Retro: Atlanta - 1996 Summer Olympics

[RandTV]

Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution via newspapers.com

Opening Day
Friday, July 19, 1996

2 WSB (ABC)
5:30 Action News 2
6:30 ABC World News This Morning
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Live With Regis & Kathie Lee
10:00 Jenny Jones
11:00 Maury
NOON Action 2 News
12:30 The City
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Oprah Winfrey
5:00 Action News 2
7:00 ABC World News Tonight
7:30 Entertainment Tonight
8:00 Family Matters: "Twinkle Toes Faldo" 3/15/1996
8:30 Boy Meets World: "The Grass Is Always Greener" 1/12/1996
9:00 Step by Step: "Secret Admirer" 2/9/1996
9:30 Hangin' With Mr. Cooper: "The Great Pretender" 12/8/1995
10:00 20/20
11:00 Action News 2
11:35 Nightline
12:05 Hard Copy
12:35 Jenny Jones
1:35 Caryl & Marilyn: Real Friends
2:35 In Concert
3:05 Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years
4:05 One West Waikiki

5 WAGA (Fox)
4:00 Barnaby Jones
5:00 George & Alana
6:00 Channel 5 Eyewitness News
7:00 Good Day Atlanta
9:00 Jerry Springer
10:00 Geraldo
11:00 Sally
NOON Channel 5 Eyewitness News
12:30 Empty Nest
1:00 Mark Walberg
2:00 Rosie O'Donnell
3:00 Day & Date
4:00 Designing Women (set in Atlanta)
4:30 America's Most Wanted: Final Justice
5:00 Channel 5 Eyewitness News
7:00 Wheel of Fortune
7:30 Jeopardy!
8:00 Sliders: "Gillian of the Spirits" 3/15/1996
9:00 X-Files: "The Blessing Way" 9/22/1995 (Season Premiere)
10:00 Channel 5 Eyewitness News
11:00 In the Heat of the Night
MIDNIGHT Stories of the Highway Patrol
12:30 Top Cops
1:00 Channel 5 Eyewitness (R)
2:00 Paid Programming
2:30 Forever Knight
3:30 A Current Affair
4:00 American Gladiators

8 WGTV (PBS/Georgia Public Television)
6:00 GED
6:45 Stretching for Life With Priscilla Patrick
7:00 Sesame Street
8:00 Barney & Friends (x2)
9:00 Kidsongs
9:30 Shining Time Station
10:00 Puzzle Place
10:30 Barney & Friends
11:00 Big Comfy Couch
11:30 Mister Rogers
NOON Sesame Street
1:00 Molly Katzen's Cooking
1:30 Yan Can Cook
2:00 Martha's Sewing Room
2:30 Travels in Europe
3:00 Lamb Chop's Play-Along
3:30 Magic School Bus
4:00 Kratts' Creatures
4:30 Bill Nye the Science Guy
5:00 Wishbone
5:30 Barney & Friends
6:00 NewsHour With Jim Lehrer
7:00 I'll Fly Away: "Slow Dark Coming" 4/3/1992
8:00 Washington Week in Review
8:30 Wall $treet Week
9:00 McLaughlin Group
9:30 Movie: "Diner" (1982) - Steve Guttenberg, Daniel Stern, Mickey Rourke, Kevin Bacon, Timothy Daly, Ellen Barkin.
11:30 Nightly Business Report

11 WXIA (NBC)
5:00 NBC News at Sunrise
5:30 11 News
7:00 Today - Reporting from Atlanta Olympic Stadium.
9:00 Montel Williams
10:00 Leeza
11:00 Rolonda
NOON 11 News
12:30 Noonday
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 Ricki Lake
4:00 American Journal
4:30 Inside Edition
5:00 11 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 11 News
8:00 Summer Olympics - Opening Ceremony
MIDNIGHT 11 News
12:35 Tonight Show With Jay Leno - Guests: Jackie Chan, Samuel L. Jackson, Pat Hazell.
1:35 Late Night With Conan O'Brien - Guests: Geraldo Rivera, Michelle Kwan, Dave Shaw.
2:35 Friday Night Videos
3:35 Greatest Moments of the Olympiad With Bud Greenspan

30 WPBA (PBS secondary)
4:00 Signal to Noise: Life With TV
5:00 Bloomberg Business News
6:00 Body Electric
7:00 Time to Grow
7:30 American Adventure
8:00 Puzzle Place
8:30 Storytime
9:00 I'll Fly Away: "Eighteen" 11/13/1992
10:00 Matinee at the Bijou
11:30 Reading Rainbow
NOON Sesame Street
1:00 Wishbone
1:30 Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?
2:00 Grilling With Chef George Hirsch
2:30 Hawaii Cooks With Roy Yamaguchi
3:00 Inn Country Chefs
3:30 Ciao Italia!
4:00 Lamb Chop's Play-Along
4:30 Kidsongs
5:00 Barney & Friends
5:30 Wishbone
6:00 Kratts' Creatures
6:30 ITN World News
7:00 NewsHour With Jim Lehrer
8:00 SRO: Regina Belle (from Atlantic City)
9:00 Mystery!: "Rumpole of the Bailey" - "Rumpole and the Family Pride" (second to final episode of the series)
10:00 Headwaters
11:00 Charlie Rose
MIDNIGHT Journal
12:30 NHK News Japan

36 WATL (The WB)
4:00 Movie: "Cohen & Tate" (1989) - Roy Scheider, Adam Baldwin, Harley Cross.
6:00 Kenneth Copeland
6:30 Mutant League
7:00 VR Troopers
7:30 Eekstravaganza
8:00 Animaniacs
8:30 That's Warner Bros!
9:00 Mr. Belvedere
9:30 Court TV
10:00 Gordon Elliott
11:00 Jim J. & Ann
NOON Tempestt
1:00 Hunter
2:00 Rimba's Island
2:30 Pink Panther
3:00 Taz-Mania
3:30 Bobby's World
4:00 Batman & Robin
4:30 X-Men
5:00 Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
5:30 Married...With Children
6:00 Simpsons
6:30 Cheers
7:00 Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
7:30 Simpsons
8:00 Movie: "Overboard" (1987) - Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell, Edward Herrmann, Katherine Helmond, Roddy McDowall.
10:30 Seinfeld
11:00 Married...With Children
11:30 Coach
MIDNIGHT Night Stand
1:00 Paid Programming
2:00 Gordon Elliott
3:00 Wanderer
4:00 Court TV
4:30 Rat Patrol

46 WGNX (CBS)
6:00 Rush Limbaugh
6:30 CBS Morning News
7:00 CBS This Morning
9:00 Northern Exposure
10:00 Doogie Howser, M.D.
10:30 Full House
11:00 The Price is Right
NOON WGNX News
12:30 Young and the Restless
1:30 Bold and the Beautiful
2:00 As the World Turns
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 Roseanne
4:30 Cosby Show
5:00 A Different World
5:30 Roseanne
6:00 Home Imrpovement
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 WGNX News
7:30 Cops
8:00 CBS Special Movie: "National Lampoon's Vacation" (1983) - Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Randy Quaid, Imogene Coca, Christie Brinkley, Anthony Michael Hall, Eugene Levy, John Candy.
10:00 Nash Bridges
11:00 WGNX News
11:35 Late Show With David Letterman - Guests: David Duchovny, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Salma Hayek (?); Performers: Sponge.
12:35 Late Late Show With Tom Snyder - Guests: Al Franken
1:35 Cops
2:05 Movie: "The Great Santini" (1979) - Robert Duvall, Blythe Danner, Michael O'Keefe.

69 WUPA (UPN)
4:00 Bonanza
5:00 Business
5:30 Community
6:00 Bananas in Pajamas
6:30 Blinky Bill
7:00 Step by Step
7:30 Dinosaurs
8:00 Mighty Max
8:30 Littlest Pet Shop
9:00 Xena: Warrior Princess
10:00 Magnum, P.I.
11:00 LAPD
11:30 Rescue 911
NOON Richard Bey
1:00 700 Club
2:00 Sing Me a Story: With Belle
2:30 Sailor Moon
3:00 Woody Woodpecker
3:30 Goof Troop
4:00 Bonkers
4:30 Timon & Pumba
5:00 Aladdin
5:30 Blossom
6:00 Step by Step
6:30 Rescue 911
7:00 Baywatch
8:00 Movie: "The Package" (1989) - Gene Hackman, Joanna Cassidy, Tommy Lee Jones, John Heard, Dennis Franz.
10:00 Mama's Family (x2)
11:00 I Love Lucy (x2)
MIDNIGHT Richard Bey
1:00 LAPD
1:30 Lauren Hutton and...
2:00 Mystery Science Theater 3000
3:30 Community
4:00 Bonanza

 

[itsTheRolyPoly]

Two corrections needed to be made... WSB's news was, at the time and still is, Channel 2 Action News. WAGA's news was, at the time, FOX 5 Eyewitness News. WXIA and WGNX's news brandings mentioned during this time were correct.

 

[RandTV]

Two corrections needed to be made... WSB's news was, at the time and still is, Channel 2 Action News. WAGA's news was, at the time, FOX 5 Eyewitness News. WXIA and WGNX's news brandings mentioned during this time were correct.

Thanks for pointing that out. Looks like an error on Logopedia's part.

 

[itsTheRolyPoly]

 

[RandTV]

Day VIII
Saturday, July 27, 1996

2 WSB (ABC)
6:00 Saturday Special
7:00 Channel 2 Action News (WSB opted to broadcast local news over ABC's Saturday Morning fare. See below for that schedule.)
10:00 Jack Hanna's Animal Adventures
10:30 High Q
11:00 One West Waikiki
NOON Channel 2 Action News
12:30 The Extremists With Gabrielle Reece
1:00 Golf - British Senior Open: Third Round
2:30 NFL Preseason Football: AFC/NFC Hall of Fame Game from Canton, OH - Indianapolis Colts vs. New Orleans Saints
6:00 Channel 2 Action News
7:00 Entertainment Tonight (formerly Entertainment This Week)
8:00 Second Noah
9:00 ABC Saturday Night at the Movies: "The Barefoot Executive" (1995) - Jason London, Eddie Albert, Yvonne De Carlo, Chris Elliott (remade from 1971).
11:00 Channel 2 Action News
11:35 Hard Copy
12:05 Land's End
1:05 It's Showtime at the Apollo
2:05 The Hitchhiker (x2)
3:05 Movie: "The Jesse Owens Story" (1984) - Dorian Harewood, George Kennedy, Tom Bosley, LaVar Burton.

ABC Saturday Morning Schedule pre-empted by the aforementioned schedule:

8:00 New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
8:30 Free Willy
9:00 Fudge
9:30 Bump in the Night
10:00 Bugs Bunny & Tweety
10:56 Schoolhouse Rock!
11:00 Aliens in the Family
11:30 ReBoot
NOON What-a-Mess
12:30 ABC Weekend Special

5 WAGA (Fox)
6:00 Reality Check
6:30 Marvel Action Universe
8:00 News for Kids
8:30 In the Zone
9:00 Flipper - The New Adventures
10:00 Hardy Boys (1995 revival)
10:30 Campus Live
11:00 Beverly Hills, 90210
NOON Fox 5 Eyewitness News
12:30 Fox Saturday Baseball
1:00 MLB Baseball - New York Mets vs. Cincinnati Reds
4:00 Empty Nest
4:30 Main Floor
5:00 Rennegade
6:00 Fox 5 Eyewitness News
6:30 Empty Nest
7:00 Real Stories of the Highway Patrol (x2)
8:00 Cops (x2)
9:00 America's Most Wanted
10:00 Fox 5 Eyewitness News
11:00 Mad TV
MIDNIGHT Tales From the Crypt (x2)
1:00 Fox 5 Eyewitness News (R?)
2:00 Movie (title unavailable)
4:00 Emergency Call

8 WGTV (PBS/Georgia Public Television)
6:00 GED
6:30 Best of the Joy of Painting (Bob Ross had died the year before.)
7:00 Victory Garden
7:30 Breakfast from New Orleans
8:00 Barney & Friends
8:30 Kidsongs TV (I should've included 'TV' in the title in the previous schedule.)
9:00 Ghostwriter (x2)
10:00 Pets, Etc.
10:30 Duck Decoy Carving
11:00 Honey Bees & Beekeeping
11:30 All About Indoor Plants
NOON Collecting Across America
12:30 Trailside: Make Your Own Adventure
1:00 Wild America
1:30 American Woodshop
2:00 Wild Kingdom
2:30 Victory Garden
3:00 Nathalie Dupree Cooks
3:30 Frugal Gourmet
4:00 A Taste of Louisiana
4:30 Louisiana Cookin'
5:00 This Old House (x2)
6:00 Wild America
6:30 Georgia Outdoors
7:00 Mary Chapin Carpenter
8:00 The Windsors: A Royal Family (Part 1 of 2)
10:00 Keeping Up Appearances
10:30 Are You Being Served?
11:00 Mr. Bean
11:30 Luther Vandross

11 WXIA (NBC)
6:00 11 News
8:00 Saturday Today
10:00 Saved by the Bell: The New Class (x2)
11:00 California Dreams
11:30 NBA Inside Stuff
NOON XXVI Summer Olympics - Events: Beach Volleyball, Boxing, Cycling, Rowing, Tennis, Track & Field.
6:00 11 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News - Brian Williams
6:30 XXVI Summer Olympics - Events: Canoe/Kayak, Cycling, Platform Diving, Track & Field.
MIDNIGHT 11 News
12:30 XXVI Summer Olympics - Events: Basketball, Indoor Volleyball, Water Polo, Weightlifting.
2:00 Saturday Sports
2:30 HBO Comedy Showcase
3:30 Extra
4:30 Bob Vila's Home Again
5:00 Martha Stewart Living
5:30 MotorWeek

30 WPBA (PBS secondary)
6:00 Psychology: The Study of Human Behavior
6:30 American Adventure
7:00 Time to Grow
7:30 Government by Consent
8:00 Body Electric
8:30 Homestretch
9:00 Sneak Previews
9:30 From a Country Garden
10:00 Scandinavia
10:30 NatureScene
11:00 Matinee at the Bijou
12:30 Oxlip's Crossing
1:00 National Geographic's Heart of Africa
2:00 Sewing With Nancy
2:30 Best of the Joy of Painting
3:00 New Yankee Workshop
3:30 Hometime
4:00 Victory Garden
4:30 Frugal Gourmet
5:00 Cooking With Ursula
5:30 Gourmet Cooking
6:00 This Old House
6:30 Wild America
7:00 Travels in Europe
7:30 Trailside: Make Your Own Adventure
8:00 Live From Lincoln Center
9:30 Evening at Pops
10:30 Austin City Limits
11:30 In the Mix
MIDNIGHT Taggart
1:00 Travels in Europe
1:30 Trailside: Make Your Own Adventure
2:00 Live From Lincoln Center (R)
3:30 Evening at Pops (R)
4:30 Austin City Limits (R)
5:30 Living With Health

36 WATL (The WB)
6:00 Monster Mania
6:30 YR Troopers
7:00 DarkStalkers
7:30 Mega Man
8:00 Masked Rider
8:30 Bobby's World
9:00 Power Rangers Zeo
9:30 Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
10:00 Casper
10:30 Goosebumps (x2)
11:30 Life With Louie (Anderson)
NOON Soul Train - Guest host: Stephanie Roberts
1:00 Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (x2)
2:00 Movie: "Blood Money" (AKA "The Killers Edge") (1991) - Wings Hauser, karen Black, Robert Z'Dar.
4:00 Movie: "L.A. Heat" (1989) - Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Jim Brown.
6:00 Movie: "Superman" (1978) - Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Gene Hackman, Ned Beatty, Marlon Brando.
8:00 Movie: "The Shining" (1980) - Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers.
MIDNIGHT Babylon 5
1:00 Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
2:00 Gordon Elliott
3:00 Court TV: The System
3:30 Rat Patrol
4:00 Odd Couple
4:30 Hunter
5:30 Community Journal

46 WGNX (CBS)
6:00 Paid Programming
7:00 Gladiators 2000
7:30 Out of the Blue
8:00 Santo Bugito
8:30 Timon & Pumba
9:00 Aladdin
9:30 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
10:00 The Mask: Animated Series (based on the 1994 Jim Carrey film)
10:30 Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
11:00 The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat
11:30 Adventures of Hyperman
NOON Beakman's World
12:30 Really Wild Animals
1:00 Golf - British Senior Open, third round
1:45 NASCAR Racing - HumminBird FishFinder 500, from Talladega (AL) Superspeedway
4:15 Gof - Ameritech Senior Open (Long Grove, IL)
6:00 Home Improvement
6:30 WGNX News
7:00 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
8:00 Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
9:00 Touched by an Angel
10:00 Walker, Texas Ranger
11:00 WGNX News
11:35 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
12:35 Movie: "The Exorcist II: The Heretic" (1977) - Linda Blair, Richard Burton, Louise Fletcher, Max von Sydow, James Earl Jones.
2:30 Movie: "The Man Who Wasn't There" (1983) - Steve Guttenberg, Jeffrey Tamor, Art Hindle
4:30 Travel
5:00 Honeymooners

69 WUPA (UPN)
6:00 Jellybean Jungle
6:30 Gadget Boy & Heather (younger counterpart of Inspector Gadget)
7:00 King Arthur
7:30 Tenko and the Guardians of Magic
8:00 Happy Ness, the Secret of the Loch
8:30 Creepy Crawlers
9:00 Action Man
9:30 WMAC Masters (World Martial Arts Council)
10:00 The Outer Limits (1995 revival)
11:00 National Geographic: On Assignment
NOON Sweet Valley High
12:30 Blossom
1:00 Movie: "Shaking the Tree" (1990) - Arye Gross, Gale Hansen, Doug Savant, Courtney Cox.
3:00 Movie: "Revenge of the Ners" (1984) - Robert Carradine, Anthony Edwards, Ted McGinley, Curtis Armstrong.
5:00 Movie: "Jekyll & Hyde" (1990) - Michael Caine, Cheryl Ladd, Joss Ackland.
7:00 Baywatch
8:00 Movie: "The Grifters" (1990) - John Cusack, Anjelica Huston, Annette Bening
10:00 Baywatch Nights
11:00 American Rap Maker (x2)
1:00 WCW Worldwide
2:00 Entertainers
3:00 Extraordinary
4:00 Bonanza
5:00 Catholic Mass

 

[Route66Fan]

Day VIII
Saturday, July 27, 1996

2 WSB (ABC)
7:00 Channel 2 Action News (WSB opted to broadcast local news over ABC's Saturday Morning fare. See below for that schedule.)
10:00 Jack Hanna's Animal Adventures
10:30 High Q
11:00 One West Waikiki
NOON Channel 2 Action News

8:00 New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
8:30 Free Willy
9:00 Fudge
9:30 Bump in the Night
10:00 Bugs Bunny & Tweety
10:56 Schoolhouse Rock!
11:00 Aliens in the Family
11:30 ReBoot
NOON What-a-Mess
12:30 ABC Weekend Special

I wonder why WUPA, or even WATL, didn't pick up the ABC Saturday Morning schedule?

 

[RandTV]

I wonder why WUPA, or even WATL, didn't pick up the ABC Saturday Morning schedule?

That's a major opportunity jump, as well as on WSB's part for choosing not to air it.

 

[TVCOOL]

Where is WTBS?

 

[Ccook55]

WUPA did clear Bump In the Night at the start of the season and I think they cleared What-a-Mess on a delay before discontinuing them at midseason. I thought WSB delayed Free Willy and Bugs Bunny & Tweety a week to 6 and 6:30 AM but I reckoned they stopped around that time.

 

[RandTV]

Where is WTBS?

I wasn't sure whether to include that, since by then, it was a full-fledged cable network. But since you mention it, I'll that on when I have a chance. My apologies for that omission.

 

[RandTV]

Day VIII
Saturday, July 27, 1996

2 WSB (ABC)
6:00 Saturday Special
7:00 Channel 2 Action News (WSB opted to broadcast local news over ABC's Saturday Morning fare. See below for that schedule.)
10:00 Jack Hanna's Animal Adventures
10:30 High Q
11:00 One West Waikiki
NOON Channel 2 Action News
12:30 The Extremists With Gabrielle Reece
1:00 Golf - British Senior Open: Third Round
2:30 NFL Preseason Football: AFC/NFC Hall of Fame Game from Canton, OH - Indianapolis Colts vs. New Orleans Saints
6:00 Channel 2 Action News
7:00 Entertainment Tonight (formerly Entertainment This Week)
8:00 Second Noah
9:00 ABC Saturday Night at the Movies: "The Barefoot Executive" (1995) - Jason London, Eddie Albert, Yvonne De Carlo, Chris Elliott (remade from 1971).
11:00 Channel 2 Action News
11:35 Hard Copy
12:05 Land's End
1:05 It's Showtime at the Apollo
2:05 The Hitchhiker (x2)
3:05 Movie: "The Jesse Owens Story" (1984) - Dorian Harewood, George Kennedy, Tom Bosley, LaVar Burton.

ABC Saturday Morning Schedule pre-empted by the aforementioned schedule:

8:00 New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
8:30 Free Willy
9:00 Fudge
9:30 Bump in the Night
10:00 Bugs Bunny & Tweety
10:56 Schoolhouse Rock!
11:00 Aliens in the Family
11:30 ReBoot
NOON What-a-Mess
12:30 ABC Weekend Special

5 WAGA (Fox)
6:00 Reality Check
6:30 Marvel Action Universe
8:00 News for Kids
8:30 In the Zone
9:00 Flipper - The New Adventures
10:00 Hardy Boys (1995 revival)
10:30 Campus Live
11:00 Beverly Hills, 90210
NOON Fox 5 Eyewitness News
12:30 Fox Saturday Baseball
1:00 MLB Baseball - New York Mets vs. Cincinnati Reds
4:00 Empty Nest
4:30 Main Floor
5:00 Rennegade
6:00 Fox 5 Eyewitness News
6:30 Empty Nest
7:00 Real Stories of the Highway Patrol (x2)
8:00 Cops (x2)
9:00 America's Most Wanted
10:00 Fox 5 Eyewitness News
11:00 Mad TV
MIDNIGHT Tales From the Crypt (x2)
1:00 Fox 5 Eyewitness News (R?)
2:00 Movie (title unavailable)
4:00 Emergency Call

8 WGTV (PBS/Georgia Public Television)
6:00 GED
6:30 Best of the Joy of Painting (Bob Ross had died the year before.)
7:00 Victory Garden
7:30 Breakfast from New Orleans
8:00 Barney & Friends
8:30 Kidsongs TV (I should've included 'TV' in the title in the previous schedule.)
9:00 Ghostwriter (x2)
10:00 Pets, Etc.
10:30 Duck Decoy Carving
11:00 Honey Bees & Beekeeping
11:30 All About Indoor Plants
NOON Collecting Across America
12:30 Trailside: Make Your Own Adventure
1:00 Wild America
1:30 American Woodshop
2:00 Wild Kingdom
2:30 Victory Garden
3:00 Nathalie Dupree Cooks
3:30 Frugal Gourmet
4:00 A Taste of Louisiana
4:30 Louisiana Cookin'
5:00 This Old House (x2)
6:00 Wild America
6:30 Georgia Outdoors
7:00 Mary Chapin Carpenter
8:00 The Windsors: A Royal Family (Part 1 of 2)
10:00 Keeping Up Appearances
10:30 Are You Being Served?
11:00 Mr. Bean
11:30 Luther Vandross

11 WXIA (NBC)
6:00 11 News
8:00 Saturday Today
10:00 Saved by the Bell: The New Class (x2)
11:00 California Dreams
11:30 NBA Inside Stuff
NOON XXVI Summer Olympics - Events: Beach Volleyball, Boxing, Cycling, Rowing, Tennis, Track & Field.
6:00 11 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News - Brian Williams
6:30 XXVI Summer Olympics - Events: Canoe/Kayak, Cycling, Platform Diving, Track & Field.
MIDNIGHT 11 News
12:30 XXVI Summer Olympics - Events: Basketball, Indoor Volleyball, Water Polo, Weightlifting.
2:00 Saturday Sports
2:30 HBO Comedy Showcase
3:30 Extra
4:30 Bob Vila's Home Again
5:00 Martha Stewart Living
5:30 MotorWeek

30 WPBA (PBS secondary)
6:00 Psychology: The Study of Human Behavior
6:30 American Adventure
7:00 Time to Grow
7:30 Government by Consent
8:00 Body Electric
8:30 Homestretch
9:00 Sneak Previews
9:30 From a Country Garden
10:00 Scandinavia
10:30 NatureScene
11:00 Matinee at the Bijou
12:30 Oxlip's Crossing
1:00 National Geographic's Heart of Africa
2:00 Sewing With Nancy
2:30 Best of the Joy of Painting
3:00 New Yankee Workshop
3:30 Hometime
4:00 Victory Garden
4:30 Frugal Gourmet
5:00 Cooking With Ursula
5:30 Gourmet Cooking
6:00 This Old House
6:30 Wild America
7:00 Travels in Europe
7:30 Trailside: Make Your Own Adventure
8:00 Live From Lincoln Center
9:30 Evening at Pops
10:30 Austin City Limits
11:30 In the Mix
MIDNIGHT Taggart
1:00 Travels in Europe
1:30 Trailside: Make Your Own Adventure
2:00 Live From Lincoln Center (R)
3:30 Evening at Pops (R)
4:30 Austin City Limits (R)
5:30 Living With Health

36 WATL (The WB)
6:00 Monster Mania
6:30 YR Troopers
7:00 DarkStalkers
7:30 Mega Man
8:00 Masked Rider
8:30 Bobby's World
9:00 Power Rangers Zeo
9:30 Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
10:00 Casper
10:30 Goosebumps (x2)
11:30 Life With Louie (Anderson)
NOON Soul Train - Guest host: Stephanie Roberts
1:00 Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (x2)
2:00 Movie: "Blood Money" (AKA "The Killers Edge") (1991) - Wings Hauser, karen Black, Robert Z'Dar.
4:00 Movie: "L.A. Heat" (1989) - Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Jim Brown.
6:00 Movie: "Superman" (1978) - Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Gene Hackman, Ned Beatty, Marlon Brando.
8:00 Movie: "The Shining" (1980) - Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers.
MIDNIGHT Babylon 5
1:00 Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
2:00 Gordon Elliott
3:00 Court TV: The System
3:30 Rat Patrol
4:00 Odd Couple
4:30 Hunter
5:30 Community Journal

46 WGNX (CBS)
6:00 Paid Programming
7:00 Gladiators 2000
7:30 Out of the Blue
8:00 Santo Bugito
8:30 Timon & Pumba
9:00 Aladdin
9:30 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
10:00 The Mask: Animated Series (based on the 1994 Jim Carrey film)
10:30 Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
11:00 The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat
11:30 Adventures of Hyperman
NOON Beakman's World
12:30 Really Wild Animals
1:00 Golf - British Senior Open, third round
1:45 NASCAR Racing - HumminBird FishFinder 500, from Talladega (AL) Superspeedway
4:15 Gof - Ameritech Senior Open (Long Grove, IL)
6:00 Home Improvement
6:30 WGNX News
7:00 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
8:00 Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
9:00 Touched by an Angel
10:00 Walker, Texas Ranger
11:00 WGNX News
11:35 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
12:35 Movie: "The Exorcist II: The Heretic" (1977) - Linda Blair, Richard Burton, Louise Fletcher, Max von Sydow, James Earl Jones.
2:30 Movie: "The Man Who Wasn't There" (1983) - Steve Guttenberg, Jeffrey Tamor, Art Hindle
4:30 Travel
5:00 Honeymooners

69 WUPA (UPN)
6:00 Jellybean Jungle
6:30 Gadget Boy & Heather (younger counterpart of Inspector Gadget)
7:00 King Arthur
7:30 Tenko and the Guardians of Magic
8:00 Happy Ness, the Secret of the Loch
8:30 Creepy Crawlers
9:00 Action Man
9:30 WMAC Masters (World Martial Arts Council)
10:00 The Outer Limits (1995 revival)
11:00 National Geographic: On Assignment
NOON Sweet Valley High
12:30 Blossom
1:00 Movie: "Shaking the Tree" (1990) - Arye Gross, Gale Hansen, Doug Savant, Courtney Cox.
3:00 Movie: "Revenge of the Ners" (1984) - Robert Carradine, Anthony Edwards, Ted McGinley, Curtis Armstrong.
5:00 Movie: "Jekyll & Hyde" (1990) - Michael Caine, Cheryl Ladd, Joss Ackland.
7:00 Baywatch
8:00 Movie: "The Grifters" (1990) - John Cusack, Anjelica Huston, Annette Bening
10:00 Baywatch Nights
11:00 American Rap Maker (x2)
1:00 WCW Worldwide
2:00 Entertainers
3:00 Extraordinary
4:00 Bonanza
5:00 Catholic Mass

I've just realized that July 27 was the day of the bombing (1:20 AM Atlanta time), so several of the aforementioned listings, let alone the network affiliates may have been pre-empted by news coverage of the bombing.

 

[RandTV]

Closing Day
Sunday, July 27, 1996

2 WSB (ABC)
6:00 Fudge
6:30 Satuday Special (on Sunday?)
7:00 Mt. Paran Now
7:30 First Baptist Church of Snellville
8:00 Channel 2 Action News
10:00 People 2 People
10:30 Peachtree Presbyterian Church
11:00 TBA
11:30 Inside America
NOON Channel 2 Action News
12:30 This Week With David Brinley - Topic: "Can We Stop Terrorism?" (In light of the Olypmics bombing, as well as the TWA Flight 800 explosion the day before Opening Day, suspected by some to be caused by terrorism.); Guests: Future (then-Sen.) President Joe Biden (D-DE), Sen. Orin Hatch (R-UT), Tanya Metaksa (executive director of the NRA).
1:30 Jack Hanna's Animal Adventures
2:00 Lifestyles (of the Rich and Famous) - Featured: Richard Belzer in France; music group The Rambrandts (performers of the "Friends" theme)
3:00 US Air Show - From Dayton (OH) International Airport
4:00 Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years
5:00 Highlander
6:00 Channel 2 Action News
7:00 America's Funniest Home Videos (x2) - Bob Saget
8:00 Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman: "Forget Me Not" 3/10/1996
9:00 ABC Sunday Night Movie: "Frankie & Johnny" (1991) - Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeifer
11:30 Channel 2 Action News
12:05 Sports Final
12:30 Highlander
1:30 Extremists With Gabrielle Reece
2:00 Sightings
3:00 Lifestyles

5 WAGA (Fox)
6:00 Kenneth Copeland
7:00 Feed the Children
7:30 Creflo A. Dollar
8:00 Robert Schuller
9:00 Paid Programming
11:00 Georgia Gang
11:30 Latin Atlanta
NOON National Geographic
1:00 Movie (title unavailable)
3:00 Sports Weekend
4:00 US Customs: Classified
5:00 Lazarus Man
6:00 Channel 5 Eyewitness News
6:30 Wheel of Fortune
7:00 America's Most Wanted - "Alcatraz: The Escape"; Special episode focusing on the 1962 Alcatraz escapees.
8:00 Simpsons: "Much Apu About Nothing" 5/6/1996
8:30 Married...With Children: "Calendar Girl" 2/4/1996
9:00 New York Undercover: "Internal Affairs" 11/30/1995
10:00 Channel 5 Eyewitness News
11:00 A Current Affair Extra
MIDNIGHT High Tide
1:00 Channel 5 Eyewitness News (R?)
2:00 Big Valley (x2)
4:00 Renegade

8 WGTV (PBS/Georgia Public Television)
6:30 Sesame Street
7:30 Barney & Friends
8:00 Wishbone (x2)
9:00 Magic School Bus
9:30 Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?
10:00 Cooking Secrets of the CIA
10:30 America's Rising Star Chefs
11:00 Chef (Paul) Prudhomme's Fiery Foods
11:30 Jancis Robinson's Wine Course
NOON Travels in Europe
12:30 Movie: "Murder, She Said..." (1961 in UK, 1962 in US) - Margaret Rutherford (as Miss Marple), Arthur Kennedy, Muriel Pavlow.
2:30 Movie: "Murder Ahoy!" (1964 in US, 1965 in UK) - Margaret Rutherford (as Miss Marple), Stringer Davis, Lionel Jeffries.
3:30 Movie: "Murder at the Gallup" (1963) - Margaret Rutherford (as Miss Marple), Stringer Davis, Robert Morley, Flora Robson.
5:00 Grilling With Chef George Hirsch
5:30 Pierre Franey's Cooking in France
6:00 Memories With Lawrence Welk (6/1/1963) - Theme: "On the Boardwalk in Atlantic City"
7:00 Woodwright's Shop
7:30 New Yankee Workshop
8:00 This Old House (x2)
9:00 Nature: "Ghost Bear"
10:00 "The Civil War": "War is All Hell" - Conclusion of the 5-part groundbreaking Ken Burns mini-series (his first). Highlights include Lee's surrender to Grant and the Lincoln assassination.

11 WXIA (NBC)
6:00 11 News
7:00 XXVI Summer Olympics - Event: Track & Field (men's marathon)
9:30 XXVI Summer Olympics - Events: Basketball (women's third-place), Boxing (finals), Canoe/Kayak (finals), Equestrian (individual jumping finals), Rhythmic Gymnastics (individual final), Indoor Volleyball (men's bronze and gold matches).
5:30 NBC Nightly News - Tom Brokaw (reporting from Atlanta)
6:30 XXVI Summer Olympics - Events: Basketball (women's final), Closing Ceremony.
11:30 11 News
12:35 Inside Edition
1:05 Save Our Streets
2:05 Coast Guard
2:35 Nightfighters
3:35 Nightside

17 TBS (Formerly WTBS, which originally operated on this channel)
6:35 It Is Written
7:05 Bugs Bunny
7:35 Jetsons
8:05 New Adventures of Captain Planet
8:35 Scooby-Doo
9:05 Dexter's Laboratory
9:35 Flintstones
10:05 Andy Griffith
10:35 Movie: "Little Monsters" (1989) - Fred Savage, Ben Savage (Fred's younger brother of Boy Meets World fame) Howie Mandel, Daniel Stern (voice of the adult Kevin Arnold [played by Fred Savage] on The Wonder Years).
12:35 Movie: "Poltergeist III" (1988) - Tom Skerrit, Nancy Allen, Laura Flynn Boyle, Heather O'Rourke (posthumously).
2:35 Movie: "Gargoyles" (1972) - Cornell Wilde, Jennifer Salt, Grayson Hall, Bernie Casey.
4:05 Braves Baseball - at Los Angeles Dodgers
7:05 Movie: "Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man" (1991) - Mickey Rourke, Don Johnson.
9:05 Movie: "An Eye for and Eye" (1981) - Chuck Norris, Christopher Lee, Richard Roundtree, Matt Clark, Mako Iwamatsu, Maggie Cooper.
11:05 Network Earth
11:35 Paid Programming

30 WPBA (PBS secondary)
6:00 Education Wars
7:00 Talking With David Frost
8:00 Dudley the Dragon
8:30 Barney & Friends
9:00 Sesame Street (x2)
11:00 Small Business 2000
11:30 Financial Freedom
NOON Firing Line
12:30 Think Tank
1:00 Washington Week in Review
1:30 Wall $treet Week
2:00 Tony Brown's Journal
2:30 European Journal
3:00 MacLaughlin Group
3:30 John MacLaughlin's One on One
4:00 Inside Washington
4:30 Freedom Forum: Authors
5:00 Computer Chronicles
5:30 Adam Smith
6:00 Wishbone (x2)
7:00 Cooking With Ursula
7:30 Country Inn Cooking
8:00 Battlefield
10:00 Freedom Speaks
10:30 German Resistance to Hitler
11:00 TechnoPolitics
11:30 Thinking Allowed (Part 1 of 2)
MIDNIGHT Headwaters

36 WATL (The WB)
6:00 America's Black Forum
6:30 Key of David
7:00 Search Church of Christ
7:30 Dr. D. James Kennedy
8:00 Body of Christ Christian
8:30 Not Just News
9:00 Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries
9:30 Animaniacs (x2)
10:30 Pinky & the Brain
11:00 Freakazoid
11:30 Earthworm Jim
NOON Movie: "Disorderlies" (1987) - The Fat Boys, Ralph Bellamy, Tony Plana, Anthony Geary.
2:00 Movie: "The Bad Seed" (1985) - Blair Brown, Lynn Redgrave, David Carradine, Carrie Wells, Richard Kiley, David Ogden Stiers, Chad Allen.
4:00 Movie: "The Man With Two Brains" (1983) - Steve Martin, Kathleen Turner, David Warner.
6:00 Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
6:30 Simpsons
7:00 Kirk (Cameron): "The Love Letter" 1/14/1996
7:30 Kirk: "Stock on You" 2/11/1996
8:00 The Parent 'Hood: "Little Bitty Pretty One" 1/31/1996
8:30 Sister, Sister: "Free Billy" 12/21/1994 on ABC
9:00 Unhappily Ever After: "Driving Me Crazy" 10/11/1995
9:30 Unhappily Ever After: "The Whiz Kid" 11/29/1995
10:00 Seinfeld
10:30 Cheers
11:00 Murphy Brown
11:30 Movie: "Dillinger" (1991) - Mark Harmon (as John Dillinger), Sherilyn Fenn (as Billie Frechette), Will Patton (as Melvin Purvis), Vince Edwards (as J. Edgar Hoover).

46 WGNX (CBS)
6:00 US Farm Report
6:30 Pastor Clarence
7:00 Keith Butler
7:30 First Presbyterian
8:00 Peachtree Presbyterian
8:30 WGNX Sunday Morning
9:00 CBS News Sunday Morning - Charles Osgood
10:30 Face the Nation - Topic: "Welfare, Terrorism and Taxes"; Guests: White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta, Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-MS), Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD), former and future Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld (senior policy advisor of the Bob Dole campaign).
11:00 Star Trek: The Next Generation
NOON Movie: "Moonstruck" (1987) - Cher (Best Actress), Nicolas Cage, Olympia Dukakis (Best Supporting Actress).
2:00 Movie: "Mystic Pizza" (1988) - Julia Roberts, Annabeth Gish, Lili Taylor.
4:00 Golf - Buick Open, Final Round (Grand Blanc, MI)
6:00 WGNX News
6:30 CBS Evening News - Harry Smith (substituting for John Roberts)
7:00 60 Minutes
8:00 Murder, She Wrote: "Deadly Bidding" - Guest starring Wayne Rogers.
9:00 CBS Sunday Movie: "National Lampoon's European Vacation" (1985) - Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Dana Hill (died 20 days earlier), Jason Lively, Eric Idle.
11:00 WGNX News
11:30 Sports Extra
MIDNIGHT Cops (x2)
1:00 Paid Programming
2:00 CBS Up to the Minute

69 WUPA (UPN)
6:00 Bill Nye the Science Guy
6:30 Dragon Ball
7:00 Phantom 2040
7:30 G.I. Joe: Extreme
8:00 Princess Gwenevere & the Jewel Riders
8:30 Skysufer Strike Force
9:00 Ultraforce
9:30 Street Sharks
10:00 Space Strikers
10:30 Teknoman
11:00 Baby Huey
11:30 Aladdin
NOON Step by Step (x2)
1:00 Movie: "If the Shoe Fits" (1991) - Rob Lowe, Jennifer Grey.
3:00 Movie: "Arthur 2: On the Rocks" (1988) - Dudley Moore, Liza Minnelli.
5:00 Baywatch Nights
6:00 Outer Limits
7:00 Star Trek: Voyager: "Innocence"
8:00 Movie: "American Ninja 2: The Confrontation" (1987) - Michael Dudikoff, Steve James, Larry McDonald.
10:00 Wiley Jackson Jr.: Gospel Tabernacle
11:00 Creflo A. Dollar
11:30 Jack Van Impe
12:30 Travel Travel
1:00 LAPD
1:30 Siskel & Ebert - Reviews: "Jack", "Chain Reaction", "Emma".
2:00 Bonanza
3:00 Cannon
4:00 Siskel & Ebert (R)
4:30 Haven

 

[RandTV]

ADDENDUM

TBS Schedules -

July 19
5:05 Court TV: Inside America's Courts
5:35 CNN Headline News
6:05 Captain Planet & the Planeteers
6:35 Scooby-Doo
7:05 Jetsons
7:35 Flintstones
8:05 Gilligan's Island
8:35 Bewitched
9:05 Little House on the Prairie
10:05 Who's the Boss?
10:35 Three's Company
11:05 Beverly Hillibillies
11:35 Andy Griffith
12:05 Matlock (also starring Andy Griffith; set in Atlanta)
1:05 Movie: "Scavenger Hunt" (1979) - ensemble cast (see below)
3:05 Flintstones (x2)
4:05 Scooby-Doo
4:35 Brady Bunch
5:05 Saved by the Bell (x2)
6:05 Family Matters (x2)
7:05 America's Funniest Home Videos (x2)
8:05 Braves Baseball - at Houston Astros
11:05 Movie: "Airplane!" (1980) - Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Peter Graves, Leslie Nielsen, Lloyd Bridges, Robert Stack, Kareem-Abdul Jabbar.
1:05 Movie: "Rattlers" (1976) - Sam Chew, Elisabeth Chauvet.
2:50 Mini-Disaster Area
3:00 CHiPs (x2)
5:00 Leave It to Beaver
5:30 Andy Griffith

July 27
5:00 Andy Griffith (x3)
6:30 Interact America
7:05 Feed Your Mind
7:35 Jestsons
8:05 Flintstones
8:35 Scooby-Doo
9:05 WCW Pro Wrestling
10:05 National Geographic Explorer Mini-Marathon: "Piranha!"
10:35 "Greyhounds: Running for Their Lives"
11:05 "Deep Freeze"
11:35 "Secrets of the Serval Cat"
12:05 Movie: "The Adventures of the Wilderness Family" (1975) - Robert Logan, Susan Damante-Shaw, Hollye Holmes, Ham Larsen.
2:05 NASCAR Racing - Miller 500 (Long Pond, PA)
5:05 Dexter's Laboratory
5:35 New Adventures of Captain Planet
6:05 WCW Main Event
7:05 WCW Saturday Night
8:05 Movie: "The Dirty Dozen" (1967) - Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, John Cassavetes, George Kennedy, Telly Savalas, Donald Sutherland, Clint Walker, Trini Lopez.
11:05 Movie: "Battleground" (1949) - Van Johnson, John Hodiak, Ricardo Montalban, George Murphy.
1:35 Movie: "Sands of Iwo Jima" (1949) - John Wayne, John Agar, Forrest Tucker, Adele Mara.
3:55 CHiPs
4:55 Mini-Disaster Area

"Scavenger Hunt" Ensemble Cast: Richard Benjamin, James Coco, Scatman Crothers, Ruth Gordon, Cloris Leachman, Cleavon Little, Roddy McDowall, Robert Morley, Richard Mulligan, Tony Randall, Dirk Benedict, Willie Aames, Stephanie Faracy, Stephen Furst, Richard Masur.

PRIME TIME EPISODE TITLES

July 19

Nash Bridges (CBS): "Home Invasion" 3/30/1996

July 27

ABC

Second Noah: "A Dog's Life" 4/15/1996

CBS

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman: "Dead or Alive: Part 2 of 2" 2/3/1996
Touched by an Angel: "Out of the Darkness" 2/17/1996
Walker, Texas Ranger: "The Juggernaut" 2/10/1996

 

[youngtvguy]

Two corrections needed to be made... WSB's news was, at the time and still is, Channel 2 Action News. WAGA's news was, at the time, FOX 5 Eyewitness News. WXIA and WGNX's news brandings mentioned during this time were correct.

Actually WAGA didn't become FOX5 Eyewitness News until early part of 1997 when FOX actually took over ownership. It was still Channel 5 Eyewitness News. WXIA later would return to 11Alive News. WGNX was WGNX NEWS.