Retro: Tucson and Phoenix, December 8, 1980

[Ultimajock]

Source: Arizona Daily Star

STATIONS
3 – KTVK Phoenix (ABC)
4 – KVOA Tucson (NBC)
5 – KPHO Phoenix (independent)
6 – KUAT Tucson (PBS)
8 – KAET Phoenix (PBS)
9 – KGUN Tucson (ABC)
10 – KOOL Phoenix (CBS)
11 – KZAZ Nogales (independent)
12 – KPNX Mesa (NBC)
13 – KOLD Tucson (CBS)
The Star also lists a Spanish-language station on Channel 40, but doesn’t indicate what the call sign was; the current-day Channel 40 operation in Tucson, KPOL/KHRR, didn’t sign on the air until 1983, and then as an English-language indie. Perhaps this was a translator station relaying a Spanish-language broadcaster from Phoenix or somewhere in New Mexico?

MORNING
5:30
13 Pima Community College

5:50
4 Reportaje de Noticias

6:00
3 College Classes
4 Multiversity
5 700 Club
10/13 Monday Morning
11 PTL Club
12 Viewpoint

6:30
3 Daybreak Arizona
4 Health Field
8 Economics Exchange
9 Richard Simmons
12 Hogan’s Heroes

7:00
3/9 Good Morning America
4/12 Today
5 Wallace & Ladmo
8 Antiques
10/13 Captain Kangaroo

7:30
8 Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

8:00
5 The Flintstones
8 Sesame Street
10 The Jeffersons
11 Superman
13 The Price is Right

8:30
5 Open House
10 Alice
11 Leave it to Beaver

9:00
3/9 The Love Boat
4/12 Wheel of Fortune
5 The Merv Griffin Show
6 The Electric Company
8 3-2-1 Contact
10 The Price is Right
11 Carol Burnett & Friends
13 Donahue

9:30
4/12 Password Plus
6 Educational TV
8 The Electric Company
11 That Girl

10:00
3/9 Family Feud
4/12 Card Sharks
6/8 Sesame Street
10 Face the Music
11 700 Club
13 Alice

10:30
3/9 Ryan’s Hope
4/12 The Doctors
5 Donahue
10 Search for Tomorrow
13 As the World Turns

11:00
3 11 AM
4/12 Days of Our Lives
6 Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
8 Masterpiece Theatre
9 All My Children
10 The Young and the Restless
11 News

11:30
3 The Edge of Night
5 News
6 Over Easy
13 The Young and the Restless

AFTERNOON
12:00
3/9 One Life to Live
4/10/12 News
5 I Love Lucy
6 Personal Finance
8 Julia Child and More Company
11 Nogales Report

12:30
4 Las Vegas Gambit
5 The Andy Griffith Show
6 Presente!
8 Slim Cuisine
10 As the World Turns
11 You Bet Your Life (Buddy Hackett version)
12 Password Plus
13 News

1:00
3/9 General Hospital
4/12 Another World
5 Bewitched
6 Educational TV
8 Cosmos
11 The Mike Douglas Show (guests are Ingrid Bergman, Jean Stapleton, Harry Chapin, Rick Berger and Howard Ruff)
13 Search for Tomorrow

1:30
5 I Dream of Jeannie
6 The Advocates In Brief (William Rusher and Barney Frank debate marijuana legalisation; James Buckley, Dr. Lester Grinspoon and Dr. Robert DuPont are witnesses)
10/13 The Guiding Light

2:00
3 All My Children
4/12 Texas
5 The Big Valley
6 The Dick Cavett Show
8 As We See It
9 The Edge of Night
40 Sossa

2:30
6 Bill Moyers’ Journal
8 Villa Alegre
9 Movie (Four Daughters 1938, with the Lane Sisters, Claude Rains and John Garfield)
10 One Day at a Time
11 Sanford & Son
13 The Jeffersons
40 Juventude

3:00
3 Sanford & Son
4 The Merv Griffin Show (guests are Tom Wopat, Shecky Greene and Carlene Carter)
5 The Tom & Jerry and Bugs Hour
8 Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
10 The John Davidson Show
11 Bugs Bunny/Woody Woodpecker
12 Carol Burnett & Friends
13 One Day at a Time

3:30
3 All in the Family
6 The Magic of Oil Painting
8 Sesame Street
11 Scooby Doo
12/13 Hour Magazine (segments include an interview with Robert Guillaume)
40 Al Roho Vivo

4:00
3 The Mike Douglas Show
5 Gilligan’s Island
6 Sesame Street
11 The Addams Family
40 Sandra y Paulina

4:30
4/12 World of People
5 Starsky & Hutch
8 3-2-1 Contact
9 M*A*S*H
10 To Tell The Truth (Robin Ward version)
11 Gilligan’s Island
13 News

5:00
4/9/10/12/13 News
6 Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
8 Sesame Street
11 I Dream of Jeannie
40 Muchacha Del Barrio

5:30
3/9 ABC World News Tonight
4/12 NBC Nightly News with John Chancellor
5 The Brady Bunch
6 Villa Alegre
10/13 CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite
11 Bewitched

EVENING
6:00
3/4/10/12 News
5 Happy Days Again
6 3-2-1 Contact
8 Over Easy
9 That’s Incredible
11 Wonder Woman
13 PM Magazine
40 Marcha (the title is in two words, the second is blurred on the microfilm image – anyone have any idea what the complete title on this one is?)

6:30
3 PM Magazine
4/12 Tic Tac Dough
5 M*A*S*H
6 Over Easy (guests include Buster Crabbe)
8 The MacNeil/Lehrer Report
10/13 Family Feud
40 Reportero 41

7:00
3/9 ABC Monday Night Football (New England at Miami)
4/12 Little House on the Prairie
5 Barney Miller
6 The MacNeil/Lehrer Report
10/13 Flo
11 Movie (Flying High, the pilot TV-movie for the failed CBS series of 1978)
40 Cristina Bazan

7:10
8 The Dancing Princesses (I’m assuming the staggered starting time is due to a KAET membership drive)

7:30
5 The Rockford Files
6 Tucson City Council
10/13 The Ladies’ Man

8:00
4/12 A Tribute to Chet Atkins (Two-hour Nashville-based special featuring Atkins, The Statler Brothers, Ray Stevens, The Charlie Daniels Band, Bobby Bare, Tom T. Hall, Floyd Cramer, Roger Miller and Charley Pride)
10/13 M*A*S*H
40 Colorina

(The assassination of John Lennon took place during the next half hour in New York City. Kathleen Sullivan, on the then-infant Cable News Network, presented the first national TV bulletin of the shooting, a few minutes before Lennon’s death was announced at Roosevelt Hospital in New York. Howard Cosell interrupted the Patriots-Dolphins game with the first nationwide terrestrial TV bulletin of Lennon’s death. On the East Coast, an NBC utility announcer – Fred Facey, perhaps? – broke into The Best of Carson over an “NBC News Bulletin” graphic with NBC’s first network bulletin; jarringly, with no more information than the simple announcement, NBC went back to Johnny Carson’s comedy piece. Obviously, as Carson’s show hadn’t yet begun in the Mountain and Pacific Time zones, a separate bulletin was fed, presumably from Los Angeles, interrupting the Chet Atkins special or Little House on the Prairie. As for CBS, I know that Connie Chung did a KNXT Newsbreak headline report locally in Los Angeles, but I have not ever seen or heard the aircheck of a CBS-TV bulletin about the murder. I assume CBS broke into their rerun of Quincy on the East Coast, House Calls or Lou Grant in the Mountain zone, and local fringe programming or Flo on the West Coast.)

8:30
5 The Bob Newhart Show
10/13 House Calls
40 Chespirito

9:00
5 The Odd Couple
10/13 Lou Grant
11 Independent Network News

9:30
5/11 News
40 Hogar Dulce Hogar

9:45
3/9 To Be Announced

10:00
3/4/9/10/12/13 News
5 The Hollywood Squares
11 The Twilight Zone
40 Aprendiendo a Amar

10:30
3/9 ABC News Nightline (unsure of why the Star’s listings indicate this to be only 20 minutes long; obviously, that night it turned out to be much longer)
4/12 The Best of Carson (guests are Dick Van Dyke, Mary Tyler Moore and Dick Van Patten)
5 Prisoner: Cell Block H
10 Quincy
11 Fred Snowden
13 The Benny Hill Show

10:35
8 Movie (Topper)

10:50
3 That’s Incredible
9 Vega$

11:00
5 Movie (The Two Mrs. Carrolls)
6 The Captioned ABC News
11 Movie (Hell is For Heroes)
13 Quincy

11:20
40 Noche a Noche

11:30
4 Tomorrow with Tom Snyder (the following night’s show will be a repeat of Snyder’s 1975 interview with John Lennon, plus a new interview with Jack Douglas, who’d been producing the recording session John Lennon and Yoko Ono had been conducting this evening, and rock writer Lisa Robinson; it would be released on home video about five years later)
12 The Morecambe & Wise Show

11:40
10 The New Avengers

11:50
3 Movie (Stars and Stripes Forever)
9 Movie (The Fighting Kentuckian)

12:00
12 Tomorrow with Tom Snyder

12:10
13 The New Avengers

12:40
8 The Dick Cavett Show

12:50
10 Where the Jobs Are

1:00
4/5 News
11 Get Smart

 

[dhett]

The Star also lists a Spanish-language station on Channel 40, but doesn’t indicate what the call sign was; the current-day Channel 40 operation in Tucson, KPOL/KHRR, didn’t sign on the air until 1983, and then as an English-language indie. Perhaps this was a translator station relaying a Spanish-language broadcaster from Phoenix or somewhere in New Mexico?

<snip>

40 Al Roho Vivo

That would be K40AC, now K48GX, a Telefutura translator. Ironically, Al Roho Vivo looks a lot like Al Rojo Vivo, which I believe is on Telemundo and currently airs on KHRR ch 40.

 

[dhett]

I forgot to mention that K40AC was a repeater of KTVW-TV 33 Phoenix. The station signed on barely two months after KTVW did.

 

[oldiesfan6479]

10 – KOOL Phoenix (CBS)
13 – KOLD Tucson (CBS)
8:00
10 The Jeffersons - live
13 The Price is Right - DAY BEHIND
8:30
10 Alice - live
9:00
10 The Price is Right - live
13 Donahue - syndie
10:00
10 Face the Music - syndie
13 Alice - delay from 8:30 AM
10:30
10 Search for Tomorrow - DAY BEHIND
13 As the World Turns - DAY BEHIND
11:00
10 The Young and the Restless - one-hour delay (CT feed)
11:30
13 The Young and the Restless - delay from 10 AM (CT feed)
12:00
10 News - local
12:30
10 As the World Turns - one-hour delay
13 News - LIVE/LOCAL/LATE-BREAKING! (sorry ;D)
1:00
13 Search for Tomorrow - half-hour delay
1:30
10/13 The Guiding Light - half-hour delay
2:30
10 One Day at a Time - half-hour delay
13 The Jeffersons - from 8:00 AM MT
3:00
10 The John Davidson Show - syndie
13 One Day at a Time - one-hour delay

While KOOL-TV channel 10 Phoenix (on tape) had a bit of wackiness with its daytime sked,
just who was programming KOLD-TV 13 Tucson? It's all over the place. And ATWT on a
day behind--what is this, Salt Lake City?

If "Mr. That Girl" was their cornerstone for 9 AM, just air the two sitcom reruns live 8-9, then
run the rest of CBS daytime on a one-hour delay in pattern from 10-3:30. Do that and you
get your noon news at noon, not 12:30...and no need for those half-hour delays.

 

[azumanga]

The Star also lists a Spanish-language station on Channel 40, but doesn’t indicate what the call sign was; the current-day Channel 40 operation in Tucson, KPOL/KHRR, didn’t sign on the air until 1983, and then as an English-language indie. Perhaps this was a translator station relaying a Spanish-language broadcaster from Phoenix or somewhere in New Mexico?

That would be K40AC, now K48GX, a Telefutura translator.

6:30
40 Reportero 41

Since the news title had a "41" in its title, I would think the station was repeating KWEX in San Antonio -- the SIN/Univision outlet on channel 41 in Albuquerque, KLUZ, would not sign on until 1987.

While KOOL-TV channel 10 Phoenix (on tape) had a bit of wackiness with its daytime sked...

I am aware that in the past, in the station IDs, the announcer will mentioned if the program was "on tape" or "on film". What if it was a live program, either in the studio or live off the network feed?

 

[dhett]

6:30
40 Reportero 41

Since the news title had a "41" in its title, I would think the station was repeating KWEX in San Antonio -- the SIN/Univision outlet on channel 41 in Albuquerque, KLUZ, would not sign on until 1987.

It may be that KTVW-TV was getting the news program from KWEX, but K40AC was a KTVW repeater, according to their original construction permit from the FCC:

http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws...plication_id=6890&File_number=BPTT-19781222IC

 

[bpatrick]

Re "Nightline": at the time it was on 11:30-11:50 (ET/PT)/
10:30-10:50 (CT/MT), although with the option to expand
when necessary. Since these listings were obviously printed
before the John Lennon murder, it would stand to reason that
"Nightline" was expanded that night. Keep in mind that in the
Eastern and Central time zones it would have aired 30 minutes
after "Monday Night Football," since those ABC affiliates would
have had local news at approximately 12M/11 PM, and possibly
in the Mountain time zone as well, if the game ran past 10 PM.

I would suspect that a separate, updated edition of "Nightline"
aired at 11:30 (PT), since it was not uncommon for ABC to
update a breaking story for the West Coast.

 

[oldiesfan6479]

While KOOL-TV channel 10 Phoenix (on tape)...

I am aware that in the past, in the station IDs, the announcer will mentioned if the program was "on tape" or "on film".
What if it was a live program, either in the studio or live off the network feed?

Then simply "KOOL-TV channel 10 Phoenix." Unless they decided to "bless the nation."

 

[Sammi Brie]

One small nitpick spelling error...

40 at 2:30 is listed as "Juventude" – the last E is not needed. I imagine there were some Spanish spelling errors in these listings.

Surprised there's no KNXV (signed on 1979) in this list, but this may be a VHF-only list.

 

[gregg75]

Is Meza 12 the NBC for Phoenix? I don't see one.

 

[azumanga]

Is Meza 12 the NBC for Phoenix?

Yes it is.

 

[Ultimajock]

Surprised there's no KNXV (signed on 1979) in this list, but this may be a VHF-only list.

...well, it's possible (probable?) that KNXV didn't carry into the Tucson market very well. The Arizona Daily Star is a Tucson paper...

 

[anabate123]

One small nitpick spelling error...

40 at 2:30 is listed as "Juventude" – the last E is not needed. I imagine there were some Spanish spelling errors in these listings.

Surprised there's no KNXV (signed on 1979) in this list, but this may be a VHF-only list.

Here's what KNXV aired that day.

15 – KNXV Phoenix (independent)
7:30 am - Body Buddies
8:00 am - PTL Club
10:00 am - Richard Simmons
10:30 am - 700 Club
12:00 pm - Crossfire
1:00 pm - It Takes a Thief
2:00 pm - Real McCoys
2:30 pm - Partridge Family
3:00 pm - The Addams Family
3:30 pm - The Munsters
4:00 pm - Beverly Hillbillies
4:30 pm - Wild, Wild West
5:30 pm - Get Smart
6:00 pm - Star Trek
7:00 pm - ONTV Programming
2:00 am - Off the air

 

[marklungo]

I was watching Lou Grant that night, and I don't remember CBS making an announcement about Lennon. I didn't realize he'd been shot until the next day.