Retro: Phoenix Network Affils--Thu Nov 11, 1965

[oldiesfan6479]

ABC/CBS/NBC affils schedules only (no indie, no non-comm).

Source: Arizona Republic microfilm
Time Zone MST

KTVK 3 Phoenix/ABC (now indie)
AM
07:40 Our Land
07:45 Cartoons
08:15 News
08:30 Jack LaLanne
09:00 The Young Set
10:00 Donna Reed
10:30 Father Knows Best
11:00 Ben Casey
PM
12:00 The Nurses
12:30 A Time For Us
12:55 ABC News ("Women's Touch")
01:00 General Hospital
01:30 The Young Marrieds
02:00 Never Too Young
02:30 Where The Action Is
--ABC daytime: east coast feed live 9:00-3:00
03:00 Movie
05:00 ABC News/Jennings
05:15 News
05:30 Sugarfoot
06:30 Shindig
07:00 Donna Reed
07:30 O.K. Crackerby
08:00 Bewitched
08:30 Peyton Place
09:00 Long Hot Summer
--ABC prime: 16mm film prints rolled from KTVK
(same episodes as on the network that night)
10:00 News
10:30 Movie (x2)

KOOL-TV 10 Phoenix/CBS (now KSAZ-TV/Fox)
AM
05:50 Farm And Ranch
06:00 Sunrise Semester
06:30 CBS Morning News/Wallace
06:55 News
07:00 Captain Kangaroo
08:00 I Love Lucy
08:30 The McCoys
09:00 Andy Of Mayberry
09:30 Dick Van Dyke
10:00 Love Of Life
10:25 CBS News
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
01:30 Edge Of Night
02:00 Secret Storm
--CBS daytime: east coast feed live 8:00-2:30 (network dark 11:00-11:30)
02:30 Mike Douglas
04:00 Lloyd Thaxton
05:00 Marshal Dillon
05:30 CBS Evening News/Cronkite
06:00 News
06:30 My Three Sons
07:00 CBS Thursday Movie
09:00 Munsters (network 7:30 ET)
09:30 Gilligan's Island (network 8:00 ET)
10:00 News
10:30 Twilight Zone
11:00 Merv Griffin (syndicated)

KTAR-TV 12 Mesa/NBC (now KPNX)
AM
06:30 Singin' Time
07:00 Today Show
08:00 Fractured Phrases
08:25 NBC News
08:30 Concentration
09:00 Morning Star
09:30 Paradise Bay
10:00 Jeopardy!
10:30 Let's Play Post Office
10:55 NBC News
11:00 Romper Room
11:30 Let's Make A Deal
11:55 NBC News
PM
12:00 Days Of Our Lives (premiered 11/08/65)
12:30 The Doctors
01:00 Another World
01:30 You Don't Say
02:00 Match Game
02:25 NBC News
--NBC daytime: east coast feed live 8:00-2:30 (network dark 11:00-11:30)
02:30 Kitchen Tips/Movie
05:00 Bat Masterson
05:30 NBC News/Huntley-Brinkley
06:00 News
06:30 Daniel Boone (network 7:30 ET)
07:30 Mona McCluskey
08:00 Dean Martin
09:00 Laredo (network 8:30 ET)
--NBC prime: Daniel Boone appears to be the network episode from 11/04;
Laredo could also be a week late based on the story line in IMDB
10:00 News
10:30 Tonight Show/Carson
--guests: George Kirby/Joan Rivers; could not determine if same night or a one-DB
AM
12:00 News
12:05 Movie

 

[bpatrick]

I seem to recall in the '70s and early '80s that the Mountain
stations followed the Eastern ones in the daytime and aired
everything two hours behind Eastern (for example, "All My
Children" at 1 PM ET but 11 AM in Denver); in fact I remember
schedules from Albuquerque and El Paso from around 1977 in
which most of the soaps were on in the morning:

ABC 10:30 Ryan's Hope (12:30 ET)
11 AM All My Children
12 N no soap--$20,000 Pyramid was on
12:30 One Life To Live
1:15 General Hospital
2 PM Edge Of Night

CBS 9:30 Love Of Life (news at 9:55)
10 AM Young And The Restless
10:30 Search For Tomorrow
11 AM network down
11:30 As The World Turns
12:30 Guiding Light

NBC 11:30 Days Of Our Lives
12:30 The Doctors
1 PM Another World

As for primetime, ABC's still makes the most sense, following the
Central Time version. CBS's makes some sense, since the shows
airing at 7:30 and 8 (ET) would have aired at news time in the Mountain
time zone (I think, though, that if I had been Ch. 10's program director
I would have found an earlier time for "The Munsters" and "Gilligan's Island,"
with their huge kid audiences, perhaps on Saturdays after the cartoons since
I don't recall much sports programming on CBS around 12 N MT, or late Saturday
afternoon before Jackie Gleason came on). But why would NBC have to delay
programs a week? What I see here is a scheduling pattern not unlike ABC's, so
why not air the same episodes the same night as the rest of the country?

 

[oldiesfan6479]

As for primetime, ABC's still makes the most sense, following the Central Time version.

Except for having to watch the shows on 16mm film, instead of of the network's 35mm (live or
on tape-delay). The film prints looked--and sounded--putrid.

CBS's makes some sense, since the shows airing at 7:30 and 8 (ET) would have aired at news time in the Mountain time zone
(I think, though, that if I had been Ch. 10's program director I would have found an earlier time for "The Munsters" and
"Gilligan's Island," with their huge kid audiences...

KOOL-TV did just that--at a "cost"--starting in December 1965. Gilligan was moved to 7 (on tape),
Munsters to 7:30 (on film), and the CBS Movie to 8 (on tape). The movie, however, aired on a
one week delay! It wasn't until--IIRC--some time in 1968 that they were able to allocate four VTRs
to net delay which meant finally that prime time was aired on tape in pattern 6:30-10 on weeknights.

BTW, the following season ('66-'67) when Gilligan and Buddy/Terrific aired Mondays at 7:30-8:30 ET,
KOOL-TV went back to flipping that hour to 9 MT--for the entire season!

But why would NBC have to delay programs a week? What I see here is a scheduling pattern not unlike ABC's, so why not air the
same episodes the same night as the rest of the country?

I'm guessing KTAR-TV had only two or three VTRs for net delay at the time and had to really juggle
schedules to "make everything fit." Easy when you can just flip 7:30 ET to 9 MT, more difficult
when you couldn't. As for 8:30 ET shows being a week late at 9 MT instead of same night...?