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RETRO: MEMPHIS, TN, MONDAY, MAR. 21ST, 1977

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skipeastport

WMC-TV (Channel 5, NBC) (Memphis)
MORNING
06:25 TV Chapel
06:30 Dusty's Tree House
07:00 The Today Show
09:00 Sanford and Son
09:30 Dinah!
11:00 Name That Tune
11:30 Lovers and Friends
AFTERNOON
12:00 Action News 5
12:30 Days of Our Lives
01:30 The Doctors
02:00 Another World
03:00 The Gong Show
03:30 Bewitched
04:00 The Brady Bunch
04:30 Adam-12
05:00 Action News 5
EVENING
06:00 NBC Nightly News
06:30 The Cross Wits
07:00 Little House on the Prairie ("Election" Mary and Nellie face off for school president)
08:00 Monday Night Movie ("The Life and Assassination of the Kingfish")
10:00 Action News 5
10:30 The Tonight Show
12:00 Tomorrow with Tom Snyder (Arthur Fielder of Boston Pops)
01:00 Final News


WREG-TV (Channel 3, CBS) (Memphis)
MORNING
06:00 Morning News
07:00 Good Morning From Memphis
08:00 Captain Kangaroo
09:00 Double Dare
09:30 The Price is Right
10:30 Love of Life
11:00 The Young and the Restless
11:30 Search for Tomorrow
AFTERNOON
12:00 Newswatch 3
12:30 As the World Turns
01:30 Guiding Light
02:00 All in the Family
02:30 Match Game '77
03:00 Afternoon Movie ("The Angel Wore Red")
05:00 The Beverly Hillbillies
05:30 CBS News with Walter Cronkite
EVENING
06:00 Newswatch 3
06:30 Hollywood Squares
07:00 The Jeffersons ("Jenny's Opportunity")
07:30 Busting Loose ("A Nut at the Opera")
08:00 Maude ("Vivian's Surprise")
08:30 American Film Salute to Bette Davis
10:00 Newswatch 3
10:30 Kojak
11:30 McCloud
01:00 Late Movie ("Seven Women")


WHBQ-TV (Channel 13, ABC) (Memphis)
MORNING
06:00 Good Morning America
07:00 Animals, Animals
07:30 Gilligan's Island
08:00 Eyewitness News
08:05 Straight Talk
09:00 Dialing for Dollars (movie "Come Next Spring")
11:00 Second Chance
11:30 Ryan's Hope
AFTERNOON
12:00 Eyewitness News
12:30 Family Feud
01:00 $20,000 Pyramid
01:30 One Life to Live
02:15 General Hospital
03:00 The Edge of Night
03:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
04:00 Bonanza
05:00 ABC News with Reasoner & Walters
05:30 The Andy Griffith Show
EVENING
06:00 Eyewitness News
07:00 The Brady Bunch Hour
08:00 Most Wanted ("The Insider")
09:00 The Feather and Father Gang ("The People's Choice")
10:00 Eyewitness News
10:30 Gunsmoke
11:30 Streets of San Francisco
12:30a Dan August
01:30a Nightcap News


WKNO-TV (Channel 10, PBS) (Memphis, TN)
MORNING
08:00 Ripples
08:30 Zebra Wings
09:00 Electric Company
09:30 Science 6
10:10 Zebra Wings
10:30 Science 5
11:10 Art
11:30 Sesame Street
AFTERNOON
12:30 Music 1
01:10 Science 3
01:30 Science 4
02:10 Music 4
02:30 Social Studies
03:00 Sesame Street
04:00 Mister Roger's Neighborhood
04:30 The Electric Company
05:00 Government Press Conference
05:30 Lilias Yoga and You
EVENING
06:00 Response
06:30 MacNeill/Lehrer
07:00 Microbes and Men ("The Tuberculin Affair")
08:00 The Pallisers (Violet marries Lord Chiltren)
09:00 Soundstage
10:00 Black Journal
 
Oddbins said:
WHBQ-TV (Channel 13, ABC) (Memphis)
MORNING
06:00 Good Morning America
07:00 Animals, Animals
07:30 Gilligan's Island

WKNO-TV (Channel 10, PBS) (Memphis, TN)
MORNING

09:30 Science 6
10:10 Zebra Wings
10:30 Science 5
11:10 Art
11:30 Sesame Street
AFTERNOON
12:30 Music 1
01:10 Science 3
01:30 Science 4
02:10 Music 4
02:30 Social Studies
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1. No 2nd hour of GMA on WHBQ? Wonder why...
2. A rarity! Instructional programs listed on the PBS station, and not just "Instructional Programming"-but what subject, and which grade, i.e. Music 1.

-crainbebo
 
WHBQ was notorious for not carrying the full ABC schedule in pattern. It always preempted a couple of daytime shows. In the 70s, it was due to the local Dialing for Dollars movie, Straight Talk discussion show, and a 12 noon newscast. Memphis didn't get a full ABC day schedule in pattern until WHBQ switched affiliations with indie WPTY in 1995. WHBQ passed on GMA until August 1976. We got the 2nd hour September 4, 1978 when Dialing for Dollars was finally cancelled. The same day, Ryan's Hope was re-added to the schedule, but in spite of All My Children's national popularity, it continued to bounce around the WHBQ schedule (11:30am, cancelled, 12:30pm, 9am, 10:30am, 11:00am, and 3pm) on a one-day delay until 1990.
 
I always complained about how much WMC pre-empted programming, and I realize that WHBQ was probably as bad or worse, but at least I had WBBJ in Jackson, TN and KAIT in Jonesboro, AR to fall back on when ABC programming was pre-empted.

I could get WPSD in Paducah, KY when WMC pre-empted NBC programming at times but the signal was weaker at times.
 
Was WHBQ still owned by RKO General at that point? That would explain the preemptions for movies. When WNAC Boston was an ABC affiliate they preempted or time shifted almost everything for movie packages.
 
crainbebo said:
Oddbins said:
WHBQ-TV (Channel 13, ABC) (Memphis)
06:00 Good Morning America
07:00 Animals, Animals
07:30 Gilligan's Island
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1. No 2nd hour of GMA on WHBQ? Wonder why...
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Sounded like the "E/I" mandate existed 35 years ago based on what is programmed at 7 AM... ;D
 
anotherguy said:
I could get WPSD in Paducah, KY when WMC pre-empted NBC programming at times but the signal was weaker at times.
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WPSD was also very "pre-emption-happy" back in the day. Can't say how they are now, since I've been living in the Nashville market for the past 20 years.
 
MCarney said:
Was WHBQ still owned by RKO General at that point? That would explain the preemptions for movies. When WNAC Boston was an ABC affiliate they preempted or time shifted almost everything for movie packages.
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Yes, WHBQ was owned by RKO at that time. I guess another factor in why their pre-emptions didn't bother me as much was because there weren't as many programs I wanted to see compared to what WMC pre-empted.

firepoint525 said:
WPSD was also very "pre-emption-happy" back in the day.  Can't say how they are now, since I've been living in the Nashville market for the past 20 years.
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To me it seemed like WMC was worse in the daytime, late nights, and weekends about pre-emptions. WPSD was worse in prime time. I don't know how WPSD is now either since they were dropped from Dyersburg, TN's cable system and I only get to see them occasionally when I'm visiting relatives in the Marion/Carbondale, IL area.
 
anotherguy said:
firepoint525 said:
WPSD was also very "pre-emption-happy" back in the day. Can't say how they are now, since I've been living in the Nashville market for the past 20 years.
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To me it seemed like WMC was worse in the daytime, late nights, and weekends about pre-emptions. WPSD was worse in prime time. I don't know how WPSD is now either since they were dropped from Dyersburg, TN's cable system and I only get to see them occasionally when I'm visiting relatives in the Marion/Carbondale, IL area.
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Channel 6 inexplicably delayed SNL by an hour for close to 20 years, resulting in my not seeing it during its heyday because I was young and couldn't stay up that late at the time. (When we got cable, we had both channels 5 and 6 in Union City (and I believe Martin, as well) so that helped with pre-emptions. But back in the '70s and '80s, we lived in a rural area where we didn't even have cable available yet.)
 
Remember, I posted an Evansville/Paducah listing one time from May '77, and SNL was on WPSD. It must have been for an extremely short time, as I've heard that in '78-'79 it was GONE from Paducah.

-crainbebo
 
Yes, WHBQ 13 was late to pick up GMA ... I think it was 1980 or 1981 before they went to the full two hours.

Their 7:00 hour in the '70s was always kid-oriented. I forget what they had at 7 AM on Tuesday-Friday ("Green Acres", I'm starting to think ... heck, for a time they had "Please Don't Eat the Daisies" in that hour!), but Monday was always "Animals x3", tape-delayed from Sunday, and before that 13 carried Make a Wish on delay.

Later in 1977, 13 got *really* bad for a stretch. If I recall, it was when ABC moved its daytime start to 11/10. 13 carried that hour at 9:00, then the "Dialing for Dollars Movie" at 10, and then AMC delayed to 12:30 -- displacing three, maybe four programs.

In Tupelo, we had both 5 and (local) 9 for NBC - 5 went to a gray screen whenever it duplicated 9 (I always liked watching 5 to see how long it took ... the cable system's timer was always off by a good 15 seconds or so). In addition to 3 for CBS, we had WCBI 4 out of Columbus, Miss. 3 was the least preemption-happy of the Memphis stations, but they did always black out the 3:00 offering ... so after school I watched Tattletales on 4. But we had just one (1) ABC station: WHBQ. Which meant I was SOL when it came to "Bandstand" and whatever else they chose to discard.

Fall '77 - WCBI 4 flipped to ABC for a couple of years - so that helped the situation (and I got to watch AB!). But that's another tangent.....

--Russell
 
crainbebo said:
Remember, I posted an Evansville/Paducah listing one time from May '77, and SNL was on WPSD. It must have been for an extremely short time, as I've heard that in '78-'79 it was GONE from Paducah.
-crainbebo
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Was it on time (10:30 CST) in May '77? The time delay may have been some sort of "compromise" on their part. I remember that they got mail from viewers over not carrying SNL. This may have been about that time. When I got older, I would stay up and watch SNL anyway. Or tape it once we got a VCR. What I remember is that the 10:30 and 11:00 p.m. programs on Saturday evenings were typically reruns of Mama's Family (or other similar sitcoms) and whatever the Crook and Chase program was being called at the time. (Ironically, the one-hour delay of SNL kept them on the air half an hour later than the rest of the week, because they would sign off right after Letterman (12:30 a.m. or thereabouts) without showing Later with Bob Costas.) It especially infuriated me when they would still delay SNL on "Miss America" night when they were already an hour behind schedule! :mad:
 
The schedule I have shows it airing at 10:40PM on 5/28/77, but that's because NBC showed the movie "Le Mans" that ran "extra innings" into news time. The movie was 2hrs, 10 min with commercials on said airing.

-crainbebo
 
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