Retro: Atlanta Sunday, June 15, 1969

[bpatrick]

I can't mention Lawrence Welk (my previous
post) without throwing in that this is the
premiere date of his archrival, Hee Haw (9 PM CBS).
Like Welk, Hee Haw was scorned by critics, canceled
for poor demographics, went into syndication and
outlasted most of the urban-oriented shows, and
battled Welk for the number-one slot in syndication
from 1971 until Welk turned off the bubble machine
for good in 1982.

These are from the Sunday Atlanta Journal and run
8 AM-midnight (or beyond):

WSB Ch. 2 (NBC)

8 AM Gospel Jubilee
9 AM Popeye Club
10:30 Cartoon Cavalcade
11 AM Grace Methodist Church
12 N Sound Of Youth
12:30 Meet The Press (an hour broadcast from
the U.S. Conference of Mayors--Sam Yorty
of Los Angeles is a guest)
1:30 Baseball: Braves at Pirates
4 PM Wild Kingdom (time approximate)
4:30 New Adventures Of Huck Finn
(these two are delayed from 6:30 and 7 PM, respectively)

5 PM All-American College Show
5:30 GE College Bowl (delay from 6 PM)
6 PM News
6:30 Suspense Theater
7:30 Walt Disney
8:30 Mothers-In-Law
9 PM Bonanza
10 PM My Friend Tony
11 PM News
11:30 Sunday Tonight Show

WAGA Ch. 5 (CBS)

8 AM America Sings
8:30 Gospel Caravan
9 AM Ebenezer Baptist Church (Martin Luther
King once preached there)
9:30 Faith For Today
10 AM Herald Of Truth
10:30 This Is The Life
11 AM First Baptist Church
12 N Camera Three (delay from 11 AM)
12:30 Face The Nation
1 PM Amateur Hour (delay from 5:30)
1:30 Jetsons (delay from 5 PM)
2 PM AAU Track And Field: Coliseum-Compton
Invitational at the LA Coliseum (delay
from the previous Sunday, 3:30)
3 PM NFL Action (delay from 4:30)
3:30 21st Century (delay from 6 PM)
4 PM High Q
4:30 Movie: "Little Egypt"
6 PM News
6:30 Themes And Variations (a tour of Memphis)
7 PM Lassie
7:30 Gentle Ben
8 PM Ed Sullivan (Rodney Dangerfield, the Everly
Brothers, and Stiller and Meara are among
the guests)
9 PM Hee Haw (future regular Minnie Pearl is the
premiere guest)
10 PM Mission: Impossible
11 PM News
11:30 CBS News
11:45 Movie (don't have title)

WQXI Ch. 11 (ABC)

8 AM Rex Humbard
9 AM Revival Fires
9:30 Day Of Discovery
10 AM Family Hour
11 AM Oral Roberts
11:30 Discovery (tour of Hawaii)
12 N Movie: "Eyes Of The Jungle"
1:30 Movie: "Small Town Deb"
3 PM Auto Racing: Langhorne 150
5 PM Golf: U.S. Open (final round
from Houston)
7 PM Land Of The Giants (time approximate)
8 PM The FBI
9 PM ABC Movie: "Bunny Lake Is Missing"
11 PM News
11:30 Movie (again, don't have title)

WJRJ Ch. 17 (Ind.)

(Ted Turner hadn't bought the station yet.)

1 PM Directions (pre-empted on Ch. 11)
1:30 House Detective
2:30 Movie: "Fury At Furnace Creek"
4:30 Around The World
5 PM Inside Outdoors
5:30 Frank McGee Report (pre-empted on
Ch. 2)
6 PM Wild Wild West
7 PM Movie: "Cry Danger"
9 PM Ernest Tubb
9:30 Stan Hitchcock
10 PM Sherlock Holmes Theater (don't have
title)

 

[Braves2005]

> WAGA Ch. 5 (CBS)

> 9 PM Hee Haw (future regular Minnie Pearl is the
> premiere guest)

I have the DVD of the first episode of Hee Haw and the musical guests were Loretta Lynn and Charlie Pride. Minnie Pearl became a regular on the show when it came back in December 1969 after its successful summer run.

 

[KMRichards]

I presume in these cases, it was a one-week delay, or were there advance feeds available?

> 4 PM Wild Kingdom (time approximate)
> 4:30 New Adventures Of Huck Finn
> (these two are delayed from 6:30 and 7 PM, respectively)
> 5:30 GE College Bowl (delay from 6 PM)

> 1 PM Amateur Hour (delay from 5:30)
> 1:30 Jetsons (delay from 5 PM)
> 3 PM NFL Action (delay from 4:30)
> 3:30 21st Century (delay from 6 PM)

I ask specifically because it would seem awfully dated to be running the NFL show a week delayed ...
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[bpatrick]

> I presume in these cases, it was a one-week delay, or were
> there advance feeds available?
>
> > 4 PM Wild Kingdom (time approximate)
> > 4:30 New Adventures Of Huck Finn
> > (these two are delayed from 6:30 and 7 PM, respectively)
> > 5:30 GE College Bowl (delay from 6 PM)
>
> > 1 PM Amateur Hour (delay from 5:30)
> > 1:30 Jetsons (delay from 5 PM)
> > 3 PM NFL Action (delay from 4:30)
> > 3:30 21st Century (delay from 6 PM)
>
> I ask specifically because it would seem awfully dated to be
> running the NFL show a week delayed ...
>
They're all a week delay. NFL Action was a documentary series
about various aspects of pro football (for example, a player
profile) and was specifically designed to play during the summer.
It had been a syndicated show (which Ch. 5 aired in 1968), and
would air in prime time on ABC in the early '70s. The subject
matter had no relation to breaking news in the NFL, exhibition
games, or anything of the sort, so timeliness was not a problem.

An exception to all this is Directions, airing on Ch. 17 instead
of Ch. 11. At the time, 17 had a secondary affiliation with ABC and
picked up some shows 11 pre-empted (such as The Dating Game and Newlywed
Game on Saturday nights), but these were "on pattern" with the rest
of the country. Ted Turner, in the '70s, wanted the ABC affiliation
but ABC chose to stay with VHF Ch. 11 until it could make a deal
with Ch. 2.

The Frank McGee Report is also, obviously, "on pattern,"
as this was NBC's Sunday newscast. Channel 17 ran several NBC shows
in the late '60s and early '70s (notably the NBC Wednesday Mystery
Movie which Ch. 2 pre-empted in favor of its own movie; Jeopardy!;
and The Who, What Or Where Game). In 1972, Ted Turner put up
billboards around the city announcing, "The NBC Network Moves To
Channel 17," and listing the NBC programs he carried. They came
down when NBC threatened to sue.

As for CBS, I recall 17 carrying Roger Mudd's newscast on Saturdays,
and I think they carried Wild Wild West. Turner used to carry the
CBS Late Movie back around '72 (look at some of my Atlanta postings
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