Retro: Eastern Virginia Tuesday, November 10, 1970

[bpatrick]

From TV Guide, Eastern Virginia Edition:

WTAR (WTKR) Ch. 3 Norfolk (CBS)

5:55 These Things We Share
6:10 Town And Country
6:20 Sunrise Semester: "Renaissance Art"
6:50 Lift Up Mine Eyes
7 AM CBS News (John Hart)
7:30 Flibbertigibbet
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Dick Lamb (local talk show-Lamb was previously
a disc jockey on top-40 WGH and co-host of
WAVY's dance-party show "Disc-O-Ten")
10 AM The Lucy Show
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies (Louis Nye as Sonny Drysdale)
11 AM Family Affair
11:30 Love Of Life
12 N Where The Heart Is
12:25 News (Tom Roland)
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Mildred Alexander
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM Secret Storm
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Gomer Pyle, USMC
4:30 Daniel Boone
5:30 Hazel
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:30 CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7 PM Dick Van Dyke
7:30 Beverly Hillbillies (Richard Deacon as a psychiatrist
who treats Granny after she dreams Elly May has
married a frog--she doesn't understand that the
"frog" is a Navy frogman)
8 PM Green Acres
8:30 Hee Haw (Tom T. Hall, Jean Shepard; Gunilla Hutton
makes her singing debut)
9:30 To Rome With Love
10 PM 60 Minutes
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Merv Griffin (Lorne and Nancy Greene, Luci Johnson Nugent
and her husband Pat, comic Jack DeLeon)

WSVA (WHSV) Ch. 3 Harrisonburg (NBC/ABC)

8 AM Today (David Frost; a member of the American Occupational
Therapy Association; a demonstration of macrame, joined in
progress)
9 AM Huckleberry Hound/Yogi Bear
9:30 Galloping Gourmet
10 AM Dinah's Place (guest: Dick Shawn)
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Sale Of The Century
11:30 Hollywood Squares (Tony Randall, Sebastian Cabot, Kent McCord,
Teresa Graves, Nanette Fabray, Paul Lynde)
12 N Bewitched
12:30 A World Apart
1 PM All My Children
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM Dark Shadows
4:30 Jeff's Collie (w/"Dialing For Dollars")
5 PM Daniel Boone (w/"Dialing For Dollars")
6 PM ABC News (Frank Reynolds/Howard K. Smith--Harry
Reasoner will replace Reynolds on Dec. 7)
6:30 News, Weather, Sports (still in b&w)
7 PM Wilburn Brothers (guest: Charley Pride)
7:30 Mod Squad
8:30 ABC Movie: "Tribes" (one of my favorites--Jan-Michael
Vincent as a hippie who doesn't quite shed his ways in
the Marines; Darren McGavin and Earl Holliman give solid
performances as well)
10 PM Marcus Welby, M.D. (guest: Ricardo Montalban as a professor
whose research into drugs has pushed him into hallucinogenic
nightmares and whose condition may be incurable)
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Dick Cavett (Fred Astaire is Dick's only guest.)

WTVR Ch. 6 Richmond (CBS)

6 AM Sunrise Semester: "Urban Man" (the lecture is on women in
the labor market)
6:30 Virginia Today
7 AM CBS News
8 AM Richmond Today
8:30 Romper Room
9 AM Captain Kangaroo
10 AM The Lucy Show
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11 AM Family Affair
11:30 Love Of Life
12 N Where The Heart Is
12:25 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Peyton Place
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM Secret Storm
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Gomer Pyle, USMC
4:30 Bozo/Sooper Dog
5 PM Daniel Boone
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:30 CBS News
7 PM News, Weather
7:30 Beverly Hillbillies
8 PM Green Acres
8:30 Hee Haw
9:30 To Rome With Love
10 PM 60 Minutes
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Merv Griffin

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

7 AM R.F.D. 8
7:30 News
8 AM Contact (John Mackin)
8:50 Fashions In Sewing
9 AM Virginia Graham (Lily Tomlin; actress Abbey Lincoln;
TV producer Father Emory Tang, w/"Dialing For Dollars")
10 AM The Saint
11 AM Divorce Court (w/"Dialing For Dollars")
11:30 That Girl
12 N Bewitched
12:30 A World Apart
1 PM All My Children
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM David Frost (Sid Caesar, Tiny Tim, Barbara Walters,
Sergio Franchi, couturier Pierre Balmain, w/"Dialing
For Dollars")
5:30 Gilligan's Island
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:30 Truth Or Consequences
7 PM Dragnet
7:30 Mod Squad
8:30 ABC Movie: "Tribes"
10 PM Marcus Welby, M.D.
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Movie: "Gentlemen's Agreement"
1:45 News

WAVY Ch. 10 Norfolk (NBC)

6:30 Farm Show
7 AM Today
9 AM David Frost (first of two weeks in Hollywood;
guests are Carol Burnett, composer Dory Previn,
Burt Reynolds, Roger Miller, w/"Dialing For Dollars"
10 AM Dinah's Place
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Sale Of The Century
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 Who, What Or Where
12:55 NBC News (Floyd Kalber)
1 PM Somerset (then called "Another World/Somerset")
1:30 News Magazine
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World (then called "Another World/Bay City")
3:30 I Love Lucy
4 PM Wild Wild West
5 PM Star Trek
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:30 NBC News (the Chancellor/Brinkley/McGee triumvirate)
7 PM Petticoat Junction
7:30 Don Knotts (Bill Cosby, Florence Henderson, singer Glenn Ash)
8:30 Julia
9 PM NBC Movie: "The Intruders"
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Tonight Show (Burt Bacharach subs for Johnny; James Brown,
Dizzy Gillespie, Willie Shoemaker)
1 AM News, Weather, Sports
1:05 Live And Learn

WWBT Ch. 12 Richmond (NBC)

6:30 Virginia Almanac
7 AM Today
9 AM Betty Feezor
9:30 Movie Game (Carol Lynley, Agnes Moorehead, Louis Nye,
Rudy Vallee)
10 AM Dinah's Place
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Sale Of The Century
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 Who, What Or Where
12:55 NBC News
1 PM Somerset
1:30 Words And Music
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 Flintstones
4 PM Petticoat Junction
4:30 Star Trek
5:30 News, Weather, Sports
6 PM Perry Mason
7 PM NBC News
7:30 Don Knotts
8:30 Julia
9 PM NBC Movie: "The Intruders"
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Tonight Show

WVEC Ch. 13 Norfolk (ABC)

6:30 Film
7 AM Comedy Time
8 AM Good Morning
9 AM To Tell The Truth (Orson Bean, Kitty Carlisle,
Peggy Cass, Bill Cullen)
9:30 Movie: "Louisiana Purchase"
11:10 Hair Care
11:20 Fashions In Sewing
11:30 That Girl
12 N Bewitched
12:30 A World Apart
1 PM All My Children
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM Timmy And Lassie
4:30 Flintstones/Bungles
5 PM Beat The Clock (guest: Sheila MacRae)
5:30 News, Weather, Sports
6 PM ABC News
6:30 Perry Mason
7:30 Mod Squad
8:30 ABC Movie: "Tribes"
10 PM Marcus Welby, M.D.
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:35 Movie: "Deadline U.S.A."
1:20 News

WHRO Ch. 15 Norfolk (PBS)

8:30 In-school programs
12:05 In-school programs
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Sesame Street
6:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
7 PM Folk Guitar
7:30 International Cookbook
8 PM Forsyte Saga (Chapter 26)
9 PM The Advocates (question: Should Congress approve
import quotas on textiles and shoes? Economist Paul
Samuelson says quotas have an inflationary effect and
work to the consumer's disadvantage; Sen. Thomas McIntyre,
Democrat of New Hampshire, says that low-cost imports are
driving American firms out of business.)
10 PM San Francisco Mix (dancing is expressed in various ways:
ordinary activities such as a policeman directing traffic (the
Pittsburgh cop on "Candid Camera," perhaps?), the Merce
Cunningham troupe at Ghiradelli Square in San Francisco,
Greek dancers at a North Beach cafe, a Chinatown parade,
a reading of the poem "My Papa's Waltz")
sign off 11 PM

WCVE Ch. 23 Richmond (PBS)

7:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
8 AM Sesame Street (rerun of yesterday's season premiere)
9:15 In-school programs
12:50 In-school programs
6 PM Sesame Street
7 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
7:30 Eye On Art (Early American art on display in Williamsburg)
8 PM World Press Review
9 PM The Advocates
10 PM San Francisco Mix
sign off 11 PM

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

3:30 Romper Room
4:30 Mister Ed
5 PM Leave It To Beaver
5:30 Jim And Tammy
6:30 Flipper
7 PM News, Weather, Sports
7:30 700 Club Telethon (Pat Boone is one of the participants,
should continue until sometime past 1 AM)

 

[Markd]

I believe WYAH signed on at noon back then with a 2 hour 700 club and a couple religious shows till 3 PM. Still WYAH was very weak back in 1970. They began getting stronger in 1972. bit by bit. By the fall of 1972 WYAH was on for about 13 hours a day. It was in the Spring of 1973 where WYAH 27 added a ton of syndicated shows and that fall began broadcasting 20 hours a day. From 1973 on, the station was quite strong. In Atlanta, WHAE/WANX became stronger all at onec during the course of 1973.

 

[bpatrick]

It's possible that WYAH had the 700 Club at noon (I don't see it
anywhere else in these listings) and I know it had to be there, but
I left Hampton Roads two years earlier and didn't start looking at
the old schedules again until a few years ago.

I've lived in the coverage areas of two other CBN stations: WHAE/
WANX Atlanta and KXTX Dallas and in both cases got there in time
to see them become nearly (emphasis on nearly) conventional
independents, with more off-network shows mixed in with the religious
programming (in fact, during the revival of interest in "You Bet Your Life"
in the '70s it was Pat Robertson and not--as you might think--Ted Turner
who put it on in Atlanta, just as he did "The Honeymooners," long before
Turner decided to put it on TBS in the mid-'80s). Interestingly (to me,
at least) Turner carried Andy Griffith in Atlanta while Robertson had him
in Dallas.

 

[Marckd]

Looking at old listings from 1973...WHAE early that year had a couple syndicated low budget shows and a couple high quality shows occupying maybe 2 and a half hours a day. They had about 5 hours of religious shows a day. Late in the spring, WHAE abruptly added about 6 hours a day of stronger shows. That fall another 6 hours or so of stronger programming. By early 1974, WHAE was quite a strong station in Atlanta. But they went from almost nothing to being a conventional independent major player in less than a year.

Unsure how KXTX evolved. By 1974, I am sure KXTX was conventional and competitive with KTVT. I do believe Channel 39 was a combination of assets from 2 stations. I believe in the early 70's Pat Robertson owned Channel 33 with a couple hours a day of secular shows and several hours a day of religion. Doubleday owned Channel 39 which had about 5 hours of entertainment shows and that was it. Late in 1973, Doubleday donated Channel 39's license and its programming to Pat Robertson. Then Pat turned Channel 33 into the FCC, combined Channel 33's assets with Channel 39's making one station on Channel 39 moving the KXTX calls from Channel 33. I believe in late 1973, Channel 39 was on the air about 16 hours a day and expanded to all but a couple hours a day in the course of 1974.

All three stations, WYAH, KXTX, and WHAE/WANX were conventinal independents ratehr than religious. In fact they ran no more religious shows than most independents back then, especially when PTL Club (which CBN stations DID NOT carry) and the 700 Club both went into syndication sometime in 74. All three stations were all religious Sundays until end of September 1980 of at which time these stations ran secular shows from about 1030 AM till about 6 PM on Sundays.