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KFWD/52 in Dalla/Fort Worth now running more classic TV

TexasTom

TexasTom

Back around the start of 2004, KFWD-TV, channel 52, in the Dallas/Fort Worth area started running a bunch of older TV shows during the day -- picking up programs like "McHale's Navy", "Gomer Pyle", "Mister Ed", Green Acres", "Leave it to Beaver", and a few others. The evening hours (5 to 7 PM) at the time were still filled with newer (but third rate) sitcoms like "Becker" and "Mad About You".

But when KFWD signed their joint operations agreement with Belo's WFAA-TV, the classic shows quickly got sidelined, with most of them getting burned off late at night. And so it remained for two years.

However, a year ago, KFWD picked up a handful of the classics -- "The Twilight Zone" for late nights, "The Brady Bunch" in the early evening, and "Little House on the Prairie" (which Fox-owned KDFI/27 had recently dropped) during the day. A couple months back, they added a couple more classic shows.

Apparently, the strategy is working, because the folks at KFWD are going heavily on the classic TV shows starting this fall. Here's the weekday schedule for KFWD, starting the week after next (week of 9/10):

10:00 AM Jack Hanna’s Animal Adventures
10:30 AM My Three Sons
11:00 AM Mork & Mindy
11:30 AM Lucy Show
Noon Gomer Pyle, USMC
12:30 PM Beverly Hillbillies
1:00 PM Perry Mason
2:00 PM Hawaii Five-O
3:00 PM Matlock
4:00 PM Little House
5:00 PM Brady Bunch
5:30 PM Happy Days
6:00 PM Hogan’s Heroes
6:30 PM SW Kia Sports Talk
7:00 PM News 8
7:30 PM Insider
8:00 PM Oprah Winfrey
9:00 PM Charlie’s Angels
10:00 PM Married With Children
10:30 PM Twilight Zone
11:00 PM New 8 Update
11:35 PM SW Kia Sports Talk
12:05 AM Mission Impossible
1:05 AM The Nanny
1:35 AM Mad About You

A few of these programs are ones that KFWD carried before the WFAA agreement ("Hogan's Heroes", "Gomer Pyle"). Others (the entire 1 to 5 PM block of hour shows) are ones that had been running on KDFI a couple years ago, but which were cleared out to make room for "My Network TV" and for Fox's group buys. Still others are shows that haven't run in Dallas in many years, such as "Mission Impossible" and "My Three Sons".

I hope that this works for them -- while not a pure classics schedule like KDOC in Los Angeles or "ME-TV" in Chicago, this schedule does look pretty good. And it does provide a nice alternative in the area.
 
Now if they would pick up some old westerns for weekend afternoons. Miss Channel 39 westerns being there on those cold winter weekend afternoons when you could not go do anything else.
 
OnTexasTime said:
Now if they would pick up some old westerns for weekend afternoons. Miss Channel 39 westerns being there on those cold winter weekend afternoons when you could not go do anything else.
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I forgot about those. 39 used to win the weekends with those afternoon western blocks. (I literally mean they were the #1 station in town for the 4-6 hours that those shows were on the air each Saturday and Sunday afternoon) That was before Lin & NBC got hold of the station, ruined it, then killed it by turning it spanish language.
 
SirFreebie1975 said:
i just checked the schedule and it starts this monday
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I stand mostly corrected. The exception is that I see that the "Becker" reruns are continuing on KFWD for another week. That means that "The Brady Bunch" is going on a one week hiatus, returning next week in the 5 PM slot to be vacated by "Becker".
 
Now, this is what I call Stoner TV....basically the kind of shows you'd hang out and watch all day while you bake ;)
 
Nice to see the Lucy Sow in decent 35mm transfers. For years it's been available mostly on bootleg DVDs made from faded grainy scratched spliced 16mm syndication prints. The shows are actually NOT public domain, but when Paramount bought Desilu around 1968, they removed the "Filmed in Hollywood by Desilu" production credit which ALSO had the copyright notice.
 
Bravo to Belo52 for having the guts to show these "boomer" shows. Now if they were really brave, they'd squeeze in "Our Miss Brooks", "Sea Hunt", "Life of Riley", "December Bride"....... :)
 
stevezodiac said:
Bravo to Belo52 for having the guts to show these "boomer" shows. Now if they were really brave, they'd squeeze in "Our Miss Brooks", "Sea Hunt", "Life of Riley", "December Bride"....... :)
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Don't even know where (or if) they could obtain broadcast syndication rights and decent prints for any of those shows. Most of the stuff that they just picked up is from CBS Television Distribution, which means that these programs are coming off of good quality source tapes -- and will look good on the air.
 
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