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Retro: US Virgin Islands Thurs, Sept 27, 1979

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Bluenoser

from Virgin Island Daily News via Google News Archive
ZBTV is located on Tortola in the British Virgin Islands, all others are located in the USVI

Cable 3 (partially relays HBO)
7pm Movie "Tommy"
9:00 Movie "Slap Shot"
11:00 Movie "Acapulco Gold"

ZBTV 5
noon Trinity (TBN programs, I assume?_
2:00 Ross Bagley
3:00 700 Club
4:30 Gunsmoke
5:30 Comedy Theatre
6:00 Flintstones
6:30 Petticoat Junction
7:00 Batman
7:30 Wide World of Sports
8:30 Wrestling
9:30 Million Dollar Movie
11:00 PTL Club
1:00 sign-off

WSVI 8-ABC
4:30pm Cartoon Theater
5:00 General Hospital
6:00 All My Children
7:00 Soupy Sales
7:30 Barney Miller
8:00 Carter Country
8:30 20/20
9:30 Championship Wrestling
10:30 Starsky & Hutch
11:30 Mike Douglas
12:30 sign-off

WBNB 10-CBS
4:30pm Price is Right
5:30 Young & the Restless
6:00 Love of Life
6:25 Bulletin Board
6:30 Search for Tomorrow
6:55 Spotlight
7:00 Channel 10 News
7:30 Waltons (premiere)
9:30 Barnaby Jones (premiere)
10:30 Columbo/Banacek
12:30 sign-off

WTJX 12-PBS
8:15 Lilias, Yoga & You
8:45 AM Weather
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
10:30 Electric Company
11:00 Studio See
11:30 sign-off
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6:00 Here's to Your Health
6:30 Over Easy (guests Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy)
7:00 MacNeil-Lehrer Report
7:30 Midweek
8:00 Strange Creatures of the Night
9:00 Greaseband
10:00 All Star Swing
11:00 Dick Cavett
mid. sign-off
 
Interesting.....

ZBTV & WBNB are no longer around. WBNB was destroyed in Hurricane Hugo, I believe, in 1989.....dunno what happened to ZBTV.

cd
 
WTJX begs the question - what other stations out there regularly signed off for a period of time during daytime hours? I believe BBC1 and BBC2 did such a thing at one time.
 
had a question, not sure of the answer

The station with the "Z" call letters was transmitting I presume from the British V.I.?
I assume then both US and British Virgin Islands were using the 525 line 30 cycle
NTSC standard?
 
Indeed on the Z....they were from the British V.I. I would assume that they ran the NTSC. I know that ZNS 13 in the Bahamas uses NTSC, and I think that all the Caribbean does, except for the Francophone islands---Guadeloupe, Martinique, and possibly part of St. Martin.

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M.J. said:
WTJX begs the question - what other stations out there regularly signed off for a period of time during daytime hours?
Click to expand...

Considering that these listings came from late September, when kids should be in school, maybe the station was showing in-school instructional programming and neglected to tell the paper or listing service -- not at all uncommon among PBS stations.
 
Not a lot on the web regarding ZBTV and whether it's still on the air...
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I was in the U.S. Virgin Islands in 2004. A guy at WTJX (I think it was) told me they are gone. I actually went DXing at Point Udall (eastern tip of St. Croix), and all there was on ch 5 were two low power repeater stations. One might have been for WTJX.

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