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Retro: Atlanta/Chattanooga/Macon Tuesday, September 2, 1975

From TV Guide, North Georgia Edition:

WSB Ch. 2 Atlanta (NBC)

6 AM Pattern For Living
6:30 Arthur Smith
7 AM Today (Jim Hartz/Barbara Walters;
guests: singer Freddy Cole and his
group)
9 AM Not For Women Only (Barbara Walters
hosts a discussion of lifestyles of
working mothers, one of whom is
a bond clerk for a New York brokerage
firm.)
9:30 Today In Georgia
10 AM Celebrity Sweepstakes (guests: Esther
Rolle, Mark Spitz, Buddy Hackett, Dick
Martin, Chuck Woolery, Carol Wayne)
10:30 Wheel Of Fortune
11 AM High Rollers
11:30 Hollywood Squares (John Amos, Robert
Blake, Charo, Harvey Korman, Joan Rivers,
Ross Martin, Anson Williams, Karen Valentine,
John Davidson)
12 N News
12:30 Big Valley
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM Mod Squad
5 PM The FBI
6 PM News
7 PM NBC News (John Chancellor)
7:30 Wild Kingdom
8 PM NBC Movie: "The Invisible Man" (pilot for the
1975 series with David McCallum)
9:30 Police Story (pilot for "Joe Forrester" with
Lloyd Bridges)
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show (guests: the Bee Gees, George
Burns, Buck Henry)
1 AM Tomorrow (magicians discuss psychic phenomena)
2 AM News

WRCB Ch. 3 Chattanooga (NBC)

6:25 New Zoo Revue
6:55 News For Little People
7 AM Today
9 AM 700 Club
10 AM Celebrity Sweepstakes
10:30 Wheel Of Fortune
11 AM High Rollers
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N News
12:30 Jackpot!
12:55 NBC News (Edwin Newman)
1 PM Magnificent Marble Machine (guests:
Marcia Wallace and Sam Melville,
delay from noon)
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM Somerset
4:30 The FBI
5:25 News For Little People
5:30 Mickey Mouse Club (don't laugh--WAVE
Louisville dominated this timeslot with this
show in those days)
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Truth Or Consequences
7:30 Hollywood Squares (Ethel Merman, Eva Gabor,
John Davidson, Jan Murray, Karen Valentine,
Vincent Price, Rose Marie, Rich Little, Paul Lynde)
8 PM Wild Wild World Of Animals
8:30 Baseball: Braves-Astros
11 PM News (time approximate)
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Tomorrow

WAGA Ch. 5 Atlanta (CBS)

6 AM Summer Semester: "The Web Of Population, Inflation,
Energy And Environment"
6:30 University Of Michigan
7 AM CBS News (Hughes Rudd)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Phil Donahue (from the Ohio State Fair: Pat and Shirley
Boone and their four daughters--this is about two years
before Debby's "You Light Up My Life" hit the charts)
10 AM Spin-Off (poker with numbers, Jim Lange hosts)
10:30 Price Is Right
11 AM Gambit
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
12 N News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Tattletales (Julie London and Bobby Troup, Kay and
Ron Masak, Elaine Joyce and Bobby Van--day-behind
delay from 3:30 PM)
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Guiding Light
2:30 Edge Of Night
3 PM Match Game '75 (Scoey Mitchlll, Joan Collins, Patti Deutsch,
Richard Dawson, Charles Nelson Reilly, Brett Somers)
3:30 Robert Young, Family Doctor (Marcus Welby, M.D.)
4:30 Mike Douglas (co-hosts: Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons;
guests: Gloria Steinem, Bella Abzug, Brett Somers, George
Kirby, Adam Wade (host of CBS's "Musical Chairs" and the
first African-American game-show host)
6 PM News
7 PM CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7:30 Ozzie's Girls
8 PM Good Times
8:30 M*A*S*H
9 PM Hawaii Five-O
10 PM Beacon Hill (ill-conceived attempt to cash in on the
popularity of "Upstairs, Downstairs"
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "Your Money Or Your Wife"
1 AM News

WGTV Ch. 8 Athens/Atlanta (PBS)

4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Sesame Street
6:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
7 PM Yoga For Health
7:30 This Is Our Faith
7:45 Film: "With All Thy Heart"
8 PM When Television Was Live! (Peter Lind
Hayes heckles Frank Sinatra and lives
to tell about it; a Cole Porter tribute;
excerpts from "The Student Prince")
8:30 War And Peace
9:30 The Vatican
10:30 Woman (guest: black activist Florynce Kennedy)
sign off 11 PM

WTVC Ch. 9 Chattanooga (ABC)

7 AM A.M. America (Bill Beutel, becomes "Good Morning
America" in November)
8:30 Funtime
9 AM Phil Donahue (guest: Arnold Schwarzenegger)
10 AM The Lucy Show (guest: Mickey Rooney)
10:30 Bonanza (guest: Charles Bronson)
11:30 Happy Days
12 N Showoffs (guests: Abby Dalton, Greg Morris,
Linda Kaye Henning, Gary Burghoff)
12:30 All My Children
1 PM Ryan's Hope
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM $10,000 Pyramid (guests: Vicki Lawrence and
John Schuck)
2:30 Rhyme And Reason (guests: Johnny Mann, Adrienne
Barbeau, Conny Van Dyke, Pat Harrington, Johnny
Brown, Nipsey Russell)
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM You Don't Say! (guests: Marty Ingels, Fannie Flagg,
Larry Hovis, Ann Elder)
4:30 Gilligan's Island
5 PM Ironside
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News (Howard K. Smith/Harry Reasoner)
7 PM Concentration (I've always thought it interesting that
Ch. 9 put this on after Ch. 11 moved it out of the
timeslot.)
7:30 Family Affair
8 PM ABC Movie: "Mobile Two" (pilot for "Mobile One"
9:30 ABC Movie: "Satan's Triangle"
11 PM News
11:30 Wide World Mystery: "Night Train To Terror"

WXIA Ch. 11 Atlanta (ABC)

6:30 Dick Van Dyke
7 AM A.M. America
8 AM A.M. Atlanta
9 AM Concentration
9:30 You Don't Say! (day behind Ch. 9)
10 AM Movie: "I'll Get By"
11:30 News
12 N Showoffs
12:30 All My Children
1 PM Ryan's Hope
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM $10,000 Pyramid
2:30 Rhyme And Reason
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM Dinah! (guests: Rosemary Clooney, McLean
Stevenson, the Jackson 5)
5:30 News
6 PM ABC News
6:30 Merv Griffin (self-made millionaires W. Clement
Stone (insurance), Rocky Aoki (restaurants),
Tillie Lewis (foods))
7:30 $25,000 Pyramid (Fannie Flagg and Peter Lawford;
Bill Cullen hosts)
8 PM ABC Movie: "Mobile Two"
9:30 ABC Movie: "Satan's Triangle"
11 PM News
11:30 Wide World Mystery: "Night Train To Terror"

WDEF Ch. 12 Chattanooga (CBS)

6:25 Farm Report
6:30 Summer Semester
7 AM Morning Show
8 AM CBS News
9 AM Captain Kangaroo
10 AM Spin-Off
10:30 Price Is Right
11 AM Gambit
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS News
12 N News
12:25 Paul Harvey
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM That Girl
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Guiding Light
2:30 Edge Of Night
3 PM Match Game '75
3:30 Tattletales
4 PM Musical Chairs (guests: Buddy Greco,
Hattie Winston, Dick Roman)
4:30 Merv Griffin (couples: Martin Landau and
Barbara Bain, Betty White and Allen Ludden,
Gisele and Arte Johnson, author Robert Nathan
and "General Hospital"'s Anna Lee)
5:55 Paul Harvey
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Mod Squad
8 PM Billy Graham Crusade (from Jackson, MS)
9 PM Hawaii Five-O
10 PM Beacon Hill
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "Your Money Or Your Wife"

WMAZ Ch. 13 Macon (CBS)

6:50 News
7 AM CBS News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Let's Talk It Over
9:30 General Hospital
10 AM Spin-Off
10:30 Price Is Right
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 (preview of Ch. 13's
fall schedule)
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Guiding Light
2:30 Edge Of Night
3 PM Match Game '75
3:30 Tattletales
4 PM Musical Chairs
4:30 Ironside
5:30 To Tell The Truth (panel: Bill Cullen, Peggy
Cass, Nipsey Russell, Kitty Carlisle)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Truth Or Consequences
7:30 Treasure Hunt
8 PM Billy Graham Crusade (from Jackson, MS)
9 PM Hawaii Five-O
10 PM Beacon Hill
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "Your Money Or Your Wife"

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

4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Sesame Street
6:30 Consultation (medical advice)
7 PM Jean Shepherd's America
7:30 TBA
8 PM When Television Was Live!
8:30 Consumer Survival Kit (Buddy Hackett
and Rita Moreno show how to buy
properly fitted shoes)
9 PM Food For Thought
9:30 Woman
10 PM War And Peace
sign off 11 PM

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

5:40 News
6 AM Tennessee Tuxedo
6:30 Romper Room
7 AM Three Stooges/Little Rascals
8 AM Leave It To Beaver
8:30 Hazel
9 AM I Love Lucy (the Vitameatavegamin episode)
9:30 Andy Griffith
10 AM Movie: "Aaron Slick From Punkin Crick" (Alan
Young and Dinah Shore)
12 N Love, American Style
12:30 The Lucy Show
1 PM Movie: "Sorrowful Jones" (Bob Hope and Lucille
Ball)
3 PM Flintstones
3:30 Mickey Mouse Club
4 PM Gilligan's Island
4:30 I Love Lucy (the "Maharincess of Franistan")
5 PM Partridge Family
5:30 Beverly Hillbillies
6 PM That Girl
6:30 Andy Griffith
7 PM Gomer Pyle, USMC
7:30 Hogan's Heroes
8 PM Hartsfield In Motion (Atlanta's airport, title is
a play on the song "Backfield In Motion")
8:30 Baseball: Braves-Astros
11 PM Love, American Style (time approximate)
11:30 Movie: "Chicago Syndicate"
1:15 Baseball: Braves-Astros (replay)
3:45 News (time approximate)
4 AM Movie: "Captain Carey, U.S.A."

WETV (WPBA) Ch. 30 Atlanta (PBS)

4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Villa Alegre
6 PM Electric Company
6:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
7 PM Firing Line
8 PM Boarding House (guest: singer-songwriter
Wendy Waldman)
8:30 Evening At Pops (Jose Molina and Bailes
Espanoles, dancers)
9:30 Atlanta Board Of Education (meeting held
earlier in the day)
11 PM Captioned ABC News
sign off 11:30 PM

WCWB (WMGT) Ch. 41 Macon (NBC)

7 AM Today
9 AM Phil Donahue
10 AM Celebrity Sweepstakes
10:30 Wheel Of Fortune
11 AM High Rollers
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Magnificent Marble Machine
12:30 Jackpot!
12:55 NBC News
1 PM News
1:05 Noon Over Middle Georgia
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM Somerset
4:30 On Campus (could be Mercer University)
5 PM Merv Griffin
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM I Dream Of Jeannie
7:30 Marshal Dillon
8 PM TBA
8:30 Baseball: Braves-Astros
11 PM Rifleman (time approximate)
11:30 Tonight Show

WTCI Ch. 45 Chattanooga (PBS)

4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Villa Alegre
6 PM Electric Company
6:30 Carrascolendas
7 PM Bug 'n' You (auto maintenance)
7:30 Evening Edition With Martin Agronsky
8 PM When Television Was Live!
8:30 Consumer Survival Kit
9 PM Jean Shepherd's America
9:30 Woman (psychiatrist Myrna Weissman on
marital problems)
10 PM Interface (detention and bail systems in
urban areas)
10:30 Folk Guitar (Laura Weber)
sign off 11 PM

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

9:30 Underdog
10 AM New Zoo Revue
10:30 Practical Christian Living
11 AM Soul Free
11:30 It's A New Day
12 N Bozo's Big Top
12:30 Circus Boy (a young Micky Dolenz, using
the name Mickey Braddock)
1 PM Real McCoys
1:30 Dennis The Menace
2 PM Cisco Kid
2:30 Huck And Yogi
3 PM Porky Pig
3:30 Popeye
4 PM Batman
4:30 Superman
5 PM Brady Bunch
5:30 Room 222
6 PM Mayberry R.F.D.
6:30 TBA
7 PM Brady Bunch
7:30 Courtship Of Eddie's Father
8 PM 700 Club
9:30 Practical Christian Living
10 PM Soul Free
10:30 New Life
11 PM Laurel And Hardy
11:30 Audubon Wildlife Theater

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

3:55 Dr. J. Harold Smith
4 PM Underdog
4:30 Gigantor
5 PM New Zoo Revue
5:30 Three Stooges
6 PM Little Rascals
6:30 Three Stooges
7 PM Bugs Bunny And Friends
7:30 Galloping Gourmet
8 PM Outdoors With Ken Callaway
8:30 Three Stooges
9 PM Champions (National Decathlon Championships,
Women's 10-meter International Diving Meet,
North Platte Rodeo, John Smith's record-breaking
1971 440-yard run)
10 PM Quest For Adventure
10:30 Trails West (selected "Death Valley Days" reruns)
11 PM Dr. J. Harold Smith
sign off 11:05 PM
 
Chattanooga TV was full of pre-emptions on that Tuesday after Labor Day in 1975, with both the NBC and CBS affiliates bumping the network that night for either a ball game or Billy Graham.

AM America had clearance trouble in many cities during its run, as witnessed by the ABC affiliates in Chattanooga and Atlanta cutting the latter 30-60 minutes of it for some sort of local program. In Channel 9 Chattanooga's case, it was a truncated version of what was, prior to 1975, a 1-hr. local kiddie show that mixed cartoons with Romper Room-ish elements, because Marcia Kling [Miss Marcia] and Funtime started out as a franchised Romper Room on WTVC in the early '60s.

PBS affiliates that signed on at 4 pm back then were no surprise, although "instructional TV" programming, which necessitated an earlier sign-on, wasn't ready to start until a week or two later.

It was also no surprise that WRIP-61 had an afternoon sign-on, since they operated rather cheaply and stocked their schedule back then with lots of cartoons and comedy shorts.
 
What this schedule does not show is an 11:30PM U.S. Open update on CBS. I think it ran 15 minutes. I know, because I have an 11PM newscast from that date, and the tape stops about about two minutes into the U.S. Open update show.

This was also the night after the last episode of Gunsmoke ran.

Thanks for posting this, bpatrick!
 
Strange that TV Guide missed the U.S. Open highlights listings,
and I didn't even think about it. In fact, CBS didn't even have
all-afternoon coverage on Labor Day; Chs. 5 and 12 were carrying
the Jerry Lewis Telethon, while Ch. 13 had the regular CBS lineup.

As for the pre-emptions, it wasn't so uncommon for stations to
do that for Billy Graham or other specials; it's coming down to the
end of rerun season, people are enjoying the last few weeks of
being outdoors after coming home from work, and the new season
is still a week or two away. So with network viewing generally down,
it's as good a time as any to work in some pre-emptions. To put
this in perspective, in September 1970, in several cities whose baseball
teams were still in pennant races, the stations carrying those teams
(such as WGN) actually beat the networks.
 
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