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Retro: Atlanta Monday, September 1, 1980

The day of the first big switch: WSB/2 moves
from NBC to ABC; WXIA/11 goes the other way.
(The second big switch is in December 1994 when
WAGA/5 goes from CBS to Fox, WATL/36 from Fox to
independent to the WB, and WGNX (WGCL)/46 from
independent to CBS.)

From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Schedules
run 7 AM-1 AM.

WSB Ch. 2 (ABC)

7 AM Good Morning America
9 AM Family Feud
9:30 Edge Of Night
10 AM Mike Douglas
11 AM Love Boat
12 N News
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1 PM All My Children
2 PM One Life To Live
3 PM General Hospital
4 PM Bionic Woman
5 PM Happy Days (Again)
5:30 M*A*S*H
6 PM News
7 PM ABC News
7:30 Family Feud
8 PM That's Incredible
9 PM NCAA Football: Arkansas
at Texas
11:45 News (time approximate)
12:15 Nightline
12:35 Movie (title not given)

WAGA Ch. 5 (CBS)

7 AM Jerry Lewis Telethon (from
9 PM Sunday)
7 PM CBS News
7:30 PM Magazine
8 PM Flo
8:30 Mr. And Mrs.
9 PM M*A*S*H
9:30 House Calls
10 PM Lou Grant
11 PM News
11:30 Maude
12 M U.S. Open Tennis Update
12:30 Harry O

WGTV Ch. 8 (PBS)

4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Villa Alegre
6 PM Big Blue Marble
6:30 Basic Banjo
7 PM Yoga For Health
7:30 In Concert
8 PM Buddy Holly: Reminiscing
9 PM Wildebeest
10 PM Jazz At The Maintenance Shop
11 PM Evening At Pops

WXIA Ch. 11 (NBC)

7 AM Today
9 AM Wheel Of Fortune
9:30 Password Plus
10 AM David Letterman
11 AM Joker's Wild
11:30 The Doctors (Friday's episode)
12 N News
12:30 The Doctors (gets Atlanta back
on pattern)
1 PM Days Of Our Lives
2 PM Another World
3 PM Texas
4 PM Star Trek
5 PM Jim Rockford, Private Investigator
6 PM News
7 PM NBC News
7:30 Tic Tac Dough
8 PM Little House On The Prairie
9 PM NBC Movie: "Sooner Or Later"
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show (Joan Rivers is
guest hostess)
Tomorrow follows at 1.

WTCG Ch. 17 (Ind.)

7 AM Funtime
8 AM I Love Lucy
8:30 I Dream Of Jeannie
9 AM Hazel
9:30 Green Acres
10 AM Movie: "The Big Gamble"
12 N Freeman Reports
1 PM Movie: "Drums Of Tahiti"
2:30 Baseball: Braves at Cubs
5 PM My Three Sons (time approximate)
5:30 Beverly Hillbillies
6 PM Carol Burnett And Friends
6:30 Bob Newhart
7 PM All In The Family
7:30 Sanford And Son
8 PM The Best Defense
9 PM Rat Patrol
9:30 Gift Of Love
10 PM News
11 PM Night Gallery
11:30 Movie: "Confidential Agent"

WETV Ch. 30 (PBS)

8:15 Weather
8:30 Rebop
9 AM Sesame Street
10 AM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
10:30 Electric Company
11 AM Sesame Street
then nothing listed until:

4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Another Voice
6:30 Over Easy
7 PM Dick Cavett
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8 PM Take 30
8:30 Old Friends
9 PM Buddy Holly: Reminiscing
10 PM Running Fence
11 PM Dick Cavett
11:30 Silent Dancing

WATL Ch. 36 (Ind.)

7 AM PTL Club
9 AM Prophecy
9:30 Wanted: Dead Or Alive
10 AM Body Buddies
10:30 Religion
11 AM PTL Club
1 PM Liberty Temple
1:30 Health Field
2 PM Travel Log
2:30 New Zoo Revue
3 PM Bullwinkle
3:30 Rocky & Friends
4 PM Dudley Do-Right
4:30 Beatles/Cool McCool
5 PM Robin Hood
5:30 Screen Directors' Playhouse
6 PM Entertainment Page
6:30 Peter Gunn
7 PM Wanted: Dead Or Alive
7:30 Munson On Sports
8 PM Horse Racing
9 PM Screen Directors' Playhouse
10 PM WCT Tennis
11 PM Entertainment Page
11:30 Robin Hood

WANX Ch. 46 (Ind.)

7 AM Porky Pig And Friends
8 AM Mighty Mouse
8:30 Mr. Ed
9 AM Big Valley
10 AM 700 Club
11:30 Life In The Spirit
12 N McHale's Navy
12:30 Dick Van Dyke
1 PM Make Room For Daddy
1:30 Petticoat Junction
2 PM Fred Flintstone And Friends
2:30 Popeye And Friends
3:30 Tom And Jerry
4 PM Woody Woodpecker
5 PM Emergency One!
6 PM Face The Music (2 episodes)
7 PM Bullseye
7:30 To Tell The Truth (short-lived
version with Robin Ward as host)
8 PM Barnaby Jones
9 PM 700 Club
10 PM News (INN, IIRC)
10:30 700 Club continues
11 PM Streets Of San Francisco
12 M News (local)
 
It seems that WXIA and WSB TV both were running entire network schedules. WSB TV was even running the widely preempted Edge Of night.
 
> It seems that WXIA and WSB TV both were running entire
> network schedules. WSB TV was even running the widely
> preempted Edge Of night.
>
WXIA had run Edge Of Night when it was the ABC affiliate.
The only NBC daytime program pre-empted on WXIA was
Card Sharks (12 Noon). 11 Alive also picked up NBC's
SportsWorld, which WSB did not carry, on weekends.
 
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