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Retro: North Carolina Saturday, April 2, 1977

From TV Guide, North Carolina Edition:

WFMY Ch. 2 Greensboro (CBS)

7 AM Old Rebel Show (the Triad's iconic kids'
show had lost its weekday berth in the
fall of 1976 when management wanted
something with more adult appeal--it
failed in this new weekly slot; a joke had
it that no one over the age of three was
watching)
8 AM Sylvester And Tweety
8:30 Clue Club
9 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour
10 AM Tarzan: Lord Of The Jungle
10:30 New Adventures Of Batman
11 AM Shazam!/Isis Hour
12 N Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
12:30 Ark II
1 PM Kidsworld
1:30 Ara's Sports World (Ara Parseghian)
2 PM Southern Sportsman
2:30 The Racers (a 300-mile off-road race
near Las Vegas)
3 PM Movie: "Term Of Trial"
5 PM Nashville On The Road (guest: Mel Tillis)
5:30 Pop Goes The Country (guests: Sonny James,
Sarah Johns, Don Gibson)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News (Bob Schieffer)
7 PM Hee Haw (guests: Donna Fargo, Red Sovine)
8 PM Mary Tyler Moore
8:30 Bob Newhart
9 PM All In The Family
9:30 Carol Burnett (10th-anniversary show and Harvey
Korman's last)
11 PM News
11:30 Greater Greensboro Open Highlights
11:40 Movie: "The Young Lions"

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)

2 PM Baseball: Exhibition game: New York Yankees at
North Carolina Tar Heels
5 PM Nova ("The Human Animal" looks at genetic influences
on human behavior, time approximate)
6 PM You The Deaf
6:30 Black Perspective On The News
7 PM Funeral Flowers For The Bride (a farmer proposes marriage
while arranging the funeral of his third wife)
7:30 Enrique Madriguera (guitarist)
8 PM Lowell Thomas Remembers (1975 highlights include the
American evacuation of Saigon)
8:30 The Way It Was (Joe Louis and Jersey Joe Walcott recall
their two fights: Dec. 5, 1947 and June 25, 1948)
9 PM National Geographic: "The Incredible Machine" (the human body)
10 PM Masterpiece Theatre ("Upstairs, Downstairs," Part 11)
sign off 11 PM

WBTV Ch. 3 Charlotte (CBS)

7 AM Treehouse Club
7:30 Hot Fudge
8 AM Sylvester And Tweety
8:30 Lone Ranger
9 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour
10 AM Tarzan: Lord Of The Jungle
10:30 New Adventures Of Batman
11 AM Shazam!/Isis Hour
12 N Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
12:30 Ark II
1 PM Movie: "The Fall Of The Roman Empire"
4 PM Pop Goes The Country (Jerry Reed, Chet Atkins,
Sheila Wilson)
4:30 That Good Ole Nashville Music (Cal--not Carl--Smith,
Crystal Gayle, Kenny Starr)
5 PM Wrestling
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Lawrence Welk (songs saluting the U.S.A.)
8 PM Mary Tyler Moore
8:30 Bob Newhart
9 PM All In The Family
9:30 Carol Burnett
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Bell, Book And Candle"
1:30 With This Ring

WWAY Ch. 3 Wilmington, NC (ABC)

7 AM New Adventures Of Gilligan (delay from Sun
11 AM)
7:30 Animals, Animals, Animals (the relocation of wolves
from International Falls, MN to the Huron Mountains
in Michigan to balance the population, delay from Sun
11:30 AM)
8 AM Tom & Jerry/Mumbly
8:30 Jabberjaw
9 AM Scooby Doo/Dynomutt Show
10:30 Krofft Supershow
11:30 Superfriends
12 N Superman (Lois dreams that Superman proposes to her.)
12:30 American Bandstand (Thelma Houston, Rubinoos)
1:30 Movie: "To All My Friends On Shore"
3 PM Pro Bowlers Tour (Burger King Open from Miami)
4:30 Wide World Of Sports (Semifinals of the U.S. Pro Boxing
Championships from San Antonio; Sugar Ray Leonard vs.
Willie Rodriguez, junior welterweights, 6 rounds)
6 PM Golf: Colgate-Dinah Shore Winner's Circle Championship
(third round)
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM Blansky's Beauties
8:30 Fish
9 PM Starsky & Hutch
11 PM ABC News (anchor not given)
11:15 That Good Ole Nashville Music (Hank Williams Jr.,
Linda Hargrove, Johnny Gimble)
11:45 Wrestling

WRAL Ch. 5 Raleigh (ABC)

6:30 Cartoon Festival
7:20 Scouting News
7:30 Animals, Animals, Animals
8 AM Tom & Jerry/Mumbly
8:30 Jabberjaw
9 AM Scooby Doo/Dynomutt Show
10:30 Krofft Supershow
11:30 Superfriends
12 N Oddball Couple
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 Teenage Frolics
2 PM Movie: "The Savage Guns"
3:30 Lawrence Welk
4:30 Wide World Of Sports
6 PM Golf: Colgate-Dinah Shore Winner's Circle
Championship (third round)
7 PM Five Country Parade
7:30 Harambee
8 PM Breakthrough '77 (Oral and Richard Roberts,
guest Tennessee Ernie Ford)
9 PM Starsky & Hutch
11 PM News
11:30 Wrestling
12:30 S.W.A.T. (delay from Fri 11:30 PM)
1:40 ABC News

WECT Ch. 6 Wilmington, NC (NBC)

7 AM Hot Fudge
7:30 Big Blue Marble
8 AM Woody Woodpecker
8:30 Pink Panther
10 AM Speed Buggy
10:30 Monster Squad
11 AM Space Ghost/Frankenstein Jr.
11:30 Big John, Little John
12 N Land Of The Lost
12:30 Muggsy
1 PM Soul Train (guests: Archie Bell and the Drells)
2 PM TBA
3 PM Tennis: Family Circle Cup semifinals
4:30 Golf: Greater Greensboro Open (third round)
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News (John Hart)
7 PM Candid Camera (in an office, all doors lead to closets;
Fannie Flagg designs suits by drawing an outline of the
prospective customer--who's lying on a table)
7:30 Wild Kingdom
8 PM Emergency!
9 PM NBC Movie: "The Outfit" (Robert Duvall as an ex-con
after the mobsters who murdered his brother, from '73)
11 PM Movie: "Last Days Of Pompeii"

WITN Ch. 7 Washington, NC (NBC)

7 AM Better Way
7:30 Treehouse Club
8 AM Woody Woodpecker
8:30 Pink Panther
10 AM Speed Buggy
10:30 Monster Squad
11 AM Space Ghost/Frankenstein Jr.
11:30 Big John, Little John
12 N Land Of The Lost
12:30 Muggsy
1 PM National Geographic: "The Great
Mojave Desert"
2 PM Wrestling
3 PM Tennis: Family Circle Cup semifinals
4:30 Golf: Greater Greensboro Open (third round)
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Lawrence Welk
8 PM Emergency!
9 PM NBC Movie: "The Outfit"
11 PM News
11:30 Weekend (millionaires in Poland, the explosion of
sales in inexpensive oil paintings, folk singer Jesse
Winchester, who moved to Canada to avoid the draft)
1 AM Christopher Closeup
1:15 Alcoholics Anonymous
1:25 News

WGHP Ch. 8 High Point (ABC)

7 AM I Dream Of Jeannie
7:30 Hot Fudge
8 AM Tom & Jerry/Mumbly
8:30 Jabberjaw
9 AM Scooby Doo/Dynomutt Show
10:30 Krofft Supershow
11:30 Superfriends
12 N Soul Train (B.T. Express, Letta Mbulu)
1 PM Movie: "Pride Of The West" (Hopalong Cassidy)
2 PM Wrestling
3 PM Pro Bowlers Tour
4:30 Wide World Of Sports
6 PM Golf: Colgate-Dinah Shore Winner's Circle Championship
(third round)
7 PM Lawrence Welk
8 PM Blansky's Beauties
8:30 Fish
9 PM Starsky & Hutch
11 PM News
11:20 ABC News
11:35 Movie: "The Brighton Strangler"
1:05 Movie: "Bedlam"
2:30 Help Yourself

WNCT Ch. 9 Greenville, NC (CBS)

7 AM Tarzan
8 AM Sylvester And Tweety
8:30 Clue Club
9 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour
10 AM Tarzan: Lord Of The Jungle
10:30 New Adventures Of Batman
11 AM Shazam!/Isis Hour
12 N Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
12:30 Ark II
1 PM Way Out Games (Indiana vs. Oregon for
the championship)
1:30 CBS Children's Film Festival ("Cold Pizza,"
from Canada)
2 PM Kidsworld
2:30 The Lucy Show
3 PM Mod Squad
4 PM Arthur Smith
4:30 CBS Sports Spectacular (Texas Grand Prix,
Masters preview)
6 PM Porter Wagoner (guest: Sharon Vaughan)
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Hee Haw (Bobby Goldsboro, Barbi Benton)
8 PM Mary Tyler Moore
8:30 Bob Newhart
9 PM All In The Family
9:30 Carol Burnett
11 PM News
11:30 Untouchables

WSOC Ch. 9 Charlotte (NBC)

7 AM Kidsworld
7:30 Batman (Shelley Winters as Ma Parker)
8 AM Woody Woodpecker
8:30 Pink Panther
10 AM Speed Buggy
10:30 Monster Squad
11 AM Space Ghost/Frankenstein Jr.
11:30 Big John, Little John
12 N Land Of The Lost
12:30 World Of Survival
1 PM Outdoors With Ken Callaway
1:30 Sportsman's Friend
2 PM Movie: "The Robe"
4:30 Golf: Greater Greensboro Open (third round)
6 PM Eyewitness Magazine
7 PM Bugs Bunny
7:30 Wild Kingdom
8 PM Emergency!
9 PM NBC Movie: "The Outfit"
11 PM News
11:30 Weekend

WIS Ch. 10 Columbia, SC (NBC)

6:30 With This Ring
6:45 Viewpoint On Nutrition
7:15 Davey And Goliath
7:30 Mr. Knozit
8:30 Pink Panther
10 AM Speed Buggy
10:30 Monster Squad
11 AM Space Ghost/Frankenstein Jr.
11:30 Big John, Little John
12 N Land Of The Lost
12:30 Muggsy
1 PM Friends Of Man
1:30 Outdoors With Julius Boros
2 PM Ironside
3 PM Tennis: Family Circle Cup semifinals
4:30 Golf: Greater Greensboro Open (third round)
6 PM That Good Ole Nashville Music (Ronnie Milsap,
Billie Jo Spears, Del Reeves, Johnny Gimble)
6:30 NBC News
7 PM News
7:30 Awareness
8 PM Emergency!
9 PM NBC Movie: "The Outfit"
11 PM News
11:30 Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (x2)
12:30 Movie: "Donovan's Brain"
2 AM With This Ring

WTVD Ch. 11 Durham (CBS)

6:30 Sunrise Semester: "Religions and Civilizations
of the Near East"
7 AM Bewitched
7:30 Let's Look At...
8 AM Sylvester And Tweety
8:30 Clue Club
9 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour
10 AM Tarzan: Lord Of The Jungle
10:30 New Adventures Of Batman
11 AM Shazam!/Isis Hour
12 N Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
12:30 Ark II
1 PM Sportsman's Friend
1:30 Outdoors With Ken Callaway
2 PM Soul Train (Teddy Pendergrass, Double
Exposure)
3 PM That Good Ole Nashville Music (Bobby Bare,
Melba Montgomery, Johnny Gimble, Mark
Dalton)
3:30 Wrestling
4:30 CBS Sports Spectacular
6 PM Black Unlimited
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Hee Haw (same as Ch. 2)
8 PM Mary Tyler Moore
8:30 Bob Newhart
9 PM All In The Family
9:30 Carol Burnett
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "The Flight Of The Phoenix"
1:30 Curious Kaleidoscope

WCTI Ch. 12 New Bern (ABC)

7:45 Telestory
8 AM Tom & Jerry/Mumbly
8:30 Jabberjaw
9 AM Scooby Doo/Dynomutt Show
10:30 Krofft Supershow
11:30 Superfriends
12 N Oddball Couple
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 Soul Train (same as Ch. 6)
2:30 The Racers (Camel GT sports-car competition
from Monterey, CA)
3 PM Music Hall America
4 PM Ara's Sports World (guest: Julius Erving)
4:30 Wide World Of Sports
6 PM Golf: Colgate-Dinah Shore Winner's Circle Championship
(third round)
7 PM Wrestling
8 PM Blansky's Beauties
8:30 Fish
9 PM Starsky & Hutch
11 PM ABC News
11:15 Will C.'s Red-Eye Cinema (Will C. Morgan)
11:30 Movie: "The War Lover"
2 AM Movie: "China Clipper"

WXII Ch. 12 Winston-Salem (NBC)

6:55 Camera 12
7 AM Big Blue Marble
7:30 Scrunch
8 AM Woody Woodpecker
8:30 Pink Panther
10 AM Speed Buggy
10:30 Monster Squad
11 AM Space Ghost/Frankenstein Jr.
11:30 Big John, Little John
12 N Land Of The Lost
12:30 Youth '77
1 PM I Spy
2 PM Green Acres
2:30 The Invaders
3:15 Wrestling
4:15 GGO Preview
4:30 Golf: Greater Greensboro Open (third round)
6 PM News
6:30 Report To The People
7 PM Show My People
7:30 In Search Of...
8 PM Music Hall America
9 PM NBC Movie: "The Outfit"
11 PM News
11:30 Weekend
1 AM Wrestling

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

7 AM Far Out Space Nuts (delay from Sun 9:30 AM)
7:30 Hudson Brothers (delay from Sun 9 AM)
8 AM Sylvester And Tweety
8:30 Clue Club
9 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour
10 AM Tarzan: Lord Of The Jungle
10:30 New Adventures Of Batman
11 AM Shazam!/Isis Hour
12 N Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
12:30 Ark II
1 PM Way Out Games
1:30 CBS Children's Film Festival
2 PM That Good Ole Nashville Music (Bill Anderson,
Johnny Russell, Mary Lou Turner, the Heckels,
Johnny Gimble)
2:30 Arthur Smith
3 PM Wrestling
4 PM Outdoors With Ken Callaway
4:30 CBS Sports Spectacular
6 PM Loves Me, Loves Me Not (delay from Wed 8:30 PM)
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Hee Haw (same as Ch. 2)
8 PM Mary Tyler Moore
8:30 Bob Newhart
9 PM All In The Family
9:30 Carol Burnett
11 PM PTL Club

WCCB Ch. 18 Charlotte (ABC)

8 AM Tom & Jerry/Mumbly
8:30 Jabberjaw
9 AM Scooby Doo/Dynomutt Show
10:30 Krofft Supershow
11:30 Superfriends
12 N Oddball Couple
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 Soul Train (Roy Ayers' Ubiquity, Gwen McCrae,
Lonnie Liston Smith)
2:30 The Racers (hydroplanes: the Mission Bay Regatta
from San Diego)
3 PM Pro Bowlers Tour
4:30 Wide World Of Sports
6 PM Golf: Colgate-Dinah Shore Winner's Circle Championship
(third round)
7 PM Inquiry
7:30 Outdoors With Julius Boros
8 PM Blansky's Beauties
8:30 Fish
9 PM Starsky & Hutch
11 PM 700 Club
12:30 ABC News
12:45 News

WRDU (WRDC) Ch. 28 Durham (NBC)

8 AM Woody Woodpecker
8:30 Pink Panther
10 AM Speed Buggy
10:30 Monster Squad
11 AM Space Ghost/Frankenstein Jr.
11:30 Big John, Little John
12 N Land Of The Lost
12:30 Muggsy
1 PM Medix (the care needed to keep a premature
baby alive and healthy)
1:30 Tennis: WCT Challenge Cup semifinal from Las
Vegas: Manuel Orantes vs. Ilie Nastase
3 PM Tennis: Family Circle Cup semifinals
4:30 Golf: Greater Greensboro Open (third round)
6 PM Outdoors With Julius Boros
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Wrestling
8 PM Emergency!
9 PM NBC Movie: "The Outfit"
11 PM Andy Williams (guest: Lesley Ann Warren)
11:30 Weekend
1 AM Don Kirshner's Rock Concert (brothers Harry,
Tom, and Steve Chapin; Gary Mule Deer;
comedy group the New Untouchables)

WRET (WCNC) Ch. 36 Charlotte (Ind.)

7 AM Cartoon Carnival
8:30 Addams Family
9 AM Speed Racer
9:30 Three Stooges And Pals
11 AM Movie: "The All American"
12:30 Wrestling
1:30 Baseball: Exhibition: Orioles-Braves
from West Palm Beach
4 PM WCT Tennis (same as Ch. 28, time approximate)
5:30 Fishin' Hole
6 PM Star Trek
7 PM Wrestling
8 PM Porter Wagoner
8:30 Saturday Showcase (local country-music show with
Tommy Faile and Ken Linker)
9 PM Nashville On The Road
9:30 Buck Owens
10 PM Mel Tillis Time
10:30 Music Place
11 PM Boxing: Bill Sharkey vs. Mike Weaver, heavyweights,
10 rounds; Greg Johnson vs. Joe Alexander, super-
heavyweights (201 pounds or more), 10 rounds, from
Miami
12:30 Don Kirshner's Rock Concert
2 AM James Brown's Future Shock
3 AM Movie: "Funeral In Berlin"
5 AM Movie: "Two Guys From Texas"

WTVI Ch. 42 Charlotte (PBS)

8:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9 AM Sesame Street
10 AM Once Upon A Classic: "The Battle Of Billy's Pond"
11 AM Zoom
11:30 Rebop
12 N off the air
5:30 The Way It Was (the 1968 Harvard-Yale game)
6 PM Studio See
6:30 Zoom
7 PM Rebop
7:30 Once Upon A Classic ("Little Lord Fauntleroy,"
Part 1 of 6)
8 PM Lowell Thomas Remembers
8:30 Oasis In Space (alternatives to solar energy:
nuclear power, coal, solar energy)
9 PM National Geographic
10 PM Soundstage (Santana, Tower of Power, saxophonist
Gato Barbieri)
sign off 11 PM
 
bpatrick said:
WRDU (WRDC) Ch. 28 Durham (NBC)
1:30 Tennis: WCT Challenge Cup semifinal from Las
Vegas: Manuel Orantes vs. Ilie Nastase

WRET (WCNC) Ch. 36 Charlotte (Ind.)
4 PM WCT Tennis (same as Ch. 28, time approximate)

With WRET being virtually the only station staying on the air overnight, the tennis program is the only thing "same as Ch. 28". ;)
 
The only other thing Chs. 28 and 36 might have had in common
was wrestling; IIRC, both stations carried Florida wrestling at 7 PM,
although 36 may have been airing "World Wide Wrestling" from Raleigh
by this time.

But not to worry: some fifteen months later Chs. 28 and 36 would be
carrying the same thing most of the time; 36 would become the NBC
affiliate in Charlotte on July 1, 1978. :)
 
Noticed Hee Haw was not broadcast in Charlotte at this time. When did Hee Haw finally get on the air in Charlotte?
 
jsu5381m said:
Noticed Hee Haw was not broadcast in Charlotte at this time. When did Hee Haw finally get on the air in Charlotte?

Maybe it was seen in Charlotte on Sunday or during the week?
 
"Hee Haw" aired on WSOC Fridays at 7 at the time. It had
aired on Saturdays in the 1974-75 season (after WSOC lost
Lawrence Welk to WBTV) and would again, beginning in 1979.

Side note: I've always felt like it stuck out like the proverbial
sore thumb that WBTV was the only one of the five CBS affiliates
in the North Carolina edition (and four in the Carolina-Tennessee one,
since WBIR Knoxville was a CBS affiliate then) to carry Welk instead
of "Hee Haw" on Saturdays at 7. But as someone once told me when
I mentioned that, it's really six of one, half-dozen of the other, since
both shows appealed to the same audience.
 
I don't agree that Hee-Haw and Lawrence Welk appealed to the same audience. For one, Lawrence Welk had absolutely no appeal to anyone under the age of 40, no matter from what walk of life, but Hee Haw was popular with young people, from rural areas especially. Among the older demo, Welk appealed to the "more sophisticated" urbanites who wouldn't dream of watching Hee-Haw. It always surprised me that WSOC carried Hee-Haw, when they always seemed like the more urban station in Charlotte, while rustic WBTV had Welk. Today I don't think any Charlotte station would touch Welk or Hee Haw with a 10 ft pole (well, maybe WAXN) even though there is still some audience for both genre in the area.
 
I suspect it would be very difficult to get clearances for
either show anywhere today. Here in my part of North
Carolina WGHP carried Welk for the entire syndicated run;
as a Fox affiliate Channel 8 would be less likely to carry
him now, I think. "Hee Haw", OTOH, might still be on WFMY;
after all, it's the home of "The Andy Griffith Show".

I also remember that in "Hee Haw"'s last years WSB carried
it at 5 AM Sundays; they turned the Saturday 7 PM slot over
to "Star Search" or "Entertainment Tonight". I can't think of
an Atlanta station that would air either "Hee Haw" or Welk today,
although in the '70s WSB had them both.

I, too, find it a little difficult to believe that Welk was on WBTV
for eight years (1974-82), especially given that the station (and sister
radio station WBT) had a long tradition of country music dating back
to the 1930s. But WBTV never carried "Hee Haw" in syndication.

The person who made that statement about Welk and "Hee Haw" appealing
to the same audience worked for the Blair rep firm office in Charlotte; I don't
mean to pass the buck but I do want to make it clear that it was not my
observation; indeed, I always wondered why "Hee Haw" wasn't on WBTV.
 
Remember when "Hee Haw Silver" was available in syndication in the 90's? Among the stations that carried it were KTVT in Dallas/Fort Worth. Now, there's a show that I bet appealed to folks over the age of 40.
 
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