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Coos Bay, OR (February 2, 1980)

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Bluenoser

from The World via Newspapers.com

2 KEZI Eugene
3 KOAC Corvallis
4 KCBY Coos Bay
5 KOBI Medford
6 KPTV Portland
7 California Programs 1 (KTVU Oakland/KTXL Sacramento)
8 KGW Portland
10 California Programs 2 (KPIX and KBHK San Francisco)'
 
Back in the 1980s, various Oregon TV Guide editions had generic listings for "(California)" and they appeared to be wild-card cable channels, such as are described here. I'll have to dig up the channels-listed pages (have them scanned here somewhere).
 
Bluenoser said:
from The World via Newspapers.com

2 KEZI Eugene
3 KOAC Corvallis
4 KCBY Coos Bay
5 KOBI Medford
6 KPTV Portland
7 California Programs 1 (KTVU Oakland/KTXL Sacramento)
8 KGW Portland
10 California Programs 2 (KPIX and KBHK San Francisco)'
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Let me help with affiliations at the time (as call letters were right except for one)...

KEZI 9 - ABC Eugene
KOAC 7 - PBS/OEPBS Corvallis (now known as OPB)
KCBY 11 - NBC Coos Bay (now CBS)
KOBI 5 - ABC Medford (now NBC)
KPTV 12 - Ind Portland (now FOX)
KTVU 2 - Ind Oakland (now FOX)
KTXL 40 - Ind Sacramento (now FOX)
KGW 8 - NBC Portland
KPIX 5 - CBS San Francisco
KBHK 44 - Ind San Francisco (now KBCW - The CW)
 
Was it usual for KPIX to be used on the California program channels, given that they were a CBS affiliate, and other stations used on those channels (KBHK/KTVU/KTXL/KGSC) were indies?
 
Bluenoser said:
Was it usual for KPIX to be used on the California program channels, given that they were a CBS affiliate, and other stations used on those channels (KBHK/KTVU/KTXL/KGSC) were indies?
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I wondered about that myself. Possible that they could have used KPIX for Bay Area news? Did any of the other stations have strong news operations back then?
 
IM42A said:
I wondered about that myself. Possible that they could have used KPIX for Bay Area news? Did any of the other stations have strong news operations back then?
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Or some CBS programs, as CBS got the shaft in southern Oregon during this era (in Medford, KOBI was primary ABC/secondary CBS while KTVL (not carried in Coos Bay) was primary NBC/secondary CBS, while in Eugene, KEZI was primary ABC but aired NFL games from CBS live and KVAL/KCBY/KPIC were primary NBC/secondary CBS)
 
ftballfan said:
Or some CBS programs, as CBS got the shaft in southern Oregon during this era (in Medford, KOBI was primary ABC/secondary CBS while KTVL (not carried in Coos Bay) was primary NBC/secondary CBS, while in Eugene, KEZI was primary ABC but aired NFL games from CBS live and KVAL/KCBY/KPIC were primary NBC/secondary CBS)
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Very possibly. I lost a lot of my old TV Guides due to mold and insect infestation (stored in an environment not of my choosing for several months by someone else), so I don't know if I have any old Oregon TV Guides, but it seems to me, now that I think of it, that the California wild-card channel did air daytime CBS programming.
 
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