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Retro: Nashville, Friday, July 1, 1955

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Nashville was on Central Standard Time in summer 1955, with prime-time two hours behind Eastern on all three channels. When comparing this with a summer 1955 Atlanta schedule bpatrick posted a few days ago, WSM-TV's NBC daytime soaps are two hours behind WSB's but WLAC-TV's are only an hour behind WAGA-TV's CBS soaps in Atlanta.
(Source: Shelbyville (Tenn.) Times-Gazette)

WSM-TV 4 (NBC)
AM
7 Today (the published grid, which also included a schedule for a local radio station which signed on at 5 a.m., showed blank spaces until 7 for Ch. 4. Apparently Ch. 4 actually signed on at 7.)
8 Ding Dong School
8:30 Way Of The World
8:45 Sheilah Graham
9 Home
10 Tennessee Ernie Ford
10:30 Feather Your Nest
11 Movie (name not listed)
PM
12 Midday News
12:15 Devotional Moments
12:30 Kitchen Kollege
1 Ted Mack’s Matinee
1:30 Greatest Gift
1:45 Miss Marlowe
2 Hawkins Falls
2:30 First Love
2:45 Modern Romances
3 Opry Matinee
3:30 Howdy Doody
4 Western Corral
5:30 Coke Time with Eddie Fisher
5:45 Camel News Caravan
6 Midwestern Hayride
6:30 Cisco Kid (syndicated)
7 Big Story
7:30 Sherlock Holmes (syndicated)
8 Fights
8:45 Adventures of The Falcon (syndicated)
9:15 Life of Riley (from 6:30 CST/8:30 EDT)
9:45 Weather
10 Bob Cummings Show (from 8:30 CST/10:30 EDT Sunday)
10:30 News-Sports
(Later-night schedule not listed -- the local radio station mentioned above signed off at 11 and the grid ended at that point -- so uncertain if ‘Tonight’ was carried. I doubt Ch. 4 signed off this early.)

WLAC-TV 5 (CBS)
AM
6:45 Speer Family
7 Show (all it says)
7:15 News
7:30 Show (again, all it says)
8 Garry Moore
8:30 Arthur Godfrey
9:30 Strike It Rich
10 Valiant Lady
10:15 Love Of Life
10:30 Search For Tomorrow
10:45 Guiding Light
11 Inner Flame
11:15 Road Of Life
11:30 Welcome Travelers
PM
12 Robert Q. Lewis
12:30 House Party
1 Big Payoff
1:30 Bob Crosby
2 Brighter Day
2:15 Secret Storm
2:30 On Your Account
3 Southern Cooking
3:30 Mr. Music
4:30 Cartoon Carnival
5:15 Barker Bill
5:30 CBS News
5:45 Julius LaRosa
6 Little Rascals (syndicated)
6:30 Topper
7 Schlitz Playhouse Of Stars
7:30 Our Miss Brooks
8 The Lineup
8:30 Person To Person
9 Follow That Man (syndicated; Man Against Crime reruns)
9:30 Man Behind The Badge (syndicated)
10 News
10:15 Summer Night Movie

WSIX-TV 8 (ABC)
AM
9:30 Movie
11 Romper Room
PM
12 Noontime News
12:15 Panorama
12:30 Movie Matinee
2:00 -- 8 Ball Show
4 High Adventure
6 Rocky Jones, Space Ranger (syndicated?)
6:30 Annie Oakley (syndicated)
7 Dollar A Second
7:30 The Vise
8 Treasury Men In Action (from previous Friday, 6:30 CST/8:30 EDT)
8:30 Ozzie and Harriet (from previous Friday, 6:00 CST/8:00 EDT)
9 Playhouse
9:30 Mark Saber (Brooks-Marsh lists this ABC show as being off the air from June 1954-December 1955)
10 News
10:15 Sports
10:30 Wrestling
 
> Nashville was on Central Standard Time in summer 1955, with
> prime-time two hours behind Eastern on all three channels.
> When comparing this with a summer 1955 Atlanta schedule
> bpatrick posted a few days ago, WSM-TV's NBC daytime soaps
> are two hours behind WSB's but WLAC-TV's are only an hour
> behind WAGA-TV's CBS soaps in Atlanta.
> (Source: Shelbyville (Tenn.) Times-Gazette)

Are you sure WSM is running the soaps two hours behind WSB?
Concerning Miss Marlowe, for example, aired at 2:45 (EST) in
Atlanta; Modern Romances at 3:45. (WSM would be two hours
behind New York; WSB, one hour.) Way Of The World is delayed
in Atlanta, because it's on the network when WSB has Today In Georgia.

WLAC is indeed one hour behind WAGA. WLAC does carry Valiant Lady
on pattern, which WAGA does not; WLAC also carries The Inner Flame,
which WAGA does not carry at all.

Central Standard Time is two hours behind Eastern Daylight Time,
which is why Howdy Doody is on at 3:30 in Nashville (5:30 in New
York), Douglas Edwards at 5:30 (7:30 in New York), and boxing at
8 PM in Nashville (10 PM in New York); in Atlanta (Eastern Standard
Time) they are on at 4:30, 6:30, and 9 PM, respectively.

I wish your listings were the same day of the week as mine; I'd
like to see how ABC (Nashville's Ch. 8 and Atlanta's Ch. 11) differed.
Maybe when I get a chance I'll get Atlanta's for July 1 and answer
that question.
>
> WSM-TV 4 (NBC)
> AM
> 7 Today (the published grid, which also included a schedule
> for a local radio station which signed on at 5 a.m., showed
> blank spaces until 7 for Ch. 4. Apparently Ch. 4 actually
> signed on at 7.)
> 8 Ding Dong School
> 8:30 Way Of The World
> 8:45 Sheilah Graham
> 9 Home
> 10 Tennessee Ernie Ford
> 10:30 Feather Your Nest
> 11 Movie (name not listed)
> PM
> 12 Midday News
> 12:15 Devotional Moments
> 12:30 Kitchen Kollege
> 1 Ted Mack’s Matinee
> 1:30 Greatest Gift
> 1:45 Miss Marlowe
> 2 Hawkins Falls
> 2:30 First Love
> 2:45 Modern Romances
> 3 Opry Matinee
> 3:30 Howdy Doody
> 4 Western Corral
> 5:30 Coke Time with Eddie Fisher
> 5:45 Camel News Caravan
> 6 Midwestern Hayride
> 6:30 Cisco Kid (syndicated)
> 7 Big Story
> 7:30 Sherlock Holmes (syndicated)
> 8 Fights
> 8:45 Adventures of The Falcon (syndicated)
> 9:15 Life of Riley (from 6:30 CST/8:30 EDT)
> 9:45 Weather
> 10 Bob Cummings Show (from 8:30 CST/10:30 EDT Sunday)
> 10:30 News-Sports
> (Later-night schedule not listed -- the local radio station
> mentioned above signed off at 11 and the grid ended at that
> point -- so uncertain if ‘Tonight’ was carried. I doubt Ch.
> 4 signed off this early.)
>
> WLAC-TV 5 (CBS)
> AM
> 6:45 Speer Family
> 7 Show (all it says)
> 7:15 News
> 7:30 Show (again, all it says)
> 8 Garry Moore
> 8:30 Arthur Godfrey
> 9:30 Strike It Rich
> 10 Valiant Lady
> 10:15 Love Of Life
> 10:30 Search For Tomorrow
> 10:45 Guiding Light
> 11 Inner Flame
> 11:15 Road Of Life
> 11:30 Welcome Travelers
> PM
> 12 Robert Q. Lewis
> 12:30 House Party
> 1 Big Payoff
> 1:30 Bob Crosby
> 2 Brighter Day
> 2:15 Secret Storm
> 2:30 On Your Account
> 3 Southern Cooking
> 3:30 Mr. Music
> 4:30 Cartoon Carnival
> 5:15 Barker Bill
> 5:30 CBS News
> 5:45 Julius LaRosa
> 6 Little Rascals (syndicated)
> 6:30 Topper
> 7 Schlitz Playhouse Of Stars
> 7:30 Our Miss Brooks
> 8 The Lineup
> 8:30 Person To Person
> 9 Follow That Man (syndicated; Man Against Crime reruns)
> 9:30 Man Behind The Badge (syndicated)
> 10 News
> 10:15 Summer Night Movie
>
> WSIX-TV 8 (ABC)
> AM
> 9:30 Movie
> 11 Romper Room
> PM
> 12 Noontime News
> 12:15 Panorama
> 12:30 Movie Matinee
> 2:00 -- 8 Ball Show
> 4 High Adventure
> 6 Rocky Jones, Space Ranger (syndicated?)
> 6:30 Annie Oakley (syndicated)
> 7 Dollar A Second
> 7:30 The Vise
> 8 Treasury Men In Action (from previous Friday, 6:30
> CST/8:30 EDT)
> 8:30 Ozzie and Harriet (from previous Friday, 6:00 CST/8:00
> EDT)
> 9 Playhouse
> 9:30 Mark Saber (Brooks-Marsh lists this ABC show as being
> off the air from June 1954-December 1955)
> 10 News
> 10:15 Sports
> 10:30 Wrestling
>
 
> I wish your listings were the same day of the week as mine;
> I'd
> like to see how ABC (Nashville's Ch. 8 and Atlanta's Ch. 11)
> differed.

Hang on. I'll have Nashville for July 2, 1955 posted, hopefully, later today (Monday).
 
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