Retro: North Carolina Sunday, January 1, 1956

[bpatrick]

From the Raleigh News and Observer. Missing
are WSJS (WXII)/12 Winston-Salem, whose listings
the N&O never carried; and WLOS/13 Asheville.

WFMY Ch. 2 Greensboro (CBS/ABC)

12:15 What's Your Trouble? (Norman
Vincent Peale)
12:30 Wild Bill Hickok
1 PM Chapel (either Children's Chapel
or Sunday Chapel)
1:30 Yesterday's Newsreel
1:45 Man To Man
2 PM March Of Time
2:30 Christophers
3 PM Talkaround
3:30 Adventure
4 PM Disneyland
5 PM Omnibus
6:30 Ozzie And Harriet
7 PM Favorite Story
7:30 Jack Benny
8 PM Ed Sullivan
9 PM GE Theater
9:30 December Bride
10 PM Appointment With Adventure
10:30 What's My Line?
11 PM News (CBS, IIRC)
11:15 Industry On Parade
11:30 Sports

WBTV Ch. 3 Charlotte (CBS/NBC/ABC)

12 N Winky Dink And You
12:30 Corliss Archer
1 PM Disneyland
2 PM Lassie
2:30 Fireside Theater
3 PM People's Choice
3:30 Our Miss Brooks
4 PM Amos 'n' Andy
4:30 Captain Gallant
5 PM Omnibus
6:30 Appointment With Adventure
7 PM Science Fiction Theater
7:30 Jack Benny
8 PM Ed Sullivan
9 PM GE Theater
9:30 Alfred Hitchcock Presents
10 PM Bob Cummings
10:30 What's My Line?
11 PM CBS News
11:15 TBA
11:45 Sign Off

WUNC Ch. 4 Chapel Hill (NET)

9:45 Industry On Parade
10 AM Sunday School
10:30 What's Your Trouble?
10:45 Organ Prelude
11 PM Church Service
12:30 This Is The Life
1 PM Sign Off until
6:30 This Moment
7 PM Dr. Boyd
7:30 Opera
8 PM Sign Off

WMFD (WECT) Ch. 6 Wilmington
(NBC/CBS/ABC)

2 PM Vespers
2:30 Christian Science
2:45 Industry On Parade
3 PM Oral Roberts
3:30 Zoo Parade
4 PM Wide Wide World
5:30 Disneyland
6:30 MGM Parade
7 PM Dr. Hudson's Secret
Journal
7:30 Sunday Spectacular:
"Happy New Year"
9 PM Alcoa/Goodyear TV Playhouse
10 PM Break The Bank
10:30 Best Of The Post

WITN Ch. 7 Washington, NC (NBC/ABC)

2 PM The Pastor
2:15 Church
2:30 TBA
3 PM Dr. Spock
3:30 Your Music
4 PM Matinee
5:30 This Is The Life
6 PM Question (no idea what
this was)
6:30 Roy Rogers
7 PM It's A Great Life
7:30 Sunday Spectacular
9 PM Alcoa/Goodyear TV Playhouse
10 PM Loretta Young
10:30 Justice

WNCT Ch. 9 Greenville, NC (CBS/ABC)

12 N Winky Dink And You
12:30 Wild Bill Hickok
1 PM Oral Roberts
1:30 Let's Go To College
2 PM Christophers
2:30 Circuit Rider
3 PM Talkaround
3:30 Adventure
4 PM Years Of Crisis (Edward R.
Murrow and the CBS correspondents
review 1955)
5 PM Disneyland
6 PM Long John Silver
6:30 Corliss Archer
7 PM Lassie
7:30 Jack Benny
8 PM Ed Sullivan
9 PM GE Theater
9:30 Life With Father
10 PM Appointment With Adventure
10:30 Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts
11 PM News
11:30 Late Show

WTVD Ch. 11 Durham (NBC/ABC)

12:15 Man To Man
12:30 Oral Roberts
1 PM American Forum
1:30 Frontiers Of Faith
2 PM Conversation
2:30 Domino (don't know what this
was, but I don't think it had
anything to do with Fats)
3 PM Dr. Spock
3:30 Mr. Wizard
4 PM Wide Wide World
5:30 Sports

NOTE: This is NOT Wide World Of Sports.
Wide Wide World was a weekly visit to
some interesting place in the world;
Dave Garroway was the host. Wide World
Of Sports didn't debut until 1961.

6 PM Meet The Press
6:30 Roy Rogers
7 PM It's A Great Life
7:30 Sunday Spectacular
9 PM Alcoa/Goodyear TV Playhouse
10 PM Loretta Young
10:30 Justice
11 PM The Vise
11:30 News

WFLB Ch. 18 Fayetteville (CBS/NBC)

3 PM Winky Dink And You
3:30 Christophers
4 PM Wide Wide World
5 PM Omnibus
6:30 You Are There
7 PM It's A Great Life
7:30 Jack Benny
8 PM Guy Lombardo
8:30 Mayor Of The Town
9 PM This Is Life (don't know if
This Is The Life or This Is
Your Life)
9:30 Theater
10:30 Justice
11 PM News (don't know if local
or CBS)

WNAO Ch. 28 Raleigh (CBS/ABC)

12 N Winky Dink And You
12:30 Sunday
1 PM Theater
1:30 The Pastor
1:45 Christian Science
2 PM Religious Meet
2:30 Matinee
3:30 Adventure
4 PM Years Of Crisis
5 PM Big Picture
5:30 Facts Forum
6 PM Break The Bank
6:30 You Are There
7 PM Rin Tin Tin
7:30 Jack Benny
8 PM Ed Sullivan
9 PM GE Theater
9:30 Alfred Hitchcock Presents
10 PM Dr. Hudson's Secret Journal
10:30 Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts
11 PM News And Movie
12:30 Sign Off

 

[Joseph_Gallant]

With New Year's Day being a Sunday in 1956, the New Year's Day bowl games were no doubt played on Monday, January 2nd that year.

Unless it wasn't shown at all in North Carolina (highly doubtful as the TV coverage would have begun no earlier than 11 or 11:30 A.M. EST), I would think the Tournament Of Roses Parade was also on Monday the 2nd (as it will be in 2006). NBC was broadcasting it in color that year for the third time (and likely, the fifth time overall; I believe the first network telecast of the Rose Parade was in 1952, the first New Year's Day since the September, 1951 completion of the transcontinental TV network lines).

 

[bpatrick]

> With New Year's Day being a Sunday in 1956, the New Year's
> Day bowl games were no doubt played on Monday, January 2nd
> that year.
>
> Unless it wasn't shown at all in North Carolina (highly
> doubtful as the TV coverage would have begun no earlier than
> 11 or 11:30 A.M. EST), I would think the Tournament Of Roses
> Parade was also on Monday the 2nd (as it will be in 2006).
> NBC was broadcasting it in color that year for the third
> time (and likely, the fifth time overall; I believe the
> first network telecast of the Rose Parade was in 1952, the
> first New Year's Day since the September, 1951 completion of
> the transcontinental TV network lines).
>

According to the January 2, 1956, issue of the News and
Observer, the Rose Parade aired at 11:45 on WMFD (WECT)/6,
WITN/7, and WTVD/11, all NBC affiliates (6 and 7 still are);
and at 12:15 on WBTV/3 (CBS primary, NBC secondary in those
days). I'm certain WSJS (WXII)/12 carried it as well.

As for the bowl games:

Cotton Bowl: TCU vs. Ole Miss 1:45 PM NBC (WMFD, WITN,
WTVD)

Sugar Bowl: Georgia Tech vs. Pittsburgh 1:55 PM ABC
(none in North Carolina, closest stations are
WTVR/6 Richmond and WLVA (WSET)/13 Lynchburg, VA)

Orange Bowl: Maryland vs. Oklahoma 2 PM CBS
(WFMY/2, WBTV/3, WNCT/9, WFLB/18 Fayetteville
(now defunct), WNAO/28)

Rose Bowl: UCLA vs. Michigan State 4:45 PM NBC
(WBTV, WMFD, WITN, WTVD, WFLB)

Channel 12 in Winston-Salem surely carried the Cotton
and Rose Bowls.

Nothing said about whether any of NBC's parade/football
coverage was in color; I wouldn't be surprised if the
parade was telecast in color, although not many people
would have seen it that way.


<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by bpatrick on 12/23/05 12:22 AM.</FONT></P>