Retro: San Antonio, Friday, July 4, 1958

[DM601]

(Source: Kerrville, Texas Daily Times)

WOAI-TV 4 (NBC)
AM
6:55 Farm News
7 Today
9 Dough-Re-Mi
9:30 Treasure Hunt
10 Price is Right
10:30 Truth or Consequences
11 Tic Tac Dough
11:30 It Could Be You
PM
12 Movietime (specific movie not listed)
1:30 Haggis Baggis
2 Today is Ours
2:30 From These Roots
3 Queen for a Day
3:45 Modern Romance
4 Family Movietime
5:30 TV Playhouse
6 World at Large (color) – local newscast
6:15 NBC News
6:30 The Big Game
7 Mike Hammer
7:30 Sea Hunt
8 Cavalcade of Sports
8:45 Fight Beat
9 M Squad
9:30 The Thin Man
10 Deadline (color) – local newscast
10:15 Weather by Twila (color)
10:20 Command Performance (Schedule’s cut off at this point, but apparently they didn’t carry Jack Parr)

KENS-TV 5 (CBS)
AM
8 Little Rascals
8:55 News
9 For Love or Money
9:30 Play Your Hunch
10 Arthur Godfrey
10:30 Dotto
11 Love of Life
11:30 Search for Tomorrow
11:45 Guiding Light
PM
12 Amos ‘n Andy
12:30 As The World Turns
1 Beat the Clock
1:30 House Party
2 Big Payoff
2:30 Verdict is Yours
3 Brighter Day
3:15 Secret Storm
3:30 Edge of Night
4 Four O’Clock Movie
5:15 Popeye
6 Texas News
6:15 CBS News
6:30 Silent Service
7 Trackdown
7:30 Zane Grey Theatre
8 Phil Silvers
8:30 Schlitz Playhouse
9 Undercurrent
9:30 State Trooper
10 Shock (Theater?)

KONO-TV 12 (ABC)
AM
10 Cartoons
10:30 Early Show
PM
12 News
12:15 Movie Date
2 Life with Elizabeth
2:30 Trouble with Father
3 American Bandstand
5 Buccaneers
5:30 Mickey Mouse
6 Sheena
6:30 Rin Tin Tin
7 Jim Bowie
7:30 This is Music
8 The Rival World
8:30 Summer Theater
9 Unexpected
9:30 Harbor Command
10 Twelve-Star Final
10:15 Weatherman
10:20 Twentieth Century Theater

 

[Braves2005]

Why wasn't Captain Kangaroo on in San Antonio at that time? Did KENS not carry Captain Kangaroo from its premiere in 1955?

Also KONO-12(KSAT now) carrying American Bandstand the full 2 hours. How many stations besides San Antonio carried the full 2 hours?

WOAI-4 carried Command Performance at 10:20 PM which I assume would be a movie. Could it be that WOAI at first didn't carry Jack Paar or they carried it but he was off that night because of the 4th of July.

 

[bpatrick]

By July 1958 ABC was carrying American Bandstand from
3 to 3:30, switching to Who Do You Trust? from 3:30 to 4,
then coming back to Bandstand from 4 to 5 (except in
Philadelphia, where Bandstand stayed on from 3 to 5).
That had been ABC's policy since November 1957. I never
knew any station other than WFIL (WPVI) carried the full
two hours of Bandstand. I'd like to know, too, if any other
ABC affiliates pre-empted Johnny Carson's game session
for the extra 30 minutes of Dick Clark.

 

[Mediafrog+]

Notice how little news there is on any of the stations. Of course this was back in the days when news was considered a public service obligation, not a money cow. The reporters and presenters were working stiffs just like everybody else--no millionaire anchors in those days.

 

[Smittian]

And I'm sure Dan Cook was on Channel 5 even way back then ;