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Retro: Eastern Virginia Sunday, May 14, 1978

By request, from TV Guide, Eastern Virginia Edition:

WTAR (WTKR) Ch. 3 Norfolk (CBS)

7 AM Vision On
7:30 Show My People
8 AM Bible Study With Mildred Alexander
8:30 Day Of Discovery
9 AM Oral Roberts
9:30 This Is The Life
10 AM Hidden Heritage (Two Centuries of Black American
Art, some 200 paintings, sculptures, crafts, and prints)
11 AM House Of Worship
11:30 Face The Nation (guest: Ronald Reagan)
12 N Tony Brown's Journal (Blacks' chances of achieving economic
and social equality is the topic.)
12:30 The Explorers
1 PM This could vary; the schedule calls for "Three On Three" (Earl
Monroe, Dave DeBusschere, and Jack Knight vs. Paul Westphal,
Gus Johnson, and Richard Hatch at 1, Seattle-Denver in an NBA
Western Conference final game at 1:30, and the Colonial National
Invitation golf tournament at 4. Odds are that the alternative schedule
aired instead: golf at 1, "Three On Three" at 3, and the basketball game
at 3:30.
6 PM News (time approximate)
6:30 CBS News (Morton Dean)
7 PM 60 Minutes
8 PM All In The Family
8:30 Alice
9 PM CBS Movie: "Brannigan" (John Wayne, from '75)
11 PM News
11:30 Norfolk State Highlights
12 M Movie: "The House Of Fear" (Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce as Sherlock
Holmes and Watson, from '45)

WHSV Ch. 3 Harrisonburg (NBC/ABC)

7 AM Jerry Falwell
8 AM Rex Humbard
9 AM Day Of Discovery
9:30 Gospel Sing
10 AM Flames Of Revival
10:30 Rev. Leonard Repass
11 AM Solid Rock
11:30 Animals, Animals, Animals (Bob Clampett is shown drawing Bugs Bunny;
since there's a different episode on Ch. 13 at the same time this may
be a delay.)
12 N Issues And Answers
12:30 Directions ("Miss Lillian" Carter discusses her experiences in the Peace
Corps in India.)
1 PM Perspective: Black
1:25 Dateline: Religion
1:30 This Is The Life
2 PM World Invitational Tennis Classic: first-round match between defending
champion Bjorn Borg and John Newcombe
3:30 American Sportsman (NFL star Bert Jones hunts for grouse in Argentina;
Olympic skiing champion Rosi Mittermaier skis in Chile.)
4:30 Wide World Of Sports (Indy 500 time trials; Rocky Mattioli defends the
WBC super-welterweight crown against Jose Duran, 15 rounds, from
Pascara, Italy)
6 PM Conversations
6:30 NBC News (Jessica Savitch)
7 PM Hardy Boys
8 PM How The West Was Won
9 PM ABC Movie: "Leave Yesterday Behind" (John Ritter as an athlete paralyzed
in a polo accident; Carrie Fisher as the person who helps him adjust to
his new life.)
11 PM PTL Club

WTVR Ch. 6 Richmond (CBS)

7 AM Jerry Falwell
8 AM Day Of Discovery
8:30 Oral Roberts
9 AM Focus: Black Religious Life
9:30 Gospel Sing
10 AM TBA
11 AM Community Profiles
11:30 Face The Nation
12 N Beverly Hillbillies
12:30 Viewpoint
1 PM See WTAR/WTKR. Note that Ch. 6 does not carry "Three
On Three" but "The Fishin' Hole" instead.
6 PM Andy Griffith (time approximate)
6:30 CBS News
7 PM 60 Minutes
8 PM All In The Family
8:30 Alice
9 PM CBS Movie: "Brannigan"
11 PM News
11:15 CBS News (Ed Bradley)
11:30 Star Trek
12:30 Gunsmoke (guests: Harry Morgan and Dack Rambo)

WXEX (WRIC) Ch. 8 Petersburg-Richmond (ABC)

7 AM Herald Of Truth
7:30 Gospel Truth
8 AM Gospel Sing
8:30 Show My People
9 AM Rex Humbard
10 AM Jimmy Swaggart
10:30 Robert Schuller
11 AM Grove Avenue Baptist Church
12 N Issues And Answers
12:30 Omnibus (local, not the classic Alistair Cooke show of
the '50s)
1 PM Big Valley
2 PM World Invitational Tennis Classic
3:30 American Sportsman
4:30 Wide World Of Sports
6 PM News
6:30 Close-Up
7 PM Hardy Boys
8 PM How The West Was Won
9 PM ABC Movie: "Leave Yesterday Behind"
11 PM News
11:30 700 Club
1 AM ABC News (Sylvia Chase/Tom Jarriel)

WAVY Ch. 10 Norfolk (NBC)

6:45 News
7 AM The Lucy Show
7:30 Bible Storytime
8 AM Rex Humbard
9 AM Gospel Sing
9:30 United Faith Foundation
10 AM Pride
10:30 Leroy Jenkins
11 AM Garner Ted Armstrong
11:30 Sweethaven Baptist Church
12 N 'Roundabout This Week
12:30 Meet The Press (Senators Harrison Williams (Democrat,
New Jersey) and Orrin Hatch (Republican, Utah))
1 PM Fishin' Hole
1:30 Soul Train (the Fifth Dimension, Mandrill--in no way to be
confused with Barbara Mandrell)
2:30 20th Century Day Of Pentecost
3:30 This Week In Baseball
4 PM Sportsworld (the Withers Stakes, a mile race for three-year-
olds, from Aqueduct; amateurs vs. pros in picking race winners
in the New York Invitational Handicappers Challenge; the Soviet-
American Dual Diving Meet)
5:30 All-Star Anything Goes (models vs. actors; participants include
Charles Dierkop, Dick Gautier, Harrison Page and Raymond St. Jacques)
6 PM Dateline: Area 10
6:30 Wild Kingdom
7 PM Wonderful World Of Disney: "Child Of Glass" (the ghost of a girl who died
during the Civil War poses a riddle to the boy living in her old home which,
if he solves it, will put her spirit to rest at last)
9 PM Wheels (Part 4)
11 PM News
11:30 NBC Movie: "Stranger In The House"
1:30 News
1:40 Gospel Sing
2:10 For You...Black Woman (topic: mother-son relationships)

WWBT Ch. 12 Richmond (NBC)

6:45 With This Ring
7 AM Light Unto My Path
7:30 Lessons For Living
8 AM Insight
8:30 Treehouse Club
9 AM Who, What, Wherehouse (sounds like a kids' show; it's
not the game show "Who, What Or Where")
9:30 Jacques Cousteau
10:30 Southern Sportsman
11 AM Tony Brown's Journal (topic: the impact of the women's
movement on traditional male-female relationships)
11:30 On Twelve
12 N Changing Focus: On Location
12:30 Meet The Press
1 PM Movie: "Golden Boy" (William Holden's break as a boxer with
a greater interest in the violin, from '39)
3 PM Ironside
4 PM Sportsworld
5:30 This Week In Baseball
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Wonderful World Of Disney
9 PM Wheels (Part 4)
11 PM News
11:30 NBC Movie: "Stranger In The House"

WVEC Ch. 13 Norfolk (ABC)

6:30 Comedy Time
7 AM Insight
7:30 Jerry Falwell
8:30 Ernest Angley
9 AM Robert Schuller (guest: Ruth Carter Stapleton)
10 AM Sandy's Clubhouse (local kids' show whose host, Sandy
Kandy, was on Ch. 13's Sunday-morning schedule for years)
10:30 Jabberjaw
11 AM Grape Ape
11:30 Animals, Animals, Animals (the International Crane Foundation
in Wisconsin, set up to help endangered species)
12 N Roller Games (another Sunday tradition on Ch. 13)
1 PM Conversation
1:30 Issues And Answers
2 PM World Invitational Tennis Classic
3:30 American Sportsman
4:30 In Search Of...
5 PM Movie: "The Silencers" (Dean Martin as Matt Helm)
7 PM Hardy Boys
8 PM How The West Was Won
9 PM ABC Movie: "Leave Yesterday Behind"
11 PM ABC News
11:15 News
11:30 Wide World Of Sports (delay from 4:30 PM)
1 AM The Avengers (John Steed and Emma Peel, not the superhero
movie currently in theaters)
2 AM News

WHRO Ch. 15 Norfolk (PBS)

7:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
8 AM Sesame Street
9 AM Electric Company
9:30 Zoom
10 AM Sesame Street
11 AM Feeling Free
11:30 Studio See
12 N Once Upon A Classic ("Sky Pirate")
1 PM Our Mutual Friend (Part 4)
2 PM The Advocates
3 PM Tennis: Bridgestone World Doubles Championship
(Billie Jean King and Martina Navratilova vs. Virginia
Wade and Francoise Durr)
4:30 Blue-Collar Capitalism
5 PM Six American Families
6 PM Crockett's Victory Garden
6:30 A Family At War
7:30 Previn And The Pittsburgh (Andre Previn conducts the
Pittsburgh Symphony and Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh
in Brahms' "German Requiem.")
9 PM Our Mutual Friend (Part 5)
10 PM Nova ("The Light Of The 21st Century" looks at possible
uses for lasers to speed communications.)
sign off 11 PM

WCVE Ch. 23 Richmond (PBS)

8 AM Sesame Street
9 AM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9:30 Zoom
10 AM Sesame Street
11 AM Feeling Free
11:30 Big Blue Marble
12 N Rebop
12:30 Turnabout
1 PM Old Friends...New Friends
1:30 Country Music
2 PM The Advocates
3 PM Tennis (see Ch. 15)
4:30 Richmond's Private Schools
5 PM Washington Week In Review
5:30 Wall Street Week
6 PM Crockett's Victory Garden
6:30 French Chef
7 PM American Documents (how films became a propaganda
organ as the U.S. entered World War I)
8 PM Previn And The Pittsburgh
9:30 Our Mutual Friend (Part 5)
10:30 Movie: "Angel On My Shoulder"
sign off 12:30 AM

WYAH (WGNT) Ch. 27 Portsmouth (Ind.)

6:30 Public Policy Forums (debate on freedom of the press
protections provided by the First Amendment)
7:30 Panorama
8 AM James Robison Presents
8:30 Jimmy Swaggart
9 AM Gerald Derstine Shares
9:30 Leonard Repass
10 AM Faith For Living
10:30 Athletes In Action
10:45 Listen
11 AM Rex Humbard
12 N Panorama
12:30 Public Policy Forums (rerun of the 6:30 AM program)
1:30 Good News
2 PM World Of Pentecost
2:30 Deaf Hear
3 PM Happy Hunters (gospel music)
3:30 Manna
4 PM He Lives
4:30 Flames Of Revival
5 PM Wide World Of Truth
5:30 Jerry Falwell
6:30 Faith For Living
7 PM Warren Roberts
8 PM 700 Club
9:30 Happy Hour (not drinking, not on CBN, but Laverne Tripp,
one of Pat Robertson's followers)
10 PM Ernest Angley
11 PM George & Diane Ivey (gospel music)
11:30 Human Dimension
12 M Panorama
sign off 12:30 AM

WVIR Ch. 29 Charlottesville (NBC)

8 AM Leonard Repass
8:30 Gospel Sing
9 AM Jerry Falwell
10 AM Miracle Deliverance Revival
10:30 Treehouse Club
11 AM Southern Sportsman
11:30 American Angler
12 N Animal World
12:30 Meet The Press
1 PM Movie: "Dodge City" (not "Gunsmoke," this one
stars Errol Flynn, from '39)
3 PM One Lap Around The World
3:30 Wild Kingdom
4 PM Sportsworld
5:30 Thunderboat Spectacular
6 PM Foxfield Steeplechase Races (to raise money for
Martha Jefferson Hospital in Charlottesville)
7 PM Wonderful World Of Disney
9 PM Wheels (Part 4)
11 PM PTL Club
sign off 1 AM

WVPT Ch. 51 Harrisonburg (PBS)

8 AM Sesame Street
9 AM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9:30 Audubon Wildlife Theater
10 AM Sesame Street
11 AM Feeling Free
11:30 Studio See
12 N Rebop
12:30 Mark Russell (from the campus of SUNY-Buffalo)
1 PM Washington Week In Review
1:30 Wall Street Week
2 PM The Advocates
3 PM Once Upon A Classic ("Sky Pirate")
4 PM Six American Families
5 PM Previn And The Pittsburgh
6 PM Crockett's Victory Garden
6:30 French Chef
7 PM Forsyte Saga
8 PM Our Mutual Friend (Part 4)
9 PM Our Mutual Friend (Part 5)
10 PM Nova
sign off 11 PM
 
Yes WYAH TV 27 was still all Christian on Sundays, though the rest of the week they were a pretty typical independent station with a pretty strong schedule. In late September of 1980, WYAH began having secular shows and movies Sundays from 11 AM to 3 PM and in 1981 till 5 Pm and in 1982 till 7 PM and began secular shows 1030 AM, sooner in the day than some secular owned stations. With the exception of Sundays until 1980, WYAH was a typical independent station at the time. They were quite weak in 1971 but during the coruse of 1972 to 1973 they gradually grew into s stronger station.
 
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