Retro: Northern & Central California Tues, Sept 14, 1954

[Bluenoser]

Posting some KSAN and KCCC listings by request, from TV This Week

KRON 4-San Francisco
8:45 Chronicle News
9:00 Pantry Playhouse "Neck and Neck"
10:00 Ding Dong School
10:30 A Time to Live
10:45 Three Steps to Heaven
11:00 Home
noon Matinee Idyll "Cappy Ricks Returns"
1:00 Designs for Leisure
1:30 Exclusively Yours
2:00 Golden Gate Playhouse "Girls in Chains"
3:00 Greatest Gift
3:15 Golden Window
3:30 One Man's Family
3:45 Concerning Miss Marlowe
4:00 Hawkins Falls
4:15 First Love
4:30 On Your Account
5:00 Fireman Frank
5:30 Howdy Doody
6:00 Looking Glass Lady
6:15 Adventure Time
6:35 Science Laboratory
6:45 Shell News
7:00 Favorite Story
7:30 Vaughn Monroe
7:45 Camel News Caravan
8:00 Drama Desk
8:30 Arthur Murray
9:00 Fireside Theatre "Crusade Without Conscience"
9:30 Circle Theatre "Jody and Me"
10:00 Truth or Consequences
10:30 Inner Sanctum "The Third Fate"
11:00 Owl Theatre "Rebellious Daughters"
mid. Chronicle News

KPIX 5-San Francisco
7:00 Panorama Pacific
9:00 KPIX Kitchen
10:00 Brighter Day
10:15 Secret Storm
10:30 Welcome Travelers
11:00 Robert Q. Lewis
11:30 Art Linkletter
noon Big Payoff
12:30 Bob Crosby
1:00 Del Courtney Movie Matinee "To Any Soldier"
1:30 Del Courtney Show
2:00 Garry Moore
2:30 Sandy Spillman
3:00 Little Theatre
3:15 Patty Prichard Sings
3:30 Strike It Rich
4:00 Valiant Lady
4:15 Search for Tomorrow
4:30 Love of Life
4:45 Guiding Light
5:00 Deputy Dave
5:15 Barker Bill's Cartoons
5:30 Captain Fortune
6:00 What's Your Opinion? "Should San Francisco's Produce Market Be Moved?"
6:30 CBS News with Douglas Edwards
6:45 Jo Stafford
7:00 Range Rider
7:30 See It Now
8:00 Edward Arnold Presents
8:30 Two in Love
9:00 Meet Millie
9:30 Life with Elizabeth
10:00 Danger "A Shadow on the Sand"
10:30 William Winter News
10:45 Bill Guyman Newscast
10:50 Little Theatre
11:00 Clancy's Corner
11:30 Late Show "Hollywood Stadium Mystery"

KGO 7-San Francisco
11:25 News
11:30 Physical Charm
noon Ben Sweetland "The Happy Marriage Clinic"
12:15 Laff Time "Where to Now"
1:00 Half Hour Theatre
1:30 Let's Go Shopping
2:00 Chef's Kitchen
2:55 News
3:00 Western Theatre "Two Gun Man"
4:00 Serial Time
4:15 Cartoons
4:30 Join the Gang (Bill McGraw/Barbara McRitchie)
5:55 News
6:00 Ring a Bell
6:30 Wild Bill Hickok "Education and Brawn"
7:00 Your TV Theatre
7:30 Stop the Music
8:00 Success Story Anniversary Show (the show's own success story is highlighted with an appearance by SF Mayor Elmer Robinson; also, a visit to the Magna Engineering plant)
8:30 All Star Theatre
9:00 Danny THomas
9:30 US Steel Hour "Notebook Warrior"
10:30 Lee Giroux News
10:40 Sports Desk
10:45 Eagle Theatre "By Appointment Only"

KSBW/KMBY 8-Salinas/Monterey
5pm Hospitality House
5:30 Junior Matinee
6:00 Rustler's Roundup
6:45 Big Playback
7:00 Miniature Playhouse
7:30 Badge 714 (Dragnet)
8:00 Studio Showcase
8:30 Big Picture
9:00 I Led Three Lives
9:30 US Steel Hour (no details if this was the same one that aired on 7/40/47)
10:30 World in Documentary

KERO 10-Bakersfield
noon Bob Smith
12:15 Seeking Heart
12:30 Welcome Travelers
1:00 Home Makers Matinee
3:00 Greatest Gift
3:15 Golden Windows
3:30 Hawkins Falls
3:45 Concerning Miss Marlowe
4:00 Fun in the Kitchen
4:30 On Your Account
5:00 Bar 10 Buckaroos
6:00 Cousin Herb
6:45 Weather
6:55 News
7:00 Heart of the City
7:30 Racket Squad
8:00 Life of Riley
8:30 Arthur Murray
9:00 Amos 'n' Andy
9:30 Big Picture
10:00 Truth or Consequences
10:30 Burns & Allen
11:00 Tomorrow's Headlines

KHSL 12-Chico
3:30pm TV Cook Book
4:00 Hawkins Falls
4:15 What's Your Trouble?
4:30 Betty White
5:00 Pinky Lee
5:30 Howdy Doody
6:00 Dinner Theatre
7:00 Goldbergs
7:30 Vacation Viewing
8:00 Midwestern Hayride
8:30 Special Request
9:00 Star Studio
9:30 TV Theatre
10:15 Movietime

KOVR 13-Stockton
4:30pm Uncle Ed
5:30 Teen Review
6:00 Newsreel/Farm News/Weather
6:30 TBA
7:00 Amos 'n' Andy
7:30 I'm the Law
8:00 Secret File USA
8:30 Academy Theatre
10:00 Diablo Dateline
10:10 Sports
10:20 Outdoor News

KMJ 24-Fresno
10:30 Weatern Theatre
11:30 Time for Travel
11:45 Valiant Lady
noon Bob Smith
12:30 Midday Melodies
1:00 Strike it Rich
1:30 Fresno Cook Book
2:00 Nabcy Allen
2:15 Garry Moore
2:30 Katherine Kitchen
3:00 Seeking Heart
3:15 Hawkins Falls
3:30 Search for Tomorrow
3:45 Love of Life
4:00 Welcome Travelers
4:30 On Your Account
5:00 Rusty's Rangers
5:30 Elrod
5:45 Calo Club
6:00 Agriculture
6:15 News
6:30 So You May Know
7:00 Superman
7:30 Linkletter & Kids
7:45 News (likely network)
8:00 Wrestling
9:00 Fireside Theatre "Smoke and Fire"
9:30 Circle Theatre "Jody and Me"
10:00 Truth or Consequences
10:30 Phil the Forester
11:00 Late News
11:15 Late Show

KVVG 27-Tulare
3pm News
3:15 Valley Star Parade
3:30 Valley Living
4:30 Western
5:00 Bob's Fun Time
5:45 Koob's Krew
6:00 Rosary
6:15 News
6:30 Bob Kennedy
7:00 Hank McCune
7:30 Goldbergs
8:00 Tongue in Cheek
8:30 Into the Night
9:00 Front Page Detective
9:30 Visitor
10:00 News
10:15 Movie "Assigned to Danger"

KBAK 29-Bakersfield
3pm News
3:05 Pantry Playhouse "Kentucky Carnival"
4:20 News
4:30 Western Playhouse
5:30 Chuck Wagon Time
6:00 Kid Klub
6:30 Crusader Rabbit
6:35 Sports
6:45 Vern Mack News
7:00 Spotlight Revue
7:30 Stop the Music
8:00 Goldbergs
8:30 Wrestling
9:30 Candlelight Theatre "Hollywood Mystery"

KSAN 32-San Francisco
4:30pm Pulpit Portraits
4:35 Helping Koreans
4:45 Jumping George
5:15 Seabees Can Do Plus
5:30 Dave Williams
6:00 Teen Dance Time
6:30 Western Movie
7:30 Film
8:00 Football
9:00 Wrestling
10:00 Feature Film

KTVU 36-Stockton
2pm Test Pattern
2:45 Music & Highlights
3:00 Of Cabbages & Queens (Milly Sullivan)
4:00 Matinee Movie
6:00 Super Serial "Zorro Rides Again" (conclusion)
6:30 Magic Genie
7:00 TBA
7:30 Gene Autry "Killer's Trail"
8:00 Home Town Boys
8:30 Western Varieties
9:00 Capitol Theatre "Sailor Be Good"

KCCC 40-Sacramento
10:45 Tune Time
11:00 Woman to Woman
noon Bob Smith
12:30 Garry Moore
12:45 Farm & Home News
1:00 KCCC Kitchen
2:00 Club 40
4:00 Hawkins Falls
4:15 Love of Life
4:30 Bar 40 Ranch
5:00 Casey & Sisi
5:30 Howdy Doody
6:00 News
6:15 Sports
6:30 United Crusade
6:45 Jo Stafford
7:00 Amos 'n' Andy
7:30 Veloz & Yolanda
7:45 TBA
8:00 Jack Paar
8:30 Arthur Murray
9:00 TBA
9:30 US Steel Hour "Notebook Warrior"
10:30 TBA
11:00 News
11:15 Theatre of Stars

KJEO 47-Fresno
noon Mid-Day News
12:30 Yesterday's Newsreel
12:45 Shopper's Showroom
1:00 Kitchen Magic
1:30 Movies for Mom
2:30 Del Gore
4:00 Fran Quin
4:15 Cartoons
4:30 Forty-Niner
5:30 Cowboy G-Man
6:00 News
6:15 Newsreel
6:30 Dave Stogner
7:00 Racket Squad
7:30 Stop the Music
8:00 Adolphe Menjou
8:30 Duffy's Tavern
9:00 Danny Thomas
9:30 US Steel Hour "Notebook Warrior"
10:30 Your TV Theatre
11:00 News

 

[Bob1370]

I know these were the days just before video tape came out of the laboratory and started showing up at the networks and big-market stations...but wouldn't you expect Channel 4 to carry the Today Show from NBC or channel 5 to take Jack Paar's morning show from CBS on the basis of same-morning time-shifted kinescope, starting them at 6 or 7 local time, the same way they did at the network O&Os in Los Angeles?

 

[oldiesfan6479]

I know these were the days just before video tape...but wouldn't you expect...channel 5 to take Jack Paar's morning show
from CBS on the basis of same-morning time-shifted kinescope, starting them at 6 or 7 local time, the same way they did
at the network O&Os in Los Angeles?

Wasn't Panorama Pacific (7-9 AM on KPIX-TV) the left coast version of whatever CBS did
as a morning show in the pre-VTR days?

 

[LKellerIII]

It's interesting that Bakersfield (way closer to Los Angeles than the SF Bay Area) is in this TV Guide, rather than the Southern California version. I haven't traveled Highway 99 in many years, but I believe Fresno is also geographically closer to LA.

This does make sense though, since the So Cal edition had to list at least 12 channels between LA, Santa Barbara, and San Diego.

Also - it looks like the Sacramento network affiliates (3, 10, 13) hadn't signed-on yet. I assume Sacramento viewers got their signals over the air from San Francisco. They must have had some TALL antennas mounted on their roofs.

 

[fortmill]

It's interesting that Bakersfield (way closer to Los Angeles than the SF Bay Area) is in this TV Guide, rather than the Southern California version. I haven't traveled Highway 99 in many years, but I believe Fresno is also geographically closer to LA.

This does make sense though, since the So Cal edition had to list at least 12 channels between LA, Santa Barbara, and San Diego.

Also - it looks like the Sacramento network affiliates (3, 10, 13) hadn't signed-on yet. I assume Sacramento viewers got their signals over the air from San Francisco. They must have had some TALL antennas mounted on their roofs.

Actually Stockton's channel 13 (I believe its still licensed to Stockton) was on the air, though it might not have covered Sac that well back then. Of course KCCC/40 was broadcasting a full schedule to Sacramento viewers so they didn't have to look to SF for their TV needs.

 

[Bluenoser]

It's interesting that Bakersfield (way closer to Los Angeles than the SF Bay Area) is in this TV Guide, rather than the Southern California version. I haven't traveled Highway 99 in many years, but I believe Fresno is also geographically closer to LA.

This does make sense though, since the So Cal edition had to list at least 12 channels between LA, Santa Barbara, and San Diego.

Also - it looks like the Sacramento network affiliates (3, 10, 13) hadn't signed-on yet. I assume Sacramento viewers got their signals over the air from San Francisco. They must have had some TALL antennas mounted on their roofs.

Actually Stockton's channel 13 (I believe its still licensed to Stockton) was on the air, though it might not have covered Sac that well back then. Of course KCCC/40 was broadcasting a full schedule to Sacramento viewers so they didn't have to look to SF for their TV needs.

And in a TVTW in my collection from 1955, by that time 13 was listed as Mount Diablo and listed on the same page as San Francisco's commercial VHFs...

 

[TexasTuner]

It's interesting that Bakersfield (way closer to Los Angeles than the SF Bay Area) is in this TV Guide, rather than the Southern California version. I haven't traveled Highway 99 in many years, but I believe Fresno is also geographically closer to LA.

This does make sense though, since the So Cal edition had to list at least 12 channels between LA, Santa Barbara, and San Diego.

Also - it looks like the Sacramento network affiliates (3, 10, 13) hadn't signed-on yet. I assume Sacramento viewers got their signals over the air from San Francisco. They must have had some TALL antennas mounted on their roofs.

IIRC, channels 3 and 10 were in hearings. KCCC did very well until KCRA-TV (channel 3) and channel 10 (can't remember the call) went on the air. 13 (KOVR) moved to another antenna site closer to Sacramento, and by that time the last nail was in KCCC's coffin.

 

[bpatrick]

Channel 10 was KBET from sign on in 1955 until 1959,
when it became KXTV.

 

[onairb]

Interesting that KRON didn't carry 'Today', anyone know when they started showing it?

 

[visaman]

Posting some KSAN and KCCC listings by request, from TV This Week

9:30 US Steel Hour (no details if this was the same one that aired on 7/40/47)

I would be interested in seeing ANY program from the 40th day of July, 1947.

 

[Bluenoser]

Posting some KSAN and KCCC listings by request, from TV This Week

9:30 US Steel Hour (no details if this was the same one that aired on 7/40/47)

I would be interested in seeing ANY program from the 40th day of July, 1947.

Should have stuck a "ch" in front of that ;D

 

[bpatrick]

I know this "7/40/47" thing is either a typo or a joke, but the
"U.S. Steel Hour" actually was a radio program, "The Theater
Guild On The Air," that ran on ABC from 1945 until the move to
television in 1953. "Steel Hour" moved to CBS in 1955 and is
probably best remembered for alternating with "Armstrong Circle
Theater" (which aired on NBC against "Steel Hour" on ABC from
1953 to 1955) from 1957 to 1963.

 

[Bluenoser]

I know this "7/40/47" thing is either a typo or a joke, but the
"U.S. Steel Hour" actually was a radio program, "The Theater
Guild On The Air," that ran on ABC from 1945 until the move to
television in 1953. "Steel Hour" moved to CBS in 1955 and is
probably best remembered for alternating with "Armstrong Circle
Theater" (which aired on NBC against "Steel Hour" on ABC from
1953 to 1955) from 1957 to 1963.

That was a reference to channels 7, 40 and 47 (7 San Francisco, 40 Sacramento and 47 Fresno). The Steel Hour listing was how TV This Week referred to it, was there a time where US Steel Hour and the old title ran simultaneously?

 

[Bob1370]

"I would be interested in seeing ANY program from the 40th day of July, 1947."

Most likely, whatever it was, Rod Serling was the executive producer and host....