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Retro: Atlanta/Chattanooga/Macon Friday, August 1, 1975

From TV Guide, North Georgia Edition:

WSB Ch. 2 Atlanta (NBC)

6 AM Herald Of Truth
6:30 Arthur Smith
7 AM Today (Jim Hartz/Barbara Walters)
9 AM Not For Women Only
9:30 Today In Georgia
10 AM Celebrity Sweepstakes
10:30 Wheel Of Fortune
11 AM High Rollers
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N News
12:30 Merv Griffin (moves to 6:30 PM on Ch.
11 starting Aug. 11)
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM Big Valley
5 PM High Chaparral
6 PM News
7 PM NBC News (John Chancellor)
7:30 Let's Make A Deal (also airs on Monday)
8 PM Sanford And Son
8:30 Chico And The Man
9 PM Rockford Files
10 PM Police Woman
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show (McLean Stevenson subs
for Johnny)
1 AM Night Dreams (first of two contemporary-
music shows built around a theme--this
one is "love"--with special visual effects
and comedy bits)
2:30 News

WRCB Ch. 3 Chattanooga (NBC)

6:25 New Zoo Revue
6:55 News For Little People
7 AM Today
9 AM 700 Club
10 AM Celebrity Sweepstakes
10:30 Wheel Of Fortune
11 AM High Rollers
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N News
12:30 Jackpot!
12:55 NBC News (Edwin Newman)
1 PM Magnificent Marble Machine
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM Somerset
4:30 The FBI
5:25 News For Little People
5:30 Mickey Mouse Club
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Truth Or Consequences
7:30 Name That Tune
8 PM Sanford And Son
8:30 Chico And The Man
9 PM Rockford Files
10 PM Police Woman
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Night Dreams

WAGA Ch. 5 Atlanta (CBS)

6 AM Summer Semester: "Science And
Society: A Humanistic View"
6:30 International Zone
7 AM CBS News (Hughes Rudd)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Phil Donahue
10 AM Spin-Off
10:30 Gambit
11 AM Tattletales
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
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 '75
4 PM Bewitched
4:30 Mike Douglas
6 PM News
7 PM CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7:30 Treasure Hunt
8 PM CBS Movie: "The Family Kovack"
9:30 CBS Movie: "Catholics"
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Magnificent Thief" (pilot for
"It Takes A Thief")
1:30 Movie: "Talk About A Stranger"
3 AM News

WGTV Ch. 8 Athens/Atlanta (PBS)

4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Sesame Street
6:30 Brother Buzz
7 PM Yoga For Health
7:30 Great Parks Of The World
8 PM Washington Week In Review
8:30 Wall Street Week
9 PM The Seven Little Woolcots (Part
1 of 5)
10 PM Play Of The Month: "The Mad
Trapper"
sign off 11:30 PM

WTVC Ch. 9 Chattanooga (ABC)

7 AM A.M. America (Bill Beutel--becomes
"GMA" in November)
9 AM Phil Donahue
10 AM Funtime
11 AM Lassie
11:30 Brady Bunch
12 N Showoffs
12:30 All My Children
1 PM Ryan's Hope
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM $10,000 Pyramid (top prize increases
to $20,000 in January 1976)
2:30 Rhyme And Reason
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM You Don't Say!
4:30 Gilligan's Island
5 PM Beverly Hillbillies
5:30 The Lucy Show
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News (Smith/Reasoner)
7 PM Ironside
8 PM ABC Movie: "The Tribe" (not to be
confused with another ABC movie,
"Tribes," from 1970)
9:30 College All-Star Football Game:
College All-Stars vs. Pittsburgh Steelers
12:30 News (time approximate)

WXIA Ch. 11 Atlanta (ABC)

6:30 Dick Van Dyke
7 AM A.M. America
9 AM A.M. Atlanta (Concentration and
You Don't Say! take over the slot
Aug. 11)
10 AM Dinah! (moves to 4 PM Aug. 11)
11:30 Brady Bunch (news replaces on Aug. 11)
12 N News (Showoffs replaces on Aug. 11)
12:30 All My Children
1 PM Ryan's Hope
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM $10,000 Pyramid
2:30 Rhyme And Reason
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM Movie: "Singing Guns" (a Western with an
unlikely star, singer-bandleader Vaughn Monroe)
(movies move to 10 AM Aug. 11)
6 PM News (moves to 5:30 Aug. 11)
6:30 ABC News (moves to 6 PM Aug. 11 as Merv takes
over the slot)
7 PM Concentration (moves to 9 AM Aug. 11)
7:30 Hollywood Squares
8 PM ABC Movie: "The Tribe"
9:30 College All-Star Football Game
12:30 News (time approximate)

WDEF Ch. 12 Chattanooga (CBS)

6:25 Farm Report
6:30 Summer Semester
7 AM Morning Show
8 AM CBS News
9 AM Captain Kangaroo
10 AM Spin-Off
10:30 Gambit
11 AM Tattletales
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS News
12 N News
12:25 Paul Harvey
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM That Girl
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Guiding Light
2:30 Edge Of Night
3 PM Price Is Right
3:30 Match Game '75
4 PM Musical Chairs (Adam Wade is the
first African-American to host a television
game show; radio historians
claim Cab Calloway did one in the '30s.
Wade later played Willona's boyfriend on
"Good Times.")
4:30 Merv Griffin
5:55 Paul Harvey
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Mod Squad
8 PM CBS Movie: "The Family Kovack"
9:30 CBS Movie: "Catholics"
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "The Black Scorpion" (to 1:15)

WMAZ Ch. 13 Macon (CBS/ABC)

6:50 News
7 AM CBS News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Let's Talk It Over
9:30 General Hospital
10 AM Spin-Off
10:30 Gambit
11 AM Tattletales
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS News
12 N Young And The Restless
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Almanac
1:15 Date With Del
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Guiding Light
2:30 Edge Of Night
3 PM Price Is Right
3:30 Match Game '75
4 PM Musical Chairs
4:30 Bonanza
5:30 To Tell The Truth
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Truth Or Consequences
7:30 Price Is Right
8 PM CBS Movie: "The Family Kovack"
9:30 CBS Movie: "Catholics"
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "The Black Scorpion" (to 1:15)

WDCO Ch. 15 (WMUM Ch. 29) Cochran/
WCLP (WNGH) Ch. 18 Chatsworth (PBS)

4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Sesame Street
6:30 Fun And Games: Jogging/Cycling
7 PM Aviation Weather
7:30 Black Perspective On The News
8 PM Washington Week In Review
8:30 Wall Street Week
9 PM Masterpiece Theatre: "Upstairs,
Downstairs" (Part 12)
10 PM David Susskind
sign off 11:30 PM

WTCG (WPCH) Ch. 17 Atlanta (Ind.)

5:40 News
6 AM Rockin' With Bluegrass
6:30 Romper Room
7 AM Three Stooges/Little Rascals
8 AM I Love Lucy
8:30 Hazel
9 AM Father Knows Best
9:30 Andy Griffith
10 AM Movie: "Too Many Girls" (Lucille Ball
and Desi Arnaz met on the set of this
1940 musical.)
12 N The Lucy Show
12:30 Topper
1 PM Movie: "Ebb Tide"
3 PM Cartoon Carnival
3:30 Mickey Mouse Club
4 PM Munsters
4:30 Leave It To Beaver
5 PM The Lucy Show
5:30 Hazel
6 PM Petticoat Junction
6:30 That Girl
7 PM Andy Griffith
7:30 Hogan's Heroes
8 PM Georgia Press Conference (Sens.
Herman Talmadge and Sam Nunn
meet the press.)
9 PM Movie: "Each Dawn I Die" (Jimmy
Cagney in one of the great prison
pictures, satirized in the Warner
Brothers cartoon "Each Dawn I Crow.")
11 PM Dragnet
11:30 Boxing: Earnie Shavers vs. Henry Clark,
heavyweights, 10 rounds, live from Las
Vegas
12:30 Movie: "The Sorcerers"
2:15 News
2:35 Movie: "Manpower" (if you figured this is
from World War II give yourself a point--
it's from 1941)
4:35 Man In A Suitcase (2 episodes)

WETV (WPBA) Ch. 30 Atlanta (PBS)

8:30 Sesame Street
9:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
10 AM Electric Company
10:30 Sesame Street
11:30 off the air
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Villa Alegre
6 PM Electric Company
6:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
7 PM Aviation Weather
7:30 Consumer Survival Kit
8 PM Interfusions (rock music)
8:30 Wall Street Week
9 PM Masterpiece Theatre
10 PM Movie: "Home Sweet Homicide"
sign off 11:30 PM

WCWB (WMGT) Ch. 41 Macon (NBC)

7 AM Today
9 AM Phil Donahue (later moved to Ch. 13)
10 AM Celebrity Sweepstakes
10:30 Wheel Of Fortune
11 AM High Rollers
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Magnificent Marble Machine
12:30 Jackpot!
12:55 NBC News
1 PM News
1:05 Noon Over Middle Georgia
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM Somerset
4:30 Merv Griffin
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM I Dream Of Jeannie
7:30 Marshal Dillon
8 PM Sanford And Son
8:30 Chico And The Man
9 PM Rockford Files
10 PM Police Woman
11 PM Rifleman
11:30 Tonight Show

WTCI Ch. 45 Chattanooga (PBS)

3:30 Lilias, Yoga And You
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Anthropology
6:30 Electric Company
7 PM Aviation Weather
7:30 Evening Edition With Martin
Agronsky
8 PM Washington Week In Review
8:30 Wall Street Week
9 PM Masterpiece Theatre
10 PM Public Policy Forums
sign off 11 PM

WHAE (WGCL) Ch. 46 Atlanta (Ind.)

10:45 News
11 AM New Zoo Revue
11:30 Fury
12 N 700 Club
1:30 It's A New Day
2 PM Bozo's Big Top
2:30 Porky Pig
3 PM Jeff's Collie
3:30 Bullwinkle
4 PM Cartoon Festival
4:30 Real McCoys
5 PM Cisco Kid
5:30 Mayberry R.F.D.
6 PM Movie: "Trooper Hook"
8 PM 700 Club
9:30 Grand Ole Gospel Time
10 PM Jimmy Swaggart
10:30 Right On!
11 PM Mayberry R.F.D.
11:30 Honeymooners
sign off 12 Midnight

WRIP (WDSI) Ch. 61 Chattanooga (Ind.)

3:55 Dr. J. Harold Smith
4 PM Underdog
4:30 Gigantor
5 PM New Zoo Revue
5:30 Three Stooges
6 PM Fisherman
6:30 Trails West (Death Valley Days reruns)
7 PM Cartoon Carnival
7:25 Dr. J. Harold Smith
7:30 Galloping Gourmet
8 PM Hunter (there have been three shows by
this title--this is the first, from the '50s,
with Barry Nelson; later shows by this
name starred James Franciscus and Fred
Dryer)
8:30 Three Stooges
9 PM Cartoon Carnival (I kid you not, but then
again, if ABC could do kid sitcoms on
Friday nights in the '90s...)
9:30 Three Stooges
10 PM Quest For Adventure
10:30 Three Stooges
11 PM Dr. J. Harold Smith
sign off 11:05 PM
 
bpatrick said:
WXIA Ch. 11 Atlanta (ABC)
6:30 Dick Van Dyke
7 AM A.M. America
9 AM A.M. Atlanta (Concentration and
You Don't Say! take over the slot
Aug. 11)
10 AM Dinah! (moves to 4 PM Aug. 11)
11:30 Brady Bunch (news replaces on Aug. 11)
12 N News (Showoffs replaces on Aug. 11)
12:30 All My Children
1 PM Ryan's Hope
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM $10,000 Pyramid
2:30 Rhyme And Reason
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM Movie: "Singing Guns" (a Western with an
unlikely star, singer-bandleader Vaughn Monroe)
(movies move to 10 AM Aug. 11)
6 PM News (moves to 5:30 Aug. 11)
6:30 ABC News (moves to 6 PM Aug. 11 as Merv takes
over the slot)
7 PM Concentration (moves to 9 AM Aug. 11)
7:30 Hollywood Squares
8 PM ABC Movie: "The Tribe"
9:30 College All-Star Football Game
12:30 News (time approximate)

WTCG (WPCH) Ch. 17 Atlanta (Ind.)
8 PM Georgia Press Conference (Sens.
Herman Talmadge and Sam Nunn
meet the press.)

WRIP (WDSI) Ch. 61 Chattanooga (Ind.)
9 PM Cartoon Carnival (I kid you not, but then
again, if ABC could do kid sitcoms on
Friday nights in the '90s...)

I wonder how well the applecart-turning programming shuffle worked for WXIA. Sounds like a measure of desperation to me ...

WTCG doing public affairs in PRIME TIME??? I didn't know the station did ANY kind of that stuff, at any time, during the week. I would guess the station had to fill in a hole created by not having a Braves game to telecast that night. In any case, something tells me that "Georgia Press Conference" did not last very long.

Up in Chattanooga, I bet it was rather neat to see cartoons in prime-time. As I recall a letter to the editor in a TV Guide during a writer's strike back in the 1970s threatening prime-time production, one reader, totally unsympathetic to the worries of network brass, claimed that he would prefer to see Woody Woodpecker shorts in the place of some of the substandard fare the networks were offering then. Another for the "what if" category for you.
 
I think the "Georgia Press Conference" was a
one-shot thing, and Ch. 17 offered it to any
station in Georgia that wanted to carry it.
Ch. 2 did have "Monday News Conference"
at 9:30 AM on Mondays for years; it later
moved to Sundays at 6:30 PM and was, of
course, retitled "Sunday News Conference."

The wholesale restructuring of Ch. 11's schedule
was an act of desperation--typical of Ch. 11 in
those days--and didn't work at all. By January
1976 the news block had gone back to 6-7 (local
at 6, ABC at 6:30), Merv had moved to 7 (for one
hour), movies were back at 4, Dinah was on from
9 to 10:30 AM, One Life To Live was back on in
the morning at 10:30 AM, followed by Edge Of
Night at 11. Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman ran at
3:30 for a short time, moved to 11:30 PM, and was
replaced by reruns of Dark Shadows. The 11:30 AM
newscast lasted until the end of the 1975-76 season.
Whatever gains "Pro News" had made since its debut
in 1972 were wiped out by the move to 5:30, and in
September 1976 the new format--"11 Alive Newsroom"--
debuted.

By the summer of 1976 Concentration and To Tell The
Truth were back in the 7-8 slot, Merv had moved to 1:30,
and One Life To Live and General Hospital, 45 minutes each,
were seen 2:30-4 PM (Pyramid moved to 10:30 AM and
Family Feud was pre-empted until ABC moved it to 11:30 AM).

The changes also reflect a management change. Jack Clifford
was fired in the spring of 1976; Alvin Flanagan, president of
Combined Communications (now part of Gannett) was interim
manager until Jeff Davidson came from Louisville that summer.
Even though Davidson presided over Ch. 11 when ABC was number
one, he couldn't get it out of third place and wound up with NBC
when ABC elected to move to Ch. 2 in 1980.
 
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