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Retro: Augusta, GA Tues, Mar 1, 1983

from CableWeek-Augusta/North Augusta/Fort Gordon edition (I assume this was a franchised publication?)
Listed in order of cable channel
(In the magazine, Augusta was listed with black bullets, Fort Gordon with white ones, and North Augusta with brackets)

2 Augusta and Fort Gordon/5 North Augusta
WJBF 6-ABC Augusta
6:00 ABC World News This Morning
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Family Feud
9:30 Hour Magazine (guests Richard Thomas and his wife, and nutritionist Dr. Judith Wurtman; open adoptions are also discussed)
10:30 Romance Theatre
11:00 Love Boat
noon All in the Family
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Edge of Night
4:30 Tom & Jerry
5:00 Little House on the Prairie
6:00 News
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7:00 M*A*S*H (the M*A*S*H cast were on that week's cover)
7:30 Andy Griffith
8:00 Happy Days
8:30 Laverne & Shirley
9:00 Three's Company
9:30 9 to 5
10:00 Hart to Hart
11:00 News
11:30 ABC News Nightline
mid. Last Word

3 Augusta and Fort Gordon/2 North Augusta
WCES 20-PBS Wrens (Georgia Public TV)
7:45 AM Weather
8:00 Instructional Programs
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Why in the World?
6:00 3-2-1 Contact
6:30 Over Easy (guest Frankie Laine)
7:00 Nightly Business Report
7:30 MacNeil-Lehrer Report
8:00 Lawmakers 1983
9:00 Nova "Asbestos: A Lethal Legacy" (the consequences of asbestos exposure, and controversy over who's ultimately responsible)
10:00 American Playhouse "The File on Jill Hatch" (pt 3)
11:00 Movie "Three in the Saddle"

4 Fort Gordon/10 North Augusta
WIS 10-NBC Columbia
6:20 Early Riser
6:30 Early Today
7:00 Today
9:00 Search for Tomorrow
9:30 Richard Simmons
10:00 Facts of Life
10:30 Sale of the Century
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 Hit Man
noon Carolina Today
12:30 News
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 Fantasy
4:00 People's Court
4:30 More Real People
5:00 WKRP in Cincinnati
5:30 M*A*S*H
6:00 Entertainment Tonight
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 News
7:30 PM Magazine (local segments include a visit to Sumter's biggest Elvis fan)
8:00 A-Team
9:00 Bare Essence
10:00 St. Elsewhere
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show (guests David Brenner and Jacqueline Bisset)
12:30 Late Night with David Letterman (guests George Miller; and Melvin Dummar, who's got a claim on Howard Hughes' money)
1:30 NBC News Overnight

8 all areas
WAGT 26-NBC Augusta
6:30 Early Today
7:00 Today
9:00 Morning Break
9:30 Richard Simmons
10:00 Facts of Life
10:30 Sale of the Century
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 Hit Man
noon Just Men (ch 26 didn't launch news until 1995; the station is currently SSAed with WJBF)
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 Fantasy
4:00 Eight is Enough
5:00 CHiPs Patrol
6:00 Joker's Wild
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Alice
7:30 Entertainment Tonight
8:00 A-Team
9:00 Bare Essence
10:00 Jerry Falwell
11:00 Madame's Place
11:30 Tonight Show
12:30 Late Night with David Letterman
1:30 NBC News Overnight

10 Augusta and Fort Gordon/13 North Augusta
WRDW 12-CBS Augusta
6:00 Morning Stretch
6:30 CBS Early Morning News
7:00 CBS Morning News
9:00 Donahue "Lowering the Voting Age to 13?" (guests: 13-yr-old Matthew Friedman, who proposes a comptency test for voters (IMO, they'd be better off with an IQ test :D); and 15-yr-old Eric Salem, a Lancaster Co NE member of its Noxious Weed Control Authority and at that time the youngest elected official in the US)
10:00 New $25,000 Pyramid
10:30 Child's Play
11:00 Price is Right
noon Midday
12:30 Young & the Restless
1:30 As the World Turns
2:30 Capitol
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 Tattletales
4:30 Dark Shadows
5:00 Barney Miller
5:30 Jeffersons
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Family Feud
7:30 Tic Tac Dough
8:00 Ringling Brothers & Barnum & Bailey Circus (Sugar Ray Leonard is joined by son Ray Jr. and Paul Sorvino (as P.T. Barnum's ghost) in a preview of the circus' 113th edition)
9:00 Movie "Happy Endings"
11:00 News
11:30 Quincy
12:40 McMillan & Wife
2:00 CBS News Nightwatch

10 or 18 Augusta Converter (10 on Conv 1/18 on Conv 2)/18 & 55 Augusta (most TVs with built in converters)/87 Augusta (Magnavox with built in converter)/9 Fort Gordon/4 North Augusta
WEBA 14-PBS Allenwell (SC ETV)
7:15 AM Weather
7:30 Electric Company
8:00 Instructional Programs
9:05 Electric Company
9:35 Instructional Programs
2:30 Vegetable Soup
3:00 Staff Development
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6:00 Images in Watercolor
6:30 Over Easy (same show as ch 20)
7:00 MacNeil-Lehrer Report
7:30 Open Line
8:00 Nova "Asbestos: A Lethal Legacy"
9:00 American Playhouse "The File on Jill Hatch" (pt 3)
10:00 Doomsayers (the end of Western civilization is discussed by social critic Malcolm Muggeridge, financier Adam Smith, and World Future Society president Edward Cornish)
 
In reference to the convoluted Augusta cable positions for SC ETV, the local channel line-up depended on whether you needed a converter or not...

RCA/Philco/Zenith/Sylvania/Quasar/Curtis Mathes/Panasonic (with mid-band converters)
2 WJBF
3 WCES
4 Weather
5 HBO
7 WTBS
8 WAGT
9 CNN
10 WRDW
11 CBN
12 News
13 USA Network
15 Cinemax (listed as 7C)
16/47 SPN (listed as 8C)
17/51 ESPN (listed as 9C)
18/55 WEBA (Listed as 10C)
19/59 C-SPAN (as 11C)
20/63 PTL (12C)
21/67 Nickelodeon/ARTS (13C, programs switched at 9pm)

Magnavox with built-in converter
2 WJBF
3 WCES
4 Weather
5 HBO
7 WTBS
8 WAGT
9 CNN
10 WRDW
11 CBN
12 News
13 USA Network
84 Cinemax
85 SPN
86 ESPN
87 WEBA
88 C-SPAN
89 PTL
90 Nickelodeon/ARTS

Converter 1/2
2 WJBF
3 WCES
4 Weather
5 HBO
7 WTBS
8 WAGT
9 CNN
10 WRDW
11 CBN
12 News
13 USA Network
7c/15 Cinemax
8c/16 SPN
9c/17 ESPN
10c/18 WEBA
11c/19 C-SPAN
12c/20 PTL
13c/21 Nickelodeon/ARTS

In the other portions of the market, their cable line-up looked like this...
Fort Gordon
2 WJBF
3 WCES
4 WIS
5 HBO
7 WTBS
8 WAGT
9 WEBA
10 WRDW
11 ESPN
9c (17) Cinemax
10c (18) Nickelodeon/ARTS
11c (19) CBN
12c (20) USA Network
13c (21) CNN

North Augusta
2 WCES
4 WEBA
5 WJBF
6 Weather
7 WTBS
8 WAGT
9 CBN (from 6pm, no info listed as to what aired before that)
10 WIS
11 CNN
13 WRDW
3A ESPN
3B HBO
4B Cinemax
 
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