Fairbanks, Alaska (May 20, 1980)

[johnnya2k6]

Source: Fairbanks Daily News-Miner; except for KUAC (which got their PBS programming via satellite), all programs were broadcast two weeks after the Lower 48 unless noted.2-KFAR (NBC/ABC)9-KUAC (PBS)11-KTVF (CBS/ABC)7:00am11 CBS Morning News (Satellite delay)8:0011 Good Morning America (Satellite delay)9:0011 Captain Kangaroo10:0011 The Health Field ("Tranquilizers: Pills of Peace?")10:302 A Touch of Love11 Whew! (short-lived game show with Tom Kennedy)(Why Channel 2 didn't sign-on till 10:30 is beyond me)10:5511 NewsCenter Update11:002 Our Town11 The Price is Right11:302 Praise The Lord (dunno if this was the "PTL Club" or "Praise The Lord" from TBN (with Paul and Jan Crouch))Noon 11 Search for Tomorrow12:3011 Young and the Restless1:302 Days of our Lives11 As the World Turns2:009 Camera Three ("Puppets in the French Style")2:302 Another World9 JMT in Conversation3:00 9 Over Easy3:309 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood11 The Mike Douglas Show4:002 Password Plus9 Sesame Street4:302 The Hollywood Squares (which was about to end its long run on NBC, though it would last one more year in syndication)5:002 Fantasy Island9 The Electric Company11 One Day at a Time5:309 Zoom11 The Jeffersons6:002 Fairbanks Today (anchors unknown)9 The Dick Cavett Show (Author William Stryon, Part 2)11 The Fairbanks Evening News (Anne Spink and Brian Kirkpatrick)6:302 NBC Nightly News11 CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite(both were on a satellite delay)7:002 The John Birch Society9 The MacNeil/Lehrer Report (three years before it became The MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour)11 Happy Days7:309 Capitol '80 (which was a recap show of the day's legislative happenings in Juneau)11 Laverne and Shirley8:00 2 Speak Up America (special hosted by Marjoe Gortner, Felicia Jeter, and 1980 U.S. Olympic men's hockey team coach Herb Brooks)9 Nova ("Life on a Silken Thread")11 The White Shadow9:002 The Big Show (another special)9 Mystery!11 Gaugin the Savage10:009 Soundstage (The Doobie Brothers)10:302 The United States ("Room Service")11:002 ABC World News Tonight9 Dick Cavett Show (repeat of 6:00 airing)11:30 2 Fears Comment (a five-minute commentary segment)9 ABC Captioned News11 CBS Late Movie ("Barnaby Jones: Portrait of Evil")11:352 Tonight Show (Guest host: Richard Dawson)12:45am11 Movie ("Whispering Death")Boy, looking at the daytime lineup, it REALLY sucked living in Fairbanks in 1980! If you wanted your fix of the very hot ABC daytime soaps -- All My Children, One Life to Live, General Hospital -- as well as Family Feud and $20,000 Pyramid, you'd have to get somebody from Anchorage (where they had and still have a station for each of the Big Three networks and programs were on a one-week delay) to tape them for you! No wonder why KTVF was the dominant station back then while Channel 2 had to suffer with then third place NBC! But now it's the other way around 26 years later, with KTVF in trouble -- thanks to fourth-place NBC -- and Tanana Valley Television's KFXF and KXD (with the help of "American Idol" on the former station) slowly creeping on them...unless the May numbers tell otherwise.Jonathan Allen

 

[FreddyE1977]

the John Birch Society had their own program leading into primetime at 7PM?That's tremendous!

 

[TexasTom]

It's the sort of odd nuggets of information like that one that make these old schedule postings such interesting reading.I would never have guessed that the John Birch Society was still getting TV time anywhere by 1980...