RETRO: JACKSON & MERIDIAN, MISSISSIPPI - WEEKDAYS, 07/09-13/1962

[rwells2265]

[TV Guide, Louisiana-Mississippi Edition]

WLBT-3 / Jackson (NBC, ABC)

615 Operation Alphabet
645 Film Features
700 Today
[704-706; 711-712; 720-722; 745-752; 804-805; 818-819; 830-845 = technical difficulties] ;D ;D ;D
900 Romper Room ["Say When" preempted]
930 Play Your Hunch (NBC)
1000 The Price is Right (NBC)
1030 Concentration (NBC)
1100 Your First Impression (NBC)
1130 Truth or Consequences (NBC)
1155 NBC News
1200 Midday Devotional
1210 News, Weather
1225 Farm Market Report - Forrest Cox
1230 Ernie Ford
100 Jan Murray (NBC)
125 NBC News (Floyd Kalber)
130 Loretta Young (NBC)
200 Young Dr. Malone (NBC)
230 Our Five Daughters (NBC)
300 Make Room for Daddy (NBC)
330 Here's Hollywood (NBC)
355 NBC News
400 American Bandstand (ABC) [ !!!!!!!!!!! ]
450 American Newsstand (ABC)
500 Weathervane
505 Whirlybirds
535 Comment - news analysis
545 News, Sports, Weather


WJTV-12 / Jackson (CBS, ABC)

630 Film features
700 Gospel Songs
715 Western serial - children
730 Cartoon Carnival
800 Captain Kangaroo (CBS)
900 Calendar (CBS)
930 I Love Lucy (CBS)
1000 Verdict is Yours (CBS)
1030 Brighter Day (CBS)
1055 CBS News
1100 Love of Life (CBS)
1130 Search for Tomorrow (CBS)
1145 Guiding Light (CBS)
1200 News, Sports, Weather
1215 Guest in the House - Miller
1230 As the World Turns (CBS)
100 Password (CBS)
130 House Party (CBS)
200 Millionaire (CBS)
230 To Tell the Truth (CBS)
255 CBS News
300 Secret Storm (CBS)
330 Edge of Night (CBS)
400 Jane Wyman (ABC)
430 Mike and Popeye
500 Merrytoons


WTOK-11 / Meridian (CBS, NBC, ABC)

730 Faith For Everyday
745 News, Sports, Weather
800 Captain Kangaroo (CBS)
900 Calendar (CBS)
930 I Love Lucy (CBS)
1000 Verdict is Yours (CBS)
1030 Brighter Day (CBS)
1055 CBS News
1100 Love of Life (CBS)
1130 Search for Tomorrow (CBS)
1145 Guiding Light (CBS)
1200 News, Sports, Weather
1230 As the World Turns (CBS)
100 Password (CBS)
130 House Party (CBS)
200 Millionaire (CBS)
230 To Tell the Truth (CBS)
255 CBS News
300 Secret Storm (CBS)
330 Edge of Night (CBS)

[WTOK's schedule varies by day beginning at 4:00 and is listed with the primetime scheds, forthcoming -RW]

 

[bpatrick]

Shame! No fulltime ABC affiliates. In the
summer of '62 I had to watch "Camouflage"
and "Who Do You Trust?" every day. I guess if
I'd lived in Mississippi, unless I could get WBRC,
WVUE, or WHBQ I'd been out of luck.

 

[rwells2265]

Shame! No fulltime ABC affiliates. In the
summer of '62 I had to watch "Camouflage"
and "Who Do You Trust?" every day. I guess if
I'd lived in Mississippi, unless I could get WBRC,
WVUE, or WHBQ I'd been out of luck.

...or KATV (Little Rock) - which has always had cable (and, to a lesser extent, OTA) presence in parts of the state's delta region.

Then there's WABG-6 in Greenwood (not listed here). I'm not sure when exactly they became an ABC primary affil, but somewhere I have a scan of a 1967 fullpage advert in the Jackson Clarion-Ledger touting "the full ABC schedule."

And prior to WBRC flipping to ABC in '61, Alabama was just about in the same boat re ABC ... the state's first and at the time only primary ABC was in Huntsville, WAFG-31 (became WAAY-TV in 1963), with a signal doing well just to make it down the mountain.

--Russell