Atlanta Tuesday, June 15, 1943

[bpatrick]

From The Atlanta Constitution. Times are
Central War Time (by choice, some parts of
Georgia elected not to change to Eastern
War Time). Network for the program (if known)
is in parentheses.

WAGA 590 (Blue, later ABC)

6 AM Hillbillies
6:30 News And Charlie Smithgall
7 AM News And Charlie Smithgall
7:30 News
7:45 Music Clock
8 AM Breakfast Club (Blue)
9 AM Studio Party
9:15 Roy Porter News (Blue)
9:30 Morning Music
9:45 Dance Music
10 AM Breakfast At Sardi's (Blue)
10:30 News And Musical Interlude
10:45 Your Home
11 AM Shades Of Blue
11:15 Pine Valley (nothing to do with
All My Children, which wouldn't
debut for nearly 27 years)
11:30 National Farm And Home Hour (Blue)
12 N World News
12:15 Melodies
12:30 Billy Woods
1 PM News
1:15 Talk And Music
1:30 Rev. Handley (don't know his first name)
1:45 Song Styles
2 PM Morton Downey (Blue) (singer and father
of the talk-show host)
2:15 Melody Moods
2:30 Church Of Christ
2:45 Tunetime And News
3 PM Club Matinee (Blue) (this show introduced
most of America to Garry Moore)
3:30 News And 590 Swing Club
5 PM Uncle Sam
5:30 Serenade
5:55 News
6 PM Victor Borge (Blue)
6:15 Man And Victory
6:30 News
6:45 Music Moments
7 PM Earl Godwin News (Blue)
7:15 Lum & Abner (Blue)
7:30 Duffy's Tavern (Blue)
8 PM Famous Jury Trials (Blue)
8:30 Spotlight Bands (Blue)
9 PM George Fielding Elliott News (Blue)
9:15 Gracie Fields (Blue) (an English comedienne
quite popular in the States during World War II)
9:30 This Nation--At War
10 PM World News
10:15 Les Brown Orchestra (Blue)
10:30 Symphonette
11 PM News And Dance Orchestra
12 M Sign Off

WSB 750 (NBC)

6 AM News And Georgia Jubilee
7 AM News And Merry-Go-Round
8 AM Everything Goes (I think this is NBC)
8:30 Penelope Pan
8:45 On The Air
9 AM Robert St. John News (NBC)
9:15 The O'Neills (NBC)
9:30 Enid Day
9:45 Victory Garden
10 AM Road Of Life (NBC)
10:15 Vic And Sade (NBC)
10:30 Snow Village (NBC)
10:45 News
11 AM Roy Shields' Orchestra
11:30 Georgia Jubilee
12 N News
12:15 Big Sister
12:30 Dixie Farm And Home Hour
1 PM Varieties
1:15 Lonely Women (NBC)
1:30 Guiding Light (NBC, wouldn't move
to CBS until 1947)
1:45 Carey Longmire News (NBC)
2 PM Mary Marlin (NBC)
2:15 Ma Perkins (NBC)
2:30 Pepper Young's Family (NBC)
2:45 Right To Happiness (NBC)
3 PM Backstage Wife (NBC) (the full title of
this show was Mary Noble, Backstage Wife;
Bob and Ray used to satirize it as Mary Backstage,
Noble Wife)
3:15 Stella Dallas (NBC)
3:30 Lorenzo Jones (NBC)
3:45 Young Widder Brown (NBC)
4 PM When A Girl Marries (NBC)
4:15 Portia Faces Life (NBC)
4:30 News
4:45 Light Of The World (NBC) (serialized
Bible stories)
5 PM News And Music
5:15 Music And Army Show
5:30 Three Suns (NBC)
5:45 News
6 PM Fred Waring (NBC)
6:15 News Of The World (NBC)
6:30 Cheque Your Music
6:45 H.V. Kaltenborn News (NBC)
7 PM Johnny Presents (NBC) (Johnny is
Johnny Roventini, the diminutive bellboy
who urged cigarette smokers to "Call For
Philip Mor-RA-is!")
7:30 Tums Treasure Chest (NBC)
8 PM Battle Of The Sexes (NBC)
8:30 Fibber McGee & Molly (NBC)
9 PM Bob Hope (NBC)
9:30 Hildegarde
9:45 Bob Grant
10 PM News
10:15 Views Of The News
10:30 Salute To Youth (NBC)
11 PM News; Land Of The Free (NBC)
11:30 Dance Orchestra (NBC)
12 M Sleepy Hollow (NBC)

WGST 920 (CBS)

6 AM Sundial And News
6:15 Sundial
6:30 Country Cousins
6:45 LeFevre Trio
7 AM News Of The World (CBS)
7:15 Renfro Valley
7:30 Sundial
7:45 News And Sundial
8 AM News (CBS)
8:15 Sundial
8:30 News And Sundial
9 AM Uncle Sam
9:15 Howard K. Smith News (CBS)
9:30 Number Please
10 AM Mary Lee Taylor (CBS) (cooking show)
10:15 News And Melodies
10:30 Bright Horizons (CBS)
10:45 Plasma Patter
11 AM Kate Smith (CBS)
11:15 LeFevre Trio
11:30 Linda's First Love (CBS)
11:45 Our Gal Sunday (CBS)
12 N Life Can Be Beautiful (CBS)
12:15 Ma Perkins (CBS)
12:30 Vic And Sade (CBS)
12:45 The Goldbergs (CBS)
1 PM Young Dr. Malone (CBS) (the television
version aired on NBC, 1959-63)
1:15 Joyce Jordan, Girl Interne (CBS)
1:30 We Love And Learn (CBS)
1:45 Helen Trent (CBS)
2 PM Frank Crumit And Julia Sanderson (CBS)
(singing duo who hosted a game show on
Saturday nights as well--Crumit died on
Labor Day 1943)
2:15 News And Williams (no first name given)
2:30 John Gart's Trio (CBS) (Gart was organist
on Johnny Carson's Who Do You Trust?)
2:45 Green Valley (CBS)
3 PM Home Front Report (CBS)
3:30 Perry Como (CBS)
3:45 Mountain Music
4 PM Madeleine Carroll
4:15 News And West (no first name)
4:30 Are You A Genius?
4:45 Keep Your Fire Burning (CBS)
5 PM News
5:15 Edwin C. Hill News (CBS)
5:30 Four Clubmen (CBS)
5:45 World Today (CBS)
5:55 Joseph C. Harsch News (CBS)
6 PM 15 Minutes To Play
6:15 Harry James Orchestra (CBS)
6:30 American Melody Hour (CBS)
7 PM Lights Out (CBS)
7:30 Al Jolson (CBS)
7:55 News (CBS)
8 PM Burns And Allen (CBS)
8:30 Report To The Nation (CBS) (Art
Carney imitated FDR and Churchill
to perfection on this program.)
9 PM Suspense (CBS)
9:30 Congress Speaks (CBS)
9:45 John B. Kennedy News (CBS)
10 PM Ned Calmer News (CBS)
10:15 Joan Brooks (CBS) (a singer, perhaps?)
10:30 Invitation To Music (CBS)
11 PM Constitution News
11:15 Abe Lyman Orchestra (CBS)
11:30 Music You Want
12 M Sign Off

WATL 1400 (Mutual)

6 AM News And Morning Man
7 AM News And Morning Man
7:15 Hymn Time
7:30 Service Salute
8 AM News And Morning Man
9 AM News And Musical Interlude
9:15 Familiar Tunes
9:30 Rev. Wade (no first name)
10 AM News And Musical Interlude
10:15 Karl Zamar (Mutual) (don't know who
he is)
10:30 Yankee Party (Mutual) (I have a feeling
this came from Mutual's Yankee Network
in New England)
11 AM Boake Carter News (Mutual)
11:15 Hay Reads The Bible (Mutual) (again, no
first name)
11:30 Morning Melodies
12 N News And Musical Interlude
12:15 Personal
12:30 Uncle Sam
12:45 A.M.A. Program (Mutual)
1 PM Cedric Foster News (Mutual)
1:15 G. West (don't know who or what) And News
1:30 Rev. Handley
2 PM News And Swing Session
4 PM News And Musical Interlude
4:15 Footlight Rhapsody
4:30 Highway Patrol (Mutual) (don't think this is
related to the classic Broderick Crawford
television show)
4:45 Star Parade
5 PM News
5:15 Charlotte Duble (Mutual) (a singer, perhaps?)
5:30 Foreign News (Mutual)
5:45 Superman (Mutual)
6 PM Fulton Lewis Jr. News (Mutual)
6:15 Johnson Family (Mutual)
6:30 Concert Time
6:45 Confidentiality (Mutual)
7 PM Cisco Kid (Mutual)
7:30 Starlight Singers
7:45 Harry James Orchestra
8 PM Gabriel Heatter News (Mutual)
8:15 Baseball: Atlanta Crackers at New
Orleans Pelicans
10:30 Sinfonietta (Mutual)
11 PM News And Music
11:15 Orchestra
11:30 Dance Music (Mutual)
12 M Sign Off

 

[Cincinnati Kid]

"Vic and Sade" on both NBC and CBS on the same day. I wasn't aware of that.

As has been said of that program:

"No house, human hands have made,
could hold the friends of Vic & Sade".

 

[bpatrick]

Obviously, like "Ma Perkins," which also aired
on both CBS and NBC, "Vic And Sade" had a
huge following, and the sponsor saw an opportunity
to make it even bigger.

I've never known a soap to air on two networks
simultaneously in the television era. "Edge Of Night"
moved from CBS to ABC in 1975, and "Search For
Tomorrow" from CBS to NBC in 1982, but in each case
they were on one network.

 

[oldiesfan6479]

Times are Central War Time (by choice, some parts of Georgia elected
not to change to Eastern War Time).

Prior to 1941, the EST/CST line went through the state, with Atlanta
on the CST side. In the mid/late 1930s, DST was used in a few areas,
including Atlanta. The entire state was shifted to EST in March 1941
by state law. (What is this, Indiana? ;D)

EST became EWT by federal decree on 02-09-42, but in late January
1943 Georgia adopted CWT for the duration, however eastern areas
(Augusta, Savannah, among others) stayed on EWT. All of Georgia
resumed EST on 09-30-45. DST was not used again until 1967.


Source: Time Changes In The U.S.A. by Doris Chase Doane.

 

[bpatrick]

I have an uncle (now deceased) who lived in Athens;
he once told me that the time zone line passed through
Loganville, which is between Athens and Atlanta, meaning
that Athens stayed on EST and then EWT, while Atlanta
stayed on CST prior to '41 and then CWT. (Warm Springs
was also on CWT; FDR died at 3:36 PM CWT on April 12,
1945). As I understand it, many farmers complained about
the change from Central to Eastern, saying that it messed
up their cows' giving milk; also, as I remember in 1974 when
most states were on year-round DST to conserve energy,
the sun wouldn't have risen in the winter before 8:30 or 9 AM
on EWT, playing havoc with kids going to school. It does sound
like Indiana, doesn't it?

Sort of off-topic, but on as well: I remember back around 1970
there was a movement to put Alabama on Eastern time because
of the proximity of the larger cities (except Mobile) to Atlanta.
The same objections were raised that had been raised in Georgia
in the '40s (plus, what do you do with the Florida Panhandle counties?).
But Phenix City and Lanett, because they're so close to Columbus,
observe Eastern time even though they're officially on Central.

 

[BRNout]

As I understand it, many farmers complained about
the change from Central to Eastern, saying that it messed
up their cows' giving milk.

All very interesting stuff, BUT I have a question: how did the cows know about the time change? Did they forget to set their watches or what? It must have been quite traumatic to mess with their milk.

Just asking.....

 

[trusty]

It created udder havoc.

 

[bpatrick]

Naturally, the cows wouldn't have known about
the time change; it was just an excuse to, as a
woman in my hometown says, "keep things the
way we are accustomed." Georgia took some
criticism, especially in the '30s, for being the only
state bordering the Atlantic Ocean that wasn't on
Eastern time (although northwest Florida isn't either,
but it's on the Gulf).

This is picky, picky, but I was off one minute on the time
of FDR's death. A doctor named James Paullin was called
from Atlanta when FDR suffered the fatal stroke; he
arrived just in time to pronounce FDR dead at 3:35 PM
CWT.