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Retro: Tampa/St. Petersburg, Tuesday, October 21, 1980

from St. Petersburg Times
Some titles are partial due to grid format

3 WEDU PBS Tampa
7:45 AM Weather
8:00 Villa Alegre
8:30 Vegetable Soup
9:00 Instructional programming
9:30 The Electric Company
10:30 Finding Our Way
10:45 Self, Incorporated
11:00 3-2-1 Contact
11:30 Thinkabout
11:45 All About You
12:00 Instructional programming
1:30 All About Animals
1:45 Ripples
2:00 Instructional programming
2:30 Let's Sing
3:00 Vegetable Soup
3:30 Villa Alegre
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Over Easy (some of the ways older Americans live)
6:00 Writing For a Reason
7:00 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
7:30 Election '80
8:00 Nova "Portrait of a Killer" (report on the number-one cause of death in the US back then: heart attack and cardiovascular disease)
9:00 The Body in Question (part 4 of 13)
10:00 Soundstage (featuring Kenny Loggins, Jesse Winchester and Michael Murphy; taped in a natural amphitheater in the Colorado Rockies)
11:00 Dick Cavett (interview with John Huston; part 2 of 2)
11:30 Captioned ABC News
12:00 sign-off

8 WFLA NBC Tampa
5:00 PTL Club
6:00 Today in Florida
6:30 Beverly Hillbillies
7:00 Today (guests Ann Landers and Kan Winglin)
9:00 Gunsmoke
10:00 Romper Room
10:30 Play the Percentages
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 Password Plus
12:00 News
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 Texas
4:00 The Rockford Files
5:00 All in the Family
5:30 M*A*S*H
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Hollywood Squares
7:30 Tic Tac Dough
8:00 World Series Game 6: Kansas City Royals vs. Philadelphia Phillies (if isn't necessary, NBC will air the movie "The Night the Bridge Fell Down"
11:00 News
11:30 Best of Carson (guests McLean Stevenson, Herve Villechaize, Art Graham Trio and Mighty Carson Art Players)
12:30 Tomorrow with Tom Snyder (guest Nancy Friday)
2:00 sign-off

10 WTSP ABC St. Petersburg
6:00 Social Security
6:30 United Way
7:00 Good Morning America (guests Beverly Sills, Muhammad Ali and Jerusalem mayor Teddy Kollek)
9:00 Donahue (director of peer counseling program for housewives shares some frustrations that housewives experience and how to beat them)
10:00 John Eastman (author Marjorie Holmes talks about her latest book and her philosophy on life)
11:00 The Love Boat
12:00 Family Feud
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Sanford and Son
4:30 Streets of San Francisco
5:30 World of People (Colonel Sanders' 90th birthday celebration; a look at the first living unicorn to be seen in 500 years; a tour of the French Quarter in New Orleans)
6:00 News
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7:00 Bullseye
7:30 To Tell the Truth
8:00 Happy Days
8:30 Laverne and Shirley
9:00 Three's Company
9:30 Taxi
10:00 Hart to Hart
11:00 News
11:30 Nightline
11:45 Movie "The Young Pioneers"
2:00 News
2:30 Pastor's Study
followed by sign-off

13 WTVT CBS Tampa
6:00 Breakfast Beat
7:00 Tuesday Morning
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 John Davidson (guests Shecky Greene, Muhammad Ali, Natalie Cole and Frank Avalon)
10:30 Alice
11:00 Price is Right
12:00 Pulse Plus
1:00 Young and the Restless
2:00 As the World Turns
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 Merv Griffin (guests Wayne Rogers, David Copperfield and Susan Forward)
5:00 Hour Magazine (guests Jerry Lewis, Loni Anderson; consumer report)
6:00 News
7:00 CBS Evening News
7:30 Joker's Wild
8:00 Movie "Flatbed Annie and Sweetie Pie: Lady Truckers"
10:00 CBS Reports "The Saudis"
11:00 News
11:30 Lou Grant
12:30 Movie "Zebra Force"
followed by sign-off

16 WUSF PBS Tampa
9:45 AM Weather
10:00 Nova
11:00 Cosmos
12:00 Tony Pizzo's Tampa
12:30 Over Easy
1:00 This Old House
1:30 To the Manor Born
2:00 Lap Quilting
2:30 Anthropological Perspectives
3:00 Love, Sex and Violence
3:30 Japan Special
4:00 Classic: King Arthur Cinema Showcase
5:00 3-2-1 Contact
5:30 Presente
6:00 Villa Alegre
6:30 Anthropological Perspectives
7:00 Vikings
7:30 Carousel
8:00 Over Easy (guest Joan Fontaine; a look at senility)
8:30 Series Sixteen
9:00 Masterpiece Theatre
10:00 To the Manor Born
10:30 This Old House
11:00 sign-off

40 WXLT ABC Sarasota
6:00 PTL Club
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Donahue
10:00 PTL Club
11:00 The Love Boat
12:00 Family Feud
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 John Davidson
5:30 Tic Tac Dough
6:00 News
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7:00 M*A*S*H
7:30 All in the Family
8:00 Happy Days
8:30 Laverne and Shirley
9:00 Three's Company
9:30 Taxi
10:00 Hart to Hart
11:00 News
11:30 Nightline
11:45 Movie "The Young Pioneers"
2:00 sign-off

44 WTOG Ind St. Petersburg
6:30 Florida Daybreak
7:00 Popeye
7:30 The Flinstones
8:00 Woody Woodpecker
8:30 Krofft Superstars
9:00 Dick Van Dyke
9:30 Father Knows Best
10:00 Mike Douglas
11:30 News
12:00 Perry Mason
1:00 Movie "Once More with Feeling"
3:00 Battle of the Planets
3:30 Gilligan's Island
4:00 Bugs, Woody and Friends
5:00 Starsky and Hutch
6:00 Pink Panther
6:30 Happy Days Again
7:00 Barney Miller
7:30 PM Magazine
8:00 John McKay Show
8:30 Let's Make a Deal
9:00 Movie "Slither"
11:00 Prisoner: Cell Block H
11:30 Movie "Captains of the Clouds"
1:30 News/sign-off
 
Had I been the GM of that independent, I think I would have tried to pick up at least some of the network daytime shows that were preempted by the local affiliates. By my count, 3 1/2 hours-worth of daytime shows were preempted.
 
Surprised there was only one Independent covering this market then.

Tampa Bay would get another independent a year or so later, when WFTS 28 signed-on (December 14, 1981). They were still pretty sizable areas in the country, especially at this point in time, that still didn't have an independent station...San Antonio was the biggest market in the country without an independent station, until 1985 when KRRT (KMYS) signed-on.
 
Two ABC stations and neither one carried The Edge of Night at 4pm or any other time.

I didn't realize WTVT not carrying the Bold and the Beautiful in later years dated back this far with not carrying Search for Tomorrow which was replaced by Capitol in 1982. WTSP picked up Bold and the Beautiful when it switched to CBS in 1994.
 
Tampa Bay would get another independent a year or so later, when WFTS 28 signed-on (December 14, 1981). They were still pretty sizable areas in the country, especially at this point in time, that still didn't have an independent station...San Antonio was the biggest market in the country without an independent station, until 1985 when KRRT (KMYS) signed-on.

Wasn't Grand Rapids bigger than San Antonio? They didn't get an independent until 1982 when now-WXMI signed on, but WUHQ (now WOTV) would have been an independent if (a) WZZM didn't have to be so far north and/or (b) Lansing had its own ABC affiliate. However, most if not all cable systems had WKBD and WGN and some may have had WFLD, WVTV, and/or WSNS
 
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