Around Eastern North Carolina Saturday, August 24, 1963

[bpatrick]

From the Raleigh News and Observer. WVEC/13
(ABC) Norfolk, VA was not listed at the time.
WNBE (now WCTI)/12 (ABC) New Bern would sign
on two weeks later. Norfolk stations are on
EDT; North and South Carolina, on EST.

RALEIGH/DURHAM

WRAL Ch. 5 (ABC/NBC, some CBS)

7:30 Movie
9 AM Cartoons
10 AM Shari Lewis
10:30 Bozo The Clown
11 AM Cartoonies
11:30 Beany And Cecil
12 N Bugs Bunny
12:30 Magic Land Of Allakazam
1 PM My Friend Flicka
1:30 Dance Party
2:30 Movie
4 PM Wide World Of Sports
5:30 Wrestling
6:30 Wilburn Brothers
7 PM Grand Ole Opry
7:30 Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour
8:30 Hootenanny
9 PM Lawrence Welk
10 PM Fight Of The Week
10:45 Make That Spare (time approximate)
11 PM News
11:15 Movie

WTVD Ch. 11 (CBS/NBC)

7 AM Lost City (I think this was from
The Perils of Nyoka serial, which
Ch. 11 ran a lot back in the day.)
7:30 Ruff And Reddy
8 AM Fury
8:30 King Leonardo
9 AM Captain Kangaroo
10 AM Alvin Show
10:30 Mighty Mouse
11 AM Rin Tin Tin
11:30 Roy Rogers
12 N Sky King
12:30 Sportsview
12:45 Baseball (not given but Sunday's game
on CBS was White Sox-Yankees, so I
suspect this is the Saturday game as well)
3:30 Ivanhoe (time approximate)
4 PM Movie
5:30 Report From...
6 PM Walt Disney's Wonderful World Of
Color
7 PM To Tell The Truth
7:30 Sam Benedict
8:30 The Defenders
9:30 Have Gun, Will Travel
10 PM Gunsmoke
11 PM News
11:15 Country Style

GREENVILLE/WASHINGTON

WITN Ch. 7 (NBC/ABC)

8 AM Hospitality House
9 AM Clutch Cargo
9:30 Ruff And Reddy
10 AM Shari Lewis
10:30 King Leonardo
11 AM Fury
11:30 Make Room For Daddy
12 N Cartoons
1 PM Movie
2 PM Baseball (again, not listed,
but NBC's Sunday game was
Red Sox-Indians, so this may
have been the Saturday game as well)
4:30 Movie (time approximate)
6 PM NBC News
6:15 Bar 7 Roundup (country music)
7 PM Tightrope
7:30 Sam Benedict
8:30 Joey Bishop
9 PM NBC Movie
11:30 News
11:45 Movie

WNCT Ch. 9 (CBS/ABC)

9 AM Captain Kangaroo
10 AM Bugs Bunny
10:30 Mighty Mouse
11 AM Rin Tin Tin
11:30 Roy Rogers
12 N Sky King
12:30 CBS News
12:45 Baseball (CBS game)
3:30 Big Picture (time approximate)
4 PM Wide World Of Sports
5:30 I Led Three Lives
6 PM Mr. District Attorney
6:30 Highway Patrol
7 PM Leave It To Beaver
7:30 Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour
8:30 The Defenders
9:30 Have Gun, Will Travel
10 PM Gunsmoke
11 PM News
11:15 Naked City

WILMINGTON

WECT Ch. 6 (NBC/CBS/ABC)

8 AM Children's Gospel Hour
8:30 Light (nothing else given)
9:30 Ruff And Reddy
10 AM Shari Lewis
10:30 King Leonardo
11 AM Fury
11:30 Make Room For Daddy
12 N Teen Canteen
12:45 Baseball (CBS game)
3:30 Talent Party (time approximate)
4 PM Wide World Of Sports
5:30 Hootenanny
6 PM Country Cousins
6:30 News
7 PM TBA
7:30 Sam Benedict
8:30 McHale's Navy
9 PM NBC Movie
11:30 Movie

NORFOLK, VA

WTAR Ch. 3 (CBS)

7:30 Comedy Time
9 AM Captain Kangaroo
10 AM Alvin Show
10:30 Mighty Mouse
11 AM Rin Tin Tin
11:30 Roy Rogers
12 N Sky King
12:30 CBS News
1 PM Sports (local)
1:45 Baseball
5 PM Lone Ranger (time approximate)
5:30 Marshall (I don't know if this is
U.S. Marshal, Marshal Dillon, or
something else altogether)
6 PM Californians
6:30 Contact
7 PM Lloyd Bridges (drama anthology
that aired on CBS Tuesday 8 PM)
7:30 Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour
8:30 The Defenders
9:30 Have Gun, Will Travel
10 PM Gunsmoke
11 PM News
11:20 Movie

WAVY Ch. 10 (NBC)

6:30 Farm Report
7 AM Bugs Bunny (more than likely this
is not the ABC show, which probably
aired at noon on WVEC)
7:30 Pirates Den
8:30 Shipwreck
9 AM Super Car
9:30 Ruff And Reddy
10 AM Shari Lewis
10:30 King Leonardo
11 AM Fury
11:30 Make Room For Daddy
12 N Mr. Wizard
12:30 Highway Patrol
1 PM Movie
3 PM Baseball
there may be a gap at 5:30
6:30 Wrestling
7:30 Sam Benedict
8:30 Joey Bishop
9 PM NBC Movie
11:30 News
12 M Movie
1:30 News

FLORENCE, SC

WBTW Ch. 13 (CBS/ABC)

8 AM Bozo The Clown
8:30 Super Car
9 AM Captain Kangaroo
10 AM Alvin Show
10:30 Mighty Mouse
11 AM Rin Tin Tin
11:30 Roy Rogers
12 N Sky King
12:30 CBS News
12:45 Baseball
3:30 Movie (time approximate)
5 PM Wide World Of Sports
6:30 News
6:50 Sports
7 PM McHale's Navy
7:30 Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour
8:30 The Defenders
9:30 Have Gun, Will Travel
10 PM Gunsmoke
11 PM Movie

I'm going out on a limb and guess that CBS did
a half-hour newscast at 12:30 (EDT), then an
abbreviated one at 12:30 (EST).

I don't recall if Wide World Of Sports aired at
5 PM (EDT)/4 PM (EST), but given the number of
stations airing it at 4 (WFMY also did this before,
and even after, WGHP signed on and pre-empted it),
that might have been the case.

 

[Joseph_Gallant]

B. Patrick asks:

> I don't recall if "Wide World Of Sports" aired at
> 5 PM (EDT)/4 PM (EST), but given the number of
> stations airing it at 4 (WFMY also did this before,
> and even after, WGHP signed on and pre-empted it),
> that might have been the case.

Indeed it did.

During it's first Summer on the air (April-September, 1961), "Wide World" aired for two hours from 5 to 7 P.M. EDT Saturdays. During that first Summer, the then-ABC station here in Boston (WNAC-7) aired "Wide World" on Sunday afternoons, the day after most of the rest of the network showed it. The ABC affiliate in Manchester, New Hampshire (WMUR-9) and Providence station WJAR-10 (which although a primary NBC affiliate, did air some ABC programs until January 1, 1963, when WTEV-6, now WLNE, signed-on to give the network a fulltime affiliate in the market) both aired "Wide World" in-pattern on Saturdays at 5 P.M.

When it returned in early 1962, it was broadcast on Saturdays from 5 to 6:30 P.M. EDT (EST when the entire country was on Standard time) until the mid-1980's, when it was moved to 4:30-6 P.M. EDT/EST.