BY REQUEST: San Diego, Weekday Prime Time, September 6-10, 1971

[K.M. Richards]

Weekday Prime Time, 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.

These listings also list the 3:00pm movies on channels 8 and 10 as well as any deviation during the prime time fringe hour from the Monday-Friday daytime listings posted earlier.

XETV/6 (Tijuana) - ABC
----- Mon -----
7:30 - Movie: "Blast Off" (1968) *
9:15 - Movie: "Marilyn" (1963) *
----- Tue -----
7:30 - Mod Squad *
8:30 - Movie: "Crowhaven Farm" (1970)
10:00 - Marcus Welby, M.D. *
----- Wed -----
7:30 - Courtship Of Eddie's Father *
8:00 - Room 222 *
8:30 - Smith Family *
9:00 - Love On A Rooftop *
9:30 - The Immortal *
10:30 - NFL Action *
----- Thu -----
7:30 - Alias Smith And Jones *
9:00 - Longstreet *
10:30 - Wanted Dead Or Alive
----- Fri -----
7:30 - The Brady Bunch Visits ABC (Saturday morning schedule preview) *
8:00 - Nanny And The Professor *
8:30 - Partridge Family *
9:00 - That Girl *
9:30 - Odd Couple *
10:00 - Love American Style *

KFMB-TV/8 - CBS
----- Mon -----
3:00 - Movie: "The Caddy" (1953)
7:30 - Gunsmoke *
8:30 - Lucy Show *
9:00 - At Issue (Mayberry R.F.D. pre-empted)
9:30 - Doris Day *
10:00 - Newcomers *
----- Tue -----
3:00 - Movie: "Strange Love Of Martha Ivers" (1946)
7:30 - Billy Graham (Beverly Hillbillies and Green Acres pre-empted)
8:30 - Cimarron Strip *
10:00 - CBS Reports *
----- Wed -----
3:00 - Movie: "Paid In Full" (1950)
7:30 - You Are There *
8:00 - If You Turn On (repeat of Emmy Award winning anti-drug special)
9:00 - Billy Graham (Medical Center pre-empted)
10:00 - Hawaii Five-O
----- Thu -----
3:00 - Movie: "Pony Express" (1953)
7:30 - Fiesta Patrias (celebration of Mexican Independence Day, Family Affair pre-empted)
8:00 - Billy Graham (Lancer pre-empted)
9:00 - Movie: "Harpy" (1971) *
----- Fri -----
3:00 - Movie: "Perils Of Pauline" (1967)
7:30 - Movie: "The Over-The-Hill Gang" (1971) (The Interns and Headmaster pre-empted)
9:00 - Movie: "O'Hara, United States Treasury" (1970) *

KOGO-TV/10 - NBC
----- Mon -----
3:00 - Movie: "Mark Of The Hawk" (1960)
8:00 - News
9:00 - Movie: "To Catch A Million"
----- Tue -----
3:00 - Movie: "Slander" (1957)
7:30 - "Babar Comes To America" (Bill Cosby pre-empted) *
8:00 - Make Your Own Kind Of Music *
9:00 - First Tuesday *
----- Wed -----
3:00 - Movie: "Tanganyika" (1954)
7:00 - Movie: "Munster Go Home" (1966) (Men From Shiloh pre-empted)
9:00 - Quarterly Report (NBC News special) *
10:00 - Four-In-One: Night Gallery
----- Thu -----
3:00 - Movie: "Great Sioux Uprising" (1953)
7:30 - Action Playhouse (another unsold pilot)
8:30 - Ironside
9:30 - Adam-12
10:00 - An Evening With Julie Andrews And Harry Belafonte
----- Fri -----
3:00 - Movie: "Give A Girl A Break" (1953)
7:30 - High Chapparal *
8:30 - The Name Of The Game *
10:00 - Alcoa Hour (Strange Report pre-empted)

XEWT-TV/12 (Tijuana) - Televisa
----- Mon -----
7:00 - Comedia
7:30 - Aventura
8:00 - Panorama Social
8:30 - Charlas Con El Padre Maximo
9:00 - Hawaii Five-O
10:00 - Noticiero
10:05 - Comedia
10:30 - Aventura
----- Tue -----
6:30 - Princesas Y Modelos
7:00 - Aventura
8:00 - Semana En Baja California
9:00 - Alfred Hitchcock
9:30 - Estrellas Musicales
10:00 - Noticiero
10:05 - Boris Karloff
11:00 - Novela
----- Wed -----
6:30 - Variedad
7:00 - Enigma
8:00 - Dragnet
8:30 - Pelicula Mexicana
10:30 - Noticiero
(there must have been something at 10:35, since channel 12 only did five-minute newscasts, but no listing)
11:00 - Novela
----- Thu -----
6:30 - Cosas De Mujeres
7:00 - El Rabo Verde
7:30 - Camara Social
8:00 - Tap Tap
8:30 - Criada Bien Criada
9:00 - Aventura
9:30 - Programa Domecq
10:00 - Noticiero
10:05 - Policia
10:30 - Dr. Christian
11:00 - Novela
----- Fri -----
6:30 - Aventura
7:00 - Bonanza
8:00 - Show De Los Camarena
8:30 - Comedia
9:00 - Interpol
9:30 - Do Re Mi
10:00 - Noticiero
10:05 - Comedia
11:00 - Novela

KEBS-TV/15 - PBS
----- Mon -----
6:30 - Space In The '70s
7:00 - A Child Went Forth
7:30 - Book Beat
8:00 - World Press *
9:00 - Realities *
10:00 - Evening At The Pops (repeat of yesterday's program)
----- Tue -----
6:30 - Role Of Congress In Foreign Policy
7:30 - Koltanowski Chess
8:00 - Candidates And Issues
9:00 - Superintendent's Report (carried in the morning on channels 8 and 10 and in the late afternoon on channel 39)
9:30 - Artists In America *
----- Wed -----
6:30 - Evening At The Pops
7:30 - Corporate View
8:00 - French Chef *
8:30 - Boboquivari *
9:00 - Firing Line *
10:00 - Masterpiece Theatre
----- Thu -----
6:30 - Book Beat
7:00 - Speaking Freely
8:00 - Washington Week In Review *
8:30 - NET Playhouse *
10:00 - Boboquivari (repeat of previous evening's program)
10:30 - Washington Week In Review (repeat of 8:00)
----- Fri -----
6:30 - Thirty Minutes
7:00 - Koltanowski Chess
7:30 - Environment
8:00 - Candidates And Issues
9:00 - Fanfare (repeat of Sunday evening program)
10:00 - NET Playhouse (repeat of previous evening's program)

KCST/39 - Ind.
----- Mon -----
7:30 - Let's Make A Deal
8:00 - Newlywed Game
8:30 - It Was A Very Good Year
9:00 - Mayberry R.F.D. (CBS, not cleared on channel 8)
9:30 - Movie: "O'Henry's Full House" (1952)
----- Tue -----
8:00 - Green Acres (CBS, not cleared on channel 8)
8:30 - Movie: "The Glory Brigade" (1953)
10:00 - Roller Derby
----- Wed -----
8:00 - Movie: "The Model And The Marriage Broker" (1952)
10:00 - Movie: "The Mudlark" (1951)
----- Thu -----
8:00 - Movie: "Marines, Let's Go" (1961)
10:15 - Movie: "Deadline U.S.A." (1952)
----- Fri -----
7:00 - Sid Gillman
7:30 - Hey Cinderella (first-run syndicated special under the "Tales From Muppetland" banner)
8:30 - Movie: "The Bravados" (1958)
10:00 - Movie: "The President's Lady" (1953)

 

[Ultimajock]

KCST/39 - Ind.
----- Mon -----
7:30 - Let's Make A Deal
8:00 - Newlywed Game
8:30 - It Was A Very Good Year

...these are ABC networked programs not cleared by XETV. It Was a Very Good Year was a nostalgia variety show that was hosted by Mel Torme...

 

[K.M. Richards]

KCST/39 - Ind.
----- Mon -----
7:30 - Let's Make A Deal
8:00 - Newlywed Game
8:30 - It Was A Very Good Year

...these are ABC networked programs not cleared by XETV. It Was a Very Good Year was a nostalgia variety show that was hosted by Mel Torme...

Well, something is still wrong, then, because that would indicate XETV pre-empted the 7:30-9:00 block on Monday nights, but the movie they were listed as showing on that Monday was also airing on KABC-TV/7 and KEYT/3, so obviously it was an ABC network movie.

It is conceivable that XETV decided to make an exception to the Monday night pre-empt because of the delayed start time of the regular ABC Monday night movie ... but what did KCST run if the network had a movie feeding which XETV was clearing?


7:30pm Listing 9/6/71
Click to make readable

 

[Ultimajock]

Well, something is still wrong, then, because that would indicate XETV pre-empted the 7:30-9:00 block on Monday nights, but the movie they were listed as showing on that Monday was also airing on KABC-TV/7 and KEYT/3, so obviously it was an ABC network movie.

It is conceivable that XETV decided to make an exception to the Monday night pre-empt because of the delayed start time of the regular ABC Monday night movie ... but what did KCST run if the network had a movie feeding which XETV was clearing?

...perhaps KCST was getting weeks-old tapes from ABC instead of taking the series off the live feed? I just checked Brooks and Marsh, and they claim the final episode of It Was a Very Good Year aired on the ABC line the previous week, August 30th...

 

[K.M. Richards]

...perhaps KCST was getting weeks-old tapes from ABC instead of taking the series off the live feed? I just checked Brooks and Marsh, and they claim the final episode of It Was a Very Good Year aired on the ABC line the previous week, August 30th...

Brooks & Marsh have always been meticulous about checking multiple sources for start and end dates of series, so I'll accept their claim.

Here is a possibility: We know KCST was in the middle of their legal battle before the FCC about the ABC affiliation in 1971, so it is entirely possible that while the network probably wanted the clearances for the shows if XETV didn't carry them, they may not have wanted to pay for a live network interconnection to KCST under the circumstances. But their Los Angeles O&O was just up the 5 freeway so it wouldn't have been too difficult to bicycle tapes to and from there on a one-week delay.

Or maybe AT&T didn't want to switch the circuit also used by KCST for CBS on Mondays back and forth at 9:00, or maybe there had been a problem in the past with that switch happening on time. Or maybe they were reluctant to mess with the XETV connection while the legal battle was happening, since the television microwave relay network was completely under FCC jurisdiction.

If I had the listings for the following week (which I do not) I could follow a hunch I have, which is that XETV was going to be carrying ABC during that Monday night period going forward so KCST would have been out in the cold anyway. But if they knew that in advance -- and the network certainly would have advised them -- why didn't they schedule something from their local library in that slot, unless they were indeed running those ABC programs on tape delay?

Another possibility is that those three shows did not air on channel 39 on September 6 but the schedule provided to the San Diego Union by KCST still had them scheduled, and the replacement information didn't get to the newspaper in time for it to be corrected pre-press.

I'm sure no one back then would have ever thought that 40 years in the future, there would be this much time spent discussing whether or not those three ABC shows aired on that night on that UHF station!

 

[K.M. Richards]

I think I found the answer, but it leads to more questions.

I went back to my source for the San Diego Union television listings and got the Monday prior (August 30) and following (September 13) pages from TV Week for those dates.

On August 30, KCST aired It's Your Bet at 7:30pm (the usual weeknight offering in that time slot) followed by Theater One from 8:00 to 9:30pm. XETV did not clear any of the three ABC shows in question, but they did not air from 7:30 to 9:00 that week ... they aired from 9:00 to 10:30, following a pre-season NFL game between the Jets and the Chiefs. (Channel 6, meanwhile, aired the programming that would have aired at 6:00 in that time slot (Wild Wild West/Truth or Consequences). Channel 39 had a movie on at 9:30. Obviously, the KCST airings of Let's Make A Deal, The Newlywed Game, and It was A Very Good Year were on a one-week delay.

So now what is unknown is whether KCST usually carried those three ABC shows at their usual times, or if XETV's pre-emption was only for that one Monday. And if so, what did XETV carry from 7:30 to 9:00 on Mondays? And why didn't they just run the pre-empted programs on a tape delay later in the week? For that matter, why didn't KCST?

I get no clues from the September 13 listings as KCST pre-empted its regular schedule beginning at 7:00pm to carry the lightweight championship fight between Ken Buchanan and Ismael Laguna. XETV had To Tell The Truth at 7:30 and Man In Motion at 8:00, then joined the network on schedule at 8:30 for a movie. KABC had a local movie from 6:30 to 8:00, then a NFL preview show before the network flick; KEYT ran Partridge Family at 7:30 and That Girl at 8:00.

I wonder if the August 23 listings would help.