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Retro: Phoenix Network Prime--Fri Nov 12, 1965

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ABC/CBS/NBC prime time only (no indie, no non-comm).

Source: Arizona Republic microfilm
Time Zone MST

KTVK 3 Phoenix/ABC (now indie)
06:30 Flintstones
07:00 Tammy
07:30 Addams Family
08:00 Honey West
08:30 Farmer's Daughter
09:00 Jimmy Dean Show
--Jimmy Dean on one-hour tape delay, rest on 16mm film from KTVK

KOOL-TV 10 Phoenix/CBS (now KSAZ-TV/Fox)
06:30 Hogan's Heroes
07:00 Gomer Pyle, USMC
07:30 Smothers Brothers
08:00 Slattery's People
09:00 Wild Wild West (network 7:30 ET)

KTAR-TV 12 Mesa/NBC (now KPNX)
06:30 Camp Runamuck (7:30 ET) (unknown if same night or 7 DB)
07:00 Hank (8:00 ET) (appears to be a 7 DB per IMDB)
07:30 Mr. Roberts
08:00 Man From U.N.C.L.E.
09:00 Convoy (8:30 ET) (appears to be a 7 DB per IMDB)
 
This seems to confirm what I've believed ever since we
started posting Mountain schedules: that ABC was already
delaying everything an hour and following the Central Time
version of primetime (except on weekends); interesting,
though, that the CBS station seems to be taking everything
live except for "Wild Wild West" (which would be impractical
at 5:30 MT). But why wouldn't it be possible for the NBC station
to follow ABC's lead and delay everything one hour?
 
It's my understanding that ABC was providing KTVK with 16mm film of the M-F prime-time line-up so the station could air programs in pattern on the same night as aired by the network. NBC and CBS apparently didn't do this, forcing their Phoenix affiliates to improvise. KOOL was apparently content taking the network live (when possible) starting at 6:30 MT, and then tape-delaying whatever was on CBS at 7:30 ET and airing at 9:00 MT. As pointed out in another post, this sometimes resulted in kid-friendly sitcoms being aired at 9:00 MT, which probably wasn't the best programming decision in the world, but the most practical. KTAR seemed to do a lot of one-week delays in order to air NBC prime-time somewhat in pattern, albeit a week late.
 
As for why KTAR didn't just do same-night delays, my only guess is that they didn't want to burden the MC ops with turning tapes around every 30 minutes for 3 1/2 hours every night, which became the norm for network affiliates in the Mountain Time Zone a few years later. The tape technology at the time might have made that difficult, as well.
 
SteveRichards said:
As for why KTAR didn't just do same-night delays, my only guess is that they didn't want to burden the MC ops with
turning tapes around every 30 minutes for 3 1/2 hours every night...
Click to expand...

The one hour delay pattern I'm familiar with (in the 2" VTR days) was to record in 50 minute
segments with a 10 minute overlap for segues:

RECORD PLAYBACK
5:30-6:20 >> 6:30-7:20
6:10-7:00 >> 7:10-8:00
6:50-7:40 >> 7:50-8:40
7:30-8:20 >> 8:30-9:20
8:10-9:00 >> 9:10-10:00

Four VTRs--three primaries and one for a record backup.
 
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