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Retro: Northern Wisconsin/Western U.P. Michigan Sun, Mar 10, 1991

from TV Guide-Northern Wisconsin edition
Michigan stations listed CT
PBS station airtimes approximate due to pledge periods


2 WBAY-CBS Green Bay
3 WISC-CBS Madison
4 WTMJ-NBC Milwaukee
5 WFRV-ABC Green Bay (and WJMN 3-Escanaba)
6 WITI-CBS Milwaukee
6* WLUC-CBS/NBC Marquette
7 WSAW-CBS Wausau
8 WKBT-CBS La Crosse
9 WAOW-ABC Wausau (and WXOW 19-La Crosse/WKOW 27-Madison)
10 WMVS-PBS Milwaukee
11 WLUK-NBC Green Bay
12 WISN-ABC Milwaukee
12* WJFW-NBC Rhinelander
13 WNMU-PBS Marquette
13* WEAU-NBC Eau Claire
18 WVTV-Ind Milwaukee
20 WHRM-PBS Wausau
24 WCGV-Fox Milwaukee
26 WGBA-Ind Green Bay
32 WXGZ-Fox Appleton
36 WLEF-PBS Park Falls
38 WPNE-PBS Green Bay (and WHWC 28-Eau Claire/WHLA 31-La Crosse/55 Ellison Bay)
50d WKBD-Fox Detroit

Morning
5:00
4 Headline News
6 Home Shopping Club
6* Kid 'n Play
12 That's the Spirit
18 Infomercials
24 Movie "Whose Life is It Anyway?"
50d It's Your Business

5:30
6* Saved by the Bell
12 Christopher Closeup
18 America's Black Forum
50d Washington Report

5:55
4 This is the Life

6:00
6 Barry Silberg
6* Camp Candy
9 WCW Wrestling
11-18 Infomercials
12 Catch the Spirit
13* Saturday Videos (host Raven-Symone; music from Wilson Phillips and Vanilla Ice; 13 was the only Northern WI station carrying the show)
20-36-38 By the Numbers
50d Robert Schuller

6:25
4 Reflections

6:30
3 This is the Life
4 Human Rights
6 TV Sunday Mass
6* Guys Next Door
7 Jesuit Journal
8 Cajun Country
12 Infomercial
12* Divine Plan
13* Facts of Life
18 Richie Rich

6:45
4 Face to Face

7:00
2-7 Catholic Mass
3-9-24 Infomercials
4 Sunday Today (a look at Jim Palmer's attempted comeback)
6-12* Robert Schuller
6* Good Fishing
8 Reunion
10 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
12 Look In
13* Facts of Life
18 Fantastic Max
20-36-38 Basic Statistical Methods
26 D. James Kennedy
32 Dragon Warrior
50d Church of Today

7:30
2 Oral Roberts
3 Family Ties
6* Let the Bible Speak
7 Day of Discovery
8 Infomercial
9-13* Ed Gugnor
10 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
12 Kenneth Copeland
18 Don Coyote & Sancho Panda
32 Captain Planet

8:00
2-3-6-6*-7-8 CBS News Sunday Morning (a NYC exhibition of artwork by kids from around the world/look at California drought)
5 Robert Schuller
9 D. James Kennedy
10-13 Sesame Street
12* Kenneth Copeland
13* Sunday Today
18 Midnight Patrol
20-36-38 Race to Save the Planet
26 Ernest Angley
32 Richie Rich
50d Straight Talk

8:30
4 Meet the Press
11 Day of Discovery
12 In Reality, Elmbrook Church
18 Widget
24 Gomer Pyle, USMC
32 Fantastic Max
50d Pistons Weekly

9:00
4 Menus Around Milwaukee
5 Larry Jones
9 Movie "Charlie Chan and the Sky Dragon" (bw)
10 Sesame Street
11 Sunday Today
12 Wall Street Journal Report
12* George Vandeman
13 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
18 Hang Tough Milwaukee (looks at a drug-education and prevention campaign by kids for kids)
20-36-38 McLaughlin Group
24 American Gladiators
26 Infomercial
32 Don Coyote & Sancho Panda
50d WWF Wrestling

9:30
2 Kenneth Copeland
3-6*-7 Face the Nation
4-5 Infomercials
6-8 World Tomorrow
12 This Week with David Brinkley
12*-13* Meet the Press
13 Economics U$A
20-36-38 Market to Market
26 America's Top 10
32 Midnight Patrol

10:00
3 Apostolate to the Handicapped
5 George Vandeman
6 Larry Jones
6* Finland Calling (March 27th marks the show's 48th year on the air)
7 Choice is Yours
8 Robert Schuller
10 Sesame Street
12*-13* Infomercials
18 My Secret Identity
20-36-38 Joseph Campbell & the Power of Myth
24 A-Team
26 Home Again
32 Oscor's Place
50d American Gladiators

10:30
2 Real Estate Classifieds
3 For the Record
4 Discover Wisconsin
5-9 This Week with David Brinkley
6 Oral Roberts
7 Bingoneida
11 Meet the Press
12 Channel 12 This Week
13 For Veterans Only
13* Home Again
18 Superboy
26 Munsters Today

11:00
2-3-6-6*-7-8 Big East Basketball Championship: Seton Hall defeats Georgetown 74-62
4-11-12*-13* NBA: Chicago-Atlanta
10 Wisconsin Week
12 WWF Wrestling
13 McLaughlin Group
18 Super Force
20-36-38 Joseph Campbell & the Power of Myth
24 Andy Griffith (bw)
26 College Basketball: Indiana-Illinois
32 Steve Yoder (Wisconsin-Madison basketball)
50d Star Trek: The Next Generation

11:30
5 Bingoneida
9 Discover Wisconsin
10 Business of Wisconsin
13 Wall Street Week
18 Steve Yoder
24 Andy Griffith (bw)
32 Arthur Murray

Afternoon
noon
5 Infomercial
9 Saying Kaddish
10 Wall Street Week
12 Simon & Simon
13 American Interests
18 Movie "Gator"
24-50d Movie "The Milagro Beanfield War"
32 WWF Wrestling

12:15
20-36-38 Joseph Campbell & the Power of Myth

12:30
5 Wild Kingdom
10 Washington Week in Review
13 Media Meet

1:00
5-9-12 College Basketball: Ohio State-Iowa
10 National Georgraphic
13 Market to Market
26 Fishing North America
32 21 Jump Street

1:15
2-3-6-6*-7-8 ACC Basketball Championship: UNC 91, Duke 74

1:30
13 Living with Animals
20-36-38 Moyers' Gathering of Men
26 Simply Fishing

1:45
4-11-12*-13* SportsWorld: World Indoor Track & Field Championships

2:00
10 Great Performances
13 Eyes on the Prize "Mississippi: Is This America?"
18 Movie "Six Against the Rock"
24-26 Exhibition Baseball: Milwaukee-Cubs (at Mesa)
32 Hee Haw
50d Movie "Telefon"

3:00
4-11-12*-13* Golf: Honda Classic
5-9-12 SEC Basketball Championship: Alabama won, couldn't find a score anywhere
13 All Creatures Great & Small
32 My Secret Identity

3:30
2-3-6-6*-7-8 Olympic Winterfest: women's World Cup downhill & Super G (from Lake Louise)
20-36-38 Movie "Lantern Hill"
32 Out of This World

3:35
10 Bernstein in East Berlin

4:00
13 Mystery! "Poirot: The Mysterious Affair at Styles" (pt 1)
18 Harry & the Hendersons
32 Star Search
50d Growing Pains

4:30
18 ALF
50d Three's Company

5:00
2-11-12-13* News
3-6*-7 CBS Evening News
4 Jeopardy!
5 ABC World News Sunday
6-8 Infomercial
9 Money Game
12* Good Fishing
13 Mystery! (conclusion of the Poirot story from earlier)
18 Out of This World
24 All in the Family
26 Movie "Arsenic and Old Lace"
32 Star Trek: The Next Generation
50d Head of the Class

5:10
10 Tchaikoveky 150th Birthday Gala (from Leningrad's Great Hall with Itzhak Perlman, Yo-Yo Ma, Jessye Norman, and Boris Berezovsky joing Yuir Temikanov and the Leningrad Philharmonic)

5:30
2-3-6-6*-7-8 NCAA Basketball Tournament Pairings
4-11-12*-13* NBC Nightly News
5 Tony Dean Outdoors
9-12 ABC World News Sunday
18 Head of the Class
24 All in the Family
50d Yearbook (Green Bay saw it the previous night at 10:30 on Fox 32; some of Saturday night's primetime programs aired one day later that week due to a Pistons game)

Evening
6:00
2-3-6-6*-7-8 60 Minutes
4 Silent Killer: Women & Heart Disease
5-9-12 Life Goes On (guest star Leon Redbone)
11 Billy Graham Crusade "How to Get to Heaven"
12*-13* Super Bloopers & Practical Jokes
13 Lawrence Welk
18 Growing Pains
20-36-38 Our Neighbor: Fred Rogers
24-32-50d True Colors

6:30
18 Sledge Hammer
24-32-50d Parker Lewis Can't Lose

7:00
2-3-6-6*-7-8 Murder, She Wrote
4-11-12*-13* Expose
5-9-12 America's Funniest Home Videos
13 Nature "Grand Teton Wilderness"
18 Twilight Zone
20-36-38 Baby Panda
24-32-50d In Living Color
26 New Dragnet

7:10
10 Mystery! (see 13, 4pm)

7:30
4-11-12*-13* Real Life
5-9-12 America's Funniest People
18 Amen
24-32-50d Get a Life
26 New Adam-12

8:00
2-3-6-6*-7-8 Movie "Aftermath: A Test of Love"
4-11-12*-13* Movie "Three Men and a Baby"
5-9-12 Movie "Married to the Mob"
13 Masterpiece Theatre "The Six Wives of Henry VIII" (pt 5, from 1972)
18 Gunsmoke
20-36-38 Nature "Giant Otters"
24-32-50d Married...with Children
26 Movie "Coach"

8:20
10 Mystery! (conclusion of Poirot)

8:30
24-32-50d Good Grief

9:00
18 Hunter
24-32 Comic Strip: Primetime (from Key West, host Dave Thomas welcomes Tom Kenny, Stephanie Hodge, George Wallace, Rick Overton, and Bob Nickman)
50d News

9:15
20-36-38 Simon & Garfunkel (their 1981 Central Park show)

9:30
50d Sports Xtra

9:45
10 Masterpiece Theatre (see 13, 8pm for details)

10:00
2-3-4-6-6*-7-8-11-12*-13* News
13 Stage 9 (guests Robin Flower and Libby McLaren)
18 Love Boat
24 Bob Newhart
26 Crime Stoppers 800
32 Arsenio Hall (guests Ted Shackleford and Natalie Cole)
50d Comic Strip: Primetime (see 9pm, 24/32 for info)

10:15
5-9-12 News

10:30
2-7 Night Court
3 Siskel & Ebert
6 Kevin O'Neill (Marquette basketball)
6* LA Law
8 Sports Overtime
11 Family Ties
12* George Michael Sports Machine
13 American Art Forum
13* TV13 Outdoors
24 Arsenio Hall (see 10pm, 32 for info)
26 Jack Van Impe

10:35
4 Sunday Night

10:40
6 Night Court

10:45
5 Simon & Simon
8 CBS News
9 Baby Talk (premiere; 9 aired high school basketball tournament the previous Fri (as did 18/32))
12 M*A*S*H

11:00
2 Trapper John, MD
3 Star Trek (The Cage, the show's pilot which never aired during the show's original run)
7 D. James Kennedy
8-18 Infomercial
11-12* Entertainment Tonight
13* Odd Couple (guest star Deacon Jones)
26 WWF Wrestling
32 Party Machine with Nia Peeples (guests Jasmine Guy and After 7)
50d Kenneth Copeland

11:05
4 Hunter
20-36-38 Masterpiece Theatre (see 8pm, 13 for info)

11:10
6 Night Court

11:15
9 Married...with Children (Wausau didn't get full-time Fox until WFXS signed-on in 1999; until then, 9 had a secondary Fox affiliation, including football)
12 Missing/Reward

11:30
6* CBS News
7 Steve Yoder
8 Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous (guests Katherine Helmond, David Frost, Alabama, and Paul Bocuse)
13* Movie "The Sky's the Limit" (bw)
18 Movie "Abbott and Costello in Hollywood" (bw)
24 Infomercial

11:40
6 Barney Miller

11:45
5-12 Siskel & Ebert
9 Movie "Lone Wolf McQuade"

Late Night
midnight
2 Magnum, PI
3 Combat! (bw)
11 George Michael Sports Machine
12* Star Trek: The Next Generation
26 Bob Izumi Real Fishing Show
32 Crook & Chase
50d Day to Care for the Children (World Vision, I think)

12:05
4 Ebony/Jet Showcase

12:10
6 Jesse Jackson

12:15
5 Guns of Will Sonnett
12 Tales from the Darkside

12:30
8 Byron Allen (guests Tony! Toni! Tone!, Steve Mittleman, and Corin Nemec)
26 Dracula

12:35
4 Weekend Travel Update
20-36-38 Jack Horkheimer: Star Hustler

12:45
5 Bingoneida
12 Monsters

1:00
2 CBS News
3 CBS News Nightwatch
18 Green Acres
26 My Talk Show

1:05
4 Infomercial

1:10
6 Face the Nation

1:15
2 CBS News Nightwatch
12 Video Challenge

1:30
18 Green Acres

1:35
4 Trapper John, MD

1:40
6 CBS News

1:45
12 News

2:00
18 Greyhound Racing

2:15
12 Byron Allen (see 12:30am, 8 for info)

2:30
18 Gunsmoke

2:35
4 News

3:00
12 Channel 12 This Week

3:05
4 Headline News

3:30
12 Look In
18 Infomercials

4:00
12 Morning Agriculture Report

4:30
12 This Morning's Business
 
For our resident rasslin' expert Ultimajock, here are other wrestling times on broadcast TV in the region that week:

WCW
Sat 9am, 18
Sat 1am, 50d

WWF
Sat 11am, 11
Sat 10:30pm, 18
Sat 11:30pm, 8
 
Bluenoser said:
13* WEAU-NBC Eau Claire

6:00
13* Saturday Videos (host Raven-Symone; music from Wilson Phillips and Vanilla Ice; 13 was the only Northern WI station carrying the show)

And delayed from the titular Saturday, to boot.
 
When I visited the U.P. just a couple of years later, I had access to three (and only three) channels.

WNMU - 13, the PBS station from Northern Michigan University
WJMN - 3, the ABC repeater out of Escanaba
WLUC - 6, out of Marquette, was actually juggling shows from CBS, NBC and FOX
(plus a college football game from ABC) on one channel. Pre-empted and less popular
network shows were being time-shifted to the wee hours of the morning.

Since then I understand Marquette has added some stations and this is no
longer necessary. But it was a nice little taste of 1950's Freeze Television
in 1993.
 
Also quite interesting that Channel 6 in Marquette is running Jesse Jackson at midnight here.

(wasn't there a Major League Baseball player who got into trouble a few years ago for pointing
out that "you don't find any Brothers hanging around up there on the U.P. of Michigan"?)
 
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