RETRO: Memphis,TN & Tupelo/Columbus, MS - Friday, September 1, 1973

[TimInHouston]

Source: Northeast Mississippi (Tupelo) Daily Journal

Stations listed:

WREC-3-Memphis (CBS) (now WREG)
WMC-5-Memphis (NBC)
WHBQ-13-Memphis (ABC)
WKN0-10-Memphis (PBS)
WTVA-9-Tupelo (NBC)
WCBI-4-Columbus (CBS/secondary ABC?)
WMAB-2-Starkville/Mississippi State (PBS/MS Public Broadcasting)

WREC-3
6:15 - Semester (Sunrise Semester?)
6:45 - Above Clouds
7:00 - Good Morning
8:15 - Captain Kangaroo
9:00 - Joker's Wild
9:30 - $10,000 Pyramid
10:00 - Gambit
10:30 - Love Of Life
10:55 - News (CBS News?)
11:00 - Young & Restless
11:30 - Search For Tomorrow
12:00 - News (local)
12:30 - As The World Turns
1:00 - Guiding Light
1:30 - Edge Of Night
2:00 - Price Is Right
2:30 - Match Game '73 (premiered July 1973)
3:00 - Secret Storm
3:30 - Movie (no information given)
5:00 - Beverly Hillbillies
5:30 - News-Weather (local?)
6:00 - News (CBS News?)
6:30 - To Tell The Truth
7:00 - 60 Minutes
8:00 - National Geographic Special
9:00 - Celebration
10:00 - News (local)
10:30 - Movie (no information given)
12:30 - News-Weather (repeat of local)
1:00 - Sign-off (grid ends at 2:00am, listing ends at 1:00am)

WMC-5
7:00 - Today
9:00 - Dinah Shore
9:30 - Baffle
10:00 - Wizard of Odds
10:30 - Hollywood Squares
11:00 - Jeopardy!
11:30 - Who What Where game
12:00 - News (local)
12:30 - Three On A Match
1:00 - Days Of Our Lives
1:30 - The Doctors
2:00 - Another World
2:30 - Peyton Place
3:00 - Somerset
3:30 - Big Valley
4:30 - I Dream Of Jeannie
5:00 - News (local?)
5:30 - News (local? - I recall seeing that WMC ran an hour of local news in
this slot in the late 90s)
6:00 - News (NBC News?)
6:30 - Truth Or Consequences
7:00 - Land of Small (all that is given, could find any info on tv.com)
8:00 - Movies (no information given)
10:00 - News (local)
10:30 - Tonight Show
12:00 - Special (no information given)
1:30 - TV Chapel
2:00 - Sign Off? (Grid ends at 2:00am)

WHBQ-13
6:45 - Eddie Bond
7:00 - Make A Wish
7:30 - The Real McCoys
8:00 - Jack LaLanne
8:30 - Straight Talk
9:00 - Movie (no information given)
11:00 - Password (All-stars?)
11:30 - Split Second
12:00 - News (local)
12:30 - Lets Make A Deal
1:00 - The Newlywed Game
1:30 - Girl In Life
2:00 - General Hospital
2:30 - One Life To Live
3:00 - Love, American Style
3:30 - Lassie
4:00 - The Dick Van Dyke show
4:30 - Bonanza
5:30 - News (ABC News?)
6:00 - News (local?)
6:30 - What's My Line?
7:00 - Saturday AM Preview
7:30 - Odd Couple
8:00 - Room 222
8:30 - Corner Bar
9:00 - Love, American Style
10:00 - News (local)
10:30 - Dick Cavett
12:00 - News (local)
12:30 - Sign Off (? - grid ends at 2:00am, listing ends at Midnight

WTVA-9
7:00 - Today
9:00 - Dinah Shore
9:30 - Baffle
10:00 - Wizard of Odds
10:30 - Hollywood Squares
11:00 - Jeopardy!
11:30 - Who What Where game
12:00 - News (local)
12:30 - Three On A Match
1:00 - Days Of Our Lives
1:30 - The Doctors
2:00 - Another World
2:30 - Peyton Place
3:00 - Somerset
3:30 - Playhouse 9 (Movie? - No information given)
5:00 - Green Acres
5:30 - News (NBC News?)
6:00 - News (local?)
6:30 - To Tell The Truth
7:00 - Billy Graham Crusade
8:00 - Movie (no information given)
10:00 - News (local)
10:30 - Tonight Show
12:00 - Midnight Special (I suspect this is the same as "special" listed on WMC)
1:30 - Meditation
2:00 - Sign Off? (Grid ends at 2:00am)

WCBI-4
7:00 - News (local or network? Is this the same as "Good Morning" on WREC?)
8:00 - Captain Kangaroo
9:00 - Joker's Wild
9:30 - $10,000 Pyramid (misspelled as "Pyramids")
10:00 - Gambit
10:30 - Love Of Life
10:55 - News (not listed in grid, but one can infer from WREC listing)
11:00 - Young And Restless
11:30 - Search For Tomorrow
12:00 - News (local)
12:30 - As The World Turns
1:00 - Guiding Light
1:30 - Edge of Night
2:00 - The Price Is Rigth
2:30 - Match Game '73
3:00 - Secret Storm
3:30 - Love, American Style
4:00 - Brady Bunch
4:30 - Flintstones
5:00 - TBA (no information given)
5:30 - News (CBS News?)
6:00 - News
6:30 - Parent Game
7:00 - Billy Graham Crusade (interesting that it aired on both stations in the
same market in the same time slot)
8:00 - Movie (no information is given)
10:00 - Nightbeat (local news?)
10:30 - Movie (no information given)
12:00 - Sign Off? (listing ends at 10:30, grid ends at 2:00am)

WKNO-10
11:30 - Span
12:00 - Mind Of Man
2:00 - Span
2:30 - Magician
3:00 - What's New
3:30 - Backyard School
4:00 - Mr. Rogers Neighborhood
4:30 - Electric Company
5:00 - Sesame Street
6:00 - Backyard School
6:30 - World Press
7:00 - Washington Week In Review
7:30 - Black Perspective
8:00 - Theatre (Masterpiece Theatre?)
9:00 - Insight
9:30 - Music (no listings given after this)

WMAB-2
8:00 - Job Bank/Indian Art/Your Future (no specific times given)
9:00 - Sesame Street
10:00 - Electric Company
10:30 - Reading Rocket
11:00 - Designing Women
11:30 - Carrascolendas
12:00 - The Supervisor/Living Better/Inside Out (no specific times given)
1:00 - What's New
1:30 - Colonial Williamsburg
2:00 - Hodgepodge
2:30 - Between The Lines
3:00 - Sesame Street
4:00 - Mr. Rogers Neighborhood
4:30 - Electric Company
5:00 - Bridge/Whats New/Consultation/Living Better/Job Bank/Art For Day/Your
Future (no specific times given)
7:30 - World Press
8:00 - Speaking Freely
9:00 - Black Issues
9:30 - Black Perspective
10:00 - Job Bank
10:10 - Art For Day (no listings given after this)

[edited to correct year in post's subject, corrected by rugrats]<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by TimInHouston on 03/07/06 03:58 PM.</FONT></P>

 

[rugrats1]

> WREC-3
> 6:15 - Semester (Sunrise Semester?)

Very likely.
>
> WMC-5
> 12:00 - Special (no information given)

Since this is Friday, it's very likely "The Midnight Special", which started in 1972.

> WHBQ-13
> 11:00 - Password (All-stars?)

I don't think the All-Star format began until the next year.

> WKNO-10
> 8:00 - Theatre (Masterpiece Theatre?)
> 9:00 - Insight
> 9:30 - Music (no listings given after this)
>
Very likely had a 10PM sign-off at the time.

 

[RobertMoore]

> > WREC-3
> > 6:15 - Semester (Sunrise Semester?)
>
> Very likely.

Yes WREC did carry "Sunrise Semester"

> > WMC-5
> > 12:00 - Special (no information given)
>
> Since this is Friday, it's very likely "The Midnight
> Special", which started in 1972.

Yes, It was "Midight Special".

> > WHBQ-13
> > 11:00 - Password (All-stars?)

> I don't think the All-Star format began until the next year.

It was still called "Password" at the time.

> > WKNO-10
> > 8:00 - Theatre (Masterpiece Theatre?)
> > 9:00 - Insight
> > 9:30 - Music (no listings given after this)
> >
> Very likely had a 10PM sign-off at the time.

Yes WKNO was off-air at 10pm.

 

[rwells2265]

> Stations listed:

> WTVA-9-Tupelo (NBC)
Prior to 1979, it was known as WTWV. "Mississippi's TV-9"

> WCBI-4-Columbus (CBS/secondary ABC?)
Yes, WCBI was ABC secondary (and ABC primary 1977-80)

> WMAB-2-Starkville/Mississippi State (PBS/MS Public
> Broadcasting)
Then known as Mississippi ETV. WMAE-12 in Booneville would sign on the following year, bringing a clearer picture for Tupelo.

> WREC-3
> 3:00 - Secret Storm
When "Storm" was canceled, 3 began preempting that timeslot by expanding "The Early Movie" to two hours.

It's been mentioned in the past, and I'll say it again in case it predates the recent purging of old posts: WRE(C/G) at the time had the largest film library of any local station.

> 3:30 - Movie (no information given)
> 5:00 - Beverly Hillbillies
> 5:30 - News-Weather (local?)
> 6:00 - News (CBS News?)
Yes, at the time 3 carried local news at 530, and cleared Cronkite at 6. KFVS-12 in Cape Girardeau, Mo. also did the same thing for years.

> 10:30 - Movie (no information given)
I don't think WREC/WREG ever cleared the CBS late slot until Letterman -- for eons they aired what was called "The Late Movie"

> WMC-5
[SFX: riverboat whistle]

> 5:00 - News (local?)
> 5:30 - News (local? - I recall seeing that WMC ran an hour
> of local news in this slot in the late 90s)
> 6:00 - News (NBC News?)
Yes, WMC-TV ran one hour of local news at 5 PM, and NBC Nightly News at 6. Not sure if this is still the case, but it was as late as 1990.

> WHBQ-13
Red-headed stepchild of the RKO Television chain.....

> 6:45 - Eddie Bond
> 7:00 - Make A Wish
Only ABC show from Sunday morning which they cleared. This timeslot on the other weekdays was occupied by a mishmash of cartoons - remnants of the original "Cartoon Time" ... but at some point in time they'd start carrying "Green Acres" and "Gilligan's Island" in the 7-8 slot, and "Straight Talk" (hosted by Marge Thrasher, whom I believe would soon move to big sister WOR-TV) would move to one hour at 8.

Funny thing, I seem to recall 13 airing "Wish" on Mondays.

FWIW, 13 wouldn't begin carrying GMA until some time in 1977, and for only one hour. I don't think they'd clear the full two hours 'till 1980 or so.

> 8:00 - Jack LaLanne
> 8:30 - Straight Talk
> 9:00 - Movie (no information given)
"Dialing for Dollars Movie" ... the legendary DAVE BROWN often had his finger in the rotary.

> 12:00 - News (local)
They would not clear "All My Children" until it went to one hour, and never in pattern. In 1973, WHBQ was by far the #1 news station.

> 5:30 - News (ABC News?)
Yes, ABC. Later in the decade, they'd begin carrying it at 5 PM, and running syndie product at 530 (often "The Rifleman"), and then "Eyewitness News" at 6.
> 6:00 - News (local?)
> 6:30 - What's My Line?
When WML ended its run, 13 would expand their 6 PM cast to an hour.

> [WTWV]-9
Pronounced "NIIIIIIIINE!!", as longtime anchor/commercial VO/exec Ed Bishop did.

> 3:30 - Playhouse 9 (Movie? - No information given)
Yes, "Playhouse 9" was their afternoon movie. Would soon drop that name in favor of a generic title. "PLAY-HOOOOWSE NIIIIIINE!"

> 5:30 - News (NBC News?)
NBC.

> 6:00 - News (local?)
Local.

> 1:30 - Meditation
"Moments of Meditation" -- the program slide featured a creepy picture of a bearded old man kneeling down on a hilltop, in full prayer pose.

> WCBI-4
> 7:00 - News (local or network? Is this the same as "Good
> Morning" on WREC?)
No, WCBI carried the regular CBS Morning News.

> 8:00 - Captain Kangaroo
> 9:00 - Joker's Wild
> 9:30 - $10,000 Pyramid (misspelled as "Pyramids")
Hmph, I remember that typo.

> 5:00 - TBA (no information given)
Often cartoon shorts ... at this point WCBI's famous kiddie host Uncle Bunky evidently was taking a sabbatical from his "Funtime" show.

> 5:30 - News (CBS News?)
> 6:00 - News
WCBI carried CBS News in pattern.

> 6:30 - Parent Game
> 7:00 - Billy Graham Crusade (interesting that it aired on
> both stations in the same market in the same time slot)
In the early '70s, Tupelo and Columbus were completely separate .... in fact, WCBI didn't have a good picture on Tupelo's cable system. Tupelo was still very much Memphis-centric in TV viewing habits (WTWV notwithstanding; WMC-5 would go to a gray screen whenever programming duplicated that of channel niiiiiine)

WCBI wouldn't bring a city-grade signal into Tupelo until much later in the '70s.

> 8:00 - Movie (no information is given)
> 10:00 - Nightbeat (local news?)
Yes, that was the title of WCBI's 10 PM cast.

> 10:30 - Movie (no information given)
I recall WCBI carrying CBS' late-night schedule ..... Merv had been canceled by now, right?

> WKNO-10
> 11:30 - Span
> 12:00 - Mind Of Man
> 2:00 - Span
I don't even think that was a program .... that might've been what the Daily Journal assigned to WKNO's then practice of filling time with instrumental music and slides which changed with each minute: "(XX) MINUTES 'TILL NEXT PROGRAM"

> WMAB-2
> 11:00 - Designing Women
Educational program hosted by a very young Dixie Carter, Delta Burke, et al. They lived in a large house and did lots of finger painting, rudimentary oils, and that sort of thing. ;-)

Ahem .... this was, I recall, one of Miss. ETV's classroom programs, dealing with art. Mississippi, for all its warts and being a dirt-poor state overall, produced some first-rate ETV programs of their own. They had a nice budget, thanks to profits coming from WLBT-TV in Jackson, which was then being run by a non-profit "interim authority" after Lamar Life's license was vacated.