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Retro: Carolina/Tennessee Sunday, January 14, 1973 (Part 1)

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bpatrick

Red-letter day: the Miami Dolphins defeat the
Washington Redskins in Super Bowl VII, completing
modern pro football's only perfect season.

Schedules are from TV Guide, Carolina-Tennessee
edition. Tennessee stations are on this post,
Carolina stations are in Part 2.

KNOXVILLE

WSJK Ch. 2 (PBS)

6:15 This Week On Two
6:30 Maggie And The Beautiful
Machine
7 PM Zoom
7:30 Puppets And The Poet
(puppets perform Shakespeare)
8:30 French Chef
9 PM Masterpiece Theatre: "Tom Brown's
Schooldays" (Part 1 of 5)
10 PM Firing Line
sign off 11 PM

WATE Ch. 6 (NBC)

6:30 Chaplain Of Bourbon Street
7 AM Golden Gospel Hour
8 AM Rex Humbard
9 AM Day Of Discovery
9:30 Old Time Gospel Hour (Jerry Falwell)
10:30 This Is The Life
11 AM Gentle Ben
11:30 History Behind The News
12 N ACC Basketball: North Carolina
at Maryland
2 PM Super Sundays (highlights of the
first six Super Bowls) (time approximate)
3 PM Super Bowl VII
6:30 Super Bowl Post-Game (time approximate)
7 PM Wild Kingdom (time approximate)
7:30 Wonderful World Of Disney
8:30 McMillan And Wife
10 PM Night Gallery (last show until May)
10:30 This Is Your Life
11 PM Movie: "Homicidal"
sign off 1 AM

WBIR Ch. 10 (CBS)

6:55 Jot
7 AM Mull's Singing Convention
9:30 Oral Roberts
10 AM Lamp Unto My Feet
10:30 Look Up And Live
11 AM Camera Three
11:30 Face The Nation
12 N Light Unto My Path
12:30 It Is Written
1 PM Areascope
1:30 Sammy Hall (I think this is
a local country-music show)
2 PM The Waltons (Ch. 10 had a
movie on Thursdays at 7:30
at the time.)
3 PM Family Affair
3:30 Movie: "The Private War Of
Major Benson"
5:30 Only The Strong (comparison of
U.S. and USSR armaments)
6 PM 60 Minutes
7 PM Clayton Startime
7:30 New Dick Van dyke Show
8 PM M*A*S*H
8:30 Mannix
9:30 Robert Young And The Family
(interesting, since Marcus Welby,
M.D. was on ABC)
10:30 TV10 Report
11 PM CBS News--Dan Rather
11:15 Movie: "Where Love Has Gone"
sign off 1:30 AM

WTVK Ch. 26 (ABC)

7 AM Maryville College
7:30 Amazing Grace Bible Class
8 AM Grace Bible Hour
8:30 Tabernacle Time
9 AM Rex Humbard (yes, on two
stations in Knoxville)
10 AM Curiosity Shop
11 AM Bullwinkle
11:30 Make A Wish
12 N Revival Fires
12:30 Reach Out To Christ
1 PM NBA Basketball: Los Angeles
Lakers at Atlanta Hawks
3:15 SEC Basketball: Tennessee
at Georgia (taped, time
approximate)
5 PM Joe Caldwell: Basketball
(time approximate)
5:30 Farmer's Daughter
6 PM Untamed World
6:30 Police Surgeon
7 PM UFO
8 PM The FBI
9 PM ABC Movie: "Plaza Suite"
11:15 ABC News--Bill Beutel
11:30 Issues And Answers
sign off 12 Midnight

BRISTOL/KINGSPORT/JOHNSON CITY

WCYB Ch. 5 (NBC)

7:15 Living Word
7:30 Gospel Singing Jubilee
8:30 Gospel Sing
9:30 Kartoon Kapers
10 AM Light Unto My Path
10:30 Insight
11 AM TBA
11:30 Sugarfoot
12:30 Meet The Press
1 PM Bronco
2 PM Super Sundays
3 PM Super Bowl VII
6:30 Super Bowl Post-Game
(time approximate)
7 PM Wild Kingdom (time approximate)
7:30 Wonderful World Of Disney
8:30 McMillan And Wife
10 PM Night Gallery
10:30 Police Surgeon
11 PM News
11:15 Cheyenne
sign off 12:15 AM

WJHL Ch. 11 (CBS)

7:30 Jerry Falwell
8:30 Lower Lighthouse
9 AM Revival Fires
9:30 Oral Roberts
10 AM Leonard Repass
10:30 Look Up And Live
11 AM Church Service--Presbyterian
12 N Face The Nation
12:30 ACC Basketball: North Carolina
at Maryland (Joined in progress)
2 PM Bill Anderson (time approximate)
2:30 Roller Game Of The Week
3:30 Virginian
5 PM Tarzan
6 PM 60 Minutes
7 PM Let's Make A Deal
7:30 New Dick Van dyke Show
8 PM M*A*S*H
8:30 Mannix
9:30 Robert Young And The Family
10:30 Garner Ted Armstrong
11 PM CBS News
11:15 Virginian
sign off 12:45 AM

WKPT Ch. 19 (ABC)

6:30 Morning Worship
7:30 By All Means
8 AM Revival Fires
8:30 Chaplain Of Bourbon Street
9 AM Voice Of Victory
9:30 Bible Baptist Church
10 AM Curiosity Shop
11 AM Bullwinkle
11:30 Make A Wish
12 N Ben Haden
12:30 Issues And Answers
1 PM NBA Basketball: Lakers-Hawks
3:30 Wrestling (time approximate)
4:30 Death Valley Days
5 PM Town Crier
5:30 Virgil Q. Wacks
6 PM Movie: "There's No Business
Like Show Business"
8 PM The FBI
9 PM ABC Movie: "Plaza Suite"
11:15 ABC News
11:30 Perry Mason
sign off 12:30 AM

WSVN (WSBN) Ch. 47 (PBS) Norton, VA

4:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
no listing for 5 PM
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Sesame Street
7 PM Zoom
7:30 Puppets And The Poet
8:30 French Chef
9 PM Masterpiece Theatre
10 PM Firing Line
sign off 11 PM
 
bpatrick said:
Red-letter day: the Miami Dolphins defeat the
Washington Redskins in Super Bowl VII, completing
modern pro football's only perfect season.

Schedules are from TV Guide, Carolina-Tennessee
edition. Tennessee stations are on this post,
Carolina stations are in Part 2.

KNOXVILLE

WSJK Ch. 2 (PBS)

6:15 This Week On Two
6:30 Maggie And The Beautiful
Machine
7 PM Zoom
7:30 Puppets And The Poet
(puppets perform Shakespeare)
8:30 French Chef
9 PM Masterpiece Theatre: "Tom Brown's
Schooldays" (Part 1 of 5)
10 PM Firing Line
sign off 11 PM

WATE Ch. 6 (NBC)

6:30 Chaplain Of Bourbon Street
7 AM Golden Gospel Hour

WBIR Ch. 10 (CBS)

6:55 Jot
7 AM Mull's Singing Convention
2 PM The Waltons (Ch. 10 had a
movie on Thursdays at 7:30
at the time.)

There are 3 comments I would like to make about the schedule for Knoxville television during this time frame:
1) WSJK, CH. 2, didn't start their broadcast day until 3:00 pm during the week and until about 6:00 pm on the weekends. They didn't expand their broadcasting hours on the weekends until the mid 70's and their daily broadcast hours until the early 80's.

2) The Golden Gospel Hour was WATE-TV 6's answer to Channel 10's Mull Singing Convention. J. Bazel & Lady
Mull ruled the Knoxville airways on Sunday mornings for years and Channel 6 tried to compete against them with the Golden Gospel Hour. They both had a simular format with the Mulls mainly airing Southern Gospel Quartets and Bill Golden mainly airing videos of more mainstream gospel singers such as Tony Fontaine and George Beverly Shea. The Golden Gospel Hour only klasted a few years while the Mulls were still on the air in Knoxville until Rev. Mull's recent death.

3) WBIR Channel 10 was notorious for pre-empting CBS network programming during the week in order to show movies, special programing or re-runs of shows in syndication and then airing the pre-empted network shows, such as the Waltons, on Saturday and Sunday afternoons. They kept this practice up until at least the mid 80's. One such case I can remember was Channel 10 once pre-empted the Grammy Awards to show the special "The Statler Brothers on the Mississippi River". It wouldn't have been that much of a problem if it weren't for the fact that particular Statler Brothers special had already aired at three times prior to that airing.
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WBIR must have been especially prone to pre-
empting 8 PM shows; in another posting, I
mentioned that Perry Mason aired Tuesdays
7:30-8:30, pre-empting Maude; the movie
airing Thursdays 7:30-9 was obviously intended
to make a double feature with the CBS movie.

WBIR was owned by Multimedia for years, and
you could count on their pre-empting CBS when
Multimedia had a country-music awards show of
some type (Channel 4 in Greenville, SC, although
an NBC affiliate, was their sister station and did
the same thing).

But I also think a number of CBS affiliates were
squeamish about The Waltons that first season;
after all, Flip Wilson had ruled the time slot for
the preceding two years, and ABC had Mod Squad.
The Waltons started so slowly that in December
CBS took out ads in the major newsmagazines,
The New York Times, and The Washington Post,
urging viewers to get behind it. Whether or not
the ad campaign worked, The Waltons hit the
top 20 in the summer of '73; that fall, Mod Squad
was gone and Flip was in his last season...and WBIR
was running The Waltons in pattern.
 
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