RETRO: GREENVILLE/SPARTANBURG/ASHEVILLE AFFFILIATE LISTINGS JULY 3, 1968

[spencerkarter85]

Source: Spartanburg-Herald Journal (Spartanburg, SC)
Date: July 3, 1968
All Times Eastern Daylight

Greenville/Spartanburg/Asheville commercial stations only.

WFBC-TV 4 (NBC)

6:30am: Film Feature
7:00am: Today (Barbara Walters/Hugh Downs)
9:00am: Today in the Piedmont
9:30am: Romper Room
10:00am: Snap Judgement
10:25am: News
10:30am: Concentration (Hugh Downs)
11:00am: Personality
11:30am: Hollywood Squares (Peter Marshall)
NOON: Jeopardy! (Art Fleming)
12:30pm: Eye Guess
12:55pm: News
1:00pm: Match Game (Gene Rayburn, Original version)
1:25pm: News, Weather
1:30pm: Let's Make a Deal (Monty Hall, final year on NBC)
2:00pm: Days of our Lives
2:30pm: The Doctors
3:00pm: Another World
3:30pm: You Don't Say
4:00pm: Monty's Rascals (Monty DuPuy and Stowe Hoyle as Mr. Doohickey)
4:30pm: Merv Griffin
6:00pm: News, Weather and Sports
6:30pm: The Huntley-Brinkley Report
7:00pm: Cheyenne
8:00pm: Showcase '68
8:30pm: MOVIE "Captain Newman"
11:00pm: News, Weather and Sports
11:30pm: The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson
1:00am: SIGN OFF


WSPA-TV 7 (CBS)

6:20am: Agriculture
6:35am: Sunrise Semester
7:05am: News
7:55am: Meditation
8:00am: Captain Kangaroo
9:00am: Treasure Isle
9:30am: Nancy Welch
10:00am: Candid Camera
10:30am: The Beverly Hillbillies
11:00am: Andy of Mayberry
11:30am: The Dick Van Dyke Show
NOON: Love of Life
12:25pm: News
12:30pm: Search for Tomorrow
12:45pm: The Guiding Light
1:00pm: The Secret Storm
1:30pm: As The World Turns
2:00pm: Love is a Many Splendored Thing
2:30pm: Houseparty (Art Linkletter)
3:00pm: To Tell The Truth
3:25pm: News
3:30pm: The Edge of Night
4:00pm: MOVIE "Pancho Villa Returns"
6:00pm: News
6:30pm: CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite
7:00pm: McHale's Navy
7:30pm: Dakfari
8:30pm: Showtime
9:30pm: Good Morning World (with pre-Laugh In's Goldie Hawn)
10:00pm: CBS Reports
11:00pm: 11 O'Clock Report
11:30pm: MOVIE "Fighting Fools" (followed by SIGN OFF)


WLOS-TV 13 (ABC)

6:28am: Take Two
6:30am: Cartoons
6:55am: News
7:00am: Cartoons
9:00am: MOVIE "Bashful Bend"
10:25am: Morning Report
10:30am: Hazel
11:00am: This Morning with Dick Cavett (Joined in Progress)
NOON: Bewitched
12:30pm: The Mike Douglas Show
2:00pm: The Newlywed Game (Bob Eubanks)
2:30pm: Baby Game
3:00pm: General Hospital
3:30pm: Dark Shadows
4:00pm: The Dating Game (Jim Lange)
4:30pm: Dennis The Menace
5:00pm: Perry Mason
6:00pm: 6 O'Clock Report
6:15pm: News
6:25pm: Sports
6:30pm: Truth or Consequences (Bob Barker)
7:00pm: Real McCoys
7:30pm: Garrison's Gorillas
8:30pm: It Takes a Thief (with Robert Wagner)
9:30pm: NYPD
10:00pm: The Invaders
11:00pm: News, Weather, Sports and Editorial
11:30pm: The Joey Bishop Show
1:00am: SIGN OFF

 

[bpatrick]

That's the schedule I remember when I first moved to Greenville
in the summer of '68. On July 15 there would be a number of
changes on ABC and Ch. 13:

1. Ch. 13 would cut Mike Douglas to an hour in order to carry ABC's
"It's Happening" at 1:30.

2. "The Dating Game" would move to 2:30 and "Dark Shadows" back
to 4 PM on both ABC and Ch. 13.

3. "One Life To Live" would debut at 3:30 on ABC; Ch. 13 would carry
"Divorce Court" at that time for the remainder of the summer. "OLTL"
would not begin airing on 13 until the fall of 1973.

BTW, the date for your listings is July 2.

 

[spencerkarter85]

Actually, OLTL debuted on July 15, 1968. I know it was unseen in this area until 1973.

 

[bpatrick]

Reread my post and you'll see that OLTL debuted
July 15, 1968...but not on WLOS.

Personal note: I saw the first week of OLTL at my
grandparents' in North Carolina; WGHP carried it
in the Triad. I didn't see it again for nearly a year,
after I had moved to Birmingham; it was quite popular
there (as were all the ABC soaps). I remember something
in TV Guide around 1973 that said that another ABC soap,
"General Hospital," was one of the top three shows in
Birmingham, along with "The Price Is Right" and "To Tell
The Truth." But, again, I digress.

 

[spencerkarter85]

bpatrick, you were right. It's from July 2nd, 1968. Did you know that WGHP didn't carry "Dark Shadows" instead they broadcast old movies?

 

[bpatrick]

Indeed I do. I also remember that WRAL carried "Dark Shadows"
in the mornings and ran old movies in the afternoon. That, to me,
is as bad as the time back in '66 when Norfolk's WVEC ran "Where
The Action Is" at 8 AM; the target audience wasn't home.