Retro: San Francisco Fri, Dec 14, 1956

[TR1968]

from San Francisco Examiner via Newspapers.com

KRON 4
7:00 Today
9:00 Tic Tac Dough
9:30 It Could Be You
10:00 Ding Dong School
10:30 Home Show
11:30 Tennessee Ernie Ford
noon Matinee Theater
1:00 Queen for a Day
1:45 Modern Romances
2:00 Comedy Time
2:30 Your Child & the Experts
3:00 GG Playhouse
5:45 Bugs Bunny Presents
6:20 Popeye
6:30 Man Called X
7:00 Boxing
7:45 News
8:00 Hall of Stars
8:30 Walter Winchell
9:00 On Trial
9:30 Big Story
10:00 Movie "Canon City"
11:30 Tonight Show

KPIX 5
7:00 Panorama Pacific
8:30 This Morning
9:00 Valiant Lady
9:15 Love of Life
9:30 Search for Tomorrow
9:45 Guiding Light
10:00 Liberace
10:30 As the World Turns
11:00 Our Miss Brooks
11:30 Art Linkletter
noon Big Payoff
12:30 Bob Crosby
1:00 Brighter Day
1:15 Secret Storm
1:30 News/Les Paul & Mary Ford
1:45 Courtney Movie "Red Planet Mars"
3:00 Garry Moore
3:30 Arthur Godfrey
4:30 Strike It Rich
5:00 Deputy Dave's Cartoons
5:15 Happy Holly
5:30 Deputy Dave's Cartoons
6:00 Bill Rodey
6:15 Douglas Edwards (CBS News)
6:30 My Friend Flicka
7:00 Our Miss Brooks
7:30 Person to Person
8:00 West Point
8:30 Zane Grey Theater
9:00 Crusader
9:30 Playhouse of Stars
10:00 Lineup
10:30 Studio 57
11:00 Combat Sergeant
11:30 Movie "The Silent Raiders"

KGO 7
10:55 News
11:00 Cartoons
11:15 Jack LaLanne
noon Noon Theater
12:45 Beulah
1:15 Movie "Fall Guy"
2:30 Erwins
3:00 Afternoon Film Festival "The Titfield Thunderbolt"
4:30 Life with Elizabeth
5:00 Mickey Mouse Club
6:00 Mickey Rooney
6:30 Dick Powell
7:00 Death Valley Days
7:30 Rin Tin Tin
8:00 Adventures of Jim Bowie
8:30 Crossroads
9:00 Treasure Hunt
9:30 The Vise
10:00 Ray Anthony
11:00 John Daly (ABC News?)
11:15 San Francisco Tonight

KQED 9
4pm Musical Forms
4:30 Holiday Boxes & Bows
5:30 Portrait in Music
6:00 Aeronautics America
7:00 Holiday Boxes & Bows
7:30 Industry on Parade
8:00 Musical Forms
8:30 Christmas Song Concert
9:00 Musical Forms

KOVR 13 (Mt Diablo)
2pm People, Places & Things
2:30 Mr. & Mrs. North
3:00 Ray Milland
3:30 Trouble with Father
4:00 Tooneytown
4:30 Santa Claus' Workshop
4:45 Tooneytown
6:00 China Smith
6:30 Early Show "Man from Shanghai"
7:30 Sherlock Holmes
8:00 Life with Father
8:30 Charades
9:00 Ida Lupino
9:30 Film "The Laughing Bandit"
10:00 Star Performance\
10:30 News
10:45 Play of the Week
11:20 News

KSAN 32
3pm Meet Me on Market
3:30 Building America
4:00 Cuckoo Nest
4:30 Magic Carpet
5:00 Around the Bay
5:30 Film
6:00 Top Tune Time
7:00 Ruggles
7:30 Cinema Time
8:00 Revival Hour
8:30 Sports
9:00 Movie

 

[Ccook55]

Wasn't The Price Is Right the 10:30 AM show on channel 4? I know it moved to 11 AM on New Year's Eve.

 

[TR1968]

Per listings for the rest of the week, KRON normally cleared it at 2:30pm.

 

[JeeperOne]

And SOAP OPERAS as early as 9:00 AM in 1956 !! Who'd have thought THAT??

Once upon a time in the not so distant PAST nowadays, a soap opera on THAT early was TIME SHIFTED FROM THE ORIGINAL AIRDATE

Now, you NEVER see ANYTHING BUT some talk show or Courtroom show on that early (Even the Today show shifts to more of a talk show & The Price Is Right doesn't even come on till 11:00/10:00 AM on CBS)

My how the times have changed.....

 

[RandTV]

Back in the days when soap operas used dramatic organ music.

 

[Gregg.]

I'm struck by the lack of newscasts. The 7:45 news on KRON 4 is likely John Cameron Swayze with NBC News. We see KPIX 5 has Douglas Edwards and CBS News at 6:15. It seems KPIX also has a local ten minute newscast at 1:30 pm with Les Paul & Mary Ford doing a five minute syndicated show at 1:40 pm. That's it for KRON and KPIX. No evening news, no late night news. Maybe a few headlines at sign-off?

And during this era, ABC ran its network news late. It usually aired at 10:30pm on the East Coast, so stations could either do a local newscast at 10:45 or start their late movie earlier than their competitors. We see here that KGO runs ABC News with John Daly at 11pm. Daly was the anchor and news director at the ABC Network, but made an equal amount of money hosting What's My Line? Sunday evenings at 10:30 on CBS. Rare for someone to be on two networks doing two totally different types of show.

I also see KGO 7 has something called San Francisco Tonight at 11:15. I wonder if that was a mix of local news and local talk? Or was it just a San Francisco version of The Tonight Show?

And KOVR 13 Mount Diablo is an interesting story I just read on Wikipedia. It started as an independent station for San Francisco and San Jose before moving to Stockton and becoming the ABC affiliate for Sacramento.