On the same day, Wheel of Fortune aired its first episode on NBC's daytime schedule. The show was hosted by a little-known singer-songwriter named Chuck Woolery; his assistant was Susan Stafford. A modest success when it first premiered, the show went on to become one of the most famous game shows in history (thanks to television syndication) when a syndicated version began in 1983.
November - Sony introduced the Betamax video recorder in the US. The LV-1901 came in a teakwood console with a 19” color TV set and retailed for $2,495.
November 3 - The Price is Right expanded to an hour in length to its current six-game, two Showcase Showdown, and Showcase format, still used as of 2008 (Season 37).
November 7 - The New Original Wonder Woman aired as a TV movie, leading to a weekly series, Wonder Woman, which premiered in 1976.
November 10 - The producers of the long-running serial dramaThe Guiding Light changed the show's name to Guiding Light, in an attempt to modernize the show's image. The show's announcer, however, continued to call the series The Guiding Light in his announcements until the early 1980s.
Fred Silverman became the head of ABC Entertainment, initiating an era of what was disparagingly called "T&A" or "Jiggle Television". His programming choices resulted in ABC achieving ratings dominance.
The first "Love in the Afternoon" television advertisements aired touting ABC's daytime lineup, although sparsely until 1977.
The In Soviet Georgia television advertisements for Dannon yogurt first aired in the United States.
US television program Match Game (note: not Match Game PM) was rated #1 in overall television programming and game shows for the third year running.
In The Second Season of CBS's The Jeffersons, Mike Evans left to work on episodes on Good Times, which Damon Evans (no relation to Michael), joined the cast this season until the fourth season in 1978, the character of Lionel Jefferson was seen less frequently.
September 29 - WGPR-TV, channel 62 in Detroit, became the first television station in the U. S. to be owned and operated by blacks. (It is now CBS-owned WWJ-TV.)