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Retro: Atlanta Sunday, August 10, 1975

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

WSB Ch. 2 (NBC)

7 AM Light Unto My Path
7:30 Arthur Smith
8 AM Gospel Singing Jubilee
9 AM Popeye
10 AM Animal World
10:30 Sound Of Youth
11 AM Church Service
12 N Meet The Press (Six leading
police officials are interviewed.)
1 PM News
1:30 Secrets Of The Deep
2 PM Movie: "The Ring"
3:30 Movie: "To Kill A Mockingbird"
6 PM News
6:30 Lawrence Welk
7:30 Wonderful World Of Disney
8:30 McCloud
10:30 News
11 PM Movie: "Father Goose"

WAGA Ch. 5 (CBS)

7 AM Insight
7:30 This Is The Life
8 AM Day Of Discovery
8:30 Oral Roberts
9 AM Church Service
9:30 Latin Atlanta
10 AM Herald Of Truth
10:30 Faith For Today
11 AM Church Service
12 N Face The Nation
12:30 Georgians Speak
1 PM Medix
1:30 Car And Track
2 PM Movie: "Billy Rose's Jumbo"
4:30 CBS Tennis Classic: Arthur Ashe
vs. Bjorn Borg
5:30 Thrillseekers
6 PM Conversations With Eric Sevareid
7 PM News
7:30 Manhattan Transfer
8:30 Kojak
9:30 60 Minutes (interview with then-
First Lady Betty Ford)
10:30 Police Surgeon
11 PM News
11:30 CBS News
11:45 Movie: "Generation"

WGTV Ch. 8 (PBS)

12 N Sesame Street
1 PM Sound Of Youth
1:30 Music And The Spoken Word
2 PM Marriage And Family
2:30 Basic Banjo
3 PM Development (don't know what
this is)
3:30 Bonjour France
4 PM Food For Thought
4:30 Forum
5 PM Speaking Freely
6 PM Coach Lawson
6:30 Black Perspective On The News
7 PM Yoga For Health
7:30 Best Of Evening At Pops
8:30 Masterpiece Theatre
9:30 Movie: "Silver Queen" (repeats
at 11 PM)

WXIA Ch. 11 (ABC)

7 AM Revival Of America
7:30 Rex Humbard
8:30 Chapel Hour
9 AM Hour Of Power
10 AM Make A Wish
10:30 Korg: 70,000 B.C.
11 AM Church Service
12 N Garner Ted Armstrong
12:30 Soul Free
1 PM Ebony Journal
1:30 Issues And Answers
2 PM Movie: "The Guilt Of Janet Ames"
3:30 The Champions(Track meet and martial
arts championship are spotlighted.)
4:30 PGA Championship (Final round)
6:30 News (time approximate)
7 PM Last Of The Wild
7:30 Six Million Dollar Man
8:30 ABC Movie: "Dark Of The Sun"
10:30 The Evil Touch
11 PM News
11:30 SWAT
12:30 Crossroads

WTCG Ch. 17 (Ind.)

7 AM Agriculture USA
7:30 Revival Fires
8 AM Hilarious House Of Frightenstein
8:30 Speed Racer
9 AM Three Stooges/Little Rascals
10 AM Abbott And Costello
10:30 Movie: "The Eleanor Roosevelt
Story"
12:30 Other People, Other Places
1 PM Movie: "Desert Detour"
3 PM The Saint
4 PM Movie: "Trail Of The Lonesome Pine"
6 PM Wrestling
7 PM Wild Wild West
8 PM The Avengers
9 PM Movie: "The Maltese Falcon"
11 PM Open Up

WETV Ch. 30 (PBS)

2 PM U.S. Clay Court Tennis Championships
6:30 Consumer Survival Kit
7 PM Feeling Good
7:30 Philadelphia Folk Festival
8:30 Masterpiece Theatre
9:30 Barbara Of The House Of Grebe
10:30 The Arbors

WHAE Ch. 46 (Ind.)

7 AM Human Dimensions
7:30 The Lesson
8 AM Jerry Falwell
9 AM Church Service
9:30 Norman Vincent Peale
10 AM Church Service
11 AM Church Service
12 N Teach-In
1 PM Dimensions
1:30 America's Problems And
Challenges
2 PM Jimmy Swaggart
2:30 Happy Hunters
3 PM George And Diane
3:30 Tony And Susan Alamo
4 PM Kathryn Kuhlman
4:30 God's World
5 PM Assembly Of God
5:30 Deeper Life
6 PM Better World
6:30 Deaf Hear
7 PM The Story
7:30 Countdown To A Miracle
8:30 Charisma
9 PM Ernest Angley
10 PM Challenge Of Truth
10:30 Max Morris
11 PM Voice Of Victory
 
> WAGA Ch. 5 (CBS)

> 7 AM Insight
> 7:30 This Is The Life
> 8 AM Day Of Discovery
> 8:30 Oral Roberts
> 9 AM Church Service
> 9:30 Latin Atlanta
> 10 AM Herald Of Truth
> 10:30 Faith For Today
> 11 AM Church Service
> 12 N Face The Nation

WAGA like 90 % of the CBS affiliates preempted the Sunday Morning cartoons from CBS. CBS until 1982 offered an hour of cartoons/kids shows which were reruns of shows that were canceled the previous season. Their O & O's all took this programming except for 10 WCAU TV for about a year. (so even back than O & O's occasionally preempted shows../BUT NEVER A PRIME SHOW...this was widely preempted stuff). Still very few affiliates aired CBS Sunday morning cartoons. In the Fall of 1975 the cartoons were "Globetrotters" and "The Archies". In the 1974-75 season they were "Pebbles & Bamm Bamm" and "Bailey's Comets".

About half the CBS affiliates preempted "Camera Three" and "lamp Unto My Feet", and "Look Up & Live"...a block of religious shows focusing on mainline Christianity. WAGA was among these stations. The majority of CBS affiliates ran in place of such shows...syndicated TV evangelists that piad big bucks to get on. O & O stations generally would not sell time to such programming but affiliates could and did. Other affiliates also ran syndicated cartoons late on Sunday morning (these tended to be in small markets).



> WXIA Ch. 11 (ABC)
>
> 7 AM Revival Of America
> 7:30 Rex Humbard
> 8:30 Chapel Hour
> 9 AM Hour Of Power
> 10 AM Make A Wish
> 10:30 Korg: 70,000 B.C.

WXIA ran ABC's Sunday morning cartoons. They ran the other 30 minutes on Saturday morning. Like with CBS, ABC ran reruns of cartoons that were canceled from the previous season plus "Make A Wish". In 1976 they ran "Animals Animals Animals" until 1981. Beginning in 1978 ABC eliminated the cartoon reruns in favor of a 90 minute "Kids Are People Too" first with Bob McGallaster (formerly of WNEW TV's Wonderama) then Michael Young (whatever happened to him?). The show was shortened to an hour in 1979.

Finally in 1981 ABC ended the Sunday morning kids shows in favor of David Brinkley.

> 11 AM Church Service
> 12 N Garner Ted Armstrong

They ran cartoons in between religion??? Usually ABC affiliates would run all the religion till 10 or 10:30 then the ABC shows...not sandwiched in. Most CBS affiliates and all the O & O's that did run the CBS Sunday mroning cartoons ran them in the 7 AM hour and religion after that.

> WTCG Ch. 17 (Ind.)
>
> 7 AM Agriculture USA
> 7:30 Revival Fires
> 8 AM Hilarious House Of Frightenstein
> 8:30 Speed Racer
> 9 AM Three Stooges/Little Rascals
> 10 AM Abbott And Costello
> 10:30 Movie: "The Eleanor Roosevelt
> Story"
> 12:30 Other People, Other Places
> 1 PM Movie: "Desert Detour"
> 3 PM The Saint
> 4 PM Movie: "Trail Of The Lonesome Pine"
> 6 PM Wrestling
> 7 PM Wild Wild West
> 8 PM The Avengers
> 9 PM Movie: "The Maltese Falcon"
> 11 PM Open Up

Usual lineup for an independent station back in 1975 except for no religion. I guess they had to make up for WHAE/WANX.

> WHAE Ch. 46 (Ind.)
>
> 7 AM Human Dimensions
> 7:30 The Lesson
> 8 AM Jerry Falwell
> 9 AM Church Service
> 9:30 Norman Vincent Peale
> 10 AM Church Service
> 11 AM Church Service
> 12 N Teach-In
> 1 PM Dimensions
> 1:30 America's Problems And
> Challenges
> 2 PM Jimmy Swaggart
> 2:30 Happy Hunters
> 3 PM George And Diane
> 3:30 Tony And Susan Alamo
> 4 PM Kathryn Kuhlman
> 4:30 God's World
> 5 PM Assembly Of God
> 5:30 Deeper Life
> 6 PM Better World
> 6:30 Deaf Hear
> 7 PM The Story
> 7:30 Countdown To A Miracle
> 8:30 Charisma
> 9 PM Ernest Angley
> 10 PM Challenge Of Truth
> 10:30 Max Morris
> 11 PM Voice Of Victory

WHAE 46 was all religious and no commercials on Sundays. The rest of the week they ran general entertainment 10 to 12 hours a day and religion about 6 hours a day. Sister CBN stations did this as well. In 1980 the stations would begin 5 or 6 hours a day of secular shows on Sundays.
 
> ...very few affiliates aired CBS Sunday morning cartoons. In the
> Fall of 1975 the cartoons were "Globetrotters" and "The
> Archies".

More specifically, it was the animated "Globetrotters" (their Saturday morning variety show would begin that fall) and "The US of Archie" (Archie and the gang goes back in time to the days of the American Revolution; ratings were so awful, the show was shuffled off from Saturday to Sunday in mid-season).
>
> Finally in 1981 ABC ended the Sunday morning kids shows in
> favor of David Brinkley.

Though they took another ABC News show, "Issues and Answers" (a Sunday-morning discussion program) along with it.
 
> > ...very few affiliates aired CBS Sunday morning cartoons.
> In the
> > Fall of 1975 the cartoons were "Globetrotters" and "The
> > Archies".
>
> More specifically, it was the animated "Globetrotters"
> (their Saturday morning variety show would begin that fall)
> and "The US of Archie" (Archie and the gang goes back in
> time to the days of the American Revolution; ratings were so
> awful, the show was shuffled off from Saturday to Sunday in
> mid-season).
> >
> > Finally in 1981 ABC ended the Sunday morning kids shows in
>
> > favor of David Brinkley.
>
> Though they took another ABC News show, "Issues and Answers"
> (a Sunday-morning discussion program) along with it.
>
WAGA did carry CBS's Sunday-morning cartoons in the fall of 1976
against The Lone Ranger and Bugs Bunny on WSB. WSB won that
contest hands-down.

Only 26 CBS affiliates were carrying Lamp Unto My Feet, Look
Up And Live, and Camera Three when CBS canceled them in 1979.
WTVD/11 Raleigh/Durham (CBS then, ABC now) was one of the 26
because its owner, Capital Cities Communications, had a policy
against its stations airing paid religion. I also recall WDBO
(now WKMG)/6 Orlando and WTVT/13 Tampa/St. Petersburg among
the 26.

WXIA never carried This Week With David Brinkley. By the time
it debuted in November 1981 WSB was the ABC affiliate in Atlanta,
and WXIA was carrying NBC and Meet The Press.
 
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