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Retro: Atlanta/Chattanooga/Macon Wednesday, June 28, 1961

From TV Guide, Georgia (Atlanta) Edition:

WSB Ch. 2 Atlanta (NBC)

7 AM Dave Garroway (Today Show)
9 AM Today In Georgia
9:45 Debbie Drake
10 AM Say When! (Art James)
10:30 Play Your Hunch (Merv Griffin, COLOR)
11 AM Price Is Right (Bill Cullen, COLOR)
11:30 Concentration (Hugh Downs)
12 N News, Weather
12:15 Movie: "Boys' Ranch" (a baseball player persuades
Texas ranchers to build a facility to get kids off
the streets; watch for Jackie "Butch" Jenkins in this
one from '46)
2 PM Jan Murray (COLOR)
2:30 Loretta Young
3 PM Young Dr. Malone
3:30 From These Roots
4 PM Make Room For Daddy
4:30 Here's Hollywood (guest: Maximilian Schell)
5 PM Popeye Club
6 PM Deputy Dawg
6:30 News
6:45 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Whirlybirds
7:30 Wagon Train
8:30 Price Is Right (Bill introduces the new Boat Sweepstakes,
COLOR)
9 PM Kraft Mystery Theater
10 PM It Could Be You (Bill Leyden, COLOR)
10:30 Dangerous Robin (Rick Jason, pre-"Combat!")
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:25 Movie: "Love In Bloom" (not Jack Benny, but buddies George
Burns and Gracie Allen, from '35)

WRGP (WRCB) Ch. 3 Chattanooga (NBC)

7 AM Dave Garroway
9 AM Debbie Drake
9:15 News
9:30 Cartoons
10 AM Say When!
10:30 Play Your Hunch (COLOR)
11 AM Price Is Right (COLOR)
11:30 Concentration
12 N Truth Or Consequences (Bob Barker)
12:30 It Could Be You (Bill Leyden, COLOR)
12:55 NBC News (Ray Scherer)
1 PM My Little Margie
1:30 Star Performance
2 PM Jan Murray (COLOR)
2:30 Loretta Young
3 PM Young Dr. Malone
3:30 From These Roots
4 PM Make Room For Daddy
4:30 Here's Hollywood
5 PM Alex And Elmer
5:30 Linkletter And The Kids
5:45 Mr. Magoo
6 PM Life Of Riley (Riley manages a professional wrestler.)
6:30 News
6:45 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Brothers Brannagan (one is Steve Dunne, also host of
the CBS game show "Double Exposure")
7:30 Wagon Train
8:30 Price Is Right (COLOR)
9 PM Kraft Mystery Theater
10 PM It Could Be You (COLOR)
10:30 Tightrope! (Mike Connors, pre-"Mannix")
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:15 Jack Paar (COLOR)

WAGA Ch. 5 Atlanta (CBS)

6:30 Daily Word
6:35 News, Weather
6:45 About Ceramics
7:15 News, Cartoons
8:15 Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Life Of Riley
9:30 Movie: "Passage Home" (Part 1)
11 AM Double Exposure (Steve Dunne)
11:30 Your Surprise Package (George Fenneman)
12 N Love Of Life
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM Dr. Hudson's Secret Journal
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Susie (Ann Sothern)
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party (continuation of
yesterday's show with a panel of housewives
discussing homemaking problems)
3 PM Millionaire (James Best, aka Jim Lindsey on "The
Andy Griffith Show," plays the recipient of the check,
which he intends to use on an operation for his wife.)
3:30 Verdict Is Yours
4 PM Brighter Day
4:15 Secret Storm
4:30 Edge Of Night
5 PM Movie: "Tear Gas Squad"
6 PM Panorama News
6:45 Douglas Edwards With The News
7 PM Malibu Run (airs on CBS at 7:30, TV Guide shows this
as the same episode running a half-hour early)
8 PM Blue Angels
8:30 Danger Man (the half-hour version of "Secret Agent"
with Patrick McGoohan)
9 PM Angel (the "I Love Lucy"-in-reverse sitcom with Annie
Farge as the scatterbrained French-born wife of Marshall
Thompson, pre-"Daktari")
9:30 I've Got A Secret (guest: Jerry Lewis)
10 PM U. S. Steel Hour (Shirley Booth, about to start "Hazel," in
"The Haven," wherein her husband (Gene Raymond) wants
to sell their house at the lake and use the money for a long
trip.)
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:20 Movie: "The Malta Story" (how Britain defended Malta in WWII)

WGTV Ch. 8 Athens/Atlanta (NET)

6:30 Film Feature ("And The Earth Shall Give Back Life" examines
today's (1961) wonder drugs.)
7 PM Growing South
7:30 Briefing Session (the plight of the migrant worker, the subject
of Edward R. Murrow's classic "Harvest Of Shame" the previous
fall)
8 PM David Copperfield (the Dickens work, not the magician)
8:30 Venture Into Space
9 PM Picture Window (how to play croquet and shuffleboard)
9:30 Radha And Drishna (the story of a cow-herding god and a
milkmaid)
10 PM Human Nature (facts and fallacies about mental illness)

WTVC Ch. 9 Chattanooga (ABC)

9 AM Funtime
9:30 Coffee Break (movie: "Alibi Ike," news and weather follow
at 10:45 AM)
11 AM Gale Storm
11:30 Love That Bob!
12 N Camouflage (Don Morrow)
12:30 Number Please (Bud Collyer)
1 PM About Faces (Ben Alexander, post-"Dragnet" and pre-
"Felony Squad")
1:25 ABC News (Al Mann)
1:30 Susie
2 PM Day In Court (charge: a notary public's negligence cost
a woman a large inheritance)
2:30 Seven Keys (Jack Narz)
3 PM Queen For A Day (Jack Bailey)
3:30 Who Do You Trust? (Johnny Carson)
4 PM American Bandstand
5:30 Lone Ranger
6 PM Bob Brandy
6:30 Three Stooges
6:55 News (Gil Norwood)
7 PM Sea Hunt
7:30 Hong Kong
8:30 Ozzie And Harriet
9 PM Hawaiian Eye
10 PM Naked City
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:20 TV Hour Of Stars (Ed Wynn in "The Great American
Hoax," about a printer forced to retire against his will)

WLW-A (WXIA) Ch. 11 Atlanta (ABC)

7:20 News, Weather
7:30 Thoughts For Today
7:45 Cartoons
8 AM School Days
8:30 Skipper Ray
9 AM Jack LaLanne
9:30 Movie: "The Gay Deception" (and since this is from 1935,
"gay" means happy)
11 AM Gale Storm
11:30 Love That Bob!
12 N Camouflage
12:30 Number Please
1 PM About Faces
1:25 ABC News
1:30 Burns And Allen
2 PM Day In Court
2:30 Seven Keys
3 PM Queen For A Day
3:30 Who Do You Trust?
4 PM American Bandstand
5:30 Lone Ranger
6 PM Three Stooges
6:25 News (Paul Daugherty)
6:30 Assignment: Underwater
7 PM Miami Undercover
7:30 Hong Kong
8:30 Ozzie And Harriet
9 PM Hawaiian Eye
10 PM Naked City
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Jack Paar (pre-empted on Ch. 2, COLOR)

WDEF Ch. 12 Chattanooga (CBS)

7:55 Daily Word
8 AM CBS News (Richard C. Hottelet)
8:15 Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Comedy Capers
9:30 Passing Parade (John Nesbitt)
9:45 Morning Stretch (exercises, but not with Joanie
Greggains)
10 AM I Love Lucy
10:30 Video Village (Monty Hall)
11 AM Double Exposure
11:30 Your Surprise Package
12 N Love Of Life
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM Lunch 'n Fun
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Face The Facts (Red Rowe--"Password" would replace
this show in October)
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party
3 PM Millionaire
3:30 Verdict Is Yours
4 PM Brighter Day
4:15 Secret Storm
4:30 Edge Of Night
5 PM Movie: "The Villain Still Pursued Her"
6:30 News
6:45 Douglas Edwards With The News
7 PM Deputy Dawg
7:30 Malibu Run
8:30 Danger Man
9 PM Angel
9:30 I've Got A Secret
10 PM U.S. Steel Hour
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:20 Movie: "Woman To Woman"

WMAZ Ch. 13 Macon (CBS/NBC/ABC)

7 AM Komedy Korner
7:30 Kit Carson
8 AM CBS News
8:15 Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Action (local, with Doris Martin)
10 AM I Love Lucy
10:30 Video Village
11 AM Double Exposure
11:30 Your Surprise Package
12 N Love Of Life
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM Almanac
1:15 Date With Del
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Face The Facts
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party
3 PM Millionaire
3:30 Verdict Is Yours
4 PM Brighter Day
4:15 Secret Storm
4:30 Edge Of Night
5 PM Linkletter And The Kids
5:15 Playhouse 15
5:30 Whirlybirds
6 PM City Detective
6:30 News
6:45 Douglas Edwards With The News
7 PM Two Faces West
7:30 77 Sunset Strip (ABC, delay from Fri 9 PM)
8:30 Danger Man
9 PM Angel
9:30 I've Got A Secret
10 PM U.S. Steel Hour
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Movie: "Personal Property" (this may have been
Jean Harlow's last; it's from '37, the year she died)
 
bpatrick said:
WLW-A (WXIA) Ch. 11 Atlanta (ABC)

11:30 Jack Paar (pre-empted on Ch. 2, COLOR)
...what markets (other than Milwaukee, Cleveland and Atlanta) ever saw the NBC affiliate pre-empt Tonight during any of its versions, leading a different station to carry it?...

WMAZ Ch. 13 Macon (CBS/NBC/ABC)

11:30 Movie: "Personal Property" (this may have been
Jean Harlow's last; it's from '37, the year she died)
...Personal Property was the last movie she completed. Harlow died while Saratoga was in production; that film was completed and released using three different stand-ins doubling for her, becoming Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's biggest box office hit of 1937...
 
I was under the impression that Boston (WBZ) pre-empted Paar.

Baltimore (WMAR was the NBC affiliate at the time) pre-empted
Carson for a time in order to carry "Thicke Of The Night" in 1983.

Carson wasn't carried in Birmingham until WBMG (now WIAT) signed
on in 1965; WCWB (now WMGT) Macon, GA, didn't carry him for about
a year after it signed on 1968.

A number of the Paar pre-emptions resulted from the disaster that
aired between Steve Allen's departure and his arrival: "Tonight: America
After Dark," a sort of nighttime version of the "Today" show which lasted
about six months in 1957. WSB was one of the stations that had carried
Allen, passed on "America After Dark," and didn't come back into the fold
until Carson took over "The Tonight Show." (Of course, we know that
WXIA would have "The Tonight Show" again, starting in September 1980.)
 
...okeh, then which were the stations that carried Tonight as a result of those pre-emptions in those markets?...
 
I know that WBFF carried Carson when WMAR pre-empted him
in Baltimore; WZTV carried him when WSMV pre-empted him in
Nashville; Milwaukee, I'm not sure about, maybe WVTV.

I keep thinking Ch. 5 (then WHDH) carried Paar in Boston; somebody
correct me on that; likewise, WEWS in Cleveland.

When Carson was pre-empted in Macon, I assume he came in on cable
on WSB; the other station in town, WMAZ, a CBS primary/
ABC secondary at the time, carried Joey Bishop.
 
bpatrick said:
I keep thinking Ch. 5 (then WHDH) carried Paar in Boston; somebody correct me on that; likewise, WEWS in Cleveland.

I can't say for sure about Boston, but up to 1965 Westinghouse (Group W), owners of Boston's WBZ-TV, also owned what they called KYW-TV in Cleveland - and remember their long-standing feud with NBC. Cleveland's Channel 3 didn't carry The Tonight Show again until early 1966 - by which time (besides Johnny Carson already in the middle of his long run) it was almost a year since NBC was ordered back to the "City by the Lake" to run what they redubbed WKYC-TV. Until then, WEWS did indeed carry The Tonight Show, including the whole Paar era.
 
wbhist said:
bpatrick said:
I keep thinking Ch. 5 (then WHDH) carried Paar in Boston; somebody correct me on that; likewise, WEWS in Cleveland.

I can't say for sure about Boston, but up to 1965 Westinghouse (Group W), owners of Boston's WBZ-TV, also owned what they called KYW-TV in Cleveland - and remember their long-standing feud with NBC. Cleveland's Channel 3 didn't carry The Tonight Show again until early 1966 - by which time (besides Johnny Carson already in the middle of his long run) it was almost a year since NBC was ordered back to the "City by the Lake" to run what they redubbed WKYC-TV. Until then, WEWS did indeed carry The Tonight Show, including the whole Paar era.


Near as I can figure, WEWS began carrying "Tonight" in 1958, and did so till Saturday, February 26,1966..WEWS had their last Saturday rerun at that time..WKYC began carrying "Tonight" Monday, February 28, 1966..Alan King hosted that evening,,
 
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