San Diego/Los Angeles Sat. July 6, 1963

[Ccook55]

Awhile back I had posted San Diego's TV listings for this date. The source--the San Diego Union-Times--also featured listings for six of the seven Los Angeles VHF channels (KHJ/ch. 9 was left out), so I am reposting it with the Los Angeles programming.

2 - KNXT (CBS) Los Angeles
4 - KNBC (NBC) Los Angeles
5 - KTLA (Ind.) Los Angeles
6 - XETV (ABC) Tijuana MX/San Diego
7 - KABC (ABC) Los Angeles
8 - KFMB (CBS) San Diego
10 - KOGO (NBC) San Diego
11 - KTTV (Ind.) Los Angeles
12 - XEWT (Televisa) Tijuana MX
13 - KCOP (Ind.) Los Angeles

Saturday, July 6, 1963
7 AM
4 - Movie: "Ladies of the Chorus" (Musical drama, 1949)

7:30
5 - Design For Learning
11 - The Christophers (religious)

7:55
10 - Today's Datebook

8 AM
4, 10 - Mr. Wizard
5 - Hopalong Cassidy
11 - Western Theatre

8:20
2 - Give Us This Day

8:30
2, 8 - Sky King (for some reason, this show is listed twice. This early airing may due to a pre-emption the week before)
4, 10 -Ruff & Reddy
6 - Movie: "Hunt The Man Down" (Drama, 1950)
7 - Zoorama

8:45
13 - Sacred Heart

9 AM
2, 8 - Captain Kangaroo
4, 10 - Shari Lewis
5 - Zorro
7 - Movie: "Black Trail" (Western, 1948)
11 - Movie: "A Guy Named Joe" (Romance, 1944)
13 - Panorama

9:30
4, 10 - King Leonardo & His Short Subjects
5 - Speedway International

10 AM
2, 8 - Alvin Show
4, 10 - Fury
5 - Movie: "The Kid From Cincinnati" (Drama, 1949)
6 - Uncle Russ
7 - Movie: "Fence Riders" (Western, 1950)

10:30
2 - Mighty Mouse
4 - Make Room For Daddy
8 - CBS Saturday News (perhaps plucked from the East Coast feed since ch. 8 was airing a baseball game?)
10 - Baseball: New York Yankees at Cleveland

10:45
8 - Dizzy Dean

11 AM
2 - Rin Tin Tin
4 - Crusader Rabbit (The hour time frame indicates that this was in a package of story arcs from the 1958 color series re-edited as a 45-minute featurette)
6, 7 - Paul Winchell's Cartoonies (Paramount's "Modern Madcaps" series, which would migrate to The New Casper Cartoon Show two months later)
8 - Baseball: Minnesota at Baltimore
11 - Movie: "The Road To Glory" (War, 1936)
13 - Variedades

11:30
2 - Roy Rogers
5 - Movie: "The Man From Cairo" (Drama, British-Italian, 1953)
6, 7 - Beany & Cecil

12 Noon
2 - Sky King (regular in-pattern airing)
4 - Ivanhoe
6, 7 - Bugs Bunny
13 - Western Cowboy

12:30
2 - CBS Saturday News
4 - Teacher '63
6, 7 - Magic Land Of Allakazam

12:45
2 - Time Out For Sports

1 PM
2 - Space: The New Ocean
4 - World Of Ornamentals
5 - Movie: "The Ox-Bow Incident" (Drama, 1943)
6, 7 - My Friend Flicka
13 - Bowling

1:20
11 - Movie: "Hitler's Madman" (War, 1943)

1:30
2 - Teenage Trials
4 - Movie: "Three Outlaws" (Western, 1956)
6 - Wide World Of Sports: Men's singles final of the Wimbledon All-English championship (taped; not sure if from another source since XETV had ABC shows bicycled to them)
7 - Exclusively Outdoors
10 - Magoo Theater
13 - Movie: "Wake Of The Red Witch" (Adventure, 1948)

2 PM
2 - L.A. Report
7 - Studio Seven
8 - Roy Rogers (delayed from 11:30 AM)
10 - Movie: "Gung Ho!" (War, 1943)

2:30
2 - Viewpoint
5 - Wrestling (Los Angeles)
8 - Sky King (delayed from 12 Noon)

3 PM
2 - Repertoire Workshop
4 - Agriculture U.S.A.
6 - Racket Squad
8 - Mighty Mouse (delayed from 10:30 AM)
11 - Redondo Beach Neptune Days
13 - Movie: "City Of Silent Men" (Crime drama, 1942)

3:30
2 - Movie: "The Spoilers" (Western, 1942)
4 - Profile
5 - Californians
6 - Code Three
8 - Rin Tin Tin (delayed from 11 AM)
10 - Wrestling (San Diego)
12 - Auto Auction

4 PM
4 - Just For Fun
5 - Women's Bowling
6 - Movie: "I Was Monty's Double" (War, 1959)
8 - Movie: "Tarzan's New Adventure" (Adventure, 1942)
12 - Club Cine En Su Casa

4:30
4 - Movie: "Drums" (Adventure, 1938)
5 - Bowling Tourney
7 - Wide World Of Sports (presumably in-pattern taped coverage of Wimbledon)
10 - Movie: "The Invisible Man's Revenge" (Science fiction, 1944)
11 - Hobbymaster
13 - Movie: "Dawn Express" (Suspense, 1942)

5 PM
2 - Post Parade
11 - Don Durant

5:15
2 - Horse Racing From Hollywood Park

5:30
5 - Weird, Weird World
6 - Trails West
11 - R.C.M.P.
12 - Ritmos de Juventad

5:45
2 - Movie: "Conquest of Cochise" (Western, 1953)

6 PM
4, 8, 10 - News
6 - Highway Patrol
7 - New Breed
11 - Don Smoot
12 - El Tio Rifles
13 - Ann Sothern

6:15
4, 11 - News

6:30
4 - News Conference
6 - Bat Masterson
8 - M Squad
11 - Dance Time
12 - Fiesta Brava
13 - Frontier Circus

6:45
2, 10 - News

7 PM
2 - Sea Hunt
4 - Wyatt Earp
5 - Jeff's Collie
6, 7 - Fight Of The Week
8 - Third Man
10 - Price Is Right (kinescope delay from 9:30 PM Friday)
11 - Dr. Kildare

7:30
2, 8 - Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour
4, 10 - Sam Benedict
5 - Yancy Derringer
13 - Programming unannounced

7:45
6, 7 - Make That Spare

8 PM
5 - Restless Gun
6 - It Was Your War (XETV would run ABC's shows here on half-hour delays, perhaps the result of bicycling)
7 - Hootenanny
13 - Country Music Time

8:30
2, 8 - Defenders
4, 10 - Joey Bishop
5 - Movie: "Flame Of The Islands" (Suspense, 1956)
6 - Hootenanny
7 - Lawrence Welk
11 - Chiller
12 - Panorama Social

9 PM
4, 10 - Movie: "The President's Lady" (Biography, 1953)
6 - Lawrence Welk
12 - Sonrisas

9:30
2, 8 - Have Gun, Will Travel
7 - Gallent Men
12 - Medico

10 PM
2, 8 - Gunsmoke
5 - Roy Anthony
6 - Gallent Men
11 - Movie: "Sunday Punch" (Comedy, 1942)
12 - Box Desde la Ciudad de Mexico

10:30
5 - Movie: "The Shanghai Story" (Drama, 1954)
7 - Lockup

11 PM
2, 4, 8, 10 - News
6 - Wrestling
7 - Manhunt
13 - Jeepers Creepers

11:15
2 - Movie: "Safari" (Adventure, 1956)
4 - Desilu Playhouse

11:25
10 - Regis Philbin

11:30
6 - Movie: "Frankenstein" (Horror, 1931)
7 - Grand Jury
8 - Steve Allen
11 - Movie: "Sky Murder" (Mystery, 1940)

11:45
13 - Movie: "The Flame" (Crime drama, 1947)

12 Midnight
5 - Movie: "Singing Guns" (Western, 1950)
7 - Movie: "Deadline For Murder" (Crime drama, 1946)

12:30
4 - Movie: "Wild Dakotas" (Western, 1956)

1 AM
11 - Movie: "Blackmail" (Thriller, 1929)

1:15
2 - Movie: "Mad About Music" (Musical comedy, 1936)

1:30
7 - Movie: "Captain Fury" (Western, 1939)

1:45
13 - Cameo Theater

2:30
13 - Movie (unannounced)

2:45
2 - News

2:50
2 - Give Us This Day
11 - All-Night Show

 

[ftballfan]

Did KHJ have a weaker signal than the other LA stations at the time?

 

[Ccook55]

Probably not strong enough to get to the north fringes of the San Diego market. When our family lived out there in Escondido, we turned our antenna toward Los Angeles to see what would come in. It was a crap shoot. 2, 4, 5 and 7 came in but barely.

 

[Gregg.]

I suppose if you were closer to the coast you would have picked up most if not all the LA signals. I know full power FM stations from LA are quite strong near the water from Oceanside down to Del Mar.

When cable first came into use, I believe Northern San Diego County got all the major LA TV stations, while San Diego and its closer neighbors got independent channels 5 and 11, maybe 9 and 13. In fact, KTLA 5 was still on San Diego cable as recently as a few years ago, the last LA signal available. Maybe it's still there. Of course, San Diego now has so many of its own TV signals, as well as from Tijuana, that cable providers don't feel the need to include more than KTLA in the cable line up. KTLA does a surprising amount of local news, so that's why it may still be included since it's not duplicating much programming already available on San Diego stations.

 

[Gregg.]

By the way, KTTV 11 was one of the first TV stations to go almost 24/7. At 2:50 am, the listings show 11 with "All Night Show," while KNXT 2 is doing "Give Us This Day" just before its sign-off. The San Diego Union-Tribune probably doesn't want to list all the old movies 11 will be running, so it sums it up as "All Night Show."

I believe that KTTV Los Angeles and WCBS-TV 2 NYC were the only two stations broadcasting around the clock in 1963. A few stations in other cities would broadcast all night on Saturday night, a few on Friday and Saturday. And eventually KNXT 2 would match KTTV with all night programming, becoming the third station in America, maybe in the world, running nearly 24/7.

I say "nearly 24/7" because stations still had to do some transmitter maintenance in those days, every 24 hours. Both stations signed off each day for about 60 minutes, but staggered it. KNXT did it around 5:30 am so it could start the day around 6:30. KTTV did it around 6:30 am so it could sign on at 7:30. And when I say "sign off" I mean ran no real programming. They both often had a test pattern on, all that time, unless they had to totally shut down the transmitter.

 

[Mauro1515]

1963 was actually before KCET 28 went on the air on September 28, 1964 in Los Angeles and KEBS 15(before named KPBS on October 1, 1970) first went on the air on June 25, 1967 in San Diego!!

 

[K.M. Richards]

6 - Wide World Of Sports: Men's singles final of the Wimbledon All-English championship (taped; not sure if from another source since XETV had ABC shows bicycled to them)

6 - It Was Your War (XETV would run ABC's shows here on half-hour delays, perhaps the result of bicycling)

Actually, as I pointed out in my post about ABC moving from channel 6 to channel 39 in 1973, ABC had a live microwave interconnect to XETV by 1963. I don't know why there would still have been any bicycling, nor can I explain the odd way channel 6 was programmed back then.

 

[Ccook55]

Ah, noted. Even though it's my childhood neck of the woods, I am still a mite uneducated about their broadcast legacy.