Retro: Chile Tues, July 19, 1966

[Bluenoser]

from Ecran TV
Programs listed in 24-hr clock (0.00-midnight, 13.00-1pm)

Santiago
Canal 9
17.00 Presentacion filmada
17.02 Mundo infantil
17.30 Musica para la gente joven
18.00 Nuestra historia
18.27 Flash infantil
18.32 Flash noticioso
18.33 Telecine
19.02 El llanero solitario (Lone Ranger)
19.30 Voz para el camino
19.53 Flash noticioso
19.55 KO famosos (Famous Knock-Outs)
19.59 Grandes orquestas
20.25 Horoscopo diario
20.30 Pantalla noticiosa
20.45 El show de Lucy (Lucy Show)
21.08 Cuanto sabe usted?
21.10 La hora de Hitchcock (Alfred Hitchcock Presents)
22.06 Flash noticioso
22.08 Futbol internacional (world soccer highlights)
23.10 Flash noticioso

Canal 13
13.56 Almanaque
14.00 Servicio noticioso
14.15 Mientras otros duermen siesta "El menu del dia"
14.46 Teleteatro Ponds
15.13 Educacion rural
15.43 El mama quien manda (Donna Reed)
16.10 Telekinder
16.40 Dick Tracy
16.46 Colorin Colorado
17.32 Biografias
17.58 Rin Tin Tin
18.49 Machitun de la FEUC
19.00 World Cup Soccer: USSR v Italy
21.37 El Litre 4916
22.00 Reporter Esso
22.17 Ben Casey

Valparaiso
Canal 8
14.00 Ruff y Reddy (Ruff & Reddy)
14.10 Grindl
14.35 Mosiaco noticioso
14.45 Entre nosotras "Belleza y consejos femeninos"
15.05 Noticiario UFA
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18.30 Dibujo animado (Cartoon)
18.36 Shindig
18.55 World Cup Soccer: picking up coverage from Canal 13, which Canal 8 was affiliated with
20.30 Letras de hoy
20.45 Teleteatro
21.30 El super agente 86 (Get Smart)
22.00 Reporter Esso
22.15 La hora 11

 

[Gregg]

Did Chile's capital city really only have two TV stations as late as 1966? Valpariaso is about 45 miles away, so I guess some viewers could get also get Channel 8.

I see Reporter Esso at 11pm on 8 and 13. I guess Esso (now Exxon) sponsored the newscast and got their name in the title... sort of like NBC's Camel News Caravan in the 50s, sponsored by the Camel cigarette company.

 

[azumanga]

I see Reporter Esso at 11pm on 8 and 13. I guess Esso (now Exxon) sponsored the newscast and got their name in the title... sort of like NBC's Camel News Caravan in the 50s, sponsored by the Camel cigarette company.

Esso also sponsored a national newscast (and I think several local ones, as well) in some regions of the US during the 1950s, under "Your Esso Reporter".

 

[Ultimajock]

I see Reporter Esso at 11pm on 8 and 13. I guess Esso (now Exxon) sponsored the newscast and got their name in the title... sort of like NBC's Camel News Caravan in the 50s, sponsored by the Camel cigarette company.

Esso also sponsored a national newscast (and I think several local ones, as well) in some regions of the US during the 1950s, under "Your Esso Reporter".

...Your Esso Reporter ran in the summer of 1951 on CBS, Thursdays 9:00-9:30 Eastern and Pacific, but only in the Eastern and Pacific zone areas where Esso was marketed under that brand name. The Central and Mountain zone markets where Esso wasn't marketed (or where it was sold under the brand name Enco) got a live production from Hollywood of Meet Corliss Archer; the cast and crew produced the same episode live the following (Friday) night at 10:00 Eastern/7:00 Pacific for those stations that had taken Your Esso Reporter, while those affiliates that hadn't apparently ran locally-originated programs or films instead...

 

[Joseph_Gallant]

The "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" episodes on Canal (Channel) 9 in Santiago were actually the hour-long episodes (broadcast in the U.S. as "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour") from 1962 to 1965, since the title in Spanish is "La Hora De Hitchcock" (although I know very, very little Spanish, I do know that "Hora" is Spanish for "Hour").

"El Show De Lucy" may well have been "The Lucy Show", which was in production; Canal 9 may well have been running the most recent (1965/66) episodes. But maybe it was also "I Love Lucy" reruns (but wouldn't "I Love Lucy" been translated to something like "Amor Lucy"??)

The World Cup Soccer game between Italy and the then-USSR was on tape and shown on a three-day delay (with a tape flown across the Atlantic). Russia and Italy were in the same group as Chile during round-robin play; so Canal 9 and it's affiliates likely carried all the early-round games from that group.

The Early Bird satellite had been launched in 1965; if Chile had an earth station downlink as far back as 1966, Chile's games and the championship game were probably carried live (or maybe on a same-day basis).

If Chile had a satellite downlink, it's possible that the soccer highlights show appearing that night may in fact have been fed by satellite and featured highlights of the games that were played that day (according to Wikipedia, they were North Korea vs. Italy, Argentina vs. Switzerland, Mexico vs. Uruguay, and Brazil vs. Portugal). It may have been logistically (there were only a couple of trans-Atlantic TV satellite circuits then) and/or economically difficult for Canal 9 to carry all of the games live, so as noted above, if there was a satellite downlink in Chile hooked up to the nation's TV networks, satellite use would probably have been restricted to games involving Chile, the finals, and a nightly highlights show.

About Esso, Enco, and Exxon: The name "Exxon" has never been used outside the United States (indeed, one can still find Esso gasoline stations in Canada and Europe). Enco was not used until late 1960, and replaced several brand names used by Standard Oil of New Jersey outside the East Coast (Carter, Oklahoma, Pate, etc.). The name "Humble" formerly used at gas stations in the Southwest, was used in Ohio(!); while the name "Humble Oil and Refining Company" would become the name of Jersey Standard's U.S. subsidiary from 1960 until the change to Exxon.

To answer Ultimajock: I don't think Esso was ever used on the West Coast; and the Summer 1951 broadcasts of "Esso Reporter" on CBS would have predated the transcontinental network link by several months. Maybe the show may have been kinescoped, flown west, and shown there as "Your Carter Reporter", since I believe the "Carter" name was used in the West until replaced by Enco.

But I doubt "Esso Reporter" aired on the West Coast for the reasons outlined above.

Maybe someone with access to California TV listings circa Summer 1951 can solve this mystery.

 

[azumanga]

About Esso, Enco, and Exxon: The name "Exxon" has never been used outside the United States (indeed, one can still find Esso gasoline stations in Canada and Europe).

Around 1996, there was an Exxon station in Windsor, Ontario, that was a former Esso station, at the corner of Huron Church and Tecumseh (per Google's Street View, it's now a Shell). I believe at one time, Imperial Oil imported the Exxon name to be used at a few stations, for reasons unknown.

 

[mjlarochelle]

Did Chile's capital city really only have two TV stations as late as 1966? Valpariaso is about 45 miles away, so I guess some viewers could get also get Channel 8.

I see Reporter Esso at 11pm on 8 and 13. I guess Esso (now Exxon) sponsored the newscast and got their name in the title... sort of like NBC's Camel News Caravan in the 50s, sponsored by the Camel cigarette company.

Canada's capital city only had two reliable English channels and one French as late as 1973, though cable was available.

 

[Bluenoser]

About Esso, Enco, and Exxon: The name "Exxon" has never been used outside the United States (indeed, one can still find Esso gasoline stations in Canada and Europe).

Around 1996, there was an Exxon station in Windsor, Ontario, that was a former Esso station, at the corner of Huron Church and Tecumseh (per Google's Street View, it's now a Shell). I believe at one time, Imperial Oil imported the Exxon name to be used at a few stations, for reasons unknown.

There was a pic on Flickr at one time (not sure if it's still there) of an Exxon in Morrisburg, in eastern Ontario. And in some older phone books, there may have been one in Edmundston, NB as well (an Exxon sign was shown in one local station's ads).

 

[desertv]

"Esso" was never used on the West Coast - That was the marketing area of Standard Oil of California-who sold fuel as Chevron-and used S.O. as the name of one of their products. (There was a TV drama program out west called "Chevron Theater" in the early 50s)

 

[Ultimajock]

I don't think Esso was ever used on the West Coast; and the Summer 1951 broadcasts of "Esso Reporter" on CBS would have predated the transcontinental network link by several months. Maybe the show may have been kinescoped, flown west, and shown there as "Your Carter Reporter", since I believe the "Carter" name was used in the West until replaced by Enco.

But I doubt "Esso Reporter" aired on the West Coast for the reasons outlined above.

Maybe someone with access to California TV listings circa Summer 1951 can solve this mystery.

...my source was Brooks & Marsh (6th Edition), which specified Your Esso Reporter aired on CBS in the "East and Far West" regions, and that the same episodes of Meet Corliss Archer were produced live on consecutive Thursdays and Fridays during the summer of '51...

 

[Gregg]

I believe Exxon originally came up with the name to change all their worldwide brands under that one name... or at least that was the explanation given when they unveiled the Exxon name. But it's true, that plan never materialized. I know in Quebec and Ontario, they kept the Esso name, with the few exceptions mentioned above.

And how stupid am I? Only now did I realize Esso is the phonetic spelling of S.O. meaning Standard Oil.

 

[oldiesfan6479]

Does anyone recall a fourth pump at Esso stations in the late 1950s?

This would be in addition to the then-recently introduced third pump, their
super high-octane "Golden Esso Extra."

I can't recall the marketing name of the fourth pump, or where it was in the
octane pecking order (higher than "Golden" or perhaps a "cheap" regular).

 

[tvnut]

About Esso, Enco, and Exxon: The name "Exxon" has never been used outside the United States (indeed, one can still find Esso gasoline stations in Canada and Europe).

Around 1996, there was an Exxon station in Windsor, Ontario, that was a former Esso station, at the corner of Huron Church and Tecumseh (per Google's Street View, it's now a Shell). I believe at one time, Imperial Oil imported the Exxon name to be used at a few stations, for reasons unknown.

Probably just to keep the trademark in the company and away from potential poachers. There's still a solitary Standard Oil gas station in Michigan for the same reason.

 

[azumanga]

About Esso, Enco, and Exxon: The name "Exxon" has never been used outside the United States (indeed, one can still find Esso gasoline stations in Canada and Europe).

Around 1996, there was an Exxon station in Windsor, Ontario, that was a former Esso station, at the corner of Huron Church and Tecumseh (per Google's Street View, it's now a Shell). I believe at one time, Imperial Oil imported the Exxon name to be used at a few stations, for reasons unknown.

Probably just to keep the trademark in the company and away from potential poachers. There's still a solitary Standard Oil gas station in Michigan for the same reason.

I believe the same goes for Chevron, which has at least one Standard station in Florida, Texas and California (maybe others), to keep the trademark fresh in their Standard territory.