Retro: Tampa Bay - Public TV - Weekdays - October 22-26, 1979

[Marckd]

October 22-26 1979 - TV Guide Tampa/Sarasota Edition - Monday-Friday

WEDU Channel 3 (PBS)
7:15 Victory Garden
7:45 Weather
8AM McNeil Lehrer Report
8:30 Over Easy
9 AM Sesame Street
10 AM Instructional Programming
3 PM Over Easy
3:30 Villa Alegre
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mr. Rogers
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Ascent Of Man (Mon)
Everybody's Business (Tues)
As Man Behaves (Wed)
American Government (Thurs)
Earth Sea & Sky (Fri)
7 PM McNeil Lehrer Report
7:30 Its Your Government (Mon)
Visions (Tues)
Fast Forward (Wed)
Lillas Yoga & You (Thurs-Fri)

Monday
8 PM Song By Song
9 PM Running Fence
10 PM Masterpiece Theatre
Tuesday
8 PM Nova
9 PM World Soviet TV
10 PM Here To Make Music
Wednesday
8 PM Great Performances
9 PM Nikolias Dance Theatre
10 PM UN Day Concert
Thursday
8 PM Evening At Symphony
9 PM Sneak Previews
9:30 Camera Three
10 PM Fast Forward
10:30 Ernie Kovacs
Friday
8 PM Wall Street Week
8:30 Washington Week In Review
9 PM Scarlet Letter
10 PM Academy Leaders

Monday-Friday
11 PM Dick Cavett
11:30 ABC News Captioned


WUSF channel 16 (PBS) - University Owned Station???

10 AM University Programming
4 PM Mister Rogers
4:30 Electric Company
5 PM Crocket's Victory Garden
5:30 Yoga For Health

Monday
6 PM Once Upon A Classic
7 PM Connections Faith In Numbers
8 PM Over Easy
8:30 World In Action
9 PM Another Voice
9:30 Outdoors
10 PM Sports Unlimited
10:30 Sailing Sailing
11 PM Sign Off
Tuesday
6 PM Music Is
6:30 Introduction To Art
7 PM Survival
7:30 Prime Time
8 PM Over Easy
8:30 Here's To Your Health
9 PM Masterpiece Theatre
10 PM Masters Of A Silent Man
11 PM Sign Off
Wednesday
6 PM Once Upon A Classic
7 PM Camera Three
7:30 Just Between Us
8 PM A Matter Of Time
9 PM LA Philharmonic Hollywood Bowl
11 PM Sign Off
Thursday
6 PM Magic Of Oil Painting
6:30 Introduction To Art
7 PM Firing Line
8 PM Over Easy
8:30 Pearls
9 PM Shakesphere Plays
11 PM Sign Off
Friday
6 PM Garden Show
6:30 Anthropology Perspective
7 PM Nova
8 PM Over Easy
8:30 Spectrum of The Arts
9 PM Shakesphere Plays
11 PM Sign Off

 

[azumanga]

The correct schedules, per the Evening Independent and St. Petersburg Times:

WEDU Channel 3 (PBS)
7:45AM (sign on) AM Weather
8AM McNeil Lehrer Report
8:30 Over Easy
9 AM Instructional Programming
3 PM Over Easy
3:30 Villa Alegre
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Over Easy
6 PM College Telecourses:
Ascent Of Man (Mon)
Everybody's Business (Tues)
As Man Behaves (Wed)
American Government (Thurs)
Earth Sea & Sky (Fri)
7 PM McNeil Lehrer Report
7:30 Its Your Government (Mon)
Film Feature (Tues)
Fast Forward (Wed)
Lillas Yoga & You (Thurs-Fri)
8PM: PBS prime-time
11 PM Dick Cavett
11:30 Captioned ABC World News Tonight
12 Mid Sign Off

In-School Programming (9AM to 3PM):

As a rule, TV Guide never listed these shows, but the Times and Independent both provided details. Here's what played that week:

Monday:
9AM: Magic Vocabulary (Like "The Electric Company" for the "Sesame Street" crowd -- produced by the Broward County School Board)
9:15AM: Gather 'Round (Storytelling program)
9:30AM: Magic Study Skills (The basics of studying, also from Broward County)
9:45AM: "Language" (Don't know about that program)
10AM: Thinkabout (a program "for acquiring skills essential to learning")
10:15AM: All About You (Long-running program for younger children on health and the body; WGBH Boston produced the 1974 version of the series on air at the time)
10:30AM: Inside-Out (Cult favorite that's like an ABC After School Special, but only 15 minutes with no ending; many of these episodes (as well as of other series listed here) can be viewed on YouTube)
10:45AM: The Word Shop (Another vocabulary-building program, hosted by John Robbins, known more as host of "Cover To Cover" (below))
11AM: The Electric Company (Many stations included this show as part of their in-school TV line-up)
11:30AM: Inside-Out
11:45AM: Gather 'Round
12 Noon: The Letter People (Another cult classic about the alphabet and phonics; for Kindergarten and First Graders)
12:15PM: Magic Vocabulary
12:30PM: The Word Shop
12:45PM: Cover To Cover (John Robbins' other series, where while a book is read, he draws the action, similar to what Rolf Harris did in the UK. Used to watch this all the time in class while in the 4th Grade.)
1PM: Magic Study Skills
1:15PM: Thinkabout
1:30PM: Math That Counts (Program on math skills)
1:45PM: Life Science (not familiar with this show, either)
2PM: Animals and Such (Compared to "Wild Kingdom" and "Wild Wild World of Animals", this nature series was quite dull)
2:15PM: Dragons, Wagons and Wax (A multiple-subject series for kids)
2:30PM: Once Upon a Classic (Another series made available for educational use; that week's episode not given)

Tuesday:
9AM: The Letter People
9:15AM: Math That Counts
9:30AM: Let's All Sing (1973 music instruction series, with an emphasis on folk music, which was already passe by 1979)
9:45AM: Magic Vocabulary
10AM: Letter People
10:15AM: Cover to Cover
10:30AM: Finding Your Way (Geography)
10:45AM: Self, Incorporated (One of many shows that are "knockoffs" of Inside-Out; apparently, the "In-School After School Special" formula that was proven successful by the shows' producer, the Agency for Instructional Television)
11AM: The Electric Company
11:30AM: Finding Your Way
11:45AM: Bread and Butterflies (yet another Inside Out-style show)
12 Noon: Magic Vocabulary
12:15PM: Gather 'Round
12:30PM: Zebra Wings (not familiar with this, either)
1PM: Thinkabout
1:15PM: The Living Language (also not familiar with this)
1:25PM: Tradeoffs (a series on the principles of economics, for elementary and middle school children; that series sort-of came in handy recently when I was studying macro- and microeconomics in college; the time is a little off-kilter, as it is a 20-minute program)
1:45PM: Florida's Backyard (WEDU's series on Florida's flora and fauna)
2:15PM: Cover to Cover
2:30Pm: Music Is

Wednesday through Friday I'll cover another time -- there's alot to write and it's getting late.

PBS Prime-Time:

Monday
8 PM Song By Song
9 PM Running Fence
10 PM Masterpiece Theatre - "Poldark"

Tuesday
8 PM Nova - "Icarus' Children"
9 PM World - "Soviet TV"
10 PM Here To Make Music

Wednesday
8 PM Three Cheever Stories
9 PM Nikolias Dance Theatre
10 PM UN Day Concert
Dick Cavett and ABC News seen a half-hour later this night, beginning at 11:30PM.

Thursday
8 PM Evening At Symphony
9 PM Sneak Previews
9:30 Camera Three
10 PM Fast Forward
10:30 Ernie Kovacs

Friday
8 PM Wall Street Week
8:30 Washington Week In Review
9 PM Scarlet Letter
10 PM Academy Leaders


WUSF channel 16 (PBS) - University Owned Station

The schedule that was presented here was entirely false, save for some prime-time shows -- after starting full-time broadcasts around 1974-1975, WUSF would not carry children's programming again until the 1990s, and only in the evening hours. As I'm running late here as I write this, I'll post the actual schedules another time.

 

[Marckd]

The only time that 16's schedule was possibly false was the 4 PM-6 PM slot. I may have misread another PBS outlet - the channels were a bit blurry. A few times I mistaked channel numbers when listings were blurry from the online archives. After 6 the schedule is about 95 % accurate. Also before 6 PM after looking Channel 16 had NO listings except for saying Various Programs. HEY BEsides PBS is something I have little understanding about and I get quite bored posting PBS Listings. I probably was half asleep posting these schedules...That is how booring I find PBS. Nothing personal. There may be an occasional mistake but for the most part its accurate.