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Retro: North Carolina Tuesday, December 3, 1968 (Part 2)

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More from TV Guide. There's a BIG special this night.

RALEIGH/DURHAM

WUNC Ch. 4 (NET, part of the state system)

I assume in-school programming during the day.

3 PM Public Health
3:30 Physical Science
no listing for 4-5 PM
5 PM Misterogers (or Mister Rogers' Neighborhood)
5:30 Aspect (farm show)
6 PM News
6:15 Friendly Giant
6:30 History 569 (don't ask what it covers)
7 PM School Food Service
7:30 Misterogers
8 PM Who Is
8:30 French Chef
9 PM Board Of Higher Education
10 PM Governor's Conference
10:30 Focus On Medicine

WRAL Ch. 5 (ABC, some CBS and NBC)

5:30 Aspect
6 AM Daybreak
6:45 Farm News
7 AM Viewpoint--Jesse Helms
7:05 CBS News--Joseph Benti
7:30 Mickey Mouse Club
8 AM Time For Uncle Paul
8:30 Bewitched
9 AM One Life To Live
9:30 Dark Shadows
10 AM Bette Elliott (women's show)
10:30 Mike Douglas Show
12 N News
1 PM Dream House
1:30 Funny You Should Ask
1:55 Children's Doctor
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 Flintstones
4 PM Movie: "Chartreuse Caboose"
5:40 Sports (with a Triangle legend, Ray Reeve)
6 PM News
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report (management thought
Frank Reynolds was too liberal)
7 PM Truth Or Consequences
7:30 Mod Squad
8:30 It Takes A Thief
9:30 N.Y.P.D.
10 PM That's Life
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "The Great Victor Herbert"

WTVD Ch. 11 (CBS/NBC)

6 AM Aspect
6:30 Sunrise Semester
7 AM Today
9 AM Captain Kangaroo
10 AM The Lucy Show
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Andy Griffith Show
11:30 Dick Van Dyke Show
12 N Love Of Life
12:25 News (local)
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Peggy Mann
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Hollywood Squares
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM Secret Storm
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Hazel
4:30 Beverly Hillbillies
5 PM Perry Mason
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News--Walter Cronkite
7 PM Doris Day Show
7:30 National Geographic: "Reptiles And
Amphibians"
8:30 Red Skelton Hour
9:30 Name Of The Game (delay from Friday
8:30)
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show

Although IIRC WRDU Ch. 28 signed on in November,
TV Guide had not started carrying its listings.

GREENVILLE/NEW BERN/WASHINGTON

WUND Ch. 2 (PBS, part of the state system)
Same schedule as WUNC.

WITN Ch. 7 (NBC)

6 AM North Carolina Education
6:30 Mr. Ed
7 AM Today
9 AM Merv Griffin
10 AM Snap Judgment
10:25 NBC News--Nancy Dickerson
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Personality
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 Eye Guess
12:55 NBC News--Edwin Newman
1 PM Virginia Graham (Girl Talk)
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 You Don't Say!
4 PM Match Game
4:25 NBC News--Floyd Kalber
4:30 The Funny Page (with WITNey the
Marching Hobo)
5 PM Mike Douglas
6 PM News
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Wagon Train
8:30 Julia
9 PM Singer Presents Elvis (a/k/a Elvis' 1968
Comeback Special)
10 PM Brigitte Bardot
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show

WNCT Ch. 9 (CBS)

6:30 Carolina Today
8:30 Meditations
8:35 CBS News--Joseph Benti
9 AM Captain Kangaroo
10 AM The Lucy Show
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11 AM Andy Griffith
11:30 Dick Van Dyke
12 N News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Love Of Life
1:25 Timely Tips
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Love Is A Many-Splendored
Thing
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM Secret Storm
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Password (the 1965-67 color episodes
that were successful enough in reruns
to inspire ABC to revive the show in 1971)
4:30 Santa Claus And Slim (Slim Short, a legend
in those parts)
5 PM Perry Mason
5:55 Paul Harvey
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News--Walter Cronkite
7 PM Truth Or Consequences (would air at 7
well into the '70s)
7:30 National Geographic
8:30 Red Skelton
9:30 Doris Day
10 PM CBS News Special: "Justice (Hugo) Black
And The Bill Of Rights"
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Here Come The Co-eds"

WNBE (WCTI) Ch. 12 (ABC)

7 AM TV Party Line
8 AM Romper Room
9 AM Movie: "Journey Into Fear"
10:30 Dick Cavett
12 N Bewitched
12:30 Treasure Isle
1 PM Dream House
1:30 Funny Tou Should Ask
1:55 Children's Doctor
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM Dark Shadows
4:30 Bozo The Clown
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News--Frank Reynolds
7 PM Invisible Man
7:30 Mod Squad
8:30 It Takes A Thief
9:30 N.Y.P.D.
10 PM That's Life
11 PM News
11:30 Joey Bishop

WILMINGTON

WWAY Ch. 3 (ABC, some CBS)

7 AM Popeye And The Little Rascals
8 AM Dating Game
8:30 Movie: "My Blue Heaven"
10:30 Dick Cavett
12 N Bewitched
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Dream House
1:30 Funny You Should Ask
1:55 Children's Doctor
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM Dark Shadows
4:30 Movie: "The Golden Hawk"
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News
7 PM Real McCoys
7:30 Mod Squad
8:30 It Takes A Thief
9:30 N.Y.P.D.
10 PM That's Life
11 PM News
11:30 Joey Bishop

WECT Ch. 6 (NBC/CBS)

6:30 Carolina In The Morning
7 AM Today
9 AM Mike Douglas
10 AM Snap Judgment
10:25 NBC News
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Personality
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 Eye Guess
12:55 NBC News
1 PM Paul Harvey
1:05 Jim Burns
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Match Game
4:25 NBC News
4:30 Gilligan's Island
5 PM Perry Mason
6 PM News
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Marshal Dillon
7:30 Jerry Lewis Show
8:30 Julia
9 PM Singer Presents Elvis
10 PM Brigitte Bardot
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show

COLUMBIA, SC

WIS Ch. 10 (NBC)

6:45 Farm Report
7 AM Today
9 AM Today In The Carolinas
10 AM Snap Judgment
10:25 NBC News
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Personality
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 Eye Guess
12:55 NBC News
1 PM News
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 You Don't Say!
4 PM Match Game
4:25 NBC News
4:30 Mr. Knozit (Columbia's premier kids' show)
5:30 Merv Griffin
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM News
7:30 Jerry Lewis
8:30 Mr. Speaker: Sol Blatt (speaker of the
SC House of Representatives; at the
time he had held the office 32 years)
9 PM Singer Presents Elvis
10 PM Brigitte Bardot
11 PM News
11:30 Tonighr Show

FLORENCE, SC

WBTW Ch. 13 (CBS/ABC)

6:30 Slim Mims (country music)
7:30 CBS News--Joseph Benti
7:55 Meditations
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Newlywed Game
9:30 Love Of Life
9:55 News
10 AM The Lucy Show
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11 AM Andy Griffith
11:30 Dick Van Dyke
12 N News/Agri-Business
12:25 CBS News--Joseph Benti
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Ann McCoy (local women's show)
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM Secret Storm
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM The Linkletter Show
4:25 CBS News--Douglas Edwards
4:30 Mike Douglas
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News--Walter Cronkite
7 PM Arthur Smith Show
7:30 National Geographic
8:30 Red Skelton
9:30 Doris Day
10 PM CBS News Special
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "The Invisible Man's Revenge"
 
WRAL Ch. 5 (ABC, some CBS and NBC)
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report (management thought
Frank Reynolds was too liberal)

I thought Jesse was ticked off at David Brinkley because of his stance on civil rights. I guess Frank Reynolds ticked him off more.
 
Or, more accurately, Reynolds ticked off A.J. Fletcher,
WRAL's owner. But WRAL wasn't the only ABC affiliate
to drop the network's newscast after Reynolds took
over from Peter Jennings (and a short period in early
'68 when Bob Young anchored); I know that, just in
my neck of the woods, WLOS Asheville, NC and WXIA
(then WQXI) Atlanta also did, and for similar reasons.

I've read on Wikipedia (and I can't vouch for the accuracy
since I didn't live in WRAL's coverage area at the time) that
WRAL used to cut off Howard K. Smith and Harry Reasoner's
commentaries and give Jesse an extra five minutes. If so,
it wasn't for long; Jesse was elected to the Senate in 1972.
 
Or could it be because NBC News produced better ratings than ABC? In the late 60s, many ABC affiliates dropped the ABC broadcast, including WGHP-TV High Point-etc, but most replaced it with syndicated programing. But one program you would never see on a major market ABC station in NC in the mid to late 60s was American Bandstand which had begun to feature African American dancers. Not on WRAL, WGHP, WSOC, or WLOS (can't remember about WCCB).
 
True, ABC was a distant third in news in 1968, but WGHP
never carried ABC's newscast until late August 1970. About
the same time, WLOS began carrying it again; WRAL, IIRC,
didn't pick it up again until Channel 28 became the exclusive
NBC affiliate in the Triangle in 1971.

As for American Bandstand, I have to call you wrong on that
one. The issue of TV Guide from which I'm pulling these listings
is for the week beginning Saturday, November 30, 1968, and
Bandstand airs at 12:30 that day on WWAY, WRAL, WNBE (WCTI),
and WCCB. WGHP pre-empts for wrestling, which normally aired
at 6:30; ABC had a college football doubleheader of the Army-Navy
game, followed by Notre Dame-USC, that ran from 1:30 to approximately
7:30.

And for the record, WRAL had a black-oriented teen dance show,
Teenage Frolics, at 12 Noon on Saturdays, right before Bandstand.
That was the case on November 30, 1968.
In fact, the last time I saw it, in 1978, I thought I was watching
Soul Train, the sets were so similar.
 
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