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Retro: Augusta/Columbia January 2, 1980 (Part 1)

This is my first retro schedule, so pardon any mistakes. From the Aiken Standard, Wednesday January 2-Thursday Jan. 3, 1980 (found on newspaperarchive.com)

Stations: 6 WJBF (ABC) Augusta
10: WIS (NBC) Columbia
12: WRDW (CBS) Augusta
17: WTBS Atlanta
19: WLTX (CBS) Columbia
20: WCES (PBS-Georgia Public Broadcasting) Wrens-Augusta
26: WATU (now WAGT, NBC) Augusta
35: WRLK (PBS-SCETV) Columbia

Starting at 6pm, to 9am next day

6pm: 6, 12, 19, 25, 26: News (with Gene Upright on 19, Bob Smith was on 12 as the meteorologist, and others on the other channels)
10: Joker's Wild (was on WIS schedule for years)
17: Carol Burnett and Friends
20: Zoom
35, ETV: Over Easy (with Lillian Carter, guest)

6:30: 6, 25 ABC News (three-anchor format, Serafin and Tom Jarriel fill-ins for Peter Jennings and Max Robinson, respectively)
10, 26: NBC News (Chancellor)
12, 19: CBS News (Roger Mudd filling-in)
17: Bob Newhart
20: Over Easy (with Hildegarde)
35, ETV: Museum of Education

7- 6: All in the Family (one that Archie didn't get Christmas bonus)
10: News (with Carter, Pinner, Daggett)
12: Newlywed Game
17, 19: Sanford and Son (different episodes). TBS has Fred injured after committing a crime, while Fred sculpts a work of art on 19 (on WLTX's schedule into mid 1990s)
20: Old House Works
25: Three's A Crowd (with Jim Peck)
26: Gunsmoke
35, ETV: MacNeil-Lehrer Report

7:30- 6: M*A*S*H (Frank concerned with command)
10, 12: Happy Days Again (Fonzie ordered to hospital for tonsillectomy), on 12, (accident at Al's)
17, 19: All in the Family (gunman on 17, "man on the street interview" on 19)
20: MacNeil-Lehrer Report
25: Newlywed Game
35: Seven30 (don't know anything about) ???

8- 6, 25: Eight is Enough
10, 26: Real People
12, 19: Young Maverick (short 8-episode series with James Woods, flopped)
17: Upstairs, Downstairs (British show)
20, 35, ETV: Great Performances

9- 6, 25: Charlie's Angels
10, 26: Diff'rent Strokes
12, 19: Movie (no info on which one)
17: Auburn at Kentucky (college basketball, Kentucky won 67-65)

9:30- 10, 26: Joe's World (unknown series, but lasted two seasons on NBC)

10: 6, 25: Vega$
10, 26: Best of Saturday Night Live

11- 6, 10, 12, 25: News
17: Last of the Wild
19: The Odd Couple (19 never ran a 11pm news, didn't run one till around 1993-94)
20-35: Dick Cavett (with The Heath Brothers)
26: Love, American Style

11:30- 6, 25: Love Boat
10, 26: Tonight (with Eubie Blake, Karl Malden, Mel Tillis)
12, 19: Black Sheep Squadron
17: Movie
35-ETV: Captioned ABC News

12- 35-ETV: MacNeil-Lehrer Report (sign-off 12:30am)

12:37- 6, 25: Baretta (sign-offs after show)

12:40- 12, 19: CBS Late Movie "Dunkirk" (1955) (sign-off after movie on 12, 2:38am on 19)

1:05- 17: News

1:10- 17: Movie, "The Last Hurrah" (1958)

3:40- 17: "Last of the Buccaneers" (1950)

Jan 3:

5:25- 17: Love, American Style

5:50- 26: Georgia Dept. of Labor

5:55- 17: World at Large
19: News

6- 19: 700 Club ;) (at 6 in the morning?)
25, 26: PTL Club

6:20- 10: Early Riser

6:25- 6: Health Field (with Dr. Frank Field)

6:30- 10: Knozit-Land (long running kids show with Joe Pinner, also runs at 9:30am)
12: Sunrise Semester
17: News

6:55- 6: News

7: 6, 25: Good Morning America
10, 26: Today (lpcal news updates at 7:25 and 8:25)
12, 19: Morning News
17: The Three Stooges/The Little Rascals

7:15- 35-ETV: Hathayoga

7:45- 20, 35-ETV: A.M. Weather

8- 12, 19: Captain Kangaroo
17: Family Affair
20: Educational Programming
35-ETV: Ripples

8:15- 35: Dragons, Wipples and Wax

8:30- 17: Romper Room
35: Gather 'Round

8:45- 35: Ready, Set, Go

9- 6: Dinah and Friends
10: Carolina Today
12, 19: Donahue
17: Lucy Show
25, 26: PTL Club (very popular in late 1970s, early 1980s)
 
Nope, from what I found, WNOK became WLTX in 1977, when Lewis Broadcasting bought it. It also says it on the Newspaper Archive, and you look for Aiken on Jan. 2, 1980.
 
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