Retro: Syracuse and Upstate New York, 9/26/94

[Charles]

This one is interesting, just to try to follow how the Canadian stations cherry-picked from the four U.S. networks.

Source: TV Guide, Syracuse Edition

CHANNELS LISTED

SYRACUSE
3-WSTM (NBC)
5-WTVH (CBS)
9-WIXT (ABC)
24-WCNY (PBS)
68-WSYT (Fox)

UTICA
2-WKTV (NBC)
20-WUTR (ABC)
33-WFXV (Fox)

WATERTOWN
7-WWNY (CBS, NBC)
16-WNPE (PBS)
50-WWTI (ABC, NBC)

BINGHAMTON
12-WBNG (CBS)

ROCHESTER
8-WROC (CBS)
10-WHEC (NBC)
13R-WOKR (ABC)
31-WUHF (Fox)

DESERONTO, ONT.
6-CJOH (CTV)

OTTAWA
13-CJOH (CTV)

KINGSTON, ONT.
11-CKWS (CBC)

(Listings also included for WNYW-5, WWOR-9, WPIX-11 and WSBK-38)

5:00 A.M.
6 13-Commercial Program
9-ABC/Local News
10-Ag-Day
13R-Rush Limbaugh
31-Mighty Max
68-Empty Nest

5:30
2 5 10-This Morning’s Business
3-NBC News
6 13-Fitness with Love
11-James Robison
13-ABC News
20-ABC/Local News
31-Exosquad
68-Dear John

6:00
2 10-NBC News
3 5 6 13-News
7-This Morning’s Business
8 12-CBS News
11-Bestsellers
13R-ABC/Local News
31-Conan the Adventurer
33-This Is the Day
50-ABC News
68-Transformers: Generation 2

6:30
6 13-Canada A.M.
7-CBS News
8 10 12-News
11-Body Moves
24-Morning Business Report
31-Transformers: Generation 2
68-Bonkers

7:00
2 3 10-Today
5 7 8 12-This Morning
9 13R 20 50-Good Morning America
11-Morning News
16-Bloomberg Business News
24-Lamb Chop’s Play-Along
31 68-Aladdin
33-Goof Troop

7:30
16-Body Electric
24-Shining Time Station
31 33 68-Bobby’s World

8:00
16-Lamb Chop’s Play-Along
24-Barney & Friends
33-Droopy, Master Detective
68-Goof Troop

8:30
16 24-Mister Rogers
31-Darkwing Duck
33-Bonkers
68-Biker Mice from Mars

9:00
2 3 50-Sally Jessy Raphael
5 6 7 10 12 13 20-Regis & Kathie Lee
8-Maury Povich
9-Rolanda
11-What on Earth
13R-Phil Donahue
16 24-Sesame Street
31-Goof Troop
33-Value Vision
68-Darkwing Duck

9:30
11-Urban Peasant
31-Droopy, Master Detective
68-Kenneth Copeland

10:00
2-Jerry Springer
3-Jane Whitney
5 7-Gordon Elliott
6 13-Dini Petty
8-Rolanda
9-Marilu
10 12-Judge for Yourself
11-Fred Penner’s Place
13R-Sally Jessy Raphael
20-Maury Povich
24-Pappyland
31-Commercial Program
33-Love Connection
50-Phil Donahue
68-Suzanne Somers

10:30
16-Reading Rainbow
24-Gerbert
31-Andy Griffith
33-Highway Patrol

11:00
2-Rolanda
3 10-Leeza
5 7 8 11 12-The Price is Right
6 13-Midday Newsline
9-Judge for Yourself
13R-Family Matters
20 50-Mike & Maty
24-Storytime
31-Jenny Jones
33-Northern Exposure
68-Ricki Lake

11:30
13R-Wonder Years
24-Kidsongs

12 Noon
2 3 5 7 8 10 12 13R News
9-Jones & Jury
11-Three’s Company
16-Aids 101
20-Mid-Day: Mohawk Valley
24-Scale Modeling
31-Ricki Lake
33-Geraldo
50-Maury Povich
68-Susan Powter

12:30
2 10-Susan Powter
3-Rush Limbaugh
5 7 8 12-Young and the Restless
9 13R 20-Loving
11-DeGrassi High
24-Good Afternoon
68-Love Connection

1:00
2 3 10-Days of Our Lives
6 13-Shirley
9 11 13R 20 50-All My Children
16-Storytime
31-In the Heat of the Night
33-700 Club
68-Doogie Howser, M.D.

1:30
5 7 8 12-Bold and the Beautiful
16-Magic of Acrylic Painting
24-Naturally Floral
68-Family Matters

2:00
2 3 6 10 13-Another World
5 7 8 11 12-As the World Turns
9 13R 20 50-One Life to Live
16-Sewing Connection
24-Reading Rainbow
31-Empty Nest
33 68-Family Matters

2:30
16-Strip Quilting
24-Shining Time Station
31-Bonkers
33-Sonic the Hedgehog
68-Droopy, Master Detective

3:00
2-Leeza
3-Jenny Jones
5 7 8 11 12-Guiding Light
6 13-Bold and the Beautiful
9 13R 20 50-General Hospital
10-Tale Spin
16-Look and Cook with Anne Willan
24-Mister Rogers
31 33 68-Tiny Toons

3:30
6 13-Family Passions
10-V.R. Troopers
16-Barney & Friends
24-Sesame Street
31 33 68-Taz-Mania

4:00
2 6 7 9 10 11 12 13-Oprah Winfrey
3-Maury Povich
5-In the Heat of the Night
8-Top Cops
13R-Full House
16-Pappyland
20-New Price is Right
31 33 68-Animaniacs
50-Ricki Lake

4:30
8-Highway Patrol
13R-Family Matters
16-Reading Rainbow
20-Hard Copy
24-Lamb Chop’s Play-Along
31 33 68-Power Rangers

5:00
2 3-Phil Donahue
5 8 9 10 12 13R-News
6 13-Blossom
7-Golden Girls
11-Simpsons
16-Carmen Sandiego
20-Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
24-Barney & Friends
31-Ricki Lake
33-Aladdin
50-Family Matters
68-V.R. Troopers

5:30
5-Extra: the Entertainment Magazine
6 13-Roseanne
7-Rescue 911
8-Coach
9-News (until 6:30)
10 12-Inside Edition
11-Fresh Prince
13R-Hard Copy
16 24-Square One Television
33-Family Matters
50 68-Full House

6:00
2 3 5 6 7 8 10 11 12 13 13R 20-News (one hour on 3 6 11 13)
16-MacNeil, Lehrer
24-Carmen Sandiego
31 33-Fresh Prince
50-Extra: the Entertainment Magazine
68-Roseanne

6:30
2 10-NBC News
5 7 8 12-CBS News
9 13R 20 50-ABC News
24-Nightly Business Report
31-Simpsons
33-Rescue 911
68-Cops

7:00
2 6 8 9 13-Wheel of Fortune
3-NBC News
5-Inside Edition
7-Jeopardy!
10-New Price is Right
11-Full House
12 20 50-Roseanne
13R-Entertainment Tonight
16-Nightly Business Report
24-MacNeil, Lehrer
31 68-Star Trek: The Next Generation
33-Jenny Jones

7:30
2 6 8 9 13-Jeopardy!
3-Entertainment Tonight
5-American Journal
7-Wheel of Fortune
10-Extra: the Entertainment Magazine
11 13R-Roseanne
12-Coach
16-Road & Reel: Streamside
20 50-Married…with Children

8:00
2 3 10 11-Fresh Prince
5 7 8 12-The Nanny
6 13 31 33 68-Melrose Place
9 13R 20 50-Coach
16 24-Baseball (Ken Burns documentary)

8:30
2 3 10 11-Blossom
5 7 8 12-Dave’s World
9 20 50-Blue Skies
13R-Buffalo Bills Preview

9:00
2 3 10-Movie: “A Friend to Die For” (Made for TV, ’94)
5 7 8 11 12-Murphy Brown
6 13-Star Trek: The Ultimate Journey
9 20 50-NFL Football: Broncos at Bills
13-TBA (“If the local blackout is lifted, the Broncos-Bills game airs at this time.”)
31 33 68-Party of Five

9:30
5 7 8 12-Love and War
11-Mom, P.I.

10:00
5 7 8 12-Northern Exposure
6 13-Law & Order
11-CBC Prime Time News
31-Matlock
33-Montel Williams
68-Highway Patrol

10:30
16-Evening with Mark Twain
24-One Voice
68-Newz (sic)

11:00
2 3 5 7 8 10 11 12 13R-News
6 13-CTV News
16-Mystery!
24-Charlie Rose
31-Cops
33 68-Ricki Lake

11:30
6 13-News
31-Northern Exposure

11:35
2 3 10-Jay Leno
5 7 8 11 12-David Letterman
13R-Murphy Brown


12:00
6 13-Hard Copy
9 20-News
24-Making Welfare Work
33 50-Rush Limbaugh
68-Northern Exposure

12:05
13R-A Current Affair

12:30
6 13-Valley of the Dolls
31-Jon Stewart
33-Last Call

12:35
2 3 10-Conan O’Brien
5-Married…with Children
7-In the Heat of the Night
8-Geraldo
9 13R 20 50-Nightline
11-Star Trek: The Next Generation
12-Jon Stewart

1:00
6 13-Movie: “T Bone ‘N’ Weasel” (Made for Cable, ‘92)
33-Dennis Prager
68-Night Court

1:05
5-Jon Stewart
9-Last Call
13R-Love Connection
20-Judge for Yourself

1:30
31-Commercial Programs (until 2:30)
33-Newz (sic)
68-Golden Girls

1:35
2-News
3 10-Greg Kinnear
7 13R-Commercial Program
8-Mr. Belvedere
9-ANC News
12-New Price is Right

2:00
33-Value Vision (until 6:00)
68-Movie: “Moving” (‘88)

2:05
3 13R-Jerry Springer
5-Commercial Program
8-Up to the Minute (until 6:00)
9-Mike & Maty
10-Gordon Elliott
12-Married…with Children

2:30
31-Newz

2:35
5 12-Up to the Minute (until 5:30 on 5; until 6:00 on 12)

3:00
31-Rescue 911

3:05
3-Nightside (until 5:30)
6 13-Commercial Program
9-World News Now (until 5:00)
10-Montel Williams
13R-Home Shopping Spree (until 5:00)

4:00
68-American-Gladiators

4:05
10-Commercial Program

4:35
10-Nightside

 

[classictvfan]

Charles, shouldn't that be Toronto?

 

[classictvfan]

Could you list that weekend also, please?
<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by classictvfan on 08/23/05 04:38 AM.</FONT></P>

 

[rugrats1]

> Charles, shouldn't that be Toronto?
>

No -- it is "Deseronto", a small Ontario town west of Kingston on Lake Ontario.

 

[mjlarochelle]

> WATERTOWN
> 7-WWNY (CBS, NBC)
> 16-WNPE (PBS)
> 50-WWTI (ABC, NBC)
---------
NBC programming was long gone on WWNY by then. I remember watching WWNY earlier in the 1990s and it was all CBS by then.

> DESERONTO, ONT.
> 6-CJOH (CTV)
>
> OTTAWA
> 13-CJOH (CTV)
---------
The question of where CJOH-6 is from came up...definitely not Toronto as CTV in Toronto is CFTO 9. CJOH 6 is a rebroadcaster of CJOH 13 in Ottawa, along with CJOH 8 in Cornwall. Channel 6 serves Belleville and Kingston, "as well as our U.S. neighbours", as the CJOH TV signon states. CJOH 47 in Pembroke has been added as an additional rebroadcaster since then. You were likely confused because by this time, CFTO and CJOH were both owned by Baton, although there were still some differences in programming.

> 11:00
> 2-Rolanda
> 3 10-Leeza
> 5 7 8 11 12-The Price is Right
> 6 13-Midday Newsline
> 9-Judge for Yourself
> 13R-Family Matters
> 20 50-Mike & Maty
> 24-Storytime
> 31-Jenny Jones
> 33-Northern Exposure
> 68-Ricki Lake
---------
This has got to be a mistake. Midday Newsline starting at 11 AM and running for 2 hours? I don't remember it being that long even in 1994. At that time CFTO ran Eye on Toronto from 11-12 then Noon Beat News from 12-1, so I would imagine CJOH had Eye on Ottawa (if it was still around by then) from 11-12 then Midday Newsline following.

> 6:30
> 2 10-NBC News
> 5 7 8 12-CBS News
> 9 13R 20 50-ABC News
> 24-Nightly Business Report
> 31-Simpsons
> 33-Rescue 911
> 68-Cops
>
> 7:00
> 2 6 8 9 13-Wheel of Fortune
> 3-NBC News
----------
That is quite odd, WSTM airing NBC Nightly News at 7 PM instead of the standard 6:30 on WKTV and WHEC. How long did WSTM do this?

> 10-New Price is Right
----------
Don't remind me of that.

> 8:00
> 2 3 10 11-Fresh Prince
----------
Back in the days the CBC still had American programming in prime time. Oh, how I miss those days.

> 10:30
> 16-Evening with Mark Twain
> 24-One Voice
> 68-Newz (sic)
----------
Is this a typo, or did Fox 68 have a program by this name?

> 11:30
> 6 13-News
> 31-Northern Exposure
----------
At the time, CJOH called their 11:30 news "Nightline", like ABC's late night magazine. Even had a similar logo back in the 80s - http://www.geocities.com/tvhatton/pictures/CJOH_Nightline_88.jpg

> 12:35
> 2 3 10-Conan O’Brien
> 5-Married…with Children
> 7-In the Heat of the Night
> 8-Geraldo
> 9 13R 20 50-Nightline
> 11-Star Trek: The Next Generation
> 12-Jon Stewart
----------
Wow, ABC repeated CJOH's Nightline...oh right, see above comment. <P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by mjlarochelle on 08/23/05 07:28 PM.</FONT></P>

 

[Joe_G]

> > Charles, shouldn't that be Toronto?
> >
>
> No -- it is "Deseronto", a small Ontario town west of
> Kingston on Lake Ontario.
>
To clarify things a bit more, CJOH-TV originates on Channel 13 from Ottawa, Ontario. Deseronto is home to a re-broadcaster of CJOH, on Channel 6, which serves the Kingston and Belleville areas. Deseronto is not on Lake Ontario, not exactly. It is on an arm of Lake Ontario called the Bay of Quinte, which Deseronto sits on. The CJOH Channel 6 re-transmitter is just south of the Town of Deseronto, on a cliff known locally as "Mount Carmel", on the Bay of Quinte.

 

[Joe_G]

> > WATERTOWN
> > 7-WWNY (CBS, NBC)
> > 16-WNPE (PBS)
> > 50-WWTI (ABC, NBC)
> ---------
> NBC programming was long gone on WWNY by then. I remember
> watching WWNY earlier in the 1990s and it was all CBS by
> then.

Yeah, NBC Sports programming, as well as anything else from that network, was gone by 1990 on WWNY. However, WWTI aired some NBC Sports events around this point, I believe. This would be why you see ABC and NBC in brackets next to WWTI. You may also notice a lack of local news programming on WWTI. The only newscast to air on that station at that point was World News Tonight. Newswatch 50 was still a good two years away, and the regular newscasts were cancelled earlier this year.
>
I would imagine CJOH had Eye on Ottawa (if it was still around by
> then) from 11-12 then Midday Newsline following.

Eye On Ottawa was still on at that point. This is also a short time after CJOH and other CTV affiliates stopped airing The Flintstones at 12 noon as well. Midday Newsline aired at 12:30 at that point. So it was only an hour-long newscast for little more than a year or so when these listings came out, if I remember correctly. CFTO would have aired News Beat Today/Noon Beat News at 12:30 as well when the Flintstones was aired at 12.

> > 7:00
> > 2 6 8 9 13-Wheel of Fortune
> > 3-NBC News
> ----------
> That is quite odd, WSTM airing NBC Nightly News at 7 PM
> instead of the standard 6:30 on WKTV and WHEC. How long did
> WSTM do this?

I believe WSTM was airing NBC Nightly News in tandem with most other affiliates by 1997 or so. I believe throughout the late 80s and early 90s it was also at 7. I only saw this station occasionally though.

Joseph