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Retro: Carolina-Tennessee Wednesday, January 9, 1980

From TV Guide, Carolina-Tennessee Edition:

WSJK Ch. 2 Sneedville, TN (PBS)

6 AM Over Easy (guests: Garson Kanin, Ethel
Waters, and financial expert Sylvia Porter)
6:30 New Day
7:15 Weather
7:30 Dick Cavett
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 GED
3:30 Villa Alegre
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Zoom
6:30 Over Easy
7 PM MacNeil/Lehrer Report
7:30 Outlook
8 PM Great Performances: "Moliere"
9 PM Movie: "The Lathe Of Heaven"
11 PM Dick Cavett
11:30 Captioned ABC News

WBTV Ch. 3 Charlotte (CBS)

6:15 This Morning
7 AM Morning With Bob Schieffer
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Donahue
10 AM Search For Tomorrow
10:30 Whew!
10:55 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
11 AM Price Is Right
12 N Top O' The Day
1 PM Young And The Restless
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3:30 Gilligan's Island
4 PM What's Happening!!
4:30 Happy Days Again
5 PM Gunsmoke
6 PM News
7 PM CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7:30 PM Magazine
8 PM Young Maverick (Charles Frank as nephew
Ben Maverick)
9 PM CBS Movie: "Seizure: The Story Of Kathy
Morris"
11 PM News
11:30 Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (CBS was rerunning
this)
12 M CBS Movie: "The Possessed"

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

6 AM New World
6:30 Batman (Carolyn Jones as Marsha, the Queen of
Diamonds)
7 AM Today (Tom Brokaw)
9 AM Donahue
10 AM Card Sharks
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11 AM High Rollers
11:30 Wheel Of Fortune
12 N News
12:30 Mary Tyler Moore
1 PM Days Of Our Lives
2 PM The Doctors
2:30 Another World
4 PM Tom & Jerry
4:30 Real McCoys
5 PM Happy Days Again
5:30 I Love Lucy
6 PM News
7 PM NBC News (Chancellor/Brinkley)
7:30 Match Game
8 PM Real People
9 PM Diff'rent Strokes
9:30 Live From Studio 8-H: Zubin Mehta
conducts a tribute to Arturo Toscanini
(who led the NBC Symphony for years)
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Tomorrow

WCYB Ch. 5 Bristol, VA (NBC)

6:30 Today On 5
7 AM Today
9 AM Donahue
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 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
8 PM Real People
9 PM Diff'rent Strokes
9:30 Live From Studio 8-H
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Tomorrow

WATE Ch. 6 Knoxville (ABC)

6 AM Good Morning Tennessee
7 AM Good Morning America (David Hartman)
9 AM Dinah! & Friends
10 AM $20,000 Pyramid (Candace Earley and Brian
Patrick Clarke are guests, day-behind)
10:30 Edge Of Night
11 AM Laverne & Shirley
11:30 Family Feud
12 N News
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1 PM All My Children
2 PM One Life To Live
3 PM General Hospital
4 PM Wild Wild World Of Animals (4 PM movie is
pre-empted today)
4:30 ABC Afterschool Special: "One Of A Kind"
5:30 Sanford And Son
6 PM News
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7 PM Newlywed Game
7:30 M*A*S*H
8 PM Eight Is Enough
9 PM Charlie's Angels
10 PM Vega$
11 PM News
11:30 The Iran Crisis: America Held Hostage
11:45 Love Boat
12:55 Baretta

WSPA Ch. 7 Spartanburg, SC (CBS)

6 AM Sunrise Semester: "Presidential Power
And American Democracy"
6:30 Health Field
7 AM Morning With Bob Schieffer
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Dinah! & Friends
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 One Day At A Time
4 PM Beverly Hillbillies
4:30 Bewitched
5 PM Odd Couple
5:30 Sanford And Son
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Dating Game
7:30 Guinness Game (Ch. 7 was one of the last
stations to "checkerboard" 7:30)
8 PM Young Maverick
9 PM CBS Movie: "Seizure: The Story Of Kathy
Morris"
11 PM News
11:30 Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
NOTE: TV Guide doesn't show Ch. 7 carrying CBS's
late movie at 12, but I can't believe they'd sign off
that early.

WSOC Ch. 9 Charlotte (ABC)

6 AM Rise And Shine
6:15 Arthur Smith
6:45 News
7 AM Good Morning America
9 AM Good Morning Carolina
9:45 News
10 AM $20,000 Pyramid (Soupy Sales and Elaine
Joyce are guests, one-week delay)
10:30 Dating Game
11 AM Laverne & Shirley
11:30 Family Feud
12 N Tic Tac Dough
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1 PM All My Children
2 PM One Life To Live
3 PM General Hospital
4 PM Edge Of Night
4:30 ABC Afterschool Special (pre-empts "3's A
Crowd"--the game show--and "All In The Family")
5:30 M*A*S*H
6 PM News
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7 PM Cross-Wits
7:30 Newlywed Game
8 PM Eight Is Enough
9 PM Charlie's Angels
10 PM Vega$
11 PM News
11:30 The Iran Crisis: America Held Hostage
11:45 Love Boat
12:55 Baretta
2:05 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
10 AM Beat The Clock (Monty Hall)
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 One Day At A Time
4 PM Bugs Bunny & Friends
4:30 Gilligan's Island
5 PM Beverly Hillbillies
5:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Happy Days Again
7:30 3's A Crowd
8 PM Young Maverick
9 PM CBS Movie: "Seizure: The Story Of Kathy
Morris"
11 PM News
11:30 Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
12 M CBS Movie: "The Possessed"

WJHL Ch. 11 Johnson City, TN (CBS)

6:30 First Call
7 AM Morning With Bob Schieffer
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Dinah! & Friends
10 AM Beat The Clock
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 One Day At A Time
4 PM Woody Woodpecker
4:30 Brady Bunch
5 PM Hogan's Heroes
5:30 Sanford And Son
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Happy Days Again
7:30 M*A*S*H
8 PM Young Maverick
9 PM CBS Movie: "Seizure: The Story Of Kathy
Morris"
11 PM News
11:30 Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
12 M CBS Movie: "The Possessed"

WLOS Ch. 13 Asheville, NC (ABC)

6:30 Mr. Bill & Friends
6:55 Good Morning Carolina
7 AM Good Morning America
9 AM Sesame Street
10 AM Big Valley
11 AM Laverne & Shirley
11:30 Family Feud
12 N Play The Percentages
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1 PM All My Children
2 PM One Life To Live
3 PM General Hospital
4 PM All In The Family
4:30 ABC Afterschool Special (pre-empts "Bugs
Bunny & Friends" and Andy Griffith)
5:30 M*A*S*H
6 PM News
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7 PM Joker's Wild
7:30 Tic Tac Dough
8 PM Eight Is Enough
9 PM Charlie's Angels
10 PM Vega$
11 PM News
11:30 M*A*S*H
12 M All In The Family
12:30 Love Boat
NOTE: All programs from 11:30 on may be
backed up 15 minutes by "The Iran Crisis".

WHKY Ch. 14 Hickory, NC (Ind.)

11 AM Movie: "Rain"
12:30 News
1 PM Health Field
1:30 700 Club (Pat Boone substitutes for Pat
Robertson)
3 PM Rascals Club
4:30 Uncle Waldo
5 PM Rocky & His Friends
5:30 Underdog
6 PM News
6:30 Ghost Planes From The Past
7 PM Sawdust Therapy
7:30 Norm Sloan: N.C. State Basketball Highlights
8 PM Duke Basketball Highlights (I think this was
Coach K's first year at Duke)
8:30 Bill Dance Outdoors
9 PM Better Way (consumer report)
9:30 Samuel Simms (religion)
10 PM News
10:25 Devotions
10:30 Scope
11:30 Movie: "The Stars Look Down"

WGGS Ch. 16 Greenville, SC (Ind.)

6 AM PTL Club
7 AM 700 Club
8:30 Manna
9 AM Praise-Thon
10:30 Greenville
11 AM PTL Club
1 PM Temple Hour
2 PM Kartoon Korner
3 PM New Zoo Revue
3:30 Little Rascals
4 PM Western Theater
5 PM Rebop
5:30 Flipper
6 PM Dove Broadcasting Telethon
12:30 700 Club

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

7:45 A.M. Weather
8 AM In-school programs
9 AM Sesame Street
10 AM In-school programs
12:30 Electric Company
1 PM In-school programs
2:30 Pests, Pesticides And Safety
3 PM Over Easy
3:30 Two Hendersonville (NC) Families
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Zoom
6:30 Carrascolendas
7 PM Exposures (Light Up A Life, a nondenominational
program to build chapels in centers for the
mentally-challenged in North Carolina)
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8 PM Great Performances
9 PM Movie: "The Lathe Of Heaven"
11 PM Dick Cavett
11:30 Captioned ABC News

WTBS Ch. 17 Atlanta (Ind.)

6:10 World At Large
6:30 News
7 AM Three Stooges/Little Rascals
8 AM Family Affair
8:30 Romper Room
9 AM The Lucy Show
9:30 Green Acres
10 AM Movie: "Night And The City"
11:55 News
12 N Love, American Style
12:30 Movie: "Palm Springs Weekend"
2:25 News
2:30 Gigglesnort Hotel
3 PM I Love Lucy
3:30 Flintstones
4 PM Spectreman
4:30 Gilligan's Island
5 PM My Three Sons
5:30 I Dream Of Jeannie
6 PM Carol Burnett And Friends
6:30 Bob Newhart
7 PM Sanford And Son
7:30 All In The Family
8 PM Movie: "Sands Of Iwo Jima"
10:15 Upstairs, Downstairs
11:15 Love, American Style
11:30 Movie: "Two Rode Together"
1:50 News
1:55 Movie: "Last Train From Bombay"
3:25 Movie: "The Law vs. Billy The Kid"
5:05 Untouchables

WCCB Ch. 18 Charlotte (Ind.)

6 AM News
6:35 Forum
6:50 Cartoon Carnival
7 AM Groovie Goolies
8 AM Super Heroes
8:30 Spiderman
9 AM Green Acres
9:30 Mayberry R.F.D.
10 AM Real McCoys
10:30 Forum
10:45 News
11 AM PTL Club
1 PM Perry Mason
2 PM Groovie Goolies
2:30 Krofft Superstars
3 PM Star Blazers
3:30 Batman
4 PM Popeye Adventure Hour
5 PM Wild Wild West
6 PM I Love Lucy
6:30 Dick Van Dyke
7 PM Good Times
7:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
8 PM Vaudeville (an attempt to revive "The
Hollywood Palace"; Milton Berle is headliner)
9 PM College Basketball: Wake Forest-UNC
11 PM Gong Show (time approximate)
11:30 PTL Club

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 $20,000 Pyramid
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1 PM All My Children
2 PM One Life To Live
3 PM General Hospital
4 PM Daniel Boone
5 PM ABC Afterschool Special (pre-empts
"Rockford Files")
6 PM News
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7 PM 3's A Crowd
7:30 Dating Game
8 PM Eight Is Enough
9 PM Charlie's Angels
10 PM Vega$
11 PM News
11:30 PTL Club (may be delayed to 11:45 by
"The Iran Crisis")

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

6 AM PTL Club
7 AM Today
9 AM 700 Club
10 AM Card Sharks
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11 AM High Rollers
11:30 Wheel Of Fortune
12 N Mindreaders
12:30 Password Plus
1 PM Days Of Our Lives
2 PM The Doctors
2:30 Another World
4 PM Tom & Jerry/Woody Woodpecker
5 PM Bonanza
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Cross-Wits
7:30 Dating Game
8 PM Real People
9 PM Diff'rent Strokes
9:30 Live From Studio 8-H
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Tomorrow

WNTV Ch. 29 Greenville, SC/WNSC Ch. 30
Rock Hill, SC (PBS)

In-school programs until

4:30 (29) Sesame Street
(30) Electric Company
5 PM (30) Sesame Street
5:30 (29) Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
6 PM (29) Over Easy
(30) Home Economics Curriculum
6:30 (29) Museum Of Education
(30) Museum Safari (may be the same show)
7 PM (29) MacNeil/Lehrer Report
(30) ECU: Lifestyles
7:30 Seven30
8 PM Great Performances
9 PM Movie: "The Lathe Of Heaven"
11 PM Dick Cavett
11:30 Captioned ABC News
12 M (29) MacNeil/Lehrer Report

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 700 Club
1 PM Days Of Our Lives
2 PM The Doctors
2:30 Mary Tyler Moore
3 PM Andy Griffith
3:30 Carol Burnett And Friends
4 PM Movie: "The Savage"
6 PM Sanford And Son
6:30 NBC News
7 PM News
7:30 $1.98 Beauty Show (Ch. 36 was also one
of the last to "strip" 7:30)
8 PM Real People
9 PM Diff'rent Strokes
9:30 Live From Studio 8-H
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Tomorrow
2 AM News
2:30 Movie: "Body And Soul"
4 AM Movie: "Adventures Of Captain Fabian"
(who else but Errol Flynn?)

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

8:15 Weather
8:30 Sesame Street
9:30 In-school programs
10 AM Electric Company
10:30 In-school programs
3:30 Over Easy
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Sesame Street
7 PM MacNeil/Lehrer Report
7:30 School Days, School Days
8 PM Great Performances
9 PM Movie: "The Lathe Of Heaven"
11 PM Opening Of The Virginia General Assembly
(taped)

WCPT Ch. 55 Crossville, TN (Ind.)

8 AM Morningside
9 AM Not For Women Only
9:30 Jetsons
10 AM Underdog
10:30 Rocky & 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 Hot Fudge
8:30 Invisible Man (the '50s version from England)
9 PM American Angler
9:30 Biography (may be the original, with Mike Wallace)
10 PM PTL Club
11:30 Cumberland Concert
 
bp, correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't TVG break up the territory of Carolina-Tennessee within the next year or so, into Charlotte and Knoxville-Chattanooga? I am sure you have answered this question before, but according to Matt Sittel's website (http://www.mcsittel.com/html/tv_guide.html), the Charlotte edition began no later than 1982 and the K-C edition 1981. Can't figure out, though, what edition the Tri-Cities stations (WCYB, WJHL, and WKPT) went into, though.
 
The changes came with the August 2, 1980 issue, IIRC.
Carolina-Tennessee was split into Greenville/Spartanburg/Asheville,
Bristol/Kingsport/Johnson City, and Knoxville/Chattanooga.

At the same time, the North Carolina edition was split into Eastern
North Carolina and Charlotte (later Central North Carolina), and the
Atlanta edition ceased to circulate in the Chattanooga market, although
Chattanooga stations were kept in as spillover.

Greenville/Spartanburg/Asheville carried as spillover WBTV, WSOC,
WCCB, WRET (WCNC), and (after it signed on); WJZY/46. For several
years it also carried WSJK, WCYB, and WJHL but eventually dropped them.

Bristol/Kingsport/Johnson City had as spillover WSJK, WATE, WBIR, WTVK
(later WVLT/8), and (after it signed on) WTNZ/43; also WLOS and (later)
WYMT/57 Hazard, KY.

Knoxville/Chattanooga had Ch. 18 Chatsworth, GA as black numerals on
a white background; all the other stations were white-on-black.

To belabor the point, the Eastern North Carolina edition served Raleigh/
Durham, Greenville/New Bern/Washington, and Wilmington. Spillover came
from WFMY, WGHP, and (for a time) WXII; also WBTW and WPDE Florence, SC.

The Charlotte edition (or Central North Carolina) served Charlotte and Greensboro/
Winston-Salem/High Point. Spillover came from WFBC (WYFF), WSPA, WLOS, WRAL,
WTVD, WLFL, and (I think briefly) WRDC; also WIS Columbia, SC and WBTW and WPDE.
 
RyanHoward said:
Didn't that TVG edition also list WAIM-TV(Ch. 40, CBS and ABC) from Anderson, SC? Where did that station go?

It went into the G/S/A edition, although, according to Sittel's site, it did not appear in a 1980 edition, only re-surfacing some years later. It apparently didn't meet the criteria for area coverage, perhaps, but why would it fail to do on a smaller territory than it had for a larger? One of the myriad riddles of TVG history.

By this time, the station was an indie, WLOS in Asheville having gotten ABC to strip WAIM's affiliation for the South Carolina counties. That may have accounted for TVG dropping it for a time. That action by ABC left a coverage gap in the Carolina upcountry between WLOS and Atlanta's WXIA (later WSB), which has to my knowledge never been filled in adequately in the counties along the Georgia line. In a high irony to all of this, both WLOS and WMYA (current calls of the former WAIM) are both owned by Sinclair.

Here's Wikipedia's article on the station's pedigree: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WMYA-TV.
 
WAIM left the air, IIRC, in 1979, before the Carolina/Tennessee
edition was split up. It returned in the mid-'80s as WAXA and
was, in fact, the original Fox affiliate for Greenville/Spartanburg/
Asheville (WHNS/21 picked up Fox in 1989). Channel 40 acted
as a satellite of WLOS for a time in the early '90s, then (somebody
correct me here since I left the area in 1990) was a WB and now
MyNetwork affiliate.

In the '70s I was at the University of Georgia and the local cable
company never brought in Ch. 40. At the time we had three ABC
affiliates: WXIA (before the switch), WLOS, and Augusta's WJBF.
There's a cable system that serves just the campus and it's only
been in the last couple of years that it has dropped WLOS; seems
it actually came in better than WSB, but somehow that bug got
ironed out so WSB is the sole ABC affiliate for Athens and surrounding
area, while I think places to the northeast like Hartwell and Toccoa
get WLOS.
 
WCPT's lineup officially wins the award for most schizophrenic, hands-down. "Hot Fudge" at 8 PM? I mean, it's a good show, but it's been banished to weekend mornings for as long as I remember.
 
I need to make a correction. Charlotte's Ch. 36 was
one of the last stations to "checkerboard" 7:30 (run
a different show each night).
 
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