Retro: Indianapolis, Monday, April 23, 1979

from The Indianapolis Recorder

[04] WTTV (Ind)
5:30 Various programming
6:00 RFD Four
6:30 700 Club
7:30 Battle of the Planets
8:00 Janie
9:00 Donahue
10:00 Jim Gerard Show
10:30 The Odd Couple
11:00 Mid-Morning
12:00 Bob Braun Show
1:30 Mike Douglas
3:00 Cowboy Bob's Corral
3:30 The Flintstones
4:00 The Three Stooges
4:30 Superman
5:00 The Flintstones
5:30 Brady Bunch
6:00 Six Million Dollar Man
7:00 Sanford and Son
7:30 Newlywed Game
8:00 Gunsmoke
9:00 Joker's Wild
9:30 Dating Game
10:00 Make Me Laugh
10:30 News
11:00 Gong Show
11:30 Movie: TBA

[06] WRTV (NBC)
6:40 Today in Indiana
7:00 Today
9:00 Everyday
10:00 Card Sharks
10:30 All-Star Secrets
11:00 High Rollers
11:30 Wheel of Fortune
12:00 News
12:30 Hollywood Squares
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 The Doctors
2:30 Another World
4:00 Merv Griffin
5:30 Carol Burnett and Friends
6:00 News (Howard Caldwell/Clyde Lee)
7:00 NBC Nightly News
7:30 Wild Kingdom
8:00 Little House on the Prairie "There's No Place Like Home" (part 1 of 2)
9:00 NBC Monday Night at the Movies "Sanctuary of Fear"
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show with Johnny Carson (Bill Cosby fills in for Johnny, guest George Hamilton)
1:00 Tomorrow with Tom Snyder (guests Tom Palmer, spokesman for Students For a Libertarian Society, Jim Baldwin and Ted Riddick, whose organization opposes war games)

[08] WISH (CBS)
6:24 Meditation
6:30 Captain Kangaroo
7:30 Indy Today
8:00 CBS News
9:00 Match Game
9:30 Concentration
10:00 All in the Family
10:30 Price is Right
11:30 Love of Life
12:00 News
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Young and the Restless
1:30 As the World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3:30 TBA
4:00 Dinah!
5:00 Bob Newhart
5:30 Mary Tyler Moore
6:00 News
7:00 CBS Evening News
7:30 Liar's Club
8:00 The White Shadow "Pregnant Pause"
9:00 M*A*S*H
9:30 WKRP in Cincinnati "I Do, I Do... For Now"
10:00 Lou Grant
11:00 News
11:30 Rockford Files
12:40 McMillan and Wife "Buried Alive"
2:30 Newsbreak
2:35 Meditation

[13] WTHR (ABC)
6:25 Inspiration 13
6:30 Various programming
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Movie: TBA
10:30 $20.000 Pyramid
11:00 Laverne and Shirley
11:30 Family Feud
12:00 The Edge of Night
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Movie: TBA
6:00 News
7:00 ABC World News Tonight
7:30 Family Feud
8:00 Dorothy Hamill's Corner of the Sky
9:00 How the West Was Won "The Slavers" (series finale)
11:00 News
11:30 World at War
12:30 News
1:00 Inspiration 13

[20] WFYI (PBS)
7:45 AM Weather
8:00 Mister Rogers
8:30 Lilias, Yoga and You
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 The Electric Company
10:30 Various programming
12:00 Over Easy
12:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
1:00 Various programming
3:00 Lilias, Yoga and You
3:30 Various programming
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers
5:30 The Electric Company
6:00 Studio See
6:30 Over Easy
7:00 Dick Cavett
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8:00 Bill Moyers' Journal
9:00 Generation on the Wind
10:00 Austin City Limits
11:00 Cinema Showcase
11:30 ABC World News Tonight (CC)

[40] WHMB (Ind)
7:00 PTL Club
8:00 Lester Sumrall Teaches
8:30 Today with Lester Sumrall
10:00 700 Club
11:30 Religious Teaches
12:00 Green Acres
12:30 Hazel
1:00 Leave It to Beaver
1:30 New Zoo Revue
2:00 Banana Splits
2:30 Popeye
3:00 Archies
3:30 Tom and Jerry
4:00 Batman
4:30 Partridge Family
5:00 My Three Sons
5:30 Gomer Pyle
6:00 Mission: Impossible
7:00 Bonanza
8:00 Lester Sumrall Teaches
8:30 Living Faith
9:00 J.D. Redmon
9:30 Today with Lester Sumrall
11:00 Sea Hunt
11:30 Highway Patrol
12:00 News

This was the day Whew! premiered at 10:30 ET on CBS and The Price Is Right moved to 11 AM ET, where it's been ever since. Love Of Life got displaced to 4 PM ET. The listings here don't reflect this.

Ccook55 said:

This was the day Whew! premiered at 10:30 ET on CBS and The Price Is Right moved to 11 AM ET, where it's been ever since. Love Of Life got displaced to 4 PM ET. The listings here don't reflect this.

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It looks like the paper wasn't constantly updated. I'll post another schedule from May 1979 where Whew! is listed.

Yes, the newspapers were a bit behind on things like that. Ours (the Atlanta Journal) was a week behind on a change that took place here in 1975.

Less than a month and a half later (on 6/1/79), WRTV and WTHR swapped networks.

I'm surprised that WTTV didn't have a stronger prime time lineup. Jokers Wild aired at 7PM or thereabouts in most other markets.

From the late 1960s continuing into the early 1980s, game shows in prime time were a staple at WTTV. They were also the Indpls affiliate for Merv Griffin airing at 9p weeknights. (Obvious exception is the Griffin CBS years when WTTV aired David Frost at 9p.) In March 1978, Griffin moved to afternoons at WRTV/6. In August 1982, WTTV/4 dropped the games for a nightly prime time movie.

(Source: Columbus Republic at newspapers.com)

I had a TV Guide from 1979, that showed WISH-TV airing Love of Life at 3:30pm and bumping One Day at a Time reruns to 4pm. This schedule would have made more sense by CBS nationally. Even their owned stations chose to air Love of Life at Noon ET or 2:30pm CT after Guiding Light.

Since this was the first day of Whew! and with that TBA at 3:30, I'm thinking Match Game ran on a one-day (or more) delay at 9:00 to pair it with another game show (reruns of Narz's Concentration) instead of at 4:00. With Love of Life moving to 4:00 nationally, perhaps WISH had to wait a day to put that show on a one-day delay at 3:30, and, hence, the TBA at 3:30.