This schedule post chronicles the week during which KGMC (channel 34, now KOCB) signed on as the second UHF station – chronologically, the fifth such station, counting defunct outlets KTVQ (channel 25, allocation later occupied by eventual KOCB sister station KOKH-TV) and KLPR-TV (channel 19, allocation later occupied by KUOT-CD) – in the Oklahoma City market. KGMC signed on as a commercial independent station on October 28, 1979, under a joint venture between Rockford, Illinois-based General Media Corporation and Oklahoma City Broadcasting, Inc. (founded by Ted F. Baze, who previously served as station manager at WPHL-TV in Philadelphia); Baze's group would eventually acquire full ownership in January 1990 following bankruptcy proceedings, after acquiring a stake owned by infamous stock speculator Ivan Boesky (whose Beverly Hills Hotel Corp. bought majority interest in KGMC in 1983). Baze sold the station to Superior Broadcasting (co-founded by eventual Nexstar Media Group founder/CEO Perry Sook, who also served as KOCB's general manager under its ownership) in 1993, which sold it in turn to Sinclair Broadcast Group in 1996.
Source: The Daily/Sunday Oklahoman (Television Week and daily listings page), via the Oklahoman Archives
Sunday, October 28, 1979 (listings ran from 5:00am until respective station sign-offs)
KTVY 4 (NBC)
5:00am - off-air
6:00am - Davey and Goliath
6:15am - Christopher Closeup
6:30am - Jerry Falwell
7:30am - Jimmy Swaggart
8:00am - This is the Life
8:30am - Gospel Singing Jubilee
9:30am - Sunday School
10:00am - Church Service
10:30am - Candid Campus
11:00am - Meet The Press
11:30am - NFL '79
12:00pm - NFL Football: New York Jets at Houston Oilers
3:00pm - College Football: Oklahoma State Cowboys at Kansas Jayhawks (hour-long game recap)
4:00pm - NewsCenter Forum
4:30pm - 1900: The Year Time Changed
5:00pm - Wild, Wild World of Animals
5:30pm - NewsCenter 4 Weekend
6:00pm - Disney's Wonderful World: "Gus The Pigskin Mule" aka "Gus" (1976)
7:00pm - Movie: "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1975)
9:40pm - Prime Time Sunday
10:00pm - NewsCenter 4 Update
10:30pm - College Football: Oklahoma Sooners at Iowa State Cyclones (hour-long game recap)
11:30pm - Movie: "Winter Kill" (1974)
1:30am - Movie: "Che!" (1969)
3:30am - sign-off
KOCO-TV 5 (ABC)
5:00am - off-air
6:55am - Give Us This Day
7:00am - Kids Are People Too (week-delayed broadcast)
8:00am - Amazing Grace
8:30am - James Robison Presents
9:00am - Rev. Larry Jones
9:30am - A Life Worth Living
10:00am - Something Special
10:30am - Tribes: Voices From the Land
11:00am - Issues and Answers
11:30am - Harrison and Company
12:00pm - Expressions
12:30pm - College Football '80
1:00pm - The Baxters
1:30pm - Movie: "One More Train to Rob" (1971)
3:30pm - Gilligan's Island
4:00pm - Hee-Haw
5:00pm - ABC World News Sunday (Sam Donaldson)
5:30pm - 5 Alive NewsCenter Weekend
6:00pm - Special: "Halloween is Grinch Night"
6:30pm - The Muppets
7:00pm - Mork and Mindy
7:30pm - The Associates
8:00pm - ABC Theatre: "Disaster on the Coastliner" (1979)
10:00pm - 5 Alive NewsCenter Weekend
10:30pm - Donahue P.M.
11:30pm - Movie: "The Last Angry Man" (1959)
1:00am - ABC Weekend Report
1:15am - sign-off
KWTV 9 (CBS)
5:00am - off-air
6:30am - Summer Semester
7:00am - Rex Humbard
8:00am - Oral Roberts and You
8:30am - It's Bible Time
9:00am - Day of Discovery
9:30am - Hour of Power with Dr. Robert Schuller
10:00am - Richard Hogue
10:30am - Face the Nation
11:00am - First Baptist Church of Oklahoma City
11:30am - NFL Football: Dallas Cowboys at Pittsburgh Steelers
2:30pm - NFL Football: New York Giants at Los Angeles Rams
6:00pm - 60 Minutes
7:00pm - Archie Bunker's Place
7:30pm - One Day At A Time
8:00pm - Alice
8:30pm - The Jeffersons
9:00pm - Trapper John, M.D.
10:00pm - Big 9 News Weekend Edition
10:30pm - Movie: "Farewell, My Lovely" (1975)
1:10am - Upstairs, Downstairs (time approximate)
1:40am - sign-off
KETA-TV 13 (PBS) - flagship station of OETA
5:00am - off-air
9:00am - Outdoor Oklahoma
9:30am - Untamed World
10:00am - Connections
11:00am - Nova
12:00pm - Washington Week in Review
12:30pm - Wall $treet Week with Louis Rukeyser
1:00pm - Live from Lincoln Center: "Street Scene"
4:00pm - Arts Encounter
4:30pm - Oklahoma Gardening
5:00pm - Candid Campus
5:30pm - Here's to Your Health
6:00pm - Firing Line
7:00pm - Connections
8:00pm - Masterpiece Theatre: "Love for Lydia"
9:00pm - Camera Three: "Modern Jazz Quartet/Juilliard String Quartet in Concert"
10:00pm - Sneak Previews
10:30pm - sign-off
KOKH-TV 25 (Ind.)
5:00am - off-air
7:00am - Public affairs programming
8:00am - Jimmy Swaggart
9:00am - Woody Woodpecker & Friends
9:30am - Movie: "Abbott and Costello and the Naughty Nineties" aka "The Naughty Nineties" (1945)
11:00am - My Favorite Martian
11:30am - Country Roads
12:00pm - Movie: "Mister Cory" (1957)
2:00pm - Movie: "Soldier of Fortune" (1955)
4:00pm - Bionic Woman
5:00pm - Movie: "The Lion" (1962)
7:00pm - Alias Smith and Jones
8:00pm - In Search of the Lord's Way
8:30pm - Sunday PM
9:30pm - Wild Wild West
10:30pm - Movie: "Soldier of Fortune" (1955)
12:30am - News
12:40am - Calendar 25
1:00am - sign-off
KGMC 34 (Ind.) - first day of operation (as a commercial independent station)
5:00am - off-air
7:00am - Tony and Susan Alamo†
8:00am - Jerry Falwell
9:00am - Believers' Voice of Victory with Kenneth Copeland
10:00am - The Jetsons
10:30am - The Flintstones
11:00am - The Monkees
11:30am - The Abbott and Costello Show
12:00pm - The Outer Limits
1:00pm - Movie: "The Story of Will Rogers" (1952)
3:00pm - Movie: "The Boy from Oklahoma" (1954)
5:00pm - Maverick
6:00pm - 12 O'Clock High
7:00pm - Comeback
7:30pm - Wild Kingdom
8:00pm - The PTL Club
10:00pm - Jerry Falwell
10:30pm - The 700 Club
12:00am - sign-off
† A KGMC ad in that week's edition of "Television Week" showing the station's launch day schedule list this religious program as an hour-long show; however, that day's listings in the supplement show a "To Be Announced" tag for 7:30am under KGMC.
Monday, October 29, 1979 (listings ran from 5:00am until respective station sign-offs)
KTVY 4 (NBC)
5:00am - off-air
6:00am - Petticoat Junction
6:30am - Farm News and Weather
7:00am - Today
9:00am - The Mike Douglas Show
10:00am - The New High Rollers
10:30am - Wheel of Fortune (NBC daytime version)
11:00am - Mind Readers
11:30pm - Dannysday
12:00pm - NewsCenter 4 Midday
12:30pm - Days of Our Lives
1:30pm - The Doctors
2:00pm - Another World
3:30pm - Little Rascals and Friends
4:00pm - Bewitched
4:30pm - The Partridge Family
5:00pm - Hogan's Heroes
5:30pm - NBC Nightly News (John Chancellor)
6:00pm - NewsCenter 4 at 6:00
6:30pm - Special: "Will: A Tribute to Will Rogers"
7:00pm - Little House on the Prairie
8:00pm - Movie: "Freedom Road" (part I, 1979)
10:00pm - NewsCenter 4 Update
10:30pm - The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (guest hosted by Rich Little)
12:00am - The Tomorrow Show
1:00am - Tonight in Oklahoma (time approximate)
1:05am - Ironside (time approximate)
2:00am - sign-off
KOCO-TV 5 (ABC)
5:00am - off-air
5:45am - Give Us This Day
5:50am - Bulletin Board
5:55am - Down to Earth
6:00am - The PTL Club
7:00am - Good Morning America
9:00am - Donahue
10:00am - Laverne & Shirley
10:30am - Family Feud
11:00am - All My Children (aired on day-behind delay from 12:00pm)
12:00pm - 5 Alive NewsCenter at Noon
12:30pm - Ryan's Hope (aired on one-hour delay from 11:30am)
1:00pm - One Life to Live
2:00pm - General Hospital
3:00pm - The Edge of Night
3:30pm - Happy Days Again (retitled syndicated rerun package of "Happy Days")
4:00pm - Carol Burnett and Friends
4:30pm - Sanford and Son
5:00pm - ABC World News Tonight (Frank Reynolds, Max Robinson and Peter Jennings)
5:30pm - 5 Alive NewsCenter at 5:30
6:00pm - The Joker's Wild
6:30pm - Tic Tac Dough
7:00pm - Special: "Oklahoma Alive"
8:00pm - Monday Night Football: Seattle Seahawks at Atlanta Falcons
10:45pm - 5 Alive NewsCenter Tonight
11:15pm - ABC Movie: "Fat City" (1972; delay from 10:30pm)
1:15am - sign-off
KWTV 9 (CBS)
5:00am - off-air
5:30am - Sunrise Semester
6:00am - Morning With Bob Schieffer
7:00am - Morning Farm Report
7:15am - Morning Laugh Cartoons
7:30am - The Beverly Hillbillies
8:00am - Captain Kangaroo
9:00am - Beat the Clock
9:30am - Whew!
9:55am - CBS Morning News
10:00am - The Price is Right
11:00am - The Young and the Restless
11:30am - Midday
12:30pm - As The World Turns
1:30pm - Guiding Light
2:30pm - One Day at a Time
3:00pm - I Love Lucy
3:30pm - Gomer Pyle, USMC
4:00pm - The Andy Griffith Show
4:30pm - The Dating Game
5:00pm - Big 9 News at 5:00
5:30pm - CBS Evening News (Walter Cronkite)
6:00pm - Big 9 News at 6:00
6:30pm - Three's a Crowd
7:00pm - The White Shadow
8:00pm - M*A*S*H
8:30pm - WKRP in Cincinnati
9:00pm - Lou Grant
10:00pm - Big 9 News at 10 O'Clock
10:30pm - The Newlywed Game
11:00pm - Movie: "Life Begins at 40" (1935)
12:35am - The Twilight Zone (time approximate)
1:05am - sign-off
KETA-TV 13 (PBS) - flagship station of OETA
5:00am - off-air
7:15am - A.M. Weather
7:30am - Over Easy
8:00am - Sesame Street
9:00am - The Electric Company
9:30am - Classics of World Literature
10:00am - Thinkabout
10:15am - Measuremetric
10:30am - Images and Things
10:50am - Readalong
11:00am - Life Around Us
11:30am - Vision On
12:00pm - Zarabanda
12:30pm - Search for Science
12:45pm - The Write Channel
1:00pm - Animals and Such
1:15pm - Time to Draw
1:30pm - I Can Read
1:45pm - Song Bag
2:00pm - All About You
2:15pm - Thinkabout
2:30pm - Vision On
3:00pm - Sesame Street
4:00pm - Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
4:30pm - The Electric Company
5:00pm - Zoom
5:30pm - Over Easy
6:00pm - The MacNeil/Lehrer Report
6:30pm - The Oklahoma Report
7:00pm - Catholics
8:30pm - Wall $treet Week Special: "The Class of '29"
9:00pm - Masterpiece Theater: "Poldark II"
10:00pm - The Dick Cavett Show
10:30pm - The Hank Thompson Show
11:00pm - sign-off
KOKH-TV 25 (Ind.)
5:00am - sign-off
6:30am - New Zoo Revue
7:00am - Krofft Superstars
7:30pm - Popeye
8:00am - Woody Woodpecker & Friends
8:30am - Romper Room
9:00am - Card Sharks
9:30pm - Hollywood Squares
10:00am - Perry Mason
11:00am - Family Affair
11:30am - McHale's Navy
12:00pm - Mayberry R.F.D.
12:30pm - The Merv Griffin Show
2:00pm - That Girl
2:30pm - Groovie Goolies
3:00pm - Krofft Superstars
3:30pm - Popeye
4:00pm - Woody Woodpecker & Friends
4:30pm - The Munsters
5:00pm - Leave It to Beaver
5:30pm - My Three Sons
6:00pm - All in the Family
6:30pm - The Dick Van Dyke Show
7:00pm - Jim Rockford, Private Investigator (retitled syndication package of "The Rockford Files")
8:00pm - Movie: "Tell Them Willie Boy is Here" (1969)
10:00pm - Have Gun – Will Travel
10:30pm - Movie: "Harry O: APB Harry Orwell" (1975)
12:00am - Movie: "McMillan and Wife: The Devil You Say" (1973)
2:00am - sign-off
KGMC 34 (Ind.)
5:00am - off-air
10:30am - The 700 Club
12:00pm - Bugs Bunny and Friends
12:30pm - Movie: "Desperate Hours" (1955)
2:30pm - Star Blazers
3:00pm - The Three Stooges
3:30pm - Speed Racer
4:00pm - The Flintstones
4:30pm - Bugs Bunny
5:00pm - The Brady Bunch
5:30pm - I Dream of Jeannie
6:00pm - The Odd Couple
6:30pm - The Bob Newhart Show
7:00pm - The Untouchables
8:00pm - Movie: "The Vikings" (1958)
10:00pm - The Benny Hill Show
10:30pm - The Rifleman
11:00pm - Make Me Laugh
11:30pm - sign-off
Tuesday, October 30, 1979 (listings ran from 5:00am until respective station sign-offs)
KTVY 4 (NBC)
5:00am - off-air
6:00am - Petticoat Junction
6:30am - Farm News and Weather
7:00am - Today
9:00am - The Mike Douglas Show
10:00am - The New High Rollers
10:30am - Wheel of Fortune
11:00am - Mind Readers
11:30pm - Dannysday
12:00pm - NewsCenter 4 Midday
12:30pm - Days of Our Lives
1:30pm - The Doctors
2:00pm - Another World
3:30pm - Little Rascals and Friends
4:00pm - Bewitched
4:30pm - The Partridge Family
5:00pm - Hogan's Heroes
5:30pm - NBC Nightly News (John Chancellor)
6:00pm - NewsCenter 4 at 6:00
6:30pm - The Wallace Wildlife Show
7:00pm - Special: "The Casper Halloween Special"
7:30pm - Special: "Witches Night Out"
8:00pm - Movie: "Freedom Road" (part II, 1979)
10:00pm - NewsCenter 4 Update
10:30pm - The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson: "The Best of Carson"
12:00am - The Tomorrow Show
1:00am - Tonight in Oklahoma (time approximate)
1:05am - Ironside (time approximate)
2:00am - sign-off
KOCO-TV 5 (ABC)
5:00am - off-air
5:45am - Give Us This Day
5:50am - Bulletin Board
5:55am - Down to Earth
6:00am - The PTL Club
7:00am - Good Morning America
9:00am - Donahue
10:00am - Laverne & Shirley
10:30am - Family Feud
11:00am - All My Children (aired on day-behind delay from 12:00pm)
12:00pm - 5 Alive NewsCenter at Noon
12:30pm - Ryan's Hope (aired on one-hour delay from 11:30am)
1:00pm - One Life to Live
2:00pm - General Hospital
3:00pm - The Edge of Night
3:30pm - Happy Days Again
4:00pm - Carol Burnett and Friends
4:30pm - Sanford and Son
5:00pm - ABC World News Tonight (Frank Reynolds, Max Robinson and Peter Jennings)
5:30pm - 5 Alive NewsCenter at 5:30
6:00pm - The Joker's Wild
6:30pm - Tic Tac Dough
7:00pm - Happy Days
7:30pm - Angie
8:00pm - Three's Company
8:30pm - Taxi
9:00pm - Hart to Hart
10:00pm - 5 Alive NewsCenter Tonight
10:30pm - M*A*S*H
11:00pm - Barney Miller
11:30pm - ABC Movie: "Rosemary's Baby II" aka "Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby" (1976; delay from 10:30pm)
2:00am - sign-off
KWTV 9 (CBS)
5:00am - off-air
5:30am - Sunrise Semester
6:00am - Morning With Bob Schieffer
7:00am - Morning Farm Report
7:15am - Morning Laugh Cartoons
7:30am - The Beverly Hillbillies
8:00am - Captain Kangaroo
9:00am - Beat the Clock
9:30am - Whew!
9:55am - CBS Morning News
10:00am - The Price is Right
11:00am - The Young and the Restless
11:30am - Midday
12:30pm - As The World Turns
1:30pm - Guiding Light
2:30pm - One Day at a Time
3:00pm - I Love Lucy
3:30pm - Gomer Pyle, USMC
4:00pm - The Andy Griffith Show
4:30pm - The Dating Game
5:00pm - Big 9 News at 5:00
5:30pm - CBS Evening News (Walter Cronkite)
6:00pm - Big 9 News at 6:00
6:30pm - Three's a Crowd
7:00pm - Special: "CBS Reports: The Baby Makers"
8:00pm - Movie: "One on One" (1977)
10:00pm - Big 9 News at 10 O'Clock
10:30pm - The Newlywed Game
11:00pm - Movie: "Dawn Patrol" (1938)
1:00am - The Twilight Zone (time approximate)
1:30am - sign-off
KETA-TV 13 (PBS) - flagship station of OETA
5:00am - off-air
7:15am - A.M. Weather
7:30am - Over Easy
8:00am - Sesame Street
9:00am - The Electric Company
9:30am - Footsteps
10:00am - L-4
10:15am - Numbers Game II
10:30am - The Universe and I
10:50am - Readalong
11:00am - The Humanities
11:30am - Vision On
12:00pm - Today's School
12:15pm - The Heart of Teaching
12:30pm - Camera and Song
1:00pm - Why?
1:15pm - Ripples
1:30pm - Our Living Language
1:45pm - Let's all Sing
2:00pm - Roomnastics
2:15pm - Chamber Music
2:30pm - Vision On
3:00pm - Sesame Street
4:00pm - Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
4:30pm - The Electric Company
5:00pm - Zoom
5:30pm - Over Easy
6:00pm - The MacNeil/Lehrer Report
6:30pm - The Oklahoma Report
7:00pm - Nova
8:00pm - World: "F-16: The Arms Sale of the Century"
9:00pm - Soundstage: "Gordon Lightfoot"
10:00pm - The Dick Cavett Show
10:30pm - The Hank Thompson Show
11:00pm - sign-off
KOKH-TV 25 (Ind.)
5:00am - sign-off
6:30am - New Zoo Revue
7:00am - Krofft Superstars
7:30pm - Popeye
8:00am - Woody Woodpecker & Friends
8:30am - Romper Room
9:00am - Card Sharks
9:30pm - Hollywood Squares
10:00am - Perry Mason
11:00am - Family Affair
11:30am - McHale's Navy
12:00pm - Mayberry R.F.D.
12:30pm - The Merv Griffin Show
2:00pm - That Girl
2:30pm - Groovie Goolies
3:00pm - Krofft Superstars
3:30pm - Popeye
4:00pm - Woody Woodpecker & Friends
4:30pm - The Munsters
5:00pm - Leave It to Beaver
5:30pm - My Three Sons
6:00pm - Movie: "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein" (1948)
8:00pm - Movie: "The War Wagon" (1967)
10:00pm - Have Gun – Will Travel
10:30pm - Movie: "Barnaby Jones: The Deadlier Species" (1975)
12:00am - Movie: "A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story" (1978)
2:00am - sign-off
KGMC 34 (Ind.)
5:00am - off-air
10:30am - The 700 Club
12:00pm - Bugs Bunny and Friends
12:30pm - Movie: "Beau James" (1957)
2:30pm - Star Blazers
3:00pm - The Three Stooges
3:30pm - Speed Racer
4:00pm - The Flintstones
4:30pm - Bugs Bunny
5:00pm - The Brady Bunch
5:30pm - I Dream of Jeannie
6:00pm - The Odd Couple
6:30pm - The Bob Newhart Show
7:00pm - The Untouchables
8:00pm - Movie: "The St. Valentine's Day Massacre" (1967)
10:00pm - The Benny Hill Show
10:30pm - The Rifleman
11:00pm - Make Me Laugh
11:30pm - sign-off
Source: The Daily/Sunday Oklahoman (Television Week and daily listings page), via the Oklahoman Archives
Sunday, October 28, 1979 (listings ran from 5:00am until respective station sign-offs)
KTVY 4 (NBC)
5:00am - off-air
6:00am - Davey and Goliath
6:15am - Christopher Closeup
6:30am - Jerry Falwell
7:30am - Jimmy Swaggart
8:00am - This is the Life
8:30am - Gospel Singing Jubilee
9:30am - Sunday School
10:00am - Church Service
10:30am - Candid Campus
11:00am - Meet The Press
11:30am - NFL '79
12:00pm - NFL Football: New York Jets at Houston Oilers
3:00pm - College Football: Oklahoma State Cowboys at Kansas Jayhawks (hour-long game recap)
4:00pm - NewsCenter Forum
4:30pm - 1900: The Year Time Changed
5:00pm - Wild, Wild World of Animals
5:30pm - NewsCenter 4 Weekend
6:00pm - Disney's Wonderful World: "Gus The Pigskin Mule" aka "Gus" (1976)
7:00pm - Movie: "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1975)
9:40pm - Prime Time Sunday
10:00pm - NewsCenter 4 Update
10:30pm - College Football: Oklahoma Sooners at Iowa State Cyclones (hour-long game recap)
11:30pm - Movie: "Winter Kill" (1974)
1:30am - Movie: "Che!" (1969)
3:30am - sign-off
KOCO-TV 5 (ABC)
5:00am - off-air
6:55am - Give Us This Day
7:00am - Kids Are People Too (week-delayed broadcast)
8:00am - Amazing Grace
8:30am - James Robison Presents
9:00am - Rev. Larry Jones
9:30am - A Life Worth Living
10:00am - Something Special
10:30am - Tribes: Voices From the Land
11:00am - Issues and Answers
11:30am - Harrison and Company
12:00pm - Expressions
12:30pm - College Football '80
1:00pm - The Baxters
1:30pm - Movie: "One More Train to Rob" (1971)
3:30pm - Gilligan's Island
4:00pm - Hee-Haw
5:00pm - ABC World News Sunday (Sam Donaldson)
5:30pm - 5 Alive NewsCenter Weekend
6:00pm - Special: "Halloween is Grinch Night"
6:30pm - The Muppets
7:00pm - Mork and Mindy
7:30pm - The Associates
8:00pm - ABC Theatre: "Disaster on the Coastliner" (1979)
10:00pm - 5 Alive NewsCenter Weekend
10:30pm - Donahue P.M.
11:30pm - Movie: "The Last Angry Man" (1959)
1:00am - ABC Weekend Report
1:15am - sign-off
KWTV 9 (CBS)
5:00am - off-air
6:30am - Summer Semester
7:00am - Rex Humbard
8:00am - Oral Roberts and You
8:30am - It's Bible Time
9:00am - Day of Discovery
9:30am - Hour of Power with Dr. Robert Schuller
10:00am - Richard Hogue
10:30am - Face the Nation
11:00am - First Baptist Church of Oklahoma City
11:30am - NFL Football: Dallas Cowboys at Pittsburgh Steelers
2:30pm - NFL Football: New York Giants at Los Angeles Rams
6:00pm - 60 Minutes
7:00pm - Archie Bunker's Place
7:30pm - One Day At A Time
8:00pm - Alice
8:30pm - The Jeffersons
9:00pm - Trapper John, M.D.
10:00pm - Big 9 News Weekend Edition
10:30pm - Movie: "Farewell, My Lovely" (1975)
1:10am - Upstairs, Downstairs (time approximate)
1:40am - sign-off
KETA-TV 13 (PBS) - flagship station of OETA
5:00am - off-air
9:00am - Outdoor Oklahoma
9:30am - Untamed World
10:00am - Connections
11:00am - Nova
12:00pm - Washington Week in Review
12:30pm - Wall $treet Week with Louis Rukeyser
1:00pm - Live from Lincoln Center: "Street Scene"
4:00pm - Arts Encounter
4:30pm - Oklahoma Gardening
5:00pm - Candid Campus
5:30pm - Here's to Your Health
6:00pm - Firing Line
7:00pm - Connections
8:00pm - Masterpiece Theatre: "Love for Lydia"
9:00pm - Camera Three: "Modern Jazz Quartet/Juilliard String Quartet in Concert"
10:00pm - Sneak Previews
10:30pm - sign-off
KOKH-TV 25 (Ind.)
5:00am - off-air
7:00am - Public affairs programming
8:00am - Jimmy Swaggart
9:00am - Woody Woodpecker & Friends
9:30am - Movie: "Abbott and Costello and the Naughty Nineties" aka "The Naughty Nineties" (1945)
11:00am - My Favorite Martian
11:30am - Country Roads
12:00pm - Movie: "Mister Cory" (1957)
2:00pm - Movie: "Soldier of Fortune" (1955)
4:00pm - Bionic Woman
5:00pm - Movie: "The Lion" (1962)
7:00pm - Alias Smith and Jones
8:00pm - In Search of the Lord's Way
8:30pm - Sunday PM
9:30pm - Wild Wild West
10:30pm - Movie: "Soldier of Fortune" (1955)
12:30am - News
12:40am - Calendar 25
1:00am - sign-off
KGMC 34 (Ind.) - first day of operation (as a commercial independent station)
5:00am - off-air
7:00am - Tony and Susan Alamo†
8:00am - Jerry Falwell
9:00am - Believers' Voice of Victory with Kenneth Copeland
10:00am - The Jetsons
10:30am - The Flintstones
11:00am - The Monkees
11:30am - The Abbott and Costello Show
12:00pm - The Outer Limits
1:00pm - Movie: "The Story of Will Rogers" (1952)
3:00pm - Movie: "The Boy from Oklahoma" (1954)
5:00pm - Maverick
6:00pm - 12 O'Clock High
7:00pm - Comeback
7:30pm - Wild Kingdom
8:00pm - The PTL Club
10:00pm - Jerry Falwell
10:30pm - The 700 Club
12:00am - sign-off
† A KGMC ad in that week's edition of "Television Week" showing the station's launch day schedule list this religious program as an hour-long show; however, that day's listings in the supplement show a "To Be Announced" tag for 7:30am under KGMC.
Monday, October 29, 1979 (listings ran from 5:00am until respective station sign-offs)
KTVY 4 (NBC)
5:00am - off-air
6:00am - Petticoat Junction
6:30am - Farm News and Weather
7:00am - Today
9:00am - The Mike Douglas Show
10:00am - The New High Rollers
10:30am - Wheel of Fortune (NBC daytime version)
11:00am - Mind Readers
11:30pm - Dannysday
12:00pm - NewsCenter 4 Midday
12:30pm - Days of Our Lives
1:30pm - The Doctors
2:00pm - Another World
3:30pm - Little Rascals and Friends
4:00pm - Bewitched
4:30pm - The Partridge Family
5:00pm - Hogan's Heroes
5:30pm - NBC Nightly News (John Chancellor)
6:00pm - NewsCenter 4 at 6:00
6:30pm - Special: "Will: A Tribute to Will Rogers"
7:00pm - Little House on the Prairie
8:00pm - Movie: "Freedom Road" (part I, 1979)
10:00pm - NewsCenter 4 Update
10:30pm - The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (guest hosted by Rich Little)
12:00am - The Tomorrow Show
1:00am - Tonight in Oklahoma (time approximate)
1:05am - Ironside (time approximate)
2:00am - sign-off
KOCO-TV 5 (ABC)
5:00am - off-air
5:45am - Give Us This Day
5:50am - Bulletin Board
5:55am - Down to Earth
6:00am - The PTL Club
7:00am - Good Morning America
9:00am - Donahue
10:00am - Laverne & Shirley
10:30am - Family Feud
11:00am - All My Children (aired on day-behind delay from 12:00pm)
12:00pm - 5 Alive NewsCenter at Noon
12:30pm - Ryan's Hope (aired on one-hour delay from 11:30am)
1:00pm - One Life to Live
2:00pm - General Hospital
3:00pm - The Edge of Night
3:30pm - Happy Days Again (retitled syndicated rerun package of "Happy Days")
4:00pm - Carol Burnett and Friends
4:30pm - Sanford and Son
5:00pm - ABC World News Tonight (Frank Reynolds, Max Robinson and Peter Jennings)
5:30pm - 5 Alive NewsCenter at 5:30
6:00pm - The Joker's Wild
6:30pm - Tic Tac Dough
7:00pm - Special: "Oklahoma Alive"
8:00pm - Monday Night Football: Seattle Seahawks at Atlanta Falcons
10:45pm - 5 Alive NewsCenter Tonight
11:15pm - ABC Movie: "Fat City" (1972; delay from 10:30pm)
1:15am - sign-off
KWTV 9 (CBS)
5:00am - off-air
5:30am - Sunrise Semester
6:00am - Morning With Bob Schieffer
7:00am - Morning Farm Report
7:15am - Morning Laugh Cartoons
7:30am - The Beverly Hillbillies
8:00am - Captain Kangaroo
9:00am - Beat the Clock
9:30am - Whew!
9:55am - CBS Morning News
10:00am - The Price is Right
11:00am - The Young and the Restless
11:30am - Midday
12:30pm - As The World Turns
1:30pm - Guiding Light
2:30pm - One Day at a Time
3:00pm - I Love Lucy
3:30pm - Gomer Pyle, USMC
4:00pm - The Andy Griffith Show
4:30pm - The Dating Game
5:00pm - Big 9 News at 5:00
5:30pm - CBS Evening News (Walter Cronkite)
6:00pm - Big 9 News at 6:00
6:30pm - Three's a Crowd
7:00pm - The White Shadow
8:00pm - M*A*S*H
8:30pm - WKRP in Cincinnati
9:00pm - Lou Grant
10:00pm - Big 9 News at 10 O'Clock
10:30pm - The Newlywed Game
11:00pm - Movie: "Life Begins at 40" (1935)
12:35am - The Twilight Zone (time approximate)
1:05am - sign-off
KETA-TV 13 (PBS) - flagship station of OETA
5:00am - off-air
7:15am - A.M. Weather
7:30am - Over Easy
8:00am - Sesame Street
9:00am - The Electric Company
9:30am - Classics of World Literature
10:00am - Thinkabout
10:15am - Measuremetric
10:30am - Images and Things
10:50am - Readalong
11:00am - Life Around Us
11:30am - Vision On
12:00pm - Zarabanda
12:30pm - Search for Science
12:45pm - The Write Channel
1:00pm - Animals and Such
1:15pm - Time to Draw
1:30pm - I Can Read
1:45pm - Song Bag
2:00pm - All About You
2:15pm - Thinkabout
2:30pm - Vision On
3:00pm - Sesame Street
4:00pm - Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
4:30pm - The Electric Company
5:00pm - Zoom
5:30pm - Over Easy
6:00pm - The MacNeil/Lehrer Report
6:30pm - The Oklahoma Report
7:00pm - Catholics
8:30pm - Wall $treet Week Special: "The Class of '29"
9:00pm - Masterpiece Theater: "Poldark II"
10:00pm - The Dick Cavett Show
10:30pm - The Hank Thompson Show
11:00pm - sign-off
KOKH-TV 25 (Ind.)
5:00am - sign-off
6:30am - New Zoo Revue
7:00am - Krofft Superstars
7:30pm - Popeye
8:00am - Woody Woodpecker & Friends
8:30am - Romper Room
9:00am - Card Sharks
9:30pm - Hollywood Squares
10:00am - Perry Mason
11:00am - Family Affair
11:30am - McHale's Navy
12:00pm - Mayberry R.F.D.
12:30pm - The Merv Griffin Show
2:00pm - That Girl
2:30pm - Groovie Goolies
3:00pm - Krofft Superstars
3:30pm - Popeye
4:00pm - Woody Woodpecker & Friends
4:30pm - The Munsters
5:00pm - Leave It to Beaver
5:30pm - My Three Sons
6:00pm - All in the Family
6:30pm - The Dick Van Dyke Show
7:00pm - Jim Rockford, Private Investigator (retitled syndication package of "The Rockford Files")
8:00pm - Movie: "Tell Them Willie Boy is Here" (1969)
10:00pm - Have Gun – Will Travel
10:30pm - Movie: "Harry O: APB Harry Orwell" (1975)
12:00am - Movie: "McMillan and Wife: The Devil You Say" (1973)
2:00am - sign-off
KGMC 34 (Ind.)
5:00am - off-air
10:30am - The 700 Club
12:00pm - Bugs Bunny and Friends
12:30pm - Movie: "Desperate Hours" (1955)
2:30pm - Star Blazers
3:00pm - The Three Stooges
3:30pm - Speed Racer
4:00pm - The Flintstones
4:30pm - Bugs Bunny
5:00pm - The Brady Bunch
5:30pm - I Dream of Jeannie
6:00pm - The Odd Couple
6:30pm - The Bob Newhart Show
7:00pm - The Untouchables
8:00pm - Movie: "The Vikings" (1958)
10:00pm - The Benny Hill Show
10:30pm - The Rifleman
11:00pm - Make Me Laugh
11:30pm - sign-off
Tuesday, October 30, 1979 (listings ran from 5:00am until respective station sign-offs)
KTVY 4 (NBC)
5:00am - off-air
6:00am - Petticoat Junction
6:30am - Farm News and Weather
7:00am - Today
9:00am - The Mike Douglas Show
10:00am - The New High Rollers
10:30am - Wheel of Fortune
11:00am - Mind Readers
11:30pm - Dannysday
12:00pm - NewsCenter 4 Midday
12:30pm - Days of Our Lives
1:30pm - The Doctors
2:00pm - Another World
3:30pm - Little Rascals and Friends
4:00pm - Bewitched
4:30pm - The Partridge Family
5:00pm - Hogan's Heroes
5:30pm - NBC Nightly News (John Chancellor)
6:00pm - NewsCenter 4 at 6:00
6:30pm - The Wallace Wildlife Show
7:00pm - Special: "The Casper Halloween Special"
7:30pm - Special: "Witches Night Out"
8:00pm - Movie: "Freedom Road" (part II, 1979)
10:00pm - NewsCenter 4 Update
10:30pm - The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson: "The Best of Carson"
12:00am - The Tomorrow Show
1:00am - Tonight in Oklahoma (time approximate)
1:05am - Ironside (time approximate)
2:00am - sign-off
KOCO-TV 5 (ABC)
5:00am - off-air
5:45am - Give Us This Day
5:50am - Bulletin Board
5:55am - Down to Earth
6:00am - The PTL Club
7:00am - Good Morning America
9:00am - Donahue
10:00am - Laverne & Shirley
10:30am - Family Feud
11:00am - All My Children (aired on day-behind delay from 12:00pm)
12:00pm - 5 Alive NewsCenter at Noon
12:30pm - Ryan's Hope (aired on one-hour delay from 11:30am)
1:00pm - One Life to Live
2:00pm - General Hospital
3:00pm - The Edge of Night
3:30pm - Happy Days Again
4:00pm - Carol Burnett and Friends
4:30pm - Sanford and Son
5:00pm - ABC World News Tonight (Frank Reynolds, Max Robinson and Peter Jennings)
5:30pm - 5 Alive NewsCenter at 5:30
6:00pm - The Joker's Wild
6:30pm - Tic Tac Dough
7:00pm - Happy Days
7:30pm - Angie
8:00pm - Three's Company
8:30pm - Taxi
9:00pm - Hart to Hart
10:00pm - 5 Alive NewsCenter Tonight
10:30pm - M*A*S*H
11:00pm - Barney Miller
11:30pm - ABC Movie: "Rosemary's Baby II" aka "Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby" (1976; delay from 10:30pm)
2:00am - sign-off
KWTV 9 (CBS)
5:00am - off-air
5:30am - Sunrise Semester
6:00am - Morning With Bob Schieffer
7:00am - Morning Farm Report
7:15am - Morning Laugh Cartoons
7:30am - The Beverly Hillbillies
8:00am - Captain Kangaroo
9:00am - Beat the Clock
9:30am - Whew!
9:55am - CBS Morning News
10:00am - The Price is Right
11:00am - The Young and the Restless
11:30am - Midday
12:30pm - As The World Turns
1:30pm - Guiding Light
2:30pm - One Day at a Time
3:00pm - I Love Lucy
3:30pm - Gomer Pyle, USMC
4:00pm - The Andy Griffith Show
4:30pm - The Dating Game
5:00pm - Big 9 News at 5:00
5:30pm - CBS Evening News (Walter Cronkite)
6:00pm - Big 9 News at 6:00
6:30pm - Three's a Crowd
7:00pm - Special: "CBS Reports: The Baby Makers"
8:00pm - Movie: "One on One" (1977)
10:00pm - Big 9 News at 10 O'Clock
10:30pm - The Newlywed Game
11:00pm - Movie: "Dawn Patrol" (1938)
1:00am - The Twilight Zone (time approximate)
1:30am - sign-off
KETA-TV 13 (PBS) - flagship station of OETA
5:00am - off-air
7:15am - A.M. Weather
7:30am - Over Easy
8:00am - Sesame Street
9:00am - The Electric Company
9:30am - Footsteps
10:00am - L-4
10:15am - Numbers Game II
10:30am - The Universe and I
10:50am - Readalong
11:00am - The Humanities
11:30am - Vision On
12:00pm - Today's School
12:15pm - The Heart of Teaching
12:30pm - Camera and Song
1:00pm - Why?
1:15pm - Ripples
1:30pm - Our Living Language
1:45pm - Let's all Sing
2:00pm - Roomnastics
2:15pm - Chamber Music
2:30pm - Vision On
3:00pm - Sesame Street
4:00pm - Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
4:30pm - The Electric Company
5:00pm - Zoom
5:30pm - Over Easy
6:00pm - The MacNeil/Lehrer Report
6:30pm - The Oklahoma Report
7:00pm - Nova
8:00pm - World: "F-16: The Arms Sale of the Century"
9:00pm - Soundstage: "Gordon Lightfoot"
10:00pm - The Dick Cavett Show
10:30pm - The Hank Thompson Show
11:00pm - sign-off
KOKH-TV 25 (Ind.)
5:00am - sign-off
6:30am - New Zoo Revue
7:00am - Krofft Superstars
7:30pm - Popeye
8:00am - Woody Woodpecker & Friends
8:30am - Romper Room
9:00am - Card Sharks
9:30pm - Hollywood Squares
10:00am - Perry Mason
11:00am - Family Affair
11:30am - McHale's Navy
12:00pm - Mayberry R.F.D.
12:30pm - The Merv Griffin Show
2:00pm - That Girl
2:30pm - Groovie Goolies
3:00pm - Krofft Superstars
3:30pm - Popeye
4:00pm - Woody Woodpecker & Friends
4:30pm - The Munsters
5:00pm - Leave It to Beaver
5:30pm - My Three Sons
6:00pm - Movie: "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein" (1948)
8:00pm - Movie: "The War Wagon" (1967)
10:00pm - Have Gun – Will Travel
10:30pm - Movie: "Barnaby Jones: The Deadlier Species" (1975)
12:00am - Movie: "A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story" (1978)
2:00am - sign-off
KGMC 34 (Ind.)
5:00am - off-air
10:30am - The 700 Club
12:00pm - Bugs Bunny and Friends
12:30pm - Movie: "Beau James" (1957)
2:30pm - Star Blazers
3:00pm - The Three Stooges
3:30pm - Speed Racer
4:00pm - The Flintstones
4:30pm - Bugs Bunny
5:00pm - The Brady Bunch
5:30pm - I Dream of Jeannie
6:00pm - The Odd Couple
6:30pm - The Bob Newhart Show
7:00pm - The Untouchables
8:00pm - Movie: "The St. Valentine's Day Massacre" (1967)
10:00pm - The Benny Hill Show
10:30pm - The Rifleman
11:00pm - Make Me Laugh
11:30pm - sign-off