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Retro: North Georgia Tuesday, August 16, 1977

The day Elvis died. From TV Guide, North Georgia Edition:

WSB Ch. 2 Atlanta (NBC)

6 AM Pattern For Living
6:30 Arthur Smith
7 AM Today (Tom Brokaw)
9 AM Hollywood Squares (Rossano Brazzi, Harvey Korman,
Martin Milner, Bernadette Peters, Jean Simmons, Karen
Valentine, Marcia Wallace, Paul Williams, Paul Lynde,
week-behind from 10:30 AM)
9:30 Shoot For The Stars (Debralee Scott, David Doyle, week-
behind from 12 N)
10 AM Sanford And Son
10:30 Today In Georgia
11 AM Wheel Of Fortune
11:30 It's Anybody's Guess
12 N News
12:30 Divorce Court
1 PM Liars Club (Andy Griffith, Dody Goodman, Jackie Kahane,
Larry Hovis)
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM Doris Day
4:30 Odd Couple
5 PM The FBI
6 PM News
7 PM NBC News (John Chancellor/David Brinkley)
7:30 Wild Kingdom (from Africa: lions' behavior patterns)
8 PM Baa Baa Black Sheep
9 PM Police Woman
10 PM Police Story
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show (John Davidson subs for Johnny; Natalie
Cole is a guest)
1 AM Tomorrow (topic: preserving privacy in the computer age)
2 AM News

WRCB Ch. 3 Chattanooga (NBC)

6:25 Romper Room
6:55 News For Little People
7 AM Today
9 AM 700 Club
10 AM Sanford And Son
10:30 Hollywood Squares (Phyllis Diller, Donna Fargo, George Gobel,
Andy Kaufman, Rose Marie, Roddy McDowall, Suzanne Somers,
Paul Williams, Paul Lynde)
11 AM Wheel Of Fortune
11:30 It's Anybody's Guess
12 N Odd Couple
12:30 Midday Live
1 PM Gong Show
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM The Archies
4:30 Three Stooges/Little Rascals
4:55 News For Little People
5 PM The FBI
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Liars Club (Betty White, Nipsey Russell, Pat Buttram,
Larry Hovis)
7:30 Adam-12
8 PM Baa Baa Black Sheep
9 PM Police Woman
10 PM Police Story
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Tomorrow

WAGA Ch. 5 Atlanta (CBS)

6:30 Summer Semester: "Aging"
7 AM CBS News (Bruce Morton/Hughes Rudd)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo (guest: Robert Morse)
9 AM Donahue (Paula Nelson, author of "The Joy
Of Money")
10 AM Here's Lucy
10:30 Price Is Right
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
12 N News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Young And The Restless
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM All In The Family
3:30 I Dream Of Jeannie
4 PM Bewitched
4:30 Mike Douglas (co-hostess Jamie Lyn Bauer ("The Young
And The Restless"); Cindy Williams, Skitch Henderson,
Dirk Benedict, actor Chris Barnes)
6 PM News
7 PM CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7:30 Price Is Right
8 PM CBS Reports (Bill Moyers interviews Arabs and Jews in the
Israeli-occupied West Bank.)
9 PM M*A*S*H
9:30 One Day At A Time
10 PM Kojak
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "A Night To Remember" ('58 English version of
Walter Lord's book about the sinking of the "Titanic")
2:05 Ironside
3:05 News

WGTV Ch. 8 Athens/Atlanta (PBS)

3 PM Paint Along With Nancy Kominsky
3:30 Antiques
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Sesame Street
6:30 Once Upon A Classic ("Little Lord Fauntleroy," Part 1 of 6)
7 PM Paint Along With Nancy Kominsky
7:30 Irish Rovers (guest: John Davidson)
8 PM Music In Jerusalem (scenes of Pablo Casals performing at the
Jerusalem Music Center in 1973; violinists Isaac Stern and
Alexander Schneider are also seen)
9 PM The Goodies (British sitcom)
9:30 Movie: "The House Of Fear" (Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes
and Nigel Bruce as Watson, from '45)
11 PM Movie: "The Most Dangerous Game" (Fay Wray and Robert Armstrong
work together in this '32 thriller about a mad sportsman hunting humans
on a tropical island; they would work together again the following year
in "King Kong")
sign off 12:30 AM

WTVC Ch. 9 Chattanooga (ABC)

6:25 New Tomorrow
6:30 PTL Club
7:30 Funtime
8 AM Good Morning America (David Hartman, joined in progress)
9 AM Donahue (Dr. Robert Linn, author of "The Last Chance Diet," and his
associate, psychologist Louis Gershman, tell how they treat obesity.)
10 AM Room 222
10:30 Edge Of Night (day-behind from 4 PM)
11 AM Happy Days
11:30 Family Feud
12 N The Better Sex (game show with Bill Anderson and Sarah Purcell)
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1 PM All My Children
2 PM $20,000 Pyramid (Jack Klugman, Anita Gillette)
2:30 One Life To Live
3:15 General Hospital
4 PM Leave It To Beaver
4:30 Beverly Hillbillies
5 PM Brady Bunch
5:30 Andy Griffith
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News (Harry Reasoner/Barbara Walters)
7 PM My Three Sons
7:30 Family Affair
8 PM Happy Days
8:30 Laverne & Shirley
9 PM ABC Movie: "For Pete's Sake" (Barbra Streisand, from '74)
11 PM News
11:30 ABC Movie: "WUSA" (Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward,
from '70, long before the CBS affiliate in Washington got those
call letters)

WXIA 11 Alive Atlanta (ABC)

6:30 Not For Women Only (gardening techniques)
7 AM Good Morning America
9 AM Merv Griffin (Robert Conrad, Valerie Bertinelli, film producer
Dino De Laurentiis, singer Rick Moses, two dancers from the
Joffrey Ballet Company)
10:30 Edge Of Night (day-behind from 4 PM)
11 AM Happy Days
11:30 Family Feud
12 N News
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1 PM All My Children
2 PM $20,000 Pyramid
2:30 One Life To Live
3:15 General Hospital
4 PM Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea
5 PM Emergency One!
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News
7 PM Concentration
7:30 To Tell The Truth (Kitty Carlisle, Peggy Cass, Bill Cullen,
Larry Blyden--wonder when this was taped since Blyden
died in an automobile accident in 1975)
8 PM Happy Days
8:30 Laverne & Shirley
9 PM ABC Movie: "For Pete's Sake"
11 PM News
11:30 Fernwood 2 Night
12 M ABC Movie: "WUSA"

WDEF Ch. 12 Chattanooga (CBS)

5:55 Farm Report
6 AM Summer Semester
6:30 Morning Show
8 AM CBS News
9 AM Captain Kangaroo
10 AM Here's Lucy
10:30 Price Is Right
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS News
12 N News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Young And The Restless
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM All In The Family
3:30 Match Game '77 (Richard Dawson, Patti Deutsch,
Charles Nelson Reilly, Nipsey Russell, Brett Somers,
Suzanne Somers)
4 PM Tattletales (John and Nancy Aniston (Jennifer's parents),
Richard Deacon and Dody Goodman, Bobby Troup and
Julie London)
4:30 Merv Griffin (Henny Youngman, singer Kenny Nolan, K.C.
and the Sunshine Band, comics Gary Muledeer and David Sayh)
5:55 Weather
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Gunsmoke
8 PM CBS Reports
9 PM M*A*S*H
9:30 One Day At A Time
10 PM Kojak
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "A Night To Remember"

WMAZ Ch. 13 Macon (CBS)

6:50 News
7 AM CBS News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Let's Talk It Over
9:30 Donahue (dream researcher Rosalind Cartwright)
10:30 Price Is Right
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS News
12 N Young And The Restless
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Almanac
1:15 Date With Del
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM All In The Family
3:30 Match Game '77
4 PM Gilligan's Island
4:30 Gunsmoke
5:30 Adam-12
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Truth Or Consequences
7:30 Treasure Hunt
8 PM CBS Reports
9 PM M*A*S*H
9:30 One Day At A Time
10 PM Kojak
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "A Night To Remember"

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

3 PM Paint Along With Nancy Kominsky
3:30 Antiques
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Zoom
6:30 Studio See
7 PM Wild Wild World Of Animals (a study of ostriches)
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8 PM Music In Jerusalem
9 PM Movie: "The Mikado" (English version from '67)
sign off 11 PM

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

5:30 World At Large
6:10 News
6:30 Romper Room
7 AM Three Stooges/Little Rascals
8 AM Lassie
8:30 Hazel
9 AM The Lucy Show
9:30 Love, American Style
10 AM Movie: "It Happens Every Thursday"
11:55 News
12 N Perry Mason
1 PM Movie: "Steel Town"
2:55 News
3 PM Flintstones
3:30 The Archies
4 PM New Mickey Mouse Club
4:30 Addams Family
5 PM I Love Lucy
5:30 Hazel
6 PM Father Knows Best
6:30 Andy Griffith
7 PM That Girl
7:30 Dragnet
8 PM Star Trek
9 PM Movie: "My Little Chickadee" (classic teaming of
Mae West and W.C. Fields, from '40)
11 PM Dark Shadows
11:30 Movie: "The Egg And I"
1:30 Movie: "The Constant Husband"
3:10 News
3:30 Open Up

WETV (WPBA) Ch. 30 Atlanta (PBS)

9 AM Sesame Street
10 AM Electric Company
10:30 Studio See
11 AM Paint Along With Nancy Kominsky
11:30 M.D.
12 N off air until
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Zoom
6:30 Once Upon A Classic
7 PM Latin Atlanta '77
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8 PM Cinema Showcase (guest: Mitzi Gaynor)
8:30 Consumer Survival Kit
9 PM Shades Of Greene (I don't know if this is Graham Greene,
but it consists of "Dream Of A Strange Land" and "The
Overnight Bag.")
10 PM Nova (how heart transplants are performed)
11 PM Something Personal (Massachusetts state legislator Elaine
Noble discusses her homosexuality.)
11:30 Captioned ABC News
sign off 12 M

WATL Ch. 36 Atlanta (Ind.)

5 PM Entertainment Page
6:30 Spotlight (11 Alive's weathercaster Gail Janus is guest)
7 PM Classic Country (hosts: Faron Young and George Morgan)
8 PM Weekend Atlanta
9 PM Ludlow Porch (phone-in trivia game)
10 PM PTL Club
sign off 12 M

WCWB (WMGT) Ch. 41 Macon (NBC)

6 AM PTL Club
7 AM Today
9 AM PTL Club continues
10 AM Sanford And Son
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11 AM Wheel Of Fortune
11:30 It's Anybody's Guess
12 N Shoot For The Stars (June Lockhart, David L. Lander)
12:30 Chico And The Man
1 PM News
1:15 Noon Over Middle Georgia
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM Gong Show
4:30 Emergency One!
5:30 Flintstones
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Partridge Family
7:30 Honeymooners
8 PM Baa Baa Black Sheep
9 PM Police Woman
10 PM Police Story
11 PM I Dream Of Jeannie
11:30 Tonight Show

WTCI Ch. 45 Chattanooga (PBS)

3:30 Lilias, Yoga And You
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Zoom
6:30 Studio See
7 PM Weekly Edition
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8 PM Music In Jerusalem
9 PM Movie: "The Mikado"
sign off 11 PM

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

6:45 News
7 AM Tennessee Tuxedo
7:30 Lone Ranger
8 AM Mighty Mouse
8:30 Deputy Dawg
9 AM Heckle And Jeckle
9:30 Dennis The Menace
10 AM 700 Club
11:30 Practical Christian Living
12 N Acts 29
12:30 Mister Ed
1 PM Wagon Train
2 PM Summer Fun (cartoons)
2:30 Huck And Yogi
3 PM Popeye And Porky Hour
4 PM Superman
4:30 Batman (Roddy McDowall as the Bookworm)
5 PM Please Don't Eat The Daisies
5:30 McHale's Navy
6 PM F Troop
6:30 Rifleman
7 PM Big Valley (an early appearance by Bruce Dern)
8 PM 700 Club
9:30 Practical Christian Living
10 PM Hi Doug (Doug Oldham)
10:30 Dwight Thompson (religion)
11 PM Best Of Groucho
11:30 Mayberry R.F.D.
12 M News

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

3:20 Dr. J. Harold Smith
3:25 Hercules (animated)
3:30 Bozo's Big Top
4 PM Lidsville
4:30 Mike Douglas (co-host Jamie Farr; actress Constance
Towers, the Golddiggers, Jeff Altman, Karen and Mickey
Taylor (owners of Seattle Slew, who won the Triple Crown
that year))
6 PM Quest For Adventure
6:30 Lassie
7 PM Animal World
7:30 Dr. E.J. Daniels Presents Happiness Is
8 PM Word Of God School
8:30 United Christian Church
9:30 Don Kirshner's Rock Concert
11 PM Dr. J. Harold Smith
sign off 11:05 PM
 
bpatrick said:
WTVC Ch. 9 Chattanooga (ABC)

11:30 ABC Movie: "WUSA" (Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward,
from '70, long before the CBS affiliate in Washington got those
call letters)


WXIA 11 Alive Atlanta (ABC)

12 M ABC Movie: "WUSA"
...and the Minneapolis NBC affiliate got those call letters between Channel 11's stretches as WTCN-TV and KARE, shortly before Washington's Channel 9 got them. Both KARE/11 Minneapolis and WUSA/9 Washington are owned by Gannett...
 
Strangely, ABC led its evening newscast with Elvis' death;
CBS didn't mention it until well into the broadcast. Yet
when Bing Crosby died about two months later, CBS led
with it.
 
bpatrick said:
Strangely, ABC led its evening newscast with Elvis' death;
CBS didn't mention it until well into the broadcast. Yet
when Bing Crosby died about two months later, CBS led
with it.

I thought I had seen it on this board, in another thread, previously, but does anyone know what the lead CBS Evening News story was that fateful night? What about on NBC?
 
Tim from Springfield said:
bpatrick said:
Strangely, ABC led its evening newscast with Elvis' death;
CBS didn't mention it until well into the broadcast. Yet
when Bing Crosby died about two months later, CBS led
with it.

I thought I had seen it on this board, in another thread, previously, but does anyone know what the lead CBS Evening News story was that fateful night? What about on NBC?
...NBC Nightly News led with Elvis' death (both David Brinkley and John Chancellor anchored that night, with Brinkley delivering the lede). Of course, NBC was co-owned with RCA Victor Records, Presley's label, while CBS' record label, Columbia, never handled Presley material during his lifetime. (Today, both Columbia and RCA Victor are owned by Sony.) Bing Crosby, on the other hand, had started his recording career with Columbia (as a vocalist with Paul Whiteman's band) and his radio career with CBS, so he had a much stronger history with that network than Presley did...
 
Ultimajock said:
Tim from Springfield said:
bpatrick said:
Strangely, ABC led its evening newscast with Elvis' death;
CBS didn't mention it until well into the broadcast. Yet
when Bing Crosby died about two months later, CBS led
with it.

I thought I had seen it on this board, in another thread, previously, but does anyone know what the lead CBS Evening News story was that fateful night? What about on NBC?
...NBC Nightly News led with Elvis' death (both David Brinkley and John Chancellor anchored that night, with Brinkley delivering the lede). Of course, NBC was co-owned with RCA Victor Records, Presley's label, while CBS' record label, Columbia, never handled Presley material during his lifetime. (Today, both Columbia and RCA Victor are owned by Sony.) Bing Crosby, on the other hand, had started his recording career with Columbia (as a vocalist with Paul Whiteman's band) and his radio career with CBS, so he had a much stronger history with that network than Presley did...

I couldn't find a clip of Cronkite from the night of Elvis' death to try to answer my question, but the CBS Radio report of his death is on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSXo9bL6DQo&feature=related

Another CBS radio report included Sammy Davis Jr.'s tribute as well as the first portion of the above bulletin:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLMHaUUh0v4

But were there ever any network news bulletins for the first report of Elvis' death? Or was his passing only mentioned on the network evening newscasts?
 
Ultimajock said:
Tim from Springfield said:
bpatrick said:
Strangely, ABC led its evening newscast with Elvis' death;
CBS didn't mention it until well into the broadcast. Yet
when Bing Crosby died about two months later, CBS led
with it.

I thought I had seen it on this board, in another thread, previously, but does anyone know what the lead CBS Evening News story was that fateful night? What about on NBC?
...NBC Nightly News led with Elvis' death (both David Brinkley and John Chancellor anchored that night, with Brinkley delivering the lede). Of course, NBC was co-owned with RCA Victor Records, Presley's label, while CBS' record label, Columbia, never handled Presley material during his lifetime. (Today, both Columbia and RCA Victor are owned by Sony.) Bing Crosby, on the other hand, had started his recording career with Columbia (as a vocalist with Paul Whiteman's band) and his radio career with CBS, so he had a much stronger history with that network than Presley did...

And ABC was descended from NBC's Blue Network, so thus they had a connection to Elvis by proxy (besides The King appearing with Frank Sinatra on the Welcome Home Elvis special in 1960 after returning from his two-year Army stint).
 
I remember that I was 10 years old and living in Marietta,Georgia at the time. ;D
 
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