Retro: Northern Alabama Tuesday, June 5, 1973

[bpatrick]

From TV Guide, Northern Alabama Edition:

Regular programming may be pre-empted by
coverage of the Ervin Committee Watergate
hearings.

WCBI Ch. 4 Columbus, MS (CBS/ABC)

6:45 Weather
7 AM CBS News (John Hart)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Joker's Wild
9:30 $10,000 Pyramid
10 AM Gambit
10:30 Love Of Life
10:55 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
11 AM Young And The Restless
11:30 Search For Tomorrow
12 N News
12:25 Caldwell's Corner
12:30 As The World Turns
1 PM Guiding Light
1:30 Edge Of Night
2 PM Price Is Right
2:30 Hollywood's Talking
3 PM Secret Storm
3:30 Love, American Style
4 PM Bewitched
4:30 Flintstones
5 PM Bible Time
5:30 CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
6 PM News
6:30 Brady Bunch
7 PM He's Your Dog, Charlie Brown
7:30 Hawaii Five-O
8:30 Pilots: 1. "Bachelor At Law,"
2. "Roll Out!" (made the CBS
schedule that fall and was short-lived),
3. "Cops" (a sitcom, not a reality show)
10 PM News
10:30 CBS Movie: "The Two Faces Of Dr.
Jekyll"

WSM (WSMV) Ch. 4 Nashville (NBC)

5:45 Weather
5:50 Devotional
5:55 Job Market
6 AM Morning Show (Ralph Emery)
7 AM Today
9 AM Dinah's Place
9:30 Baffle
10 AM Sale Of The Century
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11 AM Jeopardy!
11:30 Who, What Or Where
11:55 NBC News (Edwin Newman)
12 N News
1 PM Days Of Our Lives
1:30 The Doctors
2 PM Another World
2:30 Return To Peyton Place
3 PM Munsters
3:30 Movie: "Abbott And Costello
Meet Frankenstein"
4:55 Dragnet
5:25 Weather
5:30 NBC News (John Chancellor)
6 PM News
6:30 I've Got A Secret (short-lived
syndicated version hosted by
Steve Allen)
7 PM NBC Movie: "Kill A Dragon"
9 PM First Tuesday
10 PM News
10:30 Tonight Show

WLAC (WTVF) Ch. 5 Nashville (CBS)

5:15 Country Journal
5:30 Carl Tipton
6:30 Garner Ted Armstrong
7 AM Mornings With Siegel
7:55 Formby's Workshop
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Joker's Wild
9:30 $10,000 Pyramid
10 AM Gambit
10:30 Love Of Life
10:55 CBS News
11 AM Young And The Restless (today,
Ch. 5 is one of five CBS stations
in the Central time zone to carry
"Y&R" at 11:30)
11:30 Search For Tomorrow
12 N Singing Convention
12:25 News
12:30 As The World Turns
1 PM Guiding Light
1:30 Edge Of Night
2 PM Price Is Right
2:30 Hollywood's Talking
3 PM Secret Storm
3:30 Jeff's Collie
4 PM Movie: "Deported"
5:25 Weather
5:30 CBS News
6 PM News
6:30 To Tell The Truth
7 PM He's Your Dog, Charlie Brown
7:30 Hawaii Five-O
8:30 Pilots (see WCBI for details)
10 PM News
10:30 Dan August (delay from Wed 8 PM)
11:30 CBS Movie: "Two Faces Of Dr. Jekyll"

WBRC Ch. 6 Birmingham (ABC)

4:25 Industry On Parade
4:40 Religious Town Hall
5:10 Morning Devotional
5:15 Farm Market Reports
5:30 News
5:35 Country Boy Eddie (Russell Wells can
probably tell you more about Eddie Burns)
7 AM Morning Show (Tom York)
8:30 Merv Griffin
9:30 Dating Game
10 AM All My Children
10:30 Bewitched
11 AM Password
11:30 Split Second
12 N News
12:30 Let's Make A Deal
1 PM Newlywed Game
1:30 I Dream Of Jeannie
2 PM General Hospital
2:30 One Life To Live
3 PM Love, American Style
3:30 Laramie
4:30 I Love Lucy
5 PM ABC News (Smith/Reasoner)
5:30 News
6 PM To Tell The Truth
6:30 Price Is Right (Dennis James hosts)
7 PM Temperatures Rising
7:30 ABC Movie: "That Certain Summer"
9 PM Marcus Welby, M.D.
10 PM News
10:30 Man From U.N.C.L.E.
11:30 Jack Paar Tonite

WCIQ Ch. 7 Mt. Cheaha State Park/WBIQ Ch. 10
Birmingham/WHIQ Ch. 25 Huntsville/WFIQ Ch. 36
Florence (PBS)

2:30 Carrascolendas
3 PM Waterways
3:30 Electric Company
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Project 360 (helping the handicapped
through employment)
6 PM Small Business Management
6:30 Adult Education
7 PM American Odyssey
8 PM International Performace (musical
performances from foreign TV; this
week it's Stravinsky's "Firebird," from
France)
9 PM Southern Perspective
10 PM Turning Points

WSIX Ch. 8 (WKRN Ch. 2) Nashville (ABC)

6:25 F Troop
6:55 News
7:05 Bozo
8 AM New Zoo Revue
8:30 Green Acres
9 AM Movie: "Woman Obsessed"
10:45 Lucille Rivers Sewing
11 AM Password
11:30 Split Second
12 N All My Children
12:30 Let's Make A Deal
1 PM Newlywed Game
1:30 Dating Game
2 PM General Hospital
2:30 One Life To Live
3 PM Andy Griffith
3:30 Merv Griffin (why does this juxtaposition
seem so right?)
5 PM ABC News
5:30 News
6 PM Truth Or Consequences
6:30 Amazing World Of Kreskin
7 PM Temperatures Rising
7:30 Movie: "The Over-The-Hill Gang Rides
Again" (Ch. 8 management must have
thought "That Certain Summer," about
homosexuality, too controversial and not
suitable for family viewing.)
9 PM Marcus Welby, M.D.
10 PM News
10:30 Jack Paar Tonite

WTVA Ch. 9 Tupelo, MS (NBC)

7 AM Today
9 AM Dinah's Place
9:30 Baffle
10 AM Sale Of The Century
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11 AM Jeopardy!
11:30 Who, What Or Where
11:55 NBC News
12 N News
12:30 Three On A Match
1 PM Days Of Our Lives
1:30 The Doctors
2 PM Another World
2:30 Return To Peyton Place
3 PM Somerset
3:30 Movie: "Phantom Lady"
5 PM Green Acres
5:30 NBC News
6 PM News
6:30 To Tell The Truth
7 PM NBC Movie: "Kill A Dragon"
9 PM First Tuesday
10 PM News
10:30 Tonight Show

WAPI (WVTM) Ch. 13 Birmingham (NBC)

5:15 Awake!
5:45 Top Of The Morning
7 AM Today
9 AM Dinah's Place
9:30 Baffle
10 AM Sale Of The Century
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11 AM Jeopardy!
11:30 Who, What Or Where
11:55 NBC News
12 N News
12:15 Mid-Day
12:30 Three On A Match
1 PM Days Of Our Lives
1:30 The Doctors
2 PM Another World
2:30 Return To Peyton Place
3 PM Somerset
3:30 Green Acres
4 PM Gomer Pyle, USMC (a biggie in
Alabama--Jim Nabors is from
Sylacauga)
4:30 Andy Griffith
5 PM News
5:30 NBC News
6 PM News
6:30 World Of Survival
7 PM NBC Movie: "Kill A Dragon"
9 PM First Tuesday
10 PM Parent Game
10:30 Young Dr. Kildare
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show (Ch. 11 in Minneapolis
would, in the '80s, be the only other
station to get this privilege--although
some NBC affiliates dropped it for a time.)

WOWL (WHDF) Ch. 15 Florence (NBC)

7 AM Today
9 AM Dinah's Place
9:30 Baffle
10 AM Sale Of The Century
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11 AM Jeopardy!
11:30 Who, What Or Where
11:55 NBC News
12 N News
12:15 Bible Televisit
12:30 As The World Turns
1 PM Days Of Our Lives
1:30 The Doctors
2 PM Another World
2:30 Return To Peyton Place
3 PM Somerset
3:30 Three On A Match
4 PM Children's Hour
5 PM News
6 PM NBC News
6:30 Lassie
7 PM NBC Movie: "Kill A Dragon"
9 PM First Tuesday
10 PM News
10:30 Tonight Show

WHNT Ch. 19 Huntsville (CBS)

5:25 Summer Semester (topic not given)
5:55 Minister's Study
6 AM CBS News
7 AM Morning Folks (Grady Reeves)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Joker's Wild
9:30 $10,000 Pyramid
10 AM Gambit
10:30 Love Of Life
10:55 CBS News
11 AM Young And The Restless
11:30 Search For Tomorrow
12 N News
12:30 As The World Turns
1 PM Guiding Light
1:30 Edge Of Night
2 PM Price Is Right
2:30 Hollywood's Talking
3 PM Secret Storm
3:30 Cartoons
4 PM Movie: "Buffalo Bill"
5:30 CBS News
6 PM News
6:30 Truth Or Consequences
7 PM He's Your Dog, Charlie Brown
7:30 Hawaii Five-O
8:30 Pilots (see WCBI for details)
10 PM News
10:30 CBS Movie: "The Two Faces Of
Dr. Jekyll"
12:15 News

WAAY Ch. 31 Huntsville (NBC)

5:45 Devotional
6 AM Cartoons
7 AM Today
9 AM Coffee Break
9:30 Baffle
10 AM Sale Of The Century
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11 AM Jeopardy!
11:30 Who, What Or Where
11:55 NBC News
12 N Dinah's Place
12:30 Three On A Match
1 PM Days Of Our Lives
1:30 The Doctors
2 PM Another World
2:30 Return To Peyton Place
3 PM Somerset
3:30 Flintstones
4 PM Gomer Pyle, USMC
4:30 Beverly Hillbillies
5 PM Andy Griffith
5:25 Weather
5:30 NBC News
6 PM News
6:30 I've Got A Secret
7 PM NBC Movie: "Kill A Dragon"
9 PM First Tuesday
10 PM News
10:30 Tonight Show
12 M News
12:05 Movie: "Air Cadet"

WCFT Ch. 33 Tuscaloosa (CBS)

6:30 Cartoons
7 AM CBS News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Joker's Wild
9:30 $10,000 Pyramid
10 AM Gambit
10:30 Love Of Life
10:55 CBS News
11 AM Young And The Restless
11:30 Search For Tomorrow
12 N Galloping Gourmet
12:30 As The World Turns
1 PM Guiding Light
1:30 Edge Of Night
2 PM Price Is Right
2:30 Hollywood's Talking
3 PM Secret Storm
3:30 Movie: "Five" (five people are
left alive after an atomic blast--
hasn't there been a series like this?)
5 PM Little Black Book
5:30 CBS News
6 PM News
6:30 Green Acres
7 PM He's Your Dog, Charlie Brown
7:30 Hawaii Five-O
8:30 Pilots (see WCBI for details)
10 PM News
10:30 CBS Movie: "The Two Faces Of
Dr. Jekyll"

WHMA (WJSU) Ch. 40 Anniston (CBS)

6:55 Ted Allen
7 AM CBS News
7:30 Paul Harvey
7:35 Rise And Shine
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Joker's Wild
9:30 $10,000 Pyramid
10 AM Gambit
10:30 Love Of Life
10:55 CBS News
11 AM Young And The Restless
11:30 Search For Tomorrow
12 N News
12:05 By The Way
12:30 As The World Turns
1 PM Guiding Light
1:30 Edge Of Night
2 PM Price Is Right
2:30 Hollywood's Talking
3 PM Secret Storm
3:30 Joanne Carson's VIPs
4 PM Father Knows Best
4:30 Real McCoys
5 PM News
5:30 CBS News
6 PM Lassie
6:30 Police Surgeon
7 PM He's Your Dog, Charlie Brown
7:30 Hawaii Five-O
8:30 Pilots (see WCBI for details)
10 PM News
10:30 CBS Movie: "The Two Faces Of
Dr. Jekyll"

WBMG (WIAT) Ch. 42 Birmingham (CBS)

6:45 Focus
7 AM CBS News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Joker's Wild
9:30 $10,000 Pyramid
10 AM Gambit
10:30 Love Of Life
10:55 CBS News
11 AM Young And The Restless
11:30 Search For Tomorrow
12 N Divorce Court
12:30 As The World Turns
1 PM Guiding Light
1:30 Edge Of Night
2 PM Price Is Right
2:30 Hollywood's Talking
3 PM Secret Storm
3:30 Mayberry R.F.D.
4 PM Sergeant Jack (one of Birmingham's
greatest kids' shows)
4:30 Munsters
5 PM Dragnet
5:30 CBS News
6 PM Truth Or Consequences
6:30 What's My Line?
7 PM He's Your Dog, Charlie Brown
7:30 Hawaii Five-O
8:30 Pilots (see WCBI for details)
10 PM News
10:30 CBS Movie: "The Two Faces Of
Dr. Jekyll"

WMSL (WAFF) Ch. 48 Huntsville (ABC)

6:30 Farm News
6:45 Agricultural Film
7 AM News
7:05 Sonny Sims
8 AM Romper Room
8:30 This Morning
9 AM Jack LaLanne
9:30 Not For Women Only
10 AM Galloping Gourmet
10:30 Bewitched
11 AM Password
11:30 Split Second
12 N All My Children
12:30 Let's Make A Deal
1 PM Newlywed Game
1:30 Dating Game
2 PM General Hospital
2:30 One Life To Live
3 PM Love, American Style
3:30 New Zoo Revue
4 PM Happy Hour (cartoons)
4:30 Green Acres
5 PM News
5:30 ABC News
6 PM U.S. Marshal
6:30 American Angler
7 PM Temperatures Rising
7:30 ABC Movie: "That Certain Summer"
9 PM Marcus Welby, M.D.
10 PM News
10:30 Jack Paar Tonite

 

[oldiesfan6479]

WSIX Ch. 8 (WKRN Ch. 2) Nashville (ABC)
3 PM Andy Griffith
3:30 Merv Griffin (why does this juxtaposition
seem so right?)

"We'll be right baaack...here on the...Merv Griffith Show...oooooh!" ;D

 

[Stanislav]

WSIX Ch. 8 (WKRN Ch. 2) Nashville (ABC)
3 PM Andy Griffith
3:30 Merv Griffin (why does this juxtaposition
seem so right?)

"We'll be right baaack...here on the...Merv Griffith Show...oooooh!" ;D

Let's not forget SCTV's brilliant mashup "The Merv Griffith Show" with all the denizens of Mayberry, but Merv as the good Sheriff.

 

[bpatrick]

I've often wondered how many people get Andy
Williams mixed up with Andy Griffith, and Andy
Griffith with Merv Griffin. The SCTV sketch suggests
plenty.

 

[Mike Stroud]

bp, I've got a correction for you on WSM-TV at 12 Noon. Channel 4 aired The Noon Show, hosted by Teddy Bart for one hour; this was a typical mid-day variety show for its day, with a live big-band-like orchestra. This show had been a Nashville institution since the 1950s, when recently-deceased station fixture Jud Collins hosted. By this point, though, Teddy Bart, who went on to become a morning-drive radio talk-show host from the 1980s onward and also worked for WSM-AM at the time, hosted, along with a succession of female co-hostesses (I remember in particular Elaine Ganick). WSM/V kept the title until about 1981-82, when Bart left for ABC affil WNGE (now WKRN) and the station moved the show to mid-morning, rechristening it Channel Four Magazine; the music was dropped at that time also.

It is curious to compare WSM's demographic strategy with that of CBS affil WLAC. The latter station ran a 25-minute Southern Gospel music show at Noon, a program that may well have been brokered. WLAC was trying to counterprogram against WSM's intended audience: 1) residents of metropolitan Nashville (city and suburbs); 2) educated housewives; and 3) those with moderate-to-high incomes by appealing to their opposites: 1) residents of rural and small-town middle Tennessee and southern Kentucky, where the "old-time religion" reigned and gospel music was deeply rooted in the culture; 2) the elderly; and 3) those with relatively less purchasing power or appeal to mainstream advertisers. This dynamic could probably be found in numerous other Southern markets, but we have here something of a polarization reminiscent of our present "red state"-"blue state" acrimony. ABC affil WSIX (now WKRN) served the other major constituency of daytime viewers, teenaged girls and young unmarried women, with ABC's All My Children.

BTW, the show of course featured a short newscast, but it was much more than that, so we need to set the record straight.

 

[bpatrick]

I do recall when I started seeing the Northern
Alabama edition in 1969 that Ch. 4 Nashville's
noon listing was indeed The Noon Show
with Teddy Bart, and I flinched when I saw
"News" listed at noon in this particular 1973
issue. But I lived in Birmingham, not Nashville,
and it has been 36 years. I put 'em up the way
I see 'em--especially when I don't know any better.
Thanks for the correction.

From what I read, I think the demographic target
has changed re local news in Nashville. WTVF
seems to be after the urban/suburban audience,
while WSMV goes after the rural audience with a
more folksy newscast (I don't know where WKRN
fits in). I know that WTVF's newscasts remind me
of WXII here in Piedmont North Carolina: a very no-
nonsense, almost network approach.