Retro: Fresno, Thursday, April 15, 1976

[DM601]

Source: The Modesto Bee

KMJ-TV 24 (NBC)
AM
6:15 Spanish News
6:30 College By TV (Note: The Bee listed all stations’ morning instructional shows by this title)
7 Today
9 Celebrity Sweepstakes
9:30 High Rollers
10 Wheel Of Fortune
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11 Fun Factory (debuted Monday, April 12)
11:30 Take My Advice
PM
12 News
12:30 Days Of Our Lives
1:30 The Doctors
2 Another World
3 Vegetable Soup
3:30 Dinah!
5 Ironside
6 News
6:30 NBC News
7 Adam-12
7:30 American Lifestyle
8 Mac Davis Show
9 Movie: “The Greatest Story Ever Told” Part 1
11 News
11:30 Tonight Show (guests: Roy Clark, John Byner)
1A Tomorrow

KFSN 30 (CBS)
AM
6:30 College By TV
7 News
7:30 Funtime with Al Radko
8 Captain Kangaroo
9 Donahue
10 Gambit
10:30 Love Of Life
11 Young And The Restless
11:30 Search For Tomorrow
PM
12 Answers And Action
12:30 As The World Turns
1:30 Guiding Light
2 All In The Family
2:30 Match Game
3 Tattletales
3:30 Price Is Right
4:30 Merv Griffin
6 News
6:30 CBS News
7 Truth Or Consequences
7:30 Wild World Of Animals
8 The Waltons (2 hr. special: Olivia stricken with polio)
10 Barnaby Jones
11 News
11:30 CBS Movie: “The Shoes Of The Fisherman” (3 hrs.)
2:30A Answers And Action

KJEO 47 (ABC)
AM
7 Good Morning America
9 AM Fresno
9:30 Sesame Street (not a misprint)
10:30 Happy Days
11 Rhyme And Reason
11:30 Break The Bank (debuted Monday, April 12)
PM
12 Edge Of Night
12:30 All My Children
1 Ryan’s Hope
1:30 Let’s Make A Deal
2 $20,000 Pyramid (Loretta Swit, Tony Randall)
2:30 One Life To Live
3 General Hospital
3:30 Mickey Mouse Club
4:30 The Monkees
5 Partridge Family
5:30 News
6 ABC News
6:30 Hogan’s Heroes
7 Mike Douglas
8 Welcome Back, Kotter
8:30 Barney Miller
9 Streets of San Francisco
10 ABC News Closeup (Examining tax-funded medical programs)
11 News
11:30 Mannix
12:30A The Magician

 

[TexasTom]

Weren't KMPH, channel 26, and KAIL, channel 53, around yet in 1976?

 

[Markd]

KMPH was around since 1971 and was a conventional independent. KAIL was around from 1961 to 1973. They went dark in 1973 and sold programming to KMPH. Their owners had an AM and FM radio station and kept them on the air. They did not turn the Channel 53 license to the FCC. They were allowed back then to hold onto the license for some reason. Likely because there was little interest in it. The station went back on the air October of 1976 with an hour of public affairs shows run twice a day giving the stations 2 hours a day on the air. This was done to get the station back on. Then the station began selling time. Soon after they added 3 hours to run TBN's Praise The Lord (which they locally would cut back to 2 hours), then The PTL Club for 2 hours plus an hour to repeat the first hour, then a double run of the 700 Club later in 77. The station very gradually expanded the day initially adding a couple low budget entertainment shows to the schedule. They station was about 15 hours a day by 1980 and most of the day by 1982. The station added more sitcoms and cartoons by 1984 and cut back on religion by then.

 

[Ccook55]

Is that date right? The Fun Factory debut is listed as June 14, 1976. The Gong Show debuted the same day. It was The Magnificent Marble Machine airing on NBC at 11AM PDT on 4/15/76.

 

[Corky Marlowe]

Regarding "Sesame Street", probably not a mistake. It aired on commercial stations in a lot of markets where there was no public station.

 

[Markd]

Regarding "Sesame Street", probably not a mistake. It aired on commercial stations in a lot of markets where there was no public station.

You were right Sesame Street did air on a commercial station in Fresno till 1977. Fresno did not get their own full time PBS station till 1977, Surprised that KAIL did not affiliate with PBS in their doldrum years.

 

[Markd]

26 KMPH (Ind.) Pappas - April 15, 1976

6 AM 700 CLUB
7 AM UNDERDOG-Cartoons
7:30 FLINTSTONES-Cartoon
8 AM BUGS BUNNY & PORKY PIG-Cartoons
8:30 MISTER ED-Comedy (BW)
9 AM DENNIS THE MENACE-Comedy (BW)
9:30 GREEN ACRES-Comedy
10 AM PETTICOAT JUNCTION-Comedy (BW)
10:30 BEWITCHED-Comedy
11 AM MARCUS WELBY MD-Drama
12 NOON MOVIE - It's In The Bag (1945) (BW)
2 PM LEAVE IT TO BEAVER-Comedy (BW)
2:30 YOGI BEAR & HUCKLEBERRY HOUND-Cartoons
3 PM BUGS BUNNY & PORKY PIG-Cartoons
3:30 BANANA SPLITS & FRIENDS-Cartoons
4 PM LITTLE RASCALS/OUR GANG-Comedy (BW)
4:30 FLINTSTONES-Cartoon
5 PM BRADY BUNCH-Comedy
5:30 FAMILY AFFAIR-Comedy
6 PM I DREAM OF JEANNIE-Comedy
6:30 BEWITCHED-Comedy
7 PM I LOVE LUCY-Comedy
7:30 ANDY GRIFFITH-Comedy (BW)
8 PM MOVIE - Warpath (1951)
10 PM GUNSMOKE-Western
11 PM ODD COUPLE-Comedy
11:30 HONEYMOONERS-Comedy
12 MID PTL CLUB-Jim Bakker
1 AM SIGN OFF

21 KFTV (SIN) Spanish International Network

12 NOON PTL CLUB-Jim Bakker (In English)
2 PM 700 CLUB (In English)
3:30 PUBLIC FORUM (In English)
4 PM COCODRILLA
4:30 MUNDO DE JUGUETTE
5 PM UNO MUCHACHA LLAMA DA MILAGROS
6 PM NOTICAS
7 PM EL HILO DE ANGELA DE MARIA
8 PM FUTBALL (SOCCER)
10 PM BARATTA DE PRIMIVERA
10:30 24 HORAS
11 PM PERICULA - Simitrio
1 AM SIGN OFF