“Super 17,” they call it. The crowded television station on West Peachtree Street has already been discarded by a local competitor. Programming is simple. You see your old favorite gunslinger, black and white remembrances of Saturday afternoon of yester-years.

But WTCG is still super. It belongs to Atlanta’s Super Ted who hit on a super idea and has made it superbly successful.

Focusing his beam on the powerful satellite, Mr. Turner has made Channel 17 into a navigating network. Not only are his reruns and major league sports seen in Georgia, they enter into homes far and wide throughout the nation.

The latest figures show that Super 17 is seen in four million homes nationwide, Alaska, Hawaii, and 45 states in the U.S. The list grows every day and the green with envy look is beamed on Turner Communications from local stations throughout the land.

Now Mr. Turner will air Atlanta’s Catholic Mass once each month on the Second Sunday at 5:30 a.m. The first Mass will be seen in April.

While the time allotted is not very beneficial to Atlanta Catholics and shut-ins, it will be most helpful to shut-ins in other areas. It is also the first time that Mass will be viewed nationwide on a regular basis.

The Catholic Mass Program began in Atlanta almost three years ago on WSB, Channel 2. It can now be seen twice each month, on the first and third Sundays, at 10:30 a.m. “A great and welcome response is constantly being received as we air these services,” said Msgr. Noel C. Burtenshaw, Director of Communications. “This new opportunity is an extension, of great importance, to our efforts for Catholic communications.”

A newsletter and monthly missalette is sent to 400 homes in Georgia in connection with the Catholic Mass Program. Responses and inquiries from non-Catholics, is a regular occurrence also.

News of the additional Mass to be televised on Channel 17 comes at a time of new emphasis on Catholic Communications. A national collection for communications will take place in every parish in May. The funds raised will be used for national and local programming.

“We are most grateful to WSB,” said Msgr. Burtenshaw, for pioneering this service so generously for the past three years. “Now we are indebted to WTCG who gives Catholics across the nation the opportunity to participate in their own service, even if only on a monthly basis.”

Along with Msgr. Burtenshaw, other priests of the Archdiocese of Atlanta offer Mass each month for shut-ins and others unable to attend their parishes. Archbishop Thomas A. Donnellan offers the Television Mass on Christmas Day.