ABC Network Schedule September 12-December 26, 1972

[RALfan]

11:30 Bewitched (reruns)
12:00 Password
12:30 Split Second
1:00 All My Children
1:30 Let's Make a Deal
2:00 The Newlywed Game
2:30 The Dating Game
3:00 General Hospital
3:30 One Life to Live
4:00 Love, American Style
4:30 Local
6:30 News
7:00 Local
8:00 Temperatures Rising
8:30 Tuesday Movie of the Week
10:00 Marcus Welby, M.D.
11:00 Local
11:30 The Dick Cavett Show

Sources: The Encyclopedia of Daytime Television by Wesley Hyatt
The Complete Guide of The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows 1946 – Present
by Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh

 

[bpatrick]

Castleman and Podrazik's "The TV Schedule Book"
shows ABC News at 6. They're indicating the first
feed, since there was a lot of variation in the times
it was carried by the individual stations. For example,
where I live, WGHP/8 Greensboro/Winston-Salem/High
Point carried ABC News at 6, followed by the game show
Anything You Can Do at 6:30. WRAL/5 Raleigh/Durham,
OTOH, did its local news at 6, followed by Smith and
Reasoner at 6:30. And a little farther up the road,
Channel 7 in Washington, DC, carried ABC News at 7.

Was December 26 your cutoff date because the following
Tuesday Dick Cavett had been worked into the Wide World
Of Entertainment rotation?

 

[RALfan]

Castleman and Podrazik's "The TV Schedule Book"
shows ABC News at 6. They're indicating the first
feed, since there was a lot of variation in the times
it was carried by the individual stations. For example,
where I live, WGHP/8 Greensboro/Winston-Salem/High
Point carried ABC News at 6, followed by the game show
Anything You Can Do at 6:30. WRAL/5 Raleigh/Durham,
OTOH, did its local news at 6, followed by Smith and
Reasoner at 6:30. And a little farther up the road,
Channel 7 in Washington, DC, carried ABC News at 7.

Thanks for that bit of information. I figured that most stations, particularly on the East Coast/EST zone, aired ABC News at 6:30. BTW, where can I get a copy of "The TV Schedule Book"?

Was December 26 your cutoff date because the following
Tuesday Dick Cavett had been worked into the Wide World
Of Entertainment rotation?

Yes, as a matter of fact, it was.

 

[bpatrick]

Try looking at www.abebooks.com or www.alibris.com
for "The TV Schedule Book." Type in Castleman for
author, and TV Schedule Book for title. But don't expect
to pay less than $25.00 for a copy; the book has been
out of print for about 15 years.

As for East Coast ABC affiliates running network news
at 6 in 1972, remember that ABC wasn't as competitive
as it is now. Later in the decade, when "World News
Tonight" began to challenge CBS, Eastern ABC affiliates
tended to move the broadcast to 6:30, and the early
feed became almost the exclusive property of affiliates
in the Central time zone (5 PM). In 1982 ABC discontinued
the 6/5 Central feed.

 

[Ultimajock]

As for East Coast ABC affiliates running network news
at 6 in 1972, remember that ABC wasn't as competitive
as it is now. Later in the decade, when "World News
Tonight" began to challenge CBS, Eastern ABC affiliates
tended to move the broadcast to 6:30, and the early
feed became almost the exclusive property of affiliates
in the Central time zone (5 PM).

...in fact, in the late '60s WLUK/11 Green Bay didn't have a local early news, and they took the 5:00 Central ABC feed and filled 5:30 to 6:30 with the hour long edit of Mike Douglas' talk show...