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Retro: Toledo/Detroit/Cleveland/Fort Wayne (Thursday, July 1, 1982)

THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1982
SOURCE: THE TOLEDO BLADE

Fort Wayne stations are on standard time year-round.

WJBK Channel 2 Detroit, MI (CBS)
7:00: CBS Morning News
9:00: Donahue
10:00: Merv Griffin
11:00: The Price is Right
12:00: News
12:30: The Young and the Restless
1:30: As the World Turns
2:30: Capitol
3:00: Guiding Light
4:00: Charlie’s Angels
5:00: News
6:00: News
6:30: CBS Evening News
7:00: The Muppet Show
7:30: P.M. Magazine
8:00: Magnum P.I.
9:00: My Old Man
11:00: News
11:30: Maude
12:00: Ironside
1:00: Saturday Night
2:00: The Rookies

WKYC Channel 3 Cleveland, OH (NBC)
7:00: Today
9:00: Dave Patterson
10:00: Diff’rent Strokes
10:30: Wheel of Fortune
11:00: Texas
12:00: The Doctors (on its last legs at this point in time)
12:30: Search for Tomorrow
1:00: Days of Our Lives
2:00: Another World
3:00: CHiPs
4:00: Charlie’s Angels
5:00: Mary Tyler Moore
5:30: 5:30
6:00: News
6:30: NBC Nightly or Local News
7:00: NBC Nightly or Local News
7:30: Family Feud
8:00: Fame
9:00: Diff’rent Strokes
9:30: Diff’rent Strokes
10:00: Hill Street Blues
11:00: News
11:30: Wimbledon Update
11:45: Best of Carson
12:45: Wimbledon Tennis

WDIV Channel 4 Detroit, MI (NBC)
7:00: Today
9:00: Sonya
10:00: Richard Simmons
10:30: Wheel of Fortune
11:00: What’s Happening!!
11:30: Good Times
12:00: News
12:30: Search for Tomorrow
1:00: Days of Our Lives
2:00: Another World
3:00: CHiPs
4:00: The Jeffersons
4:30: All in the Family
5:00: Barney Miller
5:30: News
6:00: News
6:30: NBC Nightly News
7:00: The Joker’s Wild
7:30: Tic Tac Dough
8:00: Fame
9:00: Diff’rent Strokes
9:30: Diff’rent Strokes
10:00: Hill Street Blues
11:00: News
11:30: Wimbledon Update
11:45: Best of Carson
12:45: Wimbledon Tennis
2:45: Entertainment Tonight
3:15: Movie: “Two People” (1973; Peter Fonda, Lindsay Wagner)

WEWS Channel 5 Cleveland, OH (ABC)
7:00: Good Morning America
8:00: The Morning Exchange
10:00: Donahue
11:00: The Love Boat
12:00: News
12:30: Ryan’s Hope
1:00: All My Children
2:00: One Life to Live
3:00: General Hospital
4:00: The Afternoon Exchange
5:00: Merv Griffin
6:00: News
6:30: ABC World News
7:00: Uncle Floyd
7:30: Richard Simmons
8:00: Darkroom
9:00: Barney Miller
9:30: Police Squad
10:00: 20/20
11:00: News
11:30: Nightline
12:00: Saturday Night
1:00: Vega$

CableSystem Channel 5 Toledo
No listings printed

WJIM (WLNS) Channel 6 Lansing, MI (CBS)
7:00: CBS Morning News
9:00: Donahue
10:00: One Day at a Time
10:30: Alice
11:00: The Price is Right
12:00: News
12:30: The Young and the Restless
1:30: As the World Turns
2:30: Capitol
3:00: Guiding Light
4:00: The Brady Bunch
4:30: Happy Days Again
5:00: The Rockford Files
6:00: News
6:30: CBS Evening News
7:00: Barney Miller
7:30: M*A*S*H
8:00: Magnum P.I.
9:00: My Old Man
11:00: News
11:30: Quincy
12:40: MacMillan and Wife

WXYZ Channel 7 Detroit, MI (ABC)
7:00: Good Morning America
9:00: Kelly and Company
10:30: The Edge of Night
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: The 4:00 Movie: “Too Many Suspects” Part 2 (1975; Jim Hutton, David Wayne)
5:00: Action News
6:00: Action News
6:30: ABC World or Action News
7:00: ABC World or Action News
7:30: The People’s Court
8:00: Darkroom
9:00: Barney Miller
9:30: Police Squad
10:00: 20/20
11:00: News
11:30: Nightline
12:00: Vega$
1:10: Movie: “Only With Married Men” (1974; David Birney, Michele Lee)

WJKW (WJW) Channel 8 Cleveland, OH (CBS)
7:00: CBS Morning News
9:00: The Muppet Show
9:30: Tom and Jerry
10:00: One Day at a Time
10:30: Alice
11:00: The Price is Right
12:00: News
12:30: The Young and the Restless
1:30: As the World Turns
2:30: Capitol
3:00: Guiding Light
4:00: Movie: “UMC” (1969; Richard Bradford, James Daly)
6:00: News
6:30: CBS Evening News
7:00: The People’s Court
7:30: P.M. Magazine
8:00: Magnum P.I.
9:00: My Old Man
11:00: News
11:30: Entertainment Tonight
12:00: Ironside
1:00: Movie: “Shoot Louder, I Don’t Understand” (1967; Marcello Mastroianni, Raquel Welch)

CBET Channel 9 Windsor, ON (CBC)
9:45: Ed Allen
10:15: The Friendly Giant
10:30: Ceremonies on Parliament Hill
12:00: World Cup Soccer: Teams to be announced
2:00: Wok With Yan
2:30: Take 30: Forum
3:00: Rear-View Mirror
3:30: Take 30
5:00: The Beachcombers
5:30: Battle of the Beaver
6:00: CBC News
7:00: All For One
8:00: Regional Canada Day
9:00: Le Sagouine
10:00: The National and Journal
11:05: CBC News
11:35: Movie: “The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms” (1953; Paul Christian)

WILX Channel 10 Jackson, MI (NBC)
7:00: Today
9:00: Richard Simmons
9:30: Mary Tyler Moore
10:00: Diff’rent Strokes
10:30: Wheel of Fortune
11:00: Texas
12:00: News
12:30: Search for Tomorrow
1:00: Days of Our Lives
2:00: Another World
3:00: CHiPs
4:00: The Big Valley
5:00: Hour Magazine
6:00: News
6:30: NBC Nightly News
7:00: You Asked For It
7:30: Family Feud
8:00: Fame
9:00: Diff’rent Strokes
9:30: Diff’rent Strokes
10:00: Hill Street Blues
11:00: News
11:30: Wimbledon Update
11:45: Best of Carson
12:45: Wimbledon Tennis

WTOL Channel 11 Toledo, OH (CBS)
6:00: All Things New
6:30: Space Coaster
7:00: CBS Morning News
9:00: Richard Simmons
9:30: Tattletales
10:00: One Day at a Time
10:30: Alice
11:00: The Price is Right
12:00: News
12:30: The Young and the Restless
1:30: As the World Turns
2:30: Capitol
3:00: Guiding Light
4:00: Movie: “The Alamo” Part 2 (1960; John Wayne, Richard Widmark)
6:00: News
6:30: CBS Evening News
7:00: P.M. Magazine
7:30: Family Feud
8:00: Magnum P.I.
9:00: My Old Man
11:00: News
11:30: Quincy
12:40: MacMillan and Wife

WTVG Channel 13 Toledo, OH (NBC)
5:55: The 700 Club
7:00: Today
9:00: Donahue
10:00: Diff’rent Strokes
10:30: Wheel of Fortune
11:00: Texas
12:00: News
12:30: Search for Tomorrow
1:00: Days of Our Lives
2:00: Another World
3:00: CHiPs
4:00: The Waltons
5:00: Happy Days Again
5:30: M*A*S*H
6:00: News
6:30: NBC Nightly News
7:00: Entertainment Tonight
7:30: Barney Miller
8:00: Fame
9:00: Diff’rent Strokes
9:30: Diff’rent Strokes
10:00: Hill Street Blues
11:00: News
11:30: Wimbledon Update
11:45: Best of Carson
12:45: Wimbledon Tennis

WANE Channel 15 Fort Wayne, IN (CBS)
8:00: CBS Morning News
10:00: One Day at a Time
10:30: Alice
11:00: The Price is Right
12:00: The Young and the Restless
1:00: News
1:30: As the World Turns
2:30: Capitol
3:00: Guiding Light
4:00: Tattletales
4:30: The Big Valley
5:30: Merv Griffin
6:30: CBS Evening News
7:00: News
7:30: P.M. Magazine
8:00: Magnum P.I.
9:00: My Old Man
11:00: News
11:30: Quincy
12:40: MacMillan and Wife

WTBS (WPCH) Channel 17 Atlanta, GA (Independent)
9:05: Movie: “Lisbon” (1956; Ray Milland)
11:05: Movie: “The Crimson Pirate” (1952; Burt Lancaster)
1:05: Movie: “Caesar the Conqueror” (1960; Cameron Mitchell)
3:05: Funtime
3:35: The Flintstones
4:05: The Addams Family
4:35: Ozzie and Harriet
5:05: The Partridge Family
5:35: Hazel
6:05: My Three Sons
6:35: Father Knows Best
7:05: Green Acres
7:35: Andy Griffith
8:05: Movie: “Victory at Sea” (1955)
10:05: News
11:05: All in the Family
11:35: Movie: “Games” (1967; Simone Signoret)
1:40: Movie: “My Friend Irma” (1949; Martin & Lewis, Marie Wilson)
3:50: Movie: “Island of Love” (1963; Robert Preston)

WXON (WMYD) Channel 20 Detroit, MI (Independent)
7:00: The 700 Club
8:30: Movie: “Strangler of the Swamp” (1946; Robert Barrat)
10:00: The 700 Club
11:30: News
12:00: The Little Rascals
12:30: The Addams Family
1:00: Petticoat Junction
1:30: Green Acres
2:00: The Twilight Zone
2:30: Leave it to Beaver
3:00: Fun World
3:30: Mighty Mouse
4:00: Krofft Superstars
4:30: The Little Rascals
5:00: The Bionic Woman
6:00: Starsky and Hutch
7:00: Baretta
If there was any space in the paper, this is what in theory the lineup would be below:
8:00: Movie
10:00: Movie
And who knows what was on past midnight? I do not.


WPTA Channel 21 Fort Wayne, IN (ABC)
8:00: Good Morning America
10:00: Donahue
11:00: Entertainment Tonight
11:30: The Edge of Night
12:00: All My Children
1:00: News
1:30: Ryan’s Hope
2:00: One Life to Live
3:00: General Hospital
4:00: Emergency
5:00: The Bionic Woman
6:00: You Asked For It
6:30: ABC World News
7:00: News
7:30: Entertainment Tonight
8:00: Darkroom
9:00: Barney Miller
9:30: Police Squad
10:00: 20/20
11:00: News
11:35: M*A*S*H
12:05: Nightline
12:35: Vega$

WDHO (WNWO) Channel 24 Toledo, OH (ABC)
5:50: Jim Bakker
7:00: Good Morning America
9:00: Hour Magazine
10:00: A.M. Magazine
10:30: The People’s Court
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: Bugs Bunny
4:30: Porky Pig
5:00: Little House on the Prairie
6:00: News
6:30: ABC World News
7:00: Tic Tac Dough
7:30: You Asked For It
8:00: Darkroom
9:00: Barney Miller
9:30: Police Squad
10:00: 20/20
11:00: News
11:30: Nightline
12:00: Vega$

WGTE Channel 30 Toledo, OH (PBS)
4:00 pm: Sesame Street
5:00: Mister Rogers
5:30: The Electric Company
6:00: Oil Painting
6:30: Over Easy
7:00: Dick Cavett
7:30: MacNeil-Lehrer Report
8:00: Sneak Previews
8:30: Last Chance Garage
9:00: The Paper Chase
10:00: The Lawmakers
10:30: Movie: “Christmas in July” (1940; Dick Powell)

WKJG (WISE) Channel 33 Fort Wayne, IN (NBC)
8:00: Today
10:00: Richard Simmons
10:30: Wheel of Fortune
11:00: Texas
12:00: The Doctors
12:30: Search for Tomorrow
1:00: News
1:30: Days of Our Lives
2:30: Another World
3:30: CHiPs
4:30: Tom and Jerry
5:00: Gilligan’s Island
5:30: The Waltons
6:30: NBC Nightly News
7:00: News
7:30: Family Feud
8:00: Fame
9:00: Diff’rent Strokes
9:30: Diff’rent Strokes
10:00: Hill Street Blues
11:00: News
11:30: Wimbledon Update
11:45: Best of Carson
12:45: Wimbledon Tennis

WLIO Channel 35 Lima, OH (NBC)
7:00: Today
9:00: Richard Simmons
9:30: The Joker’s Wild
10:00: Diff’rent Strokes
10:30: Wheel of Fortune
11:00: Texas
12:00: Easter’s Parade
1:00: Days of Our Lives
2:00: Another World
3:00: CHiPs
4:00: Scooby Doo
4:30: Leave it to Beaver
5:00: Hour Magazine
6:00: News
6:30: NBC Nightly News
7:00: M*A*S*H
7:30: Family Feud
8:00: Fame
9:00: Diff’rent Strokes
9:30: Diff’rent Strokes
10:00: Hill Street Blues
11:00: News
11:30: Wimbledon Update
11:45: Best of Carson
12:45: Wimbledon Tennis

WUAB Channel 43 Cleveland/Lorain, OH (Independent)
8:00: Bullwinkle
8:30: Space Coaster
9:00: Barnaby
9:30: Romper Room
10:00: 43 A.M.
10:30: Morning Stretch
11:00: Woman’s Page
11:30: News
12:00: The Beverly Hillbillies
12:30: Movie: “The Happening” (1967; Anthony Quinn)
3:00: The Little Rascals
3:30: Underdog
4:00: Lost in Space
5:00: Leave it to Beaver
5:30: The Brady Bunch
6:00: Buck Rogers
7:00: M*A*S*H
7:30: Major League Baseball: Cleveland Indians @ Baltimore Orioles (Cleveland won 6-2)
10:30: Carter Country
11:00: Benny Hill
11:30: All in the Family
12:00: Star Trek
1:00: Movie: “Frontier Hellcat” (1966; Elke Sommer)
3:00: Movie: “Inside Detroit” (1956; Dennis O’Keefe)

WKBD Channel 50 Detroit, MI (Independent)
7:00: Battle of the Planets
7:30: Space Coaster
8:00: The Flintstones
8:30: Hot Fudge
9:00: Gilligan’s Island
9:30: Family Affair
10:00: Morning Break
10:30: The Munsters
11:00: Andy Griffith
11:30: The Beverly Hillbillies
12:00: Couples
12:30: I Love Lucy
1:00: Movie: “The Proud Ones” (1956; Robert Ryan)
3:00: Popeye
3:30: The Flintstones
4:00: Scooby Doo
4:30: Woody Woodpecker
5:00: Wonder Woman
6:00: Kung Fu
7:00: M*A*S*H
7:30: Hogan’s Heroes
8:00: Movie: “Battlestar Galactica” (1978; Lorne Greene)
10:00: News
10:30: Bob Newhart Show
11:00: Sanford and Son
11:30: Benny Hill
12:00: Laurel and Hardy
12:30: Movie: “Three Stripes in the Sun” (1955; Aldo Ray)

WFFT Channel 55 Fort Wayne, IN (Independent)
8:00: Jim Bakker
9:00: Fort Wayne Focus
9:30: Jim Gerard
10:00: The 700 Club
11:30: John Davidson
12:30: News
1:00: Another Life
1:30: Leave it to Beaver
2:00: Movie: “Gaby” (1956; Leslie Caron)
4:00: Popeye
4:30: Scooby Doo
5:00: Spider-Man
5:30: Superman
6:00: The Beverly Hillbillies
6:30: Bewitched
7:00: I Love Lucy
7:30: Hogan’s Heroes
8:00: Hour Magazine
9:00: Movie: “The McConnell Story” (1955; Alan Ladd)
11:00: Benny Hill
11:30: Star Trek
12:30: News

WTVS Channel 56 Detroit, MI (PBS)
7:15: A.M. Weather
7:30: Business Report
8:00: Over Easy
8:30: Lilias, Yoga and You
9:00: Villa Alegre
9:30: Mister Rogers
10:00: Sesame Street
11:00: Vegetable Soup
11:30: The Electric Company
12:00: Mister Rogers
12:30: Lilias, Yoga and You
1:00: PBS Latenight
2:00: Sesame Street
3:00: Mister Rogers
3:30: Quilting
4:00: Over Easy
4:30: Jack Benny
5:00: Biography
5:30: Dick Cavett
6:00: Vic Braden
6:30: Business Report
7:00: World of Animals
7:30: MacNeil-Lehrer Report
8:00: Non-Fiction Television
9:00: NAACP ’82 Convention
10:00: News
10:30: Business Report
11:00: World Cup Soccer Highlights
12:00: PBS Latenight
1:00: Sneak Previews
1:30: Last Chance Garage
2:00: Non-Fiction Television
3:00: Hidden Places: Where History Lives

WBGU Channel 57 (Channel 27) Bowling Green, OH (PBS)
8:45: A.M. Weather
9:00: Sesame Street
10:00: Footsteps
10:30: Here’s To Your Health
11:00: PBS Latenight
12:00: MacNeil-Lehrer Report
12:30: Dick Cavett
1:00: Westminister Dog Show Highlights
2:00: Heartbreak Turtle
3:00: Over Easy
3:30: Last Chance Garage
4:00: Sesame Street
5:00: Mister Rogers
5:30: The Electric Company
6:00: Footsteps
6:30: Vic Braden
7:00: MacNeil-Lehrer
7:30: Business Report
8:00: Murder Most English
9:00: Sneak Previews
9:30: Numero Uno
10:00: Jazz at the Maintenance Shop
11:00: Dick Cavett
11:30: Captioned ABC News
12:00: PBS Latenight

WGPR (WWJ) Channel 62 Detroit, MI (Independent)
8:00: Funny Fables
8:30: Villa Alegre
9:00: Morning Report
10:00: Teen Profile
10:30: New Voice
11:00: Jim Bakker
12:00: Judge Roy Bean
12:30: 26 Men
1:00: Movie: “Spy Smasher Returns” (1942; Kane Richmond)
3:00: Jim Bakker
4:00: The Mod Squad
5:00: Doctor Who
5:30: Dark Shadows
6:00: The Scene
7:00: News
7:30: Hollywood Preview
8:00: United Crusaders
8:30: Operation Breadbasket
9:00: Jim Bakker
10:00: Faith For Miracles
11:00: Jack Rehburg
11:30: Spirit of Detroit
12:30: Scotland Yard
1:00: News
1:15: Movie: “Mado” (1974; Michael Piccoli)
2:30: Movie: “Way of the West” (1935; Wally Wales)
3:40: Movie: “White Zombie” (1933; Bela Lugosi)
 
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Channel 20 WXON Detroit from the Fall of 1980 to the Summer of 1983 signed off free programming at 7 PM weeknights and 5 PM Weekends till the fall of 81, of at which time they signed off at 2 PM weekends. The station then ran subscription TV programming from a service called ON TV. ONTV had a format similar to HBO at the time with movies that ended their theatre runs but not begun their network and syndicated runs yet. ONTV also featured local sports I believe, games that were not covered on free TV. ON TV shows were scrambled and viewers needed a decoder box to get ON TV programming. Viewers paid about 15 to 30 bucks a month to rent such a box and be able to watch ON TV. WXON was one of about 60 stations to get licensed to run Pay TV but one of 30 to ever use it. WXON did continue general entertainment free during the day. Some Subscription TV stations scrambled all but an hour a day and ran nothing for free...44 WSNS Chicago began the WXON type format but in 1982 they went full time..other stations included channel 52 Los Angeles, 57 Philadelphia, for example. Other stations kept a couple hours a day of religion and were subscription the rest of the day.

The FCC had to give a station permission to do such a format where programming is scrambled. One stipulation was that there must be at least 4 full time commercial television stations on the air in market before one can be Subscription TV. In 1977 when they first granted STV licenses to both new and existing stations, a station had to run at least 28 hours a week of unscrambled shows. But in 1982, STV stations were permitted to scramble full time. Initially, Subscription TV held its own in larger markets but as Cable became available in the inner cities, people began dropping services like ON TV. STV stations peaked in the fall of 1982 at about 32. Then bit y bit most stations flipped to general entertainment in most cases. A few flipped to Spanish stations. A handfull of these stations went with Home Shopping formats eventually. But most are now general entertainment stations.

WXON ran ONTV from 7 PM to Midnight and repeated the programming from Midnight to 5 AM on weekdays. In 1983, WXON dropped ON TV and became general entertainment full-time again. By the way WGPR 62 Detroit also had a STV license but never used it.
 
Couple of points (growing up in Detroit):
-The Big 3 Networks had 12 soap operas. Now have 4. I was a huge CBS guy and liked Capitol.
-I would watch The Scene to see the latest dance moves. Plus my older sister's ex-boyfriend would be on there a lot.
-As a 15 year old boy, I woke up watching Great Space Coaster and went to bed after Benny Hill. The next day the neighbor kids would discuss Benny's show and all of the lingerie shots.
 
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