Retro: Northern Wisconsin/Western UP Michigan Sun 3/10/91

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from TV Guide, Northern Wisconsin edition
Marquette/Detroit stations listed CT

WBAY 2-Green Bay (CBS)
7:00 Catholic Mass
7:30 Oral Roberts
8:00 CBS News Sunday Morning
9:30 Kenneth Copeland
10:30 Real Estate Classifieds
11:00 Big East Basketball Championship (from NYC)
1:15 ACC Basketball Championship (from Charlotte)
3:30 Olympic WinterFest (Women's World Cup Downhill & Super G/Men's World Cup Speedskating Championships)
5:00 News
5:30 NCAA Basketball Tournament Pairings (from Kansas City)
6:00 60 Minutes
7:00 Murder, She Wrote
8:00 Movie "Aftermath: A Test of Love"
10:00 News
10:30 Night Court
11:00 Trapper John, MD
Mid. Magnum, PI
1:00 CBS News
1:15 CBS News Nightwatch

WFRV 5-Green Bay/WJMN-3 Escanaba (ABC)
5:00 Infomercials
8:00 Robert Schuller
9:00 Larry Jones
9:30 Infomercial
10:00 George Vandeman (It is Written)
10:30 This Week with David Brinkley
11:30 Bingoneida
Noon Infomercial
12:30 Wild Kingdom
1:00 College Basketball: Ohio State-Iowa
3:00 SEC Basketball Championship (at Nashville)
5:00 ABC World News Tonight
5:30 Tony Dean Outdoors
6:00 Life Goes On
7:00 America's Funniest Home Videos
7:30 America's Funniest Videos
8:00 Movie "Married to the Mob"
10:15 News
10:45 Simon & Simon
11:45 Siskel & Ebert
12:15 Guns of Will Sonnett
12:45 Bingoneida
1:15 sign-off

WLUK 11-Green Bay (NBC)
6:00 Infomercials
8:30 Day of Discovery
9:00 Sunday Today
10:30 Meet the Press
11:00 NBA: Chicago-Atlanta
1:45 NBC SportsWorld (World Indoor Track & Field Championships)
3:00 PGA Golf: Honda Classic
5:00 News
5:30 NBC Nightly News
6:00 Billy Graham Crusade
7:00 Expose
7:30 Real Life
8:00 Movie "Three Men & a Baby"
10:00 News
10:30 Family Ties
11:00 Entertainment Tonight
Mid. George Michael Sports Machine
12:30 sign-off

WGBA 26-Green Bay (Ind)
7:00 D. James Kennedy
8:00 Ernest Angley
9:00 Infomercial
9:30 America's Top 10
10:00 Home Again
10:30 Munsters Today
11:00 College Basketball: Indiana-Illinois
1:00 Fishing North America
1:30 Simply Fishing
2:00 Exhibition Baseball: Milwaukee-Chicago Cubs (at Mesa, AZ)
5:00 Movie "Arsenic & Old Lace" (colorized)
7:00 New Dragnet
7:30 New Adam-12
8:00 Movie "Coach"
10:00 Crime Stoppers 800
10:30 Jack Van Impe
11:00 WWF Wrestling
Mid. Bob Izumi's Real Fishing Show
12:30 Dracula
1:00 My Talk Show
1:30 sign-off

WPNE 38-Green Bay/WHWC 28-Eau Claire, Menominee/WHLA 31-La Crosse/WHRM 20-Wausau (PBS)
6:00 By the Numbers
7:00 Basic Statistical Methods
8:00 Race to Save the Planet
9:00 McLaughlin Group
9:30 Market to Market
10:00 Joseph Campbell & the Power of Myth Marathon
1:30 Moyers Gathering of Men
3:30 Movie "Lantern Hill" (WonderWorks Special)
6:00 Our Neighbor: Fred Rogers
7:00 Baby Panda
8:00 Nature
9:15 Simon & Garfunkel
11:05 Masterpiece Theatre
12:35 Jack Horkheimer: Star Hustler
12:40 sign-off

WXGZ 32-Appleton/Green Bay (Fox)
7:00 Dragon Warrior
7:30 Captain Planet
8:00 Richie Rich
8:30 Fantastic Max
9:00 Don Coyote & Sancho Panda
9:30 Midnight Patrol
10:00 Oscor's Place
11:00 Steve Yoder: Basketball
11:30 Arthur Murray
Noon WWF Wrestling
1:00 21 Jump Street
2:00 Hee Haw
3:00 My Secret Identity
3:30 Out of This World
4:00 Star Search
5:00 Star Trek: The Next Generation
6:00 True Colors
6:30 Parker Lewis Can't Lose
7:00 In Living Color
7:30 Get a Life
8:00 Married...with Children
8:30 Good Grief
9:00 Comic Strip Primetime
10:00 Arsenio Hall
11:00 Party Machine with Nia Peeples
Mid. Crook & Chase
12:30 sign-off

WSAW 7-Wausau (CBS)
6:30 Jesuit Journal
7:00 Catholic Mass
7:30 Day of Discovery
8:00 CBS News Sunday Morning
9:30 Face the Nation
10:00 The Choice is Yours
10:30 Bingoneida
11:00 Big East Basketball Championship
1:15 ACC Basketball Championship
3:30 Olympic WinterFest
5:00 CBS Evening News
5:30 NCAA Basketball Tournament Pairings
6:00 60 Minutes
7:00 Murder, She Wrote
8:00 Movie "Aftermath: A Test of Love"
10:00 News
10:30 Night Court
11:00 D. James Kennedy
11:30 Steve Yoder: Basketball
Mid. sign-off

WAOW 9-Wausau/WQOW 19-Eau Claire/WKOW-27 Madison (ABC)
6:00 WCW Wrestling
7:00 Infomercial
7:30 Ed Gungor
8:00 D. James Kennedy
9:00 Movie "Charlie Chan & the Sky Dragon"
10:30 This Week with David Brinkley
11:30 Discover Wisconsin
Noon Saying Kaddish
1:00 College Basketball: Ohio State-Iowa
3:00 SEC Basketball Championship
5:00 Money Game
5:30 ABC World News Tonight
6:00 Life Goes On
7:00 America's Funniest Home Videos
7:30 America's Funniest People
8:00 Movie "Married to the Mob"
10:15 News
10:45 Baby Talk
11:15 Married...with Children
11:45 Movie "Lone Wolf McQuade"
2:05 sign-off

WJFW 12-Rhinelander/Wausau (NBC)
6:30 Divine Plan
7:00 Robert Schuller
8:00 Kenneth Copeland
9:00 George Vandeman (It is Written)
9:30 Meet the Press
10:00 Infomercials
11:00 NBA: Chicago-Atlanta
1:45 NBC SportsWorld
3:00 PGA Golf: Honda Classic
5:00 Good Fishing
5:30 NBC Nightly News
6:00 Super Bloopers & Practical Jokes
7:00 Expose
7:30 Real Life
8:00 Movie "Three Men & a Baby"
10:00 News
10:30 George Michael Sports Machine
11:00 Entertainment Tonight
Mid. Star Trek: The Next Generation
1:00 sign-off

WKBT 8-La Crosse (CBS)
6:30 Cajun Country
7:00 Reunion
7:30 Infomercial
8:00 CBS News Sunday Morning
9:30 World Tomorrow
10:00 Robert Schuller
11:00 Big East Basketball Championship
1:15 ACC Basketball Championship
3:30 Olympic WinterFest
5:00 Infomercial
5:30 NCAA Basketball Tournament Pairings
6:00 60 Minutes
7:00 Murder, She Wrote
8:00 Movie "Aftermath: A Test of Love"
10:00 News
10:30 Sports Overtime
10:45 CBS News
11:00 Infomercial
11:30 Lifetyles of the Rich & Famous
12:30 Byron Allen
1:30 sign-off

WEAU 13-Eau Claire (NBC)
6:00 Saturday Videos
6:30 Facts of Life (x2)
7:30 Ed Gungor
8:00 Sunday Today
9:30 Meet the Press
10:00 Infomercial
10:30 Home Again
11:00 NBA: Chicago-Atlanta
1:45 NBC SportsWorld
3:00 PGA Golf: Honda Classic
5:00 News
5:30 NBC Nightly News
6:00 Super Bloopers & Practical Jokes
7:00 Expose
7:30 Real Life
8:00 Movie "Three Men & a Baby"
10:00 News
10:30 TV13 Outdoors
11:00 Odd Couple
11:30 Movie "The Sky's the Limit"
1:00 sign-off

WTMJ 4-Milwaukee (NBC)
5:00 CNN Headline News
5:55 This is the Life
6:25 Reflections
6:30 Human Rights
6:45 Face to Face
7:00 Sunday Today
8:30 Meet the Press
9:00 Menus Around Milwaukee
9:30 Infomercials
10:30 Discover Wisconsin
11:00 NBA: Chicago-Atlanta
1:45 NBC SportsWorld
3:00 PGA Golf: Honda Classic
5:00 Jeopardy!
5:30 NBC Nightly News
6:00 Silent Killer: Women & Heart Disease
7:00 Expose
7:30 Real Life
8:00 Movie "Three Men & a Baby"
10:00 News
10:35 Sunday Night
11:05 Hunter
12:05 Ebony/Jet Showcase
12:35 Weekend Travel Update
1:05 Infomercial
1:35 Trapper John, MD
2:35 News
3:05 CNN Headline News

WITI 6-Milwaukee (CBS)
5:00 Home Shopping Club
6:00 Barry Silberg
6:30 TV Sunday Mass
7:00 Robert Schuller
8:00 CBS News Sunday Morning
9:30 World Tomorrow
10:00 Larry Jones
10:30 Oral Roberts
11:00 Big East Basketball Championship
1:15 ACC Basketball Championship
3:30 Olympic WinterFest
5:00 Infomercial
5:30 NCAA Basketball Tournament Pairings
6:00 60 Minutes
7:00 Murder, She Wrote
8:00 Movie "Aftermath: A Test of Love"
10:00 News
10:30 Kevin O'Neill: Basketball
10:40 Night Court (x2)
11:40 Barney Miller
12:10 Jesse Jackson
1:10 Face the Nation
1:40 CBS News
1:55 sign-off

WMVS 10-Milwaukee (PBS)
7:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (x2)
8:00 Sesame Street (x3)
11:00 Wisconsin Week
11:30 Business of Wisconsin
Noon Wall Street Week
12:30 Washington Week in Review
1:00 National Geographic
2:00 Great Performances
3:45 Bernstein in East Berlin
5:15 Tchaikovsky 150th Birthday Gala
7:10 Mystery! (x2)
9:40 Masterpiece Theatre
11:10 sign-off

WISN 12-Milwaukee (ABC)
5:00 That's the Spirit
5:30 Christopher Closeup
6:00 Catch the Spirit
6:30 Infomercial
7:00 Look In
7:30 Kenneth Copeland
8:30 In Reality, Elmbrook Church
9:00 Wall Street Journal Report
9:30 This Week with David Brinkley
10:30 Channel 12 This Week
11:00 WWF Wrestling
Noon Simon & Simon
1:00 College Basketball: Ohio State-Iowa
3:00 SEC Basketball Championship
5:00 News
5:30 ABC World News Tonight
6:00 Life Goes On
7:00 America's Funniest Home Videos
7:30 America's Funniest People
8:00 Movie "Married to the Mob"
10:15 News
10:45 M*A*S*H
11:15 Missing/Reward
11:45 Siskel & Ebert
12:15 Tales from the Darkside
12:45 Monsters
1:15 Video Challenge
1:45 News
2:15 Byron Allen
3:00 Channel 12 This Week
3:30 Look In
4:00 Morning Agriculture Report
4:30 This Morning's Business

WVTV 18-Milwaukee (Ind)
5:00 Infomercial
5:30 America's Black Forum
6:00 Infomercial
6:30 Richie Rich
7:00 Fantastic Max
7:30 Don Coyote & Sancho Panda
8:00 Midnight Patrol
8:30 Widget
9:00 Hang Tough Milwaukee
9:30 Munsters Today
10:00 My Secret Identity
10:30 Superboy
11:00 Super Force
11:30 Steve Yoder: Basketball
Noon Movie "Gator"
2:00 Movie "Six Against the Rock"
4:00 Harry & the Hendersons
4:30 ALF
5:00 Out of This World
5:30 Head of the Class
6:00 Growing Pains
6:30 Sledge Hammer
7:00 Twilight Zone
7:30 Amen
8:00 Gunsmoke
9:00 Hunter
10:00 Love Boat
11:00 Infomercial
11:30 Movie "Abbott & Costello in Hollywood"
1:00 Green Acres (x2)
2:00 Greyhound Racing
2:30 Gunsmoke
3:30 Infomercials

WCGV 24-Milwaukee (Fox)
5:00 Movie "Whose Life is It Anyway?"
7:00 Infomercials
8:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
9:00 American Gladiators
10:00 A-Team
11:00 Andy Griffith
Noon Movie "The Milagro Beanfield War"
2:00 Exhibition Baseball: Milwaukee-Chicago Cubs (at Mesa)
5:00 All in the Family (x2)
6:00 True Colors
6:30 Parker Lewis Can't Lose
7:00 In Living Color
7:30 Get a Life
8:00 Married...with Children
8:30 Good Grief
9:00 Comic Strip Primetime
10:00 Bob Newhart
10:30 Arsenio Hall
11:30 Infomercial
Mid. sign-off

WISC 3-Madison (CBS)
6:30 This is the Life
7:00 Infomercial
7:30 Family Ties
8:00 CBS News Sunday Morning
9:30 Face the Nation
10:00 Apostolate to the Handicapped
10:30 For the Record
11:00 Big East Basketball Championship
1:15 ACC Basketball Championship
3:30 Olympic WinterFest
5:00 CBS Evening News
5:30 NCAA Basketball Tournament Pairings
6:00 60 Minutes
7:00 Murder, She Wrote
8:00 Movie "Aftermath: A Test of Love"
10:00 News
10:30 Siskel & Ebert
11:00 Star Trek ("The Cage", the original pilot)
Mid. Combat!
1:00 CBS News Nightwatch

WLUC 6-Marquette (CBS/NBC)
Listings CT
5:00 Kid 'n Play
5:30 Saved by the Bell
6:00 Camp Candy
6:30 Guys Next Door
7:00 Good Fishing
7:30 Let the Bible Speak
8:00 CBS News Sunday Morning
9:30 Face the Nation
10:00 Finland Calling
11:00 Big East Basketball Championship
1:15 ACC Basketball Championship
3:30 Olympic WinterFest
5:00 CBS Evening News
5:30 NCAA Basketball Tournament Pairings
6:00 60 Minutes
7:00 Murder, She Wrote
8:00 Movie "Aftermath: A Test of Loe"
10:00 News
10:30 LA Law
11:30 CBS News
11:45 sign-off

WNMU 13-Marquette (PBS)
Listings CT
8:00 Sesame Street
9:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9:30 Economics U$A
10:30 For Veterans Only
11:00 McLaughlin Group
11:30 Wall Street Week
Noon American Interests
12:30 Media Meet
1:00 Market to Market
1:30 Living with Animals
2:00 Eyes on the Prize
3:00 All Creatures Great & Small
4:00 Mystery! (x2)
6:00 Lawrence Welk
7:00 Nature
8:00 Masterpiece Theatre
10:00 Stage 9
10:30 American Art Forum
11:30 sign-off

WKBD 50-Detroit (Fox)
Listings CT
5:00 It's Your Business
5:30 Washington Report
6:00 Robert Schuller
7:00 Church of Today
8:00 Straight Talk
8:30 Pistons Weekly
9:00 WWF Wrestling
10:00 American Gladiators
11:00 Star Trek: The Next Generation
Noon Movie "The Milagro Beanfield War"
2:00 Movie "Telefon"
4:00 Growing Pains
4:30 Three's Company
5:00 Head of the Class
5:30 Yearbook
6:00 True Colors
6:30 Parker Lewis Can't Lose
7:00 In Living Color
7:30 Get a Life
8:00 Married...with Children
8:30 Good Grief
9:00 News
9:30 Sports Xtra
10:00 Comic Strip Primetime
11:00 Kenneth Copeland
Mid. Day to Care for the Children
1:00 sign-off

 

[DrBear]

FOOTNOTED:

> from TV Guide, Northern Wisconsin edition
> Marquette/Detroit stations listed CT
>
> WBAY 2-Green Bay (CBS)
(the station would switch networks with WFRV two years later)

>
> WFRV 5-Green Bay/WJMN-3 Escanaba (ABC)
(See above. WJMN basically carries WFRV unchanged except for local ads and station ID; when there's an on-screen ID during a sports event, it often shows both stations.)

> 11:30 Bingoneida (The Oneida Tribe has the local big stakes-bingo and casino; this one was TV Bingo with cards you could pick up at their convenience stores and tobacco outlets).


> 7:30 America's Funniest Videos (I'm guessing this was the short-lived "America's Funniest People.)

>
> WPNE 38-Green Bay/WHWC 28-Eau Claire, Menominee/WHLA 31-La
> Crosse/WHRM 20-Wausau (PBS)
(the stations are all fed out of Madison and basically are satellites of WHA there; they may run a local-only show once a week, but not this night.)

> WXGZ 32-Appleton/Green Bay (Fox)
(now WACY and in an LMA with WG BA)


> 10:00 Oscor's Place (Local clown and cartoons)

> 11:00 Steve Yoder: Basketball (then University of Wisconsin coach)


> Mid. Crook & Chase
> 12:30 sign-off
>
> WAOW 9-Wausau/WQOW 19-Eau Claire/WKOW-27 Madison (ABC)
(All co-owned and billed as the Wisconsin TV Network; they ran individual newscasts but the skeds were otherwise identical)

> Noon Saying Kaddish (in WAUSAU?)


> 5:00 Money Game (the state lottery game show, and a bad one it was. It aired at different times in different cities and was taped in Milwaukee).


> 7:00 America's Funniest Home Videos
> 7:30 America's Funniest People (I was right!)

>
> WJFW 12-Rhinelander/Wausau (NBC)

> 6:00 Super Bloopers & Practical Jokes (and for this, WLUK showed Billy Graham)

> WTMJ 4-Milwaukee (NBC)
>
> WITI 6-Milwaukee (CBS)
(YUP, now Fox)

>
> WMVS 10-Milwaukee (PBS)
(Operated separately from the other PBS stations in the state)


>
> WISN 12-Milwaukee (ABC)

> WVTV 18-Milwaukee (Ind)
>
> WCGV 24-Milwaukee (Fox)

> 2:00 Exhibition Baseball: Milwaukee-Chicago Cubs (at Mesa)
WCGV had taken over as originating station from WVTV; it showed fewer games)


>
> WLUC 6-Marquette (CBS/NBC)
> Listings CT
> 10:00 Finland Calling (There is a LARGE Finnish population in the Upper Peninsula, and Carl Pellonpaa has been doing this show for decades, offering news from the old country, Finnish music and recipes and other items. Hei Hei!)

>
> WKBD 50-Detroit (Fox)
With no Fox stations nearby, a lot of UP Cable systems carried this

 

[rugrats1]

> >
> > WKBD 50-Detroit (Fox)
> With no Fox stations nearby, a lot of UP Cable systems
> carried this
>
WKBD used to be a big superstation in Michigan and northwestern Ohio, seen on almost every cable system in the region.

But when Fox in Detroit moved from WKBD to WJBK (WKBD was back as an indy briefly until UPN started up a month later), the distributor switched to Cadillac's WGKI ch.33 (now WFQX). However, after that happened, local Fox stations in the Lower Peninsula started to enforce blackouts on Fox programming on WGKI. After a year or two of this, some systems (those owned by Bresnan / Charter, in particular) managed to get WKBD back on their systems, replacing WGKI.

Where northern Wisconsin and the UP is concerned, TVG dropped WKBD when the switch was made, but, oddly, didn't replace it with WGKI. (Even more oddly, when the 100+ WB channel started, they mentioned Traverse City's WBVC in the Northern WI edition, even though that version was not seen in the region.) In the time zone disclaimer, however, the "50D" bullet remained until around 1998 or so.

 

[Bluenoser]

> FOOTNOTED:
>
> > WAOW 9-Wausau/WQOW 19-Eau Claire/WKOW-27 Madison (ABC)
> > Noon Saying Kaddish (in WAUSAU?)
This was a special about two sisters who were estranged from their mother. One of them refuses to say Kaddish (Jewish prayer for the dead) for her.

(And no, I don't know what the Jewish population is in Eau Claire or Madison ;-) )

 

[Darrel]

> FOOTNOTED:
>
> > from TV Guide, Northern Wisconsin edition
> > Marquette/Detroit stations listed CT
> >
> > WBAY 2-Green Bay (CBS)
> (the station would switch networks with WFRV two years later)

> > WFRV 5-Green Bay/WJMN-3 Escanaba (ABC)
> (See above. WJMN basically carries WFRV unchanged except for
> local ads and station ID; when there's an on-screen ID
> during a sports event, it often shows both stations.)

Actually, the WBAY/WFRV network swap would occur one year later (March 1992). CBS bought WFRV's parent in the Summer of 1991, with March 15, 1992 being the network swap date between Channels 2 and 5 in Green Bay. The flip would also affect WJMN and Marquette's WLUC-TV6 as well. However, WLUC didn't want to wait that long and decided to make the jump to primary ABC affiliation a few weeks earlier. In fact, the last day of CBS' Olympics broadcast from Albertville was also TV6's last day with CBS. The next day, TV6 and WJMN would flip networks, with WJMN becoming the U.P's new CBS affiliate--jumping the gun ahead of its parent station, WFRV.

Another footnote: WLUC only spent 3 years with ABC. Its owners, Raycom, signed an affiliation agreement with NBC, and in May or June 1995, WLUC dropped its primary/secondary split of ABC/NBC and became a full-time NBC affiliate. ABC didn't come back to the U.P. airwaves until about a year later, when WBKP signed on in Calumet, near Houghton.

 

[zman]

> WPNE 38-Green Bay/WHWC 28-Eau Claire, Menominee/WHLA 31-La
> Crosse/WHRM 20-Wausau (PBS)
>


I believe WLAF TV 36 Park Falls was, and I think still is, a part of this PBS network.

 

[KingDaevid]

> WAOW 9-Wausau/WQOW 19-Eau Claire/WKOW-27 Madison (ABC)

...WQOW is on Channel 18; it's sister WXOW in La Crosse that's on 19. And I'm positive only WQOW and WXOW had identical schedules by this time; despite TVG's errant claims on the channel identification page, there were syndicated schedule differences, and 9, 18/19 and 27 had even been using different logo types since at least 1986...<P ID="signature">______________
King Daevid MacKenzie
WLSU Wisconsin Public Radio, La Crosse
heard weekly on http://www.radio4all.net/
"Kill Ugly Radio." FRANK ZAPPA</P>