Retro: California - Friday, September 8, 1950

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Here are the TV stations that existed when California celebrated its statehood centennial the following day. Since September 9 was a Saturday, and not every station was on the air on weekends, I thought I'd have it from the day before.

Part I: San Francisco

NOTE: All times are PM.

4 KRON (NBC)
3:00 Your Home
4:00 Exclusively Yours
5:00 **OFF THE AIR**
6:00 The Vanishing Legion
6:20 Stop, Look and Listen
6:40 News - Korean Report and Telenews
7:00 Club 4
7:30 Mohawk (Carpet Mills) Showroom (music show)
7:45 A Penny for Your Thoughts
8:00 Family Fun
8:30 Pinky Lee
9:00 Ransom Sherman
9:30 Stranger Than Fiction
9:45 Paradise Island
10:00 Telenews

5 KPIX (Primary: CBS; Secondary: DuMont/Paramount)
1:30 Faye Stewart
2:30 Del Courtney
4:30 Film Feature
6:55 Missing Persons (from the San Francisco PD)
7:00 Time for Beany
7:15 Telenews
7:30 Kid's Caperrs
8:00 Mama
8:30 Music Album
8:50 Teletrips
9:00 News
9:15 Manhattan Spotlight
9:30 Edna Fisher
9:45 Starlit Time
10:15 Telenews

7 KGO (ABC)
3:45 Your Afternoon Hostess
4:45 Space Patrol
5:00 Les Malloy
6:30 Talent Prospector
7:00 Film
8:00 Rainier Rasslin'
9:00 Ernie Nevers
9:15 Golf Made Easy
9:30 Raggles
10:00 Chinatown Mysteries

Source: San Francisco Chronicle @ geneologybank.com

 

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Part II: Los Angeles/San Diego

2 KTSL (DuMont)
5:45 (PM) Program Preview
5:50 Cartoon Carnival
6:00 Cowboy Caravan: "The Law Rides Again" (1943) - Ken Maynard, Hoot Gibson
6:55 News
7:00 Hollywood Road to Fame
8:00 Stranger Than Fiction
8:15 This Week in Sports
8:30 Feature Film: "The Marines Come Thru" (1943) - Wallace Ford, Grant Withers, Toby Wing, Sheila Lynch
9:55 Fleetwood Lawton
10:00 Women Are Wonderful
10:30 Peter Potter's Party
MIDNIGHT TV Highlights

4 KNBH (NBC)
5:45 (PM) Baseball Scores & News
6:00 Jump, Jump
6:15 Comedy Theatre: 1) "War Babies" (1932) - Shirley Temple; 2) "Mister Wife" (1926) - Neal Burns, Vera Steadman, Jack Duffy
7:00 Laurel & Hardy Comedy
7:25 Good Egg of the Week
7:30 Mohawk Showroom
7:45 TV News & Weather
8:00 Believe It or Not
8:30 Tex Williams & His Western Caravan
9:00 Designed for Women
9:30 Big Story
10:00 Faye Emerson
10:15 Late News
10:25 Film

5 KTLA (Paramount)
5:30 (PM) News, Music
5:45 Police Calls
5:55 Program Preview
6:00 Cowboy Thrills With Doye O'Dell
6:30 Time for Beany
6:45 Handy Hints With Keith & Dorothy
7:00 Newsreel
7:15 Yer Ole Buddy
7:30 Charley Chase Comedy
8:00 Ina Ray Hutton
9:00 Feature Film: "Elephant Boy" (1937) - Sabu (film debut), Walter Hudd, Bruce Gordon
10:30 Roller Derby
11:15 Meet Me in Hollywood

7 KECA (ABC)
6:30 (PM) Andy Clyde Comedy
6:45 Space Patrol
7:00 Soap Box Theater
7:30 Hacienda Varieties
8:00 Think Fast
8:30 Wrestling From Ocean Park
10:45 Brain Busters
11:00 Long Bill

8 KFMB (Primary: CBS; Secondary: ABC/NBC/DuMont) San Diego
2:00 (PM) Smokey Rogers
5:00 Film Short
5:25 Program Preview
5:30 Comedy Carnival
5:45 Did You Know?
6:00 Corral
6:30 Time for Beany
6:45 Newsreel
7:00 Soap Box Theater
7:30 People in the News
7:45 Film Featurette
8:00 Sports Almanac
8:15 Film Short
8:30 Tex Williams & His Western Caravan
9:00 Film Featurette
9:30 Big Story
10:00 Cavalcade of Sports
10:30 Newsreel

9 KFI (Ind.)
9:00 Bill Welsh
NOON News
12:30 Ladies' Day With 4 B's
1:30 Cook's Corner
1:45 Your Own Home
2:00 Film Matinee: "God's Country and the Man" (1937) - Tom Keene, Betty Compson, Charlotte Henry
3:00 Singing Chef
3:20 Adventure at Home
3:45 The World Is Your Garden
4:00 Stu Wilson
5:00 Frank Webb
5:30 Magic Theatre
6:00 Newsroom
6:30 Eddie Coontz
7:30 Fishing Pals
8:00 Baseball (Pacific Coast League) - Los Angeles Angles vs. Oakland Oaks
10:30 Sports Final

11 KTTV (CBS)
12:45 Afternoon Serenade
1:00 Hollywood Studio Party
3:00 Come Into the Kitchen
3:30 Movie Gems: "With Love and Kisses" (1936) - Pinky Tomlin, Toby Wing, Kane Richmond
4:30 Classified Column
5:00 Range Riders Movie With Walkin' Charlie (Aldrich)
6:00 Magic Party
6:15 Film Oddities
6:55 Korean (War) Correspondent
7:00 Pet Exchange (showcasing pets up for adoption)
7:30 Television Newsreel
7:45 Fall Fashion Beauty Bazaar
8:00 Mama
8:30 Fashion Forecast
9:00 Aisle Three: "All-American Co-ed" (1941) - Frances Langford, Johnny Downs, Marjorie Woodworth, Noah Beery Jr.
10:00 Startime
10:05 TV Newsreel
10:15 Revue
10:30 News Roundup
10:40 Club 11
11:20 Jack Rourke

13 KLAC (Ind.)
10:00 Joe Graydon
NOON Mike Roy
1:00 Al Jarvis
5:30 Kemper's Kapers
6:00 Hawthone & Eggbert
6:30 Johnny Bradford
7:00 Bobby Troup (future Dr. Joe Early on Emergency!)
7:15 Stephen Foster Series
7:20 Touchdown Thrills
7:30 Hail Champ
8:00 Jim Hardy Film
8:05 Moto Polo - from Culver City
10:00 News With Clete Roberts
10:10 This is Hawthorne
11:10 Glancin' at Anson