Retro: St. Louis Sat, July 28, 1979

[Bluenoser]

from TV Guide-St. Louis edition

KTVI 2-ABC
6:30 World of Ideas
7:00 Fangface
7:30 Scooby's All-Stars
9:00 Superfriends
10:30 Bigfoot & Wildboy
11:00 Pink Panther
11:30 American Bandstand (guest Maxine Nightingale)
12:30 Mod Squad
1:30 FBI
2:30 NFL Hall of Fame Game: Dallas-Oakland (at Canton, OH)
5:30 News
6:00 Hee Haw (guests Ray Price, Roy Acuff, and Bill Anderson)
7:00 Battlestar Galactica
8:00 Love Boat
9:00 Fantasy Island
10:00 News
10:15 ABC News
10:30 Movie "Planet of the Apes"
12:50 FBI
1:50 A Grain of Salt (the story of salt)

KMOX 4-CBS
5:30 News
5:40 People Speak "Gasohol: Government and Big Oil?"
6:00 Country Way
6:30 Summer Semester "Disabilities"
7:00 Popeye
8:00 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
9:30 Tarzan/Super 7
11:00 Space Academy
11:30 Fat Albert
noon Ark II
12:30 CBS Children's Film Festival "Soap Box Derby" (Quebec import)
1:00 Kidsworld
1:30 DB's Grand Delight
2:00 Marlo & the Magic Movie Machine
2:30 St. Louis Illustrated
3:30 CBS Sports Spectacular (Tour de France/PBA Amarillo Open/US Single Seat Unlimited Off-Road Racing Championships)
5:00 Newsmakers
5:30 CBS Evening News
6:00 News
6:30 Match Game
7:00 Bad News Bears
7:30 Just Friends
8:00 Movie "The Wilby Conspiracy"
10:00 News
10:30 Movie "The Daughters of Joshua Cabe Return"
mid. Comedy Shop (guests the Unknown Comic, Franklyn Ajaye, Kelly Davis, Fred Travalena, Bobby Kelton, and Annette Funicello)
12:30 News
1:00 Movie "The Lost Man"
3:10 News
3:40 Movie "The Gorgeous Hussy" (bw)

KSD 5-NBC
6:30 Agriculture USA
7:00 Alvin & the Chipmunks
7:30 Fantastic Four
8:00 Godzilla Super 90
9:30 Daffy Duck
10:00 Fred & Barney Meet the Shmoo
10:30 Jetsons
11:00 Buford & the Galloping Ghost
11:30 Fabulous Funnies
noon Racers
12:30 This Week in Baseball
1:00 Baseball Warm-Up
1:15 Baseball: Cincinnati-Atlanta (alt game: Cubs-Mets)
4:00 US Mini-Olympics
5:00 In Search of...Sherlock Holmes
5:30 NBC Nightly News
6:00 News
6:15 Dugout
6:30 Baseball: St. Louis-Philadelphia
9:30 Supertrain (JIP)
10:00 News
10:30 Saturday Night Live (rerun from April with host Richard Benjamin and music from Rickie Lee Jones)
mid. Boogie Machine
12:30 Big Valley

KETC 9-PBS
8:00 Villa Alegre
8:30 Weekend Edition
9:00 Washington Week in Review
9:30 Wall Street Week
10:00 Here's to Your Health
10:30 French Chef
11:00 Consumer Survival Kit
11:30 Crockett's Victory Garden
noon Farm Digest
12:30 Over Easy (guest John Kenneth Galbraith)
1:00 Over Easy (guest Constance Towers)
1:30 Over Easy (guest Theodore H. White)
2:00 Over Easy (guest Monty Hall)
2:30 Over Easy (guest Lillian Carter)
3:00 Kup's Show
4:00 Pro Soccer
5:00 Austin City Limits
6:00 Zoom
6:30 Sneak Previews
7:00 Evening at Pops (guest Joel Grey)
8:00 Masterpiece Theatre "I, Claudius" (pt 7)
9:00 Meeting of Minds
10:00 Dick Cavett (Carol Burnett, conclusion)
10:30 Movie "Z"

KPLR 11-Ind
5:30 US Farm Report
6:00 News
6:30 For You...Black Woman (men's roles in black households)
7:00 Hot Fudge
7:30 Big Blue Marble
8:00 Heckle & Jeckle
9:00 Woody Woodpecker
9:30 Tom & Jerry
10:00 Gilligan's Island
10:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
11:00 F-Troop
11:30 Get Smart
noon Movie "Abbott & Costello Go to Mars" (bw)
2:00 Movie "The Blue Bird"
4:00 Movie "Kettles in the Ozarks" (bw)
5:30 Gong Show (judges Pat McCormick, Jaye P. Morgan, and Jamie Farr)
6:00 Sha Na Na (guest Lloyd Price)
6:30 $100,000 Name That Tune
7:00 Spartacade (pre-Olympic competition from Moscow)
8:30 Porter Wagoner (guest Matt Davenport)
9:00 Pop! Goes the Country (guests Ray Stevens and Moe Bandy)
9:30 Nashville on the Road
10:00 Family Feud
10:30 Dance Fever (judges Steve Garvey, Connie Stevens, and Robert Guillaume/music from Bonnie Pointer)
11:00 Kicks (guests Gary's Gang, and Yvonne Elliman)
mid. Don Kirshner's Rock Concert (guests Seals & Crofts, Glen Campbell, Doug Kershaw, and Maureen McGovern)
1:30 Three Stooges (bw)
3:00 Wrestling

KDNL 30-Ind
7:00 Public Policy Forum
8:00 Ruff House
8:30 Rifleman
9:00 WCT Tournament of Champions: final, Jimmy Connors v Vitas Gerulaitis
11:00 and 11:30 World of Survival
noon Abbott & Costello (bw)
12:30 Laurel & Hardy (bw)
1:00 Movie "Gidget"
3:00 Movie "Our Man Flint"
5:00 Star Trek
6:00 Space: 1999
7:00 Juke-Box
7:30 Wild Kingdom
8:00 Movie "The Matchmaker" (bw)
10:00 Abbott & Costello (bw)
10:30 Movie "Swiss Miss" (bw)
mid. PTL Club

 

[Joseph_Gallant]

I am surprised that given St. Louis had a VHF independent (KPLR-11) back in the late 1970's, it did not carry the Cardinals, but instead, KSD-5, a network affiliate, did.

On the other hand, the team might only have allowed a limited number of games (all or mostly away games) to be televised, so a strong network affiliate could be the TV flagship. Certainly, a network affiliate could have been able to handle a TV package of up to 30 away games, or perhaps as many as 50 to 60 games if about half of them were home contests.

But if the Cards wanted as many as 100 games a year (approximately 35 home games and about 65 away games) to be locally televised, KPLR (or maybe even UHF indie KDNL-30) would have gotten the TV deal by default, since none of the network stations would be able to carry that many games.

 

[Marckd]

WOuld love to see Weekdays and Sundays if you can - Thanks

 

[ShawnHill1]

I am surprised that given St. Louis had a VHF independent (KPLR-11) back in the late 1970's, it did not carry the Cardinals, but instead, KSD-5, a network affiliate, did.

On the other hand, the team might only have allowed a limited number of games (all or mostly away games) to be televised, so a strong network affiliate could be the TV flagship. Certainly, a network affiliate could have been able to handle a TV package of up to 30 away games, or perhaps as many as 50 to 60 games if about half of them were home contests.

But if the Cards wanted as many as 100 games a year (approximately 35 home games and about 65 away games) to be locally televised, KPLR (or maybe even UHF indie KDNL-30) would have gotten the TV deal by default, since none of the network stations would be able to carry that many games.

You could say that about a few other markets whose local baseball team was carried by a Big Three network affiliate. I believe the Cardinals were still carrying about 25 games a year on KSD(K) in the 1970s (by contrast, fellow NBC affiliate and future sister station WLWT in Cincinnati was doing about 50 Reds games annually until the station gave up the rights in the mid-90s). The Cards were one of the first teams in MLB to do a package of games on regional cable (on a couple of unsuccessful occasions) before going full-tilt on what would eventually become Fox Sports Midwest. The only difference between Cincy and St. Louis is that Cincy never had a VHF indie, although WXIX had a strong reach carriage-wise beyond the Cincinnati metro area.

By the time the Cards moved to KPLR by the 1988 season, they were doing at least 50 games a year (maybe more), but when the games moved back to KSDK in 2007, it was back to 20 or so games a year (almost exclusively on Sundays), with the rest on FS Midwest.

 

[Rollo-Smokes]

KSD 5-NBC
7:00 Alvin & the Chipmunks

I keep having to point this out: this was reruns of The Alvin Show, which first ran on CBS in primetime during the '61-'62 season. Alvin and the Chipmunks, an updated series, premiered in the fall of 1983 on NBC's Saturday morning schedule.