Retro: Syracuse, Thursday, Dec. 1, 1988

[DM601]

(Source: Syracuse Post-Standard)
Listings run 7 a.m.-midnight

WSTM 3 (NBC)
AM
7 Today
9 Sally Jessy Raphael
10 Sale of the Century
10:30 Classic Concentration
11 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 Win, Lose or Draw
PM
12 News
12:30 Sweetheart
1 Days Of Our Lives
2 Another World
3 Santa Barbara
4 Geraldo
5 Donahue
6 News
6:30 NBC News
7 USA Today
7:30 Entertainment Tonight
8 Cosby Show
8:30 Different World
9 Cheers
9:30 Dear John
10 L.A. Law
11 News
11:30 Tonight – guest host Jay Leno; Fred Savage, Joan Van Ark, K.T. Oslin

WTVH 5 (CBS)
AM
7 CBS This Morning
9 Medical (all it says…)
9:30 Wipeout
10 Family Feud
10:30 Card Sharks
11 Price is Right
PM
12 News
12:30 Young & Restless
1:30 Bold & Beautiful
2 As The World Turns
3 Guiding Light
4 Simon & Simon
5 Kate & Allie
6 News
7 Cosby Show
7:30 Boeheim’s Basketball (Jim Boeheim, Syracuse U. basketball coach)
8 48 Hours
9 Paradise
10 Knots Landing
11 News
11:30 Cheers

WIXT 9 (ABC)
AM
7 Good Morning America
9 Regis & Kathie Lee
10 Hollywood Squares
10:30 Love Connection
11 Growing Pains
11:30 Home
PM
12 Ryan’s Hope
12:30 Loving
1 All My Children
2 One Life To Love
3 General Hospital
4 Oprah Winfrey
5 People’s Court
5:30 News
6:30 ABC News
7 Wheel of Fortune
7:30 Jeopardy
8 Knightwatch
9 Dynasty
10 ABC News special: “Burning Question – The Business of Defense: Flaws in the Shield”
11 News
11:30 A Current Affair

WCNY 24 (PBS)
AM
7 Sesame Street
8 Captain Kangaroo
8:30 Mr. Rogers
9 Sesame Street
10 Instructional programming (not detailed)
2 Signing
2:30 Italia
3 Good Afternoon
4 Sesame Street
5 Mr. Rogers
5:30 Square One TV
6 World of Survival
6:30 Nightly Business Report
7 MacNeil-Lehrer Newshour
8:05 This Old House
8:40 Wild America
9:15 Mystery!
10:20 Soldiers: A History of Men in Battle
11:15 EastEnders

WSYT 68 (Fox)
AM
7 G.I. Joe
7:30 C.O.P.S.
8 Real Ghostbusters
8:30 Dare
9 Gong Show
9:30 Dating Game
10 Newlywed Game
10:30 Liar’s Club
11 Mork and Mindy
11:30 My Favorite Martian
PM
12 I Love Lucy
12:30 Dick Van Dyke
1 I Dream of Jeannie
1:30 Bewitched
2 Leave It to Beaver
2:30 Three Stooges
3 Dennis the Menace
3:30 Flintstones
4 Alvin
4:30 Duck Tales
5 Fun House
5:30 Webster
6 Happy Days
6:30 Laverne & Shirley
7 Movie: “Slither” (1973)
9 Movie: “Private Resort” (1985)
11 Morton Downey Jr.

 

[classictvfan]

WSYT 68 (Fox)
AM
8:30 Dare

I assume you mean Double Dare.

 

[classictvfan]

What program was on at 5:30 on WTVH 5?

 

[DM601]

> What program was on at 5:30 on WTVH 5?
>
Local news.

 

[RALfan]

WTVH 5 (CBS)

7:30 Boeheim’s Basketball (Jim Boeheim, Syracuse U. basketball coach)

What normally aired here?

 

[harrisburgpatv]

Just a random thing regarding Syracuse TV stations and TV GUIDE...They were carried in the PA/NY state edition of TVG with black bullets up until 1981 - at that time, it was only 3, 5, and 9 that were carried. Sometime in 1981, the bullets were changed from the square ones to oblong, and they became 3S, 5S, and 9S. 5, 9, and 11 from NYC were already listed, with the three of them having the black/white combo bullet (11 being split), but those became 5N,9N, and 11N (later in most editions, 9N became WOR).

It was sometime around 1989 that 3S, 5S, 9S, and by now 24S became 3, 5, 9, and 24 with white bullets. It's the only edition I've ever seen stations do that transformation.

In case one is interested, they carried 16, 22, 28, 38, 44, and 56 from Scranton, and also 8/20, 12, 34, and 40 from Binghamton, and 18 and 36 from Elmira.

3 and 18 aired their entire schedule together up until sometime in the late '80s/early '90s as well..

 

[crainbebo]

Could be "Family Medical Center" for the unknown "Medical" program on WTVH.
Back in those days WTVH was the ratings "king" of Syracuse. Then WSTM bought them out and they've been a horrible station since (probably 10 years ago). The #1 newscasts in Syracuse have now been turned into WSTM simulcasts. What a shame!

-crainbebo

 

[azumanga]

Could be "Family Medical Center" for the unknown "Medical" program on WTVH.
Back in those days WTVH was the ratings "king" of Syracuse. Then WSTM bought them out and they've been a horrible station since (probably 10 years ago). The #1 newscasts in Syracuse have now been turned into WSTM simulcasts. What a shame!

Blame it on Granite Broadcasting, which was so cheap in running their stations, they ended up losing ratings. In WTVH's case, to a point where they ended up closing the studios and letting Barrington's WSTM run the station.