Retro: Salt Lake City, Wednesday, Feb 28, 1979

[south_ferretti]

from Deseret News

2 KUTV NBC
5:50 Early Farm Watch
6:00 Understanding Our World
6:30 The Flintstones
7:00 Today
9:00 High Rollers
9:30 Wheel of Fortune
10:00 Jeopardy!
10:30 Password Plus
11:00 Hollywood Squares
11:30 Card Sharks
12:00 News
12:30 Joker's Wild
12:55 Today in the West
1:00 Another World
2:00 Days of Our Lives
3:00 Emergency One
4:00 Six Million Dollar Man
5:00 NBC Nightly News
5:30 Mary Tyler Moore
6:00 News
6:30 Donna Fargo (guest Peter Marshall)
7:00 Supertrain
8:00 From Here to Eternity (conclusion)
10:00 News
10:30 Tonight Show
12:00 Tomorrow

4 KTVX ABC
6:00 Good Morning America
7:00 Hotel Balderash
8:00 Good Morning America (cont'd)
9:00 Happy Days
9:30 Donahue
10:30 Ryan's Hope
11:00 All My Children
12:00 One Life to Live
1:00 General Hospital
2:00 The Edge of Night
2:30 Family Feud
3:00 $20,000 Pyramid
3:30 Newlywed Game
4:00 Gilligan's Island
4:30 ABC World News Tonight
5:00 Brady Bunch
5:30 Carol Burnett & Friends
6:00 News
6:30 Make Me Laugh
7:00 Eight is Enough
8:00 Charlie's Angels
9:00 Vega$
10:00 News
10:30 Police Woman
11:30 Mannix
12:30 McHale's Navy

5 KSL CBS
5:25 Farm & Ranch Report
5:30 Sunrise Semester
6:00 CBS Morning News
7:00 Captain Kangaroo
8:00 Romper Room
8:30 Price is Right
9:30 Love of Life
10:00 Young and the Restless
10:30 All in the Family
11:00 As the World Turns
12:00 News
12:30 Guiding Light
1:30 M*A*S*H
2:00 Movie "Detective Story"
4:00 Merv Griffin
5:00 Tic Tac Dough
5:30 CBS Evening News
6:00 News
6:30 Cross-Wits
7:00 Married: The First Year
8:00 One Day at a Time
8:30 The Jeffersons
9:00 Julie Andrews Special "Come Here the Music Play"
10:00 News
10:40 Streets of San Francisco
11:40 The FBI
12:40 Mike Douglas
2:10 News

7 KUED PBS
6:00 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
6:30 Dick Cavett
7:00 Sesame Street
8:00 Big Blue Marble
8:30 Over Easy
9:00 The Electric Company
9:30 TBA
12:00 Infinity Factory
12:30 Villa Alegre
1:00 TBA
3:00 Lilias, Yoga & You
3:30 Villa Alegre
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 The Electric Company
6:00 Studio See
6:30 Over Easy
7:00 Dick Cavett
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8:00 Shakespeare Plays "As You Like It"
10:30 Crosstalk
11:00 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
11:30 ABC Captioned News
12:00 Paul Jacobs & the Nuclear Gang

11 KBYU PBS
7:45 AM Weather
8:00 Sesame Street
9:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9:30 American Indian Artist
10:00 The Naturalists
10:30 TBA
12:00 Sesame Street
1:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
1:30 TBA
3:00 Villa Alegre
3:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Big Blue Marble
5:30 Over Easy
6:00 Newsroom
6:30 Sneak Previews
7:00 Movie "Seven Little Foys"
9:00 Window on the World
10:00 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
10:30 Julia Child & Company
11:00 ABC Captioned News

20 KSTU Ind
10:30 Dinah!
12:00 Movie "Beneath the 12-Mile Reef"
2:00 Andy Griffith
2:30 Fred Flintstone & Friends
3:00 Popeye
3:30 Bugs Bunny
4:00 Lighthouse 20
4:30 Battle of the Planets
5:00 Wild, Wild West
6:00 Gong Show
6:30 Andy Griffith
7:00 Movie "Edward the King"
10:00 Dating Game
10:30 Maverick
11:30 The 700 Club

 

[kenglish]

Wow! I started at KSL eight weeks before. Not very many TV stations at that time.
Bonneville, which owns KSL and the Farnsworth Peak site, built the KSTU tower and transmitter and leased it to them for something like a dollar a year. It was an experiment, done to prove if UHF TV would even work in such a mountainous area.
If it had failed, we would probably not have digital TV, since it relies so heavily on UHF.

 

[umfan]

Surprised GMA was broken up as it was.

 

[ftballfan]

Wow! I started at KSL eight weeks before. Not very many TV stations at that time.
Bonneville, which owns KSL and the Farnsworth Peak site, built the KSTU tower and transmitter and leased it to them for something like a dollar a year. It was an experiment, done to prove if UHF TV would even work in such a mountainous area.
If it had failed, we would probably not have digital TV, since it relies so heavily on UHF.

By this time, cable was starting to penetrate into many communities. Did SLC ever have KWGN or any of the Los Angeles independents on cable?

 

[ShawnHill1]

By this time, cable was starting to penetrate into many communities. Did SLC ever have KWGN or any of the Los Angeles independents on cable?

I've seen old TV Guides from the '80s where KWGN (2D) and KTVU Oakland/San Francisco (2S) were featured in the listings.

Here's a photo example here, from 1982...
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