Retro: Alabama, July 30, 1970

[DM601]

(Source: The Anniston Star, then-owner of WHMA-TV)

ANNISTON
WHMA-TV 40 (CBS, NBC)
AM
6:30 Music
7 CBS Morning News
8 Captain Kangaroo
9 Lucy Show
9:30 Beverly Hillbillies
10 Andy Griffith
10:30 Love of Life
11 Where The Heart Is
11:30 Search for Tomorrow
PM
12 News
12:05 By The Way
12:30 As The World Turns
1 Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
1:30 Guiding Light
2 Secret Storm
2:30 Edge of Night
3 Gomer Pyle
3:30 America Sings
4 Cousin Cliff
5 Cisco Kid & Batman (alternate) – “alternate” as listed on schedule
5:30 News (unfortunately, it doesn’t say which network – but I’d guess CBS based on the rest of this schedule)
6 News, Weather, Sports (obviously their local news)
6:30 Family Affair
7 Happy Days (featuring Duke Ellington, an old Betty Boop cartoon and Bob & Ray)
8 CBS Thursday Night Movie: “The Law and Jake Wade”
10 News (with Paul Harvey at 10:15)
10:30 Merv Griffin

BIRMINGHAM (Channel 42 not included in listings)
WBRC-TV 6 (ABC)
AM
4:30 The World Around Us
5 Religious Programs
5:25 Morning Devotionals
5:30 News
5:35 Farm Market Reports
5:50 Country Boy Eddie
6 News
6:05 Country Boy Eddie
6:30 News
6:35 Country Boy Eddie
7 News
7:05 Morning Show
7:30 News
7:35 Morning Show
8 News
8:05 Morning Show
8:25 Young People’s World
8:30 Bullwinkle
8:55 News
9 Flintstones
9:25 News
9:30 All My Children
10 Bewitched
10:30 That Girl
11 The Best of Everything
11:30 A World Apart
PM
12 News
12:30 Let’s Make A Deal
1 Newlywed Game
1:30 Dating Game
2 General Hospital
2:30 One Life To Live
3 Dark Shadows
3:30 Movie (title not given)
5 I Love Lucy
5:30 News
5:45 Alabama Newsreel
6 Rawhide
7 That Girl
7:30 Bewitched
8 This Is Tom Jones
9 The Survivors
10 News
10:30 Wagon Train
12M Dick Cavett
1:30 Devotional Message
1:35 News

WBIQ 7 (ETV)
PM
3 Sesame Street
4 Misterogers
4:30 Friendly Giant
4:45 Nellie’s Way
5 Readiness For Learning
5:30 Data Processing
6 Electronics and the Radio Amateur
6:30 Today’s Home
7 Washington Week In Review
7:30 NET Playhouse: “A Passage to India” (From BBC)
9 Waterways
9:30 Focus

WAPI-TV 13 (NBC)
AM
5:30 Awake! Campus Forum
6 TV Partyline
7 Today
9 It Takes Two
9:25 NBC News
9:30 Concentration
10 Sale Of The Century
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11 Jeopardy
11:30 Who, What, When, Where Game
11:55 NBC News
PM
12 News
12:15 Mid-Day Show
12:30 Life With Linkletter
1 Days Of Our Lives
1:30 The Doctors
2 Another World – Bay City
2:30 Bright Promise
3 Another World – Somerset
3:30 Sewing Show
3:40 Movie (title not given)
5 News
5:30 NBC News
6 News
6:30 Daniel Boone
7:30 Ironside
8:30 Dragnet
9 Dean Martin
10 The Bold Ones
11 Dateline (late local news)
11:30 Tonight Show

HUNTSVILLE
(No listings for WMSL-TV Decatur, ABC affiliate)
WHNT 19 (CBS)
AM
5:30 Crossroads 19 (with 5-minute news at 6 and 6:25)
6:50 News
7 Mornin’ Folks
7:25 Story of Jesus
7:30 Kiddie Korner
7:55 Weather
8-noon CBS programming (see ch. 40 above)
PM
12 News
12:11 Farm Market Report
12:15 Woman’s Page
12:25 Weather
12:30-3 CBS soaps (see ch. 40 above)
3 Gomer Pyle (CBS)
3:30 Fashions in Sewing
3:40 Popeye
4 Action Theater (title not given)
5:30 CBS News
6 News
6:30 CBS prime-time schedule (see ch. 40 above)
10 News
10:30 Merv Griffin
12M News

WAAY-TV 31 (NBC)
AM
6 The Big Picture
6:30 America’s Problems and Challenges
7 Today
9 Coffee Break
9:30-noon NBC game shows (see ch. 13 above)
PM
12 It Takes Two (from 9 a.m.)
12:25 Paul Harvey
12:30-3:30 NBC soaps (see ch. 13 above)
3:30 Three Stooges
4 I Love Lucy
4:30 Perry Mason
5:30 NBC News
6 News (with Paul Harvey at 6:18)
6:30-10 NBC prime time (see ch. 13 above)
10 News (with Paul Harvey at 10:15)
10:30 Tonight

 

[bpatrick]

Thanks for the memories, since I was living
in Birmingham at the time. I keep thinking
that, at one point, Channel 40 carried Cronkite
at 6, but from the way you have their schedule
listed, I don't think it was in July 1970.

This was after Channel 13 became full-time NBC
and Channels 40 and 42, full-time CBS, yet I see
"The Bold Ones" listed on delay on 13. I don't
remember now, so what did 13 carry on Sundays
at 9 (CT), when "The Bold Ones" aired on NBC?

If you have any more, especially from fall 1972 to
the end of 1979, I'd love to see them.

 

[ohstuskaterpunk]

From wikipedia:

When WBMG-TV (channel 42, now WIAT) started telecasting in 1965, it nominally had a CBS affiliation, but CBS allowed WAPI-TV to continue airing its higher-rated programming. This was largely because WBMG had only started one year after the Federal Communications Commission required that new television sets include all-channel tuning. To fill out the schedule, WBMG aired some NBC programming that WAPI-TV turned down (such as The Tonight Show). Both stations listed "CBS/NBC" as their affiliation. However, in May 1970, for a number of reasons, WAPI-TV became the exclusive NBC affiliate, sending all of CBS's programming to WBMG. At the same time that channel 13 became an exclusive affiliate of NBC and WBMG aligned with CBS, WCFT in Tuscaloosa, Alabama (33)and WHMA in Anniston, Alabama (40) also affiliated with CBS. Prior to that time, the primetime schedule of WCFT and WHMA virtually mirrored that of WBMG.

 

[rwells2265]

(Source: The Anniston Star, then-owner of WHMA-TV)

ANNISTON
WHMA-TV 40 (CBS, NBC)

4 Cousin Cliff

"Cousin" Cliff Holman passed away Monday evening (Sept. 8th). He'd suffered from Alzheimer's in recent years.

He was on then WAPI-TV 13 for much of his career, and left the station in August 1969 after Channel 13 moved his daily hour-long Popeye/Three Stooges show from its live 4 PM timeslot to a 30-minute tape-delay at 8:30 in the morning.

From there he went to Anniston to help put Channel 40 on the air. In addition to serving as WHMA-TV's Promotion Director, he was able to again have a live afternoon show. But even 40 couldn't keep up that kind of program, and The Cousin Cliff Show ended late in 1972.

--Russell