Retro: South Georgia/North Florida Fri, Jan 7, 1977

[Bluenoser]

from TV Guide-South Georgia edition (before it became something that starts with cluster )
Programs listed ET

2 WSB-NBC Atlanta
3 WRBL-CBS Columbus
4 WJXT-CBS Jacksonville
4* WTVY-CBS Dothan
5 WAGA-CBS Atlanta
6 WCTV-CBS Thomasville/Tallahassee
7 WJCT-PBS Jacksonville
7* WJHG-ABC Panama City
9 WTVM-ABC Columbus
10 WALB-NBC/ABC Albany
11 WFSU-PBS Tallahassee
11* WXIA-ABC Atlanta
12 WTLV-NBC Jacksonville
13 WMAZ-CBS Macon
13* WDTB-NBC Panama City
17 WJKS-ABC Jacksonville
17* WTCG-Ind Atlanta
27 WECA-ABC Tallahassee
38 WYEA-NBC Columbus
41 WCWB-NBC Macon
E Georgia Educational Network (PBS): 8 Waycross/14 Pelham/15 Cochran/25 Dawson/28 Warm Springs

Morning
5:00
17* World at Large

5:10
4* Lamp Unto My Feet

5:40
4* Cartoons

6:00
2 Herald of Truth
4 Marshal Efron's Sunday School
4* Sunrise Semester "Communication, the Invisible Environment"
6 Farm Report
38-41 PTL Club

6:10
17* News

6:30
2 Arthur Smith
3-5 Sunrise Semester "Communication, the Invisble Environment"
4 Kutana (Betty Bullock)
4* Good Morning Tri-States
7 Lilias, Yoga & You
10 Today in Georgia
11* Not for Women Only (conclusion of a week of discussions of entertainers' public-service work, guest Dina Merrill)
17* Romper Room

6:40
12 Hi, Neighbor

6:45
4 News

6:50
13 News

6:55
12 What's Happening

7:00
2-10-12-38-41 Today
3-4-4*-5-13 CBS Morning News
6 Good Morning
7-11 Sesame Street
7* Daybusters
9-11*-27 Good Morning America
13* PTL Club
17* Three Stooges/Little Rascals (bw)

7:20
17 Job Finder

7:25
17 Rin Tin Tin

7:55
17 News for Little People

8:00
3 Rozell's Show
4-5-6-13 Captain Kangaroo (guest Eli Wallach)
4* Morning Show
11 Book Beat (guest Norman Mailer)
13* Today
17 Good Morning America
17* Howdy Doody

8:30
7* Good Morning America
11 Lilias, Yoga & You
17* Lassie

9:00
2 Hollywood Squares
3-4* Captain Kangaroo
4-11* Dinah! (guests Bob Barker, Ben Gazzara, Gladys Knight & the Pips, and Marty Robbins; 55 min on 4)
5* Phil Donahue (guest Florynce Kennedy)
6 Romper Room
7-E Instructional Programs
9 Small World (Debbie Frew)
10-12 Merv Griffin (on 10: guests Tim Matheson, Kurt Russell, Ed Bluestone, and Orson Bean; on 12: from Vegas with guests Loretta Lynn, Sammy Cahn, and Picasso the juggler)
11 Sesame Street
13 Let's Talk It Over (Carrie Neil Thompson speaks on the ERA)
17 Movie: TBA
17* Hazel
27-38-41 PTL Club

9:30
2 50 Grand Slam (finale, Name That Tune returns here Monday)
6 Mike Douglas (co-host Joyce Heber and guests Lee Grant and Maureen O'Sullivan in studio/Hollywood interview with Cloris Leachman)
9 Dinah! (guests Joshua Logan, Mary Martin, William Holden, Lee Marvin, Carol Lynley, and Ray Walston)
13 Phil Donahue (guest Abigail Van Buren)
17* Lucy Show

9:55
4 Upbeat (Betty Bullock)

10:00
2-10-12-13*-38-41 Sanford & Son
3-4-4*-5-13 Price is Right
7* Merv Griffin (guests Natalie Wood, Robert Wagner, Joey Bishop, and David Frost)
11 Electric Company
17* Movie "Thunder in the Sun"

10:30
2 Today in Georgia
10-12-13*-38-41 Hollywood Squares
11 Infinity Factory
11* $20,000 Pyramid

11:00
2-10-12-13*-38-41 Wheel of Fortune
3-4*-5-6-13 Double Dare
4 Phil Donahue (portrayals of religious themes in the mass media)
9 News
11 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
11* Edge of Night
17 AM (Phyllis Fouraker)
27 Good Day! (guests the Chieftains; I assume this was from WCVB Boston)

11:15
9 Panorama

11:30
2-10-12-13*-38-41 Shoot for the Stars
3-4-4*-5-6-13 Love of Life
7*-9-11*-17-27 Happy Days
11 Zoom

11:55
3-4-4*-5-6-13 CBS News
17* News

Afternoon
noon
2-5-11* News
3-4-4*-6-13 Young & the Restless
7*-9-17-27 Don Ho
10-12-13*-38-41 Name That Tune
11 Sesame Street
17* Love, American Style

12:30
2 Divorce Court
3-4-4*-5-6-13 Search for Tomorrow
7*-9-11*-17-27 Ryan's Hope
10 Town & Country
12 Marcus Welby, MD
13*-38-41 Lovers & Friends
17* Movie "Ladies in Retirement" (bw)

1:00
2 Liar's Club
3-6 News
4 Midday (Dick Stratton)
4* Noon Farm Report (Gene Ragan)
5 Young & the Restless
7* Televisit
9-11*-17-27 All My Children
11 Pianoplay
13 Almanac
13* Around Town (Michaels)
38 Gong Show
41 Noon Over Middle Georgia

1:15
3 Close-Up (Bill Schafer)
13 Date with Del (guest White House inauguration decoration chair (and Plains native) Anne Dodeson; also a look at a Washington Inaugral gown display)

1:20
4* News

1:30
2-10-12-13*-38-41 Days of Our Lives
3-4-4*-5-6-13 As the World Turns
7* Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
9-17-27 Family Feud
11 Cinema Showcase
11* Merv Griffin (from Vegas with guests Bill Cosby, Kelly Montieth, and Pratt & McClain)

2:00
7*-9-17-27 $20,000 Pyramid
11 Firing Line "Free Speech vs Fairness in Broadcasting"

2:25
17* News

2:30
2-10-12-13*-28-41 Doctors
3-4-4*-5-6-13 Guiding Light
7*-9-11*-17-27 One Life to Live
17* Mickey Mouse Club "Talent Roundup Day" (bw)

3:00
2-10-12-13*-38-41 Another World
3-4-4*-5-6-13 All in the Family
11 People
17* Flintstones
E Nova "Hitler's Secret Weapon" (V2 rocket)

3:15
7*-9-11*-17-27 General Hospital

3:30
3-4-4*-6-13 Match Game
5 Bewitched
7-11 Lilias, Yoga & You
17* Addams Family (bw)

4:00
2 Doris Day
3 Andy Griffith (bw)
4-13 Gilligan's Island
4*-6 Tattletales
5 Mike Douglas (as 9:30am, 6)
7-11-E Sesame Street
7*-9-27 Edge of Night
10-12-13*-41 Gong Show
11* Bonanza
17 Green Acres
17* Monkees
38 Popeye-Sinbad Theater

4:30
2 Odd Couple
3 Emergency One!
4 Mike Douglas (as 9:30am, 6)
4* Baptist Message
6-17* Gilligan's Island
7* All My Children
9 Merv Griffin (as 9am, 10; additional guest Gen. William C. Westmoreland)
10 Big Blue Marble
13 Gunsmoke (guest star Harry Morgan)
13* PTL Club
17 Little Rascals (bw)
27 Dark Shadows
38 Bewitched (bw)
41 Lassie "Paths of Courage" (conclusion)

5:00
2 FBI
4* Andy Griffith (bw)
6 Big Valley
7-11-E Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
7* Gomer Pyle, USMC
10 Brady Bunch
11*-12-41 Emergency One!
17 I Dream of Jeannie
17* Family Affair
27 Dinah! (guests Sen. Barry Goldwater, Betty White, Hal Linden, Kelly Garrett, and Walter Murphy)
38 Star Trek

5:30
3-5-13 Adam-12
4* Gunsmoke (guest star Victor French)
7-11-E Electric Company
7* Beverly Hillbillies
10 Lucy Show
13* Star Trek
17-17* Partridge Family

5:55
17 News

Evening
6:00
2-4-5-6-7*-9-10-11*-12-13-27-38-41 News
3 To Tell the Truth
7 Rebop
11-E Zoom
17 ABC Evening News
17* Beverly Hillbillies

6:30
3-4-4*-6-13 CBS Evening News
7 Zoom
7*-9-11*-27 ABC Evening News
11 Black Perspective on the News
12-13*-38-41 NBC Nightly News
17-17* Andy Griffith (bw)
E Consultation

7:00
2-10 NBC Nightly News
3-4*-7*-13* News
4 Brady Bunch (re-uniting Robert Reed with Defenders co-star E.G. Marshall)
5 CBS Evening News
6 My Three Sons
7 Feedback
9 Family Affair
11 Prime Time
11* Concentration
12 Name That Tune
13 Truth or Consequences
17 Space: 1999
17* Gomer Pyle, USMC (bw/guest star Don Rickles)
27 Bewitched
38 Cross-Wits
41 TBA
E Black Perspective on the News

7:30
2 Bobby Vinton (guests Karen Black, Foster Brooks, and John Byner)
3 Mary Tyler Moore
4 Gong Show
4* Jeffersons
5 Muppet Show
6-7* Adam-12
9-12 My Three Sons (guest star Zsa Zsa Gabor on 9)
10 That Good Ole Nashville Music (guests Mickey Gilley, Nat Stuckey, Karen Wheeler, and Johnny Gimble)
11-E MacNeil-Lehrer Report
11* To Tell the Truth
13 America: The Young Experience
13* Hee Haw (guests Loretta Lynn, Conway Twitty, Mark O'Connor, and LA DJ Dick Haynes)
17* Hogan's Heroes
27 Andy Griffith (guest star Jack Albertson)
38 Animal World (look at the Lippizaners)
41 Have Gun-Will Travel (bw)

8:00
2-10-12-41 Sanford & Son
3 Hee Haw (as 7:30pm, 13*)
4-4*-5-6 Assault on Mount Everest (Jack Whitaker hosts a look at the American Bicentennial Expedition's ascent of the world's highest mountain)
7-11 Washington Week in Review
7*-9-11*-27 Donny & Marie (guests Buddy Hackett, Paul Lynde, Gary Burghoff, Chuck Berry, and Jim Connell)
13 Ironside
17 Dolly (guest Tom T. Hall)
17* Night Gallery
38 Star Trek
E Lawmakers

8:30
2-10-12*-13-41 Chico & the Man
7-11 Wall Street Week
17 Let's Go to the Races
17* Night Gallery "Echo of a Distant Scream"

9:00
2-10-12-13*-38-41 Rockford Files
3-4-4*-5-6-13 Movie "Man on a Swing"
7 Nova "Hitler's Secret Weapon"
7*-9-11*-17-27 Starsky & Hutch "The Las Vegas Strangler" (pt 1)
11 Documentary Showcase "Going Past Go: An Essay in Sexism"
17* Movie "Crucible of Terror"
E Washington Week in Review

9:30
E Wall Street Week

10:00
2-10-12-13*-38-41 Serpico
7 MacNeil-Lehrer Report
7*-9-11*-12-27 ABC News Closeup "Justice on Trial"
11 Agronsky at Large
E David Susskind (discussing a family-counseling program at the Hyde School in Bath, ME)

10:30
7 Florida Report
11 Americana "Sweet Land of Liberty" (a look at gays in small communities)

11:00
2-3-4-4*-5-6-7*-9-10-11*-12-13-13*-17-27 News
7-38 Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
11 Florida Report
17* Dark Shadows
41 I Dream of Jeannie

11:30
2-10-12-13*-38-41 Tonight Show
3-4*-6-13 Movie "The Spy with My Face" (expanded Man from UNCLE episode from 1966)
4 Movie "The Moon is Blue" (bw)
5 Movie "Puzzle of a Downfall Child"
7 Captioned ABC News
7*-9-11-27 SWAT
11* Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
17* James Brown's Future Shock

Late Night
midnight
7 Lilias, Yoga & You
11* SWAT

12:30
17* Movie "House of Horrors" (bw)

12:40
7* Music Hall America (Arthur Godfrey welcomes Dottsy, Jody Miller, the Osborne Brothers, and Tom Sullivan)
9 News
17 Movies: TBA

1:00
2-10-12-13*-38-41 Midnight Special (guests Elton John & Kiki Dee, KC & the Sunshine Band, England Dan & John Ford Coley, Hot Chocolate, Walter Murphy, Gary Wright, the Commodores, the Four Seasons, Lou Rawls, the Staple Singers, and Dorothy Moore)

1:20
4* Movie "Flying Tigers" (bw)

1:30
4 News
5 Movie "Kung Fu Gold"

1:40
7* Movie "Paris Express"
17* Movie "Ladies in Retirement" (bw)

2:30
2 News

2:50
4* Bonanza

3:20
5 News

3:25
7* News

3:40
17* News

3:50
4* News

4:00
17* Movie "The McConnell Story"

4:20
4* Morning Show (followed by News at 5:20, and Baptist Message at 5:30)

 

[bpatrick]

That should be 13* for "Chico And The Man," which
aired on NBC. 13 is WMAZ Macon (CBS).

WJHG and WDTB (WMBB) would swap
networks in 1982, putting WJHG back on NBC, which
it had left for ABC in 1972. Panama City, after years
of relying on WTVY Dothan, AL, for CBS, got a low-power
CBS station, WECP, on (I believe) digital 18 about six months
ago.

We make fun of the South Georgia edition for the huge number
of stations in it, but the fact is that its target markets (Columbus,
Macon, Albany, and Tallahassee) are so close together that it would
have been impractical to have separate editions for them all; in addition,
the Jacksonville stations get into places such as Brunswick and Waycross,
and there has always been (in part because of cable, in part because
of some strong broadcast signals, at least in analog days) a good deal
of spillover from Atlanta, Dothan, Panama City, and Savannah (which got
added to this edition later). So it's frustrating (and Montana is the only
other edition I can think of with such a huge number of stations) but the
only practical solution to the large number of stations in a relatively-small
area.

The South Texas edition at this same time was also rather huge; it covered
San Antonio, Austin, Corpus Christi, Laredo, Victoria, and the Lower Rio Grande
Valley (Brownsville/Harlingen/Weslaco).

 

[rnigma1]

Noticing the Merv Griffin guests: Tim Matheson and Kurt Russell were probably promoting their TV show "The Quest." (Matheson, interestingly, was the original voice of Jonny Quest.) Ed Bluestone was one of the regulars on the short-lived "Laugh-In" revival, with a not-yet-famous Robin Williams.

The South Georgia edition of TV Guide was the one I grew up with, and I do recall when the Savannah stations were added. 11 in Atlanta had the white icon, 11 in Tallahassee a black icon, and 11 in Savannah had the half black/half white icon.
Georgia Public TV had that "E" icon, which changed to "GPT" if I recall.

 

[Bluenoser]

We make fun of the South Georgia edition for the huge number
of stations in it, but the fact is that its target markets (Columbus,
Macon, Albany, and Tallahassee) are so close together that it would
have been impractical to have separate editions for them all; in addition,
the Jacksonville stations get into places such as Brunswick and Waycross,
and there has always been (in part because of cable, in part because
of some strong broadcast signals, at least in analog days) a good deal
of spillover from Atlanta, Dothan, Panama City, and Savannah (which got
added to this edition later). So it's frustrating (and Montana is the only
other edition I can think of with such a huge number of stations) but the
only practical solution to the large number of stations in a relatively-small
area.

My home edition, Maritime (Provinces), had the same situation, covering 3 provinces. When the Detroit channels were added around 1982, TVG used elongated (xxD) bullets for them, but when Boston channels were added 14 years later, TVG had to be real creative, using a black [2] for WGBH, a sandwich (/4/) for WBZ, recycling (/5/) for WCVB (bullet was previously used for WABI Bangor), and recycling a white "7" WHDH (used for CKCD Campbellton during its days as a hybrid CTV/CBC station).

 

[cd637299]

That should be 13* for "Chico And The Man," which
aired on NBC. 13 is WMAZ Macon (CBS).

WJHG and WDTB (WMBB) would swap
networks in 1982, putting WJHG back on NBC, which
it had left for ABC in 1972. Panama City, after years
of relying on WTVY Dothan, AL, for CBS, got a low-power
CBS station, WECP, on (I believe) digital 18 about six months
ago.

We make fun of the South Georgia edition for the huge number
of stations in it, but the fact is that its target markets (Columbus,
Macon, Albany, and Tallahassee) are so close together that it would
have been impractical to have separate editions for them all; in addition,
the Jacksonville stations get into places such as Brunswick and Waycross,
and there has always been (in part because of cable, in part because
of some strong broadcast signals, at least in analog days) a good deal
of spillover from Atlanta, Dothan, Panama City, and Savannah (which got
added to this edition later). So it's frustrating (and Montana is the only
other edition I can think of with such a huge number of stations) but the
only practical solution to the large number of stations in a relatively-small
area.

The South Texas edition at this same time was also rather huge; it covered
San Antonio, Austin, Corpus Christi, Laredo, Victoria, and the Lower Rio Grande
Valley (Brownsville/Harlingen/Weslaco).

But, the south TX edition didn't ever carry the Spanish Mexican border stations, did it? They certainly had pretty much the same coverage/exposure on TV there.

I once had (or saw) a south TX edition from 1996 that had XHFOX & XHFTX, because they were Fox affiliates, even though they were in Mexico. Was XHRIO 2 in TV Guide when they were Fox (or even in prior years)?

There's also chs 7 & 14 Matamoros, and 9 Reynosa---IMO it was as if TVG never knew they existed.

cd

 

[Wright County Guy]

Was there a reason Channels 36 & 46 in ATL were not in this edition?

 

[Mike Stroud]

Was there a reason Channels 36 & 46 in ATL were not in this edition?

Simple, my dear Watson. 36 and 46 were UHFs that didn't go very far into middle Georgia--it would have been iffy at best for them to have popped up on, say, the cable systems in Macon or Warner Robins, let alone anyplace farther south. And this TV Guide primarily focused on the entire southern half of the state generally, not Middle Georgia particularly. The reason the Atlanta Vs were carried by TVG was because cable systems in some communities, from Macon to Valdosta, brought them in to supplement the few local channels available in the days of 2-13. I don't know anything about the technical side of things, but I posted a listing some time back from Tallahassee, Florida from 1979 where all of the Atlanta Big Three Vs were on the cable there. This means that relays were used, as we know was the case with Ted Turner's WTCG. Don Kennedy and Pat Robertson, owners of WATL and WHAE (now WGCL), respectively, didn't have the capital to do that sort of thing (at least in Kennedy's case), and, besides, Robertson was planning a rollout of 700 Club nationwide by this time anyway, that would wind up in all the other markets listed here.

Not the most watertight of explanations perhaps, but it is the most plausible scenario that I can think of.

 

[Bluenoser]

But, the south TX edition didn't ever carry the Spanish Mexican border stations, did it? They certainly had pretty much the same coverage/exposure on TV there.

I once had (or saw) a south TX edition from 1996 that had XHFOX & XHFTX, because they were Fox affiliates, even though they were in Mexico. Was XHRIO 2 in TV Guide when they were Fox (or even in prior years)?

There's also chs 7 & 14 Matamoros, and 9 Reynosa---IMO it was as if TVG never knew they existed.

cd

IIRC XHRIO 2 was listed back in the late 70s, when it was an cross-border anglo indie...

 

[bpatrick]

XHRIO was indeed listed in the South Texas edition, but never,
ever to my knowledge were the Matamoros and Reynosa stations
you mentioned; given that both cities are just across the Rio Grande
it does present a puzzle.

Back to South Georgia, WGCL was added to that edition when it
became Atlanta's CBS affiliate, although WAGA was not dropped.
Remember the 15% rule; a station had to cover at least 15% of
an edition's circulation area in order to be included, and WATL
never did (it was listed only in the Atlanta edition).