RETRO: NEW YORK CITY, NY TV SCHEDULE FROM SUNDAY AUGUST 15, 1965

[KKLM]

"We've Got A Schedule To Look At... AND WE DO CARE!" (Source: New York Daily News)

(2)WCBS-CBS New York City, NY
8:00am Around The Corner
9:30am Way To Go
10:00am Lamp Unto My Feet
10:30am Look Up & Live
11:00am Camera Three
11:30am Legislative Hearing
12:00pm News Makers
12:30pm Face The Nation
1:00pm Movie: "Michigan Kid"
2:15pm Pre-Game Show
2:30pm NFL Football: NY Giants @ Green Bay Packers
4:30pm Eye On New York
5:00pm Zoorama
5:30pm Amateur Hour
6:00pm 20th Century
6:30pm World War I
7:00pm Lassie
7:30pm My Favorite Martian
8:00pm The Ed Sullivan Show
9:00pm The Twilight Zone
10:00pm Candid Camera
10:30pm What's My Line
11:00pm News
11:15pm Local News
11:30pm The Late Show: "Road To Rio"
1:40am The Late Late Show: "Jennie"

(4)WNBC-NBC New York City, NY
7:15am Modern Farmer
8:15am Agriculture U.S.A.
8:45am Educational Films
9:15am TV Church School
9:30am Let's Talk About God
9:45am Jewish Fourth R.
10:00am Protestant Heritage
10:30am Man In Office
11:00am Searchlight
11:30am Direct Line
12:00pm Youth Forum
12:30pm Report Card For Parents
1:00pm Recital Hall
1:30pm Catholic Hour
2:00pm Open Mind
3:00pm Film
3:30pm AFL Football: San Diego Chargers @ Kansas City Chiefs
6:30pm Sports In Action
7:30pm Project 20
8:30pm Buckskin
9:00pm Bonanza
10:00pm The Rogues
11:00pm News
11:15pm Local News
11:30am The Saint
12:30am Film
1:30am Open Mind

(5)WNEW-IND New York City, NY
7:30am Christophers
7:45am Light Time
8:00am Faith To Faith
8:30am King & Odie
9:00am Wonderama
1:00pm Movie: "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo"
3:00pm Movie: "H.M. Pulham, Esq."
5:00pm The Dakotas
6:00pm Movie: "This Gun For Hire"
8:00pm Hamlet At Elsinore
11:05pm Opinion In The Capital
11:30pm Wire Service
12:30am Movie: "How Green Was My Valley"

(7)WABC-ABC New York City, NY
7:00am Christophers
7:30am The Answer
8:00am Faith For Today
8:30am For Thou Art With Me
9:00am Movie: "Arizona Wildcat"
10:00am The Three-Fold Cord
10:30am Sir Lancelot
11:00am Beany & Cecil
11:30am Bullwinkle
12:00pm Discovery '65
12:30pm Youth Wants To Know
1:05pm Page One
1:30pm Issues & Answers
2:00pm New York, New York
3:00pm Hennessy
3:30pm Lawbreaker
4:00pm PGA Golf Tournament
6:00pm Movie: "Goliath & The Dragon"
7:30pm Wagon Train
8:30pm Broadside
9:00pm Movie: "The Road To Hong Kong"
10:30pm Babe Ruth...A Look Behind The Legend
11:00pm News
11:15pm Late Movie: "Platinum High School"
1:15am Movie: "Fighting Rats Of Tobruk"

(9)WOR-IND New York City, NY
8:30am TV Gospel Time
9:00am VIPs
9:15am Sen. Clifford Case Reports
9:30am New Jersey Report
10:00am Point Of View
10:30am New York Report
11:00am Movie: "Not Of This Earth"
12:30pm Movie: "Not Of This Earth"
2:00pm Movie: "Not Of This Earth"
3:25pm MLB Baseball: NY Mets @ Houston Astros (The Mets Were In Houston That Day, Because Back At Their Home At Shea Stadium... THE BEATLES!)
6:30pm Kingdom Of The Sea
7:00pm Wonders Of The World
7:30pm Million Dollar Movie: "Painting The Clouds With Sunshine"
9:15pm Million Dollar Movie: "It Happened In Broad Daylight"
11:00pm Movie: "Not Of This Earth"

(11)WPIX-IND New York City, NY
8:15am Christophers
8:30am Evangel Hour
9:00am Let's Have Fun
12:00pm Rocky & His Friends
12:30pm Sports Films
12:40pm Pre-Game Show
12:55pm MLB Baseball: NY Yankees @ Oakland Athletics
6:00pm Jungle Boy
6:30pm 26 Men
7:00pm Documentary
7:30pm Documentary
8:00pm Tombstone Territory
8:30pm Navy Log
9:00pm Roller Derby
10:00pm Movie: "Magnificent Matador"
11:30pm Encounter

(13)WNDT-NET Newark, NJ
No Programming Available

 

[GSpsu]

It should say KC Athletics sine they were still there and would move to Oakland in 1968 and soon to move to Las Vegas

 

[Gregg.]

Interesting that WCBS-TV was still not on the air all night by 1965. Yes, it had "The Late Show" at 11:30, "The Road to Rio" with Bing Crosby, Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour from 1947. It had "The Late Late Show" at 1:40, "Jennie" from 1940. But after some news headlines and Sermonette, WCBS-TV was off the air by 3 a.m. It looks like WNEW-TV 5 and WABC-TV 7 are on the air almost until 3 a.m. also. But that's it. If you were up between 3 and 7 a.m., your TV was dark.

Eventually, WCBS-TV would stay on the air all night, until around 6 a.m. It couldn't be 24/7 in those days because TV transmitters needed some maintenance every night. So it would go off the air around 6 and go back on the air around 7 a.m. It would show its test pattern most of that hour off-the-air. New Yorkers would have TV around the clock because Channel 11 signed on around 6 a.m. by the mid 1960s.

Meanwhile in Los Angeles, KTTV 11 would also be on the air all night, starting sometime in the 1960s, just like New York. I've read that TV stations in Detroit and Pittsburgh also tried staying on the air all night for folks doing shift work in those cities. But those schedules didn't last long.

 

[fybush]

And because channel 2 was on all night, the microwave feed that carried WPIX's signal to cable systems upstate starting in the 1960s picked up WCBS once WPIX had signed off for the night. That lasted all the way until WPIX itself went 24 hours in the early 80s.