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Retro: Atlanta/Chattanooga/Macon Friday, August 29, 1969

From TV Guide, Georgia (Atlanta) Edition:

WSB Ch. 2 Atlanta (NBC)

6:20 Town And Country
6:25 Farm News
6:30 On Tour ("Wings To Hawaii")
7 AM Today (Jack Wild of "H.R. Pufnstuf," along with
producers Sid and Marty Krofft; animal abuse
at roadside zoos)
9 AM Today In Georgia
10 AM It Takes Two (Buddy Greco, George Lindsey, Howard
Morris and spouses)
10:25 NBC News (Nancy Dickerson)
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Personality (Jack Carter, E.J. Peaker, William Shatner;
on film: Robert Morse)
11:30 Hollywood Squares (Sonny and Cher, Totie Fields, Eva
Gabor, Pat Henry, Jacqueline Susann, Wally Cox, Charley
Weaver, Paul Lynde)
12 N News (Hal Suit)
12:30 Mike Douglas (guest: singer Joe Williams)
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 You Don't Say! (Nancy Kulp, Richard Deacon)
4 PM Match Game (Nipsey Russell, Helen O'Connell)
4:25 News (Tom Wassell)
4:30 Truth Or Consequences
5 PM Perry Mason
6 PM Newsroom (Hal Suit/David Sisson)
7 PM Huntley-Brinkley Report
7:30 High Chaparral
8:30 Name Of The Game
10 PM The Saint
11 PM Newsroom (Dick Horner)
11:30 Tonight Show (Jerry Lewis subs for Johnny;
Peter Lawford is a guest)
1 AM Movie: "The Wayward Bus" (watch for Joan Collins
and Rick Jason in this one from '57)

WRCB Ch. 3 Chattanooga (NBC)

7 AM Today
9 AM Steve Allen (Shelley Berman, Deep Purple, singer Michael
Dees, escape artist Bill Chaudet)
10:25 NBC News
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Personality
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 Eye Guess
12:55 NBC News (Edwin Newman)
1 PM Bulletin
1:20 Fashions In Sewing
1:30 You're Putting Me On (Larry Blyden, Chelsea Brown, Peggy
Cass, Anne Jackson, Burt Reynolds, Eli Wallach)
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 You Don't Say!
4 PM Match Game
4:25 NBC News (Floyd Kalber)
4:30 Movie: "Four Guns To The Border"
6 PM News (Mort Lloyd)
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Truth Or Consequences
7:30 High Chaparral
8:30 Name Of The Game
10 PM The Saint
11 PM News (Morris/Fischer)
11:30 Tonight Show

WAGA Ch. 5 Atlanta (CBS)

6 AM Black Heritage (black culture since 1954)
6:30 This Is Your Town
7 AM CBS News (Joseph Benti)
7:30 Mr. Pix (Dave Michaels, at this point a kids'-show
host but later an anchor at Ch. 11 and CNN)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM The Linkletter Show (Dorothy Lamour, singer Gogi
Grant, day-behind from 4 PM)
9:30 Dick Van Dyke (day-behind from 11:30 AM)
10 AM The Lucy Show
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11 AM Andy Griffith
11:30 Love Of Life (day-behind from 12 N, but CBS will move
the show to this timeslot Sept. 8)
11:55 Weather
12 N News (Moore/Gardner)
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Divorce Court
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM Secret Storm
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Movie: "Bell, Book And Candle" (one of the inspirations
for "Bewitched")
6 PM News (Axel/Moore)
6:30 CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7 PM I Love Lucy
7:30 I Spy
8:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
9 PM CBS Movie: "Tarzan Goes To India" (Jock Mahoney is
Tarzan, from '62)
11 PM Panorama (Jim Axel)
11:30 Movie: "Adam's Rib" (Merv Griffin airs Sunday at 11:45 PM)

WGTV Ch. 8 Athens/Atlanta (NET)
off air for the summer

WTVC Ch. 9 Chattanooga (ABC)

7:45 Upward Look
8 AM Jack LaLanne
8:30 Dennis The Menace
9 AM Funtime
10 AM Movie: "Man Afraid"
11:30 That Girl (day-behind from 12:30 PM)
12 N Bewitched
12:30 News (Hogue/Martin)
1 PM Dream House
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM Dark Shadows
4:30 Jeff's Collie
5 PM Bob Brandy
5:30 News (Gil Norwood)
6 PM ABC News (Frank Reynolds/Howard K. Smith)
6:30 Real McCoys
7 PM I Love Lucy
7:30 Let's Make A Deal
8 PM John Davidson (Lulu, the Committee improvisational
group)
9 PM Judd For The Defense
10 PM Dick Cavett (producer Stanley Kramer; Dick's philosophy
professor from Yale, Dr. Paul Weiss)
11 PM News (Bill McAfee)
11:30 Joey Bishop (Eddie Fisher, the Hardy Boys rock group)

WQXI (WXIA) Ch. 11 Atlanta (ABC)

7 AM Bullwinkle (delay from Sun 11 AM)
7:30 Tubby And Lester
9 AM Romper Room
10 AM Movie: "Hercules, The Avenger"
11:50 Fashions In Sewing
12 N Bewitched
12:30 That Girl
1 PM Dream House
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM Dark Shadows
4:30 Movie: "Gunslinger"
6 PM Hazel
6:30 What's My Line?
7 PM News (Oliver/Collier)
7:30 Movie: "The Inn Of The Sixth Happiness"
10 PM Dick Cavett
11 PM News (Oliver/Faye)
11:30 Movie: "South Of St. Louis"

WDEF Ch. 12 Chattanooga (CBS)

6:30 Focus
7 AM CBS News
8 AM Regional Report
8:30 Romper Room
9 AM Captain Kangaroo
10 AM The Lucy Show
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11 AM Andy Griffith
11:30 Dick Van Dyke
12 N News (Hoyt Cameron)
12:20 Paul Harvey
12:25 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Love Of Life
1:25 Dilly Dally
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM Secret Storm
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Linkletter Show (guest is musician Harris Nelson)
4:30 Gilligan's Island
5 PM Perry Mason
5:55 Paul Harvey
6 PM News (Buddine/Wick)
6:30 CBS News
7 PM The Texan
7:30 Wild Wild West
8:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
9 PM CBS Movie: "Tarzan Goes To India"
11 PM News (Don Wick)
11:30 Movie: "Love Nest" (watch for Marilyn Monroe and
Jack Paar in this one from '51; Merv Griffin airs
Sunday 11:30 PM)

WMAZ Ch. 13 Macon (CBS/ABC)

6:30 Cartoon Club
7 AM CBS News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM General Hospital
9:30 Bewitched
10 AM The Lucy Show
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11 AM Andy Griffith
11:30 Dick Van Dyke
12 N Love Of Life
12:25 CBS News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Almanac
1:15 Date With Del (on film, Gail Fisher of "Mannix")
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM Secret Storm
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Linkletter Show
4:30 Dark Shadows
5 PM The Outlaws
6 PM Pulse
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Leave It To Beaver
7:30 Run For Your Life
8:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
9 PM CBS Movie: "Tarzan Goes To India"
11 PM 11th Hour Report
11:30 Merv Griffin (George Jessel, Heather MacRae (of
the Broadway production of "Hair"), Charlie Manna)

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

4:30 Film
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 What's New
6 PM Muffinland
6:15 Friendly Giant
6:30 Innovations (chemical light systems)
7 PM Antiques (a collection of 20th-century dolls)
7:30 William F. Buckley Jr. (Profs. T.R. Gurr and H.D. Graham,
who worked on a committee seeking ways to prevent
violence after Robert F. Kennedy's assassination)
8:30 Favorite Story (Adolphe Menjou tells the story of "The
Canterville Ghost")
9 PM Sounds Of Summer (from the Southern Vermont Arts Festival
in Manchester, VT: opera singers Karan Armstrong, soprano;
Marcia Baldwin, mezzo-soprano; Robert Goodloe, baritone;
Anastasios Vrenios, tenor)
sign off 11 PM

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

12 N Jeopardy! (pre-empted on Ch. 2)
12:30 Movie: "Do You Love Me?"
2:30 Jack Benny (guest is singer Jane Morgan, who sings "The
Second Time Around" and goes to lunch with Jack--at a
cafeteria)
3 PM Adventure Theatre
3:30 King And Odie
4 PM Rocky And His Friends
4:30 Yogi Bear
5 PM Little Rascals
5:30 Batman
6 PM Flintstones
6:30 McHale's Navy
7 PM Munsters
7:30 My Little Margie
8 PM Donna Reed
8:30 Tales Of Wells Fargo
9 PM Della Reese (guests: Shari Lewis, Richard Dawson,
the Checkmates Ltd.)
10 PM Untouchables
11 PM Alfred Hitchcock Presents
11:30 Movie: "Dishonored Lady"

WETV (WPBA) Ch. 30 Atlanta (NET)

4:30 Film
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (Ch. 30 does not colorcast)
5:30 What's New
6 PM Muffinland
6:15 Friendly Giant
6:30 Innovations
7 PM Big Picture
7:30 Black Journal (a report on apartheid in South Africa; Ch. 30
does not colorcast)
8:30 NET Playhouse: "The Madras House" (how an Edwardian family
copes with the loss of its fashion house to Americans)
sign off 10 PM

WATL Ch. 36 Atlanta (Ind.)

11 AM Jack LaLanne
11:30 Tempo Atlanta
12 N Cartoon Club
1 PM Movie: "Sound Off"
3 PM Rocket Robin Hood
3:30 Marine Boy
4 PM Speed Racer
4:30 Officer Don's Clubhouse ("Officer" Don Kennedy moved his
kids' show to Ch. 36 after being dropped by Ch. 2; in 1976
he would return Ch. 36 to the air.)
5:30 Superman
6 PM Lost In Space
7 PM Patty Duke
7:30 Beat The Clock (Jack Narz version)
8 PM Candid Camera (oddly, Ch. 36 included this in its promo,
"We're playing games" from 7:30-9 PM)
8:30 Game Game (topic: "How much sex appeal do you have?")
9 PM Movie: "A Night To Remember" ('58 account of the sinking of
the Titanic)
11 PM Twilight Zone
11:30 Joey Bishop (pre-empted on Ch. 11)

WCWB (WMGT) Ch. 41 Macon (NBC)

7 AM Today
9 AM Film
10 AM It Takes Two
10:25 NBC News
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Personality
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 Eye Guess
12:55 NBC News
1 PM Judi Wood (women's show)
1:30 You're Putting Me On
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 You Don't Say!
4 PM Match Game
4:25 NBC News
4:30 Laredo
5:30 Cartoons
6 PM Skippy The Bush Kangaroo
6:30 Dating Game (a rare ABC show on Ch. 41)
7 PM Huntley-Brinkley Report
7:30 High Chaparral
8:30 Name Of The Game
10 PM The Saint
11 PM Film
11:30 Tonight Show
 
Although WCWB-41 was an NBC affiliate, it was a UHF in a market where the only other commercial station was on VHF.

That might explain why they had no local news (apart from updates at 7:25 and 8:25 A.M. updates during "Today" and/or an off-camera announcer reading wire copy at sign-on or sign-off?), and just one local show, a womebn's program.

Given the lack of local programming, were WCWB's live/tape capabilities still in black-and-white??
 
WCWB was able to broadcast local programs in color; Judi Wood's
show was in color. I don't know how they handled news updates
at 7:25 and 8:25 AM.
 
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