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Retro: Atlanta/Chattanooga/Macon Monday, March 4, 1974

From TV Guide, North Georgia Edition:

WSB Ch. 2 Atlanta (NBC)

5:50 Town And Country
5:55 Farm Show
6 AM Christopher Closeup
6:30 Arthur Smith
7 AM Today (Frank McGee/Barbara Walters)
9 AM Today In Georgia
9:30 Monday News Conference (the rest of the
week, "TIG" is on for an hour)
10 AM Dinah's Place
10:30 Jeopardy! (this is during Lin Bolen's attempt
to kill the show--ten months later she will
get Merv to give up another year of the show
in exchange for his other hit, "Wheel Of Fortune")
11 AM Wizard Of Odds (ironic, with hindsight, that
Alex Trebek's first U.S. game show follows
the show for which he's best-known)
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N News
12:30 Merv Griffin
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 How To Survive A Marriage
4 PM Somerset
4:30 Truth Or Consequences
5 PM Mod Squad
6 PM News
7 PM NBC News (John Chancellor)
7:30 Let's Make A Deal
8 PM The Magician
9 PM Movie: "Any Second Now"
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show (Shecky Greene
subs for Johnny)
1 AM Tomorrow
2 AM News

WRCB Ch. 3 Chattanooga (NBC)

6:30 Arthur Smith
7 AM Today
9 AM Phil Donahue
10 AM Dinah's Place
10:30 Jeopardy!
11 AM Wizard Of Odds
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N News
12:30 Baffle
12:55 NBC News (Edwin Newman)
1 PM Jackpot! (one-hour delay--the reason
Lin Bolen moved "Jeopardy!" out of the
noon slot was because this was one of
her pet projects; this and the switching
of ABC's "Password" to all-celebrity format
would end up making "The Young And The
Restless" on CBS unbeatable at noon)
1:30 Three On A Match
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 How To Survive A Marriage
4 PM Somerset
4:30 Flintstones
5 PM Gomer Pyle, USMC
5:30 Bewitched
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Truth Or Consequences
7:30 Let's Make A Deal
8 PM The Magician
9 PM NBC Movie: I Walk The Line"
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Tomorrow

WAGA Ch. 5 Atlanta (CBS)

5:30 Camera Three
6 AM Sunrise Semester: "Practical Reasoning"
6:30 Captain Kangaroo (one-day delay, or in this
case Friday's show)
7:30 Atlanta A.M.
8 AM CBS News (Hughes Rudd)
9 AM Phil Donahue
10 AM Joker's Wild
10:30 $10,000 Pyramid
11 AM Gambit
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 '74
4 PM I Dream Of Jeannie
4:30 Bewitched
5 PM Everything Goes (short-lived Canadian
talk-variety show, with Norm Crosby
as host--by summer, Ch. 5 will replace
it with Mike Douglas)
6 PM News
7 PM CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7:30 TV5 Reports
8 PM Gunsmoke
9 PM Here's Lucy (Daughter Kim enters a
Lucille Ball lookalike contest--Lucy plays
herself and Lucy Carter. Watch for appearances
by Lucy's real-life husband Gary Morton, Doris
Singleton (Carolyn Appleby on "I Love Lucy"),
and Lucy's longtime announcer, Roy Rowan,
as a TV-movie host.)
9:30 New Dick Van Dyke Show
10 PM Medical Center
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "The Money Trap"

WGTV Ch. 8 Athens/Atlanta (PBS)

In-school programming until

4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Sesame Street
7 PM French Chef
7:30 Forum
8 PM T'ai Chi Ch'uan
8:30 Atlanta Week In Review
9 PM Lawmakers: 1974
10 PM Washington Straight Talk
10:30 Woman
sign off 11 PM

WTVC Ch. 9 Chattanooga (ABC)

6:30 Jim And Jesse (bluegrass group:
Jim and Jesse and the Virginia Boys)
7 AM News
7:30 Kid Power (delay from Sunday 10 AM)
8 AM New Zoo Revue
8:30 Funtime
9:30 The Virginian
11 AM Get Smart
11:30 Brady Bunch
12 N Password
12:30 Split Second
1 PM All My Children
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 The Girl In My Life
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM Love, American Style
4:30 Green Acres
5 PM Bonanza
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News (Smith/Reasoner)
7 PM Beverly Hillbillies
7:30 The Lucy Show
8 PM The Rookies
9 PM ABC Movie: "Chato's Land"
11 PM News
11:30 Wide World Mystery: "Home
For The Holidays"

WXIA Ch. 11 Atlanta (ABC)

6:30 Good Morning Atlanta
7 AM Garner Ted Armstrong
7:30 Rise And Shine
8:30 Courtship Of Eddie's Father
9 AM Hazel
9:30 Dick Van Dyke
10 AM Password
10:30 Love, American Style
11 AM One Life To Live
11:30 Brady Bunch
12 N News
12:30 Split Second
1 PM All My Children
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 The Girl In My Life
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 Movie: "The Lineup" (being from '58,
I think this is a movie version of the
then-popular series)
5 PM Bonanza
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News
7 PM Concentration
7:30 To Tell The Truth
8 PM The Rookies
9 PM ABC Movie: "Chato's Land"
11 PM News
11:40 Mission: Impossible
12:40 Wide World Special: "Alan King On
Sunset Strip" (delay from Friday)
2:10 News

WDEF Ch. 12 Chattanooga (CBS)

6:25 Farm Report
6:30 Sunrise Semester
7 AM Morning Show
8 AM CBS News
9 AM Captain Kangaroo
10 AM Joker's Wild
10:30 $10,000 Pyramid
11 AM Gambit
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS News
12 N News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Beat The Clock
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Guiding Light
2:30 Edge Of Night
3 PM Price Is Right
3:30 Match Game '74
4 PM Tattletales
4:30 Merv Griffin
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Hogan's Heroes
7:30 To Tell The Truth
8 PM Gunsmoke
9 PM Here's Lucy
9:30 New Dick Van Dyke Show
10 PM Medical Center
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "A Death Of Innocence"

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 Joker's Wild
10:30 $10,000 Pyramid
11 AM Gambit
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 '74
4 PM Tattletales
4:30 Bonanza
5:30 To Tell The Truth
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Truth Or Consequences
7:30 Let's Make A Deal
8 PM Gunsmoke
9 PM Here's Lucy
9:30 New Dick Van Dyke Show
10 PM Medical Center
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "A Death Of Innocence"

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

In-school programs until

4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Sesame Street
7 PM Consultation
7:30 Folk Guitar
8 PM Rachel, La Cubana
9:30 Book Beat
10 PM Washington Straight Talk
10:30 Woman
sign off 11 PM

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

6:30 Buck Owens
7 AM Three Stooges/Little Rascals
8:30 Romper Room
9 AM New Zoo Revue
9:30 Donna Reed
10 AM Mike Douglas
11:30 Living Easy With Dr. Joyce
Brothers
12 N Mister Ed
12:30 The Lucy Show
1 PM Movie: "The Fallen Sparrow"
3 PM Banana Splits
3:30 Flintstones
4 PM Gilligan's Island
4:30 Leave It To Beaver
5 PM Andy Griffith
5:30 Beverly Hillbillies
6 PM The Lucy Show
6:30 Father Knows Best
7 PM Gomer Pyle, USMC
7:30 Andy Griffith
8 PM Star Trek
9 PM Movie: "The Spy Who Came In
From The Cold"
11:30 Movie: "Calling Northside 777"
2 AM Movie: "The Fallen Sparrow"

WETV (WPBA) Ch. 30 Atlanta (PBS)

In-school programs until

4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Crime In Atlanta
6:30 Oleanna Trail
7 PM Book Beat
7:30 Atlanta City Council
9:30 It's Your City (Atlanta Board of
Education meeting)
sign off after this
Ch. 30 does not colorcast its local programs.

WCWB (WMGT) Ch. 41 Macon (NBC)

7 AM Today
9 AM Not For Women Only
9:30 Morning Show
10 AM Dinah's Place
10:30 Jeopardy!
11 AM Wizard Of Odds
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Jackpot!
12:30 Baffle
12:55 NBC News
1 PM Joanne Carson's VIPs (Johnny's
second wife had her own talk show.)
1:30 Three On A Match
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 How To Survive A Marriage
4 PM Somerset
4:30 My Favorite Martian
5 PM Mayberry R.F.D.
5:30 The Virginian
7 PM NBC News
7:30 Wanted: Dead Or Alive
8 PM The Magician
9 PM NBC Movie: "I Walk The Line"
11 PM That Girl
11:30 Tonight Show

WTCI Ch. 45 Chattanooga (PBS)

4:10 Earth Lab
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Sesame Street
7 PM Folk Guitar
7:30 Sewing Skills
8 PM Rachel, La Cubana
9:30 Book Beat
sign off 10 PM

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

11 AM Fury
11:30 Cartoon Festival
12 N 700 Club
2 PM A New Day
2:30 Bozo
3 PM Porky Pig
3:30 Dennis The Menace
4 PM Lone Ranger
4:30 Superman
5 PM Batman (2 episodes)
6 PM Dennis The Menace
6:30 Room 222
7 PM Mayberry R.F.D.
7:30 Circus!
8 PM 700 Club
10 PM Oral Roberts
10:30 Good News
11 PM Rawhide
sign off 12 M

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

12 N Movie: "The Undercover Man"
2 PM Not For Women Only
2:30 Hunter (the '50s version, with Barry Nelson--
there have been at least two other shows with
the same title but different formats, one in 1977
with James Franciscus, one in the '80s with Fred
Dryer)
3 PM Underdog
3:30 Bugs Bunny
4 PM Rocky And His Friends
4:30 Little Rascals
5 PM Bingo
6 PM Gigantor
6:30 Robin Hood
7 PM Peter Gunn
7:30 This Is Ringgold High
8 PM Invisible Man (the '50s version)
8:30 Lassie
9 PM Championship Wrestling (doesn't
say from where)
10 PM Movie: "San Quentin"
11:30 Four Star Theatre
 
RALfan said:
Was it on Christmas 1973 or New Year's Day 1974 that Channel 11 became WXIA?

Christmas Day 1973. Because of the gas shortage I cut Christmas vacation
short that year and returned to UGA on New Year's Eve; Channel 11 had already
adopted the new call letters.
 
I would love to see a schedule for the fall of 1981, Fall of 1982, Spring of 1983, and Fall of 1984 for both Atlanta and Chattanooga including WRIP/WDSI 61. As I said before TV 61 was one of the most unusual stations. It seemed to have a weak lineup at this point but seemed to have a promising future. From what I see from 1978 to 1981, that station actually got worse during those years. My oldest TV Guide covering that area was in the Summer of 84 and by then WDSI was a decent station. Would apreciate more transitional retro schedules from this period.

Thanks
 
After checking out these listings I decided to check out the Wikipedia page on the history of Atlanta's ( and Ted Turner's ) WTCG-TV which later of course would become WTBS/WPCH..found something interesting.

In 1970 when WTCG was losing money and Ted Turner wasn't able to make a payment on the station's new color equipment..Turner held on on-air telethon to raise money for WTCG's bills. I didn't think this practice would be allowed for a COMMERCIAL station.

Reason I bring this up when Martinsburg, West Virginia then FOX affiliate WYVN-TV channel 60 had filed bankruptcy and couldn't pay for their bills and make payroll for their staff, I can recall all of the announcers from the Winchester ( Virginia ) and Hagerstown ( Maryland ) radio stations and Martinsburg's WEPM-AM/WKMZ-FM were planning to take to the airwaves of WYVN-TV in an effort to keep WYVN on the air by having a telethon to raise money for WYVN only to be told that such a practice would be "illegal" by the FCC even though years later someone had told me the "NO" actually came down from FOX. OK to air annoucements recruiting for ads but NOT an all day telethon to raise cash.

Regardless..the telethon never happened and WYVN would within weeks go dark shortly after that embarrising press conference between the owner of WYVN telling a reporter from WEPM/WKMZ that WYVN was so broke they couldn't even afford to stock the Pepsi machine and they only had a few bucks ( later it would out that "few bucks" was $50 !!) in the WYVN account at Blue Ridge Bank...and this press conference was aired LIVE.
 
Yes, he did do this at WRET -- he went on-air and asked his viewers to loan money to keep the station on the air. When WRET became profitable, he paid back most of the loans. This is all per an article in "TV Guide" in the late seventies.

He subsequently sold WRET and used much of the proceeds from that sale to finance the launch of CNN.
 
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