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Retro: Atlanta/Chattanooga/Macon Friday, May 23, 1958

From TV Guide, Georgia (Atlanta) Edition:

WSB Ch. 2 Atlanta (NBC)

7 AM Today (people who were prominent in
the 1920s are guests)
8:55 Today In Georgia
9:30 Don Ameche (Dan Duryea plays a highly-
nervous man who witnesses an altercation
between a cop and a "cheap girl".)
10 AM Dough Re Mi
10:30 Treasure Hunt
11 AM Price Is Right
11:30 Truth Or Consequences
12 N News, Weather
12:15 Tic Tac Dough (joined in progress)
12:30 It Could Be You
1 PM Movie: "The Ghost Comes Home"
2:30 Kitty Foyle (short-lived soap)
3 PM Matinee Theater (two sisters, one a teacher and
the other a student, arrive at a junior college, COLOR)
4 PM Queen For A Day
4:45 Modern Romances
5 PM I Married Joan
5:30 Popeye Club
6 PM Amos 'n' Andy
6:30 News
6:45 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Honeymooners
7:30 Truth Or Consequences (Steve Dunne emceed the
primetime version instead of Bob Barker.)
8 PM Jefferson Drum
8:30 Life Of Riley
9 PM Boxing: Johnny Busso vs. Lahouardi Godhi, lightweights,
10 rounds, from Madison Square Garden
9:45 Post-Fight Beat (time approximate)
10 PM M Squad
10:30 Thin Man
11 PM News
11:15 Movie: "The Wolf Man" (Lon Chaney Jr.)

WRGP (WRCB) Ch. 3 Chattanooga (NBC)

7 AM Today
9 AM Know How (civics)
10 AM Dough Re Mi
10:30 Treasure Hunt
11 AM Price Is Right
11:30 Truth Or Consequences
12 N Tic Tac Dough
12:30 It Could Be You
1 PM My Little Margie
1:30 Ray Milland (his sitcom "Meet Mr. McNutley"
or "Meet Mr. McNulty")
2 PM Star Performance
2:30 Kitty Foyle
3 PM Matinee Theater (COLOR)
4 PM Queen For A Day
4:45 Little Rascals
5 PM Movie: "Colorado Kid"
6 PM Stories Of The Century
6:30 News
6:45 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Amos 'n' Andy
7:30 Union Pacific
8 PM Frontier
8:30 Life Of Riley
9 PM Boxing (same as Ch. 2)
9:45 Post-Fight Beat (time approximate)
10 PM M Squad
10:30 Thin Man
11 PM News
11:15 Jack Paar

WAGA Ch. 5 Atlanta (CBS)

7 AM Farm News, Weather
7:05 Roy Rogers
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
8:45 Willie Wonderful
9 AM Abbott And Costello
9:30 Dean's Party Line
10 AM Garry Moore (Kaye Ballard is guest)
11 AM Arthur Godfrey
11:30 Dotto
12 N Love Of Life
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
(I think this lasted only five minutes but no listing is given
for 1:05 PM.)
1:15 Movie Museum (a Mack Sennett short, "His Second
Childhood")
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Beat The Clock
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party (Lola Albright is guest)
3 PM Big Payoff
3:30 Verdict Is Yours
4 PM Brighter Day
4:15 Secret Storm
4:30 Edge Of Night
5 PM Susie (Ann Sothern)
5:30 Waterfront
6 PM Topper
6:30 News
6:45 Douglas Edwards With The News
7 PM Boots And Saddles
7:30 Highway Patrol
8 PM Trackdown (Robert Culp's first notable series, in-pattern
time but a broadcast airing on delay)
8:30 Zane Grey Theater (Dick Powell)
9 PM Phil Silvers (Bilko)
9:30 Schlitz Playhouse Of Stars (Shelley Winters in
"Smarty," a loud, overdressed woman who inspires
loathing from everyone she meets on a cruise)
10 PM The Lineup
10:30 Person To Person (Edward R. Murrow--known here
as Ed Murrow--interviews Jack Carter)
11 PM News
11:05 Movie: "Crossed Swords"

WTVC Ch. 9 Chattanooga (ABC)

2:55 News
3 PM American Bandstand (guests: the Four J's)
3:30 Do You Trust Your Wife? (not yet "Who Do You Trust?")
4 PM American Bandstand (guest: Julius La Rosa)
5 PM The Buccaneers
5:30 Mickey Mouse Club
6 PM Popeye (with Bob Brandy)
6:55 Weather
7 PM Casey Jones (Alan Hale Jr., pre-"Gilligan's Island")
7:30 Sea Hunt
8 PM Jim Bowie
8:30 Stars Of Jazz
9 PM Frank Sinatra (guests: Natalie Wood and singer Pat Suzuki)
9:30 Man Behind The Badge
10 PM Soldiers Of Fortune
10:30 Weathervane
10:35 Movie: "Pride Of The Marines" (true story of Al Schmid, who
was blinded on Guadalcanal)

WLWA (WXIA) Ch. 11 Atlanta (ABC)

8:15 Thoughts For Today
8:25 News, Farm Report
8:30 Cartoon Carnival
9 AM School Days
9:30 Skipper Ray (Ray McCay)
10:30 Our Miss Brooks
11 AM Life With Elizabeth (Betty White)
11:30 My Little Margie
12 N Movie: "The Woman Between"
1:30 Movie: "We're On The Jury" (Broderick Crawford's
mom, Helen Broderick, is in this one from '37)
3 PM American Bandstand
3:30 Do You Trust Your Wife?
4 PM American Bandstand
5 PM The Buccaneers
5:30 Mickey Mouse Club
6 PM Judge Roy Bean
6:30 Last Of The Mohicans
7 PM Assignment Atlanta
7:15 John Daly And The News
7:30 Rin Tin Tin
8 PM Jim Bowie
8:30 Stars Of Jazz
9 PM Frank Sinatra
9:30 26 Men
10 PM Official Detective
10:30 Kingdom Of The Sea
11 PM News
11:20 Jack Paar (pre-empted on Ch. 2)

WDEF Ch. 12 Chattanooga (CBS)

9 AM Captain Kangaroo
9:45 CBS News (Richard Hottelet)
10 AM Garry Moore
11 AM Arthur Godfrey
11:30 Dotto
12 N Love Of Life
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM Liberace (ABC would put him on at this time
when it started "Operation Daybreak" that fall.)
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Beat The Clock
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party
3 PM Big Payoff
3:30 Party Line (Drue Smith)
3:45 Today's Chapel
4 PM Brighter Day
4:15 Secret Storm
4:30 Edge Of Night
5 PM Movie: "Big Chase"
6:20 Watch The Birdie (kids' show)
6:25 Sports Page
6:30 News
6:45 Douglas Edwards With The News
7 PM O. Henry Playhouse
7:30 The Boing-Boing Show (Gerald McBoing-Boing)
8 PM Trackdown
8:30 Zane Grey Theater
9 PM Phil Silvers
9:30 Schlitz Playhouse Of Stars
10 PM The Lineup
10:30 Person To Person
11 PM News
11:15 Movie: "Col. Effingham's Raid"

WMAZ Ch. 13 Macon (CBS/NBC/ABC)

7:55 News, Weather
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
8:45 CBS News
9 AM Little Rascals
9:30 Meet Corliss Archer
10 AM Garry Moore
11 AM Arthur Godfrey
11:30 Dotto
12 N Love Of Life
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM CBS News
1:05 Almanac
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Date With Del
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party
3 PM Big Payoff
3:30 Verdict Is Yours
4 PM Brighter Day
4:15 Secret Storm
4:30 Edge Of Night
5 PM Jack And Jolly (kids' show)
5:30 Woody Woodpecker (ABC, delay from Thu 5 PM)
6 PM Suppertime Frolics
6:30 News
6:45 Douglas Edwards With The News
7 PM Susie
7:30 Uncle Ned's Talent Hunt (local talent show)
8 PM Trackdown
8:30 Zane Grey Theater
9 PM Frank Sinatra
9:30 Tombstone Territory (ABC, delay from Wed 8:30 PM EDT/
10 PM EST)
10 PM The Lineup
10:30 Person To Person
11 PM News
11:15 Movie: "Island Of Desire"
 
bpatrick said:
WSB Ch. 2 Atlanta (NBC)
9 PM Boxing: Johnny Busso vs. Lahouardi Godhi, lightweights,
10 rounds, from Madison Square Garden
9:45 Post-Fight Beat (time approximate)
10 PM M Squad
10:30 Thin Man

For the EST markets (such as Atlanta), boxing et al (10 PM EDT) aired live at
9 PM EST, with the 9 PM EDT hour delayed by the "special feed" until 10 EST.
 
gregg75 said:
Wondering why channel 9 in Chattanooga is signing on at 2:55 PM????

The station had just returned to the air February 11, 1958 after having been WROM-9 Rome, Georgia from 1953-57..As most stations in their early stages, they had short broadcast hours perhaps..Plus ABC didnt program mornings at this point..
 
bpatrick said:
WTVC Ch. 9 Chattanooga (ABC)

3 PM American Bandstand (guests: the Four J's)
3:30 Do You Trust Your Wife? (not yet "Who Do You Trust?")
4 PM American Bandstand (guest: Julius La Rosa)


WLWA (WXIA) Ch. 11 Atlanta (ABC)

3 PM American Bandstand
3:30 Do You Trust Your Wife?
4 PM American Bandstand
...strange scheduling there from ABC. Did WFIL-TV/6 Philadelphia continue through the 3:30 block with a local half-hour of American Bandstand and kinescope delay Do You Trust Your Wife?, I wonder?...
 
To answer a few questions:

"M Squad" and "The Thin Man" aired on NBC 9-10 PM (EDT),
followed by boxing at 10. In order to show the fight live, NBC
aired boxing at 9 PM (EST) and delayed the two detective shows
to 10-11 PM in those states not on daylight time.

ABC did not sign on until 3 PM at the time, and perhaps as a
cost-saving measure WTVC didn't sign on until 2:55. ABC did
not begin morning programming until October of that year; "Operation
Daybreak" began at 11 AM and continued all day with gaps at 1:30
and 2:30 PM:

11 AM Day In Court
11:30 The Peter Lind Hayes Show
12:30 Mother's Day (Dick Van Dyke hosted this game show)
1 PM The Liberace Show
1:30 (Local)
2 PM Chance For Romance (John Cameron Swayze hosted this
"Dating Game" prototype)
2:30 (Local)
3 PM Beat The Clock
3:30 Who Do You Trust?
4 PM American Bandstand
5:30 Mickey Mouse Club (MWF)/Adventure Time (TTh)

"Bandstand" did stay on the air in Philadelphia in the 3:30-4 PM slot;
Dick Clark talks about this in his autobiography "Rock, Roll and Remember."
"Do You Trust Your Wife?"/"Who Do You Trust?" aired on delay at 1:30.
Clark pushed on the air to get "Trust" out of the 3:30 slot; instead, ABC
dropped the 3-3:30 segment of "Bandstand" in the fall of '58 and began airing
it from 4-5:30 instead. While he never mentioned the name of the show, Clark
must have reasoned that Johnny Carson, waiting to go on in New York, was hearing
all this on the network monitor because Clark had never appeared on "The Tonight Show"
when the book was written in the '70s (he did appear, I believe, in the '80s and their
production companies jointly did "Bloopers And Practical Jokes" with Clark and Ed McMahon
as co-hosts). Interestingly, though, Carson did appear once on Clark's Saturday-night
ABC show (1958-60) and did a drum solo.
 
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