Retro: Bakersfield, CA - varied dates of affiliation swaps and callsign changes

[RandTV]

Monday, October 27, 1969 - Channel 17 changes its callsign.

17 KJTV (changed from KLYD) (ABC)
8:15 Video Digest
8:30 Rocky and His Friends
9:00 Jack LaLanne
9:30 Hayden's Happening (Movie?)
NOON Bewitched
12:30 That Girl
1:00 Dream House - Mike Darrow
1:30 Let's Make a Deal
2:00 Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game
3:00 General Hospital
3:30 One Life to Live
4:00 Dark Shadows
4:30 Perry Mason
5:30 ABC Evening News
6:00 Mike Douglas
7:25 News
7:30 Music Scene
8:15 The New People
9:00 The Survivors
10:00 Love, American Style
11:00 Eleven O'Clock Report
11:30 Joey Bishop - Guests: Harvey Stone, Tony Martin, Jacques Cousteau, Eva Gabor

23 KERO (NBC)
7:00 Today
9:00 It Takes Two - Host: Vin Scully; Celebrity Couples: Gail Fisher & Jon Levy, Howard Morris & Delores Wylie, Cesare Danova & Ruta Lee
9:30 Concentration - Bob Clayton
10:00 Sunny Today (pre-empting "Sale of the Century")
10:30 Hollywood Squares - Panel: Wally Cox, Rose Marie, Jan Murray, June Lockhart, Paul Lynde, Kevin McCarthy, Charley Weaver, Karen Jensen, Stu Gilliam
11:00 Jeopardy! - Art Fleming
11:30 (Al) Lohman & (Roger) Barkley's Name Droppers - Guests: Zsa Zsa Gabor, Mike Connors, Dennis Weaver
11:55 NBC Midday News
NOON You're Putting Me On - Host: Larry Blyden; Guests: Phyllis Diller, Brenda Vacarro, Peggy Cass, Barry Nelson, Bill Cullen, Orson Bean
12:30 Days of Our Lives
1:00 The Doctors
1:30 Another World
2:00 Bright Promise
2:30 Letters to Laugh-In - Host: Laugh-In announcer Gary Owens; Guests: Henry Gibson, Teresa Graves, Louis Nye, Jack Carter
3:00 KERO Matinee - Don Rodewald
5:00 Jimmy Thomason Show
5:30 This Day 1969 (KERO news)
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7:00 Monday Show: "The Birds" (1963) - Rod Taylor, Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette, Tippi Hedren
9:00 NBC Monday Night at the Movies: "Destiny of a Spy" (Premiere) - Lorne Greene, Rachel Roberts, Anthony Quayle, Harry Andrews
11:00 Night Edition (KERO news)
11:30 Tonight Show - Guests: Joan Rivers, David Susskind, George Kirby; Performer: Shirley Bassey

29 KBAK (CBS)
7:30 CBS Morning News
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Lucy Show
9:30 Beverly Hillbillies
10:00 Sale of the Century - Jack Kelly (pre-empted by KERO)
10:30 Love of Life
11:00 Where the Heart Is
11:25 CBS Midday News
11:30 Search for Tomorrow
NOON Andy Griffith
12:30 As the World Turns
1:00 Love is a Many Splendored Thing
1:30 Guiding Light
2:00 Secret Storm
2:30 Edge of Night
3:00 Gomer Pyle
3:30 Popeye/Three Stooges
4:30 Flintstones
5:00 McHale's Navy
5:30 Television 29 News
6:00 CBS Evening News
6:30 NFL Football: New York Giants vs. Dallas Cowboys
9:30 Here's Lucy
10:00 Mayberry RFD
10:30 Gunsmoke
11:30 Television 29 News Night Report
12:00 Merv Griffin - Guest: George Burns (tentative) (normally based in New York, this week in Hollywood)

 

[RandTV]

Monday, August 5, 1974 - Channels 17 and 29 swap affiliations.

17 KJTV (switched from ABC to CBS)
7:00 CBS Morning News
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Joker's Wild
9:30 Gambit
10:00 Now You See It
10:30 Love of Life
10:55 CBS Midday News
11:00 Young and Restless
11:30 Search for Tomorrow
NOON Noon Affair
12:20 Joe Barratta Show
12:30 As the World Turns
1:00 Guiding Light
1:30 Edge of Night
2:00 Price is Right
2:30 Match Game '74 - Panel: Anson Williams, Brett Somers, Charles Nelson Reilly, Fannie Flagg, Richard Dawson, Kaye Stevens
3:00 Tattletales - Couples: Orson & Carolyn Bean, Ross Bowman & Jessica Walter, Lyle & Sharon Waggoner
3:30 New Zoo Revue
4:00 Four O'Clock Flick: "Angels One Five" (1952) - Jack Hawkins, Michael Denison
5:30 Journey to Adventure
6:00 TV-17 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Hogan's Heroes
7:30 To Tell the Truth
8:00 Gunsmoke
9:00 Here's Lucy
9:30 New Dick Van Dyke
10:00 Medical Center
11:00 TV-17 News
11:30 CBS Late Movie: "Top Secret Affair" (1957) - Kirk Douglas, Susan Hayward

23 KERO (NBC)
7:00 Today
9:00 Name That Tune - Dennis James
9:30 Winning Streak - Bill Cullen
10:00 High Rollers - Alex Trebek, Ruta Lee (dice roller)
10:30 Hollywood Squares - Panel: Rich Little, Nanette Fabray, Rod McKuen, Gene Barry, Vincent Price, Pearl Bailey, Charley Weaver (died September 23), Charo, George Gobel
11:00 Jackpot - Geoff Edwards
11:30 Celebrity Sweepstakes - Panel: Jerry Van Dyke, Norm Crosby, Cathy Rigby, Mort Sahl, Olivia Newton-John, Polly Bergen
11:55 NBC Midday News
NOON Jeopardy!
12:30 Days of Our Lives
1:00 The Doctors
1:30 Another World
2:00 How to Survive a Marriage
2:30 Name of the Game (1968-71 NBC drama)
4:00 NYPD
4:30 Merv Griffin (no guest info)
6:00 This Day, 1974
7:00 NBC Nightly News
7:30 Price is Right - Dennis James
8:00 MLB Baseball: Cincinnati Reds vs. Los Angeles Dodgers (tape-delayed)
11:00 This Day - Night Edition
11:30 Tonight Show - Guest host: Joey Bishop; Guests: Jerry Reed, champion cigar smoker Simon Argevich; Performer: operatic soprano Martina Arroyo
1:00 This Day - Night Edition (replay)

29 KBAK (switched from CBS to ABC)
7:00 Morning Comedy Time
8:30 Flintstones
9:00 Mike Douglas (no guest info)
10:30 Brady Bunch
11:00 Girl in My Life
11:30 $10,000 Pyramid - Guests: Anita Gillette, Nipsey Russell
NOON Password - Guests: Linda Kaye Henning, Martin Milner
12:30 Split Second
1:00 All My Children
1:30 Let's Make a Deal
2:00 Newlywed Game
2:30 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hopital
3:30 Afternoon Comedy Time
4:30 Movie: "3:10 to Yuma" (1957) - Glenn Ford, Van Heflin, Felicia Farr
6:00 ABC Evening News
6:30 29tv ABC News
7:00 Dealer's Choice - Jack Clark (from the Tropicana in Las Vegas)
7:30 Good Old Nashville Music
8:00 Rookies
9:00 ABC Monday Night Movie: "The Assassination Bureau" (1968) - Oliver Reed, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas
11:00 29tv ABC News
11:30 ABC's Wide World of Entertainment

 

[RandTV]

Wednesday, September 27, 1978 - Channel 17 changes its callsign again.

17 KPWR (changed from KJTV) (CBS)
6:00 PTL Club
7:00 CBS Morning News
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 All in the Family
9:30 Price is Right
10:30 Love of Life
10:55 CBS Midday News
11:00 Young and Restless
11:30 Search for Tomorrow
NOON Midday Bakersfield
12:30 As the World Turns
1:30 Guiding Light
2:30 M*A*S*H
3:00 Match Game '78 - Panel: David Doyle, Brett Somers, Charles Nelson Reilly, Debralee Scott, Nipsey Russell, Betty White
3:30 Bugs Bunny
4:00 Three Stooges
4:30 Gilligan's Island
5:00 Family Affair
5:30 I Love Lucy
6:00 Channel 17 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Newlywed Game
7:30 Dating Game
8:00 Jeffersons
8:30 In the Beginning (cancelled Oct. 18)
9:00 CBS Wednesday Night Movies: "Three Days of the Condor" (1975) - Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Cliff Robertson, Max Von Sydow, John Houseman
11:00 Channel 17 News
11:30 Hawaii Five-O
12:30 Kojak

23 KERO (NBC)
6:30 Not for Women Only
7:00 Today
9:00 Donahue - Guest: Scott Keeler, teenage investigator of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon and his Moonies
10:00 High Rollers (1978 revival)
10:30 Wheel of Fortune
11:00 America Alive!
NOON For Richer, For Poorer (series ended two days later)
12:30 Days of Our Lives
1:30 The Doctors
2:00 Another World
3:00 Card Sharks
3:30 Hollywood Squares - Panel: Doc Severinsen, Rose Marie, Larry Linville, Alex Cord, Paul Lynde, Elayne Boosler, George Gobel, Loni Anderson, Rich Little
4:00 Carol Burnett
4:30 Merv Griffin (no guest info)
6:00 The News
7:00 NBC Nightly News
7:30 Family Feud
8:00 Dick Clark's Live Wednesday - Guests: Suzanne Somers, Barry Manilow, Natalie Cole, Melissa Gilbert, Edgar Bergen (died three days later); magician/escape artist Steve Baker attempts to outdo Houdini's famous underwater escape
9:00 NBC Wednesday Night at the Movies: "Zuma Beach" (Premiere) - Suzanne Somers, Steven Keats, Mark Wheeler, Rosanna Arquette, Tanya Roberts, Delta Burke (film debut)
11:00 The News
11:30 Tonight Show - Guest host: Don Rickles; Guests: Sandy Duncan, Robert Conrad
1:00 Tomorrow - Guests: authors Kitty Kelly and Lester David

29 KBAK (ABC)
6:15 Good Morning Bakersfield
6:30 Romper Room
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Mike Douglas (no guest info)
10:00 Happy Days
10:30 $20,000 Pyramid - Guests: Adrienne Barbeau, LeVar Burton
11:00 Family Feud
11:30 Ryan's Hope
NOON All My Children
1:00 One Life to Live
2:00 General Hospital
3:00 Edge of Night
3:30 Dinah! (no guest info)
4:30 Emergency One!
5:30 ABC News
6:00 The News Today
7:00 Six Million Dollar Man
8:00 Eight is Enough
9:00 Charlie's Angels
10:00 Vega$
11:00 The News Tonight
11:30 Police Woman
12:30 S.W.A.T.

 

[RandTV]

Monday, March 5, 1984 - This is the approximate, if not exact date, of the affiliation swap between channels 17 and 23. The former also changed its callsign a month earlier, in which it maintains to this day.

17 KGET (changed from KPWR Feb. 1; switched from CBS to NBC)
5:25 Jim Bakker
6:30 NBC News at Sunrise
7:00 Today
9:00 Donahue
10:00 Wheel of Fortune
10:30 Dream House
11:00 Hot Potato
11:30 Search for Tomorrow
NOON Days of Our Lives
1:00 Another World
2:00 Match Game - Hollywood Squares Hour - Panel: Erin Moran, James Sloyan, Nancy Frangione, Charles Nelson Reilly, Fred Travalena, Martha Smith, Christopher Rich, Bob Eubanks
3:00 Breakaway (magazine series)
4:00 Barnaby Jones
5:00 17 Newscenter
5:30 NBC Nightly News
6:00 Cannon
7:00 Wheel of Fortune
7:30 Family Feud
8:00 NBC Special: "The Stars Salute the U.S. Olympic Team" (in anticipation that year's Summer Olympics in Los Angeles)
11:00 17 Newscenter
11:30 Tonight Show - Guest host: Joan Rivers; Guests: Fred Grandy, Cybill Shepherd; Performer: Tommy Tune
12:30 Late Night With David Letterman - Cornelia Guest (author, socialite, debutante), Art Donovan (Pro Football Hall of Famer), Mark Schiff (coemdian)

23 KERO (switched from NBC to CBS)
5:55 Here's Lucy
6:30 CBS Early Morning News
7:00 CBS Morning News
9:00 Family
10:00 Price is Right
11:00 Young and Restless
NOON More Real People
12:30 As the World Turns
1:30 Capitol
2:00 Guiding Light
3:00 Flintstones
3:30 CHiPs
4:30 Alice
5:00 WKRP in Cincinnati
5:30 People's Court
6:00 23 News
7:00 CBS Evening News
7:30 Entertainment Tonight
8:00 Scarecrow & Mrs. King
9:00 AfterMASH
9:30 Newhart
10:00 Emerald Point N.A.S.
11:00 23 News
11:30 Hart to Hart
12:40 Columbo

29 KBAK (ABC)
6:00 ABC News This Morning
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Hour Magazine
10:00 Benson
10:30 Loving
11:00 Family Feud
11:30 Ryan's Hope
NOON All My Children
1:00 One Life to Live
2:00 General Hospital
3:00 Scooby-Doo
3:30 Happy Days Again
4:00 Little House on the Prairie
5:00 Jeffersons
5:30 NewsForce 29
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7:00 Three's Company
7:30 M*A*S*H
8:00 Automan
9:00 ABC Monday Night Movie: "The Dark Mirror" (Premiere) - Jane Seymour, Stephen Collins
11:00 NewsForce 29
11:30 Nightline

 

[ShawnHill1]

Channels 17 and 23 have the distinction as being two of a handful of other TV stations across the nation that were, one at a point in time, primary affiliate stations of ABC, CBS, and NBC. As it's been broken down in this thread, 17 was originally with ABC starting in 1959, when it first went on the air, then in 1974 swapped to CBS, and then ten years later joined NBC.

KERO started with NBC when it went on the air in 1953, moved from channel 10 to 23 in '63, then the aforementioned swap with KGET in '84, and finally joined ABC in 1996, swapping networks with KBAK. For what it's worth, KBAK had ABC from 1974 to '96, but were book-ended by CBS affiliations (1953-'74 and 1996 to the present).

As an aside, WBRC Birmingham has the distinction as the only TV station in America to affiliate full-time, again at one point or another, with NBC (1949-54), CBS ('54-'61), ABC ('61-'96), and Fox ('96-present).

 

[fybush]

Boston's channel 7 (WNAC, WNEV, WHDH) is another that's been affiliated with all of the big 3, and could yet end up with Fox.

 

[KeithE4]

WTTV/4 Bloomington/Indianapolis has also been a primary affiliate of all three majors, plus UPN and WB/CW.

NBC: 1949-56 (Ch 10, 1949-54)
ABC: 1956-57
UPN: 1995-98
WB: 1998-2006
CW: 2006-14
CBS: Since 2015

 

[RandTV]

Friday, March 1, 1996 - Channels 23 and 29 swap their affiliations in which they maintain to this day. Currently, all listings from before 6:00 PM are unavailable online.

17 KGET (NBC)
6:00 Team 17 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Entertainment Tonight
7:30 Seinfeld
8:00 Unsolved Mysteries
9:00 Dateline NBC
10:00 Homicide: Life on the Street
11:00 Team 17 News
11:35 Tonight Show (Jay Leno) - Guest: Teri Hatcher; Performers: Red Hot Chili Peppers
12:35 Late Night With Conan O'Brien - Guest: Mira Sorvino; Performer: Speech (rapper)
1:35 Later With Greg Kinnear (repeat)

23 KERO (switched from CBS to ABC)
6:00 23 News
7:00 Jeopardy!
7:30 Wheel of Fortune
8:00 Family Matters
8:30 Boy Meets World
9:00 Step by Step
9:30 Hypernauts
10:00 20/20
11:00 23 News
11:35 Nightline

29 KBAK (switched from ABC to CBS)
6:00 Channel 29 Eyewitness News
7:00 American's Funniest Home Videos (x2)
8:00 Due South
9:00 CBS Special: "Tribute to Sergei Grinkov" - Figure skaters skate in memory of their suddenly departed colleague, including Kristi Yamaguchi, Oksana Baiul, Scott Hamilton, Brian Boitano, and Grinkov's wife Ekaterina Gordeeva who skates her first solo performance in his memory. From Hartford.
11:00 Channel 29 Eyewitness News
11:35 Late Show With David Letterman - Guests: Robin Williams, Patsy Kensit; Performers: Spacehog (band)
12:35 Late Late Show With Tom Snyder - Guests: Ozzy Osbourne, Nancy Glass