BY REQUEST: San Diego, Saturday, September 11, 1971

[K.M. Richards]

Saturday, September 11, 1971
from the San Diego Union TV Week supplement

Note: Although the Union also listed the VHFs from Los Angeles plus KCET/28, I am only listing the San Diego stations here, because the font and size they chose is hard enough to read in the first place. They even listed KEYT/3 in Santa Barbara, which was viewable in much of the coastal region of San Diego County due to the signal path being a straight line over the Pacific Ocean.

Network programs are marked with a * based on simultaneous carriage by the L.A. network O&O station.


XETV/6 (Tijuana) - ABC
7:30am - Road Runner *
8:00 - Phantom *
8:30 - Jackson 5 *
9:00 - Bewitched *
9:30 - Tijuana: Window To The South (Lidsville pre-empted)
10:00 - Curiosity Shop *
11:00 - Real Estate Rentals (Jonny Quest and Lancelot Link pre-empted)
Noon - Movie: "The Risk" (1961) (American Bandstand pre-empted)
1:30pm - Mobile Home Show
2:00 - Movie: "The Quiet Gun" (1957)
3:30 - NCAA Football: Grambling vs. Morgan State, from Yankee Stadium *
6:30 - Wide World Of Sports *
8:00 - Sports Challenge
8:30 - What Makes Terri Fly?
9:00 - To Be Announced
9:30 - Movie: "Pursuit To Algiers" (1945)
11:00 - Marshal Dillon
11:30 - Movie: "Vogues" (1937)

KFMB-TV/8 - CBS
8:00am - Chester (Bugs Bunny and Scooby-Doo pre-empted)
8:55 - In The News * (the premiere of this long-running Saturday morning news feature for kids)
9:00 - Globetrotters *
9:30 - Hair Bear Bunch *
9:55 - In The News *
10:00 - Pebbles & Bamm-Bamm *
10:25 - In The News *
10:30 - Archie *
10:55 - In The News *
11:00 - Sabrina The Teen-Age Witch *
11:25 - In The News *
11:30 - Josie & The Pussycats *
Noon - Monkees *
12:25pm - In The News *
12:30 - You Are There *
1:00 - U.S. Open Tennis Championships Semi-Finals *
3:00 - Children's Film Festival *
4:00 - Where's Huddles?
4:30 - I Spy
5:30 - News
6:00 - News
6:30 - Star Trek
7:30 - Six Wives Of Henry VIII (Mission: Impossible and My Three Sons pre-empted)
9:00 - Oral Roberts In Hawaii (Arnie pre-empted)
9:30 - Mary Tyler Moore
10:00 - Mannix
11:00 - News
11:30 - Movie: "Red Garters" (1954)

KOGO-TV/10 - NBC
7:00am - Dr. Doolittle *
7:30 - Uncle Russ (Woody Woodpecker delayed to Sunday mornings, Deputy Dawg pre-empted)
8:30 - Pink Panther *
9:00 - Barrier Reef *
9:30 - Giant Step *
10:30 - Bugaloos *
11:00 - Major League Baseball * (teams not announced)
2:00pm - World Series Of Golf *
3:30 - Movie: "Curse Of The Undead" (1959)
5:00 - News
5:30 - News
6:00 - Gale Is Dead (anti-drug special)
7:00 - Miss America Pageant *
9:00 - Peggy Fleming At Sun Valley *
10:00 - Decisions! Decisions! *
11:00 - ??? (no listing here or 11:30)
Midnight - Movie: "Wild Season" (1965)

XEWT-TV/12 (Tijuana) - Televisa
4:30pm - Esta Es La Vida
5:00 - Los Vikingos
5:30 - Juan Luis Presenta
6:00 - Aventura
6:30 - El Diablo Se Divierte
7:30 - Ernesto Alonso Presenta
8:30 - Departamento S
9:30 - Siglo 20
10:00 - Noticiero
10:05 - Boxing
11:00 - Documental

KEBS-TV/15 - PBS
Not on the air Saturdays (not uncommon in the 1960s and 1970s for an ETV to be off on either or both weekend days, especially when operated by a college or university)

KCST/39 - Ind.
Noon - Robin Hood
12:30pm - Sea Hunt
1:00 - Patty Duke
1:30 - Movie: "Love Happy" (1950)
3:00 - Uncle Waldo
3:30 - Rocky
4:00 - Movie: "Let's Live A Little" (1948)
6:00 - Buck Owens
6:30 - Exploring With Bob Lee
7:00 - Lawrence Welk (first show of the syndicated non-network version)
8:00 - Movie: "Daddy Long Legs" (1955)
10:15 - Movie: "Broken Arrow" (1950)

 

[onairb2014]

Just for the heck of it, NBC's baseball games that week were Cardinals at Cubs, with Gowdy and Kubek('A' game), or Pirates at Expos, with Jim Simpson and Sandy Koufax.('B' Game) In those days, every market saw the 'A' game, except for the cities whose were actually playing in it, so I would guess that game aired in SD that week.

 

[K.M. Richards]

That's certainly a good rationale for an educated guess. Maybe the games weren't set at press time and that's why the Union didn't list them.

 

[Ccook55]

I notice in the morning that CBS follows ET while ABC and NBC follow CT. This date was also the start of the new Saturday morning line-ups. Of note, 7 AM offering on XETV is absent (the Jerry Lewis cartoon from ABC). Was this an omission or was 7:30 when XETV started the day's operations?

 

[K.M. Richards]

I notice in the morning that CBS follows ET while ABC and NBC follow CT. This date was also the start of the new Saturday morning line-ups. Of note, 7 AM offering on XETV is absent (the Jerry Lewis cartoon from ABC). Was this an omission or was 7:30 when XETV started the day's operations?

Re ABC and NBC following a different time pattern: It was obviously a network decision since the airtimes are the same on channels 3, 4, and 7 from the northerly direction. Perhaps some kind of accommodation for MT stations? I'm guessing here.

Re XETV: It was the latter. XETV was not a 24/7 operation in 1973 and for reasons unknown to anyone had a 7:30am sign-on time seven days a week, as noted in the other schedule postings.

 

[blackgold]

By the way, the Miss America pageant aired in San Diego at 7 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time! Yes, it was a national broadcast!

 

[installLSC]

That choice of football game for ABC is real odd: Grambling and Morgan State are both traditionally black colleges and the only time those schools usually get national coverage is the Grambling/Southern game late in the season. Why was this game chosen?

 

[K.M. Richards]

I would suggest that you've asked 44 years too late to get an answer to that question.

 

[onairb2014]

This came up on 'The 506 Forums', a site that discusses sports on TV, past and present, a few years ago. A user going by the handle 'tvnut' said:
There were several reasons. First, it allowed ABC to burn off a Division I-AA requirement in the contract, hitting the entire country with a I-AA game early in the season. Second, it was Grambling, which had never been seen on national television (regionals, I'm not sure of), and that allowed Roone Arledge, ABC's sports supremo, to tout that beforehand. Third, it was two black schools, which had traditionally been ignored on TV despite sending hundreds of players to the pros over the years (especially in the era when the SEC was white-only).
The game got the publicity Arledge expected, and, I'd guess, a large audience.

AFAIK, ABC did not televise that matchup again, and settled on more 'white schools' to fulfill that requirement for one lower-division game a year.

 

[oldiesfan6479]

Re ABC and NBC following a different time pattern: It was obviously a network decision since the airtimes are the same on channels 3, 4, and 7 from the northerly direction. Perhaps some kind of accommodation for MT stations? I'm guessing here.

Nothing to do with MT stations, as they got the New York feed and did with it what they wanted to--or could--do. Which often meant a 6:00 MT start (8:00 ET).

Saturday morning network kidvid on the left coast feed began at 7:00 or 8:00 PT, depending on the network.

 

[installLSC]

AFAIK, ABC did not televise that matchup again, and settled on more 'white schools' to fulfill that requirement for one lower-division game a year.

Apparently they used Division II or even III games to satisfy that requirement. I swore I remembered reading about ABC broadcasting a Division III game many years ago, and look what I just found. How ABC got snookered into such a requirement is, as KM Richards pointed out, probably lost to the ages.

 

[Charles35080]

Main reason why this game would have been aired is that "back in the day" most college football teams did not begin their season until the third week of September. The 11-game regular season schedule had been adopted only in the previous season, and there were still quite a few schools that still played only ten regular season games. HBCU's, then as now, were looking to promote their product any way that they could, even it meant moving a game between two Louisiana schools to New York City.

 

[K.M. Richards]

Forgive my ignorance, not being anything even remotely close to a sports junkie of any kind, but what's a "HBCU"?

 

[Ccook55]

HBCU - Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

 

[K.M. Richards]

Thank you, sir.

 

[marklungo]

What is Rocky (the show at 3:30 PM on KCST)?

 

[K.M. Richards]

What is Rocky (the show at 3:30 PM on KCST)?

That's the way it was listed in the newspaper, but given the proximity to Uncle Waldo (obviously, a half-hour of Jay Ward cartoons under the syndicated umbrella title Uncle Waldo's Cartoon Show) at 3:00, I would presume it was a second half-hour of Jay Ward cartoons under the syndicated umbrella title Rocky and his Friends.