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Retro: WBIR-TV 10 Knoxville, TN - Saturday, March 19, 1988

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courtesy of @anabate123
Source: The Knoxville News-Sentinel
Saturday, March 19, 1988

WBIR 10 - CBS Knoxville (now NBC)
6:00 am - Kideo TV
6:30 am - Teen Wolf
8:00 am - Hello Kitty's Furry Tale Theater (R)
8:30 am - Muppet Babies (R) (x3)
10:00 am - Pee-wee's Playhouse (R)
10:30 am - Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures (R)
11:00 am - Popeye and Son (R)
11:30 am - Dennis the Menace
12:00 pm - NCAA Basketball: Rhode Island Rams vs. Syracuse Orange
2:15 pm - NCAA Basketball: Duke Blue Devils vs. Southern Methodist University Mustangs
4:30 pm - NCAA Basketball: Oklahoma Sooners vs. Auburn Tigers
7:00 pm - Hee Haw
8:00 pm - High Mountain Rangers "Asylum"
9:00 pm - Tour of Duty "Short Timer"
10:00 pm - West 57th
11:00 pm - News
11:30 pm - Dom DeLuise
12:00 am - George Schlatter's Comedy Club
12:30 am - Movie "M.A.D.D.: Mothers Against Drunk Drivers" (1983)
2:30 am - Videmart Home Shopping (until 6:30am)
 
WBIR was inside its final six months as a CBS affiliate, as it would swap networks (NBC, in this case) with what's now WVLT on September 10, 1988. It was also good timing for WBIR, as the 1988 Summer Olympics took place a week after the affiliation switch took effect.

Add to that, it was NBC's first Olympics telecast since the 1972 Winter Games, as it scheduled to televise the 1980 Summer edition, but it honored President Carter and the US Olympic Committee's boycott, and coverage was just relegated to highlights and minimal contest coverage.
 
ShawnHill1 said:
WBIR was inside its final six months as a CBS affiliate, as it would swap networks (NBC, in this case) with what's now WVLT on September 10, 1988. It was also good timing for WBIR, as the 1988 Summer Olympics took place a week after the affiliation switch took effect.
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Reminds me of the 2016 affiliation switch of WRAL.

They switched from CBS to NBC but kept CBS long enough for Super Bowl 50 plus airing the 2016 Stanley Cup Finals and the 2016 Summer Olympics from NBC later in the year.
 
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