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Retro: Phoenix Net Affils--Thu Jul 14, 1966

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oldiesfan6479

ABC/CBS/NBC affils only--no indie, no non-comm
Time zone MST (EST/CST New York feeds)
Source: Arizona Republic microfilm

KTVK 3 ABC/Phoenix (now indie)
AM
07:45 Cartoons
08:15 Local News
08:30 Jack LaLanne
09:00 Supermarket Sweep
09:30 Dating Game
10:00 Donna Reed
10:30 Father Knows Best
11:00 Ben Casey
PM
12:00 Newlywed Game
12:30 A Time For Us
12:55 ABC News--Sanders
01:00 General Hospital
01:30 The Nurses
02:00 Dark Shadows
02:30 Where The Action Is
03:00 Movie: "Thunder Pass"
05:00 ABC News--Jennings
05:15 Local News
05:30 Sugarfoot
06:30 Batman
07:00 Gidget
07:30 Double Life Of Henry Phyfe
08:00 Bewitched
08:30 Peyton Place
09:00 The Baron
--in-pattern prime time aired on 16mm film (0 DB) run at KTVK
10:00 Local News
10:30 Movie: Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde

KOOL-TV 10 Phoenix/CBS (now KSAZ-TV/Fox)
AM
05:50 Farm & Ranch
06:00 Summer Semester
06:30 CBS Morning News--Wallace
06:55 Local News
07:00 Captain Kangaroo
08:00 I Love Lucy
08:30 McCoys
09:00 Andy Of Mayberry
09:30 Dick Van Dyke
10:00 Love Of Life
10:25 CBS News--Trout
10:30 Search For Tomorrow
10:45 Guiding Light
11:00 December Bride
11:30 As The World Turns
PM
12:00 Password
12:30 House Party
01:00 To Tell The Truth
01:25 CBS News--Edwards
01:30 Edge Of Night
02:00 Secret Storm
02:30 Mike Douglas
04:00 Merv Griffin
05:00 Marshal Dillon
05:30 CBS News--Cronkite
06:00 Local News
06:30 My Three Sons
07:00 Gilligan's Island (network 8:00 ET, 0 DB)
07:30 Munsters (network 7:30 ET; KOOL normally ran it from 16mm film, 0 DB)
08:00 CBS Thursday Movie "Harvey" (network 9:00 ET, 7 DB)
10:00 Local News
10:30 Alfred Hitchcock
11:30 Twilight Zone

KTAR-TV 12 Mesa/NBC (now KPNX)
AM
06:00 Singing Time
06:30 Today Show
08:00 Eye Guess
08:25 NBC News
08:30 Concentration
09:00 Chain Letter
09:30 Showdown
10:00 Jeopardy!
10:30 Swinging Country
10:55 NBC News
11:00 Jody Noll
11:30 Romper Room
PM
12:00 Days Of Our Lives
12:30 The Doctors
01:00 Another World
01:30 You Don't Say!
02:00 Match Game
02:25 NBC News
02:30 Let's Make A Deal (network 1:30 ET)
02:55 Movie: "Private Hell"
04:30 Cliff Hanger
05:00 Ann Sothern
05:30 NBC News--Huntley/Brinkley
06:00 Local News
06:30 Daniel Boone (network 7:30 ET, 0 or 7 DB?)
07:30 Mickie Finn's
08:00 Dean Martin Summer Show
09:00 Laredo (network 8:30 ET, probably 0 DB)
10:00 Local News
10:30 Tonight Show
AM
12:00 Local News
12:05 Movie: "The Skipper Surprised His Wife"
 
Comparing these schedules with those of Denver from the same era,
I can't understand why the ABC affiliates tended to go with the in-pattern
schedules used in the Central time zone (look at Ch. 3, that's precisely ABC's
Thursday-night schedule in the Central time zone at the time), weekends excepted,
when Mountain primetime started at 5:30 on Saturday and 5 PM on Sunday.

Yet the CBS and NBC stations seemed to rearrange their schedules to suit themselves.
Why couldn't Channel 10's schedule for this particular evening have aired as follows:

6:30 The Munsters
7 PM Gilligan's Island
7:30 My Three Sons
8 PM CBS Movie: "Harvey"

and Channel 12's:

6:30 Daniel Boone
7:30 Laredo
8:30 Mickie Finn's
9 PM Dean Martin Summer Show

I do recall that when "Family Affair" was on Mondays at 9:30/8:30, KSL carried it at 7:30,
a point CBS repeatedly brought up when it moved the show to Thursdays at 7:30 (ET).
But if ABC could carry its primetime in pattern in the Mountain time zone, why couldn't
CBS and NBC? I mean, who cares if, for instance, Dean Martin came on at 8 or 9?
 
bpatrick said:
Comparing these schedules with those of Denver from the same era,
I can't understand why the ABC affiliates tended to go with the in-pattern
schedules used in the Central time zone (look at Ch. 3, that's precisely ABC's
Thursday-night schedule in the Central time zone at the time), weekends excepted,
when Mountain primetime started at 5:30 on Saturday and 5 PM on Sunday.
Click to expand...

I don't know of the facilities at KBTV/KCPX-TV/KOAT/etc., but KTVK must have had
only a couple of tape machines, since every night but Saturday they ran all of prime
time from 16mm film, "in pattern" so to speak. (KTVK fed KGUN-TV). I wish they
would have done some limited tape-delaying--such as the 7:30 ET hour to 9 MT,
with 8:30-11 ET cleared live 6:30-9 MT (program "content" permitting).


Yet the CBS and NBC stations seemed to rearrange their schedules to suit themselves.
Why couldn't Channel 10's schedule for this particular evening have aired as follows:
6:30 The Munsters
7 PM Gilligan's Island
7:30 My Three Sons
8 PM CBS Movie: "Harvey"
Click to expand...

KOOL-TV had no more than 3 VTRs available for net delay then, so the above schedule
scenario (all in pattern) would not have been possible. Well, maybe if the entire night
aired a week late. ;) In a post some months ago, I mentioned that in the fall of '65,
KOOL flipped Munsters/Gilligan up to 9-10 MT, and everything else live 6:30-9. But they
changed to the "wacko" schedule (incl. the movie on a 7 DB) in December '65, probably
due to viewer complaints of the sitcoms being on too late.


and Channel 12's:
6:30 Daniel Boone
7:30 Laredo
8:30 Mickie Finn's
9 PM Dean Martin Summer Show
Click to expand...

KTAR-TV also had limited VTR capability, and could not air everything on an hour delay.
Boone may have been a 7 DB.


I do recall that when "Family Affair" was on Mondays at 9:30/8:30, KSL carried it at 7:30,
a point CBS repeatedly brought up when it moved the show to Thursdays at 7:30 (ET).
But if ABC could carry its primetime in pattern in the Mountain time zone, why couldn't
CBS and NBC?
Click to expand...

When FamAffair was on Mondays 9:30/8:30, it also initially aired in Phoenix at 7:30 MT.
KOOL-TV didn't start delaying everything in pattern until spring/summer of '68--during DST,
when that was a two hour delay. It stayed that way in Sep '68, but with the return of standard
time in late Oct '68, KOOL resumed doing the "flip the first hour to 9, everything else live"
prime schedule (with a few exceptions). By the following season, it was a "go" with the
one- or two-hour delay in pattern year-round. At some point around there, they got a
fourth VTR to use for net delay.

I would much rather have been able to see the real ABC feed for prime time (combo live
and tape-delayed), than the crummy 16mm film prints for the whole evening.
 
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