Retro: KSTS Ch. 48 San Jose & KFTY Ch. 50 Santa Rosa - Monday, June 22, 1981

[RandTV]

Source: San Francisco Sunday Examinder & Chronicle via newspapers.com
Its 'TV Week' began listing these stations the day before.

48 KSTS San Jose (signed on May 31, 1981)
6:00 Business Today
9:00 Morning Stretch
9:30 People Are Talking (from KPIX 5 San Francisco)
10:30 Peyton Place (x2)
11:30 Loretta Young Theater
NOON Another Life
12:30 Don Lane
1:30 Merv Griffin
2:30 Make Room for Daddy/Danny Thomas Show
3:00 Batman
3:30 Jackie Gleason
4:00 Charlie Rose
4:30 Talk of the Town
6:00 Morecambe & Wise
6:30 Doctor in the House
7:00 Movie: "The Duke of West Point" (1938) - Louis Hayward, Joan Fontaine, Tom Brown, Richard Carlson, Alan Curtis.
9:00 Repeat of "The Duke of West Point"

50 KFTY Santa Rosa (signed on May 3, 1981)
11:00 Richard Simmons
11:30 Hour Magazine
12:30 Another Life
1:00 Good Afternoon
1:30 Face the Music
2:00 Let's Make a Deal (1980 revival)
2:30 Cross-Wits
3:00 $50,000 Pyramid
3:30 Mike Douglas
5:00 Wild, Wild West
6:00 M*A*S*H
6:30 Independent Network News
7:00 Mary Tyler Moore
7:30 News 50
8:00 Donahue
9:00 Monte Carlo Show
10:00 News 50
10:30 Inependent Network News
11:00 News 50
11:30 Carol Burnett and Friends

 

[davect]

I worked for KSTS briefly in 1987. By then they were airing FNN (Financial News Network) daytime weekdays. Otherwise, it was mostly ethnic and brokered programming and sometimes Hee-Haw or a very bad old movie.

 

[RandTV]

I worked for KSTS briefly in 1987. By then they were airing FNN (Financial News Network) daytime weekdays. Otherwise, it was mostly ethnic and brokered programming and sometimes Hee-Haw or a very bad old movie.

That was the year it became the Bay Area's Telemundo affiliate.