RETRO: ALABAMA - GEORGIA, SAT. OCT. 16, 1965

[gregg75]

TV GUIDE (East Central) ALABAMA EDITION, SATURDAY OCT. 16, 1965, ALL TIMES ARE CENTRAL

MONTGOMERY
12M WSFA (NBC)
20M wcov (CBS)
26 WAIQ (EDUC.)
32M WKAB (ABC)
SELMA
8s WSLA (ABC) SELMA (provided a weak grade B signal to Montgomery)

COLUMBUS, GA.
3c WRBL (CBS,NBC) appears to be all CBS on this day
9c WTVM (ABC)

DOTHAN
4d WTVY (CBS,ABC)

PANAMA CITY, FL.
7p WJGH (NBC,ABC) appears to be all NBC on this day

(EDUC.) WDIQ 2 DOZIER/BIRMINGHAM is also listed.
Nothing broadcast this day on educational 2 or 26.

5:55
3c INVITATION FOR TOMORROW

6:00
3c CHATTAHOOCHEE R.F.D
9c GROWING SOUTH

6:30
3c CARTOONS
9c MOVIE "Come On Rangers" 1938, Roy Rogers
12M MODERN ALMANAC

7:00
3c-4d-20M CAPTAIN KANGAROO
12M EXTENSION SERVICE REVIEW

7:30
9C SATURDAY SESSION-music
12M LONE RANGER

8:00
3c-4d-20M HECKLE AND JECKLE (color)
7p-12M JETSONS (color) Bank robber hides in apartment below.

8:30
3c-4d-20M TENNESSEE TUXEDO (color)
7p-12M ATOM ANT (color)
9c FUNNY COMPANY-cartoons

9:00
3c-4d-20M MIGHTY MOUSE (color)
7p-12M SECRET SQUIRREL (color)
9c-32M SHENANIGANS-children

9:30
3c-4d-20M LINUS (color)
7p-12M UNDERDOG (color)
9c-32M BEATLES (color)-cartoon

10:00
3c-4d-20M TOM AND JERRY (color)
7p-12M TOP CAT (color)
9c-32M CASPER (color)

10:30
3c-4d-20 QUICK DRAW McGRAW (color)
7p-12M FURY-drama Fury accused of killing animals on neighboring ranches.
9c-32M PORKY PIG (color)

11:00
3c-20M SKY KING-drama Sky & Penny are held captive.
4d-9c-32M BUGS BUNNY (color)
7p-12M FIRST LOOK (color) DEBUT: This series gives youngsters a first look at "wonders of the world."

11:30
3c-4d-20M LASSIE
7p-12M EXPLORING-children (color) RETURN: New season begins with pre-Columbus America.
9c-32M MILTON THE MONSTER (color)

NOON
3c-4d-20M MY FIEND FLICKA (color) Suspicious stangers try to buy Flicka, then she is missing.
7p MOVIE "The White Squaw" 1956
9c-12M HOPPITY HOOPER (color)
12M MOVIE (to be announced)

12:30
3c-4d-20M NEWS-Schoumacher
9c-12M AMERICAN BANDSTAND (guests The Toys, Joey Paige)

1:00
3c MAVERICK "Dodge City Or Bust"
4d SHENANIGANS-children (seen at 9AM ON ABC)
12M ABOUT PETS
20M MAGILLA GORILLA

1:30
4d HOPPITY HOOPER (not listed as color although the noon Hoppity was)
7p FLORIDA MUSIC
8M MOVIE (to be announced)
9C MOVIE "Tarzan And The She-Devil" 1953, Lex Barker, Monique Van Vooren
12M GREAT MOMENTS IN MUSIC
20M PETER POTAMUS-cartoon
32M MOVIE (to be announced)

1:45
12M FILM SHORT

2:00
3c-7p-12M COLLEGE FOOTBALL (color) Texas vs. Arkansas.
4d CASPER (not listed as color, seen at 10AM on ABC)
26M BILLY GRAMMER-variety

2:30
4d PORKY PIG (not listed as color, seen at 10:30AM ON ABC)
20M BIG PICTURE-Army

3:00
4d AMERICAN BANDSTAND (guest Steve Alamo, Derk Martin)
8s (comes on the air) WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS Judo and the Pendleton,Oregon Roundup Rodeo.
9c WRESTLING-local
20M CHAMPIONSHIP BOWLING

3:30
32M COMPASS

4:00
4d-20M NFL COUNTDOWN Films of last weeks games.
9c SHINDIG-music (Evie Sands, Charlie Rich, Bobby Sherman, Mily Preston, Dee Dee Sharp and the Kinks)
32M WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS Auto demolition, Ireland Hurling Championship.

4:30
8s FRONTIERS IN SCIENCE
9c GLENN REEVES-music

4:45
4d FILM SHORT
12M TO BE ANNOUNCED

5:00
3c JIM AND JESSE-music
4d WRESTLING-local
7p FOOTBALL SCOREBOARD
8s LITTLE RASCALS
12M PORTER WAGONER
20M SINGIN' TIME IN DIXIE

5:15
7p GREAT MOMENTS IN MUSIC

5:30
3c MUNSTERS "Herman, Coach Of The Year."
7p SPORTS- Earl Hutto
12M WILBURN BROTHERS
32M SPORTS HIGHLIGHTS

5:45
7p NEWS-local
8s FOOTBALL SCOREBOARD

6:00
3c-12M NEWS, SPORTS, WEATHER
4d GENE RAGAN-agriculture
7p CIRCUS BOY
8s FILM FEATURE
9c PORTER EAGONER
20M MY MOTHER, THE CAR Dave neglects to set the parking brake and mother rolls into an open van headed for Mexico.
32M FILM SHORT-travel

6:15
32M NEWS

6:30
3c-4d-20M JACKIE GLEASON
7p-9c-12M FLIPPER (color) Scuba diver poacher sets off an explosion which injures Flipper.
8s SHINDIG-music (Billy Joe Royal, Gerry And The Pacemakers, Foup Tops, The Who make their American TV debut)
32M SHINDIG-music (Peter And Gordon, Lovin' Spoonful, Glen Campbell)

7:00
7p-12M I DREAM OF JEANNIE Jeannie joins the WAFs.
8s-9c-32M KING FAMILY-music

7:30
3c-20M TRIALS OF O'BRIEN
4d THE F.B.I.
7p-12M GET SMART (color)
8s-9c-12M LAWRENCE WELK (color)

8:00
7p-12M SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (color) "Boys Night Out" 1962, Kim Novak, James Garner, Tony Randall, Patti Page, Jim Backus.

8:30
3c-4d-20M LONER-western
8s HOLLYWOOD PALACE (not listed as in color) Bing Cosby, Louis Armstrong.
9c-32M HOLLYWOOD PALACE (color) Frank Sanatra, Count Basie.

9:00
3c-4d-20M GUNSMOKE Prospector Jeb Carter strikes it rich and hires a body guard to protect his wealth.

9:30
8s RACKET SQUAD
9c MOVIE "Valley Of The Kings" (color) 1954.
32M ABC SCOPE Report on unwed mothers in the U.S.

10:00
3c MOVIE "Battle Hym" 1956, Rock Hudson
4d RAWHIDE
8s MOVIE "Fangs Of The Artic" 1953.
20M MOVIE "From Hell It Came" 1957.
32M NEWS AND SPORTS

10:15
7p NEWS, WEATHER
12M NEWS, SPORTS, WEATHER
32M MOVIE "Maytime" 1937, Janette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy.

10:30
7p MOVIE "The Garden Of Allah" 1936, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Boyer.

10:45
12M MOVIE "The Night Runner" 1957.

11:00
4d MOVIE "Attack Of The Crab Monster" 1957, Russell Johnson.

11:25
20M NEWS

12:00
4d NEWS

12:15
12M NEWS

 

[gregg75]

I found Dozier in south Alabama. Somehow I thought it was around Birmingham. It's closer to
Dothan.

 

[gregg75]

A few typos.

NOON 12M MOVIE should be 32M

1:30 8M MOVIE should be 8s (that's when they began broadcasting for the day)

2:00 26M should be 20M

It appears that 4 Dothan (CBS) aired some ABC cartoons in early
afternoon, but not in color.

 

[bpatrick]

This is the edition that became the Southern Alabama Edition;
same stations plus a few that signed on later (like WLTZ Columbus,
WDHN Dothan, WMBB Panama City).

WDIQ was part of what is now Alabama Public Television, and I can
never recall it deviating from WBIQ Birmingham's schedule, although
it might have occasionally and I just don't know about it.

Dozier is fairly close to Dothan, in south-central Alabama, and WDIQ
is sometimes considered to be an Andalusia station. A station which
came later, WGIQ/43 Texasville (Barbour County, George Wallace's
home county), is closer to Dothan than WDIQ. Interestingly, the newest
APT station, WIIQ/41 Demopolis, was never listed in the Southern Alabama
Edition but was carried in the South Mississippi Edition.

 

[Charles1]

Did subscribers to TV Guide in Demopolis receive the Southern Alabama edition or the Southern Mississippi edition? IIRC, Channel 11 in Meridian at one time identified themselves as Meridian-Demopolis.

 

[azumanga]

A station which
came later, WGIQ/43 Texasville (Barbour County, George Wallace's
home county), is closer to Dothan than WDIQ.

I thought WGIQ was licensed to Louisville?

 

[Charles1]

A station which
came later, WGIQ/43 Texasville (Barbour County, George Wallace's
home county), is closer to Dothan than WDIQ.

I thought WGIQ was licensed to Louisville?

The on-air ID was "WGIQ, Louisville, also serving Texasville"

 

[azumanga]

A station which
came later, WGIQ/43 Texasville (Barbour County, George Wallace's
home county), is closer to Dothan than WDIQ.

I thought WGIQ was licensed to Louisville?

The on-air ID was "WGIQ, Louisville, also serving Texasville"

Yet ignoring Dothan.

 

[Mike Stroud]

A station which
came later, WGIQ/43 Texasville (Barbour County, George Wallace's
home county), is closer to Dothan than WDIQ.

I thought WGIQ was licensed to Louisville?

The on-air ID was "WGIQ, Louisville, also serving Texasville"

Yet ignoring Dothan.

Ah, those two metropolises of Texasville and Louisville. Lousville (that's "LEWIS-ville"; not "LOO-EE-ville" or "LOO-UH-ville" as in Kentucky) has a whopping 612 residents (as of 2000 Census), while Texasville boasts an unknown number of people, since it is apparently unincorporated. Boy, the FCC must have had big dreams when it assigned the license to those two booming towns (!!!)

 

[Mike Stroud]

This is the edition that became the Southern Alabama Edition;
same stations plus a few that signed on later (like WLTZ Columbus,
WDHN Dothan, WMBB Panama City).

WDIQ was part of what is now Alabama Public Television, and I can
never recall it deviating from WBIQ Birmingham's schedule, although
it might have occasionally and I just don't know about it.

Dozier is fairly close to Dothan, in south-central Alabama, and WDIQ
is sometimes considered to be an Andalusia station. A station which
came later, WGIQ/43 Texasville (Barbour County, George Wallace's
home county), is closer to Dothan than WDIQ. Interestingly, the newest
APT station, WIIQ/41 Demopolis, was never listed in the Southern Alabama
Edition but was carried in the South Mississippi Edition.

Reason for WIIQ showing up there, bp, of course was the fact that Demopolis and the Alabama River region were assigned to the Meridian, Mississippi market. All of that was too far away from Birmingham/Tuscaloosa, Montgomery, or Mobile, a kind of "dead spot" insofar as Alabama media coverage is concerned. Areas like the Alabama "Black Belt," which are to this day pretty impoverished, were a strong priority for PBS, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and Alabama Public Television back in the day, as the only other media serving that population were small-town papers and radio stations. It took until 1971, but it finally came.

 

[Charles1]

A station which
came later, WGIQ/43 Texasville (Barbour County, George Wallace's
home county), is closer to Dothan than WDIQ.

I thought WGIQ was licensed to Louisville?

The on-air ID was "WGIQ, Louisville, also serving Texasville"

Yet ignoring Dothan.

Ah, those two metropolises of Texasville and Louisville. Lousville (that's "LEWIS-ville"; not "LOO-EE-ville" or "LOO-UH-ville" as in Kentucky) has a whopping 612 residents (as of 2000 Census), while Texasville boasts an unknown number of people, since it is apparently unincorporated. Boy, the FCC must have had big dreams when it assigned the license to those two booming towns (!!!)

Don't forget, though: George Wallace was from Barbour County, where those two metropolises are located. And even though the assignment of TV allocations isn't at the behest of demagogic politicians, don't think that he didn't have some influence. Also, by licensing the station to Barbour County, WGIQ is able to provide at least Grade-B coverage to the Alabama side of the Columbus, GA DMA.

 

[bpatrick]

Unless said politician's name is Lyndon Johnson; Lady Bird's
KTBC was the only station in Austin until he left the White House.