Which Was The Best Indie TV Station In The 60's & 70's?

[calchick]

They all had their great moments, but the best probably were KTTV & KTLA...although KHJ did have the Million Dollar Movie & KCOP had Hobo Kelly, Bozo The Clown & Romper Room! Remember when KCOP was owned by Chris-Craft, KTTV by Metromedia & KTLA by Golden West Broadcasting???

[calchick]

Oh, and I almost forgot the late, great Ben Hunter on KTTV with his afternoon Movie Matinee! I remember an advertiser was Beacon Carpets, but don't ask me to recall the commercial...though wish I could!

[1069_KIFR]

I'm going with.....

KTVU Oakland-San Francisco   

[Mark]

I remember reading somewhere on line, (thought I can't find it now), that there was a serious effort to make KHJ a PBS (or educational station) a long time back.

Was that so, or just talk?

[michael hagerty]

I remember reading somewhere on line, (thought I can't find it now), that there was a serious effort to make KHJ a PBS (or educational station) a long time back.

Was that so, or just talk?

There were so many license renewal challenges to KHJ-TV under RKO General's ownership, I wouldn't be surprised if one of them was from an applicant proposing to take it educational.

[Carmine5]

For Kids programming KCOP was number 2.

I guess I would have to agree...  Despite the fact that they both had shared much of the same cartoon programs during those days, KCOP and KTTV had fantastic children's programming blocks that would rival even the stuff they air on cable TV.  KTTV had a fairly big following in regards to off-net and first-run syndicated fodder.

I recall being an audience member on KCOP's "Chuck Jones The Magic Man."  During the credits and commercial break we were all hustled over to the "Beachcomber Bill" set and did double-duty as an audience for that show as well.  Ah, the fun of live television.

[Joseph_Gallant]

There are citations about Tempo all over the internet - usually in relation to the various hosts like Philbin, Dornan, and Maria Cole

Apparently, RKO General (then-owned of KHJ-9) had "Tempo" shows on all it's local TV stations. Around 1969, there was a "Tempo" show on WNAC-7 here in Boston that was hosted by of all people, Dave Garroway (making a TV comeback; I believe he lived on Cape Cod at the time).

WNAC hoped that the show would eventually go into national syndication, but it didn't get enough of a following locally to interest either RKO General or any other distributor in syndicating it.