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Retro: Rochester, NY Thurs, Aug 30, 1979

from TV Guide-Rochester edition

2 WGR-NBC Buffalo
2* WCBS-CBS New York (late-night listings only)
3 WSYR-NBC Syracuse
4 WIVB-CBS Buffalo
5 WTVH-CBS Syracuse
6 CJOH-CTV Deseronto
7 WKBW-ABC Buffalo
8 WROC-NBC Rochester
9 WIXT-ABC Syracuse
9* WOR-Ind New York
10 WHEC-CBS Rochester
11 WPIX-Ind New York
13 WOKR-ABC Rochester
21 WXXI-PBS Rocchester
24 WCNY-PBS Syracuse

Morning
5:55
8 News for Little People

6:00
2 PTL Club
5 Dialogue
6 University of the Air "The Rest in Peace?" (the course dealt with death and funeral customs)
8 700 Club
9 Scope
10 Summer Semester "Disabilities"

6:20
3 Kidsworld

6:25
7 Window on the World

6:30
4-5 Summer Semester "Disabilities"
6 He Knows, She Knows
9 New Zoo Revue
10 Eddie Meath
11 Mighty Mouse
13 Infinity Factory

6:50
3 Professor Kitzel

6:55
2 Mission Employment
3 News
7 Employment File

7:00
2-3-8 Today (a look at Moonraker's special effects)
4-5 Thursday Morning
6 Canada AM
7 Commander Tom
9-13 Good Morning America
9* News
11 Banana Splits

7:15
21-24 Weather

7:30
9* PTL CLub (guests: author Ethel Barrett and PTLer Maynard Ketchum)
11 Dastardly & Muttley
21-24 Lilias, Yoga & You

8:00
4-5-10 Captain Kangaroo (guest Arte Johnson)
7 Good Morning America
11 Josie & the Pussycats
21 Over Easy (guest Arlene Francis)
24 MacNeil-Lehrer Report

8:30
9* 9 on New Jersey
11 Tom & Jerry
21-24 Vegetable Soup

9:00
2 Card Sharks
3 Medical Center
4 All in the Family
5 Marcus Welby, MD
6 It's Your Move
7 Phil Donahue (John Connally discusses 1980 campaign issues)
8 Odd Couple
9 Phil Donahue (male impotence)
9* Joe Franklin
10 Please Don't Eat the Daisies
11 F Troop (bw)
13 Phil Donahue (seeking a more relaxed lifestyle)
21-24 Sesame Street

9:30
2 Hollywood Squares
4 Adam-12
6 Morning Show
8 Midmorning Break
10 My Three Sons
11 Get Smart

10:00
2 Dinah! (guests Ray Charles, Debby Boone, and Kenny Rogers)
3 Woman on the Go
4 Strikes, Spares & Misses
5-10 All in the Family
7 AM/Buffalo
8 Card Sharks
9 Open Line (Karin Franklin)
9* Romper Room
11 Family Affair
13 AM Rochester
21-24 Paint Along with Nancy Kominsky

10:30
3-8 Hollywood Squares
4-5-10 Whew!
6 Definition
9 Edge of Night
11 New York, New York
21-24 Footsteps

10:55
4-5-10 CBS News

11:00
2-3-8 High Rollers
4-5-10 Price is Right
6 What's Cooking
7-9-13 Laverne & Shirley
9* Straight Talk (psychotherapist Thomas J. Cottle discusses kids who are in jail for non-criminal acts)
11 Black Conversations
21-24 American Family

11:30
2-3-8 Wheel of Rortune
6 Romper Room
7-9-13 Family Feud
11 700 Club (discussing US-Egypt relations)

Afternoon
noon
2-3-4-5-7-9* News
6 Rocket Robin Hood
8 Mindreaders
9 Joker's Wild
10 Noon at 10 (Graham/Smith)
13 $20,000 Pyramid
21-24 Once Upon a Classic "Dominic" (conclusion)

12:30
2-3-8 Password
4-5-10 Search for Tomorrow
6 Mad Dash
7-9-13 Ryan's Hope
9* Love Experts
11 News
21-24 Julia Child & Company

1:00
2-3-8 Days of Our Lives
4-6-10 Young & the Restless
5 Tic Tac Dough
7-9-13 All My Children
9* Movie "The Divided Heart" (bw)
11 Dinah! (guests Jimmie Walker, psychologist Wayne Dyer, Wings Hauser, Doris Roberts, yo-yo expert Helane Zeiger, and the Porter Kids)
21 Movie "The Man from Down Under" (bw)
24 Movie "The Stars Look Down" (bw)

1:30
4-5-10 As the World Turns
6 Alan Hamel (guests Betty White, Barbara Hamilton, Merle Shain, and Gloria Kaye)

2:00
2-3-8 Doctors
7-9-13 One Life to Live

2:30
2-3-6-8 Another World
4-5-10 Guiding Light
11 Magic Garden

3:00
7-9-13 General Hospital
9* Voyage to the Bototm of the Sea
11 Mighty Mouse
21-24 Dick Cavett (A.L. Rowse, pt 1)

3:30
4-5-10 M*A*S*H
11 Jetsons
21-24 Over Easy (guest George Meany)

4:00
2 Movie "Harry Black and the Tiger"
3 Movie "Slay Ride"
4 Let's Make a Deal
5 Woody Woodpecker
6 Get Smart
7 Joker's Wild
8 Movie "House of Cards"
9 Mike Douglas (in Oklahoma (Tulsa or OKC?) with guests Bob Hope, Gov. George Nigh, Mike's wife Genevieve, Tanya Tucker, Dale Robertson, Will Rogers Jr., and Marty Robbins)
9* Movie "Outcast of the Island" (bw)
10 Bugs Bunny/Woody Woodpecker
11 Tom & Jerry
13 Dinah! (same line-up as 10am, ch 2)
21-24 Sesame Street

4:30
4 Merv Griffin (guests Roger Moore, Hermione Gingold, Dudley Moore, Ian Whitcomb, and Wilfrid Hyde-White)
5 Gilligan's Island
6 Bionic Woman
7 Mike Douglas (same line-up as ch 9 Syracuse, 4pm)
10 Bewitched (bw)

5:00
5 Ironside
10 Bonanza
11 I Dream of Jeannie
13 Mike Douglas (as 9 Syr at 4, minus Will Rogers Jr)
21-24 Mister Rogers Goes to School

5:30
6 Carol Burnett & Friends
9 News
11 Dick Van Dyke (bw)
21-24 Electric Company

Evening
6:00
2-3-4-5-6-7-8-10-13 News
9 ABC World News Tonight
9* Joker's Wild
11 Odd Couple
21-24 Doctor Who

6:30
2-3-8 NBC Nightly News
4-5-10 CBS Evening News
7-13 ABC World News Tonight
9 Brady Bunch
9* Bowling for Dollars
11 Sanford & Son
21 Big Blue Marble
24 Wilderness

7:00
2-9* Dating Game
3 Mary Tyler Moore
4-8 Cross-Wits
5 Newlywed Game
6 Angie
7-10 Tic Tac Dough
9-11 Odd Couple
13 PM Magazine (Neil Diamond/diet for hyperactive youngsters)
21 New York, PM
24 MacNeil-Lehrer Report

7:30
2 Bonkers! (guest Barbara Feldon)
3 Dating Game
4-9* Newlywed Game
5 Match Game PM
6 Puff the Magic Dragon (animated version of the Peter, Paul & Mary classic, co-produced by group member Peter Yarrow)
7-13 Family Feud
8 Hollywood Squares
9 That's Hollywood (look at Broadway shows that became movies)
10 Mary Tyler Moore
11 News
21 MacNeil-Lehrer Report
24 Dick Cavett (A.L. Rowse, conclusion)

8:00
2-3-8 Project UFO (finale)
4-5-6 Waltons
7-9-13 Laverne & Shirley
9* Movie "Captain Boycott" (bw)
10 Billy Graham Crusade (concluding a Nashville stand with guests Larnelle Harris, Amy Grant, and George Beverly Shea)
11 Baseball: the Yankees host Kansas City
21 National Geographic "Treasure!" (first aired in 1976)
24 Informed Source

8:30
7-9-13 Angie
24 Alfred Hitchcock (bw)

9:00
2 Celebrate the Children (UNICEF special hosted by Hugh Downs with guests including Danny Kaye, Ed Asner, Eve Arden, Johnny Mathis, Sarah Vaughan, and Seals & Crofts)
3-8 Quincy
4-5-10 Hawaii Five-O
6 Being Human "Mates and Females"
7-9-13 Barney Miller
21 Upstairs, Downstairs
24 Johnny Belinda

9:30
7-9-13 Soap (a 90-min look back at last season)

10:00
3-8 Mrs. Columbo
4-5-6-10 Barnaby Jones
9* Thriller (bw)
21 James Michener's World "Israel: A Search for Faith" (series return, episode first aired in 1977)

10:30
11 News

11:00
2-3-4-5-7-8-9-10-13 News
6 CTV National News
9* Benny Hill
11 Odd Couple
21 Dick Cavett (A.L. Rowse, conclusion)
24 Captioned ABC News

11:20
6 News

11:30
2-3-8 Tonight Show (guests Bruce Dern, Robert Klein, Susan Sullivan, and Carl Sagan)
4-5-10 US Open Tennis Highlights
7 Movie "Deadlier Than the Male"
9 Phil Donahue (repeat from 9am)
9* Yonkers Horse Race
11 Odd Couple
13 Starsky & Hutch
21 Captioned ABC News
24 Informed Source

11:45
4-5-10 M*A*S*H

Late Night
midnight
6 Movie "Hey, I'm Alive"
9* Movie "Horror Hotel" (bw)
11 Juke-Box (guests Rod Stewart, Sutherland Brothers & Quiver, Alvin Stardust, and Be-Bop Deluxe)

12:20
2*-4-5-10 Movie "Teahouse of the August Moon"

12:30
9 FBI
11 Twilight Zone (bw)

12:40
13 Baretta

1:00
2-3-8 Tomorrow
11 News

1:30
7 News
9* Joe Franklin
11 New York, New York

1:35
6 Sweepstakes

1:50
13 News

2:00
11 Movie "Stage Struck"

2:30
9* News

2:40
2* Movie "Gung Ho!" (bw/JIP, is the 12:20 listing for ch 2 a typo?)
5 Dialogue

4:00
11 Biography (bw/Nikita Khrushchev)

4:30
2 Stanley Siegel
 
Bluenoser said:
Afternoon
noon
2-3-4-5-7-9* News
6 Rocket Robin Hood
8 Mindreaders
9 Joker's Wild
10 Noon at 10 (Graham/Smith)

This would actually have been "Graham-Smith," as in "Margaret Graham-Smith," who was one of WHEC's first female anchors. And this late-August listing would, I think, have come just a month or so before she was moved from noon to 6 PM to co-anchor with Gabe Dalmath on the first hour-long newscast in the market. Rochester wasn't ready for an entire hour of early-evening news, apparently, and moving Cronkite to 7 was extremely unpopular, so the "News Hour" didn't last very long.

This also would have been right around the time WHEC was moving from its old basement studio to the new studio building right next door. It's entirely possible that on this very Thursday, yours truly was hanging around the old building watching them move out. It helped to have an aunt who was an account executive there... ;D
 
Bluenoser said:
6:00
2 PTL Club
5 Dialogue
6 University of the Air "The Rest in Peace?" (the course dealt with death and funeral customs)
8 700 Club
9 Scope
10 Summer Semester "Disabilities"

Looks like viewers in Rochester had every reason to sleep in late...
 
Scott Fybush said:
Bluenoser said:
Afternoon
noon
2-3-4-5-7-9* News
6 Rocket Robin Hood
8 Mindreaders
9 Joker's Wild
10 Noon at 10 (Graham/Smith)

This would actually have been "Graham-Smith," as in "Margaret Graham-Smith," who was one of WHEC's first female anchors. And this late-August listing would, I think, have come just a month or so before she was moved from noon to 6 PM to co-anchor with Gabe Dalmath on the first hour-long newscast in the market. Rochester wasn't ready for an entire hour of early-evening news, apparently, and moving Cronkite to 7 was extremely unpopular, so the "News Hour" didn't last very long.

This also would have been right around the time WHEC was moving from its old basement studio to the new studio building right next door. It's entirely possible that on this very Thursday, yours truly was hanging around the old building watching them move out. It helped to have an aunt who was an account executive there... ;D

I was wondering about that...it did read "Graham-Smith". You certainly lucked out having an inside link at 10-take any pictures of the move? ;)
 
Scott Fybush said:
Bluenoser said:
Afternoon
noon
2-3-4-5-7-9* News
6 Rocket Robin Hood
8 Mindreaders
9 Joker's Wild
10 Noon at 10 (Graham/Smith)

This would actually have been "Graham-Smith," as in "Margaret Graham-Smith," who was one of WHEC's first female anchors. And this late-August listing would, I think, have come just a month or so before she was moved from noon to 6 PM to co-anchor with Gabe Dalmath on the first hour-long newscast in the market. Rochester wasn't ready for an entire hour of early-evening news, apparently, and moving Cronkite to 7 was extremely unpopular, so the "News Hour" didn't last very long.

Actually, WOKR tried an hour-long newscast earlier in the 70s (around '72) for maybe a couple of years. It was co-anchored by Dick Burt and Don Alhart at 5:30 p.m. but it depended on some filler -- including a viewer call-in segment!
 
Bluenoser said:
I was wondering about that...it did read "Graham-Smith". You certainly lucked out having an inside link at 10-take any pictures of the move? ;)

I wish I had...but I was just a baby then, and I didn't even have a camera. About all I have is one picture of me as a kid standing next to a camera in the old basement studio...
 
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