A Blast from the MeTV past........

[Mr Tony]

So scrounging around the interwebs I ran across this. The MeTV schedule (back when it was just a local Chicago station) is touting its January 1, 2007 schedule.

Notes...
-there was no AntennaTV at the time (launched 2011)...I say that because lots of those shows are/were on AntennaTV now
-this was a CHICAGO ONLY STATION (the MeTV national version launched in 2010).

Me-TV's Winter "Chill With ME" Schedule:
Effective January 1, 2007:

All times are Central

WEEKDAYS
6:00 AM "Mad About You" (replaces "Cisco Kids")
6:30 AM "The Nanny" (replaces "Lassie")
7:00 AM "The Homework Show"
7:30 AM "America's Funniest Home Videos" (replaces "The Lone Ranger")
8:00 AM "Green Acres"
8:30 AM "Green Acres" (replaces "Petticoat Junction")
9:00 AM "Perry Mason"
10:00 AM "Gunsmoke"
11:00 AM "Hawaii Five-0"
12:00 PM "In the Heat of the Night" (replaces "Charlies Angels")
1:00 PM "I Love Lucy"
1:30 PM "I Love Lucy"
2:00 PM "Family Ties" (replaces "Eight is Enough")
2:30 PM "Who's the Boss?" (replaces "Eight is Enough" cont)
3:00 PM "The Facts of Life"
3:30 PM "Diff'rent Strokes"
4:00 PM "Webster"
4:30 PM "Gimme a Break!"
5:00 PM "Good Times"
5:30 PM "Roseanne" (replaces "Batman")
6:00 PM "Roseanne" (replaces "America's Funniest Home Videos")
6:30 PM "Bewitched"
7:00 PM "Bewitched"
7:30 PM "All in the Family" (replaces "I Love Lucy")
8:00 PM "The Jeffersons" (replaces "Roseanne")
8:30 PM "The Jeffersons" (replaces "Roseanne")
9:00 PM "Sandford & Son" (replaces "The Jeffersons")
9:30 PM "Sandford & Son"
10:00 PM "Good Times"
10:30 PM "I Love Lucy" (replaces "In the Heat of the Night")
11:00 PM "The Honeymooners" (replaces "In the Heat of the Night" cont)
11:30 PM "The Untouchables"
12:30 AM "The Twilight Zone"
1:00 AM Paid Programming
1:30 AM "The Lucy Show" (replaces "One Step Beyond")
2:00 AM Paid Programming
2:30 AM "The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet" (replaces Paid Programming)
3:00 AM Paid Programming
4:00 AM "One Step Beyond" (replaces "Perry Mason")
4:30 AM "Four Star Playhouse" (replaces "Perry Mason" cont)
5:00 AM Paid Programming

SATURDAYS
11:00 AM "Kojak" (replaces "Cisco Kid"/"The Lone Ranger")
12:00 PM "Quincy, M.E." (replaces "The Wild, Wild West")
1:00 PM "Baretta" (replaces "Black Sheep Squadron")
2:00 PM "Rockford Files" (replaces "21 Jump Street")
3:00 PM "Starsky & Hutch" (replaces "The A-Team")
4:00 PM "Batman"
4:30 PM "Batman"
5:00 PM "Lost in Space"
6:00 PM "Star Trek"
7:00 PM "Maverick"
8:00 PM "The Patty Duke Show" (replaces "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour")
8:30 PM "The Patty Duke Show" (replaces "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour" con't)
9:00 PM "We Love Lucy"
9:30 PM "We Love Lucy"
10:00 PM "The Burns & Allen Show"
10:30 PM "The Jack Benny Show"
11:00 PM "The Honeymooners"
11:30 PM "The Phil Silvers Show"
12:00 AM "Get Smart"
12:30 AM "Get Smart"
1:00 AM "Svengoolie"
3:00 AM Me-TV Movie
5:00 AM Paid Programming

SUNDAYS
11:00 AM "Lost in Space" (replaces "Sunday Funny Me!"/"Little Rascals")
12:00 PM "Star Trek" (replaces "Three Stooges"/Various Cartoons)
1:00 PM Me-TV Marathon
7:00 PM Paid Programming
9:00 PM "All in the Family" (replaces "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour")
9:30 PM "All in the Family" (replaces "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour" cont)
10:00 PM "Mary Tyler Moore" (replaces "The Twilight Zone")
10:30 PM "The Bob Newhart Show" (replaces "The Twilight Zone")
11:00 PM "Rockford Files" (replaces "Star Trek")
12:00 AM "Mission: Impossible" (replaces "Lost in Space")
1:00 AM "One Step Beyond"
1:30 AM Paid Programming
2:00 AM "The Outer Limits"
3:00 AM Paid Programming
3:30 AM "You Bet Your Life" (replaces Paid Programming)
4:00 AM Paid Programming

 

[Mr Tony]

Interesting how coming upon 9 years later some of these shows are STILL on MeTV

 

[PopcornNMore]

The "Mary Tyler Moore" house is currently up for sale in Minneapolis.

 

[PopcornNMore]

Looking at that past schedule, I personally prefer the current schedule, because it has a more balanced B&W to 70's programming. I'm LOVING Antenna TV here in Pittsburgh. In the morning I can watch The Three Stooges, Hazel, Jack Benny, Burns & Allen, Mr. Ed, etc. and in the evenings I get to enjoy favorites such as Mr. Belvedere, Too Close For Comfort, All In The Family, Family Ties, One Day at a Time, etc.

 

[Mr Tony]

The "Mary Tyler Moore" house is currently up for sale in Minneapolis.

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little out of my price range

 

[Mr Tony]

just a shade under $2 million

 

[fred555]

Interesting how coming upon 9 years later some of these shows are STILL on MeTV

See when us older folks, the ones with CRS, watch a show on Monday, we can watch the same show on Tuesday and not remember it, like we never saw it before. A day later, all TV shows are new again.

One of the few benefits of getting older.

 

[DWS44]

Interesting...I didn't realize MeTV was that old! By far, my favorite of the OTA stations.

 

[Mr Tony]

Interesting...I didn't realize MeTV was that old! By far, my favorite of the OTA stations.

according to Wiki the actual MeTV station (WWME Chicago) started MeTv back in 03 as a "block format" (for a few hours a day) and went full time in 05.

 

[Larry1]

Interesting...I didn't realize MeTV was that old! By far, my favorite of the OTA stations.

The original RETROTV (RTV) was very good at the time. Bo still sits by my TV ready to watch the next classic TV show.

 

[DJdish]

The original RETROTV (RTV) was very good at the time. Bo still sits by my TV ready to watch the next classic TV show.

I agree, I think RTV was great when they had the NBC library, and shows like Marcus Welby MD, Ironside, Rockford Files, Kojak, among others, ......

 

[TNGuy84]

My local CBS affiliate used to broadcast RTV on one of their sub-channels before they changed over to Antenna TV in 2011. It did have a pretty good line-up years ago. I guess after the other classic TV broadcasters overtook them and grabbed up their share of the shows, RTV had to contend with the scraps that were left over.

 

[Jimbo]

The "Mary Tyler Moore" house is currently up for sale in Minneapolis.

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