Retro: Scarnton/Binghamton/Elmira Sat 7/26/80

[Bluenoser]

from TV Guide: Pennsylvania-New York Edition

Syracuse: 3 WSTM-NBC, 5 WTVH-CBS, 9 WIXT-ABC
NYC: 5n WNEW, 9n WOR, 11 WPIX
Binghamton: 12 WBNG-CBS, 34 WMGC-ABC, 40 WICZ-NBC, 46 WSKG-PBS
Scranton/Wilkes-Barre: 16 WNEP-ABC, 22 WDAU-CBS, 28 WBRE-CBS, 44 WVIA-PBS
Elmira: 18 WETM-NBC, 36 WENY-ABC

MORNING
5:00
9n News
11 Life of Riley

5:20
9n Movie

5:30
11 News

5:50
5n News

6:00
5n Patterns for Living
11 I Dream of Jeannie
12 Susquehanna Country Report

6:30
3-18 University of Michigan
5n Abbott & Costello
11 Barbapapa
12-22 Summer Semester

6:45
28 Davey & Goliath

7:00
3-18 Saturday Showboat
5n Brady Kids
9 Big Blue Marble
9n News
11 Popeye
12 Extensions
22 Skatebirds
28 Daffy Duck
44 Cartoons
46 Sesame Street

7:30
5 Summer Semester
5n Groove Goolies
9 Vegetable Soup
9n Newark & Reality
11 Tom & Jerry
12 Action News for Kids
16 Animals, Animals, Animals
22 Jason of Star Command
28 Dudley Do-Right
34 Hot Fudge
44 Movie "Penrod & Son"

8:00
3-18-28 Godzilla/Harlem Globetrotters
5-12 Mighty Mouse/Heckle & Jeckle
5n-22 Popeye & Friends
9-16-34-36 Superfriends
9n Davey & Goliath
11 Josie & the Pussycats
40 Bugs Bunny
46 Movie "Ride 'em Cowboy"

8:30
5n Flintstones
9n Life of Riley
11 Big Blue Marble
22 Battle of the Planets
40 Underdog

9:00
3-18-28-40 Fred & Barney Meet the Shmoo
5-12-22 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
5n Movie "X the Unknown"
9-16-34-36 Plastic-Man
9n Daniel Boone
11 Jack Van Impe
44 Movie "Hot Lead"

9:30
11 Herald of Truth
46 Bonaventure Travel

10:00
9n Doctor Who
11 Jerry Falwell
44 Movie "Charlie Chan's Secret"
46 Old Houseworks

10:30
3-18-28 Daffy Duck
5-12-22 Popeye
9-16-34-36 Scooby & Scrappy-Doo
28 Woody Woodpecker
46 World of the Sea

11:00
3-18-28-40 Jetsons
5n Soul Train
9n Movie "Invasion from Inner Earth"
11 Hee Haw
46 International Kitchen

11:30
3-18-28-40 Jonny Quest
5-12-22 Fat Albert
9-16-34-36 Scooby's Laff-a-Lympics
44 Lone Ranger
46 Julia Child & Company

AFTERNOON
Noon
3-18 Bowling
5-22 Shazam!
5n I Love Lucy
9 Movie "Two on a Guillotine"
11 WCT Invitational Tennis: Ilie Nastase v Jimmy Connors
12 Action News for Kids
16-34-36 Weekend Special "My Dear Uncle Sherlock"
28-40 Godzilla
44 Wild, Wild World of Animals
46 Making Things Grow

12:20
44 Venture Outdoors

12:30
5 Corporation on Location
5n Brady Bunch
12-22 Super 7
16-34-36 American Bandstand
28-40 Flash Gordon
44 Life Around Us
46 Victory Garden

1:00
3-18 Movie "Man-Made Monster"
5n Partridge Family
9n Movie "Two-Gun Sheriff"
11 World of Survival
28 America's Athletes-1980
40 World of Survival
44 Harold Lloyd
46 Antiques

1:00
5-12-22 30 Minutes
5n Little Rascals
11 Sports Afield
16 Movie "The Glass Sphinx"
36 Kids are People Too
40 Green Acres
44 Hollywood & the Stars
46 Market to Market

2:00
3-18-28-40 Baseball Warm-Up
5 Movie "Buck Privates"
5n Laurel & Hardy
9 Movie "Gay Purr-ee"
9n Baseball: Cincinnati-NY Mets
11 Three Stooges
12 Gunsmoke
22 Hollywood Teens
34 Greatest Sports Legends
44 Movie "Elmer the Great"
46 Look at Me

2:15
3-18-28-40 Baseball: Cincinnati-NY Mets or Boston-Minnesota

2:30
5n Gilligan's Island
34 Combat
46 Sneak Previews

3:00
5n America's Athletes-1980
11 Grizzly Adams
12 FBI
22 TBA
36 Animals, Animals, Animals
46 Movie "The Adventures of Marco Polo"

3:10
16 Movie "Shane"

3:15
44 Shadow of the Eagle

3:30
5 Gilligan's Island
9 Road Atlanta (1979 SCCA auto racing national championship; Paul Newman drives in this race)
22 Sports Afield
34 Star Trek
36 I Love Lucy
44 Pete Smith

3:50
44 Movie "The Falcon in Hollywood"

4:00
5-12-22 Golf: Sammy Davis Jr-Greater Hartford Open
5n Big Valley
9 NCAA Preview: Southeastern Conference
11 Emergency
36 Andy Griffith

4:30
9 Greatest Sports Legends
34 Watkins Glen Can-Am Auto Race
36 Sportstraits in Black

5:00
3-18 This Week in Baseball
5-12-22 Sports Spectacular (Calgary Stampede/boxing preview)
5n Best of Donny & Marie
9-16-36-40 Wide World of Sports (USA-West Germany gymnastics/Pocono 500 auto race)
9n Outer Limits
11 Kung Fu
28 Adam-12
40 Marty Robbins' Spotlight
44 Victory Garden
46 Old Friends-New Friends

5:30
3-18 Sports Afield
28 Wild Kingdom
40 Nashville On the Road
44 Murder Most English
46 Human Face of China


EVENING
6:00
3-5-18-22 News
5n Six Million Dollar Man
9n Belmont Horse Race
11 Star Trek
12 Wild Kingdom
28 Lawrence Welk
40 That Nashville Music
46 Pro Soccer

6:30
3-18 NBC News
5-12-22 CBS News
9-16 News
9n Apple Polishers
34 In Search of...
36 Guinness Game
40 Sha Na Na
44 Flambards

7:00
3-12-18-28 Hee Haw
5 Dance Fever
5n Mission: Impossible
9-34-36 Lawrence Welk
9n After Benny, Thames Presents
11 Odd Couple
16 Thom Greco
22 America's Top 10
40 Norm Crosby's The Comedy Shop
46 News

7:30
5 Wild Kingdom
9n Dating Game
11 Dance Fever
16 Polka Joyland
22 $100,000 Name That Tune
40 Guinness Game
44-46 Agronsky & Company

7:50
44 A Closer Look

8:00
3-18-28-40 BJ & the Bear
5-22 Universe
5n Star Chart
9-34-36 The Ugily Fmaily (pilot)
9n Movie "Attack"
11 Odd Couple
12 Palace
16 High School Football: Big 33 Football Classic
44 US Chronicle
46 Muppet Show

8:30
5-22 Bad News Bears
5n Merv Griffin
9-34-36 Blue Jeans (pilot)
11 Baseball: NY Yankees-Kansas City
44 Ben Wattenberg's 1980
46 Archie Campbell

9:00
3-18-28-40 Sanford
5-12-22 Movie "Death Moon"
9-34-36 Love Boat
44 Movie "Laura"
46 Movie "The Father"

9:30
3-18-28-40 Joe's World

10:00
3-18-28-40 Good Time Harry (2 episodes)
5n News
9-34-36 Fantasy Island
9n James Robison

10:30
5n Black News
16 Fantasy Island (JIP)
44 Hollywood & the Stars
46 China: Land of My Father

10:55
5-12-22 Libertarian Political Talk (Ed Clark)

11:00
3-5-9-11-12-16-18-22-28 News
5n Star Chart
9n Benny Hill
34-36 ABC News
40 Jack Van Impe
46 Dave Allen at Large
46 Monty Python's Flying Circus

11:15
34 Don Kirshner's Rock Concert
36 News

11:30
3-8-28-40 Saturday Night Live
5 Benny Hill
5n Tales of the Unexpected
9 America's Top 10
9n Yonkers Horse Race
11 Rookies
12 Movie "The Incredible Two-Headed Transplant"
22 Movie "Lawman"
36 Jacobs Brothers
44 Movie "Dracula-Price of Darkness"
46 Movie "I Love My Wife"

LATE NIGHT
Mid.
5 Benny Hill
5n Kojak
9 Hank Williams-The Man & His Music
9n Wrestling
36 Movie "The Racketeer"

12:30
5 Movie "Lady in Cement"
11 FBI

1:00
3-18 Movie "A Severed Head"
5n Movie "Lightning Strikes Twice"
9n Movie "Woman in Hiding"
44 Movie "Dracula Has Risen from the Grave"

1:10
46 Movie "Man on the Flying Trapeze"

1:20
16 ABC News
22 Don Kirshner's Rock Concert

1:30
11 News

2:00
9 Soap Factory Disco
11 Movie "Journey to the Planet of Prehistoric Women"

2:30
9 ABC News
44 Movie "Countess Dracula"

2:50
22 News

3:00
5n Movie "Sherlock Holmes & the Spider Woman"
9n Movie "The Fickle Finger of Fate"

3:30
11 Twilight Zone

4:00
11 Biography

4:30
11 Burns & Allen

 

[DToTheJ]

2:00
9 Soap Factory Disco

Good Lord... there was still disco programming in 1980? At least stations like this one had the right idea of parking them in the late night hours...

 

[harrisburgpatv]

8:00
46 Muppet Show

Wait a second........A *PBS* station carried the Muppet Show? I know 44 carried some old sitcom reruns and such, but the Muppet Show on a PBS station?

 

[DToTheJ]

10:30
3-18-28 Daffy Duck
28 Woody Woodpecker

Anyone know if it was 40 that carried "Daffy Duck" at this time? 28 aired "Daffy Duck" at 7 AM.

 

[oldies guy]

Other than the NYC independents, was 34 the only station that did not air a local newscast?

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

7:00
3-12-18-28 Hee Haw
5 Dance Fever
5n Mission: Impossible
9-34-36 Lawrence Welk

"Hee Haw" going up against Welk in Syracuse, Binghamton and Elmira? That would have been sacreligious in the Midwest.

 

[Rob Jason]

Other than the NYC independents, was 34 the only station that did not air a local newscast?

No, ch. 40 didn't do weekend news at this time, either.

 

[Rollo-Smokes]

Other than the NYC independents, was 34 the only station that did not air a local newscast?

WNEW-TV and WPIX did do Saturday night newscasts (channel 11's was delayed because of Yankees baseball this evening). WOR-TV didn't do news on Saturday night until a few years later.

 

[oldies guy]

34 preempted Wide World of Sports at 5 for a 2 hour program, "Watkins Glen Can Am Auto Race." The 1980 race was the final race for the circuit as financial problems forced the closing of the track in 1981. Does anyone know or remember if 34 produced this program or was it a late transmission of the program as the race was run 3 weeks earlier? Anyone know?

 

[DToTheJ]

"Hee Haw" going up against Welk in Syracuse, Binghamton and Elmira? That would have been sacreligious in the Midwest.

I think I detect a little sarcasm; the truth is, based on the TV Guides I've read from this era, almost every market had one channel airing "Hee Haw" on Saturday at 7 PM, and "Lawrence Welk" at the same time on another channel...

 

[Stanislav]

"Hee Haw" going up against Welk in Syracuse, Binghamton and Elmira? That would have been sacreligious in the Midwest.

I think I detect a little sarcasm; the truth is, based on the TV Guides I've read from this era, almost every market had one channel airing "Hee Haw" on Saturday at 7 PM, and "Lawrence Welk" at the same time on another channel...

The two shows, while probably skewing both rural and older, are hardly of similar genres. I doubt there were a lot of people who shared a predilection for watching both "country cornpone" and "champagne music"

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

"Hee Haw" going up against Welk in Syracuse, Binghamton and Elmira? That would have been sacreligious in the Midwest.

I think I detect a little sarcasm; the truth is, based on the TV Guides I've read from this era, almost every market had one channel airing "Hee Haw" on Saturday at 7 PM, and "Lawrence Welk" at the same time on another channel...

The two shows, while probably skewing both rural and older, are hardly of similar genres. I doubt there were a lot of people who shared a predilection for watching both "country cornpone" and "champagne music"

There was a whole thread on the subject of Hee Haw scheduling practices that was posted on the Classic TV board in 2006, and Welk scheduling was brought into the subject--many cases of Midwestern (and some Southern) stations not daring to schedule the two shows opposite each other:

http://boards.radio-info.com/smf/index.php?topic=43125.0

 

[oldschooler1]

34 preempted Wide World of Sports at 5 for a 2 hour program, "Watkins Glen Can Am Auto Race." The 1980 race was the final race for the circuit as financial problems forced the closing of the track in 1981. Does anyone know or remember if 34 produced this program or was it a late transmission of the program as the race was run 3 weeks earlier? Anyone know?

Don't know for sure, but it was probably a rerun of the race. WMGC back then (or now) didn't have the staff to pull off a 2-hour local special. They didn't even have film cameras to get local news.

The two shows, while probably skewing both rural and older, are hardly of similar genres. I doubt there were a lot of people who shared a predilection for watching both "country cornpone" and "champagne music"
my grandfather did. he once said "the best shows on TV, and they put them on opposite each other." I thought they were dreadful, and saturdays at 7 in my house were like a TV dead zone for me. Now, I appreciate lawrence welk for its production values-impeccable directing and camera work.

 

[DToTheJ]

And don't forget the down-home production values of "Hee Haw," which still airs in reruns on RFD-TV, I believe.