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Retro: Anchorage Fri, Dec 22, 1978

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Bluenoser

from Anchorage Daily News via Google News Archive

KENI 2-NBC (became KTUU in 1981)
6:00 Today
8:00 PTL Club
10:00 Woman's Touch
10:30 Days of Our Lives
11:30 Doctors
noon Hollywood Squares
12:30 Wheel of Fortune
1:00 Movie "Romance at Rosy Ridge"
2:55 Paul Harvey
3:00 Another World
4:00 Jeopardy!
4:30 Get Smart "Age Before Duty"
5:00 Gunsmoke
6:00 NBC Nightly News
6:30 News
7:00 Diff'rent Strokes
7:30 Who's Watching the Kids "Hit and Run"
8:00 Rockford Files "The Fast Count"
9:00 Eddie Capra Mysteries "Breakout to Murder"
10:00 News Review
10:30 Paul Harvey
10:35 Tonight Show
mid. Midnight Special (host Wolfman Jack/guests Chic, Sylvester, Rick James & the Stone City Band, Pattie Brooks, Laura Taylor, Gallagher, and the Jeff Kutash dancers)
1:30 Movie "Getting Straight"

KAKM 7-PBS
10:00 ITV
10:53 Alaska is...
11:00 Sesame Street
noon Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
12:30 Electric Company
1:00 Zoom
1:30 Villa Alegre
2:00 Child Development
3:00 Lilias, Yoga & You
3:30 Over Easy
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6:00 Zoom
6:30 Aviation Weather
7:00 MacNeil-Lehrer Report
7:30 Who We Are
8:00 Christmas Eve at Sesame Street
9:00 Christmas Heritage
10:00 Sneak Previews
10:30 Sing We Noel
11:00 Dick Cavett "Words at Play" (guests Rony Randall and Willard Espy)
11:30 Captioned ABC News
mid. MacNeil-Lehrer Report
12:30 Alaska is...

KTVA 11-CBS
7:00 Captain Kangaroo
8:00 CBS Morning News
9:00 Norma Goodman
9:30 Not for Women Only
10:00 Guiding Light
11:00 All in the Family
11:30 Love of Life
noon Young & the Restless
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 As the World Turns
2:00 M*A*S*H
2:30 Price is Right
3:30 Playhouse
4:00 Archies
4:30 Mary Tyler Moore
5:00 Mike Douglas (from Vegas with guests Robert Goulet, Juliet Prowse, the Walkers, Mabel King, and the Steppin Stones)
6:00 CBS Evening News
6:30 News
7:00 Outer Limits
8:00 A Special Sesame Street Christmas (stars Leslie Uggams, with guest stars Imogene Coca, Henry Fonda, Michael Jackson, Ethel Merman, Anne Murray, and Dick Smothers)
9:00 Incredible Hulk
10:00 Flying High
11:00 Movies "The New Avengers"/"Nightmare"

KIMO 13-ABC
6:00 Donahue (several youngsters join in a discussion on their feelings about their moms working outside the home)
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Good Morning Alaska
9:30 Ryan's Hope
10:00 All My Children
11:00 One Life to Live
noon General Hospital
1:00 Donahue (guest Bobby Vinton)
2:00 Movie "Harry Black and the Tiger"
4:00 $10,000 Pyramid
4:30 Family Feud
5:00 Emergency!
6:00 News
7:00 Streets of San Francisco
8:00 Donny & Marie
9:00 Movie "Long Journey Back"
11:10 News Final
11:40 Baretta "Who Can Make the Sun Shine?"
12:40 Movie "Theatre of Death"
2:20 Movie "Career"
4:15 Movie "Trapeze"
6:10 Panorama 13
 
Was stationed there during this very time. Had to get used to only 4 channels, coming from a bigger city (Miami area).

KAKM 7's "Alaska Is" was a program about 5 minutes long which showed the beauty of the state, mostly in photographs IIRC. It could still be on KAKM....no reason not to promote the lovely state.

NOTE: 2 (NBC)'s shows were 3 weeks delayed
7 (PBS)'s shows at this time may have been 1-week delay, but they were the first to have same-night programming not long after
11 (CBS)'s shows were 2-week delay
13 (ABC)'s shows were 1-week delay

Live sports were very expensive to run at that time. There'd be promos for upcoming network shows & then a deep voice-over, "Not Current in Alaska!!" It became quite the running gag....

cd
 
cd637299 said:
2 (NBC)'s shows were 3 weeks delayed
11 (CBS)'s shows were 2-week delay
13 (ABC)'s shows were 1-week delay
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What was the delay of the networks' evening newscasts, and the morning shows?

I don't see CBS or NBC News airing same-night at 6 PM Alaska time (then GMT-10). Even if the
Seattle affiliate had the New York feed sent to them via the left coast circuit in order to record
the 'cast at 3:30 PM Pacific (GMT-08)...it takes about 3:40 to fly SEA-ANC, so if there happened
to be a flight at 4:30 that they got the tape sent up on, it wouldn't get to ANC until 6:10, then
still has to be delivered to KTVA or KENI.

Did any of these shows come in via the expensive satellite time?
 
oldiesfan6479 said:
cd637299 said:
2 (NBC)'s shows were 3 weeks delayed
11 (CBS)'s shows were 2-week delay
13 (ABC)'s shows were 1-week delay
Click to expand...

What was the delay of the networks' evening newscasts, and the morning shows?

I don't see CBS or NBC News airing same-night at 6 PM Alaska time (then GMT-10). Even if the
Seattle affiliate had the New York feed sent to them via the left coast circuit in order to record
the 'cast at 3:30 PM Pacific (GMT-08)...it takes about 3:40 to fly SEA-ANC, so if there happened
to be a flight at 4:30 that they got the tape sent up on, it wouldn't get to ANC until 6:10, then
still has to be delivered to KTVA or KENI.

Did any of these shows come in via the expensive satellite time?
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Journalist Linda Ellerbe relates in her biography "And So It Goes," that when she was in Alaska in the early 70s the network news shows were delivered by plane (commercial jets making refueling stops in Anchorage) and aired a day late.
 
In Anchorage, the news & Today show/GMA were same-day delay when I was there.

I think Fairbanks was a different animal. We do have a Fairbanks member here, I believe. I'm sure the blanks will be filled in.
 
cd637299 said:
7 (PBS)'s shows at this time may have been 1-week delay, but they were the first to have same-night programming not long after
11 (CBS)'s shows were 2-week delay
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7 was the first, as PBS was the first network to broadcast via satellite, eliminating the need for "bicycling" film and videotape.

And on that note:

Bluenoser said:
KAKM 7-PBS
8:00 Christmas Eve at Sesame Street

KTVA 11-CBS
8:00 A Special Sesame Street Christmas (stars Leslie Uggams, with guest stars Imogene Coca, Henry Fonda, Michael Jackson, Ethel Merman, Anne Murray, and Dick Smothers)
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Anchorage viewers without VCRs had to choose between the well-known PBS special or the inferior CBS special.
 
azumanga said:
Anchorage viewers without VCRs had to choose between the well-known PBS special or the inferior CBS special.
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Weren't both Alaska and Hawaii early hot spots for VCRs? I remember that Real People episode which had Sarah Purcell visiting Nome from the late 70's, maybe 1980 and it sure seemed that a lot of people in Nome at the time had VCRs.

Hawaii, at one time I had a copy of their local TV Guide from 1977 and even in 1977 Honolulu had a good number of those video rental places as many of them had advertised in the local TV Guide listings.
 
cd637299 said:
In Anchorage, the news & Today show/GMA were same-day delay when I was there.

I think Fairbanks was a different animal. We do have a Fairbanks member here, I believe. I'm sure the blanks will be filled in.
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That would be me, of course.

I believe the network news was same-day in Fairbanks as well.

And until about 1980-81, the big events like the Academy Awards were on a one- to two-week delay, meaning we had to read the papers to find out who won before they would finally air here!

Syndicated shows were another story. I think the Seattle stations made 3/4-inch (U-Matic) dubs of Donahue, Mike Douglas, etc. from those "bicycled" two-inch masters and sent them to Anchorage and Fairbanks.

But yes, those "bad old days" came to an end in the mid-'80s when everything came via satellite from New York and/or Los Angeles.
 
nomadcowatbk said:
Did people watch things like the Super Bowl weeks after they found out the results?
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At the time, and in my case, no sirree. NFL Football was live....Games started Sunday 8am (now 9am due to the time shifting for the state....nothing to do with DST). The picture seemed to look like it was on VHS or something, but it was indeed live. Not sure if NCAA was live.

cd
 
cd637299 said:
nomadcowatbk said:
Did people watch things like the Super Bowl weeks after they found out the results?
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At the time, and in my case, no sirree. NFL Football was live....Games started Sunday 8am (now 9am due to the time shifting for the state....nothing to do with DST). The picture seemed to look like it was on VHS or something, but it was indeed live.
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As regular network programming was delayed by film or tape, how did they get football live? Through a special satellite feed, perhaps?

If so, funny that they haven't had a special regular satellite feed for Alaska early on.
 
azumanga said:
As regular network programming was delayed by film or tape, how did they get football live? Through a special satellite feed, perhaps?
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Could they gotten it off that Canadian satellite mentioned in the other thread?
 
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