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Retro:Orlando, Thursday, October 23, 1986

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classictvfan

From The Lakeland(Florida) Ledger

WESH Channel 2(NBC)
5:30 2's Country
6:00 News At Sunrise
7:00 Today
9:00 The Judge
9:30 Love Connection
10:00 Family Ties
10:30 Sale Of The Century
11:00 Wheel Of Fortune
11:30 Scrabble
12:00 News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1:00 Days Of Our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 Santa Barbara
4:00 Magnum, P.I.
5:00 Divorce Court
5:30 People's Court
6:00 News
6:30 NBC News
7:00 Newlywed Game
7:30 Entertainment Tonight
8:00 Cosby Show
8:30 1986 World Series:Game Five(If Necessary)
11:30 News
12:00 Tonight Show(Johnny Carson)
1:00 Late Night With David Letterman

WCPX Channel 6(CBS)
6:00 Sally Jessy Raphael
6:30 Early Morning News
7:00 Morning News
9:00 Donahue
10:00 Hour Magazine
11:00 Price Is Right
12:00 News
12:30 Young And The Restless
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Capitol
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 Diff'rent Strokes
4:30 Three's Company
5:00 M*A*S*H
5:30 News(1 Hour)
6:30 CBS News
7:00 P.M. Magazine
7:30 Dating Game
8:00 Simon & Simon
9:00 Knots Landing
10:00 Kay O'Brien
11:00 News
11:30 M*A*S*H
12:00 Night Heat
1:00 Movie-Quarterback Princess(Made For TV, 1983)
3:00 Nightwatch(To 6 AM)

WFTV Channel 9(ABC)
5:00 Barnaby Jones
6:00 Daybreak
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Oprah Winfrey
10:00 True Confessions
10:30 Superior Court
11:00 Fame, Fortune & Romance
11:30 Double Talk
12:00 News
12:30 Loving
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life To Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Jeopardy!
4:30 Card Sharks
5:00 Hollywood Squares
5:30 News(1 Hour)
6:30 ABC News
7:00 Jeopardy!
7:30 Wheel Of Fortune
8:00 Our World:1954
9:00 The Colbys
10:00 20/20
11:00 News
11:30 Nightline
12:00 Nightlife
12:30 Dick Cavett
1:30 News
2:00 Movie-Hilda Crane(1956)
4:00 Movie-Night Of The Assassin(Italian, 1970)

WMFE Channel 24(PBS)
6:45 A.M. Weather
7:00 Farm Day/A.M. Weather
7:30 Sesame Street
8:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Captain Kangaroo
10:30 3-2-1 Contact
11:00 We're Cooking Now
11:30 FloridaStyle
12:00 All Creatures Great And Small
1:00 Nova
2:00 Kathy's Kitchen
2:30 Magic Brush
3:00 FloridaStyle
3:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Money Puzzle
6:00 MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour
7:00 Nature
8:00 Wild America
8:30 This Old House
9:00 The Living Planet
10:00 Managing Our Miracle
11:00 Dave Allen At Large

WOFL Channel 35(FOX)
5:00 CNN Headline News(1 Hour)
6:00 Good Day!
6:30 Centurions
7:00 G.I. Joe
7:30 Transformers
8:00 Challenge Of The Gobots
8:30 Dennis The Menace
9:00 Green Acres
9:30 Petticoat Junction
10:00 Waltons
11:00 Dallas
12:00 Bewitched
12:30 Beverly Hillbillies
1:00 Dick Van Dyke
1:30 Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
2:00 Andy Griffith
2:30 My Little Pony 'N' Friends
3:00 Scooby Doo
3:30 Smurfs' Adventures
4:00 Thundercats
4:30 Silverhawks
5:00 Fall Guy
6:00 Gimme A Break!
6:30 Too Close For Comfort
7:00 Facts Of Life
7:30 Benson
8:00 Hart To Hart
9:00 Trapper John, M.D.
10:00 I.N.N. News
10:30 Bob Newhart
11:00 Late Show With Joan Rivers
12:00 Hawaii Five-O
1:00 Bizarre
1:30 SCTV Network
2:00 Dukes Of Hazzard
3:00 Big Valley
4:00 Eight Is Enough
 
Channel 9: Wow, not only is it odd seeing Oprah's show airing in the morning, but to see her eventual 4 PM slot reserved for one of two daily airings of "Jeopardy!" (That changed real quick, I imagine...)

Channel 35: So by virtue of them carrying Joan Rivers' late night show, they were designated in the newspaper as a "Fox" station? (Despite carrying "INN News"?) By the way, look at that schedule - not a single infomercial. We've come quite a long way, haven't we?
 
azumanga said:
So, what played in Tampa Bay that day? (The Ledger, then and now, carried listings for Tampa Bay and Orlando.)
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Here are the Tampa Bay listings from the same day, from The Lakeland Ledger:

WEDU Channel 3(PBS)
7:15 Farm Day
7:30 A.M. Weather
8:00 Secret City
8:30 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Instructional TV(3 Hours)
1:00 Instructional TV(2 Hours)
3:00 Boomerang
3:30 3-2-1 Contact
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Introducing Biology
6:30 Nightly Business Report
7:00 MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour
8:00 The Living Planet
9:00 Mystery!
10:00 Out Of The Fiery Furnace
11:00 Doctor Who

WXFL Channel 8(NBC)
5:00 More Real People
5:30 Jimmy Swaggart
6:00 News
6:30 News At Sunrise
7:00 Today
9:00 Santa Barbara
10:00 Crosswits
10:30 Sale Of The Century
11:00 Wheel Of Fortune
11:30 Scrabble
12:00 News
12:30 All In The Family
1:00 Days Of Our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 Barnaby Jones
4:00 Trapper John, M.D.
5:00 Quincy
6:00 News
6:30 NBC News
7:00 Jeopardy!
7:30 Hollywood Squares
8:00 Cosby Show
8:30 1986 World Series:Game Five(If Necessary)
11:30 News
12:00 Tonight Show(Johnny Carson)
1:00 Late Night With David Letterman

WTSP Channel 10(ABC)
6:00 Today's Business
6:30 News This Morning
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Donahue
10:00 Murphy In The Morning
10:30 Sally Jessy Raphael
11:00 Oprah Winfrey
12:00 News
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life To Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Hart To Hart
5:00 Magnum, P.I.
6:00 News(1 Hour)
7:00 ABC News
7:30 Wheel Of Fortune
8:00 Our World:1954
9:00 The Colbys
10:00 20/20
11:00 News
11:30 Nightline
12:00 Hawaii Five-O
1:00 News
1:30 Music City U.S.A.

WTVT Channel 13(CBS)
6:00 Breakfast Best
7:00 News This Morning
9:00 Divorce Court
9:30 The Judge
10:00 $25,000 Pyramid
10:30 Card Sharks
11:00 The Price Is Right
12:00 News
1:00 Young And The Restless
2:00 As The World Turns
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 Hour Magazine
5:00 News
5:30 Three's Company
6:00 News(1 Hour)
7:00 CBS News
7:30 Entertainment Tonight
8:00 Simon & Simon
9:00 Knots Landing
10:00 Kay O'Brien
11:00 News
11:30 Dating Game
12:00 Night Heat
1:00 Movie-Take Your Best Shot(Made For TV, 1982)
2:30 Nightwatch(To 6 AM)

WUSF Channel 16(PBS)
7:45 A.M. Weather
8:00 Body Electric
8:30 Magic Of Floral Painting
9:00 Gourmet Cooking
9:30 Joy Of Painting
10:00 Cinema Showcase
10:30 Sneak Previews
11:00 Water, Birth, The Planet Earth
12:00 New York's Master Chefs
12:30 Living Green
1:00 Viewpoint On Nutrition
1:30 Kathy's Kitchen
2:00 We're Cooking Now
2:30 New Literacy
3:00 Survival
4:00 The Africans
5:00 Body Electric
5:30 Love, Sex & Violence
6:00 MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour
7:00 Spanish II
7:30 Movie-Diggers(Documentary, 1985)
9:00 Project Second Chance:Dropouts In America
10:00 Bradshaw On The Family
 
WCFL Channel 22(Independent/Religious)
7:00 Secret Place
7:30 Jimmy Swaggart
8:00 700 Club
9:00 90 & 9 Club
10:00 Action '60s
11:00 Daily Restoration
11:30 Richard Roberts
12:30 Good Life
1:30 Frederick K. Price
2:30 Mike Murdoch
3:00 Kids Jamboree
3:30 Joy Junction
4:00 Jim & Tammy Faye Bakker
5:00 100 Huntley Street
6:00 Action '60s
7:00 Dwight Thompson
8:00 This Is The Life
8:30 God's News Behind The News
9:00 Good Life
10:00 700 Club
11:00 Love Special
12:00 On The Rock
12:30 Action '60s
1:30 Good Life

WFTS Channel 28(Independent)
6:00 Zoobilee Zoo
6:30 Inspector Gadget
7:00 M.A.S.K.
7:30 Jetsons
8:00 Dennis The Menace
8:30 My Little Pony 'N' Friends
9:00 Andy Griffith
9:30 Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
10:00 I Dream Of Jeannie
10:30 Family Affair
11:00 Hogan's Heroes
11:30 Odd Couple
12:00 Carol Burnett & Friends
12:30 Movie-Benny And Barney:Las Vegas Undercover(Made For TV, 1977)
2:00 Bewitched
2:30 Plastic Man
3:00 Defenders Of The Earth
3:30 Rambo
4:00 He-Man & The Masters Of The Universe
4:30 She-Ra:princess Of Power
5:00 Diff'rent Strokes
5:30 What's Happening!!
6:00 Facts Of Life
6:30 Good Times
7:00 Benson
7:30 Archie Bunker's Place
8:00 Kojak
9:00 Movie-The Family(Italian-French, 1973)
11:00 Twilight Zone
11:30 Night Gallery
12:00 Incredible Hulk
1:00 Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea
2:00 Rawhide

WTOG Channel 44(FOX)
5:30 News
6:00 Prime Of Your Life
6:30 Challenge Of The Gobots
7:00 Adventures Of The Galaxy Rangers
7:30 Transformers
8:00 Flintstones
8:30 Scooby Doo
9:00 Eight Is Enough
10:00 Perry Mason
11:00 Knots Landing
12:00 Dallas
1:00 Movie-The Young In Heart(1938)
3:00 Ghostbusters
3:30 Smurfs' Adventures
4:00 G.I. Joe
4:30 Thundercats
5:00 Silverhawks
5:30 Happy Days
6:00 Gimme A Break!
6:30 Jeffersons
7:00 Superior Court
7:30 People's Court
8:00 Movie-Madame X(1966)
10:00 Tampa Bay Tonight
10:30 I.N.N. News
11:00 Late Show With Joan Rivers
12:00 Love Connection
12:30 Movie-Sitting Target(1972)
2:30 Movie-The Champ(1979)
4:00 Movie-Quality Street(1937)
 
43 WMOD (Ind.) (Now WTFU Telefutura Spanish)
Thursday, October 23, 1986
5:00 Home Shopping Club
6:00 Gilligan's Island
6:30 Inspector Gadget
7:00 Heathcliff
7:30 MASK
8:00 Galaxy Rangers
8:30 Superfreinds
9:00 Knott's Landing
10:00 Rockford Files
11:00 Bonanza
12:00 Ironside
1:00 Odd Couple
1:30 My Three Sons
2:00 I Dream Of Jeannie
2:30 Ghostbusters
3:00 Rambo
3:30 He Man
4:00 She Ra
4:30 Brady Bunch
5:00 Happy Days
5:30 Laverne & Shirley
6:00 Disney's Wonderful World
7:00 Knight Ryder
8:00 Movie - Wake Me Up When The World Is Over (1969)
10:00 Honeymooners Lost Episodes
10:30 Honeymooners 39
11:00 All In The Family
11:30 One Day At A Time
12:00 The Saint
1:00 Home Shopping CLub
 
TV Guide Orlando Edition for 2 weeks before actually. But it answers the question of what WMOD TV 43 melborne looked like at that point. Home Shopping expanded on that station right after Christmas to 10 AM-3 PM. That Spring of 1987, WMOD was Home Shopping until 3 PM, cartoons 3-5, sitcoms and drama shows 5-8 PM, a movie at 8. more sitcoms and dramas 10-12MID. That Summer, the station was HSN 18 hours a day with only 6 hours of programming a day, an hour of cartoons, a couple hours of drama shows, an hour or so of sitcoms, and a movie. Press sold the station to Home Shopping Network that February of 1988. Press then kept the programming and bought more of it and signed on channel 68 closer to Orlando as WKCF November of 1988. Their plan was originally to hold onto WMOD until they could put 68 on the air but when they ran out of funds, they had to raise revenue so they affiliated WMOD with HSN. When they still did not have the funds to completely build WKCF, they sold WMOD completely and the intellectual programming unit went dark and was replaced on 43 with HSN until the new channel could sign on. NOT IDEAL but in the end the WMOD unit would survive as WKCF
 
Channel 43 never went dark. Just the intellectual programming unit of WMOD-TV eventually went dark in the spring of 1988 after being on the air 24 hours then 19 hours a a day in the fall of 86, 14 hours a day by January of 87, to 9 hours a day by April of 87, to only 6 hours a day by that summer. The rest of the day was Home Shopping Network programming. So Channel 43 ran HSN programming 24/7 except for a few hours of religious, public affairs, and a couple kids' shows Sunday mornings. It would be in january of 2002 that the station would take on a Spanish Telefutura format. Press Broadcasting was at work getting Channel 68 built and put the WMOD unit there with the WKCF calls.

The problem with Channel 43 was it was in melborne and 45 miles from Orlando straight line and about 65 miles from Orlando driving. As a result, Orlando had a grade B signal for Channel 43 which meant that people without cable would need a roof antenna to recieve the station while recieving the other stations with just an indoor antenna. Daytona Beach is also 40 miles from orlando but driving would be about 60 miles away. From Melborne, Daytona is about 70 miles away and had no signal for Channel 43 while getting other Orlando stations clearly even without a roof antenna. So Channel 43 was unable to do well with its format even with a decent line-up. Channel 56 WAYK had an even worse signal and had a very weak lineup. That station eventually became Pax-TV and then ION TV.

So Channel 68 enabled Press Broadcasting to have a grade A signal in all three cities in orlando. Still the signal in Melborne was weak due to Channel 68 being high on the dial. So in 1991, WKCF moved from Channel 68 to Channel 18 and PBS moved their second station from 18 to 68. As we know, WKCF eventually became the WB station, was sold to Emmis, became the CW station, then sold again.
 
Markd said:
So in 1991, WKCF moved from Channel 68 to Channel 18 and PBS moved their second station from 18 to 68.
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The swap, made with Brevard Community College's WBCC (may have still been WRES-TV at the time) involved, as I understand it, a substantial donation of cash and equipment to BCC that enabled them to build out their formerly tiny, flea-power operation into a solid public station. WBCC is one of 3 public stations in the Orlando market (several markets have two; few have three) and with the transition to DTV, and the channel changes and different spacing required, WMFE-TV, WBCC, and Daytona State College's WDSC are now all transmitting from the same site east of Orlando.
 
The Press Broadcasting unit that owned WMOD... is it related to the Press Communications that owns several radio stations in New Jersey?
 
DToTheJ said:
The Press Broadcasting unit that owned WMOD... is it related to the Press Communications that owns several radio stations in New Jersey?
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I think it was -- it was named after the Asbury Park Press, one of the state's leading newspapers, though the newspaper itself is no longer part of the family (Gannett bought it in 1997).
 
YES

The Press Broadcasting unit that owned WMOD-TV and then WKCF 68 and then WKCF 18 is the same company that owned a bunch of stations in New Jersey and Asbury Park Press.

They sold a few of their stations to Nassau in 1997 and sold remaining ones to Millineum Broadcasting in 1998. Then they bought several other stations. Eventually Millineum bought the Jersey Shore Nassau stations and then sold one of them to Press Broadcasting.

Also Press owned a TV station in Vineland, NJ 30 miles from Philadelphia. The station was Channel 65 and served the Philadelphia market. They owned them and ran them as WSJT from Juneof 1985 to January of 1987. Since the stronger shows were owned by 17 WPHL and 29 WTAF/WTXF, and the remaining shows were bought by Grant Broadcasting to put on Channel 57 for October of 85, WSJT was stuck with low budget shows from teh 1950's such as Donna Reed, Life Of Riley, Bachelor Father, Suzie, Anne Southern, Our Miss Brooks, December Bride, among others. After this format failed, Press sold the station to Home Shopping Club and the station then sold to USA Broadcasting and then to Univision. Today WSJT has a Spanish format.
 
And given how smooth jazz stations have fallen by the wayside recently, it won't be long before that station changes its format (and call letters)...
 
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