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Retro: Atlanta/Chattanooga/Macon Monday, November 16, 1964

From TV Guide, Georgia Edition:

WSB Ch. 2 Atlanta (NBC)

6:30 Eternal Light
7 AM Today
9 AM Today In Georgia
9:30 Call Mr. D (syndicated reruns of Richard
Diamond, with David Janssen)
10 AM Make Room For Daddy
10:30 What's This Song? (COLOR) (Wink Martindale's
first game show, later revived as Win With The
Stars, with Allen Ludden)
10:55 NBC News (Edwin Newman)
11 AM Concentration
11:30 Jeopardy! (COLOR)
12 N News
12:15 Movie: "Bernardine" (COLOR)
2 PM 2 Bits
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 You Don't Say! (COLOR)
4 PM Match Game
4:25 News
4:30 Popeye Club
5:30 Yogi Bear
6 PM News
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Movie: "Run Silent, Run Deep"
9 PM Andy Williams (COLOR)
10 PM Alfred Hitchcock Hour
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show (COLOR)
1 AM 2 Bits

WRCB Ch. 3 Chattanooga (NBC)

7 AM Today
9 AM Today With Morris
9:30 Science
10 AM Make Room For Daddy
10:30 What's This Song? (COLOR)
10:55 NBC News
11 AM Concentration
11:30 Jeopardy! (COLOR)
12 N Say When! (COLOR)
12:30 Truth Or Consequences (COLOR)
12:55 NBC News (Ray Scherer)
1 PM WRCB Bulletin
1:30 Let's Make A Deal (COLOR)
1:55 NBC News (Floyd Kalber)
2 PM Loretta Young
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 You Don't Say! (COLOR)
4 PM Match Game
4:25 News
4:30 Mickey Mouse Club
5 PM Lawman
5:30 Rifleman
6 PM News
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Highway Patrol
7:30 90 Bristol Court (Karen)
8 PM 90 Bristol Court (Harris Against The
World)
8:30 90 Bristol Court (Tom, Dick And Mary)
9 PM Andy Williams (COLOR)
10 PM Alfred Hitchcock Hour
11 PM Bulletin
11:30 Tonight Show (COLOR)

WAGA Ch. 5 Atlanta (CBS)

6:10 Daily Word
6:15 Sunrise Semester: "Russian Literature
In Translation"
6:45 Emory Bookshelf
7 AM News
7:15 Jake Hess And The Imperials
7:30 Cartoon Clubhouse
7:45 King And Odie
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM B'wana Don
9:30 December Bride
10 AM CBS News (Mike Wallace)
10:30 Movie: "He Laughed Last" (I knew he could
sing--he did the "Rawhide" theme--but Frankie
Laine gets a chance to act in this one)
11:55 Weather
12 N Love Of Life
12:25 News (local--the anchor, Ed Blair, has the same
name as a man who ran an Exxon station in the
town where I live until his death several years ago)
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM Best Of Groucho
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Password
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party
3 PM To Tell The Truth
3:25 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Secret Storm
4:30 Dooley & Co.
5 PM Bachelor Father
5:30 Jack Benny Daytime Show
6 PM Panorama News
6:30 Amos 'n' Andy
7 PM Ensign O'Toole
7:30 To Tell The Truth (Bobby Rydell
subs for Orson Bean)
8 PM I've Got A Secret
8:30 Andy Griffith (the one where Opie
finds a wallet containing $50)
9 PM The Lucy Show
9:30 Many Happy Returns
10 PM Slattery's People
11 PM Panorama News
11:30 Movie: "Whirlpool" (this is not about
an appliance company)

WGTV Ch. 8 Athens/Atlanta (NET)

6:30 What's New
7 PM Growing South
7:30 Medicine Of The '60s
8:30 America's Crises (parent-child relationships)
9:30 Georgia Football (Georgia-Auburn highlights--
BTW, the Dawgs beat the War Eagles, 17-13,
today)
10 PM Saki (the playwright--two of his works are
performed)

WTVC Ch. 9 Chattanooga (ABC)

7:45 Upward Look
8 AM Jack LaLanne
8:30 Art Tele-Class
9 AM Funtime
10 AM Hennesey
10:30 Price Is Right (using the celebrity-
guest format--this week it's Durward
Kirby)
11 AM Get The Message
11:30 Missing Links (I mentioned it on another
posting, but the panel this week consists
of Goodson-Todman stalwarts Tom Poston,
Nipsey Russell, and Dorothy Kilgallen)
12 N Father Knows Best
12:30 Tennessee Ernie Ford Show
1 PM Movie: "The Wrong Man"
2:30 Day In Court
2:55 ABC News (Marlene Sanders)
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 Young Marrieds
4 PM Trailmaster (Wagon Train reruns, mostly
those with Ward Bond)
5 PM Bob Brandy
5:30 Yogi Bear
6 PM Laramie
7 PM ABC News (Ron Cochran)
7:15 Newswatch
7:30 Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea
8:30 No Time For Sergeants (Sammy Jackson
takes the role of Will Stockdale, made famous
by Andy Griffith. Jim Nabors does the same idea
better.)
9 PM Wendy And Me (IMHO, one of the most underrated
sitcoms ever--George Burns and Connie Stevens aren't
that bad together)
9:30 Bing Crosby Show (he was better doing specials)
10 PM Ben Casey
11 PM ABC News (Bob Young--in 1968 ABC gave him the
evening news. I don't think he lasted three months.)
11:10 News
11:15 Les Crane

WAII (WXIA) Ch. 11 Atlanta (ABC)

8 AM Cartoon Carnival
9 AM Movie: "Operation Camel"
10:25 News
10:30 Price Is Right
11 AM Get The Message
11:30 Missing Links
12 N Father Knows Best
12:30 Tennessee Ernie Ford Show
1 PM Girl Talk
1:30 Susie (Ann Sothern)
2 PM My Little Margie
2:30 Day In Court
2:55 ABC News
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 Young Marrieds
4 PM Trailmaster
5 PM Wyatt Earp
5:30 Lawman
6 PM Leave It To Beaver
6:30 Rifleman
7 PM News
7:30 Voyage To The Bottom Of
The Sea
8:30 No Time For Sergeants
9 PM Wendy And Me
9:30 Bing Crosby Show
10 PM Ben Casey
11 PM News
11:30 Les Crane

WDEF Ch. 12 Chattanooga (CBS)

6:55 Daily Word
7 AM Sunrise Semester
7:30 Dixie Singin'
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Fit For Living
9:30 Woman's Whirl
10 AM CBS News
10:30 I Love Lucy
11 AM Andy Griffith
11:30 Real McCoys
12 N Love Of Life
12:25 CBS News (Robert Trout)
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM Lunch 'n Fun
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Password
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party
3 PM To Tell The Truth
3:25 CBS News
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Secret Storm
4:30 Movie: "Invasion Of The Saucer
Men"
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7 PM Have Gun, Will Travel
7:30 To Tell The Truth
8 PM I've Got A Secret
8:30 Andy Griffith
9 PM The Lucy Show
9:30 Many Happy Returns
10 PM Slattery's People
11 PM News
11:20 Hawaiian Eye

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

6:15 Sunrise Semester
6:45 Debbie Drake
7 AM Cartoons
7:30 Lone Ranger
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Rifleman
9:30 Jake Hess And The Imperials
9:45 Here's Helen
10 AM CBS News
10:30 I Love Lucy
11 AM Andy Griffith
11:30 Real McCoys
12 N Love Of Life
12:25 CBS News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM Almanac
1:15 Date With Del
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Password
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party
3 PM To Tell The Truth
3:25 CBS News
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Secret Storm
4:30 Doris Martin (wasn't that Doris Day's
character on her 1968-73 sitcom?)
5 PM Cheyenne
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Bat Masterson
7:30 To Tell The Truth
8 PM I've Got A Secret
8:30 Andy Griffith
9 PM The Lucy Show
9:30 Many Happy Returns
10 PM Slattery's People
11 PM News
11:30 Checkmate
 
Looking at the Atlanta schedules, it rather
bothers me that only one network newscast
(Huntley-Brinkley) aired in that market in 1964.
I know WSB has always dominated that market,
but Chs. 5 and 11 could have offered a choice
(they each had local newscasts, after all);
even in two-station Raleigh/Durham we got
Cochran on WRAL and Cronkite on WTVD (no
NBC affiliate; WRAL had switched two years earlier,
but a considerable portion of the market could get Huntley-
Brinkley on WITN, so in effect we had all three).

I suppose some of this had to do with NBC's complete
dominance of the news ratings at the time; 1964 was
the year Cronkite was replaced by Roger Mudd and Robert
Trout at the Democratic Convention, a disastrous pairing
if ever there was one; and ABC was still trying to establish
some sort of news credibility. Yet within a year or so, Ch.
11 would be carrying Peter Jennings (the first time), and
Ch. 5 would pick up Cronkite in 1966. So what gives in '64?
 
bpatrick said:
WSB Ch. 2 Atlanta (NBC)
7 PM Movie: "Run Silent, Run Deep"
9 PM Andy Williams (COLOR)
10 PM Alfred Hitchcock Hour

WRCB Ch. 3 Chattanooga (NBC)
7:30 90 Bristol Court (Karen)
8 PM 90 Bristol Court (Harris Against The
World)
8:30 90 Bristol Court (Tom, Dick And Mary)
9 PM Andy Williams (COLOR)
10 PM Alfred Hitchcock Hour

Unless they buried it in weekend fringe, WSB-TV matched KVOA-TV Tucson
in that it did not carry 90 Bristol Court (7:30-9 on WRCB-TV). That begs
the question--what did WSB-TV do as of January 1965 when "60 of the 90"
was canceled, Karen stayed at 7:30, and The Man From U.N.C.L.E. moved
(from Tuesday 8:30) to Monday 8:00-9:00?

When it premiered in the fall of 1964, KVOA-TV aired UNCLE Tuesdays
9:00-10:00 MT--via 16mm film, on a one- or two-week delay. IIRC, they
kept it there even after the network timeslot flip in January.


WAGA Ch. 5 Atlanta (CBS)
5:30 Jack Benny Daytime Show

Was this delayed from 4:30-5:00 ET? The other CBS affils listed that cleared
all other daytime shows also went local at 4:30.
 
I'll have to look up the answer to your first
question; I don't have a 1965 TV Guide at hand
right now.

WAGA did delay Jack Benny from 4:30; they
probably felt he'd be a strong lead-in to the
local news, but I recall that his show didn't
fare too well in daytime reruns and CBS dropped
it after about a year.
 
In the second half of the 1964-65 season, Ch. 2
carried "Man From U.N.C.L.E." Saturdays at 7,
delaying "Flipper" to Fridays at 7. It never did
carry "Karen."
 
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