Retro: Tallahassee, Florida, evening, October 18, 1979

[Mike Stroud]

From "TV Week," Tallahassee Democrat

All times Eastern Standard (stations in Dothan, Alabama and Panama City, Florida in Central Time Zone)


WTVY [4] Dothan, Alabama (CBS; now digital 36; PSIP 4)
not carried on local cable; available only OTA

6 p.m. Beverly Hillbillies
6:30 CBS Evening News--Walter Cronkite (info courtesy of Vanderbilt TV News Archive; http://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/)
7 WTVY News
7:30 Match Game PM ("checkboard" with different show every weeknight)
8 The Waltons
9 Hawaii Five-O
10 Barnaby Jones
11 WTVY News
11:30 Columbo (CBS rerun)


WSB [2] Atlanta, Georgia (NBC--now ABC affiliate; now digital 39; PSIP 2)
WAGA [5] Atlanta (CBS--now FOX affiliate; now digital 27; PSIP 5)
both stations shared cable channel 5; see parentheses after program for station origination

6 p.m. Local News (either WSB or WAGA; unsure)
7 NBC Nightly News--John Chancellor, David Brinkley (WSB)
7:30 PM Magazine (WAGA)
8 The Waltons (WAGA)
9 Hawaii Five-O (WAGA)
10 Barnaby Jones (WAGA)
11 Local News
11:30 Maude (WAGA)
12 a.m. Columbo (WAGA)


WCTV [6] Tallahassee, Florida/Thomasville, Georgia (CBS; now digital 46; PSIP 6)
cable channel 9

6 p.m. WCTV News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7 Cross-Wits
7:30 Sanford and Son
8 CBS primetime until 11 p.m. (see WTVY above)
11 WCTV News
11:30 Columbo


WJHG [7] Panama City, Florida (ABC--now NBC affiliate; now digital 8; PSIP 7)
cable channel 7

6 p.m. WJHG News
6:30 ABC World News Tonight--Frank Reynolds, Max Robinson
7 WJHG News
7:30 Cross-Wits
8 Laverne and Shirley
8:30 Benson
9 Barney Miller
9:30 Soap
10 20/20--Hugh Downs, Barbara Walters
11 WJHG News
11:30 Police Woman (ABC rerun)
12:30 a.m. Baretta (ABC rerun)


WALB [10] Albany, Georgia (NBC; now digital 10; PSIP same)
cable channel 10

6 p.m. WALB News (60 minutes)
7 NBC Nightly News
7:30 The Muppets (checkerboard)
8 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
9 Quincy
10 Kate Columbo (a/k/a Kate Loves a Mystery)
11 WALB News
11:30 Tonight Show


WFSU [11] Tallahassee (PBS; now digital 32; PSIP 11)
cable channel 3

6 p.m. Japan
6:30 Over Easy (PBS)
7 MacNeil/Lehrer Report (only 30 minutes at this point)
7:30 Prime Time (possibly local)
8 Evening at Symphony (Boston)
9 Movie: "Three Sisters," 1970
12 a.m. Dick Cavett Show (PBS)


WXIA [11] Atlanta (ABC--now NBC affiliate; now digital 10; PSIP 11)
cable channel 12

6 p.m. WXIA News (60 minutes)
7 ABC World News Tonight
7:30 Tic Tac Dough
8 ABC primetime until 11 p.m. (see WJHG above)
11 WXIA News
11:30 ABC latenight


WMBB [13] Panama City (NBC--now ABC affiliate; now digital 13; PSIP same)
cable channel 13

6:30 p.m. NBC Nightly News
7 WMBB News
7:30 Sanford and Son
8 NBC primetime until 11 p.m. (see WALB above)
11 WMBB News
11:30 Tonight Show


WABW [14] Pelham, Georgia (PBS/Georgia Public Television; now digital 6; PSIP 14)
cable channel 8

6 p.m. Zoom
6:30 Over Easy
7 Second Look (possibly local)
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8 Georgia Forum (local)
9 Sneak Previews
9:30 Camera Three (the old CBS Sunday morning show about the arts)
10 Masterpiece Theatre: "Love for Lydia" (part 4 of 12)
11 Dick Cavett Show


WTBS [17] Atlanta (Independent--now WPCH, or "Peachtree TV"; now digital 20; PSIP 17)
cable channel 2

6 p.m. Carol Burnett and Friends (half-hour, syndicated)
6:30 Bob Newhart Show
7 Sanford and Son
7:30 All in the Family
8 NHL Hockey: Atlanta (now Calgary) Flames vs. Philadelphia Flyers
10:30 Civilisation (rerun of early 1970s BBC/PBS documentary series; time approximate)
11:30 Movie: "The Sea Hawk," 1940


WECA [27] Tallahassee (now WTXL; ABC; now digital 27; PSIP same)
cable channel 4

6 p.m. ABC World News Tonight
6:30 Little Rascals (apparently no local early evening newscast)
7 Brady Bunch
7:30 Dating Game (syndicated version)
8 ABC primetime
11 WECA News
11:30 ABC latenight

 

[bpatrick]

I thought that on your daytime listings for Tallahassee
you showed Ch. 27's local news airing at 5:30 (not uncommon
for ABC affiliates in the '70s although by decade's end more and
more were doing their local news at 6 and "World News Tonight"
at 6:30).

 

[Mike Stroud]

I thought that on your daytime listings for Tallahassee
you showed Ch. 27's local news airing at 5:30 (not uncommon
for ABC affiliates in the '70s although by decade's end more and
more were doing their local news at 6 and "World News Tonight"
at 6:30).

Tis' true, bp. WECA did run local news at 5:30 ET. Sometimes I'd forget my posterior if I weren't always sitting on it, as they say in my neighborhood. That's why I need good folks like you to watch everything. One thing that I like about this forum, and I'm not being facetious in the slightest, is accountability, and folks like bp deliver. Thanks and most sorry for the misleading statement.

While on the subject, WECA was a little over three years old at the time, the first new station in the market since 1960, when Florida State University started ETV WFSU. WCTV went all the way back to 1955, and I suspect that station probably still today "owns" the so-called "Big Bend" area of the Sunshine State. According to Wikipedia, the station's (now WTXL) main claim to broadcast history is that it was the first in America to totally take over operations of another commercial station in the same market (WTWC, on NBC), back in 2001. This arrangement lasted for five years; they are now separate stations again.

 

[Mike Stroud]

WTVY [4] Dothan, Alabama (CBS; now digital 36; PSIP 4)
not carried on local cable; available only OTA

7:30 Match Game PM ("checkboard" with different show every weeknight)

Another mistake sullying my spotless reputation: that should be "checkerboard," which is the trade term for the 1970s practice of putting weekly shows in a different night during PTAR. That lasted, in the main, from 1971 to about 1980, when shows like Tic Tac Dough and Family Feud rose like cream to the top of the syndie ratings and the classic nighttime versions of daytime games largely went out of production.