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Retro: West Virginia Wed, Sept 12, 1979

from TV Guide-West Virginia edition

WSAZ 3-NBC Huntington
6:45 Morning Report
7:00 Today (part 1 of a 3-part report on the record industry)
9:00 Bob Braun ("Fall Fashion Week" starts with men's and women's fall clothing)
10:00 Card Sharks
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11:00 High Rollers
11:30 Wheel of Fortune
noon NewsCenter
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Doctors
2:30 Another World
4:00 Mister Cartoon
4:30 Lone Ranger (bw)
5:00 Bonanza
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Cross-Wits
7:30 Dolly (guest Tennessee Ernie Ford)
8:00 Real People (hollering contest, convention for male centerfolds, a wall made of chewing gum, a bar that features boxing as well as booze...plus interviews with a woman who owns 150 St. Bernards, the guy inside the San Diego Chicken, and twin dwarf real estate agents)
9:00 Holocaust (pt 3)
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show (guests Buddy Rich, Charles Nelson Reilly, and Dionne Warwick)
1:00 Tomorrow (labor leader William Winpisinger on the 1980 Presidential election)

WOAY 4-ABC Oak Hill
6:30 Christian Women Today
7:00 Good Morning America (Python members show up)
9:00 Phil Donahue (topic: nutrition)
10:00 Edge of Night
10:30 $20,000 Pyramid
11:00 Laverne & Shirley
11:30 Family Feud
noon News
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Brady Bunch
4:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
5:00 Six Million Dollar Man
6:00 News
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7:00 M*A*S*H
7:30 Happy Days Again
8:00 Eight is Enough
9:00 Charlie's Angels (2 hr season premiere for season #4, with the Angels and new recruit Shelley Hack hitching a ride on the Love Boat, with that show's cast appearing in cameos)
11:00 News
11:30 Police Woman
12:40 Baretta

WCMH 4-NBC Columbus
6:30 News Conference 4
7:00 Today
9:00 Phil Donahue (the evangelistic movement to renew the faith of non-practicing Jews)
10:00 Card Sharks
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11:00 Doctors
11:30 News
noon Bob Braun (Dr. Hans Kugler talks about recent breakthroughs in the treatment of mongoloid children)
1:30 Days of Our LIves
2:30 Another World
4:00 Tom & Jerry
4:30 Gilligan's Island (bw)
5:00 Sanford & Son
5:30 Happy Days Again
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Tic Tac Dough
7:30 Teamwork Makes It Happen (broadcast on all Big 3 Columbus stations, this program hosted by Bill Hamilton and introduced by Ohio State football coach Earle Bruce looks at the United Way and its agencies' work in Central Ohio)
8:00 Real People
9:00 Holocaust (pt 3)
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show
1:00 Tomorrow

WVVA 6-NBC Bluefield
5:25 Arthur Smith
5:55 PTL Club (guests: author David DuPlessis and writer Jamie Buckingham)
6:55 Thought for Today
7:00 Today
9:00 Coffee Break (Erlene Jackson)
9:30 Romper Room
10:00 Card Sharks
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11:00 High Rollers
11:30 Wheel of Fortune
noon Mindreaders
12:30 News
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Doctors
2:30 Another World
4:00 Password
4:30 Beverly Hillbillies
5:00 I Love Lucy (bw)
5:30 Hogan's Heroes
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Hollywood Squares
7:30 Donna Fargo (guest Rita Moreno)
8:00 Real People
9:00 Holocaust (pt 3)
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show

WTVN 6-ABC Columbus
6:00 700 Club
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Big Valley
10:00 Edge of Night
10:30 Andy Griffith (bw)
11:00 Laverne & Shirley
11:30 Family Feud
noon News
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Merv Griffin (guests Chad Everett, William Demarest, Deney Terrio, Alan Sues, and Richard Simmons)
5:30 News
6:00 ABC World News Tonight
6:30 Carol Burnett & Friends (guest Carl Reiner)
7:00 Newlywed Game
7:30 Teamwork Makes It Happen
8:00 Eight is Enough
9:00 Charlie's Angels (2 hr season premiere)
11:00 News
11:30 Police Woman
12:40 Baretta

WTRF 7-NBC/ABC Wheeling
6:00 PTL Club
7:00 Today
9:00 Phil Donahue (topic: suicide)
10:00 Card Sharks
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11:00 High Rollers
11:30 Wheel of Fortune
noon News
12:30 Password
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Doctors
2:30 Another World
4:00 Mike Douglas (from the UK with guests Burt Reynolds, George Hamilton, and Lesley-Anne Down)
5:30 Carol Burnett & Friends
6:00 News
7:00 NBC Nightly News
7:30 Perspective
8:00 Real People
9:00 Holocaust (pt 3)
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show
1:00 Tomorrow

WCHS 8-CBS Charleston
6:00 700 Club
7:00 Wednesday Morning
8:00 Captain Kangaroo (guests include Len Cariou)
9:00 Porky Pig & Friends
9:30 Bob Newhart
10:00 All in the Family
10:30 Whew!
10:55 CBS News
11:00 Price is Right
noon News
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Young & the Restless
1:30 As the World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3:30 M*A*S*H
4:00 Beverly Hillbillies
4:30 Petticoat Junction
5:00 Sanford & Son
5:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Tic Tac Dough
7:30 Joker's Wild
8:00 Movie "The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings" (movie airs an hour early, with The Last Resort and Struck by Lightning premiering at 8 and 8:30 next week)
10:00 Bender (pilot, Harry Guardino plays a NYPD cop who moves west to become Police Chief in a desert resort town)
11:00 News
11:30 Your Turn: Letters to CBS News (viewers sound off on 60 Minutes interviews with Vanessa Redgrave and concentration-camp survivor Fania Fenelon Goldstein, who Vanessa would play in an upcoming TV movie)
mid. Switch
1:10 Hawaii Five-O

WSWP 9-PBS Beckley
8:45 AM Weather
8:30 Cover to Cover
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
10:30 Electric Company
11:00 Evening at Pops (guest Stephane Grappelli)
noon Over Easy (guest Hazel Scott)
12:30 French Chef
1:00 Crockett's Victory Garden
1:30 Paint Along with Nancy Kominsky
2:00 MacNeil-Lehrer Report
2:30 Dick Cavett (conclusion of a 3-part discussion with sportswriters)
3:00 Lilias, Yoga & You
3:30 Villa Alegre
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6:00 TBA
7:00 MacNeil-Lehrer Report
7:30 Dick Cavett (first of 3-parter on baseball with guests Mickey Mantle, Hank Aaron, Leo Durocher, and ex-NL ump Tom Gorman)
8:00 La Grande Parade du Jazz (from a 1977 jazz festival in Nice, France: performances by Cab Calloway and Dizzy Gillespie)
9:00 Great Performances "The Trial of the Moke"
10:30 Sports Unlimited (guest: Houston Astro player Ken Forsch)
11:00 Best of Groucho (bw)
11:30 Captioned ABC News

WNOW 9-Cable Parkersburg
5:30pm Cheyenne (bw)
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7:00 Joe Rada
7:30 Real McCoys (bw)
8:00 Movie "There's a Girl in My Soup"
9:45 700 Club
11:00 Movie "Lovers and Other Strangers"

WBNS 10-CBS Columbus
5:55 Summer Semester (the future of suburbia)
6:25 Christopher Closeup (ex-Yankee pitcher Ryne Duren on alcoholism)
6:55 Chuck White Reports
7:00 Batman
7:30 Family Affair
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Love of Life
9:30 Hogan's Heroes
10:00 All in the Family
10:30 Whew!
10:55 House Call
11:00 Price is Right
noon News
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Young & the Restless
1:30 As the World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3:30 Joker's Wild
4:00 Six Million Dollar Man (conclusion of the series pilot)
5:00 Gomer Pyle, USMC
5:30 Mary Tyler Moore
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 News
7:30 Teamwork Makes It Happen
8:00 Movie "The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings"
10:00 Bender (pilot)
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "Machine Gun McCain"

WBOY 12-ABC/NBC Clarksburg
8:00 News
8:30 Testimony Time
9:00 Valley of Dinosaurs
9:30 $20,000 Pyramid
10:00 Card Sharks
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11:00 Laverne & Shirley
11:30 Family Feud
noon Midday West Virginia (consumer marketing specialist Ann Casey with homemaking tips, a look at the Appalachian Mental Health Center)
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Edge of Night
4:30 Brady Bunch
5:00 Gomer Pyle, USMC
5:30 Beverly Hillbillies
6:00 News
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7:00 Happy Days Again
7:30 Hee Haw Honeys (guest Loretta Lynn)
8:00 Eight is Enough
9:00 Charlie's Angels (2 hr season premiere)
11:00 News
11:30 Police Woman

WOWK-ABC: 13 Huntington/11 Charleston/75 Marietta
5:45 Farm Report
5:50 PTL Club (guests Ann Murchison (wife of Dallas Cowboys owner Clint), and writer Jamie Buckingham)
6:50 Good Morning West Virginia
6:55 News
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Phil Donahue (same topic as ch 4 Oak Hill)
10:00 Morning Magazine
10:30 $20,000 Pyramid
11:00 Laverne & Shirley
11:30 Family Feud
noon News
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Tom & Jerry
4:30 Bionic Woman
5:30 Happy Days Again
6:00 News
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7:00 Newlywed Game
7:30 Family Feud
8:00 Eight is Enough
9:00 Charlie's Angels (2 hr season premiere)
11:00 News
11:30 Police Woman
12:40 Baretta
1:50 News

WTAP 15-NBC Parkersburg
6:00 PTL Club (music by the PTL Voices)
7:00 Today
9:00 Phil Donahue (same topic as ch 7)
10:00 Card Sharks
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11:00 High Rollers
11:30 Wheel of Fortune
noon Mindreaders
12:30 Not for Women Only (families, pt 3: guests include a nutritionist and a doctor)
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Doctors
2:30 Another World
4:00 Password
4:30 Little Rascals (bw)
5:00 Abbott & Costello (bw)
5:30 Lucy Show
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Love, American Style
7:30 Wild Kingdom
8:00 Real People
9:00 Holocaust (pt 3)
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show
1:00 News

WTBS 17-Ind Atlanta
5:20 World at Large
6:10 News
6:30 Dragnet
7:00 Three Stooges/Little Rascals (bw)
8:00 Leave It to Beaver
8:30 Romper Room
9:00 Lucy Show
9:30 Green Acres
10:00 Movie "Happy Go Lively"
11:55 News
noon Love, American Style
12:30 Movie "A Kiss in the Dark" (bw)
2:25 News
2:30 Gigglesnort Hotel
3:00 I Love Lucy
3:30 Flintstones
4:00 Baseball: Atlanta-San Francisco (Ernie Johnson/Skip Caray/Pete Van Wieren)
6:30 Bob Newhart
7:00 Sanford & Son
7:30 My Three Sons
8:00 Movie "The Private War of Major Benson"
10:00 Upstairs, Downstairs
11:00 New Soupy Sales
11:30 Movie "The Furies" (bw)
1:40 Baseball (rerun of this afternoon's game)
4:10 News
4:30 Untouchables

WXIX 19-Ind Cincinnati
6:15 Perspective
7:00 Romper Room
7:30 New Zoo Revue
8:00 Fred Flintstone & Friends
8:30 Groovie Goolie & Friends
9:00 Tom & Jerry
9:30 Flintstones
10:00 Dennis the Menace (bw)
10:30 Courtship of Eddie's Father
11:00 Love, American Style
11:30 Bewitched
noon Medical Center
1:00 Movie "I Confess" (bw)
3:00 Woody Woodpecker
3:30 Popeye
4:00 Tom & Jerry
4:30 Spiderman
5:00 Gilligan's Island
5:30 Superman (x2)
6:30 Carol Burnett & Friends (guest Gloria Swanson)
7:00 Mary Tyler Moore
7:30 Odd Couple
8:00 Gunsmoke
9:00 Merv Griffin (from Vegas: guests David Brenner, Doc Severinsen, the Ritchie Family, Greg Evigan, J.J. Walker, and Maureen McGovern)
10:30 Cross-Wits
11:00 Bedtime Stories
11:30 Gong Show (panelists Patty Andrews, Sweet Louie, and Mabel King)
mid. Medical Center
1:00 Ironside

WOUB 20-PBS Athens
Instructional programs in daytime?
3pm Lilias, Yoga & You
3:30 Over Easy (guest Irene Papas)
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6:00 Villa Alegre
6:30 Over Easy (guest Hazel Scott)
7:00 Dick Cavett (same topic as ch 9 at 7:30)
7:30 MacNeil-Lehrer Report
8:00 Masterpiece Theatre "Kean" (pt 1, this debuted the show's 9th season)
9:00 Upstairs, Downstairs
10:00 News
10:30 Best of Groucho (bw)
11:00 Dick Cavett (r)

WMUL 33-PBS Huntington
7:15 AM Weather
7:30 Instructional Programs
8:00 Sesame Street
9:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9:30 Instructional Programs
10:30 MacNeil-Lehrer Report
11:00 Instructional Programs
11:30 Sesame Street
12:30 Electric Company
1:00 Instructional Programs
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Doctor Who
7:00 Dick Cavett (same as ch 9, 7:30)
7:30 MacNeil-Lehrer Report
8:00 TBA
9:00 Great Performances "The Trial of the Moke"
10:30 Frankie & Johnny (a ballet version of the folk ballad)
11:00 Book Beat
11:30 Captioned ABC News

WKYH 57-NBC Hazard
7:00 Today
9:00 700 Club
10:00 Card Sharks
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11:00 High Rollers
11:30 Wheel of Fortune
noon New Zoo Revue
12:30 Password
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Doctors
2:30 Another World
4:00 PTL Club
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Arthur Smith
7:30 American Angler
8:00 Real People
9:00 Holocaust (pt 3)
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show
 
Obvously this edition was distributed across the entire state?
Because you have about as much of a chance of tuning in WBNS in Beckley
as you do in Afghanistan.
 
A few things I must ask about these listings:

1- When did WTRF-TV (CBS) of Wheeling, WV become a primary CBS affiliate?
2- Were there any listings for channel 9 of Steubenville, OH?
3- When did WCHS-TV channel 8 of Charleston, WV switch to ABC?
4- Did WOWK-TV channel 13 of Huntington, WV have a limited signal at the time? I know today that channel 11 of Charleston is WVAH-TV (FOX).
5- When did channel 57 of Hazard, KY switch to a primary CBS affiliation?
 
Bluenoser said:
WSWP 9-PBS Beckley

8:00 La Grande Parade du Jazz (from a 1977 jazz festival in Nice, France: performances by Cab Calloway and Dizzy Gillespie)
...obviously, Calloway and Gillespie were not on-stage at the same time, considering that Gillespie stabbed Calloway during a concert of Cab's band (in which Dizzy was a trumpeter) in 1941...

WNOW 9-Cable Parkersburg

8:00 Movie "There's a Girl in My Soup"
9:45 700 Club
11:00 Movie "Lovers and Other Strangers"
...interesting scheduling, to say the least ;D ...
 
Bluenoser said:
WSAZ 3-NBC Huntington
8:00 Real People (...twin dwarf real estate agents)

John and Greg Rice, who were notable for not only real estate, but as infomercial hosts and even hosts of a short-lived game show, "That [bleep] Game Show":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_brothers

Bluenoser said:
WCMH 4-NBC Columbus
7:30 Teamwork Makes It Happen (broadcast on all Big 3 Columbus stations, this program hosted by Bill Hamilton and introduced by Ohio State football coach Earle Bruce looks at the United Way and its agencies' work in Central Ohio)

What normally aired on the Columbus stations at that time?

Bluenoser said:
WCHS 8-CBS Charleston
8:00 Captain Kangaroo (guests include Len Cariou)

Who at the time appeared as the original "Sweeney Todd" on Broadway, about 30 years before Johnny Depp assumed the role on film. Is it just me, or did the Captain regularly feature Broadway stars as guests during the 1970s?
 
KML-224 said:
A few things I must ask about these listings:

1- When did WTRF-TV (CBS) of Wheeling, WV become a primary CBS affiliate?
2- Were there any listings for channel 9 of Steubenville, OH?
3- When did WCHS-TV channel 8 of Charleston, WV switch to ABC?
4- Did WOWK-TV channel 13 of Huntington, WV have a limited signal at the time? I know today that channel 11 of Charleston is WVAH-TV (FOX).
5- When did channel 57 of Hazard, KY switch to a primary CBS affiliation?

Answers:

1. WTRF became CBS the following January(of 1980), and is still CBS today.
2. No, because of the Ch. 9 station in Beckley, I believe.
3. WCHS became ABC in 1986, trading networks with WOWK/13, which became CBS.
4. I believe it did back then, to protect other Ch. 13 stations in Lynchburg, VA and
Asheville, NC. WVAH started out in the early 80's on Channel 23, and moved to
11 around 1988.
5. I believe 57 became CBS and changed calls to WYMT in the fall of '85.
 
Weren't the Columbus stations available via cable to the Ohio communities served by this edition? It seems to me that I remember seeing the channel lineup page from this edition from later in the 80's that had 4,6 and 10 from Columbus designated as 4C, 6C and 10C, which by then was the standard formatting for stations available only by cable.
 
Charles1 said:
Weren't the Columbus stations available via cable to the Ohio communities served by this edition? It seems to me that I remember seeing the channel lineup page from this edition from later in the 80's that had 4,6 and 10 from Columbus designated as 4C, 6C and 10C, which by then was the standard formatting for stations available only by cable.

The Columbus stations had a black and white bullet and later changed to "C". There was a disclaimer at the bottom of the channel listing indicating that stations like 4, 6 and 10 were available on cable.

WKYH remained NBC until Kentucky Central rebuilt the station in the fall of 1985, as mentioned above, renamed it WYMT and mirrored programming on co-owned sister WKYT Lexington.

Actually, it was the Lynchburgh Channel 13 that was limited by the Channel 13 in Huntington as they predated their air date. The Channel 11 allocation was originally Channel 23. Channel 11 was squeezed in between Johnson City, Tennessee and Pittsburgh.
 
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