RETRO: Anchorage, Alaska (August 13, 1979)

[johnnya2k6]

Source: Anchorage Daily News "TV News"; news programs were on a same-day satellite delay.

2-KENI (NBC
7-KAKM (PBS)
11-KTVA (CBS)
13-KIMO (ABC)

6:00 AM
2-Today
13-Donahue

7:00
11-Captain Kangaroo
13-Good Morning America

8:00
2-PTL Club
11-Monday Morning

9:00
11-Mary Tyler Moore ("Lou Dates Mary")
13-Good Morning Alaska

9:30
11-Norma Goodman Show
13-Ryan's Hope

10:00
2-Woman's Touch
11-Not For Women Only ("Prescription Drug Abuse")
13-All My Children

10:30
2-Days of our Lives
11-Young and the Restless

10:53
7-Alaska Is...

11:00
7-Sesame Street
11-Search For Tomorrow
13-One Life To Live

11:30
2-The Doctors
11-Whew!

Noon
2-Wheel of Fortune
7-Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
11-Mike Douglas Show
13-General Hospital

12:30 PM
2-Hollywood Squares
7-The Electric Company

1:00
2-MOVIE: "Presenting Lily Mars" (1943)
7-Once Upon A Classic ("Lorna Doone")
11-Love of Life
13-Donahue

1:30
7-Villa Alegre
11-As The World Turns

2:00
7-National Geographic Special
13-MOVIE: "Rawhide" (1951)

2:30
11-Guiding Light

2:55
2-Paul Harvey Comments

3:00
2-Another World
7-When Rivers Run Dry

3:30
7-Over Easy
11-The Archies

4:00
7-Sesame Street
11-All In The Family
13-$20,000 Pyramid

4:30
2-Get Smart ("Aboard the Orient Express")
11-The Price Is Right
13-Family Feud

5:00
2-Gunsmoke ("Gunfighter R.I.P.")
7-Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
13-Bewitched ("Samantha and the Loch Ness Monster")

5:30
7-The Electric Company
11-M*A*S*H
13-Adam-12 ("Log 181")

6:00
2-NBC Nightly News (John Chancellor/David Brinkley)
7-Dick Cavett Show
11-CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite
13-News

6:30
2/11-News
7-Aviation Weather
13-ABC World News Tonight (Frank Reynolds/Max Robinson/Peter Jennings)

7:00
2-Little House on the Prairie ("The Sound of Children")
7-MacNeil/Lehrer Report
11-That's Bluegrass
13-Streets of San Francisco

7:30
7-Over Easy

8:00
2-MOVIE: "Anna of the Thousand Days" (1969)
7-Bill Moyers' Journal
11-The White Shadow
13-MOVIE: "Zeppelin" (1971)

9:00
7-James Michener's World ("The South Paficif: End of Eden?")
11-M*A*S*H

9:30
11-WKRP in Cincinnati

10:00
2-News
7-Poldark
11-Lou Grant
13-Ali The Man

10:30
2-Stationbreak (dunno what that show was

11:00
2-Paul Harvey Comments
6-Dick Cavett Show
11-The Rockford Files ("The Mayor's Committee from Deer Lick Falls")
13-News

11:05
2-The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson (Guest host Sammy Davis Jr. with Robert Conrad, Richard Dawson, Gunther Gebel-Williams, and Willie Tyler and Lester)

11:30
7-ABC Captioned News
13-Police Story ("Stigma")

Midnight
2-Tomorrow with Tom Snyder
7-Alaska Is...

12:10 AM
11-MOVIE: "To Please a Lady" (1950)

Pretty awesome lineup for 1979, I should say (compared to Fairbanks'). By the way, the only ABC daytime show absent from these listings was "The Edge of Night", and nighttime versions of Hollywood Squares and Family Feud as well as many other syndicated game shows (Name That Tune, Newlywed/Dating Games, Gong Show, etc.) weren't seen at all.

Jonathan Allen

 

[bk77]

a few months after these listings, Sarah Purcell and a crew from the TV show Real People visted Nome, Alaska. Two things I remember..

1. Purcell and some local guy from Nome went over to the nearby then-USSR and placed an American flag on their soil.

and number two, there was a scene that was filmed at either a local bar or perhaps a restaurant. The customers were watching Real People !!! The customers if I remember were very familiar with the TV show Real People, well they acted like they were anyway.I seem to remember watching some woman from Nome saying how much Skip Stevenson, his "smile" kept her warm on those cold Alaska nights.

OK..I kinda wondered how that was possible. The restaurant/bar had their own satellite dish and were able to pick up Real People there? Or did the folks at Real People take a VCR to Alaska with them and showed the customers a tape of the show and made the viewers down in the lower 48 assume that one could pick up either the Anchorage or perhaps the Fairbanks stations in Nome?

 

[Stanislav]

I'm sure someone with more Alaska knowledge will correct me, but I believe by the late 70's there were quite a few lo-power translator stations all throughout Alaska that rebroadcast delayed stuff (a week or more) from U-Matic VCR machines. (I remember reading an article about this network around that time.) I imagine Nome might well have had one or more of those.

 

[mleach]

I'm sure someone with more Alaska knowledge will correct me, but I believe by the late 70's there were quite a few lo-power translator stations all throughout Alaska that rebroadcast delayed stuff (a week or more) from U-Matic VCR machines. (I remember reading an article about this network around that time.) I imagine Nome might well have had one or more of those.

I am curious at how this sort of set up worked?

Did someone fly out to those translators and pop in a tape and ran it on a continous loop or something?
Did these tapes consist of a mix of programs from the various networks or only one network per translator?

This is interesting.

 

[Stanislav]

I'm sure someone with more Alaska knowledge will correct me, but I believe by the late 70's there were quite a few lo-power translator stations all throughout Alaska that rebroadcast delayed stuff (a week or more) from U-Matic VCR machines. (I remember reading an article about this network around that time.) I imagine Nome might well have had one or more of those.

I am curious at how this sort of set up worked?

Did someone fly out to those translators and pop in a tape and ran it on a continous loop or something?
Did these tapes consist of a mix of programs from the various networks or only one network per translator?

This is interesting.

Don't recall the details, but I believe the tapes (U-Matic cassettes) were just sent on a delay basis to the various sites by mail or courier, and then just programmed on site. I wish I could remember where I saw the article -- it might have been in Broadcast Weekly or something similar.