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Retro: Birmingham, Monday 10/23/72

Source: The Birmingham News via www.birminghamrewound.com

STATIONS LISTED
6-WBRC (ABC, now Fox)
10-WBIQ (PBS)
13-WAPI (NBC, now WVTM)
42-WBMG (CBS, now WIAT)

4:25
6-Social Security

4:40
6-Religious Program

5:10
6-Devotional, Farm Report

5:15
13-Awake!

5:30
6-News/Country Boy Eddy

5:45
13-Top of the Morning Country Style

6:45
42-Focus

7:00
6-The Morning Show
13-Today (News at 7:25)
42-CBS Morning News

8:00
10-Around the Bend
42-Captain Kangaroo

8:30
6-Merv Griffin
10- Primary Speech Improvement

8:45
10-Write to Learn

9:00
10-Sesame Street
13-Dinah’s Place
42-Joker’s Wild

9:25
6-Carol Duval

9:30
6-Dating Game
13-Concentration
42-Price Is Right

10:00
6-All My Children
10-Electric Company
13-Sale of the Century
42-Gambit

10:30
6-Bewitched
10-Stepping into Rhythm
13-Hollywood Squares
42-Love of Life

10:50
10-Music for Listening

11:00
6-Password
13-Jeopardy!
42-Where the Heart Is

11:10
10-Upper Elementary Math

11:30
6-Split Second
10-Awareness
13-Who, What or Where
42-Search for Tomorrow

11:45
10-Art of Helping

11:55
13-NBC News

12:00
6-13 News
42-Divorce Court

12:15
10-Data Processing
13-Midday

12:30
6-World Peace Luncheon
13-Three on a Match
42-As the World Turns

12:45
10-Let’s Learn More

1:00
13-Days of Our Lives
42-Guiding Light

1:15
10-Sight Thing

1:30
6-I Dream of Jeannie
13-The Doctors
42-The Edge of Night

1:45
10-Handwriting

2:00
6-General Hospital
13-Another World
42-Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing

2:15
10-Upper Elementary Science

2:30
6-Veteran’s Day Parade
13-Return to Peyton Place
42-Secret Storm

2:45
10-Katie’s Place

3:00
10-Dixie Digest
13-Watch Your Child: the Me Too Show
42-Family Affair

3:30
10-Electric Company
13-Green Acres
42-Gilligan’s Island

4:00
10-Sesame Street
13-Petticoat Junction
42-Sergeant Jack (last of the local daily kids’ shows, featuring Dick Tracy cartoons and sponsored by Jack’s Hamburgers www.eatatjacks.com. Sgt. Jack was played by Neal Miller, a former DJ on Birmingham’s WSGN)

4:30
6-The Texan
13-Andy Griffith
42-Mayberry R.F.D.

4:55
6-Now

5:00
6-ABC News
10-Mister Rogers
13-News
42-Dragnet

5:30
6-News
10-Around the Bend
13-NBC News
42-CBS News

6:00
6-To Tell the Truth
10-Consulation
13-News
42-Truth or Consequences

6:30
6-John Davidson with Love
10-Dixie Digest
13-Let’s Make a Deal
42-What’s My Line?

7:00
10-Black South
13-Laugh-In
42-Gunsmoke

7:30
6-Hollywood Squares
10-Heart Disease: America’s Number One Health Problem

8:00
6-NFL Football: Vikings at Bears (Chicago won, 13-10)
10-Maggie and the Beautiful Machine (exercise)
13-Movie: “They Might Be Giants”
42-Here’s Lucy

8:30
10-Book Beat
42-Doris Day

9:00
10-Music
42-Bill Cosby

9:30
10-Shortcuts to Fashion

10:00
10-Speaking Freely
13-Mancini Generation
42-News

10:30
13-Political Program
42-Movie: “Cutter’s Trail

11:00
6-13 News

11:30
6-Veteran’s Day Parade
13-Tonight Show

12:30
42-News & Devotional

1:30
6-News and Devotional
 
Y'know, I never understood why Channel 6 bumped the 1:30 slot, tape-delaying "Dating Game" to the morning hour? They even continued this practice for a time, even after "Dating" was canceled.

Sounded to me like a lot of needless wear and tear on the VTR machine.

--Russell
 
I would assume that this World Peace Luncheon on Channel 6 at 12:30 PM was a local event and I thought that Veteran's Day was celebrated in November rather than October thus why did Channel 6 air the parade not once but twice.


4:30 PM

13 - Andy Griffith
42 - Mayberry R.F.D.

I wonder how many other stations aired not only the main show but the spinoff/continuation not just on different stations at the same time but together on one channel. Also did any Birmingham station ever carry The Beverly Hillbillies in reruns (1972 on not the daytime run on CBS)?
 
Braves2005 said:
I would assume that this World Peace Luncheon on Channel 6 at 12:30 PM was a local event and I thought that Veteran's Day was celebrated in November rather than October thus why did Channel 6 air the parade not once but twice.

There was a time in the early 70's when Veterans' Day was observed in October to make for another Monday holiday. I can't recall when it began, or when Veterans' Day was moved back to 11/11.
 
Russell W. said:
Y'know, I never understood why Channel 6 bumped the 1:30 slot, tape-delaying "Dating Game" to the morning hour? They even continued this practice for a time, even after "Dating" was canceled.

Sounded to me like a lot of needless wear and tear on the VTR machine.

--Russell

They pre-empted "Dating Game" at 1:30 even before this; in 1968-69 they carried "Pay Cards!", the syndicated game show distributed by Ch. 6's then-owners, Taft Broadcasting. I think management saw a potentially-lucrative timeslot between "Newlywed Game" and "General Hospital" (the latter, at the time, Birmingham's number-one daytime show, IIRC); at the same time some ABC affiliates in the Eastern time zone, such as Atlanta's Ch. 11 and Louisville's Ch. 32, found it lucrative to run movies at 3:30, bumping "One Life To Live" and "Love, American Style" to the morning, to take advantage of the "GH" lead-in, no doubt (even though I think "Another World" on WSB was tops at 3 PM in Atlanta). To do this in Birmingham would have meant moving the afternoon movie to 2:30, and "OLTL" and "Love, American Style" were more popular in Birmingham than in either Atlanta or Louisville.
 
Charles1 said:
Braves2005 said:
I would assume that this World Peace Luncheon on Channel 6 at 12:30 PM was a local event and I thought that Veteran's Day was celebrated in November rather than October thus why did Channel 6 air the parade not once but twice.

There was a time in the early 70's when Veterans' Day was observed in October to make for another Monday holiday. I can't recall when it began, or when Veterans' Day was moved back to 11/11.

The Uniform Monday Holiday Act mandated that Veterans Day would be observed on the fourth Monday in October. Veterans Day was observed as such from 1971-77. In 1978 it reverted to being observed on 11/11.
 
Charles1 said:
The Uniform Monday Holiday Act mandated that Veterans Day would be observed on the fourth Monday in October. Veterans Day was observed as such from 1971-77. In 1978 it reverted to being observed on 11/11.

So were all holidays observed on a Monday, including Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's?
 
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