Retro: Phoenix/Friday, November 22, 1963

[oldiesfan6479]

A follow-up to bpatrick's Denver skeds thread, and as he asked,
if anyone has this day for Salt Lake, please post (Albuquerque
and/or El Paso would also be welcomed).

These are the three net affils, plus some comments about the
Tucson stations on the same day:

Phoenix TV Network Affiliates
Scheduled Programming (Time Zone MST)
Friday, November 22, 1963
Source: The Arizona Republic TV Listings

KTVK ch. 3 Phoenix/ABC (now independent)
AM
07:55 News
08:00 Cartoons
08:55 News
09:00 Price Is Right
09:30 Seven Keys
10:00 Tennessee Ernie Ford
10:30 Father Knows Best
11:00 General Hospital
11:30 Jack LaLanne (network dark)
PM
12:00 Theatre (network dark)
12:30 Day In Court
12:55 ABC News
01:00 Queen For A Day
01:30 Who Do You Trust?
02:00 Trailmaster
03:00 Movie
05:00 Dobie Gillis
05:30 ABC News (Ron Cochran)
05:45 News
06:00 Sgt. Bilko
06:30 77 Sunset Strip
07:30 Burke's Law
08:30 Farmer's Daughter
09:00 Fight Of The Week
09:45 Make That Spare
10:00 ABC News
10:10 News
10:30 Movie
AM (Saturday)
12:00 Movie

ABC daytime all live, most of prime on 16mm film (same-night)
originated at KTVK. I don't know if they delayed boxing one
hour in-house or if they had a feed from Denver, or vice-versa.

The memory has faded so much...after all I was only 2 yrs. old
at the time (yeah, right :).

KGUN-TV 9 Tucson ran the exact same network schedule as it was
fed by KTVK.

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KOOL-TV ch. 10 Phoenix/CBS (now KSAZ-TV/Fox)
AM
06:30 Sunrise Surprise
07:00 Captain Kangaroo
08:00 CBS Morning News (Mike Wallace)
08:30 I Love Lucy
09:00 McCoys
09:30 Pete & Gladys
10:00 Love Of Life
10:25 CBS News
10:30 Search For Tomorrow
10:45 Guiding Light
11:00 Burns & Allen (network dark)
11:30 As The World Turns
PM
12:00 Password
12:30 House Party
01:00 To Tell The Truth
01:25 CBS News
01:30 Edge Of Night
02:00 Secret Storm
02:30 Peter Gunn
03:00 Our Miss Brooks
03:30 December Bride
04:00 Folk Sing
04:30 News
05:00 CBS Evening News (Cronkite)
05:30 Mickey Mouse Club
06:00 Yogi Bear
06:30 Route 66
07:30 Great Adventure
08:30 Twilight Zone
09:00 Alfred Hitchcock Hour
10:00 News
10:15 Steve Allen
11:45 News
AM (Saturday)
12:00 Movie

CBS daytime all live. I can't figure out prime as, until I saw this,
I was sure KOOL just flipped the 7:30 ET hour (Adventure) to 9,
but Route 66 is the only live net. TZone and Hitch would be a
one-hour delay but perhaps one or both was either on film or else
a one-week delay?

KOLD-TV 13 Tucson: same net sked as it was fed by KOOL.

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KTAR-TV ch. 12 Mesa/NBC (now KPNX...still Mesa COL)
AM
06:30 Agriculture USA
07:00 Today
08:00 Say When
08:25 NBC News
08:30 Word For Word
09:00 Concentration
09:30 Missing Links
10:00 Your First Impression
10:30 Truth Or Consequences
11:00 Romper Room (network dark)
11:30 Love That Bob (network dark)
PM
12:00 People Will Talk
12:25 NBC News
12:30 Doctors
01:00 Loretta Young Theatre
01:30 East Mets West (US/Japan comm sat special)
01:45 You Don't Say (JIP)
02:00 Match Game
02:25 NBC News
02:30 Make Room For Daddy
03:00 Here's Sherri
03:10 Movie
05:15 What Do You Say?
05:30 News
05:45 Huntley-Brinkley Report
06:15 News
06:30 International Showtime
07:30 Bob Hope/Chrysler Theatre
08:30 Harry's Girls
09:00 Jack Paar
10:00 News
10:30 Tonight Show
AM (Saturday)
12:00 News
12:15 Movie

Daytime all live (aired only the 9am ET first hour refeed of
Today). As with KOOL, I'm stumped with prime time as it's
all in pattern and I don't think KTAR had enough VTR equip.
to do it. Perhaps some one-week delays and/or 16mm film?

KVOA-TV 4 Tucson had its own Telco feed--they ran the same
daytime (all live). In prime they took Hope/Harry/Paar live
6:30-9, off-net Thriller reruns 9-10. Don Ameche (I wonder
if he could make a phone call from Europe? ;D) was pushed
to Saturday at 4--not sure if it was one-DB or eight-DB.

 

[bpatrick]

Compared to Denver, the Phoenix stations seemed
to do a better job of staying in pattern (especially
Ch. 10 in Phoenix vs. Ch. 7 in Denver, both CBS).

It's most interesting how the ABC affiliates stay
most closely in pattern (compare Phoenix's Ch. 3
with Denver's Ch. 9 and you'll see they're pretty
similar). Why the tendency for ABC stations to
do this, when CBS and NBC stations are all over
the place with their schedules?

 

[Bob1370]

Sadly, nothing on that day's schedule past 10 AM PT/noon ET aired as planned, in Phoenix or anywhere else in America. :'(

 

[radioman148]

Sadly, nothing on that day's schedule past 10 AM PT/noon ET aired as planned, in Phoenix or anywhere else in America. :'(

I think it was a little later than that. Around 12:30 CST as I remember it.

 

[Stanislav]

Sadly, nothing on that day's schedule past 10 AM PT/noon ET aired as planned, in Phoenix or anywhere else in America. :'(

I think it was a little later than that. Around 12:30 CST as I remember it.

Yup...the shooting took place at almost exactly 12:30 CT, and the first bulletins hit the air 10-15 minutes later. The first was probably locally on WFAA-TV around 12:40 when Jay Watson breathlessly (after running from Dealey Plaza) interrupted a women's talk/fashion program with the news. I don't think any TV stations or networks broke programming any earlier than that.

 

[bpatrick]

I don't think so either, at least on television;
Walter Cronkite broke into "As The World Turns"
at 12:40 (CST) with the first network bulletin.
However, Don Gardiner broke in on ABC radio at
12:36 with the first bulletin.

 

[Stanislav]

I don't think so either, at least on television;
Walter Cronkite broke into "As The World Turns"
at 12:40 (CST) with the first network bulletin.
However, Don Gardiner broke in on ABC radio at
12:36 with the first bulletin.

I'm assuming NBC-TV broke the news nationally around 12:45 CT. This is based on the extant video starting at about 12:56, and the fact that the first 11 minutes did not get taped.

 

[ixnay]

Sadly, nothing on that day's schedule past 10 AM PT/noon ET aired as planned, in Phoenix or anywhere else in America. :'(

Uh, isn't Arizona in the Mountain Time Zone?

ixnay

 

[radioman148]

I don't think so either, at least on television;
Walter Cronkite broke into "As The World Turns"
at 12:40 (CST) with the first network bulletin.
However, Don Gardiner broke in on ABC radio at
12:36 with the first bulletin.

That's correct. At the time WLS radio was playing Dominique by the Singing Nun and the song was interrupted by a local announcement in Chicago. Then they went to the network feed.

 

[bpatrick]

Sadly, nothing on that day's schedule past 10 AM PT/noon ET aired as planned, in Phoenix or anywhere else in America. :'(

Uh, isn't Arizona in the Mountain Time Zone?

ixnay

That's from a different Bob, not me, but I'll answer
it anyway. Arizona is in the Mountain time zone; he
meant 2 PM ET/1 PM CT/12 N MT/11 AM PT. He has
Pacific two hours behind Eastern when it's actually
three; also, the first national bulletins aired on ABC radio at
1:36 (ET) and on CBS television four minutes later.

I also believe Jay Watson, who was (as I found out)
WFAA's program director, burst into Julie Benell's studio
at about 12:45 (CT), and probably had to catch his
breath before making his announcement. (BTW, WFAA
is--AFAIK--still located in Dealey Plaza.)

 

[Stanislav]

Sadly, nothing on that day's schedule past 10 AM PT/noon ET aired as planned, in Phoenix or anywhere else in America. :'(

Uh, isn't Arizona in the Mountain Time Zone?

ixnay

That's from a different Bob, not me, but I'll answer
it anyway. Arizona is in the Mountain time zone; he
meant 2 PM ET/1 PM CT/12 N MT/11 AM PT. He has
Pacific two hours behind Eastern when it's actually
three; also, the first national bulletins aired on ABC radio at
1:36 (ET) and on CBS television four minutes later.

I also believe Jay Watson, who was (as I found out)
WFAA's program director, burst into Julie Benell's studio
at about 12:45 (CT), and probably had to catch his
breath before making his announcement. (BTW, WFAA
is--AFAIK--still located in Dealey Plaza.)

I was just going by Watson's statement in the first feed to ABC that they had gone on the air "10 minutes after the shooting," but I guess that was just a rough estimate on his part.

 

[oldiesfan6479]

And to briefly circle this back to the Tucson sidebar in the
Phoenix schedule...

WFAA-TV's Jay Watson (now deceased) was, circa the late
1970s-early 1980s, the GM at KOLD-TV.

 

[bpatrick]

Sadly, nothing on that day's schedule past 10 AM PT/noon ET aired as planned, in Phoenix or anywhere else in America. :'(

Uh, isn't Arizona in the Mountain Time Zone?

ixnay

That's from a different Bob, not me, but I'll answer
it anyway. Arizona is in the Mountain time zone; he
meant 2 PM ET/1 PM CT/12 N MT/11 AM PT. He has
Pacific two hours behind Eastern when it's actually
three; also, the first national bulletins aired on ABC radio at
1:36 (ET) and on CBS television four minutes later.

I also believe Jay Watson, who was (as I found out)
WFAA's program director, burst into Julie Benell's studio
at about 12:45 (CT), and probably had to catch his
breath before making his announcement. (BTW, WFAA
is--AFAIK--still located in Dealey Plaza.)

I was just going by Watson's statement in the first feed to ABC that they had gone on the air "10 minutes after the shooting," but I guess that was just a rough estimate on his part.

12:45 is a guesstimate on my part, based on what I got back when
I posted the Dallas/Ft. Worth schedules for that awful day; he was
there, I wasn't and wouldn't be for another thirteen years, at which
time both Jay Watson and Julie Benell were long gone from Ch. 8
(both are deceased now).