Retro: Spokane, WA – Tuesday, April 27, 1993

[Tim-In-Houston]

Source: Spokane Spokesman-Review

KREM-2 (CBS)
AM
5:00 – Up to the Minute
5:30 – Paid Program
6:00 – Inspector Gadget
6:30 – News
7:00 – CBS This Morning
9:00 – The New Family Feud Challenge
10:00 – The Price is Right
11:00 – Maury Povich
PM
12:00 – News
12:30 – The Bold and the Beautiful
1:00 – As the World Turns
2:00 – Guiding Light
3:00 – The Young and the Restless
4:00 – Oprah Winfrey
5:00 – News
5:30 – CBS News
6:00 – News
6:30 – Murphy Brown
7:00 – Cheers
7:30 – Designing Women
8:00 – Rescue 911
9:00 – Movie: “The Price She Paid” (1992)
11:00 – News
11:35 – Forever Knight
AM
12:35 – Paid Program
1:05 – The Cosby Show
1:35 – News (11pm Repeat)
2:05 – CBS News Up to the Minute

KXLY-4 (ABC)
AM
5:00 – World News Now
5:30 – World News This Morning
6:00 – Good Morning Northwest
7:00 – Good Morning America
9:00 – Sally Jessy (sic) Raphael
10:00 – Home
11:00 – Donahue
PM
12:00 – All My Children
1:00 – One Life to Live
2:00 – General Hospital
3:00 – Flintstones
3:30 – T-Rex
4:00 – Star Trek: The Next Generation
5:00 – News
6:00 – ABC News
6:30 – Full House
7:00 – Roseanne
7:30 – M*A*S*H
8:00 – Full House
8:30 – Hangin’ With Mr. Cooper
9:00 – Roseanne
9:30 – Delta
10:00 – We’re Expecting
11:00 – News
11:35 – Nightline
AM
12:05 – Paid Program
12:35 – (Perfect?) Strangers – This is a guess, listing only has the last word.
1:05 – Jerry Springer
2:05 – World News Now

KHQ-6 (NBC)
AM
5:00 – NBC Nightside
5:30 – NBC News at Sunrise
6:00 – News
7:00 – Today
9:00 – Regis & Kathie Lee
10:00 – Shop at Home
10:30 – Family Ties
11:00 – Scrabble
11:30 – Scattergories
PM
12:00 – Concentration
12:30 – Family Secrets
1:00 – Another World
2:00 – Days of Our Lives
3:00 – Stunt Dawgs
3:30 – Jetsons
4:00 – Wonder Years
4:30 – Family Feud
5:00 – News
5:30 – NBC News
6:00 – News
6:30 – Inside Edition
7:00 – Jeopardy!
7:30 – Wheel of Fortune
8:00 – Reasonable Doubt
10:00 – Dateline NBC
11:00 – News
11:35 – Tonight Show
AM
12:35 – Late Night with David Letterman
1:35 – Rush Limbaugh
2:05 – NBC Nightside

KSPS-7 (PBS)
AM
6:15 – Body Electric
7:00 – Shining Time Station
7:30 – Lamb Chop Play-a-long
8:00 – Barney & Friends
8:30 – Mr. Rogers
9:00 – Sesame Street
10:00 – Body Electric
10:30 – Sit and Be Fit
11:00 – Gourmet Cooking
11:30 – Joy of Painting
PM
12:00 – Art of Sewing
12:30 – Quilt in a Day
1:00 – Nature
2:00 – All Creatures Great & Small
3:00 – Barney & Friends
3:30 – Sesame Street
4:30 – Mr. Rogers
5:00 – Square One TV
5:30 – Nightly Business Report
6:00 – MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour
7:00 – Nova
8:00 – Frontline
9:30 – Mini-Dragons II
10:30 – Wings Over the World
11:30 – Charlie Rose
AM
12:30 – MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour

KAYU-28 (Fox)
AM
6:00 – ALF
6:30 – James Bond, Jr.
7:00 – Beetlejuice
7:30 – Merry Melodies
8:00 – Tale Spin
8:30 – Rescue Rangers
9:00 – Mr. Belvedere
9:30 – Love Connection
10:00 – Vicki!
11:00 – In the Heat of the Night
PM
12:00 – Geraldo
1:00 – Joan Rivers
2:00 – People’s Court
2:30 – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
3:00 – Tom & Jerry Kids
3:30 – Darkwing Duck
4:00 – Goof Troop
4:30 – Tiny Toon Adventures
5:00 – Batman: The Animated Series
5:30 – Charles in Charge
6:00 – Cops
6:30 – Hard Copy
7:00 – Entertainment Tonight
7:30 – A Current Affair
8:00 – Class of ‘96
9:00 – Tribeca
10:00 – News
10:30 – Studs
11:00 – Arsenio Hall
AM
12:00 – Joan Rivers
1:00 – Jane Whitney
2:00 – Geraldo

KLEW-3 (CBS/Lewiston, ID)
AM
6:00 – CBS Morning News
6:30 – News
7:00 – CBS This Morning
9:00 – Whoopi Goldberg
9:30 – The Cosby Show
10:00 – The Price is Right
11:00 – The Young and the Restless
PM
12:00 – CNN News
12:30 – The Bold and the Beautiful
1:00 – As the World Turns
2:00 – Guiding Light
3:00 – Maury Povich
4:00 – A Currant Affair
4:30 – Hard Copy
5:00 – M*A*S*H
5:30 – CBS News
6:00 – News
6:30 – Cheers
7:00 – Roseanne
7:30 – Golden Girls
8:00 – Rescue 911
9:00 – Movie: “The Price She Paid” (1992)
11:00 – News
11:30 – Forever Knight
12:30 – A Current Affair

 

[EricStein]

Source: Spokane Spokesman-Review

KREM-2 (CBS)

6:00 – Inspector Gadget

...

KXLY-4 (ABC)

3:00 – Flintstones
3:30 – T-Rex

...

KHQ-6 (NBC)

3:00 – Stunt Dawgs
3:30 – Jetsons

These must have been the cartoons KAYU didn't have room for on its schedule (KSKN was still HSN full time).

 

[DToTheJ]

One would think 2, 4 and 6 would have first dibs on the cartoons before 28. I can't imagine that a show like "Inspector Gadget" would need to be cleared on a prime channel in a market like Spokane.

 

[Tim-In-Houston]

At this point, Fox had already started its "Fox Kids" afternoon feed. Though I'm still quite surprised the prime stations actually had cartoons in the afternoon rather than a talk show.

 

[DToTheJ]

Looks like 3 PM is the "prime kids access" hour here. I'm sure if this was ten years earlier, Tom & Jerry would be scheduled on one of these stations.

Meanwhile, Oprah probably disapproved having Inspector Gadget as a lead-in to her show on Channel 2...

 

[EricStein]

One would think 2, 4 and 6 would have first dibs on the cartoons before 28. I can't imagine that a show like "Inspector Gadget" would need to be cleared on a prime channel in a market like Spokane.

By 1993, FOX affiliates and independent stations were the "de facto" kids stations in each market. With soaps as lead-ins, cartoons just don't look right on the "Big 3" stations, even in a mid-market like Spokane. I wonder if the big network affiliates would have aired them if Syndex wasn't in play at the time and there were regional independents that carried those shows on the local cable system?

I also noticed that the "Big 3" also took most of the off-net sitcoms during the evening (it seemed odd that Peter Jennings was the lead-in to a "Full House" repeat), while KAYU aired magazine shows that traditional affiliates normally cleared.

A strange situation indeed.

 

[TexasTom]

By 1993, FOX affiliates and independent stations were the "de facto" kids stations in each market. With soaps as lead-ins, cartoons just don't look right on the "Big 3" stations, even in a mid-market like Spokane. I wonder if the big network affiliates would have aired them if Syndex wasn't in play at the time and there were regional independents that carried those shows on the local cable system?

I also noticed that the "Big 3" also took most of the off-net sitcoms during the evening (it seemed odd that Peter Jennings was the lead-in to a "Full House" repeat), while KAYU aired magazine shows that traditional affiliates normally cleared.

A strange situation indeed.

It was not uncommon for children's shows to air on one of the "Big 3" stations on weekday afternoons as late as the mid-nineties, although it had been uncommon in larger markets for many years by then.

Aside from that, Spokane was a very conservative market for many years, where the station were very slow to change.