Retro: Arizona - Sunday, October 4, 1954

[KeithE4]

Courtesy of Broadcasting 101.

This is the last full season of the Dumont network. All Arizona stations carried some ABC & Dumont programming. KOOL-TV was ABC primary even though Channels 5 & 12 also carried a few ABC shows. KIVA-TV Yuma was "officially" an independent since it didn't have a coax or microwave link to the networks at the time.

Fooball games other than the Cards-Browns are my guesses. There were only three games that day per ESPN's Pro Football Encyclopedia. All 3 are shown here. A live game shown in Phoenix other than a network game on Dumont would probably have involved the Rams.

Stations
4 KVOA-TV Tucson (NBC)
5 KPHO-TV Phoenix (CBS)
10 KOOL-TV Phoenix (ABC)
11 KIVA-TV Yuma (Ind. - carried a few shows from all networks)
12 KTYL-TV Mesa (NBC)
13 KOPO-TV Tucson (CBS)

Channel 12 is listed on the originating site as KVAR, although I believe the call letter change occured in 1955.

10:00 AM
10 - LDS Conference

11:00 AM
5 - Televespers

11:15 AM
5 - What's Your Trouble

11:30 AM
5 - The Big Picture (ABC)

11:45 AM
5 - What's Your Trouble

12:00 Noon
5 - NFL Football: Game not listed but probably SF 49ers at LA Rams (CBS)
10 - NFL Football: Chicago Cardinals at Philadelphia Eagles (Dumont)

12:30 PM
12 - Faith for Today

1:00 PM
4 - Chicago Pro Football (Bears at Packers?)
12 - Living Book

1:30 PM
12 - Civil Defense
13 - What in the World?

2:00 PM
12 - Out on the Farm
13 - Man of the Week

2:30 PM
12 - Zoo Parade (NBC)
13 - Labor '54

2:45 PM
5 - Local Sports

3:00 PM
5 - Man of the Week
10 - TV Leo Says
11 - Sunday Movie Matinee
12 - Christ in the Valley
13 - American Week (CBS)

3:15 PM
12 - C. Hunnicutt (Organ music)

3:30 PM
5 - Herald of Truth
10 - Boxing (ABC or Dumont?)
12 - Boxing from Eastern Parkway (ABC)
13 - To be announced

4:00 PM
5 - American Week (CBS)
11 - Bible Quiz
13 - To be announced

4:30 PM
4 - Wild Bill Hickock
5 - You are There (CBS - Color)
10 - Movie Matinee
11 - Life in Your Hands
12 - Roy Rogers
13 - Better Living TV Theatre

5:00 PM
4/12 - People are Funny (NBC)
5 - Lassie (CBS)
11 - The Big Picture (ABC)
13 - Toast of the Town - Ed Sullivan (CBS)

5:30 PM
4/5 - This is the Life (ABC)
10 - Million Dollar Movie Night
11 - Moments to Remember
12 - Mr. Peepers (NBC)

6:00 PM
4 - Western Theatre
5 - Toast of the Town - Ed Sullivan (CBS)
11 - This is the Life (ABC)
12 - Colgate Comedy Hour (NBC)
13 - Star Showcase

6:30 PM
11 - American Forum
13 - Tucson Showcase

7:00 PM
4/12 - Philco (or Goodyear) Television Playhouse (NBC)
5 - Life with Elizabeth (CBS)
11 - Break the Bank (ABC)
13 - Private Secretary (CBS)

7:30 PM
5 - Famous Playhouse (CBS)
11 - Ramar of the Jungle (Synd.)
13 - Inner Sanctum (Synd.)

8:00 PM
4/12 - Loretta Young (NBC)
5 - Jack Benny (CBS)
10 - Break the Bank (ABC)
11 - TV Theatre
13 - Theatre

8:30 PM
4 - Stop the Music (ABC)
5 - What's My Line (CBS)
10 - Playhouse (ABC's Pepsi Cola Playhouse?)
11 - Boston Blackie
12 - Life in Your Hands (NBC)
13 - Strange Stories

8:45 PM
13 - Kaleidoscope

9:00 PM
4 - To be announced
5 - Theatre
10 - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
12 - Inner Sanctum (Synd.)
11 - News Roundup
13 - Sunday Evening Theatre

9:15 PM
11 - Charlie Chase

9:30 PM
4 - Break the Bank (ABC)
5 - Man Behind the Badge
11 - Star Time Theatre
12 - Douglas Fairbanks Presents (NBC)

10:00 PM
5 - Father Knows Best (ABC)
12 - Classics in Modern

10:30 PM
5 - They Stand Accused (Dumont)
10 - Martha Wright
12 - Feature Playhouse

11:00 PM
5 - Movietime
10 - Million Dollar Movie

 

[oldiesfan6479]

12:00 Noon
5 - NFL Football: Game not listed but probably SF 49ers at LA Rams (CBS)
10 - NFL Football: Chicago Cardinals at Philadelphia Eagles (Dumont)

SF/LA would have been an 11:00am PT start time--did the TV nets have that
amount of influence back in '54 to start left coast games so early?

5:00 PM
4/12 - People are Funny (NBC)
5 - Lassie (CBS)
11 - The Big Picture (ABC)
13 - Toast of the Town - Ed Sullivan (CBS)

6:00 PM
4 - Western Theatre
5 - Toast of the Town - Ed Sullivan (CBS)
11 - This is the Life (ABC)
12 - Colgate Comedy Hour (NBC)
13 - Star Showcase

Channels 4/12 and 5 at 5:00pm and 5 and 12 at 6:00pm were live net.

As for 13 at 5:00pm, I think it's an error by KOPO-TV when they gave
their advance listings to whatever TV mag or newspaper this was in.

Ed would have been on at 5:00 two weeks prior, but at 6:00 both the
week before and here, as DST ended the last Sunday in September.


Sidebar: in 1954, DST did run--for the first time--until the last Sunday
in October in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.

That would have been weird having prime time from 8:30-midnight for
a month in Boston!

1955 was the first year that a number of areas (New York, the rest of
the northeast, Chicago, other areas...but not Cali) extended DST until
the end of October.

 

[Stanislav]

Ed would have been on at 5:00 two weeks prior, but at 6:00 both the
week before and here, as DST ended the last Sunday in September.

Sidebar: in 1954, DST did run--for the first time--until the last Sunday
in October in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.

That would have been weird having prime time from 8:30-midnight for
a month in Boston!

1955 was the first year that a number of areas (New York, the rest of
the northeast, Chicago, other areas...but not Cali) extended DST until
the end of October.

Boy, the mish-mash of varying DST rules really screwed things up before the (more or less) uniform rules were passed, didn't they? What I always found weird were situations in which areas of adjacent time zones would at times in the fall been 2 hours apart, because the more westerly area had already "fallen back" to standard time (or didn't observe DST at all) while the easterly area had not. I first encountered this years ago in a book about the Civil Rights movement...when all the brouhaha was going on with James Meredith's attempt to enroll at Ole Miss, the officials in D.C. monitoring the unfolding events had to keep in mind that Oxford was at that time of year 2 hours behind Washington, not 1.

In fact, I suppose theoretically it would have been possible for there to have been a situation in which areas on the two coasts were temporarily 4 hours apart, where part of, say, California or Oregon had gone off DST while New York had not! (I don't know if such a scenario ever happened, but it was possible...)

Interestingly, I found that one of the best sources for sorting all this out are astrology wonks. While I consider astrology to be so much hooey, the really serious advocates have to take these oddball historical local and regional DST rules into account for determining the actual hour of birth (in relation to the rest of the universe). I used to have an astrology reference book that painstakingly detailed many of these oddities, but it must have been accidentally tossed (or misplaced during a move) as I no longer have it.

 

[landtuna]

I was only 10 years old in 1954 but seem to remember Arizona (except the Navajo reservation) did not use DST until a brief period in the 60's (with the possible exception of the WWII years which I was too young to remember). DST didn't last in AZ because it stays light and hot too long in summer evenings. This was before the wide adoption of refrigeration and mist systems. Now it doesn't seem to matter.

It would be nice if AZ kept pace with the clock adjustments of the rest of the nation. It costs AZ businesses plenty of aggravation and money and citizens plenty of aggravation to adjust their electronic devices twice per year. We don't change our clocks but have to remember that everyone else's do affecting things like network (both computer and media) times.

 

[oldiesfan6479]

In fact, I suppose theoretically it would have been possible for there to have
been a situation in which areas on the two coasts were temporarily 4 hours
apart, where part of, say, California or Oregon had gone off DST while New York
had not! (I don't know if such a scenario ever happened, but it was possible...)

It's...true!

The end of September through the end of October from 1955-1961. New York
was on DST but Cali was not. NV mirrored CA. OR and WA were "check local
listings" as to DST or no, but if a city/area was then it ended in late September
(when you really should be back at school ;D).

Take this further back to the 1930s where Cali did not use DST at all (NY did),
so for the whole DST period there was a four-hour difference. Jack Benny did
his radio show in El Lay for the east on Sundays at 3:00pm PST in the summer
(instead of 4:00), and again at 7:00pm for the left coast.

Interestingly, I found that one of the best sources for sorting all this out are
astrology wonks...(snip)...I used to have an astrology reference book that
painstakingly detailed many of these oddities...

Time Changes In The USA by Doris Chase Doane perhaps?

I was only 10 years old in 1954 but seem to remember Arizona...did not use DST
until a brief period in the 60's (with the possible exception of the WWII years
which I was too young to remember).

1967. This was the first DST season under the Uniform Time Act of 1966.
If a state observed DST it was from the last Sunday in April to the last Sunday
in October. States could--as now--exempt themselves, and AZ did just that
starting in 1968.

AZ even "got out of" observing DST (as did the Cincy and Dayton areas in OH)
during parts of WWII. It was a "local use" exemption only, as anything federal-
related still operated under DST, or more correctly, "war time."

 

[dhett]

Boy, the mish-mash of varying DST rules really screwed things up before the (more or less) uniform rules were passed, didn't they? What I always found weird were situations in which areas of adjacent time zones would at times in the fall been 2 hours apart, because the more westerly area had already "fallen back" to standard time (or didn't observe DST at all) while the easterly area had not. I first encountered this years ago in a book about the Civil Rights movement...when all the brouhaha was going on with James Meredith's attempt to enroll at Ole Miss, the officials in D.C. monitoring the unfolding events had to keep in mind that Oxford was at that time of year 2 hours behind Washington, not 1.

In fact, I suppose theoretically it would have been possible for there to have been a situation in which areas on the two coasts were temporarily 4 hours apart, where part of, say, California or Oregon had gone off DST while New York had not! (I don't know if such a scenario ever happened, but it was possible...)

This is going a bit off-topic, but even now, for three hours in the Spring, the Eastern TZ is four hours ahead of the Pacific TZ, as Eastern has already gone to Daylight Saving Time, while Pacific is still on Standard Time.

The Fall clock change poses another oddity, as for one hour, it is the same time in parts of Florida as it is in parts of Oregon. The Florida Panhandle west of Tallahassee is on Central Time, while northern Malheur County, Oregon is on Mountain Time. For the hour after the Central TZ returns to Standard Time but before the Mountain TZ does, it is the same time in both locations.

 

[bpatrick]

"Boxing From Eastern Parkway" had started on
DuMont in 1952 with Ted Husing, then Chris
Schenkel, as announcer. ABC picked up the
show in 1953, with Schenkel as announcer;
AFAIK that was the beginning of his career
at ABC (although he did college-football pregame
shows on CBS in the early '60s).

 

[Stanislav]

Interestingly, I found that one of the best sources for sorting all this out are
astrology wonks...(snip)...I used to have an astrology reference book that
painstakingly detailed many of these oddities...

Time Changes In The USA by Doris Chase Doane perhaps?

Yeah, that's the one! I first found that book many years ago, and have no idea whatever happened to that copy.