Retro: Atlanta Wednesday, February 6, 1980

[bpatrick]

From the Atlanta Constitution. Countdown to ABC/NBC
switch: six months, 26 days.

WSB Ch. 2 (NBC)

7 AM Today
9 AM Password Plus
9:30 Hollywood Squares
10 AM Dinah & Friends
11:30 Wheel Of Fortune
12 N News
12:30 Mary Tyler Moore
1 PM Days Of Our Lives
2 PM The Doctors
2:30 Another World
4 PM Starsky & Hutch
5 PM Newlywed Game
5:30 Happy Days Again
6 PM News
7 PM NBC News
7:30 3's A Crowd (I never understood
why Channel 2 ever put this
travesty on.)
8 PM Real People
9 PM Diff'rent Strokes
9:30 Hello, Larry
10 PM Best Of Saturday Night Live
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Tomorrow
2 AM News

WAGA Ch. 5 (CBS)

7 AM Morning
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Donahue
10 AM Cross-Wits
10:30 Celebrity Whew!
10:55 CBS Midmorning News
11 AM Price Is Right
12 N News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Young And The Restless
2 PM As The World Turns
3 PM Guiding Light
4 PM Good Times
4:30 Mike Douglas
6 PM News
7 PM CBS News
7:30 PM Magazine
8 PM Edward And Mrs. Simpson
9 PM The Boy Who Drank Too Much
11 PM News
11:30 Maude
12 M Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
(CBS was rerunning it; it originally
aired in Atlanta on Channel 11.)
12:30 CBS Movie: "Togetherness"

WGTV Ch. 8 (PBS)

Instructional programs throughout the school day.

4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Sesame Street
6 PM 3-2-1 Contact
6:30 Basic Banjo
7 PM Que Pasa, U.S.A.
7:30 Dick Cavett
8 PM The Lawmakers
9 PM Great Performances
10 PM Every Four Years
11 PM Movie: "The Man In Gray"
sign off 1 AM

WXIA Ch. 11 (ABC)

7 AM Good Morning America
9 AM $20,000 Pyramid
9:30 Joker's Wild
10 AM Play The Percentages
10:30 Edge Of Night
11 AM Laverne & Shirley
11:30 Family Feud
12 N News
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1 PM All My Children
2 PM One Life To Live
3 PM General Hospital
4 PM Star Trek
5 PM Jim Rockford, Private
Investigator
6 PM News
7 PM ABC News
7:30 Tic Tac Dough
8 PM Eight Is Enough
9 PM Charlie's Angels
10 PM Vega$
11 PM News
11:30 The Iranian Crisis: America
Held Hostage
11:45 Dating Game
12:15 Love Boat

WTBS Ch. 17 (Ind.)

7 AM SuperStation Fun House
8 AM Leave It To Beaver
8:30 Romper Room
9 AM The Lucy Show
9:30 Green Acres
10 AM Movie: "Satan Never Sleeps"
12:30 Movie: "The Millionairess"
2:25 News
2:30 Gigglesnort Hotel
3 PM I Love Lucy
3:30 Flintstones
4 PM Spectreman
4:30 Gilligan's Island
5 PM My Three Sons
5:30 I Dream Of Jeannie
6 PM Carol Burnett & Friends
6:30 Bob Newhart
7 PM Sanford & Son
7:30 All In The Family
8 PM Upstairs, Downstairs
9 PM SEC Basketball: Auburn at
Vanderbilt
11 PM Last Of The Wild (time approximate)
11:30 Movie: "Teacher's Pet"
2:05 Movie: "The Naked And The Dead"

WPBA Ch. 30 (PBS)

8:15 A.M. Weather
8:30 Instructional TV
9 AM Sesame Street
10 AM Instructional TV
2 PM Electric Company
2:30 Instructional TV
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM 3-2-1 Contact
6:30 Over Easy
7 PM Dick Cavett
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8 PM Great Performances
9 PM Great Performances
10 PM Every Four Years
11 PM Dick Cavett
11:30 Captioned ABC News
sign off 12 Midnight

WATL Ch. 36 (Ind.)

7 AM PTL Club
9 AM TBA
10:30 Bill Bibbons
11 AM PTL Club
1 PM Hour Of Prayer
1:30 Health Field
2 PM Success-N-Life
2:30 New Zoo Revue
3 PM Bullwinkle
3:30 Rocky & Friends
4 PM Space Kidettes
4:30 Officer Don & Orvil (Dragon)
5 PM The Jeffersons (pre-empted at
10 AM on Ch. 5)
5:30 One Day At A Time (pre-empted
at 4 PM on Ch. 5)
6 PM Entertainment Page
6:30 Peter Gunn
7 PM Wanted: Dead Or Alive
7:30 Munson On Sports (UGA icon
Larry Munson)
8 PM Movie: "Little Princess"
10 PM Rock World
11 PM Entertainment Page
11:30 Robin Hood
sign off 12 Midnight

WANX Ch. 46 (Ind./CBN)

7 AM Porky & Popeye
8 AM Mighty Mouse
8:30 Mr. Ed
9 AM Big Valley
10 AM 700 Club
11:30 The Rock
12 N McHale's Navy
12:30 Dick Van dyke
1 PM Make Room For Daddy
1:30 Petticoat Junction
2 PM Lone Ranger
2:30 Popeye & Friends
3:30 Star Blazers
4 PM Tom & Jerry
5 PM Battle Of The Planets
5:30 Brady Bunch
6 PM Emergency!
7 PM Streets Of San Francisco
8 PM Bonanza
9 PM 700 Club
10:30 A Woman's Place
11 PM The Rifleman
11:30 Mayberry RFD
12 M News
sign off 12:15 AM

 

[Braves2005]

Why didn't WSB carry Card Sharks? Were Password Plus and Hollywood Squares on a one day delay since they aired at I think 11:00 and 11:30 AM Central?

 

[bpatrick]

Hollywood Squares aired on NBC at 10:30 AM; Password
Plus at 12:30, so these would have been on a day-behind
basis. Channel 2 pre-empted Card Sharks (10 AM) and
High Rollers (11 AM) for the same reason it delayed Squares:
Dinah Shore was on from 10-11:30. It also pre-empted the
original Chain Reaction (12 Noon) for local news, and Mary
Tyler Moore aired at 12:30.

At the time, Channel 5 pretty much dominated mornings,
just on the strength of Donahue and The Price Is Right;
The Edge Of Night, Laverne & Shirley, Family Feud, and
Ryan's Hope (one of only two soaps, along with All My
Children, that 11 held to the end of its ABC affiliation)
did OK for Channel 11.

Remember that in 1980 NBC's daytime schedule (especially
in the morning) was a shambles. And it didn't get any better
when 2 turned down David Letterman and Texas, and dropped
everything on the NBC schedule except Days Of Our Lives, in
the summer of 1980. By then, of course, 2 had decided to
go to ABC; 11 took Letterman, Another World, The Doctors,
and Texas about a month before the switch.

But all's well that ends well: once 11 became the NBC affiliate,
it carried all of NBC's daytime schedule except Card Sharks, which
had moved to noon and conflicted with 11's news.