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RETRO: Fairbanks, Alaska (August 9, 1988)

J

johnnya2k6

Source: Fairbanks Daily News-Miner "Weekender"

2-KATN (ABC/NBC)
4-KJNP (Religious)
7-KUAC (PBS
11-KTVF (CBS/NBC)

6:00 AM
2-World News This Morning
11-Dinosaucers

6:30
11-NBC News at Sunrise

7:00
2-Good Morning America
11-Today

9:00
2-Growing Pains
11-The Price Is Right

9:30
2-The Home Show

10:00
2-Days Of Our Lives
11-Young and the Restless

11:00
2-Classic Concentration
11-Good Morning Fairbanks

11:30
2-Wheel of Fortune
9-Sesame Street
11-Bold and the Beautiful

Noon
2-Win, Lose, or Draw
11-As The World Turns

12:30
2-Scrabble
9-Mister Rogers' Neighborhood

1:00
2-All My Children
9-Reading Rainbow
11-Guiding Light

1:30
9- 3-2-1 Contact

2:00
2-One Life To Live
9-Nova
11-Santa Barbara

2:54
4-Devotions with Pastor Hughes

3:00
2-General Hospital
4-Camp Meeting U.S.A.
9-Zoobilee Zoo
11-$ale of the Century

3:30
9-Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
11-Family Feud

4:00
2-Donahue
4-Dean and Mary Brown
9-Sesame Street
11-Real Ghostbusters

4:30
4-Superbook
11-Super Password

5:00
2-Simon & Simon
4-Mr. Mustache
9-Reading Rainbow
11-Entertainment Tonight

5:30
4-CNN Headline News
9- 3-2-1 Contact
11-M*A*S*H

6:00
2-World News Tonight with Peter Jennings
4-100 Huntley Street
9-Nightly Business Report
11-Fairbanks Evening News (Bob Johnston/Ann Secrest...or was it Billie Sundgren?)

6:30
2-Interior News Tonight (Jim Pound?)
9-Great Steam Trains
11-CBS Evening News with Dan Rather

7:00
2-Movie: "Hollywood Wives" (Part 2/2)
4-The Reverend Otis Yoder
9-16 Days of Glory (Part 1/6)
11-ALF

7:30
4-God's News Behind The News

8:00
4-The 700 Club
9-Moyers: God and Politics (Part 1/3)
11-Newhart

8:30
11-The Cavanaughs

9:00
4-Closing Comments (KJNP's sign-off show which used to be on every night, but as the schedule expanded over the years it's now on Tuesdays and Thursdays. And despite them being 24 hours a day, the "Closing Comments" name still sticks)
9-Legend of the Nile
11-Memories Then and Now (which would later become a syndicated series hosted by WNBC's Chuck Scarborough)

10:00
2-Perfect Strangers
9-MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour
11-Magnum P.I.

10:30
2-Seahawks Live

11:00
2-Nightline
9-Upstairs, Downstairs
11-NewsCenter Final (Curtis Thomas)

11:30
2-Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson (Guest host: Garry Shandling (what, Jay Leno wasn't available?); guests: Ed Begley Jr., Richard Lewis, and Dizzy Gillespie)
11-USA Tonight

Midnight
11-Hunter

12:30 AM
2-Late Night with David Letterman (From September 1986: James Taylor and Fred Willard)

1:10
11-Movie: "Legs" (1983)

1:30
2-CNN Headline News

Another ho-hum schedule from 1988. I have nothing else to say.

Jonathan Allen
 
I was stationed at Eielson AFB, about 30 miles east of Fairbanks back in 1972-73. Back then they didn't have satellites for TV there so the network shows were mailed up and aired about a month later. Yes the Christmas shows aired there in January. The exceptions to this was the news which was flown up from the lower 48 so that Walter Cronkite read you yesterday's news. Also major sporting events like the World Series and the Super Bowl were flown up the next day, making radio a big player then as radio network programming came live over phone lines, which meant you could listen to the Super Bowl on the radio live and then watch it the next day on TV.

Back then there were only the two commercial TV stations and the PBS affilitate. KJNP "only" had a 50KW AM station. Their signal really went out great up there as there was literally no interference on the AM dial then as there were only 5 AM stations on the dial (2 rock, 1 country, 1 religious [KJNP], and the Armed Forces Radio Station at Eielson, at which I worked). The stations were well spaced out on the dial and there literally was no static at all, like an FM dial. The FM and TV stations were added later to KJNP. Also when the commercial TV stations signed off at night around midnight, rather than play the national anthem they'd play a 78 rpm recording (it was very scratchy like a 78 would sound) of the Alaska state song with a slide of the state flag showing on the screen. Ah, time marches on.
 
MikefromDelaware said:
I was stationed at Eielson AFB, about 30 miles east of Fairbanks back in 1972-73. Back then they didn't have satellites for TV there so the network shows were mailed up and aired about a month later. Yes the Christmas shows aired there in January. The exceptions to this was the news which was flown up from the lower 48 so that Walter Cronkite read you yesterday's news. Also major sporting events like the World Series and the Super Bowl were flown up the next day, making radio a big player then as radio network programming came live over phone lines, which meant you could listen to the Super Bowl on the radio live and then watch it the next day on TV.

Back then there were only the two commercial TV stations and the PBS affilitate. KJNP "only" had a 50KW AM station. Their signal really went out great up there as there was literally no interference on the AM dial then as there were only 5 AM stations on the dial (2 rock, 1 country, 1 religious [KJNP], and the Armed Forces Radio Station at Eielson, at which I worked). The stations were well spaced out on the dial and there literally was no static at all, like an FM dial. The FM and TV stations were added later to KJNP. Also when the commercial TV stations signed off at night around midnight, rather than play the national anthem they'd play a 78 rpm recording (it was very scratchy like a 78 would sound) of the Alaska state song with a slide of the state flag showing on the screen. Ah, time marches on.
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If you note the schedules I've been posting from the '70s, Channels 2 and 11 signed off at way past midnight, sometime 1:00 or 2:00 am.

Also, KUAC was the only FM station in Fairbanks until KAYY (now KAKQ) 101.1 signed on in 1981. KQRZ and KSUA would later follow, and in 1987 Bill Walley (owner of KFAR radio and Fairbanks City Mayor at the time) launched KWLF-FM. It quickly became the #1 music station in Fairbanks, mostly thanks to the "Wake-Up Call" morning show with Glen "Glenner" Anderson and Jerry Evans.

In 1989, KQRZ left the air, leaving the 102.5 frequency available to KIAK so they would finally move their country format there. The following year, Northern Television (then-owners of KTVF) started KXLR 95.9 to go along with KCBF; KUWL 103.9 "Cool Country" (later "Kool FM" with an oldies format and now KTDZ "Ted FM") would later follow in 1996.

Finally, in 1998, KUAC-FM moved to 89.9 with KKED ("The Edge") taking the 104.7 slot, and Northern Television sold KCBF, KXLR, and KUWL to what they're now New Northwest Broadcasters, owners of KWLF and KFAR.

Jonathan Allen
 
CLARIFICATION AND CORRECTION: KCBF's old calls and frequency when they signed on in the '40s (they were the second radio station in Fairbanks after KFAR) was KFRB AM 900; it became KCBF AM 820 in 1981. Formats have changed there over the years; now, they're an ESPN Radio affiliate. I didn't move back to Fairbanks until August 1992, so KXLR was new to me (I think they signed on in late 1990 after KTVF/KCBF moved to their current digs off Van Horn Road)...as was the months old KFXF Fox 7.

And New Northwest Broadcasters have always owned KUWL/KTDZ, though they would later acquire KCBF and KXLR from Northern Television.

Jonathan Allen
 
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