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Retro: Carolina/Tennessee Monday, September 1, 1969

From TV Guide, Carolina-Tennessee Edition:

WSJK (WETP) Ch. 2 Knoxville (NET)

5:45 Learn With Me
only program listed

WBTV Ch. 3 Charlotte (CBS)

6:15 Almanac (Gil Stamper)
6:25 Black Heritage (Part 1: the black response
to the war in Vietnam)
6:55 Local News
7 AM CBS News (Joseph Benti)
7:30 Morning Report
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Kirby's Corral
9:05 Love Of Life (delay from noon)
9:30 Hazel
10 AM The Lucy Show
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11 AM Andy Griffith
11:30 Linkletter Show (delay from 4 PM)
12 N Noon Report (Ty Boyd)
12:25 Pat Lee (women's program)
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Betty Feezor
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM Secret Storm
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Real McCoys
4:30 Mike Douglas (co-host Dinah Shore--Mike's
future competitor--guests Jack Palance,
Mickey Rooney, the Checkmates)
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:25 Editorial
6:30 CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7 PM Movie: "April In Paris"
9 PM Mayberry R.F.D.
9:30 Family Affair
10 PM Jimmie Rodgers (guests: Roger Williams and
Scoey Mitchlll)
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:25 Editorial
11:30 Merv Griffin (guests: Hermione Gingold, Bobby
Sherman, George Carlin, actress Barbara Tai-Sing,
novelist Gwen Davis)

WFBC (WYFF) Ch. 4 Greenville, SC (NBC)

6:30 This Is The Life
7 AM Today (guests: Leif Erickson and family, actor
Bruce Yarnell, Rev. Jesse Jackson, author Sanche
De Gramont)
9 AM Romper Room
9:30 Leave It To Beaver
9:55 Paul Harvey
10 AM It Takes Two (guests: Roger Williams, James Darren,
Annette Funicello and spouses)
10:25 NBC News (Nancy Dickerson)
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Personality (guests: Jack Cassidy, Jack E. Leonard,
Joan Rivers; on film: Robert Culp)
11:30 Hollywood Squares (Amanda Blake, Sebastian Cabot,
Jack Carter, Rose Marie, Jim Backus, Susan Saint
James, Wally Cox, Charley Weaver, Paul Lynde)
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 Eye Guess
12:55 NBC News (Edwin Newman)
1 PM Today In The Piedmont
1:30 You're Putting Me On (guests: Orson Bean, Anne
Meara, Robert Morse, Brenda Vaccaro)
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 Monty's Rascals
4 PM Match Game (guests: Tom Kennedy and Brenda
Vaccaro)
4:25 NBC News (Floyd Kalber)
4:30 Mike Douglas (same as Ch. 3)
5:55 Paul Harvey
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Laramie
8 PM Baseball: Cubs-Reds
11 PM News, Weather, Sports (time approximate)
11:30 Tonight Show (guests: William Holden, Tony
Randall, singer Turley Richards)

WCYB Ch. 5 Bristol, VA (NBC)

6:45 Town And Country
6:55 Paul Harvey
7 AM Today
9 AM Open House
9:30 Romper Room
10 AM It Takes Two
10:25 NBC News
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Personality
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 Eye Guess
12:55 News (local, Evelyn Booher)
1 PM Divorce Court
1:30 You're Putting Me On
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 You Don't Say! (guests: Mel Torme and
Jaye P. Morgan)
4 PM Match Game
4:25 NBC News
4:30 Looney Tunes
5 PM Best Of The West
5:55 Paul Harvey
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:25 Editorial
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Klassroom Kwiz
7:30 Pilot: "The Flim-Flam Man" with Forrest Tucker
8 PM Baseball: Cubs-Reds
11 PM News, Weather, Sports (time approximate)
11:25 Editorial
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Paul Harvey

WATE Ch. 6 Knoxville (NBC)

6 AM Harry Whittington
7 AM Today
9 AM Match Game (guests: Nipsey Russell and Helen
O'Connell, one-week delay)
9:25 Today In Tennessee
9:30 Homemakers
10 AM It Takes Two
10:25 NBC News
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Personality
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 Eye Guess
12:55 NBC News
1 PM Truth Or Consequences
1:30 You're Putting Me On
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 You Don't Say!
4 PM Popeye
4:30 Mike Douglas (guests: Roger Miller,
comedienne Betty Walker, singer
Ethel Ennis)
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Billy Walker (guest: Jimmy Newman)
7:30 Pilot: "The Flim-Flam Man"
8 PM Baseball: Cubs-Reds
11 PM News, Weather, Sports (time approximate)
11:30 Tonight Show

WSPA Ch. 7 Spartanburg, SC (CBS)

6:10 Agriculture
6:25 Black Heritage
6:55 Meditation
7 AM CBS News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Linkletter Show
9:30 Nancy Welch (women's show)
10 AM The Lucy Show
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11 AM Andy Griffith
11:30 Dick Van Dyke
12 N Love Of Life
12:25 News (local)
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Anniversary Game (Alan Hamel is the host,
Suzanne Somers is the model, and this
will eventually lead to their marriage.)
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM Secret Storm
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Mister Ed
4:30 Gilligan's Island
5 PM Rawhide
6 PM F Troop
6:30 News 7
7 PM CBS News (in 1973, Ch. 7 will do a 6:30-7:30
news hour again, only in reverse with Cronkite
first--this will last for some five years)
7:30 Gunsmoke
8:30 The Lucy Show (Vivian Vance visits for a
flashback show)
9 PM Mayberry R.F.D.
9:30 Family Affair
10 PM Jimmie Rodgers
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Merv Griffin

WSOC Ch. 9 Charlotte (NBC)

6:45 On The House
7 AM Today
9 AM Joey (formerly "Clown Carnival")
9:30 Today In The Carolinas
10 AM It Takes Two
10:25 NBC News
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Personality
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 Eye Guess
12:55 NBC News
1 PM Midday (Jimmy Kilgo)
1:30 You're Putting Me On
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 You Don't Say!
4 PM Truth Or Consequences
4:30 I Love Lucy
5 PM Perry Mason
5:55 Paul Harvey
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Star Trek (delay from Tue 7:30)
8 PM Baseball: Cubs-Reds
11 PM News, Weather, Sports (time approximate)
11:30 Tonight Show

WBIR Ch. 10 Knoxville (CBS)

5:30 Black Heritage
6 AM Farm And Home
7 AM CBS News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Betty Adler (women's show)
9:30 Galloping Gourmet
10 AM The Lucy Show
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11 AM Andy Griffith
11:30 Dick Van Dyke
12 N Love Of Life
12:25 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Girl Talk (Betsy Palmer has replaced Virginia
Graham; guest: Ruth Warrick)
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM Secret Storm
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Linkletter Show (guest: 12-year-old ventriloquist
Mark Bleeker)
4:30 Movie: "Edge Of Hell"
5:55 Paul Harvey
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Branded
7:30 Gunsmoke
8:30 The Lucy Show
9 PM Mayberry R.F.D.
9:30 Family Affair
10 PM Jimmie Rodgers
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Paul Harvey
11:35 Movie: "The Legend Of Tom Dooley"
(Michael Landon made this in 1959,
the year "Bonanza" started.)

WJHL Ch. 11 Johnson City, TN (CBS)

6:15 News, Farm Report
6:30 First Call
7 AM CBS News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Leave It To Beaver
9:30 Perfect Match
10 AM The Lucy Show
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11 AM Andy Griffith
11:30 Dick Van Dyke
12 N Love Of Life
12:25 CBS News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Kathryn Willis (women's show)
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM Secret Storm
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Linkletter Show
4:30 Gilligan's Island
5 PM Perry Mason
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Truth Or Consequences
7:30 Gunsmoke
8:30 The Lucy Show
9 PM Mayberry R.F.D.
9:30 Family Affair
10 PM Jimmie Rodgers
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Merv Griffin

WLOS Ch. 13 Asheville, NC (ABC)

6:30 Mr. Bill's Cartoons
7 AM News (Bill Norwood)
7:05 Mr. Bill's Cartoons continues
9 AM Movie: "The Raging Tide"
11 AM Password (these repeats of the 1965-67
CBS shows will prove successful enough
for ABC to revive the show in 1971)
11:30 Galloping Gourmet
12 N Bewitched
12:30 That Girl
1 PM Dream House (Mike Darrow)
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 Flintstones (Ch. 13 will not begin airing
"One Life To Live" until 1973.)
4 PM Dark Shadows
4:30 Perry Mason
5:30 News (Arthur Whiteside)
6 PM I Love Lucy (Ch. 13 will not begin airing
ABC News until the fall of 1970.)
6:30 Truth Or Consequences
7 PM Real McCoys
7:30 Movie: "The Long Ships"
9:30 Guns Of Will Sonnett (delay from 8:30)
10 PM Dick Cavett (guests: Sal Mineo, B.B. King,
journalist I.F. Stone)
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:25 Editorial
11:30 Joey Bishop (guests: Robert Goulet and
Polly Bergen)

WHKY Ch. 14 Hickory, NC (Ind.)

11:30 Panorama (travel)
12 N It's A Great Life (1954-56 sitcom)
12:30 Topper
1 PM Scope (travel)
1:30 Movie: TBA
3 PM Movie: "Pride Of The Blue Grass"
4:30 Dick's Rascals
5:30 Robin Hood
6 PM News, Sports, Weather (in b&w)
6:30 Man From Cochise
7 PM Report Card
7:30 Assignment: Underwater
8 PM Movie: "A Tale Of Five Women"
10 PM News, Weather, Sports
10:20 Movie: "Durango Valley Raiders"
11:30 Yancy Derringer
sign off 12 M

WUNE Ch. 17 Linville, NC/WUNF Ch. 33 Asheville (NET)

11 AM Canada On Film
11:30 Book Beat
12 N Aspect (agriculture)
12:30 News (Allen Clark)
12:45 Friendly Giant
1 PM off the air
5 PM Misterogers (Mister Rogers' Neighborhood)
5:30 What's New
6 PM News (Allen Clark)
6:15 Friendly Giant
6:30 Vine And The Fig Tree (the life of FDR's secretary
of labor Frances Perkins)
7 PM North Carolina News Conference
7:30 Misterogers
8 PM World Press
9 PM NET Journal: "Science And Conscience"
sign off 10 PM

WCCB Ch. 18 Charlotte (ABC)

8 AM Morning News
8:30 Jack LaLanne
9 AM Romper Room
10 AM Movie: "Adventure In Diamonds"
11:30 News, Weather, Sports, Features
12 N Bewitched
12:30 That Girl
1 PM Dream House
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM Dark Shadows
4:30 Galloping Gourmet
5 PM Sgt. Mills (kids' show)
6 PM Pioneers (selected "Death Valley Days"
reruns)
6:30 ABC News (Frank Reynolds/Howard K. Smith)
7 PM Love That Bob (Cummings)
7:30 Avengers
8:30 Guns Of Will Sonnett
9 PM The Outcasts
10 PM Dick Cavett
11 PM Galloping Gourmet
11:30 Joey Bishop

WTVK Ch. 26 (WVLT Ch. 8) Knoxville (ABC)

8:30 Jack LaLanne
9 AM Romper Room
10 AM Hazel
10:30 Merv Griffin (I assume that Ch. 26 is picking
this up from CBS every night and playing it
the next day, since Ch. 10 pre-empts it.)
12 N Bewitched
12:30 That Girl
1 PM Dream House
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM Dark Shadows
4:30 Dennis The Menace
5 PM Bozo The Clown
6 PM ABC News
6:30 McHale's Navy
7 PM Gilligan's Island
7:30 Avengers
8:30 Guns Of Will Sonnett
9 PM The Outcasts
10 PM Dick Cavett
11 PM Joe Pyne (I'm not familiar with a
30-minute version of his show.)
11:30 Joey Bishop

WNTV Ch. 29 Greenville, SC (NET)

4 PM Bridge With Jean Cox
4:30 Sportsmanlike Driving
5 PM What's New
5:30 Art And You
5:45 Friendly Giant
6 PM Misterogers
6:30 June Bugg (kids' show carried statewide
on South Carolina ETV)
7 PM Rapunzel (performed by the Salzburg
Marionettes)
7:30 What's New
8 PM Experiment ("Weather By Number" shows
how weather information is gathered and
interpreted.)
8:30 Yoga For Health
9 PM Firing Line
10 PM World Press
sign off 11 PM

WCTU (pre-Turner, now WCNC) Ch. 36 Charlotte (Ind.)

3:30 Movie: "The Rage Of Paris"
5 PM Movie: "711 Ocean Drive"
7 PM Tarzan (CBS, pre-empted on Ch. 3, delay from
Wed 7:30)
8 PM Soul Revue
8:30 Movie: "A Yank In Korea"
10 PM Run For Your Life
11 PM Movie: "For The Love Of Mary"

WAIM (WMYA) Ch. 40 Anderson, SC (ABC/CBS)

7:30 CBS News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Morning Vespers
9:30 Ladies' Day
10 AM The Lucy Show
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11 AM Andy Griffith
11:30 Dick Van Dyke
12 N Love Of Life
12:25 News (local)
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Dream House
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM Secret Storm
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Dark Shadows
4:30 Panorama (travel)
5 PM Compass (travel)
5:30 Evening Reflections
6 PM June Bugg
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Quest For Adventure
7:30 Gunsmoke
8:30 The Lucy Show
9 PM Mayberry R.F.D.
9:30 Family Affair
10 PM Jimmie Rodgers
11 PM Compass
11:30 Merv Griffin
 
bpatrick said:
From TV Guide, Carolina-Tennessee Edition:

WSJK (WETP) Ch. 2 Knoxville (NET)

5:45 Learn With Me
only program listed

WUNE Ch. 17 Linville, NC/WUNF Ch. 33 Asheville (NET)

11 AM Canada On Film
11:30 Book Beat
12 N Aspect (agriculture)
12:30 News (Allen Clark)
12:45 Friendly Giant
1 PM off the air
5 PM Misterogers (Mister Rogers' Neighborhood)
5:30 What's New
6 PM News (Allen Clark)
6:15 Friendly Giant
6:30 Vine And The Fig Tree (the life of FDR's secretary
of labor Frances Perkins)
7 PM North Carolina News Conference
7:30 Misterogers
8 PM World Press
9 PM NET Journal: "Science And Conscience"
sign off 10 PM

WNTV Ch. 29 Greenville, SC (NET)

4 PM Bridge With Jean Cox
4:30 Sportsmanlike Driving
5 PM What's New
5:30 Art And You
5:45 Friendly Giant
6 PM Misterogers
6:30 June Bugg (kids' show carried statewide
on South Carolina ETV)
7 PM Rapunzel (performed by the Salzburg
Marionettes)
7:30 What's New
8 PM Experiment ("Weather By Number" shows
how weather information is gathered and
interpreted.)
8:30 Yoga For Health
9 PM Firing Line
10 PM World Press
sign off 11 PM

Continuing on my NET/PBS analysis in the Appalachian region, we have to remember that this was the first Monday in September, and therefore Labor Day. That might explain why WSJK, for the third straight day, cannot get out more than two hours of programming on the airwaves, and from here, it looks like it might have been a mere 15 minutes. That is more than difficult for me to comprehend--I suspect there is some other explanation, namely that the station didn't provide TV Guide a full sked for the day because it didn't know exactly what it was going to have on hand at publication time.

North Carolina had a split-day sked, with two hours around lunchtime and five hours in the early evening. South Carolina had a solid seven-hour block. Since school was certainly not in session on this day anywhere in the U.S., I find UNC-TV's practices on this day puzzling, since those midday shows are obviously for adults, not children like one might expect.

I'm thinking most seriously, threatening even, to start a thread about NET/PBS scheduling in the 1960s and 1970s, and what was done in different parts of the country. That would be highly interesting to me, so watch out.
 
Are we supposed to be scared? ::) Seriously, given
the wide range of differences in scheduling on individual
stations or statewide networks that would be interesting.
And you might start with what is now Alabama Public
Television, which got into trouble in the early '70s with
its anti-black program attitudes.
 
Hard to believe Independent WCTU 36 Charlotte was even a station, with such a weak lineup. Something tells me the station must have been run by 11 people with each doing 3 different jobs......and the station manager cleaning the restrooms on Saturdays.

So Turner bought the station? Must have been a fire sale. Today, a low power college station
would have more people watching.
 
gregg75 said:
Hard to believe Independent WCTU 36 Charlotte was even a station, with such a weak lineup. Something tells me the station must have been run by 11 people with each doing 3 different jobs......and the station manager cleaning the restrooms on Saturdays.

So Turner bought the station? Must have been a fire sale. Today, a low power college station
would have more people watching.

WTCG's predecessor was also pale before Turner purchased the station. The man knew what he was doing.
 
WLOS Ch. 13 Asheville, NC (ABC)

6:30 Mr. Bill's Cartoons
7 AM News (Bill Norwood)
7:05 Mr. Bill's Cartoons continues

So, does anybody know if Bill Norwood on the news is the same guy with the cartoon show? That must have been so cheesy.
 
It's the same Bill Norwood. "Mr. Bill's Cartoons" included
news and community events with the cartoons and "Our
Gang" comedies; as I once said, it was the best place for
kids in the western Carolinas to go to find out if school was
closed because of snow.

As for WKPT, TV Guide was carrying its listings by October
1969, IIRC.
 
bpatrick said:
WBIR Ch. 10 Knoxville (CBS)
1 PM Girl Talk (Betsy Palmer has replaced Virginia Graham...)

The same Betsy Palmer from the movie "Friday the 13th"?
 
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