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Retro: Hawaii Tues, May 6, 1958

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Bluenoser

Pre-statehood TV in the Aloha State, from the Honolulu Advertiser via Newspapers.com

KONA 2-Honolulu/KMVI 12-Wailuku
3:30pm Shopper's Matinee "You Were Never Lovelier"
5:00 Cartoon Carousel
5:30 Early Movie "Daring Young Man"
7:00 Victory at Sea
7:30 People are Funny
8:00 This is Your Life
8:30 Whirlybirds
9:00 Hawaii Medical Association
9:30 Tennessee Ernie Ford (guest Barry Sullivan)
10:00 Kini Popo
10:30 Joe Rose (news)
10:35 Mystery Theater "Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime"

KMAU 3-Wailuku/KGMB 9-Honolulu/KHBC 9-Hilo
11:20 Cartoon Time
11:30 As the World Turns
noon Secret Storm
12:15 Film Variety
12:30 Edge of Night
1:00 My Hero
1:30 Dotto
2:00 Napua's Gasco Kitchen
2:30 Love of Life
3:00 Search for Tomorrow
3:15 Guiding Light
3:30 Beat the Clock
4:00 Brighter Day
4:15 The Posse "Gun Justice"
5:30 77th Bengal Lancers "The Steel Bracelet" (guest star Eva Gabor)
6:00 Comedy Hour
6:55 City Charter Program (a look at Honolulu's proposed city charter)
7:00 26 Men "The Wild Bunch"
7:30 Life is Worth Living "The Greatest Trial in History"
8:00 Adventures of Ellery Queen
8:30 December Bride
9:00 Frontier Doctor
9:30 Code 3 "Oil Well Incident"
10:00 Pan Am World News
10:15 Sports Editor
10:30 Night Owl Theater "Four Jills in a Jeep"

KULA 4-Honolulu
3pm Western Theater "Marshal of Mesa City"
4:00 Early Show "Decoy"
6:00 Mickey Mouse Club
7:00 Lone Ranger "Deadeye"
7:30 Life & Legend of Wyatt Earp
8:00 Boots & Saddles
8:30 Gray Ghost "Father and Son"
9:00 TV Reader's Digest "Voyage of Captain Tom Jones"
9:30 Late Show "Trail of the Vigilantes"

KHVH 13-Honolulu
2:30pm Movie "Love, Honor and Behave"
4:30 Cartoon
4:40 Serial "Scarlet Horseman"
5:00 Hollywood Matinee "Living on Velvet"
7:00 Hawaiian Village Playhouse "Naughty But Nice"
9:00 Movie "Vacation from Marriage"
 
Note no network newscasts.

With broadcast satellites years in the future, commercial jet planes still some months off and high-quality videotape only recently invented, there was no way a network TV newscast could be seen in Hawaii until.the next day. I would think that within a few years, once videotape and commercial jet planes had come into widespread use, network newscasts (the East Coast feed since the Eastern feed would come to California at 3:30 P.M. Pacific) would be taped in Hollywood, flown by jet to Hawaii, and probably shown at the end of the broadcast day (12 Midnight local or thereabouts, some twelve hours after the live East Coast feed).

Back then, Hawaiians probably had to wait a week for kinescopes of live network shows. But since filmed shows were shot well in advance of broadcast, filmed shows were probably seen in Honolulu/Hawaiian Islands the same day as the mainland.

I wouldn't be too surprised if the NBC affiliate in Honolulu was one of the first to a color film chain (to show color prints of NBC shows filmed in color) and one of the first stations to get a color VTR (to show NBC shows taped in color).

Although the first trans-Pacific broadcast satellite was Syncom 3 in 1964, it's my understanding the first live TV show fed by satellite from the mainland to Hawaii was a 1966 college football game between Michigan State and Notre Dame. But I woukd think it would be another couple if decades until satellites were regularly used to feed network TV to America's 50th state.
 
"Pan Am World News" was undoubtedly sponsored by the airline.

By mid 1958, the Pan Am commercials obviously started bragging that by year's end, they'd be flying the new Boeing 707 Jet aircraft, that would cut travel time between Honolulu and the mainland by almost half. "Spend Less Time Flying And More Time At Your Destination With Pan Am's New Boeing 707 Jet!"
 
Two of the Honolulu TV stations had no local news at all.

One other had just five minutes of local news.

The other one had fifteen minutes of late evening local news.

KGMB-9 may have been the only station, based on having the market's only fifteen minute newscast, that had newsfilm. But such film footage was likely restricted to local news in Honolulu and the rest if the island of Oahu with only very occasional newsfilm footage of events on the other islands.
 
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