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)
40 - K40AC Tucson (translator of KTVW 33 Phoenix, then affiliated with the Spanish International Network; SIN became Univision a few years later, and K40AC is now K48GX on Channel 48, a translator of Telefutura affiliate KFTU-CA 34 Tucson)
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 will 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
Source: Arizona Daily Star, 22 November 1963
Stations:
3 – KTVK-TV (ABC), Phoenix
4 – KVOA-TV (NBC), Tucson
5 – KPHO-TV (Independent), Phoenix
6 – KUAT-TV (NET), Tucson
9 – KGUN-TV (ABC), Tucson
10 – KOOL-TV (CBS), Phoenix
12 – KTAR-TV (NBC), Phoenix
13 – KOLD-TV (CBS), Tucson
NOTES: the original text of this post included references to KUAS-TV 27 in Tucson as being a direct satellite of KUAT. This was because two individuals I spoke to this morning at Arizona Public Media insisted that KUAS had gone on the air in the early '60s and was retransmitting KUAT by this time. I've since been informed that KUAS did not go on the air until the mid-'80s, thus the previous references to Channel 27 have been removed. As well, KAET was operating in Phoenix on Channel 8, transmitting educational programming as an NET affiliate.
* denotes a colorcast
NOVEMBER 22, 1963
MORNING
6:00
10 – Sunrise Semester
12 – Continental Classroom (x2)
13 – Test Tunes, Farm & Ranch
6:30
10 – D Word Roundup (I have no idea what this would be)
13 – Sunrise Semester
7:00
4/12 – Today
10/13 – Captain Kangaroo
7:40
6 – Chemistry (through to Noon)
8:00
4/12 – Say When
9 – Test Pattern Bulletin Board
10/13 – CBS Morning News (Mike Wallace anchored; one of the stories was about The Beatles)
8:25
4/12 – NBC News
8:30
3/9 – Bugs Bunny/The King & Odie
4 – Word for Word *
10/13 – I Love Lucy
12 – Play Your Hunch
9:00
3/9 – The Price is Right
4/12 – Concentration
10/13 – The Real McCoys
9:30
3/9 – Seven Keys
4/12 – Missing Links
10/13 – Pete and Gladys
10:00
3/9 – Tennessee Ernie Ford
4/12 – Your First Impression *
5 – Calendar of Events
10/13 – Love of Life
10:25
10/13 – CBS News
10:30
3/9 – Father Knows Best
4/12 – Truth or Consequences
5 – Philosophy (x2; probably an educational program from Arizona State University)
10/13 – Search for Tomorrow
10:45
10/13 – The Guiding Light
10:55
4/12 – NBC News
11:00
3/9 – General Hospital
4 – Local News
10 – George Burns & Gracie Allen
12 – Romper Room
13 – Visiting with Virginia (local housewife chat)
11:15
4 – Divorce Court
(The Kennedy assassination took place in Dallas at 11:30 Mountain Time; as KOOL-TV and KOLD-TV were taking CBS’ live East Coast feed of As the World Turns, they would have gotten Cronkite’s initial bulletins live and, therefore, were likely to be the first TV stations in Phoenix and Tucson to break the news. Both ABC and NBC were themselves dark during this half hour, and local stations provided their own programming; WNBC-TV/4 New York was airing a rerun of Batchelor Father when Don Pardo broke in locally with the first bulletin there.)
11:30
3 – Jack LaLanne
5 – Bold Journey
9 – Day in Court
10/13 – As the World Turns
12 – Love That Bob
(By Noon, each of the networks was underway with their continuous coverage of the assassination, so all scheduled entertainment programming on Channels 3, 4, 9, 10, 12 and 13 were wiped out until Monday. Nobody I was able to reach at KPHO, KAET and KUAT knows what those stations were doing; I suspect KPHO picked up one of the networks with the permission of the Phoenix affiliate – they had originally been an ABC affiliate, so I’d tentatively go in that direction – and KAET and KUAT may have had someone break into the instructional programs with the initial bulletin, after which they may have picked up a network’s coverage with permission of the Tucson and Phoenix affiliates.)(NOTE FROM NOVEMBER 23RD: I just got a communication from someone claiming that they recall both KPHO and KAET rebroadcasting the NBC coverage via an off-the-air connection with KTAR.)
AFTERNOON
12:00 NOON
3 – Douglas Fairbanks Presents
4/12 – People Will Talk *
5 – Cartoonland
6 – Geology
9 – Frank Kalil (local talk show)
10/13 – Password
12:25
4/12 – NBC News
12:30
3 – Day in Court
4/12 – The Doctors
5 – News and Weather
6 – Science Reporter
10/13 – Art Linkletter’s House Party
12:45
9 – Women’s News
1:00
3/9 – Queen for a Day
4/12 – Loretta Young Theater
5 – Open House (local talk)
6 – Spanish (5th Grade, level 1)
10/13 – To Tell the Truth
1:30
3/9 – Who Do You Trust?
4/12 – You Don’t Say *
10/13 – The Edge of Night
2:00
3/9 – Trailmaster
4/12 – The Match Game
5 – The Best of Groucho
10/13 – The Secret Storm
2:25
4/12 – NBC News
2:30
4/12 – Make Room for Daddy
5/13 – People are Funny
10 – Peter Gunn
3:00
3/4/12 – local movies (with inserts of business news on KVOA-TV and news headlines on KTAR-TV)
5 – 5-Star Playhouse (probably syndicated reruns of ‘50s anthologies like Schlitz Playhouse)
9 – Ann Sothern
10/13 – Our Miss Brooks
3:30
5 – Leave It to Beaver
9 – Marshal KGUN (cartoons)
10 – December Bride
13 – The Life of Riley
4:00
5 – It’s Wallace (local kiddie show)
10 – Talent Show
13 – The Folk Sing (I’m guessing this is a regionally-syndicated folk music program similar to Hootenanny!, as it is also scheduled on KOOL-TV in the following half-hour)
4:30
10 – The Folk Sing
12 – Ann Sothern
13 – KOLD-TV News
5:00
3 – The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
4 – Woman’s/Pictorial/Business Report
5 – Rocky & His Friends (x2)
9 – Popeye
10/13 – CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite (The Beatles item from that morning’s CBS Morning News had been originally scheduled to be repeated on this broadcast; Cronkite postponed it until December 10th)
12 – News Headlines
5:05
12 – Sea Hunt
5:15
9 – Rocky & His Friends
5:30
3 – ABC News with Ron Cochran
4 – The Huntley-Brinkley Report
5 – Bachelor Father
9 – Amos ‘n’ Andy
10/13 – The Mickey Mouse Club
12 – Sports Report
EVENING
6:00
3 – Sgt. Bilko
4/5 – local news
9 – Silents Please
10/13 – Yogi Bear
12 – The Huntley-Brinkley Report
6:30
3/9 – 77 Sunset Strip
4 – Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theater
5 – Maverick
10/13 – Route 66
12 – International Showtime (Don Ameche hosting European circus acts)
6:45
6 – Spanish (5th Grade)
7:00
6 – What’s New? (children’s series)
7:30
3/9 – Burke’s Law
4 – Harry’s Girls
5 – The Trail West
6 – Visit with a Sculptor
10/13 – The Great Adventure
12 – Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theater
8:00
4 – The Jack Paar Program *
5 – High School Football
6 – Congress of Strings 1963 (scholarship student orchestra conducted by Eugene Ormandy of the Philadelphia Orchestra; sign-off at 9:30)
8:30
3/9 – The Farmer’s Daughter
10/13 – The Twilight Zone
9:00
3/9 – The Fight of the Week (scheduled match was light heavyweights Johnny Persol versus Allen Thomas; was this match cancelled or postponed due to the assassination?)
4 – Thriller
10/13 – The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
12 – The Jack Paar Program *
Approximately 9:45
3/9 – Make That Spare (bowling program hosted by Johnny Johnston that filled the remainder of the hour immediately after the boxing match ended)
10:00
3/4/5/9/10/12/13 – local news (the newscasts for KOOL-TV and KOLD-TV are both listed as Niteline; dunno if it’s a simulcast or just the title was shared)
10:15
4/12 – The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson *
10/13 – The Steve Allen Show
10:30
3/5 – movie
9 – Theater 9
11:00
4 – news
11:05
4 – movie (followed by news headlines and sign-off)
11:45
10/13 – news
12:00 Midnight
3 – movie
12 – news
13 – Mahalia (perhaps a film of gospel singer Mahalia Jackson to sign off the day?)
12:05
12 – movie
12:15
9 – Peter Gunn (followed by news headlines and sign-off)
The Arizona Daily Star of November 23rd carried a story indicating that the three commercial television networks (and four national radio networks) were all cancelling entertainment programs until after President Kennedy’s funeral on the 25th, and all of the local affiliates were following their network’s leads by doing the same on locally-originated and syndicated programming. There was still a question as to whether Tucson radio station KCUB would carry the Los Angeles Rams-Baltimore Colts NFL game from the West Coast circuit of the Mutual radio network on Sunday, but the Notre Dame college football game that weekend was definitely called off. However, ads for KOLD-TV and KOLD Radio appeared on the same page, promoting Saturday’s scheduled commercial programming; apparently, nobody at KOLD contacted the Star by press time to get the ads pulled. The KOLD Radio ad promoted the New Mexico-Arizona NCAA football game that had been scheduled for that night at 7:45; the schedule listed in the KOLD-TV ads included the following:
A second ad specifically promoted the showing of The Outriders at 10:30.
There’s also one additional item to add here, although unrelated to the TV schedules listed above. In researching this post, I came across a rather startling two-line headline in the November 17th edition of the Arizona Daily Star, the top of the two lines reading JFK SELECTS COFFIN. The story was about Kennedy choosing diplomat Frank Coffin to become the U.S. Ambassador to Panama, but I still can’t quite get past the phrasing of that top line!
