The news of John Lennon's death broke after prime time on the East Coast, as he was gunned down around 10:50 pm EST. Besides the famous Howard Cosell announcement on Monday Night Football, how was the news of John Lennon's death handled in the Pacific Time Zone? Did CBS and NBC break into their programming?
Channels:
2—KREM (CBS)
4—KXLY (ABC)
6—KHQ (NBC)
7—KSPS (PBS)
MORNING
5:48
6—Farm and Home Report
5:55
2—Down to Earth
4—Farm Reports
6:00
2—Sunrise Semester
4—Agriculture U.S.A.
6:18
6—Huckleberry Hound/Yogi Bear
6:30
2—Tom and Jerry
4—Cartoons
7:00
2—Monday Morning with Charles Kuralt
Includes “Agriculture ’80” at 7:25.
4—Good Morning America
Includes local news at 8:25.
6—Today
Includes “Agriculture Today” at 7:25 and “Q-6 News Alive” at 8:25.
8:00
2—Captain Kangaroo
8:15
7—A.M. Weather
8:30
7—Educational Programming
9:00
2—The Jeffersons
4—Donahue
6—The Richard Simmons Show
9:30
2—Alice
6—Blockbusters
10:00
2—The Price Is Right
4—The Love Boat
6—Wheel of Fortune
11:00
2—Mid-Morning
4—Family Feud
6—Card Sharks
11:30
2—Search for Tomorrow
4—All My Children
6—The Doctors
AFTERNOON
12:00
2—The Young and the Restless
6—Days of our Lives
7—Educational Programming
12:30
4—Dialing for Dollars
1:00
2—As the World Turns
4—One Life to Live
6—Another World
2:00
2—Guiding Light
4—General Hospital
6—Texas
3:00
2—The John Davidson Show
4—Ryan’s Hope
6—The Merv Griffin Show
3:30
4—The Flintstones
4:00
4—Gilligan’s Island
7—Sesame Street
4:30
2—The Hollywood Squares
4—Hogan’s Heroes
6—Hour Magazine
5:00
2—The World of People
4—Total News 4
7—Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
5:30
2—KREM 2 News
4—World News Tonight
6—Q-6 News Alive
7—The Electric Company
EVENING
6:00
2—CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite
4—Monday Night Football
New England Patriots at Miami Dolphins.
6—NBC Nightly News with John Chancellor
7—As Man Behaves
6:30
2—Happy Days Again
6—The Cross-Wits
7—Over Easy
“Older Exercise.” Guests Buster Crabbe, Dr. Herbert DeVries, Rob Skeist. (CC)
7:00
2—Family Feud
6—M*A*S*H
Frank decides to make money by auctioning off the camp garbage while Hawkeye’s love life suffers a serious attack.
7—The MacNeil/Lehrer Report
7:30
2—Tic Tac Dough
6—P.M. Magazine
7—The Dick Cavett Show
Guest: Angelo Dundee.
8:00
2—Flo
Flo vows to give a favorite customer the sendoff he wants—a wingding of a funeral at the Yellow Rose.
6—Little House on the Prairie
Adam, having regained his sight, decides to leave his teaching position at the school for the blind and return to law school. (Part 2) (CC)
7—Great Performances
“Der Rosenkavalier.” Gwyneth Jones, Brigitte Fassbaender, Lucia Popp and Manfred Jungwirth star in Richard Strauss’s masterpiece of lyric opera marking the production’s first telecast in the United States.
8:30
2—Ladies Man
9:00
2—M*A*S*H
Hot Lips’ father, the famous old soldier “Howitzer Al” Houlihan, pays a visit to the 4077th.
4—Carol Burnett and Friends
Guests Tim Conway, Charo.
6—MOVIE: “My Kidnapper, My Love”
(TV, 1980) James Stacy, Glynnis O’Connor. A crippled vendor plots to kidnap an emotionally disturbed runaway and extort money from her wealthy parents.
9:30
2—House Calls
The hospital administrator demands that one of the hospital’s top nurses be fired for appearing nude in a “girlie” magazine.
4—All in the Family
Archie surprises everyone when he comes home from work bearing gifts and good cheer.
10:00
2—Lou Grant
The Trib is the target of a huge libel suit because of an expose of a headline-grabbing scandal sheet.
4—That’s Incredible!
Featured: the human torpedo; fluorocarbon blood; a legless weightlifter; canine parachutists.
11:00
2—KREM 2 News
4—Total News 4
6—Q-6 News Alive
11:30
2—Quincy, M.E.
Quincy’s investigation into a supposedly accidental drowning at a health club is thwarted by the club’s lawyer.
4—Nightline
6—The Best of Carson
Guests: Mary Tyler Moore, Dick Van Dyke, Dick Van Patten.
7—Captioned ABC News
11:50
4—The Newlywed Game
12:20
4—MOVIE: “Someone I Touched”
(TV, 1975) Cloris Leachman, Glynnis O’Connor. An architect’s pregnant wife discovers that her husband has contracted venereal disease from his teen-age girlfriend.
12:30
6—Tomorrow
Guests: Morley Safer; surrogate mother Elixabeth Kane and her doctor, Richard Levin.
12:40
2—The New Avengers
A British Army officer forms his own formidable fighting unit and goes into business for himself.
1:50
2—Agriculture ’80
Channels:
2—KREM (CBS)
4—KXLY (ABC)
6—KHQ (NBC)
7—KSPS (PBS)
MORNING
5:48
6—Farm and Home Report
5:55
2—Down to Earth
4—Farm Reports
6:00
2—Sunrise Semester
4—Agriculture U.S.A.
6:18
6—Huckleberry Hound/Yogi Bear
6:30
2—Tom and Jerry
4—Cartoons
7:00
2—Monday Morning with Charles Kuralt
Includes “Agriculture ’80” at 7:25.
4—Good Morning America
Includes local news at 8:25.
6—Today
Includes “Agriculture Today” at 7:25 and “Q-6 News Alive” at 8:25.
8:00
2—Captain Kangaroo
8:15
7—A.M. Weather
8:30
7—Educational Programming
9:00
2—The Jeffersons
4—Donahue
6—The Richard Simmons Show
9:30
2—Alice
6—Blockbusters
10:00
2—The Price Is Right
4—The Love Boat
6—Wheel of Fortune
11:00
2—Mid-Morning
4—Family Feud
6—Card Sharks
11:30
2—Search for Tomorrow
4—All My Children
6—The Doctors
AFTERNOON
12:00
2—The Young and the Restless
6—Days of our Lives
7—Educational Programming
12:30
4—Dialing for Dollars
1:00
2—As the World Turns
4—One Life to Live
6—Another World
2:00
2—Guiding Light
4—General Hospital
6—Texas
3:00
2—The John Davidson Show
4—Ryan’s Hope
6—The Merv Griffin Show
3:30
4—The Flintstones
4:00
4—Gilligan’s Island
7—Sesame Street
4:30
2—The Hollywood Squares
4—Hogan’s Heroes
6—Hour Magazine
5:00
2—The World of People
4—Total News 4
7—Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
5:30
2—KREM 2 News
4—World News Tonight
6—Q-6 News Alive
7—The Electric Company
EVENING
6:00
2—CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite
4—Monday Night Football
New England Patriots at Miami Dolphins.
6—NBC Nightly News with John Chancellor
7—As Man Behaves
6:30
2—Happy Days Again
6—The Cross-Wits
7—Over Easy
“Older Exercise.” Guests Buster Crabbe, Dr. Herbert DeVries, Rob Skeist. (CC)
7:00
2—Family Feud
6—M*A*S*H
Frank decides to make money by auctioning off the camp garbage while Hawkeye’s love life suffers a serious attack.
7—The MacNeil/Lehrer Report
7:30
2—Tic Tac Dough
6—P.M. Magazine
7—The Dick Cavett Show
Guest: Angelo Dundee.
8:00
2—Flo
Flo vows to give a favorite customer the sendoff he wants—a wingding of a funeral at the Yellow Rose.
6—Little House on the Prairie
Adam, having regained his sight, decides to leave his teaching position at the school for the blind and return to law school. (Part 2) (CC)
7—Great Performances
“Der Rosenkavalier.” Gwyneth Jones, Brigitte Fassbaender, Lucia Popp and Manfred Jungwirth star in Richard Strauss’s masterpiece of lyric opera marking the production’s first telecast in the United States.
8:30
2—Ladies Man
9:00
2—M*A*S*H
Hot Lips’ father, the famous old soldier “Howitzer Al” Houlihan, pays a visit to the 4077th.
4—Carol Burnett and Friends
Guests Tim Conway, Charo.
6—MOVIE: “My Kidnapper, My Love”
(TV, 1980) James Stacy, Glynnis O’Connor. A crippled vendor plots to kidnap an emotionally disturbed runaway and extort money from her wealthy parents.
9:30
2—House Calls
The hospital administrator demands that one of the hospital’s top nurses be fired for appearing nude in a “girlie” magazine.
4—All in the Family
Archie surprises everyone when he comes home from work bearing gifts and good cheer.
10:00
2—Lou Grant
The Trib is the target of a huge libel suit because of an expose of a headline-grabbing scandal sheet.
4—That’s Incredible!
Featured: the human torpedo; fluorocarbon blood; a legless weightlifter; canine parachutists.
11:00
2—KREM 2 News
4—Total News 4
6—Q-6 News Alive
11:30
2—Quincy, M.E.
Quincy’s investigation into a supposedly accidental drowning at a health club is thwarted by the club’s lawyer.
4—Nightline
6—The Best of Carson
Guests: Mary Tyler Moore, Dick Van Dyke, Dick Van Patten.
7—Captioned ABC News
11:50
4—The Newlywed Game
12:20
4—MOVIE: “Someone I Touched”
(TV, 1975) Cloris Leachman, Glynnis O’Connor. An architect’s pregnant wife discovers that her husband has contracted venereal disease from his teen-age girlfriend.
12:30
6—Tomorrow
Guests: Morley Safer; surrogate mother Elixabeth Kane and her doctor, Richard Levin.
12:40
2—The New Avengers
A British Army officer forms his own formidable fighting unit and goes into business for himself.
1:50
2—Agriculture ’80
