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RETRO: Fairbanks, Alaska (April 21, 1972)

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johnnya2k6

First of all...I'm glad Radio-Info.com has settled in their new home because I can FINALLY post here now after being denied access (the old site didn't allow Yahoo/Hotmail addresses) and having to read threads! Here, at long last, is my first post:(source: Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, programs were of course seen on a three-week delay at the time)2-KFAR (NBC/ABC; now KATN, ABC)10:20 am Instructional Television11:00 Dinah's Place11:30 ConcentrationNoon Sale of the Century (the original with Joe Garagiola, not Jim Perry)12:30 The Hollywood Squares (Peter Marshall)1:00 Jeopardy (original with Art Fleming of course; Alex Trebek hasn't gotten a job in the States yet)1:30 The Who, What, Where Game2:00 Three on a Match2:30 Days of our Lives3:00 The Doctors3:30 Another World4:00 Bright Promise4:30 Somerset5:00 Love, American Style5:30 Bewitched6:00 The Big Thirty (dunno who anchored at that time)6:30 The 6:30 News Report7:00 Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law (episode: "Until Proven Innocent")9:00 Chronolog (one of NBC News' magazine shows long before "Dateline")11:00 Eleventh-Hour News11:10 NBC Nightly News (yes, broadcast same-day at 11:10 pm!!!!!)11:40 The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson (guests: Mickey Rooney and son Tim, Robert Klein, Linda Hopkins, and Gerald A. Browne)9-KUAC (PBS; they were just starting out)5:00 Sesame Street (episode #370)6:00 The Electric Company (episode #110)6:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood7:00 A Public Affair/Election '72 (black and white)7:30 This Week with Bill Moyers (also in black and white)8:00 Film Odyssey ("Intimate Lighting")10:00 Sign-off(KUAC didn't broadcast on Saturdays, but that would later change)11-KTVF (CBS/ABC; now NBC)7:00 CBS Morning News (John Hart)8:00 Sesame Street (on KTVF?!?!)9:00 Captain Kangaroo10:00 Here's Lucy10:30 My Three Sons11:00 Amateur's Guide to Love11:30 Love of LifeNoon News at Noon (Larry Holmstrom)12:05 Where the Heart Is12:30 Search for Tomorrow1:00 Instructional Television2:30 As The World Turns3:00 Love Is A Many Splendored Thing3:30 The Guiding Light4:00 The Secret Storm4:30 The Edge of Night (or as Hal Simms would open it with, "The EDDDDDDGGGGGGGGGEEEEE of Night!")5:00 Family Affair5:30 Fairbanks Feature (probably some filler film or something)5:40 Bob Hamme Sports6:00 Fairbanks Evening News (Ted Lehne/Tom Jensen)6:30 CBS Evening News (Walter Cronkite)7:00 Me and the Chimp7:30 The Mod Squad8:30 O'Hara, United States Treasury9:30 The New CBS Friday Night Movies11:00 Scope News (Ted Lehne)11:30 The CBS Late MovieYes, in 1972 those three stations were the only television we had here in Fairbanks, and because Channel 2 was primarily NBC and Channel 11 primarily CBS with both cherry-picking ABC shows, there weren't any syndicated shows at the time. Boy, times have indeed changed alright, and in the coming weeks and months I'll provide more classic TV schedules from 1955 (when TV came to town) to now! Stay tuned!!Jonathan Allen
 
And I thought it was remote in Presque Isle, ME! It's in a county at least the size of Connecticut and Rhode Island combined yet only has one commercial TV station and one PBS station licensed to it...to this day! (WAGM-TV channel 8, a CBS affiliate now, but has been NBC and ABC secondary before.) Getting back to Alaska, it must really be strange up there in the summer with the time difference and the ridiculously long days. :p
 
Programs were of course seen on a three-week delay at the time...11:10 NBC Nightly News (yes, broadcast same-day at 11:10 pm!!!!!)With most everything else seen on 3-week delay, how did they manage same-day broadcast on the Nightly News? Was it possibly flown up from Seattle? If shown at 6:30 local time in Seattle, that would be about, what, a 6-7 hour delay? (I don't recall offhand -- was AK 2 or 3 hours behind the West Coast at that time?) So, possibly enough time for a tape reel to make a daily scheduled cargo flight to Fairbanks?
 
Stanislav said:
Programs were of course seen on a three-week delay at the time...11:10 NBC Nightly News (yes, broadcast same-day at 11:10 pm!!!!!)With most everything else seen on 3-week delay, how did they manage same-day broadcast on the Nightly News? Was it possibly flown up from Seattle? If shown at 6:30 local time in Seattle, that would be about, what, a 6-7 hour delay? (I don't recall offhand -- was AK 2 or 3 hours behind the West Coast at that time?) So, possibly enough time for a tape reel to make a daily scheduled cargo flight to Fairbanks?
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I'm thinking Anchorage ran Nightly News first at 5:30 (they made some arrangement with Seattle to tape the program and airlift it up there) and then flew the tape to Fairbanks for its 11:10 airing. Dunno how Walter Cronkite was seen same-day in Fairbanks.All of the other programs -- daytime, primetime, and late night including Johnny Carson and Saturday Night Live -- were of course flown up from Seattle to Juneau first (where KJUD was the only network station), Anchorage next, and finally Fairbanks. Special events like the Academy Awards were broadcast on a same-day satellite delay. Super Bowl V was the first live network broadcast in Fairbanks in 1971 to make up for missing out on the Apollo 11 coverage, which was Alaska's first live TV event in 1969.The delays were shortened to one week for Anchorage and two for Fairbanks in the early '80s; by 1984, those old days came to an end when ABC, NBC, and CBS began satellite transmissionsPBS already began satellite transmissions in 1978, and KUAC and KAKM in Anchorage (which went on in 1975) both jumped on that bandwagon. KTOO, Juneau's PBS station, signed on around that time.Jonathan Allen
 
11-KTVF (CBS/ABC; now NBC)8:00 Sesame Street (on KTVF?!?!)If Sesame Street was on KUAC,then why did KTVF carry the syndicated version as well unless they wanted the school kids to watch the morning version of it.10:00 Here's LucyThis would happen to be reruns of The Lucy Show,Here's Lucy would not air in reruns on CBS until 1977.
 
johnnya2k6 said:
The delays were shortened to one week for Anchorage and two for Fairbanks in the early '80s; by 1984, those old days came to an end when ABC, NBC, and CBS began satellite transmissions
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One thing I wonder about is what they did for catching up, when the delays shortened and, eventually, eliminated -- did they show extra episodes of some series, or did they just say, "Forget about them"?
 
classictvfan said:
When did Alaska get its first independent station?
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1983, with KTBY 4 in Anchorage. Of course, they would be affiliated with the Fox network in 1986 and they're still with them almost 20 years later.Here, KSEV Channel 7 was supposed to launch in 1984 (dunno if it would be independent or with a network), but something came in the way that prevented them from doing so. The Channel 7 slot remained vacant until 1992, when Bill St. Pierre and a group of investors formed Tanana Valley Television and finally put the station on the air as K07UU Fox 7, ending 37 years of the Fairbanks commercial TV market dominated by KATN and KTVF.Jonathan Allen
 
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