Retro: Mexico City Sun, Feb 17, 1974

[Bluenoser]

from Tele-Guia
Early evening programs may be interrupted by coverage of the President's return to Mexico from his European tour, landing was expected between 6 and 7pm, with an expected 50 min ceremony

XEW 2
10:45 En Familia (c)
11:45 Soccer: America v Atlante (c)
2:00 Knock Out (c/Bob Satterfield v Clarence Henry, Buster Mathis v Tom Swift, Jose Torres v Willy Pastrana)
2:15 El Mundo en Que Vivimos (c)
3:15 Siempre en Domingo (c)
9:00 Aun Hay Mas! (c)
10:00 Penthouse (c/ep 14)
11:00 Frente a las Camaras (c)
11:30 Comentarios y Celebridades (c/part 1 of The World at War, doblado en espanol)

XHTV 4
3pm Lord Mountbatten "El Claro mar Azul" (c)
4:00 Pelicula "Los Hermanos Barragan"
6:00 Imagenes de Nuestro Mundo
8:00 Pelicula "Los Viejos Somos asi"
10:00 Pelicula "La Adultera"

XHGC 5
2pm Para Todos los Que Quieren y Aman la Musica (c)
3:00 Los Corsarios "La Trampa" (c)
3:30 Los Heroes de Hogan "Ladron que Roba a Ladron" (c/Hogan's Heroes)
4:00 El Universo
4:30 Documental: Ataque y Defensa
5:30 Documental: Reptiles y Anfibios
6:30 Laboratorio Submarino 2020 "Perdidos" (c/SeaLab 2020)
7:00 La Hora de la Pantera Rosa (c/Pink Panther)
8:00 OVNI "Sobreviviente" (c)
9:00 Antologia del Cinco "Escape" (c)
10:30 Mannix "Asesinato Revivido" (c)

Cablevision 7
7:30pm Pelicula "El Prisionero"
10:00 Pelicula "Medianoche Pasiona"

XHTIM 8
noon Que Pasa en Mexico? "Que Pasa con los Coleccionistas?" (c)
1:00 Punto de Vista (c)
1:30 Escenario Sinfonico (c)
2:30 Pelicula "Scaramouche" (c/presented by Roberto Armendariz; rerun in B&W at 4:30)
6:30 Pelicula "El Conquistador de los Mares"
8:35 Pelicula "Scaramouche" (yep, the same one as earlier )
10:30 Deportes en Punto (c)
11:20 Punto Final (c)
11:30 Que Pasa en Mexico? "Que Pasa con las Medicinas?" (c)
12:30 Pelicula "Ascensor al Cadalso"

Cablevision 10
noon NHL: Philadelphia-Montreal
2:30 Dragnet
3:00 A Peculiar Tresure
4:00 60 Minutes
5:00 Documentary
5:30 Wonderful World of Disney
6:30 NBC Sunday Mystery Movie
8:30 Six Million Dollar Man
9:30 Documentary
9:45 Movie "Fort Worth"

XEIPN 11
4pm Beisbol del Recuerdo (World Series highlights)
5:00 Musica Mi Mac
5:30 Festival de Caricaturas y Marionetas
6:30 Nuestro Planeta Tierra
7:00 Escenario
8:00 Danza: ballet by the Grupo Electro Danzable
9:00 Noticiario del IPN
9:30 Pelicula "Un tai La Rocca"

XHDF 13
11:30 Barra Musical (c)
noon Domingos al Aire Libre (c/auto racing)
2:00 Gran Concietro "Que es el Impersionismo?" (Leonard Bernstein explains)
3:00 Pelicula "La Pequena Rebelde"
4:00 Soccer: Veracruz v Atlas (c)
6:00 Depor-TV (c)
7:30 Este Mexico Nuestro (c)
8:30 Elizabeth Regina "La Empresa de Inglaterra" (c)
10:00 Frente a las Camaras (c)
10:30 Pelicula "Pueblo Embrujado"
12:30 Platicame un Libro

 

[gregg75]

Interesting that they have no morning programs. Although this is 1974 it looks more
like 1949.

 

[azumanga]

XEW 2
3:15 Siempre en Domingo (c)

This was XEW's long-running Sunday variety show, similar to Univision's "Sabado Gigante". In fact, I recall Univision (and its predecessor, SIN), carrying "Siempre en Domingo" awhile back.

XHTIM 8
2:30 Pelicula "Scaramouche" (c/presented by Roberto Armendariz; rerun in B&W at 4:30)

Why would they repeat a color movie in black and white? I always thought NTSC color was compatible with black and white sets.

Cablevision 10
5:30 Wonderful World of Disney
6:30 NBC Sunday Mystery Movie
8:30 Six Million Dollar Man

Was Mexico City on a half-hour time zone at the time? If they were picking these programs live off the US stations, I always thought these shows began on the hour.

Interesting that they have no morning programs. Although this is 1974 it looks more
like 1949.

Television in Canada was also slow in starting morning shows as well -- it wasn't until around the late 1960s when stations there began morning programs; if they did exist prior to that time, it was practically limited to the big population centers of Toronto and Montreal.

 

[cd637299]

Also, being Sunday, maybe there was a law about conflicting TV with church services....not sure.

cd

 

[Bluenoser]

XHTIM 8
2:30 Pelicula "Scaramouche" (c/presented by Roberto Armendariz; rerun in B&W at 4:30)

Why would they repeat a color movie in black and white? I always thought NTSC color was compatible with black and white sets.

Only thing I can figure, is the host segments on the first broadcast were in color and the film itself was B&W, given that the only color reference in the listings was for the 2:30 airing.

 

[blackgold]

I remember watching "Siempre En Domingo" in the 80s and 90s on SIN cable here in the USA! It's almost impossible to imagine a show that would run for almost 6 hours on Sunday afternoon and evening; however, the high caliber of talent presented made it "must see" television for that period. Also, it was fed via satellite to various Latin American countries, reaching nearly 100 million viewers worldwide each Sunday.

 

[mjlarochelle]

Even in the 1980s, some Canadian channels started up very late, especially CBC/SRC, Radio-Quebec, and TQS. In fact as late as 1986, in Montreal only CFCF and CFTM were on the air before 9:45 AM (not counting the cross-border stations). TQS, which started up in 1986, early on didn't go on the air until something like 4 PM daily, and Radio-Quebec wasn't much earlier. CTV affiliates were on the air early enough to broadcast Canada AM, and many private CBC affiliates were on the air before the network showing a variety of programs such as Harrigan reruns, workout shows, religious shows, and in one case, a 90-minute local news package.

Interesting that a cable channel in Mexico City was showing an NHL game. Last time I was in Mexico was during the 2009 NHL playoffs, and I did not once find a hockey game anywhere on TV, even on premium cable. Cablevision 10 resembles today's American Network, which has a variety of American network programming including the CBS Evening News and NFL football.

 

[TVWorldwide]

Interesting that they have no morning programs. Although this is 1974 it looks more
like 1949.

Morning television was a fairly late development in most of the world. European viewers, for instance, didn't get regularly scheduled morning shows until the 1980s -- and even later in some small countries. Before then, programming before noon (starting at, say, 9 or even 10AM) tended to consist of children's or educational programming. The first newscast was usually at noon or 1PM.

 

[mjlarochelle]

Interesting that they have no morning programs. Although this is 1974 it looks more
like 1949.

Morning television was a fairly late development in most of the world. European viewers, for instance, didn't get regularly scheduled morning shows until the 1980s -- and even later in some small countries. Before then, programming before noon (starting at, say, 9 or even 10AM) tended to consist of children's or educational programming. The first newscast was usually at noon or 1PM.

That was the case on weekdays in Mexico in the 1970s - XHGC-5 was the one station on the air in the morning, with a few hours of educational programming.

 

[azumanga]

That was the case on weekdays in Mexico in the 1970s - XHGC-5 was the one station on the air in the morning, with a few hours of educational programming.

Even today, XHGC would devote the daytime hours with programming for children (though many of these are imports from Nickelodeon or Cartoon Network), with nighttime used for action dramas and movies for adults (again, imports).