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Retro: Pittsburgh, PA, Saturday May 4, 1991

J

Justin

KDKA 2 (CBS)

7:00 a.m.: CBS Storybreak
7:30 a.m.: Let's Read a Story
8:00 a.m.: Muppet Babies
9:00 a.m.: Garfield & Friends
10:00 a.m.: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987)
11:00 a.m.: Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures
11:30 a.m.: Pee-wee's Playhouse
12:00 p.m.: Dink, the Little Dinosaur
12:30 p.m.: Runaway With The Rich and Famous
1:00 p.m.: Home Again
1:30 p.m.: Reunion
2:00 p.m.: Magnum P.I.
3:00 p.m.: NCAA Champions: Women's College Gymnastics
4:00 p.m.: Sports Saturday
6:00 p.m.: News
6:30 p.m.: CBS Evening News
7:00 p.m.: Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous
8:00 p.m.: The Flash
9:00 p.m.: Movie: "Fletch Lives" (1989)
11:00 p.m.: News
11:30 p.m.: Star Search

WTAE 4 (ABC)

7:00 a.m.: Captain Planet
7:30 a.m.: Likely Story
8:00 a.m.: The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
8:30 a.m.: The Wizard of Oz
9:00 a.m.: Slimer! & The Real Ghostbusters
10:00 a.m.: Beetlejuice
10:30 a.m.: New Kids on the Block
11:00 a.m.: The Bugs Bunny & Tweety Show
12:00 p.m.: Sea World Mother Earth Celebration
1:00 p.m.: National Geographic: On Assignment
2:00 p.m.: TBA
4:30 p.m.: Kentucky Derby
6:00 p.m.: News
6:30 p.m.: ABC World News Saturday
7:00 p.m.: Cappelli & Company
7:30 p.m.: Roggin's Heroes
8:00 p.m.: Young Riders
10:00 p.m.: American Saturday Night
11:00 p.m.: News
11:30 p.m.: Honeymooners

WPXI 11 (NBC)

7:00 a.m.: Black Impact
7:30 a.m.: Kidsburgh
8:00 a.m.: News
11:00 a.m.: News
12:00 p.m.: NBA Inside Stuff
12:30 p.m.: NBA Showtime
1:00 p.m.: NBA Basketball: TBA
3:30 p.m.: NBA Basketball: TBA
6:00 p.m.: News
6:30 p.m.: NBC Nightly News
7:00 p.m.: Jeopardy!
7:30 p.m.: Wheel of Fortune
8:00 p.m.: Amen "Deliverance" (Part 1 of 2)
8:30 p.m.: Down Home
9:00 p.m.: The Golden Girls "Henny Penny - Straight, No Chaser
9:30 p.m.: Empty Nest "The Cruise"
10:00 p.m.: Carol & Company
11:00 p.m.: News
11:30 p.m.: Saturday Night Live

WQED 13 (PBS)

8:00 a.m.: Homestretch
8:30 a.m.: Sewing with Nancy
9:00 a.m.: Collectors
9:30 a.m.: Victory Garden
10:00 a.m.: Justin Wilson's Louisiana Cookin'
10:30 a.m.: Taste of Louisiana
11:00 a.m.: Frugal Gourmet
11:30 a.m.: Yan Can Cook
12:00 p.m.: Today's Gourmet
12:30 p.m.: Computer Chronicles
1:00 p.m.: Woodwright's Shop
1:30 p.m.: MotorWeek
2:00 p.m.: Hometime
2:30 p.m.: New Yankee Workshop
3:00 p.m.: This Old House
3:30 p.m.: Art of William Alexander and Robert Warren
4:00 p.m.: McLaughlin Group
4:30 p.m.: People's Business
5:00 p.m.: Tony Brown's Journal
5:30 p.m.: Black Horizons
6:00 p.m.: Cool Moves - Teens Together
7:00 p.m.: Degrassi High
8:00 p.m.: Best of National Geographic
9:00 p.m.: Nature
10:00 p.m.: Austin City Limits
11:00 p.m.: Movie: "Shoot the Moon" (1982)

WPTT 22 (Ind, now MNT)

7:00 a.m.: Greatest American Hero
8:00 a.m.: Paid Program
8:30 a.m.: Paid Program
9:00 a.m.: Paid Program
9:30 a.m.: Paid Program
10:00 a.m.: Superboy
10:30 a.m.: Super Force
11:00 a.m.: American Gladiators
12:00 p.m.: Movie: "Tarzan and his Mate" (1934)
2:00 p.m.: Addams Family
2:30 p.m.: The Munsters
3:00 p.m.: Munsters Today
3:30 p.m.: My Secret Identity
4:00 p.m.: What a Dummy
4:30 p.m.: New Lassie
5:00 p.m.: American Gladiators
6:00 p.m.: Star Trek
7:00 p.m.: Star Trek: The Next Generation
8:00 p.m.: Movie: "Blood Money" (1988)
10:00 p.m.: 21 Jump Street
11:00 p.m.: The Arsenio Hall Show

WPGH 53 (Fox)

7:00 a.m.: Peter Pan & the Pirates
7:30 a.m.: Bobby's World
8:00 a.m.: Tom & Jerry Kids
8:30 a.m.: Tom & Jerry Kids
9:00 a.m.: Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
9:30 a.m.: Swamp Thing
10:00 a.m.: Paid Program
10:30 a.m.: Paid Program
11:00 a.m.: Paid Program
11:30 a.m.: Paid Program
12:00 p.m.: Movie: "About Last Night" (1986)
2:00 p.m.: Movie: "House" (1986)
4:00 p.m.: Movie: "Christine" (1983)
6:00 p.m.: Charles in Charge
6:30 p.m.: Mr. Belvedere
7:00 p.m.: Night Court
7:30 p.m.: M*A*S*H*
8:00 p.m.: Totally Hidden Video
8:30 p.m.: Yearbook
9:00 p.m.: Cops "Houston, TX"
9:30 p.m.: Cops
10:00 p.m.: Comic Strip Live
11:00 p.m.: Newhart
11:30 p.m.: Movie: "High Plains Drifter" (1973)
 
No nothing from NBC till basketball. This is when network stations began shutting out cartoons for local news. I think WPXI was the first in the country to do this. KDKA followed suit, then it began catching on nationally culminating in the summer of '92 with NBC replacing Saturday cartoons with the Saturday Today show.
 
I know that WHO 13 in Des Moines aired News after the today show on Saturday Morning with maybe an hour or two of NBC Saturday morning shows before syndicated or sports programming. With the shows they didn't air they aired on Sunday Morning after their News and meet the press.
 
Ccook55 said:
No nothing from NBC till basketball. This is when network stations began shutting out cartoons for local news. I think WPXI was the first in the country to do this. KDKA followed suit, then it began catching on nationally culminating in the summer of '92 with NBC replacing Saturday cartoons with the Saturday Today show.
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NBC cartoon block was replaced by TNBC for teen audiences soon after.
 
For what it's worth, the NBC Saturday morning lineup around this time that WPXI preempted was:

8a - Camp Candy (cartoon with John Candy running a summer camp),
8:30a - Captain N and the Super Mario Brothers (Nintendo related)
9:30a - Gravedale High (teenage monsters in high school with the teacher voiced by Rick Moranis)
10a - Kid N Play (cartoon featuring the rap group, as this was when the House Party movies were in the theaters)
10:30a - Alvin and the Chipmunks
11a - Saved By the Bell
11:30a - Guys Next Door (a Saved By the Bell-esque show about a boy band)
 
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