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Retro: Western Illinois Wed, Mar 16, 1988

from TV Guide-Western Illinois edition

3 KTVO-ABC Kirksville/Ottumwa
4 WHBF-CBS Quad Cities
6 KWQC-NBC Quad Cities
7 KHQA-CBS Quincy
8 WQAD-ABC Quad Cities
9c WGN-Ind Chicago
10 WGEM-NBC Quincy
11c WTTW-PBS Chicago
11s KPLR-Ind St. Louis
12w KIIN-PBS Iowa City
14 WJPT-PBS Jacksonville
18 KLJB-Fox Quad Cities
19 WHOI-ABC Peoria
20 WICS-NBC Springfield
22 WIUM-PBS Macomb
24 WQPT-PBS Quad Cities
25 WEEK-NBC Peoria
26 KJMH-Ind Burlington
27 WQEC-PBS Quincy
31 WMBD-CBS Peoria
32c WFLD-Fox Chicago
43 WYZZ-Fox Bloomington
47 WTVP-PBS Peoria
55 WRSP-Fox Springfield

PBS station airtimes approximate due to pledge periods

Morning
5:00
7 CBS Morning News
9c Alice
11s Movie "The Invincible Barbarian" cont'd
26 Hit Video USA

5:15
6 Morning Agriculture Report

5:25
8 Inspirations

5:30
7-11s Morning Agriculture Report
8 ThunderCats
9c Faith 20

5:45
6 Morning Stretch
25 Before Hours

5:55
18 Farm Report
20 Morning Agriculture Report
31 Your World

6:00
3 Morning Agriculture Report
4-31 Jimmy Swaggart
7 Studio 7
8 Business This Morning
9c Muppet Show
11s Saber Rider & the Star Sheriffs
18 Rambo (animated)
19 ABC World News This Morning
25 Headline News
26 Ag Day
32c Sylvanian Families
43 Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers
55 Morning Stretch

6:15
6-10 Before Hours
11c AM Weather
12w Hooked on Aerobics

6:30
3-8 ABC World News This Morning
4-31 CBS Morning News
6-10-20-25 NBC News at Sunrise
7 Jimmy Swaggart
9c Spiral Zone
11c American Adventure
11s Gilligan's Island
18 Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers
26 Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin
32c He-Man & the Masters of the Universe
43 Bionic Six
55 Morning Agriculture Report

6:45
12w AM Weather

6:50
8 Farm Report

7:00
3-19 Good Morning America (guests Clive Barker and Raymond Feist)
4-7-31 CBS This Morning (guests David Lee Roth, and members of Emotions Anonymous)
6-10-20-25 Today (post-mortem on Illinois primary, held the previous day)
9c Bozo
11c Nightly Business Report
11s Dennis the Menace (animated)
12w American Government Survey
18 Silverhawks
26 Heathcliff
32c-55 ThunderCats
43 Transformers

7:15
47 AM Weather

7:30
11c Sesame Street
11s Jetsons
12w-47 Captain Kangaroo
18 Jem
26 Beverly Hills Teens
32c Dennis the Menace (cartoon)
43 ThunderCats
55 Scooby-Doo

7:45
24 AM Weather

8:00
9c Smurfs' Adventures
11s Scooby-Doo
12w-24 Sesame Street
14-22-27 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
18 My Little Pony 'n Friends
26 Ask Washington
32c Woody Woodpecker
43-55 Jem

8:05
47 Sesame Street

8:30
9c Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin
11c Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
11s-32c-55 My Little Pony 'n Friends
14-22-27 Captain Kangaroo
18 GI Joe
43 Smurfs' Adventures

9:00
3 Facts of Life
4-7 Blackout
6-25 Phil Donahue
8-31 Wil Shriner (guests Robert Englund and Robin Cook)
9c Leave It to Beaver (bw)
10 Jerry Falwell
11s Little House on the Prairie
12w Instructional Programs
14-22-27 Sesame Street
18 700 Club
19 Home
20 Sale of the Century
24 Romper Room
26 Movie "Captured in Chinatown" (bw)
32c Emergency!
43 I Dream of Jeannie
55 Beverly Hillbillies

9:05
11c Sesame Street

9:10
47 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood

9:30
3 Diff'rent Strokes
4-7 Card Sharks
9c Andy Griffith (bw)
19 Jeffersons
20 Concentration
24 Square One Television
43 Bewitched
55 Petticoat Junction

9:45
47 Square One Television

10:00
3-8-19 Who's the Boss?
4-7-31 Price is Right
6-10-20-25 Wheel of Fortune
9c Waltons
11s One Day at a Time
14-22-27 Instructional Programs
18 Success N Life
24-47 3-2-1 Contact
32c Phil Donahue
43 700 Club
55 Bewitched

10:10
11c Mister Rogers' Neighborhood

10:30
3-8 Home
6-10-20-25 Win, Lose or Draw
11s Beverly Hillbillies
19 Loving
24 Sesame Street
26 Movie "Dr. Kildare's Strange Case" (bw)
47 Victory Garden
55 Headline News

10:40
11c Captain Kangaroo

11:00
3-19 Ryan's Hope
4-7-31 Young & the Restless
6-10-20-25 Super Password
8 High Rollers
9c Geraldo
11s CHiPs
18 James Robison
32c Too Close for Comfort
43 Mork & Mindy
55 Vega$

11:05
47 Six-Gun Heroes (bw)

11:15
11c Voyage of the Mimi

11:30
3 Loving
6 Sale of the Century
8-19-20 News
10 Scrabble
11c Global Geography
18 Bewitched
24 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
25 Sally Jessy Raphael
32c Mork & Mindy
43 Brady Bunch

11:45
11c Sesame Street

Afternoon
noon
3-8-19 All My Children
4 Soap
6-7-9c-31 News
10-20-25 Days of Our Lives
11s All in the Family
14-22-27 Random Variables & Signals
18-26 Ag Day
24 Great Chefs
32c Get Smart
43 Movie "Take the High Ground"
55 Movie "Paid in Full" (bw)

12:05
47 Adam Smith's Money World

12:25
11c French Chef

12:30
4-7-31 Bold & the Beautiful
6 Days of Our Lives
11s Movie "The Delphi Bureau"
18 Movie "The Last Tenant"
24 Frugal Gourmet
26 Crook & Chase
32c Brady Bunch
47 Lawrence Welk

1:00
3-8-19 One Life to Live
4-7-31 As the World Turns
9c Dick Van Dyke (bw)
10-20-25 Another World
11c Nova Special: Whale Rescue (rescuing whales off Cape Cod)
14-22-27 Instructional Programs
26 Alive
32c Munsters (bw)

1:30
6 Another World
9c Andy Griffith (bw)
26 Ask Washington
32c I Love Lucy (bw)

1:50
47 TBA

2:00
3-8-19 General Hospital
4-7-31 Guiding Light
9c Leave It to Beaver (bw)
10-20-25 Santa Barbara
32c Batman
43 Silverhawks
55 Flintstones

2:05
11c Nova

2:30
6 Santa Barbara
9c Ghostbusters
11s Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin
14-22-27-47 Sesame Street
18-55 Superfriends
26 Dinosaucers
32c Tom & Jerry
43 My Little Pony 'n Friends

3:00
3-7-8-25 Oprah Winfrey (supporting spouses who have committed white-collar crime)
4 Alice
9c Bravestarr
10 Sale of the Century
11s Smurfs' Adventures
12w Growing Years
18 Transformers
19 Judge
20 Dennis the Menace (animated)
24 Romper Room
26 Real Ghostbusters
31 Blackout
32c Flintstones
43 Scooby-Doo
55 DuckTales

3:10
11c Square One Television

3:30
4 Divorce Court
6 Hollywood Squares
9c Transformers
10 Concentration
11s-32c-55 Real Ghostbusters
12w-14-22-24-27 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
18 He-Man & the Masters of the Universe
19 Newlywed Game
20 Diff'rent Strokes
26 Bravestarr
31 Card Sharks
43 Jetsons
47 3-2-1 Contact

3:40
11c Mister Rogers' Neighborhood

4:00
3-8-19 Afterschool Special "Daddy Can't Read"
pre-empts: Geraldo on 3, Hour Magazine on 8, and Quincy on 19
4 Judge
6 Cheers
7 Hour Magazine (guest Gerald McRaney)
9c GI Joe
10 Divorce Court
11s-32c-43 DuckTales
12w Sesame Street
14-22-24-27-47 Square One Television
18 Scooby-Doo
20 Family Ties
25 Win, Lose or Draw
26 Smurfs' Adventures
31 Schoolbreak Special "The Day They Came to Arrest the Book" (pre-empts Hour Magazine; this aired Tues 3pm in the Quad Cities, doesn't look like KHQA cleared it)
55 Bravestarr

4:15
11c Sesame Street

4:30
4 Superior Court
6 Jeopardy!
9c Jem
10 Judge
11s-32c Double Dare
14-22-24-28 3-2-1 Contact
18-43 Dennis the Menace (animated)
20 Facts of Life
25 Love Connection
26 Jetsons
47 Sesame Street
55 GI Joe

5:00
3-7-19-20 Jeoprady!
4-10-31 People's Court
6 Five PM Live (included: an interview with Jonathan Winters)
8 Win, Lose or Draw
9c Facts of Life
11c World of Survival
11s-43 Silver Spoons
12w MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour
14-22-27 Owl/TV
18 Mork & Mindy (a crossover with Happy Days, with Henry Winkler paying a visit)
24 Sesame Street
25 News
26 Crook & Chase
32c What's Happening Now!!
55 A-Team

5:30
3-19 News
4-7-31 CBS Evening News
6-10-20-25 NBC Nightly News
8 ABC World News Tonight
9c WKRP in Cincinnati
11c-47 Nightly Business Report
11s Facts of Life
14-22-27 Illinois Press
18-43 Gimme a Break!
26 Matchmaker
32c Happy Days

Evening
6:00
3-19 ABC World News Tonight
4-6-7-8-10-20-25-31 News
9c Cheers
11c-24-27 MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour
11s-32c Family Ties
12w Nightly Business Report
14-22-27 Art of Being Human
18 Too Close for Comfort
26 $100,000 Pyramid
43 One Day at a Time
55 Cheers

6:25
6 Iowa Lotto Show

6:30
3-6-10-19-20 Wheel of Fortune
4 A Current Affair
7 Newlywed Game
8-11s Family Ties
9c Barney Miller
12w Risking It All (highlights of expedition to Patagonia)_
18 Twilight Zone (bw)
25 Cheers
26 Entertainment Tonight
31 Hollywood Squares
32c Three's Company
43 Family Ties
55 All in the Family

7:00
3-8-19 Growing Pains
4-7-31 Garfield Goes Hollywood
6-10-20-25 Aaron's Way
9c Movie "For Pete's Sake"
11c Chicago Tonight with John Callaway
11s Woman of Substance (conclusion)
12w Sesame Street Special (an all-star cast pays a visit to the famous street)
14-22-27 Tony Brown's Journal
18 Star Trek: The Next Generation
24 Nightly Business Report
26 Great American Music Video
32c Movie "Some Like It Hot" (bw)
43 Movie "City on Fire"
55 Movie "The Big Carnival" (bw)

7:30
3-8-19 Head of the Class
4-7-31 Snoopy's Getting Married, Charlie Brown
11c Lerner & Loewe (Richard Kiley and Audrey Hepburn pay tribute to the duo)
14-22-27 Congress: We the People
24 Dark Shadows
26 TBA

8:00
3-8-19 Hooperman
4-7-31 Jake & the Fatman (new day)
6-10-20 Highway to Heaven (new time)
14-22-27 WonderWorks "Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel" (conclusion)
18 Movie "Dempsey" (conclusion)
24 Great Performances (Lauren Bacall hosts a tribute to Humphrey Bogart)
25 Movie "Darby O'Gill and the Little People"
26 Movie "The Acorn People"

8:15
12w Country Music Crossroads (hosts the Oak Ridge Boys and Marie Osmond; guests Reba McEntire, Randy Travis, Ricky Skaggs, Kathy Mattea, Gary Morris, Juice Newton, Lyle Lovett, and Steve Earle)
47 Hollywood Legends "Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend" (narrator Richard Widmark)

8:30
3-8-19 Slap Maxwell Story

9:00
3-8-19 Dynasty
4-7-31 Equalizer
6-10-20 Year in the Life
9c-32c News
11s $100,000 Pyramid
43 Rockford Files
55 Gunsmoke

9:05
11c American Masters (Profile of George Gershwin)

9:30
9c INN News
11s News
24 Placido Domingo Sings Zarzulea
32c A Current Affair
47 Legends of Laughter (Dick Cavett pays tribute to Groucho Marx and Jack Benny)

9:55
18 Farm Report

10:00
3-4-6-7-8-10-19-20-25-31 News
9c Twilight Zone (bw)
11s Cheers
14-22-27 German Professional Soccer
18-43 Honeymooners (bw)
26 INN News
32c M*A*S*H
55 Late Show (host Jeff Joseph)

10:30
3 Nightline
4 Love Connection
6-10-20-25 Tonight Show (guests Phyllis Newman, and the Irish Rovers)
7 Jeffersons
8-19 M*A*S*H
9c-31 Magnum, PI
11s WKRP in Cincinnati
18 Geraldo
26 Comedy Tonight
32c-43 Late Show (host Jeff Joseph)

10:35
47 MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour

10:45
11c In Performance at the White House (tribute to Rodgers & Hart by Marvin Hamlisch (host), Liza Minnelli, Bobby Short, and Vic Damone)

11:00
3 Entertainment Tonight
4-7 Movie "Table for Five"
8 Three's Company
11s Twilight Zone (bw)
19 Barney Miller
24 MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour
26 Movie "Triumph of Sherlock Holmes" (bw)
55 Adderly

11:15
12w Austin City Limits (guests k.d. lang & the Reclines, and Foster & Lloyd)

11:30
3 More Real People
6-10-20-25 Late Night with David Letterman (guest Blair Brown)'
8-19 Nightline
9c Movie "The Fall of the Roman Empire"
11s Movie "Danger Route"
18 Perry Mason (bw)
31 Three's Company
32c Saturday Night
43 Getting In Touch with Dr. David Viscott

11:55
11c In Performance at the White House (celebrating the songs of Cole Porter with Marvin Hamlisch, June Allyson, Patti Austin, Kaye Ballard, and Mel Torme)

Late Night
midnight
3-19 News
8 Dukes of Hazzard
31 More Real People
32c Baretta
43 Movie "Rhapsody"

12:10
55 Movie "Heart of a Champion: The Ray Mancini Story"

12:30
6-25 Entertainment Tonight
18 Hawaii Five-O
31 Your World

12:55
11c Chicago Tonight with John Callaway

1:00
6 Sally Jessy Raphael
7-8 News
25 Headline News
26 Headlines on Trial
32c Infomercial

1:20
11s Movie "Virginia City" (bw)

1:25
11c Headline News

1:30
6 Dating Game
8 Like It Is
26 Discover Australia
32c Movie "The Story of Seabiscuit"

2:00
6 News
8 Inspirations
26 Movie "It's Love Again" (bw)

2:30
9c INN News

3:00
9c Movie "Race with the Devil"

3:35
32c Movie "Alaskan Safari"

3:40
26 Movie "Tough Kid" (bw)

3:50
11s Movie "Phantasm"

4:50
9c Five Minutes to Live By
 
In reference to the primary, here's the coverage in Western Illinois:

* TVG had a note indicating stations might interrupt programming for results

scheduled coverage:
CBS coverage at 10:30pm on 4, 11pm on 7
NBC coverage at 10:30 on 6/10/20/25
local coverage at 10:30 on 19/31
 
I lived in the Hannibal-Quincy market in 1985 and 86. I remember this TV guide edition. Across the river in Hannibal there was a different edition which included the St. Louis market, whick we got on cable
 
gr8oldies said:
I lived in the Hannibal-Quincy market in 1985 and 86. I remember this TV guide edition. Across the river in Hannibal there was a different edition which included the St. Louis market, whick we got on cable

Very familiar with this edition--this is what was distributed in northwest Peoria County, IL, where I grew up (and the city of Peoria proper). And I had even seen the Western Illinois editions distributed across the Illinois River from Peoria in Tazewell County (where even some of the southernmost parts of that county may have been able to get WAND-17 Decatur, WILL-12 Urbana, and even WCIA-3 Champaign--stations not listed in this edition)--but for some reason Mason County (county seat Havana) southwest of Tazewell received the Eastern Illinois edition (where it was possible in the analog days in the county's far southwestern part to pick up a fringe signal of the Quincy/Hannibal stations). In addition, while traveling through northeastern Missouri around 1987 I even saw the Western Illinois edition being sold at a gas station in Alexandria, MO just across from Keokuk, IA--but this can be understandable as Alexandria's only TV options were the Hannibal-Quincy stations plus KTVO.

And this issue's date is included in the time that KTVO was broadcasting from their ill-fated 2000 ft. tower near Colony, MO, which collapsed on June 2, 1988. Hence the reason for no "All My Children" at 3PM on WGEM that March 16--as KTVO was able to get IIRC a Grade A signal into Quincy.

I've even seen reports in the past that during the short-lived days of KTVO's mega-signal in 1987-88, that it was receptable as far east as Jacksonville, IL (Morgan County)--30 miles west of Springfield and now part of the Springfield-Decatur-Champaign market (but I don't know if back in the late '80s Morgan County was still considered part of the Quincy/Hannibal market--does anyone know when that switch occurred?). And this was despite the presence of WCIA-3 Champaign, which then had as its repeater station WCFN-49 in Springfield (which became a standalone first as UPN from 2002-06, and now My on DTV 13) in Springfield. I wonder how much havoc, if any, that KTVO wreaked upon WCFN's reception of WCIA's channel 3 signal during 1987-88?

And closing with a "What if": how could the landscape of western/central Illinois, NE Missouri, and SE Iowa TV have been affected had KTVO's new tower NOT fallen that fateful June day in 1988? Would Quincy/Hannibal and Kirksville/Ottumwa been merged into one market? If the reports were true that KTVO's mega-signal was receptable as far east as Jacksonville, could this fact had stopped Nexstar's plans of transforming WCFN from a WCIA repeater for the Springfield area into a standalone UPN affiliate in April 2002--which back in the waning days of analog left many non-cable/satellite viewers in the Springfield area from receiving CBS programming unless they were lucky to receive WCIA's main signal or other CBS affiliates from St. Louis (KMOV), Peoria (WMBD), or Quincy/Hannibal (KHQA)?
 
Tim from Springfield said:
I wonder how much havoc, if any, that KTVO wreaked upon WCFN's reception of WCIA's channel 3 signal during 1987-88?

I would say none -- since WCIA and WCFN were under common ownership, WCFN might've picked up WCIA's signal via microwave or a cable connection.
 
azumanga said:
Tim from Springfield said:
I wonder how much havoc, if any, that KTVO wreaked upon WCFN's reception of WCIA's channel 3 signal during 1987-88?

I would say none -- since WCIA and WCFN were under common ownership, WCFN might've picked up WCIA's signal via microwave or a cable connection.

I was living briefly in Springfield during summer 1999 (for a state government internship), and had cable in my apartment. I assumed that AT&T (which then had the Springfield cable franchise) picked up WCIA's signal through the WCFN repeater. During that summer I noticed several instances of DX or thunderstorm-induced static causing havoc--even on cable--on WCFN's signal of WCIA, so it appears that at that time the WCFN repeater relied on OTA reception of the WCIA signal.
 
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