For those who are curious about the TV schedule in East Texas during the pre-KLTV era, I went deeper to find some TV listings from 1954 (and hoping to retrieve some schedules from 1952 from old Longview newspapers via microfische in the coming weeks.
32 - KTVE Longview-in which later the call letters would go to an El Dorado, AR station (IND)
2:00 Test pattern
4:00 Holiday Kitchen
5:00 Ranger Round Up*
5:45 Twilight Matinee
6:45 News
7:00 Melody Moods
7:30 Haylotters
8:00 TBA
8:30 TBA
9:00 Startime
9:15 News
9:30 Nite Hawks's Theatre
11:00 Sign Off
19 - KETX Tyler (which would 50 years later would morph into KYTX-TV, a CBS affiliate) (IND)
4:35 Program Previews
4:50 TV Sermonette
5:00 Cartoon Carnival
5:30 Mid-Way Matinee
6:30 News
6:45 Weather
6:50 World Of Sports
7:00 TBA
8:00 Melody Parade
8:30 Feature Theatre
9:45 Sign Off
6 - KCMC Texarkana - CBS/NBC/ABC/Dumont (now KTAL-TV, an NBC affiliate)
2:30 Test Pattern
2:45 Film Feature
3:15 Love Of Life (CBS)
3:30 On Your Account (NBC)
4:00 Happy Home Show
4:25 Movie Previews
4:30 Rocky Jones
5:00 Western Theatre
6:00 Bandstand (three years before Dick Clark debuts it on ABC- probably a local show)
6:30 Doug Edwards & The News (CBS)
6:45 The Big Playback
7:00 Milton Berle (NBC)
8:00 Facts Forum
8:30 Motorola Hour (ABC)
9:30 See It Now (CBS)
10:00 News Headlines
10:03 Channel 6 Theatre
11:05 Sign Off
*- Little known fact: Wesley R. Dean who at the time was working for KGRI-AM in Henderson and later opened his own in 1956 with KWRD, donned the cowboy outfit to become Ranger Wes on Channel 32's popular program during the pre-KLTV era.
32 - KTVE Longview-in which later the call letters would go to an El Dorado, AR station (IND)
2:00 Test pattern
4:00 Holiday Kitchen
5:00 Ranger Round Up*
5:45 Twilight Matinee
6:45 News
7:00 Melody Moods
7:30 Haylotters
8:00 TBA
8:30 TBA
9:00 Startime
9:15 News
9:30 Nite Hawks's Theatre
11:00 Sign Off
19 - KETX Tyler (which would 50 years later would morph into KYTX-TV, a CBS affiliate) (IND)
4:35 Program Previews
4:50 TV Sermonette
5:00 Cartoon Carnival
5:30 Mid-Way Matinee
6:30 News
6:45 Weather
6:50 World Of Sports
7:00 TBA
8:00 Melody Parade
8:30 Feature Theatre
9:45 Sign Off
6 - KCMC Texarkana - CBS/NBC/ABC/Dumont (now KTAL-TV, an NBC affiliate)
2:30 Test Pattern
2:45 Film Feature
3:15 Love Of Life (CBS)
3:30 On Your Account (NBC)
4:00 Happy Home Show
4:25 Movie Previews
4:30 Rocky Jones
5:00 Western Theatre
6:00 Bandstand (three years before Dick Clark debuts it on ABC- probably a local show)
6:30 Doug Edwards & The News (CBS)
6:45 The Big Playback
7:00 Milton Berle (NBC)
8:00 Facts Forum
8:30 Motorola Hour (ABC)
9:30 See It Now (CBS)
10:00 News Headlines
10:03 Channel 6 Theatre
11:05 Sign Off
*- Little known fact: Wesley R. Dean who at the time was working for KGRI-AM in Henderson and later opened his own in 1956 with KWRD, donned the cowboy outfit to become Ranger Wes on Channel 32's popular program during the pre-KLTV era.