RETRO: ATLANTA - 1/26/1995

[anabate123]

Thursday, January 26, 1995

WSB-TV ABC2
05:30AM ABC News
06:00AM News
07:00AM Good Morning America
09:00AM Sally
10:00AM Jenny Jones
11:00AM Maury
12:00PM News
12:30PM Loving
01:00PM All My Children
02:00PM One Life to Live
03:00PM General Hospital
04:00PM Oprah Winfrey
05:00PM News
06:00PM News
07:00PM ABC News
07:30PM Entertainment Tonight
08:00PM My So-Called Life
09:00PM The NFL at 75: An All-Star Celebration
10:00PM Day One
11:00PM News
11:35PM Hard Copy
12:05AM Nightline
12:35AM Jon Stewart
01:35AM Jenny Jones
02:35AM Mike & Maty
03:35AM ABC World News Now

WAGA-TV FOX5
05:30AM Rush Limbaugh
06:00AM Good Day Atlanta
09:00AM Regis & Kathie Lee
10:00AM Geraldo
11:00AM Jerry Springer
12:00PM News
12:30PM Empty Nest
01:00PM Highway to Heaven
02:00PM Geraldo
03:00PM Beverly Hills, 90210
04:00PM Juvenile Justice
04:30PM A Current Affair
05:00PM News
06:00PM News
07:00PM Wheel of Fortune
07:30PM Jeopardy!
08:00PM Martin
08:30PM Living Single
09:00PM New York Undercover
10:00PM News
11:00PM Real Stories of the Highway Patrol
11:30PM In the Heat of the Night
12:30AM Top Cops
01:00AM Rush Limbaugh
01:30AM News
02:00AM CNN Headline News
03:00AM CNN Headline News
03:30AM Beverly Hills, 90210
04:30AM Suzanne Somers

WXIA-TV NBC11
05:30AM News
07:00AM Today
09:00AM Montel Williams
10:00AM Marilu
11:00AM Donahue
12:00PM News
12:30PM Noonday
01:00PM Days of Our Lives
02:00PM Another World
03:00PM Rolonda
04:00PM American Journal
04:30PM Inside Edition
05:00PM News
05:30PM News
06:00PM News
06:30PM NBC News
07:00PM Hard Copy
07:30PM The New Price is Right
08:00PM Mad About You
08:30PM Friends
09:00PM Seinfeld
09:30PM Madman of the People
10:00PM ER
11:00PM News
11:35PM The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
12:35AM Late Night with Conan O'Brien
01:35AM Later with Greg Kinnear
02:05AM Ideal Communications
02:35AM NBC News Nightside

WATL-TV WB36
05:30AM Webster
06:00AM Kenneth Copeland
06:30AM Exosquad
07:00AM VR Troopers
07:30AM Bobby's World
08:00AM The Pink Panther
08:30AM Dennis the Menace
09:00AM Judge for Yourself
10:00AM Gordon Elliott
11:00AM Ricki Lake
12:00PM Jones & Jury
12:30PM Dear John
01:00PM Hunter
02:00PM Johnson and Friends
02:30PM Looney Tunes
03:00PM Tiny Toon Adventures
03:30PM Taz-Mania
04:00PM Animaniacs
04:30PM Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers
05:00PM Ricki Lake
06:00PM Married...with Children
06:30PM Cops
07:00PM Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
07:30PM The Simpsons
08:00PM Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
09:00PM Vanishing Son
10:00PM Married...with Children
10:30PM Cheers
11:00PM Cops
11:30PM Coach
12:00AM M*A*S*H
12:30AM Night Court
01:00AM Your Face is Your Passport
01:30AM Psychic Readers Network
02:00AM Gordon Elliott
03:00AM MOVIE: The Man Who Could Cheat Death

WGNX-TV CBS46
05:30AM Dennis Prager
06:00AM Susan Powter
06:30AM CBS News
07:00AM This Morning
09:00AM Doogie Howser, M.D.
09:30AM Love Connection
10:00AM Family Feud
10:30AM Family Feud
11:00AM The Price is Right
12:00PM Family Matters
12:30PM Young & the Restless
01:30PM Bold & the Beautiful
02:00PM As the World Turns
03:00PM Guiding Light
04:00PM Charles Perez
05:00PM Family Matters
05:30PM The Cosby Show
06:00PM Roseanne
06:30PM CBS News
07:00PM Star Trek: The Next Generation
08:00PM CBS Reports: In the Killing Fields of America
11:00PM News
11:35PM Late Show with David Letterman
12:37AM Late Late Show with Tom Snyder
01:37AM Northern Exposure
02:37AM News
03:07AM Best of Love Connection
03:37AM MOVIE: Rebel

WVEU-TV UPN69
05:00AM Community
05:30AM Noticias
06:00AM This Morning's Business
06:30AM Bots Master
07:00AM Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad
07:30AM Transformers: Generation 2
08:00AM Conan the Adventurer
08:30AM Biker Mice from Mars
09:00AM Community
09:30AM James Robison
10:00AM Bonanza
11:00AM Other Side
12:00PM Leeza
01:00PM 700 Club
02:00PM Paid Programming
02:30PM TaleSpin
03:00PM Darkwing Duck
03:30PM Goof Troop
04:00PM Bonkers
04:30PM Aladdin
05:00PM Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog
05:30PM Mighty Max
06:00PM A-Team
07:00PM Magnum, P.I.
08:00PM 21 Jump Street
09:00PM Cannon
10:00PM A-Team
11:00PM ALF
11:30PM Last Call
12:00AM The Fugitive
01:00AM MOVIE: Deadly Hero
03:00AM MOVIE: The Last Reunion

Superstations:
Chicago:
WGN-TV WB9 (listings ET)
06:30AM Kenneth Copeland
07:00AM Adrian Rogers
07:30AM Breakthrough
08:00AM News
09:00AM Andy Griffith
09:30AM Andy Griffith
10:00AM Perry Mason
11:00AM T.J. Hooker
12:00PM Geraldo
01:00PM News
02:00PM Quincy
03:00PM Charles Perez
04:00PM The Flintstones
04:30PM The Flintstones
05:00PM Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad
05:30PM Saved by the Bell
06:00PM Saved by the Bell
06:30PM Charles in Charge
07:00PM Love Connection
07:30PM The Jeffersons
08:00PM MOVIE: Coogan's Bluff
10:00PM News
11:00PM Night Court
11:30PM Simon & Simon
12:30AM MOVIE: The Train Robbers
02:30AM Erlich
03:00AM Fame
04:00AM MOVIE: The Moonraker

Cable:
CNN - Cable News Network
05:00AM Sports Late Night
05:30AM Daybreak
06:30AM Business Morning
07:00AM Daybreak
07:30AM Business Day
08:00AM Daybreak
09:00AM Morning News
11:30AM CNN & Company
12:00PM O.J. Simpson Trial
03:00PM News Update
03:30PM Talkback Live
04:00PM Inside Politics
04:30PM O.J. Simpson Trial
08:00PM Prime News
08:30PM Crossfire
09:00PM Larry King Live
10:00PM World News
10:30PM Showbiz Today
11:00PM Sports Tonight
11:30PM Calling All Sports
12:00AM Newsnight
12:30AM Moneyline
01:00AM Showbiz Today
01:30AM Sports Late Night
02:00AM Larry King Live
03:00AM Crossfire
03:30AM Overnight
03:45AM CNN Newsroom
04:00AM Overnight

TBS Superstation
05:00AM Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
05:30AM CNN Headline News
06:00AM The Munsters
06:30AM Scooby-Doo
07:00AM Tom & Jerry's Funhouse
07:30AM The Jetsons
08:00AM Gilligan's Island
08:30AM Bewitched
09:00AM Happy Days
09:30AM Three's Company
10:00AM Little House on the Prairie
11:00AM Matlock
12:00PM Perry Mason
01:00PM MOVIE: This Gun for Hire
03:00PM Tom & Jerry Kids
03:30PM Captain Planet and the Planeteers
04:00PM The Flintstones
04:30PM The Brady Bunch
05:00PM Saved by the Bell
05:30PM Saved by the Bell
06:05PM Growing Pains
06:35PM Andy Griffith
07:00PM Who's the Boss?
07:30PM Who's the Boss?
08:00PM NBA Basketball: Orlando Magic vs. Chicago Bulls
10:30PM MOVIE: 10 to Midnight
12:30AM MOVIE: Messenger of Death
02:30AM MOVIE: Telefon
04:30AM The Three Stooges

 

[Marckd]

One thing that was sort of wrong. In Atlanta TBS Superstation was not a cable channel but a local channel there. Down in Atlanta the station was still called Channel 17 - TBS 17, Superstation 17, 17 Superstation, etc. Their calls were WTBS TV Channel 17 Atlanta. Channel 17 and TBS would seperate in 2004. But back then the Superstation was a local station for Atlanta. One thing TBS did to influence popularity of a show. Back in the 70's, Leave It To Beaver no longer tested well and was not airing in many markets. But Channel 17 then called WTCG, aired it and it did okay on Channel 17. Then when WTCG 17 went on satellite and nationwide via cable, Leave It To Beaver became a highly requested show and as a result it turned up on many more local stations in the 1980's. In Chicago when a low budget operation WSNS 44 stopped running entertainment in 1981, including Leave It To Beaver, WGN 9 Chicago, which also becae a national superstation also picked it up. WGN 9 and National WGN began breaking up in 1990 parts of the day eventually becoming 2 different channels as well.


Yes - Channel 5 WAGA still had Wheel and Jeopardy. But they did not renew and these shows moved stations later in 1995. But that was to have happened even without the Fox/New World Deal. SCI Broadcasting filed bankruptcy and Ron pearlman and his company invested SCI out of bankruptcy in early 1993. The company SCI was renamed New World and one of the decisions made was to spend far less on programming. That meant stations not renewing Oprah (a couple stations had that), and expensive shows. This also meant acquiring first run barter syndicated shows that cost no money to have. Also part of the New World Deal with Fox was that New WOrld and Fox would both produce together Gabrealle and Mark Walberg as well as continuing to produce Gordon Elliott. Fox would keep syndicating Gordan while New World would syndicate Gabrealle and Mark. Both Fox O & O's and New World stations would run these 3 shows occupying 3 hours of programming a day. The New World Stations would have just 2 hours of Fox Shows. Fox Kids would not occupy any of the New World stations with a couple exceptions. So that is only 5 hours a day of time filled by Fox and New World. New World Stations would have 4 hours of news mornings, an hour at Noon, 2 hours in the evening, an hour at 9 or 10 PM and repeat of that hour late night. That leaves 14 hours occupied and the remaining 9 hours would be nearly all barter alsong with a couple sitcoms and drama shows that would be low cost.

When Fox bought New World, though they did not add Fox Kids (by then Fox was debating ending it and how and when to do that) they did begin acquiring stronger shows for the former New World Stations and by 1998 most New World stations had stronger shows. Also by 1998 the joint syndicated shows were history anyway.

 

[Mike Stroud]

Boy, I bet CBS was really pleased with WGNX not running a local newscast. It took the station a few years, from what I know, and even to this day (now WGCL), it comes in fourth place in the Nielsens. I suspect the order of finish among the Big Four was exactly the same as today: WSB on top by leaps and bounds, WAGA second because of longevity, WXIA third no matter how hard it tried, and WGNX literally not in the running. Even though Atlanta's population has turned over numerous times through the decades, it is so uncanny that things stay the same in this department. Even in these times of flux, a station's reputation DOES matter, no matter what the experts say.

 

[gregg75]

I think WAGA and WXIA are pretty much neck in neck for 2nd place these days.

WGN must have been one of the first stations to air two of the same 30 min. show back to back,
which is almost standard today.

 

[azumanga]

Boy, I bet CBS was really pleased with WGNX not running a local newscast.

Then again, CBS tried to get a newscast on its new Detroit O&O, WWJ-TV ch.62, but without success.

 

[ssetta]

07:30PM The New Price is Right

They actually had it in prime time where you were? In my area, it was only on during the wee hours. This was a very short-lived version of The Price is Right that didn't even last a whole season. It was hosted by Doug Davidson, and did feature a lot of pricing games played on The "regular" Price is Right, and I remember the Showcase featured a rangefinder just like the one they use on Range Game.

 

[azumanga]

07:30PM The New Price is Right

They actually had it in prime time where you were? In my area, it was only on during the wee hours.

In the Tampa Bay area, WFLA carried it at 4PM, pairing it with the half-hour new Dawson "Family Feud". Unfortunately, the shows could not compete against Oprah, which was on WTVT at the time.

This was a very short-lived version of The Price is Right that didn't even last a whole season. It was hosted by Doug Davidson, and did feature a lot of pricing games played on The "regular" Price is Right, and I remember the Showcase featured a rangefinder just like the one they use on Range Game.

For this version, three contestants came on down directly to the stage to play a pricing game. The Showcase Showdown featured "The Price WAS Right", in which the three contestants bid on the price of an item featured in a vintage commercial. (Some shows featured the Big Wheel, like the CBS show.) The one-person Showcase was played like Range Game.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Price_Is_Right_(1994_game_show)

 

[Sammi Brie]

Boy, I bet CBS was really pleased with WGNX not running a local newscast.

Then again, CBS tried to get a newscast on its new Detroit O&O, WWJ-TV ch.62, but without success.

They had an 11pm news, it seems? They also had a preexisting news department that produced a 10pm news. I bet they were still in the process of expanding over there.