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Retro: North Carolina Tuesday, August 1, 1978

From TV Guide, North Carolina Edition:

WFMY Ch. 2 Greensboro (CBS)

6 AM Good Morning Show
8 AM Captain Kangaroo (Peter Marshall plays a cop.)
9 AM Cartoon Critters
9:30 Dinah! (Cloris Leachman and her daughter Diana
Englund; Monty Hall and his daughter Joanna Gleason;
James Woods)
10:30 Price Is Right
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
12 N Young And The Restless
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Tic Tac Dough (delay from 10 AM--the failure of the
CBS daytime version made many station managers who
had bought the syndicated version nervous--but that version
lasted eight years)
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3:30 All In The Family
4 PM Mary Tyler Moore
4:30 Odd Couple
5 PM I Love Lucy
5:30 Beverly Hillbillies
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7 PM Andy Griffith
7:30 Carol Burnett And Friends
8 PM Pilot: "Ship-Shape" (a knockout Navy officer played by
Deborah Ryan tries to shape up a crew of remedial sailors)
8:30 CBS Movie: "The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are
Coming"
11 PM News
11:30 Police Story
1:15 Kojak

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)

3 PM Erica (needlework)
3:30 Over Easy (guest: Frankie Laine)
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Zoom
6:30 Once Upon A Classic: "Robin Hood" (Part 11)
7 PM North Carolina People
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8 PM Anna Karenina (Part 1 of 10)
9 PM North Star: Mark di Suvero (sculptor who specializes
in massive metal constructions)
10 PM Visa (Part 1 of 5 on foreign cultures as seen through
American video artists--this week, Bill and Esti Marpet's
view of the running of the bulls in Pamplona)
sign off 11 PM

WBTV Ch. 3 Charlotte (CBS)

6:10 Story Of Jesus
6:15 Tuesday Morning
6:45 News
7 AM CBS News (Lesley Stahl/Richard Threlkeld)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Donahue (topic: gifted children; a guest is a boy who
entered college at age 11)
10 AM Tic Tac Dough
10:30 Price Is Right
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS News
12 N Top O' The Day
1 PM Search For Tomorrow
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3:30 Gilligan's Island
4 PM My Three Sons
4:30 Adam-12
5 PM Gunsmoke
6 PM News
7 PM CBS News
7:30 $100,000 Name That Tune
8 PM Pilot: "Ship-Shape"
8:30 CBS Movie: "The Russians Are Coming, The
Russians Are Coming"
11 PM News
11:30 Police Story
1:15 Kojak

WWAY Ch. 3 Wilmington, NC (ABC)

6 AM PTL Club
7 AM Good Morning America
9 AM PTL Club continues
10 AM Medical Center
11 AM Happy Days
11:30 Family Feud
12 N Good Afternoon Carolina
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1 PM All My Children
2 PM One Life To Live
3 PM General Hospital
4 PM Edge Of Night
4:30 Flintstones
5 PM Big Valley
6 PM News
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7 PM Brady Bunch
7:30 Adam-12
8 PM Happy Days
8:30 Laverne & Shirley
9 PM Three's Company
9:30 Carter Country
10 PM 20/20
11 PM News
11:30 Soap
12:05 ABC Movie: "Return To Earth" (the problems suffered
by Buzz Aldrin after the Apollo 11 mission)
1:45 News

WRAL Ch. 5 Raleigh (ABC)

6:30 Country Morning: Farm News
7 AM News
7:30 Time For Uncle Paul
8 AM Good Morning America
9 AM Mike Douglas (co-host: Tony Bennett; Olivia de Havilland,
Bernie Kopell, Melanie, Dick Schaap, a bee expert)
10:30 Edge Of Night
11 AM Happy Days
11:30 Family Feud
12 N News
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1 PM All My Children
2 PM One Life To Live
3 PM General Hospital
4 PM Three Stooges
4:30 I Love Lucy
5 PM Real McCoys
5:30 Andy Griffith
6 PM News
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7 PM Bewitched
7:30 Adam-12
8 PM Happy Days
8:30 Laverne & Shirley
9 PM Three's Company
9:30 Carter Country
10 PM 20/20
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Bang The Drum Slowly" (WRAL steadfastly
refused to carry "Soap," no matter what time it aired.)

WTTG Ch. 5 Washington, DC (Ind.)

6 AM Education
6:30 New Zoo Revue
7 AM Tom & Jerry
7:30 Porky Pig
8 AM Flintstones
8:30 Deputy Dawg
9 AM Dennis The Menace
9:30 Father Knows Best
10 AM Dick Van Dyke
10:30 That Girl
11 AM Medical Center
12 N Panorama
2 PM High Hopes
2:30 I Love Lucy
3 PM The Archies
3:30 New Mickey Mouse Club
4 PM Fred Flintstone & Friends
4:30 Tom & Jerry
5 PM Flintstones
5:30 Partridge Family
6 PM My Three Sons
6:30 Family Affair
7 PM Andy Griffith
7:30 Brady Bunch
8 PM Match Game PM
8:30 Merv Griffin
10 PM News
11 PM Odd Couple
11:30 Perry Mason
12:30 Movie: "Flame Of The Barbary Coast"
2 AM The FBI

WECT Ch. 6 Wilmington, NC (NBC)

6 AM Carolina In The Morning
7 AM Today (topic: incest)
9 AM Merv Griffin (Tony Curtis, Jack Klugman,
comic Morty Gunty)
10 AM Card Sharks (Jim Perry)
10:30 Hollywood Squares (Dirk Benedict, Cathy Lee
Crosby, Sandy Duncan, George Gobel, Earl
Holliman, Rose Marie, Vincent Price, McLean
Stevenson, Paul Lynde)
11 AM High Rollers
11:30 Wheel Of Fortune
12 N Carolina At Noon
12:30 America Alive! (Jack Linkletter)
1 PM For Richer, For Poorer
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM Three Stooges/Little Rascals
5 PM Bewitched
5:30 Andy Griffith
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News (John Chancellor/David Brinkley)
7 PM Beverly Hillbillies
7:30 Family Affair
8 PM NBC Movie: "Contract On Cherry Street" (Frank
Sinatra plays a New York cop in his first made-for-
TV movie.)
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show (from 1976: Robert Blake, Burt Mustin,
Marsha Mason, track star Marty Liquori)
1 AM News

WITN Ch. 7 Washington, NC (NBC)

5:30 Arthur Smith
6 AM Almanac
7 AM Today
9 AM Merv Griffin (from Las Vegas: Donny and Marie Osmond,
Shecky Greene, actress-singer Ann Reinking)
10 AM Card Sharks
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11 AM High Rollers
11:30 Wheel Of Fortune
12 N News
12:30 America Alive!
1 PM For Richer, For Poorer
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM Bewitched
4:30 The Virginian
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM F Troop
7:30 $100,000 Name That Tune
8 PM NBC Movie: "Contract On Cherry Street"
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM News

WGHP Ch. 8 High Point (ABC)

6 AM Tennessee Tuxedo
6:30 Arthur Smith
7 AM Good Morning America
9 AM Movie: "Primrose Path"
11 AM Happy Days
11:30 Midday Piedmont
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1 PM All My Children
2 PM One Life To Live
3 PM General Hospital
4 PM Three Stooges
4:30 Superman
5 PM Big Valley
6 PM News
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7 PM The Rookies
7:30 Sha Na Na (guest: Zsa Zsa Gabor)
8 PM Happy Days
8:30 Laverne & Shirley
9 PM Three's Company
9:30 Carter Country
10 PM 20/20
11 PM News
11:30 Soap
12:05 ABC Movie: "Return To Earth"
1:45 News

WNCT Ch. 9 Greenville, NC (CBS)

6 AM Carolina Today
8 AM CBS News
9 AM Captain Kangaroo
10 AM Tic Tac Dough
10:30 Price Is Right
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 Paul Harvey Comments
12 N News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Young And The Restless
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3:30 All In The Family
4 PM Cross-Wits (Fannie Flagg, Robert Clary, Dody
Goodman, Greg Mullavey)
4:30 Marcus Welby, M.D.
5:30 Brady Bunch
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Newlywed Game
7:30 Tobacco Market Opening
8:30 CBS Movie: "The Russians Are Coming, The
Russians Are Coming"
11 PM News
11:30 Police Story
1:15 Kojak

WSOC Ch. 9 Charlotte (ABC)

6:20 Rise And Shine
6:30 Arthur Smith
7 AM Good Morning America
9 AM Good Morning Carolina
9:30 $20,000 Pyramid (Debralee Scott, Sal Viscuso--
don't know how much delay, since Ch. 9 is the
only station in this edition that carries it)
10 AM Merv Griffin (topic: outer space, with former astronaut
L. Gordon Cooper, author Gerald K. O'Neill, researcher
Durk Pearson)
11 AM Happy Days
11:30 Family Feud
12 N Eyewitness
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1 PM All My Children
2 PM One Life To Live
3 PM General Hospital
4 PM Edge Of Night
4:30 Movie: "Rock Around The Clock"
6 PM News
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7 PM Cross-Wits (Greg Mullavey, Altovise (Mrs. Sammy) Davis,
Arte Johnson, Jo Anne Worley)
7:30 Candid Camera (swimmers demonstrate a shark repellent;
a carpet with ankle-deep pile; tempting children to cheat
on an exam)
8 PM Happy Days
8:30 Laverne & Shirley
9 PM Three's Company
9:30 Carter Country
10 PM 20/20
11 PM News
11:30 Soap
12:05 ABC Movie: "Return To Earth"
1:45 News

WIS Ch. 10 Columbia, SC (NBC)

6:20 Early Riser
6:30 Knozit-Land
7 AM Today
9 AM Carolina Today
9:25 News
9:30 Knozit-Land
10 AM Card Sharks
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11 AM High Rollers
11:30 Wheel Of Fortune
12 N America Alive!
12:30 News
1 PM For Richer, For Poorer
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM Flipper
4:30 Bewitched
5 PM Ironside
6 PM WIS-TV News Report (pre-empts "Cross-Wits")
6:30 NBC News
7 PM News
7:30 $100,000 Name That Tune
8 PM NBC Movie: "Contract On Cherry Street"
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Tomorrow (Elvis' former security chief Dick Grob)

WTVD Ch. 11 Durham (CBS)

6 AM Summer Semester: "U.S. Foreign Policy"
6:30 Porter Wagoner
7 AM CBS News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Donahue (from Charleston-Huntington: unnamed
soap stars)
10 AM Tic Tac Dough
10:30 Price Is Right
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 News (local)
12 N Young And The Restless
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM At Home With Peggy Mann
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3:30 All In The Family
4 PM Match Game '78 (Bill Daily, Richard Dawson, Bonnie
Franklin, Charles Nelson Reilly, Brett Somers, Marcia
Wallace)
4:30 Superman
5 PM Tarzan
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Newlywed Game
7:30 Gong Show (Jamie Farr, Arte Johnson, Jaye P. Morgan)
8 PM Pilot: "Ship-Shape"
8:30 CBS Movie: "The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are
Coming"
11 PM News
11:30 Police Story
1:15 Kojak

WCTI Ch. 12 New Bern (ABC)

5:55 Tabernacle Tidings
6 AM PTL Club
7 AM Good Morning America
9 AM Donahue (topic: polygamy)
10 AM Mike Douglas (same as Ch. 5 without Dick Schaap and
the bee expert)
11 AM Happy Days
11:30 Family Feud
12 N 12 At Noon
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1 PM All My Children
2 PM One Life To Live
3 PM General Hospital
4 PM New Mickey Mouse Club
4:30 Star Trek
5:30 News
6 PM ABC World News Tonight
6:30 Partridge Family
7 PM Joker's Wild
7:30 Sha Na Na (guest: Jim Stafford)
8 PM Happy Days
8:30 Laverne & Shirley
9 PM Three's Company
9:30 Carter Country
10 PM 20/20
11 PM Liars Club (William Shatner, Patti Deutsch,
Dick Gautier, Larry Hovis)
11:30 Soap
12:05 ABC Movie: "Return To Earth"
1:45 Daniel Boone
2:45 News

WXII Ch. 12 Winston-Salem (NBC)

6 AM Daybreak (Bob Gordon)
7 AM Today
9 AM Midmorning
10 AM Card Sharks
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11 AM High Rollers
11:30 Wheel Of Fortune
12 N America Alive!
12:30 Donahue (Howard Jarvis discusses Proposition 13,
which limits property taxes in California.)
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM Summer Comedy Hour
5 PM Gunsmoke
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Newlywed Game
7:30 Hollywood Squares (Victor Borge, George Gobel,
Lance Kerwin, Florence Henderson, Rose Marie,
Carl Reiner, Loretta Swit, Fred Willard, Paul Lynde)
8 PM NBC Movie: "Contract On Cherry Street" (coincidentally,
there's a Cherry Street in Winston-Salem)
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Tomorrow

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

6 AM Good Morning Jesus
7 AM Carolina Almanac
7:05 Jim Nesbitt
7:50 Tell It To The Mayor
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM CBS News
10 AM Tic Tac Dough
10:30 Price Is Right
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS News
12 N Young And The Restless
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Edge Of Night
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3:30 Ryan's Hope
4 PM All My Children
5 PM Gunsmoke
6 PM News
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7 PM CBS News
7:30 Carter Country
8 PM Pilot: "Ship-Shape"
8:30 CBS Movie: "The Russians Are Coming, The
Russians Are Coming"
11 PM News
11:30 Police Story
1:15 Kojak

WCCB Ch. 18 Charlotte (Ind.)

6:30 Forum
7 AM 700 Club
8:30 Practical Christian Living
9 AM Spider-Man
9:30 Super Heroes
10 AM Mighty Mouse
10:30 Popeye
11 AM PTL Club
1 PM Mike Douglas (co-host Kenny Rogers; Jimmy Stewart,
Burt Reynolds)
2 PM Popeye
2:30 New Mickey Mouse Club
3 PM Spider-Man
3:30 Ultraman
4 PM Super Heroes
4:30 Flintstones
5 PM Mighty Mouse
5:30 Partridge Family
6 PM I Love Lucy
6:30 Real McCoys
7 PM The Rookies
8 PM Movie: TBA
10 PM Bonanza
11 PM Honeymooners
11:30 PTL Club

WDCA Ch. 20 Washington, DC (Ind.)

5:45 PTL Club
6:45 Felix The Cat
7 AM Spiderman
7:30 Woody Woodpecker
8 AM Bugs Bunny
8:30 Kimba, The White Lion
9 AM Channel 20 Club
9:30 Romper Room
10 AM 700 Club
11:30 Practical Christian Living
12 N Movie: "Dear Ruth"
2 PM Banana Splits
2:30 Marine Boy
3 PM Speed Racer
3:30 Jonny Quest
4 PM Superfriends
4:30 Spider-Man
5 PM Woody Woodpecker
5:30 Gilligan's Island
6 PM Star Trek
7 PM Carol Burnett And Friends
7:30 America 2Night
8 PM Patty Duke
8:30 Joker's Wild
9 PM Movie: "Tony Rome"
11 PM Twilight Zone
11:30 Honeymooners
12 M PTL Club
1 AM Ironside

WRDU (WRDC) Ch. 28 Durham (NBC)

5:45 PTL Club
6:45 Today On The Farm
6:55 News
7 AM Today
9 AM Movie: "Bride By Mistake"
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11 AM High Rollers
11:30 Wheel Of Fortune
12 N America Alive!
1 PM For Richer, For Poorer
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM Movie: "Boy, Did I Get A Wrong Number!"
6 PM Outer Limits
7 PM NBC News
7:30 News
8 PM NBC Movie: "Contract On Cherry Street"
11 PM Hollywood And The Stars
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Tomorrow

WRET (WCNC) Ch. 36 Charlotte (NBC)

6 AM New Zoo Revue
6:30 Three Stooges And Pals
6:55 News
7 AM Today
9 AM Another World
10 AM Card Sharks
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11 AM High Rollers
11:30 Wheel Of Fortune
12 N America Alive!
1 PM For Richer, For Poorer
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM The Archies
3:30 Popeye And Pals
4 PM Flintstones (how this aired on both 18 and 36
I don't know)
4:30 Woody Woodpecker And Pals
5 PM Brady Bunch
5:30 I Dream Of Jeannie
6 PM Doris Day
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Abbott And Costello
7:30 Circus! (from Italy: the Yartz Flying Trapeze; Miss
Vivienne, a ballerina on horseback; the acrobatic
Rossettis)
8 PM NBC Movie: "Contract On Cherry Street"
11 PM Night Gallery
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Tomorrow
2 AM Movie: "One Of Our Aircraft Is Missing"
4 AM Movie: "The Big Knife"

WTVI Ch. 42 Charlotte (PBS)

4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Zoom
6:30 Over Easy (guest: Frankie Laine)
7 PM TBA
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8 PM Anna Karenina (Part 1 of 10)
9 PM Edelin Conviction (dramatization of the 1975 trial
of Boston's Dr. Kenneth Edelin for performing an
abortion of a 23-week-old fetus)
11 PM Dick Cavett (guest: William F. Buckley Jr.)
sign off 11:30 PM
 
bpatrick said:
WCCB Ch. 18 Charlotte (Ind.)

4:30 Flintstones

WRET (WCNC) Ch. 36 Charlotte (NBC)

4 PM Flintstones (how this aired on both 18 and 36
I don't know)

One of these may be the original series, with the other "Fred Flintstone and Friends", which features the 1970s Saturday morning "Flintstones" and other H-B series.
 
Were neither Charlotte nor Raleigh-Durham top 50 markets back then? IIRC, network affiliates in Top 50 markets had to air first-run programming during the prime time access hour.
 
bpatrick said:
WBTW Ch. 13 Florence, SC (CBS/ABC)

6 AM Good Morning Jesus
7 AM Carolina Almanac
7:05 Jim Nesbitt
7:50 Tell It To The Mayor
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM CBS News
10 AM Tic Tac Dough
10:30 Price Is Right
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS News
12 N Young And The Restless
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Edge Of Night
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3:30 Ryan's Hope
4 PM All My Children
5 PM Gunsmoke
6 PM News
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7 PM CBS News
7:30 Carter Country
8 PM Pilot: "Ship-Shape"
8:30 CBS Movie: "The Russians Are Coming, The
Russians Are Coming"
11 PM News
11:30 Police Story
1:15 Kojak

Couple of interesting things here....

First, the time-shift of the CBS Morning News from 7 to 9.

And, the back-to-back airings of ABC World News Tonight and the CBS Evening News. Couldn't have been too many stations running two different network evening newscasts in a row.
 
glc said:
bpatrick said:
WBTW Ch. 13 Florence, SC (CBS/ABC)

8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM CBS News

Couple of interesting things here....

First, the time-shift of the CBS Morning News from 7 to 9.

As WBTW aired The Captain "live" at 8AM, they either tape-delayed the 7AM feed, or somehow managed to get a live 7AM Mountain Time feed from CBS (if they had one). Most Eastern Time stations that aired the CBS Morning News out of pattern air the Central Time feed at 8AM ET, with the Central feed of The Captain at 9AM ET.
 
Charles1 said:
Were neither Charlotte nor Raleigh-Durham top 50 markets back then? IIRC, network affiliates in Top 50 markets had to air first-run programming during the prime time access hour.

Raleigh/Durham was not a top 50 market at the time; Charlotte was. I think you're asking how Channel 36 could show Abbott and Costello at 7; although it had a brief run on CBS Saturday mornings in the mid-1950s I think it's always been considered a syndicated show, which would allow it into access time. There were a few things like the National Geographic and Jacques Cousteau specials that originally aired on the networks that were exempted from the access rule; otherwise, affiliates in the top 50 markets were prohibited from airing off-network reruns, although they could air new versions of former network shows like "Hee Haw" and Lawrence Welk.

Greensboro/Winston-Salem/High Point returned to all first-run in access time that fall; WFMY started airing "PM Magazine," while WGHP put "Joker's Wild" at 7.

And to answer a couple of questions about WBTW: another station in South Carolina, Anderson's Channel 40, carried ABC News at 6 and CBS at 6:30. As for the CBS Morning News airing at 9, WBTW always did this; my guess is that they taped the broadcast from 7 to 8, since I'm not sure they could have received a Mountain feed.
 
azumanga said:
As WBTW aired The Captain "live" at 8AM, they either tape-delayed the 7AM feed, or somehow managed to get a live 7AM Mountain Time
feed from CBS (if they had one).

bpatrick said:
As for the CBS Morning News airing at 9, WBTW always did this; my guess is that they taped the broadcast from 7 to 8, since I'm not sure
they could have received a Mountain feed.

There was no Mountain Time Zone feed from CBS in 1978 (I'm not sure there even is one
today. CBS affil MC ops please chime in). Just the east coast and left coast feeds, plus the
network split via WBBM-TV to feed the CBS Morning News to the Central zone at 7 CT.
All on Telco lines (though the audio bandwidth was improved to 15 kHz circa 1978).
 
bpatrick said:
Charles1 said:
Were neither Charlotte nor Raleigh-Durham top 50 markets back then? IIRC, network affiliates in Top 50 markets had to air first-run programming during the prime time access hour.

Raleigh/Durham was not a top 50 market at the time; Charlotte was. I think you're asking how Channel 36 could show Abbott and Costello at 7; although it had a brief run on CBS Saturday mornings in the mid-1950s I think it's always been considered a syndicated show, which would allow it into access time.

Also, wasn't this right after the Charlotte network flips, where channel 18 lost ABC and NBC landed on 36? Since 36 had been an independent station prior to those flips, they may also have been able to seek a temporary waiver on the PTAR in order to allow them to use up their existing programming contracts.

On an unrelated note -- regarding the airing of back to back network newscasts from different networks on a single station, I do recall seeing this in various Montana markets in the seventies. I don't really understand why anyone would have wanted to watch back to back CBS and ABC (or any other combination) national newscasts, but it was a common practice in 1 or 2 station markets back then.
 
That was indeed a month after the network switch in Charlotte
(Ch. 9 from NBC to ABC, Ch. 18 from ABC to independent, Ch. 36
from independent to NBC) and 36 may indeed have gotten a waiver
to play out a program contract; that fall it began a 7 PM local newscast.

Commenting on two earlier posts, one of them mine: I have to believe
that Ch. 18 carried "Fred Flintstone And Friends" and Ch. 36, "The Flintstones,"
since Ted Turner owned 36 at the time and had been carrying "The Flintstones"
even while 36 was independent.

The other, concerning WBTW's carrying CBS News at 9 AM; it's possible that
it taped the WBBM feed at 8 AM (ET), but it would not surprise me if they taped
the Eastern feed at 7 AM. I think I've asked before, rhetorically, why they
didn't follow WNCT (which, BTW, is now their sister station) and carry CBS News
at 8 and "Captain Kangaroo" at 9. That still puzzles me.
 
Charlotte has always been a a top 50 market, right from the beginning. I think they were in the mid 30s in the late 80s (they're DMA 22 now). Regarding WRET (now WCNC), they did get a waiver to continue airing reruns in local access, but I doubt it applied to Abbott and Costello. In September of 1978 they started airing local news at 7 PM, as well as 11. It was well done, but locals were not about to blow off WBTV news for the upstart channel 36, so the 7 o'clock news didn't last long.
 
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