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Retro: San Bernardino, Ca. Friday, October 17, 1962

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RicoGregg

San Bernardino's first commercial TV station, KCHU, Channel 18, signed on earlier that year. It was preceded by Southern California's first Public TV station, located at the local junior college. KCHU was owned by the San Bernardino Sun-Telegram newspaper. Here is a sample of their programming:

Friday, October 17, 1962

AM
8:57: Sign On
8:57:30: National Anthem, performed by a citywide band made up of junior high musicians.
8:59: Daily Devotional from Fire Baptized Pentecostal Chuch
9:00: Rattlesnake Sightings
9:30: The Mountains, The Desert, & You
10:00: San Bernardino Travel Guide; This episode: A trip to the Riverside County Line. Features include side glances of the city of Colton, and the old Union Pacific Railroad yards.
10:30: Focus on SB: Today, Jim Claymore, the man who changes the letters on the marquee of the Fox West Coast Theater downtown, is interviewed.
11:00: The Stu Erwin Show (aka Trouble With Father)
11:30: I Led Three Lives

Afternoon
12:00: News At Noon: A Sun-Telegram reporter, whoever they can find with a clip-on tie, reads today's morning edition of the S-T, funnies & classifieds included.
12:30: Cooking With Mary Jo; Today: Meatloaf with actual Heinz catsup.
1:00: Movie: "Baby and the Bathwater", (1952) Steve Cochran, Gail Russell.
2:30: Surprising San Bernardino; Featured: Local businessman Gregory Stockton, who recently received an actual BankAmericard in the mail.
3:00: Cartoon Carnivore, rotating toons featuring Paddy The Pelican, Pow Wow The Indian Boy, Clutch Cargo, and Snuffles The Mouse.
4:00: Advice For Teens; Muffy Rosenfeld (San Bernardino High School) and Nancy McShane (Pacific High School) advise teens on which students are too good to talk to you, who you can talk to, who to avoid, and breaking campus news on the latest crushes.
4:30: Astrology From Madam Chicote
5:00: News At Five: Another Sun-Telegram reporter with a clip-on tie is shanghaied from his desk and reads the afternoon edition of the S-T, funnies & classifieds included.
5:30: Your Local Courtroom: Judge Thornton W. Burnberry III settles local disputes. Today: Two Del Rosa neighborhood housewives bicker over unreturned kitchen utensils.

Evening
6:00: Song of the Day; KFXM disc jockeys Chuck Dougherty & Lyle Kilgore play one song over & over, and discuss it. Today's song: National City, by the Joiner, Ark. Junior High School Marching Band.
6:30: Today in Roller Derby
7:00: Mr. Adams & Eve (50's sitcom starring Howard Duff & Ida Lupino)
7:30: Football (live); San Bernardino High School vs. Pacific High School in the annual city battle for the Sun-Telegram trophy. Live from Orange Show Stadium.
10:00 Late News; This time, a female intern stuck at the copy desk reads from both the afternoon edition and whatever's been printed so far for tomorrow's edition, comics & classifieds included.
10:30: "E" Street Traffic Reports (SB's cruising street)
10:45: Live From Channel 18: Live coverage of KCHU's coffee pot percolating until the coffee's ready.
11:00: Orange Julius Presents
11:30: Blinking Red Lights; A nightly show featuring local AM radio towers and their blinking red lights. Tonight: The three blinking towers of KFXM, televised live from atop the roof of Harris' Department Store downtown.

AM (again!)
12:00: Hot Teachers of SB Unified Schools; (Parental Advisory!) Tonight's highlights: Mrs. Franson of Pacific High; Miss Owens of Warm Springs Elementary; Mrs. MacFarlane of Arrowview Jr. High; Mrs. Dickey of Emerson Elementary; and Miss Haggard of San Bernardino High are all shown in their classrooms. Facial reactions of their male students are featured. (Note: This is KCHU's highest-rated program.)
12:30: Nightly Devotional From Our Lady of the Tumbleweeds
12:31: National Anthem, sung by the Norton Air Force Base Audio-Visual Unit.
12:33: Sign Off.
 
RicoGregg said:
6:00: Song of the Day; KFXM disc jockeys Chuck Dougherty & Lyle Kilgore play one song over & over, and discuss it.
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Really? I thought Brown Eyed Girl wasn't released until 1967. :D
 
Stanislav said:
My calendar must be royally f**ked up -- is it April 1st already?
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...naah, I think Rico just wanted to share with us a piece that he wrote but National Lampoon rejected 25 years back ;D ...
 
I actually remember Channel 18, and watching the Stu Erwin Show, which seemed very dated to my young mind, even though it had probably been produced less than a decade previous. Seven Hills Cable in my home town of Sunland-Tujunga (40 or so miles north-west of San Berdoo) piped it in. It may have been LA's first UHF station, beating KCET (28) and KMEX (34) by a couple of years.
 
Lkeller said:
I actually remember Channel 18, and watching the Stu Erwin Show, which seemed very dated to my young mind, even though it had probably been produced less than a decade previous. Seven Hills Cable in my home town of Sunland-Tujunga (40 or so miles north-west of San Berdoo) piped it in. It may have been LA's first UHF station, beating KCET (28) and KMEX (34) by a couple of years.
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When KCHU, the real one, signed on in 1962, it had been preceded by KVCR, the then-NET affiliate located on the campus of San Bernardino Valley College. I remember an earlier entry by Stanislav that stated that KVCR pre-dated KCET. I don't know if KVCR was the first UHF station in the region or not.

KCHU (now KSCI) was originally located in some warehouse space in the Sun-Telegram building in downtown San Bernardino. Later, it relocated to a basement in the Orange Show Stadium, on the Orange Show fairgrounds. KCHU is long gone, but the Orange Show Stadium is still standing. It's used for weekly auto racing. Capacity is around 10,000.

The original logo of Channel 18 was a drawing of a cameraman rubbing his nose after sneezing, hence the KCHU call letters. I'm afraid that one is not a joke. :)
 
RicoGregg said:
Lkeller said:
I actually remember Channel 18, and watching the Stu Erwin Show, which seemed very dated to my young mind, even though it had probably been produced less than a decade previous. Seven Hills Cable in my home town of Sunland-Tujunga (40 or so miles north-west of San Berdoo) piped it in. It may have been LA's first UHF station, beating KCET (28) and KMEX (34) by a couple of years.
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When KCHU, the real one, signed on in 1962, it had been preceded by KVCR, the then-NET affiliate located on the campus of San Bernardino Valley College. I remember an earlier entry by Stanislav that stated that KVCR pre-dated KCET. I don't know if KVCR was the first UHF station in the region or not.

KCHU (now KSCI) was originally located in some warehouse space in the Sun-Telegram building in downtown San Bernardino. Later, it relocated to a basement in the Orange Show Stadium, on the Orange Show fairgrounds. KCHU is long gone, but the Orange Show Stadium is still standing. It's used for weekly auto racing. Capacity is around 10,000.

The original logo of Channel 18 was a drawing of a cameraman rubbing his nose after sneezing, hence the KCHU call letters. I'm afraid that one is not a joke. :)
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Hey this sked sure beat Saul Levine's KMTW--two nightly shows on the original channel 52 "Travel Time" and "Sports Scope", at least that is what I recall (1966 or so) ;D
 
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