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Retro: Springfield/Hartford Mon, Aug 25, 1980

from TV Guide-Springfield/Chicopee/Holyoke edition
Programs on ch 24/57 subject to change, due to pledge period

WCBS 2-CBS New York
5:45 Stanley
6:15 News
6:30 Summer Semester "Contemporary Hispanic Fiction"
7:00 Monday Morning
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Mike Douglas (co-host Erik Estrada/guests Dom DeLuise, Carol Burnett, Tony Orlando, and Stan Kann)
10:00 Jeffersons
10:30 Alice
11:00 Price is Right
noon Match Game
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Young & the Restless
2:00 As the World Turns
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 One Day at a Time
4:30 John Davidson (co-host Andy Gibb/guests Grant Goodeve, Barbi Benton, and author Gleen Doman)
6:00 News
7:00 CBS Evening News
7:30 Muppet Show (guest Dizzy Gillespie)
8:00 Flo
8:30 WKRP in Cincinnati
9:00 M*A*S*H
9:30 One Day at a Time
10:00 Lou Grant
11:00 News
11:30 Harry O
12:40 Movie "Bittersweet Love"
2:35 Movie "Bad Bascomb" (bw)
4:50 Stanley

WFSB 3-CBS Hartford
6:00 Kidsworld
6:30 Stacy on Film
7:00 Monday Morning
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Dinah! & Friends (guests Robert Fuller, Shelley Hack, Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis Jr., and portrait photog George Hurrell)
10:00 Jeffersons
10:30 Alice
11:00 Maude
11:30 Mary Tyler Moore
noon News
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Young & the Restless
2:00 As the World Turns
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 John Davidson (same guests as ch 2)
5:30 All in the Family
6:00 News
7:00 CBS Evening News
7:30 PM Magazine (Hollywood stunt show/Beach Boys/summer snacks/cold fruit soup)
8:00 Flo
8:30 WKRP in Cincinnati
9:00 M*A*S*H
9:30 One Day at a Time
10:00 Lou Grant
11:00 News
11:30 Sanford & Son
mid. Harry O
1:10 Movie "Dr. Strange"

WBZ 4-NBC Boston
5:30 TV4 Semninar: Just Like Everybody Else
6:00 Morning Stretch
6:30 News
7:00 Today
9:00 Mike Douglas (co-host Barbara Mandrell/guests Greg Evigan, Lorna Patterson, and Carl Weathers)
10:00 David Letterman
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 Password Plus
noon News
12:30 Sharon King (remodeling old clothes)
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 Texas
4:00 John Davidson (same guests as ch 2, minus Doman)
5:00 Match Game
5:30 News
7:00 NBC Nightly News
7:30 Evening Magazine (UFO expert J. Allen Hynek/guards at the Tomb of the Unkown Soldier/the Arnold Arboretum, Jamaica Plain/how to bone a chicken)
8:00 Little House on the Prairie
9:00 Backstairs at the White House (pt 2)
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show (Joan Rivers subs for Johnny, welcoming Mariette Hartley, Bernadette Peters, George Gobel, and Bobby Kelton)
1:00 Tomorrow (guest Landrew Smith)
2:00 News
2:05 Movie "Jaws of Death"
3:30 Nosotros (Pablo Correa)
4:30 News Conference

WCVB 5-ABC Boston
6:00 News
6:25 News for the Deaf
6:30 News
6:50 News for the Deaf
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Good Day! (guests Richard Sanders, June Havoc, author Harrison Salisbury, and food expert Nancy Arum)
10:30 Phil Donahue (guest Truman Capote)
11:30 Family Feud
noon News
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Love Boat
5:00 Face the Music
5:30 All in the Family
6:00 News
7:00 ABC World News Tonight
7:30 Miller's Court (discussing reporters' confidentiality)
8:00 That's Incredible!
9:00 This was America "Visions of America" (William Shatner hosts this photo examination of Americans' changing lifestyles at the turn of the century)
9:30 Summershow 1980 "The Knowledge" (Jack Rosenthal's comedy-drama about 4 men studying to become London cabbies)
11:00 News
11:30 ABC News Nightline
11:50 Barney Miller (x2, second episode starts at 12:25)
1:00 Nightshift "Trivia Triangle" (produced by Tufts students)
1:30 News

WNEW 5-Ind New York
5:15 Ed Allen
5:45 New Zoo Revue
6:15 News
6:30 Abbott & Costello
7:00 Bugs Bunny
7:30 Flintstones
8:00 Battle of the Planets
8:30 Gilligan's Island
9:00 Andy Griffith (bw)
9:30 Partridge Family
10:00 I Love Lucy (bw)
10:30 My Three Sons
11:00 Midday (Bill Boggs)
12:25 News
12:30 Cross-Wits
1:00 My Three Sons
1:30 Bewitched (bw)
2:00 Addams Family (bw)
2:30 Gilligan's Island
3:00 Popeye & Friends
3:30 Spiderman
4:00 Flintstones
4:30 Little Rascals (bw)
5:00 Brady Bunch
5:30 Gilligan's Island
6:00 Brady Bunch
6:30 I Love Lucy (bw)
7:00 All in the Family (x2)
8:00 PM Magazine (Hollywood stunt show/acupuncture face lifts/nutrition & cholesterol/hospitality tips for foreign guests)
8:30 Summershow 1980 "The Knowledge"
10:00 News
11:00 M*A*S*H
11:30 Kojak
12:30 Hogan's Heroes
1:00 Adam-12
1:30 Rat Patrol
2:00 Gong Show
2:30 Midday

WRGB 6-NBC Schenectady
5:55 PTL Club
6:55 American Trail
7:00 Today
9:00 Doctors
9:30 Play the Percentages
10:00 David Letterman
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 Password Plus
noon Andy Griffith
12:30 Beverly Hillbillies
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 Texas
4:00 Bewitched
4:30 Movie "Five Desperate Women"
6:00 News
7:00 NBC Nightly News
7:30 Family Feud
8:00 Little House on the Prairie
9:00 Backstairs at the White House (pt 2)
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show
1:00 Tomorrow

WNAC 7-CBS Boston
5:45 Greater Bostonians
5:50 Farm & Market Report
5:55 At Noon (Ted O'Brien/single parents)
6:20 Peoplescope (Bill Turple)
6:50 Noticiero 7
7:00 Monday Morning
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Dinah! & Friends (in Atlantic City with guests James Darren, Jimmie Walker, Johnny Dark, and Paul Sorvino)
10:00 Jeffersons
10:30 Alice
11:00 Price is Right
noon At Noon (guest G. Gordon Liddy)
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Young & the Restless
2:00 As the World Turns
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 Streets of San Francisco
5:00 Kung Fu
6:00 News
7:00 CBS Evening News
7:30 Tic Tac Dough
8:00 Flo
8:30 WKRP in Cincinnati
9:00 M*A*S*H
9:30 One Day at a Time
10:00 Lou Grant
11:00 News
11:30 Harry O
12:40 Movie "Bittersweet Love"
2:35 News
3:05 Asian Focus (Gloria Chun)
3:20 Greater Bostonians

WTNH 8-ABC New Haven
6:00 Connecticut Woman "Ain't I a Woman?" (women in non-traditional jobs)
6:30 My Three Sons
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Phil Donahue (same as ch 5 Boston)
10:00 Mike Douglas (co-host Shelley Smith/guests George Peppard, Jeff Altman, Lucie Arnaz, and Laurence Luckenbill)
11:00 Love Boat
noon News
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Merv Griffin (from Vegas with guests Bobby Vinton, Lola Falana, Robert Shields, Bob Anderson, and Marcia Warfield)
5:30 M*A*S*H
6:00 News
7:00 ABC World News Tonight
7:30 Muppet Show (guest Jonathan Winters)
8:00 That's Incredible!
9:00 Movie "Love's Savage Fury"
11:00 News
11:35 M*A*S*H (ch 8 didn't clear Nightline)
12:05 Six Million Dollar Man
1:05 News

WOR 9-Ind New York
5:00 News
5:25 Movie "Nurse on Wheels" (bw)
6:55 News
7:30 PTL Club
8:30 Meet the Mayors
9:00 Joe Franklin
10:00 Romper Room
11:00 Straight Talk (a tribute to Helen Keller with guests Peter J. Salmon (Helen Keller National Center for Deaf-Blind Youth & Adults) and Rosalie Zichitella (In-Touch Networks))
noon News
12:30 Play the Percentages
1:00 Movie "Loser Take All"
3:00 Bonanza
4:00 Movie "Operation Disaster" (bw)
6:00 Joker's Wild
6:30 Tic Tac Dough
7:00 Face the Music
7:30 Dating Game
8:00 RKO Years (Joseph Cotten hosts this highlights show)
9:00 Movie "The War Wagon"
11:00 After Benny, Thames Presents (starring Frankie Howerd)
11:30 Movie "Saraband"
1:30 Life of Riley (bw)
2:00 Joe Franklin
3:00 Movie "Two Thousand Women" (bw)

WTEN 10-Albany/WCDC 19-Adams (ABC) (the only Capital Region station that didn't have a letter attached to its channel number in this edition)
6:25 Cartoon Carnival
6:50 Young People's News
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Phil Donahue (same as 5 Boston)
10:00 Family Feud
10:30 Edge of Night
11:00 Love Boat
noon News
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Merv Griffin (as WTNH)
5:30 Odd Couple
6:00 News
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7:00 PM Magazine (Hollywood stunt school/unique puppets)
7:30 Newlywed Game
8:00 That's Incredible!
9:00 Movie "Love's Savage Fury"
11:00 News
11:30 ABC News Nightline
11:50 (and 12:25) Barney Miller

WPIX 11-Ind New York
5:00 Life of Riley (bw)
5:30 News
6:00 Carrascolendas
6:30 Mighty Mouse
7:00 Popeye
7:30 Magilla Gorilla
8:00 Josie & the Pussycats
8:30 Tom & Jerry
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Dinah! & Friends (same guests as ch 3)
11:00 Focus: New Jersey
11:30 Rangel Report
noon Dick Van Dyke (bw)
12:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
1:00 News
1:30 700 Club "Family: Endangered Species?"
2:30 Magic Garden
3:00 Jetsons
3:30 Tom & Jerry
4:00 Batman
4:30 Tom & Jerry
5:00 Three Stooges (bw)
5:30 Good Times
6:00 Odd Couple
6:30 Rhoda
7:00 Happy Days Again
7:30 News
8:00 Movie "Queen of the Stardust Ballroom"
10:00 INN News
10:30 News
11:00 Odd Couple
11:30 Prisoner: Cell Block H
mid. Norm Crosby's The Comedy Shop (guests Jamie Farr, Dick Capri, the Walkers, and Michael Rapport)
12:30 Twilight Zone (bw/x2)
1:30 News
2:00 Movie "The Doberman Gang"
4:00 Biography (bw/John L. Lewis is profiled)
4:30 Burns & Allen (bw)

WAST 13-CBS Albany
6:00 700 Club (trends in journalism/US defense system)
7:00 Monday Morning
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Afternoon Playhouse "Joey and Redhawk" (conclusion)
9:30 Gilligan's Island (bw)
10:00 Jeffersons
10:30 Alice
11:00 Price is Right
noon News
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Young & the Restless
2:00 As the World Turns
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 Mike Douglas (co-host Lynn Redgrave/guests Chaka Khan, Elliot Gould, Kentucky Gov. John Y. Brown, and Phyllis George Brown)
5:00 John Davidson (same guests as ch 4)
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Tic Tac Dough
7:30 Face the Music
8:00 Flo
8:30 WKRP in Cincinnati
9:00 M*A*S*H
9:30 One Day at a Time
10:00 Lou Grant
11:00 News
11:30 Benny Hill
mid. Star Trek
1:00 News

WMHT 17-PBS Schenectady
7:30 NOAA Weather
7:45 AM Weather
8:00 MacNeil-Lehrer Report
8:30 Ride the Reading Rocket
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Vegetable Soup
10:30 Electric Company
11:00 International Kitchen
11:30 Paint Along with Nancy Kominsky
noon Turnabout (Gerri Lange)
12:30 Daniel Foster, MD
1:00 Movie "Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors" (1964 Ukrainian film)
2:30 Bonaventure Consumer Travel
3:00 Dick Cavett (guest Dyan Cannon)
3:30 Over Easy (Marlin and Carol Perkins discuss their work with the American Cancer Society)
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Wild, Wild World of Animals
5:55 Happenings (Nancy Norman)
6:00 Zoom
6:30 Over Easy (guest Jack Carter)
7:00 MacNeil-Lehrer Report
7:30 Dick Cavett (John Cleese, pt 1)
8:05 Art of Being Fully Human (Dr. Leo Buscaglia)
9:20 Speaking of Love: Leo Buscaglia
10:30 That Great American Gospel Sound (Tennessee Ernie Ford and Della Resse host this show featuring the Jordanaires, the Happy Goodman Family, Micki Fuhrman, and Fisk Jubilee Singers)

WHCT 18-Ind Hartford
4pm Family Focus
5:00 Domata
5:30 Living Faith: Hebrews
7:00 Festival of Faith

WWLP 22-NBC Springfield
4:55 PTL Club
6:55 American Trail
7:00 Today
9:00 Phil Donahue (guests include legal-reform advocate Matt Valencic)
10:00 ...22 Alive (Kitty Broman)
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 Password Plus
noon Card Sharks
12:30 Doctors
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 Texas
4:00 Merv Griffin (guests Robert Goulet, Gene Anthony Ray, Rich & Ruby, and Air Supply)
5:00 Star Trek
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 News
7:30 Laurel & Hardy (bw)
8:00 Little House on the Prairie
9:00 Backstairs at the White House (pt 2)
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show
1:00 Tomorrow
2:00 Star Trek
3:00 Six Million Dollar Man
4:00 News
4:30 ...22 Alive

WEDH 24-PBS Hartford
4pm Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Mister Rogers Talks to Parents About School (pre-empts Electric Company and Zoom)
6:30 Over Easy (as ch 17)
7:00 Dick Cavett (as ch 17)
7:30 MacNeil-Lehrer Report
8:00 Dionne Quintuplets (1978 Canadian doc)
9:30 Run America Run (a look at the running craze)
10:00 Connecticut Prime Time
10:30 Connecticut Screening Room

WSMW 27-Ind Worcester
8:30 Abbott & Costello (bw/x2)
9:30 Cooking with Bernard
10:00 PTL Club
noon Catholic Mass (Rev. Frank Strahan)
12:30 Movie "The Big Gamble"
2:30 Chico & the Man
3:00 Medic (bw)
3:30 Mike Douglas (same Guests as ch 2)
4:30 Porky Pig & Friends
5:00 Wonder Woman
6:30 Candid Camera
7:00 Kung Fu
8:00 Movie "Do Not Disturb"
9:55 Stock Report
10:00 News
10:30 Inside Worcester
11:00 America 2night (guest Jack Albertson)
11:30 Movie "The Happiest Days of Your Life" (bw)
1:30 News

WVIT 30-NBC Hartford
5:55 Today's Woman
6:00 Health Field
6:30 Connecticut Newsmakers
7:00 Today
9:00 Joker! Joker!! Joker!!!
9:30 Joker's Wild
10:00 David Letterman
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 Password Plus
noon Card Sharks
12:30 Doctors
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 Texas
4:00 Movie "The Little Foxes" (bw)
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Face the Music
7:30 Tic Tac Dough
8:00 Little House on the Prairie
9:00 Backstairs at the White House (pt 2)
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show
1:00 Tomorrow

WSBK 38-Ind Boston
6:30 Romper Room
7:00 Three Stooges (bw)
8:00 Star Blazers
8:30 Bugs Bunny/Porky Pig
9:00 Tom Larson
9:50 News
10:00 Ironside
11:00 Marcus Welby, MD
noon Ed Allen
12:30 Andy Griffith (bw)
1:00 Movie "Lullaby of Broadway"
3:00 Beverly Hillbillies
3:30 I Dream of Jeannie (bw)
4:00 Bewitched (bw/x2)
5:00 Emergency!
6:00 Hogan's Heroes
6:30 Bob Newhart
7:00 M*A*S*H
7:30 Odd Couple
8:00 Movie "The Plainsman" (bw)
10:00 INN News
10:30 Baseball: Boston-Anaheim (usually: Odd Couple at 10:30, Maude at 11, Dave Allen at Large at 11:30, Sgt. Bilko at Midnight, Our Miss Brooks at 12:30, Late Show at 1)
1:15 Ironside

WGGB 40-ABC Springfield
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Flintstones
9:25 Heritage Corner
9:30 Lassie
10:00 I Love Lucy (bw)
10:30 My Three Sons
11:00 Love Boat
noon Family Feud
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Big Valley
5:00 Joker's Wild
5:30 News
6:00 Jim Rockford, Private Investigator (Rockford Files)
6:55 News
7:00 ABC World News Tonight
7:30 Tic Tac Dough
8:00 That's Incredible!
9:00 Movie "Love's Savage Fury"
11:00 News
11:30 ABC News Nightline
11:50 (and 12:25) Barney Miller

WLVI 56-Ind Boston
7:00 Tom & Jerry
7:30 Flintstones
8:00 Battle of the Planets
8:30 Woody Woodpecker
9:00 New Zoo Revue
9:30 Bozo's Big Top
10:00 De Todo un Poco
10:30 New England Today (starting a week of programs on gay and lesbian lifestyles)
11:00 Family Affair
11:30 That Girl
noon Lucy Show
12:30 Courtship of Eddie's Father
1:00 Partridge Family
1:30 Banana Splits
2:00 Yogi Bear
2:30 Casper
3:00 Mighty Mouse
3:30 Woody Woodpecker
4:00 Flintstones
4:30 Little Rascals/Our Gang "Shrimps for a Day"/"Party Fever" (bw)
5:00 Monkees
5:30 Brady Bunch
6:00 Good Times
6:30 Mary Tyler Moore
7:00 Sanford & Son
7:30 Sullivans
8:00 Movie "Summer and Smoke"
10:30 Love, American Style
11:00 Prisoner: Cell Block H
11:30 Best of Groucho

WGBY 57-PBS Springfield
3pm Over Easy
3:30 Villa Alegre
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Villa Alegre
6:00 Zoom
6:30 Over Easy
7:00 Dick Cavett
7:30 MacNeil-Lehrer Report
8:00 Dionne Quintuplets
9:30 Run America Run
10:00 For the Record
11:00 Captioned ABC News

HBO
5:30pm Movie "The Main Event"
7:30 Greatest Scandals of the Century
8:30 Harry Blackstone's Magical Tour
9:30 Movie "Murder by Decree"
11:45 Movie "The Glove"
1:15 Boxing's Greatest Champions
 
I wonder why they included the WCBS NYC listings? I understand carrying listings for the NYC Independent stations, 5, 9 and 11. But why WCBS? They didn't bother with the NBC, ABC or PBS stations from NYC.

I'd assume most cable systems in Western Massachussettes could pick up WFSB 3 from Hartford. Far Western Mass picked up WRGB 6 from Schenectady. And maybe from Ware to the East, they got the Boston line up, including WHDH 7. So which cable system carried WCBS?
 
WPIX 11 DID NOT have Sesame Street in 1980 at 9 AM or any other time. They ran Sesame Street from 1969 to 1971 before WNET began morning sign ons. Once Channel 13 began signing on at 9 AM or earlier, WPIX did not have Sesame Street. Here is what I believe they had in these time slots. They ran their public affiars shows anda n audio news read in the early afternoon with 700 club at 130 PM.

9:00 Munsters
9:30 I Dream Of Jeannie
10:00 Dick Van Dyke (bw)
10:30 Gomer Pyle USMC
11:00 Dinah! & Friends (same guests as ch 3)
noon Focus: New Jersey
12:30 Rangel Report
 
Bluenoser said:
10:30 Baseball: Boston-Anaheim (usually: Odd Couple at 10:30, Maude at 11, Dave Allen at Large at 11:30, Sgt. Bilko at Midnight, Our Miss Brooks at 12:30, Late Show at 1)

In 1980, the Angels were known as the California Angels.
 
Gregg said:
I wonder why they included the WCBS NYC listings? I understand carrying listings for the NYC Independent stations, 5, 9 and 11. But why WCBS? They didn't bother with the NBC, ABC or PBS stations from NYC.

I'd assume most cable systems in Western Massachussettes could pick up WFSB 3 from Hartford. Far Western Mass picked up WRGB 6 from Schenectady. And maybe from Ware to the East, they got the Boston line up, including WHDH 7. So which cable system carried WCBS?

This may be totally off-base, but (IIRC) in the days when there was a relative dearth of 24/7 broadcasters, weren't there some cable systems in the region that picked up WCBS on a part-time basis (primarily for their all-night movies), placing it on a channel that would normally be unoccupied during the wee hours after the primary station on that channel had s/off for the night? That might be the reason why it was carried in this TVG.
 
Stanislav said:
Gregg said:
I wonder why they included the WCBS NYC listings? I understand carrying listings for the NYC Independent stations, 5, 9 and 11. But why WCBS? They didn't bother with the NBC, ABC or PBS stations from NYC.

I'd assume most cable systems in Western Massachussettes could pick up WFSB 3 from Hartford. Far Western Mass picked up WRGB 6 from Schenectady. And maybe from Ware to the East, they got the Boston line up, including WHDH 7. So which cable system carried WCBS?

This may be totally off-base, but (IIRC) in the days when there was a relative dearth of 24/7 broadcasters, weren't there some cable systems in the region that picked up WCBS on a part-time basis (primarily for their all-night movies), placing it on a channel that would normally be unoccupied during the wee hours after the primary station on that channel had s/off for the night? That might be the reason why it was carried in this TVG.

WCBS-TV (Channel 2/New York) was carried on many cable systems throughout the Northeast including the Boston area via microwave because of its' all night movie presentations and a few of their local programs including "The Stanley Siegal Show" and "Jeanne Parr". Many times, WCBS would sign off for about 10 minutes or so, run their 1950's test pattern and sign on again with "Give Us This Day" and begin their schedule. You would see this on cable throughout the night until 7:00 AM.
 
Gregg said:
I wonder why they included the WCBS NYC listings? I understand carrying listings for the NYC Independent stations, 5, 9 and 11. But why WCBS? They didn't bother with the NBC, ABC or PBS stations from NYC.

I'd assume most cable systems in Western Massachussettes could pick up WFSB 3 from Hartford. Far Western Mass picked up WRGB 6 from Schenectady. And maybe from Ware to the East, they got the Boston line up, including WHDH 7. So which cable system carried WCBS?

WCBS-TV was carried on many cable systems including those throughout New York State, in Connecticut, all of Massachusetts (including those in the Boston area), Southern New Hampshire and Vermont. I used to watch the all night programming from WCBS-TV all the time back in the late 70's and early 80's out in Great Barrington, MA and Westfield, MA. Friends of mine in the Boston area also watch WCBS on a regular basis on cable (via microwave). It was a great all night station. It's too bad everybody is 24/7 with relatively garbage programming these days, overnights (except MeTV).
 
Peter Q. George (K1XRB) said:
Gregg said:
I wonder why they included the WCBS NYC listings? I understand carrying listings for the NYC Independent stations, 5, 9 and 11. But why WCBS? They didn't bother with the NBC, ABC or PBS stations from NYC.

I'd assume most cable systems in Western Massachussettes could pick up WFSB 3 from Hartford. Far Western Mass picked up WRGB 6 from Schenectady. And maybe from Ware to the East, they got the Boston line up, including WHDH 7. So which cable system carried WCBS?

WCBS-TV was carried on many cable systems including those throughout New York State, in Connecticut, all of Massachusetts (including those in the Boston area), Southern New Hampshire and Vermont. I used to watch the all night programming from WCBS-TV all the time back in the late 70's and early 80's out in Great Barrington, MA and Westfield, MA. Friends of mine in the Boston area also watch WCBS on a regular basis on cable (via microwave). It was a great all night station. It's too bad everybody is 24/7 with relatively garbage programming these days, overnights (except MeTV).

The same was also true with fellow CBS O&O WBBM-TV in Chicago--it was carried overnight, for a few hours, on various cable systems in downstate Illinois (e.g., Peoria, Springfield), Wisconsin, and other parts of the Midwest back in the late 70s/early 80s. The Western Illinois edition of TV Guide (which was distributed in Peoria, Quad Cities, etc.) also gave overnight listings for WBBM for a time.
 
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