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Retro: Seattle/Tacoma May 19, 1980

C

crainbebo

Source: The Journal-American

This listing was published the day after the famous Mt. St Helens eruption on May 18, 1980 that killed 57 people.

Channels listed
4 KOMO Seattle (ABC)
5 KING Seattle (NBC)
7 KIRO Seattle (CBS)
9 KCTS Seattle (PBS)
11 KSTW Tacoma (IND)
13 KCPQ Tacoma (PBS/EDUC)

Listings start at 6AM and end at 1AM

4 KOMO
6AM: Viewpoint
6:30: Health Field
7AM: Good Morrning America
9AM: Boomerang
9:30: The Edge of Night
10AM: Laverne and Shirley
10:30: $20,000 Pyramid
11AM: Family Feud
11:30: Ryan's Hope
Noon: All My Children
1PM: One Life to Live
2PM: General Hospital
3PM: Merv Griffin
4PM: The Brady Bunch
4:30: Happy Days
5PM: News
6PM: ABC World News Tonight (with Harry Reasoner, I think)
6:30: News
7PM: PM Northwest
Details: Features: Coverage of a state-wide contest for students in food preparation; a look at the Mountaineer Players; training of airline attendants.
7:30: Exploration Northwest
Details: Vancouver Island's "West Coast Trail", once a lifesaving route used by shipwrecked sailors, challenges and enchants modern-day hikers with its rugged beauty. Don McCune traces the history of the trail and explores Canada's Pacific Rim National Park.
8PM: That's Incredible!
Details: Reports on killer plants that devour animals; a hill that defeats the law of gravity; and a German Shepard that traveled 1500 miles to find its master are featured.
9PM: Barry Manilow-One Voice
10PM: Cheryl Ladd
11PM: News
11:30: ABC Sports
Midnight: Tennis Love
12:30: Doubles

5 KING
6AM: With This Ring
6:30: About Time
7AM: Today
9AM: Seattle Today
10AM: High Rollers
10:30: Wheel of Fortune
11AM: Chain Reaction (original Bill Cullen version)
11:30: Password Plus
Noon: Days of Our Lives
1PM: The Doctors
1:30: Another World
3PM: Movie: "Zandy's Bride" (1974)
5PM: Carol Burnett
5:30: News
6:30: NBC News
7PM: Seattle Tonight
Details: Host: Dick Klinger. Jim Fixx, the man who introduced hudreds of thousands of Americans to runnig returns with "The Second Book of Running."
7:30: Tic Tac dough
8PM: Little House on The Prarire
9PM: NBC Special Moviola: "Scarlett War"
11PM: News
11:30: Tonight Show with Johnny Carson

7 KIRO
6AM: Eye on NW
6:30: Captain Kangaroo (JIP)
7AM: Monday Morning
8AM: Dinah and Friends
9AM: Donahue
10AM: The Price is Right
11AM: The Young and The Restless
Noon: News
12:30: Search for Tomorrow
1PM: As The World Turns
2PM: Guiding Light
3PM: Roots
3:30: Part 6
4PM: Mike Douglas
5PM: News
6PM: CBS News
6:30: All in The Family
7PM: Joker's Wild
7:30: PM Magazine
8PM: WKRP in Cincinatti
9PM: M*A*S*H
9:30: House Calls
10PM: Lou Grant
11PM: News
11:30: Harry O
12:30: McCloud

9 KCTS
8:30AM: Zoom
9AM: Sesame Street
10AM: Electric Company
10:30: Two Cents
11AM: Book Bird
11:30 Enviroments
Noon: Washington Week
12:30: Camera Three
1PM: Song Bag
1:30: Self, Inc.
2PM: All About You
2:30: Around Us
3PM: Newsworld
3:30: Look at Me
4PM: Sesame Street
5PM: Mister Roger's Neighborhood
5:30: Electric Company
6PM: Zoom
6:30: Over Easy
7PM; Macneil/Lehrer
7:30: Friends
8PM: James Michener
9PM: E. Hawkins at Symphony
10PM: Movie: "The Road to Bail"
11:30: Medix

11 KSTW
6AM: 700 Club
7AM: Star Blazers
7:30: Hanna-Barbara
8AM: Porky Pig
8:30: New Zoo Revue
9AM: Family Affair
9:30: Flipper
10AM: Route 66
11AM: Marcus Welby M.D.
Noon: The FBI
1PM: Movie: "Back to Bataan"
3PM: Popeye
3:30: Banana Splits
4PM: Bugs Bunny and Woody Woopecker
5PM: Leave it To Beaver
5:30: Bewitched
6PM: The Odd Couple
6:30: Hogan's Heroes
7PM: M*A*S*H
7:30: Bob Newhart
8PM: Movie: "Flying Leathernecks"
10PM: News
11PM: Benny Hill
11:30: Love, American Style
Midnight: 700 Club

13 KCPQ
No programming

-crainbebo
 
Unfortunately, I have to correct you about the ABC newscast: Harry Reasoner left ABC in 1978 to return to CBS and the show he founded with Mike Wallace, "60 Minutes;" Reasoner originally left CBS in 1970 to take the ABC job. By this time, ABC had been on the "World News Tonight" format for two years, with Frank Reynolds, Max Robinson, and Peter Jennings sharing the helm. Of course, NBC still had John Chancellor at its anchor desk, and Walter Cronkite was in his last year on "CBS Evening News."
 
crainbebo said:
13 KCPQ Tacoma (PBS/EDUC)

13 KCPQ
No programming
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This was during the time when KCPQ was being overhauled in preparation for a relaunch as an independent station, the familiar "Q13". The station went dark in February after the Clover Park School District sold the station to Kelly Broadcasting; the station was relaunched in November of that year.
 
If you're looking for a schedule for the relaunched KCPQ-TV/13, here's an interesting item -- it's their schedule for their first scheduled day of broadcasting, which was Monday, October 13, 1980:

KCPQ-TV October 13, 1980, for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer TV Week magazine:

6:00 Ed Allen
6:30 Gary Randall
7:00 700 Club
8:00 Flintsones (Fred Flinstone & Friends)
9:00 David Letterman
10:00 Wheel of Fortune
10:30 Eddie's Father (Courtship of Eddie's Father)
11:00 Face the Music
11:30 Let's Make a Deal
Noon To Tell the Truth
12:30 Mike Douglas
2:00 Toni Tenille
3:00 Don Lane
4:00 Captain Sea-Tac (kid's show)
5:00 Tom and Jerry
6:00 Family Feud
6:30 Squares (Hollywood Squares)
7:00 Bonanza
8:00 Movie: Bus Stop (1956)
10:00 Morecambe & Wise
10:30 You Bet Your Life
11:00 Movie: Wake Island (1942)

Due to delays with getting their transmitting antenna installed, KCPQ didn't sign back on the air until November 4, 1980 -- which means that this "debut" schedule that was listed in the Seattle PI never actually ran, although the actual schedule at launch a few weeks later wouldn't have been much different.
 
Hey crainebo, hopefully you could answer a couple questions for me, 1. where is The Journal-American located and 2. do you have any other Seattle-Tacoma schedules?
 
Thanks for clearing up a question that came
up not too long ago: what was the name of
KOMO's 7 PM magazine show? Now we know
it was "PM Northwest."

Also, I assume that "You Bet Your Life" on
Channel 13 was Buddy Hackett's version, which
was being syndicated in 1980, and not "Best Of
Groucho." Hackett's version lasted one season,
as did Bill Cosby's in 1992.
 
bpatrick said:
Also, I assume that "You Bet Your Life" on
Channel 13 was Buddy Hackett's version, which
was being syndicated in 1980, and not "Best Of
Groucho." Hackett's version lasted one season,
as did Bill Cosby's in 1992.
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That's a pretty good bet -- while I was on the other side of the state at the time (in school at WSU), I remember that the initial KCPQ relaunch schedule was very heavy on first run syndicated programming. Most of it did poorly and was quickly cancelled, but the result certainly didn't look much like a traditional independent station of the era.
 
crainbebo said:
Source: The Journal-American

This listing was published the day after the famous Mt. St Helens eruption on May 18, 1980 that killed 57 people.

Channels listed
4 KOMO Seattle (ABC)
5 KING Seattle (NBC)
7 KIRO Seattle (CBS)
9 KCTS Seattle (PBS)
11 KSTW Tacoma (IND)
13 KCPQ Tacoma (PBS/EDUC)

Listings start at 6AM and end at 1AM

11 KSTW
7AM: Star Blazers
7:30: Hanna-Barbara

-crainbebo
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Given that Star Blazers ran on KSTW at 7, I'm going to assume that "Hanna-Barbera" is Hanna-Barbera's World Of Super Adventure (i.e., Space Ghost, Birdman, Galaxy Trio, Herculoids, etc.), as I had assumed all those years ago reading the out-of-town newspapers at the Copley Square branch of the Boston Public Library almost 3 decades ago. Am I correct?
 
Something doesn't make sense to me on this schedule. Carol Burnett on KING5 at 5pm? I have no recollection of this and thought that KING had a 5pm newscast through most of the 70's and 80's. Typo perhaps? Or if it was on, it couldn't have been on very long in that slot.
 
In the mid-to-late seventies, KOMO-4 and KING-5 each did an hour of local news starting at 5:30, followed by network news at 6:30. KIRO-7 ran their hour of local news at 5:00, with network news at 6:00, followed by various syndicated shows at 6:30 (in my memory, "Mike Douglas", "Mary Tyler Moore", and "All in the Family" filled the 6:30 slot at various times).

Looking at that schedule from October 1980 that I used to pull the KCPQ-13 schedule from, I see that as of October 1980, KING-5 and KIRO-7 were still following that pattern, but KOMO-4 had expanded and modified it's news schedule to run an hour of local news at 5:00, network news at 6:00, and another half hour of local news at 6:30. KING-5 was, indeed, running half hour "Carol Burnett" reruns at 5:00, just before their local news; KIRO-7 had "All in the Family" at 6:30 (after the network news).
 
Sorry for being so late, but the Journal-American is in Bellevue, WA. It became the Eastside Journal, then the King County Journal before closing it's doors in Jan. 2007.

I might have another listing from 1997, I'll check.

-crainbebo

I see that KCPQ's "fantasy" Oct. 1980 schedule showed Wheel of Fortune at 10AM. Perhaps KING pre-empted that for another show.
 
Another question:

Did KCPQ become the station with the nighttime Family Feud until 1985?
 
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