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Retro: Charlotte prime time Friday, June 10, 1983

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bpatrick

From the Charlotte Observer. Listings run
7 PM-sign off.

WBTV Ch. 3 (CBS)

7 PM CBS News
7:30 PM Magazine
8 PM Dukes Of Hazzard
9 PM Dallas
10 PM Falcon Crest
11 PM News
11:30 My Little Margie
12 M McKeever And The Colonel
(these last two were part of WBTV's
Those Were The Years nostalgia series)
12:30 Saturday Night

WSOC Ch. 9 (ABC)

7 PM ABC News
7:30 Entertainment Tonight
8 PM Benson
8:30 At Ease
9 PM ABC Movie: "She's In The
Army Now"
11 PM News
11:30 Nightline
12:30 Solid Gold
1:30 News
2 AM CNN News (to 6 AM)

WHKY Ch. 14 (Ind.)

6:30 Movie: "The North Star"
8:30 Spirit And Life
9 PM Movie: "Reaching For The Moon"
10 PM News
10:30 Independent Network News
11 PM Evening At The Improv
12 M Soul Train

WCCB Ch. 18 (Ind.)

7 PM Wild Wild West
8 PM Gunsmoke
9 PM Movie: "Neptune's Daughter"
11 PM Jackie Gleason
11:30 Independent Network News
12 M Jim Bakker
1 AM Weather

WNSC Ch. 30 (PBS)

7 PM MacNeil/Lehrer Report
7:30 Open Line
8 PM Washington Week In Review
8:30 Wall Street Week
9 PM Inside Story
9:30 Creativity With Bill Moyers
10 PM Firing Line

WPCQ Ch. 36 (NBC)

7 PM Family Feud
7:30 People's Court
8 PM The Powers Of Matthew Star
9 PM Knight Rider
10 PM Eischied (rerun)
11 PM Soap
11:30 Tonight Show (Roger Moore is
a guest)
12:30 SCTV Network
2 AM NBC News Overnight
3 AM Movie: "No Way To Treat A Lady"
5 AM NBC News Overnight

WTVI Ch. 42 (PBS)

7 PM Over Easy
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8 PM Washington Week In Review
8:30 Wall Street Week
9 PM Final Edition
9:30 The Lawmakers
10 PM Mystery!

WUNG Ch. 58 (PBS)

7 PM MacNeil/Lehrer Report
7:30 Stateline: The General Assembly
8 PM Washington Week In Review
8:30 Wall Street Week
9 PM The Commanders
10 PM The Different Drummer: Blacks In
The Military
11 PM Alfred Hitchcock Presents
11:30 Morecambe & Wise

As I've probably explained before, the reason for three
PBS stations is this: WNSC/30 is part of South Carolina
ETV and is located in Rock Hill, SC; WTVI/42 is owned by
the Charlotte/Mecklenburg School Board; WUNG/58 is part
of UNC-TV and is located in Concord, NC.

WHKY/14 is located in Hickory, NC.
 
> From the Charlotte Observer. Listings run
> 7 PM-sign off.
>
> WBTV Ch. 3 (CBS)
>
> 7 PM CBS News
> 7:30 PM Magazine
> 8 PM Dukes Of Hazzard
> 9 PM Dallas
> 10 PM Falcon Crest
> 11 PM News
> 11:30 My Little Margie
> 12 M McKeever And The Colonel
> (these last two were part of WBTV's
> Those Were The Years nostalgia series)
> 12:30 Saturday Night
>
> WSOC Ch. 9 (ABC)
>
> 7 PM ABC News
> 7:30 Entertainment Tonight
> 8 PM Benson
> 8:30 At Ease
> 9 PM ABC Movie: "She's In The
> Army Now"
> 11 PM News
> 11:30 Nightline
> 12:30 Solid Gold
> 1:30 News
> 2 AM CNN News (to 6 AM)
>
> WHKY Ch. 14 (Ind.)
>
> 6:30 Movie: "The North Star"
> 8:30 Spirit And Life
> 9 PM Movie: "Reaching For The Moon"
> 10 PM News
> 10:30 Independent Network News
> 11 PM Evening At The Improv
> 12 M Soul Train
>
> WCCB Ch. 18 (Ind.)
>
> 7 PM Wild Wild West
> 8 PM Gunsmoke
> 9 PM Movie: "Neptune's Daughter"
> 11 PM Jackie Gleason
> 11:30 Independent Network News
> 12 M Jim Bakker
> 1 AM Weather
>
> WNSC Ch. 30 (PBS)
>
> 7 PM MacNeil/Lehrer Report
> 7:30 Open Line
> 8 PM Washington Week In Review
> 8:30 Wall Street Week
> 9 PM Inside Story
> 9:30 Creativity With Bill Moyers
> 10 PM Firing Line
>
> WPCQ Ch. 36 (NBC)
>
> 7 PM Family Feud
> 7:30 People's Court
> 8 PM The Powers Of Matthew Star
> 9 PM Knight Rider
> 10 PM Eischied (rerun)
> 11 PM Soap
> 11:30 Tonight Show (Roger Moore is
> a guest)
> 12:30 SCTV Network
> 2 AM NBC News Overnight
> 3 AM Movie: "No Way To Treat A Lady"
> 5 AM NBC News Overnight
>
> WTVI Ch. 42 (PBS)
>
> 7 PM Over Easy
> 7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
> 8 PM Washington Week In Review
> 8:30 Wall Street Week
> 9 PM Final Edition
> 9:30 The Lawmakers
> 10 PM Mystery!
>
> WUNG Ch. 58 (PBS)
>
> 7 PM MacNeil/Lehrer Report
> 7:30 Stateline: The General Assembly
> 8 PM Washington Week In Review
> 8:30 Wall Street Week
> 9 PM The Commanders
> 10 PM The Different Drummer: Blacks In
> The Military
> 11 PM Alfred Hitchcock Presents
> 11:30 Morecambe & Wise
>
> As I've probably explained before, the reason for three
> PBS stations is this: WNSC/30 is part of South Carolina
> ETV and is located in Rock Hill, SC; WTVI/42 is owned by
> the Charlotte/Mecklenburg School Board; WUNG/58 is part
> of UNC-TV and is located in Concord, NC.
>
> WHKY/14 is located in Hickory, NC.

No, Joker's Wild or Tic Tac Dough in Charlotte then? I think WSOC had them for awhile or was it another Charlotte station?
>
 
> >
Tic Tac Dough was running on Channel 9 at 9:30 AM.
Joker's Wild appears to have been off the air in
Charlotte; I don't see it on the daytime schedules
for that week. There was a time (1979-81, IIRC) when
Joker's Wild and Tic Tac Dough did run 7-8 PM on WSOC.
I keep thinking that WCCB carried Joker's Wild at some
point, but I'm not sure about that.


From the Charlotte Observer. Listings run
7 PM-sign off.
> >
> > WBTV Ch. 3 (CBS)
> >
> > 7 PM CBS News
> > 7:30 PM Magazine
> > 8 PM Dukes Of Hazzard
> > 9 PM Dallas
> > 10 PM Falcon Crest
> > 11 PM News
> > 11:30 My Little Margie
> > 12 M McKeever And The Colonel
> > (these last two were part of WBTV's
> > Those Were The Years nostalgia series)
> > 12:30 Saturday Night
> >
> > WSOC Ch. 9 (ABC)
> >
> > 7 PM ABC News
> > 7:30 Entertainment Tonight
> > 8 PM Benson
> > 8:30 At Ease
> > 9 PM ABC Movie: "She's In The
> > Army Now"
> > 11 PM News
> > 11:30 Nightline
> > 12:30 Solid Gold
> > 1:30 News
> > 2 AM CNN News (to 6 AM)
> >
> > WHKY Ch. 14 (Ind.)
> >
> > 6:30 Movie: "The North Star"
> > 8:30 Spirit And Life
> > 9 PM Movie: "Reaching For The Moon"
> > 10 PM News
> > 10:30 Independent Network News
> > 11 PM Evening At The Improv
> > 12 M Soul Train
> >
> > WCCB Ch. 18 (Ind.)
> >
> > 7 PM Wild Wild West
> > 8 PM Gunsmoke
> > 9 PM Movie: "Neptune's Daughter"
> > 11 PM Jackie Gleason
> > 11:30 Independent Network News
> > 12 M Jim Bakker
> > 1 AM Weather
> >
> > WNSC Ch. 30 (PBS)
> >
> > 7 PM MacNeil/Lehrer Report
> > 7:30 Open Line
> > 8 PM Washington Week In Review
> > 8:30 Wall Street Week
> > 9 PM Inside Story
> > 9:30 Creativity With Bill Moyers
> > 10 PM Firing Line
> >
> > WPCQ Ch. 36 (NBC)
> >
> > 7 PM Family Feud
> > 7:30 People's Court
> > 8 PM The Powers Of Matthew Star
> > 9 PM Knight Rider
> > 10 PM Eischied (rerun)
> > 11 PM Soap
> > 11:30 Tonight Show (Roger Moore is
> > a guest)
> > 12:30 SCTV Network
> > 2 AM NBC News Overnight
> > 3 AM Movie: "No Way To Treat A Lady"
> > 5 AM NBC News Overnight
> >
> > WTVI Ch. 42 (PBS)
> >
> > 7 PM Over Easy
> > 7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
> > 8 PM Washington Week In Review
> > 8:30 Wall Street Week
> > 9 PM Final Edition
> > 9:30 The Lawmakers
> > 10 PM Mystery!
> >
> > WUNG Ch. 58 (PBS)
> >
> > 7 PM MacNeil/Lehrer Report
> > 7:30 Stateline: The General Assembly
> > 8 PM Washington Week In Review
> > 8:30 Wall Street Week
> > 9 PM The Commanders
> > 10 PM The Different Drummer: Blacks In
> > The Military
> > 11 PM Alfred Hitchcock Presents
> > 11:30 Morecambe & Wise
> >
> > As I've probably explained before, the reason for three
> > PBS stations is this: WNSC/30 is part of South Carolina
> > ETV and is located in Rock Hill, SC; WTVI/42 is owned by
> > the Charlotte/Mecklenburg School Board; WUNG/58 is part
> > of UNC-TV and is located in Concord, NC.
> >
> > WHKY/14 is located in Hickory, NC.
>
> No, Joker's Wild or Tic Tac Dough in Charlotte then? I think
> WSOC had them for awhile or was it another Charlotte
> station?
> >
>
 
> > >
> Tic Tac Dough was running on Channel 9 at 9:30 AM.
> Joker's Wild appears to have been off the air in
> Charlotte; I don't see it on the daytime schedules
> for that week. There was a time (1979-81, IIRC) when
> Joker's Wild and Tic Tac Dough did run 7-8 PM on WSOC.
> I keep thinking that WCCB carried Joker's Wild at some
> point, but I'm not sure about that.
>
>
>This was during the period when local stations were canning game shows like Joker's Wild and Tic Tac Dough in favor of reruns like The Muppets and MASH as well as expanded local newscasts and also Entertainment Tonight during the dinner hour. If we had the internet at the time 1981-83 of the game show axings, we would have been able to save our favorites the way people e-mailed Game Show Network after the Goodson-Todman shows (except The Price Is Right and Richard Dawson's ill-fated return to Family Feud in 1994)were canned in 10/1997 and that paved the way for the other G-T shows like Match Game and Password to return.

Game shows in Fall 1983 were on a comeback thanks to syndie Wheel OF Fortune and also Love Connection which debuted the same day as Wheel. And of course Wheel's success prompted Merv to bring back Jeopardy! in the fall of 1984.

I moved to Sacramento from Michigan in June 1983 and KCRA 3 the NBC station had Tic Tac Dough at 10:30 am after the daytime Wheel and before The New Battlestars which was about to go off the air on 7/1/1983. And Joker's Wild aired on KRBK (now KMAX-TV) 31 at 11pm. It moved to KOVR 13 then an ABC outlet at 9 am daily after GMA. Shades of when TJW was on CBS in the 1970's.

> >
>
 
>
> WPCQ Ch. 36 (NBC)
>
> 7 PM Family Feud
> 7:30 People's Court
> 8 PM The Powers Of Matthew Star
> 9 PM Knight Rider
> 10 PM Eischied (rerun)
> 11 PM Soap
> 11:30 Tonight Show (Roger Moore is
> a guest)
> 12:30 SCTV Network
> 2 AM NBC News Overnight
> 3 AM Movie: "No Way To Treat A Lady"
> 5 AM NBC News Overnight
>
>
I was wondering how come WPCQ had no 7 pm or 11PM newscast. Did they run their evening news early and how come they did not have a late news?
 
> I was wondering how come WPCQ had no 7 pm or 11PM newscast.
> Did they run their evening news early and how come they did
> not have a late news?
>

I don't believe they had a news department in existance during this time. I think it was in the late-80s or early-90s before one was established (I've seen a news open from 1994, branded as "News 36") and not until BELO purchased the station in the mid-to-late-90s (and re-named to WCNC and branded as "NBC 6", its cable position) that it became anything but a bottom dweller in the ratings.
 
> >
> > WPCQ Ch. 36 (NBC)
> >
> > 7 PM Family Feud
> > 7:30 People's Court
> > 8 PM The Powers Of Matthew Star
> > 9 PM Knight Rider
> > 10 PM Eischied (rerun)
> > 11 PM Soap
> > 11:30 Tonight Show (Roger Moore is
> > a guest)
> > 12:30 SCTV Network
> > 2 AM NBC News Overnight
> > 3 AM Movie: "No Way To Treat A Lady"
> > 5 AM NBC News Overnight
> >
> >
> I was wondering how come WPCQ had no 7 pm or 11PM newscast.
> Did they run their evening news early and how come they did
> not have a late news?
>
Channel 36 had had news at 7 and 11 when it first went to NBC
in 1978(Ted Turner owned the station then). Westinghouse, upon
purchasing the station in 1980, made some decidedly cost-effective
moves and cut out the two local newscasts. In addition, at
the time of these listings 36 did not carry NBC Nightly News,
showing reruns of Real People instead. Another post tells what
happened once Belo got ahold of the station.
 
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