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San Diego TV - July 2, 1973

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Ccook55

This comes from the San Diego Union-Tribune, July 2, 1973. Just the day before, ABC moved from XETV/ch. 6 to KCST/ch. 39, the result of a lawsuit KCST filed charging that a station licensed to Mexico cannot air programs from an American TV network (XETV is licensed to Tijuana, MX).

Additional note: the Watergate hearings are being aired in rotation by the networks, so daytime fare will be affected. I'm not sure which network aired it this day.

XETV/ch. 6 (Ind.)
6:30 - Daybreak
7 AM - Banana Splits
7:30 - Bozo
8 AM - Leave It To Beaver
8:30 - Ozzie & Harriet
9 AM - Phil Donahue
10 AM - Ben Casey
11 AM - The Fugitive
12 Noon - Hazel
12:30 - Truth Or Consequences
1 PM - Anything You Can Do
1:30 - Mike Douglas
3 PM - Superman
3:30 - Dennis The Menace
4 PM - Get Smart
4:30 - Flying Nun
5 PM - Gilligan's Island
5:30 - Mayberry RFD
6 PM - Courtship Of Eddie's Father
6:30 - Hogan's Heroes
7 PM - Movie: "Stagecoach" (1939, western) John Wayne, Claire Trevor
9 PM - Civilization
10:30 - One Step Beyond
11 PM - Perry Mason

KFMB/ch. 8 (CBS)
6 AM - Sunrise Semester
6:30 - TV Classroom
7 AM - CBS Morning News
8 AM - SunUp
9 AM - Joker's Wild
9:30 - $10,000 Pyramid
10 AM - Gambit
10:30 - Love Of Life
10:55 - CBS News
11 AM - Young & The Restless
11:30 - Search For Tomorrow
12 Noon - News
12:30 - As The World Turns
1 PM - Guiding Light
1:30 - Edge Of Night
2 PM - Price Is Right
2:30 - Match Game '73 (premiere; postponed from June 25 due to Watergate hearings)
3 PM - Movie: "Little Boy Lost" (1953, drama) Bing Crosby, Claude Dauphin
5 PM - Dragnet
5:30 - News
6:30 - CBS News
7 PM - Wildlife Theater
7:30 - Thrillseekers
8 PM - Gunsmoke - A sea captain wants to marry a widow (repeat)
9 PM - Lucy Show - Lucy and Harry try to groom an ugly duckling member of Kim's social club (repeat)
9:30 - Doris Day - Doris becomes editor-in-chief (repeat)
10 PM - Medical Center - An auto crash victim has a child smuggled in from South America (repeat)
11 PM - News
11:30 - Movie: "The Prisoner Of Zenda" (1951, adventure)

KGTV/ch. 10 (NBC)
6:30 - On The Farm
7 AM - Today
9 AM - Dinah's Place
9:30 - Baffle
10 AM - Sale Of The Century
10:30 - Hollywood Squares
11 AM - Jeopardy!
11:30 - The Who, What Or Where Game
12 Noon - News
12:30 - Days Of Our Lives
1 PM - The Doctors
1:30 - Another World
2 PM - Return To Peyton Place
2:30 - Somerset
3 PM - Movie: "Gunfighters Of The Casa Grande" (1965, western) Alex Nicol, Jorge Mistral
5 PM - Baseball: Los Angeles Dodgers at Cincinnati (live)
8 PM - News
9 PM - Movie: "How I Spent My Summer Vacation" (1967, mystery) Robert Wagner, Jill St. John
11 PM - News
11:30 - Johnny Carson

XEWT/ch. 12 (Televisa, Tijuana MX)
4 PM - Caricatures
4:30 - Novela
6:30 - Club De Las Estrellas
7 PM - El Show Del Loco Valdez
8 PM - Panorama Social
9 PM - Mannix
10:05 - Musicalidades
10:30 - Interpol
11 PM - Novela

KPBS/ch. 15 (PBS)
7 AM - Sesame Street
8 AM - Hodgepodge Lodge
8:30 - Carrascolendas
9 AM - Electric Company
9:30 - Classroom Programming
3:30 - Know Your Answers
4 PM - Sesame Street
5 PM - Misterogers
5:30 - Electric Company
6 PM - Hodgepodge Lodge
6:30 - Carrascolendas
7 PM - Firing Line
8 PM - Playhouse New York - George Washington's first mission is detailed in "Portrait Of A Hero As A Young Man"
9:30 - Book Beat
10 PM - Humanist Alternative
10:30 - Naturalists
11 PM - The Eagle

KCST/ch. 39 (ABC)
7 AM - The Flintstones
7:30 - New Zoo Revue
8 AM - Major Adams, Trailmaster
9 AM - Movie: "Belvedere Rings The Bell" (1951, comedy-drama) Clifton Webb, Zero Mostel
11 AM - My Favorite Martian
11:30 - Bewitched
12 Noon - Password
12:30 - Split Second
1 PM - All My Children
1:30 - Let's Make A Deal
2 PM - Newlywed Game
2:30 - Dating Game (show's final week)
3 PM - General Hospital
3:30 - One Life To Live
4 PM - Love, American Style
4:30 - That Girl
5 PM - Dick Van Dyke
5:30 - News
6 PM - The Untouchables
7 PM - What's My Line?
7:30 - Game Game
8 PM - The Rookies - A scuba diver steals a cache of disposed drugs (repeat)
9 PM - Movie - "The Spirit Is Willing" (1966, fantasy) Sid Caesar, Vera Miles
11 PM - Green Acres
11:30 - Suspense Drama
 
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Not sure since I only had access to that day's listing. The baseball game came from NBC, so I can assume that at least at 6 was to be local news and 6:30 was NBC News. Then prime time access fare at 7 and 7:30.
 
Ccook55 said:
This comes from the San Diego Union-Tribune, July 2, 1973. Just the day before, ABC moved from XETV/ch. 6 to KCST/ch. 39, the result of a lawsuit KCST filed charging that a station licensed to Mexico cannot air programs from an American TV network (XETV is licensed to Tijuana, MX).
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I forgot about this post when the History of UHF Television website went live last Christmas, or I would have posted this then.

The above is sort-of correct, but having researched channel 39's history using Broadcasting and the San Diego Union (the merger with the Evening Tribune didn't take place until 1992), it's slightly backwards and not complete.

KAAR had gone dark concurrent with KEBS/15 signing on June 12, 1967. It was then sold to Bass Brothers Enterprises and returned to the air as KCST February 2, 1968. It was under the Bass ownership that the question of ABC affiliation came up.

When XETV took the ABC affiliation in 1956, it was a necessity due to there being only two television stations licensed in the San Diego market on the U.S. side of the border. That was the basis for the FCC granting ABC permission to transmit their programming across the border to XETV, but the authorization had to be renewed annually. When it came up for renewal in 1968, KCST challenged it at the FCC because they were now the third licensed station in the market on the U.S. side.

Both XETV and ABC fought back, and the battle stretched on until 1971, when an administrative law judge handed down an initial decision favoring the status quo but calling for ABC to be subjected to an annual audit due to claims they had made in their arguments about potential hardship. However, the FCC is not bound to accept an ALJ's decision and in 1972 they declared the XETV affiliation to not be in the public interest, considering the critical point not to be the claimed financial hardships of the network or channel 6 but the reasoning in the original 1956 decision ... channel 39 was now the third station and it was entitled to a network affiliation if it wanted one and no FCC-licensed station had it.

One month before the July, 1972 deadline for ABC to switch the affiliation, XETV and the network filed appeals of the FCC decision, but the decision was upheld by the appellate courts and so the switch took place as described ... a year late and in two parts, as described in the article at the UHF site linked below.

So it was not a lawsuit that made it to federal court, but an appeal of an FCC decision, and the filings were by XETV and ABC, not KCST (which had only filed challenges at the Commission level).

http://www.uhftelevision.com/articles/kaar.html
 
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RALfan said:
Do you have anything from the fall of 1971 for San Diego?
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I do have the Union TV Week section for the week of September 5-11 of that year but it's going to be a real b*tch to transscribe as it is in hard-to-read type. Easier for me to zip up the 14 pages and send it off to you.
 
Fascinating and enlightening article. Thanks for clearing it up.
 
I was wonder if KPBS-TV in San Diego has any pledge nights from 1971-1974, especially because of the 1973 Watergate hearings..
 
Making myself clear again, I was wondering if anyone had their San Diego Union and other San Diego newspapers(1972 through 1974) on their hands to see if KPBS-TV in San Diego has any pledge nights from 1972-1974 and especially of the 1973 Watergate hearings?
I tried to find some content of KPBS pledge nights on Genealogy Bank between March 16, 1972 through November 30, 1973, but they informed me by Gmail that they don't have holdings for these date ranges(1972-1973)!
 
I just researched, and found that there were no Watergate hearings for that and the following week due to Senate recess for Independence Day.
 
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After the week of the 4th, the Watergate hearings went on a network rotation. The show Match Game '73 replaced, Hollywood's Talking, ended June 22 so that left the week of the 25th until MG premiered on July 2. I duly recall seeing the hearings on all three networks the week of June 25.
 
Well I researched onNewspapers.com and I found on a San Francisco newspaper from June 3, 1973 where it said: "MEANWHILE, non-commercial public television has struck a viewing bonanza with Watergate, its biggest attraction snice "Forsyte Saga," but costly, at least by Public TV standards: $25,000 to $35,000 a day for gavel-to-gavel coverage. The production unit is National Public Affairs Center for Television (NPACT) at Washington, D.C., which doesn't have that kind of money. But appreciative viewers presumably do. The first two days of hearings harvested 10,000 letters "almost 100 percent favorable," laden with contributions, checks and money orders. Public TV stations around the country Miami, Dallas, etc. initiated Watergate pledge nights." I think KPBS San Diego became one of those stations that initiated Watergate pledge nights too!!
 
I even found also on the Times-Advocate of Escondido that KPBS is airing The Watergate Hearings only June, July and August and resumed on September through November!
 

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Does anyone have vintage San Diego newspaper ads about Watergate Hearings 1973 featuring KPBS?
Because many PBS stations like KPBS initiated "Watergate Pledge Nights", and I saw in the Los Angeles Times(August 20, 1973) that KCET initiated Pledge nights during the complete prime time coverage of Phase I of the Watergate Hearings has resulted in the noncommercial television station in Los Angeles receiving $105,982 from 4,404 pledges, according to Colin Barraclough, director of development for Channel 28. The 12 pledge nights occurred during June, July and August and collectively represent the most successful membership campaign in the station's nine-year history. KCET's use of the fundraising pledge nights is designed to help defray the station's operating costs which, during the special Watergate broadcasts, were higher due to sign-off time being delayed to conclusion of the coverage.
 
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