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Retro: Northern Alabama TV Guide, Daytime, Sept 26-30, 1977

ohstuskaterpunk

ohstuskaterpunk

Stations in region:

Birmingham:
6 WBRC (ABC)
13 WAPI (NBC)
42 WBMG (CBS)

Huntsville:
19 WHNT (CBS)
31 WAAY (NBC) => changed back to ABC on Dec 11, 1977
48 WYUR (ABC) => changed to NBC on Dec 11, 1977 (when WAAY switched from ABC to NBC in January 1968, this station was known as WSML 23 in Decatur until later in 1968)

Nashville:
"2" WNGE (ABC)
"4" WSM (NBC)
"5" WTVF (CBS)

Tuscaloosa:
33 WCFT (CBS)

Anniston:
40 WHMA (CBS)

Columbus, Miss:
4 WCBI (ABC)

Tupelo, Miss:
9 WTWV (NBC, ABC) (don't understand this double-affilation since the Columbus-Tupelo market had 2 stations at the time, one of them an ABC affilate)

From 6 am Central Time

6 am
"2" Good Morning America--Dan Hartman, Nancy Dussault
"4" Morning Show--Emery
"5", 19 CBS News--Bruce Morton, Hughes Rudd
13 Today--Tom Brokaw, Jane Pauley
15 Al Lester--Music
48 PTL Club--Religion
6.30
9 Arthur Smith--Music
31 Three Stooges--Comedy (BW)
6.40
42 Focus
6.45
4 News
33 Cartoons
6.55
40 News
42 Popeye--Cartoon
7 am
4, 48 Good Morning America--Dan Hartman, Nancy Dussault
"4", 9, 15, 48 Today--Tom Brokaw, Jane Pauley
"5" Old Times Singing Convention
6 Morning Show--Tom York
19 Mornin' Folks--Grady Reeves
33, 40, 42 CBS News--Bruce Morton, Hughes Rudd
7.30
"2" Bozo--Children
"5" Mornings on 5--kaiser
8 am
"5", 19, 33, 40, 42 Captain Kangaroo
13 Dinah! (long-time talk show host was born Frances Rose Shore, 1919-94, known for her marriage to actor George Montgomery from 1943-62...they have 2 children)
8.05
6 Merv Griffin
8.30
"2" Green Acres--Comedy
9 am
"2" Morningwatch--Variety
4 Romper Room--Children
"4" Phil Donahue
"5", 33, 40, 42 Here's Lucy
9, 13, 15, 31 Sanford and Son
19 Double Dare
48 PTL Club--Religion
9.30
4, 6 $20,000 Pyramid (6 aired the same broadcast as "2", 48)
"5", 19, 33, 43 Price is Right
9, 13, 15, 31 Hollywood Squares
40 PTL Club--Religion
10 am
"2", 4, 6, 48 Happy Days
"4", 9, 13, 15, 31 Wheel of Fortune
10.30
"2", 4, 6, 48 Family Feud
"4", 9, 13, 15, 31 It's Anybody's Game--Game
"5", 19, 33, 40, 42 Love of Life--Serial
10.55
"5", 19, 33, 40, 42 CBS News--Douglas Edwards
11 am
"2", 4, 48 The Better Sex--Game
"4", 9, 13, 31 Shoot For the Stars--Games
"5", 19, 33, 40, 42 Young and the Restless--Serial
6 New Newlywed Game
15 PTL Club--Religion
11.30
"2", 4, 6, 48 Ryan's Hope--Serial
"4" Noon Show--Bart/Ganick
"5", 19, 33, 40, 42 Search For Tomorrow--Serial
9, 13, 31 Chico and the Man
12 pm
"2", 48 All My Children--Serial
4, 6, 13, 15, 19, 33, 40 News
"5" To Tell the Truth
9 Dark Shadows--Serial
31 Mid-WAAY--Beston
42 Liars Club--Game
12.05
40 By the Way--Butler
12.10
33 Kaleidoscope--Variety
12.15
15 Bible Televist
19 Woman's Page/Weather
12.30
4, 6 All My Children--Serial
"4", 9, 13, 15, 31 Days of Our Lives--Serial
"5", 19, 33, 40, 42 As the World Turns--Serial
1 pm
"2", 48 $20,000 Pyramid
1.30
"2", 4, 6, 48 One Life to Live--Serial
"4", 9, 13, 15, 31 Doctors--Serial
"5", 19, 33, 40, 42 Guiding Light--Serial
2 pm
"4", 9, 13, 15, 31 Another World--Serial
"5", 19, 33, 40, 42 All in the Family
2.15
"2", 4, 6, 48 General Hospital--Serial
2.30
"5", 19, 33, 40, 42 Match Game
3 pm
"2", 4, 6, 48 Edge of Night--Serial
"4" New Mickey Mouse Club
"5" Munsters--Comedy (BW)
9, 13, 15, 31 Gong Show
19, 33, 40, 42 Tattletales
3.30
"2" Brady Bunch--Comedy
4 Beverly Hillbillies
"4" Bewitched--Comedy
"5" Gilligan's Island--Comedy
6 Bewitched--Comedy
9 Little Rascals--Comedy (BW)
13 New Mickey Mouse Club
15 As the World Turns--Serial
19 Little Rascals/Our Gang--Comedy
31 Bugs Bunny/Porgy Pig--Cartoon
33 Andy Griffith--Comedy
40 Price is Right
42 Fred Flintstone and Friends--Cartoon
48 Superman--Adventure
4 pm
"2" Bonanza--Western
4 Gunsmoke--Western
"4", 6 Emergency One!--Drama
"5" Gomer Pyle, USMC
9 Gilligan's Island (BW)
13 Partridge Family--Comedy
19 Brady Bunch--Comedy
31 Star Trek--Science Fiction
33 Hogan's Heroes--Comedy
42 Gilligan's Island
48 Beverly Hillbillies
4.30
"5" Doris Day--Comedy
9 Brady Bunch--Comedy
13 Beverly Hillbillies (BW)
15 Guiding Light--Serial
19 Gunsmoke--Western
33 Star Trek--Science Fiction
40 Rookies
42 Brady Bunch--Comedy
48 Andy Griffith--Comedy (BW)
4.55
6 News
5 pm
"2" Family Affair--Comedy
4 Andy Griffith--Comedy
"4" My Three Sons--Comedy
"5" Mary Tyler Moore--Comedy
6 ABC News--Harry Reasoner, Barbara Walters
9 Bewitched--Comedy
13 News
15 Chico and the Man
31 My Three Sons--Comedy
42 Lucy Show
48 Rifleman--Western (BW)
5.25
"4" Weather
5.30
"2", 4, 48 ABC News--Harry Reasoner, Barbara Walters
"4", 9, 13, 31 NBC News--John Chancellor, David Brinkley
"5", 19, 33, 42 CBS News--Walter Cronkite
6, 15, 40 News
6 pm
"2", 4, "4", "5", 9, 13, 19, 31, 48 News
6 To Tell the Truth
40 CBS News--Walter Cronkite
42 Cross-Wits--Game
6.30
"2" Marty Robbins' Spotlight--Variety
4 My Three Sons--Comedy
"5" Cross-Wits--Game
6 Hollywood Squares--Game
9 To Tell the Truth
13 Family Feud--Game
15 NBC News--John Chancellor, David Brinkley
19 $100,000 Name That Tune--Game
31 Bewitched--Comedy (BW)
33 Brady Bunch--Comedy
40 Mary Tyler Moore--Comedy
42 Concentration
48 Mary Tyler Moore--Comedy

It's noteworthy to say that 15 cleared two of then-CBS' top-rated soap operas:
"As the World Turns" and "Guiding Light". 6 didn't clear "Good Morning America" at all.

<P ID="signature">______________
phil</P>
 
>
> Tupelo, Miss:
> 9 WTWV (NBC, ABC) (don't understand this double-affilation
> since the Columbus-Tupelo market had 2 stations at the time,
> one of them an ABC affilate)

Before Ch. 4 in Columbus became an ABC affiliate (I think that may have lasted about two years), Ch. 9 carried ABC's NCAA football package. I don't ever remember them carrying any other ABC programming.

> It's noteworthy to say that 15 cleared two of then-CBS'
> top-rated soap operas:
> "As the World Turns" and "Guiding Light".

Until it became the UPN station for the Huntsville-Decatur market, Ch. 15 did not invest a lot of money into programming for non-network hours. It was probably the cheapest way that they could fill the schedule between 3:30 and 5:30.

6 didn't clear
> "Good Morning America" at all.

Ch. 6 had a cash cow with the Morning Show with Tom York. There was no way that they were going to give up local ad dollars for a show that was struggling to make a name for itself, especially when Ch. 6 had more viewers than Ch. 13 and Ch. 42 combined.
 
I always enjoy seeing these and would like to see
more from 1973-80.

At 6:30, I suspect that Channels 2, 6, 13, and 19
were running a different show each night. The
practice of "stripping" a show five nights a week
didn't become practically universal until 1980.
I know that 42 began "stripping" in 1972 with
What's My Line?

A couple of notes. At 9 AM on 19, you show
Double Dare (the Alex Trebek-hosted show). How
could that be, if CBS was showing Here's Lucy?

Also, the name of the show at 10:30 AM on NBC
is It's Anybody's Guess. Essentially it was
Monty Hall's answer to Family Feud; he produced
and emceed it.







> Stations in region:
>
> Birmingham:
> 6 WBRC (ABC)
> 13 WAPI (NBC)
> 42 WBMG (CBS)
>
> Huntsville:
> 19 WHNT (CBS)
> 31 WAAY (NBC) => changed back to ABC on Dec 11, 1977
> 48 WYUR (ABC) => changed to NBC on Dec 11, 1977 (when WAAY
> switched from ABC to NBC in January 1968, this station was
> known as WSML 23 in Decatur until later in 1968)
>
> Nashville:
> "2" WNGE (ABC)
> "4" WSM (NBC)
> "5" WTVF (CBS)
>
> Tuscaloosa:
> 33 WCFT (CBS)
>
> Anniston:
> 40 WHMA (CBS)
>
> Columbus, Miss:
> 4 WCBI (ABC)
>
> Tupelo, Miss:
> 9 WTWV (NBC, ABC) (don't understand this double-affilation
> since the Columbus-Tupelo market had 2 stations at the time,
> one of them an ABC affilate)
>
> From 6 am Central Time
>
> 6 am
> "2" Good Morning America--Dan Hartman, Nancy Dussault
> "4" Morning Show--Emery
> "5", 19 CBS News--Bruce Morton, Hughes Rudd
> 13 Today--Tom Brokaw, Jane Pauley
> 15 Al Lester--Music
> 48 PTL Club--Religion
> 6.30
> 9 Arthur Smith--Music
> 31 Three Stooges--Comedy (BW)
> 6.40
> 42 Focus
> 6.45
> 4 News
> 33 Cartoons
> 6.55
> 40 News
> 42 Popeye--Cartoon
> 7 am
> 4, 48 Good Morning America--Dan Hartman, Nancy Dussault
> "4", 9, 15, 48 Today--Tom Brokaw, Jane Pauley
> "5" Old Times Singing Convention
> 6 Morning Show--Tom York
> 19 Mornin' Folks--Grady Reeves
> 33, 40, 42 CBS News--Bruce Morton, Hughes Rudd
> 7.30
> "2" Bozo--Children
> "5" Mornings on 5--kaiser
> 8 am
> "5", 19, 33, 40, 42 Captain Kangaroo
> 13 Dinah! (long-time talk show host was born Frances Rose
> Shore, 1919-94, known for her marriage to actor George
> Montgomery from 1943-62...they have 2 children)
> 8.05
> 6 Merv Griffin
> 8.30
> "2" Green Acres--Comedy
> 9 am
> "2" Morningwatch--Variety
> 4 Romper Room--Children
> "4" Phil Donahue
> "5", 33, 40, 42 Here's Lucy
> 9, 13, 15, 31 Sanford and Son
> 19 Double Dare
> 48 PTL Club--Religion
> 9.30
> 4, 6 $20,000 Pyramid (6 aired the same broadcast as "2", 48)
>
> "5", 19, 33, 43 Price is Right
> 9, 13, 15, 31 Hollywood Squares
> 40 PTL Club--Religion
> 10 am
> "2", 4, 6, 48 Happy Days
> "4", 9, 13, 15, 31 Wheel of Fortune
> 10.30
> "2", 4, 6, 48 Family Feud
> "4", 9, 13, 15, 31 It's Anybody's Game--Game
> "5", 19, 33, 40, 42 Love of Life--Serial
> 10.55
> "5", 19, 33, 40, 42 CBS News--Douglas Edwards
> 11 am
> "2", 4, 48 The Better Sex--Game
> "4", 9, 13, 31 Shoot For the Stars--Games
> "5", 19, 33, 40, 42 Young and the Restless--Serial
> 6 New Newlywed Game
> 15 PTL Club--Religion
> 11.30
> "2", 4, 6, 48 Ryan's Hope--Serial
> "4" Noon Show--Bart/Ganick
> "5", 19, 33, 40, 42 Search For Tomorrow--Serial
> 9, 13, 31 Chico and the Man
> 12 pm
> "2", 48 All My Children--Serial
> 4, 6, 13, 15, 19, 33, 40 News
> "5" To Tell the Truth
> 9 Dark Shadows--Serial
> 31 Mid-WAAY--Beston
> 42 Liars Club--Game
> 12.05
> 40 By the Way--Butler
> 12.10
> 33 Kaleidoscope--Variety
> 12.15
> 15 Bible Televist
> 19 Woman's Page/Weather
> 12.30
> 4, 6 All My Children--Serial
> "4", 9, 13, 15, 31 Days of Our Lives--Serial
> "5", 19, 33, 40, 42 As the World Turns--Serial
> 1 pm
> "2", 48 $20,000 Pyramid
> 1.30
> "2", 4, 6, 48 One Life to Live--Serial
> "4", 9, 13, 15, 31 Doctors--Serial
> "5", 19, 33, 40, 42 Guiding Light--Serial
> 2 pm
> "4", 9, 13, 15, 31 Another World--Serial
> "5", 19, 33, 40, 42 All in the Family
> 2.15
> "2", 4, 6, 48 General Hospital--Serial
> 2.30
> "5", 19, 33, 40, 42 Match Game
> 3 pm
> "2", 4, 6, 48 Edge of Night--Serial
> "4" New Mickey Mouse Club
> "5" Munsters--Comedy (BW)
> 9, 13, 15, 31 Gong Show
> 19, 33, 40, 42 Tattletales
> 3.30
> "2" Brady Bunch--Comedy
> 4 Beverly Hillbillies
> "4" Bewitched--Comedy
> "5" Gilligan's Island--Comedy
> 6 Bewitched--Comedy
> 9 Little Rascals--Comedy (BW)
> 13 New Mickey Mouse Club
> 15 As the World Turns--Serial
> 19 Little Rascals/Our Gang--Comedy
> 31 Bugs Bunny/Porgy Pig--Cartoon
> 33 Andy Griffith--Comedy
> 40 Price is Right
> 42 Fred Flintstone and Friends--Cartoon
> 48 Superman--Adventure
> 4 pm
> "2" Bonanza--Western
> 4 Gunsmoke--Western
> "4", 6 Emergency One!--Drama
> "5" Gomer Pyle, USMC
> 9 Gilligan's Island (BW)
> 13 Partridge Family--Comedy
> 19 Brady Bunch--Comedy
> 31 Star Trek--Science Fiction
> 33 Hogan's Heroes--Comedy
> 42 Gilligan's Island
> 48 Beverly Hillbillies
> 4.30
> "5" Doris Day--Comedy
> 9 Brady Bunch--Comedy
> 13 Beverly Hillbillies (BW)
> 15 Guiding Light--Serial
> 19 Gunsmoke--Western
> 33 Star Trek--Science Fiction
> 40 Rookies
> 42 Brady Bunch--Comedy
> 48 Andy Griffith--Comedy (BW)
> 4.55
> 6 News
> 5 pm
> "2" Family Affair--Comedy
> 4 Andy Griffith--Comedy
> "4" My Three Sons--Comedy
> "5" Mary Tyler Moore--Comedy
> 6 ABC News--Harry Reasoner, Barbara Walters
> 9 Bewitched--Comedy
> 13 News
> 15 Chico and the Man
> 31 My Three Sons--Comedy
> 42 Lucy Show
> 48 Rifleman--Western (BW)
> 5.25
> "4" Weather
> 5.30
> "2", 4, 48 ABC News--Harry Reasoner, Barbara Walters
> "4", 9, 13, 31 NBC News--John Chancellor, David Brinkley
> "5", 19, 33, 42 CBS News--Walter Cronkite
> 6, 15, 40 News
> 6 pm
> "2", 4, "4", "5", 9, 13, 19, 31, 48 News
> 6 To Tell the Truth
> 40 CBS News--Walter Cronkite
> 42 Cross-Wits--Game
> 6.30
> "2" Marty Robbins' Spotlight--Variety
> 4 My Three Sons--Comedy
> "5" Cross-Wits--Game
> 6 Hollywood Squares--Game
> 9 To Tell the Truth
> 13 Family Feud--Game
> 15 NBC News--John Chancellor, David Brinkley
> 19 $100,000 Name That Tune--Game
> 31 Bewitched--Comedy (BW)
> 33 Brady Bunch--Comedy
> 40 Mary Tyler Moore--Comedy
> 42 Concentration
> 48 Mary Tyler Moore--Comedy
>
> It's noteworthy to say that 15 cleared two of then-CBS'
> top-rated soap operas:
> "As the World Turns" and "Guiding Light". 6 didn't clear
> "Good Morning America" at all.
>
 
> > It's noteworthy to say that 15 cleared two of then-CBS'
> > top-rated soap operas:
> > "As the World Turns" and "Guiding Light".
>
> Until it became the UPN station for the Huntsville-Decatur
> market, Ch. 15 did not invest a lot of money into
> programming for non-network hours. It was probably the
> cheapest way that they could fill the schedule between 3:30
> and 5:30.

Of course, I wonder how strong ch.19's signal was at the time in the Florence area, where ch.15 was based.
 
> > > It's noteworthy to say that 15 cleared two of then-CBS'
> > > top-rated soap operas:
> > > "As the World Turns" and "Guiding Light".
> >
> > Until it became the UPN station for the Huntsville-Decatur
>
> > market, Ch. 15 did not invest a lot of money into
> > programming for non-network hours. It was probably the
> > cheapest way that they could fill the schedule between
> 3:30
> > and 5:30.
>
> Of course, I wonder how strong ch.19's signal was at the
> time in the Florence area, where ch.15 was based.
>
I seem to recall that when As The World Turns was a half-hour
show, Ch. 15 carried the live feed (in both senses, since the
show itself was done live) at 12:30 (Central). When I lived
in Alabama, the 12:30 show on NBC was Three On A Match (with
Bill Cullen), but Ch. 15 elected to go with the more popular
CBS soap, the number-one show in daytime then.
 
> At 6:30, I suspect that Channels 2, 6, 13, and 19
> were running a different show each night. The
> practice of "stripping" a show five nights a week
> didn't become practically universal until 1980.
> I know that 42 began "stripping" in 1972 with
> What's My Line?

"2", "5", 6, 13, 19, 33, 40 all aired a different show each weeknight at 6.30 pm Central.
15 aired NBC News at 6.30 in 1977.

> A couple of notes. At 9 AM on 19, you show
> Double Dare (the Alex Trebek-hosted show). How
> could that be, if CBS was showing Here's Lucy?

9 am
"2" Morningwatch--Variety
4 Romper Room--Children
"4" Phil Donahue
"5", 33, 40, 42 Here's Lucy
9, 13, 15, 31 Sanford and Son
19 Double Dare
48 PTL Club--Religion

"Double Dare" aired on CBS from December 1976 to April 1977, according to
http://members.aol.com/tdelegge1/myhomepage/doubledare.html.

> Also, the name of the show at 10:30 AM on NBC
> is It's Anybody's Guess. Essentially it was
> Monty Hall's answer to Family Feud; he produced
> and emceed it.

10.30
"2", 4, 6, 48 Family Feud
"4", 9, 13, 15, 31 It's Anybody's Guess--Game
"5", 19, 33, 40, 42 Love of Life--Serial

You're right...sorry about that. Thanks for the correction.<P ID="signature">______________
phil</P>
 
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