Retro: Nebraska, Tue. May 22nd, 1990

[crainbebo]

Source: TV Guide received today from eBay

CHANNELS
2n KNOP North Platte [NBC]
2v KUSD Vermillion SD [PBS]
3 KMTV Omaha [CBS]
4 KTIV Sioux City, IA [NBC]
5h KHAS Hastings [NBC]
5s KDLT Sioux Falls, SD [NBC]
6 WOWT Omaha [NBC]
7 KETV Omaha [ABC]
8a KCAN Albion, NE [ABC]
8b KESD Brookings [PBS]
9 KCAU Sioux City [ABC]
10 KOLN Lincoln, NE [CBS]
11 KELO Sioux Falls [CBS]
12 KUON Lincoln [PBS]
13k KHGI Kearney [ABC]
13s KSFY Sioux Falls [ABC]
14 KMEG Sioux City [CBS]
17 KTTW Sioux Falls [Fox]
26 KYNE Omaha [PBS]
27 KSIN Sioux City [PBS/IPTV]
32 KBIN Council Bluffs [PBS/IPTV]
42 KPTM Omaha [Fox]

5AM
42 Beverly Hillbillies

5:30
6 13k Morning Agriculture Report
11 42 Ag Day
13s ABC News-Schneider

5:55
14 Message for Today

6AM
2v 8b To Life! Yoga with Priscilla Patrick
3 This Morning's Business
4 5h 6 NBC News
5s Morning Agriculture Report
7 ABC News-Schneider
8a 9 13h ABC News-Schneider, 60 min
10 11 CBS News-Osgood/Corderi
13s Breakfast Club
14 This Morning
Scheduled: Barbara Hershey.
42 Super Mario Bros. Super Show!

6:15
2v 8b 12 26 A.M. Weather
27 32 Homestretch

6:30
2n 5s NBC News
2v 8b Down the Shore
3 CBS News-Corderi/Osgood
4 6 7 11 News
5h Ag Day
12 26 For All Practical Purposes
17 This Morning's Business
42 Fun House

6:45
27 32 A.M. Weather

7AM
2n 4 5h 5s 6 Today
Scheduled from Pennsylvania: Author John Hart ["Walking Softly in the Wilderness"].
3 10 11 This Morning
Scheduled: Barbara Hershey.
7 8a 9 13k 13s Good Morning America
12 26 Sesame Street
17 C.O.P.S.
27 32 Raising America's Children
42 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

7:30
2v 8b America's Century
17 Jim Henson's Muppet Babies
27 32 Captain Kangaroo
42 Alvin & The Chipmunks

8AM
12 26 Captain Kangaroo
14 Bold and the Beautiful
17 Denver, the Last Dinosaur
27 32 Sesame Street
42 Bugs Bunny and Friends

8:30
12 26 Zoobilee Zoo
14 Inside Report
17 Jetsons
42 I Love Lucy BW

9AM
2n 4 5h 6 227
Brenda and Calvin become parents to a pig for a class project on teen pregnancy.
3 8a 9 13k Regis & Kathie Lee
Scheduled: Richard Crenna; Julia Child; cosmetics expert Adrien Arpel.
5s Geraldo
7 10 Sally Jessy Raphael
Scheduled topic: family members who are reunited after a period of separation.
11 14 Family Feud
12 26 Secret City
13s Phil Donahue
Scheduled: Cast members of "Twin Peaks."
17 Dr. Richard Lee
42 Facts of Life

9:30
2n 4 5h 6 Classic Concentration
11 14 Wheel of Fortune
17 Richard Jackson
42 Gimme a Break!

10AM
2n 4 5h 5s 6 Golden Girls
The flu may keep Blanche, Rose and Dorothy from attending an awards banquet.
3 10 11 14 Price is Right
7 8a 9 13k Home
Scheduled: Cosmetic-surgery risks, benefits.
13s Sally Jessy Raphael
42 Geraldo

10:30
2n 4 5h 5s 6 Marsha Warfield
17 Search
27 32 Issues in the '80s

11AM
2n 4 5h Generations
3 10 11 14 Young and the Restless
5s Everyday-Joan Lunden
Scheduled: Sally Jessy Raphael.
6 3rd Degree
7 Everyday-Joan Lunden
Scheduled: Singer Kevin Page.
8a 9 Perfect Strangers
Balki and Larry discover that baby-sitting is no walk in the park.
13k All My Children
13s Home
Scheduled: Cosmetic-surgery risks, benefits.
17 Joy of Music
27 32 Musical Encounters
42 Quincy

11:30
2n 7 News
2v 8b 12 26 Sesame Street
4 Family Ties
5h Laverne & Shirley
5s Generations
6 People's Court
8a 9 Loving
17 Changed Lives
27 32 Color: An Introduction

Noon
2n 5s Days of Our Lives
3 4 5h 6 10 11 13k News
7 8a 9 13s All My Children
14 Phil Donahue
17 Insight
27 32 National Gallery of Art
42 Perry Mason BW

12:30
3 10 11 Bold and the Beautiful
4 5h Days of Our Lives
6 Generations
12 26 Zoobilee Zoo
13k Loving
17 Sunshine Factory
27 32 Square One Television

1PM
2n 5s 6 Another World
3 10 11 14 As the World Turns
7 8a 9 13k 13s One Life to Live
17 Kid Time
42 Hunter

1:30
4 5h Another World
17 Family Films

2PM
2n 5s 6 Santa Barbara
3 10 11 14 Guiding Light
7 8a 9 13k 13s General Hospital
17 Cope
42 Simon & Simon

2:30
2v 8b Sesame Street
4 5h Santa Barbara

3PM
2n The Judge
3 10 13s Oprah Winfrey
5s Happy Days
6 Days of our Lives
7 8a 9 Highway to Heaven
11 Woody Woodpecker
12 26 3-2-1 Contact
13k Everyday-Joan Lunden
Scheduled: Sally Jessy Raphael.
14 Dennis the Menace
17 Thundercats
27 32 In Full Swing
42 Jim Henson's Muppet Babies

3:30
2n 14 42 Duck Tales
2v 8b 12 26 27 32 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
4 Oprah Winfrey
5h Woody Woodpecker
5s Family Ties
11 Dennis the Menace
13k 3rd Degree
17 Real Ghostbusters

4PM
2n 17 Super Mario Bros. Super Show!
2v 8b Reading Rainbow
Featured book: "Alistair in Outer Space," about a boy who encounters two zany aliens.
3 11 Family Feud
5h 42 Chip 'n Dale's Rescue Rangers
5s Mr. Belvedere
Belvedere escapes being held hostage in a stadium but becomes imprisoned in his own home when he locks himself in the attic-with Wesley (Brice Beckham).
6 Inside Edition
7 Phil Donahue
Scheduled: Cast members of "Twin Peaks."
8a 9 Who's the Boss?
Tony and Angela discover that their new friend may have snatched her daughter from her ex-husband. Kelly: D.D. Howard.
10 Phil Donahue
12 26 27 32 Sesame Street
13k Win, Lose or Draw
Guests: Barbara Crampton, John Reilly, Nancy Grahn, Scott Thompson Baker.
13s Little House on the Prairie
A derelict (John Ireland) with engineering skills may be the only hope of saving Carrie from the depths of a crumbling wall. Michael Landon.
14 Real Ghostbusters

4:30
2n Highway to Heaven
Jonathan and Mark become bodyguards for an unprincipled, wealthy man (Leslie Nielsen) who neither loves nor is loved. Michael Landon, Victor French.
2v 8b 3-2-1 Contact
The show visits a model-rocket exhibition.
3 4 Jeopardy!
5h DuckTales
5s Mama's Family
Mama and Bubba [Vicki Lawrence, Allan Kayser] are about to graduate high school together, but Bubba decides to skip the ceremony.
6 A Current Affair
8a 9 Growing Pains
After being nominated for homecoming queen, Carol [Tracey Gold] is beset by nightmares over her "in crowd" status.
11 Inside Edition
13k People's Court
14 17 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
42 Mr. Belverdere
George and Belvedere join a neighborhood group staking out a bandit who steals high-heeled shoes.

5PM
2v 8b Captain Kangaroo
3 6 7 11 News
4 Cosby Show
Vanessa wants to impress two popular girls and make the pep squad; Rudy [Keshia Knight Pulliam] wants to learn to play checkers.
5h Mama's Family
Mama goes job hunting after deciding "there must be more to life than sitting around watching 'Days of Our Lives' and waiting for the rinse cycle." Vicki Lawrence.
5s Night Court
The search is on for a mutt that saved Harry from a fire but may have given Dan rabies.
8a 9 A Current Affair
10 13s Jeopardy!
12 26 Reading Rainbow
See 4PM.
13k Leave it to Beaver BW (over 40 years after it's run, and still airing reruns on KHGI in 1990? Weird I think!)
Beaver takes action when Larry fails to repay a loan. Beaver: Jerry Mathers.
14 Andy Griffith BW
Jimmy Morgan is suspected of robbing the gas station where he works. Pat Colby.
17 DuckTales
27 32 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour
42 Family Ties
Mallory [Justine Bateman] is crushed when her best friend and Elyse hit it off and leave Mallory out in the cold.

5:30
2n 4 5h 5s 6 NBC News-Tom Brokaw
2v 8b 12 26 Nightly Business Report
3 10 11 14 CBS News-Dan Rather
7 8a 9 10 13h 13s ABC News-Peter Jennings
17 Chip 'n Dale's Rescue Rangers
42 Taxi
On Elaine's advice, the cabbies pool their money to buy a painting at an auction.

I will cover 6PM and later in a separate post.

-crainbebo

 

[crainbebo]

6PM
2n 3 4 5h 5s 6 7 8a 9 10 11 13k 13s News
2v 8b 12 26 MacNeil, Lehrer NewsHour
14 Mama's Family
Mama burns a hole in the dress Fran is planning to wear to a writers awards dinner.
17 Superboy
27 32 Nightly Business Report
42 M*A*S*H
Not all MASH personnel work up a sweat over the impending visit of Gen. Douglas MacArthur.

6:30
2n 3 4 10 13s Wheel of Fortune
5h 7 11 Cosby Show
See 5PM, KTIV.
5s Entertainment Tonight
Scheduled: A visit to Arnold Schwarzenegger's home town in Austria.
6 Who's the Boss?
Angela refuses to attend an awards party because she lost Best Commercial of the Year to a former employee.
8a 9 Who's the Boss?
Angela and Tony are tempted to compromise their working relationship while "celebrating" Angela's birthday. Jeff: Jeff Conaway.
13k A Current Affair
14 Night Court
A stranger [Wendy Schaal] Harry asks out is exposed later in court as a porn star.
17 Twilight Zone
"Paladin of the Lost Hour." A man [Glynn Turman] saves the life of a mysterious old man [Danny Kaye] who owns a unique fireplace.
27 32 Iowa Wildlife
Profiled: conservationist-cartoonist J.N. Darling; wildlife author Aldo Leopold.
42 M*A*S*H
Frank [Larry Linville] establishes his own prohibition.

7PM
2n 4 5h 5s 6 Matlock
Conclusion. Matlock [Andy Griffith] stirs things up in the stir when he finds the murder weapon, while Conrad tries to unravel the prison murder plot from outside. Tiny Lister, Jr.
2v 8b 12 26 27 32 NOVA
Chronicling a century of efforts to untangle the "Secrets of the Lost Red Paint People," an ancient race of skilled seafarers believed to have inhabited lands across the North Atlantic as long ago as 7500 years. Research was spurred by late 19th-century discoveries of iron-oxide concentrations and stone tools along the Maine coast.
3 10 11 14 Rescue 911
Scheduled: An Indiana girl who was accidentally wounded by a rifle shot; an Oklahoma football hero who saved three persons from drowning; a man who rescued a toddler from a burning apartment.
7 8a 9 13k 13s Who's the Boss?
While undergoing family therapy for Sam and Jonathan's sibling rivalry, Tony [Tony Danza] is diagnosed with "supermom burnout." Dr. Berl: Allan Miller.
17 Inside Report
42 Movie
"High Plains Drifter." [1973] Clint Eastwood directed himself in this graphic revenge yarn centering on a mysterious stranger. Sarah: Verna Bloom.

7:30
7 8a 9 13k 13s The Wonder Years
Kevin [Fred Savage] studies genetics in school and also gets a crash course at home, where visiting Grampa Arnold [David Huddleston] sows seeds of dissension with Jack [Dan Lauria] by bringing Kevin a puppy.
17 Crime Stoppers 800
Scheduled cases include two kidnappings in New York City; a double murder in Denver.

8PM
2n 4 5h 5s 6 Movie
"Last Flight Out." This fact based 1990 TV-movie is set in Saigon during late April of 1975, over two and a half years after the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from the country-and a week before Communist forces would overrun the capital. The film focuses on the desperate, clandestine efforts of private American citizens to round up and spirit out South Vietnamese refugees and U.S. civilians on the last commercial flight to leave the city. Richard Crenna, James Earl Jones.
2v 8b 27 32 Frontline
See 9PM.
3 10 11 14 Movie
"A Killing in a Small Town." Barbara Hershey is compelling as a Texas homemaker on the edge in this 1990 TV-movie, which unfolds as both a psychological study and a murder mystery. Based on a 1980 case, "A Killing in a Small Town" casts Hershey as Candy Morrison, a caring and reserved wife and mother who is shocked by the brutal ax murder of a neighboring woman. The ensuring investigation, however, appears to implicate Candy and sheds a different light on her personality, which is further revealed under hypnosis, in courtroom testimony and in violent recreation of the crime that caps the drama.
7 8a 9 13k 13s Roseanne
Roseanne and Dan [Roseanne Barr, John Goodman] get a blast from the past when old pal Ziggy [Jay O. Sanders] cruises in on his motorcycle, prompting them to resurrect their old bike and recall wilder days.
12 26 Backyard Farmer
17 Movie
"To Be or Not to Be." [1983] Remake of Ernst Lubitsch's 1942 classic about Polish actors trying to outwit Nazis in 1939 Warsaw. Mel Brooks.

8:30
7 8a 9 13k 13s Coach
It looks to Hayden like he's going to be picking up the pieces of Luther's broken heart when Christine [Shelley Fabares] fixes him up with a blind date [K Callan].

9PM
2v 8b 27 32 Moyers: The Public Mind
From 1989: "Illusions of News" includes segments on media coverage of the Reagan Presidency.
7 8a 9 13k 13s Thirtysomething
Conclusion. Michael [Ken Olin] the corporate mole needs a decoder ring to decrypt Miles' behavior as he maneuvers to head off the takeover attempt.
12 26 Frontline
"Inside the Cartel" travels to Colombia to look at "life on the other side of the war on drugs." Producer Andrew Cockburn says the hour, still being edited at press time, explores "the ongoing Colombian civil war" and the power of the Medellin and Cali cartels. Included: a talk with convicted Colombian drug smuggler Carlos Lehder, who's serving a life sentence plus 135 years in the U.S. penintentiary in Marion, Ill.; comments by Colombian officials.
42 Gunsmoke
Richard Kiley stars as a reformed gunfighter who stirs a romantic interest in Kitty [Amanda Blake]. Matt: James Arness.

10PM
2n 3 4 5h 5s 6 7 8a 9 10 11 13k 13s News
2v 8b Joy of Painting
Guest Dana Jester paints a mountain scene.
12 26 Adam Smith's Money World
Investor Warren E. Buffett at the Berkshire Hathaway Inc. shareholders meeting.
14 Cheers
Conclusion. Sam determines to get Carla and Eddie [Rhea Perlman, Jay Thomas] to the altar; while Rebecca anxiously awaits her boss's arrival at the reception.
17 Dark Shadows
27 32 American Interests
42 Newhart
Olympic hopeful Leslie has a hopeless pupil for ski lessons: Dick. Bob Newhart.

10:30
2n 4 5h 5s 6 Tonight Show
Scheduled: Tim Conway, mime act Mumenschanz. Johnny Carson.
3 Cheers
Sam informs Diane that he's entered her in the Miss Boston Barmaid contest-without her knowledge. Tip O'Neill has a cameo. Ted Danson.
7 Night Court
After being struck by lightning, Bull [Richard Moll] becomes convinced that God wants him to give all his possessions to the needy.
8a 9 13k Nightline
10 M*A*S*H
Margaret [Loretta Swit] asserts himself as an independent woman.
11 Wiseguy
Profitt's driven into the drug trade to regain his financial power, while Lococco [William Russ] learns Vinnie is working for the OCB.
12 26 Hot Metal
Return: This British series takes a lighthearted look at England's Fleet Street journalists. First up: Greg Kettle, a new reporter for the Daily Crucible, interviews a man who claims he's Nikita Khrushchev. Geoffrey Palmer.
13s Cheers
Sam sets out to restore some sisterly love between Rebecca and her visiting sibling [Marcia Cross] in the hope that some of the good feelings will rub off on him.
14 Odd Couple
Wedding bells clash with reveille in this flashback to soldier Oscar's nuptials, complete with a wedding night spent in the Army barracks.
17 42 Arsenio Hall
Scheduled: Comedian Robert Klein.
27 32 Adam Smith's Money World
See 10PM, KYNE.

11PM
2v 8b Art of William Alexander and Robert Warren
Painted: a seascape.
3 10 Wiseguy
See 10:30, KELO.
7 Entertainment Tonight
See 6:30PM, KDLT.
8a 9 M*A*S*H
According to rumor, Marilyn Monroe is coming to the 4077th.
12 26 Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
In a new identity, Reggie [Leonard Rossiter] woos his wife and is hired by his old boss [John Barron].
13k Commercial Program
13s M*A*S*H
Margaret wants to bury a time capsule at the 4077th, and asks everyone "to contribute one item they think symbolizes their experience in Korea." Loretta Swit, Alan Alda.
14 Arsenio Hall
See 10:30, KTTW/KPTM.
27 32 First Eden
In "The Wastes of War," David Attenborough visits Jordan, Spain, Italy and Malta. Included: the Arabs' passion for horses, which were the key to the spread of Islam in Spain.

11:30
2n 4 5h 5s 6 Late Night with David Letterman
Scheduled: CBS News correspondent Lesley Stahl; singer Michael Penn.
2v 8b Aging Assist
Elderhostel, weeklong residential-learning programs on college campuses. Also: tips for a healthy diet; housing for the elderly.
7 13s Nightline
8a 9 People's Court
12 26 Wild, Wild World of Animals
13k Love Connection
17 After Hours
42 Hard Copy

11:40
11 Stingray
A chemist vanishes after enlisting Stingray [Nick Mancuso] to probe the manufacture of drugs killing thousands in Africa.

11:55
12 26 Jack Horkheimer: Star Hustler

Midnight
7 Hill Street Blues
8a 9 42 Love Connection
13k Inside Report-was this Inside Edition's early title?
14 Star Trek

12:10
3 Commercial Programs
10 Stingray
See 11:40, KELO.

12:30
4 5s 6 Later with Bob Costas
An Allen Funt interview concludes.
5h Commercial Program
42 Bluffs Run Review

1AM
5s News
42 Barnaby Jones

1:10
3 Win, Lose or Draw

2AM
42 Columbo

3:30
42 Police Story

4:30
42 Green Acres

-crainbebo

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

Do you have that edition's "Satellites and Originating Stations" roster? The only ones OTOH would be the 11 half of the KOLN/KGIN "10/11" simulcast in Grand Island, the NET stations, and IIRC a channel 4 in Superior, NE.

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

10PM

14 Cheers
Conclusion. Sam determines to get Carla and Eddie [Rhea Perlman, Jay Thomas] to the altar; while Rebecca anxiously awaits her boss's arrival at the reception.

10:30

14 Odd Couple
Wedding bells clash with reveille in this flashback to soldier Oscar's nuptials, complete with a wedding night spent in the Army barracks.

11PM

14 Arsenio Hall

Midnight

14 Star Trek

Sioux City would be 3 years, 3 months and 8 days away from becoming the first "Late Show with David Letterman" home office when KMEG-14 passed on Dave's first CBS season due to the station's claim that two of the above shows (Cheers and Star Trek) which were still on their late-night schedule in summer 1993 brought better local ratings than the likes of "Tonight Show" (after Jay Leno's first year) and Nightline. IMO certainly there was no excuse why the station could have brought back a similar scheduling pattern and have Dave at 11, then Star Trek at midnight again (by 1993 it had become a back-to-back combo of Cheers at 10:30 and the Starship Enterprise at 11). I remember seeing a Sioux City Journal article about KMEG's decision to pass on Letterman when my family was staying overnight there on the way home from a Black Hills vacation that summer.

Also, the Nebraska edition would be the home TVG edition for Wahoo, NE--another one of Dave's Late Show home offices. ;D

 

[crainbebo]

SATELLITES AND THEIR ORIGINATING STATIONS
For programs on 8 Martin, 10 Pierre, 11 Lowry, 13 Eagle Butte and 16 Aberdeen, S.D. see KUSD 2.
On 11 Grand Island (KGIN), see KOLN 10.
On 3 Garden City (KDLO) and 6 Reliance (KPLO), see KELO 11.
On 3 Lexington (KLNE), 7 Bassett (KMNE), 9 North Platte (KPNE?), 12 Merriman (KRNE), 13 Alliance (KTNE), 19 Norfolk (forgot calls) and 29 Hastings (KHNE), see 12 KUON.
On 4 Superior (KSNB) and 6 Hayes Center (KWNB), see KHGI 13.
On 4 Pierre (KPRY) and 9 Aberdeen (KABY), see KSFY 13.
On 36 Red Oak IA, see 32 KBIN.

-crainbebo

 

[jh]

Although listed separately, 8a KCAN Albion NE was a satellite of 9 KCAU Sioux City.

17 KTTW was running some religious programming during the day from some religious net, I think FamilyNet. This was gradually reduced as they picked up more conventional syndicated fare.

 

[crainbebo]

So at first KTTW seemed to be a bit crummy on programming. No sign of daytime syndi programs, but they did have Arsenio and Star Trek on the weekend.

Channel 8 used to be KCNA in Albion, and was NTV. Then it went indie as KBGT, and 24/7 for a short time. Financial losses caused it to switch to a KCAU satellite (why couldn't they just take KETV and make it a satellite? Isn't Omaha closer to Albion?), before moving to Lincoln and becoming KLKN in 1996.

-crainbebo

And P.S.-when did KMEG ever get news?

 

[jh]

KCAU bought KBGT for not very much (I'm thinking less then $2-million.) and originally did have a little bit of separate programming, but that ended quickly. I think KCAU saw it as a way to raise their national spot rates with the second signal. Later, they figured out it could be moved to Lincoln.

KMEG had news when they first went on the air in the late 60s, but dropped it in the mid-70s. They continued with a few one minute updates per day for a few years after that. Sometime in the 90s, they added five-minute weather at 6 & 10pm. Somewhere around 2000, they put in a full-fledged news department.

I don't think KMEG has been very successful with local news. Last time I saw any ratings (at least a couple of years ago) KTIV had about twice the news audience as KCAU and KMEG combined.