In looking at the Herald Journal TV guide for 1977, I notice that on WBTV Charlotte, The Guiding Light was followed by Little Rascals and then The Mickey Mouse Club. I find this to be odd scheduling. Did this happen in your area back in the day?
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Soap opera followed by kids show?
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I don't remember the network affiliates in Boston following the soaps with children's programming in the '70s or '80s. The cartoons would be on the independent stations, Channels 56 and 38, and would usually be preceded by a movie or some syndicated rerun. The network soaps would be followed by syndicated, adult-targeted programming like "The Mike Douglas Show" or "Divorce Court." The only time the network stations would show cartoons would be in the morning and on weekends.
Waaay back sccoby doo cartoon would be on in theafternoon after one of the soap operas that was since been cancelled.
That was quite normal when the only TV in most markets was the "set" of CBS, NBC and ABC affiliates.
Daytime would have soaps, late afternoon would be kids shows, often hosted with a local live audience and cartoons, and then local and network news followed by network until the 11 PM local news and then talk shows (10 PM in some time zones).
Some of that changed when the FCC mandate the early fringe be "Local Access" which gave use syndicated shows, not what the FCC envisioned.
And the soaps and kids shows got replaced by Jerry Springer and talk shows. But for several decades, soaps were commonly followed by kids shows and then the evening news blocks.
In some markets the soaps, daytime game shows and kids shows got replaced by infomercials in between talk shows.
Back when i was younger, game shows aired between 10am and noon, then the news then soaps. Then once the soaps finished, there was reruns. Now the kids shows were on independent stations, usually opposite the morning shows. I would watch the cartoons that were WHNS out of Greenville between 6am and 9am.
This was very common in three-station markets until sometime in the nineties. You'd typically have one of the "big three" network affiliates that would lead out from their after soap block into a kids program or two. If you go to the forum for TV Schedules here on Radio Discussions and look at those older listings, you'll find it was quite common.
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