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16A THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER Wed May 16 1973 Today's Television Timetable Thanks To Begathon Religious Tone WRET Dialing Off Red WEDNESDAY MAY 16 1973 This television leg IS published by The Observer as service to our visions In their I This log Is compiled from Information furnished to us by the time for the cha various television stations On occasions the TV station make late re program changes visions In their time for the program changes program scheduling and fail to notify The Observer In change to be made in the log In the event these late inconvenience SOU Vie are sorry WBTV (3) io 6 (cs) 1VSOC (9) WCCB (18) WRET (36) 6 415 13 2 12 11 (NBC) (ABC) (Indep3 eomin up Any 'pledge partner' has a right not to make that final payment" 4:15 1:45 Almanac Ted Armstrong on The House TelevishinRadio Charlie llamia 14 IV TelevisionRadio Today 7:00 CBS News 7:30 Newt As for the VVRETTV movie marathon of last February: Station owner Ted Turner pledged at that time to pay back donating viewers if A little more than a year ago WRET-TV was so deeply in trouble it took a step unheard of in the annals of American commercial television It asked its viewers for money to keep operating The UHF independent (no network affiliation) staged a three-day movie marathon in February 1972 Viewers were urged to send in donations equal to the price of two movie theater tickets 8:00 Capt Kangaroo 8:30 News Zoo Romper Room i zZurgeb 1 1 Z7: I ---1 AL i :11: 04(0i1 15 siIitle Mike Douglas 1:00 Mery Griffin 9:30 Fran Carlton Secret Storm 10:00 Joker's Wild 10:30 310000 Pyramid 11:00 Gambit 11:30 Love Of Life Truth For Today Praise The Lord Dinah's Place Joyce Brothers News Not for Women Only Baffled Sale of Century Hollywood Squares new Charlotte-based religious network headed by Rev Jim Bakker formerly with CBN resumed "praise and prayer" programs Apart from the station's desperation marathon CBN had staged its own telethon on the channel to cover broadcast expenses for the year 12:00 News 12:30 Search For Tomorrow News Who What Where Password Split Second Sandy Wheeler operations manager has been with Channel 36 since it went on the air six years ago going through a change of call letters receivership and new ownership dent of CBN read about the marathon in the Wall Street Journal He and Ted Turner (R Turner of Atlanta station owner since 1969) went to Brown University together Pat contacted him about putting the CBN'programs on our station" For the next year CBN placed 20 hours finally 30 of religious programming weekly making an estimated 15 per cent of the station's income Mor important the religious programming apparently attracted the number of viewers the station needed to get off the ground "We're just about out of the Wheeler said "We're kissing that black line It's going to be a great day when we can mail that money back "I'm not saying it can be any time soon It's up to Ted And you neve know what tomorrow will bring" This is what next season will bring on Channel 36 though: the Atlanta Hawks basketball and Atlanta Flames hockey Canadian football this summer Atlanta Braves baseball is on now 1:00 Betty Feezor 1:30 As World Tuna Jeopardy Three On Match All My Children Make A Deal Movie: "Smell Of Success" PEARL BAILEY loins Dick on "The Dick Cavett Show" tonight at 11:30 on Channel 18 WTVI (42) WUNG (58) (PBS) MOW (PBS) 8 7 13 Days of Our Lives Doctors MOO Guiding Light 2:30 Edge of Night Newlywed Game Dating Game What about the Charlotte people who made pledges to CBN? "The CBN pledge year had only six weeks to go" Wheeler said "Payments could be made in 12 monthly installments There is one more 3:00 New Price Is Right 3:30 Green Acres 400 Truth or Conseil 4:30 Bonanza General Hospital One Life To Live Joey's Place Afterschool Another World Flintstones Gilligan's Island Beverly H'Billies Popeye Leave To Beaver Movie: "Devil's Disciple" I 5:00 5:30 Jeannie Dick Van Dyke Andy Griffith Electric Co Love Am Style Sesame Street Rifleman Big Valley ABC News News Mancini This Is Your Life South Pacific News NBC News TeU The Truth Adam-12 Movie: "Dragnet" Combat Wheeler sald the ratings became Impressive enough by last August that advertising agencies began opening their doors Indeed the number of regional and national ads in prime time makes the hide pendent look like a flourishing network affiliate at times Electric Co Evening Edition Consultation Now To Listen America '73 TBA Turning Points Boni 6:00 News 6:30 7:00 CBS News 7:30 Truth or Conseq 8:00 Sonny Cher 8:30 9:00 Medical Center 9:30 In the broadcast industry around town people laughingly called the marathon a "begathon" "Going Into it we were reluctant" Wheeler says now "There was much prayer and soul searching I know a lot of people don't believe that but it's the truth It was the last thing we could do "Coming out I'd say it probably did more for this station than anything else The marat hon goal was $100000 The pledge total came to $53000 the newspapers reported What was not said then was about half that sum came from some 6000 viewers About $20000 in increased advertiser contracts was figured In and $6000 in pledges never did come in Misterogers Folk Guitar You're On Ask City Hall Saner Hours cL WHERE 011 ARE THE STAR PONTIAC 11)3VICU Baseball: Atlanta-Houston Showcase Am Wonderland 1000 Cannon 10:30 Last month WRET-TV drop ped its affiliation with CBN for reasons Wheeler would not give Last Sunday Trinity Broadcasting System a News "Hitchcock" Movie: News Tonight 11:00 News 11:30 CBS Movie: Dick Cavett Cablevision Of Charlotte Cable Television Co "Legend Of Lost" 12:00 "Bad 12:30 Landers" ROCK HILL 21 BY-PASS PHONE 328-0128 The dealer with Low Overhead SELLS FOR LESS 1:00 1:30 News Over 100 Pontiacs Buicks to Choose from at honest year-end prices Take this year's vacation in a 1973 BUICK ELECTRA CUSTOM During those three days WRET-TV lost three advertisers and gained 15 Most important of all it acquired the Christian Broadcasting Net work shows Charlotte TV Highlights $661060 126560 $534500 Mfg List Price Your Discount Your Price 4 Door Hardtop Air Conditioning Fully Equipped "Pat Robertson the presi -v LITTLE ROC LI i rwa7Stsil 3924078 U0S111 MUMS TOP 0' THE TOPLESS so OUR FAMOUS 8 Ott TOPLESS EXTRAVASAIMA 474 LITTLE ROC 0 rwariliod 3924078 U0S111 MUMS 1 1' ----7-7 I I Networks Covering Watergate Open Doily till 8 PM Closed Sunday 1' i 1 -Ar IN-- 17r :41:: ii4i- 1: 0:4: tt iktkotto ::1: i1- ti ii' 7:: 1 ::::::6 1 7:30 ADAM 12 An off duty patrolman's arrest of a female shoplifter at a Su pc rm arket leads the two tierces into a tragic chain of evrnts (Repeat) 8 PM (3) SONNY AND CHER Joe Namath ard the Playboy Playmates are guests (Repeat) 9 PM (3) MEDICAL CENTER A nun who is criminally assaulted refuses to describe her assailant (Repeat) 10 PM (3) CANNON A security chief becomes antagonistic toward Cannon 'wnen the detective looks for a missing rancher Clu Gulager guests (Repeat) 10 PM (9) WONDERLAND NATIONAL PARKS This special deals with the heavy increase in sightseeing at our parks and asks the question "Wilt the National Parks become national parking lots?" 11:30 PM (9) Paul Williams Orson Bean and Reeky Greene join Johnny 11:30 PM (18) CAVETT Guests are Pearl Bailey Bob and Ray and Dr Cornelia Wilbur are guests United Press International NEW YORK Live television coverage of the opening session of the Senate Watergate hearing will be provided Thursday beginning at 10 am by ABC CBS NBC and the Public Broadcasting Service The networks said they would also cover the Thursday afternoon session beginning at 2 pm PBS has previously announced plans to provide continuing live coverage Hunger Hikers Turn Food-Grabbers musical classic "South Pacific" The three-hour special begins at 8 pm on Channel 18 MITZI GAYNOR plays Nellie the sunshine girl in the film of Rodgers and Hammerstein's United Press International MILWAUKEE A woman complained to police that about 100 of 12000 walkers in a hunger hike stole WO worth of food off her catering wagon Mrs Lory Harrison 23 of Oak Creek said the hikers who marched to raise money for 20 local national and international projects grabbed the food from the open displays Today's TV Movies I PM (36) SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS (1957) A powerful New York Columnist enlists the aid of a press agent in breaking up a romance Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis star 4 PM (36) THE DEVIL'S DISCIPLE (1959) Burt Lsteaster and Kirk Douglas star in a tale about the actions and reactions of men during theAmerican Revolution PM (9) DRAGNET (1961) Sgt Friday and Officer Gannon are assigned to invc-stigate the my6terious dispppearance of a pretty model Jack Webb and Harry Morgan star BADLANDERS (1958) A successful robbery turns into a nightmare chase for the robbers Alan Ladd and Ernest Borgnine star It is a CBS Late Movie 11:30 PM (36) LEGEND OF THE LOST (1957) John Wayne and Sophia Loren search for treasure and a lost city in a desert PACIFIC During World War II a US Navy nurse falls in love with a French plantation owner on a Pacific Island The musical score is by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammer sirin Rossano Brazzi Mitzi Gaylor John Kerr Ray Walstrai and France Nuyen star It is En ABC presentation 11:30 PM (3) THE A scandal? A mistake? What is Watergate? Will the public ever REALLY know what happened? WTVI presents a public affairs gavel-to-gavel coverage of the Senate Hearings on Watergatechaired by North Carolina's Senator Sam Ervin Watch tomorrow night at 8 PM for complete coverage of the Watergate hearings from Washington DC Presented as a public service by AK17tiri7 11' 4 eillS111 4A1 I I VI- Wy irr Atrittif1 407 frit Tit 4 14 I 46 tot it Ia igg qui a41111linuft NW 111101111TEMISIIITE A scandal? A mistake? What is Watergate? Will the public ever REALLY know what happened? 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