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Retro: Atlanta, Friday, Jan 25, 1985

from Atlanta Journal-Constitution

2 WSB ABC
5:00 Headline News
6:00 ABC World News This Morning
6:15 News
6:30 ABC World News This Morning
6:45 News
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Family Feud
9:30 Let's Make a Deal
10:00 Tic Tac Dough
10:30 Joker's Wild
11:00 Eight is Enough
12:00 News
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 People's Court
4:30 Alice
5:00/5:30 M*A*S*H
6:00 News
7:00 ABC World News Tonight
7:30 Entertainment Tonight
8:00 Benson
8:30 Webster
9:00 Street Hawk
10:00 Matt Houston
11:00 News
11:30 Benson
12:00 ABC News Nightline
12:30 Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous
1:30 Entertainment Tonight
2:00 Headline News

5 WAGA CBS
5:00 CBS News Nightwatch
6:00 CBS Early Morning News
7:00 CBS Morning News
9:00 Donahue
10:00 Love Connection
10:30 Jeopardy!
11:00 Price is Right
12:00 News
12:30 Young and the Restless
1:30 As the World Turns
2:30 Capitol
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 Charlie's Angels
5:00 Divorce Court
5:30 The Jeffersons
6:00 News
7:00 CBS Evening News
7:30 PM Magazine
8:00 The Dukes of Hazzard
9:00 Dallas
10:00 Falcon Crest
11:00 News
11:30 NBA: Philadelphia at L.A. Lakers
2:00 sign-off

8 WGTV PBS
7:45 AM Weather
8:00 Educational programming
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Wild, Wild World of Animals
6:00 MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour
7:00 Lawmakers '85
8:00 Washington Week in Review
8:30 Wall Street Week
9:00 Great Performances "Dance Black America"
11:00 Nightly Business Report
11:30 Movie "The Seventh Veil"
1:00 sign-off

11 WXIA NBC
5:00 The Outer Limits (cont'd)
5:30 Morning Stretch
6:00 NBC News at Sunrise
6:30 Today with Hal & Guy
7:00 Today
9:00 Hour Magazine
10:00 Time Machine
10:30 Search for Tomorrow
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 Scrabble
12:00 Noonday
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 Santa Barbara
4:00 The Love Boat
5:00 Three's Company
5:30 News
7:00 NBC Nightly News
7:30 Wheel of Fortune
8:00 V
9:00 Miami Vice
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show
12:30 Friday Night Videos
2:00 Movie "The Beast Must Die"
4:00 The Outer Limits

17 WTBS Ind
5:00 Agriculture USA
5:30 Jimmy Swaggart
6:00 News
6:30 Funtime
7:35 I Dream of Jannie
8:05 Bewitched
8:35 I Love Lucy
9:05 Movie "How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life"
11:05 Catlins
11:35 Lucy Show
12:05 Perry Mason
1:05 Movie "Hurricane Smith"
3:05 Bugs Bunny & Friends
3:35 Heckle & Jeckle
4:05/4:35 The Flintstones
5:05 Leave It to Beaver
5:35 Andy Griffith
6:05 Beverly Hillbillies
6:35 Down to Earth
7:05 Little House on the Prairie
8:05 Movie "Mighty Joe Young"
10:05 Cousteau Amazon: Snowstorm in the Jungle
11:05 Images
12:05 Night Tracks

30 WPBA PBS
6:00 Georgia Farm Monitor
6:30 American Government Survey
7:00 Understanding Human Behavior
7:30 To Life!
7:45 AM Weather
8:00 Farm Day
8:30 Educational programming
11:30 Sesame Street
12:30 Educational programming
1:45 The Electric Company
2:15 Educational programming
3:30 3-2-1 Contact
4:00 The Electric Company
4:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:00 Sesame Street
6:00 Colorsounds
6:30 Working Women
7:00 MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour
8:00 Washington Week in Review
8:30 Wall Street Week
9:00 Nature
10:00 Masterpiece Theatre "Jewel in the Crown"
11:00 European Journal
11:30 Latenight America
12:30 sign-off

36 WATL Ind
6:30 Dr. Burt Bradley
7:00 Fat Albert
7:30 Plasticman
8:00 Superheroes
8:30 Top Hat
9:00 Breakfast Club
10:00 TBA
11:00 Jim Bakker
12:00 New Dick Van Dyke Show
12:30 Mayberry RFD
1:00 F-Troop
1:30 Dobie Gillis
2:00/2:30 My Favorite Martian
3:00 Underdog
3:30 World of Super Adventure
4:00 Josie & the Pussycats
4:30 Plasticman
5:00 Fat Albert
5:30 Voltron: Defender of the Universe
6:00 Anything for Money
6:30 Taxi
7:00 Hawaii Five-O
8:00 Movie "Islands in the Stream"
10:00 Dating Game
10:30 Benny Hill
11:00 Crosby, Stills & Nash: Daylight Again
12:00 Movie "Sweet Revenge"
2:00 sign-off

46 WGNX Ind
6:00 INN News
6:30 Great Space Coaster
7:00 Scooby-Doo
7:30 Tom & Jerry and Friends
8:00 Popeye & Woody
8:30 Casper
9:00 The Pink Panther
9:30 Jimmy Swaggart
10:00 The 700 Club
11:30 INN News
12:00 Big Valley
1:00 Rifleman
1:30 Gentle Ben
2:00 Flipper
2:30 Children's Theatre "Mowgli's Brothers"
3:00 Tom & Jerry and Friends
3:30 Heathcliff
4:00 Superfriends
4:30 He-Man & Masters of the Universe
5:00 Inspector Gadget
5:30 Mork & Mindy
6:00 Happy Days Again
6:30 Too Close for Comfort
7:00 Diff'rent Strokes
7:30 WKRP in Cincinnati
8:00 Quincy, ME
9:00 Movie "The Secret of Santa Vittoria"
11:30 Movie "Anna Karenina"
1:30 INN News
2:00 sign-off

69 WVEU Ind
6:00 AM Beat
7:00 Ernest Angley
8:00 Richard Roberts
9:00 Soul Gospel
9:30 Beat of the City
11:00 Country Music USA
12:00 Light & Easy
1:00 Vinage Videos
2:00 Atlanta's Top 50 Countdown
3:00 Rockpile: Hard Rock Videos
3:30 Metalworks
4:00 Contemporary Hit Videos
5:00 Merv Griffin
6:00 Movie "Sinai Commandos"
8:00 Music from the Movies
8:30 Country Music USA
9:30 Video Active
10:00 Rock Around the World
11:00 Soul of Atlanta
12:00 Alley's Pat Place
1:00 Jazz Beat
 
I like how WSB always kept Ryan's Hope at 12:30 despite ABC's decision to give Loving the time slot. WSB didn't start airing Loving until January 1989 after Ryan's Hope was cancelled.
 
WXIA now airs NBC Nightly News at the customary 6:30 and now airs Wheel at 7:00, with Jeopardy! at 7:30 which eventually moved over from WAGA, although both game shows were on WATL for a time (now MyTV) until the early-mid 2010's. They do still air there on Saturdays and when pre-empted on NBC, however.
 
WPBA was first to sign on (1958 as WETV) and served just Atlanta. WGTV is licensed to Athens (based at the University of Georgia) and went on in 1960 to serve mainly north Georgia viewers and schools outside of Atlanta. In 1965, we received WGTV at our school in Macon for Spanish classes every Wednesday. Now they're the GPTV flagship.
 
A lot of markets have more than one PBS station in their region. We have always gotten two in our market that were provided on cable and satellite as well.

WPBA was first to sign on (1958 as WETV) and served just Atlanta. WGTV is licensed to Athens (based at the University of Georgia) and went on in 1960 to serve mainly north Georgia viewers and schools outside of Atlanta. In 1965, we received WGTV at our school in Macon for Spanish classes every Wednesday. Now they're the GPTV flagship.


Thank you both, I didn't realise that. So the PBS network was created piecemeal rather than being centrally planned?
 
PBS wasn't established until 1969. Prior, stations like WETV and WGTV were branded as NET or ETV stations, following no known network pattern.
 
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