Retro: Phoenix, AZ April 13th, 1987

[masterman17]

Source: Mohave Daily Miner

KTVK Channel 3 (ABC, Now Ind.) Phoenix
5:00 More Real People
5:30 Growing Years
6:00 World News This Morning (Steve Bell & Kathleen Sullivan)
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Sally Jessy Raphael
9:30 The Judge
10:00 Dynasty
10:30 Loving
11:00 Webster
11:30 NewsChannel 3
Noon All My Children
1:00 One Life to Live
2:00 General Hospital
3:00 Oprah Winfrey Show
4:00 Magnum, P.I.
5:00 NewsChannel 3
5:30 ABC World News Tonight (Peter Jennings)
6:00 NewsChannel 3
6:30 New Newlywed Game
7:00 MacGyver
8:00 Movie: "Infidelity" (1987 TV Movie)
10:00 NewsChannel 3
10:30 ABC News Nightline (Ted Koppel)
11:00 The All-New Dating Game
11:30 Barnaby Jones
12:30 2 Years of Financial Freedom
1:00 More Real People
1:30 Emergency


KTSP [Now KSAZ] Channel 10 (CBS, Now Fox) Phoenix
5:00 CBS Morning News
5:30 Today's Business
6:00 CBS Morning News
6:30 The Morning Program (Rolland Smith/Hartley)
8:00 Value Television
9:00 The $25,000 Pyramid
9:30 Card Sharks
10:00 Price is Right
11:00 The Young & the Restless
Noon NewsCenter 10
12:30 Bold and the Beautiful
1:00 As The World Turns
2:00 Guiding Light
3:00 Divorce Court
3:30 Card Sharks
4:00 $100,000 Pyramid
4:30 Jeopardy!
5:00 NewsCenter 10
5:30 CBS Evening News (Dan Rather)
6:00 NewsCenter 10
6:30 Wheel of Fortune
7:00 What a Nightmare, Charlie Brown
7:30 My Sister Sam
8:00 Newhart
8:30 Designing Women
9:00 West 57th
10:00 NewsCenter 10
10:30 Entertainment Tonight
11:00 Cannon
Midnight Nightlife
12:30 NewsCenter 10
1:00 Today's Business
1:30 CBS News NightWatch


KPNX Channel 12 (NBC) Phoenix/Mesa
5:15–Before Hours
5:30–NBC News at Sunrise–Deborah Norville
6:00–Channel 12 News
7:00–Today (Bryant Gumbel/Jane Pauley)
9:00–Daytime Wheel of Fortune
9:30–Scrabble
10:00–Super Password
10:30–$1,000,000 Chance of a Lifetime
11:00–Days of Our Lives
Noon–Channel 12 News
12:30–$ale of the Century
1:00–Another World
2:00–Santa Barbara
3:00–Hour Magazine
4:00–Superior Court
4:30–People's Court
5:00–Channel 12 News
5:30–NBC Nightly News (Tom Brokaw)
6:00–Channel 12 News
6:30–John Davidson's Hollywood Squares
7:00–ALF
7:30–Valerie's Family
8:00–Movie: "Jesus of Nazareth" (1977, Part 2 of 2)
10:00–Channel 12 News
10:30–Best of Carson
11:30–Love Connection
Midnight–Late Night with David Letterman
1:00–CNN Headline News
OFF The Air at 1:30am

 

[RALfan]

KTVK Channel 3 (ABC, Now Ind.) Phoenix
5:00 More Real People
5:30 Growing Years
6:00 World News This Morning (Steve Bell & Kathleen Sullivan)
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Sally Jessy Raphael
9:30 The Judge
10:00 Dynasty
10:30 Loving
11:00 Webster
11:30 NewsChannel 3
Noon All My Children
1:00 One Life to Live
2:00 General Hospital
3:00 Oprah Winfrey Show
4:00 Magnum, P.I.
5:00 NewsChannel 3
5:30 ABC World News Tonight (Peter Jennings)
6:00 NewsChannel 3
6:30 New Newlywed Game
7:00 MacGyver
8:00 Movie: "Infidelity" (1987 TV Movie)
10:00 NewsChannel 3
10:30 ABC News Nightline (Ted Koppel)
11:00 The All-New Dating Game
11:30 Barnaby Jones
12:30 2 Years of Financial Freedom
1:00 More Real People
1:30 Emergency

Dynasty at 10 a.m. for a half-hour? Are you kidding me?

 

[DToTheJ]

KTSP [Now KSAZ] Channel 10 (CBS, Now Fox) Phoenix
6:30 The Morning Program (Rolland Smith/Hartley)
8:00 Value Television
9:00 The $25,000 Pyramid

A CBS affiliate in a major market airing home shopping programming in a prime daytime hour? Are you kidding me?

 

[Marckd]

Value TV was a syndicated show that was shopping but only one hour - called VTV and produced by Fox actually for their O & O stations and syndicated to other stations in other markets - SHORT LIVED - gone by the summer.

ALSO would like to see listings for the independent stations KPHO, KNXV, KUTP. Ironically only one of those are still independent today while two of the network stations here are independents today. I count Fox stations as independents still being Fox only programs a couple hours a day except for sports sometimes. Thanks

 

[azumanga]

KTVK Channel 3 (ABC, Now Ind.) Phoenix
9:30 The Judge
10:00 Dynasty
10:30 Loving

Dynasty at 10 a.m. for a half-hour? Are you kidding me?

The syndicator offered "Dynasty" as a half-hour or hour-long program. When WTOG carried the show, it was the full hour.

Splitting hour shows into half-hours in syndication is not uncommon -- "The Rookies" and "BJ / Lobo" also got that treatment. Just like "Dynasty", stations were offered to carry either the half-hour or hour-long versions.

 

[Gregg]

Wow. How do you edit a 60 min. show down to 30 minutes? And I wonder how well some mid-level technician took artistic pains to creatively do it? It might be fun to watch a 60 minute Dynasty or The Rookies and see what happens when you watch the 30 min. version.

At least Dynasty is episodic. Perhaps they were able to get two 30 min. episodes out of a single 60 min. show. But I doubt you could do that with The Rookies, or heaven forbit, BJ/Lobo.

 

[EricStein]

KTVK Channel 3 (ABC, Now Ind.) Phoenix
9:30 The Judge
10:00 Dynasty
10:30 Loving

Dynasty at 10 a.m. for a half-hour? Are you kidding me?

The syndicator offered "Dynasty" as a half-hour or hour-long program. When WTOG carried the show, it was the full hour.

Splitting hour shows into half-hours in syndication is not uncommon -- "The Rookies" and "BJ / Lobo" also got that treatment. Just like "Dynasty", stations were offered to carry either the half-hour or hour-long versions.

MCA offered "Knight Rider" in either 30- or 60-minute syndicated versions around the same time too. That show, like "Dynasty," did not last in traditional syndication for long.

 

[EricStein]

Value TV was a syndicated show that was shopping but only one hour - called VTV and produced by Fox actually for their O & O stations and syndicated to other stations in other markets - SHORT LIVED - gone by the summer.

KTSP also picked up the short lived "Home Shopping Game" later that year too.

 

[Marckd]

Wow. How do you edit a 60 min. show down to 30 minutes?

YOU DON'T!!! What actually happens is they will divide a one hour show into two days - So you will have part one and part 2 of an episode and then part one and part 2 of the next episode.

yes BJ/Lobo, Knight Rider, Fantasy Island were given these options - among others.

 

[Markd]

Re: Retro: Phoenix, AZ April 13th, 1987 - Independents - another date

Do not have listings from thsi exact week - I have some from February - February 12, 1987 - TV Guide

5 KPHO (Ind.) Meredith (now CBS)
5 AM Petticoat Junction
5:30 Mork & Mindy (DISASTER in Syndication)
6 AM Popeye (TV 60's ones I believe)
6:30 Bugs Bunny & Porky Pig (I think pre 41 colorized and post 48 everything else)
7 AM Wallace & Ladmo (long time local show - featuring a few theatrical cartoons mixed in)
8 AM He Man
8:30 She Ra
9 AM Happy Days
9:30 Laverne & Shirley
10 AM Alice
10:30 Phil Donahue
11:30 KPHO News
12 Noon Dick van Dyke
12:30 Andy Griffith
1 PM I Love Lucy
1:30 Hogan's Heroes
2 PM Green Acres
2:30 Gilligan's Island
3 PM Transformers
3:30 Thundercats
4 PM Brady Bunch
4:30 Diff'rent Strokes
5 PM Facts Of Life
5:30 Three's Company
6 PM M*A*S*H
6:30 Benson
7 PM Rockforf Files
8 PM Too Close For Comfort
8:30 Odd Couple
9 PM Bob Newhart
9:30 News
10 PM M*A*S*H
10:30 Barney Miller
11 PM CBS LATE NIGHT - Hot Shots
12:10 CBS Late Movie - Crisis At Sun Valley (1978)
2 AM Mary Tyler Moore
2:30 I Love Lucy
3 AM Hogan's Heroes
3:30 Carol Burnett & Friends
4 AM Barnaby Jones

notice that Meredith is not huge on movies - On other Meredith indies back then like WPGH Pittsburgh and 35 WOFL Orlando - drama shows and sitcoms ran in prime time. Meredith was huge on sitcoms and had top rate product back then. They did take Fox in Pittsburgh and Orlando as well as their Las Vegas station but not here for some reason.

15 KNXV (Fox) Scripps Howard - Now an ABC affiliate
5 AM Hazel
5:30 Father Knows Best
6 AM Dennis The Menace - sitcom
6:30 Three Stooges
7 AM Inspector Gadget
7:30 MASK
8 AM Defenders Of The Earth
8:30 Flintstones
9 AM Leave It To Beaver
9:30 McHale's Navy
10 AM Beverly Hillbillies
10:30 Family Ties (from NBC)
11 AM My Three Sons
11:30 Gomer Pyle USMC
12 Noon Perry Mason
1 PM Get Smart
1:30 Munsters
2 PM Addams Family
2:30 Zoobilee Zoo
3 PM Rambo
3:30 GI Joe
4 PM Jetsons
4:30 Heathcliff
5 PM Good Times
5:30 Silver Spoons
6 PM What's Happening
6:30 One Day At A Time
7 PM Quincy
8 PM Movie - Great Santini (1979)
10 PM Fox Late Show - Joan Rivers
11 PM Jeffersons
11:30 Honeymooners 39
12 Mid Honeymooners Lost
12:30 All In The Family
1 AM Kojak
2 AM Maude
2:30 Soap
3 AM Movie - Little Giant (1933)
4:30 Twilight Zone

Pretty all around strong - plenty of movies - sitcoms - some old some then recent - more recent ones on the way next year - Was really gaining on KPHO by now - KNXV wound up with Fox

45 KUTP (Ind.) Chris Craft (now owned by Fox - still independent but with My Network TV stuff in prime time)
5 AM Branded
5:30 Cisco Kid
6 AM Little Rascals
6:30 Go Bots
7 AM Ghostbusters
7:30 My Little Pony
8 AM Popeye - theatricals I think
8:30 Bugs Bunny - pre 48 I think
9 AM 700 Club
10:30 Jimmy Swaggart
11 AM Bewitched
11:30 I Dream Of Jeannie
12 Noon Movie - Jumping Jacks (1952)
2 PM Tom & Jerry
2:30 Woody Woodpecker
3 PM Scooby Doo
3:30 Centurions
4 PM Dennis The Menace - animated
4:30 Silverhawks
5 PM Knight Rider
6 PM Dukes Of Hazard
7 PM Movie - Gold (1974)
9 PM Barnaby Jones
10 PM Carson's Classics
10:30 Sanford & Son
11 PM Movie - Nutty Professor (1963)
1 AM Movie - Adam at 6 AM (1970)
3 AM Movie - Hombre (1967)

KUTP was huge with movies - They filled a void that KPHO was leaving. KPHO was running movies only on weekends - KNXV ran an average amount of them - KUTP ran huge amounts - seems they had many MGM movies and seemed to overlap with TBS quite alot. They would slowly move away from movies in the 90's.

7/27 KUSK (Ind)
5 AM Music Videos
6 AM Headline News
6:30 Morning Stretch
7 AM 700 Club
8:30 Jimmy Swaggart
9 AM Art Linkletter
9:30 James Robinson
10 AM PTL Club
11 AM Movie - Angel & The Badman (1947)
1 PM Alive
1:30 Cinematractions
2 PM 700 Club
3 PM Movie - Glorifying American Girl
5 PM Burns & Allen
5:30 Ozzie & Harriet
6 PM Cross Wits
6:30 headline News
7 PM Movie - Tulsa (1949)
9 PM INN News
9:30 Headline News
10 PM Route 66
11 PM Life Of Riley
11:30 Topper
12 Mid Movie - Southerner (1945)
1 AM Music Videos

Full Power stations 80 miles or so north in prescott - Had a low power translator in Phoenix. Very weak station - Today they ironically have many of the older classic shows on KPHO.

 

[Markd]

45 KUTP (Ind.) Chris Craft (now owned by Fox - still independent but with My Network TV stuff in prime time)

9 PM Barnaby Jones

Actually that is FBI NOT Barnaby Jones

 

[EricStein]

Re: Retro: Phoenix, AZ April 13th, 1987 - Independents - another date

15 KNXV (Fox) Scripps Howard - Now an ABC affiliate
Pretty all around strong - plenty of movies - sitcoms - some old some then recent - more recent ones on the way next year - Was really gaining on KPHO by now - KNXV wound up with Fox

KNXV was lining up to be "the kids station" in town - and that did happen after Wallace & Ladmo's run ended in late 1989. They picked up "Ducktales," off-net "Cheers" and "Star Trek: The Next Generation" in the fall which really put them on the map.

45 KUTP (Ind.) Chris Craft (now owned by Fox - still independent but with My Network TV stuff in prime time)
KUTP was huge with movies - They filled a void that KPHO was leaving. KPHO was running movies only on weekends - KNXV ran an average amount of them - KUTP ran huge amounts - seems they had many MGM movies and seemed to overlap with TBS quite alot. They would slowly move away from movies in the 90's.

KUTP called themselves "The Movie Station" in promos at this time. They were just over a year old and still going through growing pains. They had much of the Warner Bros. movie library locked up (Warner owned a small share of Chris Craft's broadcasting unit).

7/27 KUSK (Ind)
Full Power stations 80 miles or so north in prescott - Had a low power translator in Phoenix. Very weak station - Today they ironically have many of the older classic shows on KPHO.

KUSK was a shoestring operation for many years. Public-domain movies, syndicated programs larger Phoenix stations passed on, and Hit Video USA overnights (I believe they would later put it on afternoons as well). It did serve a purpose during the Summer when they piped in Major League Baseball from a few California teams. It is presently a much better independent station, despite the trash talk they air in the afternoons.

 

[ajmcwhorter]

I remember when KUTP signed on 1/1/86, first program at 5:00am in the morning was "Felix the Cat". That was fun watching the station come on air. It has come a long way since then!