Retro: Kingman, AZ translators, Sunday, Jan 2, 1977

[crainbebo]

Source: Kingman Daily Miner

Channels listed (BY TRANSLATOR CH, NOT REGULAR CH NUMBER)
66 KPHO Phoenix (5) Ind. (can't find translator call)
68 KAET Phoenix (8) PBS (can't find translator call)
70 K70AC (KTAR-12) NBC
72 K72AV (KLAS-8) CBS
78 K78AC (KTVK-3) ABC
82 K82AA (KOOL-10) CBS

MORNING

6AM
82 Human Dimeson

6:30
66 Friends of Man
70 Agriculture USA
82 Insight

7:00
66 Hour of Power
68 Sesame Street
70 Nosotros
82 Hudson Brothers Rassle Dazzle Comedy Show

7:30
78 Tom and Jerry
82 Space Nuts

8AM
66 Oral Roberts
68 Sesame Street
70 Rex Humbard
72 Spoken Word
78 Jabberjaw
82 Lamp Unto My Feet

8:30
66 Mass for Shut Ins
72 I Dream Of Jeannie
78 The New Adventures of Gilligan
82 Look Up and Live

9:00
66 Open Camera
68 Sesame Street
70 Day of Discovery
72 Rex Humbard
78 The Oddball Couple
82 Camera Three

9:30
66 Movie: "Sherlock Holmes and The Scarlet Claw"
70 Arizona '77
78 Animals, Animals, Animals
82 Face the Nation

10:00
68 Sesame Street
70 Meet The Press
72 Space Nuts
78 The 1976-1977...What Was...What Will Be
82 Room 222

10:30
70 Hogan's Heroes
72 82 Sun Bowl: Texas A&M vs. Florida

11:00
66 North Phoenix Baptist Hour
68 Sesame Street (five hours of Sesame Street, hmm...)
70 Grandstand
78 Ye Shall Know The Truth

11:30
70 NCAA Basketball
78 Sign Out

AFTERNOON

12:00
66 Este Eres Tu
68 Menotti: Landscapes And Remembrances
78 The Superstars (season premiere)

12:30
66 Get it On

1:00
66 The Rifleman
68 Cinema Clasiscs: "Step Lively"

1:30
66 East-West Shrine Game
72 52nd Annual East-West Football
78 American Sportsman
82 NBA Basketball: Boston at Golden State

2:30
78 Wide World of Sports

2:45
68 Sunday Cinema: "Call Northside 777"

3:00
82 Great Adventure

3:30
70 Grandstand

4:00
70 Jacques Costeau
78 Beverly Hillbillies
82 America: Promise Fulfilled, Promise Broken Part 1

4:30
66 Wild Kingdom
72 Invitation to Skiing
78 News 3
82 CBS News

4:35
68 Songs of Robert Burns

4:45
68 Living Tomorrow

5PM
66 Wild Wild West
68 Getting On
70 NBC News
72 The Jerry Tarkanian Show
78 The Lawrence Welk Show
82 60 Minutes (my god that's early!)

5:30
68 In The Shadow of The Grass
70 Action News
72 Face The Nation

EVENING
6PM
66 The New Andy Williams
68 Consumer Survival Kit
70 The Wonderful World of Disney
72 Yesterday's Newsreels
78 A Farewell Visit with President and Mrs. Ford
82 KOOL News

6:30
66 $128,000 Question
68 Bookbeat
72 Kidsworld
82 Wild, Wild World of Animals

7:00
66 Music Hall America
68 A Monster Concert
70 NBC Mystery Movie: "McMillan"
72 National Geographic
78 The Six Million Dollar Man
82 Sonny and Cher Show

7:30
68 Evening at Symphony

8:00
66 Movie: "Rachel, Rachel" (1968) Joanne Woodward, James Olson. Fears and frustrations of a small town unmarried school teacher.
72 60 Minutes
78 Movie: "W.W. and The Dixie Dancekings" (1975) Burt Reynolds. Easygoing con artist who loves country music, robbing gas stations and a singer called Dixie.
82 Kojak

8:30
70 NBC Mystery Movie: Quincy

9:00
68 Masterpiece Theatre
72 Sonny and Cher
82 Delvecchio

10PM
66 Eyewitness News
68 H.G. on Sports
70 Action News
72 Kojak
78 ABC Weekend News
82 KOOL News

10:15
78 News 3
82 CBS News

10:30
66 Movie: "The Pajama Game" Doris Day, John Raitt. Pajama factory union's fight for a 7 1/2 cent raise
68 Jean Wolf with Redd Foxx
70 Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
78 News 3
82 Double Feature Medical Center

11PM
68 Soundstage
70 Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
72 Delvecchio

11:30
70 Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman

Midnight
70 Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (hmm...A QUADRUPLE RUN OF MARY HARTMAN!?!)
72 Let Me Speak to The D.A.

12:30A
66 The Champions
72 Sunday News
82 Face the State

12:45
72 Changing Times

1AM
error on listing: 2 Movie: "Man on The Outside" Loren Green. May have been from some other paper accidently.

1:30
66 Eyewitness News

-crainbebo

 

[oldiesfan6479]

Channels listed (BY TRANSLATOR CH, NOT REGULAR CH NUMBER)
82 K82AA (KOOL-10) CBS
5PM
82 60 Minutes (my god that's early!)

KOOL-TV ran the ticking stopwatch at 5 PM MST for years (live feed/winter, one hour delay/
summer), probably starting when the show moved to the 7/6 slot in December 1975. I can't
remember if it was KOOL-TV, KOLD-TV Tucson, or both, but there were some summer periods
when it aired live at 4 PM.

It was probably well into the 1980s before KOOL moved it in pattern at 6. IIRC, the excuse
was to have a 6 PM news seven nights a week.

 

[dhett]

Source: Kingman Daily Miner

Channels listed (BY TRANSLATOR CH, NOT REGULAR CH NUMBER)
66 KPHO Phoenix (5) Ind. (can't find translator call)
68 KAET Phoenix (8) PBS (can't find translator call)
70 K70AC (KTAR-12) NBC
72 K72AV (KLAS-8) CBS
78 K78AC (KTVK-3) ABC
82 K82AA (KOOL-10) CBS

Channel 66 was K66AK; channel 68 was K68AK. Yes, they did have the same last 2 letters.

K70AC is now K50CY; K72AV is now K31BI; K78AC is now KSAZ translator K48AY; so K82AA must have become KTVK translator K60AX and is now K23FV

 

[ajmcwhorter]

So in Kingman you could watch either Las Vegas or Phoenix CBS affiliates? Was there any local news in Kingman?

 

[pqgeorge]

Source: Kingman Daily Miner

Channels listed (BY TRANSLATOR CH, NOT REGULAR CH NUMBER)
66 KPHO Phoenix (5) Ind. (can't find translator call)
68 KAET Phoenix (8) PBS (can't find translator call)
70 K70AC (KTAR-12) NBC
72 K72AV (KLAS-8) CBS
78 K78AC (KTVK-3) ABC
82 K82AA (KOOL-10) CBS

Channel 66 was K66AK; channel 68 was K68AK. Yes, they did have the same last 2 letters.

K70AC is now K50CY; K72AV is now K31BI; K78AC is now KSAZ translator K48AY; so K82AA must have become KTVK translator K60AX and is now K23FV

While vacationing in Flagstaff back in 80's, I noticed that practically all of the Phoenix stations were available via the UHF translators located high atop one of the local peaks. The signals were quite adequate, all were City Grade throughout downtown. All of them were up on the high UHF channels (50's and 60's). I remember KPHO-5 Phoenix (back then a great Indie) had an ID slate listing all of the translators in the state. I believe the one in Flag was licensed as K64BI (Channel 64). The Flag x-lators were basically acting like a wireless cable system, all in the clear. At that time, Flagstaff had enough trouble trying to support local NBC affiliate KNAZ-2, never mind any other full-powered stations that came in later. I wonder how many of the Flag translators are still on the air today? Any takers?

 

[KeithE4]

So in Kingman you could watch either Las Vegas or Phoenix CBS affiliates? Was there any local news in Kingman?

They were/are all translators, so they can't originate programming. Per Wikipedia, KMOH-TV 6, Kingman's lone full-powered station, had local news during its days as an independent (1988-96).

 

[dhett]

While vacationing in Flagstaff back in 80's, I noticed that practically all of the Phoenix stations were available via the UHF translators located high atop one of the local peaks. The signals were quite adequate, all were City Grade throughout downtown. All of them were up on the high UHF channels (50's and 60's). I remember KPHO-5 Phoenix (back then a great Indie) had an ID slate listing all of the translators in the state. I believe the one in Flag was licensed as K64BI (Channel 64). The Flag x-lators were basically acting like a wireless cable system, all in the clear. At that time, Flagstaff had enough trouble trying to support local NBC affiliate KNAZ-2, never mind any other full-powered stations that came in later. I wonder how many of the Flag translators are still on the air today? Any takers?

They're all still there, plus more. All full-service Phoenix stations except Telemundo, ION and CW have Flagstaff translators - even the Univision and TBN stations do. K64BI became K50HU a few years ago and has a CP to flash cut to digital on 50. Almost all of the stations have moved below channel 51, and the only two still out-of-core have plans on moving in-core.

KNAZ is now a full satellite of KPNX - the area is just too small to support independent full-service network affiliates. Only one station exists there without a Phoenix signal - KCFG - and they've been dark for some time.

Ch 14 (KAET - PBS) used to be ch 66.
Ch 35 (KPAZ - TBN) used to be ch 62.
Ch 39 (KSAZ - Fox) used to be ch 68.
Ch 54 (KNXV - ABC) used to be ch 60 and has an app to flash cut to digital on ch 24.
Ch 52 (KTVK - Ind) has a CP to move to ch 17, still broadcasting in analog.