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KCOP Los Angeles, February 22-28, 1986

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I'd like to share a highlight schedule for one of my favorite formerly independent stations KCOP UPN 13. Here's a typical weekly rundown from February 22-28, 1986, as referenced from TV Guide. I hope you'll like it.

SATURDAY
February 22

06:00 AM In Studio* (2 back-to-back shows)
08:00 AM Get Smart (back-to-back episodes)
09:00 AM Abbott and Costello Movie - "It Ain't Hay" (1943)
10:30 AM Matinee Thirteen(?) - "Tarzan and the Mermaids" (1948)
12:00 PM Solid Gold
01:00 PM Playhouse Thirteen - "Mayday at 40,000 Feet" (1976)
03:00 PM Movie Arcade - "American Graffiti" (1973)
05:00 PM The Rockford Files
06:00 PM The Streets of San Francisco
07:00 PM Wheel of Fortune
07:30 PM Barney Miller
08:00 PM The 8 O'Clock Movie - "West Side Story" (1961)
11:00 PM The Benny Hill Show
11:30 PM L.A. Theatre - "North by Northwest" (1959)
02:00 AM Solid Gold
03:00 AM Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous
04:00 AM INN News
04:30 AM SIGN-OFF

SUNDAY
February 23

06:00 AM First Person*
07:00 AM Tranzor Z
07:30 AM Tom and Jerry
08:00 AM The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera
09:30 AM Super Sunday
10:00 AM The Adventures of Superman
10:30 AM Bewitched
11:00 AM I Dream of Jeannie
11:30 AM Get Smart
12:00 PM The Dukes of Hazzard
01:00 PM Movie Arcade - "American Graffiti" (1973)[rebroadcast]
03:00 PM Movie for a Sunday Afternoon - "Three Days of the Condor" (1975)
05:00 PM Star Trek
06:00 PM Playhouse Thirteen - "Foul Play" (1980)
08:00 PM Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous
09:00 PM Kenneth Copeland
10:00 PM Jerry Falwell
11:00 PM Jimmy Swaggart
12:00 AM Oral Roberts
12:30 AM PAID PROGRAM - "Millionaire Maker"
01:30 AM Editor's Desk*
02:00 AM INN News
02:30 AM SIGN-OFF

WEEKDAYS
February 24-28

05:30 AM Romper Room and Friends*
06:00 AM Super Friends
06:30 AM Scooby-Doo
07:00 AM M.A.S.K.
07:30 AM Heathcliff
08:00 AM Inspector Gadget
08:30 AM The Jetsons
09:00 AM The Great Space Coaster
09:30 AM The Adventures of Superman
10:00 AM Bewitched
10:30 AM I Dream of Jeannie
11:00 AM Hawaii Five-O
12:00 PM Matinee Thirteen
Monday - "Carson City" (1952)
Tuesday - "The Charge at Feather River" (1953)
Wednesday - "East of Eden" (1955)
Thursday - "The Easy Way" (1952)
Friday - "The Iron Mistress" (1952)
02:00 PM Super Friends
02:30 PM Tom and Jerry
03:00 PM Challenge of the Go-Bots
03:30 PM He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
04:00 PM She-Ra: Princess of Power
04:30 PM Transformers
05:00 PM G.I. Joe
05:30 PM Diff'rent Strokes (back-to-back episodes)
06:30 PM Jeopardy!
07:00 PM Wheel of Fortune
07:30 PM The New Newlywed Game
08:00 PM The 8 O'Clock Movie
Monday, Tuesday - "King Kong" (1976) [2-part broadcast]
Wednesday - SPECIAL: The Benny Hill Show [mini-marathon]
Thursday - "The Theif Who Came to Dinner" (1973)
Friday - "Machine Gun McCain" (Italian, 1968)
10:00 PM News 13 (10:30 for the Monday, Tuesday and Friday editions)
11:00 PM Barney Miller
11:30 PM Hawaii Five-O
12:30 AM INN News
01:00 AM L.A. Theatre
Monday - "Stage Fright" (British, 1950)
Tuesday - "A Star Is Born" (1954)
Wednesday - "Stop, You're Killing Me" (1952)
Thursday - "The West Point Story" (1950)
Friday - "The Winning Team" (1952)
03:00 AM SIGN-OFF (Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday)
The Twentieth Century (Thursday)
03:30 AM SIGN-OFF (Monday, Thursday)
04:00 AM The Twentieth Century (Friday)
04:30 AM SIGN OFF (Friday)

* = denotes local program

In case you were wondering, Super Sunday was a weekly block consisted of the rotating series "Robotix," "Bigfoot and the Muscle Machines," "Inhumanoids" and "JEM." They were also broadcast in a 90-minute format as well.
 
> 01:30 AM Editor's Desk*

> * = denotes local program

Not in the case of the above. "From the Editor's Desk" was a INN weekend show.<P ID="signature">______________


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I had forgotten that KCOP ran cartoons in the afternoons as well.

I also forgotten about "Super Sunday" which was produced by the folks that brought us the animated versions of The Transformers and G.I. Joe. I barely remember the "Robotix" and "Bigfoot" segments, and probably for good reason. In the fall of 1986, Jem ended up as a daily series, and Inhumanoids as a weekly show.

Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! on KCOP? Geez, I bet they wish they kept those shows on their air a few more years...

One other note: by this time, KTLA was owned by Tribune Broadcasting. I would have thought that they would place the Independent Network News on channel five soon after. Did KTLA ever air INN?<P ID="signature">______________
"Know your role and shut your mouth!!" -- The Rock</P>
 
> One other note: by this time, KTLA was owned by Tribune
> Broadcasting. I would have thought that they would place
> the Independent Network News on channel five soon after.
> Did KTLA ever air INN?

Yes. According to the Fall Preview issue of TV Guide (September 12-18, 1987), INN News -- by that time anchored by Morton Dean on weekdays and Marvin Scott on weekends -- was being cleared by KTLA at 1:00am every night but Saturdays (when it was carried at 2:30am).

However, this particular week, INN was pre-empted on Tuesday and Wednesday night because Pope John Paul II was visiting Los Angeles and KTLA was running round-the-clock coverage, using the overnight hours for replays of the day's significant events. KTLA literally began at 9:00am September 15 and, except for one-hour news blocks at noon and 10:00pm, ran nothing else for 48 hours straight. Even the 700 Club got pre-empted.<P ID="signature">______________


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> However, this particular week, INN was pre-empted on Tuesday
> and Wednesday night because Pope John Paul II was visiting
> Los Angeles and KTLA was running round-the-clock coverage,
> using the overnight hours for replays of the day's
> significant events. KTLA literally began at 9:00am
> September 15 and, except for one-hour news blocks at noon
> and 10:00pm, ran nothing else for 48 hours straight. Even
> the 700 Club got pre-empted.

The fact an independent station could do that much coverage on anything back in 1986 was amazing. I never knew KTLA was so news intensive back in the 80s. I was led to believe the news programming on KTLA became big in the early 90's. I dont remember other markets getting that much Pope coverage. Even when he died the stations and networks were not wall to wall. Back then I thought KTLA only had a 10 PM newscast.

Its amazing that Pat Robertson is so friendly with the Catholics after the Pope bumped him in the #2 market. kidding...but he actually was a guest at least one Papal mass back in 1995 in New York City. Upon the Pope's death his reaction was very favorable. I guess unlike many conservative Protestants that Pat still has a soft spot for Catholicism.


>
 
> The fact an independent station could do that much coverage
> on anything back in 1986 was amazing. I never knew KTLA was
> so news intensive back in the 80s. I was led to believe the
> news programming on KTLA became big in the early 90's. I
> dont remember other markets getting that much Pope coverage.
> Even when he died the stations and networks were not wall to
> wall. Back then I thought KTLA only had a 10 PM newscast.

Actually, KTLA built a reputation for its news department. They were the first station to do live remote coverage of news, the first to have a helicopter, and were generally considered to be the station to turn to for major local newa coverage.

I believe KTLA won a local Emmy award for its coverage of the 1965 Watts riots, IIRC.

I think what causes the perception you have, Mark, is that KTLA was never a real contender in its newscasts for many years, but their live coverage of disasters and breaking news more than made up for it in the eyes of the viewers.<P ID="signature">______________


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> Actually, KTLA built a reputation for its news department.
> They were the first station to do live remote coverage of
> news, the first to have a helicopter, and were generally
> considered to be the station to turn to for major local newa
> coverage.

They had gavel-to-gavel coverage of the OJ Simpson trial that was syndicated to a handful of stations.
I kinda miss KTLA since I switched satellite providers, although it looks like they've become just another generic WB station.
 
Thanks for the clarification on "From the Editor's Desk." I wasn't sure at first if that series was shown nationwide.
 
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