Retro: Atlanta/Chattanooga/Macon VHFs Thursday, November 14, 1974

[bpatrick]

From TV Guide North Georgia (Atlanta) edition:

WSB Ch. 2 Atlanta (NBC)

6 AM River Of History
6:30 Arthur Smith
7 AM Today
9 AM Today In Georgia
10 AM Name That Tune
10:30 Winning Streak
11 AM High Rollers
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N News
12:30 Merv Griffin
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 How To Survive A Marriage
4 PM Big Valley (Ch. 2 had just dropped
Somerset, making it the last affiliate
in Atlanta to opt for non-network programs
at 4.)
5 PM Mod Squad
6 PM News
7 PM NBC News--John Chancellor
7:30 The New Candid Camera
8 PM Sierra
9 PM Ironside
10 PM The FBI (pre-empts Movin' On)
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Tomorrow
2 AM News

WRCB Ch. 3 Chattanooga (NBC)

6:30 Arthur Smith
7 AM Today
9 AM Phil Donahue (not yet just Donahue)
10 AM Name That Tune
10:30 Winning Streak
11 AM High Rollers
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N News
12:30 Celebrity Sweepstakes
12:55 NBC News--Edwin Newman
1 PM Jackpot!
1:30 Jeopardy!
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 How To Survive A Marriage
4 PM Somerset
4:30 Flintstones
5 PM Gomer Pyle, USMC
5:30 Bewitched
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Truth Or Consequences
7:30 Hollywood Squares
8 PM Sierra
9 PM WFL Football: Florida Blazers
at Southern California Sun
12 M News (time approximate)
12:30 I Dream Of Jeannie
1 AM Tomorrow

WAGA Ch. 5 Atlanta (CBS)

5:30 University Of Michigan
6 AM Sunrise Semester
6:30 Captain Kangaroo
7:30 Atlanta A.M.
8 AM CBS News--Hughes Rudd
9 AM Phil Donahue
10 AM Joker's Wild
10:30 Gambit
11 AM Now You See It
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS News--Douglas Edwards
12 N News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM What's My Line?
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Guiding Light
2:30 Edge Of Night
3 PM Price Is Right
3:30 Match Game '74
4 PM Bewitched
4:30 Mike Douglas
6 PM News
7 PM CBS News--Walter Cronkite
7:30 Price Is Right
8 PM The Waltons (Walter Cronkite's
daughter Kathy has a small part
as a member of John-Boy's writing
class.)
9 PM CBS Movie: "Conquest Of The Planet
Of The Apes"
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte"

WGTV Ch. 8 Athens/Atlanta (PBS)

Instructional programming throughout the school day.

4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Zoom
6 PM Sesame Street
7 PM Schools Without Failure
7:45 University News
8 PM Bluegrass Festival
8:30 Georgia Heritage
9 PM Soul!
10 PM Soundstage
sign off 11 PM

WTVC Ch. 9 Chattanooga (ABC)

7 AM That Good Ole Nashville
Music
7:30 News
8 AM New Zoo Revue
8:30 Funtime
9:30 Movie: "Now You See It,
Now You Don't"
11:30 Brady Bunch
12 N Password
12:30 Split Second
1 PM All My Children
1:30 ABC Afternoon Playbreak: "Heart
In Hiding" (pre-empts Let's Make
A Deal, Newlywed Game, and The
Girl In My Life on Ch. 9; Deal,
Newlywed and Truth Or Consequences
on Ch. 11)
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM $10,000 Pyramid
4:30 Lassie
5 PM Beverly Hillbillies
5:30 The Lucy Show
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News--Smith/Reasoner
7 PM Raymond Burr (Ironside reruns)
8 PM The Undersea World Of Jacques Cousteau:
"Life At The End Of The World"
9 PM Streets Of San Francisco
10 PM Harry O
11 PM News
11:30 Wide World Special: Dick Van Dyke
one-on-one with Dick Cavett

WXIA Ch. 11 Atlanta (ABC)

7 AM Rise And Shine
8 AM Green Acres
8:30 Dick Van Dyke
9 AM Dinah!
10:30 $10,000 Pyramid
11 AM One Life To Live
11:30 Brady Bunch
12 N News
12:30 Split Second
1 PM All My Children
1:30 ABC Afternoon Playbreak
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 Movie: "Wild River"
5:30 Dealer's Choice
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News
7 PM Concentration
7:30 Hollywood Squares
8 PM Undersea World Of Jacques Cousteau
9 PM Streets Of San Francisco
10 PM Harry O
11 PM News
11:30 Bonanza
12:30 Wide World Special
2 AM News

WDEF Ch. 12 Chattanooga (CBS)

6:25 Farm Report
6:30 Sunrise Semester
7 AM Morning Show
8 AM CBS News
9 AM Captain Kangaroo
10 AM Joker's Wild
10:30 Gambit
11 AM Now You See It
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 Price Is Right
3:30 Match Game '74
4 PM Tattletales
4:30 Merv Griffin
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Mod Squad
8 PM The Waltons
9 PM CBS Movie
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "The Longest Night"

WMAZ Ch. 13 Macon (CBS/ABC)

6:50 Story Of Jesus
6:55 Robins Profile/News (I think there's
a reference here to Warner Robins
AFB)
7 AM CBS News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Let's Talk It Over
9:30 General Hospital
10 AM Joker's Wild
10:30 Gambit
11 AM Now You See It
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
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Guiding Light
2:30 Edge Of Night
3 PM Price Is Right
3:30 Match Game '74
4 PM Tattletales
4:30 Bonanza
5:30 To Tell The Truth
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Truth Or Consequences
7:30 Let's Make A Deal
8 PM The Waltons
9 PM Movie: "Under The Yum Yum
Tree"
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "The Longest Night"

UHFs on a separate posting.

 

[Braves2005]

KAGA Channel 5 (CBS) Atlanta

1:00 PM What's My Line?

KDEF Channel 9 (CBS) Chattanooga

1:00 PM That Girl

I know why Atlanta didn't carry The Young And The Restless (surely 17 or 36 could have carried it, since they had CBS daytime programs as well as NBC's daytime programs), but why didn't Chattanooga carry The Young And The Restless?

Also was The ABC Afternoon Playhouse an adult version of ABC's Afterschool Special? How long did this show last? Were there any shows of interest that came from this?

 

[bpatrick]

Where are you getting this KAGA and KDEF nonsense?
WDEF, by the way, is Channel 12; WTVC is Channel 9.

But to try to answer your questions, The Young And
The Restless didn't start airing in Atlanta until July 1976;
Channel 5 carried it at 1 PM until it went to an hour. I
don't recall when Channel 12 picked it up, around 1977
or '78 at the latest. 36 wasn't on the air in 1974; and
Ted Turner, for whatever reason (read: money) was no
longer carrying daytime shows turned down by the affiliates.

I was at the University of Georgia at the time, and Y&R fans
watched it at noon on WSPA/7.

As for the ABC Afternoon Playbreak, it may have been intended
as an adult version of the ABC Afterschool Special; it ran about
once a month and usually presented original plays. It sounds
like a brainchild of Marty Starger, ABC's head programmer at the
time. Starger seems to have seen himself as his generation's
Pat Weaver; he was going to put on all these highbrow specials
and miniseries (such as "The Strauss Family" on Saturday nights
in the summer of 1973, a production of "The Glass Menagerie," a
miniseries about Shakespeare, etc.), but ABC didn't have the series
strength to financially support his plans and most of them were scrapped.
When first Fred Pierce, and then Fred Silverman, came in, all the
highbrow stuff went south, although they did give the world "Rich
Man, Poor Man" and "Roots" as miniseries.

Playbreak, as I recall, lasted from the fall of 1972 until sometime
in 1975. CBS even tried the same thing during the week in February
1974 between the end of "The Secret Storm" and the debut of
"Tattletales," called "Daytime 90." I don't think it ever aired again.

 

[Braves2005]

Where are you getting this KAGA and KDEF nonsense?
WDEF, by the way, is Channel 12; WTVC is Channel 9

Oops, my mistake, WAGA was Channel 5 and WDEF Channel 12. My apologies.

 

[DToTheJ]

"The Odd Couple" normally aired on ABC in the 8 PM (ET) hour. I noticed that it was pre-empted on this date, likely for a Cousteau special (with WSB opting for "Ironside" locally).