Retro: Asheville, NC Saturday, April 3, 1954

[bpatrick]

By request for some classic stuff from the
Carolinas and Georgia, some schedules from
the Asheville Citizen:

WWNC 570 (CBS)

5:30 Top O' The Mornin'
7 AM News; Top O' The Mornin'
7:45 Reporter; Weather
8 AM Morning News Roundup
8:15 Top O' The Mornin'
8:55 News
9 AM Les Brown Show
9:15 Teen News
9:30 Hour Of St. Francis
9:45 Garden Gate
10 AM Galen Drake Show
10:30 Robert Q. Lewis Show
11:45 U.S. Marine Band
12 N News; Western Carolina
College (now Western
Carolina University)
12:30 Sunday School Lesson
12:45 Music; Reporter
1 PM City Hospital
1:30 Stars Over Hollywood
2 PM Let's Pretend
2:30 Make Way For Youth
3 PM Here's To Veterans
3:15 Adventures In Science
3:30 Farm News
3:45 Your Health And You
4 PM UN On Record
4:15 Operation Music
4:30 Blue Ridge Drifters
5 PM Sports Roundup
5:15 News--Daniel Schorr
5:30 Mars Hill College
6 PM Reporter; Sports
6:15 This Is The Law
6:30 Facts Forum
6:45 Hear O Israel
7 PM Rhythm Rustlers
7:30 Johnny Mercer Show
8 PM Gunsmoke
8:30 Gangbusters
9 PM Two For The Money (simulcast
on CBS-TV)
9:30 Saturday Night Country Style
10:30 Secretary Of Agriculture
Ezra Taft Benson
11 PM Reporter; Sports
11:15 Oscar Dumont Orchestra
11:30 Sauter-Finnegan Orchestra
12 M News; Sign Off

WSKY 1230 (Ind.)

NOTE: These are now the call letters of
an independent television station on
Ch. 4 in Manteo, NC.

5:30 Ye Olde Farmer
9:30 Hillbilly Jukebox
10 AM Gospel Train
11 AM Merry Go Round
12 N Lenten Service
12:30 Roy Acuff
12:45 Merry Go Round
2 PM The Bandwagon
4 PM Sweet Corn Serenade
7:30 U.S. Marine Band
7:45 Sports; News
8 PM Sunday School Lesson
8:15 Gospel Hymntime
9 PM Dance Party
11 PM Sandman Brothers
11:45 Serenade; News
12 M Sign Off

News airs every hour at :55.

WISE 1310 (NBC)

6 AM Rise And Shine
6:30 Farm Prices; Rise And
Shine continues
7 AM News; Dawn Patrol
8 AM World News Roundup
8:15 Dawn Patrol
8:45 Sunday School Lesson
9 AM Howdy Doody (a radio version
of the NBC-TV show, not a
simulcast)
9:30 Egbert And Ummly
10 AM Breakfast In Hollywood
10:30 Mary Lee Taylor
11 AM TBA
11:15 Doorway To Beauty
11:30 Talent Music Hall
12 N Prayer; Hillbilly Music
12:15 Man With A Book
12:30 Rev. C.Y. Elkins
1 PM Farm And Home Hour
1:30 Gospel Songs
3 PM Hillbilly Hits
4 PM Respectfully Yours
6 PM News
6:15 H.V. Kaltenborn
6:30 People
7 PM Stranger Alone
7:30 Big Preview
9:30 Grand Ole Opry
10 PM Country Tunes
10:15 Dude Ranch Jamboree
10:30 Pee Wee King
11 PM News
11:15 Sign Off

News airs at 7 AM, 2 PM, 3 PM,
4 PM, and 5 PM.

WLOS 1380 (ABC)

5:30 Gospel Time
6 AM Musical Clock
6:30 Gospel Time
6:45 Sunshine Gospel Hour
7 AM News; Weather
7:15 Musical Clock (news at
7:30 and 8 AM)
8:45 News
9 AM Gospel Hour
9:15 News Of Labor
9:30 Country Carnival
9:55 News
10 AM No School Today
10:30 Space Patrol
11 AM News; G. Hand (don't know
who this is)
11:15 Mountain Music
11:55 News
12 N Better Mountain Farming
12:30 Man On The Farm
1 PM Navy Hour
1:30 Vincent Lopez
2 PM Metropolitan Opera: "Carmen"
5:30 Men Of Music
6 PM Sports Lineup
6:15 Best On Wax
6:45 Perry Como Show
7 PM Al Helfer Sports
7:15 Chamber Of Commerce
7:30 Saturday Serenade
7:45 Music; News
8:15 Dancing Party
8:30 Disc Jockey Hop
9 PM Grove Park Orchestra
9:30 Guy Lombardo
10 PM Disc Jockey Hop
12 M Sign Off

WLOS-TV Ch. 13 signed on in September 1954.
WISE already had a television station on
the air, Ch. 62 (NBC/CBS/ABC/DUMONT). That
is now UPN affiliate WASV.

 

[jh]

Thanks for more interesting schedules.

By 1954, numerous stations were becoming "all music" stations, not Top 40, but
music rather than "programs"... KCBC-1390 in Des Moines during that period claimed to have aired more songs than any other station in the country as they ran all music (news on the hour) 24 hours.

It looks like WSKY may have been moving in that direction, with news at :55 all hours.

> WSKY 1230 (Ind.)
>
> NOTE: These are now the call letters of
> an independent television station on
> Ch. 4 in Manteo, NC.
>
> 5:30 Ye Olde Farmer
> 9:30 Hillbilly Jukebox
> 10 AM Gospel Train
> 11 AM Merry Go Round
> 12 N Lenten Service
> 12:30 Roy Acuff
> 12:45 Merry Go Round
> 2 PM The Bandwagon
> 4 PM Sweet Corn Serenade
> 7:30 U.S. Marine Band
> 7:45 Sports; News
> 8 PM Sunday School Lesson

This program was on three of the four stations, all except WLOS-1380. Maybe they actually ran it on Sunday?

> 8:15 Gospel Hymntime
> 9 PM Dance Party
> 11 PM Sandman Brothers
> 11:45 Serenade; News
> 12 M Sign Off
>
> News airs every hour at :55.
>

 

[bpatrick]

> Thanks for more interesting schedules.
>
> By 1954, numerous stations were becoming "all music"
> stations, not Top 40, but
> music rather than "programs"... KCBC-1390 in Des Moines
> during that period claimed to have aired more songs than any
> other station in the country as they ran all music (news on
> the hour) 24 hours.
>
> It looks like WSKY may have been moving in that direction,
> with news at :55 all hours.
>
> > WSKY 1230 (Ind.)
> >
> > NOTE: These are now the call letters of
> > an independent television station on
> > Ch. 4 in Manteo, NC.
> >
> > 5:30 Ye Olde Farmer
> > 9:30 Hillbilly Jukebox
> > 10 AM Gospel Train
> > 11 AM Merry Go Round
> > 12 N Lenten Service
> > 12:30 Roy Acuff
> > 12:45 Merry Go Round
> > 2 PM The Bandwagon
> > 4 PM Sweet Corn Serenade
> > 7:30 U.S. Marine Band
> > 7:45 Sports; News
> > 8 PM Sunday School Lesson
>
> This program was on three of the four stations, all except
> WLOS-1380. Maybe they actually ran it on Sunday?

Strangely enough, WLOS didn't run it at all.
>
> > 8:15 Gospel Hymntime
> > 9 PM Dance Party
> > 11 PM Sandman Brothers
> > 11:45 Serenade; News
> > 12 M Sign Off
> >
> > News airs every hour at :55.
> >
>