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If you stumble across any retro East Texas TV schedules that date back to 1954 when KLTV started (whether it would be at the library or something), let me know. Also if there is a link to this, include that as well. Because I'm having a hard time trying to find the first shows KLTV started with.<P ID="signature">______________
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> If you stumble across any retro East Texas TV schedules that
> date back to 1954 when KLTV started (whether it would be at
> the library or something), let me know. Also if there is a
> link to this, include that as well. Because I'm having a
> hard time trying to find the first shows KLTV started with.
>
I can try to research that for you the next time I'm in the Tyler library...I don't have all the TV Guides like some collectors, and I'm not aware of anything already posted online so far. The only related things I have would be a very old map of Tyler that doubles as a TV channel listing with grids (it's either late-60s or early-70s era), as well as the TV Guide from early 1987 that first began coverage of KETK/56 (they were listed for a few weeks before the actual debut of the station, due to technical delays getting 56 on the air).
 
> > If you stumble across any retro East Texas TV schedules
> that
> > date back to 1954 when KLTV started (whether it would be
> at
> > the library or something), let me know. Also if there is a
>
> > link to this, include that as well. Because I'm having a
> > hard time trying to find the first shows KLTV started
> with.
> >
> I can try to research that for you the next time I'm in the
> Tyler library...I don't have all the TV Guides like some
> collectors, and I'm not aware of anything already posted
> online so far. The only related things I have would be a
> very old map of Tyler that doubles as a TV channel listing
> with grids (it's either late-60s or early-70s era), as well
> as the TV Guide from early 1987 that first began coverage of
> KETK/56 (they were listed for a few weeks before the actual
> debut of the station, due to technical delays getting 56 on
> the air).
>

That will be great. I also think that they might collect those TV schedules from old Tyler newspapers by way of microfiche. If you can locate that, that would be a plus.

I understand that KLTV was a three network affiliate. I'm a native East Texan throughout most of my life until I moved here in Mississippi. But during my younger years in the late 60s-early 70s, most of the primetime were NBC. I was wondering if KLTV's primary was NBC with CBS and ABC as secondaries. I know that in the mid-70s up to 1984, they switch primaries when ABC was the #1 network in the 70s putting NBC and CBS as secondaries. That I do remember.
<P ID="signature">______________
Note to MRS Ventures: Have you checked your transmitter lately? It's leaking dead air!</P>
 
> > > If you stumble across any retro East Texas TV schedules
> > that
> > > date back to 1954 when KLTV started (whether it would be
>
> > at
> > > the library or something), let me know.

> I also think that they might collect
> those TV schedules from old Tyler newspapers by way of
> microfiche. If you can locate that, that would be a plus.
>
> I understand that KLTV was a three network affiliate. I'm a
> native East Texan throughout most of my life until I moved
> here in Mississippi. But during my younger years in the late
> 60s-early 70s, most of the primetime were NBC. I was
> wondering if KLTV's primary was NBC with CBS and ABC as
> secondaries. I know that in the mid-70s up to 1984, they
> switch primaries when ABC was the #1 network in the 70s
> putting NBC and CBS as secondaries. That I do remember.
>
When I get the info, would you like it emailed (or I could post it on a website)?

As far as a 'primary' situation, I'm not really sure, although the only time I saw anything regarding a possible _preference_, would have been in the time after KLMG's debut in 1984 and KETK's in 1987. I do remember a slight lean to ABC programs in primetime in the late 70s, and by that 1984-1987 timeframe, I don't remember too much in the way of anything non-ABC unless it was weekend sports (?).
 
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