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RETRO: Fairbanks, Alaska (March 29, 1982)

J

johnnya2k6

Source: Fairbanks Daily News Miner

2-KTTU (NBC/ABC)
4-KJNP (Religious)
9-KUAC (PBS)
11-KTVF (CBS/ABC)

March 29 proved to be a big day for KTVF, as they carried two major television specials live and via satellite. You'll see what they are in those listings.

6:00 AM
2-Cartoons

7:00
2-Today
11-CBS Morning News

9:00
2-All My Children
9-Educational Programming (till 2:00 pm)
11-Captain Kangaroo

9:30
11-The Richard Simmons Show

9:59
2-NBC News Special Report (landing of space shuttle Columbia)

10:00
2-General Hospital
11-Health Field

10:30
11-Alice

11:00
2-The PTL Club (listed as "Jim Bakker")
11-The Price Is Right

11:30
4-Lloyd Morgan

Noon
2-KTTU News Update
4-Independent Network News (?)
11-Young and the Restless

12:05 PM
2-Fairbanks Today

12:30
2-Password Plus
4-100 Huntley Street

1:00
2-Days of our Lives
11-As The World Turns

2:00
2-Another World
4-Blackwood Brothers
9-Masterpiece Theatre
11-Guiding Light

2:30
4-Another Life (CBN's short-lived attempt to cash in on the soap opera craze)

3:00
2-Texas
4-Something Beautiful
9-Over Easy (Guest: Bob Keeshan)
11-NCAA Men's College Basketball Championship (live from New Orleans; the game would be memorable for Fred Brown mistakenly passing the ball to North Carolina's James Worthy, costing Georgetown the title which they would get two years later. Oh yeah, it also introduced the world to some guy named Michael Jordan)

3:30
9-Mister Rogers' Neighborhood

4:00
2-The Regis Philbin Show (Reege's co-host was Mary Hart, who after the show was cancelled, didn't hang out at the unemployment line for long. A fledging syndicated show called "Entertainment Tonight" hired her immediately after she was interviewed by them, and the rest as they say was history!)
4-Joy Junction
9-Sesame Street

4:30
2-Family Feud

5:00
2-NBC Nightly News
4-Richard Houge Weekdays
9-The Electric Company

5:30
2-News
9-3-2-1 Contact
11-One Day at a Time

6:00
2-Mission: Impossible
4-Independent Network News
9-Humanities Through the Arts
11-Fairbanks Evening News

6:30
4-Local News
9-Avation Weather (now Alaska Weather)
11-54th Annual Academy Awards (live via satellite, "Chariots of Fire" won Best Picture that night)

6:35
4-Listen

7:00
2-Little House on the Prairie
4-Follow Me
9-MacNeil/Lehrer Report

7:30
4-Ross Bagley
9-Witness for Public Broadcasting

8:00
2-Movie: "The Towering Inferno" (1974, Part 2)
4-The 700 Club
9-College for Canines

8:30
9-Ageless Auto

9:00
9-Austin City Limits
11 (following the Academy Awards)-Repeat of NCAA Men's College Basketball championship

9:30
4-Closing Comments and sign-off

10:00
2-Movie: "Tomorrow's Child"
9-Soundstage ("Just Folk")

11:00
9-Captioned ABC News

11:30
9-The Dick Cavett Show (Guest: Jonathan Miller (Part 1))

Midnight
2-The Best of Carson (Guests: Dionne Warwick, Beau Bridges, and Calvin Trillin)

12:40 am
11-Columbo

1:00
2-Late Night with David Letterman (Guests: Ron Luciano and Gloria Steinem)

Yes, KTVF as both a CBS and ABC station at the time had the distinction of carrying the NCAA Final Four championship game followed by the Oscars from their respective networks. KTVF would continue airing the Oscars live from ABC until 1986, when the now-KATN became the primary ABC station.

By the way...until about 1980, the Academy Awards were shown on a one- to two-week delay in Alaska. I'll try to pinpoint the exact year when the show would finally be aired on a same-day delay.

Jonathan Allen
 
What's the time difference between Alaska and the mainland? The basketball game started no earlier than 8:00 eastern time, which means the Oscar broadcast 3 1/2 hours later had to have been on tape delay.
 
Buddy Hayes said:
What's the time difference between Alaska and the mainland? The basketball game started no earlier than 8:00 eastern time, which means the Oscar broadcast 3 1/2 hours later had to have been on tape delay.
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Yeah, you're right. The Oscar show was on same-day tape delay after the game and the news. As for the "CBS Evening News", KTVF could've ran them before the Oscars at 6:30 as usual, bumping the big show to 7:00. But...that was Fairbanks TV in 1982 for you.

Oh, and Alaska is one hour behind the Pacific Time Zone.

Jonathan Allen
 
johnnya2k6 said:
Oh, and Alaska is one hour behind the Pacific Time Zone.
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However, in 1982, Alaska was still fragmented in several zones, and Fairbanks was two hours behind PST in the old Alaska-Hawaii Time Zone. The basketball game coverage started at 8 EST, so it would have to be 5 hours behind (and hence 2 hours behind Pacific) for a 3 PM start. Most of Alaska moved ahead one hour into the current Alaskan Time Zone (formerly the Yukon Time Zone) in 1983.


--Mike
 
In daytime history March 29th 1982 was the day Capitol premiered on CBS and Search For Tomorrow made moved to its new timeslot and network NBC. But alas, nethier Fairbanks station carried neither.
 
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