Chicago TV Flashback - May 26-27, 1986

WBBM channel 2 TV schedule for Monday, May 26, 1986

Morning

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5a - Bill Cosby Show

5:30a - Morning Stretch

6a - Daybreak

6:30a - CBS Early Morning News

7a - CBS Morning News (2 hours)

9a - Donahue (1 hour)

10a - The $25,000 Pyramid

10:30a - Card Sharks

11a - Press Your Luck

11:30a - Young and the Restless (1 hour)

Afternoon

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12:30p - As the World Turns (1 hour)

1:30p - Capitol

2p - Guiding Light (1 hour)

3p - The Price is Right (1 hour)

4p - Hart to Hart (1 hour)

5p - Channel 2 News at 5

5:30p - CBS Evening News with Dan Rather

Evening

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6p - Channel 2 News at 6 (1 hour)

7p - Scarecrow and Mrs. King (1 hour)

8p - Kate & Allie

8:30p - Newhart

9p - Cagney & Lacey (1 hour)

10p - Channel 2: The 10 O'Clock News

10:30p - Remington Steele (1 hr, 10 min)

11:40p - CBS Late Movie: Magic on Love Island (1 hr, 20 min)

Early Tuesday, May 27, 1986

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1a - CBS News Nightwatch (4 hours)

My Life - September 15, 2025

Hey y'all, what's going on?

Last week was the 24th anniversary of the September 11 attacks where I watched documentaries of what happened on September 11th, 2001 where the twin towers of the World Trade Center collapsed along with the stories from those who were there. In addition, I watched a documentary about the hunt for Osama Bin Laden, where forces been hunting for him since the 9/11 attacks until they finally killed him on May 1, 2011. Just seven more days from the fall season as summer will be taking a hike.

Have a good one!

My Life - September 6, 2025

Hey y'all, what's going on?

Since I left the toxic but dangerous wrestling community behind 2 months ago, the sport of pro wrestling in the WWE and AEW been in a dumpster fire as of late. The reason I said that, is because a number of things in those two once popular products their either made no sense, turn my back and laugh at, or possibly both.

1. Nick Khan defends his expensive ticket prices after a fan called him out saying that the ticket prices are expensive. I have to agree with him, because the WWE, in all of its forms love to ask for money to enrich themselves and remain loyal to their dying brand.

2. MJF tells fans what they can and cannot say on social media. I don't know what he's talking about, but this is why the IWC is all about tribalism, gatekeeping and cyberbullying. If I were MJF, I'd keep his words to himself.

3. Mercedes Mone parading and showing off those 9 belts around, including the TBS Championship, has became a major turn-off for everyone since she gets paid under the table by "stat boy" Tony Khan since she signed to AEW a year ago monpolizing the women's division. Karma will bite her in the ass one day for being greedy with these championship belts.

4. Matt Riddle cost himself a spot in an indy wrestling match for the comments he made about sexual assault on women. There's absolutely no room or place for that crap and I applaud the promoter(s) for removing him from their match lineup.

5. The IWC community on social media continue to cyberbully, harass, mock and hurt those who are trying to enjoy the product for the first time. Like I said, since leaving the toxic world of social media behind after 19 years on 5 platforms, social media can kill your mental health. If you're a member of the said platform, delete your social media account(s). Or if trying to sign up and join that said platform, turn away and don't sign up to join.

Now that I got that off my chest, I'm happy that the fall season came early a few weeks ago. No more 90-degree weather or these stupid heatwaves I had run-ins with. I'm ready for warm apple cider, fallen leaves and low temps.

Have a good one!

My Life - August 27, 2025

Hey y'all, what's going on?

I want to follow you up on the cyberbullying incident on Bluesky. I sent an e-mail to the moderation staff and I already sent them the same screenshots I sent to the other e-mail address which I get no answer acting like they wanna sweep it under the rug. Here's a transcript of the e-mail I sent to the moderation staff.

And as I said before, social media platforms doesn't care about the problems and its users, these platforms care about the money and themselves to enrich themselves for financial gain. If you're against cyberbullying on social media, it's time to rise up and speak out about it.

Killer of Popular Singer Convicted - October 1995

The killer of Selena, the popular Mexican-American singer who had been shot to death in Corpus Christi, TX, in March, was convicted of murder in Houston, October 23. Selena Quintanilla Perez, who performed a music style called Tejano, had been thought to be at the point of stardom. On the day of her death she met at a motel with Yolanda Saldivar, founder of her fan club, who had been dismissed after alledgedly embezzling $30,000 from a boutique owned by Selena's family. Saldivar shot Selena fatally, and later contended that her gun had gone off by accident. The Houston jury, October 26, sentenced Saldivar to life in prison.

Programs to Be Rated for Sex, Violence - February 1996

Pres. Bill Clinton, February 8, asked television network and cable executives to come to the White House to work out a means of rating television programs that had a violent or sexual content. At the meeting with the president, February 29, the heads of 4 major networks and the leading cable companies agreed to take steps to implement use of the so-called v-chip (for "violence") that parents could install in their sets. The chip, which was mandated in the telecommunications law just passed by Congress, would "read" a program's rating, and television owners would have the option of blocking out programs with certain ratings.

Chicago TV Flashback - August 9, 1983

WLS channel 7 TV schedule for Tuesday, August 9, 1983

Morning

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5:55a - Reflections

6a - ABC News This Morning/Eyewitness News (1 hour)

7a - Good Morning America (2 hours)

9a - AM Chicago

9:30a - Edge of Night

10a - Too Close for Comfort

10:30a - Loving

11a - Family Feud

11:30a - Ryan's Hope

Afternoon

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Noon - All My Children (1 hour)

1p - One Life to Live (1 hour)

2p - General Hospital (1 hour)

3p - The 3 O'Clock Movie: Good Neighbor Sam part 1 (1 hr, 30 min)

4:30p - Eyewitness News at 4:30 (1 hour)

5:30p - World News Tonight with Peter Jennings

Evening

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6p - Eyewitness News at 6 (1 hour)

7p - 1/2 Hour Comedy Hour (Finale)

7:30p - Joanie Loves Chachi

8p - Three's Company

8:30p - 9 to 5

9p - Hart to Hart (1 hour)

10p - Eyewitness News at 10

10:30p - Nightline with Ted Koppel (1 hour)

11:30p - Late Night Movie: The Stranger (2 hrs, 10 min)

My Life - July 17, 2025

Hey y'all, what's going on?

It's been awhile since my last entry, but I want to take a few minutes of your time to talk to you about what has happened to me. The internet has became a very powerful tool for all ages since 1994 where they can learn about certain things, play online games, etc., but the internet can lead to many problems, including cyberbullying on social media platforms. I'm writing this entry to explain to you the best I can about me being the only target of cyberbullying on Bluesky.

On Monday, July 14th, two days after AEW's All In pay-per-view, I found an article about the bad conditions and problems of what happened at the annual AEW Starrcast convention in Texas. After reading the entire article, I posted the article on my Bluesky profile saying that AEW needs to do better. After that article was posted by me, I get this... (NSFW language)

These screenshots I took on the morning of July 14th, they called me names, insulted me, mocked me, and cyberbullied me. After I got about a dozen of these posts in the notifications, I wasted no time reporting, blocking and muting these users for those reasons. About 2 hours since being cyberbullied, I not only had to close my Bluesky account after 1 year being a user of this platform, but ended my time on social media after 19 years being on 5 different platforms. I'm gonna go on record in saying that history has repeated itself and it goes back 5 years on Twitter on the night of Wednesday, September 29th, 2020 where the "wrestling fans" insulted me, mocked me, calling me names and cyberbullying me for having the courage to speak up and disagree when a wrestling product goes wrong.

Because of this from the screenshots I took this week after what the "wrestling fans" in the toxic internet wrestling community aka the IWC, my mental health has hit rock bottom. I went to other sites to talk about the cyberbullying incident with others and they were shocked that I've been cyberbullied.

As of this writing, it has been three days since I left the toxic world of social media behind, and like I said, my mental health has hit rock bottom because of it. I'm also distancing myself from the wrestling channels on YouTube by unsubscribing them, and remove any playlists I had in the last 6 years.

Irish Voters End Ban on Divorce - November 1995

By a narrow margin, November 24, voters in Ireland ended the country's constitutional ban on divorce. The margin in the referendum was just 50.3% to 49.7%---only about 9,100 votes out of 1.6M cast. The issue had been intensely debated for years in the largely Roman Catholic country. The government of Prime Min. John Bruton had called for an end to the divorce ban, while the Church had urged its retention. Under Irish law, a couple could now obtain a divorce after living apart for 4 years and showing that there was no chance for a reconciliation.

Chicago TV Flashback - June 28-29, 1974

WMAQ channel 5 TV schedule for Friday, June 28, 1974

Morning

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6a - Knowledge

6:30a - Town and Farm

6:35a - Today in Chicago

7a - Today (2 hours)

9a - Dinah's Place

9:30a - Jeopardy! (Last show in this time slot)

10a - Wizard of Odds (Finale)

10:30a-  Hollywood Squares

11a - Jackpot!

11:30a - Celebrity Sweepstakes

11:55a - NBC News Update with Edwin Newman

Afternoon

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Noon - Noon Report

12:30p - Three on a Match (Finale)

1p - Days of Our Lives

1:30p - The Doctors

2p - Another World

2:30p - How to Survive a Marriage

3p - Somerset

3:30p - Mike Douglas Show (1 hr, 30 min)

5p - NewsFive at 5 (1 hour)

Evening

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6p - NBC Nightly News with John Chancellor

6:30p - Hollywood Squares

7p - Sanford and Son

7:30p - Brian Keith Show

8p - Triple Play (2 hours)

10p - NewsFive at 10

10:30p - Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson (1 hr, 30 min)

Midnight - Midnight Special (1 hr, 30 min)

Early Saturday, June 29, 1974

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1:30a - Speakeasy (1 hour)

Wizard of Odds, the first show Alex Trebek hosted on American soil after a successful career in his home country of Canada, ends its 1-year run. The highlights of the finale were three clue rounds were played along with the mid-show rounds where prizes waiting to be won if they're below the target number of 25. In the final round of play, clues in that game paid tribute to The Huntley-Brinkley Report that ran from October 29, 1956 to July 31, 1970 and it also been three months since Chet Huntley passed away on March 20th at age 62. To find out who's going to the last grand prize finale round of the series, all the players who took part in the show had their respective names on the wheel by way of defeating the current "Wizard's Champ" unless the champion stays on dethroning the players chosen from the audience gets to play the finale round by default.

The Wizard's wheel of fortune was spun for the last time, and a contestant named Dick gets to play for prizes worth $4,891 by trying to keep the target number below 55 picking out the four out of the possible seven listed. He won the washer/dryer, trip to Hawaii and the car by choosing a female horse becomes a filly at 4 years, Ginger Rogers won an Oscar for best actress, then he chose the number of movies made by the Andrews Sisters which is 22 and it's been 25 years since Rev. Billy Graham held his first ever tent revival. The others he didn't choose were the 100th running of the Kentucky Derby, the then-46-year-old famed hairstylist Vidal Sassoon, the maker of hairstyling products that bears his name, and 36 calories in a single pat of butter. He won over $5,000 in prizes after winning just one prize in the mid-show bonus game in the beginning.

Alex Trebek reminded viewers that High Rollers making its on-camera debut Monday, July 1st where contestants win prizes, cash, and trips with a roll of the dice along with a chance to play the Big Numbers round for $10,000 cash. High Rollers takes over Wizard of Odds' 10a time slot followed by Hollywood Squares.

Three on a Match, a show where players try to make matches to win prizes with a single match, earns its 3-year reward. Since there was no more time to keep playing since about 1 or 2 players came awfully close to making an instant match in the hands of the stop card being revealed, players will earn $100 for each match made where Adrienne gets $200, returning champion Eric and Carl each get $100. Not only Three on a Match ending its run, but Jeopardy! seen at its new 12:30 time slot Monday, July 1st. Also, Winning Streak will also be hosted by Bill Cullen making its on-camera debut where players can keep on doubling their money with every single word and the right letters can win them cash prizes up to $100,000. Winning Streak takes over Jeopardy! 9:30a morning time slot hereafter.