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Retro: South Georgia Monday, October 6, 1975

From TV Guide, South Georgia Edition:

WSB Ch. 2 Atlanta (NBC)

6 AM Christopher Closeup
6:30 Arthur Smith
7 AM Today (the Tokyo String Quartet; Jim Hartz
and Barbara Walters co-host)
9 AM Not For Women Only (Hugh Downs hosts this
first of five discussions on spending health-care
money wisely; guest is AMA president Max Parrott)
9:30 Today In Georgia
10 AM Celebrity Sweepstakes (Gabe Kaplan, James Farentino,
Alex Karras, Liz Torres, Dan Rowan, Carol Wayne)
10:30 Wheel Of Fortune
11 AM High Rollers
11:30 Hollywood Squares (Robert Blake, Harvey Korman, Earl
Holliman, Kaye Ballard, Nanette Fabray, Florence Henderson,
Kevin Tighe, George Gobel, Paul Lynde)
12 N News
12:30 Big Valley
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM Mod Squad
5 PM The FBI
6 PM News
7 PM NBC News (John Chancellor)
7:30 Let's Make A Deal
8 PM The Invisible Man (David McCallum)
9 PM NBC Movie: "The Train Robbers" (John Wayne, Ann-Margret)
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show (Joey Bishop subs for Johnny; Deborah Kerr,
Dr. Joyce Brothers, Freddy Fender)
1 AM Tomorrow (from Puerto Rico: Dr. Robert Craft, a director of
the Arecibo Ionospheric Observatory)
2 AM News

WRBL Ch. 3 Columbus, GA (CBS)

6:30 Sunrise Semester: "Anthropology Of The Middle East And
North Africa"
7 AM CBS News (Hughes Rudd)
8 AM Rozell's Show
9 AM Captain Kangaroo
10 AM Give-N-Take
10:30 Price Is Right
11 AM Gambit
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
12 N Young And The Restless
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM News
1:15 Close-Up
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Guiding Light
2:30 Edge Of Night
3 PM Match Game '75 (Bill Daily, Patti Deutsch, Dr. Joyce
Brothers, Brett Somers, Richard Dawson, Charles Nelson
Reilly)
3:30 Tattletales (Eva Gabor and Frank Jameson, Micki and Dennis
James, Joy and Jamie Farr)
4 PM Musical Chairs (George Kirby, Sheila MacRae, Kelly Garrett,
Larry Kert; this show is notable for having television's first
African-American game-show host, singer-actor Adam Wade)
4:30 Flintstones
5 PM Ironside
6 PM To Tell The Truth (Bill Cullen, Peggy Cass, Mark Goodson,
Kitty Carlisle)
6:30 CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7 PM News
7:30 Price Is Right
8 PM Rhoda
8:30 Phyllis
9 PM All In The Family
9:30 Maude
10 PM Medical Center
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "The Victim" (TV-movie with Elizabeth Montgomery
as a woman seeking her sister during a frightening rainstorm, from '72)
sign off 1 AM

WJXT Ch. 4 Jacksonville (CBS)

6 AM Sunrise Semester
6:30 Pastor's Study
6:35 Farm And Home
6:50 News
7 AM CBS News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Musical Chairs (Jerry Vale, Dana Valery, Melba Montgomery, delay
from Fri 4 PM)
9:30 Phil Donahue (former Atomic Energy Commission chair Dixy Lee Ray)
10 AM Kutana
10:30 Price Is Right
11 AM Gambit
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS News
12 N Young And The Restless
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Midday
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Guiding Light
2:30 Edge Of Night
3 PM Match Game '75
3:30 Flintstones
4 PM Gilligan's Island
4:30 Mike Douglas (co-host Jim Stafford; Andy Williams;
Bill Macy (Maude's husband Walter) and his wife, actress Samantha
Harper; a discussion of the results of a magazine survey
on female sexuality)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Bewitched
7:30 Hollywood Squares (Jonathan Winters, Debbie Reynolds,
Earl Holliman, Demond Wilson, Florence Henderson, Suzanne
Pleshette, Jan Murray, Rose Marie, Paul Lynde)
8 PM Rhoda
8:30 Phyllis
9 PM All In The Family
9:30 Maude
10 PM Medical Center
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "The Victim"
sign off 1 AM

WTVY Ch. 4 Dothan, AL (CBS)
Listed Eastern Time

6:30 Sunrise Semester
7 AM CBS News
8 AM Farm Report (Gene Ragan)
8:10 Morning Show
9 AM Captain Kangaroo
10 AM Give-N-Take
10:30 Price Is Right
11 AM Gambit
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS News
12 N Young And The Restless
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Noon Farm Report (Gene Ragan)
1:20 News
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Guiding Light
2:30 Edge Of Night
3 PM Match Game '75
3:30 Tattletales
4 PM Musical Chairs
4:30 Andy Griffith
5 PM Miss Becky And Friends
5:30 Gunsmoke
6:30 CBS News
7 PM News
7:30 The Jeffersons (delay from Sat 8 PM ET)
8 PM Rhoda
8:30 Phyllis
9 PM All In The Family
9:30 Maude
10 PM Medical Center
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "The Victim"
1 AM TBA
1:30 Bonanza
2:30 News
3 AM Cartoons
3:30 Morning Show
4:30 News
5 AM Day Of Discovery
5:30 Miss Becky And Friends

WAGA Ch. 5 Atlanta (CBS)

6 AM Sunrise Semester
6:30 Camera Three (delay from Sun 11 AM)
7 AM CBS News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Phil Donahue (Don Adams is the guest)
10 AM Give-N-Take
10:30 Price Is Right
11 AM Gambit
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS News
12 N News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Tattletales (Eva Gabor and Frank Jameson, Micki
and Dennis James, Joy and Jamie Farr, delay from
Fri 3:30 PM)
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Guiding Light
2:30 Edge Of Night
3 PM Match Game '75
3:30 Robert Young, Family Doctor ("Marcus Welby, M.D."
renamed as it was still in first-run on ABC)
4:30 Mike Douglas (same as WJXT)
6 PM News
7 PM CBS News
7:30 Confrontation
8 PM Rhoda
8:30 Phyllis
9 PM All In The Family
9:30 Maude
10 PM Medical Center
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "The Victim"
1 AM News

WCTV Ch. 6 Thomasville, GA/Tallahassee (CBS)

6 AM Farm Report
7 AM Good Morning
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Romper Room
9:30 Hazel
10 AM Give-N-Take
10:30 Price Is Right
11 AM Gambit
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS News
12 N Young And The Restless
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM News
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Guiding Light
2:30 Edge Of Night
3 PM Match Game '75
3:30 Tattletales
4 PM Robert Young, Family Doctor
5 PM Mike Douglas (same as WJXT)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Brady Bunch
7:30 Adam-12
8 PM Rhoda
8:30 Phyllis
9 PM All In The Family
9:30 Maude
10 PM Medical Center
11 PM News
11:30 Mod Squad
12:30 CBS Movie: "The Victim"

WJCT Ch. 7 Jacksonville (PBS)

In-school programs until

4 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
4:30 Sesame Street
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM As Man Behaves
6:30 Man And Environment
7 PM Feedback
8 PM Drum Corps International Championship (U.S. vs.
Canada from Philadelphia)
9 PM Play It Again, Uncle Sam (Gloria Loring salutes America's
musical heritage, with Bob Hope, Tommy Smothers, Sammy
Cahn, Henry Mancini, and blues artist Taj Mahal.)
10 PM Austin City Limits (Willie Nelson)
11 PM Captioned ABC News
11:30 Lilias, Yoga And You

WJHG Ch. 7 Panama City, FL (ABC)
Listed Eastern Time

7 AM Daybusters
8:30 A.M. America (not yet "Good Morning America," with Bill
Beutel; guests are Broadway actors John Cullum ("Shenandoah")
and Robert Stephen ("Sherlock Holmes"), joined in progress)
10 AM Merv Griffin (Danny Thomas, George Foreman, Jan-Michael Vincent,
Stephanie Edwards)
11:30 Happy Days
12 N Showoffs (Joan Collins, Beverly Garland, Robert Reed, Dick Gautier)
12:30 All My Children
1 PM Televisit
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM $10,000 Pyramid (Anita Gillette, Nipsey Russell)
2:30 Rhyme And Reason (Sally Struthers, Jaye P. Morgan, Ted Lange,
Charlie Brill, Mitzi McCall)
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM You Don't Say! (Conny Van Dyke, Ann Elder, Mickey Manners,
Robert Ridgely)
4:30 Ryan's Hope (delay from 1 PM ET)
5 PM Little Rascals
5:30 Beverly Hillbillies
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News (Harry Reasoner)
7 PM News
7:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
8 PM Barbary Coast
9 PM NFL Football: Cowboys-Lions
12 M News (time approximate)
12:30 Sammy And Company (Lucille Ball, Freddie Prinze, Chuck
Berry, Maya Angelou)
2 AM News

WTVM Ch. 9 Columbus, GA (ABC)

6:30 New Zoo Revue (guest: Henry Mancini)
7 AM A.M. America
9 AM Small World
9:30 Phil Donahue (from the Ohio State Fair: guest John Davidson)
10:30 Perry Mason
11:30 Happy Days
12 N News
12:15 Panorama
12:30 All My Children
1 PM Ryan's Hope
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM $10,000 Pyramid
2:30 Rhyme And Reason
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM You Don't Say!
4:30 Dinah! (Cloris Leachman, Joey Bishop, Hal Linden,
author Martin Poriss ("How To Live Cheap But Good"))
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News
7 PM Family Affair
7:30 That's My Mama (delay from Wed 8:30 PM)
8 PM Barbary Coast
9 PM NFL Football: Cowboys-Lions
12 M News (time approximate)
12:30 College Football 1975
sign off 1:30 AM

WALB Ch. 10 Albany, GA (NBC/ABC)

6:30 Today In Georgia
7 AM Today
9 AM Merv Griffin (James Whitmore and Pat Boone discuss
the Bicentennial.)
10 AM Celebrity Sweepstakes
10:30 Wheel Of Fortune
11 AM High Rollers
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Magnificent Marble Machine (Karen Valentine, Marty Allen)
12:30 Town And Country
12:55 NBC News (Edwin Newman)
1 PM Town And Country continues
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM Somerset
4:30 Flintstones
5 PM Brady Bunch
5:30 The Lucy Show (guests: the Marquis Chimps)
6 PM News
7 PM NBC News
7:30 Wild Kingdom
8 PM The Invisible Man
9 PM NBC Movie: "The Train Robbers"
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Tomorrow

WFSU Ch. 11 Tallahassee (PBS)

6:55 Break Of Day
7:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
8 AM TBA
8:30 Lilias, Yoga And You
9 AM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9:30 Villa Alegre
10 AM Sesame Street
11 AM Electric Company
11:30 Villa Alegre
12 N Sesame Street
1 PM Woman's Way
1:30 Book Beat (John Nance, author of "The Gentle
Tasaday," about the Tasaday, a Stone Age people
discovered in the Philippines in 1971)
2 PM Consumer Survival Kit
2:30 Evening At Symphony
3:30 Lilias, Yoga And You
4 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
4:30 Sesame Street
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Villa Alegre
6:30 Man And Environment
7 PM Prime Time (public affairs)
8 PM In Performance At Wolf Trap (Beverly Sills as Elizabeth I
in Donizetti's "Roberto Devereux")
sign off 10:30 PM

WXIA Ch. 11 Atlanta (ABC)

6:30 Issues And Answers (Sen. Frank Church, chair of the Senate
Select Committee on Intelligence, rerun from Sun 1:30 PM)
7 AM A.M. America
8 AM A.M. Atlanta
9 AM Concentration
9:30 You Don't Say! (Greg Morris, Abbe Lane, Charlie Brill, Mitzi
McCall, delay from Fri 4 PM)
10 AM Movie: "The Jolson Story" (Part 1 of 2)
11:30 News
12 N Showoffs
12:30 All My Children
1 PM Ryan's Hope
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM $10,000 Pyramid
2:30 Rhyme And Reason
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM Dinah! (Robert Fuller, Jaye P. Morgan, Norm Crosby,
actress Deborah Rassin, the Hues Corporation)
5:30 News
6 PM ABC News
6:30 Merv Griffin (Jason Robards, Florence Henderson,
Skiles and Henderson)
7:30 Barbary Coast (Ch. 11 and other ABC affiliates in NFL
cities carried this one half-hour earlier.)
8:30 Falcons Replay (highlights of Saints-Falcons from yesterday)
9 PM NFL Football: Cowboys-Lions
12 M News (time approximate)
12:30 College Football 1975
sign off 1:30 AM

WTLV Ch. 12 Jacksonville (NBC)

6:45 Hi, Neighbor
7 AM Today
9 AM Merv Griffin (Ethel Merman and Kaye Ballard salute Broadway
musicals.)
10 AM Celebrity Sweepstakes
10:30 Wheel Of Fortune
11 AM High Rollers
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Magnificent Marble Machine
12:30 3 For The Money (guest: Jack Klugman)
12:55 News (local)
1 PM Somerset
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM Dinah! (same as WXIA)
5:30 News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Robert Young, Family Doctor
8 PM The Invisible Man
9 PM NBC Movie: "The Train Robbers"
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Tomorrow

WDTB (WMBB) Ch. 13 Panama City, FL (NBC)
Listed Eastern Time

7 AM Today
9 AM Phil Donahue (Dixy Lee Ray)
10 AM Celebrity Sweepstakes
10:30 Wheel Of Fortune
11 AM High Rollers
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Magnificent Marble Machine
12:30 3 For The Money
12:55 NBC News
1 PM Aroun' Town
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM Somerset
4:30 Superman
5 PM Batman (Vincent Price as Egghead)
5:30 Star Trek
6:30 NBC News
7 PM News
7:30 Florida State Football Highlights (FSU-Georgia Tech
from Saturday)
8 PM The Invisible Man
9 PM NBC Movie: "The Train Robbers"
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Tomorrow

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 General Hospital
10 AM Give-N-Take
10:30 Price Is Right
11 AM Gambit
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 PM Guiding Light
2:30 Edge Of Night
3 PM Match Game '75
3:30 Tattletales
4 PM Musical Chairs
4:30 Ironside
5:30 To Tell The Truth (Kitty Carlisle, Bill Cullen,
Peggy Cass, Larry Blyden--this aired after
Blyden's death in June 1975)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Truth Or Consequences
7:30 America: The Young Experience (Sacajawea, the
teenage Shoshone girl who accompanied Lewis and Clark)
8 PM Rhoda
8:30 Phyllis
9 PM All In The Family
9:30 Maude
10 PM Medical Center
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "The Victim"
sign off 1 AM

WJKS (WCWJ) Ch. 17 Jacksonville (ABC)

6:55 Job Finder
7 AM New Zoo Revue (guest: June Lockhart)
7:30 Bullwinkle
8 AM A.M. America (joined in progress)
9 AM Movie: "The Boy With Green Hair"
11 AM A.M.
11:30 Happy Days
12 N Showoffs
12:30 All My Children
1 PM Ryan's Hope
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM $10,000 Pyramid
2:30 Rhyme And Reason
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM Mickey Mouse Club
4:25 News For Little People
4:30 That Girl
5 PM Star Trek
5:55 News
6 PM ABC News
6:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
7 PM The FBI
8 PM Barbary Coast
9 PM NFL Football: Cowboys-Lions
12 M News (time approximate)
12:30 Perry Mason
1:30 News
2 AM Job Finder

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

6 AM Buck Owens
6:30 Romper Room
7 AM Three Stooges/Little Rascals
8 AM Leave It To Beaver
8:30 Hazel
9 AM I Love Lucy
9:30 Andy Griffith
10 AM Movie: "A Prize Of Gold"
12 N Love, American Style
12:30 The Lucy Show
1 PM Movie: "The Flying Missile"
3 PM Mickey Mouse Club
3:30 Flintstones
4 PM Gilligan's Island
4:30 I Love Lucy
5 PM Partridge Family
5:30 Beverly Hillbillies
6 PM That Girl
6:30 Andy Griffith
7 PM Gomer Pyle, USMC
7:30 Hogan's Heroes
8 PM Perry Mason
9 PM Movie: "The Counterfeit Traitor"
11:50 Movie: "Bride Of Vengeance"
1:40 Movie: "The Flying Missile"
3:30 News
3:50 Open Up

WYEA (WLTZ) Ch. 38 Columbus, GA (NBC)

6:15 Good Earth
6:20 News
6:25 Metro Forestry
6:30 Arthur Smith
7 AM Today
9 AM Not For Women Only (Hugh Downs hosts the
first of five on self-assertion.)
9:30 Galloping Gourmet
10 AM Celebrity Sweepstakes
10:30 Wheel Of Fortune
11 AM High Rollers
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Magnificent Marble Machine
12:30 3 For The Money
12:55 NBC News
1 PM Somerset
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM Popeye-Sinbad Theater
4:30 Mickey Mouse Club
5 PM Gilligan's Island
5:30 Bewitched
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Truth Or Consequences
7:30 The Montefuscos (delay from Thu 8 PM)
8 PM The Invisible Man
9 PM NBC Movie: "The Train Robbers"
11 PM Rat Patrol
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Tomorrow

WCWB (WMGT) Ch. 41 Macon (NBC)

7 AM Today
9 AM Phil Donahue
10 AM Celebrity Sweepstakes
10:30 Wheel Of Fortune
11 AM High Rollers
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Magnificent Marble Machine
12:30 3 For The Money
12:55 NBC News
1 PM News
1:05 Noon Over Middle Georgia
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM Somerset
4:30 Animal World
5 PM Star Trek
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM I Dream Of Jeannie
7:30 Marshal Dillon
8 PM The Invisible Man
9 PM NBC Movie: "The Train Robbers"
11 PM Rifleman
11:30 Tonight Show

E Georgia Educational Network: WXGA/8 Waycross, WABW/14 Pelham,
WDCO/15 (WMUM/29) Cochran, WACS/25 Dawson, WJSP/28 Warm Springs (PBS)

In-school programs until

4 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
4:30 Sesame Street
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Villa Alegre
6:30 Insight (religious)
7 PM Lilias, Yoga And You
7:30 By Line (psychic Uri Geller discusses his autobiography)
8 PM In Performance At Wolf Trap
10:30 American Issues Forum ("The Land Of Plenty," second
in a series of Bicentennial-themed programs)
sign off 11 PM
 
WJHG's "Daybusters" was anchored for years by Tom Hipps, with live music by Louie Weaver's band. "Televisit" was their noon show hosted by Helen Schuh; it was formerly hosted by one Betty Wright while Helen hosted an exercise show in the late '60s. A couple of years earlier WJHG had "Kathy's Funhouse," a kid's show hosted by Kathy Swigler, who also did their weather.

The CBS game show "Musical Chairs" also featured Sister Sledge before they hit it big with "We Are Family." Other acts on the show included Lady Flash (Barry Manilow's backup singers) and Lynn Kellogg.

WTCG, of course, later became WTBS (and then just TBS). Their 3:30 am newscast was probably their comedy newscast with Bill Tush... or did it begin a year or two later?
 
rnigma said:
WTCG, of course, later became WTBS (and then just TBS). Their 3:30 am newscast was probably their comedy newscast with Bill Tush... or did it begin a year or two later?

I wonder if his comedy-based newscasts are on line somewhere. A couple of his newscasts are on YouTube, but those were the more-normal afternoon newscasts.
 
The Cowboys beat the Lions 36-10. Lions Coach Ron Hudspeth called the Lions quitters. He was fired after they went 7-7 in 1975.
 
bpatrick said:
WJHG Ch. 7 Panama City, FL (ABC)
Listed Eastern Time

8 PM Barbary Coast


WTVM Ch. 9 Columbus, GA (ABC)

8 PM Barbary Coast


WXIA Ch. 11 Atlanta (ABC)

7:30 Barbary Coast (Ch. 11 and other ABC affiliates in NFL
cities carried this one half-hour earlier.)
8:30 Falcons Replay (highlights of Saints-Falcons from yesterday)


WJKS (WCWJ) Ch. 17 Jacksonville (ABC)

8 PM Barbary Coast
...as I recall, throughout the early 1970s, WLUK/11 Green Bay wouldn't even run the 7:00 CT ABC offering (The Young Lawyers, The Silent Force, Nanny & The Professor, The Rookies and Barbary Coast) on Monday night, dumping it off in late Sunday afternoons (often against a Packers game on WBAY-TV/2/CBS or WFRV/5/NBC) in order to run a couple of Packers-related shows, Packerama with Bart Starr and The Quarterback Club with Fuzzy Thurston and Max McGee, the latter produced at Fuzzy's Left Guard supper club...
 
azumanga said:
rnigma said:
WTCG, of course, later became WTBS (and then just TBS). Their 3:30 am newscast was probably their comedy newscast with Bill Tush... or did it begin a year or two later?

I wonder if his comedy-based newscasts are on line somewhere. A couple of his newscasts are on YouTube, but those were the more-normal afternoon newscasts.

Bill Tush was late,late Night on WTCG
 
Ultimajock said:
bpatrick said:
WJHG Ch. 7 Panama City, FL (ABC)
Listed Eastern Time

8 PM Barbary Coast


WTVM Ch. 9 Columbus, GA (ABC)

8 PM Barbary Coast


WXIA Ch. 11 Atlanta (ABC)

7:30 Barbary Coast (Ch. 11 and other ABC affiliates in NFL
cities carried this one half-hour earlier.)
8:30 Falcons Replay (highlights of Saints-Falcons from yesterday)


WJKS (WCWJ) Ch. 17 Jacksonville (ABC)

8 PM Barbary Coast
...as I recall, throughout the early 1970s, WLUK/11 Green Bay wouldn't even run the 7:00 CT ABC offering (The Young Lawyers, The Silent Force, Nanny & The Professor, The Rookies and Barbary Coast) on Monday night, dumping it off in late Sunday afternoons (often against a Packers game on WBAY-TV/2/CBS or WFRV/5/NBC) in order to run a couple of Packers-related shows, Packerama with Bart Starr and The Quarterback Club with Fuzzy Thurston and Max McGee, the latter produced at Fuzzy's Left Guard supper club...

WVUE/8 New Orleans (ABC then, Fox now) even carried "The Rookies" at 6:30 in the three years prior to this. At 7:30 they had "From The Pressbox" with sports director Buddy Diliberto (who I believe went to NBC affiliate WDSU later). I seem to recall WPLG/10 Miami having a Dolphins highlights show at 8:30 as well.

The next year the Falcons came to blows with WXIA; Steve Somers had become 11 Alive's sports anchor and one of his first assignments was a Falcons pre-season game. That night, and on his regular sportscasts at 6 and 11, he constantly lambasted the Falcons (once, showing a blown pass by Harmon Wages, who doubled as sports anchor on WAGA, he said, "Well, there's Minimum Wages, thinking about his next sportscast on Channel 5."). The Falcons took their highlights show to Channel 17 after that, not coming back to 11 until after Somers was long gone. So in 1976, 11 carried "The Captain And Tennille" at 8 and Monday-night football at 9, with "To Tell The Truth" at 7:30.

Even though the Falcons were perennial doormats in those days, and probably deserved the criticism they got, viewers resented the idea of a sportscaster from the West Coast, newly arrived in Atlanta, starting in knocking the local teams (he let the Braves have it, too). Somers is probably in his element in New York, with his WFAN show.
 
Digression on the Panama City stations: my father was stationed at Tyndall in 1968-75 and I spent a good bit of my youth in P.C. I recall as a kid, I wrote a letter to WJHG asking about the many cuts made in the Little Rascals films they ran. (Of course, they ran the censored King World prints; WRBL in Columbus was still running the uncut Interstate/Monogram prints well into the 80s.) I got a polite reply from station manager Earl Hadaway, along with a 8x10 glossy of the Rascals circa 1930.
I recall just before WDTB channel 13 went on the air around 1973/74, they did several test broadcasts nightly around 7 pm or so, airing old Universal films, from their original studios on Harrison Avenue south of 4th Street, in an old adobe-looking building. I think WJHG (7) had already moved out of their old studios in the former Commercial Bank building on the corner of Harrison Avenue and Beach Drive, to their current home on Front Beach Road. Since WJHG had switched from NBC to ABC, WDTB became the NBC affiliate. A few years later, the stations would swap networks; WDTB changed its calls to WMBB (for "World's Most Beautiful Beaches"), and they would move several blocks north, into the old Nelson Buick building.
When I returned to P.C. for a radio job in 1982, I noticed that WMBB was using a dot-matrix chyron for their news supers, which looked pretty bad. I asked one of their employees why this was so, and he told me that the chyron was only intended for use on remotes and they could not yet afford the units with the fancier fonts.
 
The South Georgia edition of TV Guide: easily the most confusing edition published east of the Mississippi River. At one time or another this version carried listings from two Channel 3's (Columbus and Savannah), two Channel 4's (Jacksonville and Dothan), two Channel 7's (Jacksonville and Panama City) three Channel 11's (Atlanta, Savannah and Tallahassee), two Channel 13's (Macon and Panama City) and two Channel 17's (Atlanta and Jacksonville). I got a headache every time I picked up a copy of this edition.
 
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