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Retro: North Texas Sat., Oct. 8, 1977

From TV Guide, North Texas Edition:

NOTE: If necessary, NBC will pre-empt regular programming for Game 4 of the ALCS (12 N) and/or NLCS (7 PM).

KFDX Ch. 3 Wichita Falls (NBC)

6:30 Pink Panther
7 AM C.B. Bears
8 AM Young Sentinels
8:30 Archie/Sabrina
9:30 I Am The Greatest: The Adventures Of Muhammad Ali
10 AM Thunder
10:30 Search And Rescue
11 AM Baggy Pants And The Nitwits
11:30 Red Hand Gang
12 N Consultation
12:30 Movie: "In Cold Blood"
3 PM Travelogue
3:30 NFL Game Of The Week
4 PM This Is The NFL
4:30 Nashville On The Road (guest: Billy "Crash" Craddock)
5 PM That Nashville Music (Jack Greene, Jeannie Seely, Roy Acuff)
5:30 NBC News (anchor not given)
6 PM Lawrence Welk (favorites from the '30s)
7 PM Bionic Woman
8 PM NBC Movie: "Rio Lobo" (John Wayne, from '70)
10:20 News
10:50 Saturday Night Live (Madeline Kahn (hostess); Taj Mahal, British comedian Barry Humphries)
12:20 Movie: "Where Angels Go--Trouble Follows!"

KDFW Ch. 4 Dallas (CBS)

6 AM Sunrise Semester: "Man's Place In Nature"
6:30 Animal World
7 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour
8 AM What's New, Mr. Magoo?
8:30 Skatebirds
9:30 Space Academy
10 AM Batman/Tarzan Adventure Hour
11 AM Wacko (guests: Dick Martin and the Sylvers)
11:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
12 N Secrets Of Isis
12:30 CBS Children's Film Festival (two animated films: "The Legend Of Paul Bunyan" and "The Legend Of John Henry")
1 PM Sea Hunt (Lloyd Bridges)
1:30 Highway Patrol (Broderick Crawford)
2 PM Highway Patrol
2:30 Real McCoys
3 PM McHale's Navy
3:30 CBS Sports Spectacular (U.S. Grand Prix (East) from Watkins Glen, NY; Pro Karate Championships; World's Strongest Man Competition, Part 2)
5 PM Match Game PM (Brett Somers, Joyce Bulifant, Gary Burghoff, Richard Dawson)
5:30 CBS News (Bob Schieffer)
6 PM News
6:30 4-Country Reporter
7 PM Bob Newhart
7:30 We've Got Each Other
8 PM The Jeffersons
8:30 Tony Randall
9 PM Carol Burnett
10 PM News
10:30 Twilight Zone
11 PM Phil Silvers (Ed Sullivan joins Bilko and the gang for a clipfest.)
11:30 Movie: "Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte"
1:30 News

KXAS Ch. 5 Fort Worth (NBC)

6 AM Better Way
6:30 Newsworthy
7 AM C.B. Bears
8 AM Young Sentinels
8:30 Archie/Sabrina
9:30 I Am The Greatest: The Adventures Of Muhammad Ali
10 AM Thunder
10:30 Search And Rescue
11 AM Baggy Pants And The Nitwits
11:30 Red Hand Gang
12 N Encounter '77
12:30 Challenge (Sharon West)
1 PM Soul Train (guest: Lamont Dozier)
2 PM Movie: "Unknown Island"
3:30 World Of Survival
4 PM Hollywood Squares (Ray Charles, Charo, George Gobel, Gabe Kaplan, Hal Linden, Rose Marie, Bernadette Peters, Jonathan Winters, Paul Lynde)
4:30 In Search Of... (structures in the waters of the Bahamas believed to be the lost city of Atlantis)
5 PM Wild Kingdom
5:30 News
6 PM Hee Haw (Jerry Reed, Sammi Smith)
7 PM Bionic Woman
8 PM NBC Movie: "Rio Lobo"
10:20 News
10:50 Saturday Night Live
12:20 Movie: "The Maze"
1:50 Don Kirshner's Rock Concert

KAUZ Ch. 6 Wichita Falls (CBS)

7 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour
8 AM What's New, Mr. Magoo?
8:30 Skatebirds
9:30 Space Academy
10 AM Batman/Tarzan Adventure Hour
11 AM Wacko
11:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
12 N Secrets Of Isis
12:30 CBS Children's Film Festival
1 PM PTL Club
3 PM Pop Goes The Country
3:30 CBS Sports Spectacular
5 PM Marty Robbins' Spotlight (Chet Atkins helps salute Bobby Bare.)
5:30 CBS News
6 PM Hee Haw
7 PM Bob Newhart
7:30 We've Got Each Other
8 PM The Jeffersons
8:30 Tony Randall
9 PM Carol Burnett
10 PM News
10:30 Movie: "Young At Heart"

KCEN Ch. 6 Temple/Waco (NBC/ABC)

6:30 Pink Panther
7 AM C.B. Bears
8 AM Young Sentinels
8:30 Archie/Sabrina
9:30 I Am The Greatest: The Adventures Of Muhammad Ali
10 AM Thunder
10:30 Search And Rescue
11 AM Baggy Pants And The Nitwits
11:30 Red Hand Gang
12 N Periodico
12:30 Rifleman
1 PM Movie: "Night Of Terror" (Bela Lugosi, from '33)
2:15 Bicycle Driver
2:30 Getting Around Town (how modes of transportation have changed from bicycles to automobiles to mass transit)
3 PM Grand Canyon National Park
3:30 This Is The NFL
4 PM Lawrence Welk
5 PM Tom Landry: Dallas Cowboys Football
5:30 NBC News
6 PM Wild Wild World Of Animals
6:30 Wild Kingdom
7 PM Bionic Woman
8 PM NBC Movie: "Rio Lobo"
10:20 News
10:50 Saturday Night Live
12:20 Soul Train

KLTV Ch. 7 Tyler (NBC/ABC/CBS)

7 AM Superfriends
8 AM Scooby's Laff-A-Lympics
10 AM Krofft Supershow
11 AM ABC Weekend Special ("Rookie Of The Year," the 1973 drama that changed the format of the "ABC Afterschool Specials"; Jodie Foster as an 11-year-old girl who meets resistance when she makes her brother's baseball team.)
12 N American Bandstand (30 minutes today only; guest: Charo)
12:30 Southwest Conference Football Highlights
1 PM Wide World Of Sports (Southern 500 from Darlington, SC; New York State Firemen's Competition)
2:30 College Football Pregame Show
2:45 College Football: Alabama-USC
6 PM News (time approximate)
6:30 Wild Kingdom
7 PM Bionic Woman
8 PM Starsky & Hutch
9 PM Love Boat (Loretta Swit, Robert Reed, Kristy McNichol, Scott Baio)
10 PM News
10:30 Don't Cut Us Off
10:50 Saturday Night Live
12:20 ABC News (anchor not given)

KSWO Ch. 7 Lawton, OK/Wichita Falls (ABC)

7 AM Superfriends
8 AM Scooby's Laff-A-Lympics
10 AM Krofft Supershow
11 AM ABC Weekend Special
12 N 700 Club
1 PM Wide World Of Sports
2:30 College Football Pregame Show
2:45 College Football: Alabama-USC
6 PM Star Trek (time approximate)
7 PM Fish
7:30 Operation Petticoat
8 PM Starsky & Hutch
9 PM Love Boat
10 PM ABC News
10:15 Movie: "The Manster"
sign off 12 M

KCTV (KLST) Ch. 8 San Angelo (CBS)

7 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour
8 AM What's New, Mr. Magoo?
8:30 Skatebirds
9:30 Space Academy
10 AM Batman/Tarzan Adventure Hour
11 AM Wacko
11:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
12 N Secrets Of Isis
12:30 CBS Children's Film Festival
1 PM Wrestling
2 PM Movie: "The Sad Sack" (Jerry Lewis, from '57)
3:30 CBS Sports Spectacular
5 PM News
5:30 CBS News
6 PM Star Trek
7 PM Bob Newhart
7:30 We've Got Each Other
8 PM The Jeffersons
8:30 Tony Randall
9 PM Carol Burnett
10 PM News
10:15 Movie: "Cleopatra" (the Taylor-Burton version from '63, part 1 of 2)
sign off 12 M

WFAA Ch. 8 Dallas (ABC)

6:30 Murray Cox, R.F.D.
7 AM Superfriends
8 AM Scooby's Laff-A-Lympics
10 AM Krofft Supershow
11 AM Hot Fudge
11:30 Peppermint Place
12 N News 8 Probe
12:30 Ara's Sports World
1 PM Wide World Of Sports
2:30 College Football Pregame Show
2:45 College Football: Alabama-USC
6 PM News (time approximate)
6:30 Inside Television With Mike Shapiro
7 PM At Issue
7:30 Operation Petticoat
8 PM Starsky & Hutch
9 PM Love Boat
10 PM News
10:30 Movie: "Run Silent, Run Deep"
12:40 ABC News
12:55 Movie: "Hoffman"
2:55 Movie: "The Ruthless Four"
4:40 Movie: "Assignment To Kill"

KRBC Ch. 9 Abilene (NBC)

6:30 Pink Panther
7 AM C.B. Bears
8 AM Young Sentinels
8:30 Archie/Sabrina
9:30 I Am The Greatest: The Adventures Of Muhammad Ali
10 AM Thunder
10:30 Search And Rescue
11 AM Baggy Pants And The Nitwits
11:30 Red Hand Gang
12 N Once Upon A Classic ("Robin Hood," part 1 of 12, a rare case of a PBS show other than "Sesame Street" being shown on a commercial station)
12:30 Beverly Hillbillies
1 PM Andy Griffith
1:30 Movie: "Susannah Of The Mounties" (Shirley Temple, from '39)
3 PM Movie: "Kidnapped" (the Robert Louis Stevenson classic with Freddie Bartholomew, from '38)
4:30 Ocean Fishing Spectacular
5 PM Nashville On The Road (Billy "Crash" Craddock)
5:30 On The Farm
6 PM Lawrence Welk
7 PM Bionic Woman
8 PM NBC Movie: "Rio Lobo"
10:20 News
10:50 Saturday Night Live
sign off 12:20 AM

KWTX Ch. 10 Waco (CBS/ABC)

7 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour
8 AM What's New, Mr. Magoo?
8:30 Skatebirds
9:30 Space Academy
10 AM Batman/Tarzan Adventure Hour
11 AM Wacko
11:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
12 N Minority Forum
12:30 Southwest Conference Football Highlights
1 PM Wide World Of Sports
2:30 College Football Pregame Show
2:45 College Football: Alabama-USC
6 PM Hee Haw (time approximate)
7 PM Fish
7:30 Operation Petticoat
8 PM Starsky & Hutch
9 PM Carol Burnett
10 PM News
10:30 Movie: "Chuka"

KTVT Ch. 11 Fort Worth (Ind.)

8:30 News In Review
9 AM Extension '77
9:30 Fifty Plus
10 AM Hayden Fry: North Texas State Football Highlights
10:30 Southwest Conference Football Highlights
11 AM Los Tiempos
11:15 Time Out With Scott
11:30 Parents In Action
12 N College Show: TCU
12:30 Voter's Digest
1 PM Congressman's Report: Jim Collins
1:30 Garner Ted Armstrong
2 PM Love, American Style
2:30 What About People?
3 PM Fiesta Mexicana
3:30 Variedades Musicales
4 PM Newton/Weaver Western Hour (country music with Jim "Shootin'" Newton and Cowboy Weaver)
5 PM Lawrence Welk (tunes from the '20s)
6 PM Wildlife In Crisis
6:30 Beverly Hillbillies
7 PM Pop Goes The Country (Mel Tillis)
7:30 That Nashville Music (Connie Smith, Johnny Paycheck, Ronnie Prophet)
8 PM Marty Robbins' Spotlight (Ernest Tubb helps salute Jack Greene and Jeannie Seely.)
8:30 Porter Wagoner (guest: Ronnie Blackwell)
9 PM High Chaparral
10 PM Wrestling (the Fritz Von Erich promotion, and it's no wonder his sons always seemed to hold all the titles)
11:30 Ironside
12:30 News

KTXS Ch. 12 Sweetwater/Abilene (ABC/CBS)

7 AM Superfriends
8 AM Scooby's Laff-A-Lympics
10 AM Krofft Supershow
11 AM ABC Weekend Special
12 N American Bandstand
12:30 TBA
1 PM Wide World Of Sports
2:30 College Football Pregame Show
2:45 College Football: Alabama-USC
6 PM Hee Haw (time approximate)
7 PM Fish
7:30 Operation Petticoat
8 PM Starsky & Hutch
9 PM Love Boat
10 PM News
10:30 Tom Landry
11 PM Kojak (CBS, delay from Sun 9 PM)
12 M Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
sign off 12:30 AM

KXII Ch. 12 Ardmore, OK/Sherman/Denison, TX (NBC/CBS)

7 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour
8 AM What's New, Mr. Magoo?
8:30 Archie/Sabrina
9:30 Space Academy
10 AM Batman/Tarzan Adventure Hour
11 AM Baggy Pants And The Nitwits
11:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
12 N Secrets Of Isis
12:30 Southwest Conference Football Highlights
1 PM Soul Train
2 PM Candid Campus
2:30 Lawrence Welk
3:30 CBS Sports Spectacular
5 PM Nashville On The Road
5:30 Wild Kingdom
6 PM Hee Haw
7 PM Bionic Woman
8 PM The Jeffersons
8:30 Tony Randall
9 PM Carol Burnett
10 PM News
10:30 Derrell Felts (country music)
11 PM Porter Wagoner
11:30 Pop Goes The Country
sign off 12 M

KERA Ch. 13 Dallas/KIDZ Ch. 24 Wichita Falls (PBS)

7 AM Sesame Street
8 AM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
8:30 Electric Company
9 AM Sesame Street
10 AM Studio See
10:30 Rebop
11 AM Electric Company
11:30 Parent Effectiveness
12 N Daniel Foster, M.D.
sign off 12:30 PM
6 PM Pro Soccer: Aston Villa-Birmingham City
7 PM Canal Zone (1976 documentary on how Americans live and work in the Panama Canal Zone, made before the new Panama Canal Treaty)
10 PM Second City TV
10:30 The Prisoner
11:30 Best Of Ernie Kovacs
sign off 12 M

KXTX Ch. 39 Dallas (Ind.)

7 AM Underdog
7:30 Good Time Gang Club
8 AM Popeye And Bugs Hour
9 AM Mighty Mouse
9:30 Heckle & Jeckle
10 AM Jetsons
10:30 Jonny Quest
11 AM Movie: "Viva Zapata"
1 PM This Week In Baseball
1:30 Outdoors With Ken Callaway
2 PM Wagon Train
3 PM Bronco
4 PM Laramie
5 PM Cheyenne
6 PM Big Valley
7 PM Bonanza
8 PM Rex Humbard
9 PM Festival Of Praise
9:30 The Lesson
10 PM God's Smuggler (Brother Andrew, who smuggles Bibles into Communist countries)
11 PM Last Of The Wild
11:30 Celebrity Bowling
sign off 12 M
 
This is an awesome lineup.

First off, check KERA on Saturday night. That was the first place I ever saw SCTV. They also aired Monty Python's Flying Circus on Sunday night followed by the International Cartoon Festival. Some of those cartoons were pretty weird, but it was still fun.

Even though TV Guide lists KLTV as NBC/ABC/CBS and KXII as NBC/CBS, by this time, KLTV was ABC primary and KXII was CBS primary.

On KXII, *most* of prime time was CBS, but they aired Today and Tonight from NBC daily.

It's interesting to see KXII going back and forth between networks on Saturday morning. Having worked in their master control just 3 years later, I know that on Saturday morning, the networks only gave you a 33-34 second break in between those shows. The operator had to push the button to switch the network microwave receiver, monitor it to be sure it switched to the right source, all while running the break, which at the time probably involved a commercial on a 2" tape machine or a film, followed by a station ID on slide/cart. Audio and video were separate switchers, so the operator had to use both hands to pull it off.

It was a lot to do in half-a-minute, and I'm betting they often had to sit on that ID slide waiting for the network feed to switch. The network switch was done via a tone over a two-way radio--with the transmitter and receiver 30 miles apart. Especially in the mornings, it might take several presses to get the signal through.

The other challenge was knowing for sure whether the signal coming in was CBS or NBC. On Saturday mornings (and during most time periods), the networks just fed black during the local break. Ever tried to identify a network just from the black signal? There WAS a way to do it, but it was not something you could easily do during a 33 second station break.

CBS's station breaks allowed you :03 for the station ID. NBC "officially" gave you 2 seconds, but they also factored in a second of black before and after the local break.

Either way, if you were rolling a break from 2" tape, you had to roll it 5 seconds ahead of time to get the tape rolling at full speed and the picture "locked up." (Film would lock up in 2 seconds.) That was no problem during programs like cartoons when you knew the exact time of the break. During live shows or programs where you didn't have a timing sheet, you just had to guess and pray.

I don't remember the North Texas edition of TV guide ever listing KLTV as an affiliate of all 3 networks, but I could be wrong on that. But the CBS affiliation is correct, even if the only CBS program they (we) carried was NFL Football.

My apologies for "fossilizing" before your very eyes.
 
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