Retro: North Carolina Saturday, July 29, 1978

[bpatrick]

From TV Guide, North Carolina Edition:

WFMY Ch. 2 Greensboro (CBS)

7:30 Space Academy
8 AM Three Robonic Stooges
8:30 Speed Buggy
9 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
10:30 Batman/Tarzan
11:30 Isis
12 N Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
12:30 Kidsworld
1 PM World Of Survival
1:30 Batman (Adam West)
2 PM Wild Wild West
3 PM The Racers
3:30 Nashville On The Road
4 PM Pop! Goes The Country
4:30 That Nashville Music
5 PM NFL Great Teams/Great Years
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News (Bob Schieffer)
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM Bob Newhart
8:30 Baby, I'm Back
9 PM CBS Movie: "Juggernaut"
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Inside Daisy Clover"
sign off 1:30 AM

WUND Ch. 2 Columbia/Edenton, WUNC Ch. 4
Chapel Hill, WUNK Ch. 25 Greenville, WUNL Ch. 26
Winston-Salem, WUNJ Ch. 39 Wilmington, WUNG
Ch. 58 Concord (PBS)

5 PM Consumer Survival Kit
5:30 Turnabout (newsmagazine)
6 PM Magic Of Oil Painting
6:30 Of Time, Tombs And Treasure
7 PM Once Upon A Classic: "Robin Hood"
(Part 11)
7:30 Lowell Thomas Remembers
8 PM Great Performances
9 PM In Performance At Wolf Trap
10 PM Austin City Limits
sign off 11 PM

WBTV Ch. 3 Charlotte (CBS)

7 AM Treehouse Club
7:30 Ghost Busters (not the movie)
8 AM Three Robonic Stooges
8:30 Speed Buggy
9 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
10:30 Batman/Tarzan
11:30 Isis
12 N Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
12:30 Space Academy
1 PM Lone Ranger
1:30 Cisco Kid
2 PM That Nashville Music
2:30 Pop! Goes The Country
3 PM Wrestling
4 PM Golf: Sammy Davis Jr. Greater
Hartford Open (Third round)
5 PM CBS Sports Spectacular
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Lawrence Welk
8 PM Bob Newhart
8:30 Baby, I'm Back
9 PM CBS Movie: "Juggernaut"
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "A Big Hand For The
Little Lady"
1:30 With This Ring
sign off 1:45 AM

WWAY Ch. 3 Wilmington (ABC)

7 AM Jabberjaw
7:30 Grape Ape
8 AM Superman (George Reeves)
8:30 Superfriends
9:30 Scooby's Laff-A-Lympics
11:30 Krofft Supershow
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 Wild Wild World Of Animals
2 PM Pop! Goes The Country
2:30 Southern Sportsman
3 PM 1978 Pocono 500 Highlights
3:30 Pro Football Hall Of Fame Game
(from Canton, OH): Dolphins
vs. Eagles
6:30 ABC News (Sylvia Chase/Tom
Jarriel) (time approximate)
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM The Krofft Comedy Hour (pilot)
9 PM Love Boat
10 PM Fantasy Island
11 PM ABC News (Chase/Jarriel)
11:15 That Nashville Music
11:45 Arthur Smith
12:15 Wrestling
sign off 1:15 AM

WRAL Ch. 5 Raleigh (ABC)

6:30 Cartoon Festival
7:30 Animals, Animals, Animals
8 AM Dynomutt
8:30 Superfriends
9:30 Scooby's Laff-A-Lympics
11:30 Grape Ape
12 N Teenage Frolics
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 World Invitational Tennis Classic:
Vitas Gerulaitis and Virginia Wade
vs. Roscoe Tanner and Kerry Reid
3 PM Southern Sportsman
3:30 NFL Football: Dolphins-Eagles
6:30 News (time approximate)
7 PM Aware
7:30 Harambee
8 PM Krofft Comedy Hour
9 PM Love Boat
10 PM Fantasy Island
11 PM News
11:15 ABC News
11:30 Wrestling
12:30 Baretta (delay from Friday 11:30)
sign off 1:40 AM

WTTG Ch. 5 Washington, DC (Ind.)

6:30 Vegetable Soup
7 AM Porky Pig
7:30 Newbag
8 AM Buck Rogers ('30s serial)
8:15 Movie: "Rhino!"
10 AM Movie: "Angel And The Badman"
12 N Movie: "Sex And The Single Girl"
2 PM Movie: "Ride The High Country"
3:30 Mission: Impossible
4:30 The Racers
5 PM Soul Train
6 PM My Three Sons
6:30 Family Affair
7 PM Cry Of A Hurting World...I'm Hungry
10 PM News
10:30 Cry Of A Hurting World...I'm Hungry
continues
12:30 Soccer: Washington Diplomats at
Rochester Lancers (taped)
2:30 Movie: "Romance Of A Horsethief"
(time approximate)
4:30 Movie: "The Sky's The Limit"

WECT Ch. 6 Wilmington (NBC)

7 AM Hot Fudge
7:30 Big Blue Marble
8 AM Hong Kong Phooey
8:30 Go Go Globetrotters
10:30 Pink Panther
11 AM Baggy Pants And The Nitwits
11:30 Space Sentinels
12 N Land Of The Lost
12:30 Thunder
1 PM Soul Train
2 PM Baseball Warm-Up
2:15 Baseball: Phillies-Reds or
Royals-Red Sox
5 PM Lawrence Welk (time approximate)
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Candid Camera
7:30 Wild Kingdom
8 PM Bionic Woman
9 PM The Rhinemann Exchange (Part 1
of 2, concludes Sunday at 9)
11 PM News
11:30 Saturday Night Live
sign off 1 AM

WITN Ch. 7 Washington, NC (NBC)

7 AM Better Way
7:30 Treehouse Club
8 AM Hong Kong Phooey
8:30 Go Go Globetrotters
10:30 Pink Panther
11 AM Baggy Pants And The Nitwits
11:30 Space Sentinels
12 N Land Of The Lost
12:30 Thunder
1 PM Lone Ranger
1:30 Family Affair
2 PM Baseball Warm-Up
2:15 Baseball: Phillies-Reds or Royals-
Red Sox
5 PM Wrestling (time approximate)
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Lawrence Welk
8 PM Bionic Woman
9 PM The Rhinemann Exchange
11 PM News
11:30 Saturday Night Live
1 AM Christopher Closeup
1:15 Alcoholics Anonymous
1:25 News
sign off after news
WVEC/13 Norfolk, VA, had (and may still
have) an Alcoholics Anonymous program in
the wee hours of Sunday morning. I wonder
if this is the same program.

WGHP Ch. 8 High Point (ABC)

6:30 Valley Of The Dinosaurs
7 AM Marlo And The Magic Movie
Machine
7:30 Jetsons
8 AM Dynomutt
8:30 Superfriends
9:30 Scooby's Laff-A-Lympics
11:30 Krofft Supershow
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 Hollywood Teen
2 PM Lone Ranger
2:30 Wrestling
3:30 NFL Football: Dolphins-Eagles
6:30 Marty Robbins' Spotlight (time
approximate)
7 PM Lawrence Welk
8 PM Krofft Comedy Hour
9 PM Love Boat
10 PM Fantasy Island
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "War-Gods Of The Deep"
1 AM Movie: "The Raven"
2:30 ABC News
2:45 Help Yourself
sign off 3:15 AM

WNCT Ch. 9 Greenville, NC (CBS)

7 AM Tarzan (Ron Ely)
8 AM Three Robonic Stooges
8:30 Speed Buggy
9 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
10:30 Batman/Tarzan
11:30 Isis
12 N Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
12:30 Space Academy
1 PM What's New, Mr. Magoo?
1:30 CBS Children's Film Festival
2 PM WCT-Shakey's Tournament Of
Champions: Vitas Gerulaitis vs.
Sandy Mayer
3 PM The Lucy Show
3:30 Pop! Goes The Country
4 PM Golf: Sammy Davis Jr. Greater
Hartford Open (Third round)
5 PM CBS Sports Spectacular
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM Bob Newhart
8:30 Baby, I'm Back
9 PM CBS Movie: "Juggernaut"
11 PM News
11:30 Soap Factory Disco
12 M Movie: "The Buccaneer"
sign off 1:50 AM

WSOC Ch. 9 Charlotte (ABC)

6:45 Mr. Magoo
7 AM Discovery Place (a science museum
in Charlotte)
7:30 Kidsworld
8 AM Dynomutt
8:30 Superfriends
9:30 Scooby's Laff-A-Lympics
11:30 Krofft Supershow
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 Tarzan
2:30 Golden Age Of The Automobile
3:30 NFL Football: Dolphins-Eagles
6:30 News (time approximate)
7 PM Bugs Bunny
7:30 All-Star Anything Goes
8 PM Krofft Comedy Hour
9 PM Love Boat
10 PM Fantasy Island
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "The Chase"
1:45 ABC News
sign off 2 AM

WIS Ch. 10 Columbia, SC (NBC)

6:15 With This Ring
6:30 Viewpoint On Nutrition
7 AM Mr. Knozit
8 AM Hong Kong Phooey
8:30 Go Go Globetrotters
10:30 Pink Panther
11 AM Baggy Pants And The Nitwits
11:30 Space Sentinels
12 N Land Of The Lost
12:30 Thunder
1 PM Kidsworld
1:30 That Nashville Music
2 PM Baseball Warm-Up
2:15 Baseball: Phillies-Reds or
Royals-Red Sox
5 PM Lawrence Welk (time approximate)
6 PM Carolina
6:30 NBC News
7 PM News
7:30 Awareness
8 PM Bionic Woman
9 PM The Rhinemann Exchange
11 PM News
11:30 Saturday Night Live
1 AM Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
(2 episodes)
2 AM With This Ring
sign off 2:15 AM

WTVD Ch. 11 Durham (CBS)

6:30 Summer Semester: "U.S. Foreign
Policy"
7 AM Family Affair
7:30 Let's Look At...
8 AM Three Robonic Stooges
8:30 Speed Buggy
9 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
10:30 Batman/Tarzan
11:30 Isis
12 N Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
12:30 Space Academy
1 PM Superman
1:30 Hollywood Teen
2 PM Soul Train
3 PM That Nashville Music
3:30 Buffum & Company (I have no idea
what this is)
4 PM Golf: Sammy Davis Jr. Greater
Hartford Open (Third round)
5 PM CBS Sports Spectacular
6 PM Black Unlimited
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM Bob Newhart
8:30 Baby, I'm Back
9 PM CBS Movie: "Juggernaut"
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Lady Ice"
1:30 Curious Kaleidoscope
sign off 2 AM

WCTI Ch. 12 New Bern (ABC)

5:45 Telestory
6 AM The Archies (2 episodes)
7 AM Jabberjaw
7:30 Marlo And The Magic Movie
Machine
8 AM Dynomutt
8:30 Superfriends
9:30 Scooby's Laff-A-Lympics
11:30 Krofft Supershow
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 Soul Train
2:30 Emergency One!
3:30 NFL Football: Dolphins-Eagles
6:30 Nashville On The Road (time approximate)
7 PM Wrestling
8 PM Krofft Comedy Hour
9 PM Love Boat
10 PM Fantasy Island
11 PM Will C's Red-Eye Cinema
11:15 Movie: "King Rat"
12:45 Movie: "Stopover Tokyo"
sign off 2:15 AM

WXII Ch. 12 Winston-Salem (NBC)

6:30 For You...Black Woman
7 AM Big Blue Marble
7:30 Scrunch
8 AM Hong Kong Phooey
8:30 Go Go Globetrotters
10:30 Pink Panther
11 AM Baggy Pants And The Nitwits
11:30 Space Sentinels
12 N Land Of The Lost
12:30 Thunder
1 PM Ironside
2 PM Baseball Warm-Up
2:15 Baseball: Phillies-Reds or Royals-
Red Sox
5 PM Wrestling (time approximate)
6 PM News
6:30 Report To The People
7 PM Show My People
7:30 Adam-12
8 PM Bionic Woman
9 PM The Rhinemann Exchange
11 PM News
11:30 Saturday Night Live
1 AM WCT-Shakey's Tournament Of
Champions: Vitas Gerulaitis vs.
Sandy Mayer
sign off 2 AM

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

7 AM Wacko
7:30 Ghost Busters
8 AM Three Robonic Stooges
8:30 Speed Buggy
9 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
10:30 Batman/Tarzan
11:30 Isis
12 N Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
12:30 Space Academy
1 PM What's New, Mr. Magoo?
1:30 CBS Children's Film Festival
2 PM Wrestling
3 PM Soul Train
4 PM Golf: Sammy Davis Jr. Greater
Hartford Open (Third round)
5 PM CBS Sports Spectacular
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM Bob Newhart
8:30 Baby, I'm Back
9 PM CBS Movie: "Juggernaut"
11 PM News
11:15 Good Morning Jesus
12:15 Starsky & Hutch
sign off 1:15 AM

WCCB Ch. 18 Charlotte (Ind.)

6:30 Terrytoons
7 AM Hot Fudge
7:30 New Mickey Mouse Club
8 AM Spider-Man
8:30 Super Heroes
9 AM Movie: "Track Of The Moon
Beast"
11 AM Movie: "Two Lost Worlds"
1 PM Hollywood Teen
1:30 Soul Train
2:30 Movie: "Shriek Of The Mutilated"
4 PM Wild Wild West
5 PM Bonanza
6 PM Have Gun, Will Travel
6:30 Dolly
7 PM Porter Wagoner
7:30 Marty Robbins' Spotlight
8 PM Movie: TBA
10 PM Championship Sports (I think
this is wrestling)
11 PM Movie: "The Glory Brigade"
1 AM Movie: "Bullwhip"
3 AM Movie: "Strangers At Sunrise"
5 AM Movie: "Tiger By The Tail"

WDCA Ch. 20 Washington, DC (Ind.)

6 AM PTL Club
7 AM Your Divine Appointment
7:30 God's Good News
8 AM Breath Of Life
8:30 PTL Club
9:30 Oral Roberts
10 AM Rex Humbard
11 AM Wrestling
12 N Movie: "Here Come The Co-eds"
1:30 Movie: "Frankenstein" (Boris Karloff)
3 PM Beverly Hillbillies
3:30 Bewitched
4 PM Courtship Of Eddie's Father
4:30 Adam-12
5 PM Emergency One!
6 PM Star Trek
7 PM Space: 1999
8 PM Movie: "Two-Way Stretch"
10 PM Challenge
10:30 Petey Greene's Washington
11 PM Second City TV
11:30 Movie: "Night Of The Sorcerers"
1 AM 700 Club
2:30 The Rock (religious program)
followed by sign off

WRDU (WRDC) Ch. 28 Durham (NBC)

8 AM Hong Kong Phooey
8:30 Go Go Globetrotters
10:30 Pink Panther
11 AM Baggy Pants And The Nitwits
11:30 Space Sentinels
12 N Land Of The Lost
12:30 Thunder
1 PM Vegetable Soup
1:30 Home Canning Show
2 PM Baseball Warm-Up
2:15 Baseball: Phillies-Reds or
Royals-Red Sox
5 PM This Week In Baseball
5:30 Greatest Sports Legends
6 PM In The Public Interest
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Wild Kingdom
7:30 In Search Of...
8 PM Bionic Woman
9 PM The Rhinemann Exchange
11 PM Second City TV
11:30 Saturday Night Live
sign off 1 AM

WRET (WCNC) Ch. 36 Charlotte (NBC)

7 AM Three Stooges And Pals
7:30 I Am The Greatest: The Adventures
Of Muhammad Ali
8 AM Hong Kong Phooey
8:30 Go Go Globetrotters
10:30 Pink Panther
11 AM Baggy Pants And The Nitwits
11:30 Space Sentinels
12 N Land Of The Lost
12:30 Thunder
1 PM Wrestling
2 PM Baseball Warm-Up
2:15 Baseball: Phillies-Reds or Royals-
Red Sox
5 PM WCT-Shakey's Tournament Of
Champions: Vitas Gerulaitis vs.
Sandy Mayer (time approximate)
6 PM Saturday Showcase
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Space: 1999
8 PM Bionic Woman
9 PM The Rhinemann Exchange
11 PM Night Gallery
11:30 Saturday Night Live
1 AM Movie: "Good Times" (Sonny and
Cher, from '67)
2:30 Movie: "Darby's Rangers"
4:30 Movie: "The Spy Who Came In
From The Cold"

WTVI Ch. 42 Charlotte (PBS)

5 PM In Performance At Wolf Trap
6 PM Wall Street Week
6:30 Big Blue Marble
7 PM Once Upon A Classic
7:30 Lowell Thomas Remembers
8 PM Great Performances
9 PM In Performance At Wolf Trap
10 PM Movie: "As You Like It"
11:35 Films (followed by sign off)

 

[mleach]

1:15 Alcoholics Anonymous
1:25 News
sign off after news
WVEC/13 Norfolk, VA, had (and may still
have) an Alcoholics Anonymous program in
the wee hours of Sunday morning. I wonder
if this is the same program.

Speaking of WVEC, I wonder why they and the other Norfolk area stations, their listings didn't appear in this edition of TV Guide?
Back in 1984 late one night I caught the sign-off of both WAVY and WVEC and both stations at the time claimed that their listings appeared in the Raleigh local newspaper. Plus a good chunk of North Carolina such as the Outer Banks falls within the Norfolk DMA and I would imagine their stations could be received way beyond that area too.

 

[bpatrick]

There was a time in the mid-1950s when TV Guide
had a Virginia-Carolina edition, consisting of Norfolk,
Richmond/Petersburg, Roanoke/Lynchburg, Raleigh/
Durham, and Greensboro/Winston-Salem. As more
stations came on the air, this edition was broken up
into North Carolina, Eastern Virginia, and Central
Virginia.

But to answer your question, TV Guide had a policy
that a station had to reach at least 15% of an edition's
coverage area in order to be included. As the North
Carolina edition was constituted, Norfolk stations would
not qualify (although the News and Observer did list
Chs. 3, 10, and 13). TV Guide also liked to keep a
manageable number of stations (South Georgia Edition
excepted, but there are a lot of stations close together
down there, so there was no way to divide it up). In
1980 it split two editions (North Carolina and Carolina-
Tennessee) into five: Eastern North Carolina, Charlotte
(later Central North Carolina), Greenville/Spartanburg/
Asheville, Bristol/Kingsport/Johnson City (and don't ask
why a market that small would have its own edition),
and Knoxville/Chattanooga.

I wish Norfolk had been included in the North Carolina
Edition myself, but Albemarle Sound was the dividing line
between North Carolina and Eastern Virginia, and everything
north of that line got Eastern Virginia.

 

[Stanislav]

But to answer your question, TV Guide had a policy
that a station had to reach at least 15% of an edition's
coverage area in order to be included.

Of course, historically the problem with TVG editions were not only that some of them covered a huge geographic area, but that aspects of terrain and propagation meant that TV signals are no respecters of arbitrary lines drawn by people.

This was especially a problem if you lived on the edges/fringes of a particular edition. I've mentioned before here the anomaly of the Montreal-St. Lawrence edition being sold in the area of East Central Vermont where my grandparents had their summer cottage. The center of that edition's coverage was well north of them -- in fact, they were probably on the southeasterrnmost fringe of that edition's circulation. The result, of course, was that most of the stations listed were never seen at all where they lived, and that some of the most viewed "out of market" stations were not included. Everyone we knew there with outdoor, rotatable antennas all watched the Albany area stations quite a bit (and they all had those little channel stickers reading "6," "10," and "13" on their rotor dials to prove it). Yet, the Mont.-St. L. edition listed only 6 in Schenectady, completely ignoring Albany's 10 & 13. It did us no good to know what was being broadcast in Montreal, or Ottawa, or Watertown, because no one there could get those stations (except, perhaps, on rare occasions when tropo was up, and only if they were bothering to look for them), but it sure would have been nice to have listings for all 3 of the channels that, after the Burlington-Plattsburgh stations, were the most watched in the region.

All this gives me the inspiration for a new thread.....