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Retro: Charlotte/Greenville Friday, April 29, 1977

From TV Guide, Carolina-Tennessee Edition.
NOTE: Neither WNSC/30 Rock Hill nor WTVI/42
Charlotte (both PBS) are listed, although WNSC
was later, around 1979.

WBTV Ch. 3 Charlotte (CBS)

6:30 Story Of Jesus
6:35 Almanac
6:45 News
7 AM CBS News (Bruce Morton/
Hughes Rudd)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Donahue
9:30 Tattletales
10 AM Double Dare (last telecast of
the Trebek version--"Here's
Lucy" reruns took over the
timeslot the following Monday)
10:30 Price Is Right
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
12 N Top O' The Day
1 PM Search For Tomorrow
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM Little Rascals
3:30 New Mickey Mouse Club
4 PM My Three Sons
4:30 Adam-12
5 PM Gunsmoke
6 PM News
7 PM CBS News
7:30 Name That Tune
8 PM CBS Movie: "A Boy Named
Charlie Brown"
9:30 CBS Movie: "Class Of '44"
11 PM News
11:30 Those Were The Years
11:35 Burns And Allen
12:05 Men Into Space
12:35 The Phantom Empire (Chapter
7, "From Death To Life," with
Gene Autry)

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

6 AM Agriculture In Action
6:30 Not For Women Only
7 AM Today (Tom Brokaw)
9 AM Ironside
10 AM Sanford And Son
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11 AM Wheel Of Fortune
11:30 Shoot For The Stars
12 N News
12:30 Green Acres
1 PM Gong Show
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM Popcorn Funny Flicks (Bugs Bunny
and the other Looney Tunes characters,
the Little Rascals, and I don't remember
what else)
4:30 Gunsmoke
5:30 Adam-12
6 PM News
7 PM NBC News
7:30 Price Is Right
8 PM Sanford And Son
8:30 Chico And The Man (a rerun--Freddie
Prinze had committed suicide in January)
9 PM Rockford Files
10 PM Quincy
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Midnight Special (British rock is the theme,
with Elton John, Rod Stewart, Fleetwood Mac,
Genesis, Electric Light Orchestra, Queen)

WSPA Ch. 7 Spartanburg, SC (CBS)

6 AM Sunrise Semester
6:30 Arthur Smith
7 AM CBS News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Donahue
10 AM Nancy Welch
10:30 Price Is Right
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 News (local)
12 N Young And The Restless
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM I Dream Of Jeannie
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM All In The Family
3:30 Match Game '77
4 PM Tattletales
4:30 Partridge Family
5 PM The Lucy Show
5:30 Family Affair
6 PM My Three Sons
6:30 CBS News
7 PM News
7:30 In Search Of...
8 PM CBS Movie: "A Boy Named
Charlie Brown"
9:30 CBS Movie: "Class Of '44"
11 PM News
11:30 NBA Play-Off: Western Conference
game, teams TBA
1:30 Movie: "Code Name: Jaguar" (time
approximate)

WSOC Ch. 9 Charlotte (NBC)

6 AM Good Morning Carolina (don't know if
Ch. 9 knew it was going to ABC in
July 1978)
6:30 Arthur Smith
7 AM Today
9 AM Mike Douglas
10 AM Sanford And Son
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11 AM Wheel Of Fortune
11:30 Shoot For The Stars
12 N Eyewitness
12:30 Dinah!
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM Big Valley
5 PM Bewitched
5:30 Odd Couple
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM Sanford And Son
8:30 Chico And The Man
9 PM Rockford Files
10 PM Quincy
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Midnight Special

WLOS Ch. 13 Asheville, NC (ABC)

6:20 Medix
6:50 Good Morning Carolina
6:55 Mr. Bill (Norwood) And Friends
7:30 Good Morning America
9 AM Dinah!
10 AM Sesame Street
11 AM Happy Days
11:30 Family Feud
12 N I Love Lucy
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1 PM All My Children
2 PM $20,000 Pyramid
2:30 One Life To Live
3:15 General Hospital
4 PM Flintstones
4:30 Brady Bunch
5 PM Emergency One!
6 PM ABC News
6:30 Andy Griffith
7 PM News
7:30 Andy Williams (his short-lived
syndicated show)
8 PM Donny & Marie
9 PM ABC Movie: "The Love Boat"
(pilot for the series that aired
on Saturdays starting that fall)
11 PM News
11:30 Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
12 M All That Glitters (Norman Lear's
comedy serial about gender-role
reversal in the workplace)
12:30 Best Of Groucho

WHKY Ch. 14 Hickory, NC (Ind.)

1:30 Good Day!
2 PM Movie: "Pardon My Glove"
3:25 Light For Living
3:30 Rascals Club
4:30 Movie: "The Arizona Kid"
5:30 Lassie
6 PM News
6:30 Scope
7 PM Dudley Watson (country music)
8 PM W.K. Bumgarner
8:30 Zion Road Gospel Hour
9:30 Nathan Grooms
10 PM News
10:25 Devotions
10:30 Movie: "Bad Men Of Deadwood"
11:30 Movie: "Lili Marlene"

WGGS Ch. 16 Greenville, SC (Ind.)

12:30 Bible Lesson
1 PM PTL Club
3 PM Bozo's Big Top
3:30 Uncle Hank
4 PM Timmy And Lassie
4:30 Lone Ranger
5 PM Sgt. Preston Of The Yukon
5:30 Kaleidoscope
6 PM Nancy Harmon
7 PM The Listener
7:15 The Athlete
7:30 This Is The Life
8 PM Music City
8:30 Nightline (later changed its
spelling to Nite Line to avoid
confusion with the ABC news
program)
10 PM 700 Club

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

9 AM Sesame Street
10 AM Electric Company
10:30 In-school programs
12 N Crockett's Victory Garden
12:30 In-school programs
3 PM Anyone For Tennyson?
3:30 Lilias, Yoga And You
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Studio See
6:30 Best Of Ernie Kovacs
7 PM General Assembly This Week
7:30 Consumer Survival Kit
8 PM Washington Week In Review
8:30 Wall Street Week
9 PM Agronsky At Large
9:30 Americana
10 PM Woman Alive!
11 PM Black Perspective On The News

WCCB Ch. 18 Charlotte (ABC)

6:55 News
7 AM Good Morning America
9 AM 700 Club
10:30 The Lesson
11 AM Happy Days
11:30 Family Feud
12 N Second Chance (forerunner of
Press Your Luck)
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1 PM All My Children
2 PM $20,000 Pyramid
2:30 One Life To Live
3:15 General Hospital
4 PM Edge Of Night
4:30 My Favorite Martian
5 PM The Fugitive
6 PM ABC News
6:30 Best Of Groucho
7 PM Liars Club
7:30 Last Of The Wild
8 PM Donny & Marie
9 PM ABC Movie: "The Love Boat"
11 PM Green Acres
11:30 Baretta
12:40 Viewpoint (not WRAL's, since
that had been discontinued
the year before)

WNTV Ch. 29 Greenville, SC (PBS)

In-school programs until

4:30 Sesame Street
5:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
6 PM Electric Company
6:30 For The People (not William Shatner's
short-lived 1965 lawyer show that kept
him out of the Star Trek pilot)
7 PM Newspaper Lab
7:10 Getting The Word
7:30 Seven30
8 PM Washington Week In Review
8:30 Wall Street Week
9 PM Agronsky At Large
9:30 Americana
10 PM Woman Alive!
11 PM MacNeil/Lehrer Report
11:30 Captioned ABC News
12 M Lilias, Yoga And You

WRET (WCNC) Ch. 36 Charlotte (Ind.)

7 AM Three Stooges And Pals
8 AM Dennis The Menace (sitcom)
8:30 Leave It To Beaver
9 AM Coffeetime
9:30 I Dream Of Jeannie
10 AM Hazel
10:30 Love, American Style
11 AM PTL Club
1 PM Movie: "The Wild Heart"
2:30 Cartoon Carnival
3 PM Popeye And Pals
3:30 The Archies
4 PM Flintstones
4:30 Speed Racer
5 PM Brady Bunch
5:30 I Love Lucy
6 PM Family Affair
6:30 Beverly Hillbillies
7 PM Andy Griffith
7:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
8 PM Movie: "The Valley Of Gwangi"
10 PM Star Trek
11 PM Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
(this wasn't carried on Ted Turner's
sister station in Atlanta--WXIA/11 Alive
had it there)
11:30 NBA Play-Off: Western Conference game,
teams TBA (pre-empted on WBTV)
1:30 News (time approximate)
1:45 Movie: "The Busy Body"
3:30 Movie: "The Deadly Bees"
5:30 Movie: "Best Of The Badmen"

WAIM (WMYA) Ch. 40 Anderson, SC (CBS, some ABC)

11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
12 N Young And The Restless
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM All My Children
2 PM $20,000 Pyramid
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM All In The Family
3:30 Match Game '77
4 PM Tattletales
4:30 Panorama
5 PM Compass
5:25 News
5:30 This Is The Life
6 PM ABC News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Quest
7:30 Highway Panorama
8 PM CBS Movie: "A Boy Named
Charlie Brown"
9:30 CBS Movie: "Class Of '44"
Ch. 40 signs off at 11 PM
 
bpatrick said:
WBTV Ch. 3 Charlotte (CBS)
11:30 Those Were The Years
11:35 Burns And Allen
12:05 Men Into Space
12:35 The Phantom Empire (Chapter
7, "From Death To Life," with
Gene Autry)

WRET (WCNC) Ch. 36 Charlotte (Ind.)
11:30 NBA Play-Off: Western Conference game,
teams TBA (pre-empted on WBTV)

I wonder why WBTV thought old reruns were more important than network sports coverage...
 
Also remember, this is when the NBA was in its "dark period", just more than two years away from the NBA debuts of Magic Johnson and Larry Bird. During this same time down the way in Atlanta, WAGA didn't always show all of CBS's NBA telecasts either, and those games ended up on then-WTCG. Being that North Carolina is college basketball country, and with the closest NBA franchises being the Washington Bullets (damn good back in those days) and Atlanta Hawks (so-so back then), I'm guessing that WBTV thought they would generate better profits showing syndicated product rather than the network stuff late nights.
 
The sad thing is, even after the NBA gained in popularity, WBTV refused to carry the NBA. Even worse, when WRET switched to NBC, they no longer carried the NBA either! WCCB, owned by eventual part-owner of the Hornets, Cy Bahakel, and original flagship station of the Hornets, also passed! Until the Hornets began play in Charlotte, there was no OTA NBA representation at all in Charlotte! WFMY and WTVD likewise continued to refuse to carry the NBA. When WGGT/48 came on in Greensboro, they did carry the CBS games, and the independent channel in Fayetteville on channel 62 carried the games when they came on the air. I do believe WSPA/7 and WLTX/19 always carried the CBS NBA games. In the 1970s and 80s both WBTV and WSOC in Charlotte pre-empted MANY network programs. I think this went back to their days when they carried programs from all three networks, which resulted in both stations having large audiences outside of the Charlotte DMA. By continuing to carry lots of non-network fare, they were able to maintain a large viewership outside of their home market. The growth of cable finally put a stop to that.
 
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