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Retro: Atlanta Friday, January 21, 1972

Not sure if I've posted this already. From
TV Guide, North Georgia (Atlanta) Edition:

WSB Ch. 2 (NBC)

6:20 Town And Country
6:25 Farm News
6:30 Christopher Closeup
7 AM Today
9 AM Today In Georgia
10 AM Dinah's Place
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Sale Of The Century
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N News
12:30 Democratic Reply To President
Nixon's State Of The Union Address
1 PM Mike Douglas (joined in progress)
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 Bright Promise
4 PM Somerset
4:30 Truth Or Consequences
5 PM Perry Mason
6 PM News
7 PM NBC News
7:30 High Chaparral
8:30 NBC Movie: "Return Of The Seven"
10:30 Sanford And Son (delay from 8 PM)
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show (Joey Bishop subs for
Johnny)
1 AM Movie: "Experiment In Terror"

WAGA Ch. 5 (CBS)

6:30 University Of Georgia
7 AM CBS News (John Hart)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Phil Donahue
10 AM The Lucy Show (guest is
Carol Burnett)
10:30 My Three Sons
11 AM Family Affair
11:30 Love Of Life
12 N News
12:30 Democratic Response To President
Nixon's State Of The Union Address
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 Virginian
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM News
7:30 I Dream Of Jeannie
8 PM O'Hara, U.S. Treasury
9 PM CBS Movie: "Something Evil"
10:30 Don Rickles (short-lived sitcom
where he's an ad-agency exec)
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Two Loves"

WGTV Ch. 8 Athens/Atlanta (PBS)

In-school programs until

4:30 Electric Company
5 PM Sesame Street
6 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
6:30 What's New
7 PM Zoom
7:30 Wall Street Week
8 PM Washington Week In Review
8:30 Black Journal
9 PM Folk Guitar
9:30 Coach Lawson (I never knew who
this was, not a football or basketball
coach at UGA, that's for sure)
10 PM Lawmakers--1972

WQXI (WXIA) Ch. 11 (ABC)

6:25 Rocky And His Friends
6:55 Professor Kitzel
7 AM Tubby And Lester
8 AM Romper Room
8:30 What Every Woman Wants
To Know
9 AM Movie: "Brigham Young--
Frontiersman"
11 AM Password
11:30 That Girl
12 N Bewitched
12:30 Democratic Response To President
Nixon's State Of The Union Address
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?
7:30 To Tell The Truth
8 PM Brady Bunch
8:30 Partridge Family
9 PM Room 222
9:30 Odd Couple
10 PM Love, American Style
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Lady From Louisiana"
(Dick Cavett is delayed until
Sunday 11:30 PM)
1 AM News

WTCG (WPCH) Ch. 17 (Ind.)

7 AM Popeye
7:30 Little Rascals
8 AM Banana Splits
8:30 Flintstones
9 AM Cartoon Carnival
10 AM Jack LaLanne
10:30 Topper
11 AM Donna Reed
11:30 Galloping Gourmet
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 My Little Margie (Who, What Or
Where is pre-empted today)
1 PM Movie: "Pimpernel Smith"
3 PM Little Rascals
3:30 Banana Splits
4 PM Speed Racer
4:30 Flintstones
5 PM Leave It To Beaver
5:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC (pre-empted
on Ch. 5 at 4 PM)
6 PM Star Trek
7 PM Rifleman
7:30 Dragnet
8 PM Alfred Hitchcock Hour
9 PM Movie: "Killers From Space"
10:30 One Step Beyond
11 PM Twilight Zone
11:30 Movie: "The Naked Maja"

WETV (WPBA) Ch. 30 (PBS)

In-school programs until

4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Electric Company
5:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
6 PM Observing Eye
6:30 Hatha Yoga
7 PM Private Lives Of Americans
7:30 This Week With Bill Moyers
8 PM Washington Week In Review
8:30 Movie: "The Blue Angel" (the 1930
film that made Marlene Dietrich an
international star)
10:30 Young Musical Artists

WHAE (WGCL) Ch. 46 (Ind.)

5 PM Fury
5:30 Jim And Tammy
6:30 Western Movie (no title given)
7:30 Right On
8 PM Bible Story With Paul Harvey
8:30 Of Lands And Seas
9:30 700 Club
 
No local news on WQXI channel 11 other than at 11pm?

I am surprised considering how popular WQXI radio was at that time.
 
Channel 11 had local newscasts at 7 PM for much
of the '60s; in 1969 they tried a 5:30 newscast
that was an immediate failure. From 1970 to 1972
they aired syndicated programs against WSB's
and WAGA's news. In September 1972 they finally
recommitted to news; they hired Virgil Dominic from
NBC in Cleveland to anchor Pro News at 6 and 11.
He lasted until 1976, when the 11 Alive format was
instituted.

Channel 11 did have a midday newscast at 12:30
(12:00 after September 1972) but it was pre-empted
this particular day for coverage of the Democratic
response to the State of the Union Address.
 
bpatrick said:
they hired Virgil Dominic from
NBC in Cleveland to anchor Pro News at 6 and 11.
He lasted until 1976, when the 11 Alive format was
instituted.

Virgil Dominic then returned to Cleveland as News Director and later General Manager of WJW-TV 8 by 1977..He oversaw the transition of Channel 8 from the "City Camera" era of the 1960's-early 70's to the "Newscenter 8" era from 1977-to about 1995 or so..He then retired from what was now Fox8 and is living in retirement in Florida..One of the finest Newsmen..and Gentlemen, by all accounts to ever work in Cleveland TV news..

Edit:Just noticed a very good. complete interview with Virgil Dominic here:

http://www.clevelandseniors.com/people/virgil-dominic.htm
 
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