Hawaii, January 25-29, 1971

[only1moore]

From TV Guide Hawaii Edition

2-KHON (NBC)/Honolulu
Satellites: 7-KAII/Wailuku & 11-KHAW/Hilo

Weekdays
7AM Cartoons
7:30 Dobie Gillis
8AM Romper Room
8:30 Jack LaLanne
9AM Dinah Shore
9:30 Concentration
10AM Sale of The Century
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11AM Jeopardy
11:30 Who What or Where
12Noon Words and Music
12:30 Days of Our Lives
1PM Movies
2:30 The Doctors
3PM Another World (Bay City)
3:30 Another World (Somerset)
4PM Mike Douglas (Robert Morse is the week's co-host)
5:30 (Judd) Hambrick/Brasso Report (KHON ad: "Hawaii's Hottest News Team!")
6PM Lassie (Timmy & Lassie episodes)
6:30 NBC/KHON Primetime
10PM News (Hambrick and J. Michael White)
10:30 Tonight Show
12Mid News (Did not list if it was NBC, but could be their broadcast since KHON did sign off at 12:30AM)

Monday
1PM "Smart Girls Don't Talk" (1948)
6:30 Red Skelton (Mama Cass Elliot and Chad Everett)
7:30 Laugh-In (Joey Bishop)
8PM NBC Monday Night at the Movies: "Do You Take This Stranger?" (1970; Network Premiere)

Tuesday
1PM "Valley of The Giants" (1938)
6PM NBA Basketball: New York Knicks at Chicago Bulls (TV Guide had KHON's listing for the 6:30 to 8:30 slot the previous week as "To Be Announced")
8:30PM NBC Tuesday Night at the Movies: "A Rage to Live" (1965; Network Premiere)

Wednesday
1PM "The Mummy's Hand" (1940)
6:30 Untamed World
7PM Kraft Music Hall ("The Kopykats Copy TV")
8PM "Dark Passings" (1947)

Thursday
6:30 Flip Wilson (Muhammad Ali "makes his variety show debut," Bobby Darrin, and Lily Tomlin)
7:30 Ironside ("From Hruska With Love")
8:30 Something Else (Syndicated music variety hosted by Jon Byner)
9PM Dean Martin (Raymond Burr, Diahann Caroll and Charles Nelson Riley)

Friday
1PM "A Game of Death" (1945)
6:30 Andy Williams (Johnathan Winters, Ken Berry and The Lennon Sisters)
7:30 Julia (Bob Hope makes a cameo in this episode)
8PM Bold Ones: The Senator ("Some Day, They'll Elect a President")
9PM Four In One: Night Gallery ("The Last Laurel," "They're Tearing Down Tim Riley's Bar")

4-KHVH (ABC)/Honolulu
Satellites: 12-KMVI/Wailuku & 13-KHVO/Hilo

Weekdays
7AM Batman (back to back to back episodes)
8:30 Galloping Gourmet
9AM Bewitched
9:30 That Girl
10AM Peyton Place
10:30 All My Children
11AM Dating Game
11:30 Newlywed Game
12Noon General Hospital
12:30 One Life To Live
1PM Don Robb (Historian Russ Apple is his co-host)
2:30 Let's Make A Deal
3PM Death Valley Days
3:30 Dark Shadows
4PM Movies
5:30 Dragnet (KHVH ad: "The Most Honored Detective Series on TV")
6PM News (Don Rockwell)
6:30 ABC/KHVH Primetime
10PM News (Chuck Henry)
10:30 Petticoat Junction
11PM Late Movie
12:30AM ABC News (Howard K. Smith/Harry Reasoner)

Monday
4PM "The Bottom of The Bottle" (1942)
6:30 Let's Make a Deal (New Night)
7PM The Newlywed Game (New Night)
7:30 The Reel Game (Series Debut; Jack Barry host this quiz show that uses newsreel footage to test contestants' knowledge about famous people and the events they're connected to)
8PM ABC Monday Night Movie: "Cat Ballou" (1965, repeat)
11PM "Ride and Kill" (1965)

Tuesday
4PM "Fixed Bayonetes" (1951)
6:30 ABC Movie of the Week, "Dr. Cook's Garden" (Made for TV, 1971; Network Premiere with Bing Crosby in the title role based on Ira Levin's broadway play)
8PM The Mod Squad ("A Bummer for RJ")
9PM Marcus Welby, MD ("False Spring")
11PM "Kiss Them For Me" (1957)

Wednesday
4PM "Don't Bother to Knock" (1952)
6:30 The Courtship Of Eddie's Father
7PM Room 222 (New time)
7:30 The Smith Family (Series Debut with Henry Fonda in the lead role)
8PM Johnny Cash Show
9PM The Young Lawyers (New time; Eli Wallach guest stars)
11PM "No Trees In The Street" (English, 1951)

Thursday
4PM "Santiago" (1956)
6:30 Alias Smith and Jones ("The McCreedy Bust" marks the Series Debut; The Made for TV pilot aired a week earlier)
7:30 Bewitched (First of 2 parts with Imogene Coca as a tipsy tooth fairy)
8PM Make Room For Granddaddy (New Night; "Lucy and the Lecher" with Lucille Ball crossing over from "Here's Lucy" as her character from that series, Lucy Carter)
8:30 Dan August (New Night; "Death Chain")
9:30 TBA
11PM "Darby's Rangers" (1958)

Friday
4PM "The Break in The Circle" (English, 1957)
6:30 The Brady Bunch (Deacon Jones guest stars)
7PM Nanny and the Professor (John Mills guest stars alongside series star and daughter Juliet as Phoebe's Uncle)
7:30 The Partridge Family ("Why Did The Music Stop?")
8PM That Girl ("The Russians are Staying")
8:30 The Odd Couple
9PM Love American Style (Expanded to 60 minutes starting with this night)
11PM "Bombers B-52" (1957)
12:30AM "Bernadine" (1957)
2AM ABC News

9-KGMB (CBS)/Honolulu
Satellites: 3-KMAU/Wailuku & 9-KPUA/Hilo

Weekdays
5:25AM Insight
5:30 Checkers & Pogo
8AM Beverly Hillbillies
8:30 Lucille Ball
9AM Love Of Life
9:30 Secret Storm
10AM Movie
12Noon Edge of Night
12:30 As The World Turns
1PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
1:30 Guiding Light
2PM Search For Tomorrow
2:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
3PM Checkers & Pogo (2 Hours worth)
5PM Flintstones
5:30 Gilligan's Island
6PM News (Bob Sevey)
6:25 Sports
6:30 CBS/KGMB Primetime
10PM News (Bob Jones)
10:30 D Van D Show
11PM I Love Lucy
11:30 Perry Mason
12:30AM CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite
1AM Movies

Monday
10AM "The Secret Invasion" (1964)
6:30 Mayberry RFD
7PM Doris Day
7:30 Hogan's Heroes
8PM Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour (Tennessee Ernie Ford, Phil Silvers and Susan Raye)
9PM Combat
1AM "Deadline at Dawn" (1938)
2:30AM "Tell It To The Judge" (1949)

Tuesday
10AM "Romanoff and Juliet" (1961)
6:30 Family Affair
7PM Hawaii Five-0 ("The Ransom")
8PM "Julie Goldfarb, Please Come Home" (1964)
1AM "Bride By Mistake" (1944)
2:30 "Operation: Counterspy" (1966)

Wednesday
10AM "Stage Door" (1937)
6:30 My Three Sons
7PM Mission: Impossible
8PM "The Pleasure Seekers" (1965)
1AM "Desparate" (1947)
2:30 "Flood Tide" (1958)

Thursday
10AM "Till The End of Time" (1946)
6:30 Beverly Hillbillies (The women at the Commerce Bank continue their strike)
7PM Star Trek
8PM CBS Thursday Night Movie: "The African Queen" (1951; repeat)
1AM "The Horror of Party Beach" (1964)
2:30 "13 West Street" (1962)

Friday
10AM "Muscle Beach Party" (1964)
6:30 Here's Lucy
7:30 Wild, Wild West
8PM CBS Friday Night Movie: "A High Wind in Jamaica" (English, 1965; Network premiere)
10:30 Honolulu Wrestling
12:30AM "On The Beach" (1959)
2AM "Son of Robin Hood (English, 1958)
3:30AM "The Shoot" (German, 1964)


11-KHET (PBS)/Honolulu
Satellites: 10-KMEB/Wailuku & 4-K04FE/Hilo

Weekdays
8AM Legislature '71
8:30AM In-School programming
11AM Sesame Street
12Noon In-School programming
2PM Various
3PM In-School programming
4:30 Quest For Adventure
4:45 Mister Rogers
5:15 Sesame Street
6:15 Legislature '71
6:30 PBS/KHET Primetime

Monday
2:30PM Breakthru (Religious program; "Talking Hands," a look at a person who can communicate with their hands)
4PM Pau Hana Years (Clare Luce Booth talks about being a newcomer to Hawaii)
6:30 News Desk
7PM Great American Dream Machine
8:30 Realities
10PM Education (Health)

Tuesday
2PM Civilisation (repeat)
6:30 Pau Hana Years
7PM Flick Out (Film shorts)
7:30 French Chef
8PM World Press
9PM Homewood ("Hollywood Bowl Spectacular")
10PM KHET Report

Wednesday
6:30 UH (University of Hawaii) Today
7PM World We Live In ("Other Planets-No Place Like Earth," about astromony)
7:30 Kukla Fran & Ollie (repeat from Sunday's 7:30PM telecast)
8PM The Advocates (repeat from Sunday's 8PM telecast)
9PM Medically Speaking (Organ transplants is the topic)

Thursday
3PM Breakthru
3:30PM French Chef
4PM Pau Hana Years (The topic is Hula lessons)
6:30 Pau Hana Years (Repeat of 4PM telecast)
7PM Hawaii Now!
7:30 Book Beat
8PM World We Live In ("Other Planets-No Place Like Earth," about astromony)
8:30 NET Playhouse: "Let Me Hear You Whisper"/film short "Going to Work in the Morning form Brooklyn"
10PM KHET Report

Friday
4PM Nader Report
6:30 World Press
7:30 Thirty Minutes (Senator Edmund Muskie [D-Maine] is interviewed)
8PM Masterpiece Theater (Part 2 of "The First Churchills"; Repeat of Sunday's telecast)
9PM Book Beat (Repeat of Thursday's telecast)
9:30 Folk Guitar

13-KIKU (Independent)/Honolulu
Most of KIKU's programs listed are Japanese, with a few exceptions

Weekdays
3PM Movies (Double feature)
6PM Program Guide
6:05 Japanese Programming

Monday
3PM "Springtime in the Rockies" (1942)
4:40 "A Guy Could Change" (1948)
6:05 Film
6:15 Shumi To Guest No Corner
6:30 Asu E No Kagaku
7PM Film
7:30 Ozumo Digest (Wrestling report from Japan)
8:30 Film
9PM Nagare Boshi Oran
10PM Jirocho Sangokushi

Tuesday
3PM "Wolf of New York" (1940)
4:45 "Leathernecks Have Landed" (1936)
6:05 Densuke Gekijo
6:30 Shufu No Shiori
6:45 Oshinko-San
7PM Otto Yo Otoko Yo Tsuyoku
8PM Film
8:30 S&S Variety
9PM Tsukikage Hyogo
10PM Inu To Asa Chan

Wednesday
3PM "Weekend Millionaire" (1937)
5PM The Rifleman (Back to Back episodes)
6:05 Film
6:15 Shumi To Guest No Corner
6:30 Shufu No Shiori
6:45 Oshinko-San
7PM Kappa No Sanpei
7:30 Film
8PM Aoi Taiyo
9PM Ore Wa Yojinbo
10PM Tokusetsu Kido Soosa Yai

Thursday
3PM Gripe Box
3:30 "Rascals" (1938)
4:55 "The Mandarin Mystery" (1937)
6:05 Korean Movie
6:30 Shufu No Shiori
6:45 Oshinko-San
7PM Asahi Shinbun (News program from Japan)
7:30 Densuke Gekijo
8PM Inu To Asa Chan
9PM Onihei Hanka Cho
10PM Ganbare Kaa-Chan (Comedy-Drama; KIKU ad: "Starring Etsuko Ichihara. An 18 year old comes from the country to be a maid for a large family in Tokyo. This temporary agreement suddenly turns out to an eternal arrangment.")

Friday
3PM "Ghosts of Berkeley Square" (English, 1947)
4:10 "Apache Warrior" (1957)
5:30 Film
6:05 Japanese Cooking
6:30 Konshuu No Wadai
6:45 Oshinko-San
7PM Aoi Taiyo
8PM Film
8:30 Star Monomane Daigassen
9PM Jirocho Sangokushi (Period drama; KIKU ad: "The famous legend of Boss Jirocho and his gang. They act to protect the weak and keep peace in the territory.")
10PM Tsukikage Hyogo

 

[oldiesfan6479]

How much of a delay?

And, were the shows generally aired from 16mm film, or tapes of the network broadcast?

 

[Joseph_Gallant]

How much of a delay (did network programs get in Honolulu in 1971)?

And, were the shows generally aired from 16mm film, or tapes of the network broadcast?

My guess is that by 1971, filmed programs on Hawaii TV stations were aired from 16mm film, and taped programs from videotapes, both flown by the networks to Honolulu.

I also would think that some filmed/taped programs may have been seen in Hawaii a week after they were seen on the mainland. But filmed/taped programs produced well before the date of broadcast may have aired on the same day they were on the mainland.

Network newscasts airing at 12:30 or 1 A.M. were likely same-day, recorded in Los Angeles from the first East Coast feed (6:30 P.M. Eastern time; 3:30 P.M. Pacific time; 1:30 Honolulu time) and flown out to Honolulu. For example, 12:30 A.M. in Honolulu was (and I believe still is) 5:30 A.M. Eastern Time, which gave ABC, CBS, and NBC ten-and-a-half to nine hours for getting the tapes to LAX (Los Angeles International Airport), flown to Honolulu, unpacked at Honolulu International, and driven by a courier (likely a station employee whose work day ended around 12 Midnight or 12:30 A.M. local time) to the station.

I would think that "Today", "Good Morning America", and "CBS Morning News" did not air in Hawaii until the networks went to satellite distribution in the 1980's.

 

[only1moore]

How much of a delay (did network programs get in Honolulu in 1971)?

And, were the shows generally aired from 16mm film, or tapes of the network broadcast?

My guess is that by 1971, filmed programs on Hawaii TV stations were aired from 16mm film, and taped programs from videotapes, both flown by the networks to Honolulu.

I also would think that some filmed/taped programs may have been seen in Hawaii a week after they were seen on the mainland. But filmed/taped programs produced well before the date of broadcast may have aired on the same day they were on the mainland.

Network newscasts airing at 12:30 or 1 A.M. were likely same-day, recorded in Los Angeles from the first East Coast feed (6:30 P.M. Eastern time; 3:30 P.M. Pacific time; 1:30 Honolulu time) and flown out to Honolulu. For example, 12:30 A.M. in Honolulu was (and I believe still is) 5:30 A.M. Eastern Time, which gave ABC, CBS, and NBC ten-and-a-half to nine hours for getting the tapes to LAX (Los Angeles International Airport), flown to Honolulu, unpacked at Honolulu International, and driven by a courier (likely a station employee whose work day ended around 12 Midnight or 12:30 A.M. local time) to the station.

I would think that "Today", "Good Morning America", and "CBS Morning News" did not air in Hawaii until the networks went to satellite distribution in the 1980's.

Well, there was one exception: Sports, via satellite. KHON carried Super Bowl V (Cowboys vs. Colts) live on January 17, 1971 at 9AM. Other than that, most of the live events were on a satellite same-day or one-day delay.

And yes, at the time, the Honolulu stations were on a one week delay. Some notable examples involved the new shows that had debuted on the Mainland in January 1971:

"Masterpiece Theatre": Debuted January 10, 1971. (KHET: January 17)
"The Reel Game": Debuted January 18, 1971 (KHVH: January 25)
"Alias Smith and Jones": Debuted January 21, 1971 (KHVH: January 28)
"The Smith Family": Debuted January 20, 1971 (KHVH: January 27)

Also, KHON had two of NBC's Tuesday Night outings, "The Don Knotts Show" and "Julia," on different nights (Knotts on Saturday, Julia on Friday). Both would be on its final days as they were later cancelled that season.

As for "All In The Family," (Which had debuted on January 12, 1971), KGMB did not clear it until later in the year.

 

[Ultimajock]

2-KHON (NBC)/Honolulu
Satellites: 7-KAII/Wailuku & 11-KHAW/Hilo

Monday
6:30 Red Skelton (Mama Cass Elliot and Chad Everett)
7:30 Laugh-In (Joey Bishop)
8PM NBC Monday Night at the Movies: "Do You Take This Stranger?" (1970; Network Premiere)

...actually, the lengths should be reversed, as The Red Skelton Show ran only 30 minutes that season and Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In was always a full hour when it was on NBC (only appearing as a half-hour in syndicated edits). So Laugh-In actually strted at 7:00, rather than 7:30...

...has Hawaii always been primarily on a Central Time network pattern?...

 

[only1moore]

2-KHON (NBC)/Honolulu
Satellites: 7-KAII/Wailuku & 11-KHAW/Hilo

Monday
6:30 Red Skelton (Mama Cass Elliot and Chad Everett)
7:30 Laugh-In (Joey Bishop)
8PM NBC Monday Night at the Movies: "Do You Take This Stranger?" (1970; Network Premiere)

...actually, the lengths should be reversed, as The Red Skelton Show ran only 30 minutes that season and Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In was always a full hour when it was on NBC (only appearing as a half-hour in syndicated edits). So Laugh-In actually strted at 7:00, rather than 7:30...

...has Hawaii always been primarily on a Central Time network pattern?...

Thanks for the correction on "Skelton" and "Laugh-In."

And yes, Hawaii has always followed the Central Time Zone pattern, with a few exceptions.

 

[ajmcwhorter]

From TV Guide Hawaii Edition

2-KHON (NBC)/Honolulu
Satellites: 7-KAII/Wailuku & 11-KHAW/Hilo

Tuesday
1PM "Valley of The Giants" (1938)
6PM NBA Basketball: New York Knicks at Chicago Bulls (TV Guide had KHON's listing for the 6:30 to 8:30 slot the previous week as "To Be Announced")]

I don't understand this one at all, ABC had the official contract to televise NBA games during this time, how was an NBC affiliate allowed to do this.

 

[ajmcwhorter]

We didnt get same-day network programmimg on all the network stations until I believe it was 1985. As I recall KHON (then NBC) was the first station to go same-day network programming.

AJ McWhorter
Honolulu Star Advertiser
Features Columnist

 

[only1moore]

From TV Guide Hawaii Edition

2-KHON (NBC)/Honolulu
Satellites: 7-KAII/Wailuku & 11-KHAW/Hilo

Tuesday
1PM "Valley of The Giants" (1938)
6PM NBA Basketball: New York Knicks at Chicago Bulls (TV Guide had KHON's listing for the 6:30 to 8:30 slot the previous week as "To Be Announced")]

I don't understand this one at all, ABC had the official contract to televise NBA games during this time, how was an NBC affiliate allowed to do this.

I rechecked that info. According to TV Guide, KHON had aired a January 20, 1971 broadcast of this game. But if KHON had some sort of deal with a station who served as the local NBA flagship station in that city that could explain the reason.

 

[EJ204]

It's interesting to what lengths Hawaii and Alaska went to get network TV programming. I guess to Hawaiians, it wasn't unusual to watch Cronkite, Huntley-Brinkley or ABC News as a midnight show, if they were up at that hour.

Unfortunately, it also meant these TV schedules were pretty light on news. Each network station did a half hour at 6pm (or 5:30pm) and 10pm newscast. And that was it. No noon news. No morning news, not even inserts in Today, since Today didn't air in Hawaii. I noticed in the Sunday schedule, one station did only news at 6 and one only did news at 10. The NBC station did no news on Sunday.

I suppose it was different for radio stations. Affililiates of CBS, NBC, ABC and Mutual probably could air their network's news on the hour. I believe KGU was an affiliate of NBC from at least the 40s.

I also noticed the post left by AJ McWhorter of the Honolulu Star Advertiser. That was the newspaper that some think erroneously published Barack Obama's birth notice 50 years ago, saying he was born in a Honolulu hospital when we all know he was really born in Kenya, or on Mars or someplace else. So even if Hawaiians couldn't get live TV from the mainland, their newspaper office could be fooled by a phone call from Africa, thinking it was a local call, or so Donald Trump believes.

 

[ajmcwhorter]

A few things, first off no tv station in the USA aired "Good Morning America", because it didnt debut until 1975. CBS Mornings on the mainland usually were filled with Captain Kangaroo, but in Hawaii "Checkers & Pogo" was the most popular kids show at the time. However Captain Kangaroo did air on KGMB on occassion, but not every season was the show picked up. Same with NBC's "Today Show", with Hugh Downs and Barbara Walters it aired in Hawaii at 7:00 AM in 1969 as I'm looking at actual local TV Guides from that timeframe right now. I can't recall offhand when the "Today Show" was picked up on a permanent basis, I'm thinking in the 1973 timeframe perhaps? There were live local news cut ins back then (1968-1969) by Don Burns (longtime DJ in Los Angeles), Ken Hiller or Charles Stubblefield.

As for NBC's "Huntley-Brinkley Report", that usually aired at 10:30pm following the local news on KHON. Then at 11:00pm was "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson".

The major reason for the urgency as to get the national newscasts over to Hawaii on the same day it aired on the mainland was so people could see the news that day. Day old news is not something people generally want to see. It didnt matter back then if a network show was delayed a week or two, but the news needed to be shown the same day.

Noon news was done in Hawaii on occassion during the 1950s and early 1960s, brought back briefly during the mid 1980s and also I think in the 2004 timeframe.

 

[only1moore]

AJ is actually right. "Today" showed up on KHON in 1973, but only shown one hour (which aired at 8AM) instead of the two hours that aired in the mainland.

 

[only1moore]

9-KGMB (CBS)/Honolulu
Satellites: 3-KMAU/Wailuku & 9-KPUA/Hilo
Friday
6:30 Here's Lucy
7PM Wild, Wild West

Another correction on this schedule from above.

 

[ajmcwhorter]

AJ is actually right. "Today" showed up on KHON in 1973, but only shown one hour (which aired at 8AM) instead of the two hours that aired in the mainland.

What I dont know is which hour was shown, the first or second or was it a highlighted package of the two hours condensed into a one hour show.

 

[Ultimajock]

It's interesting to what lengths Hawaii and Alaska went to get network TV programming. I guess to Hawaiians, it wasn't unusual to watch Cronkite, Huntley-Brinkley or ABC News as a midnight show, if they were up at that hour.

Unfortunately, it also meant these TV schedules were pretty light on news. Each network station did a half hour at 6pm (or 5:30pm) and 10pm newscast. And that was it. No noon news. No morning news, not even inserts in Today, since Today didn't air in Hawaii. I noticed in the Sunday schedule, one station did only news at 6 and one only did news at 10. The NBC station did no news on Sunday.

I suppose it was different for radio stations. Affililiates of CBS, NBC, ABC and Mutual probably could air their network's news on the hour. I believe KGU was an affiliate of NBC from at least the 40s.

...both KGU (NBC) and KGMB (CBS) made telephoned and shortwaved reports to their respective networks on 7 December 1941, as the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was still taking place...

 

[Joseph_Gallant]

(B)oth (Honolulu radio stations at the time) KGU (NBC) and KGMB (CBS) made telephoned and shortwaved reports to their respective networks on 7 December 1941, as the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was still taking place...

I believe KGU and KGMB were the only two radio stations in Hawaii at the time; with KGU taking some programs from both NBC Red and NBC Blue; KGMB perhaps also taking a few Mutual shows in addition to CBS.

I would think that both KGU and KGMB (as well as stations in Alaska) received a few network shows by shortwave radio feeds.

BTW, I have heard a recording of the KGU report, which got cut-off by an impatient phone operator. A very dramatic soundbite.

 

[ajmcwhorter]

Radio history in Hawaii:

http://www.qsl.net/a/ah6rh//am-radio/hawaii/history.html

 

[ShawnHill1]

From TV Guide Hawaii Edition

2-KHON (NBC)/Honolulu
Satellites: 7-KAII/Wailuku & 11-KHAW/Hilo

Tuesday
1PM "Valley of The Giants" (1938)
6PM NBA Basketball: New York Knicks at Chicago Bulls (TV Guide had KHON's listing for the 6:30 to 8:30 slot the previous week as "To Be Announced")]

I don't understand this one at all, ABC had the official contract to televise NBA games during this time, how was an NBC affiliate allowed to do this.

It had to be from then-WOR-TV in New York, as they were the Knicks' OTA flagship at the time, and they televised most Knicks road games. Most NBA teams during that time period didn't televise home games unless they were on a national telecast, and I think even then, during ABC's first NBA stint, home games were blacked-out in the home team's local market.