Retro: North Georgia Sunday, November 10, 1974

[bpatrick]

From TV Guide, North Georgia Edition:

WSB Ch. 2 Atlanta (NBC)

7 AM Light Unto My Path
7:30 Arthur Smith
8 AM Gospel Singing Jubilee (the Blackwoods)
9 AM Movie: "The Further Perils Of Laurel And
Hardy" (compilation of slapstick scenes
from Stan and Ollie's silent comedies--
watch for some early appearances by
Jean Harlow)
10:30 Sound Of Youth
11 AM Church Service
12 N News
12:30 Georgia Tech Highlights (Pepper Rodgers)
1 PM Judd For The Defense
2 PM NFL Football: Dolphins-Saints
4:30 NFL Football: Steelers-Bengals (time approximate,
joined in progress)
7 PM News (time approximate)
7:30 Wonderful World Of Disney: "Those Calloways,"
Part 1 of 3
8:30 McMillan And Wife
10:30 News
11 PM Perry Mason
12 M Movie: "The Country Girl" (Oscar winner for Grace Kelly)
2 AM News

WRCB Ch. 3 Chattanooga (NBC)

6:30 Gospel Jubilee
7 AM Ernest Angley
8 AM Amazing Grace
8:30 Rex Humbard
9:30 Day Of Discovery
10 AM Oral Roberts
10:30 It Is Written (interestingly, the topic on both these programs
is loneliness)
11 AM Faith For Today
11:30 Spring Street U.S.A.
12 N I Dream Of Jeannie
12:30 Meet The Press
1 PM UTC Highlights (Joe Morrison)
2 PM NFL Football: Dolphins-Saints
4:30 NFL Football: Steelers-Bengals (time approximate, joined in
progress)
7 PM Wild Kingdom (time approximate)
7:30 Wonderful World Of Disney
8:30 McMillan And Wife
10:30 Police Surgeon
11 PM Jaycee Question Of The Week
11:30 Vanderbilt Highlights (Steve Sloan shows films of yesterday's
game at Kentucky)
sign off 12:30 AM

WAGA Ch. 5 Atlanta (CBS)

6 AM Sunrise Semester: "The Meaning Of Death"
6:30 Sacred Heart
6:45 Living Word
7 AM Insight
7:30 This Is The Life
8 AM Day Of Discovery
8:30 Oral Roberts
9 AM Church Service
9:30 Confrontation With Emmanuel Hall
10 AM Herald Of Truth
10:30 Faith For Today
11 AM Church Service
12 N Georgians Speak
12:30 Face The Nation
1 PM Movie: "Marry Me! Marry Me!"
3 PM NFL Game Of The Week
3:30 The NFL Today
4 PM NFL Football: Falcons-Rams
7 PM News (time approximate)
7:30 Apple's Way
8:30 Kojak
9:30 Mannix
10:30 Police Surgeon
11 PM News
11:30 CBS News (Dan Rather)
11:45 CBS Movie: "How Sweet It Is!" (not Jackie Gleason,
but James Garner, delay from Fri 9 PM)

WGTV Ch. 8 Athens/Atlanta (PBS)

12 N Zoom
12:30 Brother Buzz
1 PM Sound Of Youth
1:30 Music And The Spoken Word
2 PM German (lessons)
2:30 Food Preservation
3 PM Child Development Today
3:30 Bonjour France (French lessons)
4 PM 5 String Breakdown: Basic Banjo
4:30 What Now, America? (Bishop Sheen)
5 PM Camera South
6 PM Coach Lawson
6:30 The Way It Was (sports retrospective)
7 PM Walsh's Animals (John Walsh explains how to give
first aid to an injured dog and discusses the problems
of canine overpopulation.)
7:30 Nova
8:30 Masterpiece Theatre ("Upstairs, Downstairs," Part 2)
9:30 Firing Line (authors Ben Wattenberg and Lanny Davis
analyze the Nov. 5 elections)
10:30 Religious America
sign off 11 PM

WTVC Ch. 9 Chattanooga (ABC)

7:30 Church Service
8 AM Call Of Calvary
8:30 Today's Living
9 AM Word Of God School
9:30 John Swafford (not the ACC commissioner, but host
of a gospel-music program)
10:30 Light Unto My Path
11 AM Church Service
12 N League Of Women Voters
12:30 Backyard Safari
1 PM UT Highlights (Bill Battle shows highlights of the
Memphis State-Tennessee game)
2 PM College Football '74
3 PM Issues And Answers
3:30 Virginian
5 PM Bill Daily's Hocus Pocus Gang (Jerry Lewis, Ruth Buzzi,
Frank Gorshin, Art Metrano, magicians Zany Blany, and
Shimada and Goldfinger)
6 PM Movie: "The Great Northfield, Minnesota Raid"
8 PM Sonny Comedy Revue (Loretta Swit, Ed McMahon, Smokey
Robinson)
9 PM ABC Movie: "Dr. No" (Sean Connery as Bond, James Bond, in
007's first screen adventure)
11:15 ABC News (Bill Beutel)
11:30 Voice Of Victory
12 M Death Valley Days
sign off 12:30 AM

WXIA Ch. 11 Atlanta (ABC)

5:30 Good Morning Atlanta
6 AM Crossroads
7 AM Messenger Quartet
7:30 Rex Humbard
8:30 Church Service
9 AM Hour Of Power (Robert Schuller)
10 AM Spring Street, U.S.A.
10:30 Lassie's Rescue Rangers
11 AM Goober And The Ghost Chasers
11:30 Make A Wish (topic: the new math)
12 N Garner Ted Armstrong
12:30 Ask City Hall
1 PM Countdown From Eleven
1:30 Issues And Answers
2 PM Crossroads
3 PM Movie: "Belles On Their Toes"
4:30 Movie: "A Boy Ten Feet Tall"
6 PM News
6:30 Jimmy Dean
7 PM National Geographic: "Ethiopia, The Hidden
Empire"
8 PM Sonny Comedy Revue
9 PM ABC Movie: "Dr. No"
11:15 News
11:45 Untouchables
12:45 Ebony Beat Journal
1:15 Countdown From Eleven
1:45 ABC News

WDEF Ch. 12 Chattanooga (CBS)

7:30 Tony And Susan Alamo
8 AM Old Time Gospel Hour (Jerry Falwell)
8:30 Good News
9 AM Chaplain Of Bourbon Street (Bob Harrington)
9:30 Trinity Hour
10 AM Jimmy Swaggart
10:30 Bread Of Life
11 AM Here And Now
11:30 Face The Nation
12 N Point Of View Special
1 PM Women's Tennis: Billie Jean King vs. Olga Morozova
in the singles final of the Virginia Slims of Philadelphia
tournament.
2 PM Women's Tennis: Billie Jean King and Rosie Casals vs.
Kerry Harris and Leslie Hunt in the doubles final of
the Virginia Slims of Philadelphia tournament.
3 PM Film
3:30 The NFL Today
4 PM NFL Football: Falcons-Rams
7 PM News (time approximate)
7:30 Apple's Way
8:30 Kojak
9:30 Mannix
10:30 Clayton Startime
11 PM CBS News
11:15 Movie: "Fear Strikes Out"

WMAZ Ch. 13 Macon (CBS/ABC)

7 AM Georgia All-Stars
7:30 Cotton Brothers
8 AM Silver Bells
8:30 Know Your Bible
9 AM Day Of Discovery
9:30 Good News
10 AM Sego Brothers And Naomi
10:30 Swilley Family
11 AM Mabel White Baptist Church
12 N Emphasis '74
12:15 Southern Sportsman
12:30 Face The Nation
1 PM NBA Basketball: Buffalo Braves-Detroit
Pistons
3:30 The NFL Today (may be time approximate)
4 PM NFL Football: Falcons-Rams
7 PM Rat Patrol (time approximate)
7:30 Apple's Way
8:30 Kojak
9:30 Mannix
10:30 Close Up
11 PM CBS News
11:15 Robins Report
11:20 High Chaparral
sign off 12:20 AM

WDCO Ch. 15 (WMUM Ch. 29) Cochran/
WCLP (WNGH) Ch. 18 Chatsworth (PBS)

2 PM German
2:30 Child Development Today (x2)
3:30 Bonjour France
4 PM Black Perspective On The News
4:30 National Town Meeting (how effective is
the federal bureaucracy?)
5:30 Evening At Symphony
7 PM Walsh's Animals
7:30 Nova
8:30 Masterpiece Theatre
9:30 Firing Line
10:30 Behind The Lines
sign off 11 PM

WTCG (WPCH) Ch. 17 Atlanta (Ind.)

7 AM Agriculture U.S.A.
7:30 Cartoon Carnival
8 AM Brother Buzz
8:30 Speed Racer
9 AM Three Stooges/Little Rascals
10 AM Abbott And Costello
10:30 Movie: "North West Mounted Police"
1 PM Movie: "Fortunes Of Captain Blood"
2:50 Movie: "Fire Down Below"
5 PM Movie: "The Private War Of Major Benson"
(Charlton Heston is the star but watch for some
familiar faces: William Demarest, Milburn Stone,
David Janssen.)
7 PM Georgia Highlights (Vince Dooley with highlights of
the Georgia-Florida game)
8 PM NBA Basketball: Hawks-Bucks
10 PM Alabama Highlights (Bear Bryant with highlights of
LSU-Alabama, time approximate)
11 PM Auburn Highlights (Shug Jordan with highlights of
Auburn-Mississippi State)
12 M Chico's Football (Chico Renfroe, coach at Morehouse,
IIRC)

WETV (WPBA) Ch. 30 Atlanta (PBS)

4 PM International Cookbook
4:30 National Town Meeting
5:30 Carnival Of The Animals (not the Bugs Bunny/Daffy Duck
version, which aired on CBS two years later)
6:30 Zee Cooking School
7 PM What Now, America?
7:30 WETV News Special (the recent meeting of the Georgia
Association of Young Children)
8:30 Pearl Harbor (this originally ran in 1966, I suppose on NBC
since Frank McGee narrated it, and deals with America's
deeds and values since the attack)
9:30 Cider With Rosie (English poet Laurie Lee (a man, by the way)
takes us back to his post-World War I childhood.)
10:50 Come Blow Your Horn (the church's influence on jazz, with
singer Marlena Shaw)

WCWB (WMGT) Ch. 41 Macon (NBC)

7:55 Living Word
8 AM Old Time Gospel Hour
9 AM Herald Of Truth
9:30 Prosperity, Way Of Living
10:30 Healing Hour
11 AM Norman Vincent Peale
11:30 Wrestling
12:30 Meet The Press
1 PM TBA
2 PM NFL Football: Dolphins-Saints
4:30 NFL Football: Steelers-Bengals (time approximate,
joined in progress)
7 PM Wild Kingdom (time approximate)
7:30 Wonderful World Of Disney
8:30 McMillan And Wife
10:30 Georgia Highlights
11:30 Movie: "See How They Run" (this had the distinction
of being the first made-for-TV movie, in '64, but the
first to make a real impact was "Fame Is The Name Of
The Game" in '66, which led to the series "Name Of The
Game")

WTCI Ch. 45 Chattanooga (PBS)

5:30 The People's Business
6 PM Antiques
6:30 Sign News 45
7 PM Walsh's Animals
7:30 Nova
8:30 Masterpiece Theatre
9:30 Firing Line
10:30 Education (I assume this is teacher training)
sign off 11 PM

WHAE (WGCL) Ch. 46 Atlanta (Ind.)

7 AM Pattern For Living
7:30 Camp Meeting Hour
8 AM Old Time Gospel Hour
9 AM Day Of Miracles
9:30 Bible Lesson
10:30 Crossroads
11 AM Church Service
12 N Teach-In
1 PM Dimensions
2 PM Deaf Hear
2:30 Happy Hunters (Hunter is the family's name)
3 PM Encounter
3:30 Tony And Susan Alamo
4 PM Kathryn Kuhlman
4:30 Glenhaven Baptist Church
5 PM Assembly Of God Tabernacle
5:30 Deeper Life Temple
6 PM Chris Panos
6:30 Charisma
7 PM Jimmy Swaggart
7:30 Countdown To A Miracle
8:30 George And Diane Ivey
9 PM Ernest Angley
10 PM Challenge Of Truth
10:30 Max Morris: A Preacher And His Piano
11 PM Voice Of Victory
sign off 11:30 PM

WRIP (WDSI) Ch. 61 Chattanooga (Ind.)

9:30 Human Dimension
10 AM Leonard Repass
10:30 Bible Story (this may be Paul Harvey)
11 AM Coffee Break
11:05 Cartoons And Comedies
11:30 Little Rascals
12 N Three Stooges
12:30 Ginger's Talent Parade
1:30 Old Country Church
1:45 Golden Harvest (tour of Taiwan)
2 PM Untamed World
2:30 Insight
3 PM Church Of The Week
4 PM Words Of Life
5 PM Church Service
5:30 Church Service
6 PM Leonard Repass
6:30 Herald Of Truth
7 PM Bible Story
7:30 Star Performance
8 PM Decoy
8:30 Chaplain Of Bourbon Street
9 PM Praise The Lord
11 PM Midnight Meditation
11:05 Biography (first of two on Winston Churchill;
Mike Wallace, pre-CBS, narrates)
11:30 Three Stooges
sign off 12 M

 

[bpatrick]

Re Chico Renfroe: he was a former baseball player who never made
the jump into either the American or National Leagues; at this point
he was, among other things, covering sports for the Atlanta Daily
World, the newspaper whose readership is centered in the city's
African-American community. So he wasn't a coach; rather, I assume
(since I never stayed up to watch him), he presented highlights of
the games of AUC schools such as Morehouse and Spelman.

 

[tlyle]

Amazing how many church programs channel 46 had on this day. Also, many of the stations had 11 am church services programmed. Most likely major congregations like FBC Atlanta and Peachtree Presbyterian were broadcast. Probably the same could be said about Chattanooga and Macon (Mabel White Baptist).

It is funny how you now only have one station in a market airing a church service at 11 am. And back then (1974), most of those services were aired live and not taped.

 

[bpatrick]

IIRC, at the time all of Pat Robertson's stations had nothing
but religious programs on Sundays. And there would eventually
be another Atlanta station with an 11 AM service, when Channel
11 added Roswell Street Baptist Church around 1975 or '76.

 

[bpatrick]

I might add re Atlanta church services that First Baptist
Church of Atlanta is where Charles Stanley is pastor; his
"In Touch" originates there.

On a Sunday morning in the late '70s/early '80s Atlantans
had their pick of Peachtree Presbyterian Church on Channel
2; Second Ponce de Leon Baptist Church and Grace Methodist
Church alternating on Channel 5; Roswell Street Baptist Church
on Channel 11; St. Luke's Episcopal Church on Channel 36; and
Charles Stanley on Channel 46--all at 11 AM. In addition there
were services on Chs. 9, 13, and 41. At least in Atlanta these
were mostly phased out; I don't know of Channels 2 (ABC), 5
(Fox), 11 (NBC), or 46 (CBS) having an 11 AM service today.

Greenville/Spartanburg/Asheville was another market where three
network affiliates had church services: First Presbyterian of Greenville,
IIRC, on Channel 4 (NBC), First Baptist Church of Spartanburg on
Channel 7 (CBS), and First Baptist Church of Asheville on Channel 13
(ABC). Last I heard, 7 was the only one still carrying an 11 AM service.

 

[retrothoughts]

The NBC affiliates in both Atlanta and Chattanooga had Dolphins at Saints starting at 2 pm, with the Steelers at Bengals doubleheader game joined in progress afterwards. Unless it was their choice, I would guess that the Saints, who were playing their last season at the old Tulane Stadium [site of that season's Super Bowl IX, also on NBC, which saw the aforementioned Steelers win their first of six championships] before moving to the [Mercedes-Benz] Superdome the next year, might have been under some local ordinance in those days that prohibited any of their home games from starting earlier than 1 pm Central time.

The then-Baltimore Colts faced a similar problem in that same era when they weren't allowed to start any of their home games prior to 2 pm Eastern time.