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Arizona TV Nostalgia

Bits and pieces of Tucson TV news from 1980:


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Here's video of the 1982 on-air hostage crisis at KOOL (now KSAZ). Because the gunman brought a portable TV set with him, the station was unable to go off the air without endangering Bill Close. More than five hours later, the gunman finally surrendered.

You can go the 22:25 mark for coverage of the incident as seen on that night’s news–including the first minutes of the hostage-taking:

 
Staying with KTVK, here's a behind-the-scenes look at the station's broadcasts from Chicago during the 1993 NBA Finals, when the Suns and the Bulls went head-to-head and some of KTVK's newscasts originated from the Windy City (with a helping hand from WLS):

 
From early 1986, a KPNX Action News promo featuring the song "We're Going Where You're Going":


A few months later, KPNX dropped the Action News name and changed its logo, but adopted an instrumental version of "We're Going Where You're Going" as its news theme:

 
I take it that this edition was prior to October 9, 1986. That was the day Fox (or, briefly, FBC) started up. It would have been listed as on Channel 15.
 
KeithE4 said:
I take it that this edition was prior to October 9, 1986. That was the day Fox (or, briefly, FBC) started up. It would have been listed as on Channel 15.
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Yes, this was the July 5, 1986, issue of TV Guide (with the prime time grid for July 7).

By the way, the first Goodwill Games got the cover billing that week. Perhaps surprisingly, Prescott's struggling little KUSK held the broadcast rights in the Phoenix market (perhaps an indication that even then, the answer to TV Guide's question: "Will the U.S.-Soviet matchup make them a smash on TV?" was "Probably not.")

 
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TVWorldwide said:
Yes, this was the July 5, 1986, issue of TV Guide (with the prime time grid for July 7).

By the way, the first Goodwill Games got the cover billing that week. Perhaps surprisingly, Prescott's struggling little KUSK held the broadcast rights in the Phoenix market (perhaps an indication that even then, the answer to TV Guide's question: "Will the U.S.-Soviet matchup make them a smash on TV?" was "Probably not.")

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I wonder what were the other clearances for the Goodwill Games elsewhere? Given they aired on Turner's Superstation WTBS, they couldn't have been the best. This was around the time KUSK tried to be a full market independent, but the presence of KNXV and KUTP (despite the latter two not even having any Northern Arizona translators) was too much.

KeithE4 said:
I take it that this edition was prior to October 9, 1986. That was the day Fox (or, briefly, FBC) started up. It would have been listed as on Channel 15.
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IIRC. Fox affiliates were listed as independent in newspaper listings until 1988 or 1989. Maybe not in TV Guide until Murdoch took over either.
 
For comparison with the above, here's a 1988 lineup from Matt Sittel's TV Guide site:


A few changes immediately stand out:
* Yuma/El Centro stations are now included in the Phoenix edition.
* KNXV is now affiliated with Fox.
* The Spanish International Network is now known as Univision.
* KUSI is now listed with its Valley translator channel (27) instead of its originating Prescott channel (7). (It would return to 7 a few years later.)
 
TVWorldwide said:
For comparison with the above, here's a 1988 lineup from Matt Sittel's TV Guide site:


A few changes immediately stand out:
* Yuma/El Centro stations are now included in the Phoenix edition.
* KNXV is now affiliated with Fox.
* The Spanish International Network is now known as Univision.
* KUSI is now listed with its Valley translator channel (27) instead of its originating Prescott channel (7). (It would return to 7 a few years later.)
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