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Retro: Rochester/Syracuse/Buffalo Saturday, August 5, 1978

From TV Guide, Rochester Edition:

WGR (WGRZ) Ch. 2 Buffalo (NBC)

6 AM PTL Club
7 AM Not For Women Only ("Sex Education For Adults," Part 1)
7:30 Marlo And The Magic Movie Machine (childhood photos of
Arthur Ashe; film highlights of 1950; a tennis match played
on ice)
8 AM Hong Kong Phooey
8:30 Go Go Globetrotters
10:30 Pink Panther
11 AM Baggy Pants And The Nitwits
11:30 Space Sentinels
12 N Land Of The Lost
12:30 Thunder
1 PM To The Point
1:30 Straight Line
2 PM Movie: "Warpath"
4 PM Baseball Warm-Up
4:15 Baseball: Dodgers-Giants (rain game on tape: Phillies-Pirates)
7 PM Hee Haw (Johnny Rodriguez, Susan Raye, comic Sheriff Crumbley,
disc jockey C.B. Slane, time approximate)
8 PM Bionic Woman
9 PM NBC Movie: "The Land That Time Forgot"
11 PM News
11:30 Saturday Night Live (host Charles Grodin, musical guest Paul Simon)
1 AM Don Kirshner's Rock Concert (Frankie Valli, the Jacksons, Lake, the
Alan Parsons Project, the Village Idiots, comics James Aleck and
Joey Camen)

WCBS Ch. 2 New York City (CBS)
late night only

2:05 Movie: "Serenade"
4:30 Movie: "The Treasure Of Pancho Villa"

WSYR (WSTM) Ch. 3 Syracuse (NBC)

6:30 University Of Michigan
7 AM Salty Sam/Three Stooges
8 AM Hong Kong Phooey
8:30 Go Go Globetrotters
10:30 Pink Panther
11 AM Baggy Pants And The Nitwits
11:30 Soul Train (Johnny Mathis, Deniece Williams)
12:30 Hot Fudge
1 PM Movie: "Calling Dr. Death" (not Steve Williams, but Lon
Chaney, from '43)
2:15 Movie: "Cauldron Of Blood" (one of Boris Karloff's last, from '68)
4 PM Baseball Warm-Up
4:15 Baseball (see Ch. 2)
7 PM Hee Haw (time approximate)
8 PM Bionic Woman
9 PM NBC Movie: "The Land That Time Forgot"
11 PM News
11:30 Saturday Night Live

WIVB Ch. 4 Buffalo (CBS)

7 AM Summer Semester: "U.S. Foreign Policy"
7:30 Carrascolendas
8 AM Three Robonic Stooges
8:30 Speed Buggy
9 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
10:30 Batman/Tarzan Adventure Hour
11:30 Secrets Of Isis
12 N Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
12:30 Space Academy
1 PM What's New, Mr. Magoo?
1:30 CBS Children's Film Festival ("The Chipmates," a group
of English children and their pet chimpanzee, who uncover
a thief in a waxworks and get involved in glider flying)
2 PM NFL Great Teams/Great Years (the 1969 Kansas City Chiefs
and the 1968 Baltimore Colts (the team that lost to the Jets
in Super Bowl III)
3 PM Disco Step By Step
4 PM Challenge For The Championship (Grand Prix drivers Mario
Andretti, Niki Lauda, James Hunt, and Jody Scheckler in
interviews and in action around the world)
4:30 CBS Sports Spectacular (Hugh Corro makes his first defense
of the middleweight title against Ronnie Harris, 15 rounds,
from Buenos Aires; the Whitney, a horse race for three-year-
olds and up from Saratoga Springs, NY; female bullfighter
Raquel Martinez)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News (Bob Schieffer)
7 PM Disaster: How And Why (the 1961 Bel Air fire)
7:30 Sha Na Na (guest: Dion)
8 PM Emergency One!
9 PM CBS Movie: "Burn!"
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Theatre Of Death"

WTVH Ch. 5 Syracuse (CBS)

7:30 Summer Semester
8 AM Three Robonic Stooges
8:30 Speed Buggy
9 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
10:30 Batman/Tarzan Adventure Hour
11:30 Secrets Of Isis
12 N Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
12:30 Space Academy
1 PM Toy Shop Corporation
2 PM Movie: "How Awful About Allan"
3:30 Drag Racing
4 PM Family Affair
4:30 CBS Sports Spectacular
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Candid Camera (a very leaky ceiling complicates a
secretary's job; pedestrians find a set of earrings
in the street, with a return address attached)
7:30 Gong Show (judges: Patty Andrews, Rex Reed, Jaye
P. Morgan)
8 PM NFL Preseason: Bills-Lions
11 PM News (time approximate)
11:30 Movie: "Hellfighters"

CJOH Ch. 6 Deseronto, ON (CTV)

6 AM University Of The Air
6:30 University Of The Air
7 AM Tree House (wonder if this is Treehouse Club?)
7:30 Cartoons
8:30 Audubon Wildlife Theatre
9 AM Rocket Robin Hood
9:30 Let's Go
10 AM George (I don't know what this is about--George weighs
in at 250 pounds and all efforts to keep him on a diet
fail. Marshall Thompson stars as his keeper.)
10:30 Kidstuff
11:30 Laurel & Hardy
12 N Spider-Man
12:30 Willy & Floyd
1 PM Horst Koehler
1:30 Red Fisher
2 PM Summer Sports
3 PM Tennis: Tom Okker (Netherlands) vs. Dick Stockton (U.S. and
not the sportscaster) at the 1977 Rothmanns International
Tennis Tournament in Toronto
4 PM Wide World Of Sports (Canadian version: the fifth race in the
Labatt Championship Series for Formula Atlantic cars from
Elkhart Lake, WI; the U.S.A. Mini-Olympics from Colorado Springs)
6 PM News
6:30 Sports Flashback
7 PM Bionic Woman (one hour before NBC)
8 PM CTV Movie: "The Return Of The Pink Panther"
10:30 Rolf Harris (remember "Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport"?)
11 PM CTV News (Keith Morrison)
11:20 Sports
11:30 Royal Visit: Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau
address the nation at a dinner given by the Prime Minister in Edmonton
(live).
12 M Movie: "Pete 'n' Tillie"

WKBW Ch. 7 Buffalo (ABC)

6:30 Better Way
7 AM Agriculture U.S.A.
7:30 Bugs Bunny & Friends
8 AM Dynomutt
8:30 Popeye/Porky Pig
9:30 Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics
11:30 Krofft Supershow
12:30 Munsters
1 PM Mind Over Myth
1:30 Today's Woman
2 PM Building A Decent Future
2:30 Wild Wild World Of Animals
3 PM This Week In Baseball
3:30 Wide World Of Sports (U.S. version: the U.S.A.
Mini-Olympics)
5:30 Golf: PGA Championship (third round)
7 PM News
7:30 Eye On Buffalo
8 PM NFL Preseason: Bills-Lions
11 PM News (time approximate)
11:30 Movie: "The Group"
2:30 Mind Over Myth
3 AM ABC News (Sylvia Chase/Tom Jarriel)

WROC Ch. 8 Rochester (NBC)

5:25 Better Way
5:55 News
6 AM 700 Club
7 AM Batman (Milton Berle as Louie the Lilac)
7:30 Kidsworld
8 AM Hong Kong Phooey
8:30 Go Go Globetrotters
10:30 Pink Panther
11 AM Baggy Pants And The Nitwits
11:30 Magic Of Mark Wilson
12 N Movie: "The Bridges At Toko-Ri"
2 PM Hee Haw
3 PM The Sellin' Of Jamie Thomas (conclusion of a tale
about a runaway slave and his parents)
3:30 The Racers
4 PM Baseball Warm-Up
4:15 Baseball (see Ch. 2)
7 PM Lawrence Welk (songs saluting American pastimes,
time approximate)
8 PM NFL Preseason: Bills-Lions
11 PM News (time approximate)
11:30 Saturday Night Live
1 AM Midnight Special (the 1972 series opener: host John
Denver; Linda Ronstadt, Helen Reddy, Cass Elliot,
War, the Isley Brothers, Harry Chapin, David Clayton-
Thomas, the Everly Brothers, Argent, 24-hour delay)

WIXT (WSYR) Ch. 9 Syracuse (ABC)

7 AM Big Blue Marble
7:30 Marlo And The Magic Movie Machine (the machine talks to
Christopher Columbus (Laurie Faso))
8 AM Dynomutt
8:30 Superfriends
9:30 Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics
11:30 Krofft Supershow
12:30 Movie: "Not Of This Earth"
1:45 Movie: "The Brain From Planet Arous"
3 PM Greatest Sports Legends (Hank Aaron)
3:30 Wide World Of Sports
5:30 Golf: PGA Championship (third round)
7 PM Lawrence Welk
8 PM The Archie Situation Comedy Musical Variety Show
(actors play the characters from the "Archie" comic strip)
9 PM Love Boat (Pat Morita, Gary Collins, Diane Baker, Jonelle Allen,
Antonio Fargas)
10 PM Fantasy Island (guests: David Doyle, Mindy Naud)
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Count Your Blessings"
1:30 ABC News

WOR (WWOR) Ch. 9 New York City (Ind.)

7:30 News
8 AM Davey And Goliath
8:15 Davey And Goliath
8:30 Viewpoint On Nutrition
9 AM Daniel Boone
10 AM Movie: "They Came From Beyond Space"
11:30 Movie: "The Terrornauts"
1 PM Movie: "Things To Come"
3 PM Movie: "The Crimson Cult" (this is Boris Karloff's last role,
from '68)
5 PM Coral Jungle
6 PM Horse Racing From Saratoga
6:30 Movie: "Four Feathers"
9 PM Pro Soccer: New York Cosmos at Dallas Tornado
11 PM Second City TV (time approximate)
11:30 Horse Racing From Roosevelt
12 M Wrestling
1 AM Movie: "The Dungeons Of Harrow"
2:40 News

WHEC Ch. 10 Rochester (CBS)

6:30 Summer Semester
7 AM Banana Splits
7:30 The Archies
8 AM Three Robonic Stooges
8:30 Speed Buggy
9 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
10:30 Batman/Tarzan Adventure Hour
11:30 Secrets Of Isis
12 N Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
12:30 Space Academy
1 PM What's New, Mr. Magoo?
1:30 CBS Children's Film Festival
2 PM Movie: "The Crosby Case" (nothing to do with Bing)
3:15 Movie: "The Mystery Of Marie Roget"
4:30 CBS Sports Spectacular
6 PM News
6:30 On Trial (a high-school boy who struck a teacher while
defending his pregnant girlfriend faces a manslaughter
charge)
7 PM Star Trek
8 PM Bob Newhart
8:30 Baby, I'm Back
9 PM CBS Movie: "Burn!"
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Chubasco"

WPIX Ch. 11 New York City (Ind.)

7 AM Carrascolendas
7:30 Aprenda Ingles
8 AM Dusty's Treehouse
8:30 Big Blue Marble
9 AM Courtship Of Eddie's Father
9:30 Family Affair
10 AM Jerry Falwell
11 AM I Dream Of Jeannie
11:30 F Troop
12 N Soap Factory Disco (guest: Loleatta Holloway)
12:30 Jackson Five
1 PM Get Smart
1:30 Movie: "Spy In Your Eye"
3 PM Hee Haw
4 PM Tarzan (guests: Diana Ross and the Supremes)
5 PM Mod Squad
6 PM Emergency One!
7 PM Odd Couple (the classic where Felix and Oscar appear
on "Password")
7:30 Odd Couple
8 PM Baseball: Orioles-Yankees
10:30 News (time approximate)
11 PM Odd Couple
11:30 The Rookies
12:30 The FBI
1:30 Biography
2 AM News

WOKR (WHAM) Ch. 13 Rochester (ABC)

7:15 Meditations
7:30 America '78
8 AM Dynomutt
8:30 Superfriends
9:30 Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics
11:30 Krofft Supershow
12:30 American Bandstand (guest: Pattie Brooks)
1:30 The Rookies
2:30 NFL Great Teams/Great Years (the 1968 New York Jets
(the Super Bowl-winning team) and the 1969 Minnesota
Vikings)
3:30 Wide World Of Sports
5:30 Golf: PGA Championship (third round)
7 PM News
7:30 News Conference
8 PM The Archie Situation Comedy Musical Variety Show
9 PM Love Boat
10 PM Fantasy Island
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Guys And Dolls"
2:30 ABC News
2:45 News

WXXI Ch. 21 Rochester (PBS)

7:30 Zoom
8 AM TBA
9 AM Sesame Street
10 AM Great Debates
11 AM Mundo Real
11:30 Que Pasa?
12 N French Chef
12:30 Crockett's Victory Garden
1 PM Washington Week In Review
1:30 Wall Street Week
2 PM The Advocates
3 PM Great Performances (Andre Previn leads the London
Symphony and soloist Arthur Rubinstein in Chopin's
F Minor Concerto for Piano and Orchestra.)
4 PM Five-Hundred-Mile Sculpture Garden
5 PM Over Easy (guests: Arthur Godfrey, Pete Seeger)
5:30 Turnabout
6 PM Pro Soccer: V.F.B. Stuttgart vs. Hamburg S.V.
7 PM Inside Albany
7:30 Agronsky And Company
8 PM World War I (the 1964 CBS series which I hope somebody
will dust off next year for the 100th anniversary of the start
of the war; this episode is about the battle of the Argonne Forest)
8:30 Wild Wild World Of Animals
9 PM In Performance At Wolf Trap (Dionne Warwick performs)
10 PM Shades Of Greene (Graham Greene? Presented: "Chagrin In Three Parts"
and "The Case For The Defence")
11 PM At The Top (Count Basie and his band)
sign off 12 M

WCNY Ch. 24 Syracuse (PBS)

9 AM Sesame Street
10 AM Once Upon A Classic ("Robin Hood," conclusion)
10:30 Daniel Foster, M.D.
11 AM Paint Along With Nancy Kominsky
11:30 Consumer Survival Kit
12 N TV Garden Club
12:30 Crockett's Victory Garden
1 PM Antiques
1:30 Wall Street Week
2 PM Firing Line (Malcolm Muggeridge assesses Alexander
Solzhenitsyn's commencement address at Harvard)
3 PM Forsyte Saga
4 PM Forsyte Saga
5 PM Over Easy
5:30 Turnabout
6 PM Pro Soccer (same as Ch. 21)
7 PM Inside Albany
7:30 Agronsky & Company
8 PM Great Performances (Eugene Ormandy leads the Philadelphia
Orchestra in Gustav Holst's "The Planets," with the Mendelssohn
Club of Philadelphia performing the choral segments.)
9 PM In Performance At Wolf Trap
10 PM Shades Of Greene
11 PM Movie: "The Outlaw" (this movie raised quite a flap when first
released in '43, thanks to Jane Russell's low-cut outfits)
sign off 12:40 AM
 
Interestingly, it appears that WOR-9 New York (listed in upstate New York due to cable carriage) didn't air the Mets' game at St. Louis that day or evening.

If it was a night game, it might have been bumped in favor of soccer (Was Pele still on the New York Cosmos' roster then?).

Or did the agreement Eastern Microwave had with the station precluded or limited the number of Mets' games from WOR that EM could carry to cable systems outside the New York area??

(By 1983, when my Boston suburb got cable TV and was able to get WOR/WWOR via cable, all of the station's Mets' telecasts were seen on their by-then satellite "superstation" feed)
 
Joseph_Gallant said:
Interestingly, it appears that WOR-9 New York (listed in upstate New York due to cable carriage) didn't air the Mets' game at St. Louis that day or evening.

If it was a night game, it might have been bumped in favor of soccer (Was Pele still on the New York Cosmos' roster then?).

Or did the agreement Eastern Microwave had with the station precluded or limited the number of Mets' games from WOR that EM could carry to cable systems outside the New York area??

(By 1983, when my Boston suburb got cable TV and was able to get WOR/WWOR via cable, all of the station's Mets' telecasts were seen on their by-then satellite "superstation" feed)

Unlike the "EMI Service" days in the 1990s, the (W)WOR signal soutside the NYC market, via microwave and satellite, was exactly the same as back in NYC, leaving it to the cable systems (with "guidance" from local stations (pre-1981) and sports teams) to black out programming if needed.

I believe the game was either not televised, or seen on another NYC station other than WOR, as the schedule above had no glaring holes.
 
It doesn't seem likely that Channel 5 carried the Mets game;
Channel 9 had the Mets and Channel 11, the Yankees. Nor
do I think the o&os (2, 4, and 7) would have pre-empted their
regular programs (especially 7, with "The Love Boat" and "Fantasy
Island"). I think 9 simply had a program conflict and the Cosmos
won out that night.
 
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