Retro: Chicago VHFs, Monday, March 12, 1990

Source: The Daily Herald, Arlington Hgts.

WBBM-TV 2 (CBS)
AM
6 This Morning’s Business
6:30 Morning News
7 This Morning
9 Family Feud
9:30 Wheel of Fortune
10 Price is Right
11 Divorce Court
11:30 The Young And The Restless
PM
12:30 The Bold And The Beautiful
1 As The World Turns
2 Guiding Light
3 Who’s The Boss?
3:30 Love Connection
4 People’s Court
4:30 First Edition
5 News
6 CBS News
6:30 Entertainment Tonight
7 Major Dad
7:30 City
8 Murphy Brown
8:30 Designing Women
9 Newhart
9:30 His & Hers
10 News
10:30 Pat Sajak
11:30 Arsenio Hall
12:30A News repeat
1 Stingray

WMAQ 5 (NBC)
AM
5:30 Morning Stretch
6 News at Sunrise
6:30 News
7 Today
9 Scrabble
9:30 Classic Concentration
10 Golden Girls
10:30 227
11 Days Of Our Lives
PM
12 News
12:30 Generations
1 Another World
2 Santa Barbara
3 House Party
4 News
5:30 NBC News
6 News
6:30 Hard Copy
7 My Two Dads
7:30 Hogan Family
8 Movie: “Case of the Hillside Stranglers”
10 News
10:30 Best of Carson
11:30 Late Night-David Letterman
12:30 Later-Bob Costas
1 News repeat
1:30 Family Feud
2 The Judge

WLS-TV 7 (ABC)
AM
5 Oprah Winfrey
6 ABC News This Morning
7 Good Morning America
9 Oprah Winfrey
10 Home
11 Perfect Strangers
11:30 Loving
PM
12 All My Children
1 One Life To Live
2 General Hospital
3 Win, Lose Or Draw
3:30 Jeopardy!
4 News
5:30 ABC News
6 News
6:30 Wheel of Fortune
7 MacGyver
8 Women of Brewster Place (with Oprah Winfrey, Jackee)
10 News
10:30 Nightline
11 Holocaust
1A News
1:30 Third Degree
2 Movie: “Bad Lands”

WGN-TV 9
AM
5:30 Faith 20
6 Carson’s Comedy Classics
6:30 Fantasy Island (listed 30 mins. here and an hour at 9 a.m.)
7 Bozo
8 Bugs Bunny
8:30 Leave It to Beaver
9 Fantasy Island
10 Joan Rivers
11 Geraldo
PM
12 News
1 Andy Griffith
1:30 Dick Van D-ke
2 Facts Of Life
2:30 C.O.P.S.
3 Yogi Bear
3:30 Duck Tales
4 Chip ‘n Dale’s Rescue Rangers
4:30 Fun House
5 Charles In Charge
5:30 WKRP in Cincinnati
6 Cheers
6:30 Night Court
7 Movie: “Every Which Way But Loose”
9 News
9:30 USA Tonight
10 The Jeffersons
10:30 Hill Street Blues
11:30 Movie “Prince of Darkness”
1:30 One Day At A Time
2 Innocent of Hollywood

WTTW 11 (PBS)
AM
6 A.M. Weather
6:30 Zoobilee Zoo
7 Square One TV
7:30 Sesame Street
8:35 Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
9:10 Sesame Street
10:15 Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
10:50 Zoobilee Zoo
11:20 Sesame Street
PM
12:25 Frugal Gourmet
1 Les Miserables
2 Our Neighbor, Fred Rogers
3 Sesame Street
4 Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
4:30 Degrassi Junior High
5 World of Survival
5:30 Nightly Business Report
6 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour
7 Chicago Tonight with John Callaway
7:30 Frugal Gourmet (three episodes)
9 Joseph Campbell & The Power of Myth
10:15 Joseph Campbell & The Power Of Myth (again)
11:35 Wild America
12:05A Chicago Tonight with John Callaway
12:30 Nature

Based on the odd ball start times I assume it was Pledge time on Channel 11.

Pledge time on PBS usually occurs late February to late March. This past March, I was watching Clifford The Big Red Dog and they cut out Emily's story and kids dog segments to fill pledge time in the 30 minute window. They only broadcasted one 11 minute story of Arthur to make up for the time lost due to 35 minute programs.