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Retro: West-Central Alabama Monday, 11/3/69

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Charles1

Source: The Tuscaloosa News 11/1/69, via Google News Archive

Channels Listed

4-WCBI, Columbus, MS (CBS/ABC)
6-WBRC, Birmingham (ABC)
11-WTOK, Meridian, MS/Demopolis, AL (CBS/ABC/NBC)
12-WSFA, Montgomery (NBC)
13-WAPI, Birmingham (CBS/NBC)
33-WCFT, Tuscaloosa (CBS/NBC)
42-WBMG, Birmingham (CBS/NBC)

4:30

6-The World Around Us

5:00

6-Farm Market Report
13-Black Heritage

5:50

6-Country Boy Eddie

6:00

13-TV Partyline

6:30

11-Black Heritage
12-Dawn Bunny

7:00

4-11-33-42: CBS Morning News
6-Morning Show
12-13: Today

7:30

42-Rocky and His Friends

8:00

4-33-42: Captain Kangaroo
11-Faith for Everyone
13-Romper Room

8:15

11-Captain Kangaroo

8:30

6-Huck and Yogi
13-Joseph Benti News

9:00
4-Romper Room
6-Dudley Do-Right
11-13: The Lucy Show
12-33-42: It Takes Two

9:30

4-11-33-42: The Beverly Hillbillies
6-Dennis Wholey Show
12-13: Concentration

10:00

4-11-33-42: Andy Griffith Show
12-13: Sale of the Century

10:30

4-11-33-42: Love of Life
6-Dream House
12-13: Hollywood Squares

11:00

4-11-33-42: Where the Heart Is
6-Bewitched
12-13: Jeopardy

11:30

4-11-13: Search for Tomorrow
6: That Girl
12-33-42: Name Droppers

12:00

4-12-13: News
6-Dream House
11-Farm and Home Report
33-42: Galloping Gourmet

12:15

11-News
13-Mid-Day

12:30

4-11-13: As the World Turns
6-Let’s Make a Deal
12-33-42: You’re Putting Me On

1:00

4-11-13: Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
6-Newlywed Game
12-33-42: Days of Our Lives

1:30

4-11-13: The Guiding Light
6-Dating Game
12-33-42: The Doctors

2:00

4-11-33-42: Secret Storm
6-General Hospital
12-13: Another World

2:30

4-11-33-42: The Edge of Night
6-One Life to Live
12-13: Bright Promise

3:00

4-13: Gomer Pyle, USMC
6-Dark Shadows
11-General Hospital
12-33-42: Letters to Laugh-In

3:30

4-Dark Shadows
6-Dialing for Dollars/Movie (no title given)
11-One Life to Live
12-Bugs Bunny Theatre
13-Movie (no title given)
33-Bar 33 Corral
42-Dennis the Menace

4:00

4-It’s Electric Time
11-Dark Shadows
12-I Love Lucy
42-Sergeant Jack

4:30

4-Fun Time
11-Potpourri
12-Perry Mason

5:00

4-Christ for the Crisis
6-I Love Lucy
11-The King Family Show
13-News
33-Little Black Book

5:30

4-11-33-42: CBS News
6-News
12-13: Huntley/Brinkley Report

6:00

4-11-12-13-33-42: News
6-Zane Grey Theatre

6:30

4-11: Gunsmoke
6-The Music Scene
12-33-42: My World and Welcome to It
13-Here’s Lucy

7:00

12-13: Laugh-In
33-42: Green Acres

7:15

6-New People

7:30

4-11: Here’s Lucy
33-42: Petticoat Junction

8:00

4-11-33-42: Mayberry, RFD
6-Perry Mason
12-13: Movie: “Frankie and Johnny”

8:30

4-11: The Doris Day Show
33-42: Hogan’s Heroes

9:00

4-11: Carol Burnett
6-Love, American Style
33-Big Valley
42-77 Sunset Strip

10:00

4-6-12-33-42: News
11: This is Tom Jones
13: Jim Nabors Hour

10:30

4-Merv Griffin Show
6-The Survivors
12-33-42: Tonight Show

11:00

11-News
13-Election Coverage

11:15

13-News

11:30

6-Movie: “Door without a Key”
13-Movie: “Sweet Rosie O’Grady”

No listings for after 11:30
 
Charles1 said:
12:00
6-Dream House
Click to expand...

This would have to be a typo; WBRC had its noon newscast well underway by 1969. 

PS - Dream House was an interesting production.  I've seen the one B/W kinescope episode that's on the trade circuit, and it had what to me is the perfect theme music for a game show parody .... a bizarre and haunting minor-key "think music" cue ... and when contestants buzzed in to answer, the camera zoomed in on them with a jolting speed.  Would love it if more eps could be unearthed.

I believe this game's demise was brought on by allegations that zero of the houses won on the show were ever completed ... construction issues, or whatever.  I'm sure (and hope) somebody else can further enlighten. 

PS 2 - I find it VERY odd that Ch. 13 picked up the CBS Morning News at 8:30, after "Cousin Cliff" packed up and moved his act to Anniston. 

--Russell
 
President Richard Nixon made his famous "silent majority" speech to the American people regarding the Vietnam War that evening, so the prime time lineup didn;t excatly go as planned. This was followed by network commentary, which prompted Vice-President Spiro Agnew to go on the attack. One week later, he spoke in Des Moines and attacked the news media.
 
TV Guide ran an article in the summer of 1969 about the fact
that none of the houses won on "Dream House" had been completed.
The show offered a $40,000 (late-'60s dollars) home plus $7000 to
purchase land; several of the winning couples had to borrow more than
$7000 to buy land. The show changed its rules to allow winners to take
$20,000 in cash in lieu of the house, but the damage was done, and "All
My Children" replaced "Dream House" on January 5, 1970.

I think, IIRC, that WBRC had indeed started its noon newscast by this
time; I know that it never aired "All My Children" at 12 N (CT), and that
ABC33/40 finally put it--and now "The Chew"--in pattern around 2006.
 
The Channel 13 listing at 8:30 seemed a little bizarre to me, too. I was in 4th grade at the time, and I don't remember what I would have watched on those days that we were out of school.

Did Bill Bolen leave Channel 42 to go to Channel 6 about the time they started their noon newscast? I vaguely remember someone from 42 doing a testimonial to him on his last day at 42.
 
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