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Retro: Shenandoah Valley, Virginia Friday May 5, 1978

These listings are from the Winchester, Virginia "Evening Star" from
Friday 5/5/78....

**Winchester/Frederick County's Apple Blossom Festival ( day one ) is in full swing.
Harrisonburg's WHSV, Winchester's WINC and Hagerstown's WHAG does the coverage today with Washington's then-WTOP, Harrisonburg's WVPT and Baltimore's WBFF picking some of it over the weekend to cover day two.

WMAR ( CBS ) Baltimore Channel 2....
7:00 CBS News
8:00 My Three Sons
8:30 Romper Room
9:00 Captain Kangaroo
10:00 Joker's Wild
10:30 Price Is Right
11:30 Love Of Life
Noon Young & The Restless
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1:00 2's Compnay with Meryl Comer
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3:30 All In The Family
4:00 Tom & Jerry
4:30 Bonanza
5:30 Channel 2 News
6:30 CBS News
7:00 Newlywed Game
7:30 $100,000 Name That Tune
8:00 Baltimore Health Test
8:30 Up Front with George Collins
9:00 Incredible Hulk
10:00 Husbands, Wives & Lovers
11:00 Channel 2 News
11:30 NBA Play-Off
1:30 Love, American Style

WHSV ( ABC-NBC ) Harrisonburg Channel 3....
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 PTL Club
10:00 Various
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11:00 Happy Days
11:30 Family Feud
Noon Sanford & Son
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life To Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Edge Of Night
4:30 Various
6:00 TV 3 Action News
6:30 ABC News
7:00 Apple Blossom Festival
7:30 To Be Announced
8:00 Donny & Marie
9:00 ABC Movie
11:00 TV 3 Action News
11:30 Apple Blossom Festival's Firefighter's Parade

WRC ( NBC ) Washington Channel 4....
6:00 Knowledge
6:30 Not For Women Only
7:00 Today
9:00 Mike Douglas
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11:00 High Rollers
11:30 Wheel Of Fortune
Noon Card Sharks
12:30 To Tell The Truth
1:00 For Richer, For Poorer
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 Doctors
3:00 Another World
4:00 Gong Show
4:30 Sanford & Son
5:00 Mary Tyler Moore
5:30 NewsCenter 4
6:30 NBC News
7:00 Newlywed Game
7:30 Hollywood Squares
8:00 Grizzly Adams
9:00 Rockford Files
10:00 Quincy
11:00 News Center 4
11:30 Johnny Carson
1:00 Midnight Special ( with Genesis and the Oak Ridge Boys )

WTTG Washington Channel 5.....
6:00 Education
6:30 New Zoo Review
7:00 Tom & Jerry
7:30 Porky Pig
8:00 Flintstones
8:30 Deputy Dawg
9:00 Dennis The Menace
9:30 Father Knows Best
10:00 Dick Van-Dyke
10:30 That Girl
11:00 Medical center
Noon Panarama
2:00 High Hopes ( soap )
2:30 I Love Lucy
3:00 Archies
3:30 New Mickey Mouse Club
4:00 Fred Flintstone & Friends
4:30 Tom & Jerry
5:00 Flintstones
5:30 Partridge Family
6:00 My Three Sons
6:30 Family Affair
7:00 Andy Griffith
7:30 Brady Bunch
8:00 Truth About Houdini
9:00 Merv Griffin ( a salute to Esquire Magazine )
10:00 Ten O'Clock News
11:00 Odd Couple
11:30 Perry Mason
12:30 Movie
2:30 Movie
4:30 Movie

WINC ( cable ) Winchester Channel 6....
9:00 News and weather
9:15 Joe Pasquali's Coaches Corner
10:00 High School Baseball
11:00 Interview with Queen Shenandoah
11:30 Interview with Norman Fell ( Mr. Roper from Three's Company )
Noon Library Dataline
12:30 Welcome to Winchester
12:45 Apple Blossom News
1:00 The Queen's Coronation ( with James Garner from Rockford Files )
2:30 Interview with Miss Virginia
3:00 Interview with Gov. John Dalton
3:30 Interview with Johnny Unitas
4:00 Replay of the Queen's Coronation
6:30 Apple Blossom Firefighter's Parade
11:00 Interview with Rex Allen Jr. & Dolly Parton

WJLA ( ABC ) Washington Channel 7.....
6:30 Sermon On The Mount
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 AM Washington
10:00 Edge Of Night
10:30 $20,000 Pyramid
11:00 Happy Days
11:30 Family Feud
Noon News 7
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life To Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Movie
5:30 News 7
7:00 ABC News
7:30 Wild, Wild World of Animals
8:00 Donny & Marie
9:00 ABC Movie
11:00 News 7
11:30 Baretta
12:40 Movie

WBFF Baltimore Channel 8 ( 45 air )......
6:45 News
7:00 Three Stooges
7:30 Little Rascals
8:00 Flintstones
8:30 Gilligan's Island
9:00 Partridge Family
9:30 I Love Lucy
10:00 Dinah !!
11:30 Lucy Show
Noon Jim Nabors ( Bob Eubanks and Sonny Bono )
1:00 Movie
3:00 Munsters ( Captain Chesapeake )
3:30 Flintstones
4:00 Monkees
4:30 Batman
5:00 Gilligan's Island
5:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
6:00 I Dream Of Jeannie
6:30 Get Smart
7:00 Hogan's Heroes
7:30 I Love Lucy
8:00 Perry Mason
9:00 Movie
11:00 Lucy Show
11:30 Movie
1:20 News

WTOP ( CBS ) Washington Channel 9....
6:00 Christopher Close-Up
6:30 Best of Morning Break
7:00 CBS News
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Phil Donahue
10:00 Morning Break
11:00 Lucy Show
11:30 Love Of Life
Noon Young & The Restless
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1:00 Eyewitness News
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3:30 All In The Family
4:00 Dinah!!
5:30 Eyewitness News
7:00 CBS News
7:30 Disaster: How and Why
8:00 Wonder Woman
9:00 Incredible Hulk
10:00 Husbands, Wives & Lovers
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:30 NBA Play-Off

WDCA Washington Channel 10 ( 20 air )....
5:45 PTL Club
6:45 Felix The Cat
7:00 Spiderman
7:30 Woody Woodpecker
8:00 Bugs Bunny
8:30 Kimba, The White Lion
9:00 Channel 20 Club
9:30 Romper Room
10:00 700 Club
11:30 Rock ( religious )
Noon Movie
2:00 Banana Splits
2:30 Marine Boy
3:00 Speedracer
3:30 Jonny Quest
4:00 Superfriends
4:30 Spiderman
5:00 Woody Woodpecker
5:30 Gilligan's Island
6:00 Star Trek
7:00 Carol Burnett & Friends
7:30 America 2Night
8:00 Untouchables
9:00 Movie
11:00 Twlight Zone
11:30 Honeymooners
Mid PTL Club
1:00 Movie

WHAG ( NBC ) Hagerstown channel 11 ( 25 air )....
6:55 Paul Harvey
7:00 Today
9:00 Gospel Singing Jubilee
10:00 Card Sharks
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11:00 High Rollers
11:30 Wheel Of Fortune
Noon Sanford & Son
12:30 To Tell The Truth
1:00 For Richer, For Poorer
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 Doctors
3:00 Another World
4:00 PTL Club
6:00 The Valley News
6:30 NBC News
7:00 Apple Blossom
7:30 Mary Robbins' Spotlight
8:00 Grizzly Adams
9:00 Rockford Files
10:00 Quincy
11:00 The Valley News
11:30 Johnny Carson
1:00 Midnight Special

WVPT ( PBS ) Harrisonburg Channel 12 ( 42 air )....
7:00 Sesame Street
8:00 Apple Blossom
9:00 instructional programming
3:30 Mister Rogers
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Electric Company
5:30 Over Easy
6:00 Zoom !!
6:30 Villa Alegre
7:00 Dick Cavett
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer
8:00 Washington Week in Review
8:30 Wall Street Week
9:00 Apple Blossom

***The Star's weekend listings included Baltimore's WJZ-TV 13 but they were left out during the week.

***Washington's WETA was NOT available on local cable TV in this part of Virginia at the time of these listings.
 
Braves2005 said:
I wonder why all of the CBS stations in that portion of Virginia didn't carry Match Game '78.

Somewhat surprised that WMAR didn't carry it at this time but not really surprised that WTOP chose not too. However most cable systems in that area did offer Richmond's WTVR so chances are most viewers could have watched it there, except in Winchester, VA where local radio/cable TV WINC blocked it out.

The apple blossom listings. During the 70s this was actually syndicated nationwide. Not sure how many markets aired it but I know it aired in Salt Lake City and Little Rock. What viewers saw outside of Winchester-Harrisonburg was just an hour of one of the parades. Thats a good thing too since both parades ( Friday's Firefighters Parade and Saturday's Grand Feature Parade ) both run about 4-5 hours each. Today its more like 2-3 hours each.

I have been told that Tom Bosley from Happy Days and talk show legend Mike Douglas at one time anchored the parade coverage.

Wonder if WHSV carried the whole parade?
 
Does anybody remember anything about the show "Husbands, Wives And Lovers" that aired Friday night at 10 on CBS? All I remember is the title.
 
WTOP-TV had become WDVM-TV by 1978. The call letters changed to the current WUSA-TV around 1985.
 
chuckydoll said:
WTOP-TV had become WDVM-TV by 1978. The call letters changed to the current WUSA-TV around 1985.

WTOP did change call letters to WDVM in 1978, but it didn't occur until that fall. I was living in the (or what use to be) countryside between Warrenton and Culpeper at the time WDVM was bought buy Gannett and became WUSA on July 4th, 1986 I believe. Shortly afterward I went westward ho.
 
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