Retro: Central Virginia Fri, Sept 15, 1978

[Bluenoser]

from TV Guide-Central Virginia edition

WFMY 2-CBS Greensboro
6:00 Good Morning (discussion of credit laws; interviews with Nick Hammond and Jack Colvin)
8:00 Captain Kangaroo (guest Alan Arkin)
9:00 Dinah! (guests Norm Crosby, Fernando Lamas, Marilu Tolo, and Mercer Ellington & the Duke Ellington Band)
10:00 Sandra! (family fashion show)
10:30 Price is Right
11:30 Love of Life
11:55 News
noon Young & the Restless
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 All in the Family
1:30 As the World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3:30 M*A*S*H
4:00 Mary Tyler Moore
4:30 Odd Couple
5:00 Chico & the Man
5:30 Hogan's Heroes
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 PM Magazine
7:30 Cross-Wits
8:00 Incredible Hulk (airs an hour earlier)
9:00 Movie "Grand Theft Auto"
11:00 News
11:30 New Avengers (premiere)
12:40 Movie "Murder on Flight 402"

WHSV 3-NBC/ABC Harrisonburg
6:30 Romper Room
7:00 Good Morning America (guests include Muhammad Ali)
9:00 PTL Club
10:00 Card Sharks
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11:00 Happy Days
11:30 Family Feud
noon $20,000 Pyramid
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Edge of Night
4:30 New Mickey Mouse Club
5:00 Bonanza
6:00 News
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7:00 Dolly (guests Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris)
7:30 Donna Fargo
8:00 Boxing: live from New Orleans, Leon Spinks (7-0-1) defends his WBA heavyweight title against former champ Muhammad Ali (55-3)/WBA light-heavy champ Victor Galindez (52-6-4) v Mike Rossman (34-4-3)/WBC featherweight champ Danny Lopez (37-3) v Juan Malvarez (42-6-8) (Donny & Marie's season premiere airs at 8pm next week)
11:00 News
11:30 Baretta
12:40 News

WRAL 5-ABC Raleigh
6:30 Country Morning/Farm News
7:00 News
7:30 Time for Uncle Paul
8:00 Good Morning America
10:00 Dating Game
10:30 Edge of Night
11:00 Happy Days
11:30 Family Feud
noon News
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Bugs Bunny
4:30 I Love Lucy (bw)
5:00 Real McCoys (bw)
5:30 Bewitched
6:00 News
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7:00 Andy Griffith (bw)
7:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
8:00 Boxing: see WHSV listings for info
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "When the Devil Commands" (bw)

WHIS 6-NBC Bluefield
5:30 Arthur Smith
6:00 PTL Club
7:00 Today (from the Museum of Archaeology in Mexico City)
9:00 Coffee Break
9:30 Romper Room
10:00 Card Sharks
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11:00 High Rollers
11:30 Wheel of Fortune
noon America Alive!
1:00 News
1:30 Days of Our Lives
2:30 Doctors
3:00 Another World
4:00 For Richer, for Poorer
4:30 Bewitched (bw)
5:00 Gunsmoke
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Lawrence Welk (season premiere; the Piedmont and Triangle saw Welk on Saturdays: 3pm on WRAL and 10pm on WGHP)
8:00 Movie "Starship Invasions" (next week: Waverly Wonders, Who's Watching the Kids, and Rockford Files)
9:30 Quincy (90 min, moves to Thursdays on Sept 21st)
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show (guests Shecky Greene and Chuck Mangione)
1:00 Midnight Special (host Larry Gatlin welcomes guests Tavares, Tony Orlando, Evelyn "Champagne" King, the Cars, the Jeff Kutash Dancers, and Devo)

WDBJ 7-CBS Roanoke
6:30 Mornin'
7:00 CBS Morning News
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Dinah! (guests Mel Tellis, Jan-Michael Vincent, Alex Trebek, Ilie Nastase, Tom Dressen, and Richard Frank)
10:00 All in the Family
10:30 Price is Right
11:30 Love of Life
11:55 CBS News
noon Young & the Restless
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Panorama
1:25 News
1:30 As the World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3:30 Bugs Bunny & Friends
4:00 Brady Bunch
4:30 Merv Griffin (guests Sarah Vaughan, Eva Gabor, Lonnie Shorr, Richard Fredericks, and Dodgers peanut vendor Roger Owens)
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Lawrence Welk (season premiere)
8:00 Incredible Hulk
9:00 Movie "Grand Theft Auto"
11:00 News
11:30 New Avengers (premiere)
12:40 Movie "Murder on Flight 502"

WGHP 8-ABC High Point
6:00 Good Morning Piedmont (preview of Greensboro YWCA fall fashion show)
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Movie "Anything Can Happen" (bw)
11:00 Happy Days
11:30 Family Feud
noon $20,000 Pyramid
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Three Stooges (bw)
4:30 Superman (bw)
5:00 Tarzan
6:00 News
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7:00 Joker's Wild
7:30 Donna Fargo (premiere)
8:00 Boxing: see WHSV for details
11:00 News
11:30 Wrestling
12:30 Movie "The Wild One" (bw)
2:00 News

WSLS 10-NBC Roanoke
6:15 Today on the Farm/Perspective
7:00 Today
9:00 Phil Donahue (father-son relationships, guests include Richard Robertiello)
10:00 Card Sharks
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11:00 High Rollers
11:30 Wheel of Fortune
noon America Alive!
12:30 News
1:00 Not for Women Only
1:30 Days of Our Lives
2:30 Doctors
3:00 Another World
4:00 For Richer, for Poorer
4:30 Family Affair
5:00 Gunsmoke
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Newlywed Game
7:30 Adam-12
8:00 Movie "Starship Invasions"
9:30 Quincy (90 min)
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show
1:00 Midnight Special

WTVD 11-CBS Durham
6:00 Summer Semester "Alternative Futures"
6:30 Wilburn Brothers (guests Jack Greene and Jeannie Seely)
7:00 CBS Morning News
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Phil Donahue (consumer advice, guest David Klein)
10:00 All in the Family
10:30 Price is Right
11:30 Love of Life
11:55 News
noon Young & the Restless
1:00 At Home with Peggy Mann (how Contact telephone crisis line volunteers handle emergency situations)
1:30 As the World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3:30 M*A*S*H
4:00 Match Game
4:30 Merv Griffin (guests Shelly Winters, Regine, and Patrick Terrail)
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Newlywed Game
7:30 Tic Tac Dough
8:00 Incredible Hulk
9:00 Movie "Grand Theft Auto"
11:00 News
11:30 Mary Tyler Moore
mid. Movie "The UFO Incident"

WXII 12-NBC Winston-Salem
6:00 Daybreak
7:00 Today
9:00 Midmorning (embroidery seminar/Patrick Co (VA) Harvest Festival)
10:00 Card Sharks
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11:00 High Rollers
11:30 Wheel of Fortune
noon America Alive!
12:30 Phil Donahue (embryo transplants)
1:30 Days of Our Lives
2:30 Doctors
3:00 Another World
4:00 Tom & Jerry/Spiderman
5:00 Gunsmoke
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Newlywed Game
7:30 Hollywood Squares
8:00 Movie "Starship Invasions"
9:30 Quincy (90 min)
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show
1:00 Midnight Special
2:30 Movie: TBA (listed as Western)
4:00 Ironside

WSET 13-ABC Lynchburg
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Movie "It Couldn't Happen to a Nicer Guy"
10:30 Metro
11:00 Happy Days
11:30 Family Feud
noon $20,000 Pyramid
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Edge of Night
4:30 Six Million Dollar Man
5:30 News
6:00 ABC World News Tonight
6:30 Movie "The Magic Christian"
8:00 Boxing: see WHSV for details
11:00 News
11:30 Baretta
12:40 Movie "The White Gorilla" (bw)

WBRA 15-PBS Roanoke
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Electric Company
10:30 Instructional Programs or sign-off
3:00 French Chef
3:30 Dick Cavett (guest Muhammad Ali, rerun from March)
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6:00 Villa Alegre
6:30 Over Easy (guest Arlene Francis)
7:00 MacNeil-Lehrer Report
7:30 Studio A (return)
8:00 Washington Week in Review
8:30 Wall Street Week
9:00 Mayor of Casterbridge (pt 2)
10:00 Pallisers (pt 12)
11:00 Dick Cavett (guest Christiaan Barnhard, topics include euthanasia)

WVPT 51-PBS Harrisonburg
7:30 Sesame Street
8:30 Over Easy (guest Jack Carter/discussion of senility)
9:00 Instructional Programs
3:00 Lilias, Yoga & You
3:30 Villa Alegre
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6:00 Zoom
6:30 Over Easy (guest Arlene Francis)
7:00 MacNeil-Lehrer Report
7:30 Spectrum
8:00 Washington Week in Review
8:30 Wall Street Week
9:00 Mayor of Casterbridge (pt 2)
10:00 Pallisers (pt 12)
11:00 4th Quarter

 

[bpatrick]

I'm pretty sure the 10 PM Saturday airtime for Lawrence
Welk on WGHP was a one-shot; his usual airtime was 7 PM
Saturdays, and "Fantasy Island" was on at 10.

WDBJ would move Welk to Saturdays at 5 the next year,
stripping "PM Magazine" at 7 and "M*A*S*H" at 7:30 (they
ran "Hee Haw" Saturdays at 7).

 

[Bluenoser]

I'm pretty sure the 10 PM Saturday airtime for Lawrence
Welk on WGHP was a one-shot; his usual airtime was 7 PM
Saturdays, and "Fantasy Island" was on at 10.

WDBJ would move Welk to Saturdays at 5 the next year,
stripping "PM Magazine" at 7 and "M*A*S*H" at 7:30 (they
ran "Hee Haw" Saturdays at 7).

There was a college football game at 6 on the previous Sat, which should explain Welk airing at 10 on WGHP...was 3pm the usual airtime in Raleigh or was the football game affecting that airtime as well?

 

[bpatrick]

It's close enough, as Welk usually aired around 3:30 or 4
in Raleigh.

 

[mleach]

WDBJ would move Welk to Saturdays at 5 the next year,
stripping "PM Magazine" at 7 and "M*A*S*H" at 7:30 (they
ran "Hee Haw" Saturdays at 7).

A few years ago some poster on the DCRTV website made a claim about being on WDBJ's PM Magazine only to get a number of rather nasty replies from current WDBJ staff ( and a few from WSLS ) claiming that WDBJ had NEVER aired PM Magazine. One went as far as saying "..WDBJ had always aired such programming as Mornin...but never PM Magazine as our market was too small for that kind of programming..". Kinda reminds me of that post from a "former employee" of Richmond's WXEX claiming that WXEX/WRIC had never used the "Eyewitness News" brand even though there are clips on You Tube that prove otherwise.

One would think that employees of TV stations would know at least some history of their employer.

 

[bpatrick]

In Virginia, PM Magazine was carried on WTAR (WTKR) Norfolk,
WDBJ, and WXEX (WRIC). You can check the Central Virginia
edition of TV Guide from September 1979 on, or you can check
either the Roanoke or Greensboro newspapers from the same period
to see that PM Magazine did indeed air on WDBJ.

Kind of reminds me of an employee at WGHP who insisted that the
station carried "To Tell The Truth" for years, when actually it was
only one year (1971-72) before it settled in for a six-year run on
WXII. The long-running show on WGHP was "Truth Or Consequences"
(1969-76).

 

[mleach]

In Virginia, PM Magazine was carried on WTAR (WTKR) Norfolk,
WDBJ, and WXEX (WRIC). You can check the Central Virginia
edition of TV Guide from September 1979 on, or you can check
either the Roanoke or Greensboro newspapers from the same period
to see that PM Magazine did indeed air on WDBJ.

The Richmond/WXEX version of PM Magazine is actually quite famous as back in the early 80's one of their hosts was none other than future Today show host Matt Laurer. But like so much "history" true as it was, post this online and chances are somebody from WRIC would reply back with "..that's BS my friend..pure BS !!" Even if one attaches and old WXEX PM Magazine ad with Matt Laurer.

I think what it is, is well the Roanoke, Lynchburg, Charlottesville, Richmond stations ( somewhat true with Hampton Roads )is that they hire so many young people to work there whether its behind the scenes or in front of the camera so therefor they have different "visions and opinions" of their stations and markets than us who are in the "older" generation who DO remember.

And its not just Virginia but West Virginia too. Wanna see some "interesting" replies?...mention the long defunct WOWK's "Chopper 13" on a site like TV Newstalk and wait for WOWK's reaction.

 

[azumanga]

If tangible proof that something did happen exists and we actually show the proof to the naysayers, why are they still so stubborn not to believe it?

These days, thanks to Google, images from original newspapers and magazines are more widely available than ever -- yet, there are some who would rather rewrite history than taking it as it is.

Yesterday, when you tell someone an amazing fact that they refused to believe, you show them the proof, and it'll shut them up and make them believers. Today, show the same proof and they'll still refuse to believe.

I guess in the modern era of Photoshop and digital printing, just about anything can be faked, leading to more and more people being die-hard skeptics, unable to discern a fake TV Guide ad from the real McCoy; therefore, some refusing to believe that Matt Lauer hosted PM Magazine.