RETRO: Nashville, Monday 9/10/1979

[w9wi]

I believe WDXR-TV had left the air by 1979. Don't know when KET took it over.

Again I don't have my reference material handy but I'm 99% sure WKPD-29 and WDXR-29 are the same license -- that KET bought it from the commercial owners. (or the commercial owners gave it to KET...)

Though that doesn't mean it was on the air when it was transferred. The one-year-off-the-air-and-your-license-is-gone rule didn't exist yet; it could easily have been off the air under the commercial ownership for 2-3-4-5 years and still had a valid license to transfer to KET.

(one station in Connecticut managed to keep their license valid for 42 YEARS off the air before someone put an end to their record by turning the station back on in 1995...)

 

[oldiesfan6479]

Maybe Griffith and company "saw the future" as today Raleigh's airport is one of the biggest in the south where not only one can fly to EL LAY but even to Paris and London as well and all non-stop too.

No El Lay or Paris at the moment, but AA still runs its London/Heathrow flight:

http://www.rdu.com/airlineflightinfo/destinations.htm
or
http://www.rdu.com/airlineflightinfo/airlineflightinfo.htm

....and Richmond had their share of references on The Andy Griffith Show too.

Such as the record producer who went to Richmond to sell the recordings of
the locals (they thought he ran off with their invested funds).

Ange: "...and your whys and your wherefores, and your National Records...
National Records?!"

Ellie: "...and a certified check for $5000."

Floyd: "...cer-cer-ccer-tified!"

 

[Ultimajock]

Nashville
17 WZTV (Ind.)

10 PM
17 PAUL HARVEY

...I wonder how many syndication affiliates that Harvey still had by this time. I can recall seeing him during the early weeks of WLRE/26 (now WGBA) Green Bay, around the same time that they were running The PTL Club weeknights at 8:00 and The CBS Late Movie (refused by WBAY/2) at 10:30...

...BTW, WBAY almost always turned down CBS' late night offerings as early as The Merv Griffin Show (which was then carried on one-lunk indie KFIZ-TV/34 from Fond du Lac). After ABC pulled back on The Dick Cavett Show and made it a part of ABC's Wide World of Entertainment, then-ABC affiliate WLUK/11 dumped Wide World and picked up The CBS Late Movie instead...

 

[azumanga]

I wonder how many syndication affiliates that [Paul] Harvey still had by this time.

In the Tampa Bay area, WTVT carried Paul Harvey weeknights as part of the 6PM newshour, up through the early-1980s. I also recall seeing WOFL Orlando carrying him as well around this time, though as a separate program after Independent Network News (I think).

 

[DToTheJ]

... the recent cancelled ABC sitcom with Kelsey Grammer "Hank" was set in the fictional town of River Bend, Virginia even though it didn't take long for many to figure out that River Bend was really the real life town of Front Royal, Virginia.

Incidentally, the new "Cleveland Show" is set in the obvious fictional Virginia town of Stoolbend. (And that show has not been cancelled.)