WFLD channel 32 TV schedule for Tuesday, April 24, 1984

Morning
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6a - Newstalk
6:30a - Mighty Mouse
7a - Tom & Jerry
7:30a - The Flintstones
8a - Woody Woodpecker
8:30a - Popeye

9a - Emergency! (1 hour)
10a - Breakaway (1 hour)
11a - Hour Magazine (1 hour)

Afternoon
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Noon - I Love Lucy
12:30p - I Love Lucy
1p - Merv Griffin Show (1 hour)
2p - Great Space Coaster

2:30p - Spiderman
3p - Inspector Gadget
3:30p - He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
4p - Tom & Jerry
4:30p - The Flintstones

5p - What's Happening
5:30p - Happy Days Again

Evening
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6p - Taxi
6:30p - Three's Company
7p - Baseball: Baltimore at Chicago White Sox (3 hrs, 30 min)
10:30p - M*A*S*H
11p - Starsky & Hutch (1 hour)
Midnight - Thicke of the Night (1 hr, 30 min)

Early Wednesday, April 25, 1984
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1:30a - 700 Club (1 hour)
2:30a - Entertainment Tonight

Courtesy of: radio-info.com

FWIW, boxscore for that baseball game:

Tuesday April 24, 1984
BAL A 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 2 3 - 8 11 0
CHI A 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 - 3 9 1

BOX+PBP
WP: McGregor (2-3)
LP: Dotson (2-2)
HRs: Ripken (7), Murray (3), Kittle (3), V. Law (2)

Seeing as how I only know or have ever really known of 1 station out of Chicago (Superstation WGN) can you tell me a little more about WFLD? is it not on anymore or something?

The station began life on January 4, 1966, from its downtown Chicago studios. Its founding owners were Field Enterprises, which also owned the Chicago Sun-Times and, most notably, the Marshall Field's department store chain. The station was christened the "Station of Tomorrow" by the Sun-Times in an April 1966 article because of its innovative technical developments in broadcasting its signal.

Field Enterprises sold a majority ownership in WFLD to Kaiser Broadcasting in 1972, and the two companies' new partnership would see WFLD joining Kaiser's stable of UHF independent stations in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, Philadelphia, Cleveland, and Detroit.

In 1977, Kaiser ended the partnership by selling its share of the stations back to Field Enterprises. In 1983, Field sold WFLD to Metromedia as part of a company-wide liquidation. Metromedia's television stations, including WFLD, were sold to the News Corporation in 1986, and they formed the core of the new Fox Broadcasting Company.

WFLD for much of the 1970s and 1980s broadcast Chicago White Sox games, and later those of the Chicago Bulls. That was until arch-rival WGN-TV acquired broadcast rights to both teams in 1990 (Chicago-area attorney and real estate investor Jerry Reinsdorf owns both franchises). To counter-program against its more established VHF rivals, Channel 32 offered documentaries, adult dramas, Westerns, and live sports. WFLD was also noteworthy as the longtime home of the local B-movie program Svengoolie, which currently airs on rival station WCIU.

From the late 1960s to the '80s, WFLD carried a wide variety of cartoons, off-network sitcoms, old movies, a few drama shows, and local public affairs programming. It trailed WGN-TV in the ratings until the late 1970s, when it won bids to shows such as M*A*S*H, All In The Family, and Happy Days. The station finally beat WGN-TV in the ratings, and the two stations went head to head throughout the 1980s.

Under the new Fox ownership, the station continued to compete aggressively in the market. Now known on-air as FOX32, the station expanded its news presence as well. In addition to its 9pm newscast, which it has had since the early 1980s, the station started airing a morning newscast called "FOX Thing in the Morning" in place of the morning kids block.

The afternoon kids block, which became Fox Kids by 1993, continued on the station, as well as the top-rated off-network sitcoms in the evening. It also added more first-run talk shows and court shows. When Fox ended the weekday kids block in January of 2002, WFLD added more first-run reality and talk shows to the lineup.

In the mid-1990s, after many years of being known on the air as "FOX32" (or even "FOX Thirty-Two"), the station rebranded itself as "FOX Chicago" due to the fact that many Chicagoans watch WFLD via cable (Channel 12 or Channel 3 on most area cable systems).

The station is co-owned with WPWR-TV channel 50, Chicago's UPN affiliate. Fox purchased WPWR in 2002, and WPWR's operations were integrated into WFLD's facilities in downtown Chicago.

In the Fall of 2005 WFLD FOX32 dropped the Saturday Morning Cartoon Block "4 Kids TV" which now airs on UPN 50 WPWR in the same timeslot. WFLD will be adding a Saturday Morning newscast in its place from 6-9 AM (which for now sitcoms air). From 9-12 Noon they run educational children's shows pertaining to news, wildlife, and sports. WFLD is the first of the original Fox O & O stations (owned prior to the New World stations purchase) to drop Saturday Morning Fox Children's programming.

WFLD's news operation, "FOX News Chicago", has less of a tabloid feel than the news on other Fox stations. This is probably because Walter Jacobson, longtime anchor at WBBM-TV, was its main anchor from 1993 to 2005. Ho

Nintendofan

The station began life on January 4, 1966, from its downtown Chicago studios. Its founding owners were Field Enterprises, which also owned the Chicago Sun-Times and, most notably, the Marshall Field's department store chain. The station was christened the "Station of Tomorrow" by the Sun-Times in an April 1966 article because of its innovative technical developments in broadcasting its signal.

Hopefully they already bought into all the necessary color equipment by then.

Kinda sad thinking that the Marshall Field's Dept. Store chain has been bought out by whomever owns Macy's, and will become one soon if it hasn't arleady. Toledo got a Marchall Field's location a few years ago when the Hudson's department store at Franklin Park was renamed and revamped as one, but I guess we'll be seeing the Macy's name sooner or later.

Field Enterprises sold a majority ownership in WFLD to Kaiser Broadcasting in 1972, and the two companies' new partnership would see WFLD joining Kaiser's stable of UHF independent stations in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, Philadelphia, Cleveland, and Detroit.

Where I live, WKBD was the station I watched a lot from Detroit.

In 1977, Kaiser ended the partnership by selling its share of the stations back to Field Enterprises. In 1983, Field sold WFLD to Metromedia as part of a company-wide liquidation. Metromedia's television stations, including WFLD, were sold to the News Corporation in 1986, and they formed the core of the new Fox Broadcasting Company.

Wonder if WKBD was sold the same way? (Wikipedia probably has the answer, so don't tell me)

WFLD for much of the 1970s and 1980s broadcast Chicago White Sox games, and later those of the Chicago Bulls. That was until arch-rival WGN-TV acquired broadcast rights to both teams in 1990 (Chicago-area attorney and real estate investor Jerry Reinsdorf owns both franchises). To counter-program against its more established VHF rivals, Channel 32 offered documentaries, adult dramas, Westerns, and live sports. WFLD was also noteworthy as the longtime home of the local B-movie program Svengoolie, which currently airs on rival station WCIU.

Heard a bit about that show.

From the late 1960s to the '80s, WFLD carried a wide variety of cartoons, off-network sitcoms, old movies, a few drama shows, and local public affairs programming. It trailed WGN-TV in the ratings until the late 1970s, when it won bids to shows such as M*A*S*H, All In The Family, and Happy Days. The station finally beat WGN-TV in the ratings, and the two stations went head to head throughout the 1980s.

Something I wish I was a part of! Having grown up in in a medium-size market, I never had the luxury of having two indie stations competing head-to-head.

Under the new Fox ownership, the station continued to compete aggressively in the market. Now known on-air as FOX32, the station expanded its news presence as well. In addition to its 9pm newscast, which it has had since the early 1980s, the station started airing a morning newscast called "FOX Thing in the Morning" in place of the morning kids block.

WKBD operated it's 10 'o Clock News for many, many decades.

The afternoon kids block, which became Fox Kids by 1993, continued on the station, as well as the top-rated off-network sitcoms in the evening. It also added more first-run talk shows and court shows. When Fox ended the weekday kids block in January of 2002, WFLD added more first-run reality and talk shows to the lineup.

In the mid-1990s, after many years of being known on the air as "FOX32" (or even "FOX Thirty-Two"), the station rebranded itself as "FOX Chicago" due to the fact that many Chicagoans watch WFLD via cable (Channel 12 or Channel 3 on most area cable systems).

Pretty much what happened here in Toledo with our FOX station. Numbers or even call letters have less relevance in today's digital world.

The station is co-owned with WPWR-TV channel 50, Chicago's UPN affiliate. Fox purchased WPWR in 2002, and WPWR's operations were integrated into WFLD's facilities in downtown Chicago.

In the Fall of 2005 WFLD FOX32 dropped the Saturday Morning Cartoon Block "4 Kids TV" which now airs on UPN 50 WPWR in the same timeslot. WFLD will be adding a Saturday Morning newscast in its place from 6-9 AM (which for now sitcoms air). From 9-12 Noon they run educational children's shows pertaining to news, wildlife, and sports. WFLD is the first of the original Fox O & O stations (owned prior to the New World stations purchase) to drop Saturday Morning Fox Children's programming.

Shame ot read that.

WFLD's news operation, "FOX News Chicago", has less of a tabloid feel than the news on other Fox stations. This is probably because Walter Jacobson, longtime anchor at WBBM-TV, was its main anchor from