Retro: Eastern North Carolina out-of-market stations Monday, March 20, 1978

[bpatrick]

From the Raleigh News and Observer, a few stations carried
on cable or OTA in parts of eastern North Carolina but not
necessarily with a large coverage area there (note that WTBS
is missing even though it was on nationwide cable by this time).

GREENSBORO/HIGH POINT (WXII/12 Winston-Salem is not listed)

WFMY Ch. 2 (CBS)

6 AM Good Morning Show
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Dinah!
10 AM Tattletales
10:30 Price Is Right
11:30 Sandra And Friends (current co-anchor
Sandra Hughes)
12 N Young And The Restless
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Love Of Life (it used to stick out like the
proverbial sore thumb that Detroit's Channel
2, WJBK, then CBS, did the same thing)
1:25 News
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3:30 All In The Family
4 PM I Love Lucy
4:30 Beverly Hillbillies
5 PM Hogan's Heroes
5:30 Odd Couple
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Andy Griffith
7:30 Carol Burnett And Friends
8 PM Good Times
8:30 Baby, I'm Back
9 PM M*A*S*H
9:30 One Day At A Time
10 PM Lou Grant
11 PM News
11:30 McMillan And Wife

WGHP Ch. 8 (ABC)

6 AM Romper Room
6:30 New Mickey Mouse Club
7 AM Good Morning America
9 AM Movie: "My Wild Irish Rose"
11 AM Happy Days
11:30 Midday Piedmont
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1 PM All My Children
2 PM One Life To Live
3 PM General Hospital
4 PM Three Stooges
4:30 Brady Bunch
5 PM Emergency One!
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News
7 PM Brady Bunch
7:30 Marty Robbins' Spotlight
8 PM The Easter Bunny Is Coming
To Town
9 PM ABC Movie: "Doctors' Private
Lives"
11 PM News
11:30 Police Story
12:40 News

CHARLOTTE

WRET Ch. 36 (Ind., would go to NBC
July 1 and is now WCNC)

7 AM Three Stooges
8 AM Leave It To Beaver
8:30 Mr. Ed
9 AM I Dream Of Jeannie
9:30 That Girl
10 AM Cry In The Wilderness
10:30 Hazel
11 AM PTL Club
1 PM Movie: "The McConnell Story"
2:30 Cartoons
3 PM Popeye
3:30 Space Giants
4 PM Flintstones
4:30 Woody Woodpecker
5 PM Brady Bunch
5:30 I Dream Of Jeannie
6 PM Beverly Hillbillies
6:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
7 PM Andy Griffith
7:30 Mary Tyler Moore
8 PM Movie: "My Six Loves"
10 PM Untouchables
11 PM Dark Shadows
11:30 Movie: "Another Part Of
The Forest"
1 AM Movie: "Showdown"

RICHMOND, VA

WXEX (WRIC) Ch. 8 (ABC)

6:30 Romper Room
7 AM Good Morning America
9 AM Mike Douglas
10 AM FYI
11 AM Happy Days
11:30 Family Feud
12 N The Better Sex
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1 PM All My Children
2 PM One Life To Live
3 PM General Hospital
4 PM Edge Of Night
4:30 Merv Griffin
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News
7 PM Mary Tyler Moore
7:30 Odd Couple
8 PM Easter Bunny Is Coming
To Town
9 PM ABC Movie
11 PM News
11:30 Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
12 M Outer Limits
1 AM News

WASHINGTON, DC

WTTG Ch. 5 (Ind.)

6:30 New Zoo Revue
7 AM Tom And Jerry
7:30 Porky Pig
8 AM Flintstones
8:30 Deputy Dawg
9 AM Dennis The Menace (Jay North)
9:30 Father Knows Best
10 AM Dick Van ----
10:30 That Girl
11 AM Jim Nabors (talk show)
12 N Panorama
2 PM I Love Lucy
2:30 I Dream Of Jeannie
3 PM New Mickey Mouse Club
3:30 The Archies
4 PM Flintstones
4:30 Tom And Jerry
5 PM Flintstones
5:30 Partridge Family
6 PM My Three Sons
6:30 Family Affair
7 PM Andy Griffith
7:30 Brady Bunch
8 PM $128,000 Question
8:30 Merv Griffin
10 PM News
11 PM Odd Couple
11:30 Perry Mason
12:30 Movie: "The Saint Meets
The Tiger" (Hugh Sinclair,
not Roger Moore, stars)
2:30 Merv Griffin
3:30 Today In Your Life

 

[8638]

WTTG was carried on cable in Eastern North Carolina then? Wow! A once great indy station, part of Metromedia, before that DuMont...and now FOX!

 

[mleach]

I'm surprised neither Washington's WDCA channel 20 or Norfolk-Portsmouth's WYAH ( now WGNT ) channel 27 weren't listed here. I am pretty sure TV Guide for this area back then carried listings for both WTTG and WDCA.

Back in 78 I have been told than many cable systems in central Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky carried WYAH. Interesting that with Norfolk being so close to North Carolina ( heck some of their market includes North Carolina ), that these listings overlook them.

 

[bpatrick]

These listings did not come from TV Guide, but rather the local
Raleigh newspaper. True, Channel 27 did, and does, air on cable
in far northeastern North Carolina (the part that's in the Norfolk
DMA) but for whatever reason the station did not submit listings
to the N&O. Likewise, WDCA was carried in the Eastern Virginia
and Central Virginia editions of TV Guide, but I don't recall its being
in the Eastern North Carolina edition after the North Carolina one
split into ENC and Charlotte (Central North Carolina).

The Eastern North Carolina edition had not been created when
these schedules actually aired; that wasn't until August 1980.
The Norfolk stations, the Richmond ABC station, and Charlotte's
Channel 36 were never listed there. The N&O listed Channels
3, 10, and 13 from Norfolk, and 8 from Richmond, as far back
as I can remember (and WTVR Channel 6 Richmond was in there
in the '50s and '60s).

WTTG, on the other hand, was on cable systems from Pennsylvania
to North Carolina; I used to see its listings in every edition of TV
Guide from Southeast Pennsylvania southward to North Carolina.

Of the stations I listed in the two posts of eastern North Carolina
schedules, the following were in the Eastern North Carolina edition:
WRAL, WTVD, WRDC, WITN, WNCT, WCTI, WWAY, WECT, WBTW,
WFMY, WGHP, and (for a time) WTTG. Also, UNC-TV: WUNC, WUND,
WUNJ, WUNK, WUNL, WUNP.

Others, like WNCN, WLFL, WRAZ, WPDE, WYDO/WFXI, and the Pax
stations in Raleigh, Fayetteville, Greenville, and Jacksonville, NC, signed on later.