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Retro: New York City - Friday, May 12, 1989

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RandTV

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2 WCBS
2:00 (AM) Nightwatch
6:00 This Morning's Business
6:30 CBS Morning News
7:00 CBS This Morning
9:00 The Judge
9:30 On Trial
10:00 Family Feud
10:30 Now You See It - Chuck Henry (short-lived revival of 1974-75 Goodson game show, hosted by Jack Narz)
11:00 Price is Right
NOON Channel 2 News
12:30 Young and Restless
1:30 Bold and Beautiful
2:00 As the World Turns
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 Superior Court
4:30 People's Court
5:00 Channel 2 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 This Evening (local newsmagazine
7:30 Whee of Fortune
8:00 Beauty and the Beast
9:00 Dallas
10:00 Falcon Crest
11:00 Channel 2 News
11:30 Pat Sajak - Guests: Vanna White (clips were shown of her 1980 contestant appearance on The Price is Right; she never won her way out of Contestants Row), Rick Schroder (Staten Island native), Billy Martin (one of his last TV appearances before his fatal traffic accident the following Christmas), Earl Klugh, Pam Stone
1:00 Movie: "Terror of Frankenstein" (1975) - Leon Vitali, Per Oscarsson

4 WNBC
5:00 New Gidget
5:30 USA Today
6:00 NBC News at Sunrise
6:30 Today in New York
7:00 Today
9:00 Geraldo - Guests: In honor of Mother's Day, the mothers of Corbin Bernsen, Cher, Patrick Swayze, and Geraldo Rivera himself!
10:00 Scrabble
10:30 Classic Concentration
11:00 Wheel of Fortune - Rolf Benirschke
11:30 Win, Lose or Draw - Vicki Lawrence (Schultz); Guests: Judi Evans & Khrystyne Haje vs. Martin Kove & Richard Simmons
NOON Couch Potatoes - Marc Summers
12:30 Generations
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 Santa Barbara
4:00 Donahue - Guest: Sting
5:00 Live at Five
6:00 News 4 New York
7:00 NBC Nightly News
7:30 Family Feud
8:00 All-Star Tribute to Kareem Abdul-Jabar (for the soon-to-retire Lakers legend)
9:00 NBC Friday Night at the Movies: "Amityville: The Evil Escapes" (Premiere) - Patty Duke, Jane Wyatt
11:00 News 4 New York
11:30 Tonight Show - Guests: David Steinberg, Teresa Ganzel, bee experts Frank Lehman and Trudy Shape
12:30 Late Night With David Letterman - Guest: Wayne Gretzky
1:30 Friday Night Videos- Hosts: Louie Anderson, Heather Locklear; Videos: "Electric Youth" - Debbie Gibson, "Patience" - Guns N' Roses, "Forever Your Girl" - Paula Abdul, "Drive" - Bobby McFerrin

5 WNYW (Fox)
5:10 Popeye
5:30 I Love Lucy (x2)
6:30 Fox Channel 5 Morning News
7:00 Good Day New York
9:00 I Love Lucy (x2)
10:00 Divorce Court
10:30 Family Medical Center
11:00 Straight to the Heart
11:30 McMillan & Wife
1:00 One Day at a Time
1:30 Bewitched
2:00 Popeye (1960-62 TV version)
2:30 Double Dare - Marc Summers
3:00 Alvin & the Chipmunks
3:30 Flintstones
4:00 DuckTales
4:30 Real Ghostbusters
5:00 Diff'rent Strokes
5:30 Facts of Life
6:00 Three's Company
6:30 Family Ties
7:00 Fox Channel 5 News at Seven
7:30 A Current Affair
8:00 Movie: "Foul Play" (1978) - Goldie Hawn, Chevy Chase
10:00 10 O'Clock News
11:00 M*A*S*H
11:30 Taxi
MIDNIGHT Kojak
1:00 Archie Bunker's Place
1:30 One Day at a Time

7 WABC
5:00 Branded
5:30 Morning Stretch
6:00 ABC News This Morning
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Live with Regis and Kathie Lee - Guests: Tim Conway, Blair Brown
10:00 Sally Jessy Raphael
11:00 Home
NOON Growing Pains
12:30 Loving
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Oprah Winfrey - Mother/Daughter reunions
5:00 Eyewitness News
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7:00 Jeopardy
7:30 Entertainment Tonight - 2,000th show celebration
8:00 Perfect Strangers
8:30 Full House
9:00 Mr. Belvedere
9:30 Just the Ten of Us
10:00 20/20 - Lesbian mothers' problems and lifestyles; the Dalai Lama
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:30 Nightline
MIDNIGHT Movie: "The Initiation of Sarah" (1978) - Kay Lenz, Shelley Winters

9 WWOR
6:00 Snorks
6:30 Popeye (Paramount Fleischer/Famous Studios version)
7:00 Beverly Hills Teens
7:30 Jetsons
8:00 Gumby
8:30 My Little Pony
9:00 Care Bears
9:30 I Dream of Jeannie
10:00 People Are Taking
NOON Channel 9 News
1:00 Love Connection
1:30 Sweethearts
2:00 Newlywed Game - Paul Rodriguez
2:30 Dating Game
3:00 Cannon
4:00 Hawaii Five-O
5:00 T.J. Hooker
6:00 Matt Houston
7:00 Cosby Show
7:30 Mets Baseball: hosting San Diego Padres
10:30 Channel 9 News
11:30 Morton Downey Jr.
12:30 Arsenio Hall - Guests: Morton Downey Jr., Dr. Ruth Westheimer
1:30 Joe Franklin

11 WPIX
5:00 US Farm Report
5:30 News
6:00 Rangel Report
6:30 Alice
7:00 Smurfs Adventures
7:30 Jem
8:00 Bionic Six
8:30 Ghostbusters (Filmation)
9:00 Hollywood Squares - Panel: Joan Rivers (center square), Jm J. Bullock, Lyle Alzado, Robin Mattson, Calvert DeForest (as Larry "Bud" Melman), John Mulrooney, Charles Nelson Reilly, Susan Ruttan, Robin Swoboda (announcer Shadoe Stevens was off that week; the celebrities introduced themselves)
9:30 Best Talk in Town
10:00 Alice
10:30 Eight is Enough
11:30 Laverne & Shirley
NOON Carson's Comedy Classics
12:30 Movie: "Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte" (1964) - Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland
3:00 G.I. Joe
3:30 C.O.P.S.
4:00 Fun House
4:30 Gong Show
5:00 Little House on the Prairie
6:00 Star Trek (original)
7:00 Cheers
7:30 INN: The Independent News
8:00 Movie: "Running Scared" (1986) - Gregory Hines, Billy Crystal
10:00 USA Tonight
10:30 Yankees Baseball: at California Angels
1:00 Cop Talk: Behind the Shield - Sonny Grosso
2:00 Runaway With the Rich & Famous
2:30 USA Tonight
3:00 World Wide Wrestling

13 WNET (PBS)
5:00 Disappearing World
6:00 New Jersey Network News
6:30 Great Chefs of the West
7:00 Eleventh Hour (from previous night)
7:30 Sesame Street
8:30 Mister Rogers - "Key to Otherland" Opera performed (1975)
9:00 Sesame Street (20th Season Finale) - Luis and Maria welcome their new baby daughter Gabriela ("Gabi")
10:00 Adventure: "Into the Great Solitude"
11:00 French in Action
11:30 Learn to Read
NOON Instructional Programs
2:00 Joy of Painting
2:30 This Old House
3:00 Great Chefs of the West
3:30 Sesame Street (20th Season Finale)
4:30 Mister Rogers
5:00 Reading Rainbow
5:30 3-2-1 Contact
6:00 New Jersey Network News
6:30 Nightly Business Report
7:00 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour
8:00 Adam Smith's Money World
8:30 Wall $treet Week
9:00 Live From Lincoln Center - "Ray Charles in Concert With the New York City Ballet"; Peter Martins' ballet "A Fool for You"
10:00 Voice/Dance - Bobby McFerrin and the Tandy Beale Dance Company
10:30 Metro Week in Review
11:00 Eleventh Hour
11:30 Movie: "Quartet" (1981) - Isabel Adjani, Alan Bates
1:15 26 Bathrooms - Director Peter Greenaway tours British bathrooms

21 WLIW (secondary PBS) Garden City, Long Island
5:00 Great Decisions
5:30 Bill Moyers' World of Ideas
6:00 Nightly Business Report
6:30 Yoga with Priscilla (Patrick)
7:00 Lilias! (new title for Lilias, Yoga and You)
7:30 Body Electric
8:00 Sesame Street (20th Season Finale)
9:00 French in Action
9:30 Kinetic Karnival
10:00 Instructional Programs
10:30 Desk Set
11:00 3-2-1 Contact
11:30 Instrucitonal Programs
NOON Signing with Cindy
12:30 Instructional Programs
1:00 Carrascolendas
1:30 Scientific Eye
2:00 Global Links
2:30 Reading Rainbow
3:00 Mister Rogers - "Key to Otherland" opera
3:30 Sesame Street
4:30 Reading Rainbow
5:00 Sesame Street
6:00 World of Survival
6:30 Nightly Business Report
7:00 Contact: Long Island
8:00 Washington Week in Review
8:30 Wall $treet Week
9:00 Fresh Fields
9:30 Bless Me, Father
10:00 Yes, Minister
10:30 All at No. 20
11:00 Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
11:30 Many Wives of Patrick

55 WLIG Riverhead, Long Island
6:30 CNN Headline News
7:00 Body by Jake
7:30 Paid Program
8:00 News
8:30 Beachcombers
9:00 Ask Washington
10:00 Movie: "Walking Through the Fire" (1979) - Bess Armstrong, Tom Mason
NOON 700 Club
1:00 Coast to Coast
2:00 Relatively Speaking
2:30 Cisco Kid
3:00 Family Affair
3:30 My Three Sons
4:00 DuckTales
4:30 Top Cat
5:00 Eight is Enough
6:00 Hart to Hart
7:00 Quincy
8:00 Movie: "National Lampoon's Animal House" (1978) - John Belushi, Tim Matheson, John Vernon
10:00 CNN Headline News
10:30 Paid Program
11:00 Movie: "The Concorde...Airport '79" (1979) - Alain Delon, Susan Blakely, Robert Wagner, George Kennedy, Eddie Albert, Charo
 
Curiously, TV Guide billed the Now You See It revival as a debuting show. Whoever wrote the copy must have forgotten the '74 show.
 
TVCOOL said:
Why would WPIX air NWA Worldwide Wrestling at 3am Saturday instead of a hour (for example 12 noon or 1pm Saturday) that's easy to watch?
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Something for the night owls, I guess.
 
1989 is right around the height of WWF(E)'s "Rock-n-Wrestling era", with Hulk Hogan still as wrestling's biggest star (with all due respect to Ric Flair), and particularly in the Northeastern US, Vince McMahon and his merry band of "carnies" always dominated in popularity. However, even WWF by the early-to-mid 90s was losing popularity, as Hogan, Randy Savage, and many other stalwarts of the Rock-n-Wrestling era either retired, passed away (such as Andre the Giant in 1993), or fled to join Ted Turner's World Championship Wrestling, not unlike what happened a decade earlier when McMahon was going after talent from other promotions, most particularly from Verne Gagne's American Wrestling Association

Besides NWA/Jim Crockett Promotions (the forerunner of WCW) on TBS and WWF (weekly TV on USA Network and local syndication including on the Fox O&Os), the only other promotions that had some kind of national TV at this particular time were a dying American Wrestling Association (weekly TV on ESPN and local syndication in some cities) and World Class Championship Wrestling (which shut down in 1990), the Dallas-based promotion founded and owned by Fritz Von Erich (real name Jack Adkisson) that featured his sons Kevin, David, Kerry, Mike, and Chris as the "top stars" of the company amongst other established and up-and-coming names in wrestling. Not until the "Monday Night Wars" of the late '90s to early 2000s that someone else challenged WWF/E, but their two main rivals (WCW and a to lesser extent, Extreme Championship Wrestling) both went out of business in 2001.
 
I never was a fan of WWF, which is why i watched American Gladiators when it and Saturday Night's Main Event aired at the same time. (One on WLOS, the other on WYFF). Even though Vince McMahon and his merry band of "carnies" always dominated in popularity, i think AG gave the WWF a run for its money between 1989-1993.
 
RandTV said:
2 WCBS
2:00 (AM) Nightwatch
6:00 This Morning's Business
6:30 CBS Morning News
7:00 CBS This Morning
9:00 The Judge
9:30 On Trial
10:00 Family Feud
10:30 Now You See It - Chuck Henry (short-lived revival of 1974-75 Goodson game show, hosted by Jack Narz)
11:00 Price is Right
NOON Channel 2 News
12:30 Young and Restless
1:30 Bold and Beautiful
2:00 As the World Turns
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 Superior Court
4:30 People's Court
5:00 Channel 2 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 This Evening (local newsmagazine
7:30 Whee of Fortune
8:00 Beauty and the Beast
9:00 Dallas
10:00 Falcon Crest
11:00 Channel 2 News
11:30 Pat Sajak - Guests: Vanna White (clips were shown of her 1980 contestant appearance on The Price is Right; she never won her way out of Contestants Row), Rick Schroder (Staten Island native), Billy Martin (one of his last TV appearances before his fatal traffic accident the following Christmas), Earl Klugh, Pam Stone
1:00 Movie: "Terror of Frankenstein" (1975) - Leon Vitali, Per Oscarsson
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Chuck Henry on Now You See it. Chuck Henry is forgotten in other parts of the USA except for Los Angeles where he is a legendary Local TV Anchor. Note there is a time between 1979-1983 where Chuck Henry was in Chicago before he returned to Los Angeles on KABC-TV and KNBC-TV as anchor/reporter.


 
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