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Retro: Atlanta/Chattanooga/Macon Monday, September 13, 1971

This is the day the access rule goes into effect. For the first
year, affiliates in the top 50 markets (including Atlanta) may
show reruns in the 7-8 PM slot; prime time is 8-11 with the
following exceptions:

MONDAY ABC 8:30-9 (goes into effect Sept. 20)
TUESDAY ABC 7:30-11, CBS and NBC 7:30-10:30
FRIDAY NBC 8-10:30
SUNDAY CBS 7:30-10:30, NBC 7:30-11

Starting in the fall of 1972 the reruns are out, and primetime is
three hours every night (8-11 every night on ABC, 7:30-10:30
Sundays on CBS and NBC but 8-11 the rest of the week).

From TV Guide, Georgia (Atlanta) Edition:

WSB Ch. 2 Atlanta (NBC)

6:20 Town And Country
6:25 Farm News
6:30 Making Of Music (the development of percussion instruments)
7 AM Today (Hugh Downs hosts; guests are Gloria Swanson and
adventurer Thor Heyerdahl)
9 AM Today In Georgia
9:30 Monday News Conference
10 AM Dinah's Place (guests: nutritionist Adele Davis, and
"Mission: Impossible"'s Peter Lupus)
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Sale Of The Century
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N News (Tom Wassell)
12:30 Mike Douglas (co-hostess Janet Leigh; Stan Musial, Ray
Stevens, singer Shani Wallis, Chuck McCann)
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 Bright Promise
4 PM Somerset
4:30 Truth Or Consequences
5 PM Perry Mason
6 PM News (John Philp/David Sisson)
7 PM NBC News (John Chancellor)
7:30 Let's Make A Deal
8 PM Rowan And Martin's Laugh-In (guests: Martha Mitchell
and Raquel Welch)
9 PM Bob Hope Special
10 PM It's A Wacky World (George Schlatter hoped to duplicate
Laugh-In"'s success with this similarly-formatted show, taped
all over the world, with guests Elke Sommer and Tony Curtis.
His next big hit would be "Real People" in 1979.)
11 PM News (Dick Horner)
11:30 Tonight Show (Burt Reynolds subs for Johnny)

WRCB Ch. 3 Chattanooga (NBC)

7 AM Today
9 AM Steve Allen
9:50 Lucille Rivers (sewing)
10 AM Dinah's Place
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Sale Of The Century
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 Who, What Or Where
12:55 NBC News (Floyd Kalber)
1 PM Bulletin
1:30 Three On A Match (Bill Cullen hosts the
only show to survive in this timeslot on
NBC from the loss of "Let's Make A Deal"
in 1968 to the expansion of "Days Of Our
Lives" to an hour in 1975.)
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 Bright Promise
4 PM Somerset
4:30 Movie: "Andy Hardy Comes Home"
6 PM News (Morris/Fischer)
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Truth Or Consequences
7:30 Let's Make A Deal
8 PM Rowan And Martin's Laugh-In
9 PM Bob Hope Special
10 PM It's A Wacky World
11 PM News (Wick/Fischer)
11:30 Tonight Show

WAGA Ch. 5 Atlanta (CBS)

6 AM Summer Semester: "Human Environment"
6:30 University Of Georgia
7 AM CBS News (John Hart)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Phil Donahue
10 AM The Lucy Show (Dean Martin plays a
dual role)
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11 AM Family Affair
11:30 Love Of Life
12 N News (Jim Axel/Judy Woodruff)
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM It's Your Bet (they're starting from the beginning,
because Hal March is host and he had died in 1970;
couples are Julie London and Bobby Troup, and Jackie
Cooper and his wife)
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 Gilligan's Island
4:30 The Virginian
6 PM News (Ray Moore)
6:30 CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7 PM News (Jim Axel)
7:30 Georgia Tech Highlights (films of Tech-South Carolina,
with coach Bud Carson, whose wife Linda Faye worked
at Ch. 11)
8 PM Gunsmoke
9 PM Here's Lucy (Flip Wilson joins in for a "Gone With The
Wind" satire that I bet wasn't half as good as Carol
Burnett's.)
9:30 Doris Day
10 PM My Three Sons (Fred MacMurray takes on a second role,
as Steve Douglas' Scottish cousin Fergus.)
10:30 Arnie
11 PM News (Chuck Scarborough)
11:30 Movie: "The Return Of Jesse James"

WGTV Ch. 8 Athens/Atlanta (PBS)

4:30 What's New
5 PM Sesame Street
6 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
6:30 Film (a 1970 survey of further planned moon explorations)
7 PM Turned On Crisis (about a fictional community beset by
drug-related problems)
8 PM World Press Review
9 PM Ardenics
9:30 Fanfare (singer Georgia Brown does the music of Kurt Weill)
10:30 Mini-Probe
sign off 11 PM

WTVC Ch. 9 Chattanooga (ABC)

7:30 Dennis The Menace
8 AM Funtime
9 AM News (Hogue/Martin)
9:30 Movie: "Fahrenheit 451"
11:30 That Girl
12 N Bewitched
12:30 Password (guests: Chad Everett and Elizabeth
Montgomery)
1 PM All My Children
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 Love, American Style
4:30 Big Valley
5:30 News (Willette/McAfee)
6 PM ABC News (Howard K. Smith/Harry Reasoner)
6:30 High Chaparral
7:30 This Is Your Life (Irene Ryan is the surprisee)
8 PM Nanny And The Professor
8:30 ABC Movie: "Rear Window"
11 PM News (Willette/McAfee)
11:30 Dick Cavett

WQXI (WXIA) Ch. 11 Atlanta (ABC)

7 AM Tennessee Tuxedo
7:30 Tubby And Lester
9 AM Romper Room
9:55 News
10 AM Movie: "The Siege At Red River"
11:30 That Girl
12 N Bewitched
12:30 News Parade (Linda Faye Carson)
1 PM All My Children
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 Love, American Style
4:30 Lost In Space
5:30 Hazel
6 PM Daniel Boone (ABC News will begin airing here
Dec. 20, followed by "Green Acres" at 6:30;
local news will begin airing at 6 on Sept.
11, 1972, followed by ABC News at 6:30.)
7 PM What's My Line?
7:30 To Tell The Truth
8 PM Nanny And The Professor
8:30 ABC Movie: "Rear Window"
11 PM News Parade (Stan Carmack)
11:30 Dick Cavett

WDEF Ch. 12 Chattanooga (CBS)

6:25 Summer Semester
6:55 Farm Report
7 AM CBS News
7:30 Morning Show
8:30 Romper Room
9 AM Captain Kangaroo
10 AM The Lucy Show
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11 AM Family Affair
11:30 Love Of Life
12 N News (Vic Gramount)
12:20 Paul Harvey
12:25 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Peyton Place
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 Daniel Boone
5 PM Gomer Pyle, USMC (delay from 4 PM)
5:30 Hogan's Heroes
6 PM News (Mort Lloyd)
6:30 CBS News
7 PM News (Bill Smith)
7:30 To Tell The Truth
8 PM Gunsmoke
9 PM Here's Lucy
9:30 Doris Day
10 PM My Three Sons
10:30 Arnie
11 PM News (Bill Smith)
11:30 Merv Griffin

WMAZ Ch. 13 Macon (CBS/ABC)

6:30 Cartoon Club
6:55 News
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 Family Affair
11:30 Love Of Life
12 N Where The Heart Is
12:25 CBS News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Almanac
1:15 Date With Del
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 Gomer Pyle, USMC
4:30 Gilligan's Island
5 PM Daniel Boone
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Truth Or Consequences
7:30 WMAZ Fall Preview
8 PM Gunsmoke
9 PM Here's Lucy
9:30 Doris Day
10 PM My Three Sons
10:30 Community Forum
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Merv Griffin

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

4:30 What's New
5 PM Sesame Street
6 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
6:30 Film (same as Ch. 8)
7 PM Turned On Crisis
8 PM World Press Review
9 PM Book Beat
9:30 Fanfare
10:30 Ardenics
sign off 11 PM

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

7 AM Popeye
7:30 Little Rascals
8 AM Banana Splits
8:30 Flintstones
9 AM Cartoon Carnival
10 AM Jack LaLanne
10:30 Steve Allen (guests: James Mason, Susan
Strasberg, singer Roberta Sherwood, Pat
McCormick, economist Harry Browne)
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 Who, What Or Where
12:55 NBC News
1 PM Movie: "Four Daughters"
3 PM Little Rascals
3:30 Ultraman
4 PM Banana Splits
4:30 Speed Racer
5 PM Flintstones
5:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC (pre-empted on Ch. 5
at 4 PM)
6 PM Petticoat Junction
6:30 Get Smart
7 PM Rifleman
7:30 Dragnet
8 PM It Takes A Thief
9 PM Movie: "The Quiet American" (this is not
John Wayne's "The Quiet Man")
11 PM Twilight Zone
11:30 Movie: "Block Busters"

WETV (WPBA) Ch. 30 Atlanta (PBS)

4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Golden Years
6 PM Film (the training of Navy SEALs)
6:30 Museum Open House (Spanish paintings from
the 15th through the 19th centuries)
7 PM Book Beat
7:30 Monday News Conference (replay of the program
that aired this morning on Ch. 2)
8 PM World Press Review
9 PM It's Your City

WCWB (WMGT) Ch. 41 Macon (NBC)

7 AM Today
9 AM Romper Room
10 AM Dinah's Place
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Sale Of The Century
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 Who, What Or Where
12:55 NBC News
1 PM Women's World
1:30 Three On A Match
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 Bright Promise
4 PM Somerset
4:30 Movie: TBA
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Munsters
7:30 Dragnet
8 PM Rowan And Martin's Laugh-In
9 PM Bob Hope Special
10 PM It's A Wacky World
11 PM Movie Game
11:30 Tonight Show

WTCI Ch. 45 Chattanooga (PBS)

5 PM Sesame Street
6 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
6:30 What's New
7 PM Improving Your Math
7:30 Art For Everyone
8 PM Museum Open House (American primitive
painting, such as that of Grandma Moses)
8:30 Investment Jungle
9 PM Realities (controversy over the teaching of
sex education in Cedar Rapids, IA)
sign off 10 PM

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

5 PM Fury
5:30 Jim And Tammy
6:30 Western Movie (no title given)
7:30 Billy Graham (possibly one of his past crusades?)
8:30 Of Lands And Seas
9:30 700 Club
 
Wasn't this about the time VIDEO TAPE MACHINES were invented? I remember when WRBL TV 3 in Columbus Georgia got their first one. It was a big thing. They even had a local "special" showing off their machine.

They didn't want the FCC telling a big ole southrn' station what it had to do (they were rebels - RBL) so they began taping shows like "Mary Tyler Moore" and "Newhart" and showing them at 7:30 Monday thru Friday........they must have filled the network time with syndicated shows such as "Lawrence Welk" or something similar.

Around that same time they left CBS (on Friday nights I think) to show a movie. They had a cool opening for their movies. It featured a night view from the cockpit window of a small plane landing at the airport (with all the colorful runway lights blinking and such). Sometimes it took that plane two minutes to land.
 
gregg75 said:
Wasn't this about the time VIDEO TAPE MACHINES were invented?

More like 1956, when VTRs started to be used by networks and stations. 11/30/56 is a
benchmark date, as that is when CBS TV City first used tape (instead of a kinnie) to
delay Douglas Edwards' newscast for the left coast.


They didn't want the FCC telling a big ole southrn' station what it had to do...so they began taping shows like "Mary Tyler Moore" and "Newhart" and showing them at 7:30 Monday thru Friday........they must have filled the network time with syndicated shows such as "Lawrence Welk" or something similar.

The FCC had--and has--no say in when an affil clears a network show. It's between the
station and its network as to approval of the delayed clearance. But Florence Welk was
a conspirator in some Saturday night shows airing out of pattern. KOLD-TV Tucson (CBS)
was one such perp in the '70s.
 
I think I meant VIDEO TAPE RECORDERS. It's hard to remember 40 years ago :) I was only a tween then.

But, as I recall WRBL was upset that the networks were forced to give up their 7:30 PM shows and start at 8:00.
 
Certainly. WAGA had the Bud Carson show on Mondays;
"I Dream Of Jeannie" Wednesday-Saturday; "TV5 Reports"
Tuesdays at 10:30; "Police Surgeon" Sundays at 10:30;
news every night at 7.

WXIA ran "To Tell The Truth" Mondays, then Wednesday-
Saturday at 7:30; Lawrence Welk Saturdays 6:30-7:30;
movies Sundays 6-8; and (IIRC) "This Is Your Life" Mondays
at 8:30. "What's My Line?" was on Monday-Friday at 7.

WSB was the only one to "checkerboard" (a different show
every night) 7:30: "Let's Make A Deal" Mondays, "Primus"
Wednesdays, "Truth Or Consequences" Thursdays, "High
Chaparral" Fridays; "Hee Haw" (7-8 PM) Saturdays, and
"Big Valley" (6:30-7:30) Sundays. They ran "The Golddiggers"
Tuesdays at 10:30, "The D.A." Fridays at 10:30 (delay from
8 PM), and "Young Dr. Kildare" Sundays at 10:30. NBC News
aired Monday-Friday at 7.

I should also clarify a point: ABC ran "Nanny And The Professor"
Mondays at 8; 8:30 was given to the affiliates (many in NFL cities
ran coaches' shows; I remember one in New Orleans called "From
The Pressbox"), then "Monday Night Football" was on at 9.

Also, IIRC, WTVR Richmond spread out CBS's Saturday-night lineup
over the week at 7:30.
 
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