Retro: Pittsburgh/Youngstown/Wheeling 4/9/1984

[masterman17]

Source: Beaver County Times
KDKA-2 (CBS) Pittsburgh
6:00 Morning Stretch
6:30 CBS Early Morning News
7:00 CBS Morning News
9:00 Tic Tac Dough
9:30 Tattletales
10:00 The "New" $25,000 Pyramid
10:30 Press Your Luck
11:00 Price is Right
Noon TV-2 Eyewitness News
12:30 The Young and the Restless
1:30 Capitol (Delay from 2:30pm)
2:00 Pittsburgh Today [Preempts: As the World Turns]
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 Hour Magazine
5:00 People's Court
5:30 Wheel of Fortune
6:00 TV-2 Eyewitness News (1 Hour)
7:00 CBS Evening News with Dan Rather
7:30 Evening Magazine
8:00 Scarecrow & Mrs. King
9:00 Movie: "Still the Beaver" (1983 TV Movie)
11:00 TV-2 Eyewitness News Update
11:30 Hart to Hart
12:40 Colombo: A Friend in Deed
2:00 CBS News NightWatch

WTAE-4 (ABC) Pittsburgh
6:00–World News This Morning (Steve Bell & Kathleen Sullivan)
7:00–Good Morning America (David Hartman/Joan Lunden)
9:00–Donahue
10:00–Jack Bogut
11:00–Benson
11:30–Loving
Noon–Family Feud
12:30–Ryan's Hope
1:00–All My Children
2:00–One Life to Live
3:00–General Hospital
4:00–Three's Company
4:30–Laverne and Shirley & Company
5:00–M*A*S*H
5:30–All in The Family
6:00–Channel 4 Action News
7:00–ABC World News Tonight (Peter Jennings)
7:30–Family Feud
8:00–Barbara Walters Special
9:00–Academy Awards
Midnight–Channel 4 Action News
12:30–ABC News Nightline (Ted Koppel)
1:00–Thicke of the Night

WJAC-TV Channel 6 (NBC)
6:00 NBC News at Sunrise–Chung
6:30 Morning Stretch
7:00 Today (Jane Pauley/Bryant Gumbel)
9:00 Morning Break
9:30 Here's Lucy
10:00 The Facts of Life
10:30 Sale of The Century
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 Dream House
Noon NewsCenter 6
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 Match Game/Hollywood Squares Hour
4:00 People's Court
4:30 The Jeffersons
5:00 Entertainment Tonight
5:30 Barney Miller
6:00 NewsCenter 6
6:30 NBC Nightly News (Tom Brokaw)
7:00 M*A*S*H
7:30 Wheel of Fortune
8:00 TV's Bloopers and Practical Jokes
9:00 NBC Monday Night at The Movies: "Damnation Alley" (1977)
11:00 NewsCenter 6
11:30 Best of Carson
12:30 Late Night with David Letterman
1:30 Movie: "The Face of Fu Manchu" (1965)
3:00 Movie: "A Guide for the Married Woman" (1978)

WTRF-7 (CBS/ABC) Wheeling
6:00 Jim Bakker
7:00 Good Morning America (David Hartman/Joan Lunden)
9:00 Donahue
10:00 The "New" $25,000 Pyramid
10:30 Press Your Luck
11:00 Price is Right
Noon News
12:30 The Young and the Restless
1:30 As the World Turns
2:30 Capitol
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 Tattletales
4:30 Little House on the Prairie
5:30 Alice
6:00 News
7:00 CBS Evening News (Dan Rather)
7:30 M*A*S*H
8:00 Scarecrow & Mrs. King
9:00 Movie: "Still the Beaver" (1983 TV Movie)
11:00 News
11:30 Hart to Hart
12:40 Colombo: A Friend in Deed

WTOV-9 (NBC) Wheeling/Stubenville
5:30 700 Club
7:00 Today (Jane Pauley/Bryant Gumbel)
9:00 Woman to Woman
9:30 Mary Tyler Moore
10:00 The Facts of Life
10:30 $ale of The Century
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 Dream House
Noon Hot Potato
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 Match Game/Hollywood Squares Hour
4:00 The Muppets
4:30 Happy Days Again
5:00 Laverne and Shirley & Company
5:30 Barney Miller
6:00 News Nine
6:30 NBC Nightly News (Tom Brokaw)
7:00 Sanford and Son
7:30 Family Feud
8:00 TV's Bloopers and Practical Jokes
9:00 NBC Monday Night at The Movies: "Damnation Alley" (1977)
11:00 News Nine
11:30 Best of Carson
12:30 Late Night with David Letterman
1:30 News Nine

WPXI Channel 11 (NBC) Pittsburgh
6:00–Starting Today
6:30–NBC News at Sunrise (Connie Chung)
7:00–Today (Jane Pauley/Bryant Gumbel)
9:00–Woman to Woman
10:00–The Facts of Life
10:30–$ale of The Century
11:00–Wheel of Fortune
11:30–Dream House
Noon–News
12:30–Search for Tomorrow
1:00–Days of Our Lives
2:00–Another World
3:00–Match Game/Hollywood Squares Hour
4:00–Love Boat
5:00–Taxi
5:30–News aka 5:30 Live
6:00–News
6:30–NBC Nightly News (Tom Brokaw)
7:00–Joker's Wild
7:30–Entertainment Tonight
8:00–TV's Bloopers and Practical Jokes
9:00–NBC Monday Night at The Movies: "Damnation Alley" (1977)
11:00–News
11:30–Best of Carson
12:30–Late Night with David Letterman
1:30–CNN Headline News
4:00–News

WQED-13 (PBS) Pittsburgh
7:00 Sesame Street
8:00 Mr. Roger's Neighborhood
8:30 Sesame Street
9:30 Educational Programming
11:30 Mr. Roger's Neighborhood
Noon Sesame Street
1:00 Electric Company
1:30 Yan Can Cook
2:00 French Chef
2:30 Great Chefs of San Francisco
3:00 TV Auction

WPTT-22 (Ind., Now MyTV) Pittsburgh
5:30 The Real McCoys
6:00 The Real McCoys
6:30 20 Minute Workout
7:00 Inspector Gadget
7:30 He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
8:00 Speed Racer
8:30 Hercules
9:00 The Munsters
9:30 Leave it To Beaver
10:00 Bewitched
10:30 The Edge of Night
11:00 Family
Noon Hot Potato (NBC)
12:30 Perry Mason
1:30 I Love Lucy
2:00 As The World Turns [Preempted from KDKA]
3:00 Tennessee Tuxedo
3:30 Speed Racer
4:00 Inspector Gadget
4:30 He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
5:00 Superfriends
5:30 I Dream of Jeannie
6:00 Great Record Album Collection
6:30 Gilligan's Island
7:00 Get Smart
7:30 Carol Burnett and Friends
8:00 Gunsmoke
9:00 Movie: "Pete Kelly's Blues" (1955)
11:00 Rowan & Martin's Laugh-in
11:30 Movie: "Stopover Tokyo" (1957)


WFMJ Channel 21 (NBC) Youngstown
6:30 NBC News at Sunrise (Connie Chung)
7:00 Today (Jane Pauley/Bryant Gumbel)
9:00 Family
10:00 The Facts of Life
10:30 $ale of The Century
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 Dream House
Noon Hot Potato
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 Match Game/Hollywood Squares Hour
4:00 Movie: "Fathom" (1967)
6:00 21 Action News
6:30 NBC Nightly News (Tom Brokaw)
7:00 Tic Tac Dough
7:30 People's Court
8:00 TV's Bloopers and Practical Jokes
9:00 NBC Monday Night at The Movies: "Damnation Alley" (1977)
11:00 21 Action News
11:30 Best of Carson
12:30 Late Night with David Letterman

WKBN-TV Channel 27 (CBS) Youngstown
5:30 Spectrum
6:00 Morning Stretch
6:30 CBS Early Morning News
7:00 CBS Morning News
9:00 Hour Magazine
10:00 The "New" $25,000 Pyramid
10:30 Press Your Luck
11:00 Price is Right
Noon NewsWatch 27
12:30 The Young and the Restless
1:30 As the World Turns
2:30 Capitol
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 Movie: "The Monster Club" (1981)
6:00 NewsWatch 27
6:30 CBS Evening News (Dan Rather)
7:00 The Jeffersons
7:30 M*A*S*H
8:00 Scarecrow & Mrs. King
9:00 Movie: "Still the Beaver" (1983 TV Movie)
11:00 NewsWatch 27
11:30 Hart to Hart
12:40 Colombo: A Friend in Deed
2:00 NewsWatch 27

WYTV Channel 33 (ABC) Youngstown
6:00 700 Club
7:00 Good Morning America (David Hartman/Joan Lunden)
9:00 Donahue
10:00 The Waltons
11:00 Benson
11:30 Loving
Noon Eyewitness News
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life To Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Scooby Doo
4:30 Superfriends
5:00 Happy Days Again
5:30 Newscope 33
6:00 Eyewitness News
6:30 ABC World News Tonight–Peter Jennings
7:00 Wheel of Fortune
7:30 Sanford and Son
8:00 Barbara Walters Special
9:00 Academy Awards
Midnight Eyewitness News
12:30 ABC News Nightline (Ted Koppel)
1:00 Study in the Word with Jimmy Swaggart

WPGH-53 (Indpendent, Now Fox) Pittsburgh
6:00 Pittsburgh Tomorrow
6:30 Jimmy Swaggart
7:00 The Jeffersons
7:30 Bugs Bunny
8:00 Casper
8:30 Woody Woodpecker
9:00 Great Space Coaster
9:30 My Three Sons
10:00 700 Club
11:30 Midday
Noon Ghost and Mrs. Muir
12:30 Maude
1:00 Dick Van Dyke Show
1:30 Andy Griffith
2:00 Gomer Pyle
2:30 Beverly Hillbillies
3:00 Spider-Man/Spider-Woman
3:30 Woody Woodpecker
4:00 Scooby Doo
4:30 Tom and Jerry
5:00 The Brady Bunch (2 Episodes)
6:00 Mork and Mindy
6:30 One Day at a Time
7:00 Alice
7:30 The Jeffersons
8:00 Barnaby Jones
9:00 Cannon
10:00 Independent News
10:30 Bob Newhart
11:00 Sanford and Son
11:30 Hogan's Heroes
Midnight Twlight Zone
12:30 Night Gallery
1:00 Movie: "Men with Wings" (1938)
3:00 Movie: "Alien Encounters" (1975)

 

[Marckd]

Jeffersons at 7 AM on WPGH???? NOT back in 1984. That type of show never ran that early. Most off network recent sitcoms had a 4 to 8 PM time committment or a 10 to Midnight commitment. My guess was the Flintstones likely ran in that slot.

Actually I looked up the listing in the Press and they did run Flintstones at 7 AM and again at 430 PM. Sort of surprised they ran Mork & Mindy at 6. That show failed in syndication miserably. By the fall of 1983, stations were resting it during the school year and running it evenings in the summers for the next couple years. Other stations moved Mork to middays rather than running it in evenings. BUT WPGH DID run it in evenings at 6 at that point. Other than that this schedule is quite accurate.

You also did not list WPCB though they were all Christian with a couple exceptions of some sporting shows on Saturdays. So they were not a major player. By 1985, though there was a huge hole for another independent station in the market and WPCB had many offers from secular broadcasters but Ron Hombre and Company refused to sell it to anyone. By 1989, many older shows on in most markets were not on in Pittsburgh. 5 Commercial stations was not enough to go around. In the fall of 1991 a huger hole was created Labor Day Weekend when WPTT was sold and went all home shopping. A few weeks after, they added a few network rejects. Then in january of 92 they sold afternoons to the company that sold them to buy WPGH, Sinclair. Sinclair began programmin 3 to 12 Midnight daily and in early 1993 began programming Noon to 1 AM daily. In the Fall of 1995, WPTT resumed being a full time independent with UPN (which they picked up January before). Finally in 1996, Channel signed on. previously a Johnstown station and now in the Pittsburgh market and as a WB station. Eventually WPTT and Channel 19 swapped UPN and WB. But finally in 1996, the hole was filled. Pittsburgh should have had 3 true independents by 1986. They were one of the most underserved markets anywhere.