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Retro: North Carolina Thursday, January 30, 1975

From TV Guide, North Carolina Edition:

WFMY Ch. 2 Greensboro (CBS)

6 AM Good Morning Show
7:55 Devotions
8 AM Captain Kangaroo (features a sketch
about a birdwatcher named Mr. Tweety)
9 AM Old Rebel Show
9:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
10 AM Joker's Wild
10:30 Gambit
11 AM Now You See It (Jack Narz)
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 News (local)
12 N Young And The Restless
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Sandra And Friends (Ch. 2 anchor Sandra Hughes)
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Guiding Light
2:30 Edge Of Night
3 PM Price Is Right
3:30 Match Game '75
4 PM Tattletales
4:30 Merv Griffin
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7 PM Beat The Clock (Gene Wood)
7:30 Wild Wild World Of Animals
8 PM The Waltons
9 PM CBS Movie: "The Family" (gangland drama
with Charles Bronson)
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "Sol Madrid" (good cast in a drama
about drug smuggling across the Mexican border,
including David McCallum, Telly Savalas, and
Ricardo Montalban)

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) (PBS)

In-school programs until

4 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
4:30 Sesame Street
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM You The Deaf
6:30 School Food Service
7 PM Adult Farmer Education
7:30 General Assembly Today (not unlike Georgia's
"Lawmakers")
8 PM Bill Moyers' Journal: International Report
9 PM Movie: "Double Suicide" (Japanese film with
subtitles)
sign off 11 PM

WBTV Ch. 3 Charlotte (CBS)

6:35 Almanac
6:45 Morning Scene
7 AM CBS News (Hughes Rudd)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Together
9:30 Tattletales (day-behind)
10 AM Joker's Wild
10:30 Gambit
11 AM Now You See It
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
12 N Scene At Noon
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Betty Feezor
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Guiding Light
2:30 Edge Of Night
3 PM Price Is Right
3:30 Match Game '75
4 PM Gilligan's Island
4:30 I Dream Of Jeannie
5 PM Bonanza
6 PM News
7 PM CBS News
7:30 The Waltons (week-behind)
8:30 Bobby Goldsboro
9 PM CBS Movie: "The Family"
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "Sol Madrid"

WWAY Ch. 3 Wilmington (ABC)

6:30 Arthur Smith
7 AM A.M. America (Bill Beutel)
9 AM New Zoo Revue
9:30 Coffeetalk
9:45 Movie: "Cry Wolf"
11:30 Brady Bunch
12 N Password All-Stars (this format effectively
killed the ABC version of the show)
12:30 Split Second
1 PM All My Children
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM $10,000 Pyramid
2:30 Big Showdown (Jim Peck's first hosting job)
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM Money Maze (Nick Clooney, George's dad, hosts)
4:30 Gilligan's Island
5 PM Gomer Pyle, USMC
5:30 The Lucy Show
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News (Smith/Reasoner)
7 PM Hogan's Heroes
7:30 Price Is Right (Dennis James)
8 PM Barney Miller (ABC unveiled six new shows in
January '75; this is one of three to make it,
the others were "Baretta" and "S.W.A.T." It may
have been the beginning of ABC's move to the top.)
8:30 Karen (Karen Valentine as a Washington lobbyist--this
is one of the three that didn't make it, along with "Caribe"
and "Hot l Baltimore.")
9 PM Streets Of San Francisco
10 PM Harry O
11 PM News
11:30 Wide World Special (George Hamilton and Barbara McNair
host a beauty pageant for models, taped at Busch Gardens
in Tampa--the city where my parents were living then.)
1 AM News

WRAL Ch. 5 Raleigh (ABC)

6 AM Arthur Smith
6:30 Farm News
6:55 Viewpoint
7 AM News
7:30 Time For Uncle Paul
8 AM A.M. America
9 AM Mike Douglas
10:30 Femme Fare
11 AM Password All-Stars (one-week delay)
11:30 Brady Bunch
12 N News
12:30 Split Second
1 PM All My Children
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM $10,000 Pyramid
2:30 Big Showdown
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM Flintstones
4:30 Andy Griffith
5 PM Bonanza
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News
7 PM Ironside
8 PM Barney Miller
8:30 Karen
9 PM Streets Of San Francisco
10 PM Harry O
11 PM News
11:30 Wide World Special

WECT Ch. 6 Wilmington (NBC)

6:30 Carolina In The Morning
7 AM Today (Jim Hartz/Barbara Walters)
9 AM Mike Douglas
10 AM Celebrity Sweepstakes
10:30 Wheel Of Fortune (had debuted Jan. 6, with
Chuck Woolery and Susan Stafford as host
and hostess)
11 AM High Rollers
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Jackpot!
12:30 Blank Check
12:55 NBC News (Edwin Newman)
1 PM Jim Burns
1:30 As The World Turns (I know, it's CBS, but CBS
didn't have an affiliate in Wilmington.)
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM Somerset
4:30 Flipper
5 PM Bonanza
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News (John Chancellor)
7 PM Andy Griffith
7:30 Beverly Hillbillies
8 PM Family Affair
8:30 Truth Or Consequences
9 PM Archer (premiere of a detective show with
Brian Keith)
10 PM Movin' On
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show (McLean Stevenson subs for
Johnny)

WITN Ch. 7 Washington, NC (NBC)

6 AM Alamanac
7 AM Today
9 AM Mike Douglas (Mike's eventual replacement as
host of Group W's talk show, John Davidson,
is co-host.)
10 AM Celebrity Sweepstakes
10:30 Wheel Of Fortune
11 AM High Rollers
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N News
12:30 Blank Check
12:55 NBC News
1 PM Jackpot!
1:30 How To Survive A Marriage
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM Somerset
4:30 Bewitched
5 PM Wild Wild West
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Family Affair
7:30 Jeopardy! (short-lived syndicated version
of the original, with Art Fleming)
8 PM Mac Davis
9 PM Archer
10 PM Movin' On
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show

WGHP Ch. 8 High Point (ABC)

6:15 Farm, Home And Garden
6:30 New Zoo Revue
7 AM A.M. America
9 AM Movie: "The Gang's All Here" (notable as
Alice Faye's last musical lead)
11 AM Password All-Stars (day-behind)
11:30 Southern Exposure
12:30 Split Second
1 PM All My Children
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM $10,000 Pyramid
2:30 Big Showdown
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM Movie: "Across The Pacific"
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News
7 PM Truth Or Consequences
7:30 Price Is Right
8 PM Barney Miller
8:30 Karen
9 PM Streets Of San Francisco
10 PM Harry O
11 PM News
11:30 Wide World Special
1 AM News

WNCT Ch. 9 Greenville, NC (CBS)

6 AM Carolina Today
6:30 Morning Meditations
6:35 Carolina Today continues
8 AM CBS News
9 AM Captain Kangaroo
10 AM Joker's Wild
10:30 Gambit
11 AM Now You See It
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS News
12 N News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Young And The Restless
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Guiding Light
2:30 Edge Of Night
3 PM Price Is Right
3:30 Match Game '75
4 PM Tattletales
4:30 Batman
5 PM Big Valley
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Truth Or Consequences
7:30 Let's Make A Deal
8 PM The Waltons
9 PM CBS Movie: "The Family"
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "Sol Madrid"

WSOC Ch. 9 Charlotte (NBC)

6:15 Arthur Smith
6:45 On The House
7 AM Today
9 AM Ben Casey
10 AM Celebrity Sweepstakes
10:30 Wheel Of Fortune
11 AM High Rollers
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N News
12:30 Blank Check
12:55 NBC News
1 PM Truth Or Consequences
1:30 How To Survive A Marriage
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM Mike Douglas
5 PM The FBI
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM To Tell The Truth
7:30 Mac Davis (one-week delay)
8:30 Let's Make A Deal
9 PM Archer
10 PM Movin' On
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Tomorrow

WIS Ch. 10 Columbia, SC (NBC)

6:45 Farm Report
7 AM Today
9 AM Today In Carolina
9:30 Knozit-Land
10 AM Celebrity Sweepstakes
10:30 Wheel Of Fortune
11 AM High Rollers
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Jackpot!
12:30 Blank Check
12:55 News (local)
1:30 How To Survive A Marriage
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM Mike Douglas
5 PM Ironside
6 PM Truth Or Consequences
6:30 NBC News
7 PM News
7:30 Let's Make A Deal
8 PM Mac Davis
9 PM Archer
10 PM Movin' On
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Tomorrow

WTVD Ch. 11 Durham (CBS)

6:30 Sunrise Semester: "The Near East In Modern
Times" (focuses on Mohammed Ali, 1769-1849)
7 AM CBS News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Peggy Mann
9:30 Tattletales (day-behind)
10 AM Joker's Wild
10:30 Gambit
11 AM Now You See It
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 News (local)
12 N Young And The Restless
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM That Girl
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Guiding Light
2:30 Edge Of Night
3 PM Price Is Right
3:30 Match Game '75
4 PM McHale's Navy
4:30 Bewitched
5 PM Mod Squad
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Family Affair
7:30 Treasure Hunt (Geoff Edwards)
8 PM The Waltons
9 PM TBA (Ch. 11 may have had issues with
CBS's movie)
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "Sol Madrid"

WCTI Ch. 12 New Bern (ABC)

6:30 New Zoo Revue
7 AM A.M. America
9 AM Montage
10 AM Beverly Hillbillies
10:30 Concentration (Jack Narz, but at the
old NBC time)
11 AM Money Maze
11:30 Brady Bunch
12 N Password All-Stars
12:30 Split Second
1 PM All My Children
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM $10,000 Pyramid
2:30 Big Showdown
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM Gilligan's Island
4:30 Little Rascals
5 PM That Girl
5:30 News
6 PM ABC News
6:30 Beat The Clock
7 PM Andy Griffith
7:30 $25,000 Pyramid
8 PM The New Candid Camera
8:30 Karen
9 PM Streets Of San Francisco
10 PM Harry O
11 PM News
11:30 Wide World Special
1 AM News

WXII Ch. 12 Winston-Salem (NBC)

6 AM News
6:10 Today's Meditation
6:15 Carolina Living
6:30 Arthur Smith
7 AM Today
9 AM Today At Home
10 AM Celebrity Sweepstakes
10:30 Wheel Of Fortune
11 AM High Rollers
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Jackpot!
12:30 Blank Check
12:55 NBC News
1 PM Concentration
1:30 How To Survive A Marriage
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM Munsters
4:30 Gilligan's Island
5 PM Bonanza
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM What's My Line?
7:30 Hollywood Squares
8 PM Mac Davis
9 PM Archer
10 PM Movin' On
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Tomorrow

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

6:15 Arthur Smith
6:45 Jim Nesbitt
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM CBS News
10 AM Joker's Wild
10:30 Gambit
11 AM Now You See It
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS News
12 N Young And The Restless
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM All My Children
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Guiding Light
2:30 Edge Of Night
3 PM Price Is Right
3:30 Match Game '75
4 PM Tattletales
4:30 Brady Bunch
5 PM Bonanza
6 PM ABC News
6:30 News
7 PM CBS News
7:30 To Tell The Truth
8 PM The Waltons
9 PM CBS Movie: "The Family"
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "Sol Madrid"

WCCB Ch. 18 Charlotte (ABC)

7 AM A.M. America
9 AM Phil Donahue
10 AM New Zoo Revue
10:30 Nanny And The Professor
11 AM Not For Women Only
11:30 News
12 N Password All-Stars
12:30 Split Second
1 PM All My Children
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM $10,000 Pyramid
2:30 Big Showdown
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM Money Maze
4:30 Brady Bunch
5 PM Mickey Mouse Club
5:30 News
6 PM ABC News
6:30 Superman
7 PM What's My Line?
7:30 Concentration
8 PM Barney Miller
8:30 Karen
9 PM Streets Of San Francisco
10 PM Harry O
11 PM News
11:30 Wide World Special

WRDU (WRDC) Ch. 28 Durham (NBC)

7 AM Today
9 AM New Zoo Revue
9:30 Popeye
10 AM Celebrity Sweepstakes
10:30 Wheel Of Fortune
11 AM High Rollers
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Jackpot!
12:30 Blank Check
12:55 NBC News
1 PM Not For Women Only
1:30 How To Survive A Marriage
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM Somerset
4:30 What's Happening (community events)
4:35 Movie: "Shall We Dance"
6:30 News
7 PM NBC News
7:30 Del Reeves' Country Carnival
8 PM Mac Davis
9 PM Archer
10 PM Movin' On
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show

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

7 AM Three Stooges And Pals
8 AM Beverly Hillbillies
8:30 Father Knows Best
9 AM Movie: "Funeral In Berlin"
11 AM PTL Club
1 PM Movie: "My Darling Clementine"
3 PM Popeye And Pals
3:30 Addams Family
4 PM Flintstones (2 episodes)
5 PM Leave It To Beaver
5:30 I Love Lucy
6 PM Beverly Hillbillies
6:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC (guest Jerry Van Dyke)
7 PM Andy Griffith
7:30 Hogan's Heroes
8 PM Star Trek
9 PM Movie: "Come September"
11 PM Night Gallery
11:30 Movie: "Bombardier"

WTVI Ch. 42 Charlotte (PBS)

4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Electric Company
5:30 Zoom
6 PM Sesame Street
7 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
7:30 ITV Showcase (wonder if this is Britain's ITV?)
8:30 Audubon Wildlife Theatre
9 PM The Ascent Of Man (Part 4)
10 PM World Hunger: Who Will Survive?
sign off 11:30 PM
 
bpatrick said:
WTVI Ch. 42 Charlotte (PBS)

7:30 ITV Showcase (wonder if this is Britain's ITV?)

I would think "ITV" refers to "Instructional Television" -- those 15-minute programs kids see every school day.
 
bpatrick said:
WFMY Ch. 2 Greensboro (CBS)

8 AM Captain Kangaroo (features a sketch
about a birdwatcher named Mr. Tweety)

Nowadays, they'd probably be sued by Warner Brothers for using that name. ::)

bpatrick said:
WWAY Ch. 3 Wilmington (ABC)

8 PM Barney Miller (ABC unveiled six new shows in
January '75; this is one of three to make it,
the others were "Baretta" and "S.W.A.T." It may
have been the beginning of ABC's move to the top.)
8:30 Karen (Karen Valentine as a Washington lobbyist--this
is one of the three that didn't make it, along with "Caribe"
and "Hot l Baltimore.")

Hot l Baltimore was a funny, quirky show that deserved better, but its controversial cast (including two prostitutes and an elderly gay couple) was a little much for a mid-70's sitcom.

bpatrick said:
WECT Ch. 6 Wilmington (NBC)

1:30 As The World Turns (I know, it's CBS, but CBS
didn't have an affiliate in Wilmington.)

True, though fringe station WBTW in Florence served as the de facto CBS affiliate for Wilmington until WJKA signed on in 1984. (Some cable companies also imported either WTVD Durham or WNCT Greenville for CBS.) Wilmington was unusual in that most two-station markets back in the day tended to affiliate with CBS and NBC, leaving ABC with a secondary affiliation and incomplete schedule. But WWAY was ABC primary from the start. The Wilmington CBS issue arose again for a few years starting in 1995 when WJKA jumped to Fox and became WSFX. Low-power WILM-LP signed on in 2000 as a CBS affiliate, and to this day, Wilmington still lacks a local full-power OTA CBS station.

bpatrick said:
WFMY Ch. 2 Greensboro (CBS)

9 PM CBS Movie: "The Family" (gangland drama
with Charles Bronson)

11:30 CBS Movie: "Sol Madrid" (good cast in a drama
about drug smuggling across the Mexican border,
including David McCallum, Telly Savalas, and
Ricardo Montalban)

WTVD Ch. 11 Durham (CBS)

9 PM TBA (Ch. 11 may have had issues with
CBS's movie)
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "Sol Madrid"

Implying that WTVD had a problem with Mafia hitmen, but not with drug smugglers? ??? "The Family," BTW, was the U.S. title for a 1970 Italian-produced flick titled "Città Violenta." It was released in the U.S. in 1973, clearly to capitalize and piggyback on the enormous success of 1972's "The Godfather." (The Mafia was all of a sudden the "in" thing.) This was blatantly referenced in the film's U.S. tagline: "'The Godfather' gave you an offer you couldn't refuse. 'The Family' gives you no alternative."
 
Stanislav said:
bpatrick said:
bpatrick said:
WECT Ch. 6 Wilmington (NBC)

1:30 As The World Turns (I know, it's CBS, but CBS
didn't have an affiliate in Wilmington.)

True, though fringe station WBTW in Florence served as the de facto CBS affiliate for Wilmington until WJKA signed on in 1984. (Some cable companies also imported either WTVD Durham or WNCT Greenville for CBS.) Wilmington was unusual in that most two-station markets back in the day tended to affiliate with CBS and NBC, leaving ABC with a secondary affiliation and incomplete schedule. But WWAY was ABC primary from the start. The Wilmington CBS issue arose again for a few years starting in 1995 when WJKA jumped to Fox and became WSFX. Low-power WILM-LP signed on in 2000 as a CBS affiliate, and to this day, Wilmington still lacks a local full-power OTA CBS station.

bpatrick said:
quote]

Actually. WBTW was NEVER on Wilmington cable, and would not have been available over the air until possibly beginning in the early 80s when they moved to their 2000 ft tower near Dillon SC (and then it would have still been deep fringe). Previous to that they were on a short tower in Florence and the signal would never made it to the Wilmington area. OTOH, WTVD and WNCT were both on Wilmington cable for many years, along with WRAL, which remained on cable even after WJKA debuted, and remained the default CBS after WJKA switched to FOX. WRAL and WTVD were surely microwaved to Wilmington since even with their strong signals they wouldn't have provided a consistantly strong signal. WIlmington is actually a pretty isolated city. Cable also provided WITN for many years, even with WECT a primary NBC. I'm sure WRAL, WTVD, WNCT, amd WITN were all thorns in the side of WECT, WWAY, and later WJKA (WRAL going to CBS may have been a big reason why WJKA bailed for FOX
 
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