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Retro: Carolina-Tennessee Tue., Sept. 4, 1979

From TV Guide, Carolina-Tennessee Edition:

WSJK (WETP) Ch. 2 Sneedville, TN (PBS)

8 AM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
8:30 In-school programs
10:10 Electric Company
10:40 In-school programs
11:05 Sesame Street
12:05 In-school programs
3 PM Lilias, Yoga And You
3:30 Villa Alegre
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Once Upon A Classic ("John Halifax, Gentleman," Part 4)
6:30 Over Easy (Fred Waring, Melvin Belli)
7 PM MacNeil/Lehrer Report
7:30 Two-Nite
8 PM Once Upon A Classic ("Seal Island")
9 PM Joffrey Ballet From Art Park (performing with the Buffalo Philharmonic)
11 PM Dick Cavett (second of two with Muhammad Ali aboard the riverboat Natchez)
11:30 Captioned ABC News

WBTV Ch. 3 Charlotte (CBS)

6:10 Story Of Jesus
6:15 This Morning
7 AM Morning With Bob Schieffer
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Donahue (topic: Nazi-hunting)
10 AM All In The Family
10:30 Whew!
10:55 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
11 AM Price Is Right
12 N Top O' The Day
1 PM Search For Tomorrow
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3:30 My Three Sons
4 PM Razzmatazz (two New Jersey brothers who competed in in the National Horse Show last September, pre-empts "Emergency One!")
4:30 Trouble With Mother (Sandy Dennis as a housewife who clashes with her 19-year-old daughter over the significance of marriage and motherhood)
5 PM Adam-12 (pre-empts "Gunsmoke")
5:30 Reaching Out (kickoff of the 1980 United Way campaign with 10-year-old singer Heather Childers from Charlotte)
6 PM News
7 PM CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7:30 PM Magazine (Kenny and Marianne Gordon Rogers; a Washington, DC strip club where all the strippers are male; shallots; the difference between jogging and running shoes; a trip to Boston)
8 PM Muppet Show (guest: Danny Kaye)
8:30 TBA
9 PM CBS Movie: "Speedtrap"
11 PM News
11:30 U.S. Open Tennis Highlights
11:45 Barnaby Jones
12:55 CBS Movie: "Forbidden Planet" (yes, the 1956 sci-fi classic)

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

6 AM Rascals' Clubhouse
6:30 Batman (Cesar Romero as the Joker)
7 AM Today (Cleveland Amory discusses his book "The Trouble With Nowadays," his satire of contemporary life.)
9 AM Donahue (a local law in Washington State that requires women who report rape to submit to a lie-detector test)
10 AM Card Sharks
10:30 Hollywood Squares (Melissa Sue Anderson, Big Bird & Oscar the Grouch, George Gobel, Sydney Goldsmith, Dianne Kay, Richard Kiel, Kelly Monteith, Vincent Price, Doris Roberts)
11 AM High Rollers
11:30 Wheel Of Fortune
12 N News
12:30 Addams Family
1 PM Days Of Our Lives
2 PM The Doctors
2:30 Another World
4 PM Cartoon Carnival
4:30 Bionic Woman
5:30 Mary Tyler Moore
6 PM News
7 PM NBC News (John Chancellor/David Brinkley)
7:30 Candid Camera (Jimmy Dean has an uncomplimentary girlfriend.)
8 PM Billy Graham Nashville Central South Crusade
9 PM NBC White Paper: "Oil And American Power" (the risks involved in keeping the oil pipeline open from the Middle East)
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show (Mel Brooks, Carol Lawrence)
1 AM Tomorrow (Ed "Too Tall" Jones tells why he forsook a football career for boxing.)

WCYB Ch. 5 Bristol, VA (NBC)

6:30 Today On 5
7 AM Today
9 AM Donahue (topic: go-go dancing)
10 AM Card Sharks
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11 AM High Rollers
11:30 Wheel Of Fortune
12 N News
12:30 Password Plus (Ron Masak, Judy Norton Taylor)
1 PM Days Of Our Lives
2 PM The Doctors
2:30 Another World
4 PM Tom & Jerry
4:30 Big Valley
5:30 Beverly Hillbillies
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Newlywed Game
7:30 Cross-Wits (Carolyn Jones, Shelley Berman, Lee Meriwether, Tom Hallick)
8 PM The Runaways
9 PM NBC White Paper
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Tomorrow

WATE Ch. 6 Knoxville (NBC)
moves to ABC Sept. 17

6 AM Today In Tennessee
7 AM Today
9 AM Dinah! (Fred Willard, magician Ricky Jay, Linda Gray, Jackie Zeman Kaufman, butcher Merle Ellis)
10 AM Card Sharks
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11 AM High Rollers
11:30 Wheel Of Fortune
12 N News
12:30 Password Plus
1 PM Days Of Our Lives
2 PM The Doctors
2:30 Another World
4 PM Movie: "The Winning Team" (Ronald Reagan as baseball pitching great Grover Cleveland Alexander, from '52)
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Sanford And Son
7:30 $100,000 Name That Tune
8 PM The Runaways
9 PM NBC White Paper
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Tomorrow

WSPA Ch. 7 Spartanburg, SC (CBS)

6 AM Summer Semester: "Disabilities"
6:30 Not For Women Only (second of five on child care with authors Barbara Greenleaf ("Help: A Handbook For Working Mothers") and James Levine ("Who Will Raise The Children?")
7 AM Morning With Bob Schieffer
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Dinah!
10 AM Nancy Welch
10:30 Whew!
10:55 News (local)
11 AM Price Is Right
12 N Young And The Restless
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Love Of Life (delay from 4 PM)
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3:30 M*A*S*H
4 PM Razzmatazz (pre-empts "Beverly Hillbillies")
4:30 Hogan's Heroes
5 PM Bewitched
5:30 Sanford And Son
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Dating Game
7:30 $25,000 Pyramid (Lois Nettleton, Michael McKean)
8 PM Wonder Woman
9 PM CBS Movie: "Speedtrap"
11 PM News
11:30 U.S. Open Tennis Highlights
11:45 Barnaby Jones
12:55 CBS Movie: "Forbidden Planet"

WSOC Ch. 9 Charlotte (ABC)

6 AM Rise And Shine
6:15 Arthur Smith
6:45 News
7 AM Good Morning America (Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland)
9 AM Good Morning Carolina (an interview with Jeff Conaway of "Taxi")
9:45 News
10 AM $20,000 Pyramid (Robert Walden, Susan Lucci, week-behind from 12 N)
10:30 Petticoat Junction
11 AM Laverne & Shirley
11:30 Family Feud
12 N Tic Tac Dough
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1 PM All My Children
2 PM One Life To Live
3 PM General Hospital
4 PM Edge Of Night
4:30 Bewitched
5 PM Bionic Woman
6 PM News
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7 PM Cross-Wits (Lyle Waggoner, Mary Ann Mobley, Johnny Brown, Ellen Travolta)
7:30 Newlywed Game
8 PM Happy Days
8:30 Taxi
9 PM Three's Company
9:30 The Lazarus Syndrome (special 90-minute debut of a short-lived medical series that generated a great deal of controversy when it was canceled, mainly because the star, Louis Gossett Jr., is African-American; CBS had similar problems when it canceled the detective show "Paris," with another African-American, James Earl Jones; future episodes aired at 10 PM)
11 PM News
11:30 Guinness Book Of World Records (from 1976: Richard Dawson hosts, Michele Lee is guest, and participants who aim for new records for steepness in a wire-walk and the number of swords swallowed simultaneously)
1 AM News

WBIR Ch. 10 Knoxville (CBS)

6 AM Farm And Home Show
6:30 Carl Williams
7 AM Morning With Bob Schieffer
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Donahue (guest is Robert Joffrey, director of the Joffrey Ballet)
10 AM All In The Family
10:30 Whew!
10:55 CBS News
11 AM Price Is Right
12 N News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Young And The Restless
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3:30 M*A*S*H
4 PM Batman (Cesar Romero as the Joker)
4:30 Gunsmoke
5:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM That's Hollywood (war movies, with scenes from "Tora! Tora! Tora!," "The Longest Day," "Twelve O'Clock High," and "M*A*S*H")
7:30 Hollywood Squares (Howard Platt, Denise Nicholas, McLean Stevenson, Pat Klous, Connie Stevens, George Gobel, Laurette Spang, Gary Burghoff, Paul Lynde)
8 PM Wonder Woman
9 PM CBS Movie: "Speedtrap"
11 PM News
11:30 U.S. Open Tennis Highlights
11:45 Barnaby Jones
12:55 CBS Movie: "Forbidden Planet"

WJHL Ch. 11 Johnson City, TN (CBS)

6:30 First Call
7 AM Morning With Bob Schieffer
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Dinah! (Lucille Ball, Carol Burnett, Eydie Gorme, Bernadette Peters, dancer-choreographer Don Crichton, fiber-producers' representative Francine Coffey)
10 AM All In The Family
10:30 Whew!
10:55 CBS News
11 AM Price Is Right
12 N News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Young And The Restless
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3:30 Love Of Life
4 PM Dick Van Dyke
4:30 Liars Club (Larry Hovis, Betty White, Victor French, Pat Morita)
5 PM Gunsmoke
5:55 Weather
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Billy Graham Nashville Central South Crusade
8 PM Wonder Woman
9 PM CBS Movie: "Speedtrap"
11 PM News
11:30 U.S. Open Tennis Highlights
11:45 Barnaby Jones
12:55 CBS Movie: "Forbidden Planet"

WLOS Ch. 13 Asheville, NC (ABC)

6 AM Ed Allen Time (exercises)
6:30 Cartoon Time
7 AM Mr. Bill & Friends
7:30 Good Morning America (joined in progress)
9 AM Sesame Street
10 AM Big Valley
11 AM Laverne & Shirley
11:30 Family Feud
12 N Cross-Wits (Nipsey Russell, Carolyn Jones, Don Galloway, Marcia Wallace)
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1 PM All My Children
2 PM One Life To Live
3 PM General Hospital
4 PM Flintstones
4:30 Gilligan's Island
5 PM Six Million Dollar Man
6 PM Andy Griffith
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7 PM News
7:30 Tic Tac Dough
8 PM Happy Days
8:30 Taxi
9 PM Three's Company
9:30 The Lazarus Syndrome
11 PM News
11:30 Guinness Book Of World Records

WHKY Ch. 14 Hickory, NC (Ind.)

12:30 News
1 PM Not For Women Only (second program on Shakespeare's "seven ages of man" focuses on love; guests include a priest)
1:30 700 Club
3 PM Rascals Club
4:30 Uncle Waldo
5 PM Rocky & His Friends
5:30 Underdog
6 PM News
6:30 Holiday (travelogue)
7 PM Hour Of Prayer
7:30 Pentecostal Hour
8 PM Voice Of Faith
8:30 Shower Of Blessings
9:30 Power In The Spirit
10 PM News
10:25 Devotions
10:30 Victorious Living
11 PM Norman Vincent Peale
11:30 Movie: "Lady Of Burlesque"

WGGS Ch. 16 Greenville, SC (Ind.)

6 AM PTL Club
7 AM 700 Club
8:30 Life In The Spirit
9 AM Nite Line (religious-themed variety show hosted by station head Jimmy Thompson)
10:30 Forum
11 AM PTL Club
1 PM Lester Sumrall
2 PM Kartoon Korner
2:30 The Archies
3 PM New Zoo Revue
3:30 Flintstones (I wonder if this is "Fred Flintstone & Friends" since the original "Flintstones" was airing on WLOS.)
4 PM Western Theater
5 PM Flipper
5:30 Little Rascals
6 PM Mister Ed
6:30 Green Acres
7 PM Ozzie And Harriet
7:30 Celebration
8 PM The Bible In Action
8:30 Nite Line
10 PM 700 Club
11:30 Christopher Closeup

WTBS (WPCH) Ch. 17 Atlanta (Ind.)

5:30 World At Large
6:10 News
6:30 Dragnet
7 AM Three Stooges/Little Rascals
8 AM Lassie
8:30 Romper Room
9 AM The Lucy Show
9:30 Green Acres
10 AM Movie: "Beach Blanket Bingo"
11:55 News
12 N Love, American Style
12:30 Movie: "Conquered City"
2:25 News
2:30 I Love Lucy
3 PM Infinity Factory
3:30 Banana Splits
4 PM Flintstones
4:30 Partridge Family
5 PM Star Trek
6 PM Family Affair
6:30 Father Knows Best
7 PM Get Smart
7:30 Baseball: Reds-Braves
10 PM Little Miracle (Mickey Rooney as an angel who turns to the United Way to help a family in distress, time approximate)
10:30 Rat Patrol
11 PM New Soupy Sales Show
11:30 Movie: "Western Union"
1:30 Baseball: Reds-Braves (replay)
4 AM News (time approximate)
4:20 Untouchables

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

3 PM Crockett's Victory Garden
3:30 Over Easy (actor Fritz Feld)
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Once Upon A Classic (Part 4 of "John Halifax, Gentleman")
6:30 Engineering Review
7 PM Consumer Survival Kit
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8 PM Public Art (public art and sculpture in North Carolina)
9 PM Joffrey Ballet From Art Park
sign off 11 PM

WCCB Ch. 18 Charlotte (Ind.)

6 AM News
6:35 Forum
6:50 Cartoons
7 AM 700 Club
8:30 Practical Christian Living
9 AM Summertime Funshine
10:30 Forum
10:45 News
11 AM PTL Club
1 PM Wild Wild West
2 PM Cartoon Carnival
2:30 Groovie Goolies
3 PM Fred Flintstone & Friends
3:30 Batman
4 PM Marvel Superheroes
4:30 Krofft Superstars
5 PM Popeye Adventure Hour
6 PM I Love Lucy
6:30 Dick Van Dyke
7 PM Good Times
7:30 Real McCoys
8 PM Movie: "Oedipus The King"
10 PM Bonanza
11 PM Gong Show (Arte Johnson, Jaye P. Morgan, Jamie Farr)
11:30 PTL Club
1:30 News

WKPT Ch. 19 Kingsport, TN (ABC)

6:45 Assembly Echoes
7 AM Good Morning America
9 AM Chico And The Man
9:30 Andy Griffith
10 AM 700 Club
11 AM Laverne & Shirley
11:30 Family Feud
12 N $20,000 Pyramid (Tony Randall, Dick Cavett)
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1 PM All My Children
2 PM One Life To Live
3 PM General Hospital
4 PM Daniel Boone
5 PM Six Million Dollar Man
6 PM News
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7 PM Adam-12
7:30 Dating Game
8 PM Happy Days
8:30 Taxi
9 PM Three's Company
9:30 The Lazarus Syndrome
11 PM News
11:30 PTL Club

WTVK Ch. 26 (WVLT Ch. 8) Knoxville (ABC)
moves to NBC Sept. 17

6 AM PTL Club
7 AM Good Morning America
9 AM 700 Club
10:30 Edge Of Night (delay from 4 PM)
11 AM Laverne & Shirley
11:30 Family Feud
12 N $20,000 Pyramid
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1 PM All My Children
2 PM One Life To Live
3 PM General Hospital
4 PM Tom & Jerry/Woody Woodpecker
5 PM I Love Lucy
5:30 Joker's Wild
6 PM News
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7 PM Cross-Wits (Lynda Day George, David Doyle, Vicki Lawrence, Robert Q. Lewis)
7:30 Dating Game
8 PM Happy Days
8:30 Taxi
9 PM Three's Company
9:30 TBA
10 PM Billy Graham Nashville South Central Crusade
11 PM News
11:30 Guinness Book Of World Records

WNTV Ch. 29 Greenville, SC (PBS)

6:15 Saints And Legends
7:15 Lilias, Yoga And You
7:45 A.M. Weather
8 AM In-school programs
4:30 Sesame Street
5:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
6 PM Over Easy (guest is Arlene Francis)
6:30 Jobman Caravan
7 PM MacNeil/Lehrer Report
7:30 Seven30
8 PM Bill Moyers' Journal (Mortimer Adler talks about the relevance of Aristotle to today.)
9 PM Evening At Pops (guest: Glen Campbell)
10 PM Black Man's Land (first of three on the birth of Kenya from a black perspective; tonight: clashes between British imperialists and black nationalists)
11 PM Dick Cavett
11:30 Captioned ABC News
12 M MacNeil/Lehrer Report

WNSC Ch. 30 Rock Hill, SC (PBS)

6:15 Teacher As Manager
7:15 Lilias, Yoga And You
7:45 A.M. Weather
8 AM In-school programs
4:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5 PM Sesame Street
6 PM Over Easy (same as Ch. 29)
6:30 Another Voice
7 PM Bottom Line
7:30 Seven30
8 PM Once Upon A Classic ("Seal Island")
9 PM Joffrey Ballet From Art Park
11 PM Dick Cavett
11:30 Captioned ABC News

WRET (WCNC) Ch. 36 Charlotte (NBC)

6 AM New Zoo Revue
6:30 Ed Allen Time
7 AM Today
9 AM Another World
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11 AM High Rollers
11:30 Wheel Of Fortune
12 N I Dream Of Jeannie
12:30 Mary Tyler Moore
1 PM Days Of Our Lives
2 PM The Doctors
2:30 Flintstones
3 PM Three Stooges
3:30 Spectreman
4 PM Lost In Space
5 PM Carol Burnett And Friends
5:30 Sanford And Son
6 PM Hogan's Heroes
6:30 NBC News
7 PM News
7:30 Family Feud
8 PM The Runaways
9 PM NBC White Paper
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Tomorrow
2 AM News
2:20 Movie: "Never Say Goodbye"
4 AM Movie: "The Sweet Ride"

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

8:45 A.M. Weather
9 AM Sesame Street
10 AM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
10:30 Electric Company
11 AM In-school programs
3 PM Lilias, Yoga And You
3:30 Julia Child & Company
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
6:30 Electric Company
7 PM MacNeil/Lehrer Report
7:30 Stress Management
8 PM Once Upon A Classic ("Seal Island")
9 PM Joffrey Ballet From Art Park
sign off 11 PM

WCPT Ch. 55 Crossville, TN (Ind.)

8 AM Morningside
9 AM Not For Women Only
9:30 Jetsons
10 AM Underdog
10:30 Rocky And His Friends
11 AM PTL Club
1 PM Valley Of The Dinosaurs
1:30 Mission: Magic!
2 PM 700 Club
3:30 Not For Women Only
4 PM Concerts & Cartoons
5 PM New Zoo Revue
5:30 New Mickey Mouse Club
6 PM Dudley Do-Right
6:30 Rev. Woody Martin
7 PM News
7:30 Not For Women Only
8 PM You'll Love It (religious)
8:30 Sha Na Na
9 PM Soul Train
10 PM PTL Club
11 PM News
11:30 Cumberland Concert
 
Hey bpatrick do you have any TV listings from Local TV Guides from either Bristol-Kingsport-Johnson City, Greenville-Spartanburg-Asheville, or Knoxville-Chattanooga from the early 1980s (time period: 1981-1985)? If so, just let me know and I'd love to see some posted, otherwise, you should be on the lookout for some!

Here are the listings!

2 - WSJK Sneedville (PBS)
3CHAR - WBTV Charlotte (CBS)
3CHAT - WRCB Chattanooga (NBC)
4 - WFBC Greenville (NBC, changed call letters to WYFF in 1983)
5 - WCYB Bristol (NBC)
6 - WATE Knoxville (ABC)
7 - WSPA Spartanburg (CBS)
9CHAR - WSOC Charlotte (ABC)
9CHAT - WTVC Chattanooga (ABC)
10 - WBIR Knoxville (CBS)
11 - WJHL Johnson City (CBS)
12 - WDEF Chattanooga (CBS)
13 - WLOS Asheville (ABC)
16 - WGGS Greenville (Ind)
17 - WUNE Linville (PBS)
18CHAR - WCCB Charlotte (Ind.)
18CHAT - WCLP Chatsworth (PBS)
19 - WKPT Kingsport (ABC)
21 - WHNS Greenville (Ind.)
26 - WTVK Knoxville (NBC)
29 - WNTV Greenville (PBS)
32 - WNEG Toccoa (Ind.)
33 - WUNF Asheville (PBS)
36 - WPCQ Charlotte (NBC)
38 - WNEH Greenwood (PBS)
40 - WAIM Anderson (Ind, changed call letters to WAXA in 1983)
43 - WKCH Knoxville (Ind.)
45 - WTCI Chattanooga (PBS)
47 - WSBN Norton (PBS)
49 - WRET Spartanburg (PBS)
52 - WMSY Marion (PBS)
61 - WRIP Chattanooga (Ind., changed call letters to WDSI in 1983)
 
Geez, Louise. Charlotte, NC. 90 minutes of Another World at 9am? It was hard enough to take in the afternoon. Wonder how that worked out for them.
I'm also surprised that WBTV failed to clear Y&R. It was CBS' highest rated soap in the late 70s, a solid #3 in the yearly Nielsens. Maybe with more clearances (I've noticed a fair number of stations not carrying it circa 1979), it might've been able to edge out at least one other ABC soap.

And what's up with Adam-12 "pre-empting" Gunsmoke at 5pm on WBTV? Were they running the 1/2 hour Marshal Dillon version?
 
To answer your question about "Gunsmoke," WBTV was carrying the hour-long episodes; there was a special at 5:30, so "Adam-12" was put in to fill the half-hour gap.

WBTV would pick up "Y&R" at 1 PM, moving "Search For Tomorrow" to 10 AM, before it expanded to an hour; I think that would have been toward the end of 1979 or the beginning of 1980 ("Y&R" went to an hour on Feb. 4, 1980). As for "Another World," it would revert to an hour on August 4, 1980 (2-3 PM) as the spinoff soap "Texas" aired from 3-4 on NBC.
 
WGGS definately ran Fred Flintstone & Friends not the 166 Flintstones episodes back then. Fred & Friends was a straight barter low cost show while teh Flintstones was highly expensive back then. The Flintstones began going barter in 1982 when General Mills syndicated teh show along with Scooby Doo, Bewitched, Partridge Family, and I Dream Of Jeannie. General Mills picked up these shows from Columbia. The Bewitched and Jeannie shows excluded the black & white ones though. Under the barter deal the station would run 2 minutes of general mills ads during each show plus run 10 minutes of these ads per day per show spread out during daytime hours. For cartoons the ads had to be run between the 6 and 9 a.m. hours and the 3 to 6 p.m. hours. The General Mills Syndicated arm was called DFS. Flintstones began going on this deal in 1982 as the cash deals with Screen Gems expired. In fact in Philadelphia when WKBS TV 48 went dark in 83 they had a year to go on the Flintstones which expired in 1984 but Screen Gems and DFS would not allow this title to move to Channel 17. Channel 48 also was contracted to begin runs on Bewitched which did move to Channel 17 (Bewitched was not ever aired on 48 because the cotract was to take effect after 48 went dark and was made before the decision to dismantle 48 was made). But Channel 17 WPHL had to get their own contract for Flintstones which they did several months after Channel 48 went dark.

Also Channel 48 was scheduled that fall to pick up One Day At A Time, Love Boat, Fantasy Island, and Inspector Gadget and those shows did go to Channel 17. The Viacom shows like All In The Family (which went to Columbia/Embassy in 1991), I Love Lucy, Beverly hillbillies, Honeymooners, Gomer Pyle, and Dick van Dyke also could not go to Channel 17 because of Viacom's policy about second hand selling of shows to other stations. Viacom would not allow their shows to be somd second hand. Channel 17 did buy Gomer and Dick Van Dyke 6 months later on their own.

Back to WGGS - WGGS ran only low costa nd no cost secular shows. They spent little money on programming despite being the only independent in the market until 1979. Later in 79 Channel 40 went on the air as an independent and they too had a low budget lineup. It was not until 1984 when Pappas signed on 21 WHNS that a strong indepedent went on the air there...

One other thing that I cannot figure out is how Asheville is part of the Greenville market. the cities are 80 miles apart - farther than some markets are from each other (Washington & Baltimore are a mere 25 miles from each other - Cincinnati and Dayton are 40 miles apart - Providence and Boston 50 miles apart - Ralliegh and Greensboro are about 45 miles apart) - Channel 13 Ashville though transmits between Ashville and Spartanburg so it reaches Greenville but its tough to reach south of Greenville. Channel 16 though cannot reach Ashville at all - niether can TV 40. But 40 and 13 are now co owned. Channel 40 is an Independent stationon their main channel but run ABC 13's shows on DT-2. Channel 13 Ashville runs 40's schedule on their DT 2 now so digital resolved that issue. Same with 62 Ashville and 7 Spartanburg. They run each others programnming on their subchannels. Still Ashville is way to far to be in the Greenville Market..
 
Asheville is actually about 60 miles from Greenville and Spartanburg. I suspect the reason Asheville and Greenville are considered the same market is because there has been a network affiliate (WLOS-ABC) in Asheville that gets into Greenville since 1954. WLOS, in fact, at one time was seen in six states (the two Carolinas, Virginia. Tennessee, Kentucky, and Georgia); it was the de facto ABC affiliate for Bristol/Kingsport/Johnson City until WKPT signed on in 1969; it also got into Knoxville and people there tended to watch it rather than WTVK/26 before ABC switched to WATE/6 in 1979. On top of that, WYFF and WSPA put a clear signal into Asheviile, as does WHNS, which is licensed to Asheville.
 
In 2008 a friend and I (my friend from 60 miles north of New Orleans began a trip from his home to Birmingham, Atlanta, Charlotte, Gatlinburg, then back to Atlanta through Asheville (not far from Gatlinburg) and visited the Biltmore. This was a 10 day trip. Anyhow I was amazed at how far Greenville and Asheville were from each other. It was like a 90 minute drive. I did notice that in Gatlinburg, WLOS reached as well as the Knoxville ABC station. I alos notice that 13 was in the newspaper TV sections while the rest of the Greenville Spartanburg stations were not. Chances are the transmitter of WLOS is about 15 miles or so south of Asheville. The Greenville station transmitters are likely near Spartanburg so the stations have an 80 % overlap when all is said and done. Still Channel 13 does likely lack signal south of Greenville in the Anderson area and Channel 40 does reach Greenville well but barely reaches Spartanburg and does not reach Asheville while Channel 16 does not reach Asheville. The issue with digital for Channel 40 and 13 seem resolved as each station is aq mirror simulcast of each other ABC on 13 DT-1 and Independent on 13 DT-2 while in reverse on 40 DT-1 and 40 DT-2.

I do wonder what ever happened to Channel 55 in the Crossville area though...
 
In 2008 a friend and I (my friend from 60 miles north of New Orleans began a trip from his home to Birmingham, Atlanta, Charlotte, Gatlinburg, then back to Atlanta through Asheville (not far from Gatlinburg) and visited the Biltmore. This was a 10 day trip. Anyhow I was amazed at how far Greenville and Asheville were from each other. It was like a 90 minute drive. I did notice that in Gatlinburg, WLOS reached as well as the Knoxville ABC station. I alos notice that 13 was in the newspaper TV sections while the rest of the Greenville Spartanburg stations were not. Chances are the transmitter of WLOS is about 15 miles or so south of Asheville. The Greenville station transmitters are likely near Spartanburg so the stations have an 80 % overlap when all is said and done. Still Channel 13 does likely lack signal south of Greenville in the Anderson area and Channel 40 does reach Greenville well but barely reaches Spartanburg and does not reach Asheville while Channel 16 does not reach Asheville. The issue with digital for Channel 40 and 13 seem resolved as each station is aq mirror simulcast of each other ABC on 13 DT-1 and Independent on 13 DT-2 while in reverse on 40 DT-1 and 40 DT-2.

I do wonder what ever happened to Channel 55 in the Crossville area though...

55 from Crossville moved to channel 20 in 1982 and is now WBXX (Knoxville's CW affiliate). Reading through the history cards, WCPT had applied to move to channel 7, but WTVK (which eventually moved to channel 8 years later) stopped it from progressing. In the analog days, channel 7 would have been properly spaced to other channel 7's (WBBJ, WTVW, WSPA, WHIO, WCIQ) in an area stretching from Crossville/Cookeville up to around Pulaski, KY
 
I thought for MANY years during this time that WBTV/CHARLOTTE aired "Price Is Right" from 10:30 to 11:30.

It did, from 1982 to 1992 when Top O’ The Day aired at 11:30am.
 
It is interesting to see WJHL airing Love of Life at 3:30pm when CBS demoted the show from 11:30am to 4:00pm in April 1979--a timeslot many CBS stations pre-empted. The 3:30 slot after Guiding Light made more sense for the show instead of M*A*S*H reruns. Even the CBS owned stations carried Love of Life at 3:30/2:30pm. If CBS had given it the network timeslot at 3:30pm, the show might have lasted longer. It was cancelled by CBS in February 1980.
 
Geez, Louise. Charlotte, NC. 90 minutes of Another World at 9am? It was hard enough to take in the afternoon. Wonder how that worked out for them.
I'm also surprised that WBTV failed to clear Y&R. It was CBS' highest rated soap in the late 70s, a solid #3 in the yearly Nielsens. Maybe with more clearances (I've noticed a fair number of stations not carrying it circa 1979), it might've been able to edge out at least one other ABC soap.

And what's up with Adam-12 "pre-empting" Gunsmoke at 5pm on WBTV? Were they running the 1/2 hour Marshal Dillon version?

My grandmother used to give up her afternoons to watch All My Children, The Doctors and General Hospital. Talk about being devoted to soaps. When WFBC aired the ACC Tournament(one day then) she'd watch One Life to Live.
 
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