Retro: North Carolina Monday, September 17, 1979

[bpatrick]

From TV Guide, North Carolina Edition:

WFMY Ch. 2 Greensboro (CBS)

6 AM Good Morning Show
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM One Day At A Time
9:30 I Love Lucy
10 AM Beat The Clock (premiere of the
Monty Hall version)
10:30 Whew!
10:55 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
11 AM Price Is Right
12 N Love Of Life
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Young And The Restless
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3:30 Fabulous Funnies
4:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
5 PM Starsky & Hutch
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7 PM PM Magazine
7:30 Hollywood Squares
8 PM White Shadow
9 PM M*A*S*H
9:30 WKRP In Cincinnati
10 PM Lou Grant
11 PM News
11:30 Harry O
12:40 McMillan & Wife

E WUND/2 Columbia/Edenton, NC; WUNC/4 Chapel Hill;
WUNK/25 Greenville, NC; WUNL/26 Winston-Salem;
WUNJ/39 Wilmington, NC; WUNG/58 Concord, NC

7:45 A.M. Weather
8:05 Over Easy
8:35 In-school program
9 AM Sesame Street
10 AM In-school programs
12:30 Electric Company
1 PM In-school programs
2:30 Vegetable Soup
3 PM In-school program
3:30 Over Easy
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Once Upon A Classic: "Pinocchio"
(conclusion)
6:30 Guten Tag
7 PM Backyard Gardener
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8 PM On The Track (behind-the-scenes look
at horse racing)
9 PM Black Man's Land (conclusion)
10 PM Sneak Previews
10:30 Issues In World Communications
sign off 11 PM

WBTV Ch. 3 Charlotte (CBS)

6:10 Story Of Jesus
6:15 This Morning
7 AM Morning With Bob Schieffer
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Donahue
10 AM Beat The Clock
10:30 Whew!
10:55 CBS News
11 AM Price Is Right
12 N Top O' The Day (a guest is Don Stewart,
"Guiding Light"'s Mike Bauer)
1 PM Search For Tomorrow
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3:30 Gilligan's Island
4 PM Emergency One!
5 PM Gunsmoke
6 PM News
7 PM CBS News
7:30 PM Magazine
8 PM White Shadow
9 PM M*A*S*H
9:30 WKRP In Cincinnati
10 PM Lou Grant
11 PM News
11:30 Harry O
12:40 McMillan & Wife

WWAY Ch. 3 Wilmington (ABC)

6 AM PTL Club
7 AM Good Morning America (David Hartman)
9 AM PTL Club continues
10 AM Big Valley
11 AM Laverne & Shirley
11:30 Family Feud
12 N News
12:15 Midday
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1 PM All My Children
2 PM One Life To Live
3 PM General Hospital
4 PM Edge Of Night
4:30 Popeye And Friends
5 PM Real McCoys
5:30 Sanford And Son
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News (Reynolds/Jennings/
Robinson)
7 PM Happy Days Again
7:30 Newlywed Game
8 PM 240-Robert
9 PM NFL Football: Giants-Redskins
12 M Notre Dame Football (time approximate)
1 AM News

WRAL Ch. 5 Raleigh (ABC)

6:30 Country Morning: Farm News
7 AM Good Morning America
9 AM Mike Douglas
10 AM Time For Uncle Paul
10:30 Edge Of Night
11 AM Laverne & Shirley
11:30 Family Feud
12 N News
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1 PM All My Children
2 PM One Life To Live
3 PM General Hospital
4 PM Bugs Bunny
4:30 Brady Bunch
5 PM Good Times
5:30 Andy Griffith
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News
7 PM Happy Days Again
7:30 Sanford And Son
8 PM 240-Robert
9 PM NFL Football: Giants-Redskins
12 M News (time approximate)
12:15 Notre Dame Football

WTTG Ch. 5 Washington, DC (Ind.)

6 AM Education
6:30 New Zoo Revue
7 AM Tom And Jerry
7:30 Porky Pig
8 AM Flintstones
8:30 Bullwinkle
9 AM I Love Lucy
9:30 My Three Sons
10 AM Leave It To Beaver
10:30 Father Knows Best
11 AM Love, American Style
11:30 Dating Game
12 N News
12:30 Panorama
2 PM Family Affair
2:30 Battle Of The Planets
3 PM Bugs Bunny/Popeye
3:30 Tom And Jerry And Friends
4:30 Flintstones
5 PM Superman
5:30 Brady Bunch
6 PM I Love Lucy
6:30 Andy Griffith
7 PM Happy Days Again
7:30 M*A*S*H
8 PM Movie: "Foreign Correspondent"
10 PM News
11 PM M*A*S*H
11:30 Odd Couple
12 M Perry Mason
1 AM Mission: Impossible
2 AM Dragnet

WECT Ch. 6 Wilmington (NBC)

6 AM Carolina In The Morning
7 AM Today (Tom Brokaw)
9 AM Donahue
10 AM Card Sharks
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11 AM High Rollers
11:30 Wheel Of Fortune
12 N Carolina At Noon
12:30 Dating Game
1 PM Days Of Our Lives
2 PM The Doctors
2:30 Another World
4 PM Bewitched
4:30 Bugs Bunny
5 PM Andy Griffith
5:30 Carol Burnett And Friends
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News (Chancellor/Brinkley)
7 PM M*A*S*H
7:30 All In The Family
8 PM Little House On The Prairie
9 PM NBC Movie: "Coming Home" (this helped
give third-place NBC a win in the first week
of the season, one which would see CBS dethrone
ABC)
11:30 News
12 M Tonight Show (guest host Martin Mull)

WITN Ch. 7 Washington, NC (NBC)

5:30 Adam-12
6 AM Almanac
7 AM Today
9 AM Dinah!
10 AM Card Sharks
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11 AM High Rollers
11:30 Wheel Of Fortune
12 N News
12:30 Password Plus
1 PM Days Of Our Lives
2 PM The Doctors
2:30 Another World
4 PM Match Game (now syndicated)
4:30 Wild Wild West
5:30 Newlywed Game
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM All In The Family
7:30 Pat Dye: East Carolina football
show
8 PM Little House On The Prairie
9 PM NBC Movie: "Coming Home"
11:30 News
12 M Tonight Show
1:30 Tomorrow
2:30 News

WGHP Ch. 8 High Point (ABC)

6 AM Good Morning Piedmont
7 AM Good Morning America
9 AM Movie: "Citizen Kane"
11 AM Laverne & Shirley
11:30 Family Feud
12 N $20,000 Pyramid
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1 PM All My Children
2 PM One Life To Live
3 PM General Hospital
4 PM Six Million Dollar Man
5 PM Sanford And Son
5:30 M*A*S*H
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News
7 PM Joker's Wild
7:30 Tic Tac Dough
8 PM 240-Robert
9 PM NFL Football: Giants-Redskins
12 M News (time approximate)
12:30 The Rookies
1:30 News

WNCT Ch. 9 Greenville, NC (CBS)

5:30 Carolina Today
8 AM Morning With Bob Schieffer
9 AM Captain Kangaroo
10 AM Beat The Clock
10:30 Whew!
10:55 CBS News
11 AM Price Is Right
12 N News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Young And The Restless
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3:30 One Day At A Time
4 PM Love Of Life
4:30 Merv Griffin
5:30 Happy Days Again
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Joker's Wild
7:30 M*A*S*H
8 PM White Shadow
9 PM M*A*S*H
9:30 WKRP In Cincinnati
10 PM Lou Grant
11 PM News
11:30 Harry O
12:40 McMillan & Wife

WSOC Ch. 9 Charlotte (ABC)

6 AM Rise And Shine
6:15 Arthur Smith
6:45 News
7 AM Good Morning America
9 AM Good Morning Carolina
9:45 News
10 AM $20,000 Pyramid
10:30 Petticoat Junction
11 AM Laverne & Shirley
11:30 Family Feud
12 N Tic Tac Dough
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1 PM All My Children
2 PM One Life To Live
3 PM General Hospital
4 PM Edge Of Night
4:30 3's A Crowd
5 PM All In The Family
5:30 M*A*S*H
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News
7 PM Cross-Wits
7:30 Newlywed Game
8 PM 240-Robert
9 PM NFL Football: Giants-Redskins
12 M News (time approximate)
12:30 College Football '79
1 AM The FBI
2 AM News

WIS Ch. 10 Columbia, SC (NBC)

6:20 Early Riser
6:30 Knozit-Land
7 AM Today
9 AM Carolina Today
9:25 News
9:30 Knozit-Land
10 AM Card Sharks
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11 AM High Rollers
11:30 Wheel Of Fortune
12 N Mindreaders
12:30 News
1 PM Days Of Our Lives
2 PM The Doctors
2:30 Another World
4 PM Brady Bunch
4:30 Tom And Jerry
5:30 F Troop
6 PM Joker's Wild
6:30 NBC News
7 PM News
7:30 Happy Days Again
8 PM Little House On The Prairie
9 PM NBC Movie: "Coming Home"
11:30 News
12 M Tonight Show
1:30 Tomorrow

WTVD Ch. 11 Durham (CBS)

6:30 Sunrise Semester: "Drama In
Education"
7 AM Morning With Bob Schieffer
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Donahue
10 AM Beat The Clock
10:30 Whew!
10:55 CBS News
11 AM Price Is Right
12 N Young And The Restless
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM At Home With Peggy Mann
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3:30 One Day At A Time
4 PM Love Of Life
4:30 Merv Griffin
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Joker's Wild
7:30 Scouting Fever
8 PM White Shadow
9 PM M*A*S*H
9:30 WKRP In Cincinnati
10 PM Lou Grant
11 PM News
11:30 M*A*S*H
12 M Jim Rockford, Private
Investigator

WCTI Ch. 12 New Bern (ABC)

6 AM PTL Club
7 AM Good Morning America
9 AM Donahue
10 AM Mike Douglas
11 AM Laverne & Shirley
11:30 Family Feud
12 N $20,000 Pyramid
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1 PM All My Children
2 PM One Life To Live
3 PM General Hospital
4 PM Tom And Jerry/Bugs Bunny
5 PM Andy Griffith
5:30 Sanford And Son
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News
7 PM 3's A Crowd
7:30 Muppet Show
8 PM 240-Robert
9 PM NFL Football: Giants-Redskins
12 M News (time approximate)
12:30 Six Million Dollar Man
1:30 Maverick

WXII Ch. 12 Winston-Salem (NBC)

5:30 700 Club
6:30 News
7 AM Today
9 AM Donahue
10 AM Card Sharks
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11 AM High Rollers
11:30 Wheel Of Fortune
12 N News
12:30 12:30 (name of the show)
1 PM Days Of Our Lives
2 PM The Doctors
2:30 Another World
4 PM Tom And Jerry
4:30 Gilligan's Island
5 PM Happy Days Again
5:30 All In The Family
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM 3's A Crowd
7:30 Match Game
8 PM Little House On The Prairie
9 PM NBC Movie: "Coming Home"
11:30 News
12 M Tonight Show
1:30 Tomorrow

WBTW Ch. 13 Florence, SC (CBS/ABC)

6:30 Arthur Smith
7 AM Good Morning Jesus
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Morning With Bob Schieffer
10 AM Beat The Clock
10:30 Whew!
10:55 CBS News
11 AM Price Is Right
12 N Young And The Restless
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Edge Of Night
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3:30 One Day At A Time
4 PM Love Of Life
4:30 All My Children
5:30 Dating Game
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News
7 PM CBS News
7:30 3's A Crowd
8 PM White Shadow
9 PM M*A*S*H
9:30 WKRP In Cincinnati
10 PM Lou Grant
11 PM News
11:30 Harry O
12:40 McMillan & Wife

WTBS (WPCH) Ch. 17 Atlanta (Ind.)

5:25 World At Large
6:30 Dragnet
7 AM Three Stooges/Little Rascals
8 AM Leave It To Beaver
8:30 Romper Room
9 AM The Lucy Show
9:30 Green Acres
10 AM Movie: "Carmen Jones"
11:55 News
12 N Love, American Style
12:30 Movie: "Bachelor Flat"
2:25 News
2:30 Gigglesnort Hotel
3 PM I Love Lucy
3:30 Flintstones
4 PM Spectreman
4:30 Gilligan's Island
5 PM My Three Sons
5:30 I Dream Of Jeannie
6 PM Carol Burnett And Friends
6:30 Bob Newhart
7 PM Sanford And Son
7:30 All In The Family
8 PM Falcons Football
9 PM Movie: "A Summer Place"
11:45 Movie: "Come And Get It"
1:50 Movie: "Marines, Let's Go"
3:50 News
4:10 Open Up

WCCB Ch. 18 Charlotte (Ind.)

6 AM News
6:35 Forum
6:50 Cartoons
7 AM 700 Club
8:30 Ross Bagley
9 AM Green Acres
9:30 Mayberry R.F.D.
10 AM Real McCoys
10:30 Forum
10:45 News
11 AM PTL Club
1 PM The Rookies
2 PM Groovie Goolies
2:30 Krofft Superstars
3 PM Star Blazers
3:30 Batman
4 PM Popeye Adventure Hour
5 PM Wild Wild West
6 PM I Love Lucy
6:30 Dick Van Dyke
7 PM Good Times
7:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
8 PM Movie: "The Young Philadelphians"
11 PM Gong Show
11:30 PTL Club

WDCA Ch. 20 Washington, DC (Ind.)

5:45 PTL Club
6:45 Community News
6:55 News
7 AM Abbott And Costello
7:30 Bugs Bunny/Woody Woodpecker/
Popeye
9 AM Channel 20 Club
9:30 Romper Room
10 AM 700 Club
11:30 Ross Bagley
12 N Captain 20's World
12:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
1 PM Bewitched
1:30 Flipper
2 PM Banana Splits
2:30 Lancelot Link
3 PM Woody & Popeye
3:30 Super Adventures
4 PM Fantastic Four
4:30 Superman & Friends (animated)
5 PM Bugs Bunny
5:30 Gilligan's Island
6 PM Star Trek
7 PM Sanford And Son
7:30 Carol Burnett And Friends
8 PM Movie: "The Sorrow And The Pity"
(Part 1)
11 PM Benny Hill
11:30 Twilight Zone
12 M PTL Club
1 AM Untouchables

WPTF (WRDC) Ch. 28 Durham (NBC)

5:30 700 Club
6:30 Today On The Farm (Hap Hansen)
7 AM Today
9 AM Movie: "The Man I Love"
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11 AM High Rollers
11:30 Wheel Of Fortune
12 N Mindreaders
12:30 Password Plus
1 PM Days Of Our Lives
2 PM The Doctors
2:30 Card Sharks
3 PM Superadventures
3:30 Star Blazers
4 PM Lost In Space
5 PM Wild Wild West
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Newlywed Game
7:30 Dating Game
8 PM Little House On The Prairie
9 PM NBC Movie: "Coming Home"
11:30 News
12 M Tonight Show
1:30 Tomorrow

WRET (WCNC) Ch. 36 Charlotte (NBC)

6 AM New Zoo Revue
6:30 Ed Allen (exercises)
7 AM Today
9 AM Another World
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11 AM High Rollers
11:30 Wheel Of Fortune
12 N Mary Tyler Moore
12:30 Password Plus
1 PM Days Of Our Lives
2 PM The Doctors
2:30 Flintstones
3 PM Three Stooges
3:30 Spectreman
4 PM Lost In Space
5 PM Carol Burnett And Friends
5:30 Sanford And Son
6 PM Hogan's Heroes
6:30 NBC News
7 PM News
7:30 $1.98 Beauty Show
8 PM Little House On The Prairie
9 PM NBC Movie: "Coming Home"
11:30 News
12 M Tonight Show
1:30 Tomorrow
2:30 News
2:55 Avengers
3:55 Movie: "For Love Or Money"

WTVI Ch. 42 Charlotte (PBS)

In-school programs until

4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Once Upon A Classic (see Ch. E)
6:30 Over Easy
7 PM Reaching Out (United Way campaign
kickoff)
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8 PM Bill Moyers' Journal
9 PM Poldark (Part 11)
10 PM Poldark (Part 12)
11 PM Dick Cavett
sign off 11:30 PM

 

[oldiesfan6479]

WBTV Ch. 3 Charlotte (CBS)
12 N Top O' The Day (a guest is Don Stewart,
"Guiding Light"'s Mike Bauer)
1 PM Search For Tomorrow

b,

Not sure if this has been asked before, but was Y&R a "non-starter" on
WBTV for quite a while, even post-Betty Feezor?

 

[classictvfan]

I believe All In The Family and M*A*S*H
had just ended their daytime runs on CBS.

 

[bpatrick]

IIRC, WBTV didn't start carrying Y&R until it went to an
hour, February 4, 1980. WCCB carried it briefly on delay
when it was an ABC affiliate (9:30 AM in the mid-'70s) but
didn't have much luck with it. I can't say that Charlotte viewers
had difficulty getting up to speed, because with the expansion,
most of the existing characters were replaced, new storylines created,
and the show began to resemble what it is today. SFT moved to 10 AM
on WBTV when Y&R got the 1 PM slot.

M*A*S*H and All In The Family had indeed finished their daytime runs
on CBS. M*A*S*H seems an odd choice to air in daytime; perhaps that's
why CBS aired it in late afternoon (more potential male viewers). Not nearly
as odd, though, as ABC's daytime reruns of The Fugitive in 1967-68.

 

[harrisburgpatv]

I believe All In The Family and M*A*S*H
had just ended their daytime runs on CBS.

They did; those two shows began in syndication on this day. M*A*S*H aired as a daytime rerun on Friday, September 14, and was in syndication the following Monday. Also of note is "Happy Days Again" starting in syndication on this day as well.

It always fascinated me when reruns had different titles in syndication (so as not to confuse the viewer)..

 

[Tim L]

I believe All In The Family and M*A*S*H
had just ended their daytime runs on CBS.

They did; those two shows began in syndication on this day. M*A*S*H aired as a daytime rerun on Friday, September 14, and was in syndication the following Monday. Also of note is "Happy Days Again" starting in syndication on this day as well.

It always fascinated me when reruns had different titles in syndication (so as not to confuse the viewer)..

This goes back to the first Network series to go into syndicated reruns-The original Dragnet. Repeats of the first couple of seasons were known as "Badge 714" when the series went into syndication in 1954

 

[harrisburgpatv]

It doesn't happen much anymore...Are viewers smarter now?

What was the last show to carry a different title for syndication? "CHiPs Patrol" comes to mind...

 

[mleach]

It doesn't happen much anymore...Are viewers smarter now?

What was the last show to carry a different title for syndication? "CHiPs Patrol" comes to mind...

"Chips Patrol" was the last one I can remember..that and "More Real People" but I don't remember if that was just stuff that came from "Real People" or was it all new stuff? No market near me would even touch "More Real People" !!!!!

But there were two titles that never came to be.

When the ABC-TV nighttime soap "Dynasty" entered syndication as I can recall the syndicated title was to be called "Denver" since that was the city where the wealthy The Carrington family had lived in, like the Ewing family lived in Dallas on the TV show "Dallas". Get it? "Denver" "Dallas" ?? Yes I would suppose this "could" confuse viewers and even the dumbest of viewers would get the idea the idea that "Dynasty" was a rip-off of "Dallas". Anyway "Denver"..well the syndicated title of "Dynasty"..UGH..you see even I am confusing myself with this..LOL......well this never happened even though I think "Dynasty" was called "The Denver Family" or something like it when it was seen in a handful of other countries.

Back in the 70's I can remember reading in the paper at the time where some big shot within the city of Indianapolis, Indiana had appraoched Norman Lear about "adding" the name of their city to the syndicated title of "One Day at a Time" since that show was based there and of course..Indianapolis wanted you to know that. Not sure how that would be done..."One Day at a Time in Indianapolis" ? "The Indianapolis Chicks" ? "Indianapols Takes It...One Day at a Time" ??

Well regardless..Norman Lear took a pass on that suggestion.

 

[azumanga]

"Chips Patrol" was the last one I can remember..that and "More Real People" but I don't remember if that was just stuff that came from "Real People" or was it all new stuff? No market near me would even touch "More Real People" !!!!!

"More Real People" was "Real People" reruns edited to a half-hour.

 

[Mike Sheridan]

It's kinda depressing that I can find more show that I like in that listing than we have in the 100's of channels we have today. Guess I'm just getting old

Wow WSOC sure got a lot of mileage out of those M*A*S*H reruns!

 

[harrisburgpatv]

Wow WSOC sure got a lot of mileage out of those M*A*S*H reruns!

M*A*S*H, IMHO, was one of the most successful syndicated sitcom reruns ever. WHTM in Harrisburg carried it from its syndication debut in 1979 through all of the '80s and into the early '90s. WNYW in NYC carried it even longer than that.

 

[TVWorldwide]

When the ABC-TV nighttime soap "Dynasty" entered syndication as I can recall the syndicated title was to be called "Denver" since that was the city where the wealthy The Carrington family had lived in, like the Ewing family lived in Dallas on the TV show "Dallas". Get it? "Denver" "Dallas" ?? Yes I would suppose this "could" confuse viewers and even the dumbest of viewers would get the idea the idea that "Dynasty" was a rip-off of "Dallas". Anyway "Denver"..well the syndicated title of "Dynasty"..UGH..you see even I am confusing myself with this..LOL......well this never happened even though I think "Dynasty" was called "The Denver Family" or something like it when it was seen in a handful of other countries.

It was known as Der Denver-Clan ("The Denver Clan") in German-speaking countries:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_FWkIJRlJA

 

[TexasTom]

Wow WSOC sure got a lot of mileage out of those M*A*S*H reruns!

M*A*S*H, IMHO, was one of the most successful syndicated sitcom reruns ever. WHTM in Harrisburg carried it from its syndication debut in 1979 through all of the '80s and into the early '90s. WNYW in NYC carried it even longer than that.

Indeed it was. M*A*S*H was the top rated show in syndication pretty much from its syndication debut in 1979 until it was dethroned by Wheel of Fortune five years later.

 

[DToTheJ]

M*A*S*H, IMHO, was one of the most successful syndicated sitcom reruns ever... WNYW in NYC carried it even longer than that.

One would say, "gee, you'd think? It's a Fox O&O", but sure enough, Metromedia owned WNEW carried the show. I think Metromedia also owned KTTV in L.A. as well, both of which and others ended up going to Fox.

 

[ShawnHill1]

Odd thing with M*A*S*H that in Madison, Wisconsin, two stations carried reruns of the show concurrently (CBS affiliate WISC and NBC affiliate WMTV) around the mid-80s. I'm not sure if this happened in another market, but I always found it strange that two stations (and this of course was in the pre-duopoly days) were the same syndicated program in the same market.

Now in Los Angeles, you have KDOC carrying reruns of Everybody Hates Chris (also airing weekday mornings on KCOP) and Frasier (overnights on KCBS).

 

[TexasTom]

Odd thing with M*A*S*H that in Madison, Wisconsin, two stations carried reruns of the show concurrently (CBS affiliate WISC and NBC affiliate WMTV) around the mid-80s. I'm not sure if this happened in another market, but I always found it strange that two stations (and this of course was in the pre-duopoly days) were the same syndicated program in the same market.

This happened for a year or so in Dallas/Fort Worth in the mid-eighties, as well. The original syndication package (all the episodes through to the end of the 1978-79 season) ran on our NBC affiliate, KXAS channel 5, while the newer episodes (Fall 1979 and onward) ran on independent KTXA channel 21.

KXAS had originally won the package and started airing the "MASH" reruns in 1979, but got outbid by KTXA when the package was up for renewal. Some oddity in the contracts resulted in an overlap period, where both stations held rights to the show, but not for the same episodes. After a year, rights for all of the episodes reverted to KTXA and the show disappeared from KXAS.

Perhaps something similar happened in Madison?

 

[ShawnHill1]

Odd thing with M*A*S*H that in Madison, Wisconsin, two stations carried reruns of the show concurrently (CBS affiliate WISC and NBC affiliate WMTV) around the mid-80s. I'm not sure if this happened in another market, but I always found it strange that two stations (and this of course was in the pre-duopoly days) were the same syndicated program in the same market.

This happened for a year or so in Dallas/Fort Worth in the mid-eighties, as well. The original syndication package (all the episodes through to the end of the 1978-79 season) ran on our NBC affiliate, KXAS channel 5, while the newer episodes (Fall 1979 and onward) ran on independent KTXA channel 21.

KXAS had originally won the package and started airing the "MASH" reruns in 1979, but got outbid by KTXA when the package was up for renewal. Some oddity in the contracts resulted in an overlap period, where both stations held rights to the show, but not for the same episodes. After a year, rights for all of the episodes reverted to KTXA and the show disappeared from KXAS.

Perhaps something similar happened in Madison?

I'm thinking so, Tom. I forget what station had which sets of episodes; I want to say that WISC aired the older episodes, while WMTV had the ones to the end. I want to also say that they had a similar arrangement in Milwaukee, where I know that WISN and WITI had aired M*A*S*H reruns on and off through the years, although I can't say for sure that both stations aired M*A*S*H reruns concurrently like in Madison and Dallas-Fort Worth.

 

[JeeperOne]

Wow WSOC sure got a lot of mileage out of those M*A*S*H reruns!

M*A*S*H, IMHO, was one of the most successful syndicated sitcom reruns ever. WHTM in Harrisburg carried it from its syndication debut in 1979 through all of the '80s and into the early '90s. WNYW in NYC carried it even longer than that.

And KBTV 9 (Now KUSA 9) carried it even longer than THAT by parking it in the 10:35 PM slot (Even going so far as to delay Nightline till 11:05 PM when Nightline first started).

This all changed however once ABC bolted for KMGH 7, leaving them with NBC, who had just sold KCNC 4 to CBS. NBC required that all NBC affiliates carry The Tonight Show immediately after local news. Faced with the choice of either signing with NBC, a FOX affiliation (You just know FOX would've JUMPED at the chance of landing on KUSA 9 if the station was foolish enough to thumb its nose at NBC because FOX was still trying to get its feet planted in 1995), signing with UPN or going independent (Which was almost always a TV station's death knell back then), KUSA swallowed its pride & signed with NBC (And gave up its pride & joy at 10:35 PM in the process).

As a result, look at what we have now.....

Cheers

 

[TexasTom]

Delaying "Nightline" in favor of "MASH" worked out very well for KBTV/9 in Denver for quite a few years.

The long-defunct "TV/Radio Age" printed a list of stations carrying "MASH" in the Top 100 markets in early 1983 -- complete with ratings from the November 1982 sweeps. At that time, "MASH" had been running for just over three years in syndicated reruns, and was earning a 20 rating/63 share for KBTV at 10:30 PM.

In comparison, "The Tonight Show" was in second place, with a 13 share -- just over 1/5 the audience of those "MASH" reruns.

That 63 share probably marked the most successful market in the country for "MASH" -- but there were quite a few other cities where it ran against "The Tonight Show" and won quite handily. Nationally, it was the top show in syndication, with an average 13.5 rating/29 share in 177 markets. Second palce went to "Family Feud", with a 12.4 rating/22 share on 124 stations.

 

[bpatrick]

It doesn't happen much anymore...Are viewers smarter now?

What was the last show to carry a different title for syndication? "CHiPs Patrol" comes to mind...

"Chips Patrol" was the last one I can remember..that and "More Real People" but I don't remember if that was just stuff that came from "Real People" or was it all new stuff? No market near me would even touch "More Real People" !!!!!

But there were two titles that never came to be.

When the ABC-TV nighttime soap "Dynasty" entered syndication as I can recall the syndicated title was to be called "Denver" since that was the city where the wealthy The Carrington family had lived in, like the Ewing family lived in Dallas on the TV show "Dallas". Get it? "Denver" "Dallas" ?? Yes I would suppose this "could" confuse viewers and even the dumbest of viewers would get the idea the idea that "Dynasty" was a rip-off of "Dallas". Anyway "Denver"..well the syndicated title of "Dynasty"..UGH..you see even I am confusing myself with this..LOL......well this never happened even though I think "Dynasty" was called "The Denver Family" or something like it when it was seen in a handful of other countries.

Back in the 70's I can remember reading in the paper at the time where some big shot within the city of Indianapolis, Indiana had appraoched Norman Lear about "adding" the name of their city to the syndicated title of "One Day at a Time" since that show was based there and of course..Indianapolis wanted you to know that. Not sure how that would be done..."One Day at a Time in Indianapolis" ? "The Indianapolis Chicks" ? "Indianapols Takes It...One Day at a Time" ??

Well regardless..Norman Lear took a pass on that suggestion.

"More Real People" was reruns of "Real People," and it ran into an access problem in 1983. WEWS Cleveland and WXIA Atlanta had bought the show to air at 7:30 and had actually put it on...until the FCC reminded them that both stations were network affiliates (ABC and NBC, respectively) in top-50 markets, which prohibited both from airing reruns of network shows in that timeslot. I don't know why either station thought it could get away with it.