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Retro: Oklahoma Mon., June 23, 1975

From TV Guide, Oklahoma State Edition:

KTEW (KJRH) Ch. 2 Tulsa (NBC)

6:35 Inspiration
6:40 News
7 AM Today (a film report on baseball in Italy; Linda Wolfe, author of "Playing Around," a study of women's views on extramarital sex)
9 AM Celebrity Sweepstakes (Clifton Davis, Joey Bishop, Anne Meara, Dick Martin, James Darren)
9:30 Wheel Of Fortune
10 AM High Rollers
10:30 Hollywood Squares (Glenn Ford, McLean Stevenson, Karen Valentine, Robert Fuller)
11 AM Mike Douglas (co-host Gene Rayburn; Richard Dawson, Brett Somers, singer Julie DeJohn)
12 N News
12:30 Days Of Our Lives
1:30 The Doctors
2 PM Another World
3 PM Somerset
3:30 Merv Griffin (Wayne Newton substitutes for Merv; Teresa Brewer, Robert Klein, Fred Travalena, actress Linda Redfearn, singer Bill Wray)
5 PM News
5:30 NBC News (John Chancellor)
6 PM Run For Your Life
7 PM Baseball World Of Joe Garagiola (first of two on "Baseball, Italian Style"--Joe visits Rome, Nettuno, Bologna, and Parma to film this report on the Italian baseball fan)
7:15 Baseball: Yankees-Orioles or Dodgers-Astros
10 PM News (time approximate)
10:30 Tonight Show (Jerry Lewis subs for Johnny; George Gobel, Peter Marshall and his nightclub group Chapter 5, Elke Sommer, Helen Gurley Brown)
12 M Tomorrow (Kenneth Jernigan, president of the National Federation of the Blind)
1 AM Religious Town Hall

KFDX Ch. 3 Wichita Falls, TX (NBC)

6:30 RFD 3
7 AM Today
9 AM Celebrity Sweepstakes
9:30 Wheel Of Fortune
10 AM High Rollers
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11 AM Jackpot!
11:30 Blank Check
11:55 NBC News (Edwin Newman)
12 N News
12:25 Focus
12:30 Days Of Our Lives
1:30 The Doctors
2 PM Another World
3 PM Somerset
3:30 The Lucy Show
4 PM Movie: "Stormy Weather" (an all-African-American cast in a 1943 musical free of stereotypes or condescension, about the romance between a tap dancer (Bill Robinson, aka Mr. Bojangles) and a singer (Lena Horne))
5:30 NBC News
6 PM News
6:30 Hogan's Heroes
7 PM Baseball World Of Joe Garagiola
7:15 Baseball (see Ch. 2)
10 PM News (time approximate)
10:30 Tonight Show
12 M Tomorrow

WKY (KFOR) Ch. 4 Oklahoma City (NBC)

6:30 Farm News And Weather
7 AM Today
9 AM Dinah! (Ray Charles, Paul Williams, Three Dog Night, Shelley Berman, Tammy Wynette, Maureen McGovern)
10 AM High Rollers
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11 AM Jackpot!
11:30 Dannysday
12 N News
12:30 Days Of Our Lives
1:30 The Doctors
2 PM Another World
3 PM Somerset
3:30 Bewitched
4 PM Bonanza
5 PM Dragnet
5:30 NBC News
6 PM News
6:30 Hollywood Squares (Eva Gabor, Hope Lange, Doc Severinsen, Marcia Wallace, Richard Roundtree, Rose Marie, Rich Little)
7 PM Baseball World Of Joe Garagiola
7:15 Baseball (see Ch. 2)
10 PM News (time approximate)
10:30 Tonight Show
12 M Tomorrow
1 AM Tonight In Oklahoma

KOCO Ch. 5 (not yet 5 Alive) Oklahoma City (ABC)

6:15 Give Us This Day
6:20 Bulletin Board
6:25 Down To Earth
6:30 New Zoo Revue
7 AM A.M. America (Bill Beutel and guest co-hostess Barbara Howar)
9 AM Mike Douglas (from New Jersey's Great Adventure safari park: co-host George Hamilton, Kirk Douglas, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Jimmie Walker, David Brenner, naturalist Roger Caras, sway-pole performers the Bauers)
10:30 Blankety Blanks (Nipsey Russell, Anne Meara)
11 AM Password (Kate Jackson, Sam Melville)
11:30 Split Second
12 N All My Children
12:30 Let's Make A Deal
1 PM $10,000 Pyramid (William Shatner, Lee Meriwether)
1:30 Big Showdown
2 PM General Hospital
2:30 One Life To Live
3 PM Money Maze
3:30 Green Acres
4 PM Star Trek
5 PM ABC News (Howard K. Smith/Harry Reasoner)
5:30 News
6 PM Truth Or Consequences
6:30 Name That Tune
7 PM The Rookies
8 PM S.W.A.T.
9 PM Caribe
10 PM News
10:30 The FBI
11:30 ABC Movie: "Planet Earth" (set in the 22nd century, about an advanced race trying to help a decadent world--story by Gene Roddenberry, delay from 10:30 PM)

KAUZ Ch. 6 Wichita Falls (CBS)

6:30 Farm And Ranch Report
6:55 Outdoors (Jim Alexander)
7 AM CBS News (Hughes Rudd)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Spin-Off (short-lived game show in which couples try to make poker hands using numbers from 1-6)
9:30 Gambit
10 AM Tattletales (Claire and Scoey Mitchlll, Pat and Bill Daily, Dana Valery and Tim Saunders)
10:30 Love Of Life
10:55 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
11 AM Young And The Restless
11:30 Search For Tomorrow
12 N News
12:20 Farm And Market Report
12:25 Community Notebook
12:30 As The World Turns
1 PM Guiding Light
1:30 Edge Of Night
2 PM Price Is Right
2:30 Match Game '75 (Marcia Wallace, Johnny Brown, Trish Stewart, Brett Somers, Charles Nelson Reilly, Richard Dawson)
3 PM Musical Chairs (best-remembered as the first game show with an African-American host, Adam Wade (although I have a book about game shows that says Cab Calloway hosted one on radio); guests: Lynn Kellogg, Jane Oliver (I think she spells it Olivor), Sister Sledge)
3:30 What's My Line?
4 PM Dusty's Trail
4:30 Mayberry R.F.D.
5 PM Truth Or Consequences
5:30 CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
6 PM News
6:30 Bewitched
7 PM Gunsmoke
8 PM Maude
8:30 Rhoda
9 PM Medical Center
10 PM News
10:30 CBS Movie: "The Sandpiper" (Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, from '65)

KOTV Ch. 6 Tulsa (CBS)

6:50 Light Of Life (I remember a five-minute devotional program on WDBJ/7 Roanoke, VA with this title.)
6:55 Project
7 AM CBS News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM 9 A.M. (Clyde Parker)
9:30 Gambit
10 AM Tattletales
10:30 Love Of Life
10:55 Coffee Break
11 AM Young And The Restless
11:30 Search For Tomorrow
12 N News
12:30 As The World Turns
1 PM Guiding Light
1:30 Edge Of Night
2 PM Price Is Right
2:30 Match Game '75
3 PM Dinah! (same as Ch. 4)
4 PM Bonanza
5 PM Andy Griffith
5:30 CBS News
6 PM News
7 PM Gunsmoke
8 PM Maude
8:30 Rhoda
9 PM Medical Center
10 PM News
10:30 CBS Movie: "The Sandpiper"
12:30 Project

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

7 AM A.M. America
9 AM New Zoo Revue
9:30 Wagon Train
10:30 All My Children (delay from 12 N)
11 AM Password
11:30 Split Second
12 N Profile
12:30 Let's Make A Deal
1 PM $10,000 Pyramid
1:30 Big Showdown
2 PM General Hospital
2:30 One Life To Live
3 PM Money Maze
3:30 Movie: "The Strange One"
5 PM ABC News
5:30 Family Affair
6 PM News
6:30 To Tell The Truth
7 PM The Rookies
8 PM S.W.A.T.
9 PM Caribe
10 PM News
10:30 ABC Movie: "Planet Earth"

KFDO Ch. 8 Sayre, OK (CBS)
satellite of KFDA/10 Amarillo, later satellite of Amarillo ABC affiliate KVII/7 under the call letters KVIJ

7 AM CBS News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Spin-Off
9:30 Gambit
10 AM Tattletales
10:30 Love Of Life
10:55 CBS News
11 AM Young And The Restless
11:30 Search For Tomorrow
12 N News, Farm Report
12:30 As The World Turns
1 PM Guiding Light
1:30 Edge Of Night
2 PM Price Is Right
2:30 Match Game '75
3 PM Musical Chairs
3:30 Merv Griffin
5 PM Truth Or Consequences
5:30 CBS News
6 PM News
6:30 What's My Line?
7 PM Gunsmoke
8 PM Maude
8:30 Rhoda
9 PM Medical Center
10 PM News
10:30 CBS Movie: "The Sandpiper"
12:30 News

KTUL Ch. 8 Tulsa (ABC)

6:55 Moments Of Meditation
7 AM John Chick (music)
8 AM A.M. America (joined in progress)
9 AM A.M. Oklahoma
9:30 Movie: "The Pharaoh's Woman"
11 AM Password
11:30 Split Second
12 N All My Children
12:30 Let's Make A Deal
1 PM $10,000 Pyramid
1:30 Big Showdown
2 PM General Hospital
2:30 One Life To Live
3 PM Money Maze
3:30 Uncle Zeb (kids' show)
4 PM Gomer Pyle, USMC
4:30 The Lucy Show
5 PM ABC News
5:30 Truth Or Consequences
6 PM News
7 PM The Rookies
8 PM S.W.A.T.
9 PM Caribe
10 PM News
10:30 Perry Mason
11:30 ABC Movie: "Planet Earth"

KWTV Ch. 9 Oklahoma City (CBS)

6 AM Summer Semester: "The Web Of Population, Inflation, Energy And Environment"
6:30 Farm Report
7 AM Mr. Magoo
7:30 News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Spin-Off
9:30 Gambit
10 AM Tattletales
10:30 Love Of Life
10:55 Food In Focus
11 AM Young And The Restless
11:30 Search For Tomorrow
12 N News
12:30 As The World Turns
1 PM Guiding Light
1:30 Edge Of Night
2 PM Price Is Right
2:30 Match Game '75
3 PM Mod Squad
4 PM Merv Griffin (same as Ch. 2)
5:30 CBS News
6 PM News
7 PM Gunsmoke
8 PM Maude
8:30 Rhoda
9 PM Medical Center
10 PM News
10:30 CBS Movie: "The Sandpiper"

KTEN Ch. 10 Ada, OK (ABC)

7 AM A.M. America
9 AM Celebrity Sweepstakes
9:30 Wheel Of Fortune
10 AM High Rollers
10:30 Blankety Blanks
11 AM Password
11:30 Split Second
12 N News
12:25 Adventures In Faith
12:30 Days Of Our Lives
1:30 Big Showdown
2 PM General Hospital
2:30 One Life To Live
3 PM Somerset
3:30 Let's Make A Deal
4 PM $10,000 Pyramid
4:30 All My Children
5 PM ABC News
5:30 NBC News
6 PM News
6:30 Police Surgeon
7 PM The Rookies
8 PM S.W.A.T.
9 PM Caribe
10 PM News
10:30 ABC Movie: "Planet Earth"

KOED Ch. 11 Tulsa/KETA Ch. 13 Oklahoma City (PBS)

2:30 Today's Yoga
3 PM Sesame Street
4 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
4:30 Villa Alegre
5 PM Electric Company
5:30 Carrascolendas
6 PM Artists In America
6:30 What's It All About?
7 PM At The Top (jazz trumpeter Maynard Ferguson and his group perform)
8 PM Alan Watts: Conversation With Myself (the late author, philosopher, and interpreter of Eastern religions reflects on the relationship between man and nature in a program taped before his death in 1973)
8:30 One Of A Kind (blues duo Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee perform)
9 PM Alive And Living
9:30 Black Perspectives In Oklahoma
10 PM Today's Yoga
10:30 Captioned ABC News

KTVT Ch. 11 Fort Worth (Ind.)

6:40 News
7 AM Slam Bang Theatre
8 AM New Zoo Revue
8:30 Addams Family
9 AM Dealer's Choice
9:30 Petticoat Junction
10 AM Untouchables
11 AM Perry Mason
12 N News
12:30 Cartoon Carnival
1 PM Movie: "How To Stuff A Wild Bikini"
3 PM Abbott And Costello
3:30 Felix The Cat
4 PM Mickey Mouse Club
4:30 Batman (the Green Hornet (Van Williams) and Kato (Bruce Lee) team with Batman and Robin to capture Colonel Gumm (Roger Carmel))
5 PM I Love Lucy (in Palm Springs, Lucy meets Rock Hudson)
5:30 Dick Van Dyke
6 PM That Girl
6:30 Mission: Impossible
7:30 The Sixth Sense
8 PM Family Affair
8:30 Beverly Hillbillies
9 PM Movie: "Enter Laughing" (interrupted for news at 10 PM)
11:30 Movie: "The Little Shop Of Horrors"
12:45 News

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

6:45 Twelve Acres (Rudy Dockray)
7 AM Today
9 AM Spin-Off
9:30 Gambit
10 AM Woman's World
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11 AM Jackpot!
11:30 Search For Tomorrow
12 N Twelve Acres
12:30 As The World Turns
1 PM Guiding Light
1:30 The Doctors
2 PM Another World
3 PM Musical Chairs
3:30 Gilligan's Island
4 PM Beverly Hillbillies
4:30 Truth Or Consequences
5 PM To Tell The Truth (Nipsey Russell, Kitty Carlisle, Bill Cullen, Peggy Cass)
5:30 CBS News
6 PM News
6:30 Hollywood Squares (Pearl Bailey, Joey Bishop, John Byner, Eva Gabor, Suzanne Pleshette, Vincent Price, Carl Reiner, Charley Weaver, Paul Lynde)
7 PM Gunsmoke
8 PM Maude
8:30 Rhoda
9 PM Medical Center
10 PM News
10:30 Tonight Show

KXTX Ch. 39 Dallas (Ind.)

6:20 News
7 AM Tennessee Tuxedo
7:30 Mighty Mouse
8 AM Bozo
8:30 Lone Ranger
9 AM Dennis The Menace
9:30 Flying Nun
10 AM The Lucy Show
10:30 Hazel
11 AM Andy Griffith
11:30 Father Knows Best
12 N 700 Club
1:30 Manna
2 PM It's A New Day
2:30 Bugs Bunny
3 PM Little Rascals
3:30 Hazel
4 PM Father Knows Best
4:30 Room 222
5 PM Lost In Space
6 PM Andy Griffith
6:30 The Lucy Show
7 PM Big Valley
8 PM 700 Club
9:30 Warren Roberts Presents
10:30 Grand Ole Gospel Time
11 PM Major Adams (the Ward Bond episodes of "Wagon Train")
 
Thanks for this lineup. I grew up in North Texas in KXII's viewing area. At the time, we couldn't see KTEN--even on cable. The stations were considered to be the same market, but there was a lot of territory where you could only receive one or the other.

It's interesting to see both stations' lineup from that era. KXII only had one network line into the building, so there was no recording an NBC program while a CBS program was on the air. KTEN seemed to have that capability, although I wonder if their NBC and CBS feeds were off-air from Oklahoma City stations.

KTEN was ABC Primary with a few KXII-castoffs from NBC. And occasionally a CBS show would turn up on KTEN--such as 9 AM All in the Family reruns.

KXII was CBS Primary by this time, with a few keys shows from NBC, like Today and Tonight. I've heard KXII aired ABC's Monday Night Football one time only, but I don't know when.
 
Wow! All those ABC affils carrying the 6 ET/5 CT "practice feed" of the ABC Evening News. I've heard stories that it was more or less a "test run" so they would get it right at 6:30/5:30.
 
I thought it was odd to see ABC-only affiliates carry that feed. A lot of dual affiliates, such as KTEN, used to air that feed before the news from their "other network."
 
I remember in the late '70s/early '80s, before ABC discontinued the "practice feed," KVIJ in Sayre, OK was the only affiliate in the Oklahoma edition carrying the 5:30 feed, since "World News Tonight" aired in Amarillo at 5:30 and by that time the Sayre station was a satellite of the Amarillo ABC affiliate, KVII. (KTUL did an hour of local news from 5:30-6:30, as did sister station KATV in Little Rock, and KOCO had its "5 Alive NewsCenter" at 5:30, followed by the "Joker's Wild"/"Tic Tac Dough" combo from 6-7.) KWTX in Waco was another station that did this; it had a dual CBS primary/ABC secondary (reversed for a time in the late '70s) and carried ABC at 5, CBS at 5:30.

I also remember picking up KXII in Plano, and I could also pick up KSWO occasionally, but at no time did I ever pick up KTEN.
 
ABC really got bounced (jerked?) around in the Waco market: Split between KWTX and KCEN for years. Then full time on KCEN for a year before going to full time on KXXV. At least the last 29 years have been pretty steady. :)
 
WTPA in Harrisburg (now WHTM) aired the 6pm feed for a long time, with "Happy Days Again" the last show to air in the 6:30pm time slot before WNT moved into there in September 1981.
 
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