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Retro: Atlanta daytime September 26-30, 1977

B

bpatrick

ohstuskskaterpunk (did I spell that right?)
gave us some daytime schedules for Northern
Alabama for September 26-30, 1977. Here's
what was going on across I-20 from Birmingham.
Schedules are from the Atlanta Constitution and
run 7 AM-7 PM.

WSB Ch. 2 (NBC)

7 AM Today
9 AM Hollywood Squares
9:30 Shoot For The Stars
10 AM Sanford And Son
10:30 Today In Georgia
11 AM Wheel Of Fortune
11:30 It's Anybody's Guess
12 N News
12:30 Newlywed Game
1 PM Liars Club
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM The Rookies
5 PM Odd Couple
5:30 Mary Tyler Moore
6 PM News (NBC News follows at 7)

WAGA Ch. 5 (CBS)

7 AM CBS Morning News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Donahue
10 AM Cross-Wits
10:30 Price Is Right
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS Midday News
12 N News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Young And The Restless
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM All In The Family
3:30 I Dream Of Jeannie
4 PM Bewitched
4:30 Mike Douglas
6 PM News (CBS News follows at 7)

WGTV Ch. 8 (PBS)

I assume instructional programs fill
most of the day.

4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Sesame Street
6:30 Withit (Mon & Fri)
Hodgepodge Lodge (Tue)
Zoom (Wed)
The Horse (Thu)

WXIA Ch. 11 (ABC)

7 AM Good Morning America
9 AM $20,000 Pyramid
9:30 The Better Sex
10 AM Joker's Wild
10:30 Edge Of Night
11 AM Happy Days
11:30 Family Feud
12 N News
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1 PM All My Children
2 PM Hollywood Connection
(game show almost identical
to Hollywood Squares--Jim
Lange was host)
2:30 One Life To Live
3:15 General Hospital
4 PM Voyage To The Bottom Of
The Sea
5 PM Emergency One!
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News

WTCG Ch. 17 (Ind.)

7 AM Three Stooges And
Little Rascals
8 AM Lassie
8:30 Leave It To Beaver
9 AM Lucy Show
9:30 Love, American Style
10 AM Movie:
"Face Of A Fugitive" (Mon)
"Slim Carter" (Tue)
"13 Rue Madeline" (Wed)
"Thunder Over The Plains" (Thu)
"Lifeboat" (Fri)

12 N Hazel
12:30 Movie:
"We Were Strangers" (Mon)
"Till The End Of Time" (Tue)
"The Great Lie" (Wed)
"Tomorrow Is Forever" (Thu)
"Lady For A Night" (Fri)

2:30 I Love Lucy
3 PM Flintstones
3:30 The Archies
4 PM New Mickey Mouse Club
4:30 The Monkees
5 PM Gilligan's Island
5:30 Partridge Family
6 PM Andy Griffith
6:30 My Three Sons

WETV Ch. 30 (PBS)

9 AM Sesame Street
I assume instructional programs fill the
gaps.
2 PM Electric Company
2:30 another gap
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Zoom
6:30 As We See It

WATL Ch. 36 (Ind.)

3 PM Kids' Show
5:30 Entertainment Page
6:30 Spotlight

WANX Ch. 46 (Ind.)

7 AM Mighty Mouse
7:30 Heckle And Jeckle
8 AM Deputy Dawg
8:30 Batman
9 AM Flipper
9:30 Life Of Riley
10 AM 700 Club
11:30 Life In The Spirit (Mon)
Practical Christian Living (Tue)
The Rock (Wed)
Manna (Thu)
The Bible (Fri)

12 N This Is The Life (Mon)
Acts 29 (Tue)
Charisma (Wed)
New Day (Thu)
God Of Our Fathers (Fri)

12:30 McHale's Navy
1 PM Mr. Ed
1:30 Dennis The Menace
2 PM Huck And Yogi
2:30 Popeye And Porky Hour
3:30 Fred Flintstone And Friends
4 PM Josie And The Pussycats/Brady Kids
4:30 Super Heroes
5 PM Jackson Five
5:30 Brady Bunch
6 PM Dick Van Dyke
6:30 Sgt. Bilko
 
> ohstuskskaterpunk (did I spell that right?)
> gave us some daytime schedules for Northern
> Alabama for September 26-30, 1977. Here's
> what was going on across I-20 from Birmingham

Minor technicality: Actually, Georgia hadn't completed its part of I-20 in '77. From Douglasville, GA (about 25 miles W of downtown) until Heflin, AL (about 10 miles E of the state line), traffic still had to travel U.S. 78. I remember what a nightmare that used to be! :)
 
> > ohstuskskaterpunk (did I spell that right?)
> > gave us some daytime schedules for Northern
> > Alabama for September 26-30, 1977. Here's
> > what was going on across I-20 from Birmingham
>
> Minor technicality: Actually, Georgia hadn't completed its
> part of I-20 in '77. From Douglasville, GA (about 25 miles
> W of downtown) until Heflin, AL (about 10 miles E of the
> state line), traffic still had to travel U.S. 78. I
> remember what a nightmare that used to be! :)
>
My point was to compare Atlanta daytime with Birmingham
for the last week in September 1977. (Last time I was
through there, in 1978, 20 had been completed all the
way across, so what you're telling me is new to me.
With that, 'nuff said.)<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by bpatrick on 06/13/05 03:01 PM.</FONT></P>
 
> ohstuskskaterpunk (did I spell that right?)

>
> WSB Ch. 2 (NBC)

> 10 AM Sanford And Son
> 10:30 Today In Georgia
> 11 AM Wheel Of Fortune
> 11:30 It's Anybody's Guess

> WAGA Ch. 5 (CBS)

> 10 AM Cross-Wits
> 10:30 Price Is Right
> 11:30 Love Of Life
> 11:55 CBS Midday News

Excerpts from the Northern Alabama edition post, daytime, Sept 26-30, 1977:

9 am
"2" Morningwatch--Variety
4 Romper Room--Children
"4" Phil Donahue
"5", 33, 40, 42 Here's Lucy
9, 13, 15, 31 Sanford and Son
19 Double Dare
48 PTL Club--Religion
9.30
4, 6 $20,000 Pyramid (6 aired the same broadcast as "2", 48)
"5", 19, 33, 43 Price is Right
9, 13, 15, 31 Hollywood Squares
40 PTL Club--Religion
10 am
"2", 4, 6, 48 Happy Days
"4", 9, 13, 15, 31 Wheel of Fortune
10.30
"2", 4, 6, 48 Family Feud
"4", 9, 13, 15, 31 It's Anybody's Guess--Game
"5", 19, 33, 40, 42 Love of Life--Serial
10.55
"5", 19, 33, 40, 42 CBS News--Douglas Edwards

I noticed that Atlanta's WSB 2 (NBC) pre-empted what many considered to be NBC most successful games shows in its day, "Hollywood Squares" at 10.30 am Eastern/9.30 am Central. I think "Wheel of Fortune" was starting to gain popularity, diminishing "Hollywood Squares" a little bit.
It's not uncommon for ABC affiliates on the East Coast who aired a 12 pm newscast to air a program that normally aired at 12 pm earlier in the day, as in the case of WXIA 11 (ABC). Starting in the mid-1970s, the notion of networks airing a program from 4 to 4.30 pm Eastern/3 to 3.30 pm Central increasingly became a "problem" with affiliate stations. Since ABC didn't start daytime TV until 11 am Eastern/10 am Central, the 10-11 am Eastern/9-10 am Central slot was used. All ABC affiliates in the Northern Alabama market in 1977 ("2", 4, 6, 48....in Dec., 31 replaced 48) aired "Edge of Night" at 3 pm Central, the normal time slot for the serial.

> WXIA Ch. 11 (ABC)

> 7 AM Good Morning America
> 9 AM $20,000 Pyramid
> 9:30 The Better Sex
> 10 AM Joker's Wild
> 10:30 Edge Of Night
> 11 AM Happy Days
> 11:30 Family Feud

Were the shows from 9 to 10.30 am ABC shows?<P ID="signature">______________
phil</P>
 
> ohstuskskaterpunk (did I spell that right?)
> gave us some daytime schedules for Northern
> Alabama for September 26-30, 1977. Here's
> what was going on across I-20 from Birmingham.
> Schedules are from the Atlanta Constitution and
> run 7 AM-7 PM.
>
> WSB Ch. 2 (NBC)
>
> 7 AM Today
> 9 AM Hollywood Squares
> 9:30 Shoot For The Stars
> 10 AM Sanford And Son
> 10:30 Today In Georgia
> 11 AM Wheel Of Fortune
> 11:30 It's Anybody's Guess
> 12 N News
> 12:30 Newlywed Game
> 1 PM Liars Club
> 1:30 Days Of Our Lives
> 2:30 The Doctors
> 3 PM Another World
> 4 PM The Rookies
> 5 PM Odd Couple
> 5:30 Mary Tyler Moore
> 6 PM News (NBC News follows at 7)
>
> WAGA Ch. 5 (CBS)
>
> 7 AM CBS Morning News
> 8 AM Captain Kangaroo
> 9 AM Donahue
> 10 AM Cross-Wits
> 10:30 Price Is Right
> 11:30 Love Of Life
> 11:55 CBS Midday News
> 12 N News
> 12:30 Search For Tomorrow
> 1 PM Young And The Restless
> 1:30 As The World Turns
> 2:30 Guiding Light
> 3 PM All In The Family
> 3:30 I Dream Of Jeannie
> 4 PM Bewitched
> 4:30 Mike Douglas
> 6 PM News (CBS News follows at 7)
>
> WGTV Ch. 8 (PBS)
>
> I assume instructional programs fill
> most of the day.
>
> 4 PM Sesame Street
> 5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
> 5:30 Sesame Street
> 6:30 Withit (Mon & Fri)
> Hodgepodge Lodge (Tue)
> Zoom (Wed)
> The Horse (Thu)
>
> WXIA Ch. 11 (ABC)
>
> 7 AM Good Morning America
> 9 AM $20,000 Pyramid
> 9:30 The Better Sex
> 10 AM Joker's Wild
> 10:30 Edge Of Night
> 11 AM Happy Days
> 11:30 Family Feud
> 12 N News
> 12:30 Ryan's Hope
> 1 PM All My Children
> 2 PM Hollywood Connection
> (game show almost identical
> to Hollywood Squares--Jim
> Lange was host)

I think you meant Break The Bank which was off the air. Looked to me more like a Match Game clone having seen some of the reruns on GSN in 1997-98. Jim Lange did host this Barry/Enright production.

> 2:30 One Life To Live
> 3:15 General Hospital
> 4 PM Voyage To The Bottom Of
> The Sea
> 5 PM Emergency One!
> 6 PM News
> 6:30 ABC News
>
> WTCG Ch. 17 (Ind.)
>
> 7 AM Three Stooges And
> Little Rascals
> 8 AM Lassie
> 8:30 Leave It To Beaver
> 9 AM Lucy Show
> 9:30 Love, American Style
> 10 AM Movie:
> "Face Of A Fugitive" (Mon)
> "Slim Carter" (Tue)
> "13 Rue Madeline" (Wed)
> "Thunder Over The Plains" (Thu)
> "Lifeboat" (Fri)
>
> 12 N Hazel
> 12:30 Movie:
> "We Were Strangers" (Mon)
> "Till The End Of Time" (Tue)
> "The Great Lie" (Wed)
> "Tomorrow Is Forever" (Thu)
> "Lady For A Night" (Fri)
>
> 2:30 I Love Lucy
> 3 PM Flintstones
> 3:30 The Archies
> 4 PM New Mickey Mouse Club
> 4:30 The Monkees
> 5 PM Gilligan's Island
> 5:30 Partridge Family
> 6 PM Andy Griffith
> 6:30 My Three Sons
>
> WETV Ch. 30 (PBS)
>
> 9 AM Sesame Street
> I assume instructional programs fill the
> gaps.
> 2 PM Electric Company
> 2:30 another gap
> 4 PM Sesame Street
> 5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
> 5:30 Electric Company
> 6 PM Zoom
> 6:30 As We See It
>
> WATL Ch. 36 (Ind.)
>
> 3 PM Kids' Show
> 5:30 Entertainment Page
> 6:30 Spotlight
>
> WANX Ch. 46 (Ind.)
>
> 7 AM Mighty Mouse
> 7:30 Heckle And Jeckle
> 8 AM Deputy Dawg
> 8:30 Batman
> 9 AM Flipper
> 9:30 Life Of Riley
> 10 AM 700 Club
> 11:30 Life In The Spirit (Mon)
> Practical Christian Living (Tue)
> The Rock (Wed)
> Manna (Thu)
> The Bible (Fri)
>
> 12 N This Is The Life (Mon)
> Acts 29 (Tue)
> Charisma (Wed)
> New Day (Thu)
> God Of Our Fathers (Fri)
>
> 12:30 McHale's Navy
> 1 PM Mr. Ed
> 1:30 Dennis The Menace
> 2 PM Huck And Yogi
> 2:30 Popeye And Porky Hour
> 3:30 Fred Flintstone And Friends
> 4 PM Josie And The Pussycats/Brady Kids
> 4:30 Super Heroes
> 5 PM Jackson Five
> 5:30 Brady Bunch
> 6 PM Dick Van Dyke
> 6:30 Sgt. Bilko
>
 
> > WXIA Ch. 11 (ABC)
>
> > 9 AM $20,000 Pyramid
> > 9:30 The Better Sex
> > 10 AM Joker's Wild

> Were the shows from 9 to 10.30 am ABC shows?
>
Pyramid and Sex were ABC shows; Joker was syndicated.
 
> >
I stand corrected about Hollywood Connection.
It involved six celebrities who answered questions
about their personalities; the contestants had to
pick a star and decide which of three possible answers
that star had chosen. Both it and Break The Bank were
Barry and Enright shows with multiple celebrities, so
maybe I inadvertently mixed up the two.



ohstuskskaterpunk (did I spell that right?)
> > gave us some daytime schedules for Northern
> > Alabama for September 26-30, 1977. Here's
> > what was going on across I-20 from Birmingham.
> > Schedules are from the Atlanta Constitution and
> > run 7 AM-7 PM.
> >
> > WSB Ch. 2 (NBC)
> >
> > 7 AM Today
> > 9 AM Hollywood Squares
> > 9:30 Shoot For The Stars
> > 10 AM Sanford And Son
> > 10:30 Today In Georgia
> > 11 AM Wheel Of Fortune
> > 11:30 It's Anybody's Guess
> > 12 N News
> > 12:30 Newlywed Game
> > 1 PM Liars Club
> > 1:30 Days Of Our Lives
> > 2:30 The Doctors
> > 3 PM Another World
> > 4 PM The Rookies
> > 5 PM Odd Couple
> > 5:30 Mary Tyler Moore
> > 6 PM News (NBC News follows at 7)
> >
> > WAGA Ch. 5 (CBS)
> >
> > 7 AM CBS Morning News
> > 8 AM Captain Kangaroo
> > 9 AM Donahue
> > 10 AM Cross-Wits
> > 10:30 Price Is Right
> > 11:30 Love Of Life
> > 11:55 CBS Midday News
> > 12 N News
> > 12:30 Search For Tomorrow
> > 1 PM Young And The Restless
> > 1:30 As The World Turns
> > 2:30 Guiding Light
> > 3 PM All In The Family
> > 3:30 I Dream Of Jeannie
> > 4 PM Bewitched
> > 4:30 Mike Douglas
> > 6 PM News (CBS News follows at 7)
> >
> > WGTV Ch. 8 (PBS)
> >
> > I assume instructional programs fill
> > most of the day.
> >
> > 4 PM Sesame Street
> > 5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
> > 5:30 Sesame Street
> > 6:30 Withit (Mon & Fri)
> > Hodgepodge Lodge (Tue)
> > Zoom (Wed)
> > The Horse (Thu)
> >
> > WXIA Ch. 11 (ABC)
> >
> > 7 AM Good Morning America
> > 9 AM $20,000 Pyramid
> > 9:30 The Better Sex
> > 10 AM Joker's Wild
> > 10:30 Edge Of Night
> > 11 AM Happy Days
> > 11:30 Family Feud
> > 12 N News
> > 12:30 Ryan's Hope
> > 1 PM All My Children
> > 2 PM Hollywood Connection
> > (game show almost identical
> > to Hollywood Squares--Jim
> > Lange was host)
>
> I think you meant Break The Bank which was off the air.
> Looked to me more like a Match Game clone having seen some
> of the reruns on GSN in 1997-98. Jim Lange did host this
> Barry/Enright production.
>
> > 2:30 One Life To Live
> > 3:15 General Hospital
> > 4 PM Voyage To The Bottom Of
> > The Sea
> > 5 PM Emergency One!
> > 6 PM News
> > 6:30 ABC News
> >
> > WTCG Ch. 17 (Ind.)
> >
> > 7 AM Three Stooges And
> > Little Rascals
> > 8 AM Lassie
> > 8:30 Leave It To Beaver
> > 9 AM Lucy Show
> > 9:30 Love, American Style
> > 10 AM Movie:
> > "Face Of A Fugitive" (Mon)
> > "Slim Carter" (Tue)
> > "13 Rue Madeline" (Wed)
> > "Thunder Over The Plains" (Thu)
> > "Lifeboat" (Fri)
> >
> > 12 N Hazel
> > 12:30 Movie:
> > "We Were Strangers" (Mon)
> > "Till The End Of Time" (Tue)
> > "The Great Lie" (Wed)
> > "Tomorrow Is Forever" (Thu)
> > "Lady For A Night" (Fri)
> >
> > 2:30 I Love Lucy
> > 3 PM Flintstones
> > 3:30 The Archies
> > 4 PM New Mickey Mouse Club
> > 4:30 The Monkees
> > 5 PM Gilligan's Island
> > 5:30 Partridge Family
> > 6 PM Andy Griffith
> > 6:30 My Three Sons
> >
> > WETV Ch. 30 (PBS)
> >
> > 9 AM Sesame Street
> > I assume instructional programs fill the
> > gaps.
> > 2 PM Electric Company
> > 2:30 another gap
> > 4 PM Sesame Street
> > 5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
> > 5:30 Electric Company
> > 6 PM Zoom
> > 6:30 As We See It
> >
> > WATL Ch. 36 (Ind.)
> >
> > 3 PM Kids' Show
> > 5:30 Entertainment Page
> > 6:30 Spotlight
> >
> > WANX Ch. 46 (Ind.)
> >
> > 7 AM Mighty Mouse
> > 7:30 Heckle And Jeckle
> > 8 AM Deputy Dawg
> > 8:30 Batman
> > 9 AM Flipper
> > 9:30 Life Of Riley
> > 10 AM 700 Club
> > 11:30 Life In The Spirit (Mon)
> > Practical Christian Living (Tue)
> > The Rock (Wed)
> > Manna (Thu)
> > The Bible (Fri)
> >
> > 12 N This Is The Life (Mon)
> > Acts 29 (Tue)
> > Charisma (Wed)
> > New Day (Thu)
> > God Of Our Fathers (Fri)
> >
> > 12:30 McHale's Navy
> > 1 PM Mr. Ed
> > 1:30 Dennis The Menace
> > 2 PM Huck And Yogi
> > 2:30 Popeye And Porky Hour
> > 3:30 Fred Flintstone And Friends
> > 4 PM Josie And The Pussycats/Brady Kids
> > 4:30 Super Heroes
> > 5 PM Jackson Five
> > 5:30 Brady Bunch
> > 6 PM Dick Van Dyke
> > 6:30 Sgt. Bilko
> >
>
 
> > ohstuskskaterpunk (did I spell that right?)
>
> >
>
> >
>
>
> I noticed that Atlanta's WSB 2 (NBC) pre-empted what many
> considered to be NBC most successful games shows in its day,
> "Hollywood Squares" at 10.30 am Eastern/9.30 am Central. I
> think "Wheel of Fortune" was starting to gain popularity,
> diminishing "Hollywood Squares" a little bit.
> It's not uncommon for ABC affiliates on the East Coast who
> aired a 12 pm newscast to air a program that normally aired
> at 12 pm earlier in the day, as in the case of WXIA 11
> (ABC). Starting in the mid-1970s, the notion of networks
> airing a program from 4 to 4.30 pm Eastern/3 to 3.30 pm
> Central increasingly became a "problem" with affiliate
> stations. Since ABC didn't start daytime TV until 11 am
> Eastern/10 am Central, the 10-11 am Eastern/9-10 am Central
> slot was used. All ABC affiliates in the Northern Alabama

The 9-11 AM lineup on Ch. 11 consisted of three ABC shows:
$20,000 Pyramid (delay from 2 PM), The Better Sex (delay from
12 Noon), and The Edge Of Night (delay from 4 PM). The Joker's
Wild was in its first season of new syndicated episodes. The
network shows were on a one-day delay.

Ch. 11 had stuck pretty closely to the network schedule until
the fall of 1972; Split Second (12:30) was the only show delayed
(the station's midday news aired at 12:30). But in September 1972,
11 moved its newscast to noon, putting Password in the morning (11
AM until the summer of '73, when it moved to 10 AM); then it
started a movie at 3:30, bumping One Life To Live until ABC finally
let them run it at 11 AM; and Love, American Style, which aired at
10:30. In the summer of '75, 11 moved its newscast to 11:30 AM
and ran Showoffs at 12, but that didn't work at all.

By 1977, Ch. 5 pretty much owned the morning, thanks to Donahue
and The Price Is Right. Ch. 2 constantly juggled its morning
lineup until it moved to ABC, trying to find a combination to
beat 5.

5 had not carried CBS's 4 PM show since the late '60s, when it
moved Secret Storm to the morning and replaced it with Mike Douglas;
it began airing a noon newscast around the time Love Of Life moved
from noon to 11:30 AM in 1969.

2 never carried NBC from 12 to 1 after the demise of Tic Tac Dough
and It Could Be You in the late '50s/early '60s. More than one of
you has expressed shock that 2 did not carry the Art Fleming version
of Jeopardy! when it aired at 12, but that's a fact. In fact, the
next time 2 ran a network show at 12:30 was after it changed networks
and began carrying Ryan's Hope. But 2 was the last of the three to
drop its network's 4 PM show; Somerset was canceled in Atlanta in 1974,
two years before NBC dropped it.

Today, however, every network daytime show airs on pattern in
Atlanta:

Ch. 2: 11 AM The View
12 N News (to 1--ABC gave back 12:30 after
Port Charles was canceled)
1 PM All My Children
2 PM One Life To Live
3 PM General Hospital

Ch. 11: 1 PM Days Of Our Lives
2 PM Passions

Ch. 46: 11 AM Price Is Right
12 N News (local)
12:30 Young And The Restless
1:30 Bold And The Beautiful
2 PM As The World Turns
3 PM Guiding Light




















> market in 1977 ("2", 4, 6, 48....in Dec., 31 replaced 48)
> aired "Edge of Night" at 3 pm Central, the normal time slot
> for the serial.
>
> > WXIA Ch. 11 (ABC)
>
> > 7 AM Good Morning America
> > 9 AM $20,000 Pyramid
> > 9:30 The Better Sex
> > 10 AM Joker's Wild
> > 10:30 Edge Of Night
> > 11 AM Happy Days
> > 11:30 Family Feud
>
> Were the shows from 9 to 10.30 am ABC shows?
>
 
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