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Retro: Tampa, Fri. November 22nd, 1963

Source: St. Petersburg Times, printed just hours before JFK's assassination.

CHANNELS
3 WEDU Tampa EDU
8 WFLA Tampa NBC
13 WTVT Tampa CBS
38 WSUN St. Petersburg ABC

6AM
13 Sunrise Semester

6:30
8 RFD Florida
13 Florida Farmer

6:45
8 Good Morning

7AM
8 Today Show
13 Good Day!

8AM
13 Captain Kangaroo

8:50
3 Social Studies (then Musical Interlude)

9AM
8 Movie
"Chad Hanna." Henry Fonda, Linda Darnell.
13 Morning Movie
"Mr. Imperium." Lana Turner, Ezio Pinza.

9:20
3 Science

9:40
3 Social Studies

10AM
3 Geography
38 Bongo Bailey in Jungle-La

10:25
3 Science

10:30
8 Word for Word
13 I Love Lucy
38 The Jack La Lanne Show

10:45
3 History

11AM
8 Concentration
13 Real McCoys
38 The Price is Right

11:10
3 Americanism Vs. Communism

11:30
8 Missing Links
13 Pete and Gladys
38 Seven Keys

11:35
3 Musical Interlude

11:50
3 American History

Noon
8 Your First Impression
13 Pulse - News, Weather, Markets
38 Tennessee Ernie Ford

12:10
3 Musical Interlude

12:20
3 Kindergarten

12:30
8 Truth or Consequences
13 Search for Tomorrow
38 Father Knows Best

12:45
13 Guiding Light

12:50
3 Concert Hall
8 Channel 8 Reports
13 Love of Life
38 Action in the Afternoon

1:25
3 Science

1:30
8 The Best of Groucho
13 As the World Turns
38 TV Hour of Stars

1:30/12:30 CT
Shots are fired and JFK is hit. The following programming was all preempted, no regular programming would be seen on the big 3 affiliates until Monday. Not sure what WEDU did - maybe take a network off the air and preempted the educational programming? What DID the educational stations do? What did KERA in Dallas do?

1:50
3 Social Studies

2PM
8 People Will Talk
13 Password

2:10
3 Musical Interlude

2:20
3 Social Studies

2:30
8 The Doctors
13 House Party
38 Day in Court

2:45
3 World History

3PM
8 Loretta Young Theatre
13 To Tell The Truth
38 Queen for a Day

3:15
3 Front Desk

3:25
13 CBS News

3:30
3 The Family
8 You Don't Say!
13 Edge of Night
38 Who Do You Trust?

4PM
3 News in Perspective
8 The Match Game
13 Secret Storm
38 Trailmaster

4:25
8 NBC News

4:30
8 The Uncle Bruce Club
13 Mary Ellen Show

5PM
3 What's New
8 Mickey Mouse Club
13 Wally Gater
38 High Adventure

5:30
3 French
8 Sea Hunt
13 Pulse: Weather, Editorial, Feature

5:45
3 Biology

6PM
8 Channel 8 Reports
13 Pulse News
38 ABC News

6:15
3 Agricultural News
13 Pulse Sports

6:30
3 Beginning Spanish
8 Huntley-Brinkley Report
13 CBS News-Walter Cronkite
38 Sugarfoot - "Wolf Pack"

7PM
3 Parlons
8 Friday Box Office
"Valley of the Kings." Robert Taylor.
13 The Rebel

7:30
3 Operation Alphabet
13 The Great Adventure - "Wild Bill Hickok"
38 77 Sunset Strip - "Lover's Lane"

8PM
3 Lette Lehmann Master Classes on Hearing Music

8:30
8 Bob Hope Theatre - "It's Mental Work"
13 Route 66 - "Kiss the Monster, Make Him Sleep"
38 Burke's Law - "Who Killed Jason Shaw?"

9PM
3 NET Drama Festival
"The Wild Duck."

9:30
8 Hazel
13 Lee Marvin Presents - Lawbreaker
38 The Farmer's Daughter

10PM
8 The Jack Paar Program
13 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour - "Body in the Barn"
38 Fight of the Week
Mauro Mina vs. Allen Thomas.

10:30
3 Sign Off

10:45
38 Make That Spare

11PM
8 Channel 8 Repoprts
13 Pulse - News, Sports, Weather, Editorial
38 News Final

11:15
8 Tonight Show

11:20
38 M-Squad

11:30
13 Checkmate
"Button Down Break"

12AM
38 Night Final

12:15
38 Sign Off

12:30
13 Wrestling

-crainbebo
 
"Love Of Life" was on Ch. 13 at 1 PM on a one-hour delay. That continued until 1969, when the show was moved to 11:30 AM. Its replacement at 12 N, "Where The Heart Is," was also aired on a one-hour delay on Ch. 13. 13 had "The Young And The Restless" for a few months in the spring and summer of 1973 before expanding its noon "Pulse" to an hour (renamed "Pulse Plus!"), dropping "Y&R," and moving "Search For Tomorrow" to 1 PM on a half-hour delay.

Ch. 8 ran its midday news at 1 PM for years, and I don't see "General Hospital," which in November 1963 was on ABC at 1, on Ch. 38's schedule. I assume they picked it up when it moved to 3 PM on Dec. 30. (Most issues of the Central Florida edition of TV Guide in my collection come from post-1965, after WLCY/WTSP Ch. 10 got the ABC affiliation.)

I noticed something on Ch. 38 called "Bongo Bailey In Jungle-La." How, if at all, is that connected to "B'wana Don In Jungle-La"?
 
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