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Phoenix & Tucson TV listings for November 22-23, 1963

Ultimajock

Ultimajock

http://refriedvinyl.blogspot.com/2010/11/tucson-and-phoenix-tv-listings-22-23.html

...and does anybody hereabouts know exactly what Channels 5 and 8 in Phoenix and 6 and 27 in Tucson did once the assassination news broke (do their own bulletins while continuing regular programming, pick up one of the national networks with permission of the local primary affiliate, or simply sign off the air because everyone else was already watching NBC/CBS/ABC?)...
 
Ultimajock said:
http://refriedvinyl.blogspot.com/2010/11/tucson-and-phoenix-tv-listings-22-23.html

...and does anybody hereabouts know exactly what Channels 5 and 8 in Phoenix and 6 and 27 in Tucson did once the assassination news broke (do their own bulletins while continuing regular programming, pick up one of the national networks with permission of the local primary affiliate, or simply sign off the air because everyone else was already watching NBC/CBS/ABC?)...
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I definitely watched everything we could get via cable in Prescott including 5 and 8 after being sent home from school around noon. I was 11 and already a TV addict who wrote their engineering departments asking for donations of their old camera tubes. I was a weird child.

I'm inclined to say that they were both rebroadcasting 12/KTAR via off-air pickup, which was NBC. Aside from my recollection about the rebroadcasts, NBC strikes me as a likely choice for 5 because their previous affiliations with ABC and CBS (the first CBS run ending in '53) may have ended on a sour note.

8 was limited schedule at that time, and probably went off the air for the weekend sometime Friday evening. Note that 8 has always had some minor connections with 12, operating from 12's building on South Mountain, and indeed it was started with 12's donated transmitter (which I think was a Dumont.)

My folks kept to prior plans to spend the weekend in Phoenix, where us kids huddled around a room TV at Park Central Motor Hotel...right on time to watch Oswald's shooting as it happened on Sunday...and it was via NBC on 5 or 12.

What a horrifying weekend that was.
 
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