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Retro: North Carolina Sunday, September 16, 1956

B

bpatrick

From the Greensboro Daily News. Times are
EST, one hour behind New York. WLOS/13
Asheville is not in these listings, nor is
WUNC/4 Chapel Hill, which had not returned
from the summer.

WFMY Ch. 2 Greensboro (CBS/ABC)

10 AM Eye On New York (CBS)
10:30 Camera 3 (CBS)
11 AM Let's Take A Trip (CBS)
11:30 Faith For Today
12 N The Christophers
12:30 Wild Bill Hickok (CBS reruns
of the syndicated series)
1 PM Football: Redskins-Colts (1956
was the first year of CBS's
association with the NFL)
3:45 Television Chapel (time approximate)
4 PM You Are There (CBS) (delay from
5:30 EST)
4:30 My Friend Flicka (CBS) (delay from
Friday 6:30)
5 PM Disneyland (ABC) (delay from Wednesday
6:30)
6 PM Telephone Time With John Nesbitt (CBS)(delay
from 5:00)
6:30 Private Secretary (CBS)
7 PM Ed Sullivan Show (CBS)
8 PM General Electric Theater (CBS)
8:30 Vic Damone Show (CBS) (delay from Monday
8:30)
9 PM $64,000 Challenge (CBS)
9:30 What's My Line? (CBS)
10 PM Sunday News Special (CBS)
10:15 Arthur Murray Party (CBS) (delay from Thursday
9:00)
10:45 Movie: "Scatterbrain"

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

10 AM Christophers
10:30 Camera 3
11 AM A Desk For Billie (some kind of special
that ran in every North Carolina market
that weekend)
12 N This Is The Life
12:30 Wild Bill Hickok
1 PM Disneyland
2 PM Lassie (CBS) (delay from 6:00)
2:30 Jane Wyman Show (NBC) (delay from Tuesday 8:00)
3 PM The Way
3:30 Stars Of The Grand Ole Opry
4 PM General Electric Summer Originals
(ABC) (delay from Tuesday 8:00)
4:30 Captain Gallant (NBC)
5 PM Phil Silvers (CBS) (delay from Tuesday
7:00)
5:30 You Are There
6 PM Science Fiction Theater
6:30 Private Secretary
7 PM Ed Sullivan Show
8 PM General Electric Theater
8:30 Alfred Hitchcock Presents (CBS)
9 PM Bob Cummings Show (CBS) (delay from
Thursday 7:00)
9:30 What's My Line?
10 PM Sunday News Special
10:15 $64,000 Challenge
10:45 Rosemary Clooney
11:15 Man To Man

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

1:45 Science (nothing else given)
2 PM Oral Roberts
2:30 Zoo Parade (NBC) (introduced America
to Marlin Perkins)
3 PM Wide Wide World (NBC) (Dave Garroway
is host)
4:30 Vespers
5 PM Telephone Time
5:30 Disneyland
6:30 Amazing Dunninger
7 PM Steve Allen Show (NBC)
8 PM Goodyear Television Playhouse (NBC)
9 PM Loretta Young Show (NBC)
9:30 Dr. Hudson's Secret Journal
10 PM Frankie Laine Time (CBS) (delay from
Wednesday 7:00)
10:30 This Is The Life
11 PM Late News

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

1:15 This Is The Life
1:45 Science
2 PM TBA
2:15 Church Hour
2:30 Question (I don't know what this is,
except it is NOT The $64,000 Question,
which aired Tuesdays on WNCT/9.)
3 PM Wide Wide World
4:30 A Desk For Billie
5:30 Roy Rogers (NBC)
6 PM World News
6:30 Kickoff 1956 (NBC)
7 PM Steve Allen Show
8 PM Goodyear Television Playhouse
9 PM Loretta Young Show
9:30 My Little Margie
10 PM Theater (don't know what this is,
specifically)
11 PM News

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

8:30 Oral Roberts
9 AM Lamp Unto My Feet (CBS)
9:30 Look Up And Live (CBS)
10 PM Eye On New York
10:30 Camera 3
11 AM Let's Take A Trip
11:30 Christophers
12 N James Mason
12:15 Music
12:30 Wild Bill Hickok
1 PM Redskins-Colts
3:30 Scrapbook (time approximate)
4 PM Disneyland
5 PM Telephone Time
5:30 China Smith
6 PM Lassie
6:30 Private Secretary
7 PM Ed Sullivan Show
8 PM General Electric Theater
8:30 Alfred Hitchcock Presents
9 PM $64,000 Challenge
9:30 Dr. Hudson's Secret Journal
10 PM Sunday News Special
10:15 Lawrence Welk (ABC) (delay
from Saturday 8:00)
11:15 Salad Mixer
11:25 Late Show

WTVD Ch. 11 Durham (NBC/ABC)

11:30 Christophers
12 N Oral Roberts
12:30 Frontiers Of Faith (NBC)
1 PM Mission (may be a religious program)
1:30 Youth Wants To Know (NBC)
2 PM Outlook (Chet Huntley) (NBC)
2:30 Zoo Parade
3 PM Wide Wide World
4:30 Big Picture
5 PM Meet The Press (NBC)
5:30 Roy Rogers
6 PM Topper (NBC)
6:30 Kickoff 1956
7 PM Steve Allen Show
8 PM Goodyear Television Playhouse
9 PM Loretta Young Show
9:30 The Falcon
10 PM Warner Brothers Presents (ABC)
(delay from Tuesday 6:30)
11 PM The Vise (ABC) (delay from
Friday 8:30)
11:30 TBA
12 M News
12:05 Previews

WSJS (WXII) Ch. 12 Winston-Salem (NBC/ABC)

12:15 Music And Prevues
12:25 News And Weather
12:30 Frontiers Of Faith
1 PM The Christophers
1:30 Youth Wants To Know
2 PM Outlook
2:30 Zoo Parade
3 PM Wide Wide World
4:30 Building America
5 PM Meet The Press
5:30 This Is The Life
6 PM Topper
6:30 Kickoff 1956
7 PM Steve Allen Show
8 PM Goodyear Television Playhouse
9 PM Loretta Young Show
9:30 Movie: "No Minor Vices"
11 PM News Final

WNAO Ch. 28 Raleigh (CBS/ABC)

9 AM Lamp Unto My Feet
9:30 Look Up And Live
10 AM Eye On New York
10:30 Camera 3
11 AM Let's Take A Trip
11:30 This Is The Life
12 N A Desk For Billie
1 PM Redskins-Colts
3:45 News (CBS, time approximate)
4 PM Face The Nation (CBS)
4:30 Bandwagon '56 (CBS)
5 PM Telephone Time
5:30 You Are There
6 PM Crunch And Des
6:30 Private Secretary
7 PM Ed Sullivan Show
8 PM General Electric Theater
8:30 Alfred Hitchcock Presents
9 PM Playhouse (nothing else given)
9:30 What's My Line?
10 PM Dr. Hudson's Secret Journal
10:30 Movietime
 
B. Patrick took us back to North Carolina on September 16th, 1956:

> WFMY Ch. 2 Greensboro (CBS/ABC)
>
> 1 PM Football: Redskins-Colts (1956
> was the first year of CBS's
> association with the NFL)

Wasn't this also the first week of the 1956 NFL season??

If it was, this was one of the first NFL games CBS covered. I think there may have been three or four regional games that Sunday---I believe CBS held the rights in 1956 to the Chicago Bears, Philadelphia Eagles, Los Angeles Rams, San Francisco 49ers, Washington Redskins, Pittsburgh Steelers, and New York Giants (rights to the latter three teams inherited from DuMont when it bellied-up; CBS went on to get TV rights to a few other clubs to add to the three teams whose games it inherited from DuMont).

Back then, I suspect Washington Redskins' games were shown all the way south to Florida and west to Texas.

> WBTV Ch. 3 Charlotte (CBS/NBC/ABC)
>
> 1 PM Disneyland
> 2 PM Lassie (CBS) (delay from 6:00)
> 2:30 Jane Wyman Show (NBC) (delay from Tuesday 8:00)
> 3 PM The Way
> 3:30 Stars Of The Grand Ole Opry

It's interesting that WBTV-3 apparently did not carry CBS' NFL coverage during the 1956 season, especially in light that Charlotte now has an NFL franchise (the Carolina Panthers), whose game this Sunday (September 18th; hosting New England) will be locally seen in Charlotte on-------WBTV.

> WMFD (WECT) Ch. 6 Wilmington (NBC/CBS/ABC)
>
> 2:30 Zoo Parade (NBC) (introduced America
> to Marlin Perkins)

The final season of this long-running program; thanks to the limitations of early TV technology, this wildlife show was broadcast live from a zoo (usually the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago; sometimes from other major zoos around the country).

A few years later, a young producer named Don Meier convinced Perkins to return to TV in another wildlife show which instead of being broadcast live from a zoo, would be filmed on-location all over the world, which would become the long-running "Wild Kingdom". Even today, "Wild Kingdom" is the standard against which all other TV nature programs are judged against.

> 7 PM Steve Allen Show (NBC)

Allen was still doing the "Tonight Show" Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. Ernie Kovacs had become the regular Monday-Tuesday host. Allen cut back to three nights a week on "Tonight" when this variety show premiered in June, 1956; in early 1957, he would leave "Tonight" to devote all his attention to the Sunday-night show.

> 9 PM Loretta Young Show (NBC)

Many who tuned-into the show did so to find out the answer to this question: "What will Loretta be wearing this week when she comes through that door to deliver her introduction?". The way she "schwoosed" through that door, wearing the latest (for that time) designer outfit was parodied for many years, even long after the show left the air.

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

> 6:30 Kickoff 1956 (NBC)

It might have been a preview of either the college football season (NBC had the rights to college football that year) or the 1956/57 NBC prime-time schedule.

> 10 PM Theater (don't know what this is,
> specifically)

Could it have been a delayed-broadcast of either "Armstrong Circle Theatre" (seen live on NBC Tuesday nights), "Kraft Television Theatre" (live over NBC on Wednesday nights), or "Lux Video Theatre" (broadcast on Thursdays by NBC)?? All three were hour-long shows.

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

> 10 PM Sunday News Special

This CBS News presentation was, I believe, the only weekend network television newscast for most of the 1950's. From 1951 or so until the beginning of 1962, it was anchored by Walter Cronkite.

> 11:15 Salad Mixer

An early example (thank goodness it was only ten minutes long!) of the infomercial.


> WTVD Ch. 11 Durham (NBC/ABC)
>
> 2 PM Outlook (Chet Huntley) (NBC)

Premiered in April of that year; Huntley and David Brinkley would succeed John Cameron Swayze as anchors of NBC's evening newscast at the end of October. Despite being named a co-anchor of NBC's nightly newscast, Huntley remained as the host of "Outlook" for several more years. I would think "Outlook"'s popularity would soar once the "Huntley/Brinkley Report" became popular. I do know that the title was changed at some point to "Chet Huntley Reporting", perhaps NBC was hoping that his now-famous name would draw more viewers.

> 5 PM Meet The Press (NBC)

Ned Brooks was moderator during this period. Lawrence Spivak (who would become moderator in the mid 1960's) was a regular panelist.
 
> B. Patrick took us back to North Carolina on September 16th,
> 1956:
>
> > >
> > WBTV Ch. 3 Charlotte (CBS/NBC/ABC)
> >
> > 1 PM Disneyland
> > 2 PM Lassie (CBS) (delay from 6:00)
> > 2:30 Jane Wyman Show (NBC) (delay from Tuesday 8:00)
> > 3 PM The Way
> > 3:30 Stars Of The Grand Ole Opry
>
> It's interesting that WBTV-3 apparently did not carry CBS'
> NFL coverage during the 1956 season, especially in light
> that Charlotte now has an NFL franchise (the Carolina
> Panthers), whose game this Sunday (September 18th; hosting
> New England) will be locally seen in Charlotte
> on-------WBTV.

Of course, the Panthers were nearly forty years in the future
in 1956. In 1956 pro football was not yet the ratings
draw it would become. Most experts would argue that the
turning point was the 1958 Colts-Giants NFL championship game,
still considered "the greatest football game ever played."

Still, I bet WBTV's management wishes CBS still had the NFC,
so it--and not WCCB/Fox18--would have most Panthers' games.
>
> > >
>
> > WITN Ch. 7 Washington, NC (NBC/ABC)
>
> >
>
> > 10 PM Theater (don't know what this is,
> > specifically)
>
> Could it have been a delayed-broadcast of either "Armstrong
> Circle Theatre" (seen live on NBC Tuesday nights), "Kraft
> Television Theatre" (live over NBC on Wednesday nights), or
> "Lux Video Theatre" (broadcast on Thursdays by NBC)?? All
> three were hour-long shows.

If it's any of these it's probably "Armstrong," which WITN
did not carry on Tuesday nights.
>
> >
> >
> >
 
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