Yet...in the Mountain states, that is exactly what stations had to> do for many years. NBC was the only network that regularly offered> its own Mountain feed, and that didn't come until the late 70s.>

I can recall from the part of my childhood spent in Albuquerque > that the stations there and in El Paso used their> own tape delay systems to have, more or less, a Central-style> schedule. Sometimes, though, shows would be at a totally different> time from the rest of the country. For example, Albuquerque's> then-KGGM broadcast "Gilligan's Island" on a different day than> everyone else in the country. >

You could determine this from the New Mexico edition of TV Guide> because the Roswell-Carlsbad stations, being in a very tiny market,> did not have videotape recording capability. Thus, they pulled down> their feeds when the eastern half of the country got them. This> resulted in local news at 9 pm, and, on KSWS-TV, the "Tonight" show> at 9.30 pm.