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Retro: Charleston/Columbia, Sunday, May 9, 1982

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Source: The Sumter Daily Item via Google News Archive.
Listings ran from 8AM to 3AM.

02 - WCBD (ABC) Charleston
8:30 Baptist Church
9:00 Oral Roberts
9:30 Day of Discovery
10:00 Focus
10:30 First Scots Church
11:00 The Silent Crisis (hosts: Stan Mooneyham, Carol Lawrence; guests: Mike Douglas, Dick Van Patten, Maureen McGovern)
12:00 This Week with David Brinkley
1:00 Tournament of Championship Tennis (top male players including John McEnroe, Eddie Dibbs and Vitas Gerulaitis compete for $500.000 in prizes; live from the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills, NY)
3:00 Sportsbeat
3:30 American Sportsman (Cheryl Ladd joins a mountain lion-tagging operation in Colorado; Richard Crenna and Curt Gowdy fish for Atlantic Salmon in Iceland; Barbara Hershey travels the Crystal River in Florida to find the endangered manatee)
4:30 ABC Wide World of Sports (the Ironman World Endurance Triathlon, featuring a 2.4 mile swim, a 112 mile bike ride and a marathon run (from Hawaii); World Boxing Championships from Munich, West Germany)
6:00 Eye On
6:30 ABC World News Sunday
7:00 Counterattack: Crime in America
8:00 Inside the Third Reich (Albert Speer's autobiography revealing the corruption of innocence that led to Adolf Hitler's reign of terror is dramatized, part 1)
11:00 ABC News
11:15 Jim Bakker
12:15 Grizzly Adams

04 - WCIV (NBC) Charleston
8:00 Old Fashioned Praise
8:30 Jimmy Swaggart
9:30 Jim Whittington
10:00 Hour of Refuge
10:30 Ernest Angley
11:30 Voice of Calvary
12:00 Common Ground
12:30 Meet the Press
1:00 Movie: "That Tennessee Beat" (1966)
2:30 Houston Open (final-round coverage of this tournament featuring some of today's top golfers; live from the Woodlands Country Club in Houston, TX)
4:30 Portrait of a Legend: Kenny Rogers
5:00 Lawrence Welk (tribute to Irving Berlin)
6:00 Wild Kingdom
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Father Murphy
8:00 CHiPs
9:00 Movie: "Mother's Day on Waltons Mountain" (1982)
11:00 Solid Gold (hosts: Andy Gibb, Marilyn McCoo; guests: Cliff Richard, Rex Smith, Kool and the Gang, Paul Williams, Judy Collins, Glen Campbell, Poco)
12:00 Saturday Night (host: Richard Benjamin; guest: Rickie Lee Jones)

05 - WCSC (CBS) Charleston
8:00 Jerry Falwell
9:00 CBS Sunday Morning
10:30 Rex Humbard
11:00 Baptist Church
12:00 Face the Nation
12:30 Carolina Update
1:00 NBA Basketball Playoffs
6:00 CBS Evening News
6:30 Get Smart!
7:00 60 Minutes
8:00 Archie Bunker's Place
8:30 One Day at a Time
9:00 Movie: "Caddyshack" (1980)
11:00 News
11:15 CBS News
11:30 Hawaii Five-O
12:30 Movie: "Ryan's Daughter" (1970)

10 - WIS (NBC) Columbia
8:00 The World Tomorrow
8:30 Circle Square
9:00 Cliffwood Avenue Kids
9:30 Kidsworld
10:00 World Thing
10:30 South Carolina TV Pulpit
11:00 Light Unto My Path
11:30 Westbrook Hospital
12:00 Nashville Music (guests: John Conlee, Connie Cato)
12:30 Meet the Press
1:00 Outdoor Life
1:30 Bill Dance Outdoors
2:00 Greatest Sports Legends
2:30 Houston Open
4:30 NBC Sportsworld (PKA Professional Karate Championships from Atlanta, GA; NHRA World Finals of Drag Racing; part 5 of the World's Strongest Men competition)
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Father Murphy
8:00 CHiPs
9:00 Movie: "Mother's Day on Waltons Mountain" (1982)
11:00 News
11:30 Saturday Night (host: Mary Kay Place; guest: Willie Nelson)
1:00 With This Ring

13 - WBTW (CBS) Florence
8:00 Milton Frazier
8:30 Jim Whittington
9:00 CBS Sunday Morning
10:30 Oral Roberts
11:00 Jerry Falwell
12:00 Face the Nation
12:30 Involvement
1:00 NBA Basketball Playoffs
6:00 Sha Na Na
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 60 Minutes
8:00 Archie Bunker's Place
8:30 One Day at a Time
9:00 Movie: "Caddyshack" (1980)
11:00 News
11:15 CBS News
11:30 Moment of Truth
12:00 Charles Young
12:30 Dance Connection

15 - WPDE (ABC) Florence
8:00 The World Tomorrow
8:30 700 Club
10:00 Rex Humbard
10:30 Breath of Life
11:00 Sugar Ray Leonard's Golden Gloves
12:00 Bill Dance Outdoors
12:30 Fishing with Roland Martin
1:00 Tournament of Championship Tennis
3:00 Sportsbeat
3:30 American Sportsman
4:30 ABC Wide World of Sports
6:00 Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries
7:00 Counterattack: Crime in America
8:00 Inside the Third Reich
11:00 ABC News
11:15 Sonny and Cher

18 - WCCB (Ind) Charlotte
8:00 Kenneth Copeland
9:00 Movie: "Guns at Batasi" (1964)
11:00 First Baptist Church
12:00 Movie: "Cocoanuts" (1929)
2:00 Movie: "The Great Waldo Pepper" (1975)
4:00 Movie: "Flying Leathernecks" (1951)
6:00 Solid Gold (see ch. 4, 11PM)
7:00 Jackie Gleason (guests: Phil Bruns, Sid Fields)
7:30 Dobie Gillis
8:00 Day of Discovery
8:30 Jimmy Swaggart
9:30 Charles Capps
10:00 Jerry Falwell
11:00 Jim Bakker
12:00 Weather

19 - WLTX (CBS) Columbia
8:00 Kenneth Copeland
9:00 CBS Sunday Morning
10:30 Rex Humbard
11:00 First Baptist Church
12:00 Face the Nation
12:30 Viewpoint
1:00 NBA Basketball Playoffs
6:00 Lawrence Welk (same as ch. 4, 5PM)
7:00 60 Minutes
8:00 Archie Bunker's Place
8:30 One Day at a Time
9:00 Movie: "Caddyshack" (1980)
11:00 Sha Na Na
11:30 Big Valley
12:30 Movie: "The Fear is Spreading"
2:00 Gene Autry

25 - WOLO (ABC) Columbia
8:30 James Robison
9:00 Oral Roberts
9:30 Day of Discovery
10:00 Jim Whittington
10:30 Wrestling
11:30 This Week with David Brinkley
12:30 Digest
1:00 Tournament of Championship Tennis
3:00 Sportsbeat
3:30 American Sportsman
4:30 ABC Wide World of Sports
6:00 ABC World News Sunday
6:30 In Search of "Eva Braun"
7:00 Counterattack: Crime in America
8:00 Inside the Third Reich
11:00 The Twilight Zone
11:30 Movie: "The Slender Thread" (1966)
1:30 Inquiry
1:45 ABC News

27 - WRJA (PBS) Sumter
8:00 Sesame Street
9:00 Mister Rogers
9:30 Sesame Street
10:30 I Am, I Can, I Will
11:00 Once Upon a Classic "The Hills of Heaven"
11:30 Pablo Picasso: The Legacy of a Genius (this documentary examines Picasso's works, life and contributions to 20th century art)
1:00 Washington Week in Review
1:30 Wall Street Week (guest: Simeon Trotter, research director, Rauscher Pierce Refsnes, Inc.)
2:00 Moneymakers
2:30 Tony Brown's Journal
3:00 With Babies and Banners (interviews and archival material recall the role that the Women's Emergency Brigade played in a 1937 sit-down strike at General Motors in Flint, MI)
4:00 State House Week
4:30 For the People
5:00 Jobman Caravan
5:30 Steppin' Out
6:00 High School News Quiz (Dreher High vs. the May 2nd contest winner)
6:30 Winthrop Challenge
7:00 Classic Country (guests: Marty Robbins, Carl Smith, Ray Price, Ernest Tubb, Rod Braesfield)
8:00 Nova "Why America Burns" (a report on the fire prevention establishment and strategies for improving fire safety)
9:00 Masterpiece Theatre "Love in a Cold Climate: Monsieur Le Duc" (part 7)
10:00 Lord Mountbaten: A Man for the Century (part 6)
 
This night was probably when 'Caddyshack' made its Network TV debut for May sweeps. 'Archie Bunkers Place' still had another season to go after this one.
 
I know it's a Sunday but still I am a bit surprised that there was little local news. Must be a "Southern Thing" since I know many small local stations in Pennsylvania and New York even West Virginia that did offer Sunday local news even in 1982.
 
hamster said:
I know it's a Sunday but still I am a bit surprised that there was little local news. Must be a "Southern Thing" since I know many small local stations in Pennsylvania and New York even West Virginia that did offer Sunday local news even in 1982.
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Maybe the other stations were afraid of the dominance of WIS and WCSC on their respective markets, even on the weekends.
 
One of the few stations that carried that 15 minute late CBS newscast at 11:15.

hamster said:
I know it's a Sunday but still I am a bit surprised that there was little local news. Must be a "Southern Thing" since I know many small local stations in Pennsylvania and New York even West Virginia that did offer Sunday local news even in 1982.
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south_ferretti said:
Maybe the other stations were afraid of the dominance of WIS and WCSC on their respective markets, even on the weekends.
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Maybe but I was thinking along the lines of the "day of rest" rule. A lot of TV and radio stations during the 60s and 70s when it came to Sunday they had a very limited staff ( sometimes only one person all day ) and the newsroom was closed under lock and key. By 1982 however the day of rest rule was slowly fading out and totally gone by the mid 90s I think WHSV and WSET both in Virginia were the last to do that. I worked at a country radio station in Virginia that had the day of rest rule too. Sundays I could read live on the air PSAs and lost dogs but NEVER the weather forecast or give a sports update. I felt that was strange. Today of course it would be budget cuts or whatever given as the lack of news on Sundays.
 
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It wasn't until the late 1980s or early 1990s that more than one station broadcast news on Sundays in Charleston. Channels 2 and 4 had a very small staff, at least compared to what they have now. Even Saturday nights were limited. Only Channel 5 broadcast late news on Saturdays till about 1990.

There is an aircheck of a 1986 WCBD weekend newscast on YouTube, and there was a news anchor, Dave Christopher, and a sports guy, but no weather person. The anchor guy READ the weather. That would be unheard of today, with stations even in this market barely above 100 having 4 meteorologists.
 
hamster said:
I know it's a Sunday but still I am a bit surprised that there was little local news. Must be a "Southern Thing" since I know many small local stations in Pennsylvania and New York even West Virginia that did offer Sunday local news even in 1982.
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That's interesting, since i remember WLOS/13 always having a newscast after college football from ABC. Of course when they got Baywatch, it became a moot point. I don't remember WYFF/4 doing a newscast after Notre Dame games, they'd jump into whatever show aired after. The same thing applied with WSPA/7.
 
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