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Retro: Atlanta Monday, March 16, 1953

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bpatrick

I didn't know anyone was doing retro radio
schedules, but I'm glad to put my two cents
in. These are from the Atlanta Constitution.
Network shows are indicated by the network in
parentheses.

WAGA 590 (CBS)

5:30 Gospel Time
5:45 Farm Fest
6 AM Hillbilly Hit Revue
6:30 News
6:45 Meetin' Time
7 AM News; Early Worm
7:30 Dale Clark--News
7:45 Early Worm
8 AM CBS World News Roundup
8:15 Early Worm
9 AM News Of America (CBS)
9:15 Star Wagon
9:30 Perry's Kitchen; News
10 AM Arthur Godfrey (CBS)
11:30 News
11:45 Rosemary (CBS)
12 N News
12:15 Aunt Jenny (CBS)
12:30 Helen Trent (CBS)
12:45 Our Gal Sunday (CBS)
1 PM Road Of Life (CBS)
1:15 Ma Perkins (CBS)
1:30 Young Dr. Malone (CBS)
1:45 Guiding Light (CBS)
2 PM Wendy Warren (CBS)
2:15 Perry Mason (CBS)
2:30 Nora Drake (CBS)
2:45 Brighter Day (CBS)
3 PM Hilltop House (CBS)
3:15 Art Linkletter's House
Party (CBS)
3:45 Home Folks
4 PM Grady Cole (CBS)
4:15 Second Mrs. Burton (CBS)
4:30 Hillbilly Hits
4:45 Top Five
5:30 Woods; News (Woods may have
been the newscaster)
5:45 Curt Massey (CBS)
6 PM Allan Jackson--News (CBS)
6:15 Guy Lombardo
6:30 News
6:45 Lowell Thomas (CBS)
7 PM Hall Of Favorites
7:30 Jo Stafford (CBS)
7:45 Edward R. Murrow (CBS)
8 PM Suspense (CBS)
8:30 Arthur Godfrey's Talent
Scouts (CBS)
9 PM Lux Radio Theater (CBS)
10 PM Bob Hawk (CBS)
10:30 Cedric Adams--News (CBS)
10:45 School Of The Air
11 PM News
11:30 Dance Orchestra (CBS)
12 M News

WSB 750 (NBC)

5 AM S. For Today (maybe Song For Today?)
5:15 Dixie Farm And Home Hour
6 AM Jack Hunt
6:15 Jefferson Jam
6:30 News; Sunup Serenade
7 AM News
7:15 Merry-Go-Round
8 AM News (NBC)
8:15 Morning Melodies
9 AM News; Kitchen Klub
9:30 Music Room
10 AM Welcome Travelers (NBC)
10:30 Double Or Nothing (NBC)
11 AM Strike It Rich (NBC)
11:30 Bob And Ray (NBC)
11:45 Bob Hope (NBC)
12 N News
12:15 Farm News
12:30 Arthur Smith
12:45 Jack Hunt
1 PM Headlines
1:15 Ernest Tubb
1:30 Listen Ladies
2:30 Dave Garroway (NBC)
2:45 Dr. Paul (NBC)
3 PM Life Can Be Beautiful (NBC)
3:15 Road Of Life (NBC)
3:30 Pepper Young's Family (NBC)
3:45 Right To Happiness (NBC)
4 PM Backstage Wife (NBC)
4:15 Stella Dallas (NBC)
4:30 Young Widder Brown (NBC)
4:45 Woman In My House (NBC)
5 PM Just Plain Bill (NBC)
5:15 Front Page Farrell (NBC)
5:30 Lorenzo Jones (NBC)
5:45 Doctor's Wife (NBC)
6 PM News
6:15 Views Of The News
6:30 Music To Remember
7 PM News Headlines (NBC)
7:15 Sports Review (NBC)
7:30 News Of The World (NBC)
7:45 One Man's Family (NBC)
8 PM Railroad Hour (NBC)
8:30 Voice Of Firestone (NBC)
9 PM Bell Telephone Hour (NBC)
9:30 Band Of America (NBC)
10 PM Encore (NBC)
10:30 News; Give That They May
Live (NBC)
11 PM Highway (?); News
11:15 H.V. Kaltenborn (NBC)
11:30 America's Composers (NBC)
12 M News; Music to 1 AM

WQXI 790 Mutual

5:30 Bob McKee
6:30 Cuzzin Lem
7 AM News; Bob McKee
7:30 News
7:45 Bob McKee
8 AM News; Sports
8:15 Bob McKee
9 AM News; Starr Time
11 AM Ladies Fair (Mutual)
11:30 Queen For A Day (Mutual)
12 N Curt Massey (Mutual)
12:15 H.R. Baukhage--News (Mutual)
12:30 G. West (don't know who this is);
Best On Wax
2 PM News; Herb Harris
4 PM News; Peachtree Open House
5 PM Bobby Benson (Mutual)
5:30 Wild Bill Hickok (Mutual)
6 PM Tiller (don't know first name) Sports
6:15 News
6:30 Don Mitchell
7 PM Fulton Lewis Jr.--News (Mutual)
7:15 News
7:30 Gabriel Heatter--News (Mutual)
7:45 Three Suns
8 PM The Falcon (Mutual)
8:30 Hall Of Fantasy (Mutual)
9 PM News; Murray-Go-Round
10 PM Frank Edwards--News (Mutual)
10:15 Murray-Go-Round to 1:05 AM

WGST 920 (ABC)

5:30 Hillbilly Hits
5:45 Musical Variety
6 AM Wings Of The Morning
6:15 News
6:30 Music Ranch
6:45 Finis J. Dake
7 AM Bill McCain
7:15 LeFevre Trio
7:30 News; Weather
7:45 Crusaders Quartet
8 AM Bill Lowery
9 AM Breakfast Club (ABC)
10 AM My True Story (ABC)
10:25 Whispering Streets (ABC)
10:45 When A Girl Marries (ABC)
11 AM Dinah Shore
11:15 R'laires Quartet (don't know
the full name)
11:30 Break The Bank (ABC)
12 N Don Gardiner--News (ABC)
12:15 J.L.R. Boyd
12:30 Bill Ring Trio (ABC)
12:45 News
1 PM Finis J. Dake
1:15 Voice Of Prophecy
1:30 Back To The Bible
2 PM Let's Have Fun
2:30 Tennessee Ernie Ford (ABC)
3 PM Mama Goes Shopping
3:30 Dean Dickens
4 PM 920 Special
5 PM Lone Ranger (ABC)
5:30 News; Sports
5:45 Lum And Abner (ABC)
6 PM Uncle Eb
6:30 Hillbilly Hits
6:45 Hymns
7 PM Bill McCain
7:15 Quincy Howe--News (ABC)
7:30 Phil Harris (ABC)
7:45 Les Griffith (ABC)
8 PM Your Land (ABC)
8:15 Zenas Sears
10 PM News (ABC)
10:15 Diggin' The Discs (to 12:30)
 
That's an incredible list. I don't know what other city newspapers do this either. Here in Memphis we have the Commercial Appeal which does retro CA stories, but nothing on the order of radio skeds. In fact, half the time when their radio & tv reporter mentions a station he can't get the CURRENT call letters straight.

Isn't it amazing how each time segment literally has a named program. About the closest thing to it would be to glance at a station program log. All the music programs on the retro list you posted had names, just like the comedy and family shows. Shows one thing... radio really was a big deal back in the day.<P ID="signature">______________
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> That's an incredible list. I don't know what other city
> newspapers do this either. Here in Memphis we have the
> Commercial Appeal which does retro CA stories, but nothing
> on the order of radio skeds. In fact, half the time when
> their radio & tv reporter mentions a station he can't get
> the CURRENT call letters straight.

Up I-40 a ways, the _Nashville Banner_ kept an extensive radio
listing through the early 70's. It was a grid side-by-side with
the TV listings showing what WSM, WSIX and WLAC radio were
airing at a quarter-hour granularity. The other stations (WKDA,
WMAK, WNAH, and WVOL) had truncated schedules shown but were
still present...and with the correct call letters and frequency.

Until the the mid 70's, there was a correpondence between each
of the three major TV outlets and the radio siblings, with the
identical call letters and network affiliations, so I guess it
made sense for the now-gone (and lamented) _Nashville Banner_
to have tables for the Big Three radio and TV.
 
> > That's an incredible list. I don't know what other city
> > newspapers do this either. Here in Memphis we have the
> > Commercial Appeal which does retro CA stories, but nothing
>
> > on the order of radio skeds. In fact, half the time when
> > their radio & tv reporter mentions a station he can't get
> > the CURRENT call letters straight.
>
> Up I-40 a ways, the _Nashville Banner_ kept an extensive
> radio
> listing through the early 70's. It was a grid side-by-side
> with
> the TV listings showing what WSM, WSIX and WLAC radio were
> airing at a quarter-hour granularity. The other stations
> (WKDA,
> WMAK, WNAH, and WVOL) had truncated schedules shown but were
>
> still present...and with the correct call letters and
> frequency.
>
> Until the the mid 70's, there was a correpondence between
> each
> of the three major TV outlets and the radio siblings, with
> the
> identical call letters and network affiliations, so I guess
> it
> made sense for the now-gone (and lamented) _Nashville
> Banner_
> to have tables for the Big Three radio and TV.
>
I seem to recall seeing those listings in the Banner. The
Birmingham News did the same thing until the late '60s.
 

> WGST 920 (ABC)
>
> 8 AM Bill Lowery
Very instrumental in the early history of rock.
> 8:15 Zenas Sears
> 10 PM News (ABC)
> 10:15 Diggin' The Discs (to 12:30)
Was this also R&B?
WGST was also the radio home of future programming legend Paul Drew in the late 1950s before WAKE.
 
> 
> > WGST 920 (ABC)
> >
> > 8 AM Bill Lowery
> Very instrumental in the early history of rock.
> > 8:15 Zenas Sears
> > 10 PM News (ABC)
> > 10:15 Diggin' The Discs (to 12:30)
> Was this also R&B?
> WGST was also the radio home of future programming legend
> Paul Drew in the late 1950s before WAKE.
>
Since this is before I was born, I'm going to take a logical
guess and say that Diggin' The Discs probably was an R&B show;
the name, the time slot, and the fact that the station apparently
did a lot of R&B programming makes me think so.
 
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