Hawaii, September 28, 1968

[only1moore]

From TV Guide Hawaii Edition

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

9AM Filipino Fiesta
10AM Meet The Press
10:30 Focus Hawaii (Public Affairs program)
11AM Movie: "Come Fill The Cup" (1951)
1PM Movie: "Revolt Of The Praetorians" (Italian, 1964)
2:30 Movie: "Meet John Doe" (1941)
5PM The Mothers-In-Law
5:30 Daniel Boone
6:30 Adam-12 (debut)
7PM Get Smart
7:30 The Ghost & Mrs. Muir (debut)
8PM NBC Saturday Night At The Movies: "Becket" (1964, 3-hour network premire)
11PM Joe Pyne (10PM on Saturdays)
12:30 Movie: "Dino" (1957)

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

6:05AM Rocketship 4
6:30 Bullwinkle
7AM King Kong
7:30 Casper
8AM The Adventures of Gulliver
8:30 Spider-Man
9AM Fantastic Voyage
9:30 Journey To The Center Of The Earth
10AM Cartoon Festival
10:30 Fantastic Four
11AM Beatles
11:30 George of The Jungle
12Noon American Bandstand (Jeannie C. Riley and Jay & The Techniques are the guests)
1PM College Football Highlights: USC at Minnesota; Oklahoma at Notre Dame; Northwestern at Miami (taped September 21st)
2PM College Football: Oklahoma at Notre Dame (see 1pm listing)
3:30 ABC Wide World of Sports: US Mens Olympic Track & Field Trials (Taped September 9-17 from South Lake Tahoe, CA)
5PM Big Valley
6PM News
6:30 Dating Game
7PM Newlywed Game
7:30 Lawrence Welk
8:30 Hollywood Palace (Don Adams is the guest host)
9:30 Movie: "So Proudly We Hail" (1943)
11:45 Movie: "The Street Jungle" (1947)

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

5:30AM Sunrise Semester
6AM Dennis The Meanace
6:30 Checkers & Pogo
7AM Go Go Gophers
7:30 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour
8:30 Wacky Races
9AM Archie
9:30 Batman/Superman Hour
10:30 Herculoids
11AM Shazzan!
11:30 Jonny Quest
12 Noon Moby D***
12:30 Lone Ranger (Animated version)
1PM Tom & Jerry
1:30 Car & Track
2PM Los Angeles Boxing
3:30 Wrestling
5PM Petticoat Junction
5:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
6PM News
6:30 Mission: Impossible
7:30 Invaders
8:30 M Squad
9PM Mannix
10PM The Prisoner (last episode)
11PM Movie (No title given, and this would be the practice that would continue with KGMB's TV Guide listings)
1AM CBS News
1:30 Movie

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

Off the air on Saturdays

13-KIKU (Independent)/Honolulu

1PM African Patrol
2PM The Falcon
2:30 The Westerner
3PM The Great Gildersleeve
3:30 Assignment: Underwater
4PM Boots & Saddles
4:30 Blue Angels
5PM Consumer Line
5:30 Ashita No Hanayome (Japanese Drama)
6PM Televi Engeijo (Japanese Variety)
7PM Japanese News
7:10 Film
7:30 Tetsudo Koan Sanjuu Roku (Japanese Drama)
8:30 Asphalt Jungle (Japanese Drama)
9:30 Dry Mama (Japanese Drama)
10:30 Japanese News

 

[oldiesfan6479]

2-KHON (NBC)/Honolulu
10AM Meet The Press
...
5PM The Mothers-In-Law
5:30 Daniel Boone
6:30 Adam-12 (debut)
7PM Get Smart
7:30 The Ghost & Mrs. Muir (debut)
8PM NBC Saturday Night At The Movies: "Becket" (1964, 3-hour network premire)

The usually topical MTP six days late? By 1968 were the networks flying
tapes of their evening newscasts to HNL to run late the same night, and
if so, why not also for the political gabfest?

Malloy & Reed, along with the Ghost, were a week late (both premiered on
09/21/68). Will make the assumption the movie was also a 7 DB.

Then there's the shows KHON-TV can't even air on the same night, albeit
a week late.

4-KHVH (ABC)/Honolulu
2PM College Football: Oklahoma at Notre Dame (see 1pm listing)
...
5PM Big Valley
...
6:30 Dating Game
7PM Newlywed Game
7:30 Lawrence Welk
8:30 Hollywood Palace (Don Adams is the guest host)

Football a week late too?

A show on the "wrong" day (starring Miss Barbara Stanwyck*)
along with the Saturday night lineup in pattern--but no doubt
on a week delay.

9-KGMB (CBS)/Honolulu
5PM Petticoat Junction
5:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
...
6:30 Mission: Impossible
7:30 Invaders
...
9PM Mannix
10PM The Prisoner (last episode)

"Right" day and "wrong" day shows, space aliens (well before
Art Bell) just off-network (ABC) and fresh into syndication,
and probably also the week late scenario.


*: Ya think anyone who knew her home phone ever pranked
Stanwyck by calling her then saying "sorry, wrong number"? ;D

 

[only1moore]

Unfortunately, thats how 2, 4, and 9 (and if you want to include 11) programmed their schedules at the time, which is why most of the network shows are placed in weird timeslots (KGMB had "Gunsmoke" at 10:30PM on Sundays was one example). BTW 1968 was also the year that TV Guide gave Hawaii its own edition, so don't be surprised if I find out a little more about Hawaii's TV schedule history in the weeks and months to come.

And yes, KHON, KHVH and KGMB all aired the same day network news newscasts, but buried them in the late night slot in 1968(Huntley/Brinkley at 10PM, Frank Reynolds and Walter Cronkite at 12Midnight).

 

[TexasTom]

BTW 1968 was also the year that TV Guide gave Hawaii its own edition, so don't be surprised if I find out a little more about Hawaii's TV schedule history in the weeks and months to come.

Prior to 1968, what other areas were lumped with Hawaii by TV Guide?

 

[azumanga]

Prior to 1968, what other areas were lumped with Hawaii by TV Guide?

As far as I know, Hawaii had no TVG coverage at all prior to 1968 -- I would think the only programming listings came from local papers and TV magazines.

I think Alaska would be the last state to get TVG coverage -- and that's not until the late-1990s.

 

[ajmcwhorter]

From the beginning of tv in Hawaii in 1952, local tv listings were covered in the then combo Sunday edition of the Honolulu Star Bulletin/Honolulu Advertiser. I think that was called "Aloha Week". This continued on for many years I think into at least the late 1980s or so.

At one time the Advertiser owned KONA (now KHON) and the Star Bulletin owned KGMB.

During the early 1960's there were local tv listings in the "Aloha TV News".

Around 1967-68 another local version of the tv guide surfaced called "TV Time". I have one that has KHVH sportscaster Al Michaels on the cover, who got his start in Honolulu. Believe this local guide folded in 1970.

As for the odd times and days of network tv shows in Hawaii, that practice continued on for years, a show like "Good Times" could air on a Sunday afternoon at 4:00pm. "Hawaii 5-0" was obviously very popular in Hawaii and reruns of the show aired on KGMB well into the late 1980s, get this during what would be known as prime time viewing!!

Our sports were tape delayed and shown during prime time well into the mid 2000's. The only sporting event I can think of that is still always tape delayed and shown later on a consistent basis is Sunday/Monday Night Football. I think in recent years for instance the NCAA title game for basketball airs live during the afternoon and then is re-played during prime time.

Also because satellite costs were so tremendous to get same-day network programming on the air, I'd say well into the earlier part of this most recent decade you had shows padded with extra commercials to help defray the costs of the satellite feeds, so the network shows would run anywhere from 5-10 minutes past the 10pm hour, so the news would start at 10:05, possibly even as late as 10:15pm.

AJ McWhorter
Honolulu Star Bulletin
Features Columnist (my beat, the history of local television in Hawaii)

 

[pqgeorge]

From the beginning of tv in Hawaii in 1952, local tv listings were covered in the then combo Sunday edition of the Honolulu Star Bulletin/Honolulu Advertiser. I think that was called "Aloha Week". This continued on for many years I think into at least the late 1980s or so.

At one time the Advertiser owned KONA (now KHON) and the Star Bulletin owned KGMB.

During the early 1960's there were local tv listings in the "Aloha TV News".

Around 1967-68 another local version of the tv guide surfaced called "TV Time". I have one that has KHVH sportscaster Al Michaels on the cover, who got his start in Honolulu. Believe this local guide folded in 1970.

As for the odd times and days of network tv shows in Hawaii, that practice continued on for years, a show like "Good Times" could air on a Sunday afternoon at 4:00pm. "Hawaii 5-0" was obviously very popular in Hawaii and reruns of the show aired on KGMB well into the late 1980s, get this during what would be known as prime time viewing!!

Our sports were tape delayed and shown during prime time well into the mid 2000's. The only sporting event I can think of that is still always tape delayed and shown later on a consistent basis is Sunday/Monday Night Football. I think in recent years for instance the NCAA title game for basketball airs live during the afternoon and then is re-played during prime time.

Also because satellite costs were so tremendous to get same-day network programming on the air, I'd say well into the earlier part of this most recent decade you had shows padded with extra commercials to help defray the costs of the satellite feeds, so the network shows would run anywhere from 5-10 minutes past the 10pm hour, so the news would start at 10:05, possibly even as late as 10:15pm.

AJ McWhorter
Honolulu Star Bulletin
Features Columnist (my beat, the history of local television in Hawaii)

Hi AJ,
How did the Hawaiian TV stations (KGMB, KHON, KHVH and satellites) handle the fast breaking news of both the MLK and RFK assassinations back in '68? Did all of the TV stations in the Islands get a special satellite feed from the networks (at a very high expense) throughout the ordeals of the assasinations and the subsequent funerals or did they go through the usual tape bicycling on the regular airlines? I'm sure during the four days of President Kennedy's passing and funeral, it was tough for Hawaii to see it all, back in '63. I can only imagine how tough it would have been for the Alaskan stations at the time being so far out of the "footprint" of satellite technolgy at the time. Any thoughts?

Aloha!
-Pete

 

[FreddyE1977]

I notice KIKU ran a lot of Japanese programming, including Japanese news. Were these rebroadcasts of
programs from Japan, or locally produced in the Japanese language?

I remember at one time WPGH in Pittsburgh used to produce a News from Italy program for Pittsburgh's
large Italian community. It was produced in their studios with a local host who spoke Italian. He would
use news film clips that had been provided by RAI in Italy. I remember it because it was produced in color
but Italy had not yet adopted color TV, so all of the actual news footage was in black and white.

 

[only1moore]

I notice KIKU ran a lot of Japanese programming, including Japanese news. Were these rebroadcasts of
programs from Japan, or locally produced in the Japanese language?

Most of the Japanese shows were rebroadcasts from Japan, even though they did had some local input with its newscast and commercials.

 

[ajmcwhorter]

I notice KIKU ran a lot of Japanese programming, including Japanese news. Were these rebroadcasts of
programs from Japan, or locally produced in the Japanese language?

Most of the Japanese shows were rebroadcasts from Japan, even though they did had some local input with its newscast and commercials.

Believe he is correct on that, though there were some locally produced programs that I think were FCC mandated at the time for public service purposes. Those happened to be non-Japanese related. They had for many, many years a 5 minute newscast that aired at the top of the hour too. KIKU became primarily a Japanese station in 1967, prior to that it was a syndicated station, KTRG (1962-1967) that had reruns of tv shows and movies, mostly western based, also some shows the other network stations did not run would run on this channel and a full 30 minute newscast too.

Aj McWhorter

 

[ajmcwhorter]

Hi AJ,
How did the Hawaiian TV stations (KGMB, KHON, KHVH and satellites) handle the fast breaking news of both the MLK and RFK assassinations back in '68? Did all of the TV stations in the Islands get a special satellite feed from the networks (at a very high expense) throughout the ordeals of the assasinations and the subsequent funerals or did they go through the usual tape bicycling on the regular airlines? I'm sure during the four days of President Kennedy's passing and funeral, it was tough for Hawaii to see it all, back in '63. I can only imagine how tough it would have been for the Alaskan stations at the time being so far out of the "footprint" of satellite technolgy at the time. Any thoughts?

Aloha!
-Pete

Hi Pete,

I havent talked to anyone regarding MLK coverage, I did on RFK coverage and had much of the info written down but had a pc crash and lost the info. I seem to recall that the 10pm news was coming on when they got the wire reports from LA (or I could be off by an hour because of the time change), so they had to wing it with whatever they had at the moment.

Now I know some details regarding the JFK assassination, that happened early in the morning Hawaii time, all the stations had asked the networks to send material in as soon as possible with hopes it would be in later to help provide information. But the networks were so busy they didnt have time to send things in so quickly for obvious reasons so the late Bob Sevey (then a newscaster at KHVH) who recalled some of the events from those days went on camera with a stack of wire copies and a transistor radio plugged into his era essentially ad-libbed the news. They also used what they had which would be photos, slides, newspaper images from the past regarding JFK to use different images accompanied with somber music, this replaced regular programming (no commercials) for the next 72 hours. The next day Channel 4 (KHVH) decided to pool their resources together once the tapes did come in from the mainland and they edited everything based on what was updated as the newest and latest information at the time. The pooling of resources also ocurred during events like the Apollo missions which ended in Hawaii too. But any of the stations could provide updates on their own at anytime. Hope this helps somewhat.

If anybody out there has old Honolulu newspapers with local tv listings or Hawaii related TV Guides from the past please contact me.

Mahalo,

AJ McWhorter

 

[gr8oldies]

Did Hawaiian stations get dubs of master tapes of individual network shows or off air or off net recordings of the network's entire feed for an evening?

 

[oldiesfan6479]

Did Hawaiian stations get dubs of master tapes of individual network shows or off air or off net recordings of the network's entire feed for an evening?

I'd like to expand gr8oldies' question to ask if some network film shows
were shipped to HNL on 16mm prints, and if so, when did it evolve to
video tape only for both tape and film shows?

As to master tapes vs. recordings off the net feed (or off air)...as late as
1973 CBS (NYC and TV City originations) was still running spots separate
from the programs--i.e., not integrated into an "air tape." Additionally,
film shows were still being run off film chains, a 35mm primary and a 16mm
backup; while two VTR copies of the show ran in synch for tape programs.

 

[ajmcwhorter]

My first lengthy post didnt appear so I will have to recall this again thru memory. Frustrating!

The network tv shows were brought in via matson cargo ships often a week to two weeks late which really wasn't too much of a problem unless of course you are viewing a Christmas special in mid-January but there was nothing you could do about it. I always thought Hawaii and Alaska could have received those holiday themed specials well in advance because they often were taped in late summer or early fall so the tapes would have been available if they had been thru post production already and screened already to allow for the tapes to be released earlier. What I dont recall exactly is what tape or film formats were sent back then, possibly kinescopes in the earlier days. I know we no longer have the old 2 inch quad machines, if I need those taps transferred I have to send them to Burbank.

By the late 70's to very early 80's the network evening newscasts were shown same day at a normal hour, say 5:30pm, so you would have Cronkite, Reynolds, Chancellor, etc. come on-air and say, "This is the XXX Evening News coming to you live via satellite"...and then the opening voiceover's or credits would appear as norm. I do have these somewhere on tape.

Another odd thing was the network promos, instead of say Ernie Anderson doing ABC promos for the network you would have a local DJ or tv station booth announcer tell you exactly what day or time your show would come on the air because it wasnt going to air when the rest of the nation was going to see it since in Hawaii nothing hardly ever aired when it did in other places on a normal basis.

 

[Ultimajock]

the late Bob Sevey (then a newscaster at KHVH)

...seems to me that, on Howard Stern's first afternoon airshift at WNBC Radio in New York, his newscaster (Robin Quivers hadn't been hired by WNBC yet) was also named Sevey. Did Bob or any of his relatives ever work at WNBC Radio in '82?...

 

[ajmcwhorter]

Only other Sevey I remember being in broadcasting related to Hawaii, was Cecil Seavey (spelled differently), who I believe is now deceased. Bob Sevey was broadcasting in Hawaii from 1954-1986, moved to Washington state aroundf 1989 and died last February.

 

[wbhist]

...seems to me that, on Howard Stern's first afternoon airshift at WNBC Radio in New York, his newscaster (Robin Quivers hadn't been hired by WNBC yet) was also named Sevey. Did Bob or any of his relatives ever work at WNBC Radio in '82?...

That would have been the late Neal Seavey, but I don't know if he was of any relation.