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Cartoons in primetime

You're forgiven for your self-correction, bpatrick. ;)

Those "new" Flintstones eps from '81 IIRC had a slightly modified version of the '62-'66 opening. I watched 2 or 3. I agree, they were lousy. Who can forget Fred, Barney and the wives at the roller disco, especially when disco was falling out of vogue daily by 1981? :eek: The episode guest starring the Beau Brummelstones singing "Laugh Laugh" on Jimmy O'Neillstone's Shinrock (over the Abbadabba Broadcasting Co.) was more "in". ;D

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bpatrick said:
As for the affiliation situation, we'd had three back in '56 and '57: WRAL was NBC,
WTVD was ABC, and WNAO/28 was CBS. WNAO folded early in '58, WTVD picked up
a CBS primary affiliation/ABC secondary, and WRAL began airing NBC primary/ABC
secondary by 1959.

We did get The Flintstones and Bugs Bunny on delay until WRAL became the exclusive
ABC affiliate on August 1, 1962 (as well as most of the more popular non-animated
ABC shows); we did get a few "live" clearances such as The Fight Of The Week on
WRAL before 8/1/62.
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I have a TV Guide covering Raleigh/Durham from the years before each network got its own station. The situation was a real mess. Each station aired a bunch of shows pretty much whenever it wanted. The shows aired at different times than they aired everywhere else didn't necessarily correspond to any pattern. You couldn't really identify a show based on its network.

Then there was Wimington, whose NBC affiliate aired CBS soaps. That's all the CBS programming they had there, I guess.
 
Braves2005 said:
Another animated show that CBS aired was Where's Huddles? about a football team and aired in 1970-1971 that aired on Sunday afternoons and briefly in primetime.
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That reminds me of "The Hair Bear Bunch".
 
vchimpanzee said:
bpatrick said:
As for the affiliation situation, we'd had three back in '56 and '57: WRAL was NBC,
WTVD was ABC, and WNAO/28 was CBS. WNAO folded early in '58, WTVD picked up
a CBS primary affiliation/ABC secondary, and WRAL began airing NBC primary/ABC
secondary by 1959.

We did get The Flintstones and Bugs Bunny on delay until WRAL became the exclusive
ABC affiliate on August 1, 1962 (as well as most of the more popular non-animated
ABC shows); we did get a few "live" clearances such as The Fight Of The Week on
WRAL before 8/1/62.
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I have a TV Guide covering Raleigh/Durham from the years before each network got its own station. The situation was a real mess. Each station aired a bunch of shows pretty much whenever it wanted. The shows aired at different times than they aired everywhere else didn't necessarily correspond to any pattern. You couldn't really identify a show based on its network.

Then there was Wimington, whose NBC affiliate aired CBS soaps. That's all the CBS programming they had there, I guess.
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And it was actually a bigger mess when WTVD was carrying CBS and NBC (1962-71); as I (and maybe a few others have pointd out), it was the "new" 28, WRDU (now WRDC), that put an end to the dual-affiliation thing. In the late '60s WTVD was carrying NBC's movie on Saturday nights, while WRDU had the CBS block of "Hogan's Heroes," "Petticoat Junction," and "Mannix." WFMY Greensboro was showing up in the Raleigh/Durham ratings book because enough people were switching to it to watch the three CBS shows. Same thing happened on Sunday: WTVD carried "Bonanza" instead of the Smothers Brothers, 28 got the brothers, and WFMY showed up in the Raleigh/Durham ratings book again. 28 cried foul, went to the FCC, and WTVD was forced to take either CBS or NBC (it chose CBS).

As for Wilmington, WECT carried "As The World Turns" and "Edge Of Night" for years (in fact, it carried all the CBS soaps except "Love Of Life" for a time in the late '60s); it also carried CBS's NFL games (this was Redskins country before the Panthers came along). In the '50s it had a few other CBS offerings, such as Douglas Edwards' newscast, "The Millionaire," and "I've Got A Secret," but it phased out CBS over the '60s and early '70s. I wish, though, that the new NBC station in Myrtle Beach, WMBF, had allowed Time Warner Cable to keep WECT, if only out of tradition: it was the de facto NBC affiliate for the Grand Strand for more than 50 years. But I suppose viewers in Myrtle Beach don't care; I think WMBF is doing fairly well.
 
When Channel 26 in Wilmington bolted CBS for Fox in 2000, WRAL's owners put CBS on low-power WILM-TV almost immediately. A missed opportunity for WFMY to gain a few more cable systems...

As for the former WPTF-TV - one of the most turbulent histories of a television station I have ever heard.
 
bpatrick said:
And it was actually a bigger mess when WTVD was carrying CBS and NBC (1962-71); as I (and maybe a few others have pointd out), it was the "new" 28, WRDU (now WRDC), that put an end to the dual-affiliation thing. In the late '60s WTVD was carrying NBC's movie on Saturday nights, while WRDU had the CBS block of "Hogan's Heroes," "Petticoat Junction," and "Mannix." WFMY Greensboro was showing up in the Raleigh/Durham ratings book because enough people were switching to it to watch the three CBS shows. Same thing happened on Sunday: WTVD carried "Bonanza" instead of the Smothers Brothers, 28 got the brothers, and WFMY showed up in the Raleigh/Durham ratings book again. 28 cried foul, went to the FCC, and WTVD was forced to take either CBS or NBC (it chose CBS).
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This is actually what I was referring to. I should get that TV Guide out and post the list, but that's too much trouble.
 
DToTheJ said:
When Channel 26 in Wilmington bolted CBS for Fox in 2000, WRAL's owners put CBS on low-power WILM-TV almost immediately. A missed opportunity for WFMY to gain a few more cable systems...

As for the former WPTF-TV - one of the most turbulent histories of a television station I have ever heard.
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Channel 26 bolted for Fox when they got the NFC contract in 1994. WILM did not become a CBS affiliate until 2000. In the Wilmington market between 1994 and 2000 their choices for CBS were WRAL in Raleigh, WNCT in Greenville, NC or WBTW in Florence, SC.
 
See, I thought that it was earlier... That's what I get for trusting Wikipedia... :mad:

vchimpanzee said:
I should get that TV Guide out and post the list, but that's too much trouble.
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Actually, there's hundreds of days of television station listings posted on the Classic TV board. I'm sure a few dozen will be interested in seeing a day of listings from that time and that area - myself included... ;)
 
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