Retro: North Carolina Sun, Jan 7, 1962

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from TV Guide-North Carolina edition

WFMY 2-CBS/ABC Greensboro
10:00 Light Unto My Path (sign language interpretation by Rev. Jerry Potter, chaplain to the deaf for the NC Baptist State Convention)
10:30 Look Up & Live "Am I Getting Through to You?" (pt 1)
11:00 Church Service (Baptist Theological Seminary, Wake Forest College)
noon Children's Chapel
12:15 Sunday Devotions
12:30 Washington Conversation
12:55 CBS News
1:00 Buccaneers
1:30 RCMP
2:00 Jim Backus
2:30 Sunday Sports Spectacular (season premiere #3-National Finals Rodeo)
4:00 Shell's Wonderful World of Golf (premiere-Jerry Barber takes on Dai Rees in a battle of Ryder Cup captains from Wentworth GC in Surrey, England)
5:00 American Civil War
5:30 GE College Bowl: Villanova takes on the LIU-BYU winner
6:00 Twentieth Century "Siege at Malta"
6:30 Mr. Ed
7:00 Lassie
7:30 Dennis the Menace
8:00 Ed Sullivan (from the Moulin Rouge, Hollywood: guests Jimmy Durante, Bob Newhart, Gary Morton, and Rosemary Clooney)
9:00 GE Theater "The Wall Between"
9:30 Jack Benny
10:00 Candid Camera (Jayne Mansfield guest stars)
10:30 What's My Line? (Richard Boone joins regulars Arlene Francis, Bennett Cerf, and Dorothy Kilgallen)
11:00 News
11:15 Movie "Encore"

WBTV 3-CBS/ABC Charlotte
7:45 Rangers Trio
8:00 Florida Boys
8:30 LeFevres
9:00 Harvesters Quartet
9:30 Church in the Home
10:00 Light Unto My Path
10:30 Look Up & Live
11:00 This is the Life
11:30 Faith for Today
noon Industry on Parade
12:15 Dr. George Heaton
12:30 Washington Conversation
12:55 CBS News
1:00 Movie "Bugles in the Afternoon"
2:30 Sunday Sports Spectacular
4:00 Shell's Wonderful World of Golf (premiere)
5:00 American Civil War
5:30 GE College Bowl
6:00 Twentieth Century
6:30 Land of the Free
7:00 Lassie
7:30 Dennis the Menace
8:00 Ed Sullivan
9:00 GE Theater "The Wall Between"
9:30 Jack Benny
10:00 Candid Camera
10:30 What's My Line?
11:00 News
11:15 Movie "Kentucky Moonshine"

WUNC 4-Edu Chapel Hill
10:30 Eastern Wisdom
11:00 Church Service (Wake Forest)
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5:30 College News Conference
6:00 This is Opera
6:30 State of Research
7:00 Two Centuries of Symphony
7:30 Playwright at Work
8:00 Age of Kings "Uneasy Lies the Head" (acts 3-5 of Henry IV, Part II)

WRAL 5-NBC Raleigh
9:00 Harvesters Quartet
9:30 Fisher Family
10:00 Film Feature
10:30 Big Picture
11:00 Light Unto My Path (listed for 1 hr)
noon American Newsreel
12:15 Social Security in Action
12:30 Oral Roberts (from Topeka)
1:00 Church of Our Fathers
1:30 Circuit Rider
2:00 US Bowl: from DC Stadium in Washington, NFL draft choices from both the East and West divisions square off...players are sponsored by Senators, with coaches Bill McPeak (Washington, Team East) and Red Hickey (San Francisco, Team West)
5:00 Everette Case
5:30 J. Edgar Hoover (the FBI head honcho is presented with the Criss Award for outstanding contributions in safety)
6:00 Meet the Press (c/guests Senate Minority Leader Everett M. Dirksen (R-IL) and his House counterpart Charles A. Halleck (R-IN))
6:30 Maverick
7:30 Walt Disney's World "Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates" (pt 1/c...the Dutch family is played by an all-Swedish cast ;D)
8:30 Car 54, Where are You?
9:00 Bonanza (c)
10:00 DuPont Show "Hollywood-My Home Town" (Ken Murray shows off home movies of Hollywood)
11:00 Movie "The Devil and Miss Jones"

WECT 6-NBC/CBS/ABC Wilmington
noon Herald of Truth
12:30 This is the Life
1:00 This is the Answer
1:30 Oral Roberts (from West Palm Beach)
2:00 US Bowl
5:00 Wisdom
5:30 J. Edgar Hoover
6:00 Meet the Press (c)
6:30 1, 2, 3, Go! (Richard Thomas joins training at the NYFD)
7:00 Bullwinkle (c)
7:30 Walt Disney's World "Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates" (c/pt 1)
8:30 Car 54, Where are You?
9:00 Bonanza (c)
10:00 DuPont Show
11:00 Adventures in Paradise

WITN 7-NBC Washington
(Channel 7 had just upgraded their tx, with a new 1523' tower and GE transmitter, claiming to double their signal strength...their TVG ad compared the tower to the Empire State Building and the Eiffel Tower)
11:00 Church Service (Wake Forest)
noon Gospel Favorites
12:30 Big Picture
1:00 This is the Life
1:30 Catholic Hour "The Landscape of the Soul" (pt 1)
2:00 Answer to Communism (George Murphy hosts this highlight reel of two anti-Communist rallies held in fall 1961 in Los Angeles)
5:00 Wisdom
5:30 J. Edgwar Hoover
6:00 Steve Allen (from UCLA: guests Robert Ryan, Arnold Moss, Connie Francis, Frankie Avalon, Bill Dana, Joey Forman, and Tom Conway...channels 2/6 saw this the previous day at 5:30)
7:00 Bullwinkle (c)
7:30 Walt Disney's World "Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates" (c/pt 1)
8:30 Car 54, Where are You?
9:00 Bonanza (c)
10:00 DuPont Show
11:00 News
11:05 Movie "Wicked as They Come"

WSOC 9-NBC/ABC Charlotte
8:30 Hour of Opportunity
9:00 This is the Answer
9:30 Class Camera
10:00 Living Word
10:15 Sacred Heart
10:30 Christophers
11:00 Church Service (First Presbyterian Church, Charlotte)
noon WSOC-TV Scrapbook
12:30 Big Picture
1:00 Championship Bowling
2:00 Movie "Tarzan and the Slave Girl"
3:30 Movie: TBA
5:00 Leave It to Beaver
5:30 J. Edgar Hoover
6:00 Meet the Press (c)
6:30 Ozzie & Harriet
7:00 Bugs Bunny "Satan's Waitin'"
7:30 Walt Disney's World "Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates" (c/pt 1)
8:30 Lawman
9:00 Bonanza (c)
10:00 DuPont Show
11:00 Scene Stealers (1962 March of Dimes launch with host Jimmy Durante, party-crashers Ed Wynn and Buster Keaton, and an all-star cast)

WNCT 9-CBS/ABC Greenville
8:30 Bob Poole Gospel Singers
9:30 Harvesters Quartet
10:00 Lamp Unto My Feet "Festival of American Hymns" (Church of the Ascension Choir, NYC)
10:30 Look Up & Live
11:00 Camera Three
11:30 Light Unto My Path
noon Oral Roberts (from South Bend)
12:30 Washington Conversation
12:55 CBS News
1:00 Let's Go to College
1:30 All America Wants to Know
2:00 Headlines of the Century
2:20 Carolina Report
2:30 Sunday Sports Spectacular
4:00 Science Fiction Theater
4:30 Mr. Ed
5:00 Ted Mack's Amateur Hour: contestants are Santo Alberti (tenor/NYC), Dolores Cavone (pop singer/Upr Darby, PA), Michael Stone (clarinetist/Oceanside, NY), Daisy & Kim Nesbit (acrobats/DC), Rita & Marilyn Augenbaugh (baton twirlers/Iroquois, SD), and Frank Auriemma (singing impersonator/Brooklyn)
5:30 GE College Bowl
6:00 Lawrence Welk (apparently a bicycled tape, as this was a Christmas special)
7:00 Lassie
7:30 Dennis the Menace
8:00 Ed Sullivan
9:00 GE Theater "The Wall Between"
9:30 Jack Benny
10:00 Candid Camera
10:30 What's My Line?
11:00 News
11:15 Adventures in Paradise
12:15 Coronado 9

WTVD 11-CBS/ABC Durham
9:00 This is the Life
9:30 International
9:45 Living Word
10:00 Lamp Unto My Feet
10:30 Look Up & Live
11:00 Camera Three
11:30 Hour of St. Francis
noon TBA
12:30 Washington Conversation
12:55 CBS News
1:00 Eye on the World (a look at CBS News' international news-gathering)
1:30 This is the Answer
2:00 RCMP
2:30 Sunday Sports Spectacular
4:00 Shell's Wonderful World of Golf (premiere)
5:00 Lawrence Welk
6:00 Twentieth Century "Siege at Malta"
6:30 TBA
7:00 Follow the Sun
8:00 Ed Sullivan
9:00 GE Theater "The Wall Between"
9:30 Jack Benny
10:00 Candid Camera
10:30 What's My Line?
11:00 News
11:15 Movie "Ride the Pink Horse"

WSJS 12-NBC Winston-Salem
8:00 Bob Poole's Gospel Singers
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10:45 Light Time
11:00 Church Service (Wake Forest)
noon It is Written
12:30 Big Picture
1:00 Conservation Clubhouse
1:30 Catholic Hour
2:00 US Bowl
5:00 Wisdom
5:30 J. Edgar Hoover
6:00 Meet the Press (c)
6:30 1, 2, 3, Go!
7:00 Bullwinkle (c)
7:30 Walt Disney's World "Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates" (c/pt 1)
8:30 Car 54, Where are You?
9:00 Bonanza (c)
10:00 DuPont Show
11:00 News
11:05 Screen Director's Playhouse "The Silent Partner"

 

[bpatrick]

When N.C. State hired Everett Case it was the
beginning of North Carolina's being basketball
country; what really did it was UNC's upset win
over Kansas (with Wilt Chamberlain playing for the
Jayhawks) for the national championship in 1957.
Frank McGuire was coach of the Tarheels in '57;
I think by '62 Dean Smith had taken over.

I noticed Steve Allen on WITN. His show was
airing on ABC Wednesdays at 7:30, although no
North Carolina stations carried it at that time
except possibly WLOS (which wasn't in the North
Carolina edition after 1960). (WRAL wouldn't
switch from NBC to ABC until August 1.) That day's
show may have been his last on ABC; the network
actually announced the cancellation after his second
show but let him run thirteen weeks. That last ABC
broadcast aired in pattern December 27, 1961.

 

[wbhist]

WECT 6-NBC/CBS/ABC Wilmington

It was because of the secondary CBS affiliation that WECT used the 'CBS test pattern' after sign-off and before sign-on, from the late 1950's well into the late 1980's, per this 1988 clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVcVh8glPms

 

[wbhist]

I noticed Steve Allen on WITN. His show was airing on ABC Wednesdays at 7:30, although no North Carolina stations carried it at that time except possibly WLOS (which wasn't in the North Carolina edition after 1960). (WRAL wouldn't switch from NBC to ABC until August 1.) That day's show may have been his last on ABC; the network actually announced the cancellation after his second show but let him run thirteen weeks. That last ABC broadcast aired in pattern December 27, 1961.

And not long after this day, Allen made a deal with Westinghouse to host a syndicated daily talk/variety show (The New Steve Allen Show) as a replacement for what was left of P.M. East / P.M. West, the former part of which was hosted by Mike Wallace. (In turn, after Allen left his talk show in 1964 to replace Garry Moore as I've Got a Secret host, Group W hired Regis Philbin to host a program called That Regis Philbin Show.)

 

[bpatrick]

I never found but one station in my part of the country
that carried Allen's Group W show: WTAR (now WTKR)
used to run it against Johnny Carson (I don't remember
Regis' show at all). Allen's 1968-72 syndicated show
seems to have been popular in Florida (check some of
my Central Florida listings from that time), and WSB
used to carry it on Saturday afternoons.

Allen was certainly willing to take chances on that
Group W show, however; he had Lenny Bruce on when
no one else would touch him.

 

[Tim L]

And not long after this day, Allen made a deal with Westinghouse to host a syndicated daily talk/variety show (The New Steve Allen Show) as a replacement for what was left of P.M. East / P.M. West, the former part of which was hosted by Mike Wallace. (In turn, after Allen left his talk show in 1964 to replace Garry Moore as I've Got a Secret host, Group W hired Regis Philbin to host a program called That Regis Philbin Show.)

Which Westinghouse faithfully carried in pattern on KYW-TV 3 from PM East/West thrugh Allen, Philbin and Merv Griffin until September 1965 when they opted for Movies until November1, 1965 when Johnny Carson moved over from WEWS-5..

 

[wbhist]

I never found but one station in my part of the country that carried Allen's Group W show: WTAR (now WTKR) used to run it against Johnny Carson (I don't remember Regis' show at all). Allen's 1968-72 syndicated show seems to have been popular in Florida (check some of my Central Florida listings from that time), and WSB used to carry it on Saturday afternoons.

Allen was certainly willing to take chances on that Group W show, however; he had Lenny Bruce on when no one else would touch him.

Allen's 1968-71 syndicated show, from what I've read, was handled by Filmways and Firestone Syndication. The funny thing is, in New York WPIX ran both Allen's syndicated talk shows. Except in the case of his later effort, Channel 11 picked it up in spring 1969; in its first year WOR-TV (Channel 9) ran it.

As for his 1962-64 Group W show, Allen also gave early exposure to Frank Zappa.

 

[Tim L]

About the Steve Allen Show:I found a photo in the Cleveland Press Archive with Allen and legendary Cleveland DJ Ronnie Barrett, doing a promo shoot for the Westinghouse Steve Allen Show..Here's the caption from that Photo:

"Promotion for new show on KYW-TV at the Sahara Motel. Disc Jockey Ronnie Barrett was picked as looking most like Allen. Allen's new nightly 90-minute show will begin June 25 on KYW and other stations in the Westinghouse chain" --Cleveland Press, May 22, 1962

Link to Photo:

http://images.ulib.csuohio.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/press&CISOPTR=4542&CISOBOX=1&REC=1