"The Lucy Show" on the Air in Washington, DC

[NCVARick]

If you live in the Washington, DC area, tune in weekdays at 10:00 AM to WUSA, Channel 9, the local CBS affiliate, which is now running "The Lucy Show." "Cheers" follows at 10:30.

[joan davis fan]

I think its great that channel 9 WUSA is now airing The Lucy Show and Cheers in the 10am-11am slot.

However I read elsewhere that WUSA is looking at "revamping" its low rated morning block. Will this effect The Lucy Show and Cheers? Too soon to say. I am willing to bet however that 9 will go back into either the talk show arena or extend/move their "eyewitness news" into the 10am zone by summer. Hope I am wrong though.

Channel 9 has does have a "history" of changing things at the last minute. WUSA ( then WDVM ) for example back in the 80s carried the CBS 10am game show block( $100,000 Prymid and Press Your Luck ) to replace the long forgotten "Morning Break" talk show. Then after a few weeks of the games 9 started to air a "new" talk show with the same host as Morning Break in its 10am slot.

9 has in the past pre-empted The Price is Right for reruns of Hawaii 5-0 and Rich Man Poor Man. Even at times CBS's primetime line-up to air specials like "save the children" , "world vision" even their own programs like the history of Alaska, which pre-empted Murder She Wrote which happened a few times.

But that was then and this is now. Channel 9 for years was the only game in town for CBS on many cable systems and as a result WUSA took advantage of it by blocking out some CBS shows for shows of its own, but with the great Baltimore channel switch-a-roo of 1995 with CBS going to WJZ channel 13 ( carried on many systems in VA,MD and even West Virginia ) and with WTVR channel 6 ( Richmond's CBS ) being added on many systems
in northen Virginia ( Front Royal, Winchester, Fredericksburg, Culpepper for example )
maybe history wont repeat itself.

[NCVARick]

I didn't realize WUSA had such a history of abrupt changes to its schedule. But frankly, that seems to be what happened when "The Lucy Show" and "Cheers" showed up a few weeks ago. They were running one of those new talk shows, Inanya (or however it's spelled), then I read in the paper that show was struggling to get ratings. Then all of a sudden, it's gone and there's "The Lucy Show" and "Cheers" in its place.

Originally posted by joan davis fan
I think its great that channel 9 WUSA is now airing The Lucy Show and Cheers in the 10am-11am slot.

However I read elsewhere that WUSA is looking at "revamping" its low rated morning block. Will this effect The Lucy Show and Cheers? Too soon to say. I am willing to bet however that 9 will go back into either the talk show arena or extend/move their "eyewitness news" into the 10am zone by summer. Hope I am wrong though.

Channel 9 has does have a "history" of changing things at the last minute. WUSA ( then WDVM ) for example back in the 80s carried the CBS 10am game show block( $100,000 Prymid and Press Your Luck ) to replace the long forgotten "Morning Break" talk show. Then after a few weeks of the games 9 started to air a "new" talk show with the same host as Morning Break in its 10am slot.

9 has in the past pre-empted The Price is Right for reruns of Hawaii 5-0 and Rich Man Poor Man. Even at times CBS's primetime line-up to air specials like "save the children" , "world vision" even their own programs like the history of Alaska, which pre-empted Murder She Wrote which happened a few times.

But that was then and this is now. Channel 9 for years was the only game in town for CBS on many cable systems and as a result WUSA took advantage of it by blocking out some CBS shows for shows of its own, but with the great Baltimore channel switch-a-roo of 1995 with CBS going to WJZ channel 13 ( carried on many systems in VA,MD and even West Virginia ) and with WTVR channel 6 ( Richmond's CBS ) being added on many systems
in northen Virginia ( Front Royal, Winchester, Fredericksburg, Culpepper for example )
maybe history wont repeat itself.

[joan davis fan]

Originally posted by NCVARick
I didn't realize WUSA had such a history of abrupt changes to its schedule. But frankly, that seems to be what happened when "The Lucy Show" and "Cheers" showed up a few weeks ago. They were running one of those new talk shows, Inanya (or however it's spelled), then I read in the paper that show was struggling to get ratings. Then all of a sudden, it's gone and there's "The Lucy Show" and "Cheers" in its place.

Another example of WUSA/WDVM's sudden schedule changes back in the 80s channel 9 didnt air very much of the CBS Saturday morning line-up either. Instead of cartoons they aired some magazine style show plus "In our Lives" a very poorly done show for teenagers. I remember ( I was 13 at the time ) going with my mother to work just so I can watch Bugs Bunny. They were able to get Baltimore's channel 11 which was then CBS.

As I said earlier I myself think its great that 9 is airing Lucy Show and Cheers but I wouldnt be surprised to see them gone by summer.

Another DC area station that has gone downhill is WTTG-FOX 5.
Back in the 80s 5 used to carry I Love Lucy, Beaver, Hazel, Andy Griffith, The Ropers, Three's Company, Alice, One Day at a Time, Love Boat, Medical Center, even the classic Perry Mason and Love American Style. And channel 20 WDCA had Hogans Heroes, Carol Burnett, Good Times, Sanford and Son, The Bionic Woman, Charlie's Angels, Gilligans Island and Whats Happening. Heck , at that time even Baltimore's channel 45 was available in many areas and they carried a mix of shows seen on 5 and 20, they also carried Rat Patrol, Gomer Pyle, F-Troop and the Lucy Show.

Now those were the days!!!!