The Wilmington, NC Star-News is a paper with many years of history. Their TV listings are on the Google News Archive, and Wilmington has been a very provincial market for TV for many years.
Here are the schedules:
WWAY 3 (ABC) Wilmington
6am: PTL Club
7am: Good Morning America (with David Hartman, Sandy Hill, and Steve Bell)
9am: PTL Club (must have been popular there)
10am: Medical Center
11am: Laverne & Shirley
11:30am: Family Feud (Richard Dawson)
12pm: Channel 3 Eyewitness News (preempts $20,000 Pyramid)
12:30pm: Ryan's Hope
1pm: All My Children
2pm: One Life To Live
3pm: General Hospital
4pm: Edge of Night
4:30: Gilligan's Island
5pm: Gunsmoke
6pm: Channel 3 Eyewitness News
6:30: ABC News (then with Frank Reynolds, Peter Jennings, and Max Robinson)
7pm: Rat Patrol
7:30: Billy Graham (Nashville Central Youth Crusade)
8:30pm: Thursday Night Football (special Monday Night Football), Rams-Broncos (Rams won 13-9)
11:15pm: Channel 3 Eyewitness News
11:45pm: Starsky & Hutch ("Strange Justice", network?)
12:45am: Barretta (then sign-off)
WRAL 5 (ABC) Raleigh (available on Wilmington cable)
6:30am: Country Morning
7am: Good Morning America
9am: Mike Douglas Show
10am: Time for Uncle Paul (kids show)
10:30am: Edge of Night
11am: Laverne & Shirley
11:30: Family Feud
Noon: Action News 5
12:30: Ryan's Hope
1pm: All My Children
2pm: One Life to Live
3pm: General Hospital
4pm: Gilligan's Island
4:30pm: Brady Bunch
5pm: I Love Lucy
5:30pm: Andy Griffith (still very popular in the area)
6pm: Action News 5 (Charlie Gaddy, Bobbie Bautista)
6:30: World News Tonight
7pm: Sanford and Son
7:30: Bewitched
8pm: Laverne & Shirley (Repeat, Lenny's Crush)
8:30pm: Rams-Broncos
11:15pm: Action News 5
11:45pm: Starsky & Hutch ("Strange Justice")
12:45am: Barretta, then sign-off
WECT 6 (NBC) Wilmington
6am: Carolina In The Morning (still going after all these years)
7am: Today (with Tom Brokaw and Jane Pauley)
9am: Phil Donahue
10am: Card Sharks
10:30am: Hollywood Squares
11am: High Rollers
11:30am: Wheel of Fortune
Noon: Carolina at Noon (rare for such a small market to have two noon casts in '79)
12:30pm: Password Plus (still Allen Ludden)
1pm: Days of Our Lives
2pm: The Doctors
2:30pm: Another World (90-minutes)
4pm: Bugs Bunny
4:30pm: Rocky and the Rascals
5pm: Ironside
6pm: NewsCenter 6 (with Ken Murphy)
6:30pm: NBC Nightly News
7pm: The Mary Tyler Moore Show
7:30pm: The New Dating Game
8pm: Operation Lifeline (subject: a neurosurgeon at the University of California at San Francisco)
9pm: Quincy ("Promises to Keep")
10pm: Mrs. Columbo ("A Puzzle for Prophets")
11pm: NewsCenter 6
11:30pm: The Tonight Show (guests, Bob Uecker, Bert Convy, then sign-off at 1am, no Tomorrow)
WITN 7 (NBC) Washington, NC (available all the way down in Whiteville)
6am: Almanac
7am: Today Show
9am: Dinah!
10am: Card Sharks
10:30am: Hollywood Squares
11am: High Rollers
11:30am: Wheel of Fortune
12pm: EyeWITNness News at Noon
12:30pm: News (local news?)
1pm: Days of Our Lives
2pm: The Doctors
2:30pm: Another World
4pm: Battle of the Planets (a Japanese anime cartoon)
4:30pm: McHale's Navy
5pm: Hogan's Heroes
5:30pm: Phil Silvers
6pm: EyeWITNess News at 6
6:30pm: NBC Nightly News
7pm: Tic Tac Dough
7:30pm: That Good Old Nashville Music
8pm: Billy Graham
9pm: Quincy
10pm: Mrs. Columbo
11pm: EyeWITNess News
11:30pm: The Tonight Show
1am: Tomorrow (then signoff)
WTVD 11 (CBS) Durham (main CBS in Wilmington)
6:30am: Summer Semester
7am: Morning
8am: Captain Kangaroo
9am: Phil Donahue
10am: All in the Family
10:30am: Whew!
11am: The Price is Right
12pm: Young and the Restless
12:30pm: Search for Tomorrow
1pm: Peggy Man
1:30pm: As The World Turns
2:30pm: Guiding Light
3:30pm: M*A*S*H
4pm: Love of Life
4:30pm: Merv Griffin
6pm: Eyewitness News
6:30pm: CBS Evening News (Roger Mudd filling in for Walter Cronkite)
7pm: The Joker's Wild
7:30pm: Tic Tac Dough
8pm: The Body Human: The Magic Sense
9pm: Hawaii Five-O
11pm: Eyewitness News
11:30pm: Mary Tyler Moore (preempts US Open Tennis Roundup)
Midnight: Gunsmoke (preempts CBS Late Movie, signoff at 1am)
WCTI 12 (ABC) New Bern
6am: PTL Club
7am: Good Morning America
9am: Phil Donahue
10am: Mike Douglas
11am: Laverne & Shirley
11:30am: Family Feud
12pm: $20,000 Pyramid
12:30pm: Ryan's Hope
1pm: All My Children
2pm: One Life to Live
3pm: General Hospital
4pm: TV Powww! Hour (arcade gaming and shows)
5pm: Emergency One
6pm: News (with Gary Dean)
6:30pm: World News Tonight
7pm: Get Smart
7:30pm: The Gong Show
8pm: Laverne & Shirley
8:30pm: Rams-Broncos
11:15pm: News
11:45pm: Pirate Gameplan (East Carolina football)
12:25am: Get Smart
12:55am: Baretta
1:55am: Maverick (then signoff)
WBTW 13 (CBS/ABC) Florence
6am: Good Morning Jesus
7am: Morning
8am: Captain Kangaroo
9am: Laverne
9:30am: M*A*S*H
10am: All In The Family
10:30am: Whew!
11am: The Price is Right
12pm: Young and the Restless
12:30pm: Search For Tomorrow
1pm: Young and Restless
1:30pm: As the World Turns
2:30pm: Guiding Light
3:30pm: Ryan's Hope (ABC)
4pm: Love of Life
4:30pm: All My Children (ABC, weird time)
5:30pm: Sanford and Son
6pm: News
6:30pm: World News Tonight
7pm: CBS Evening News
7:30pm: Sha Na Na
8pm: The Body Human: The Magic Sense
9pm: Billy Graham
10pm: The Entertainers
11pm: News
11:30pm: U.S. Open Tennis Highlights
11:45pm: M*A*S*H
12:15am: CBS Late Movie ("Don't Go Near the Water", signoff at 2:15am)
WUNJ 39 Wilmington (PBS-UNCTV)
Instructional programs until 4pm
4pm: Sesame Street
5pm: Mister Rogers
5:30pm: Electric Company
6pm: Once Upon a Classic
6:30pm: Engineering Review
7pm: N.C. News Conference
7:30pm: MacNeil-Lehrer Report
8pm: National Geographic Special ("The Voyage of the Hokule'a")
9:30pm: Great Performances (Mikhail Baryshinkov)
10:30pm: Masterpiece Theatre (sign-off after show)
Here are the schedules:
WWAY 3 (ABC) Wilmington
6am: PTL Club
7am: Good Morning America (with David Hartman, Sandy Hill, and Steve Bell)
9am: PTL Club (must have been popular there)
10am: Medical Center
11am: Laverne & Shirley
11:30am: Family Feud (Richard Dawson)
12pm: Channel 3 Eyewitness News (preempts $20,000 Pyramid)
12:30pm: Ryan's Hope
1pm: All My Children
2pm: One Life To Live
3pm: General Hospital
4pm: Edge of Night
4:30: Gilligan's Island
5pm: Gunsmoke
6pm: Channel 3 Eyewitness News
6:30: ABC News (then with Frank Reynolds, Peter Jennings, and Max Robinson)
7pm: Rat Patrol
7:30: Billy Graham (Nashville Central Youth Crusade)
8:30pm: Thursday Night Football (special Monday Night Football), Rams-Broncos (Rams won 13-9)
11:15pm: Channel 3 Eyewitness News
11:45pm: Starsky & Hutch ("Strange Justice", network?)
12:45am: Barretta (then sign-off)
WRAL 5 (ABC) Raleigh (available on Wilmington cable)
6:30am: Country Morning
7am: Good Morning America
9am: Mike Douglas Show
10am: Time for Uncle Paul (kids show)
10:30am: Edge of Night
11am: Laverne & Shirley
11:30: Family Feud
Noon: Action News 5
12:30: Ryan's Hope
1pm: All My Children
2pm: One Life to Live
3pm: General Hospital
4pm: Gilligan's Island
4:30pm: Brady Bunch
5pm: I Love Lucy
5:30pm: Andy Griffith (still very popular in the area)
6pm: Action News 5 (Charlie Gaddy, Bobbie Bautista)
6:30: World News Tonight
7pm: Sanford and Son
7:30: Bewitched
8pm: Laverne & Shirley (Repeat, Lenny's Crush)
8:30pm: Rams-Broncos
11:15pm: Action News 5
11:45pm: Starsky & Hutch ("Strange Justice")
12:45am: Barretta, then sign-off
WECT 6 (NBC) Wilmington
6am: Carolina In The Morning (still going after all these years)
7am: Today (with Tom Brokaw and Jane Pauley)
9am: Phil Donahue
10am: Card Sharks
10:30am: Hollywood Squares
11am: High Rollers
11:30am: Wheel of Fortune
Noon: Carolina at Noon (rare for such a small market to have two noon casts in '79)
12:30pm: Password Plus (still Allen Ludden)
1pm: Days of Our Lives
2pm: The Doctors
2:30pm: Another World (90-minutes)
4pm: Bugs Bunny
4:30pm: Rocky and the Rascals
5pm: Ironside
6pm: NewsCenter 6 (with Ken Murphy)
6:30pm: NBC Nightly News
7pm: The Mary Tyler Moore Show
7:30pm: The New Dating Game
8pm: Operation Lifeline (subject: a neurosurgeon at the University of California at San Francisco)
9pm: Quincy ("Promises to Keep")
10pm: Mrs. Columbo ("A Puzzle for Prophets")
11pm: NewsCenter 6
11:30pm: The Tonight Show (guests, Bob Uecker, Bert Convy, then sign-off at 1am, no Tomorrow)
WITN 7 (NBC) Washington, NC (available all the way down in Whiteville)
6am: Almanac
7am: Today Show
9am: Dinah!
10am: Card Sharks
10:30am: Hollywood Squares
11am: High Rollers
11:30am: Wheel of Fortune
12pm: EyeWITNness News at Noon
12:30pm: News (local news?)
1pm: Days of Our Lives
2pm: The Doctors
2:30pm: Another World
4pm: Battle of the Planets (a Japanese anime cartoon)
4:30pm: McHale's Navy
5pm: Hogan's Heroes
5:30pm: Phil Silvers
6pm: EyeWITNess News at 6
6:30pm: NBC Nightly News
7pm: Tic Tac Dough
7:30pm: That Good Old Nashville Music
8pm: Billy Graham
9pm: Quincy
10pm: Mrs. Columbo
11pm: EyeWITNess News
11:30pm: The Tonight Show
1am: Tomorrow (then signoff)
WTVD 11 (CBS) Durham (main CBS in Wilmington)
6:30am: Summer Semester
7am: Morning
8am: Captain Kangaroo
9am: Phil Donahue
10am: All in the Family
10:30am: Whew!
11am: The Price is Right
12pm: Young and the Restless
12:30pm: Search for Tomorrow
1pm: Peggy Man
1:30pm: As The World Turns
2:30pm: Guiding Light
3:30pm: M*A*S*H
4pm: Love of Life
4:30pm: Merv Griffin
6pm: Eyewitness News
6:30pm: CBS Evening News (Roger Mudd filling in for Walter Cronkite)
7pm: The Joker's Wild
7:30pm: Tic Tac Dough
8pm: The Body Human: The Magic Sense
9pm: Hawaii Five-O
11pm: Eyewitness News
11:30pm: Mary Tyler Moore (preempts US Open Tennis Roundup)
Midnight: Gunsmoke (preempts CBS Late Movie, signoff at 1am)
WCTI 12 (ABC) New Bern
6am: PTL Club
7am: Good Morning America
9am: Phil Donahue
10am: Mike Douglas
11am: Laverne & Shirley
11:30am: Family Feud
12pm: $20,000 Pyramid
12:30pm: Ryan's Hope
1pm: All My Children
2pm: One Life to Live
3pm: General Hospital
4pm: TV Powww! Hour (arcade gaming and shows)
5pm: Emergency One
6pm: News (with Gary Dean)
6:30pm: World News Tonight
7pm: Get Smart
7:30pm: The Gong Show
8pm: Laverne & Shirley
8:30pm: Rams-Broncos
11:15pm: News
11:45pm: Pirate Gameplan (East Carolina football)
12:25am: Get Smart
12:55am: Baretta
1:55am: Maverick (then signoff)
WBTW 13 (CBS/ABC) Florence
6am: Good Morning Jesus
7am: Morning
8am: Captain Kangaroo
9am: Laverne
9:30am: M*A*S*H
10am: All In The Family
10:30am: Whew!
11am: The Price is Right
12pm: Young and the Restless
12:30pm: Search For Tomorrow
1pm: Young and Restless
1:30pm: As the World Turns
2:30pm: Guiding Light
3:30pm: Ryan's Hope (ABC)
4pm: Love of Life
4:30pm: All My Children (ABC, weird time)
5:30pm: Sanford and Son
6pm: News
6:30pm: World News Tonight
7pm: CBS Evening News
7:30pm: Sha Na Na
8pm: The Body Human: The Magic Sense
9pm: Billy Graham
10pm: The Entertainers
11pm: News
11:30pm: U.S. Open Tennis Highlights
11:45pm: M*A*S*H
12:15am: CBS Late Movie ("Don't Go Near the Water", signoff at 2:15am)
WUNJ 39 Wilmington (PBS-UNCTV)
Instructional programs until 4pm
4pm: Sesame Street
5pm: Mister Rogers
5:30pm: Electric Company
6pm: Once Upon a Classic
6:30pm: Engineering Review
7pm: N.C. News Conference
7:30pm: MacNeil-Lehrer Report
8pm: National Geographic Special ("The Voyage of the Hokule'a")
9:30pm: Great Performances (Mikhail Baryshinkov)
10:30pm: Masterpiece Theatre (sign-off after show)