Salt Lake City, Friday December 3, 1976

[highwayman128]

Source: Deseret News (via Google News Archive)

RETRO SALT LAKE CITY TV- Friday December 3, 1976

CHANNEL LINEUP
2 KUTV (NBC)
4 KTVX (ABC)
5 KSL (CBS)
7 KUED (PBS)
11 KBYU (PBS)

MORNING
5:25
5- Farm Report

5:30
5- Summer Semester

6:00
4- Good Morning, America
5- CBS News

6:15
2- Understanding Our World

6:45
2- Early Watch 2

7:00
2- Today Show
4- Hotel Balderdash
5- Captain Kangaroo

8:00
5- Price is Right
11- Sesame Street

8:30
4- Good Morning America continues

8:55
7- Figuring it out

9:00
2- Wheel of Fortune
4- Love, American Style
5- Romper Room
11- Misterogers

9:10
7- Electric Company

9:30
2- Stumpers
4- Happy Days
5- Love of Life
11- Anyone for Tennyson

9:55
5- CBS News

10:00
2- 50 Grand Slam
4- Don Ho
5- Young and the Restless
7- Sesame Street

10:30
2- Gong Show
4- All My Children
5- Search for Tomorrow

10:55
2- On View

11:00
2- Joker’s Wild
4- Ryan’s Hope
5- Guiding Light

11:30
2- Hollywood Squares
4- Family Feud
5- As the World Turns
11- Misterogers

AFTERNOON
Noon
2- Newswatch 2 and Consumer Action Report
4- $20,000 Pyramid
11- Sesame Street

12:30
2- The Doctors
4- One Life to Live
5- Eyewitness News
7- Villa Allegre

1:00
2- Another World
5- All In the Family

1:15
4- General Hospital

1:30
5- Match Game

2:00
2- Days of Our Lives
4- Edge of Night
5- Big Money Movie- “Come Back, Little Sheba”

2:30
4- Phil Donahue
11- Evening at Symphony

3:00
2- Partridge Family
7- Anyone for Tennyson

3:30
2- Little Rascals
4- Lucy
7- Lilias, Yoga and You
11- Misterogers

3:55
5- Spotlight Five

4:00
2- Emergency
4- Gilligan’s Island
5- Dinah Shore Show
7-11- Sesame Street

4:30
4- Brady Bunch

5:00
2- Adam-12
4- ABC News
7- Mister Rogers
11- Villa Allegre

5:30
2- NBC Nightly News
4- My Three Sons
5- CBS Evening News
7- Electric Company
11- Once Upon a Classic- “Heidi”

EVENING
6:00
2- Newswatch 2
4- Action News 4
5- Eyewitness News (Dick Nourse/Bob Welti/Paul James)
7- Zoom
11- Newsroom

6:30
4- Concentration
5- Break the Bank
7- Fiesta Latino
11- MacNeil/Lehrer Report

7:00
2- Billy Graham Crusade
4- Donny and Marie
5- Charlotte’s Web (Part 2)
7- Book Beat
11- Movie Milestones

7:30
7- MacNeil/Lehrer Report

8:00
2- Beauty and the Dragon
4- ABC Friday Night Movie- Smashup on Interstate 5
5- World Premiere Movie- The Terminal Man
7- Washington Week in Review

8:30
7- Wall Street Week
11- In Performance at Wolftrap features Dionne Warwick

9:00
7- Carnivore (documentary)

9:30
2- Sanford and Son
11- Geothermal- “Energy Tomorrow

10:00
2- Newswatch 2
4- Action News 4
5- Eyewitness News (Dick Nourse/Bob Welti/Paul James)
7-11- Martin Agronsky at Large

10:30
2- Tonight Show (guests Robert Wagner, Natalie Wood, Willie Shoemaker and Erma Bombeck0
4- SWAT
7- A New Generation
11- Current Events

10:40
5- Ironside

11:00
7- Black Perspective on the News
11- Newsroom

11:30
7-11- Captioned ABC evening News

11:40
4- Double Nightmare Theater- “The Black Castle”
5- Movie- “Boy Ten Feet Tall”

Midnight
2- Midnight Special

1:00
5- News Final

 

[dgendvil]

Now, I think KSL was the second station in the nation to have a 10:00/11:00 pm newscast expanded to 35/40 min. at the time I know in the WDIO videos from 1973 that were posted on Youtube that had a newscast for about 35/40 min. long, which was unusual. I bet they were the first, I think.

 

[mleach]

Hmmmmmm,, what is missing from these listings? NO CARTOONS !!! Yes these are Friday listings and not Saturday or Sunday, but for a market without their own independent station ( at the time ) not a single station in the market offered at least one or two cartoons for the children, very unusual.

I wonder if the lack of cartoons and other than KUTV's Little Rascals and the PBS offerings, the lack of afternoon children's TV in Salt Lake City had to do with the Mormon community? Not saying that the Latter Day Saints are against cartoons, just that perhaps the lack of such programming is KUTV-KTVX-KSL's way to get the local mormon children( and kids of other faiths as well ) to go outside and play and be more active and not spend their free time in front of the set.

 

[azumanga]

I think it has more to do with supply, with only five stations at the time -- three commercials and two publics, and not enough time to pick up everything available. It wasn't until KSTU opened in 1978 that an expansion of programming came to Utah.