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Retro: Atlanta/Chattanooga/Macon Thursday, June 15, 1972

From TV Guide, Georgia (Atlanta) Edition:

WSB Ch. 2 Atlanta (NBC)

6:20 Town And Country
6:25 Farm News
6:30 After Eden (documentary on the rise of
Christianity in the Fertile Crescent and
its spread to the Western world)
7 AM Today (Frank McGee)
9 AM Today In Georgia
10 AM Dinah's Place (Burt Reynolds is guest;
about a year or so later, IIRC, they
were romantically linked)
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Sale Of The Century
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N News (Dave Sisson)
12:30 Mike Douglas (guests: columnist Jack Anderson,
Bill Bixby and wife Brenda Benet, Paula Prentiss,
songwriter Cy Coleman)
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 Return To Peyton Place
4 PM Somerset
4:30 Truth Or Consequences
5 PM Perry Mason
6 PM News (John Philp/Dave Sisson)
7 PM NBC News (John Chancellor)
7:30 Truth Or Consequences
8 PM NBC Adventure Theater (Ed McMahon hosts
repeats of dramas that aired on NBC in the
'60s, mostly on Bob Hope's "Chrysler Theater,"
IIRC)
9 PM Ironside
10 PM Dean Martin (guests: Leslie Uggams, Paul Lynde,
Norm Crosby, Lonnie Shorr)
11 PM News (Dick Horner/John Philp)
11:30 Tonight Show (Flip Wilson subs for Johnny)
1 AM News

WRCB Ch. 3 Chattanooga (NBC)

7 AM Today
9 AM Virginia Graham (guests: Jane Wyatt, Peter Marshall.
travel-show host Jack Douglas)
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! (Art Fleming)
12:30 Who, What Or Where
12:55 NBC News (Floyd Kalber)
1 PM Merry-Go-Round
1:30 Three On A Match
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 Return To Peyton Place
4 PM Somerset
4:30 Movie: "The Cracksman"
6 PM News (Morris/Wick)
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Truth Or Consequences
7:30 Mayberry R.F.D.
8 PM NBC Adventure Theater
9 PM Ironside
10 PM Dean Martin
11 PM News (Wick/Wilson)
11:30 Tonight Show

WAGA Ch. 5 Atlanta (CBS)

6 AM Summer Semester: "The Cold War
And Beyond"
6:30 University of Michigan
7 AM CBS News (John Hart)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Phil Donahue (topic: the Montessori
teaching method)
10 AM The Lucy Show
10:30 My Three Sons
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
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 I Love Lucy
4:30 The Virginian
6 PM News (Chuck Moore)
6:30 CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7 PM News (Jim Axel/Chuck Moore)
7:30 I Dream Of Jeannie
8 PM Burl Ives Special (guests: Jimmy Durante,
Roger Miller, the Golddiggers)
9 PM CBS Movie: "Hammerhead"
11 PM News (Chuck Moore)
11:30 Movie: "Jivaro"

WGTV Ch. 8 Athens/Atlanta (PBS)

4:30 Electric Company
5 PM Sesame Street
6 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
6:30 What's New
7 PM Fred Bear's World Of Adventure
7:30 Why!
7:45 On Your Own
8 PM A Public Affair/Election '72 (topic:
women in politics)
8:30 NET Playhouse On The '30s (Dustin
Hoffman and Orson Bean in "The
Star Wagon")
10:30 Coach Lawson
sign off 11 PM

WTVC Ch. 9 Chattanooga (ABC)

7:30 New Zoo Revue
8 AM Funtime
9 AM News (Hogue/Mazza)
9:30 Movie: "Love And Kisses" (Rick and Kris
Nelson appear in this one)
11 AM What Every Woman Wants To Know
(Bess Myerson)
11:30 Bewitched
12 N Password (guests: Ruta Lee and Ross Martin)
12:30 Split Second
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 Here Come The Brides
5:30 News (Willette/McAfee)
6 PM ABC News (Smith/Reasoner)
6:30 High Chaparral
7:30 Death Valley Days
8 PM Alias Smith And Jones
9 PM Longstreet
10 PM Owen Marshall: Counselor At Law
11 PM News (Willette/McAfee)
11:30 Dick Cavett (topic: artificial means of
reproduction)

WQXI (WXIA) Ch. 11 Atlanta (ABC)

6:25 Underdog
6:55 Professor Kitzel
7 AM Tubby And Lester
8 AM Romper Room
8:30 What Every Woman Wants To Know
9 AM Movie: "Man Of Conquest"
11 AM Split Second
11:30 Bewitched
12 N Password
12:30 News (Bob Neal/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 Dick Van Dyke
5 PM Daniel Boone
6 PM ABC News
6:30 Green Acres
7 PM What's My Line? (panel: Joanna Barnes,
Sandy Baron, Arlene Francis, Soupy Sales;
Wally Bruner hosts)
7:30 To Tell The Truth (panel: Kitty Carlisle,
Peggy Cass, Bill Cullen, Gene Rayburn;
Garry Moore hosts)
8 PM Alias Smith And Jones
9 PM Longstreet
10 PM Owen Marshall: Counselor At Law
11 PM News (Carmack/Brooks)
11:30 Movie: "Amazon Quest"
1 AM News

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 My Three Sons
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 (reruns of the ABC series)
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 Amateur's Guide To Love (guest: Tony Randall)
4:30 Merv Griffin (in Las Vegas; guest: Dusty Springfield)
6 PM News (Mort Lloyd)
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Paul Harvey
7:05 News (Vic Gramount)
7:30 To Tell The Truth (panel: Orson Bean, Kitty Carlisle,
Peggy Cass, Bill Cullen)
8 PM My World And Welcome To It (CBS reruns the critically-
acclaimed but unsuccessful 1969-70 NBC sitcom based
on the work of James Thurber)
8:30 My Three Sons
9 PM CBS Movie: "Hammerhead"
11 PM News (Dick James)
11:30 CBS Movie: "Watusi" (not the dance but a remake of
"King Solomon's Mines")

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 The Lucy Show
10:30 My Three Sons
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 Amateur's Guide To Love
4:30 High Chaparral
5:30 To Tell The Truth (panel: Peggy Cass,
Bill Cullen, British TV personality Shirley
Lord, Tom Poston)
6 PM News, Sports, Weather
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Truth Or Consequences
7:30 Run For Your Life
8:30 My Three Sons
9 PM CBS Movie: "Hammerhead"
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 CBS Movie: "Watusi"

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

4:30 Electric Company
5 PM Sesame Street
6 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
6:30 What's New
7 PM Fred Bear's World Of Adventure
7:30 Why!
7:45 On Your Own
8 PM Thirty Minutes With...
8:30 NET Playhouse On The '30s
10:30 World Press Review
11:15 David Littlejohn: Critic At Large
sign off 11:45 PM

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

7 AM Little Rascals
8 AM Banana Splits
8:30 Flintstones
9 AM New Zoo Revue
9:30 Cartoon Carnival
10 AM Jack LaLanne
10:30 Mantrap (pediatrician Fitzhugh Dodson takes on
Nina Foch, Carol Wayne, and Jan Sterling)
11 AM Donna Reed
11:30 Galloping Gourmet
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 Who, What Or Where
12:55 NBC News
1 PM Movie: "Monkey On My Back"
3 PM Magic Funnies
3:30 Banana Splits
4 PM Spiderman
4:30 Flintstones
5 PM Leave It To Beaver
5:30 Sea Hunt
6 PM Star Trek
7 PM Rifleman
7:30 Petticoat Junction
8 PM The Comedians: Love And Children
(Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks, Marty Brill,
Pat Carroll, Jack Cassidy, and Phil Silvers
relate tales of their own childhoods)
9 PM Movie: "Flowing Gold"
11 PM One Step Beyond
11:30 CBS Movie: "Watusi"

WETV (WPBA) Ch. 30 Atlanta (PBS)

4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Championship Bridge
6:30 Love, Tennis
7 PM Grand Master Chess (this would prove timely
that summer, as the whole country seemed
to be caught up in the Bobby Fischer-Boris
Spassky world championship matches)
7:30 Report From City Hall
8 PM Thirty Minutes With...
8:30 NET Playhouse On The '30s
10:30 World Press Review
11:15 David Littlejohn: Critic At Large
sign off 11:45 PM

WCWB (WMGT) Ch. 41 Macon (NBC)

7 AM Today
9 AM Romper Room
9:30 What Every Woman Wants To Know
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 News (McEldowney)
1:10 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 Return To Peyton Place
4 PM Somerset
4:30 Movie: "Love And Kisses"
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Addams Family
7:30 Dragnet
8 PM NBC Adventure Theater
9 PM Ironside
10 PM Dean Martin
11 PM Movie Game (guests: Macdonald Carey,
Sammy Davis Jr., Angie Dickinson, Janet
Leigh, Sal Mineo, Shani Wallis; Larry Blyden
hosts)
11:30 Tonight Show

WTCI Ch. 45 Chattanooga (PBS)

5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Sesame Street
7 PM Hodgepodge Lodge
7:30 Designing Women (sewing, not the sitcom)
8 PM Improving Your Math
8:30 NET Playhouse On The '30s
sign off 10:30 PM

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

3:30 This Is The Life
4 PM Insight
4:30 Brave Stallion (Fury)
5 PM Cartoons
5:30 Dennis The Menace (Jay North)
6 PM Jim And Tammy
7 PM Of Lands And Seas
8 PM Charisma
8:30 Reaching Out
9 PM 700 Club
sign off 11 PM

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

7:30 Cartoon Carnival
8 AM Movie: "Parachute Battalion"
10 AM Movie: "The Sisters"
12 N Movie: "Wyoming Kid"
2 PM Movie: "Tom, Dick And Harry"
3:30 Bugs Bunny/Three Stooges
4 PM Movie: "Parachute Battalion"
6 PM Movie: "The Sisters"
8 PM Movie: "Wyoming Kid"
10 PM Movie: "Tom, Dick And Harry"
11:30 Movie: "Parachute Battalion"
 
bpatrick said:
WRCB Ch. 3 Chattanooga (NBC)

1 PM Merry-Go-Round

WDEF Ch. 12 Chattanooga (CBS)

7:05 News (Vic Gramount)

bp, a couple for you.

1) Was Merry-Go-Round WRCB's local women's show? It sure sounds like it, since I seriously doubt that would be a name for a newscast.

2) Would you guess that WDEF's 7 p.m. newscast was aimed at the viewers in the Central Time Zone (where it would be 6)? Keep in mind that the city of Chattanooga itself sits just barely inside the Eastern Time Zone, with the western part of that market in Central. By the 1970s, 7 p.m. news in the East was becoming very rare due to the popularity of the Prime Time Access Rule syndie shows. However, I do understand that it is making something of a comeback nowadays in some areas.
 
I don't know a great deal about the Chattanooga market,
but I would assume that "Merry-Go-Round" was a combination
women's/talk show, something on the order of "Sandra And
Friends," which made a local celebrity out of WFMY Greensboro's
soon-to-retire news anchor Sandra Hughes (to prevent confusion,
she's spent her entire career in Greensboro). Prior to "Merry-Go-
Round," WRCB did have a 1 PM newscast, called "Bulletin."

WDEF's 7 PM newscast might have been aimed at areas of Tennessee
and northern Alabama within the station's coverage area but also within
the Central time zone; no one else in the market was doing it. In fact,
you'll notice that WTVC's news aired at 5:30 (4:30 CT), although it would
move to 6/5 in the fall, with ABC's newscast moving to 6:30/5:30.

Or it just could be that sister station WTVR Richmond was very successful
with a 7 PM local news, so WDEF might have decided to try it. I don't recall
that WDEF's was very successful, however; in fact, the number-one show at 7,
indeed in the entire Chattanooga market at the time, was on WRCB:
"Truth Or Consequences."
 
bpatrick said:
5:30 Dennis The Menace (Jay North)

Thanks for clearing that up; I was not sure if they would be showing the animated series from fourteen years later. ;D
 
DToTheJ said:
bpatrick said:
5:30 Dennis The Menace (Jay North)

Thanks for clearing that up; I was not sure if they would be showing the animated series from fourteen years later. ;D

I think you've pointed that out to me before; the reason I do it is because most people probably don't know when the animated series started, so to avoid confusion I always put Jay North's name in there
 
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