Retro: Eastern Carolinas Sat, Mar 6, 1965

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from Wilmington News via Google News Archive

2 WUSN Charleston
3 WWAY Wilmington
4 WUNC Chapel Hill
5 WRAL Raleigh
5* WCSC Charleston
6 WECT Wilmington
7 WITN Washington
9 WNCT Greenville
11 WTVD Durham/Raleigh
12 WNBE New Bern
13 WBTW Florence

Morning
6:30
11 Lost City of Jungle
13 Sunrise Semester

7:00
5 Bomba
5* Farm Hour
7 Clutch Cargo
12 American Bowery Boys
13 Forecast

7:30
5* Sunrise Semester
7 Captain Gallant
11 Jetsons
13 Children's Gospel Hour

8:00
3 Cartoons
5 Sunrise Theatre
5*-9-11-13 Mr. Mayor
6 Robin Hood
7 Hospitality
12 Marionettes

8:15
12 Telestory

8:30
6 Light Unto My Path
12 Jungle Jim

9:00
3 Bannon's Buddies
5* Happy Rene
7 Top Cat
9-13 Alvin
11 Tennessee Tuxedo

9:30
5 Discovery
5*-13 Tennessee Tuxedo
6-7-9-11 Hector Heathcote (c)
12 Fun House

9:45
2 Agricultural Panorama

10:00
2-3-5-12 Shenanigans
4 4H Lesson (sign-off at 11)
5*-9-11-13 Quick Draw McGraw
6-7 Underdog (c)

10:30
2-3-5-12 Annie Oakley
5*-9-11-13 Mighty Mouse
6-7 Fireball XL5

11:00
2 Cartoonsville
3-5-12 Casper
5*-9-11-13 Linus the Lionhearted
6-7 Dennis the Menace

11:30
2-3-5-12 Porky Pig
5*-9-13 Jetsons
6-7-11 Fury

Afternoon
noon
2-3-5-12 Bugs Bunny
5*-9-11-13 Sky King
6 Exploring
7 Frontier Circus

12:30
2-3-5-12 Hoppity Hooper
5* Jump Time
9-11-13 My Friend Flicka

1:00
2-3-5-12 American Bandstand
5* My Friend Flicka
6 Roller Derby
7 Saturday Matinee
9 I Love Lucy
11 Wild Kingdom
13 Mickey Mouse

1:30
5* Alvin
9-13 CBS News
11 Jungle Theatre

2:00
2 Roller Derby
3 Teen Scene
5 Teenage Frolics
5* Tarzan
6 Feature Movie
9 Checkmate
12 Dance Party
13 Picture for a Saturday Afternoon

2:30
5 Shell's Wonderful World of Golf (c)
12 Big Picture

2:45
11 Sportsview

3:00
2 Adventure
3 Trails West
7 Hardwood Highlights
9 Movie
11 Hollow Crown
12 Outdoorsman

3:15
2 Great Moments in Music

3:30
2-3-5-12 Pro Bowlers Tour
5* Wrestling
7 Silent Service

3:45
13 Platform

4:00
5*-11-13 CBS Golf Classic
6 America's Cup Races
7 Laramie

4:15
9 Headlines of the Century

4:30
6 Days Ahead
9 Joey Bishop

5:00
2-3-12 ABC Wide World of Sports
5 Wrestling
5* Schulz Show
6-7-11 Big Three Golf (c)
9 CBS Golf Classic
13 Auto Racing Spectacular

5:30
5* Country Music
13 Bat Masterson

Evening
6:00
5 Grand Ole Opry
5* Zane Grey Theater
6 News Special
7 NBC News
9 News
11 Flipper (c)
13 Saturday Sports

6:10
9 Exclusively Sports
13 Bulletin Board

6:15
6 News/Sports/Weather
7 News
13 Saturday Weather & News

6:25
7-9 Weather

6:30
2 TV Auction
3 Gospel Jubilee
5 Wilburn Brothers
5* Weather Report
6 Daniel Boone
7 Porter Wagoner
9 Carolina Partners
11 Walt Disney (c)
12 Sports
13 Backstage

6:35
5* Sportscope

6:45
5*-12 News

6:55
12 Weather

7:00
2 News
5-5* Porter Wagoner
7 Grand Ole Opry
9 Hennesey
12 Talent Hunt
13 McHale's Navy

7:30
2-3-5-12 King Family
5*-9-11-13 Jackie Gleason
6-7 Flipper (c)

8:00
6-7 Kentucky Jones

8:30
2-3-5-12 Lawrence Welk
5*-9-11-13 Gilligan's Island
6-7 Saturday Night Movie (c)

9:00
5*-9-13 Entertainers
11 Man from UNCLE

9:30
2-3-5-12 Hollywood Palace

10:00
5*-9-11-13 Gunsmoke

10:30
2 Great Moments in Music
3 Country Cousins
5 Harvesters
12 ABC News

10:45
2 Saturday Cinema
12 Wrestling

11:00
5 ABC News
5*-13 Movie
6 Feature Movie
7 News/Weather/Sports
9 Saturday News Report
11 Three Star Final

11:15
5 Dateline
7 Great Moments in Music
9 Movie
11 Country Style

11:30
3 Shock Theatre
5 Movie
7 Saturday Evening Theatre

11:45
12 Science Fiction

Late Night
12:15
2 ABC News

 

[charlestondxman]

Kind of lame for WUSN to sign-on at 9:45 in the morning. But that's what it was back in the mid 60s. Channel 4 WCIV wasn't listed, but that station had NBC programming for the Lowcountry.

None of our local stations had weekend late news. This lasted on one station into the 90s. A couple didn't even have 6pm shows until around '90 on Saturday and/or Sunday.

 

[bpatrick]

Local weekend newscasts were hard to find in those days. For
example, in the North Carolina edition of TV Guide on Saturday,
February 19, 1966, there are 6 PM newscasts (each 30 minutes)
on WECT, WITN, and WSJS (WXII) leading into NBC's "Scherer-
MacNeil Report." WBTV (CBS) does 10 minutes of sports and news
at 6:50; WFMY leads out of the CBS Evening News With Roger Mudd
with a 30-minute newscast at 7.

Things are a little better at 11:

WNBE (WCTI) (ABC) 10:45-11
*WFMY and WBTV (CBS) 11-11:20
**WNCT and WTVD (CBS) 11-11:15
WRAL (ABC) 11:15-11:25 (follows ABC's newscast)
WITN and WSJS (NBC) 11:15-11:30 (only because NBC's
movie, "Meet Me In Las Vegas," ran until 11:15 instead
of 11 PM)

On Sunday, February 20, there are no early newscasts,
except for NBC's "Frank McGee Report" at 6. WFMY is the
only station with a (15-minute) local newscast at 11 PM.

* Technically, WBTV was affiliated with all three networks;
CBS was its primary one.

** Technically, WTVD was affiliated with CBS and NBC;
CBS was its primary one.

You have to get into the '70s before you find most stations
doing 30-minute newscasts at 6 and 11 on Sunday. IIRC,
no ABC affiliate had an early local newscast on Saturday
until WSOC switched from NBC to ABC in 1978, and WRAL started
one about the same time (far cry from Atlanta, which even had
noon newscasts on weekends as far back as 1972, and the station
that started that trend was then-ABC affiliate WQXI, later WXIA).