Retro: Atlanta/Chattanooga/Macon primetime Friday, August 7, 1981

[bpatrick]

I had said the other day I might post this one because
this is the night "The Krypton Factor" debuted on ABC,
and it's a show I think could fit right in with the reality
genre. The daytime and access schedules are the same
as August 4, except that WAGA normally carried John
Davidson from 4-5. So I'm confining this to 8 PM on, with
some exceptions which you'll see, mainly on PBS stations.
Source: TV Guide, Atlanta Edition:

WSB Ch. 2 Atlanta (ABC)

8 PM Benson
8:30 The Krypton Factor
9 PM ABC Movie: "The Possession Of Joel
Delaney"
11 PM News
11:30 PGA Championship Highlights (of the first two
rounds, being played at Atlanta Athletic Club
in Duluth, GA--and no, Tiger was not quite six
years old at the time)
12 M Nightline
12:30 SCTV Television Network
1 AM Movie: "Monterey Pop"
3 AM News

WRCB Ch. 3 Chattanooga (NBC)

8 PM Harper Valley P.T.A.
8:30 NBC Movie: "The Slipper And The Rose: The
Story Of Cinderella"
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
12:30 SCTV Network 90 (Dr. John joins John Candy
in a takeoff on the movie "Chinatown.")

WAGA Ch. 5 Atlanta (CBS)

8 PM Incredible Hulk
9 PM Dukes Of Hazzard
10 PM Dallas
11 PM News
11:30 Maude
12 M CBS Reports: "The Defense Of The United
States" (Part 5: "The Russians")
1 AM Kolchak, The Night Stalker
2:10 CBS Movie: "Castle Rock"
3:30 News

WGTV Ch. 8 Athens/Atlanta (PBS)

7 PM Almeta Speaks With Elizabeth "Liba"
Cotton
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8 PM Washington Week In Review
8:30 Wall Street Week
9 PM Atlanta Week In Review
9:30 Superstar Profile: Gene Wilder
10 PM For The Record (drama contrasting the
goals--life and career--of two hockey
players)
11 PM Movie: "Judge Priest" (a classic with Will
Rogers, made about a year before his 1935
death in a plane crash)
sign off 12:30 AM

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

8 PM Movie: "The Delphi Bureau" (pilot for the
1972-73 ABC series)
10 PM News
11 PM Twilight Zone
11:30 Odd Couple
12 M Solid Gold '79
2 AM News
2:30 Movie: "Beau Geste" (another from movies'
greatest year, 1939, with Gary Cooper)
4:30 Mike Douglas
5:30 TBA

WTVC Ch. 9 Chattanooga (ABC)

8 PM Benson
8:30 The Krypton Factor
9 PM Movie: "Scorpio"
11 PM News
11:30 PGA Championship Highlights
12 M Nightline

WXIA Ch. 11 Atlanta (NBC)

8 PM Harper Valley P.T.A.
8:30 NBC Movie: "The Slipper And The
Rose: The Story Of Cinderella"
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
12:30 SCTV Network 90

WDEF Ch. 12 Chattanooga (CBS)

8 PM Incredible Hulk
9 PM Dukes Of Hazzard
10 PM Dallas
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Reports (see 12 Midnight Ch. 5)
12:30 CBS Movie: "The Deserter"

WMAZ Ch. 13 Macon (CBS)

8 PM Incredible Hulk
9 PM Dukes Of Hazzard
10 PM Dallas
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Reports (see 12 Midnight Ch. 5)
12:30 CBS Movie: "The Deserter"

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

7 PM World In Review
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8 PM Washington Week In Review
8:30 Wall Street Week
9 PM Exchange (documentary about the
darker side of childhood around the world)
10 PM Butterflies
10:30 Good Neighbors
11 PM Dick Cavett
sign off 11:30 PM

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

7:35 Baseball: Richmond Braves at Toledo
Mud Hens
10:05 News (time approximate)
10:35 NASL Soccer: Atlanta Chiefs at Calgary
Boomers (one-hour tape delay)
12:35 Movie: "Beachhead" (time approximate)
2:30 Movie: "Pursuit To Algiers"
4 AM Love, American Style
4:30 Mission: Impossible
5:30 Rat Patrol

WETV (WPBA) Ch. 30 Atlanta (PBS)

7 PM Dick Cavett
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8 PM Washington Week In Review
8:30 Wall Street Week
9 PM Exchange
10 PM Masterpiece Theatre: "Upstairs,
Downstairs"
11 PM Dick Cavett
11:30 Captioned ABC News
sign off 12 M

WATL Ch. 36 Atlanta (Ind.)

7 PM STV Programming

WCWB (WMGT) Ch. 41 Macon (NBC)

8 PM Harper Valley P.T.A.
8:30 NBC Movie: "The Slipper And The
Rose: The Story Of Cinderella"
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
12:30 SCTV Network 90

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

8 PM Barnaby Jones
9 PM Another Life
9:30 700 Club
11 PM Independent Network News
11:30 Best Of Jackie Gleason
12 M Dimensions In Dynamic Living

 

[radiorob2.0]

WSB Ch. 2 Atlanta (ABC)

12:30 SCTV Television Network

WXIA Ch. 11 Atlanta (NBC)

12:30 SCTV Network 90

Is that a typo?

 

[wbhist]

WSB Ch. 2 Atlanta (ABC)

12:30 SCTV Television Network

WXIA Ch. 11 Atlanta (NBC)

12:30 SCTV Network 90

Is that a typo?

I doubt it. Remember, in the early months of NBC's SCTV Network 90, the 1980-81 season of the syndicated SCTV Television Network was still playing on local stations. In New York, both were actually under one roof - with SCTV Television Network running on WNBC at 1 A.M. after Saturday Night Live.

 

[radiorob2.0]

WSB Ch. 2 Atlanta (ABC)

12:30 SCTV Television Network

WXIA Ch. 11 Atlanta (NBC)

12:30 SCTV Network 90

Is that a typo?

I doubt it. Remember, in the early months of NBC's SCTV Network 90, the 1980-81 season of the syndicated SCTV Television Network was still playing on local stations. In New York, both were actually under one roof - with SCTV Television Network running on WNBC at 1 A.M. after Saturday Night Live.

That explains it. I had thought the syndicated version was pulled when NBC picked up the show. But obviously it had not.

 

[bpatrick]

No, it's not a typo; remember that Ch. 11 was NBC
by this time and was carrying the network show,
while Ch. 2 (ABC) had the syndicated one.
It's a typical Ch. 2 programming ploy aimed at Ch. 11,
just as when Ch. 11 put on "The Six Million Dollar Man"
in the afternoons, Ch. 2 countered with "The Bionic Woman"
and won the timeslot hands down. A few years earlier (1972)
Ch. 11 started noon newscasts on weekends; Ch. 2 started
theirs the next year. Ch. 2's are still on the air; Ch. 11 bowed
out in 1974