Southern California, Saturday September 13, 1969

[K.M. Richards]

This date has a special meaning to me, as it was the last day of operation for KKOG-TV/16 Ventura, which is my hometown and also the very first station I worked for in either television or radio. From the Los Angeles Times "TV Times" booklet in the Sunday, September 7 edition.

Stations listed (all Los Angeles unless otherwise identified):
2 - KNXT (CBS)
3 - KEYT Santa Barbara (ABC)
4 - KNBC (NBC)
5 - KTLA (Ind.)
6 - XETV Tijuana-San Diego (ABC)
7 - KABC (ABC)
8 - KFMB San Diego (CBS)
9 - KHJ (Ind.)
10 - KOGO San Diego (NBC)
11 - KTTV (Ind.)
13 - KCOP (Ind.)
15 - KEBS San Diego (NET)
16 - KKOG Ventura (Ind.)
22 - KWHY (Ind.)
24 - KVCR San Bernardino (NET)
28 - KCET (NET)
34 - KMEX (Ind.)
39 - KCST San Diego (Ind.)
40 - KLXA Fontana (Ind.)
52 - KBSC Corona (Ind.)

(15 and 24 did not operate on weekends.)
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6:30
7 Campus Profile

7:00
4-10 Untamed World
7-3 New Casper Cartoons
11 Mr. Wishbone
13 Felix the Cat

7:30
2 Summer Semester
4-10 Storybook Squares
7-3-6 Smokey the Bear
9 Making The Most of Maturity
13 Bozo the Clown

8:00
2-8 The Jetsons
4 Here Comes The Grump
7-3-6 Cattanooga Cats
9 Abbott and Costello
10 Uncle Russ Cartoons
11 Wells Fargo
13 Gumby

8:30
2-8 Bugs Bunny-Road Runner
4-10 Pink Panther
5 Campus Profile
9 Movie: "Flight of the Lost Balloon" (1960)
11 Cisco Kid
13 Rocket Robin Hood
34 Escuela KMEX

9:00
4-10 H.R. Pufnstuf
5 Movie: "The Palomino" (1950)
7-3-6 Hot Wheels
11 Movie: "Force of Evil" (1948)
13 Ruff 'n' Reddy
34 Estudio de Pedro Vargas
40 Panorama Latino

9:30
2-8 Dastardly & Muttley in Their Flying Machines
4-10 Banana Splits
7-3-6 Hardy Boys
13 Amazing Three
34 Las Estrellas y Usted

10:00
2-8 The Perils of Penelope Pitatop
7-3-6 Sky Hawks
9 Movie: "Gunfight at Red Sands" (1965)
13 Movie: "City of Missing Girls" (1941)
34 La Victima

10:15
11 Movie: "The Great Adventure" (1954)

10:30
2-8 Scooby-Doo, Where Are You
4-10 Jambo
5 Movie: "Song of India" (1949)
6 Marshal Dillon
7-3 Adventures of Gulliver
34 Archivo del Dr. Moran

11:00
2-8 The Archie Comedy Hour
4 Flintstones
6 Profile of a Rookie
7-3 Fantastic Voyage
(programming for 10, and perhaps also 34, oddly omitted ... I'm guessing 10 ran a movie since the next listing is at 1:00)

11:30
4 Underdog
7-3 American Bandstand
9 Movie: "Springfield Rifle" (1952)
13 Movie: "Beast of Marseilles" (1959)

12:00
2-8 The Monkees
4 Film
5 Movie: "Border Rangers" (1950)
6 Film
11 Evans-Novak Report
34 Teatro Familiar
39 Cartoon Carnival
40 Musica y Bailes Nortenos

12:30
2-8 Wacky Races
6 Movie
7-3 Happening
11 Movie: "Captain Boycott" (1947)
39 Robin Hood

1:00
2-8 Superman
3 Social Security; Public Service Film
4-10 Baseball: Major League Game of the Week
7 Movie: "The Search" (1948)
9 Movie: "Gorgo" (1961)
13 Commercial Films
34 Mas Alla de la Muerte
39 Patty Duke
40 Mexican Movie

1:30
2-8 AAU Track and Field
3 Passport to Profit; Secret of Financial Security
5 Movie: "Black Magic" (1944)
13 Wrestling
39 Dakotas

2:00
3 Stories of Success
6 All-Star Golf

2:30
2-8 NFL Action
3 Movie: "Calamity Jane and Sam Bass" (1950)
9 Movie: "Jump Into Hell" (1955)
11 Movie: "The Living Head" (1959)
39 Movie: "Pursuit Across the Desert" (1951)

3:00
2 Steps to Learning
6 Trackdown
7 Movie: "Woman Obsessed" (1959)
8 Movie: "Under Fire" (1956)
10 Movie: "The Terror" (1963)
13 Sampson
34 Un Color Para Esta Piel
40 Desfile de Estrellas

3:30
2 Movie: "Wild on the Beach" (1965)
5 Jai Alai
6 Movie
13 Patty Duke Show
40 Mexican Movie

3:45
39 Movie: "The Verdict" (1946)

4:00
3 What's All the Cheering About?
4 Football: Grambling vs Alcorn A&M charity game (taped previous evening)
9 Wagon Train
11 Man from UNCLE
13 McHale's Navy

4:30
5 Outdoors
8 Car and Track
13 Munsters

4:45
16 Mexican-American News

5:00
2 All American College Show
5 Scene '70
7-3-6 Wide World of Sports: Southern 500 Stock Car Race
8 Good Guys
10 Adam-12
11 Daktari
13 Batman
16 Fiesta Mexicana
22 Peter Gunn
28 Museum Open House
34 Soccer from Mexico
39 Outdoors
52 Voice of Agriculture

5:30
2 Ralph Story's Los Angeles
8 Beverly Hillbillies
9 Twilight Zone
10 News - White
13 Gilligan's Island
22 Mr. and Mrs. North
28 International Magazine
39 Movie: "Danger Woman" (1946)
52 Flight 52: "Kyoto, Ancient Capital of Japan"

6:00
2 News - Roberts
5 One Step Beyond
9 Boss City
11 Barbara McNair
13 The Invaders
16 News
22 TV Reader's Digest
52 Passport 52: "Selamat Datang"

6:30
4-10 News - Huntley, Brinkley
5 Melody Ranch
7-3-6 NCAA Football: Air Force vs. SMU
10 The Virginian (I think this was supposed to be the 7:00 listing)
16 Travel Thrills
22 Dr. Hudson's Secret Journal
28 Playing the Guitar
39 The Westerners
52 World Tour: "Land of the Big Blue Sky"

7:00
2-8 News - Mudd
4 News - Burns
9 Death Valley Days
11 Back to School With the King Family (special)
13 Wonders of the World
16 Fred Maddox
22 Movie: "Code of the Prairie" (1945)
28 NET Journal
34 Do-Re-Mi
52 Discover America!

7:30
2-8 Jackie Gleason
4-10 Adam-12
5 Movie: "Where There's Life" (1947)
9 Movie: "The Sea Chase" (1955)
13 Wonderful World of Women
16 Adventures Roundup
34 Caudillos
39 Open Road
52 The Adventurer

8:00
4-10 Get Smart
11 George Putnam in Israel (special)
13 American West
22 Movie: "San Antonio Kid" (1944)
28 Conservative Profile
34 Mexican Movie
39 Buck Owens
52 Westward Ho!

8:30
2-8 My Three Sons
4-10 Movie: "To Kill a Mockingbird" (1962)
13 Buck Owens
16 Mr. Know It All
39 Porter Wagoner
52 This Fabulous World

9:00
2-8 Hogan's Heroes
11 World of Lowell Thomas
13 Bill Anderson
16 Country Music Time
22 Movie: "The Ghost Rider" (1946)
28 NET Playhouse
39 Country Carousel

9:30
2-8 Petticoat Junction
7-3-6 Lawrence Welk
9 News - Burrell
13 Kitty Wells
39 Wilburn Brothers

10:00
2-8 Mannix
5 Movie: "Lost Weekend" (1947)
9 Philbin's People
11 News - Jones
13 Ernest Tubb
16 Sex and You
22 Movie: "Fighting Bill Carson" (1947)
34 Boxing from Mexico
39 News

10:30
3 Let's Make a Deal
6 Movie
7 News - Bonds
11 Joe Pyne
13 Swingin' Gospel
16 News
28 Movie: "Hills of Kentucky" (1927, silent)
39 Movie: "Force of Evil" (1948)

11:00
2 News - Roberts
7-3 News - McBee
9 Movie: "Greenwich Village" (1944)
(listing for 8 missing ... likely the news)

11:15
2 Movie: "The Nightfighters" (1960)
3 Movie: "Calamity Jane and Sam Bass" (1950)
4 News - Burns
7 Movie: "Mystery Street" (1950)
10 News - Grey

11:30
8 Man From UNCLE
13 Commercial Film

11:45
4 Tonight
10 Movie: "Skirts Ahoy" (1952)
13 Movie: "The Overlanders" (1946)

12:00
5 Movie: "Blackout" (1954)
6 Movie

12:30
9 Movie: "Castle of the Living Dead" (1964)
11 Men in Crisis

1:00
2 Movie: "The Saboteur" (1942)
11 Movie: "Dangerous Profession" (1949)

1:15
7 Adventures of the Seaspray

2:15
11 Movie: "Mark of Cain" (1948)

4:00
11 Movie: "FBI 99" (1966)

 

[Mauro1515]

The San Diego Non-Commercial TV station KPBS as KEBS-TV, and it first went on the air on June 25th, 1967. But by October 1, 1970!! the call letters for KEBS have NOW changed to KPBS-TV!! And then on October 5th, 1970, NET(National Educational Television) officially became the Public Broadcasting Service, or PBS for short. The station just for Monday-Fridays, and then on Sundays for its first ever 5 years!!
KPBS did broadcast Saturdays by November 21, 1970 just 5 times of repeats of Sesame Street, But then, ALL WENT WELL, but KPBS was in danger because of precariouness of state support and cuts in grants since early February 1971, so then it now turns to the community for financial support and since its FIRST EVER TV On-Air Membership Campaign began February 14, 1971 and it now conducts Pledge Nights from 3 times each month throughout every year(1971 to 1973), ALL WENT WELL until the station is in danger AGAIN because its budget for state funds has been SLASHED by the state of California on June 1971 and Saturdays for Sesame Street at that same time have gone, and for that POINT, KPBS is now conducting MORE Pledge Nights from 3 times each month throughout every year(1971 to 1973) to keep the non-commercial station going strong from Viewers Like You and by 1974 through today...NOW conducting Membership Campaigns 4 months a year(4 times)-March(3 weeks), June, August and December(2 weeks)!! Then on May 1974 through June 1987...The KPBS Auction from 5 nights through 9 nights at that Time!!
NOTE: KPBS didn't broadcast Saturdays again until September 1972!!

 

[K.M. Richards]

I am still trying to decipher the combination of your syntax, the run-on sentences punctuated almost entirely by exclamation points, use of the present rather than past tense, and newspaper articles which are essentially unreadable because of cropping.

But I think there was something relevant in there someplace ...

 

[Ccook55]

This was the premiere date for CBS's Saturday kidvid shows. NBC and ABC had theirs the week prior.

 

[Ccook55]

I am guessing the listings of Untamed World and Storybook Squares on the NBC channels is a misprint as Heckle & Jeckle occupied that time period starting the week prior and Storybook Squares ended August 30.

 

[K.M. Richards]

I am guessing the listings of Untamed World and Storybook Squares on the NBC channels is a misprint as Heckle & Jeckle occupied that time period starting the week prior and Storybook Squares ended August 30.

All I know is what I saw in print. Back then there were no national listings services for newspapers so the Times would have manually entered whatever was in the schedules provided to them by the local stations.