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Western North Carolina/Upstate South Carolina, Monday, February 4, 1985

From The Spartanburg Herald-Journal
Note:I am only listing general entertainment stations

ASHEVILLE/GREENVILLE/SPARTANBURG

WYFF Channel 4(NBC)
6:00 News
6:30 NBC News At Sunrise
7:00 Today
9:00 Donahue
10:00 Sally Jessy Raphael
10:30 Sale Of The Century
11:00 Wheel Of Fortune
11:30 Scrabble
12:00 News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1:00 Days Of Our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 Jeopardy!
3:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
4:00 He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe
4:30 Diff'rent Strokes
5:00 Three's Company
5:30 Jeffersons
6:00 News(1 Hour)
7:00 NBC News
7:30 Wheel Of Fortune
8:00 TV's Bloopers And Practical Jokes
9:00 Movie-The Dirty Dozen:The Next Mission(Made For TV, 1985)
11:00 News
11:30 Best Of Carson
12:30 Late Night With David Letterman
1:30 News(1 Hour)

WSPA Channel 7(CBS)
6:00 Entertainment Tonight
6:30 CBS Early Morning News
7:00 CBS Morning News
9:00 Nancy Welch
9:30 $100,000 Name That Tune
10:00 $25,000 Pyramid
10:30 Press Your Luck
11:00 Price Is Right
12:00 Carolina Noon
12:30 Young And The Restless
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Capitol
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 Hour Magazine
5:00 Sanford And Son
5:30 People's Court
6:00 News
6:30 CBS News
7:00 Entertainment Tonight
7:30 Sale Of The Century
8:00 Scarecrow And Mrs. King
9:00 Kate And Allie
9:30 Newhart
10:00 Cagney And Lacey
11:00 News
11:30 Simon And Simon
12:40 McMillan And Wife
2:00 CBS News Nightwatch(To 6 AM)

WLOS Channel 13(ABC)
6:00 Jimmy Swaggart
6:30 Mr. Bill's Friends
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Anything For Money
9:30 Love Connection
10:00 Newlywed Game
10:30 Let's Make A Deal
11:00 Carol Burnett And Friends
11:30 All In The Family
12:00 Andy Griffith
12:30 Loving
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life To Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Cartoons
4:30 Superfriends
5:00 Dukes Of Hazzard
6:00 News
6:30 ABC News
7:00 Tic Tac Dough
7:30 Bowling For Dollars
8:00 Hardcastle And McCormick
9:00 Movie-Consenting Adult(Made For TV, 1985)
11:00 News
11:30 M*A*S*H
12:00 Nightline

WHNS Channel 21(Independent)
5:30 Donna Reed
6:00 20 Minute Workout
6:30 Great Space Coaster
7:00 Popeye
7:30 Woody Woodpecker/Pink Panther
8:00 Flintstones
8:30 Leave It To Beaver
9:00 I Love Lucy
9:30 Real McCoys
10:00 Little House On The Prairie
11:00 Perry Mason
12:00 Rockford Files
1:00 Quincy
2:00 Barnaby Jones
3:00 Woody Woodpecker/Popeye
3:30 Tom And Jerry
4:00 Voltron, Defender Of The Universe
4:30 Scooby Doo
5:00 Mork And Mindy
5:30 Too Close For Comfort
6:00 Star Trek
7:00 Benson
7:30 WKRP In Cincinnati
8:00 Shogun(Part 2)
10:00 Hawaii Five-O
11:00 Taxi
11:30 Twilight Zone
12:00 Bizarre
12:30 The Fugitive
1:30 I.N.N. News
2:00 Movie-Stage Struck(1958)
4:00 Movie-Marty(1955)

WAXA Channel 40(Independent)
6:30 Morning Stretch
7:00 Heathcliff
7:30 Inspector Gadget
8:00 Three Stooges
8:30 Julia
9:00 In Search Of...
9:30 We're Cooking Now
10:00 Merv Griffin
11:00 Time Machine(NBC)
11:30 Rowan And Martin's Laugh-In
12:00 Super Password(NBC)
12:30 Movie-The Awful Truth(1937)
2:00 Family
3:00 Rawhide
4:00 Eight Is Enough
5:00 Starsky And Hutch
6:00 Charlie's Angels
7:00 Police Woman
8;00 Dallas
9:00 Movie-The Guns Of Navarone(1961)
11:00 Soap
11:30 Movie-Beat The Devil(1954)

CHARLOTTE

WBTV Channel 3(CBS)
6:00 CBS Early Morning News
7:00 CBS Morning News
9:00 Hour Magazine
10:00 $25,000 Pyramid
10:30 Price Is Right
11:30 Top O' The Day
12:30 Young And The Restless
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Capitol
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 Happy Days
4:30 People's Court
5:00 Jeopardy!
5:30 Wheel Of Fortune
6:00 News(1 Hour)
7:00 CBS News
7:30 P.M. Magazine
8:00 Scarecrow And Mrs. King
9:00 Newhart
9:30 Kate And Allie
10:00 Cagney And Lacey
11:00 News
11:30 Taxi
12:00 Simon And Simon
1:10 McMillan And Wife
2:30 CBS News Nightwatch(To 6 AM)

WIS Channel 10(Columbia, South Carolina)
was listed in the cable conversion chart but
no actual listings were carried.
 
"Wheel" and "Jeopardy!" moved to WLOS that fall and have
held down the 7 and 7:30 PM slots ever since. WBTV eventually
dropped them; they can be found today on WCNC, although "Jeopardy!"
airs at 7 and "Wheel" at 7:30.

Seeing Andy Griffith instead of "Ryan's Hope" at noon: no surprise, given
the part of the country (and I'm not sure "RH," which was set in New York
and had a New York feel to it, ever did that great in the South), is typical
of what happened to the soap: when ABC moved it to noon (ET) it lost a
lot of stations in the Eastern time zone, mostly to local news. For my part,
although I often express my fondness for "Guiding Light" on these boards,
I think "Ryan's Hope" was the best-written and best-acted soap ever,
and ABC should have kept it at 12:30 instead of the vastly-inferior "Loving,"
which got the better timeslot because Agnes Nixon's name was on it; she'd
already given ABC "All My Children" and "One Life To Live." "RH" was at least
competitive with "Y&R", which I don't think was true of "Loving."

I remember that in Raleigh/Durham, when "RH" moved to noon, WRAL aired it
at 11:30 AM on a day-behind; when WTVD became the ABC o&o they pre-empted
it altogether.
 
classictvfan said:
WYFF Channel 4(NBC)
3:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids

Was this "The New Fat Albert Show" that was syndicated right around this time?
 
Re "Carolina Noon" on WSPA: that show gave Jane Robelot a
break. She later went to WCAU (then a CBS o&o), then to CBS
as co-anchor of the "CBS Morning News" with John Roberts, then
to Atlanta (to WGCL), and is now back in Greenville, on WYFF.
Somebody once mentioned on one of these threads that she has
some personal problems, health-related, IIRC.
 
I think channel 4 started to clear Santa Barbara (which was pre-empted for it's early years, meaning GSP viewers missed Joel Crothers' last soap opera performance as J. Stanfeld Lee before dying from AIDS/Lymphoma in 1985) in early 1986.
 
I've always thought that WLOS always had Sally Jessy Raphael, didn't realize she was on 4 at this time. If the lineup that was around in 88 was around in 85, Donahue would be on 13, and 4 would have aired Time Machine.
 
I think channel 4 started to clear Santa Barbara (which was pre-empted for it's early years, meaning GSP viewers missed Joel Crothers' last soap opera performance as J. Stanfeld Lee before dying from AIDS/Lymphoma in 1985) in early 1986.

I wonder if WCPQ in Charlotte aired Santa Barbara? with cable picking up that station in parts of Western North Carolina, it's possible.
 
Funny how news at noon were the norm in a lot of places in the Carolinas but in Virginia with the exception of WTKR in Norfolk who did news at noon they were pretty rare. WAVY had a noon newscast in 1984 and 1985 but only on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Thursday and Friday they aired whatever was on NBC at Noon. Richmond, Roanoke and Lynchburg didn't air noon news at all. By the late 80s though news at noon was pretty common. Hour long news in the evenings Richmond's WTVR had that somewhat and Norfolk's WAVY and WVEC had it for a time in the 70s and early 80s but that was discontinued but brought back in the late 80s. Meanwhile in West Virginia news at noon was common on most stations even in the 70s and 80s and WTRF in Wheeling and I believe WSAZ in Huntington/Charleston had a hour long evening newscast in the mid 80s.
 
Funny how news at noon were the norm in a lot of places in the Carolinas but in Virginia with the exception of WTKR in Norfolk who did news at noon they were pretty rare. WAVY had a noon newscast in 1984 and 1985 but only on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Thursday and Friday they aired whatever was on NBC at Noon. Richmond, Roanoke and Lynchburg didn't air noon news at all. By the late 80s though news at noon was pretty common. Hour long news in the evenings Richmond's WTVR had that somewhat and Norfolk's WAVY and WVEC had it for a time in the 70s and early 80s but that was discontinued but brought back in the late 80s. Meanwhile in West Virginia news at noon was common on most stations even in the 70s and 80s and WTRF in Wheeling and I believe WSAZ in Huntington/Charleston had a hour long evening newscast in the mid 80s.

That's interesting. I've seen places where Super Password is listed rather than a noon newscast. I think when SP was canceled in 89, almost everybody went to doing noon newscasts.
 
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