• Get involved.
    We want your input!
    Apply for Membership and join the conversations about everything related to broadcasting.

    After we receive your registration, a moderator will review it. After your registration is approved, you will be permitted to post.
    If you use a disposable or false email address, your registration will be rejected.

    After your membership is approved, please take a minute to tell us a little bit about yourself.
    https://www.radiodiscussions.com/forums/introduce-yourself.1088/

    Thanks in advance and have fun!
    RadioDiscussions Administrators

Retro: Bay Area/Sacramento/Central Coast Fri, May 18, 1973

from TV Guide-San Francisco Metro edition

KTVU 2-Ind Oakland
7:00 Jack LaLanne
7:30 News
7:45 Religion Today
8:00 Cartoon Town
8:30 Romper Room
9:30 Phil Donahue (Dr. Judith Albino discusses research on if women are afraid of success)
10:30 Please Don't Eat the Daisies
11:00 Mothers-in-Law
11:30 Mayberry RFD
noon Big Valley (Marty Allen's dramatic debut)
1:00 Movie "Johnny Tiger"
3:00 Flying Nun
3:30 Charley & Humphrey Good Stuff Hour
4:30 Flipper
5:00 Gilligan's Island (bw/guest star Zsa Zsa Gabor)
5:30 Nanny & the Professor
6:00 Star Trek
7:00 I Love Lucy (bw/guest star John Wayne)
7:30 Dragnet
8:00 Movie "Fame is the Name of the Game"
10:00 News (George Reading/Marcia Brandwynne)
11:00 Movie "The Family Rico"
12:30 News

KCRA 3-NBC Sacramento
5:55 Farm Market Report
6:00 Rhyme & Reason "Portable Ecstasies"/"Chalk Talk" (bw)
7:00 Today (guest Judith Crist)
9:00 Dinah Shore (saving time in the kitchen/meat prices/hairstyling advice)
9:30 Baffle
10:00 Sale of the Century
10:30 What's My Line?
11:00 Jeopardy!
11:30 Who, What or Where Game
11:55 NBC News
noon News
1:00 Doctors
1:30 Another World
2:00 Return to Peyton Place
2:30 Somerset
3:00 Beat the Clock
3:30 Hollywood Squares (delay from 10:30am)
4:00 That Girl
4:30 Dick Van Dyke "October Eve" (bw)
5:00 Andy Griffith (bw)
5:30 Hogan's Heroes
5:55 Weather (Bob Martinez)
6:00 NBC Nightly News
6:30 News
8:00 Sanford & Son
8:30 Little People
9:00 Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
10:00 Bold Ones "Time Bomb in the Chest"
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show (from NYC with guest Christopher Plummer performing a scene from his upcoming Broadway play Cyrano)
1:00 Midnight Special (Chubby Checker welcomes Little Anthony & the Imperials, Danny & the Juniors, Lloyd Price, Jimmy Clanton, the Ronettes, Ben E. King, and the Skyliners)

KRON 4-NBC San Francisco
6:10 News
6:15 Creative Writing (bw)
7:00 Today
9:00 Dinah Shore
9:30 Baffle
10:00 Sale of the Century
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11:00 Jeopardy!
11:30 Who, What or Where Game
11:55 NBC News
noon News
12:30 Days of Our Lives
1:00 Doctors
1:30 Another World
2:00 Return to Peyton Place
2:30 Somerset
3:00 Three on a Match
3:30 Dick Van Dyke "The Ugliest Dog in the World" (bw)
4:00 Merv Griffin (no info listed)
5:30 News (Dave Valentine/Phil Wilson)
6:00 NBC Nightly News
6:30 News (Valentine/Wilson)
7:00 Wide Wonderful World (college students and ghetto youth undergo survival training in the Rockies)
7:30 Circus!
8:00 Sanford & Son
8:30 Little People
9:00 Circle of Fear "Death's Head"
10:00 Bold Ones "Time Bomb in the Chest"
11:00 News (Valentine/Wilson)
11:30 Tonight Show
1:00 Midnight Special
2:30 News

KPIX 5-CBS San Francisco
6:30 Golden Years
7:00 CBS Morning News
7:30 Good Morning (Bentley)
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Bentley Affair
9:30 $10,000 Pyramid
10:00 Gambit
10:30 Love of Life
10:55 CBS News
11:00 Young & the Restless
11:30 Search for Tomorrow
noon News
12:30 As the World Turns
1:00 Guiding Light
1:30 Edge of Night
2:00 Price is Right
2:30 Hollywood's Talking
3:00 Secret Storm
3:30 Perry Mason (bw)
4:30 Mike Douglas (guests Jean Stapleton, Eileen Heckart, Norm Crosby, Peter Maas, and Dawn)
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 News (Glover/Magers)
7:30 Young Dr. Kildare
8:00 Mission: Impossible (moves to Saturdays at 10 on May 26, CBS movies run here next week)
9:00 Movie "The Sergeant"
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "For Whom the Bell Tolls"
1:30 Movie "Six of a Kind" (bw)

KGO 7-ABC San Francisco
5:50 News
6:00 World of Antiques "Antiques vs Fakes"
6:30 Dunbar's AM (Jim Dunbar; as advertised by station, TVG just calls it AM)
8:30 Movie "Camille"
10:15 News (Karna Small)
10:30 Truth or Consequences
11:00 To Tell the Truth
11:30 Bewitched
noon Password
12:30 Split Second
1:00 All My Children
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 Love, American Style
4:30 News (Van Amburg/Jerry Jensen)
5:30 ABC Evening News
6:00 News (Amburg/Jensen)
6:30 6:30 Movie "The Satan Bug"
8:00 Brady Bunch
8:30 Partridge Family
9:00 Room 222
9:30 Odd Couple "Oscar's Birthday"
10:00 Love, American Style
11:00 News (Amburg/Jensen)
11:30 Dick Cavett (guests include Robert Klein)
1:00 News

KSBW 8-NBC Salinas
6:45 Punto de Interes
7:00 Today
9:00 Dinah Shore
9:30 Baffle
10:00 Sale of the Century
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11:00 Jeopardy!
11:30 Who, What or Where Game
11:55 News (Wendy Grissim)
noon Three on a Match
12:30 Days of Our Lives
1:00 Doctors
1:30 Another World
2:00 Return to Peyton Place
2:30 Somerset
3:00 What's My Line?
3:30 Truth or Consequences
4:00 Merv Griffin (guests Janet Leigh, Doug McClure, Virginia Graham, Arthur Treacher, and ski instructor Peter Brinkman)
5:30 I Dream of Jeannie
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 To Tell the Truth
7:30 That Girl
8:00 Sanford & Son
8:30 Little People
9:00 Circle of Fear "Death's Head"
10:00 Bold Ones "Time Bomb in the Chest"
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show
1:00 Midnight Special

KQED 9-PBS San Francisco
Evening programs may be pre-empted for Watergate Hearing coverage
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Electric Company
10:30 Instructional Programs
noon Governor's Press Conference
12:30 How Do Your Children Grow?
1:00 Instructional Programs
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6:00 Book Beat
6:30 Conversation with Sol Hurok (Bill Moyers interviews the master showman)
7:00 Newsroom (Mel Wax)
8:00 Washington Week in Review
8:30 Wall Street Week (guest Ross Perot gives advice on how to revitalize the US economy- one of his ideas was eliminating taxes on income under $100K)
9:00 Masterpiece Theatre "Vanity Fair" (pt 2)
9:50 A Few Worda About KQED
10:00 Future Talk: Progress & Peril
11:00 Newsroom (Mel Wax)

KXTV 10-CBS Sacramento
7:00 CBS Morning News
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Joker's Wild
9:30 $10,000 Pyramid
10:00 Gambit
10:30 Love of Life
10:55 CBS News
11:00 Young & the Restless
11:30 Search for Tomorrow
noon News
12:30 As the World Turns
1:00 Guiding Light
1:30 Edge of Night
2:00 Price is Right
2:30 Hollywood's Talking
3:00 Phil Donahue (as 2, 9:30am)
4:00 Mike Douglas (as 5, 4:30pm)
5:30 News
6:00 CBS Evening News
6:30 News
7:00 Thrillseekers (four Totonac Indians perform an Aztec ritual by leaping from a 115' pole-with ropes tied to their waists)
7:30 Protectors
8:00 Mission: Impossible
9:00 Movie "The Sergeant"
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "Journey to the Far Side of the Sun"
1:20 Movie "The Story of GI Joe" (bw)

KNTV 11-ABC San Jose
8:30 New Zoo Revue
9:00 Jack LaLanne
9:30 Dr. Joyce Brothers
10:00 Beat the Clock
10:30 I Love Lucy (bw/guest star Charles Boyer)
11:00 Dick Van Dyke (bw)
11:30 Bewitched
noon Password
12:30 Split Second
1:00 All My Children
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 Bonanza
5:00 News (Fred LaCosse)
5:30 ABC Evening News
6:00 Million $ Movie "Rampage"
8:00 Brady Bunch
8:30 Partridge Family
9:00 Room 222
9:30 Odd Couple "Oscar's Birthday"
10:00 Love, American Style
11:00 News
11:30 Dick Cavett
1:00 Movie "The FBI Story"

KOVR 13-ABC Sacramento
5:55 News
6:00 Fury (bw)
6:30 Garner Ted Armstrong
7:00 Guten Tag
7:15 Community Calendar
7:20 Cartoonland
8:00 I Love Lucy (bw)
8:30 Mothers-in-Law
9:00 Merv Griffin (from Vegas with guests Zsa Zsa Gabor, Arthur Treacher, Jan Murray, Corbett Monica, and Carroll & Daly)
10:30 Call 13 (Chet Trouten)
11:00 News (Warren Rashleigh)
11:30 Bewitched
noon Pasword
12:30 Split Second
1:00 All My Children
1:30 Let's Make a Deal
2:00 Newlywed Game
2:30 It's Your Bet
3:00 General Hospital
3:30 One Life to Live
4:00 Gilligan's Island
4:30 Bonanza
5:30 ABC Evening News
6:00 News
6:30 Dragnet
7:00 Truth or Consequences
7:30 To Tell the Truth
8:00 Brady Bunch
8:30 Partridge Family
9:00 Room 222
9:30 Odd Couple "Oscar's Birthday"
10:00 Love, American Style
11:00 News
11:30 Dick Cavett
1:00 Movie "The Black Orchid" (bw)

KCSM 14-PBS San Mateo
All programs B&W
8:15 Professional Writing
8:45 Instructional Programs
4:00 Electric Company
4:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:00 Sesame Street
6:00 America '73 (efforts to end discrimination against the disabled)
7:00 Conversation with Sol Hurok
7:30 Alma Latina
8:00 Stalin (Stalin- as seen by his friends, enemies, and even the man himself)

KEMO 20-Ind/Ethnic San Francisco
2pm Bingo Party
2:30 Vagabond (Pike)
3:00 Telenovela (bw)
4:00 Canto de Mexico (bw)
4:30 Comicos y Canciones (bw)
5:00 Telenovelas (bw)
6:30 Noticiero (Rene DeLaRosa)
7:00 Cosa Juzgada (bw)
8:00 La Cruz de la Maritza Cruzes (bw)
8:30 Musical Ossart
9:00 Telenovela (bw)
10:00 Old Sourdough
10:30 Movie "Trail of Terror" (bw)
mid. Movie "Getting Gertie's Garter" (bw)
1:30 Movie "Minstrel Man" (bw)
3:00 Movie "Folly to Be Wise" (bw)
4:40 Movie "The Angry Silence" (bw)

KGSC-Ind: 36 San Jose, 29 Salinas/Monterey
10:50 Community Speaks
11:00 Public Affairs (bw)
11:30 Yoga for Health (bw)
noon Movie "Tom Brown's School Days" (bw)
2:00 Mike Douglas (guests Charlton Heston, Martin Milner, Kent McCord, Foster Brooks, and Chi Coltrane)
3:55 News (bw)
4:00 Movie "South of St. Louis"
5:55 News (bw)
6:00 Movie "The Seventh Veil" (bw)
8:00 Movie "Springtime in the Rockies" (bw)
9:55 News (bw)
10:00 Merv Griffin (as 8, 4pm)
11:30 Movie "The Dead Don't Dream" (bw)
1:00 Movie "China Girl" (bw)
2:45 Movie "All in a Night's Work" (bw)
4:15 Movie (bw/replay from noon)

KTXL 40-Ind Sacramento
6:30 Cap'n's Cartoons
7:30 Banana Splits
8:00 Underdog
8:30 New Zoo Revue
9:00 Movie "The Constant Husband"
10:45 Joe Baratta
10:55 Night Life Nevada
11:00 Not for Women Only (children of famous parents-pt 3, guests include Lucie Arnaz)
11:30 Galloping Gourmet
noon Three on a Match (NBC)
12:30 Days of Our Lives (NBC)
1:00 Movie "Marked Woman" (bw)
3:00 Bugs Bunny
3:30 Three Stooges (bw)
4:00 Flintstones
4:30 Lost in Space
5:30 Green Acres
6:00 Movie "Triangle"
8:00 Untouchables (bw)
9:00 Movie "Good Morning, Miss Dove"
11:00 Perry Mason (bw)
mid. Movie "Eva" (bw)
2:00 Movie "The Party's Over" (bw)

KBHK 44-Ind San Francisco
11:15 News
11:30 Not for Women Only (mugging, conclusion; guests include 2 ex-muggers, Judge Allen Myers, a mugging victim, and author Mel Mandell)
noon New Zoo Revue
12:30 Yogi Bear
1:00 Movie "Storm Warning" (bw)
2:30 Mister Ed (bw)
3:00 Kimba the White Lion
3:30 Banana Splits
4:30 Popeye
4:45 Three Stooges (bw)
5:00 Speed Racer
5:30 and 6:00 Flintstones
6:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
7:00 and 7:30 Hogan's Heroes
8:00 Movie "The War of the Gargantuas"
10:00 Movie "The Werewolf" (bw)
11:30 Movie "Attack of the Puppet Peoiple" (bw)
1:00 Good News

KMST 46-CBS Monterey
7:00 CBS Morning News
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Joker's Wild
9:30 $10,000 Pyramid
10:00 Gambit
10:30 Love of Life
10:55 CBS News
11:00 Young & the Restless
11:30 Search for Tomorrow
noon Midday (Jean Darragh welcomes 8-yr-old acrobat Ginger Street)
12:30 As the World Turns
1:00 Guiding Light
1:30 Edge of Night
2:00 Price is Right
2:30 Hollywood's Talking
3:00 Secret Storm
3:30 Phil Donahue (guest Madalyn Murray O'Hair)
4:30 Mike Douglas (same line-up as 5)
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Hollywood Squares
7:30 Dragnet
8:00 Mission: Impossible
9:00 Movie "The Sergeant"
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "The Story of GI Joe" (bw)
1:00 Movie "Charlie Chan in Reno" (bw)

KFTY 50-Ind Santa Rosa
5:25pm News
5:30 Timmy & Lassie (bw)
6:00 News
7:00 Juvenile Jury (guest Jackie Vernon)
7:30 This is Your Life (blind lawyer Harold Krents, whose life story was the basis of Butterflies are Free, is surprised by Merdith MacRae and Eddie Albert Jr.)
8:00 Mike Douglas (guests Robert Lansing, Fernando Lamas, and Melissa Manchester; also, doctors Sidney Marland and Rene Cardenas discuss bilingual TV shows for kids)
9:30 Secret Agent (bw)
10:30 News

KTEH 54-PBS San Jose
All programs B&W unless otherwise indicated
Instructional Programs during day
4pm Electric Company (c)
4:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (c)
5:00 Sesame Street
6:00 Carrascolendas
6:30 Washington Debates
7:30 Wall Street Week (c/Perot)
8:00 Update
8:30 June Wayne (c/premiere with guest Francoise Gilot)
9:00 America '73 (as 14, 6pm)
 
May 18th was 3 months before I moved to the Bay Area. For those who care about local news: probably the highest rated local news team of all time (to date) was Van Amburg and Jerry Jensen on Channel 7 NewsScene who were credited with being pioneers in "happy talk" and for teasing and leading with sensationalist headlines..."if it bleeds, it leads" and all that. It is legend (pehaps apocryphal) that "Van" once teased the 11:00 news with, "Severed penis found on railroad tracks! Details at 11:00."

By 1974, both KRON and KPIX had blown out their anchors to try to compete with KGO-TV, to no avail until the early 80s. Ron Magers was let go from KPIX, and moved to Chicago where he became a very respected and high-rated anchor. I believe he retired recently. Magers and his co-anchor (Carol Marin) famously resigned in protest when their station hired Jerry Springer to do commentary.
 
You know you're reading very old listings when...KRON cleared EVERY show on NBC's daytime lineup, with only one ('Three on a Match') airing, presumably, out of pattern.

Also, KPIX actually clearing 'The Price is Right'; once CBS moved that show to mornings, it vanished from channel 5's schedule(and from SF altogether until Jim Gabbert bought channel 20 in 1980) in favor of more local yakfests, and didn't reappear on KPIX til the late '90s(and it wasn't til after the turn of the millennium that they finally aired it in pattern again!)

BTW, 'The Bentley Affair' may sound like an episode title for The Jeffersons, but it was actually a morning 'women's talk show', hosted by one of KPIX's news anchors, Helen Bentley; info and obit from the SF Chronicle last year:
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Helen-Bentley-TV-radio-personality-dies-3826195.php

Over on KGO, the early morning Jim Dunbar show was actually called 'AM San Francisco'; I was aware that Dunbar(longtime KGO-AM host) did this TV show, but not that he was billed in the title. (The film 'Zodiac' a few years back features a vintage clip of Dunbar discussing that case). In a couple of years, ABC would launch its national morning show, originally 'AM America', and the San Francisco version moved to 9 AM, as KGO finally did away with the morning movie.
Speaking of which, this is a year or two before KGO moved it's '6:30 Movie' to 3:30; was WABC's movie airing at 4:30 by this point? And did KABC also have a 6:30 movie? Seems odd not to have syndicated/prime access programs. I guess, since such shows were once or twice a week back then, KGO just bought a couple at a time, and saved them for Saturday evenings.
 
Lkeller said:
May 18th was 3 months before I moved to the Bay Area. For those who care about local news: probably the highest rated local news team of all time (to date) was Van Amburg and Jerry Jensen on Channel 7 NewsScene who were credited with being pioneers in "happy talk" and for teasing and leading with sensationalist headlines..."if it bleeds, it leads" and all that. It is legend (pehaps apocryphal) that "Van" once teased the 11:00 news with, "Severed penis found on railroad tracks! Details at 11:00."

By 1974, both KRON and KPIX had blown out their anchors to try to compete with KGO-TV, to no avail until the early 80s.

Here's a 60 Minutes report from 1974 about KGO and the San Francisco TV news market; it touches on some of the things you brought up:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Td_qGilgtdQ

Lkeller said:
Ron Magers was let go from KPIX, and moved to Chicago where he became a very respected and high-rated anchor. I believe he retired recently.

Ron Magers still anchors at WLS.
 
Bluenoser said:
KTVU 2-Ind Oakland

8:00 Movie "Fame is the Name of the Game"
...a 1966 NBC TV-movie that served as the pilot for the 1968-71 NBC series The Name of The Game. Ironically, the pilot starred Anthony Franciosa, who went on to become one of the three modular stars of the series, but Franciosa appeared in much less episodes of the series (17) than the other two stars, Robert Stack (26) and Gene Barry (42)...
 
Lkeller said:
May 18th was 3 months before I moved to the Bay Area. For those who care about local news: probably the highest rated local news team of all time (to date) was Van Amburg and Jerry Jensen on Channel 7 NewsScene who were credited with being pioneers in "happy talk" and for teasing and leading with sensationalist headlines..."if it bleeds, it leads" and all that. It is legend (pehaps apocryphal) that "Van" once teased the 11:00 news with, "Severed penis found on railroad tracks! Details at 11:00."
...although the bits used only one "anchor," those teases were mercilessly spoofed in the mid-'70s in The Kentucky Fried Movie ("The popcorn you're eating has been p*$$ed in -- Film at 11!")...
 
Status
This thread has been closed due to inactivity. You can create a new thread to discuss this topic.


Back
Top Bottom