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Retro: Carolina-Tennessee Saturday, September 21, 1963

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From TV Guide, Carolina-Tennessee Edition:

WBTV Ch. 3 Charlotte (CBS/ABC)

7 AM Carolina Calling (Arthur Smith)
8 AM Supercar
8:30 Pirate's Cove
9 AM Captain Kangaroo
10 AM The Alvin Show
10:30 Mighty Mouse
11 AM Beany And Cecil (ABC, delay from 11:30 AM)
11:30 Roy Rogers
12 N Pastor's Study
12:15 Baseball: Kansas City (not yet Oakland) Athletics-
New York Yankees
2:55 TBA
3:15 Football Feature (previews of Washington-Air Force,
North Carolina State-Indiana, and Northwestern-Missouri,
time approximate)
3:30 College Football: Washington-Air Force
6:30 Wrestling (time approximate)
7:25 News, Sports, Weather
7:30 Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour (Lucy becomes Paul Douglas's sidekick
on a morning television show; Jackie Gleason returns here next
week.)
8:30 The Defenders (moves to 9 PM next week as "The New Phil Silvers
Show," with Phil as factory foreman Harry Grafton, debuts here)
9:30 Have Gun, Will Travel (last show of the series)
10 PM Gunsmoke
11 PM News, Weather
11:15 Movie: "Footsteps In The Fog"

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

6:30 Modern Almanac
7 AM Farm News (Ben Leonard)
7:30 Hiway Show (Billy Fallaw)
7:45 Lessons For Living
8 AM Monty's Rascals
9:30 Ruff And Reddy (COLOR)
10 AM Shari Lewis (guest: Margaret Hamilton, COLOR)
10:30 King Leonardo (COLOR)
11 AM Fury
11:30 Make Room For Daddy
12 N Mr. Wizard
12:30 Baseball: Angels-Indians
3 PM Purple Parade (I assume this is Furman University sports,
time approximate)
3:30 Film Feature
4 PM Bowling
5 PM Wrestling
5:45 Scoreboard (Bill Krieger)
6 PM Wilburn Brothers
6:30 Flatt And Scruggs
7 PM Porter Wagoner
7:30 The Lieutenant (Robert Vaughn went from here to "The Man
From U.N.C.L.E."
8:30 Joey Bishop (COLOR)
9 PM NBC Movie: "The Seven Year Itch" (Marilyn Monroe from '55,
COLOR)
11:10 Movie: "Kind Lady" (watch for Angela Lansbury, from '51)

WCYB Ch. 5 Bristol, VA (NBC/ABC)

7 AM Rural Tenneva
7:30 Cartoons
8:30 Danger Is My Business (William E. Haast of the Miami Serpentarium
extracts deadly venom from cobras and rattlers.)
9 AM Popeye
9:30 Ruff And Reddy (COLOR)
10 AM Shari Lewis (COLOR)
10:30 King Leonardo (COLOR)
11 AM Fury
11:30 Bugs Bunny (ABC, delay from 12 N)
12 N Mr. Wizard
12:30 Baseball: Angels-Indians
3 PM TBA
3:30 High School Football (teams not given)
5:30 News, Sports, Weather (time approximate)
6 PM Wilburn Brothers
6:30 Porter Wagoner
7 PM Ozzie And Harriet (ABC, delay from Wed 7:30 PM)
7:30 Ben Casey (ABC, delay from Wed 9 PM)
8:30 Lawrence Welk (Mr. Music Maker now airs one-half-hour
earlier; Connie Francis is guest, ABC)
9:30 Wagon Train (guests: Barbara Stanwyck, Carolyn Jones,
Fabian, ABC, delay from Mon 8:30 PM)
11 PM News, Weather
11:30 Movie: "Retreat, Hell!"

WATE Ch. 6 Knoxville (NBC)

7 AM Farm Information
7:30 Movie: TBA
9:30 Ruff And Reddy (COLOR)
10 AM Shari Lewis (COLOR)
10:30 King Leonardo (COLOR)
11 AM Fury
11:30 Make Room For Daddy
12 N Mr. Wizard
12:30 Baseball: Angels-Indians
3 PM Movie: "Under Two Flags" (time approximate)
4:30 Bonnie Lou And Buster
5 PM Captain Gallant
5:30 International Showtime (delay from Fri 7:30 PM)
6:30 Porter Wagoner
7 PM Wilburn Brothers
7:30 The Lieutenant
8:30 Joey Bishop (COLOR)
9 PM NBC Movie: "The Seven Year Itch" (COLOR)
11:10 Movie: "Saturday's Hero"

WSPA Ch. 7 Spartanburg, SC (CBS)

7:30 Modern Almanac
8 AM Cartoons
8:30 Sheriff Of Cochise
9 AM Party Time
10 AM The Alvin Show
10:30 Mighty Mouse
11 AM Rin Tin Tin
11:30 Roy Rogers
12 N Farmer Gray (Cliff Gray with music and farm news)
1:15 Big Picture
1:45 Wide World Of Sports (Japanese All-Star Baseball Game,
All-American Soap Box Derby, ABC, pre-empted on Ch. 13,
delay from 5 PM)
3:15 Football Feature
3:30 College Football: Washington-Air Force
6:30 News, Weather, Sports (time approximate)
7 PM Dragnet (the Ben Alexander episodes, 1952-59)
7:30 Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour
8:30 The Defenders
9:30 Have Gun, Will Travel
10 PM Gunsmoke
11 PM News, Weather
11:15 Movie: "The Miracle Of The Bells" (Frank Sinatra appeared
in this during the slowdown of his career in 1948.)

WSOC Ch. 9 Charlotte (NBC/ABC)

7:45 Country Style, U.S.A.
8 AM Sportsmen (Brooks Lindsay)
8:30 Ramar Of The Jungle
9 AM Cartoonies (Paul Winchell, ABC, delay from 11 AM)
9:30 Ruff And Reddy (COLOR)
10 AM Shari Lewis (COLOR)
10:30 Bugs Bunny (ABC, delay from 12 N)
11 AM Fury
11:30 Make Room For Daddy
12 N Kilgo's Kanteen (Jimmy Kilgo)
1 PM Silent Service
1:30 Cartoon Carnival
2 PM Movie: "Rocketship X-M" (watch for Lloyd Bridges, from '50)
3:30 Wide World Of Sports (same as Ch. 7, ABC, delay from 5 PM)
5 PM NFL Highlights (last week's NFL games: Lions-Rams, Cardinals-
Cowboys, Bears-Packers, Vikings-49ers, Giants-Colts. Steelers-
Eagles, Redskins-Browns)
5:30 Star Performance
6 PM Amos 'n' Andy
6:30 Outer Limits (debut, Cliff Robertson in "The Galaxy Being," about
a man who invents a three-dimensional television set, ABC, delay
from Mon 7:30 PM)
7:30 Hootenanny (the show expands to an hour; guests: the Chad Mitchell
Trio, the Rooftop Singers, Nancy Ames, Mike Settle (who?), Vaughn
Meader, gospel group The Caravans, jazzman Stan Rubin and his Tigertown
Five)
8:30 Lawrence Welk
9:30 Jerry Lewis (debut of one of the most colossal flops in television history:
two hours, live and unrehearsed--guests are Mort Sahl, Kaye Stevens,
Jack Jones, and Harry James)
11:30 Movies: "Bailout At 43,000" and "Isn't It Romantic?"

WBIR Ch. 10 Knoxville (CBS)

7:30 Light Time (religious program aimed at kids; today's topic is self-control)
7:45 Davey And Goliath
8 AM Supercar
8:30 Cartoons
9 AM Captain Kangaroo
10 AM The Alvin Show
10:30 Mighty Mouse
11 AM Rin Tin Tin
11:30 Roy Rogers
12 N CBS News (Ned Calmer)
12:15 Baseball: Athletics-Yankees
2:55 TBA
3:15 Football Feature (time approximate)
3:30 College Football: Washington-Air Force
6:30 Highway Patrol (time approximate)
7 PM Mull's Sing(ing Convention)
7:30 Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour
8:30 The Defenders
9:30 Have Gun, Will Travel
10 PM Gunsmoke
11 PM Movie: "Adventures Of Captain Fabian" (Errol Flynn,
not the singer Fabian, as this is from '51)

WJHL Ch. 11 Johnson City, TN (CBS/ABC)

8 AM Movie: "Fugitive Sheriff" (Ken Maynard)
9 AM Captain Kangaroo
10 AM The Alvin Show
10:30 Junior Auction
11 AM Rin Tin Tin
11:30 Roy Rogers
12 N America Wants To Know
12:30 Virgil Wacks (I think he must have aired at one time or
another on every station in eastern Tennessee and Kentucky.)
1 PM Industry On Parade
1:15 News, Sports, Weather
1:30 High-School Football: Johnson City vs. Tennessee (not at all
familiar with a school called Tennessee High School)
3:15 Football Feature (time approximate)
3:30 College Football: Washington-Air Force
7 PM My Three Sons (ABC, delay from Thu 8:30 PM)
7:30 Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour
8:30 The Defenders
9:30 Have Gun, Will Travel
10 PM Gunsmoke
11 PM News (Ed McKinney)
11:15 Movie: "Men In War" (Vic Morrow gets some practice for "Combat!"
in this one from '57)

WLOS Ch. 13 Asheville, NC (ABC)

7 AM Aspect (farm show)
7:30 Popeye
8 AM Casper The Friendly Ghost
8:30 Supercar
9 AM Mr. Bill And Bozo
10:30 Jetsons
11 AM Cartoonies
11:30 Beany And Cecil
12 N Bugs Bunny
12:30 Magic Land Of Allakazam
1 PM My Friend Flicka
1:30 American Bandstand (Skeeter Davis, Garnett Mimms)
2:30 Movie: "The Face Behind The Mask"
3:45 Movie: "Yesterday's Enemy"
5 PM Saturday Jamboree
6 PM News, Sports, Weather
6:10 Movie: "16 Fathoms Deep" (great warmup for Lloyd Bridges,
nine years before "Sea Hunt"--this one's from '48)
7:30 Hootenanny
8:30 Lawrence Welk
9:30 Jerry Lewis
11:30 Movie: "The Burning Hills"

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

10:30 Jetsons
11 AM Cartoonies
11:30 Beany And Cecil
12 N Bugs Bunny
12:30 Magic Land Of Allakazam
1 PM My Friend Flicka
1:30 American Bandstand
2:30 Movie: "Lost Horizon" (the 1937 classic)
4:30 AFL Highlights: ABC's Curt Gowdy and Paul Christman
review last week's games: Patriots-Chargers, Broncos-
Oilers, Bills-Raiders
5 PM Wide World Of Sports (World Water-Ski Championships,
Grand Prix of Italy)
6:30 Almanac
7 PM Big Picture
7:30 Hootenanny
8:30 Lawrence Welk
9:30 Jerry Lewis
11:30 Movie: "Secret Of The Chateau"

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

10:30 Mighty Mouse
11 AM Cartoonies
11:30 Beany And Cecil
12 N Cartoons
12:15 Baseball: Athletics-Yankees
2:30 Variety Time (time approximate)
3:15 Football Feature (time approximate)
3:30 College Football: Washington-Air Force
6 PM Wide World Of Sports (same as Ch. 7, delay from 5 PM,
time approximate)
7:30 Hootenanny
8:30 Lawrence Welk
9:30 Jerry Lewis
sign off 11:30 PM
 
WJHL Ch. 11 Johnson City, TN (CBS/ABC)

1:30 High-School Football: Johnson City vs. Tennessee (not at all
familiar with a school called Tennessee High School)

This was/is Tennessee High in nearby Bristol (the Virginia side of the twin city has a Virginia High).
 
Nowadays, most high-school football games are played on Friday nights.

Here in the Boston area, most games were on Saturday afternoons until the late 1980's; many schools switched after seeing attendance at games nosedive after the 1984 Supreme Court ruling that opened the way for unrestricted live TV coverage of college football games. Here in Boston, there were suddenly a number of live telecasts of local and regional college football games (especially Boston College and Harvard), which impacted attendance of high-school games.

I point this out because I wonder if anyone in the area knows if the high-school games televised on WCYB-5 and WJHL-11 were broadcast live, taped earlier that afternoon, or taped the night before.
 
High-School Football Games telecast live in the 60's and 70's were pretty rare in many areas of the country. WJAN-17 in Canton, Ohio usually ran football games at 10:30 on the night of the games. WVIZ-Cleveland for many years had tape-delayed Northeast Ohio games (Unsually Cleveland or close in suburban teams.)..The only game televised live has been the traditional Massillon/Canton McKinley game (usually always a sellout)..WEWS-TV came down to televise the game in the 1950's..WJAN and later WOAC-67 televised this game..
 
I believe the Massillon/McKinley football games have been played in three different centurys. Great rivalry. Probably one of the oldest in high school football.
 
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