Retro: Syracuse, NY & Region 12/9/80

[Rob Jason]

From the Syracuse Post-Standard, Tuesday, Dec. 9, 1980:

Syracuse
WSTM-3 (NBC)
WTVH-5 (CBS)
WIXT-9 (ABC)
WCNY-24 (PBS)

Regional
Binghamton
WBNG-12 (CBS)
WICZ-40 (NBC)

Watertown
WWNY-7 (NBC/CBS/ABC)

Rochester
WROC-8 (NBC) (though the P-S’s typo had it WORC)
WHEC-10 (CBS)
WORK-13 (ABC)

Kingston, Ont.
CKWS-11 (CBC)

Plattsburgh
WPTZ-5P (NBC)

Utica
WKTV-2 (NBC)
WUTR-20 (ABC)

6:00AM
5-Dialogue
9-700 Club
2, 8-PTL Club
10, 12-Sunrise Semester

6:20
3-Hot Fudge

6:30
5-Sunrise Semester
10-Eddie Meath
12-What’s Happening
13-Romper Room
20-Richard Simmons

6:50
3-American Trail

6:55
3-News
40-It’s a Wonderful Life

7:00
2, 3, 5P, 7, 8, 40-Today. Actress Swoozie Kurtz.
5, 10, 12-Tuesday Morning
9, 13, 20-Good Morning America

7:25
40-News

7:30
24-CNY Business Report

8:00
5,12-Captain Kangaroo
10-Eddie Meath
24-MacNeil-Lehrer Report

8:25
40-News

8:30
24-American Scrapbook

9:00
3-Woman on the Go (local talk show)
5-Hour Magazine
2, 5P, 9, 12, 13-Phil Donahue. Sex and older adults.
7,10-Captain Kangaroo
8-Movie. “Born Yesterday” (1950) Judy Holliday, William Holden.
20-John Davidson
24-Sesame Street
40-PTL Club

9:30
3-Card Sharks

9:45
11-Friendly Giant

10:00
2, 3, 5P-Las Vegas Gambit
5, 7, 10, 12-Jeffersons
9-Open Line. Letter from Santa. Amy Buck. Liz Lawrence. Bob Przewlocki. (local talk show)
11-Ontario Schools
13-A.M. Rochester
20-Edge of Night
24-The Best of Cover to Cover

10:30
2, 5P-Blockbusters
5, 7, 10, 12-Alice
9-Edge of Night
24-Finding Our Way
11-Mr. Dress-up
20-To Tell The Truth

11:00
2, 3, 5P, 8, 40-Wheel of Fortune
5, 7, 10, 12-Price Is Right
9, 13, 20-Love Boat
24-Young at Art

11:30
2, 3, 5P, 8, 40-Password Plus
24-Search for Solutions

11:55
7, 10, 12-CBS News

12:00
2-Romper Room
3-Midday. With Laura Hand and Martin Ferrell.
5, 8, 12-News
9-Carol Burnett
5P,40-Card Sharks
7-Wheel of Fortune
10-Noon at Ten
11-Birdman
13, 20-Family Feud
24-As Man Behaves

12:30
2, 3, 5P, 8, 40-The Doctors
5, 7, 10, 12-Search for Tomorrow
9, 13, 20-Ryan’s Hope
11-Bob McLean

1:00
2, 3, 5P, 8, 40-Days of Our Lives
5, 7, 10, 12-Young and Restless
9, 13, 20-All My Children
24-Gather Round

1:30
11-Ben Wicks

2:00
2, 3, 5P, 8, 40-Another World
5, 7, 10, 12-As the World Turns
9, 13, 20-One Life To Live
11-Today from Quebec
24-Inside-Out

2:30
24-Let’s All Sing

3:00
2, 3, 5P, 8, 40-Texas
5, 7, 10, 12-Guiding Light
9, 13, 20-General Hospital
11-Edge of Night
24-Speaking with your hands

3:30
11-Take 30
24-The Magic of Oil Painting. Country Road.

4:00
2-You Bet Your Life
3-Prisoner: Cell Block H
5-Bugs Bunny
5P Hour Magazine
7-One Day at a Time
8-Special Treat “The House at 12 Rose Street.”
9, 10-John Davidson. Helen Reddy, Ricky Schroeder, author Wayne Dyer.
11-Yes You Can
12-Tom and Jerry
13-Toni Tennille
20-Bewitched
24-Sesame Street
40-Sanford and Son

4:30
2-Christmas Carols
3-Bewitched
5-Happy Days
11-CB Bears
12-Odd Couple
20,40-I Dream of Jeannie

5:00
2, 10-Hour Magazine
3-Hogan’s Heroes
5-M*A*S*H
5P-Porky Pig and Friends
7-Blockbusters
8-TBA
11-Match Game
12-Big Valley
13-Joker’s Wild
20-Sha Na Na
24-Mister Rogers
40-Flintstones

5:30
3-Barney Miller
5, 8-World of People Magazine
5P-Welcome Back Kotter
7-Andy Griffith
9-First Edition News
11-Barney Miller
13, 20-All in The Family
24-3-2-1 Contact
40-Scooby Doo


6:00
3, 5, 9-News, Weather, Sports
2, 5P, 7, 8, 10, 12, 13, 20, 40-News
11-It Is
24-Dr. Who

6:30
3-NBC News
5-CBS News
9-ABC News
2, 5P, 7, 8, 10, 12, 13, 20-National News
24-Over Easy. Averell Harriman.
40-Family Handle With Care

7:00
2,13-Happy Days Again
3, 10-Family Feud
5-PM Magazine. Pretzel Queen of Philadelphia
5P,20-Barney Miller
7-Childen of the Third World
8, 12-M*A*S*H
9-Welcome Back, Kotter
11-Palace
24-MacNeil-Lehrer Report
40-To Tell the Truth

7:30
3-To Tell The Truth
2, 5, 5P-M*A*S*H
7-Sports Afield
8-Welcome Back, Kotter
9-All in the Family
10-Tic Tac Dough
12-Barney Miller
13-PM Magazine
24-Dick Cavett. Eugenia Zukerman, violinist.
40-Family Feud

8:00
2, 3, 5P, 8, 40-City vs. Country Showdown. Celebrity competitions include milking a cow, playing basketball, racing burros. Host Jack Klugman.
5, 7, 10, 12-Peanuts Special. “A Charlie Brown Christmas.”
9, 11, 13, 20-Happy Days
24-Nova. A Touch of Sensitivity.

8:30
5, 7, 10, 12-Raggedy Ann and Andy. Special.
9, 13, 20-Laverne and Shirley
11-Three’s Company

9:00
5, 7, 10, 12-Movie. “A Christmas Without Snow” (1980) With Michael Learned as a divorcee relocating in San Francisco and rehearsing Handel’s “Messiah”, John Houseman as the choirmaster.
9, 13, 20-Three’s Company
11-Fifth Estate
24-Body in Question. The central nervous system.

9:30
9, 13, 20-Too Close For Comfort

10:00
2-They Run for Their Lives
3, 5P, 8, 40-Steve Allen. Comedy with Martin Mull, Kaye Ballard, Foster Brooks and Donald O’Connor.
9, 13, 20-Hart to Hart. Freeway gets hooked on a new brand of dog food.
11-Testament of Youth
24-Bill Moyer’s Journal

11:00
2, 3, 5, 5P, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 20, 40-News
24-ABC Captioned News

11:30
2, 3, 5P, 8, 40-Tonight Show with Johnnie Carson. Bill Cosby, Susan George.
5, 7, 10, 12-Lou Grant
9, 13, 20-ABC News
24-Murder Most English

11:50
9-Phil Donahue. Sex and older adults.
13, 20-Movie, “Five on the Black Hand Side” (1973)

12:00
11-Movie “The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker” (1971) Richard Benjamin and Joanna Shimkus.

12:30
3, 5P, 8-Tomorrow. Joseph P. Kennedy III.
24-Sneak Preview

12:40
5, 7, 10, 12-Movie. “The Price of Freedom” (1975) Timothy Bottoms.

2:00
13-News

2:40
5-Dialogue

 

[Corky Marlowe]

12/9/80 happened to be the day after John Lennon was killed...That was the lead story, IIRC, on all 3 network newscasts.

"Las Vegas Gambit" was the show that replaced "The David Letterman Show" on NBC daytime. In fact, he devoted a good chunk of his final show to promoting/ripping "Las Vegas Gambit".

 

[Rob Jason]

12/9/80 happened to be the day after John Lennon was killed...That was the lead story, IIRC, on all 3 network newscasts.

Yep. That's why I have the morning paper from that day.

And 13 in Rochester should be WOKR, NOT WORK. Danged microsoft word.

 

[DToTheJ]

A request, though nothing specific: Would you happen to have a copy of the Press & Sun Bulletin or Post-Standard from the early 90's? I remember seeing both newspapers around that time, and one of them, I believe the latter, had boatloads more stations, including from Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.

And one more thing... Toni Tennille had a talk show? ???

 

[Ultimajock]

And one more thing... Toni Tennille had a talk show? ???

...indeed, she did -- it appears (re the IMDb) to have been Bruce Gowers' first U.S. directing gig; he's now the main director for American Idol...

 

[Rob Jason]

A request, though nothing specific: Would you happen to have a copy of the Press & Sun Bulletin or Post-Standard from the early 90's? I remember seeing both newspapers around that time, and one of them, I believe the latter, had boatloads more stations, including from Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.

It might have been the Binghamton paper. I have the P-S from Nov. '89 (when the Berlin Wall was coming down) and it lists even fewer stations than the 1980 edition.
I will soon post listings from The Ithaca Journal from early 1990, which lists Syracuse, Rochester, Elmira, Binghamton, and WVIA Scranton.

 

[DToTheJ]

Well, unlike going on YouTube and searching for clips from Toni Tennille's ill-fated talk show... I'm looking forward to the listings from Ithaca Journal! Thanks in advance, Rob!

 

[fybush]

I have family in Binghamton and thus was reading the TV listings in the Press (and later the Press & Sun-Bulletin) as far back as the mid-70s. My recollection is that they always listed Binghamton, Elmira, Scranton and the big 3 from Syracuse; at one time, there were also at least some listings from Rochester, Utica and even WRGB, which reached down pretty far along the route 7/I-88 corridor.

The Syracuse papers had regionalized listings, at least on Sunday - there was a version that went to Cayuga County and points west that listed Rochester and Binghamton alongside Syracuse, and another version that went north and east with Watertown and Utica listings. I think there was still at least a "regional" and "city" version of the Sunday TV listings as recently as a few years ago. For a long time, they listed the regional stations only by calls, no channel numbers, probably because they showed up on so many little cable systems at different positions.

 

[RALfan]

4:00
8-Special Treat “The House at 12 Rose Street."

Okay. What normally aired between 4 and 6 on WROC that fall? Not to complain, but every time a schedule has an ABC Afterschool Special, CBS Schoolbreak Special or NBC Special Treat in that slot, no one bothers to put in a note on what regularly scheduled program or programs were pre-empted.