RETRO: Phoenix AZ, Saturday September 16, 1967

[dhett]

First broadcast day of KPAZ-TV 21, then an independent Spanish-language station.

Source: Arizona Republic, Sat. Sept. 16, 1967

KTVK 3 (ABC)

7:00 Casper
7:30 Fantastic Four
8:00 Spiderman
8:30 Journey
9:00 King Kong
9:30 George of the Jungle
10:00 Beatles
10:30 American Bandstand
11:30 Sgt. Preston
12:00 Playhouse
12:30 Wide World of Sports - Mildenberger/Bonavana Fight, Americas Cup Yacht Races
2:00 College Football - SMU at Texas A&M
5:30 Dating Game
6:00 Newlywed Game
6:30 Lawrence Welk
7:30 Iron Horse
8:30 Movie - Betrayed
10:30 Weekend News
10:45 Theatre After Dark - Flight to Fury

KPHO-TV 5 (Ind)

9:55 John Rhodes Report
10:00 Agriculture Today
10:30 This Is The Life
11:00 The Lieutenant
12:00 Cartoon Circus
1:30 Movie - Border River
3:00 Wallace and Ladmo
4:00 Huckleberry Hound
4:30 Big Time Wrestling
5:30 Gadabout Gaddis
6:00 Sea Hunt
6:30 Movie - Mysterious Island
8:30 Don't Eat The Daisies
9:00 Rawhide
10:00 News
10:30 Movie - Lovers on a Tight Rope
12:30 Movie - Indiscretion of an American Wife

KOOL-TV 10 (CBS)

6:50 Farm and Ranch Roundup
7:00 Captain Kangaroo
8:00 Shazzan
8:30 Space Ghost
9:00 Moby Dick
9:30 Superman-Aquaman Adventure
10:30 Jonny Quest
11:00 The Lone Ranger
11:30 Road Runner
12:00 Frankenstein Jr. and the Impossibles
12:30 The Herculoids
1:00 Outer Limits
2:00 Twilight Zone
3:00 Championship Bowling - Harry Smith vs. Dave Soutar
4:00 Mr. Lucky
4:30 CBS Saturday News
5:00 Have Gun, Will Travel
5:30 The Jackie Gleason Show
6:30 My Three Sons
7:00 Hogan's Heroes
7:30 Petticoat Junction
8:00 Mannix
9:00 Million Dollar Movie - Nob Hill
10:50 The Late Show - King's Row

KTAR-TV 12 (NBC)

7:00 Super 6
7:30 Super President
8:00 The Flintstones
8:30 Samson and Goliath
9:00 Birdman
9:30 Atom Ant
10:00 Top Cat
10:30 Cool McCool
11:00 Stingray
11:30 Cisco Kid
12:00 Sandy Koufax
12:15 Baseball - Baltimore Orioles vs. Boston Red Sox
3:00 Richard Diamond
3:30 Love That Bob
4:00 A.F.L. Highlights
4:30 Frank McGee
5:00 Ann Sothern
5:30 Maya
6:30 Get Smart
7:00 Movie - What a Way to Go
9:15 Hockey Preview
9:45 Branded
10:15 News
10:45 The Tonight Show
12:00 Movie - Blue Murder at St. Trinian's

KPAZ 21 (Ind)

9:00 Opening Ceremonies
10:00 Pedro Vargas
10:30 Drama
11:00 Folk Songs
11:30 Drama
11:45 Wrestling from Mexico
12:00 Viruta y Capulina
12:30 Musical Variety
1:00 Wrestling from Mexico
1:30 Music Show
2:00 Mexican Independence Day
3:00 Silvia Pinal
3:30 Discoteque a Go-Go
4:00 Drama
4:30 Musical Comedy
5:30 Dance Show
6:00 Sports
7:00 Bullfight Preview
7:30 Canadian Hockey
8:00 Golf Preview
8:30 Boxing Preview
9:00 Jai Alai Preview
9:30 Bullfight Preview
10:00 College Football
10:30 Auto Racing
11:00 News

NOTE - The newspaper did not publish a television schedule for KAET 8 (NET).

 

[Mr. Mike]

NOTE - The newspaper did not publish a television schedule for KAET 8 (NET).

I'd assume that the likeliest explination is that KAET didn't air programming on weekends around that time. IIRC, KETC in St. Louis during the 1960s didn't air programming at all on weekends, before it became affiliated with PBS.

 

[landtuna]

Two shows that seem out of place:

"Canadian Hockey" on KPAZ (did hockey have a Spanish language following?)
"Hockey Preview" on KTAR (since there were no hockey telecasts in AZ back then)

Saturday was definitely for kids back then.

 

[dhett]

NOTE - The newspaper did not publish a television schedule for KAET 8 (NET).

I'd assume that the likeliest explination is that KAET didn't air programming on weekends around that time. IIRC, KETC in St. Louis during the 1960s didn't air programming at all on weekends, before it became affiliated with PBS.

No, there was programming, according to a KAET/NET advertisement on the next page, but the newspaper didn't publish a schedule. The ad listed the shows airing that evening, but didn't give any times for them.

 

[dhett]

Two shows that seem out of place:

"Canadian Hockey" on KPAZ (did hockey have a Spanish language following?)
"Hockey Preview" on KTAR (since there were no hockey telecasts in AZ back then)

Saturday was definitely for kids back then.

I wonder if KTAR's program was a highlight of the old Phoenix Roadrunners. I saw some Roadrunner ads in the newspaper. And being September, hockey season wouldn't have started yet.

 

[Mr. Mike]

NOTE - The newspaper did not publish a television schedule for KAET 8 (NET).

I'd assume that the likeliest explination is that KAET didn't air programming on weekends around that time. IIRC, KETC in St. Louis during the 1960s didn't air programming at all on weekends, before it became affiliated with PBS.

No, there was programming, according to a KAET/NET advertisement on the next page, but the newspaper didn't publish a schedule. The ad listed the shows airing that evening, but didn't give any times for them.

Maybe tle local edition of TV Guide or another local Arizona paper (probably the Republic's then-sister paper Gazette or the Arizona Daily Star out of Tucson or some other paper) might've had listings for Channel 8's Saturday lineup.

 

[oldtimeradio]

The programming on KPAZ-TV in Phoenix was not entirely Spanish when they went on the air. As a matter of fact, even before its conversion to Religious Programming they were never totally Spanish.

For awhile, during Monday through Friday daytime (6 am to 5 or 6 pm) they pointed a camera at a UPI teletype machine and one could watch anything and everything that came over the newswire.

They had a regular schedule of movies some of which seemed to be Italian movies dubbed into English. The rest of the programming didn't measure up to the quality of the rest of the other local programming, so they were never really successful. Add to that a UHF dial was not very common on many TV sets. I bought a UHF converter one afternoon so I could watch a friend of mine help a friend of his tape the opening bit prior to that night's scary movie.

Another person I knew had an evening weekend shift in the control room. Since I never worked in TV I never kept up with the workings of most TV equipment, but it was on that night I discovered that the station had prepared fill material on 2" videotape that ran at half the normal speed of most videotaped material. The quality didn't seem to be that bad, but still I never knew those machines had a second speed on them.

In short, channel 21 was never totally Spanish. Channel 33 (KTVW) was the first TV station in Phoenix to be 100% Spanish language programming.