Hey! Does anybody remember a music video show that was hosted by a teenage boy on one of the UHF channels in Los Angeles in the early 80's? He use to play alot of New Wave videos especially, R.E.M.
Talk about a great memory from the past!! This was a daily ritual for me starting back around '68 when I started jr. high school. Remember the Little Rascals and 3 Stooges shorts were a staple. Still remember my reaction the day 52 played "That Happy Feeling" all the way to the end; usually they cut it off in the middle! Things used to be so simple then... 'Thanks for the memories!'
I can't believe I found this! what a blast from the past! However, for those of you old enough to remember, I saw this when it first began to broadcast a test pattern before it even showed any programs! At that time the call letters were: KMTW. Thanks so much for this!
I remember KBSC usually faded out the song before it ended to announce the station ID. I'd hear a minute or so, but never past 2 minutes. I'd anticipate, "how much will I hear THIS break?" I finally wrote to the station when I was 12 to get the title, then bought it on a 45.
I had long forgotten this little diddy. Now I remember as a kid my siblings and cousins would all do the little 'clap,clap,clap'. We knew after this little intro, the Little Rascals were getting ready to play.
@wontinga No, channel 52 never had any bullfighting on TV. Most bullfighting events were from KMEX-TV Channel 34. Showed a lot of them over the years. The only sports KBSC-TV had were: championship wrestling, boxing and roller derby (roller games) from the Olympic Auditorium at 18th and Grand in Downtown Los Angeles, CA.
Ah!! How that song brings back memories for me. Thank you. In 1971 and '72, when I was 13, everyday I would religiously watch The Three Stooges on Channel 52 in Los Angeles. And everyday in between commercials and the show they would play that song and sometimes it would seem like forever because that channel had a lot of dead air time. I probably listened to hours and hours of that song in total for all of the time that I spent watching that channel. Thanks for the memories.
I remember this from when I was a kid also......I was an anime junkie back then and Ch 52 was the only place you could see 'em. I loved the songs alot of local stations used to play either during "down time" , movie intros or when they were signing off. Think my favourite was KHJ...they would play Gershwin's "Promenade" as the theme for their late night movie programs...needless to say I became a big Gerswin fan because of that. KTLA used it as well for their late movies. Excellent post!
Other programs on KBSC TV 52 in the Kaiser era included: Head Shop, Hollywood Movie Classics, My Little Margie, Rocky and Bullwikle, Under Dog, Tennesse Tuxedo, Lou Gordon, Voice of Agriculture, Corona Now, Dr Who, and Three Stooges cartoons.
The original schedule in 1968 was felix at 3:30, Uncle Waldo at 4, kimba at 4:30, Three stooges at 5, Speedracer at 5:30, Three Stooges at 6, Little Rascals at 6:30, Speed Racer at 7, and the Addams Family at 7:30. They showed "travel and adventure" shows from 8 until sign off at 11 PM.
KBSC originally broadcast in black and white in 1968, color was added about six months later. The station ID included the music on this video, but this is not the original station ID card. The logo was in the same type style as WFLD TV or WKBG TV also seen on you tube. They were the first station group to use the same type of logo for all the stations. The numbers were inside a TV screen and the call sign and cities of liscence were below the numbers outside the tv screen.
This station had to compete not only against the 3 network affiliates but also the 4 independent VHF stations in LA, so there is little wonder why it had trouble surviving. I would've loved to have a station like this as a kid, as I grew up in a 4-station market (ABC/CBS/NBC/PBS), and others weren't even as lucky as I was.
thanks for the great post, i grew up in Corona and we thought we were special cuz we had are own tv station, never new why Corona was part of the station, they had the greatest cartoons, and programing, my parents old b/w tv would come in really snowy , but it didnt matter.....there was a dance show in the late60 early 70s it was so cool......
@ltlieu61 Today as KVEA, Channel 52's city of license is still Corona, but that is just a technicality. It has been based in the Glendale/Burbank area of Los Angeles since the 1970's and its transmitter is on Mount Wilson, above Pasadena.
I remember KBSC very fondly as a child of the '70s,living in Cudahy until 1977 and returning to California to live in Ontario in 1981. By that time it was a spanish language channel. It always came in clear as day. I was part of the ONTV crowd too and loved it until we moved to Fontana in 1983 and had to give it up. Six months after our move,we got Group W cable.(later Comcast,Adelpia now Time Warner)
@rickjr37 ETA:in 1975(or was it '76?),Some of the surviving Rascals came to my school,Pacific Blvd. in Huntington Park,and i got to meet them. Darla Hood was just lovely.
i dont remember this, but in a search to find UHF channel 52 led me here. the description is right on, Addams Family, Sped Racer, Kimba. Johhny Quest too i think. im gonna search for this; but does anyone remember that channel 5 in LA would play the same movie every night at six, five days a week? what the hell was up with that?
@MacGrurry The family film festival. Me and brother tried to watch War of the Gargantuas all 5 times. Mom mom got mad because she though it was a stoopid movie. She said, "Oh no your not watch stupid thing again go outside". And she chased us out.
@joewars66 yeah the family film festival. by the third night i was over it. i knew that giant Robot was gonna die in the end and i didn't wanna CRY no more....
I grew up outside of Philadelphia and watched WKBS Channel 48 from the first day it broadcast, September 1, 1965 . They came on the air at noon and played the same music (by Bert Kaempfert, ~ That Happy Feeling) with their test pattern before noon. Kaiser Broadcasting owned about 7 stations on both coasts as well as Cleveland and Detroit.
For many years I've had this music in my head, also remembering when I was a kid watching channel 52. I remember watching the 3 stooges, little rascals, speed racer and kimba. Then when the station would sign off it would play this music theme song....I just woke up this morning and decided to google "Channel 52 theme music:" and I finally found it....Thank you soooo much.
Cute video. Was this big 52 logo similar to how KBSC identified itself back in 1966?
I remember as a child in the late 70's at my grandparents' house watching Speed Racer, The Life of Riley, My Little Margie and The Addams Family on Channel 52 just before they scrambled the signal for ON TV around 7pm.
Today KBSC is known as KVEA, the West Coast flagship for the Telemundo network and owned by NBC Universal.
From what I remember seeing, it was the logo that I recall.
I also remember watching Beetle Bailey (with the morning revelry bugle call) as well Snuffy Smith cartoon shorts along with the rest that you mentioned.
@Jiltedin2007 Yes, these all ran on Channel 52 in L.A. back in the early to mid 1970's. From what I have read and learned from others, KBSC was pretty much The Anime Channel back then, despite being at the bottom of the totem pole in comparison to big independent stations like KTLA, KTTV and KCOP
Ah man, I have fuzzy memories of this channel dating back to the late 70's when I was 4 and 5 years old. I remember watching Japanese anime and the little Rascals on this station. What year did this channel first change its programing format?
@mlg73 I do not remember exactly, but right around 1979 or 1980 it converted to an all-Spanish program schedule during the daytime, then scrambled its signal for ON TV programming at night. It changed its call letters to KVEA and once again became all-Spanish in the fall of 1985. Since 1987 it has been a flagship station of the Telemundo network.
As a kid in the 60s I watched this channel after school. Speed racer which I thought was dumb them, and the 3 stooges. We did have a UHF tv until 1968, since before that tv sets didn't have to have a UHF reciever in them. Good job.
Anyway, thanks for the memories! Now if you could only dig up that old channel 13 (KCOP - "a Chris Craft station") logo with the colorful diamonds merging together - that would be keen!
@moshekapora i remember "a chris craft station"" and then a boat cruising thru the water, in the late 60s early 70s.... i wish someone could post a few of those!
Heck, forget about channel 52 (or 58 - KLCS - L.A. City Schools) or 68 (the *very* short-lived KVST - Viewer Sponsored Television) or 18 (KSCI - Scientology) or 22 (the stock market channel) or 28 (KCET - California Educational Television), or 34 (KMEX, su canal trenta y quatro) or 40 (a Christian station - was that the channel with wild Dr. Scott?)... where we lived, channel 4 (KNBC) didn't come in clearly, so I have very few recollections of *any* tv program or series that aired on NBC!
Channel 40 did not began as a Christian station. It started as a bilingual (English/Spanish) station KLXA in 1967, later sold to TBN in 1974, changed call letters to KTBN in 1977. It was channel 30 KHOF-TV (now KPXN) with Dr. Gene Scott. Where did you live where KNBC had a horrible signal? Did other VHF stations you received had poor signals as well?
Yes, you're right about KHOF and KTBN, etc. It's been a while! We used to live on Mandeville Canyon Road (near the top, around 5 miles north of Sunset Blvd), and channel 4 came in VERY poorly, and UHF was barely visable! The clearest was always channel 7, and 2, 5, and 11 were very clear... 9 was so-so... on some days we (barely) got channels 6 - and even 12 (!), both from Mexico, and one time I remember pulling in KEYT channel 3 from Santa Barbara. But channel 4? Fuggedaboudit!
Funny thing you mentioned TV 30... they still run that series (now hosted by his daughter Pastor Melissa Scott) nightly at 1AM. Talk about classic element, heh.
This was before cable (the first cable option at that time for our neighborhood was Theta Cable, which boasted that besides improving reception dramatically, *one* movie channel - the "Z" Channel - was offered.
To this day, the one time my late father watched what we could pull in on channel 52 was a "Lou Gordon Program" talk show segment with radio legend Paul Harvey as Lou's guest. I suppose that program aired in the early to mid '70s. Not long after that, Lou Gordon passed on, and his wife Jackie took over the program until the show left the airwaves.
My late mother always referred to UHF stations (any channel higher than 13) as "off" channels, and they came in very poorly to not at all (pure "snow") becuase we lived in a Santa Monica canyon in L.A.
Being born and raised in L.A., I always that that the Paul Simon song, "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard) had something to do with channel 52, since there was a referene to Corona in it (I now believe that the song was referring to Carona in Queens, NY).
I remember attempting to watch KBSC (Kaiser Broadcasting of Southern California) beginning in 1968 when I was 8 years old. Was Winky-Dink on that channel? Was that the show where kids were supposed to buy a transparency and then stick in right on their tv screens?
I remember watching Channel 52 as a kid during the 70s. Wasn't Felix the Cat part of the lineup back then, or maybe that was another channel? We had a Bert Kaempfert album growing up (A Swingin' Safari), the song playing over the logo brings back good memories.
Yes. Channel 52 aired "Felix the Cat" weekdays at 4:00pm after signing on. It would be replaced by "Rocky & His Friends" in that time slot. "A Swingin' Safari" was never heard on KBSC but a friend once told me that he heard it on KMEX Channel 34. The first UHF TV station in Los Angeles & the first non-English speaking station. In the 1980's, Felix was picked up on KCOP Channel 13 at 6:30am weekday mornings.
Only SoCal natives of a certain age remember how great this station was as a kid: Speed Racer, Kimba, 3 Stooges, Little Rascals, Ultraman, Johnny Sokko and his Giant Robot, and dont forget McHales Navy, F Troop, Phil Silvers Show, and my favorite the 1930's Flash Gordon serials with Buster Crabbe, all 3 of them, and probably more show I can't remember, great stuff! thanks for the memories
Wow...I get so lonesome sometimes living far from family in S. California. Seeing this, I think of the Rascals, the Stooges. Curled on the couch at age 4 in my feet jammies, safely with my late Dad. Sometimes I need to think of family to sleep, and channel 52 is part of my reminiscences. Corona seemed so far away, mysterious then. We lived in El Monte. Good job, detheenigma!
@annidez i grew up in corona my whole life, and so many people would tell me the same thing over the years! that corona was so far away, and that we lived way out in the boon docks... just like you said "mysterious". for those of who lived there ch 52 was our station and we all have great memories of those wonderful shows, ch 52 is part of my reminiscences tooo, the late 60s, and early 70s.. in 66 or 67 my favorite show was Gigantor... nice video.....thanks
Channel 52 was my obsession as a five and six year old! i adored all the shows they had on in the afternoon, especially Ultraman and Giant Robot. Then we got ON-TV and I got to see Star Wars for the first time!
With UHF channels, you'd have to open the little door on the TV under the dial, and turn a small knob to get reception. Both 52 and 22 came in very well, but 18 always played hard to get!
The KBSC logo original had the 5 abd two connected at the top. The type style was the same as WKBG or WFLD also on you tube. It was a great station that many of us watched as kids in the LA area.
I wasn't aware of the differences in the Channel 52 logo... all I remembered was the one I used.
It was a great station and that particular Theme song that was used always stayed in the back of mind and I would hum it from time to time, even after all these years.
Who did not watch Ch. 52 as a kid growing up in LA? oh the memories!!!
TRCrews 1 month ago
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SJChip 2 months ago
Hey! Does anybody remember a music video show that was hosted by a teenage boy on one of the UHF channels in Los Angeles in the early 80's? He use to play alot of New Wave videos especially, R.E.M.
lasquid 2 months ago
Giant Robot & Speed Racer were the shows I remember from this channel. I think I remember Ultraman too.
lasquid 2 months ago
Talk about a great memory from the past!! This was a daily ritual for me starting back around '68 when I started jr. high school. Remember the Little Rascals and 3 Stooges shorts were a staple. Still remember my reaction the day 52 played "That Happy Feeling" all the way to the end; usually they cut it off in the middle! Things used to be so simple then... 'Thanks for the memories!'
enginenut5 3 months ago
Good summation of KBSC - I started watching it about 1973 - 74 and it introduced me to the Stooges and Speed Racer.
I've never been the same since.
Many Thx for the upload
jahbad01 5 months ago
"That Happy Feeling" was also used as the closing music for KTVU's "Premiere Movie" in the early '70s.
vividwatch47 5 months ago
I can't believe I found this! what a blast from the past! However, for those of you old enough to remember, I saw this when it first began to broadcast a test pattern before it even showed any programs! At that time the call letters were: KMTW. Thanks so much for this!
mhtyler 6 months ago
I remember KBSC usually faded out the song before it ended to announce the station ID. I'd hear a minute or so, but never past 2 minutes. I'd anticipate, "how much will I hear THIS break?" I finally wrote to the station when I was 12 to get the title, then bought it on a 45.
EArchivist 6 months ago
I remember watching Channel 52 back in the early '70s. Speed Racer and Kimba stand out in my mind.
aladdin1052 6 months ago
My life revolved around channel 52 from the time I discovered "The Little Rascals." What wondeful days! THANK YOU!
louisa1832 8 months ago
I thought the same thing as Dethenigma......had to find it too.Remember when t.v. stations went off the air late at night?
jjcatful 10 months ago
Same song played on WKBS channel 48, Burlington-Philadelphia in 1965 when it came on the air every day at noon. Ahhh, to be 10 again.
NP4Mayans 11 months ago
I had long forgotten this little diddy. Now I remember as a kid my siblings and cousins would all do the little 'clap,clap,clap'. We knew after this little intro, the Little Rascals were getting ready to play.
tonybklyn 11 months ago
Yes memories.
joewars66 1 year ago
Channel 52 had the bullfights from Mexico, the three Stooges and the Little Rascals
wontinga 1 year ago
@wontinga No, channel 52 never had any bullfighting on TV. Most bullfighting events were from KMEX-TV Channel 34. Showed a lot of them over the years. The only sports KBSC-TV had were: championship wrestling, boxing and roller derby (roller games) from the Olympic Auditorium at 18th and Grand in Downtown Los Angeles, CA.
bossradio930 6 months ago
Ahh, the cartoons on that channel, especially Speed Racer and Kimba led directly to my career as a commercial artist. Good times.
willc2 1 year ago
Ah!! How that song brings back memories for me. Thank you. In 1971 and '72, when I was 13, everyday I would religiously watch The Three Stooges on Channel 52 in Los Angeles. And everyday in between commercials and the show they would play that song and sometimes it would seem like forever because that channel had a lot of dead air time. I probably listened to hours and hours of that song in total for all of the time that I spent watching that channel. Thanks for the memories.
elliott021 1 year ago
dont forget giant root in the 70s
auntieonie 1 year ago
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"Gigantor" was the joint back-in-the-day on UHF Channel 52 in Los Angeles. Aired weekdays prior to "Kimba the White Lion". Good times!
TheBlackAviator 1 year ago
I remember this from when I was a kid also......I was an anime junkie back then and Ch 52 was the only place you could see 'em. I loved the songs alot of local stations used to play either during "down time" , movie intros or when they were signing off. Think my favourite was KHJ...they would play Gershwin's "Promenade" as the theme for their late night movie programs...needless to say I became a big Gerswin fan because of that. KTLA used it as well for their late movies. Excellent post!
opalasattic 1 year ago
Other programs on KBSC TV 52 in the Kaiser era included: Head Shop, Hollywood Movie Classics, My Little Margie, Rocky and Bullwikle, Under Dog, Tennesse Tuxedo, Lou Gordon, Voice of Agriculture, Corona Now, Dr Who, and Three Stooges cartoons.
jgc760 1 year ago
The original schedule in 1968 was felix at 3:30, Uncle Waldo at 4, kimba at 4:30, Three stooges at 5, Speedracer at 5:30, Three Stooges at 6, Little Rascals at 6:30, Speed Racer at 7, and the Addams Family at 7:30. They showed "travel and adventure" shows from 8 until sign off at 11 PM.
jgc760 1 year ago
KBSC originally broadcast in black and white in 1968, color was added about six months later. The station ID included the music on this video, but this is not the original station ID card. The logo was in the same type style as WFLD TV or WKBG TV also seen on you tube. They were the first station group to use the same type of logo for all the stations. The numbers were inside a TV screen and the call sign and cities of liscence were below the numbers outside the tv screen.
jgc760 1 year ago
my father put words to that and would sing to me
chefbard 1 year ago
This station had to compete not only against the 3 network affiliates but also the 4 independent VHF stations in LA, so there is little wonder why it had trouble surviving. I would've loved to have a station like this as a kid, as I grew up in a 4-station market (ABC/CBS/NBC/PBS), and others weren't even as lucky as I was.
jehobden 1 year ago
anybody remember the color shorts this station showed, called "Kid Stuff"? I've been trying to find those on YouTube but with no success.
loquita999 1 year ago
@loquita999 look under snippets
jgc760 1 year ago
@jgc760 -- huh?
loquita999 1 year ago
Right on! Remember watching speed Racer, Felix, Kimba and more on 52 UHF. Thank you for a great vid.
Skyler
SkylerTN 1 year ago
that was really good, i liked how the channel logo moved with the beat of the music,
this was done well,,,, thanks for doing this video and showing it to us on youtube,
letseeitplease 1 year ago
thanks for the great post, i grew up in Corona and we thought we were special cuz we had are own tv station, never new why Corona was part of the station, they had the greatest cartoons, and programing, my parents old b/w tv would come in really snowy , but it didnt matter.....there was a dance show in the late60 early 70s it was so cool......
ltlieu61 1 year ago
@ltlieu61 Today as KVEA, Channel 52's city of license is still Corona, but that is just a technicality. It has been based in the Glendale/Burbank area of Los Angeles since the 1970's and its transmitter is on Mount Wilson, above Pasadena.
richartrod 1 year ago
I remember KBSC very fondly as a child of the '70s,living in Cudahy until 1977 and returning to California to live in Ontario in 1981. By that time it was a spanish language channel. It always came in clear as day. I was part of the ONTV crowd too and loved it until we moved to Fontana in 1983 and had to give it up. Six months after our move,we got Group W cable.(later Comcast,Adelpia now Time Warner)
rickjr37 1 year ago
@rickjr37 ETA:in 1975(or was it '76?),Some of the surviving Rascals came to my school,Pacific Blvd. in Huntington Park,and i got to meet them. Darla Hood was just lovely.
rickjr37 1 year ago
i dont remember this, but in a search to find UHF channel 52 led me here. the description is right on, Addams Family, Sped Racer, Kimba. Johhny Quest too i think. im gonna search for this; but does anyone remember that channel 5 in LA would play the same movie every night at six, five days a week? what the hell was up with that?
MacGrurry 1 year ago
@MacGrurry The family film festival. Me and brother tried to watch War of the Gargantuas all 5 times. Mom mom got mad because she though it was a stoopid movie. She said, "Oh no your not watch stupid thing again go outside". And she chased us out.
joewars66 1 year ago
@joewars66 yeah the family film festival. by the third night i was over it. i knew that giant Robot was gonna die in the end and i didn't wanna CRY no more....
MacGrurry 1 year ago
UHF TV....so many years ago....but so many good memories!
parkman35 1 year ago
In New York, WNEW-TV (Channel 5) used this as the theme for "THE SANDY BECKER SHOW" in the mid-'60s.
fromthesidelines 1 year ago
I grew up outside of Philadelphia and watched WKBS Channel 48 from the first day it broadcast, September 1, 1965 . They came on the air at noon and played the same music (by Bert Kaempfert, ~ That Happy Feeling) with their test pattern before noon. Kaiser Broadcasting owned about 7 stations on both coasts as well as Cleveland and Detroit.
NP4Mayans 1 year ago
For many years I've had this music in my head, also remembering when I was a kid watching channel 52. I remember watching the 3 stooges, little rascals, speed racer and kimba. Then when the station would sign off it would play this music theme song....I just woke up this morning and decided to google "Channel 52 theme music:" and I finally found it....Thank you soooo much.
gabesgotit 1 year ago
"Corona"?! I watched all this as a kid and live in Corona now... ha.. what a hoot...
randude1 1 year ago
WOW!! I so forgot about this! Used to watch "OUR GANG" and "My Little Margie" on 52...Was the first UHF channel I ever watched in 1968!!
AJBIII 1 year ago
Cute video. Was this big 52 logo similar to how KBSC identified itself back in 1966?
I remember as a child in the late 70's at my grandparents' house watching Speed Racer, The Life of Riley, My Little Margie and The Addams Family on Channel 52 just before they scrambled the signal for ON TV around 7pm.
Today KBSC is known as KVEA, the West Coast flagship for the Telemundo network and owned by NBC Universal.
richartrod 1 year ago
@richartrod
Greetings |
From what I remember seeing, it was the logo that I recall.
I also remember watching Beetle Bailey (with the morning revelry bugle call) as well Snuffy Smith cartoon shorts along with the rest that you mentioned.
I will be doing a second version of this soon. :)
Thanks for stopping by!
dethenigma 1 year ago
@richartrod And how about Kimba the White Lion, and Felix the Cat Cartoons? Besides Spped Racer?
Jiltedin2007 1 year ago
@Jiltedin2007 Yes, these all ran on Channel 52 in L.A. back in the early to mid 1970's. From what I have read and learned from others, KBSC was pretty much The Anime Channel back then, despite being at the bottom of the totem pole in comparison to big independent stations like KTLA, KTTV and KCOP
richartrod 1 year ago
@richartrod Ah yes, the good old days.
Jiltedin2007 1 year ago
Ah man, I have fuzzy memories of this channel dating back to the late 70's when I was 4 and 5 years old. I remember watching Japanese anime and the little Rascals on this station. What year did this channel first change its programing format?
mlg73 2 years ago
@mlg73 I do not remember exactly, but right around 1979 or 1980 it converted to an all-Spanish program schedule during the daytime, then scrambled its signal for ON TV programming at night. It changed its call letters to KVEA and once again became all-Spanish in the fall of 1985. Since 1987 it has been a flagship station of the Telemundo network.
richartrod 1 year ago
What is the name of that song? Thanks for posting this! Great childhood memories.
socalrissian 2 years ago
Included (in this Tribute) is the song Instrumental single by Bert Kaempfert,
~ That Happy Feeling.
dethenigma 2 years ago
As a kid in the 60s I watched this channel after school. Speed racer which I thought was dumb them, and the 3 stooges. We did have a UHF tv until 1968, since before that tv sets didn't have to have a UHF reciever in them. Good job.
joewars66 2 years ago
Anyway, thanks for the memories! Now if you could only dig up that old channel 13 (KCOP - "a Chris Craft station") logo with the colorful diamonds merging together - that would be keen!
moshekapora 2 years ago
@moshekapora i remember "a chris craft station"" and then a boat cruising thru the water, in the late 60s early 70s.... i wish someone could post a few of those!
ltlieu61 1 year ago
Heck, forget about channel 52 (or 58 - KLCS - L.A. City Schools) or 68 (the *very* short-lived KVST - Viewer Sponsored Television) or 18 (KSCI - Scientology) or 22 (the stock market channel) or 28 (KCET - California Educational Television), or 34 (KMEX, su canal trenta y quatro) or 40 (a Christian station - was that the channel with wild Dr. Scott?)... where we lived, channel 4 (KNBC) didn't come in clearly, so I have very few recollections of *any* tv program or series that aired on NBC!
moshekapora 2 years ago
Channel 40 did not began as a Christian station. It started as a bilingual (English/Spanish) station KLXA in 1967, later sold to TBN in 1974, changed call letters to KTBN in 1977. It was channel 30 KHOF-TV (now KPXN) with Dr. Gene Scott. Where did you live where KNBC had a horrible signal? Did other VHF stations you received had poor signals as well?
bossradio930 2 years ago
Yes, you're right about KHOF and KTBN, etc. It's been a while! We used to live on Mandeville Canyon Road (near the top, around 5 miles north of Sunset Blvd), and channel 4 came in VERY poorly, and UHF was barely visable! The clearest was always channel 7, and 2, 5, and 11 were very clear... 9 was so-so... on some days we (barely) got channels 6 - and even 12 (!), both from Mexico, and one time I remember pulling in KEYT channel 3 from Santa Barbara. But channel 4? Fuggedaboudit!
moshekapora 2 years ago
Funny thing you mentioned TV 30... they still run that series (now hosted by his daughter Pastor Melissa Scott) nightly at 1AM. Talk about classic element, heh.
kresblain 2 years ago
This was before cable (the first cable option at that time for our neighborhood was Theta Cable, which boasted that besides improving reception dramatically, *one* movie channel - the "Z" Channel - was offered.
moshekapora 2 years ago
To this day, the one time my late father watched what we could pull in on channel 52 was a "Lou Gordon Program" talk show segment with radio legend Paul Harvey as Lou's guest. I suppose that program aired in the early to mid '70s. Not long after that, Lou Gordon passed on, and his wife Jackie took over the program until the show left the airwaves.
moshekapora 2 years ago
My late mother always referred to UHF stations (any channel higher than 13) as "off" channels, and they came in very poorly to not at all (pure "snow") becuase we lived in a Santa Monica canyon in L.A.
moshekapora 2 years ago
Being born and raised in L.A., I always that that the Paul Simon song, "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard) had something to do with channel 52, since there was a referene to Corona in it (I now believe that the song was referring to Carona in Queens, NY).
moshekapora 2 years ago
I remember attempting to watch KBSC (Kaiser Broadcasting of Southern California) beginning in 1968 when I was 8 years old. Was Winky-Dink on that channel? Was that the show where kids were supposed to buy a transparency and then stick in right on their tv screens?
moshekapora 2 years ago
Winky dink was on CBS.
joewars66 2 years ago
I remember watching Channel 52 as a kid during the 70s. Wasn't Felix the Cat part of the lineup back then, or maybe that was another channel? We had a Bert Kaempfert album growing up (A Swingin' Safari), the song playing over the logo brings back good memories.
dodgerbluefan1 2 years ago
Yes. Channel 52 aired "Felix the Cat" weekdays at 4:00pm after signing on. It would be replaced by "Rocky & His Friends" in that time slot. "A Swingin' Safari" was never heard on KBSC but a friend once told me that he heard it on KMEX Channel 34. The first UHF TV station in Los Angeles & the first non-English speaking station. In the 1980's, Felix was picked up on KCOP Channel 13 at 6:30am weekday mornings.
bossradio930 2 years ago
Felix the Cat was originally aired at 3:30 pm on 52 in the late sixties, move to four in 1970 after they dropped Uncle Waldo.
jgc760 2 years ago
@bossradio930
A swinging Safari was heard on channel 52, it was the theme to their weekend public affairs program Corona Now
jgc760 1 year ago
Only SoCal natives of a certain age remember how great this station was as a kid: Speed Racer, Kimba, 3 Stooges, Little Rascals, Ultraman, Johnny Sokko and his Giant Robot, and dont forget McHales Navy, F Troop, Phil Silvers Show, and my favorite the 1930's Flash Gordon serials with Buster Crabbe, all 3 of them, and probably more show I can't remember, great stuff! thanks for the memories
KlunkerRider 2 years ago
Wow...I get so lonesome sometimes living far from family in S. California. Seeing this, I think of the Rascals, the Stooges. Curled on the couch at age 4 in my feet jammies, safely with my late Dad. Sometimes I need to think of family to sleep, and channel 52 is part of my reminiscences. Corona seemed so far away, mysterious then. We lived in El Monte. Good job, detheenigma!
annidez 2 years ago
@annidez i grew up in corona my whole life, and so many people would tell me the same thing over the years! that corona was so far away, and that we lived way out in the boon docks... just like you said "mysterious". for those of who lived there ch 52 was our station and we all have great memories of those wonderful shows, ch 52 is part of my reminiscences tooo, the late 60s, and early 70s.. in 66 or 67 my favorite show was Gigantor... nice video.....thanks
ltlieu61 1 year ago
@ltlieu61 I remember that! AND KIMBA!
wontinga 1 year ago
Channel 52 was my obsession as a five and six year old! i adored all the shows they had on in the afternoon, especially Ultraman and Giant Robot. Then we got ON-TV and I got to see Star Wars for the first time!
With UHF channels, you'd have to open the little door on the TV under the dial, and turn a small knob to get reception. Both 52 and 22 came in very well, but 18 always played hard to get!
jackbox1971 2 years ago
hahaha! ~ I soo remember that little door! and when the little knob broke, what did we do?
Use(d) a pair of pliers! - ;)
Ndeed, I would never miss a showing of Speed and all the other animé that appeared in this channel.
dethenigma 2 years ago
And don't forget Lil Rascal ,3 stooges and then signing off to spanish broadcast.
From 4-8pm, i was "glued" to that channel in the mid 70's.
fijiboy68 2 years ago
The KBSC logo original had the 5 abd two connected at the top. The type style was the same as WKBG or WFLD also on you tube. It was a great station that many of us watched as kids in the LA area.
jgc760 2 years ago
Really?
I wasn't aware of the differences in the Channel 52 logo... all I remembered was the one I used.
It was a great station and that particular Theme song that was used always stayed in the back of mind and I would hum it from time to time, even after all these years.
So, I HAD to find it and I did...
What memories...
dethenigma 2 years ago
Yep. I remember the logo connected the numbers. I used to draw that on my Pee-Chee folder at school! Good work! This was great!
dannystrat 2 years ago