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RETRO: KTVF Fairbanks, Alaska (July 24-30, 1965)

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johnnya2k6

Yes, we're turning back the clock over 40 years to 1965 this time! Until 1971 with the arrival of PBS over KUAC-TV, Channels 2 and 11 were the only television on the air here in Fairbanks. And trust me...you will not BELIEVE KTVF's schedule that week!

Source: Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

SATURDAY, JULY 24:
4:00pm Sign-on
5:15 It's Sky Time
5:30 Sky King
6:00 CBS Newsfilm Highlights
6:30 CBS News and Sports
6:55 Weather Forecast
7:00 Gunsmoke
8:00 Gilligan's Island
8:30 Secret Agent
9:30 Fanfare
10:30 Four Star News Final (Channel 11's late news long before "Scope News" and now "NewsCenter Final")
11:00 Dan Smoot
11:15 Dean Mansion

SUNDAY, JULY 25:
4:45 Sacred Heart
5:00 Zoorama
5:30 Amateur Hour
6:30 World War I ("Tapestry and All That Jazz")
7:00 Lassie
7:30 My Favorite Martian
8:00 Ed Sullivan
9:00 The Twilight Zone
10:00 Candid Camera
10:30 What's My Line?

MONDAY-FRIDAY:
11:45am Sign-On
Noon Daily Word
12:05 Love of Life
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 News at Random
1:30 As The World Turns
2:00 Password

2:30
Homestead U.S.A. (7/26)
Church In The Home (7/27)
F.Y.I at the Fair (7/28)
Canadian Travel Film (7/29)
Sterling Film (7/30)

3:00 To Tell The Truth

3:30
Modern TV (7/26 and 7/30)
KTVF Presents (Rest of the week; can somebody who was around in Fairbanks during the '60s fill me in on that? It must be a half-hour of filler crap or something)

4:00 The Secret Storm
4:30 The Edge of Night

5:00
Modern TV (7/26)
Insight (7/27)
Fort Wainwright Show (7/28)
The Alaska Gardener with John Holm (7/29; 15 min. followed by another 15 minutes with the Fairbanks Health and Safety Council at 5:30)
The Big Picture (7/30)

5:30
My Friend Flicka (7/26)
Magilla Gorilla (7/27)
Mister Ed (7/28)
Tennessee Tuxedo (7/29)
Mighty Mouse (7/30)

6:00
KTVF Presents (again?!; 7/26-29)
Florida Film (7/30)

6:15 CBS News and Sports

7:00
To Tell The Truth (7/26)
Death Valley Days (7/27)
Mayor Brewington (15 minutes; Darrell V. Brewington was Fairbanks' mayor at the time. He was followed by ANOTHER edition of KTVF Presents at 7:15!!! (7/28))
The Munsters (7/29)
Rawhide (7/30)

7:30
The Twentieth Century ("The Songs of Harold Arien, Part 2"; 7/26)
The Joey Bishop Show (7/27)
Mister Ed (7/28)
Perry Mason (7/29)

8:00
Summer Playhouse (Summer replacement for Andy Griffith, 7/26)
Hollywood Talent Scouts (7/27)
The Beverly Hillbillies (7/28)
The Cara Williams Show (7/30)

8:30
The Lucy Show (7/26)
The Dick Van Dyke Show (7/28)
Password (7/29)

9:00
The Danny Thomas Show (7/26)
Petticoat Junction (7/27)
Our Private World (7/28)
Nerland's Store (15 min., followed by KTVF Presents -- for the THIRD TIME THAT DAY!!!!! -- at 9:15 (7/29))
Vacation Playhouse (7/30)

9:30
CBS Reports ("Vietnam Dialogue: Mr. Bundy and the Professors"; 7/26)
The Doctors and the Nurses (7/27)
Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour (7/28)
The Defenders (7/29)
Slattery's People (7/30)

10:30 Four Star News Final (when did they move it to 11:00?)

11:00
The Celebrity Game (one-time only airing, 7/29)
Theater 11 (7/30)

Yes, in the go-go days of 1965, Channel 11 started their broadcast day at 11:30 in the morning! But based on their schedule, they were pretty much heavy on all the "KTVF Presents" fillers. If I was around at the time, I would've either flipped to Channel 2 (and I'll be posting their schedule from that same week next time) or tuned my radio to KFAR or KFRB (now KCBF). But, that was Fairbanks TV in the mid-'60s for you.

Jonathan Allen
 
There were a few small-market ABC affiliates back then who didn't sign on until mid-morning (this was long before Good Morning America, obviously). This is the first I've seen of another network's affiliate doing that.

I'm guessing the network shows in AK back then were on a one-week delay, since the network lines probably didn't go up there yet.
 
These Alaska TV listings, did Alaska ever have their own version of TV Guide?
If they did I imagine they covered the whole state rather than seperate editions for Fairbanks, Anchorage, and so forth.

Reason I ask, back in the 80s I collected out of town editions of TV Guides. Back then being only 14 years old, of course I didn't have a way to travel to pick up various editions so I went to writing to the Chamber of Commerce route. Most of them were nice enough to send me the actual TV Guide that was available back then. Few exceptions though such as Fargo, North Dakota who told me in a letter that my hobby was "weird" and "stupid". Funny thing about that was that in the envelope it was stamped "Fargo...The City with a Heart" Oh well !!

Denver's Chamber of Commerce forwarded my letter to KUSA channel 9. While KUSA did send me a Denver edition of TV Guide, I noticed some of the pages were missing. I assume those missing pages featured ads for the other Denver stations like KMGH,KCNC, KWGN and so forth.

sorry to go off topic..

Anyway the ONLY state I never did get a TV Guide from was...Alaska !!!

Juneau's Chamber sent me some magazine about their nightlife rather than what they had for TV listings while Anchorage sent me a list of what TV stations they had there, but no listings.

Never did received anything from Nome or Fairbanks.
 
mleach said:
Anyway the ONLY state I never did get a TV Guide from was...Alaska !!!
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Mainly due to the fact that Alaska never had one until the late-1990s. It was a statewide edition, with listings from Anchorage, Fairbanks and Juneau, plus Denver. It only lasted a year.
 
Buddy Hayes said:
I'm guessing the network shows in AK back then were on a one-week delay, since the network lines probably didn't go up there yet.
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Actually, more like a three-week delay; kinescopes and later videotapes were flown up from Seattle to Juneau first, then Anchorage, and finally Fairbanks. The delays were shortened to two weeks in the '70s until the networks and syndicators started satellite distribution in around 1984-85.

Jonathan Allen
 
johnnya2k6 said:
Actually, more like a three-week delay; kinescopes and later videotapes were flown up from Seattle to Juneau first, then Anchorage, and finally Fairbanks.
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So the small-town state capital had more political clout (well, duh!)
than the two largest cities in terms of a shorter delay?
 
oldiesfan6479 said:
So the small-town state capital had more political clout (well, duh!)
than the two largest cities in terms of a shorter delay?
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Actually, it's more like dots on a map and connecting the dots to make as straight a line as possible, with Juneau being the closest "dot" to Seattle.
 
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