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Retro: Tampa/St Petersburg - Commercial stations - Sunday 10/23/77

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Markd

Commercial Stations Tampa and Ft Meyers Area - Sunday October 23, 1977 - Sarasota paper

8 WFLA TV (NBC) Media General

Sunday
6 AM CHAPEL 8
6:30 DAVEY & GOLIATH-Children
7 AM SOULFUL OUTREACH
7:30 RELIGION IN TODAY’S WORLD
8 AM DAY OF DISCOVERY
8:30 HARVEST TEMPLE
9 AM CHRISTOPHER CLOSEUP
9:30 SUNDAY MASS
10 AM ORAL ROBERTS
10:30 BAYSHORE WORLD
11 AM REX HUMBARD
12 NOON MEET THE PRESS
12:30 DOUG DICKEY
1 PM NFL FOOTBALL – Seattle Seahawks At Miami Dolphins
4 PM NFL FOOTBALL – Baltimore Colts At New England Patriots
7 PM WONDERFUL WORLD OF DISNEY (Normally goes till 9)
8:30 NBC FIRST 50 YEARS SPECIAL (BIG EVENT normally airs At 9)
10 PM BLACK INVOLVEMENT
11 PM NEWS
11:30 NBC LATE MOVIE – Man With A Power (1977)
1:30 MOVIE – San Fernando Valley (1944)
3:30 SIGN OFF

Seems to be running all of NBC's shows Sundays at least

10 WLCY (ABC) Rahall Communications

Sunday
5:50 PASTOR’S STUDY
6 AM CHURCH NEWS
6:15 4H SPOTLIGHT
6:30 FOCUS ON RELIGION
6:45 GROWING THINGS
7 AM WALL STREET PLUS
7:30 REFLECTIONS
8 AM SOUND OF THE SPIRIT
8:30 CHRIST FOR THE WORLD
9 AM JERRY FAWELL
10 AM DAY OF DISCOVERY
10:30 SOUNDS ALIVE
11 AM CHURCH SERVICE-Baptist
12 NOON ISSUES AND ANSWERS
12:30 NEWSMAKERS
1 PM PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING
2 PM FLORIDA TENNIS OPEN
4 PM MOVIE – Mark Of Zorro (1940)
6 PM JACQUES COUSTEAU
7 PM PAT BOONE-Variety
8 PM LAS VEGAS ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL
(Normally Aired HARDY BOYS/NANCY DREW-Mystery)
8 PM BATTLESTAR GALACTICA-Science Fiction
9 PM NFL FOOTBALL – Pittsburgh Steelers At Los Angeles Rams (NFL on ABC Sunday night?)
12 MID NEWS
12:30 MOVIE – Only Game In Town (1970)
2:30 SIGN OFF

No Sunday morning cartoons - Notorious for preempting shows - Channel 40 helps offset that.

13 WTVT (CBS) Gaylord
Sunday
6 AM GOSPEL SINGING JUBILEE
7 AM ARK II-Adventure
7:26 IN THE NEWS
7:30 MARLO & MAGIC MOVIE MACHINE-Children
8 AM ATHLETES
8:30 GOOD NEWS
9 AM THIS IS THE LIFE
9:30 HERALD OF TRUTH
10 AM LAMP UNTO MY FEET
10:30 LOOK UP AND LIVE
11 AM CAMERA THREE
11:30 FACE THE NATION
12 NOON INSIGHT
12:30 NFL TODAY
1 PM NFL FOOTBALL – New York Giants At Washington Redskins
4 PM MOVIE – Pried Of The Yankees (1942)
6 PM NEWS
6:30 PROJECT 13
7 PM 60 MINUTES (Yes it was here by 1976)
8 PM RHODA-Comedy
8:30 ON OUR OWN-Comedy
9 PM ALL IN THE FAMILY-Comedy
9:30 ALICE-Comedy
10 PM KOJAK-Drama
11 PM NEWS
11:30 LATE MOVIE – The Detective (1968)
1:30 MOVIE – Zig Zag (1970)
3:30 SIGN OFF

No CBS Sunday Morning kids shows - which ran in very few markets - here neither CBS affiliate ran them so even with cable you were out of luck if you wanted to see Ghostbusters or Ark II Sundays.

44 WTOG (Ind.) Hubbard
Sunday
6 AM WOODY WOODPECKER-Cartoons
6:30 BUGS BUNNY-Cartoons
7 AM ARCHIES-Cartoons
7:30 ARCHIES-Cartoons
8 AM HOT FUDGE-Children
8:30 KIDSWORLD-Children
9 AM LITTLE RASCALS-Comedy
10 AM BUGS BUNNY-Cartoons
10:30 FLINTSTONES-Cartoon
11 AM BRADY BUNCH-Comedy
11:30 ABBOTT & COSTELLO MOVIE – Keep Em Flying (1941)
1 PM MOVIE – Prince Valiant (1953)
3 PM MOVIE – Around The World The Second Time Around (1961)
5 PM STAR TREK-Science Fiction
6 PM MOVIE – Distant Dreams (1951)
8 PM MEDIX
8:30 FORUM 44
9 PM HOUSE CALL
9:30 BLACK FORUM
10 PM JIMMY SWAGGART
11 PM RIFLEMEN-Western
11:30 RIFLEMEN-Western
12 MID SIGN OFF

The only independent station in the area - seemed focused on movies - with cable Channel 6 Miami came in. Orlando would get their first independent station in 1979.

40 WXLT (ABC) Calkins Media

Sunday
6 AM PUBLIC POLICY FORUM
6:30 JOURNEY TO ADVENTURE
7 AM PICTURE OF HEALTH
7:30 GOSPEL TRAIN
8 AM AMAZING GRACE
8:30 GERALD DERSTINE
9 AM JERRY FAWELL
10 AM WAY OF LIVING
10:30 JIMMY SWAGGART
11 AM PROSPERITY IN LIVING
11:30 PANORAMA
12 NOON PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING
1 PM ISSUES & ANSWERS
1:30 CHAMPIONS
2 PM BILL DANCE OUTDOORS
2:30 COLLEGE FOOTBALL 77
3 PM CHAMPIONS
3:30 COME DANCE
4 PM ARA’S SPORTS WORLD
5 PM PICTURE OF HEALTH
5:30 JOURNEY TO ADVENTURE
6 PM SAN PEDRO BEACH BUMS-Comedy/Drama
8 PM LAS VEGAS ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL
(Normally Aired:
7 PM HARDY BOYS/NANCY DREW-Mystery
8 PM SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN-Adventure
9 PM ABC MOVIE)
11 PM ABC NEWS
11:30 PTL CLUB WEEKEND
1:30 SIGN OFF

The other ABC station to the south - ran all of ABC's shows. The Sunday cartoon reruns ran Saturdays

11 WINK-TV (CBS) McBride Family
Sunday
6 AM THIS IS THE LIFE
6:30 PATTERNS FOR LIVING
7 AM CHRISTOPHER CLOSEUP
7:30 REX HUMBARD
8:30 ORAL ROBERTS
9 AM JERRY FAWELL
10 AM SUNDAY MASS
10:30 DAY OF DISCOVERY
11 AM RIVERSIDE BAPTIST CHURCH
12 NOON FACE THE NATION
12:30 NFL TODAY
1 PM NFL FOOTBALL – New York Giants At Washington Redskins
4 PM UNTAMED WORLD
4:30 PARTRIDGE FAMILY-Comedy
5 PM STAR TREK-Science Fiction
6 PM NEWS
6:30 CBS NEWS
7 PM 60 MINUTES
8 PM RHODA-Comedy
8:30 ON OUR OWN-Comedy
9 PM ALL IN THE FAMILY-Comedy
9:30 ALICE-Comedy
10 PM KOJAK-Drama
11 PM NEWS
11 PM NEWS
11:30 700 CLUB
1 AM SIGN OFF

Also no SUnday morning kids shows - but 13 ran the CBS Public affairs shows while this station did not - both groups of shows were widely preempted

20 WBBH (NBC) Waterman TV

Sunday
7 AM DAVEY & GOLIATH
7:30 GOSPEL SINGIONG JUBILEE
8 AM JIMMY SWAGGART
8:30 MEDIX
9 AM TONY & SUSAN ALAMO
9:30 CHANGED LIVES
10 AM ROBERT SCHULLER
11 AM REX HUMBARD
12 NOON MEET THE PRESS
12:30 GRANDSTAND ?
1 PM NFL FOOTBALL – Seattle Seahawks At Miami Dolphins
4 PM NFL FOOTBALL – Baltimore Colts At New England Patriots
7 PM WONDERFUL WORLD OF DISNEY (Normally goes till 9)
8:30 NBC FIRST 50 YEARS SPECIAL (BIG EVENT normally airs At 9)
11 PM NEWS
11:30 NBC LATE MOVIE – Man With A Power (1977)
1:30 MISSION IMPOSSIBLE-Drama
2:30 SIGN OFF

Typical NBC station
 
WHat was NFL Football doing Sunday night on ABC??? I thought this was a typo but checked Pittsburgh and Miami and the same game aired there as well.
 
Is it possible that ABC had the World Series that year and moved MNF to Sunday due to the baseball schedule? I remember this happening during the baseball postseason in the late 70s.

Update - after looking at the Boston Globe listings for 10/24/77 there is a MNF game - Minnesota Vikings vs. Los Angeles Rams. Maybe it was making up for the week before.
 
Or maybe ABC's contract with the NFL that year included
some Sunday games; I think there were times when it
included Thursday games. Re the World Series, Monday
was and is almost always a travel day (the exception is
if there's a rainout over the weekend), so I would have to
believe there was Monday Night Football that week.
 
Markd said:
WHat was NFL Football doing Sunday night on ABC??? I thought this was a typo but checked Pittsburgh and Miami and the same game aired there as well.
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They had occasional Sunday night and Thursday night games.

By the way, since the Buccaneers were at home (blacked out vs. Green Bay), WFLA could have only shown one NFL game.
 
ABC carried one Saturday night game each year from 1974-77. For 1978, they used their Monday Night Football crew to broadcast three Sunday night games and a Thursday night game. From 1979-86 ABC televised three or so Thursday night games each year, with the occasional Sunday night or Friday night game thrown into the mix.

As for the above listing, I have no idea why that would be there. On October 23, 1977, Pittsburgh played an afternoon game at home against the Houston Oilers. The L.A. Rams hosted Minnesota on Monday Night Football the following evening.

Upon further review, it appears that the Sunday night listings for November 12, 1978 were inexplicably inserted into your Channel 10 schedule. ABC aired Battlestar Galactica (which didn't even debut until September 1978) at 8:00 on the evening of 11/12/78, followed at 9:00 by that very Steelers-Rams game.
 
Yes that probably was what happened - I got the years mixed up at postings. I am away now but when I get back I will review this schedule and correct what is wrong. I have retro schedules for every year in a market on one document so I cut and paste and sometimes I cut the wrong year for a station - Its rare but it does happen.
 
The NFL's then-new (second year) Tampa Bay Buccaneers were in action that day, losing at home to Green Bay 13-0.

It was their 20th straight loss in as many games (it would not win a game until the next-to-last week of the that season, finally getting a win against New Orelans; they would finish 2-12 that year).

No wonder their game that day was probably blacked out in Tampa Bay

Fortunately for Tampa Bay fans, things looked up from there. They went 5-7 in 1978, and in 1979 had both their first winning season (10-6) and playoff berth (making it all the way to the NFC Championship before losing to the then-Los Angeles Rams).

(All team information from Shrp Sports.com)
 
The NFL's second year Tampa Bay Buccaneers were in action that day, losing at home to Green Bay 13-0.

It was their 20th straight loss in as many games (it would not win a game until the next-to-last week of the that season, finally getting a win against New Orelans; they would finish 2-12 that year).

No wonder their game that day was probably blacked out in Tampa Bay.

Fortunately for Tampa Bay fans, things looked up from there. They went 5-7 in 1978, and in 1979 had both their first winning season (10-6) and playoff berth (making it all the way to the NFC Championship before losing to the then-Los Angeles Rams).

(All team information from Shrp Sports.com)
 
Joseph_Gallant said:
The NFL's then-new (second year) Tampa Bay Buccaneers were in action that day, losing at home to Green Bay 13-0.

It was their 20th straight loss in as many games (it would not win a game until the next-to-last week of the that season, finally getting a win against New Orelans; they would finish 2-12 that year).

No wonder their game that day was probably blacked out in Tampa Bay

Fortunately for Tampa Bay fans, things looked up from there. They went 5-7 in 1978, and in 1979 had both their first winning season (10-6) and playoff berth (making it all the way to the NFC Championship before losing to the then-Los Angeles Rams).

(All team information from Shrp Sports.com)
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The Bucs didn't have a home blackout lifted until 10/1/78 vs. Minnesota
 
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