educational Programming on Mondays and Tuesdays, Exploring Nature on Thursdays)
9:00 AM: Educational Programming (Wednesdays and Thursdays)
10:00 AM: Electric Company (Rerun)
10:30 AM: Educational Programming
11:00 AM: Sesame Street
12:00 PM: Educational Programming
12:30 PM: Your Future is Now (Wednesdays)
1:00 PM: Educational Programming (Wednesdays, Upper Elementary Science on Thursdays)
1:30 PM: Educational Programming (Thursdays)
2:00 PM: English Literature (Mondays and Wednesdays)
2:30 PM: Teaching Students with Special Needs (Mondays and Wednesdays)
3:00 PM: Sesame Street
4:00 PM: Mister Rogers (Rerun)
4:30 PM: Electric Company (Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Grinches and Grins on Tuesdays and Thursdays)
5:00 PM: 3-2-1 Contact (Rerun)
5:30 PM: America: The Second Century (Tuesdays and Wednesdays, Enterprise on Mondays, Focus on Society on Thursdays, and The Lawmakers on Fridays)
6:00 PM: Focus on Society
6:30 PM: Alpine Ski School: “Dynamic Skiing” Butch Findeisen and Kathy Wood demonstrate parallel skiing, a form which provides the greatest control and creativity.
7:00 PM: MacNeil/Lehrer Report
7:30 PM: Over Easy
8:00 PM: Great Performances: “Live from Lincoln Center” Zubin Mehta conducts the New York Philharmonic in a performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony from Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center: featured performers include Marilyn Horne and Jon Vickers
9:30 PM: Ellis Island: A mosaic of sounds and images are woven together to illustrate the experiences of immigrants who passed through Ellis Island between 1892 and 1927
10:00 PM: The Constitution: That Delicate Balance: “Affirmative Action and Reverse Discrimination” Tyrone Brown moderates a discussion of discriminatory policies that society has attempted to redress with affirmative action programs which have been accused of fostering reverse discrimination

WSRE-TV Channel 23 (PBS)

6:30 AM: A. M. Weather
7:30 AM: Mister Rogers Neighborhood (Rerun)
8:00 AM: Sesame Street
9:00 AM: Electric Company (Rerun)
10:00 AM: Classic Country (Growing Years on Mondays, Focus on Society on Tuesdays, Frontline on Thursdays, and Nova on Fridays)
11:00 AM: Earth, Sea and Sky (America: The Second Century on Mondays, English Composition on Tuesdays, Art of Being Human on Thursdays)
12:00 PM: Over Easy
12:30 PM: Garden Magic (Open Forum on Mondays, You on Tuesdays, Gourmet Cooking on Thursdays, and Mobile Jazz Festival on Fridays)
1:00 PM: You Can Fix It (This Old House on Tuesdays, Lap Quilting on Thursdays, and Nine Patch Place on Fridays)
1:30 PM: Austin City Limits (Life on Earth on Mondays, Nova on Tuesdays, Masterpiece Theater on Thursdays, and Profiles in American Art on Fridays)
2:30 PM: Lilias, Yoga and You
4:30 PM: Electric Company (Rerun)
5:30 PM: Art of Being a Human Being (English Composition on Mondays, Earth, Sea and Sky on Tuesdays, American Government on Thursdays, and America: The Second Century on Fridays)
7:00 PM: Business Report
7:30 PM: Mobile Jazz Festival
8:00 PM: Great Performances: “Live from Lincoln Center” Zubin Mehta conducts the New York Philharmonic in a performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony from Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center: featured performers include Marilyn Horne and Jon Vickers
9:30 PM: Ellis Island: A mosaic of sounds and images are woven together to illustrate the experiences of immigrants who passed through Ellis Island between 1892 and 1927
10:00 PM: Doctor Who
10:30 PM: PBS Latenight: Maggie Kuhn, leader of the Grey Panthers; Dr. Carin Rubenstein discusses what happens to a marriage when the woman makes more than her husband
11:30 PM: Business Report

 

[azumanga]

WWL-TV Channel 4 (CBS)
5:30 AM: Good Morning Tri-States

Sure this was for WWL and not Dothan's WTVY? The only states covered by New Orleans stations were LA and MS, which, last time I heard, numbered two states.

 

[mleach]

WWL-TV Channel 4 (CBS)
5:30 AM: Good Morning Tri-States

Sure this was for WWL and not Dothan's WTVY? The only states covered by New Orleans stations were LA and MS, which, last time I heard, numbered two states.

That and "Scobby Doo" airing on WWL at 3:30 on a weekday. New Orleans at the time at at least one indie of their own, be kinda of odd for them or any large market station affilated with the big 3 ( not talking about small markets ) to air a syndicated cartoon during the week. Then agan Buffalo's WGRZ (NBC) did this in the 80s with He-Man despite WUTV. Same with Baltimore in the early 80s when WMAR ( then CBS ) aired Tom & Jerry at 4pm even though Baltimore already had WBFF. I guess it wasn't so odd ( at the time anyway ) afterall.

 

[Mario500]

Sure this was for WWL and not Dothan's WTVY? The only states covered by New Orleans stations were LA and MS, which, last time I heard, numbered two states.

I did not realize until tonight the "4" in my copy of the newspaper listings was WTVY-TV, as the station was not indicated. I automatically assumed it was WWL-TV since WLOX-TV was identified as "Channel 13 Biloxi" in the listings. Somebody please change "WWL" to "WTVY" in my post and "New Orleans" to "Dothan" in the topic title.

 

[bpatrick]

I don't know why the Mobile Press-Register would even
carry WWL's listings. But Good Morning Tri-States (Alabama,
Florida, Georgia) and Gene Ragan were/are on WTVY; Ragan's
a Dothan institution going back as far as I can remember,
Also, WWL has had a 5 PM local news at least as far back as
the early '70s (when I first saw their listings); WTVY did not
have one in 1983.

 

[Stanislav]

I find it odd that the Mobile paper would list WTVY at all -- did they have that much of an audience in the far west FL panhandle? And if you're going to include Dothan, why not Panama City as well? Maybe WTVY was a "legacy" station still carried on cable in the area?

 

[Mario500]

The newspaper had WDSU-TV (New Orleans) and WTOK-TV (Meridian) listed in 1955. I guess the inclusion of WTVY-TV's program listings was for comparison purposes with WKRG-TV.

 

[azumanga]

I find it odd that the Mobile paper would list WTVY at all -- did they have that much of an audience in the far west FL panhandle?

Maybe in south central Alabama -- WTVY's analog signal goes as far west as Brewton:

http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/FMTV-service-area?x=TV695164.html

 

[DToTheJ]

That and "Scobby Doo" airing on WWL at 3:30 on a weekday. New Orleans at the time at at least one indie of their own, be kinda of odd for them or any large market station affilated with the big 3 ( not talking about small markets ) to air a syndicated cartoon during the week. Then agan Buffalo's WGRZ (NBC) did this in the 80s with He-Man despite WUTV. Same with Baltimore in the early 80s when WMAR ( then CBS ) aired Tom & Jerry at 4pm even though Baltimore already had WBFF. I guess it wasn't so odd ( at the time anyway ) afterall.

Major network affiliates that air cartoons - large markets or small - always mesmerize me. ;D

 

[bpatrick]

I find it odd that the Mobile paper would list WTVY at all -- did they have that much of an audience in the far west FL panhandle? And if you're going to include Dothan, why not Panama City as well? Maybe WTVY was a "legacy" station still carried on cable in the area?

That's an interesting question, considering that the Gulf Coast edition of
TV Guide carried the Mobile/Pensacola, Panama City, and Dothan stations,
as well as WLOX, WCTV/6 Tallahassee, and WSFA/12 Montgomery. And
I can remember back around 1972 that edition looked like this:

ABC: WEAR, WJHG/7 Panama City (went to ABC in '72, back to NBC in '82),
WVUE/8 New Orleans, WLOX (WMBB didn't sign on until '74, and then
as an NBC affiliate)

CBS: WWL, WKRG (WTVY was added around the mid-'70s)

NBC: WDSU, WDAM/7 (Laurel/Hattiesburg, MS), WALA

PBS: WEIQ (don't remember if Mississippi ETV was included)

 

[classictvfan]

Apparently, the Mobile-Pensacola television market was not in the top 50 yet-
I say this because channels 3 and 5 were running reruns in the 6:30 PM Central
time slot(reruns of Real People under the title More Real People on channel
3 and M*A*S*H on channel 5) and both shows were still running on network
television at that point.

 

[briancraig]

Mobile/Pensacola has never been a top 50 market. It is currently #60 and has pretty much been somewhere around that position for years. In 1976, it was #63.