For those who don't remember cable before the advent
of all the networks, let me take you back in time. This
is what was available on our cable system in Athens, GA
on the aforementioned date. First, the channel listings:
2 WSB (NBC) Atlanta
3 WHAE (Ind./CBN) Atlanta (broadcast channel 46)
4 WFBC (NBC) Greenville, SC
5 WAGA (CBS) Atlanta
6 Time-weather on those old-fashioned clocklike devices
7 WTCG (Ind.) Atlanta (broadcast channel 17)
8 WGTV (PBS) Athens
9 WJBF (ABC/NBC) Augusta (broadcast channel 6)
10 WSPA (CBS) Spartanburg, SC (broadcast channel 7)
11 WXIA (ABC) Atlanta
12 WRDW (CBS/NBC) Augusta
13 WLOS (ABC) Asheville, NC
Now the schedules, from the Atlanta Constitution and the
Asheville Citizen. Schedules run from 7 AM.
WSB Ch. 2
7 AM Today
9 AM Today In Georgia
10 AM Dinah's Place
10:30 Winning Streak
11 AM High Rollers
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N News
12:30 Merv Griffin
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 How To Survive A Marriage
4 PM Somerset
4:30 Truth Or Consequences
5 PM Mod Squad
6 PM News
7 PM NBC News
7:30 Wild Kingdom
8 PM Adam-12
8:30 Faraday And Company
10 PM Police Story
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Tomorrow
2 AM News (sign off 2:05)
WHAE cable channel 3
11 AM Fury
11:30 Cartoon Festival
12 N 700 Club
2 PM It's A New Day
2:30 Bozo
3 PM Porky Pig
3:30 Dennis The Menace
4 PM Lone Ranger
4:30 Jeff's Collie (the Tommy Rettig
Lassie episodes)
5 PM Batman (2 episodes)
6 PM Dennis The Menace
6:30 Room 222
7 PM Mayberry RFD
7:30 Circus
8 PM 700 Club
10 PM Warren Roberts
11 PM Mayberry RFD
11:30 Honeymooners
12 M News (sign off 12:15 AM)
WFBC Ch. 4
7 AM Today
9 AM Update
10 AM Dinah's Place
10:30 Winning Streak
11 AM High Rollers
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Jackpot!
12:30 Celebrity Sweepstakes
12:55 NBC News
1 PM Concentration (Narz version)
1:30 Jeopardy! (Fleming version)
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 How To Survive A Marriage
4 PM Munsters
4:30 Bonanza
5:30 Dragnet
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM What's My Line?
7:30 Hollywood Squares
8 PM Adam-12
8:30 Faraday And Company
10 PM Police Story
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Tomorrow (sign off 2 AM)
WAGA Ch. 5
6:30 Captain Kangaroo
7:30 Atlanta A.M.
8 AM CBS Morning News
9 AM Phil Donahue
10 AM Joker's Wild
10:30 Gambit
11 AM Now You See It
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS Midday News
12 N News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM What's My Line?
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Guiding Light
2:30 Edge Of Night
3 PM Price Is Right
3:30 Match Game '74
4 PM Bewitched
4:30 Mike Douglas
6 PM News
7 PM CBS News
7:30 Hollywood Squares
8 PM Maude
8:30 Hawaii Five-O
9:30 Name Of The Game
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Cairo" (sign off 1:30 AM)
WTCG cable channel 7
7 AM Three Stooges And Little Rascals
8:30 Romper Room
9 AM New Zoo Revue
9:30 My Little Margie
10 AM Movie: "Yankee Pasha"
11:30 Donna Reed
12 N The Lucy Show
12:30 Beat The Clock
1 PM Movie: "House Of Strangers"
3 PM Banana Splits
3:30 Spiderman
4 PM Addams Family
4:30 Flipper
5 PM Beverly Hillbillies
5:30 Petticoat Junction
6 PM The Lucy Show
6:30 Father Knows Best
7 PM The Rifleman
7:30 Baseball: Braves at Pittsburgh
10 PM Wacky World Of Jonathan Winters
(time approximate)
10:30 Movie: "The Magnet"
12 M Movie: "The Killer Is Loose"
1:30 Movie: "House Of Strangers"
sign off appears to be 3:30 AM
WGTV Ch. 8
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Sesame Street
7 PM Yoga For Health (WGTV got a lot
of mileage out of Richard Hittelman's
show over the years.)
7:30 Coach Lawson Show
8 PM Man Builds, Man Destroys
8:30 The Naturalists
9 PM Movie: "The Crowd"
sign off 10:45 PM
WJBF cable channel 9
7 AM Today
9 AM Trooper Terry
9:30 Not For Women Only
10 AM Password
10:30 Winning Streak
11 AM High Rollers
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N News
12:30 Split Second
1 PM All My Children
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 General Hospital
4 PM $10,000 Pyramid
4:30 Gilligan's Island
5 PM The Lucy Show
5:30 Hogan's Heroes
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News
7 PM Hollywood Squares
7:30 The Cowboys
8 PM Happy Days
8:30 ABC Movie: "The Elevator"
10 PM Marcus Welby, M.D.
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show (sign off 1 AM)
WSPA cable channel 10
7 AM CBS Morning News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Phil Donahue
9:30 Nancy Welch (local, one of the
last "for women" shows)
10 AM Joker's Wild
10:30 Gambit
11 AM Now You See It
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 News
12 N Young And The Restless
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Hazel
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Guiding Light
2:30 Edge Of Night
3 PM Price Is Right
3:30 Match Game '74
4 PM Tattletales
4:30 Gilligan's Island
5 PM Mayberry RFD
5:30 Beverly Hillbillies
6 PM I Dream Of Jeannie
6:30 CBS News
7 PM News
7:30 Beat The Clock
8 PM Maude
8:30 Hawaii Five-O
9:30 Shaft
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "Adam's Woman"
sign off 1:30 AM
WXIA Ch. 11
7 AM Rise And Shine
8 AM Green Acres
8:30 Our Miss Brooks
9 AM Hazel
9:30 Dick Van Dyke
10 AM Password
10:30 $10,000 Pyramid
11 AM One Life To Live
11:30 Brady Bunch
12 N News
12:30 Split Second
1 PM All My Children
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 The Girl In My Life
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 Movie: "From Hell To Texas"
5:30 Dealer's Choice
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News
7 PM Concentration
7:30 To Tell The Truth
8 PM Happy Days
8:30 ABC Movie: "The Elevator"
10 PM Marcus Welby, M.D.
11 PM News
11:40 Mission: Impossible
12:40 ABC Movie: "The Break" (delay
from Monday's Wide World Of
Entertainment)
2:10 News (sign off 2:25 AM)
WRDW Ch. 12
7 AM CBS Morning News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Carousel
9:30 Three On A Match
10 AM Joker's Wild
10:30 Gambit
11 AM Now You See It
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS Midday News
12 N Young And The Restless
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Somerset
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Guiding Light
2:30 Edge Of Night
3 PM Price Is Right
3:30 Match Game '74
4 PM Tattletales
4:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
5 PM Bonanza
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM To Tell The Truth
7:30 Truth Or Consequences
8 PM Maude
8:30 Hawaii Five-O
9:30 Shaft
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "Adam's Woman"
sign off 1:30 AM
WLOS Ch. 13
7 AM Mr. Bill's Friends
8 AM Sesame Street
9 AM I Love Lucy
9:30 Green Acres
10 AM Brady Bunch
10:30 Perry Mason
11:30 Move Closer To Your World;
News
12 N Password
12:30 Split Second
1 PM All My Children
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 The Girl In My Life
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM To Tell The Truth
4:30 Mod Squad
5:30 News
6 PM ABC News
6:30 Andy Griffith
7 PM Truth Or Consequences
7:30 Ozzie's Girls
8 PM Happy Days
8:30 ABC Movie: "The Elevator"
10 PM Marcus Welby, M.D.
11 PM News
11:30 ABC Movie: "And The Bones
Came Together"
1 AM News (sign off about 1:05,
listings don't indicate)
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of all the networks, let me take you back in time. This
is what was available on our cable system in Athens, GA
on the aforementioned date. First, the channel listings:
2 WSB (NBC) Atlanta
3 WHAE (Ind./CBN) Atlanta (broadcast channel 46)
4 WFBC (NBC) Greenville, SC
5 WAGA (CBS) Atlanta
6 Time-weather on those old-fashioned clocklike devices
7 WTCG (Ind.) Atlanta (broadcast channel 17)
8 WGTV (PBS) Athens
9 WJBF (ABC/NBC) Augusta (broadcast channel 6)
10 WSPA (CBS) Spartanburg, SC (broadcast channel 7)
11 WXIA (ABC) Atlanta
12 WRDW (CBS/NBC) Augusta
13 WLOS (ABC) Asheville, NC
Now the schedules, from the Atlanta Constitution and the
Asheville Citizen. Schedules run from 7 AM.
WSB Ch. 2
7 AM Today
9 AM Today In Georgia
10 AM Dinah's Place
10:30 Winning Streak
11 AM High Rollers
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N News
12:30 Merv Griffin
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 How To Survive A Marriage
4 PM Somerset
4:30 Truth Or Consequences
5 PM Mod Squad
6 PM News
7 PM NBC News
7:30 Wild Kingdom
8 PM Adam-12
8:30 Faraday And Company
10 PM Police Story
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Tomorrow
2 AM News (sign off 2:05)
WHAE cable channel 3
11 AM Fury
11:30 Cartoon Festival
12 N 700 Club
2 PM It's A New Day
2:30 Bozo
3 PM Porky Pig
3:30 Dennis The Menace
4 PM Lone Ranger
4:30 Jeff's Collie (the Tommy Rettig
Lassie episodes)
5 PM Batman (2 episodes)
6 PM Dennis The Menace
6:30 Room 222
7 PM Mayberry RFD
7:30 Circus
8 PM 700 Club
10 PM Warren Roberts
11 PM Mayberry RFD
11:30 Honeymooners
12 M News (sign off 12:15 AM)
WFBC Ch. 4
7 AM Today
9 AM Update
10 AM Dinah's Place
10:30 Winning Streak
11 AM High Rollers
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Jackpot!
12:30 Celebrity Sweepstakes
12:55 NBC News
1 PM Concentration (Narz version)
1:30 Jeopardy! (Fleming version)
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 How To Survive A Marriage
4 PM Munsters
4:30 Bonanza
5:30 Dragnet
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM What's My Line?
7:30 Hollywood Squares
8 PM Adam-12
8:30 Faraday And Company
10 PM Police Story
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Tomorrow (sign off 2 AM)
WAGA Ch. 5
6:30 Captain Kangaroo
7:30 Atlanta A.M.
8 AM CBS Morning News
9 AM Phil Donahue
10 AM Joker's Wild
10:30 Gambit
11 AM Now You See It
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS Midday News
12 N News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM What's My Line?
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Guiding Light
2:30 Edge Of Night
3 PM Price Is Right
3:30 Match Game '74
4 PM Bewitched
4:30 Mike Douglas
6 PM News
7 PM CBS News
7:30 Hollywood Squares
8 PM Maude
8:30 Hawaii Five-O
9:30 Name Of The Game
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Cairo" (sign off 1:30 AM)
WTCG cable channel 7
7 AM Three Stooges And Little Rascals
8:30 Romper Room
9 AM New Zoo Revue
9:30 My Little Margie
10 AM Movie: "Yankee Pasha"
11:30 Donna Reed
12 N The Lucy Show
12:30 Beat The Clock
1 PM Movie: "House Of Strangers"
3 PM Banana Splits
3:30 Spiderman
4 PM Addams Family
4:30 Flipper
5 PM Beverly Hillbillies
5:30 Petticoat Junction
6 PM The Lucy Show
6:30 Father Knows Best
7 PM The Rifleman
7:30 Baseball: Braves at Pittsburgh
10 PM Wacky World Of Jonathan Winters
(time approximate)
10:30 Movie: "The Magnet"
12 M Movie: "The Killer Is Loose"
1:30 Movie: "House Of Strangers"
sign off appears to be 3:30 AM
WGTV Ch. 8
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Sesame Street
7 PM Yoga For Health (WGTV got a lot
of mileage out of Richard Hittelman's
show over the years.)
7:30 Coach Lawson Show
8 PM Man Builds, Man Destroys
8:30 The Naturalists
9 PM Movie: "The Crowd"
sign off 10:45 PM
WJBF cable channel 9
7 AM Today
9 AM Trooper Terry
9:30 Not For Women Only
10 AM Password
10:30 Winning Streak
11 AM High Rollers
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N News
12:30 Split Second
1 PM All My Children
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 General Hospital
4 PM $10,000 Pyramid
4:30 Gilligan's Island
5 PM The Lucy Show
5:30 Hogan's Heroes
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News
7 PM Hollywood Squares
7:30 The Cowboys
8 PM Happy Days
8:30 ABC Movie: "The Elevator"
10 PM Marcus Welby, M.D.
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show (sign off 1 AM)
WSPA cable channel 10
7 AM CBS Morning News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Phil Donahue
9:30 Nancy Welch (local, one of the
last "for women" shows)
10 AM Joker's Wild
10:30 Gambit
11 AM Now You See It
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 News
12 N Young And The Restless
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Hazel
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Guiding Light
2:30 Edge Of Night
3 PM Price Is Right
3:30 Match Game '74
4 PM Tattletales
4:30 Gilligan's Island
5 PM Mayberry RFD
5:30 Beverly Hillbillies
6 PM I Dream Of Jeannie
6:30 CBS News
7 PM News
7:30 Beat The Clock
8 PM Maude
8:30 Hawaii Five-O
9:30 Shaft
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "Adam's Woman"
sign off 1:30 AM
WXIA Ch. 11
7 AM Rise And Shine
8 AM Green Acres
8:30 Our Miss Brooks
9 AM Hazel
9:30 Dick Van Dyke
10 AM Password
10:30 $10,000 Pyramid
11 AM One Life To Live
11:30 Brady Bunch
12 N News
12:30 Split Second
1 PM All My Children
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 The Girl In My Life
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 Movie: "From Hell To Texas"
5:30 Dealer's Choice
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News
7 PM Concentration
7:30 To Tell The Truth
8 PM Happy Days
8:30 ABC Movie: "The Elevator"
10 PM Marcus Welby, M.D.
11 PM News
11:40 Mission: Impossible
12:40 ABC Movie: "The Break" (delay
from Monday's Wide World Of
Entertainment)
2:10 News (sign off 2:25 AM)
WRDW Ch. 12
7 AM CBS Morning News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Carousel
9:30 Three On A Match
10 AM Joker's Wild
10:30 Gambit
11 AM Now You See It
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS Midday News
12 N Young And The Restless
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Somerset
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Guiding Light
2:30 Edge Of Night
3 PM Price Is Right
3:30 Match Game '74
4 PM Tattletales
4:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
5 PM Bonanza
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM To Tell The Truth
7:30 Truth Or Consequences
8 PM Maude
8:30 Hawaii Five-O
9:30 Shaft
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "Adam's Woman"
sign off 1:30 AM
WLOS Ch. 13
7 AM Mr. Bill's Friends
8 AM Sesame Street
9 AM I Love Lucy
9:30 Green Acres
10 AM Brady Bunch
10:30 Perry Mason
11:30 Move Closer To Your World;
News
12 N Password
12:30 Split Second
1 PM All My Children
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 The Girl In My Life
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM To Tell The Truth
4:30 Mod Squad
5:30 News
6 PM ABC News
6:30 Andy Griffith
7 PM Truth Or Consequences
7:30 Ozzie's Girls
8 PM Happy Days
8:30 ABC Movie: "The Elevator"
10 PM Marcus Welby, M.D.
11 PM News
11:30 ABC Movie: "And The Bones
Came Together"
1 AM News (sign off about 1:05,
listings don't indicate)
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