This schedule post chronicles the week during which KOKH-TV converted from an educational independent into a commercial independent station. The station – which was founded by Oklahoma City Public Schools on February 2, 1959, following Republic Television and Radio Company's donation of the construction permit belonging to the previous occupant of UHF channel 25, KTVQ (which operated from November 1, 1953 until it was forced off the air by court order during bankruptcy proceedings on December 15, 1955) – was sold by the school district on December 14, 1978 to New York City-based John Blair & Co. for $3.5 million. KOKH's conversion made it into the first commercial independent station in Oklahoma, soon to be followed by the launch of KGMC (now KOCB, channel 34) four weeks later on October 28. (KGMC's launch week will be chronicled my the next schedule post.)
Source: The Daily/Sunday Oklahoman (Television Week and daily listings page), via the Oklahoman Archives
Sunday, September 30, 1979 (listings ran from 5:00am until respective station sign-offs)
KTVY 4 (NBC)
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 - The Racers
12:00pm - NFL Football: Cleveland Browns at Houston Oilers
3:00pm - NFL Football: Cincinnati Bengals at Dallas Cowboys
6:00pm - Disney's Wonderful World: "The Million Dollar Duck" (1971)
7:00pm - Movie: "The Kid from Left Field" (1979)
9:00pm - OU Football
10:00pm - NewsCenter 4 Update
10:30pm - Movie: "Reflections in a Golden Eye" (1967)
12:30am - Movie: "Man on the Outside" (1975; time approximate)
KOCO-TV 5 (ABC)
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 - Major League Baseball (teams not listed)
4:00pm - Hee Haw (time approximate)
5:00pm - ABC World News Sunday (Sam Donaldson)
5:30pm - 5 Alive NewsCenter Weekend
6:00pm - Out of the Blue
6:30pm - The Muppets
7:00pm - Mork and Mindy
7:30pm - The Associates
8:00pm - ABC Theatre: "Murder by Death" (1976)
10:00pm - 5 Alive NewsCenter Weekend
10:30pm - Donahue P.M.
11:30pm - Movie: "Shamus" (1973)
1:25am - ABC Weekend Report
1:40am - sign-off
KWTV 9 (CBS)
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: Washington Redskins at Atlanta Falcons
3:00pm - World Series of Golf
5:00pm - CBS Evening News
5:30pm - Newsroom 9 Weekend Edition
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 - Newsroom 9 Weekend Edition
10:30pm - Movie: "The Night They Raided Minsky's" (1968)
12:20am - Upstairs, Downstairs
12:50am - sign-off
KETA-TV 13 (PBS) - flagship station of OETA
5:00am - off-air
9:00am - Outdoor Oklahoma
9:30am - Untamed World
10:00am - Once Upon a Classic: "Man from Nowhere"
11:00am - National Geographic on Assignment
12:00pm - Washington Week in Review
12:30pm - Wall $treet Week with Louis Rukeyser
1:00pm - Live from the Met
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 - Meeting of the Minds
10:00pm - Sneak Previews
10:30pm - sign-off
Monday, October 1, 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 (local talk show hosted by local TV/radio personality Danny Williams and eventual "Entertainment Tonight" anchor Mary Hart)
12:00pm - NewsCenter 4 Midday
12:30pm - Days of Our Lives
1:30pm - The Doctors
2:00pm - Special: "Pope John Paul II"
2:30pm - Another World
3:30pm - Little Rascals and Friends
4:00pm - Bewitched
4:30pm - The Partridge Family
5:00pm - The Brady Bunch
5:30pm - NBC Nightly News (John Chancellor and David Brinkley)
6:00pm - NewsCenter 4 at 6:00
6:30pm - The Wallace Wildlife Show (long-running local outdoors program)
7:00pm - Little House on the Prairie
8:00pm - Special: "Johnny Carson 17th Anniversary"
10:00pm - NewsCenter 4 Update
10:30pm - Special: "Pope John Paul II"
12:00am - The Tomorrow Show
1:00am - Tonight In Oklahoma
1:05am - Ironside
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
1:30pm - Special: "Pope John Paul II"
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 - 240-Robert
8:00pm - Monday Night Football: New England Patriots at Green Bay Packers
10:45pm - 5 Alive NewsCenter Tonight
11:15pm - ABC Movie: "The Stone Killer" (1973; 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!
10:00am - The Price is Right
11:00am - The Young and the Restless
11:30am - Midday (original iteration of KWTV's midday newscast)
12:30pm - As The World Turns
1:30pm - Special: "Pope John Paul II"
2:00pm - 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 - Newsroom 9 at 5:00
5:30pm - CBS Evening News (Walter Cronkite)
6:00pm - Newsroom 9 at 6:00
6:30pm - Three's a Crowd (syndicated game show)
7:00pm - The White Shadow
8:00pm - M*A*S*H
8:30pm - Last Resort
9:00pm - Lou Grant
10:00pm - Newsroom 9 Late Edition
10:30pm - Special: "Pope John Paul II"
11:00pm - Movie: "Nightmare Alley" (1947)
1:05am - The Twilight Zone (time approximate)
1:35am - 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 - Musical Comedy Tonight
8:30pm - Mark Russell Comedy
9:00pm - Masterpiece Theater: "Poldark"
10:00pm - The Dick Cavett Show
10:30pm - The Hank Thompson Show
11:00pm - sign-off
KOKH-TV 25 (Ind.) - first day as a commercial independent station
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 Affairs
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 - Special: Inaugural programming (preview show of KOKH's schedule)
7:00pm - Jim Rockford, Private Investigator (retitled syndication package of "The Rockford Files")
8:00pm - Movie: "The Second Time Around" (1961)
10:00pm - Have Gun – Will Travel
10:30pm - Movie: "Harry O: Forbidden City" (1976)
12:00am - Movie: "McMillan and Wife: The Deadly Inheritance" (1975)
2:00am - sign-off
Tuesday, October 2, 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 - Special: "Pope John Paul II"
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 - The Brady Bunch
5:30pm - NBC Nightly News (John Chancellor and David Brinkley)
6:00pm - NewsCenter 4 at 6:00
6:30pm - The Wallace Wildlife Show
7:00pm - Major League Baseball: 1979 National League Championship Series - Pittsburgh Pirates at Cincinnati Reds (Game 1)
10:00pm - NewsCenter 4 Update
10:30pm - The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
12:00am - The Tomorrow Show
1:00am - Tonight In Oklahoma
1:05am - Ironside
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 - Special: "Pope John Paul II"
12:00pm - 5 Alive NewsCenter at Noon
12:30pm - Food for All Seasons
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 - The Lazarus Syndrome
10:00pm - 5 Alive NewsCenter Tonight
10:30pm - M*A*S*H
11:00pm - Special: "Pope John Paul II"
11:30pm - Barney Miller
12:00am - ABC Movie: "Having Babies III" (1978; 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!
10:00am - The Price is Right
11:00am - Special: "Pope John Paul II"
12:00pm - Midday
12:30pm - As The World Turns
1:30pm - Guiding Light
2:30pm - One Day at a Time
3:00pm - Razzmatazz
3:30pm - Gomer Pyle, USMC
4:00pm - The Andy Griffith Show
4:30pm - The Dating Game
5:00pm - Newsroom 9 at 5:00
5:30pm - CBS Evening News (Walter Cronkite)
6:00pm - Newsroom 9 at 6:00
6:30pm - Three's a Crowd
7:00pm - The White Shadow
8:00pm - Movie: "Portrait of a Stripper" (1979)
10:00pm - Newsroom 9 Late Edition
10:30pm - The Newlywed Game
11:00pm - Movie: "The Bride Came C.O.D." (1941)
12:50am - The Twilight Zone (time approximate)
1:20am - 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 - L-4
10:15am - The Numbers Game
10:30am - The Universe and I
10:50am - Readalong
11:00am - The Humanities
11:30am - Vision On
12:00pm - The SDE Report
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 - BJ Vibes
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
9:00pm - Here to Make Music
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 Affairs
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
8:00pm - Movie: "Pete Kelly's Blues" (1955)
10:00pm - Have Gun – Will Travel
10:30pm - Movie: "Barnaby Jones: Dangerous Summer" (1975)
12:00am - Movie: "In the Matter of Karen Ann Quinlan" (1977)
2:00am - sign-off
Source: The Daily/Sunday Oklahoman (Television Week and daily listings page), via the Oklahoman Archives
Sunday, September 30, 1979 (listings ran from 5:00am until respective station sign-offs)
KTVY 4 (NBC)
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 - The Racers
12:00pm - NFL Football: Cleveland Browns at Houston Oilers
3:00pm - NFL Football: Cincinnati Bengals at Dallas Cowboys
6:00pm - Disney's Wonderful World: "The Million Dollar Duck" (1971)
7:00pm - Movie: "The Kid from Left Field" (1979)
9:00pm - OU Football
10:00pm - NewsCenter 4 Update
10:30pm - Movie: "Reflections in a Golden Eye" (1967)
12:30am - Movie: "Man on the Outside" (1975; time approximate)
KOCO-TV 5 (ABC)
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 - Major League Baseball (teams not listed)
4:00pm - Hee Haw (time approximate)
5:00pm - ABC World News Sunday (Sam Donaldson)
5:30pm - 5 Alive NewsCenter Weekend
6:00pm - Out of the Blue
6:30pm - The Muppets
7:00pm - Mork and Mindy
7:30pm - The Associates
8:00pm - ABC Theatre: "Murder by Death" (1976)
10:00pm - 5 Alive NewsCenter Weekend
10:30pm - Donahue P.M.
11:30pm - Movie: "Shamus" (1973)
1:25am - ABC Weekend Report
1:40am - sign-off
KWTV 9 (CBS)
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: Washington Redskins at Atlanta Falcons
3:00pm - World Series of Golf
5:00pm - CBS Evening News
5:30pm - Newsroom 9 Weekend Edition
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 - Newsroom 9 Weekend Edition
10:30pm - Movie: "The Night They Raided Minsky's" (1968)
12:20am - Upstairs, Downstairs
12:50am - sign-off
KETA-TV 13 (PBS) - flagship station of OETA
5:00am - off-air
9:00am - Outdoor Oklahoma
9:30am - Untamed World
10:00am - Once Upon a Classic: "Man from Nowhere"
11:00am - National Geographic on Assignment
12:00pm - Washington Week in Review
12:30pm - Wall $treet Week with Louis Rukeyser
1:00pm - Live from the Met
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 - Meeting of the Minds
10:00pm - Sneak Previews
10:30pm - sign-off
Monday, October 1, 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 (local talk show hosted by local TV/radio personality Danny Williams and eventual "Entertainment Tonight" anchor Mary Hart)
12:00pm - NewsCenter 4 Midday
12:30pm - Days of Our Lives
1:30pm - The Doctors
2:00pm - Special: "Pope John Paul II"
2:30pm - Another World
3:30pm - Little Rascals and Friends
4:00pm - Bewitched
4:30pm - The Partridge Family
5:00pm - The Brady Bunch
5:30pm - NBC Nightly News (John Chancellor and David Brinkley)
6:00pm - NewsCenter 4 at 6:00
6:30pm - The Wallace Wildlife Show (long-running local outdoors program)
7:00pm - Little House on the Prairie
8:00pm - Special: "Johnny Carson 17th Anniversary"
10:00pm - NewsCenter 4 Update
10:30pm - Special: "Pope John Paul II"
12:00am - The Tomorrow Show
1:00am - Tonight In Oklahoma
1:05am - Ironside
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
1:30pm - Special: "Pope John Paul II"
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 - 240-Robert
8:00pm - Monday Night Football: New England Patriots at Green Bay Packers
10:45pm - 5 Alive NewsCenter Tonight
11:15pm - ABC Movie: "The Stone Killer" (1973; 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!
10:00am - The Price is Right
11:00am - The Young and the Restless
11:30am - Midday (original iteration of KWTV's midday newscast)
12:30pm - As The World Turns
1:30pm - Special: "Pope John Paul II"
2:00pm - 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 - Newsroom 9 at 5:00
5:30pm - CBS Evening News (Walter Cronkite)
6:00pm - Newsroom 9 at 6:00
6:30pm - Three's a Crowd (syndicated game show)
7:00pm - The White Shadow
8:00pm - M*A*S*H
8:30pm - Last Resort
9:00pm - Lou Grant
10:00pm - Newsroom 9 Late Edition
10:30pm - Special: "Pope John Paul II"
11:00pm - Movie: "Nightmare Alley" (1947)
1:05am - The Twilight Zone (time approximate)
1:35am - 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 - Musical Comedy Tonight
8:30pm - Mark Russell Comedy
9:00pm - Masterpiece Theater: "Poldark"
10:00pm - The Dick Cavett Show
10:30pm - The Hank Thompson Show
11:00pm - sign-off
KOKH-TV 25 (Ind.) - first day as a commercial independent station
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 Affairs
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 - Special: Inaugural programming (preview show of KOKH's schedule)
7:00pm - Jim Rockford, Private Investigator (retitled syndication package of "The Rockford Files")
8:00pm - Movie: "The Second Time Around" (1961)
10:00pm - Have Gun – Will Travel
10:30pm - Movie: "Harry O: Forbidden City" (1976)
12:00am - Movie: "McMillan and Wife: The Deadly Inheritance" (1975)
2:00am - sign-off
Tuesday, October 2, 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 - Special: "Pope John Paul II"
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 - The Brady Bunch
5:30pm - NBC Nightly News (John Chancellor and David Brinkley)
6:00pm - NewsCenter 4 at 6:00
6:30pm - The Wallace Wildlife Show
7:00pm - Major League Baseball: 1979 National League Championship Series - Pittsburgh Pirates at Cincinnati Reds (Game 1)
10:00pm - NewsCenter 4 Update
10:30pm - The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
12:00am - The Tomorrow Show
1:00am - Tonight In Oklahoma
1:05am - Ironside
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 - Special: "Pope John Paul II"
12:00pm - 5 Alive NewsCenter at Noon
12:30pm - Food for All Seasons
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 - The Lazarus Syndrome
10:00pm - 5 Alive NewsCenter Tonight
10:30pm - M*A*S*H
11:00pm - Special: "Pope John Paul II"
11:30pm - Barney Miller
12:00am - ABC Movie: "Having Babies III" (1978; 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!
10:00am - The Price is Right
11:00am - Special: "Pope John Paul II"
12:00pm - Midday
12:30pm - As The World Turns
1:30pm - Guiding Light
2:30pm - One Day at a Time
3:00pm - Razzmatazz
3:30pm - Gomer Pyle, USMC
4:00pm - The Andy Griffith Show
4:30pm - The Dating Game
5:00pm - Newsroom 9 at 5:00
5:30pm - CBS Evening News (Walter Cronkite)
6:00pm - Newsroom 9 at 6:00
6:30pm - Three's a Crowd
7:00pm - The White Shadow
8:00pm - Movie: "Portrait of a Stripper" (1979)
10:00pm - Newsroom 9 Late Edition
10:30pm - The Newlywed Game
11:00pm - Movie: "The Bride Came C.O.D." (1941)
12:50am - The Twilight Zone (time approximate)
1:20am - 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 - L-4
10:15am - The Numbers Game
10:30am - The Universe and I
10:50am - Readalong
11:00am - The Humanities
11:30am - Vision On
12:00pm - The SDE Report
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 - BJ Vibes
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
9:00pm - Here to Make Music
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 Affairs
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
8:00pm - Movie: "Pete Kelly's Blues" (1955)
10:00pm - Have Gun – Will Travel
10:30pm - Movie: "Barnaby Jones: Dangerous Summer" (1975)
12:00am - Movie: "In the Matter of Karen Ann Quinlan" (1977)
2:00am - sign-off