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Retro: Phoenix TVG Edition, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 1974

TVWorldwide

TVWorldwide

From TV Guide

Channels listed:

PHOENIX
3 KTVK (ABC)
5 KPHO-TV (Ind.)
10 KOOL-TV (CBS)
12 KTAR-TV (NBC)
21 KPAZ-TV (Ind.)

TEMPE
8 KAET (PBS)

FLAGSTAFF
2 KOAI-TV (NBC)

Things I noticed:

* KPAZ-TV was still a mostly secular station at this time; it went religious a few years later. Apparently, it produced (or at least aired) a newscast at 5PM.
* KPHO-TV aired its newcast at 10PM, competing head-to-head with the affiliates. The news was eventually moved to 9:30, where it stayed until the early 1990s. KPHO would not have a full-length 10PM newscast again until several years after it became a CBS affiliate.
* Flagstaff's KOAI-TV apparently produced its own morning show. Was that unusual for a market that small in the 1970s?
* Were the post-midnight newscasts national programs, repeats of the 10PM local news, or live local updates?
* Any input or memories would be very welcome!

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KOAI-TV, Channel 2, NBC, Flagstaff:

6:30a Navajo Nation Report
7:00 Today
8:00 Today in the Northland
9:00 Jackpot!
9:30 Celebrity Sweepstakes
9:55 NBC News -- Edwin Newman
10:00 Name that Tune
10:30 Jeopardy
11:00 Days of Our Lives
11:30 Doctors
12:00 Another World
12:30 How to Survive a Marriage
1:00 Somerset
1:30 Winning Steak
2:00 High Rollers
2:30 Hollywood Squares
3:00 Film
3:30 Thrifty Kitchen
4:00 Film
5:00 News
5:30 NBC News -- John Chancellor
6:00 NAU [Northern Arizona University] Sports Profile
6:30 Jimmy Dean
7:00 Adam-12
7:30 Movie: "The Disappearance of Flight 412"
9:00 Police Story
10:00 News
10:30 Johnny Carson

KTVK, Channel 3, ABC, Phoenix:

6:30a Education
7:00 Jack LaLanne
7:30 News -- Joe Callahan
8:00 Romper Room
8:30 Brady Bunch
9:00 Password
9:30 Split Second
10:00 All My Children
10:30 Let's Make a Deal
11:00 Newlywed Game
11:30 Girl in My Life
12:00 General Hospital
12:30 One Life to Live
1:00 $10,000 Pyramid
1:30 City Talk
2:00 Dealer's Choice
2:30 Hazel
3:00 Beverly Hillbillies
3:30 Lassie
4:00 Movie: "Stagecoach to Dancers' Rock"
5:30 ABC News -- Smith/Reasoner
6:00 News
6:30 Salty
7:00 Happy Days
7:30 Movie: "The Stranger Within"
9:00 Marcus Welby, M.D.
10:00 News
10:30 Wide World Mystery
12:00 News -- Don Tutt

KPHO-TV, Channel 5, Independent, Phoenix:

6:30a College Classes
7:00 Flintstones
7:30 Wallace and Ladmo
8:30 Lucy Show
9:00 Open House
10:00 Movie: "Watch it Sailor"
11:30 News -- Larry Martel
12:00 What's My Line?
12:30 Andy Griffith
1:00 Bold Ones
2:00 Perry Mason
3:00 Big Valley
4:00 Gilligan's Island
4:30 Bewitched
5:00 Mod Squad
6:00 Truth or Consequences
6:30 Rifleman
7:00 FBI
8:00 Family Affair
8:30 Merv Griffin
10:00 News
10:30 Movie: "Bells are Ringing"
1:00 News

KAET, Channel 8, PBS, Tempe:

7:30a Lilias, Yoga and You
8:00 Mister Rogers
8:30 Electric Company
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Electric Company
10:30 Villa Allegre
11:00 Carrascolendas
11:30 Hodgepodge Lodge
12:00 Lilias, Yoga and You
1:00 Career Development
1:30 Counseling the Adolescent
2:00 The Exceptional Child
2:30 America
3:00 Sesame Street
4:00 Mister Rogers
4:30 Villa Allegre
5:00 Electric Company
5:30 Zoom
6:00 Open Math
6:30 Public Memo
7:00 America
7:30 Evening at Symphony
8:00 Woman
9:00 Felon Follies
10:00 Accion Chicano
10:30 Burglar-Proofing
11:00 Public Memo

KOOL-TV, Channel 10, CBS, Phoenix:

5:20a Farm and Ranch Report
5:30 Sunrise Semester
6:00 CBS News -- Hughes Rudd
7:00 Captain Kangaroo
8:00 News -- Chuck Dimond
8:30 Love of Life
9:00 Young and the Restless
9:30 Search for Tomorrow
10:00 Joker's Wild
10:30 As the World Turns
11:00 Guiding Light
11:30 Edge of Night
12:00 News -- Bill Close
12:30 Match Game
1:00 Tattletales
1:30 Gambit
2:00 Now You See It
2:30 Price is Right
3:00 Bonanza
4:00 Mike Douglas
5:30 CBS News -- Walter Cronkite
6:00 News
6:30 To Tell the Truth
7:00 Good Times
7:30 M*A*S*H
8:00 Hawaii Five-O
9:00 Barnaby Jones
10:00 News
10:30 Movie: "Savage"
12:00 Phil Donahue
1:00 News

KTAR-TV, Channel 12, NBC, Phoenix:

6:00a Today -- Hartz/Walters
8:00 Today in Arizona
9:00 Jackpot!
9:30 Celebrity Sweepstakes
9:55 NBC News -- Edwin Newman
10:00 Name that Tune
10:30 Jeopardy
11:00 Days of Our Lives
11:30 Doctors
12:00 Another World
12:30 How to Survive a Marriage
1:00 Somerset
1:30 Winning Steak
2:00 High Rollers
2:30 Hollywood Squares
3:00 Concentration
3:30 Movie: "The Gift of Love"
5:30 NBC News -- John Chancellor
6:00 News
6:30 Hollywood Squares
7:00 Adam-12
7:30 Movie: "The Disappearance of Flight 412"
9:00 Police Story
10:00 News
10:30 Johnny Carson
12:30 News
12:45 Tomorrow

KPAZ-TV, Channel 21, Independent, Phoenix:

1:30p Real McCoys
2:00 Afternoon Gap
3:00 New Zoo Revue
3:30 Black Buffalo
4:30 Bozo's Big Top
5:00 News
5:30 Cisco Kid
6:00 Real McCoys
6:30 Ski Scene
7:00 Arizona Outdoors
7:30 Bobby Goldsboro
8:00 Branded for Christ
8:30 Encounter
9:00 The Gap
10:30 Cisco Kid

If you suspect any typos, let me know, and I'll go check.
 
> Things I noticed:
>
> * KPAZ-TV was still a mostly secular station at this time;
> it went religious a few years later. Apparently, it produced
> (or at least aired) a newscast at 5PM.

Yes, KPAZ ran a local newscast at 5 PM. But, from accounts, it was anything but professional. "The Gap" was not a show about the department store, but a local religious program (by this time, the station was owned by a church), and it looked like the prime-time schedule was mostly religion as well.

KPAZ would have its transmitter repossessed in late 1976/early 1977, and TBN would be the ones to bail them out.

> * KPHO-TV aired its newcast at 10PM, competing head-to-head
> with the affiliates. The news was eventually moved to 9:30,
> where it stayed until the early 1990s. KPHO would not have a
> full-length 10PM newscast again until several years after it
> became a CBS affiliate.

...and probably got better ratings than KTVK's news during this time period.
 
KPAZ-TV in the pre-TBN days

> * KPAZ-TV was still a mostly secular station at this time;
> it went religious a few years later. Apparently, it produced
> (or at least aired) a newscast at 5PM.

Calling that newscast "produced" was a stretch to say the least, but it was live, local, and first. It was probably the worst newscast in television history. Even worse than KTVK (which was also pretty bad at the time).

I don't remember any of the news-people's names but the broadcast was unforgettable. No reporters, minimal graphics, no professionalism whatsoever. That newscast (actually, the whole station) was a train-wreck that you don't easily forget, no matter how hard you try. :-D

The news anchor (and I use that term loosely) was a Wally Cox-lookalike who couldn't read copy to save his life (but he wasn't the only anchorman in Phoenix with that problem back then). The US and Arizona weather maps were taken from a National Geographic magazine and had clear plastic overlays on top so the weatherman could draw on them with a magic marker. Only the sportscaster sounded anything close to professional. He did play-by-play for the minor-league Phoenix Giants baseball games that KPAZ carried for a couple of years. It was a joke, but it was the only 5 PM newscast in Phoenix at the time.

The only reason I remember this at all was that I was taking a college class at the time where we analyzed all the local newscasts (it was an easy "A"), including Channel 21's.

Also, IIRC, the Bozo show they aired was the syndicated version that came from WHDH-TV Boston (the one that's now WCVB, not the current one), not the better-known show from WGN-TV Chicago (which I don't think was ever syndicated).
 
Re: KPAZ-TV in the pre-TBN days

> Also, IIRC, the Bozo show they aired was the syndicated
> version that came from WHDH-TV Boston (the one that's now
> WCVB, not the current one), not the better-known show from
> WGN-TV Chicago (which I don't think was ever syndicated).

If its "Bozo's Big Top", that would be the syndicated version. WGN's version was live and was never syndicated.
 
Re: KPAZ-TV in the pre-TBN days

> If its "Bozo's Big Top", that would be the syndicated
> version. WGN's version was live and was never syndicated.
>
And also, some stations still had their own version of "Bozo" at the time, though many carried the syndicated version in the 1970s.

Apparently beiing on the cheap, KPAZ offered the syndied version from Boston.
 
> * KPAZ-TV was still a mostly secular station at this time;
> it went religious a few years later. Apparently, it produced
> (or at least aired) a newscast at 5PM.
> * KPHO-TV aired its newcast at 10PM, competing head-to-head
> with the affiliates. The news was eventually moved to 9:30,
> where it stayed until the early 1990s. KPHO would not have a
> full-length 10PM newscast again until several years after it
> became a CBS affiliate.

Even after picking up CBS, KPHO's 10p newscast was 15 minutes followed by Seinfeld reruns-until Fox-10 picked up Jerry

> * Flagstaff's KOAI-TV apparently produced its own morning
> show. Was that unusual for a market that small in the 1970s?

Not really - Flagstaff is a college town (Northern Ariz Univ.)...lots of aspiring young journalists who want to get on TV (including one Heidi Foglesong!)
> * Were the post-midnight newscasts national programs,
> repeats of the 10PM local news, or live local updates?

Yes, they were reruns of the 10pm local newscasts
 
> > * Were the post-midnight newscasts national programs,
> > repeats of the 10PM local news, or live local updates?
>
> Yes, they were reruns of the 10pm local newscasts
>

Actually, in the early part of the seventies, the post-midnight newscasts were NOT repeats of the 10 pm news. However, it was taped not too long after the 10 pm newscast ended.

Usually, the post-midnight broadcasts were an announcer on camera reading news copy. The exception being the newscaster on CBS channel 10 (Sam Chu Lin) doing a full half- hour newscast with local and national stories with film and video inserts. He used that experience to go onto Los Angeles.

In the late seventies (early eighties?), channel 10 produced a live, local 90-minute newscast in the middle of the night. Linda Williams hosted the newscast and was very well produced.

Somewhere along the line, the ninety-minute newscast ended, and the stations went to repeating the 10 pm news after midnight. Don't know when that happened.

Just my two cents worth.

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Re: KPAZ-TV in the pre-TBN days

> > If its "Bozo's Big Top", that would be the syndicated
> > version. WGN's version was live and was never syndicated.
> >
> And also, some stations still had their own version of
> "Bozo" at the time, though many carried the syndicated
> version in the 1970s.
>
> Apparently beiing on the cheap, KPAZ offered the syndied
> version from Boston.
>

Were there two news anchors, or just a single one? I still remember when channel 21 went on the air the station was talking about hiring two anchors away from other Phoenix stations. I still remember their names.<P ID="signature">______________
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