Retro: Western Illinois, Saturday, December 20, 1980

[SteveRichards]

Source: TV Guide, Western Illinois Edition

Quad Cities
4 WHBF (CBS)
6 WOC (NBC) (now KWQC)
8 WQAD (ABC)

Quincy
7 KHQA (CBS)
10 WGEM (NBC) (also secondary ABC, but not listed as such)

Springfield
20 WICS (NBC) (now ABC)

Peoria
19 WRAU (ABC) (now WHOI)
25 WEEK (NBC)
31 WMBD (CBS)
47 WTVP (PBS)

Kirksville-Ottumwa
3 KTVO (ABC)

Chicago
2 WBBM (CBS) (12 Mid. to 5 A.M. only)
9 WGN (Ind.) (now CW)
32 WFLD (Ind.) (now Fox)

Iowa City
12 KIIN (PBS) (part of Iowa Public Television)

Atlanta
17 WTBS (Ind.) (now WPCH)

All programs in color except those designated by (BW)

Ch. 12 schedules instructional programming throughout the day.

(The Chicago, Iowa City and Atlanta stations were designated as out-of-market/cable stations and were denoted with combination black-and-white bullets)

SATURDAY, December 20, 1980

Morning

5:00
8 Marcus Welby, M.D.
17 It’s Your Business

5:30
17 Rebop

6:00
8 My Three Sons
9 William Tell (BW)
17 Vegetable Soup

6:30
8-10 Big Blue Marble
9 Buyer’s Forum
17 Romper Room
19 Better Way
20 U.S. Farm Report

7:00
3-8-19 Superfriends
4-7-31 Mighty Mouse/Heckle and Jeckle
6-10-20-25 Godzilla, Hong Kong Phooey
9 U.S. Farm Report
17 Gilligan’s Island
32 World Tomorrow

7:30
4-7-31 Tom and Jerry
9 Daniel Boone
17 Movie (BW): “Joe Dakota” (1957)
32 Our People

8:00
3-8-19 Fonz
4-7-31 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
6-10-20-25 Flintstones
12 Beansprouts
32 Soul Searching

8:30
3-8-19 Richie Rich, Scooby and Scrappy-Doo
9 Bullwinkle
12 A Different Understanding
32 Chicago ’80 (Norman Mark)

9:00
9 Movie (BW): “Crazy over Horses” (1951)
12 Drama: Play, Performance, Perception
17 Movie (BW): “The Pickwick Papers” (English; 1952)
32 Big Blue Marble

9:30
3-8 Thundarr
4-7-31 Popeye
6-10-20-25 Daffy Duck
19 Kidsworld
32 World of Survival

10:00
3-8-19 Heathcliff, Dingbat
6-10-20-25 Batman
12 As Man Behaves
32 Movie: “Bengal Brigade” (1954)

10:30
3-8-19 Plastic Man, Baby Plas
4-7-31 Drak Pack
9 Star Trek
12 As Man Behaves

11:00
3-8-19 ABC Weekend Special: “The Girl with ESP”
4-7-31 Fat Albert
6-10-20-25 NFL ‘80
12 It’s Everybody’s Business
17 Movie: “The Inn of the Sixth Happiness” (English; 1958)

11:30
3-8-19 American Bandstand (Guests: Billy Burnette and Connie Francis)
4-31 Tarzan/Lone Ranger
6-10-20-25 NFL Football: New York Jets at Miami Dolphins (NBC won’t use traditional sportscasters for this game. Additional cameras, microphones and graphics will take the place of audio commentary; Live)
7 Quincy Schools in Action
9 Charlando
12 It’s Everybody’s Business

Afternoon

12:00
7 U.S. Farm Report
9 Movie (BW): “David Copperfield” (1935)
12 Bonaventure Consumer Travels
32 Movie (BW): “Blondie’s Blessed Event” (1942)

12:30
3 Wrestling
4-7 30 Minutes
8 Songs for the Season
12 Designing Home Interiors
19 Lone Ranger
31 Pop! Goes the Country

1:00
4-7-31 CBS Sports Spectacular: Part 2 of the World Junior Figure Skating Championship, taped in London, Canada
8 Visiting Artist in the Quad Cities
12 Fast Forward
19 Peter Gunn

1:30
3-8-19 College Football: The Division I-AA final (Live)
12 Magic of Oil Painting
32 Movie (BW): “It Came from Outer Space” (1953)

2:00
12 Hatha Yoga

2:30
4-7-31 NFL Today
6 NFL’s Best Ever
12 Julia Child & More Company
17 Movie (BW): “Blondie Plays Cupid” (1940)

2:45
10-20-25 College Basketball: Indiana Hoosiers at North Carolina Tar Heels (Live)

3:00
4-7-31 NFL Football: Chicago Bears at Tampa Bay Buccaneers (Live)
6 College Basketball: Iowa State Cyclones vs. the Iowa Hawkeyes at Iowa City (Live)
9 Movie: “Dr. Cyclops” (1940)
12 Masterpiece Theatre: “Testament of Youth,” Part 2
32 Movie (BW): “No Room for the Groom” (1952)

3:30
47 Tomorrow’s Families

4:00
12 Matinee at the Bijou
17 1980 U.S. Grand Prix
47 Soccer Made in Germany

4:30
3-8-19 ABC Wide World of Sports
9 America’s Top 10
32 Beverly Hillbillies

5:00
6 Hee Haw (Guests: Dennis Weaver, Dottsy, Randy Boone and Woody Woodbury)
9 Soul Train
10 News
17 Wrestling
20 Fight Back! with David Horowitz
25 Pink Panther
32 Partridge Family
47 Sneak Previews

5:30
3 Sawdust Therapy
8 Weekend Magazine
10-20-25 NBC Nightly News (Jessica Savitch)
12-47 This Old House
19 Wood Shop
32 Brady Bunch

Evening

6:00
3-4-10 Lawrence Welk
6 Marie (Guests: Tony Orlando, the Pointer Sisters and Jay Johnson) (delay from Friday 7 P.M.)
7-20 Hee Haw (Guests: Tammy Wynette, Jimmie Rodgers, Big Al Downing and Barbi Benton)
8 Monte Carlo Show (Guests: Andy Williams, Mireille Mathieu, Liona Boyd and Hot Lips & Fingertips)
9 Love, American Style
12-47 Once Upon a Classic
19 Solid Gold
25 News
31 Hee Haw (same as Ch. 6 at 5 P.M.) (Ch. 31 will carry either the Consolation game—6 P.M. or the Championship Game—8 P.M of the Volunteer Basketball Classic. Ch. 31 will carry the game in which the University of Illinois participates, pre-empting regular programming.) (It appears that the University of Illinois participated in the Consolation game at 6 P.M. In that case, Ch. 31 would have carried basketball from 6 to 8 P.M.)
32 I Love Lucy (BW)

6:30
9 Carol Burnett and Friends
12 Here’s to Your Health
25 Muppet Show (Guest: Mac Davis)
32 Dance Fever
47 All Creatures Great and Small

7:00
3-8-19 Breaking Away
4-7-31 WKRP in Cincinnati (likely pre-empted by Illini basketball on Ch. 31)
6-10-20-25 Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters (Guests: Bobby Vinton and Andrae Crouch)
9 Wild Kingdom
12 Live from the Met: “Lulu”
17 Football Saturday
32 College Basketball: Consolation game of the Chicagoland Cage Classic (Live)

7:30
4-7-31 Tim Conway (likely pre-empted by Illini basketball on Ch. 31)
9 In Search of…
47 Friends of Man

8:00
3-8-19 Love Boat
4-7-31 Freebie and the Bean
6-10-20-25 NBC Saturday Night at the Movies: “Rollercoaster” (1977)
9 People to People
17 Big Battles
47 Christmas Comes to the Cathedral

8:30
9 Maude

9:00
3-8-19 Fantasy Island
4-7-31 Secrets of Midland Heights
9-17 News
32 College Basketball: Championship game of the Chicagoland Cage Classic (Live)
47 Matinee at the Bijou

9:30
17 NBA Basketball: Atlanta Hawks at Portland Trail Blazers (Live)

10:00
3-4-6-7-8-10-19-20-25-31 News
9 Solid Gold

10:15
3 ABC News Weekend Report (delay from 10 P.M.)

10:30
3 Movie: “White Christmas” (1954)
4 Movie (BW): “They Got Me Covered” (1942)
6-10-20-25 Saturday Night Live
7 Backstage at the Grand Ole Opry (Guests: Roy Clark and Connie Smith)
8 ABC News Weekend Report (delay from 10 P.M.)
19 Movie: “A Man for All Seasons” (English; 1966)
31 Movie: “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” (1961)
47 Movie (BW): “Johnny Apollo” (1940)

10:45
8 Movie: “Hang ‘Em High” (1968)

11:00
7 That Nashville Music (Guests: Mel Tillis, Mary Lou Turner, Mundo Earwood and Buddy Spicher)
9 Movie: “The Christmas Tree” (French; 1969)
12 Fawlty Towers
32 Honeymooners (BW)

11:30
7 Nashville on the Road (Guest: Bobby Bare)
12 Sports America
32 Three Stooges (BW)

11:45
17 Movie (BW): “Twenty Million Sweethearts” (1934)

Early Sunday

12:00
2 Movie: “The Greatest Gift” (1974) (Joined in progress)
6 Solid Gold (Guests: Bill Cosby, Rocky Burnett, the Oak Ridge Boys, Stephanie Mills and the Coasters)
7 Pop! Goes the Country
10 Wrestling
20 Sha Na Na
25 Movie: “The Miracle” (1959)

12:30
7 Ozarks Country Jubilee
20 For You…Black Woman

12:45
4 News
8 Movie: “War-Gods of the Deep” (1965)

12:55
19 News

1:00
6-7-9-10 News

1:05
2 Common Ground

1:25
19 ABC News Weekend Report (delay from 10 P.M.)

1:30
9 Movie (BW): “Five Graves to Cairo” (1943)

1:40
17 Movie (BW): “Varsity Show” (1937)

2:15
8 News

3:05
2 Movie (BW): “Above and Beyond” (1952)

3:30
9 To Be Announced
17 Maverick (BW)

4:30
17 AG-USA

 

[installLSC]

6-10-20-25 NFL Football: New York Jets at Miami Dolphins (NBC won’t use traditional sportscasters for this game. Additional cameras, microphones and graphics will take the place of audio commentary; Live)

Anyone see this game? Obviously the networks didn't follow up with the announcerless game, but I'd like to find out what contemporary reactions were to the game.

 

[anabate123]

Hey Steve Richards?

Do you have any TV listings from local TV guides from Western Illinois from the mid 1990s? (1994-1998) If so, just let me know via reply or PM and I'd be grateful if you posted some!

Here are the channels!

3 - KTVO Kirksville (ABC)
4 - WHBF Rock Island (CBS)
6 - KWQC Davenport (NBC)
7 - KHQA Hannibal (CBS)
8 - WQAD Moline (ABC)
9 - WGN Chicago (Ind, became a WB affiliate in 1995)
10 - WGEM Quincy (NBC)
11C - WTTW Chicago (PBS)
11S - KPLR St. Louis (Ind, became a WB affiliate in 1995)
12 - KIIN Iowa City (PBS)
14 - WSEC Jacksonville (PBS)
15 - WICD Champaign (NBC)
18 - KLJB Davenport (Fox)
19 - WHOI Peoria (ABC)
20 - WICS Springfield (NBC)
22 - WMEC Macomb (PBS)
24 - WQPT Moline (PBS)
25 - WEEK Peoria (NBC)
26 - KJMH Burlington (Fox)
27C - WCCU Champaign (Fox)
27Q - WQEC Quincy (PBS)
31 - WMBD Peoria (CBS)
32 - WFLD Chicago (Fox)
36 - KQCT Davenport (PBS)
43 - WYZZ Bloomington (Fox)
47 - WTVP Peoria (PBS)
55 - WRSP Springfield (Fox)

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

Hey Steve Richards?

Do you have any TV listings from local TV guides from Western Illinois from the mid 1990s? (1994-1998) If so, just let me know via reply or PM and I'd be grateful if you posted some!

Here are the channels!

3 - KTVO Kirksville (ABC)
4 - WHBF Rock Island (CBS)
6 - KWQC Davenport (NBC)
7 - KHQA Hannibal (CBS)
8 - WQAD Moline (ABC)
9 - WGN Chicago (Ind, became a WB affiliate in 1995)
10 - WGEM Quincy (NBC)
11C - WTTW Chicago (PBS)
11S - KPLR St. Louis (Ind, became a WB affiliate in 1995)
12 - KIIN Iowa City (PBS)
14 - WSEC Jacksonville (PBS)
15 - WICD Champaign (NBC)
18 - KLJB Davenport (Fox)
19 - WHOI Peoria (ABC)
20 - WICS Springfield (NBC)
22 - WMEC Macomb (PBS)
24 - WQPT Moline (PBS)
25 - WEEK Peoria (NBC)
26 - KJMH Burlington (Fox)
27C - WCCU Champaign (Fox)
27Q - WQEC Quincy (PBS)
31 - WMBD Peoria (CBS)
32 - WFLD Chicago (Fox)
36 - KQCT Davenport (PBS)
43 - WYZZ Bloomington (Fox)
47 - WTVP Peoria (PBS)
55 - WRSP Springfield (Fox)

Champaign stations WICD-15 and WCCU-27 were never carried in the Western Illinois edition of TVG, although both stations were/are partial (WICD) or full (WCCU) satellites of their Springfield counterparts which were listed in this edition (WICS-20 and WRSP-55 respectively).

A different channel 15, KYOU (Fox) Ottumwa, Iowa was listed in the Western Illinois edition starting around 2000. Also WAOE-59 Peoria began to be listed in the Western Illinois edition (which was also the edition serving the immediate Peoria area) after they signed on in late 1999, but this station never, ever appeared in the Eastern Illinois edition (which also served the Bloomington side of the Peoria-Bloomington market) till the dark day that TVG ended local listings.

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

5:00
6 Hee Haw (Guests: Dennis Weaver, Dottsy, Randy Boone and Woody Woodbury)

Looks like by December 1980 WHBF-4 was finally starting to clear "Incredible Hulk" on Friday nights at 7 rather than airing "Hee Haw" (which they did during at least the 1979-80 season).

6:00

6 Marie (Guests: Tony Orlando, the Pointer Sisters and Jay Johnson) (delay from Friday 7 P.M.)

What was WOC airing on Fridays at 7 that winter which bumped NBC's network showing of "Marie?" I know that since at least '78 they had been bumping/delaying the entire NBC 7PM slot on Fridays in favor of syndicated fare (e.g., "Wild Kingdom," "Name that Tune," "Bob Newhart Show" reruns).

Ironically, during the network run of "Sanford and Son" (1972-77), WOC was the only Iowa-based NBC affiliate taking the show live Fridays at 7--the remaining Iowa NBC stations (WHO-13 Des Moines, KWWL-7 Waterloo, KTIV-4 Sioux City, and the ill-fated KVFD-21 Fort Dodge) aired "Hee Haw" from 6:30-7:30 Fridays bumping Sanford to tape-delay on other nights during the week.

 

[Ultimajock]

Chicago
2 WBBM (CBS) (12 Mid. to 5 A.M. only)
(The Chicago, Iowa City and Atlanta stations were designated as out-of-market/cable stations and were denoted with combination black-and-white bullets)

...during this period, WBBM-TV/2 shared the channel on Wisconsin, Minnesota and North Dakota cable systems that carried WVTV/18 Milwaukee, both via microwave. What channel(s) would WBBM-TV share on Western Illinois cable systems?...

 

[SteveRichards]

Looks like by December 1980 WHBF-4 was finally starting to clear "Incredible Hulk" on Friday nights at 7 rather than airing "Hee Haw" (which they did during at least the 1979-80 season).

What was WOC airing on Fridays at 7 that winter which bumped NBC's network showing of "Marie?" I know that since at least '78 they had been bumping/delaying the entire NBC 7PM slot on Fridays in favor of syndicated fare (e.g., "Wild Kingdom," "Name that Tune," "Bob Newhart Show" reruns).

Ironically, during the network run of "Sanford and Son" (1972-77), WOC was the only Iowa-based NBC affiliate taking the show live Fridays at 7--the remaining Iowa NBC stations (WHO-13 Des Moines, KWWL-7 Waterloo, KTIV-4 Sioux City, and the ill-fated KVFD-21 Fort Dodge) aired "Hee Haw" from 6:30-7:30 Fridays bumping Sanford to tape-delay on other nights during the week.

In this issue of TV Guide, it appears WOC was running "The Muppet Show" Friday night at 7:00, followed by "Pink Panther" reruns at 7:30.

I have an issue of TVG from June of 1979, and it appears WOC was running "The $100,000 Name That Tune" Friday nights at 7:00, followed by reruns of "The Bob Newhart Show." "Diff'rent Strokes" and "Hello, Larry" were delayed to Saturday at 6:00 and 6:30, respectively.

In an issue of TVG from May of 1978, WOC was running "The $100,000 Name That Tune" Fridays at 7:00, followed by the syndicated version of "Tattletales." In this particular issue, "The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams" was the pre-empted/delayed program, but it appears this was a special showing of "Grizzly" and not the show normally shown on NBC Friday nights at 7:00. The previous Saturday, WOC is listed as airing a show called "Space Force," which is listed as a pilot, and I assume was what was shown on NBC the previous Friday. WOC ran "C.P.O. Sharkey" following the pilot. Wikipedia says that during the winter of that season, NBC was showing "Quark" on Friday nights at 7:00, followed by "C.P.O. Sharkey." In the summer of '78, it was "C.P.O. Sharkey" Friday nights at 7:00, followed by "Chico and the Man." Incidentally, it appears in this issue that WEEK was pre-empting "The Man from Atlantis" on Tuesday nights at 7:00, substituting "Emergency One" in the time period. It does not appear that WEEK bothered to show "The Man from Atlantis" in an alternate slot. This particular week, WEEK also pre-empted "NBC Saturday Night at the Movies" with a syndicated movie...not sure if that was a one-time incident or something that happened every week during that period.