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Old Orange County Television Station

by Steve
Saturday, January 05, 2008

OCThen reader, "Duckling" writes asking if anyone remembers an old television network that originated from Orange County around 1967, and thinks it aired on channel 56 or 57. Anyways, this network had a catchy jingle and wondered if anyone knows the jingle...
Hi Steve!

I just came back from Southern Califonia where I visited my mom in Sun City, just a hop, skip and a jump from where you live now! I grew up in Ontario. My associations with Orange county are that of the theme parks: Disneyland, Knotts Berry Farm and Movieland Wax Museum.

I do have a question for some of your Orange County residents though. I was looking for a television network that I believe originated out of Orange County around 1967 or so. It ran old movies (I remember a lot of Deanna Durbin musicals) and it ran the cartoons "Kimba the White Lion" and "Speed Racer." I believe it was channel 56 or 57, but I am really awful at remembering numbers, so it could have been something else. I distinctly remember a catchy network jingle that was all instrumental and I wanted to find out what the the tune was. Hoping that some of your Orange County residents have a better memory than I and can assist in my search. Thanks for creating this site. It was fun to read!:-)
It's obviously not KDOC, since KDOC didn't go on the air until 1982.

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11 Comments:

  • It was channel 52 and I believe it broadcast from Corona. I know the tune you are thinking of but I don't know its name. They broadcast the Three Stooges and Little Rascals as well as Kimba the White Lion and Speed Racer. My brother and I used to wait all day to see it as they started their broadcasts about 4pm PST. Thanks for the memory I often wondered if anyone else ever watched it!

    By Anonymous Toad, at January 06, 2008 6:13 PM  

  • I believe it was channel 52 and it also broadcast, Ultraman, Gigantor, Giant Robot, Johnny Sokko (I think) and other Japanese originated programming.

    By Anonymous bio_ron, at January 23, 2008 1:00 PM  

  • I agree it was channel 52, and yeah I can remember that tune. I don't know the name of it. They had to play it a lot because they had a lot of system breakdowns. As I recall now, so did channel 11 (when it was metromedia and even before) - they would have interruptions of 30 seconds or a minute or more while running re-runs; they would post historic pictures of LA and play a really syrupy instrumental version of The Look of Love

    By Blogger hungry_i, at January 27, 2008 10:37 AM  

  • Here's some information on that station: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KVEA

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at February 02, 2008 4:41 AM  

  • I beleive that the TV station you are looking for was KBSC-TV channel 52 form Corrona. I remember hearing the announcement at the top of the hour and it went something like "This is Keiser Broadcasting, KBSC-TV channel 52, Corona, Los Angeles". I remember watching Speed Racer which came on right after Kimba the White Lion. I thought that the network was Keiser broadcasting (the same Keiser as Kieser Steel and Kieser Health Care?), the Keiser logo looked the same. In the 70's the network name was OAK Brodcasting. I have old video tape of that but no gingle. I remember by 1976 they would scramble the signal at 7:PM for ONTV (an early subscription tv network) and today they are KVEA a spanish channel. Now I beleve the network is Telemondo (owned by NBC Universal?) and I would be interested in any info about KBSC-TV or ONTV. The only other OC TV stations besaides KDOC, CH. 56 are KOCE-TV (PBS, and hopefuloly never Daystar except HD channel 50.3) CH 50 Huntington Beach and KTBN (TBN) CH. 40 Coasta Mesa, just accross the 405 freeway from the Mall at South Coast Plaza. Around 1987 I remember watching KNOC Fullerton/Buena Park which had all OC local programing on Group W cable, but I don't think it was on the air. I also remember Watching OCN (Orange County News channel) like CNN for Orange county, and again on cable only. I think it was run by the OC Register. Today I can watch OC orentied programing on digital channel 50.2 when I can get the signal. I live in the Placentia area now and the new HD signals are hard to get.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at February 02, 2008 4:23 PM  

  • To this day I still havent seen "Kimba the White Lion" without a bunch of static and lines through it. At our house we could never really get channel 52. That little round circular UHF antenna on the back of the TV was impossible to dial in correctly. Didn't they also use that old Indian test pattern?

    By Anonymous Val, at February 05, 2008 9:36 PM  

  • Does anyone know the name of the theme song that played on Channel 52 back in the 60's? I loved the music, been trying to get the name.

    Thank you,
    producerw@charter.net

    By Blogger producerw, at February 16, 2008 1:07 AM  

  • producerw,
    I believe you're thinking of "That Happy Feeling", by Bert Kaempfert.

    Hard to find, but you'll be glad you did!!!

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at March 20, 2008 7:34 PM  

  • I so remember channel 52, That is where I first fell in Love with speed racer, We would watch it on the weekend along with Kimba and Felix the cat and the little rascal's. I also remember roller derby being on there as well. I found the song "That Happy Feeling" on You Tube. Oh those were the days.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at August 24, 2008 9:50 PM  

  • I remember watching The Three Stooges on Channel 52.They had a nighttime talkshow called HEADSHOP that featured interviews with famous people(like a very old Moe Howard). Was also my first glimpse of The Little Rascals, which was Hosted by an eccentric old man in 'tails. Does any of this ring any bells?

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at September 02, 2008 9:18 PM  

  • The song is by Bert Kaempfert. It's called "That Happy Feeling"

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at September 17, 2008 9:08 AM  

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