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Retro: San Antonio, TX -- November 27, 1978

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Source: TV Guide (South Texas Edition)

KMOL (WOAI) -- Channel 4 (NBC)

AM
6:30 Today In San Antonio
7:00 Today
9:00 Card Sharks
9:30 Jeopardy! (1978-1979 revival with Art Fleming)
10:00 High Rollers
10:30 Dinah! (pre-empts Wheel Of Fortune and first half of America Alive!)
11:30 News
PM
Noon America Alive! (second half of show)
12:30 Days Of Our Lives
1:30 The Doctors
2:00 Another World
3:00 Gunsmoke
4:00 Mighty Mouse And Friends
4:30 Gilligan's Island
5:00 My Three Sons
5:30 NBC News
6:00 News
6:30 Hee Haw Honeys
7:00 Little House On The Prairie
8:00 NBC Movie -- And I Alone Survived (1978 TV Movie)
10:00 News
10:30 Tonight Show (Don Rickles subs for Johnny this week)
Midnight Tomorrow

KENS -- Channel 5 (CBS)

AM
6:15 Cartoons
6:30 Farm And Ranch Report
6:45 Good Day!
7:00 CBS News
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Carol Burnett And Friends (pre-empts All In The Family)
9:30 Price Is Right
10:30 Love Of Life
10:55 CBS News
11:00 Young And The Restless
11:30 Search For Tomorrow
PM
Noon News
12:30 As The World Turns
1:30 Guiding Light
2:30 M*A*S*H
3:00 Match Game '78
3:30 Brady Bunch
4:00 Six Million Dollar Man
5:00 News
5:30 CBS News
6:00 News
6:30 Hollywood Squares
7:00 The White Shadow (premiere)
8:00 M*A*S*H
8:30 One Day At A Time
9:00 Lou Grant
10:00 News
10:30 Rockford Files
11:40 McMillian And Wife
AM
1:30 PTL Club


KLRN -- Channel 9 (PBS)

Educational Programs Until 4:00 PM

PM
4:00 Zoom
4:30 Electric Company
5:00 Sesame Street
6:00 Over Easy
6:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
7:00 Evening At Symphony
8:00 Wodehouse Playhouse
8:30 First Churchills
9:30 Economically Speaking
10:00 Dick Cavett
10:30 Captioned ABC News


KSAT -- Channel 12 (ABC)

AM
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Mike Douglas
10:00 Happy Days
10:30 Family Feud
11:00 All My Children
PM
Noon News
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1:00 One Life To Live
2:00 General Hospital
3:00 Edge Of Night
3:30 Bugs Bunny And Friends
4:30 Newlywed Game
5:00 Mary Tyler Moore
5:30 ABC News
6:00 News
6:30 Eyes Of Texas
7:00 Americans: Football Coach (pre-empts Lucan)
8:00 Monday Night Football (Pittsburgh at San Francisco)
11:00 News
11:30 Adam-12
Midnight Emergency One!

KWEX -- Channel 41 (SIN)

PM
1:00 En San Antonio (news show)
2:00 Esfera Azul (novela)
2:30 Cepillin (kid's show)
3:00 Gabriela (novela)
4:00 Rosalie (novela)
4:30 Rosario De Amor (novela)
5:00 Caras Y Gestos (game show)
5:30 News
6:30 El Chapulin Colorado (comedy)
7:00 Humillados Y Ofendidos
7:30 Esta Noche Es Olga
8:00 Super Estelar Musical
8:30 Pasiones Encendidas (novela)
9:00 Ven Comigo (novela)
10:00 Hermanos Coraje
11:00 24 Horas
Midnight Variedades De Media Noche
 
Why did so many PBS members back in the late '70s air captioned ABC news instead of NBC, CBS or independent news?

-crainbebo
 
crainbebo said:
Why did so many PBS members back in the late '70s air captioned ABC news instead of NBC, CBS or independent news?
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Because it was a networked PBS program, and ABC gave WGBH permission to caption the news and distribute it on PBS. As far as I know, no other network open-captioned their news. Some local stations devoted a few minutes for captioned local news, but only for their own stations.
 
azumanga said:
crainbebo said:
Why did so many PBS members back in the late '70s air captioned ABC news instead of NBC, CBS or independent news?
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Because it was a networked PBS program, and ABC gave WGBH permission to caption the news and distribute it on PBS. As far as I know, no other network open-captioned their news. Some local stations devoted a few minutes for captioned local news, but only for their own stations.
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True, I can attest to this. I remember the captions - which didn't necessarily correspond with what was spoken on the air - were typeset with the Vidifont CG system, which was the first major computer-generated display typesetting apparatus for television, preceding the emergence of Chyron. Also, I suspect it was a way for ABC to broaden its nightly news audience beyond those watching the network at the time of original newscast, as it was in third place "way back when," behind (sometimes even waaay behind) CBS and NBC.
 
wbhist said:
azumanga said:
crainbebo said:
Why did so many PBS members back in the late '70s air captioned ABC news instead of NBC, CBS or independent news?
Click to expand...

Because it was a networked PBS program, and ABC gave WGBH permission to caption the news and distribute it on PBS. As far as I know, no other network open-captioned their news. Some local stations devoted a few minutes for captioned local news, but only for their own stations.
Click to expand...

True, I can attest to this. I remember the captions - which didn't necessarily correspond with what was spoken on the air - were typeset with the Vidifont CG system, which was the first major computer-generated display typesetting apparatus for television, preceding the emergence of Chyron. Also, I suspect it was a way for ABC to broaden its nightly news audience beyond those watching the network at the time of original newscast, as it was in third place "way back when," behind (sometimes even waaay behind) CBS and NBC.
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What years did 'Captioned ABC News' air?
 
wbhist said:
Newname said:
What years did 'Captioned ABC News' air?
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From what I could tell, it started around 1973 or '74, and ended about 1980.
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Which would place it around the time of:
A. Congress cutting funding for PBS; and
B. The networks beginning to do closed-captioning with the advent of decoders(presumably for news as well as prime time programs).
 
Newname said:
wbhist said:
Newname said:
What years did 'Captioned ABC News' air?
Click to expand...

From what I could tell, it started around 1973 or '74, and ended about 1980.
Click to expand...
Which would place it around the time of:
A. Congress cutting funding for PBS; and
B. The networks beginning to do closed-captioning with the advent of decoders(presumably for news as well as prime time programs).
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I think the open-captioned news ended around 1981 and 1982 -- in its final months or so, the captioning technology used was the same one used for closed-captions.
 
azumanga said:
crainbebo said:
Why did so many PBS members back in the late '70s air captioned ABC news instead of NBC, CBS or independent news?
Click to expand...

Because it was a networked PBS program, and ABC gave WGBH permission to caption the news and distribute it on PBS. As far as I know, no other network open-captioned their news. Some local stations devoted a few minutes for captioned local news, but only for their own stations.
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Wow, I forgot all about that PBS aired ABC News back then and distributed it to the PBS stations in closed caption.
 
If my memory is correct...I believe that ABC was the first of the big networks to regularly use closed captioning for their programming.
 
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