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Retro: Southern California Wed, Aug 17, 1960

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Bluenoser

from TV Guide-Southern California edition

KNXT 2-CBS Los Angeles (TVG listed the LA stations as Hollywood, where all their studios were located)
6:10 Give Us This Day
6:15 Farm Report/News
6:30 Government
7:00 Captain Kangaroo
7:45 News
8:00 Kingdom of the Sea
8:30 Amos 'n' Andy
9:00 December Bride
9:30 Video Village
10:00 I Love Lucy
10:30 Clear Horizon
11:00 Love of Life
11:30 Search for Tomorrow
11:45 Guiding Light
noon News
12:05 Noon Show "The Pied Piper"
1:30 As the World Turns
2:00 Full Circle
2:30 House Party
3:00 Millionaire
3:30 Verdict is Yours
4:00 Brighter Day
4:15 Secret Storm
4:30 Edge of Night
5:00 Burns & Allen
5:30 Early Show "Utopia"
6:55 Weather
7:00 News
7:15 CBS News
7:30 Reckoning "Man Under Glass"
8:30 Men Into Space
9:00 Millionaire "Millionaire Michael Gunther"
9:30 I've Got a Secret
10:00 Armstrong Circle Theater "Operation Moonshine"
11:00 News
11:15 Late Show "And Now Tomorrow"
1:00 Late Late Show "Two Gun Lady"
2:30 News
2:35 Give Us This Day

KEYT 3-NBC/ABC/CBS Santa Barbara
7:00 Today
9:00 Dough Re Mi
9:30 Play Your Hunch
10:00 Price is Right (c)
10:30 Concentration
11:00 Truth or Consequences
11:30 It Could Be You (c)
noon Queen for a Day
12:30 Loretta Young
1:00 Young Dr. Malone
1:30 From These Roots
2:00 Day in Court
2:30 Gale Storm "Jailmates"
3:00 Beat the Clock
3:30 Who Do You Trust?
4:00 American Bandstand
5:30 Three Stooges
6:00 Dan Smoot
6:15 News (listings don't indicate, but given the source of much of the daytime sked, I'll take a shot as it being NBC)
6:30 News
7:00 Huckleberry Hound "Ten Pin Alley"/"Show Biz Bear"/"Hi, Fido"
7:30 Four Just Men "The Godfather"
8:00 Colt .45 "Calamity"
8:30 Price is Right (c)
9:00 Movie "Maryland"
10:30 People are Funny
11:00 News
11:15 Jack Paar (guests include George Murphy and Betty Johnson)

KRCA 4-NBC Los Angeles
6:45 Morning Farm Report
7:00 Today
9:00 Dough Re Mi
9:30 Play Your Hunch
10:00 Price is Right (c)
10:30 Concentration
11:00 Truth or Consequences
11:30 It Could Be You (c)
noon Queen for a Day
12:30 Loretta Young
1:00 Young Dr. Malone
1:30 From These Roots
2:00 Fibber McGee & Molly "The Perfect Game"
2:30 Buckskin "Annie's Old Beau"
3:00 Giroux's Matinee "Sudden Silence"/"Hanrahan"
4:15 News
4:30 Frandsen's Feature "SOS Coast Guard"
5:55 News Almanac
6:00 News (c)
6:05 Weather/Sports (c)
6:15 NBC News
6:30 Curt Massey (c)
6:45 News (c)
7:00 Four Just Men "Justice for Gino"
7:30 Wagon Train "The Jesse MacAbee Story"
8:30 Price is Right (c)
9:00 Happy "Sally's Little White Lies"
9:30 Tate "Before Sunup"
10:00 This is Your Life (Toni Lee Scott is honored)
10:30 People are Funny
11:00 News (c)
11:15 Jack Paar
1:00 News Almanac
1:05 News

KTLA 5-Ind Los Angeles
8:30 Cartoons (Skipper Frank)
9:00 Larry Finley
10:30 Ding Dong School
10:55 News
11:00 Romper Room
noon Uncle Luther
1:00 Chef Joe Milani
1:30 Dorothy Gardiner Show "The Howards of Virginia"
3:50 News
4:00 Cartoon Carousel
5:30 Popeye Cartoons
6:00 Bozo the Clown
6:45 News
7:00 Youth Court
7:30 Rams Highlights (premiere, Bob Kelly hosts)
8:00 Championship Wrestling
10:30 Public Defender
11:00 News
11:30 Mike Wallace (guest William Bradley)

XETV 6-ABC San Diego
9:00 Movie "Anne of Windy Poplars"
10:30 Movie (listed as Melodrama, no title listed)
11:50 News
noon Restless Gun "The Peddler"
12:30 Love That Bob!
1:00 About Faces
1:30 Lynn Taylor "The Hand of St. Pierre"
2:00 Day in Court
2:30 Gale Storm "Jailmates"
3:00 Beat the Clock
3:30 Who Do You Trust?
4:00 American Bandstand
5:00 Bozo the Clown
5:30 My Friend Flicka "Refuge for the Night"
6:00 Roy Rogers
6:30 News
7:00 Boxing: live from San Francisco's Civic Auditorium. Manila lightweight Flash Elorde (51-16-2, 17 KO) defends his world junior lightweight title against Providence featherweight Harold Gomes (45-5, 23 KO); Jack Drees is ringside
7:45 Sports Highlights
8:00 Summer Night "Mr. Porter of Indiana" (tribute to Cole Porter with Dick Haynes, June Valli, Heidi Krall, Theodore Uppmann, Allyn McLerie, Kelly Brown, and Fernanda Montel)
8:30 Nelson Family "The Forgotten Promise"
9:00 Hawaiian Eye "Birthday Boy"
10:00 Black Saddle "Blood Money"
10:30 Powerhouse Movie "Below the Sahara"

KABC 7-ABC Los Angeles
7:55 Daily Word
8:00 Chucko's Cartoons: Chucko's birthday guests are 8-yr-old Tommy Reynolds of Baldwin Park and 5-yr-old Mary Ann Wallace of Whittier
9:00 Cross Current
9:30 Filmfair "The Lovable Cheat"
11:00 I Married Joan
11:30 Navy Log
noon Restless Gun "The Peddler"
12:30 Love That Bob!
1:00 About Faces
1:30 Ray Milland
2:00 Day in Court
2:30 Gale Storm "Jailmates"
3:00 Beat the Clock
3:30 Who Do You Trust?
4:00 American Bandstand
5:30 My Friend Flicka "Refuge for the Night"
6:00 News
6:15 ABC News
6:30 Men of Annapolis "Boiling Point"
7:00 Boxing: Elorde v Gomes
7:45 News
8:00 I Married Joan "Changing Houses"
8:30 Nelson Family "The Forgotten Promise"
9:00 Hawaiian Eye "Birthday Boy"
10:00 Star Performance "Indian Taker"
10:30 Rendezvous "Too Early Spring"
11:00 News
11:15 Vacation Hop
12:15 Nitecap Theater "Bermuda Affair"

KFMB 8-CBS San Diego
6:50 This is My Faith
6:55 California Farm Report
7:00 Captain Kangaroo
7:45 News
8:00 Sunup
9:00 December Bride
9:30 Video Village
10:00 I Love Lucy
10:30 Clear Horizon
11:00 Love of Life
11:30 Search for Tomorrow
11:45 Guiding Light
noon Early Show "The Beast with Five Fingers"
1:30 As the World Turns
2:00 Full Circle
2:30 House Party
3:00 Millionaire
3:30 Verdict is Yours
4:00 Brighter Day
4:15 Secret Storm
4:30 Edge of Night
5:00 Life of Riley
5:30 Burns & Allen
6:00 News
6:15 CBS News
6:30 Reckoning
7:30 News
8:00 To Tell the Truth
8:30 Men Into Space
9:00 Millionaire "Millionaire Mitchell Gunther"
9:30 I've Got a Secret
10:00 Armstrong Circle Theater "Operation Moonshine"
11:00 News
11:30 Late Show "The Mystery of the 13th Guest"
1:00 Daily Word

KHJ 9-Ind Los Angeles
10:10 Suspects Wanted
10:15 Public Service Film
10:30 Movie "Captain Blood"
noon Noontime Express
12:30 Rascals' Recess
1:00 Movie "Race Street"
3:00 Movie "Rachel and the Stranger"
4:45 News
5:00 Channel 9 Movie Theater "An Annapolis Story"
6:30 Cartoon Express
7:00 Little Rascals
7:30 NFL Highlights
8:30 Home Run Derby: the Dodgers' Gil Hodges takes on the winner of Jim Lemon-Willie Mays
9:00 Million Dollar Movie "Lancer Spy"
10:45 News
11:00 Channel 9 Movie Theater (rerun of 5pm movie)
12:30 Starlight Theater "Public Enemy"

KFSD 10-NBC San Diego
6:30 Today on the Farm
7:00 Today's Cartoons
8:00 Today
9:00 Dough Re Mi
9:30 Play Your Hunch
10:00 Price is Right (c)
10:30 Concentration
11:00 Truth or Consequences
11:30 It Could Be You (c)
noon Queen for a Day
12:30 Loretta Young
1:00 Young Dr. Malone
1:30 From These Roots
2:00 Fibber McGee & Molly "The Perfect Game"
2:30 Channel Ten Classroom
3:00 Movie "Song of the Thin Man"
4:30 Johnny Doons
5:00 Popeye Cartoons
5:30 Jeff's Collie (Lassie) "The Tree House"
6:00 Sea Power
6:30 News
6:45 NBC News
7:00 Shotgun Slade "PLate of Death"
7:30 Wagon Train "The Jesse MacAbee Story"
8:30 Price is Right (c)
9:00 Pony Express "The Wedding of Big Zack"
9:30 Tate "Before Sunup"
10:00 This is Your Life
10:30 People are Funny
11:00 News
11:15 Jack Paar

KTTV 11-Ind Los Angeles
9:15 Linkletter & Kids
9:30 Jack LaLanne
10:00 Movie "Listen, Darling"
noon Lunch Brigade (Sheriff John)
1:00 Topper
1:30 Dial 999
2:00 Paul Coates
2:30 Crime Reporter
3:00 Boston Blackie
3:30 TV Reader's Digest
4:00 Yesterday's Newsreels
4:15 Greatest Drama
4:30 Susie
5:00 Wild Bill Hickok
5:30 Kit Carson
6:00 People's Choice "The Late Husband"
6:40 Weather
6:45 News
7:00 Pony Express "Mail for a Male"
7:30 Three Stooges "What's the Matador"
8:00 Citizen Soldier "The Little Private"
8:30 Trackdown "The Bounty Hunter"
9:00 US Marshal "Highway Robbery"
9:30 Man Without a Gun "Daughter of the Dragon"
10:00 News
10:15 Paul Coates
10:45 Weather/Sports
11:00 Highway Patrol
11:30 Summer Film Festival "Sunday Punch"

KCOP 13-Ind Los Angeles
1pm School Study
1:30 Record Shop
2:30 Playhouse
3:00 Code Three
3:30 Dance Party
4:30 Webster Webfoot
5:00 TV Hour of Stars "Ellie"
6:00 News
6:15 Goodwin Knight
6:20 Cal Tinney
6:30 Passport to Travel "Malaya"
7:00 Treasure "Vanishing Ace"
7:30 Wonders of the World "Pearl Divers of Japan"
8:00 Danger Zone
8:30 Fishing Flashes "Spearfish"
9:00 TV Hour of Stars "Under Your Spell"
10:00 News
10:15 Goodwin Knight
10:20 Cal Tinney
10:30 Tom Duggan
mid. News
 
As to Channel 4's afternoon-movie skein Frandsen's Feature: From what I could tell, it lasted up to 1966 when that show's host, Tom Frandsen, moved on to his own afternoon program (originally 30 minutes, later expanded to an hour) called Tom Frandsen F.Y.I. The movie show, now following this new series, carried on for another two years, albeit without a host - and re-titled as Movie 4 which was already in use at WNBC-TV in New York and WRC-TV in Washington, DC.

I presume KNXT's Early Show, Late Show and Late Late Show all premiered around late 1951/early 1952, after these call letters took effect.
 
Odd that CBS (Chs. 2 and 8) follows Central time in the
morning but Eastern time in the afternoon (note that
"ATWT" airs at 1:30, same as in the East). I was under
the impression that CBS daytime also followed the same
schedule for Central and Pacific time. Anyone know when
the change came, because I know it was in place by November
22, 1963.

Also, I note that NBC stations (Chs. 4 and 10) don't get the midday
break (1-2 PM ET/12 N-1 PM CT), but go straight to "Queen
For A Day" at noon; it aired at 2 PM (ET) in those last months
on NBC, but airs at noon on the West Coast. So network daytime
ends, at least on Ch. 4 (o&o) at 3 PM rather than 5. I assume the
concept of airing the 1:30 (ET) show at noon (PT) started when
"Let's Make A Deal" moved to 1:30 in 1964.

ABC followed Eastern time, mostly so that "American Bandstand" could
air at the convenient time of 4 PM (local) and did so until around 1974,
when KABC and KGO began expanding their newscasts and moving their
afternoon movies from 4:30 to 3:30.

Boxing aired live at 10 PM (ET)/7 PM (PT) on ABC; a policy that would
wreak havoc with ABC's Saturday-night programming to the left coast
in the next couple of years; does this schedule from the fall of 1961
sound familiar:

6 PM Lawrence Welk (live)
7 PM Fight Of The Week (live)
7:45 Make That Spare (time approximate, live)
8 PM Matty's Funnies
8:30 Leave It To Beaver
9 PM The Roaring Twenties
10 PM (Local)
 
It's quite notable how tiny the comittment was to news in those days. The longest news broadcast I could find was 30 minutes at 11:00 PM on KTLA. The other channels were almost entirely 15 minute newscasts. Does anybody remember what year KNXT went to the 60 minute Big News with Jerry Dunphy at 6:00? It must have been 62 or 63, and I believe it was the first hour long news program on the west coast, possibly in the nation.

Of note: Jack Paar's guest that night was George Murphy, the "song and dance" man who was in the twilight of his show biz careeer by the 60s. Murphy ran for the US Senate in California in 1964, and won, though he wasn't much of a Senator, and served only one term. But Murphy had the distinction of being the first successful actor turned politician - not Ronald Reagan, who ran for Governor in '66.
 
Lkeller said:
It's quite notable how tiny the comittment was to news in those days. The longest news broadcast I could find was 30 minutes at 11:00 PM on KTLA. The other channels were almost entirely 15 minute newscasts. Does anybody remember what year KNXT went to the 60 minute Big News with Jerry Dunphy at 6:00? It must have been 62 or 63, and I believe it was the first hour long news program on the west coast, possibly in the nation.

Of note: Jack Paar's guest that night was George Murphy, the "song and dance" man who was in the twilight of his show biz careeer by the 60s. Murphy ran for the US Senate in California in 1964, and won, though he wasn't much of a Senator, and served only one term. But Murphy had the distinction of being the first successful actor turned politician - not Ronald Reagan, who ran for Governor in '66.
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I believe KNXT premiered "The Big News" later that year (in fact, about two months after these listings).
 
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