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Retro: Atlanta/Chattanooga/Macon Monday, August 18, 1980

Countdown two weeks to the WSB/WXIA switch, but Channel
2 is already running some ABC daytime shows, while Channel
11 is doing the same with NBC. These will be noted in parentheses.
From TV Guide, North Georgia Edition:

WSB Ch. 2 Atlanta (NBC)

6 AM Sunday News Conference (repeat of the broadcast
that aired the previous night at 6:30)
6:30 Arthur Smith
7 AM Today (Tom Brokaw)
9 AM Family Feud (ABC)
9:30 Edge Of Night (ABC)
10 AM Mike Douglas
11 AM Love Boat (ABC)
12 N News
12:30 Mary Tyler Moore
1 PM Days Of Our Lives
2 PM One Life To Live (ABC)
3 PM General Hospital (ABC)
4 PM Bionic Woman
5 PM Happy Days Again
5:30 M*A*S*H
6 PM News
7 PM NBC News (John Chancellor)
7:30 3's A Crowd (Barris' controversial
game show is winding down; a
nighttime "Feud" will begin airing
in September on Ch. 2.)
8 PM Little House On The Prairie
10 PM Mark Twain's America
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show (a repeat)
1 AM Tomorrow
2 AM News

WRCB Ch. 3 Chattanooga (NBC)

5:25 Romper Room
5:55 700 Club
6:55 News For Little People
7 AM Today
9 AM Mike Douglas
10 AM David Letterman
11 AM Wheel Of Fortune
11:30 Password Plus
12 N News
12:30 The Doctors
1 PM Days Of Our Lives
2 PM Another World
3 PM Texas
4 PM Bugs Bunny & Friends
4:55 News For Little People
5 PM Starsky & Hutch
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM What's Happening!!
7:30 M*A*S*H
8 PM Little House On The Prairie
10 PM Mark Twain's America
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Tomorrow

WAGA Ch. 5 Atlanta (CBS)

6:30 Summer Semester: "Reading For
Parent And Child"
7 AM Morning With Bob Schieffer
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Donahue
10 AM The Jeffersons
10:30 Alice
11 AM Price Is Right
12 N News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Young And The Restless
2 PM As The World Turns
3 PM Guiding Light
4 PM Good Times
4:30 John Davidson
6 PM News
7 PM CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7:30 PM Magazine
8 PM Flo
8:30 WKRP In Cincinnati
9 PM M*A*S*H
9:30 House Calls
10 PM Lou Grant
11 PM News
11:30 Maude
12 M CBS Movie: "Ode To A Dying Love"
(pilot for the 1972 ABC series "Jigsaw")
2:10 News

WGTV Ch. 8 Athens/Atlanta (PBS)

4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Villa Alegre
6 PM Big Blue Marble
6:30 Basic Banjo
7 PM Yoga For Health (Ch. 8 got more than its
money's worth from Richard Hittelman;
it must have run this show at least a
dozen times.)
7:30 Behind The News
8 PM National Geographic: "Mysteries Of The
Mind"
9 PM The Predators
10 PM Jazz At The Maintenace Shop
11 PM Evening At Pops (guests: the Mills Brothers)
sign off 12 M

WGN Ch. 9 Chicago (Ind.)
Listed Eastern time

6:55 Top O' The Morning
7:25 News
7:30 Starblazers
8 AM Ray Rayner
9 AM Bozo's Circus
10 AM Movie: "Claudia"
12 N Donahue
1 PM Mike Douglas
2:30 Love, American Style
3 PM Maude
3:30 Dennis The Menace
4 PM Bugs Bunny & Friends
5 PM Gilligan's Island
5:30 I Dream Of Jeannie
6 PM McHale's Navy
6:30 My Three Sons
7 PM Andy Griffith
7:30 Dick Van Dyke
8 PM Summershow 1980: "Gossip From
The Forest," a drama about the
signing of the armistice in 1918
9:30 Maude
10 PM News
11 PM Dick Van Dyke
11:30 Prisoner: Cell Block H
12 M Movie: "The Glass Menagerie" (1950
version with Gertrude Lawrence)
2:10 News
2:40 The FBI
3:40 Zane Grey Theater

WTVC Ch. 9 Chattanooga (ABC)

6 AM PTL Club
7 AM Good Morning America (David Hartman)
9 AM Donahue
10 AM Dinah! & Friends
11 AM Love Boat
12 N Family Feud
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1 PM All My Children
2 PM One Life To Live
3 PM General Hospital
4 PM Edge Of Night
4:30 John Davidson
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News (Reynolds/Jennings/
Robinson)
7 PM My Three Sons
7:30 Andy Griffith
8 PM That's Incredible!
9 PM Heroes Of Rock 'n' Roll
11 PM News
11:30 Nightline
11:50 Barney Miller (2 episodes, each
35 minutes)
1 AM News

WXIA Ch. 11 Atlanta (ABC)

5:15 PTL Club
6:15 Country Music Time
6:45 Today With Hal (Suit) & Guy
(Sharpe)
7 AM Good Morning America
9 AM Medical Center
10 AM David Letterman (NBC)
11 AM Joker's Wild (why isn't Wheel here?
Ch. 11 is going to air "Hour Magazine"
at this time come Sept. 8)
11:30 The Doctors (NBC, day-behind, will be
made up on Sept. 1 with an 11:30 episode,
followed by the in-pattern 12:30 one)
12 N News
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1 PM All My Children
2 PM Another World (NBC)
3 PM Texas (NBC)
4 PM Space: 1999
5 PM Jim Rockford, Private Investigator
("Rockford Files" reruns)
6 PM News
7 PM ABC News
7:30 Tic Tac Dough (in the May 1980 sweeps
this was Ch. 11's only consistent timeslot
winner)
8 PM That's Incredible!
9 PM A Time For Love (sponsored by Children's
Village USA, a California facility for abused
children)
11 PM News
11:30 Dave Allen At Large
12 M Nightline
12:20 Barney Miller (2 episodes, 35 minutes each)


WDEF Ch. 12 Chattanooga (CBS)

6:20 Farm Digest
6:30 Morning Show
8 AM Morning With Bob Schieffer
9 AM Captain Kangaroo
10 AM The Jeffersons
10:30 Alice
11 AM Price Is Right
12 N News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Young And The Restless
2 PM As The World Turns
3 PM Guiding Light
4 PM Cross-Wits
4:30 Gunsmoke
5:30 I Dream Of Jeannie
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM The Rookies
8 PM Flo
8:30 WKRP In Cincinnati
9 PM M*A*S*H
9:30 House Calls
10 PM Lou Grant
11 PM News
11:30 Harry O
12:40 CBS Movie: "Dr. Strange" (this is a
'78 TV movie, not to be confused
with "Dr. Strangelove")

WMAZ Ch. 13 Macon (CBS)

5:50 Little Rascals
6:20 Close Up
6:50 News
7 AM Morning With Bob Schieffer
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Donahue
10 AM Let's Talk It Over
10:30 Alice
11 AM Price Is Right
12 N News
12:15 Date With Del
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Young And The Restless
2 PM As The World Turns
3 PM Guiding Light
4 PM CBS Afternoon Playhouse:
"Joey And Redhawk," Part
1 of 5
4:30 I Love Lucy
5 PM Gunsmoke
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Beverly Hillbillies
7:30 Tic Tac Dough
8 PM Flo
8:30 WKRP In Cincinnati
9 PM M*A*S*H
9:30 House Calls
10 PM Lou Grant
11 PM News
11:30 Harry O
12:40 CBS Movie: "Dr. Strange"

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

3:30 Over Easy
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Zoom
6:30 Over Easy
7 PM By-Line (Shelley Winters discusses
her autobiography; she does the same
thing on Dick Cavett's show on Ch. 30
at the same time.)
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8 PM National Geographic
9 PM Dolphin (the sea creatures, not some
Miami football player)
10 PM Jazz At The Maintenance Shop
11 PM Dick Cavett (rerun of the Shelley Winters
interview from earlier this evening)
sign off 11:30 PM

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

6 AM World At Large
6:30 Love, American Style
7 AM Funtime
8 AM Hazel
8:30 The Lucy Show
9 AM Family Affair
9:30 Green Acres
10 AM Movie: "Four Daughters"
12 N Freeman Reports (CNN's Sandi Freeman)
1 PM Movie: "Mozambique"
2:50 Funtime
3:30 Banana Splits
4 PM Flintstones
4:30 Gilligan's Island
5 PM My Three Sons
5:30 I Dream Of Jeannie
6 PM Andy Griffith
6:30 I Love Lucy
7 PM Hogan's Heroes
7:30 All In The Family
8 PM Love, American Style
8:30 Summershow 1980 (see 8 PM WGN)
10 PM News
11 PM Lorne Greene's Last Of The Wild
11:30 Movie: "Legend Of The Lost"
1:35 Movie: "All Hands On Deck"
3:35 Rat Patrol
4:05 Movie: "Don't Knock The Rock" (a
piece of nostalgia--Bill Haley and the
Comets are in this one)

WETV (WPBA) Ch. 30 Atlanta (PBS)

8:15 A.M. Weather
8:30 Rebop
9 AM Sesame Street
10 AM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
10:30 Electric Company
11 AM Sesame Street
12 N off the air
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Another Voice
6:30 Over Easy
7 PM Dick Cavett
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8 PM Take 30
8:30 Old Friends, New Friends
9 PM Nova
10 PM The Predators
11 PM Dick Cavett
11:30 Captioned ABC News
sign off 12 M

WATL Ch. 36 Atlanta (Ind.)

7 AM PTL Club
9 AM Prophecy In The News
9:30 Wanted: Dead Or Alive
10 AM Body Buddies
10:30 Religion
11 AM PTL Club
1 PM Liberty Temple
1:30 Health Field
2 PM Travel Log
2:30 New Zoo Revue
3 PM Bullwinkle
3:30 Rocky And His Friends
3:45 Underdog
4 PM Dudley Do-Right
4:30 Beatles And Cool McCool
5 PM Robin Hood
5:30 CBS Afternoon Playhouse (see
4 PM Ch. 13)
6 PM Entertainment Page
6:30 Peter Gunn
7 PM Wanted: Dead Or Alive
7:30 Munson On Sports
8 PM Movie: "Our Town"
10 PM WCT Tennis: Jimmy Connors vs.
John Alexander
11 PM Entertainment Page
11:30 Robin Hood
sign off 12 M

WCWB (WMGT) Ch. 41 Macon (NBC)

6 AM PTL Club
7 AM Today
9 AM PTL Club continues
10 AM David Letterman
11 AM Wheel Of Fortune
11:30 Noon Over Middle Georgia
11:45 News
12 N Card Sharks
12:30 The Doctors
1 PM Days Of Our Lives
2 PM Another World
3 PM Texas
4 PM Password Plus
4:30 Bewitched
5 PM Emergency!
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Come Love The Children
8 PM Little House On The Prairie
10 PM Mark Twain's America
11 PM Gomer Pyle, USMC
11:30 Tonight Show

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

6 AM News
6:30 Ross Bagley
7 AM Porky & Popeye
8 AM Mighty Mouse
8:30 Mister Ed
9 AM Big Valley
10 AM 700 Club
11:30 Life In The Spirit
12 N McHale's Navy
12:30 Dick Van Dyke
1 PM Make Room For Daddy
1:30 Petticoat Junction
2 PM Lone Ranger
2:30 Popeye & Friends
3:30 Krofft Superstars (Ch. 11 had tried this
on its afternoon schedule in the fall of '78,
pushing "General Hospital" to 9:30 AM--
the plan bombed; Luke and Laura were
starting to get popular.)
4 PM Tom & Jerry
5 PM Batman
5:30 Car 54, Where Are You?
6 PM Emergency!
7 PM Streets Of San Francisco
8 PM Honeymooners
8:30 Best Of Jackie Gleason
9 PM 700 Club
10 PM Independent Network News
10:30 700 Club continues
11 PM Rifleman
11:30 Mayberry R.F.D.
12 M News
 
What did the fall schedules look like for the Atlanta network affiliates after the switch between 2 and 11 (if you have them)?
 
WSB Mon 8 PM That's Incredible!
9 PM Monday Night Football

Tue 8 PM Happy Days
8:30 Laverne & Shirley
9 PM Three's Company
9:30 Too Close For Comfort
10 PM Hart To Hart

Wed 8 PM Eight Is Enough
9 PM Taxi
9:30 Soap
10 PM Vega$

Thu 8 PM Mork & Mindy
8:30 Bosom Buddies
9 PM Barney Miller
9:30 It's A Living
10 PM 20/20

Fri 8 PM Benson
8:30 I'm A Big Girl Now
9 PM ABC Friday Night Movie

Sat 8 PM Breaking Away
9 PM Love Boat
10 PM Fantasy Island

Sun 7 PM Those Amazing Animals
8 PM Charlie's Angels
9 PM ABC Sunday Night Movie

WAGA Mon 8 PM Flo
8:30 Ladies' Man
9 PM M*A*S*H
9:30 House Calls
10 PM Lou Grant

Tue 8 PM White Shadow
9 PM CBS Tuesday Night Movies

Wed 8 PM Enos
9 PM CBS Wednesday Night Movies

Thu 8 PM The Waltons
9 PM Magnum, P.I.
10 PM Knots Landing

Fri 8 PM Incredible Hulk
9 PM Dukes Of Hazzard
10 PM Dallas

Sat 8 PM WKRP In Cincinnati
8:30 Tim Conway Show
9 PM Freebie And The Bean
10 PM Secrets Of Midland Heights

Sun 7 PM 60 Minutes
8 PM Archie Bunker's Place
8:30 One Day At A Time
9 PM Alice
9:30 The Jeffersons
10 PM Trapper John, M.D.

WXIA Mon 8 PM Little House On The Prairie
9 PM NBC Monday Night At The Movies

Tue 8 PM Lobo
9 PM BJ And The Bear
10 PM Steve Allen Comedy Hour (aired intermittently
from September to December)

Wed 8 PM Real People
9 PM Diff'rent Strokes
9:30 Facts Of Life
10 PM Quincy

Thu 8 PM Games People Play
9 PM NBC Thursday Night At The Movies

Fri 8 PM Marie (Osmond)
9 PM Speak Up America
10 PM NBC Magazine With David Brinkley

Sat 8 PM Barbara Mandrell & The Mandrell Sisters
9 PM Walking Tall
10 PM Hill Street Blues (actually didn't debut until
January 1981)

Sun 7 PM Disney's Wonderful World
8 PM CHiPS
9 PM The Big Event

An actors' strike delayed the start of the 1980-81 season; what I
have here are the schedules as given by Brooks and Marsh.
 
Thank you, but I should have been more specific; what I wanted were the daytime schedules for the Atlanta stations.
 
These are from 7 AM:

WSB 7 AM Good Morning America
9 AM Family Feud
9:30 Edge Of Night
10 AM Mike Douglas
11 AM Love Boat
12 N News
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1 PM All My Children
2 PM One Life To Live
3 PM General Hospital
4 PM Bionic Woman
5 PM Happy Days Again
5:30 M*A*S*H
6 PM News
7 PM ABC News
7:30 Family Feud

WAGA 7 AM CBS News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Donahue
10 AM The Jeffersons
10:30 Alice
11 AM Price Is Right
12 N News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Young And The Restless
2 PM As The World Turns
3 PM Guiding Light
4 PM Good Times
4:30 John Davidson
6 PM News
7 PM CBS News
7:30 PM Magazine

WXIA 7 AM Today
9 AM Wheel Of Fortune
9:30 Password Plus
10 AM David Letterman
11 AM Hour Magazine
12 N News
12:30 The Doctors
1 PM Days Of Our Lives
2 PM Another World
3 PM Texas
4 PM Star Trek
5 PM Rockford Files
6 PM News
7 PM NBC News
7:30 Tic Tac Dough
 
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