Retro: Winnipeg/Fargo-Grand Forks Sat, Oct 12, 1963

[Bluenoser]

from TV Guide, Dakota-Winnipeg edition

CBWT 3-CBC Winnipeg
11:00 Movie "Jesse James at Bay"
noon CFL: Edmonton-Ottawa
2:30 Bowling
3:00 Movie "Jim Thorpe, All-American"
4:45 Film Short
5:00 Canada at War "V was for Victory"
5:30 Bugs Bunny
6:00 Countrytime "4H Manitoba Senior Champion Demonstration" (guests Lenda Hatch and Linda Morcombe of Oak Lake, plus garden expert Stan Westaway)
6:30 NHL: New York-Montreal
8:15 Juliette (guest Dorothy Shay)
8:45 Let's Talk About It
9:00 UN Review
9:15 News/Weather
9:30 Beverly Hillbillies
10:00 The Saint
11:00 CBC National News
11:10 Movie "Dream Wife"

KXJB 4-CBS Fargo/Valley City
7:00 Captain Kangaroo
8:00 Alvin
8:30 Tennessee Tuxedo
9:00 Quick Draw McGraw
9:30 Mighty Mouse
10:00 Rin Tin Tin
10:30 Roy Rogers
11:00 Sky King
11:30 Do You Know? (premiere, Bob Maxwell quizzes kids on pre-assigned book selections)
noon Football Feature
12:15 College Football: Minnesota-Northwestern
3:00 Football Scoreboard
3:15 Film Short
3:30 Trails West
4:00 Whirlybirds
4:30 Platter Party
5:30 Quarterback Club
6:00 News/Sports/Weather
6:30 Jackie Gleason
7:30 Phil Silvers
8:00 Defenders "The Captive"
9:00 Gunsmoke
10:00 News
10:30 Movie "The Mummy"

WDAY 6-NBC Fargo
7:30 Red Ryder
8:30 Ruff & Reddy (c)
9:00 Hector Heathcote (c)
9:30 Fireball XL-5
10:00 Dennis the Menace
10:30 Fury
11:00 Sergeant Preston
11:30 Bullwinkle (c)
noon Exploring (c/return)
1:00 Mr. Wizard "Control by Radio" (season premiere)
1:30 College Football: Concordia-St. Thomas (Bill Weaver commentates from Concordia Field House, Moorhead)
4:00 NFL Highlights
4:30 Captain Gallant
5:00 Temple Houston "Letter of the Law"
6:00 News/Sports/Weather
6:25 Political Talk
6:30 Lieutenant "A Very Private Affair"
7:30 Focus (Fred Simonton)
8:00 Saturday Night at the Movies "The Asphalt Jungle"
10:15 Sports/Weather/News
10:30 A Man Named Mays (profile of Willie Mays)
11:30 Movie "Two of a Kind"

CBWFT 6-SRC Winnipeg
1:15pm Cours televises
3:30 Cinema "Till l'espiegle"
5:00 Pepinot
5:30 URI
6:30 Nouvelles
6:45 Youcatan
7:00 Champion
7:30 Temps des copains
8:00 Dans les rues de Quebec
8:30 Cinema "La nuit des espions"
10:00 Les couche-tard
10:30 Cinema "Drole de dame"

CJAY 7-CTV Winnipeg
10:00 Davey & Goliath
10:30 Cartoons
11:00 Your Government
11:30 Manitoba Sportsman
noon Bugs Bunny & Friends
12:30 Sword of Freedom
1:00 En France
1:30 Teen Dance Party (Bob Burns)
2:30 Tugboat Annie
3:00 Hawkeye
3:30 Bronco "Borrowed Glory"
4:15 Man About the House
4:30 Popeye
5:00 Death Valley Days "Davy's Friend"
5:30 Kid's Bids (Bob Burns)
6:00 Whiplash
6:30 Adventure Theater
7:00 Outer Limits
8:00 Jerry Lester (guests Marion Powers, Richard Hayes, Louise Bryan, Don Goldie, and Gene Wood)
9:00 Studio 7
9:30 CFL: Saskatchewan-Vancouver
mid. CTV National News
12:15 Sports/Weather/News

KNOX 10-Grand Forks/KEND 11-Fargo/KCND 12-Pembina (ABC, listed together due to most of the day's sked being common to all 3 stations)
9:30 Jetsons
10:00 Casper
10:30 Beany & Cecil
11:00 Bugs Bunny
11:30 Allakazam
noon My Friend Flicka
12:30 American Bandstand (guests the Chiffons, and a group of veteran AB fans)
1:30 Theater
2:00 (11) Movie: TBA
2:30 (10-12) Top Star Bowling
3:30 AFL Highlights
4:00 Wide World of Sports (National Scrambles Motorcycle Championships/climbing Mt Snowdon, Wales)
5:30 Winter Olympics Preview
6:00 Trails West
6:30 Hootenanny (from the US Naval Academy with guests Eddy Arnold, Glenn Yarborough, Milt Kamen, the Chad Mitchell Trio, the Tarriers, the Gaslight Singers, Judy Collins, Grier Reynolds, and Alex Bradford & his Gospel Singers)
7:30 Lawrence Welk (guest Wayne King)
8:30 Jerry Lewis (guests Sammy Davis Jr, Kaye Stevens, and Del Moore)
10:30 (10-12) News
10:30 (11) The Saint
10:45 (10) Movie: TBA
10:45 (12) Fin & Feather (Jerome)
11:00 (12) Movie: TBA
11:30 (11) Movie: TBA

 

[Joseph_Gallant]

Had Canada gone back on Standard Time ahead of the U.S. that year??

The 6:30 Central start for the NHL telecast (it would not be until the late 'Sixties that "Hockey Night In Canada" would carry regular-season NHL games in their entirety) seemed awfully early, considering "Juliette" (which for many years followed "HNIC" on Saturdays) came on at 8:15 local.

 

[Joseph_Gallant]

Was the Jerry Lester who had a show on CJAY-7 that night the same Jerry Lester who hosted "Broadway Open House", U.S. network television's (NBC) first late-night show in 1950/1951??

Speaking about Jerry's, Jerry Lewis had a two hour variety show every Saturday night in the Fall of 1963 which became that season's most notorious flop and probably would have been the biggest TV flop of the decade had it not been for Jackie Gleason's "You're In The Picture" in 1961 and "Turn-On" in 1969.

 

[bpatrick]

That would appear to be the same Jerry Lester. I noticed one of
his guests was Gene Wood, perhaps in the days when he was doing
stand-up comedy and several years before his career took him into
game shows. Wood, BTW, was born in Boston, but he seemed to
spend quite a bit of time in Canada; "Beat The Clock" was taped in
Montreal, and the similar show he emceed in 1971-72, "Anything You
Can Do," originated in Ottawa.

No, Jerry Lewis's show wouldn't quite beat out "You're In The Picture"
or "Turn-On" as television's biggest disaster; those two shows lasted
one week each, while Jerry's lasted until Dec. 21; CBS's "Co-Ed Fever"
in 1979 might be a better bet, having also lasted one episode. But it
was a disaster, and as one ABC executive recalled, because the network
spent so much money to pay off Jerry's two-year contract, there were
no Christmas bonuses in 1963. For an account of the show, and particularly
the debut, on which nothing went right, you might check out "King Of
Comedy," Jerry's biography. There's an entire chapter about it.

Del Moore, BTW, was Jerry's announcer and sometimes you'll see him
in one of Jerry's movies.

 

[Gregg.]

Just for the record, the tower for Channel 11 KEND ABC Fargo (now KVLY NBC) is the tallest structure in North America. When it was built in 1963, it was the tallest structure in the world... 2063 feet. The tower for Channel 4 KXJB CBS Valley City-Fargo, built a short time later (so not on the air when this TV Guide was published) is three feet shorter. When it was finished, the workers attached a four-foot flagpole to the top to temporarily make it the world's tallest structure.

And the reason they built those tall towers was, in part, to be picked up in Winnipeg. Unfortunately, the cable systems in Winnipeg and the rest of Southern Manitoba now carry Minneapolis outlets for CBS and NBC and use a Rochester NY station for Fox, all from satellite. They still pick up ABC and PBS from North Dakota. So those super tall towers are not used for carrying 4 or 11 in Manitoba, although I'm sure North Dakota viewers who get their TV signals over the air are pleased to have that coverage.

The two towers may continue to be the tallest structures in North America for many years to come, since the FAA and FCC now discourage towers taller than 2000 feet.

 

[Joseph_Gallant]

Didn't KEND-11 for many years have the call letters KTHI, with "HI" meaning the high height of their tower??