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Retro: Pittsburgh/Ohio & Mahoning Valleys Mon, May 20, 1991

from TV Guide-Pittsburgh Metro edition
Pittsburgh was one of 3 editions (IIRC the others were Nashville and Rochester) running the experimental large-format version at the time
Not listed: WNEU 63-Ind Pittsburgh
Program times on ch 13/16 subject to change due to pledge periods

KDKA 2-CBS Pittsburgh
5:00 Morning Stretch
5:30 First Business
6:00 News
7:00 This Morning (guest Garth Brooks)
9:00 Sally Jessy Raphael (sisters' disputes)
10:00 $100,000 Pyramid
10:30 Family Feud
11:00 Price is Right
noon News
12:30 Young & the Restless
1:30 Bold & the Beautiful
2:00 As the World Turns
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 Phil Donahue (multiple marriages, the 4pm broadcasts here and on ch 9 were listed as live)
5:00 Oprah Winfrey (fashion model competition)
6:00 News
7:00 CBS Evening News
7:30 Instant Recall
8:00 America's Missing Children (Michael Landon hosts this program which also includes tips on reducing the risk of abductions, and interviews with a convicted abductor and the intended victim who thrwarted him)
9:00 Murphy Brown
9:30 Designing Women
10:00 Northern Exposure
11:00 News
11:30 Inside Edition
mid. Sweating Bullets
1:00 Magnum, PI
2:00 CBS News Nightwatch

WTAE 4-ABC Pittsburgh
5:00 News
7:00 Good Morning America (guest Michael Bolton)
9:00 Regis & Kathie Lee (guests Will Smith and Michael Tucker)
10:00 Pittsburgh's Talking (Ann Devlin welcomes psychic Sylvia Brown)
10:55 News
11:00 Home (guests Ralph Nader and Ann Reinking)
noon News
12:30 Loving
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Who's the Boss?
4:30 Growing Pains
5:00 Cheers
5:30 News
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7:00 A Current Affair
7:30 Entertainment Tonight
8:00 Best of Disney: 50 Years of Magic (Dick Van Dyke, Daryl Hannah, Annette Funicello, Teri Garr, Shelley Long, Barbara Walters, Neil Patrick Harris, and Harry Connick Jr. co-host this special, celebrating the golden anniversary of its Burbank location)
10:00 20/20 (obstacles to raising children, and how parents can overcome them)
11:00 News
11:30 Golden Girls
mid. ABC News Nightline
12:30 Rick Dees (guest Joan Rivers)
1:30 Entertainment Tonight
2:00 TBA
4:30 This Morning's Business

WJAC 6-NBC Johnstown
6:00 NBC News at Sunrise
6:30 News
7:00 Today (guest Stockard Channing)
9:00 Joan Rivers (guest Bill Cosby; live)
10:00 Wheel of Fortune
10:30 Concentration
11:00 To Tell the Truth
11:30 Trialwatch
noon News
12:30 A Closer Look
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 Santa Barbara
4:00 Cosby Show
4:30 ALF
5:00 Family Feud
5:30 Night Court
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Cheers
7:30 M*A*S*H
8:00 and 8:30 Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
9:00 Movie "Reason for Living: The Jill Ireland Story"
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show (guests Meredith Vieira, Ofra Haza, and Billiam Coronel)
12:30 Late Night with David Letterman (rerun from 1990 with guest Pheobe Cates)
1:30 Later with Bob Costas

WTRF 7-CBS/secondary ABC Wheeling
6:00 CBS Morning News
7:00 This Morning
9:00 Regis & Kathie Lee
10:00 and 10:30 Family Feud (first half-hour: first of a week-long battle between stars from the Young & the Restless and As the World Turns)
11:00 Price is Right
noon News
12:30 Young & the Restless
1:30 Bold & the Beautiful
2:00 As the World Turns
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 Oprah Winfrey
5:00 Challengers
5:30 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Wheel of Fortune
7:30 Jeopardy!
8:00 America's Missing Children
9:00 Murphy Brown
9:30 Designing Women
10:00 Northern Exposure
11:00 News
11:30 Sweating Bullets
12:30 Arsenio Hall
1:30 Party Machine
2:00 Let There Be Light

WWCP 8-Fox Johnstown
6:30 Super Mario Bros. Super Show
7:00 Woody Woodpecker
7:30 Dennis the Menace
8:00 Jim Henson's Muppet Babies
8:30 Tiny Toon Adventures
9:00 Merrie Melodies
9:30 Storytime
10:00 Happy Days
10:30 Laverne & Shirley
11:00 Infomercials
noon Graham Kerr
12:30 Infomercial
1:00 700 Club
2:00 Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears
2:30 Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers
3:00 Peter Pan & the Pirates
3:30 DuckTales
4:00 Tale Spin
4:30 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
5:00 Little House on the Prairie
6:00 Highway to Heaven
7:00 Love Connection
7:30 Mama's Family
8:00 Movie "Omen IV: The Awakening"
10:00 Star Trek: The Next Generation
11:00 Love Connection
11:30 Sally Jessy Raphael
12:30 Three's Company
1:00 Love Phone (listed as video dating)
1:30 Webster

WTOV 9-NBC Steubenville
5:00 Headline News
5:30 Ag Day
6:00 Headline News
6:30 NBC News at Sunrise
7:00 Today
9:00 Sally Jessy Raphael
10:00 Wheel of Fortune
10:30 Concentration
11:00 To Tell the Truth
11:30 Trialwatch
noon A Closer Look
12:30 Headline News
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 Santa Barbara
4:00 Phil Donahue
5:00 Geraldo (in San Jose with guest Eddie Fisher)
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 A Current Affair
7:30 Golden Girls
8:00 and 8:30 Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
9:00 Movie "Reason for Living: The Jill Ireland Story"
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show
12:30 Late Night with David Letterman
1:30 Later with Bob Costas

WTAJ 10-CBS Altoona
5:00 CBS News Nightwatch
5:30 Joker's Wild
6:00 This Morning's Business
6:30 CBS Morning News
7:00 This Morning
9:00 Regis & Kathie Lee
10:00 and 10:30 Family Feud
11:00 Price is Right
noon News
12:30 Young & the Restless
1:30 Bold & the Beautiful
2:00 As the World Turns
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 Oprah Winfrey
5:00 Phil Donahue
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Wheel of Fortune
7:30 Jeopardy!
8:00 America's Missing Children
9:00 Murphy Brown
9:30 Designing Women
10:00 Northern Exposure
11:00 News
11:30 Sweating Bullets
12:30 Arsenio Hall
1:30 Party Machine
2:00 CBS News Nightwatch

WPXI 11-NBC Pittsburgh
5:00 News
5:30 NBC News at Sunrise
6:00 News
7:00 Today
9:00 Geraldo
10:00 Joan Rivers
11:00 To Tell the Truth
11:30 Trialwatch
noon News
12:30 A Closer Look
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 Santa Barbara
4:00 People's Court
4:30 Judge
5:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Jeopardy!
7:30 Wheel of Fortune
8:00 and 8:30 Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
9:00 Movie "Reason for Living: The Jill Ireland Story"
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Showe
12:30 Late Night with David Letterman
1:30 Infomercial
2:00 News
2:30 Trump Card
3:00 Headline News

WQED 13-PBS Pittsburgh
7:00 Sesame Street
8:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
8:30 Sesame Street
9:30 Instructional Programs
11:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
noon Sesame Street
1:00 Wild America
1:30 Sit & Be Fit
2:00 We're Cooking Now
2:30 Art of Alexander & Warren
3:00 Sesame Street
4:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
4:30 Sesame Street
5:30 Reading Rainbow
6:00 MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour
7:00 Nightly Business Report
7:30 World of Ideas
8:00 Astronomers "Stardust" (birth, life and death of stars)
9:00 TBA
11:00 Lonesome Pine (guests Maura O'Connell, Pam Tillis, and Jonelle Mosser)

WQEX 16-PBS Pittsburgh
8:00 Agewise
8:30 Sit & Be Fit
9:00 Body Electric
9:30 Homestretch
10:00 GED
10:30 Voices & Visions
11:30 Faces of Culture
12:30 Mechanical Universe
1:00 Frugal Gourmet
1:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
2:00 Sesame Street
3:00 Joy of Painting
3:30 Amish Cooking
4:00 Woodcarving with Rick Butz
4:30 Today's Japan
5:00 European Journal
5:30 Innovation
6:00 Mother & Son
6:30 Butterflies
7:00 Sports Talk
7:30 Are You Being Served?
8:10 Black Adder
8:50 Alexei Style's Stuff
9:25 Indelible Evidence
10:30 Golden Years of Television (bw)
11:05 'Allo 'Allo!
11:40 Colin's Sandwich

WFMJ 21-NBC Youngstown
6:00 NBC News at Sunrise
7:00 Today
9:00 Regis & Kathie Lee
10:00 Wheel of Fortune
10:30 Concentration
11:00 To Tell the Truth
11:30 Trialwatch
noon News
12:30 A Closer Look
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 Santa Barbara
4:00 Oprah Winfrey
5:00 Growing Pains
5:30 Who's the Boss?
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Instant Recall
7:30 Night Court
8:00 and 8:30 Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
9:00 Movie "Reason for Living: The Jill Ireland Story"
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show
12:30 Late Night with David Letterman
1:30 Later with Bob Costas
2:00 Challengers

WPTT 22-Ind Pittsburgh
5:00 Home Shopping Club
7:00 Police Academy: The Series
7:30 Alvin & the Chipmunks
8:00 Tom & Jerry
8:30 Dudley Doright
9:00 Infomercials
10:00 Success N Life
11:00 Highway to Heaven
noon Taxi
12:30 All in the Family
1:00 Happy Days
1:30 Laverne & Shirley
2:00 Infomercials
3:00 and 3:30 Tom & Jerry
4:00 Jetsons
4:30 Video Power
5:00 Munsters (bw)
5:30 Addams Family (bw)
6:00 Andy Griffith
6:30 Dick Van Dyke (bw)
7:00 Andy Griffith
7:30 Hogan's Heroes
8:00 Movie "Flashdance"
10:00 and 10:30 All in the Family
11:00 Arsenio Hall (guest Diana Ross)
mid. Party Machine
12:30 Infomercial
1:00 Home Shopping Club

WKBN 27-CBS Youngstown
6:00 Kenneth Copeland
6:30 CBS Morning News
7:00 This Morning
9:00 Sally Jessy Raphael
10:00 and 10:30 Family Feud
11:00 Price is Right
noon News
12:30 Young & the Restless
1:30 Bold & the Beautiful
2:00 As the World Turns
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 Love Connection
4:30 Personalities
5:00 Phil Donahue
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 A Current Affair
7:30 Cosby Show
8:00 America's Missing Children
9:00 Murphy Brown
9:30 Designing Women
10:00 Northern Exposure
11:00 News
11:30 Cheers
mid. Sweating Bullets
1:00 News

WYTV 33-ABC Youngstown
5:30 Success N Life
6:30 This Morning's Business
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Geraldo
10:00 Joan Rivers
11:00 Home
noon Graham Kerr
12:30 Loving
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Tale Spin
4:30 ALF
5:00 Inside Edition
5:30 Hard Copy
6:00 News
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7:00 Wheel of Fortune
7:30 Jeopardy!
8:00 Best of Disney: 50 Years of Magic
10:00 20/20
11:00 News
11:30 Arsenio Hall
12:30 ABC News Nightline
1:00 Party Machine
1:30 Five Minutes to Live By

WPCB 40-Rel Pittsburgh
6:00 Project '90
6:30 Larry Lea
7:00 James Robison
7:30 Gospel Bill
8:00 100 Huntley Street
9:00 Richard Roberts
9:30 Paul Gaudino
10:00 Project '90
10:30 Dean & Mary
11:00 This is the Life
11:30 Word for Today
noon 700 Club
1:00 Getting Together
2:00 Psychiatry & You
2:30 Ralph Martin
3:00 Living by the Word
3:30 Heritage Singers
4:00 Adventures in Dry Gulch
4:30 Secret Place
5:00 Accent on Health
5:30 How Can I Live?
6:30 Lightmusic
7:00 700 Club
8:00 Getting Together
9:00 Project '90
9:30 His Place
10:00 James Robison
10:30 Origins
11:00 Exposing the Lie
11:30 Dave Roever
mid. Lightmusic
12:30 His Place
1:00 Getting Together
2:00 Adrian Rogers
3:00 100 Huntley Street
4:00 Dwight Thompson

WPGH 53-Fox Pittsburgh
6:00 He-Man & the Masters of the Universe
6:30 Super Mario Bros. Super Show
7:00 Dennis the Menace (animated)
7:30 Real Ghostbusters
8:00 GI Joe
8:30 Jim Henson's Muppet Babies
9:00 Flintstones
9:30 Merrie Melodies
10:00 700 Club
11:00 Perry Mason (bw)
noon Family Ties
12:30 Odd Couple
1:00 Bob Newhart
1:30 Brady Bunch (double duty for Ann B. Davis as she plays both Alice and her no-nonsense cousin Emma)
2:00 Peter Pan & the Pirates
2:30 Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears
3:00 DuckTales
3:30 Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers
4:00 Tale Spin
4:30 Tiny Toon Adventures
5:00 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
5:30 ALF
6:00 Charles in Charge
6:30 Mr. Belvedere
7:00 Night Court
7:30 M*A*S*H
8:00 Movie "Omen IV: The Awakening"
10:00 and 10:30 Mama's Family
11:00 Night Court
11:30 M*A*S*H
mid. Love Connection
12:30 Infomercial
1:00 Movie "Silent Rage"
3:00 Movie "The Postman Always Rings Twice"
 
WWCP 8-Fox Johnstown
1:00 Love Phone (listed as video dating)


I seem to recall this being an infomercial airing around the early 90's. I remember game show host Jim Lange and model Jessica Hahn were involved.
 
WPTT 22-Ind Pittsburgh
8:00 Movie "Flashdance"


The quintessential Pittsburgh movie.
 
azumanga said:
DToTheJ said:
WPTT 22-Ind Pittsburgh
8:00 Movie "Flashdance"


The quintessential Pittsburgh movie.

...which also included an open for WPTT's newscast at the time.

NO!!!! WPTT NEVER HAD A 10 PM NEWSCAST in the years Sinclair originally owned the station from 1978 to August 30, 1991...NEVER!!! BUT!!! THERE WERE plans to launch a 10 PM Newscast on WPTT in the Summer of 1991. But WPTT and Sinclair were not to produce it. It was ti be produced by a small company called News Corporation (NOT ASSOCIATED WITH FOX) and would be anchored by people employed by WTAE TV. This out of house production was put on hold when WPTT was being sold to Eddie Edwards dur to uncertainty as to what WPTT's shows would be that Fall. There was talk about moving the newscast to WPGH which Sinclair was buying or keeping it on WPTT. But they opted to postpone the newscast until it was known what WPTT would be doing for programming.

They did flip to Home Shopping network programs August 31, 1991 the entire broadcast day (there was talk originally of 12-18 hours a day but Eddie Edwards was not able to keep enough spot load to make barter shows feasible right away. Three Months later WPTT sells the 3 pm to Midnight time slot to WPGH to run shows they own but had no time to air. This expanded to 12 hours a day in 1993. In 1995, WPTT is fully programmed by WPGH. The newscast never was reinstated and it was canceled in the end.
 
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