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Retro: New York City Sat, June 16, 1979

from TV Guide-New York Metro edition
Manhattan translators in brackets after station listing
SALT II coverage may interrupt programs


WCBS 2-CBS New York (and UHF 53)
6:30 Summer Semester "Dilemmas of Science and Technology"
7:00 Patchwork Family
8:00 Popeye
9:00 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
10:30 Tarzan/Super 7
noon Space Academy
12:30 Fat Albert
1:00 Ark II
1:30 CBS Children's Film Festival "Death of a Gandy Dancer" (Canadian)
2:00 Kidsworld (interview with Scott Baio; windmills as alternate sources of power)
2:30 Channel 2 the People (children who are difficult to place for adoption)
3:00 Channel 2 Eye on...
3:30 Journey to Adventure (visiting Colombia)
4:00 Candid Camera
4:30 CBS Sports Spectacular: NASCAR World 600/PBA National Championship finals
6:00 Cheap Show (celeb guests Eva Gabor and Robert Guillaume)
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 News
7:30 Project Parenting Celebration (a wrap-up of the 5-week long program with guests NYC Mayor Ed Koch and Governors Hugh Carey (NY), Brendan Byrne (NJ) and Ella Grasso (CT))
8:00 Bad News Bears
8:30 Mowgli's Brothers (Jeffersons move here next week)
9:00 Movie "The Last of the Good Guys"
11:00 News
11:40 Movie "Life with Father"
2:00 News
2:10 Bonkers! (guest Connie Stevens)
2:40 Movie "Daring Game"
4:40 Movie "Rage in Heaven" (bw)

WFSB 3-CBS Hartford
6:00 Consumer Byline (door-to-door sales of fire alarms)
6:30 Villa Alegre
7:00 Hot Fudge
7:30 Arthur & Company
8:00 Popeye
9:00 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
10:30 Tarzan/Super 7
noon Space Academy
12:30 Fat Albert
1:00 Kidsworld (Baio interview/Hula Hoop Championships)
1:30 CBS Children's Film Festival "Death of a Gandy Dancer"
2:00 Movie "House on Green Apple Road"
4:30 CBS Sports Spectacular
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Agronsky & Company
7:30 World War II: GI Diary (the Flying Fortress flies daylight missions over Germany in 1943)
8:00 Bad News Bears
8:30 Mowgli's Brothers
9:00 Movie "The Last of the Good Guys"
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "Stalag 17" (bw)

WNBC 4-NBC New York (and UHF 57)
6:00 Agriculture USA
6:30 Better Way
7:00 Rebop (profiles a 17-yr-old Puerto Rican boy who wants to be an engineer and a 13-yr-old Chinese boy in Boston)
7:30 Bay City Rollers
8:00 Alvin & the Chipmunks
8:30 Fantastic Four
9:00 Godzilla
10:30 Daffy Duck
11:00 Fred & Barney Meet the Shmoo
11:30 Jetsons
noon Buford & the Galloping Ghost
12:30 Fabulous Funnies
1:00 Go! (a look at "hotdoggers", daredevil acrobats on skis)
1:30 Vision Latina (how NYC Latinos keep their culture alive through music, religion and theater)
2:00 Baseball Warm-Up
2:15 Baseball: Baltimore-Minnesota (alt game: KC-Milwaukee)
5:00 Mary Tyler Moore
5:30 Positively Black
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Topic A
7:30 Price is Right
8:00 CHiPs
9:00 BJ & the Bear
10:00 Supertrain
11:00 News
11:30 Saturday Night Live (in a rerun from February: host Kate Jackson/music by Delbert McClinton, and Andy Kaufman is backed by a conga group to sing I Hear a Yodel)
1:00 Don Kirshner's Rock Concert (guests Barry Manilow, the B.T. Express, and Natalie Cole)
2:30 Movie "The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams"

WNEW 5-Ind New York (and UHF 64)
6:00 Patterns for Living
6:30 Brady Kids
7:00 Abbott & Costello (animated)
7:30 Popeye & Friends
8:00 Flintstones
8:30 Marvel Superheroes
9:00 Birdman
9:30 Shazzan!
10:00 Moby Dick
10:30 Hollywood Teen (guests: Eight is Enough's Willie Aames, Adam Rich, and Susan Richardson)
11:00 Soul Train (guests Gino Vannelli and Gloria Gaynor)
noon Movie "Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon" (bw)
1:30 Gilligan's Island
2:00 Little Rascals (bw)
2:30 Laurel & Hardy Laughtoons
3:00 I Love Lucy (bw)
3:30 Brady Bunch
4:00 Big Valley
5:00 Mission: Impossible (x2)
7:00 Kicks (guests Brooklyn Dreams and Tata Vega)
8:00 Merv Griffin (guests Mickey Rooney, William Shatner, Sheree North, Karen Morrow, Charlie Hill, Greg Evigan, and the chimp from BJ & the Bear)
9:30 Cross-Wits
10:00 News
10:30 Black News
11:00 Soap Factory Disco
11:30 In Celebration of Tutankhamun (looking at the opening of the King Tut exhibit in San Francisco, with Thayer Walker in Cairo and segments from both Cairo and Frisco)
1:00 Movie "Cleopatra" (bw)
3:10 Jack Benny (bw/x2; Bobby Darin guest stars at 3:10, with Nat King Cole at 3:45)

WABC 7-ABC New York (and UHF 66)
6:30 News
7:00 For You...Black Woman (how to buy a wardrobe)
7:30 Magic of Mark Wilson
8:00 Fangface
8:30 Scooby's All-Stars
10:00 Superfriends
11:30 Bigfoot & Wildboy
noon Pink Panther
12:30 American Bandstand (guest Thelma Houston)
1:30 Education Update (guests include Big Apple Games director Nathaniel Lynch)
2:00 Last of the Wild (effects of seasonal changes on Spanish wildlife)
2:30 US Open Golf
6:30 News
7:00 You! (a look at a project at Mercy Hospital on Long Island that provides emotional and medical support for terminally ill patients and their families; host Ellie Dylan)
7:30 Little Vic (pt 3)
8:00 Battlestar Galactica
9:00 Love Boat
10:00 Fantasy Island
11:00 ABC News
11:15 News
11:30 Movie "Valdez is Coming"
1:20 Movie "The Young Savages" (bw)
3:20 News

WTNH 8-ABC New Haven
6:00 Children's Gospel Hour
6:30 Davey & Goliath
6:45 New Day "The Mystery of God"
7:00 Little Rascals (bw)
8:00 Fangface
8:30 Scooby's All-Stars
10:00 Superfriends
11:30 Bigfoot & Wildboy
noon Pink Panther
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 Newsmakers
2:00 Make It Real "Affirmative Action: Phase II"
2:30 US Open Golf
6:30 Price is Right
7:00 News
7:30 Connecticut Woman "The Art of Being a Woman" (women in the visual arts; host Gerry Webb)
8:00 Battlestar Galactica
9:00 Love Boat
10:00 Fantasy Island
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "Walk, Don't Run"
1:45 ABC News

WOR 9-Ind New York (and UHF 71)
7:30 News
8:00 Davey & Goliath (x2)
8:30 Viewpoint on Nutrition (dietary programs to help promote physical rehab)
9:00 Daniel Boone
10:00 Movie "Creature of the Walking Dead" (bw)
11:30 Movie "The Creature Walks Among Us" (bw)
1:00 Movie "Bend of the River"
3:00 Movie "Another Part of the Forest" (bw)
5:00 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
6:00 World at War (Japan enters WWII)
7:00 Baseball: Atlanta-Mets
10:00 Second City Television Network
10:30 Horse Racing: Roosevelt
11:00 NASL Soccer: Cosmos-Vancouver
1:00 Movie "Invasion of the Animal People" (bw)
2:40 News

WPIX 11-Ind New York (and UHF 73)
7:00 Carrascolendas
7:30 Aprenda Ingles
8:00 Dusty's Treehouse
8:30 Big Blue Marble (a magic cat, teens who breed miniature farm animals, a youth on the hunt for Nessie)
9:00 Family Affair
9:30 Herald of Truth "Life, Death and Destiny"
10:00 Jerry Falwell "Let Us Labour Therefore"
11:00 Hee Haw (guests Tennessee Ernie Ford and Jody Miller)
noon Soul Alive (Gerry Bledsoe welcome the Rolling Stones and Cissy Houston)
1:00 Mr. Wizard
1:30 Get Smart
2:00 Twilight Zone (bw/x2)
3:00 Mod Squad
4:00 Space: 1999
5:00 Emergency One!
6:00 Star Trek
7:00 Odd Couple
7:30 Dance Fever (judges Wolfman Jack, Phyllis Diller and Ted Lange/music by the Sylvers)
8:00 This Week in Baseball
8:30 Baseball: Yankees-Texas
11:00 News
11:30 Odd Couple
mid. Rookies
1:00 FBI
2:00 Movie "Frankenstein's Bloody Terror"
3:30 News

WNET 13-PBS New York (and UHF 75)
8:00 Sesame Street
9:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9:30 Once Upon a Classic "The Copter Kids"
10:30 Sesame Street
11:30 Que Pasa, USA?
noon Here's to Your Health
12:30 Crockett's Victory Garden
1:00 Views of Asia (pt 1 looks at Indonesia)
2:00 Other Side of Victory
3:00 Four Freshmen in Concert
4:00 Pro Soccer (x2)
6:00 New Jersey News
6:30 Another Voice
7:00 Inside Albany
7:30 Agronsky & Company
8:00 Meeting of Minds (Shakespeare meets his characters Romeo, Othello and Hamlet)
9:00 Previn & the Pittsburgh
10:00 Movie "Beauty and the Beast" (bw)
11:30 Sea Bird

WATR 20-NBC Waterbury
8:00 Alvin & the Chipmunks
8:30 Fantastic Four
9:00 Godzilla
10:30 Daffy Duck
11:00 Fred & Barney Meet the Shmoo
11:30 Jetsons
noon Buford & the Galloping Ghost
12:30 Fabulous Funnies
1:00 Moon Man Connection
2:00 Baseball Warm-Up
2:15 Baseball: Baltimore-Minnesota (alt game: KC-Milwaukee)
5:00 Directors' Playhouse (bw)
5:30 Journey to Adventure (visiting Hong Kong)
6:00 Wild Kingdom (safari in Rhodesia)
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Nashville on the Road (guest Gene Watson)
7:30 Soap Factory Disco (guests Samantha Sang, Direct Current, and Dee Dee Bridgewater)
8:00 CHiPs
9:00 BJ & the Bear
10:00 Supertrain
11:00 Dick Van Dyke (bw)
11:30 Saturday Night Live

WLIW 21-PBS Garden City
3:30pm German
4:00 Photography...Here's How
4:30 Here's to Your Health
5:00 Crockett's Victory Garden
5:30 Washington Week in Review
6:00 Wall Street Week
6:30 Herb Gardening
7:00 Even You Can Grow Houseplants
7:30 Previn & the Pittsburgh
8:30 Sneak Previews
9:00 Brooklyn College
9:30 Hocking Valley Bluegrass (Kenny Sidle performs with Paul King & the Ohio River Boys)
10:00 Austin City Limits (guests Chet Atkins and Merle Travis)

WNYE 25-PBS New York
4pm Lilias, Yoga & You
4:30 Academy Leaders (showing short subjects Adolescence, Neighbors, and City of Gold)
5:30 Living Tomorrow
5:45 Self, Incorporated
6:00 Originals: Writers in America (exploring the literary world of Toni Morrison)
6:30 Washington Week in Review
7:00 Previn & the Pittsburgh (Oscar Peterson joins Andre Previn to discuss their mutual idol Art Tatum)

WNYC 31-PBS New York (and UHF 79)
4pm Best of Families (pt 5)
5:00 Royal Heritage (revival of arts and sciences that accompanied the Stuart Revolution)
6:00 Long Search (a look at Hinduism)
7:00 Originals: Women in Art (a look at sculptor Louise Nevelson)
7:30 Newsmagazine
8:00 Independent Film & Video Festival "Making It in Hollywood"/"Mission to Mongo"/"Nor was This All by Any Means"/"The Trouble I've Seen"
9:00 Nova "Cashing In on the Ocean"
10:00 Views of Asia (visiting Singapore and Hong Kong)

WXTV 41-Sp New York
noon Rosario de Amor
1:00 Orientaction Publica
1:30 Programa de Cocina (Turner)
2:00 Pelicula "Cuando el amor llega"
4:00 Soccer
6:00 Noches Tapatias
6:30 Carabina de Ambrosio
7:00 Telerevista Deportiva
8:00 Sabado Loco
9:00 Disco Fiebre
11:00 Boxeo

WNJU 47-Sp/Ethnic Newark (and UHF 62)
11:00 Enigma
11:30 At the Table
noon Yugoslav Program
12:30 Greece with You
1:30 Greek Alive
2:00 Consultorio Espiritual
2:30 Boxeo
3:30 Soccer
4:30 Para Ti Colombia
5:00 Awilda les Divierte
6:00 Tribuna del Pueblo
6:30 La Comunidad en Marcha
7:00 Santo Domingo Invita
8:00 Ikkyusan
8:30 Kayou Daigassen
9:30 Japanese News
9:45 Weekly News from Japan
10:00 Ohgon no Hibi
11:00 Shiroi Chiheisen

WEDW 49-Bridgeport/WEDY 65-New Haven (CPTV/PBS)
8:00 Sesame Street
9:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9:30 Once Upon a Classic "The Copter Kids"
10:30 Royal Heritage
11:30 Bill Moyers' Journal
12:30 Crockett's Victory Garden
1:00 Washington Week in Review
1:30 Wall Street Week
2:00 Public Policy Forums
3:00 Defusing Cancer's Time Bombs
3:30 Catalogue
4:00 Wilderness
4:30 Life Around Us
5:00 Studio See
5:30 Here's to Your Health
6:00 Lookin' Better
6:30 Another Voice
7:00 Que Pasa, USA?
7:30 Crockett's Victory Garden
8:00 Meeting of Minds
9:00 Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
10:00 Best of Families
11:00 Monty Python's Flying Circus

WNJM 50-Montclair/WNJB 58-New Brunswick (NJN/PBS)
4pm That's It in Sports
4:30 Studio See
5:00 Question!
5:30 North Jersey Weekly
6:00 New Jersey News
6:30 Footsteps
7:00 Imagenes Latinas
7:30 Que Pasa, USA?
8:00 Austin City Limits
9:00 Glittering Prizes
10:30 Wodehouse Playhouse

WTVG 68-Ind/Ethnic Newark (and UHF 60)
8:00 Hour of Truth
9:00 True Witness
10:00 Reflections of India
11:30 Public Defender
noon American Angler
12:30 American Outdoors
1:00 Movie "Ape Man"
2:30 1979 Virginia 500 Highlights (auto race)
3:00 Polka Time
4:00 Polish Program
5:00 Ukrainian Melody Program (Roman Marynowych)
5:30 Yugoslav Program
6:00 Mike Zapiti Greek Program
7:00 Moon Man Connection
 
Bluenoser said:
WNBC 4-NBC New York (and UHF 57)
1:00 Go! (a look at "hotdoggers", daredevil acrobats on skis)

Was this a local program, or reruns of the Saturday morning NBC series (which ended in 1976)?

Bluenoser said:
WTVG 68-Ind/Ethnic Newark (and UHF 60)
7:00 Moon Man Connection

Did "Subscription Television" from WHT follow at 8PM?
 
My guess is Wometco Home Theater programming indeed followed; my question is, did Channel 67 in Smithtown simulcast Channel 68 at this time?
 
DToTheJ said:
My guess is Wometco Home Theater programming indeed followed; my question is, did Channel 67 in Smithtown simulcast Channel 68 at this time?

Good question...neither 67 or WHT programs were listed at the time...
 
azumanga said:
Bluenoser said:
WNBC 4-NBC New York (and UHF 57)
1:00 Go! (a look at "hotdoggers", daredevil acrobats on skis)

Was this a local program, or reruns of the Saturday morning NBC series (which ended in 1976)?


Listings didn't indicate one way or another ???
 
DToTheJ said:
My guess is Wometco Home Theater programming indeed followed; my question is, did Channel 67 in Smithtown simulcast Channel 68 at this time?

No . . . at the time, WTVG's New York translator was W60AI Channel 60.
 
As for the calls of the other translators for the other stations:
WCBS-TV: W53AA (now WKOB-LD)
WNBC-TV: W57AB
WNEW-TV: W64AA
WABC-TV: W66AA
WOR-TV: W71AK
WPIX: W73AP (now WEBR-CD)
WNET: W75AM
WNJU-TV: W62AA
Still unknown: the translator calls for WNYC-TV 31's Ch. 79.
 
Bluenoser said:
DToTheJ said:
My guess is Wometco Home Theater programming indeed followed; my question is, did Channel 67 in Smithtown simulcast Channel 68 at this time?

Good question...neither 67 or WHT programs were listed at the time...

TV Guide didn't usually list programs from over-the-air pay services back then. As for WSNL/67,
they left the air back in 1975, and did not return until December of '79. A year later its local
ownership sold 67 to Wometco(WWHT/68's owner), and WSNL started simulcasting WWHT's signal.
The two stations are now owned by Univision and are affiliates of Telefutura.
 
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