Retro: Atlanta Monday, September 17, 1973

[bpatrick]

From TV Guide, North Georgia Edition:

WSB Ch. 2 (NBC)

5:50 Town And Country
5:55 Farm Show
6 AM Christopher Closeup
6:30 Arthur Smith
7 AM Today
9 AM Today In Georgia
9:30 Monday News Conference
10 AM Dinah's Place
10:30 Baffle
11 AM Wizard Of Odds (Alex Trebek's
first U.S. game)
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N News
12:30 Merv Griffin
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 Return To Peyton Place
4 PM Somerset
4:30 Truth Or Consequences
5 PM Mod Squad
6 PM News
7 PM NBC News (John Chancellor)
7:30 Let's Make A Deal
8 PM Lotsa Luck
8:30 Diana (Rigg)
9 PM NBC Movie: "Play Misty For Me"
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show (David Steinberg
subs for Johnny)

WAGA Ch. 5 (CBS)

5:30 Camera Three
6 AM Summer Semester: "Practical English
For Hispanic Americans"
6:30 Captain Kangaroo
7:30 Atlanta A.M.
8 AM CBS News (Hughes Rudd/Sally Quinn)
9 AM Phil Donahue
10 AM Joker's Wild
10:30 $10,000 Pyramid
11 AM Gambit
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
12 N News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Secret Storm
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Guiding Light
2:30 Edge Of Night
3 PM Price Is Right
3:30 Match Game '73
4 PM I Dream Of Jeannie
4:30 Bewitched
5 PM The Bold Ones: The Doctors
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7 PM News
7:30 TV-5 Reports
8 PM Gunsmoke
9 PM Here's Lucy
9:30 New Dick Van dyke Show
10 PM Medical Center
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "Doctor, You've Got
To Be Kidding!"

WGTV Ch. 8 (PBS)

Instructional programs until

4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Sesame Street
7 PM Insight
7:30 Forum
8 PM Music From Ambler (Temple University
Music Festival from Ambler, PA)
9:30 Atlanta Week In Review
10 PM Movie: "Summer Interlude"
sign off 11:30 PM

WQXI (WXIA) Ch. 11 (ABC)

6:30 Good Morning Atlanta
7 AM World Tomorrow (Garner Ted Armstrong)
7:30 Rise And Shine
8:30 Courtship Of Eddie's Father
9 AM Hazel
9:30 Dick Van dyke
10 AM Password
10:30 Love, American Style
11 AM One Life To Live
11:30 Brady Bunch
12 N News
12:30 Split Second
1 PM All My Children
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 The Girl In My Life
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 Movie: "Half Angel"
5 PM Bonanza
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News (Smith/Reasoner)
7 PM What's My Line?
7:30 Norm Van Brocklin (the then-Falcons
head coach reviews yesterday's game
with the Saints)
8 PM The Rookies
9 PM NFL Football: Jets-Packers
12 M News (time approximate)
12:40 Untouchables
1:40 News

WTCG (WPCH) Ch. 17 (Ind.)

6:30 Buck Owens
7 AM Three Stooges/Little Rascals
8:30 Romper Room
9 AM New Zoo Revue
9:30 Donna Reed
10 AM Mike Douglas
11:30 Living Easy With Dr. Joyce Brothers
12 N Mister Ed
12:30 The Lucy Show
1 PM Movie: "Scandal, Inc."
3 PM Jeff's Collie
3:30 Munsters
4 PM Flintstones
4:30 Leave It To Beaver
5 PM Andy Griffith
5:30 Beverly Hillbillies
6 PM The Lucy Show
6:30 Father Knows Best
7 PM Gomer Pyle, USMC
7:30 Andy Griffith
8 PM Star Trek
9 PM Movie: "White Heat"
11:20 Movie: "Midnight"
1:20 Movie: "Scandal, Inc."

WETV (WPBA) Ch. 30 (PBS)

Instructional programs until

4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Erica
6:15 Theonie
6:30 Know Your Antiques
7 PM Making Things Grow
7:30 Book Beat
8 PM Homewood
9 PM It's Your City
10:30 Roy Buchanan (rock guitarist)
sign off 11:30 PM

WHAE (WGCL) Ch. 46 (Ind.)

11 AM Fury
11:30 Cartoon Carnival
12 N 700 Club
2 PM Mr. Magoo
2:30 Bozo
3 PM Deputy Dawg
3:30 Mighty Mouse
4 PM Lone Ranger
4:30 Superman
5 PM Batman (2 episodes)
6 PM Dennis The Menace
6:30 Mayberry R.F.D.
7 PM Honeymooners
7:30 TBA
8 PM Glen Haven Baptist Church
8:30 700 Club
10:30 Good News
11 PM Rawhide
sign off 12 M

 

[Braves2005]

WAGA Ch. 5 (CBS)

12:30 PM Search For Tomorrow
1:00 PM Secret Storm

No Young and the Restless on WAGA? I think that you may have mentioned that WAGA did not carry Young and the Restless in the early years but refresh mine and everyone else's memory when WAGA started carrying Young and the Restless. Also Secret Storm would be history by early 1974.

 

[bpatrick]

WAGA picked up Y&R in July 1976. It aired
in Atlanta at 1 PM, meaning it aired in pattern
when it first went to an hour in February 1980
but not while it was still a half-hour. It has
aired at 12:30, first on WAGA, now on WGCL,
since CBS moved it there in mid-1981.

WAGA was not the only CBS affiliate to carry
Secret Storm instead of Y&R; WDBO (now WKMG)/6
Orlando did the same thing. After all, even though
Secret Storm was on the verge of cancellation in 1973,
it still had viewers who had followed it since 1954 at the
earliest; Y&R was still new.

As for the other two CBS affiliates in the North Georgia
Edition, WDEF/12 Chattanooga didn't start carrying Y&R
until around the same time WAGA did and it, too, aired it
at 1 PM (it has aired in pattern since 1980); WMAZ/13
Macon aired it at noon from the beginning and has always
aired it in pattern regardless of timeslot.

 

[oldiesfan6479]

When Y&R first started as a half-hour at 12:00 ET and the
local hole was (only) at 1:00 ET, it's almost like an "alternate"
pattern for eastern time zone stations to delay Y&R until 1,
as apparently a number of them did, especially if they wanted
a noon newscast. The local news being a natural break, if you
will, between the game shows and the soaps.

In that (pre one-hour Y&R) era, did CBS ever do a second feed
of it at 1:00 ET just for this purpose, or were they still feeding
the next morning's Sunrise Surprise from 1-1:30?


And have we ever gotten an answer as to whether ABC now does
an alternate feed of AMC 12-1 ET, so CT stations can have
a noon news and not have to air the soap on a one-DB?

 

[bpatrick]

Castleman and Podrazik show CBS feeding "Sunrise
Semester" at 1 PM (noon starting in 1980), so apparently
there was no alternate 1 PM feed of "Y&R," although it
was logical for affiliates with noon newscasts to delay the
show an hour since, as you say, there was nothing in the
1-1:30 slot on CBS (until 1980). BTW, I don't know of any
affiliates that carried "Sunrise Semester" at 1 PM or noon.

And the Central Time Zone ABC affiliates that show "All
My Children" on a one-day delay at 11 AM are still doing so;
ABC has not supplied an alternate feed.