Retro: This Week in TV Guide, August 25, 1979 - MSP

[Mitchell H]

A look at what was on TV, and what was written about in TV Guide, 33 years ago this week, including the NFL preview and a host of shows in the final week before the new season began.

http://www.itsabouttv.com/2012/08/this-week-in-tv-guide-august-25-1979.html

As always your comments, positive or negative, are appreciated.

 

[Wright County Guy]

I'd love to see some listings, especially since this two weeks ahead of the official network switch in MSP, but the stations were already shuffling some show in-beteen themselves in what I have inferred was a holy mess.

 

[Mitchell H]

I'd love to see some listings, especially since this two weeks ahead of the official network switch in MSP, but the stations were already shuffling some show in-beteen themselves in what I have inferred was a holy mess.

I'll see if I can get some up in the next couple of days. Anything or any night in particular you're looking for?

 

[bpatrick]

What shuffling was going on? I'm wondering if this set
a precedent for WSB and WXIA swapping parts of their
daytime lineups in August 1980, the last month before
they switched (Sept. 1).

 

[Wright County Guy]

Actually I gues I was a few months late... March 5 was the big switch.

According to this article -- http://www.studioz7.com/NewsNine.shtml -- it sounded a ittle less convivial than the Atlanta switches a year later. KMSP was tossed aside by ABC, which affiliated with NBC's KSTP; NBC went to then-independent WTCN, leaving KMSP without a network. KMSP started dropping ABC shows, promos, etc.