BY REQUEST: San Diego, Weekday Daytime/Late Night, September 6-10, 1971

[K.M. Richards]

Weekday Daytime and Late Night, September 6-10, 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
7:30a - Banana Splits
8:00 - Hot Wheels
8:30 - Coffee Break
8:55 - Children's Teacher
9:00 - Jack LaLanne
9:30 - Virginia Graham
10:30 - Phil Donahue
11:30 - That Girl *
Noon - Bewitched *
12:30p - Password *
1:00 - Galloping Gourmet
1:30 - Let's Make A Deal *
2:00 - Newlywed Game *
2:30 - Dating Game *
3:00 - General Hospital *
3:30 - Superman
4:00 - Leave It To Beaver
4:30 - I Love Lucy
5:00 - News (Harry Reasoner) *
5:30 - Call Of The West
6:00 - Wild Wild West
7:00 - Truth Or Consequences
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11:00 - Marshal Dillon
11:30 - Dick Cavett *

KFMB-TV/8 - CBS
(Note: Channel 8 pre-empted everything until 3:00pm on Monday to carry the Jerry Lewis Telethon)
6:00a - Summer Semester *
6:30 - Across The Fence
7:00 - News Hour (John Hart) *
8:00 - Sunup
9:00 - Lucy Show *
9:30 - Beverly Hillbillies *
10:00 - Family Affair * (pre-empted on Tuesday for the annual report of the superintendent of San Diego City Schools)
10:30 - Love Of Life *
11:00 - Where The Heart Is *
11:25 - News *
11:30 - Search For Tomorrow *
Noon - News
12:30p - As The World Turns *
1:00 - Love Is A Many Splendored Thing *
1:30 - Guiding Light *
2:00 - Secret Storm *
2:30 - Edge Of Night *
3:00 - Movie (titles will be listed with prime-time logs)
5:00 - N.Y.P.D.
5:30 - News
6:00 - News
6:30 - News (Walter Cronkite) *
7:00 - Dragnet
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11:00 - News
11:30 - Merv Griffin *

KOGO-TV/10 - NBC
(Note: Channel 10 carried a network telecast of the San Francisco Giants at the Los Angeles Dodgers on Monday, beginning at 5:00pm)
6:30a - On The Farm
7:00 - Cartoons
8:00 - Today *
9:00 - Dinah's Place *
9:30 - Concentration *
10:00 - Sale Of The Century * (pre-empted on Tuesday for the annual report of the superintendent of San Diego City Schools)
10:30 - Hollywood Squares *
11:00 - Jeopardy *
11:30 - Who, What Or Where Game *
11:55 - News *
Noon - News
12:30p - Days Of Our Lives *
1:00 - The Doctors *
1:30 - Another World *
2:00 - Bright Promise *
2:30 - Somerset *
3:00 - Movie (titles will be listed with prime-time logs)
4:30 - Flintstones
5:00 - Petticoat Junction
5:30 - News
6:00 - News
6:30 - News
(one of these had to have been the network newscast but no indication in the listings of which)
7:00 - Dick Van Dyke
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11:00 - News
11:30 - Johnny Carson *

XEWT-TV/12 (Tijuana) - Televisa
4:00p - La Hora Infantil
4:30 - Novela
5:55 - Noticiero
6:30 - Variedad

KEBS-TV/15 - PBS
7:00a - Sesame Street *
8:00 - Misterogers Neighborhood *
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(channel 15's classroom programming was not listed)
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11:30 - Sesame Street *
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4:00p - Sesame Street *
5:00 - Misterogers Neighborhood *
5:30 - What's New
6:00 - Hodgepodge Lodge *

KCST/39 - Ind.
3:00p - Cartoons
4:00 - News
4:30 - The Rifleman (on Tuesday, pre-empted to carry the school superintendent's report that was aired live that morning on channels 8 and 10)
5:00 - The Big Valley
6:00 - Gilligan's Island
6:30 - Addams Family
7:00 - Movie Game
7:30 - It's Your Bet

During weeknight prime-time, Mission Cable and Southwestern Cable ran local programming on channels 2, 4 and 7 to blackout network programming duplication from Los Angeles. Most of it is forgettable "free films" fare, but "4C" ran the Grand Ole Opry for 2½ hours every weeknight in what was apparently first-run syndication.

 

[Ccook55]

As a SoCal native and having lived in the San Diego market when I was quite young, I notice that channel 10 continued to black out the first hour of the Today show for cartoons as they did a decade earlier.

 

[K.M. Richards]

As a SoCal native and having lived in the San Diego market when I was quite young, I notice that channel 10 continued to black out the first hour of the Today show for cartoons as they did a decade earlier.

I suspect their reasoning was multi-fold.

First, Today was always on a three-hour delay out here, meaning that the first hour on the Pacific Time Zone feed was airing a full hour after the whole program had finished in Eastern/Central, so KOGO-TV management likely thought it better to carry the last hour only, as it was the "newest" one.

Second, KFMB-TV, as they did for years, pre-empted whatever CBS ran at 8:00am for their local program Sun-Up San Diego -- which is the way they refer to it on their website -- which ran for three decades (1960-1990) and at this point in the station's history pre-empted the venerable Captain Kangaroo. They may have felt that under the circumstances it was better to have something kid-oriented and by starting at 7:00 they could get a half-hour jump on XETV/6.

Third, all the commercial time in that hour was local sales, no network inventory, and cartoons were relatively inexpensive in syndication.

 

[RALfan]

This is nice, but can you post the schedule for the following week or later in the fall of '71?

 

[K.M. Richards]

This is nice, but can you post the schedule for the following week or later in the fall of '71?

No, this is the only full week I have available.