Retro: Central Virginia Monday, January 18, 1971

[bpatrick]

From TV Guide, Central Virginia Edition:

WFMY Ch. 2 Greensboro, NC (CBS)

6:30 Good Morning Show (how times have changed--
this is on 5-8 AM nowadays)
7:55 Devotions
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Old Rebel Show
9:30 What's Cooking Today?
10 AM The Lucy Show
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11 AM Family Affair
11:30 Love Of Life
12 N Where The Heart Is
12:25 News (local)
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Girl Talk (guests: Nina Foch and Dina
Merrill; Betsy Palmer is hostess)
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM Secret Storm
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Gomer Pyle, USMC
4:30 Flintstones
5 PM Perry Mason
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Buck Owens
7:30 Gunsmoke
8:30 Here's Lucy (watch for Hayden Rorke, better
known as Dr. Bellows on "I Dream Of Jeannie")
9 PM Mayberry R.F.D.
9:30 Doris Day (Larry Storch as Doris's friend Duke
Farentino, whom she has to persuade not to
marry a golddigger)
10 PM Carol Burnett (guests: Mel Torme and Michele Lee)
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Merv Griffin (first of two shows saluting the big-band
era with Charlie Barnet, Tex Beneke, Les Brown,
Xavier Cugat, Frankie Carle, Bob Crosby, Woody
Herman, Stan Kenton, Freddy Martin (with whom Merv
once sang), and Vaughn Monroe)

WSVA (WHSV) Ch. 3 Harrisonburg (NBC/ABC)

8 AM Today (Chief Dan George, winner of the New York Film
Critics' Supporting Actor award for "Little Big Man," joined
in progress)
9 AM Bugs Bunny/Porky Pig
9:30 Galloping Gourmet
10 AM Dinah's Place (guest: Carol Burnett)
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Sale Of The Century
11:30 Hollywood Squares (Jim Backus, Hugh O'Brian, Suzanne Pleshette,
Wally Cox, Charley Weaver, Paul Lynde)
12 N Bewitched
12:30 A World Apart
1 PM All My Children
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM Dark Shadows
4:30 Jeff's Collie (w/"Dialing For Dollars")
5 PM Daniel Boone (w/"Dialing For Dollars")
6 PM News, Weather, Sports (still in black and white)
6:30 ABC News
7 PM That Good Ole Nashville Music (Skeeter Davis,
Bob Luman, Charlie Walker)
7:30 Let's Make A Deal (new night)
8 PM Newlywed Game (new night)
8:30 The Reel Game (debut of a Jack Barry-hosted show
in which the contestants check their answers against
old film clips--oddly, three-time winners would win a new car
but in the brief run of this show nobody did)
9 PM ABC Movie: "Cat Ballou"
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Dick Cavett (Richard Chamberlain, Glenda Jackson,
Michael Tilson Thomas--then assistant conductor of the
Boston Symphony)

WRAL Ch. 5 Raleigh, NC (ABC)

6 AM Daybreak
6:55 Viewpoint (Jesse Helms)
7 AM CBS News (John Hart)
7:30 Jonny Quest (delay from Sun 10 AM)
8 AM Time For Uncle Paul
8:30 Bewitched (day-behind)
9 AM Good Morning Charlie (Charlie Gaddy, later WRAL's
news anchor)
9:30 Jack LaLanne
9:50 Lucille Rivers (sewing)
10 AM Bette Elliott (women's show)
10:30 Mike Douglas (co-host is weight-control specialist
Irwin Stillman; guests are James Coco, singer Julie
DeJohn, comic Pat Cooper)
11:30 That Girl
12 N News
12:30 A World Apart
1 PM All My Children
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 Flintstones
4 PM Dark Shadows
4:30 Star Trek
5:30 I Love Lucy
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:30 NBC News (IIRC, WRAL didn't pick up ABC News
until the fall of '71 when WRDU became the fulltime
NBC affiliate)
7 PM Movie: "The Savage Innocents"
9 PM ABC Movie: "Cat Ballou"
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Movie: "The Girl Next Door"

WHIS (WVVA) Ch. 6 Bluefield, WV (NBC)

7 AM Today (Chief Dan George, former British captain Peter
Townsend, author of a book about World War II's
Battle of Britain)
9 AM Romper Room
9:30 Coffee Break
9:55 News
10 AM Dinah's Place
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Sale Of The Century
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 Who, What Or Where
12:55 NBC News (Floyd Kalber)
1 PM Peyton Place (reruns of the ABC series)
1:30 Words And Music
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World (still called Another World/Bay City)
3:30 Bright Promise
4 PM Somerset (still called Another World/Somerset)
4:30 F Troop
5 PM Maverick
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Jim And Jesse And The Virginia Boys (bluegrass)
7:30 Red Skelton (guests: Cass Elliot and Chad Everett)
8 PM Rowan And Martin's Laugh-In (guest: Joey Bishop)
9 PM NBC Movie: "Do You Take This Stranger?"
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Tonight Show (Bob Newhart subs for Johnny)

WDBJ Ch. 7 Roanoke (CBS)

6:30 Town Crier
6:45 Town And Country
6:55 News
7 AM CBS News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Romper Room
9:30 Artie Levin (exercises)
9:50 Lucille Rivers
10 AM The Lucy Show
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11 AM Family Affair
11:30 Love Of Life
12 N Where The Heart Is
12:25 Light Of Life (devotional)
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Panorama (local talk show)
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM Secret Storm
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Gomer Pyle, USMC
4:30 Movie: "Love That Brute"
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Klassroom Kwiz (Lucy Addison High School
vs. last week's winners)
7:30 Gunsmoke
8:30 Here's Lucy
9 PM Mayberry R.F.D.
9:30 Doris Day
10 PM Carol Burnett
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Merv Griffin

WGHP Ch. 8 High Point, NC (ABC)

6:15 Farm Report
6:30 University Of Michigan
7 AM Triad In Perspective
7:30 Limbo's Cartoons
8:30 Romper Room
9 AM Movie: "Louisiana Purchase" (Bob Hope,
from '41, w/"Dialing For Dollars")
10:50 Lucille Rivers
11 AM Bewitched (day-behind)
11:30 That Girl
12 N News
12:30 A World Apart
1 PM All My Children
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM Movie: "Bold Adventure" (w/"Dialing For Dollars")
5:30 News, Weather, Sports
6 PM ABC News
6:30 Dick Van Dyke
7 PM Truth Or Consequences
7:30 Let's Make A Deal
8 PM Newlywed Game
8:30 The Reel Game
9 PM ABC Movie: "Cat Ballou"
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Dick Cavett
1 AM News, Weather

WSLS Ch. 10 Roanoke (NBC)

6:30 Today On The Farm
7 AM Today
9 AM David Frost (guest: Bill Cosby)
10 AM Dinah's Place
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Sale Of The Century
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 News, Weather, Sports
12:55 NBC News
1 PM Peyton Place
1:30 Words And Music
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 Bright Promise
4 PM Somerset
4:30 Rifleman
5 PM Big Valley
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Truth Or Consequences
7:30 Red Skelton
8 PM Rowan And Martin's Laugh-In
9 PM NBC Movie: "Do You Take This Stranger?"
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM News, Weather

WTVD Ch. 11 Durham, NC (CBS/NBC)

6:30 Aspect
7 AM Today
9 AM Captain Kangaroo
10 AM Galloping Gourmet
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11 AM Family Affair
11:30 Love Of Life
12 N Where The Heart Is
12:25 News (local)
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Peggy Mann
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM Secret Storm
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Hazel
4:30 Gilligan's Island
5 PM Big Valley
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Gunsmoke (delay of at least a week)
8 PM Movie: "Bhowani Junction"
10 PM Carol Burnett
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Tonight Show

WSJS (WXII) Ch. 12 Winston-Salem, NC (NBC)

6:30 Aspect
7 AM Today
9 AM Today At Home
9:30 Virginia Graham (guests: singer Charles Aznavour,
actor James Farentino, comic Charlie Callas)
10 AM Dinah's Place
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Sale Of The Century
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 Who, What Or Where
12:55 NBC News
1 PM Somerset
1:30 Words And Music
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 Bright Promise
4 PM Star Trek
5 PM Gilligan's Island
5:30 Wild Wild West
6:30 News, Weather, Sports
7 PM NBC News
7:30 Red Skelton
8 PM Rowan And Martin's Laugh-In
9 PM NBC Movie: "Do You Take This Stranger?"
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Tonight Show

WLVA (WSET) Ch. 13 Lynchburg (ABC)

9:30 Film
10 AM Cartoon Carnival
10:30 Calendar (representatives of Lynchburg Training
School and Hospital discuss treatment programs
for the mentally retarded)
11 AM Call Of The West (selected "Death Valley Days" reruns)
11:30 That Girl
12 N Bewitched
12:30 A World Apart
1 PM All My Children
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM Dark Shadows
4:30 Lassie
5 PM Star Trek
6 PM News, Weather, Sports (still in b&w)
6:30 ABC News
7 PM Hazel
7:30 Let's Make A Deal
8 PM Newlywed Game
8:30 The Reel Game
9 PM ABC Movie: "Cat Ballou"
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Dick Cavett

WBRA Ch. 15 Roanoke (PBS)

8:25 In-school programs
10 AM Sesame Street
11 AM In-school programs
12:15 Sportsmanlike Driving
12:45 In-school programs
5 PM Sesame Street
6 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
6:30 What's New
7 PM Kukla, Fran And Ollie (repeat of Sun 8 PM show)
7:30 World We Live In (program about horses, repeat
from Sun 8:30 PM)
8 PM World Press Review
9 PM Realities (11 people take part in an encounter-
therapy session)
10:30 Roanoke City Council
sign off 11 PM

WRFT (WFXR) Ch. 27 Roanoke (ABC)

11 AM Bewitched (day-behind)
11:30 That Girl
12 N Film
12:30 A World Apart
1 PM All My Children
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM Film
4:30 Ebb And Andy (local variety show)
5:30 Rainbow Theatre
6 PM ABC News
6:30 Quest For Adventure (this begins to sound
like Ch. 40 in Anderson, SC)
7 PM Mike Dobbins (local)
7:30 Let's Make A Deal
8 PM Newlywed Game
8:30 The Reel Game
9 PM ABC Movie: "Cat Ballou"
11 PM Movie Game (Ann Blyth, Abby Dalton, Glenn
Ford, James Franciscus)
11:30 Dick Cavett

 

[jh]

WRFT (WFXR) Ch. 27 Roanoke (ABC)

11 AM Bewitched (day-behind)
11:30 That Girl
12 N Film

Is it correct to assume they picked up ABC off the air from some other station? Otherwise they wouldn't have delayed Bewitched to run "Film" at noon.

With so much bartered programming these days, I sometimes forget how little of it there used to be. Some of these small stations really had to struggle to fill non-network time.

 

[mleach]

WRFT (WFXR) Ch. 27 Roanoke (ABC)

11 AM Bewitched (day-behind)
11:30 That Girl
12 N Film

Is it correct to assume they picked up ABC off the air from some other station? Otherwise they wouldn't have delayed Bewitched to run "Film" at noon.

With so much bartered programming these days, I sometimes forget how little of it there used to be. Some of these small stations really had to struggle to fill non-network time.

My guess that station would had been Washington's then WMAL-TV since back in those days the DC stations had translators all over Virginia ( some old timers still to this day believe that the entire state of Virginia should fall within the Washington DC market but that is for a another post for another time, think of Norfolk's WAVY's Bruce Rader for example). Lynchburg's WLVA would had been closer but still I would be surprised that if it would had been them who had feed programs to WRFT..

One station it would NOT had been would be WSVA..they had received their ABC from not only DC's WMAL but sometimes even Baltimore's WJZ as well.

 

[Corky Marlowe]

10:30 Mike Douglas (co-host is weight-control specialist
Irwin Stillman; guests are James Coco, singer Julie
DeJohn, comic Pat Cooper)

Dr. Stillman was the Water Diet guy, right? Eat what you want in moderation, but drink 8 glasses of water a day...I have to go to the bathroom just from typing this!

Best description ever of Pat Cooper was on one of those Comedy Central roasts: "Back in the 60s, our next speaker was the p***ed off young comedian on the Ed Sullivan show...Today, he's the p***ed off old comedian on the Howard Stern show!"

 

[bpatrick]

I believe Dr. Stillman was the water-diet guy; I do remember
Merv Griffin trying the Stillman approach to weight loss and
saying he hated it. All of Mike's co-hosts that week were
medical people; the others were Lendon Smith (Tuesday),
veterinarian Worth Lanier (Wednesday), Dr. David Reuben of
"Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex" fame
(Thursday), plastic surgeon Thomas Baker (Friday).

 

[rosebud]

Do you have anymore of those Central Virginia schedules but maybe from the 1980s? I would like to see them. Thank you!!!!

 

[RyanHoward]

WRFT (WFXR) Ch. 27 Roanoke (ABC)

11 AM Bewitched (day-behind)
11:30 That Girl
12 N Film

Is it correct to assume they picked up ABC off the air from some other station? Otherwise they wouldn't have delayed Bewitched to run "Film" at noon.

With so much bartered programming these days, I sometimes forget how little of it there used to be. Some of these small stations really had to struggle to fill non-network time.

My guess that station would had been Washington's then WMAL-TV since back in those days the DC stations had translators all over Virginia ( some old timers still to this day believe that the entire state of Virginia should fall within the Washington DC market but that is for a another post for another time, think of Norfolk's WAVY's Bruce Rader for example). Lynchburg's WLVA would had been closer but still I would be surprised that if it would had been them who had feed programs to WRFT..

One station it would NOT had been would be WSVA..they had received their ABC from not only DC's WMAL but sometimes even Baltimore's WJZ as well.

Could it have been WXEX(now WRIC) from Richmond, VA?

 

[fortmill]

Most likely, WRFT was recieving it's ABC programing via WGHP in High Point, which would have been the closest ABC affil, other than WLVA (WSET). A comparison of the two schedules above would seem to confirm that. They certainly would not have recieved a feed from WMAL (WJLA) since that station also owned direct competitor WLVA. I never heard of WMAL (WJLA) operating translators in VA. BTW, from what I've read, WRFT originally recieved it's ABC programing directly from AT&T. When they were unable to deliver the agreed upon number of households to ABC, the net stopped it's direct feed and stopped paying the station to air it's programs. This is apparently what led to channel 27's eventual demise. 27 did pretty well within Roanoke Co, but this was just too small a part of the total DMA to be in any way competitive. WRFT did quite a bit of low budget local programming in an attempt to being an alternative to WDBJ and WSLS--some of it you see reflected here. I don't think it was really much like the famous WAIM, even though they both had to contend with another ABC station in the area on channel 13.