Which station in your market was/is pre-emption happy

[spencerkarter85]

Which TV station in your market was/is pre-emption happy? For example my market Greenville/Spartanburg, SC falls under this because the local ABC station WLOS 13 has been pre-emption happy over the years pre-empting ABC shows like the ABC era "The Edge of Night" (1975-84), All American Girl (with Margaret Cho from 1994-95), Fudge (ABC Saturday morning series based on Judy Blume books), Fame, Fortune, and Romance, the final five years of Ryan's Hope from 1984-89 which means viewers in Upstate South Carolina/Western North Carolina and Northeast Georgia didn't get to see future Martin star Tichina Arnold appear on the show unless watching from WJBF 6 in Augusta, GA or WSB 2 in Atlanta, GA. Also the late Frank Reynolds' first two years anchoring ABC Evening News from 1968-1970, the first five years of now-defunct OLTL, ABC run of $10,000/$20,000 Pyramid with the late Dick Clark, Home, Ross Shafer's Match Game, Never Too Young (I think), the first two years of Dark Shadows which means viewers in GSP didn't get to see the (first run unless watching reruns on Sci-FI/Syfy or MPI DVDs/VHS tapes) pre-Barnabas B&W era to how Barnabas became a vampire in 1795 before clearing on April Fools 1968 (three days before MLK was fatally wounded in Memphis), etc.

Recently, WLOS went back to the pre-emption happy roots by refusing to clear Litton's Weekend Adventure from ABC Network this past season and air one infomercial and syndie E/I shows instead (some aren't in HD, while the Litton's block is in HD). I had to watch Litton's block over-the-air via WJBF 6 in Augusta, GA. I called WLOS' toll-free number about this, but the program director was no help since he had a bad hearing problem.

Do you have some stations in your market that was or is pre-emption happy?

 

[MCarney]

No one in Boston is now (with both WBZ and WFXT being O&Os), but in the 1960s WNAC (now WHDH) was an ABC affiliate that preempted much of the daytime programming. When WIHS (now WSBK) came on in 1964 they picked up much of the ABC daytime lineup for the rest of the decade. Around 1994 they were CBS and preempted the CBS Morning News for more local news. It was picked up by WABU until 1995 when the CBS affiliation went to WBZ.

NBC made no secret about not being happy with preemptions from WBZ. In the late 80s both WMFP and WSMW picked up "Another World" at various times.

When WCVB came on the air their mission was to put on as much local programming as possible. That's why CBS took the affiliation to WNAC. ABC seemed to be OK with it, but as their ratings got better WCVB ran in-patterm more of the time. However "Welcome Back Kotter" was shuttled to WSBK on Saturday afternoons.

The big one now is WMFP preempting overnight and early morning programming from ME-TV for infomercials.

 

[Marckd]

WNAC as a CBS affiliate on Channel 7 owned by RKO was very good about CBS shows, rarely preempting anything. They even ran the Sunday Morning hour long cartoon block from CBS that most affiliates did not. WHen RKO lost WNAC and the station became WNEV and locally owned, moderate amounts of shows got preempted from about 1985 on.

WBZ TV was horrible as an NBC affiliate with preemptions. They would preempt an occasional prime time movie, a couple hours a week of lower rated prime time NBC shows, almost at random. Daytime was a nightmare. They preempted a good 2 hours a day of NBC Daytime shows. The noon hour was always preempted. The 10 AM hour was also at some points. From 1982 on they also did not carry Another World.

Channel 5 WCVB was also heavy with preemptions even preempting about half of the ABC Saturday Morning cartoon lineup. The SUnday morning lineup of cartoon reruns? FORGET IT. They also did not clear Edge Of NIght, whatever aired from 11 AM-12:30 PM, plus they also preempted an occasional movie from ABC.

Now from the 1970's to about 1982, NBC castaways were cleared by WSBK and ABC castaways were cleared by 56 WLVI in many cases. From 1982 to the fall of 1985, Channel 68 WQTV began clearing all the network rejects from all 3 networks. Problem though was that WQTV reached only about 30 miles outside Boston. So those NBC viewers living in new Hampshire were out of luck being in many parts of the state WBZ TV was the only NBC affilliate to reach these areas cable as well as off the air. Far enough north and West you could get 31 WNNE Dartmouth NH region which cleared NBC's whole schedule. Far enough north and east you could get Channel 6 in Maine which while bad with preemptions, they were better than WBZ TV. South of Boston was 10 WJAR which cleared all but an hour or so of NBC shows and to the west was 22 WWLP Springfield which preempted about an hour a day. Problem still was many of the WBZ premptions were also preempted by neighboring markets.

With Channel 5 WCVB, though, going north to Manchester was 9 WMUR which cleared ABC's entire Schedule until the early 90's. So anything not on from ABC on WCVB aired on WMUR. WPRI 12 Providence was also not too bad with preemptions.

WNEV began to moderately preempt by 1984. WFSB Hartford and Channel 6 WLNE Providence were worse though. Channel 68 also cleared those preempted shows. Then when WQTV bought large amounts of shows and overpaid, they stopped taking network castaways that September of 1985. Then when they nearly went dark and lost most of their shows, WQTV resumed picking up network castaways. In 1987 April when Christian Science Monitor took them over, the network preempted shows then moved to 27 WHLL Worcester which kept the NBC and ABC shows till 1993. WABU 68 picked up the CBS rejected shows 1993 till WBZ TV took CBS in 1995. Channel 62 picked up NBC and ABC shows till WHDH 7 took NBC.

 

[MikeyBos]

At certain points, ch. 4 was even worse. I believe it was sometime during 1984 that they were carrying Santa Barbara at 10 am, Days at 2 pm and nothing else but Wheel of Fortune and Scrabble, one of which was out of pattern in the 3 pm hour. I believe there was only a half hour in pattern. I do have a TV Guide from when they had this schedule and will try to post if I can find it.

Interestingly enough though, ch. 4 was never too bad about clearing the NBC Saturday morning cartoons/kid shows. They typically didn't pre-empt more than a half hour, usually for a local program.

WBZ TV was horrible as an NBC affiliate with preemptions. They would preempt an occasional prime time movie, a couple hours a week of lower rated prime time NBC shows, almost at random. Daytime was a nightmare. They preempted a good 2 hours a day of NBC Daytime shows. The noon hour was always preempted. The 10 AM hour was also at some points. From 1982 on they also did not carry Another World.

Channel 5 WCVB was also heavy with preemptions even preempting about half of the ABC Saturday Morning cartoon lineup. The SUnday morning lineup of cartoon reruns? FORGET IT. They also did not clear Edge Of NIght, whatever aired from 11 AM-12:30 PM, plus they also preempted an occasional movie from ABC.

 

[FreddyE1977]

In Pittsburgh there are very few pre-emptions anymore, at least in prime-time.
Primarily because the sports teams have all gone to cable on ROOT Sports.

WTAE and KDKA will still pre-empt regular programming for pretty much anything
that has the word "Steelers" in it. KDKA for pre-season games, and WTAE for
ESPN/NFL Network games featuring the Steelers. And both will pre-empt for
preview shows, coach's shows, etc.

In the old days KDKA would pre-empt 30+ times per year for Pirate baseball.
And the Penguins would pre-empt a dozen or so times per year on WIIC (WPXI) (until
they moved to WPGH, which was an independent at the time and as such really
had no network to pre-empt).

 

[bpatrick]

KDKA may be most notorious for pre-empting "As The World Turns"
for its local "Pittsburgh 2Day" until the station became a CBS o&o.
I don't think, from a ratings standpoint, that was too terrible a move,
but when the station flipflopped "Guiding Light" and Dr. Phil, putting
"GL" at 10 AM and Dr. Phil at 3 PM his ratings never touched what "GL"
did at 3.

WMAR Baltimore was another station not at all reluctant to pre-empt for
sports, especially if the Orioles were involved.

The two most pre-emption happy stations I've ever encountered are WSB
Atlanta when it was an NBC affiliate and WTVT Tampa/St. Petersburg when
it was CBS. In the '60s and '70s WSB would consistently pre-empt NBC's
12 N-2 PM programs, schedule at least one movie from its own library in
primetime, and pre-empt all NBC sports programming (except NFL football)
on Sundays in order to get in a movie and Lawrence Welk. Actually, although
WSB still has a reputation as pre-emption happy, I think it's WGCL that plays
the most fast and loose with its schedule, bumping "Young And The Restless"
to 3 PM and from what I hear sometimes pre-empting CBS primetime for movies
or even infomercials.

In the '70s I recall WTVT pre-empting "The Young And The Restless," "The
Joker's Wild," and "Tattletales," and delaying "Search For Tomorrow" a half-
hour to accommodate an hour-long noon newscast (by contrast, by 1974
NBC affiliate WFLA and ABC affiliate WLCY/WTSP were carrying all their networks'
daytime shows in pattern). WTVT also pre-empted at least one of the CBS movies
in favor of one of its own, never carried the "CBS Late Movie" on Friday nights, and
pre-empted both CBS's Saturday newscast and its late-Sunday-night (11 PM) one;
the Sunday-morning 9-10 AM cartoon block wasn't carried either. And before I moved
to Florida they had a movie on Monday night which forced the delays of "Gunsmoke" and
"Here's Lucy," although that had ended by the time I got there in July 1973.

Dallas/Ft. Worth, when I was there (1976-79), was probably the least pre-emption prone;
KDFW did delay CBS's late movie a week and pre-empted CBS's religious/cultural block of
"Lamp Unto My Feet," "Look Up And Live," and "Camera Three." KXAS (NBC) delayed "Sanford
And Son" reruns from 9 AM to 3:30 PM and didn't carry "NBC Nightly News" on weekends;
WFAA (ABC) delayed ABC's "Wide World Of Entertainment" until after its 10:30 PM movie and
pre-empted ABC's Saturday 5:30 PM newscast. The delays started coming after I left, especially
on KXAS, which played fast and loose with NBC's daytime schedule in the '80s.

 

[azumanga]

In the '70s I recall WTVT pre-empting "The Young And The Restless," "The
Joker's Wild," and "Tattletales," and delaying "Search For Tomorrow" a half-
hour to accommodate an hour-long noon newscast (by contrast, by 1974
NBC affiliate WFLA and ABC affiliate WLCY/WTSP were carrying all their networks'
daytime shows in pattern). WTVT also pre-empted at least one of the CBS movies
in favor of one of its own, never carried the "CBS Late Movie" on Friday nights, and
pre-empted both CBS's Saturday newscast and its late-Sunday-night (11 PM) one;
the Sunday-morning 9-10 AM cartoon block wasn't carried either. And before I moved
to Florida they had a movie on Monday night which forced the delays of "Gunsmoke" and
"Here's Lucy," although that had ended by the time I got there in July 1973.

Though I believe WTVT eased up on the pre-emptions by the time my family moved to Florida in 1979. Don't know about "Search For Tomorrow", though, as it was not seen in this area after it made its move from CBS to NBC (WXFL / WFLA had news at noon and "All In The Family" at 12:30PM).

According to past retro schedules, other stations would sometimes pick up what was pre-empted -- WXLT (WWSB) in Sarasota carried "Joker" when it was bumped by WTVT, but it was seen on a half-hour delay, opposite "live" telecasts of "The (New) Price is Right" and "The $10,000 Pyramid" on WTVT. The Friday CBS movies, the weekend CBS News and the Sunday morning cartoons were usually picked up by WTOG.

 

[bpatrick]

Ch. 40 in Sarasota also carried "Dinah's Place" before WFLA picked it up,
and as far as I can tell CBS's Friday late movie on Saturday nights at 11:30.

At one time WTOG was prone to pick up network movies pre-empted by the
affiliates; I think around 1971 it was carrying NBC's on Saturday and CBS's
on Friday. It also carried daytime reruns of "Love, American Style" during a period
when Ch. 10 (ABC) pre-empted them; 10 eventually put them on a day-behind at
11 AM. However, unlike many ABC affiliates, 10 was pretty reliable about carrying
the 4 PM show; it eventually put "Love, American Style" back at 4, carried "Pyramid"
when it was on at that time, "The Money Maze," the new "You Don't Say!", and (and
I don't know what happened after I left Florida) was carrying "Edge Of Night" in 1976.

One show I didn't mention that was dropped on 13 was "The Secret Storm" after CBS
put it back at 4 in March 1973. I guess the station realized the show's days were
numbered and, IIRC, had "Big Valley" at 4.

Now to change the subject a little, I have a question for people from Cincinnati:
what did WCPO have against "Love Of Life"? It almost always found something else
to put at 11:30 AM. I'm aware it was not a P&G show, but still it had a 28+ year
run but was rarely seen after CBS's early-'60s switch from WKRC.

 

[azumanga]

...unlike many ABC affiliates, 10 was pretty reliable about carrying
the 4 PM show; it eventually put "Love, American Style" back at 4, carried "Pyramid"
when it was on at that time, "The Money Maze," the new "You Don't Say!", and (and
I don't know what happened after I left Florida) was carrying "Edge Of Night" in 1976.

By 1979, WTSP was already pre-empting "The Edge of Night" for syndicated programming, though WXLT / WWSB carried it to the end.

 

[cowboybud]

Dallas/Ft. Worth, when I was there (1976-79), was probably the least pre-emption prone;
KDFW did delay CBS's late movie a week and pre-empted CBS's religious/cultural block of
"Lamp Unto My Feet," "Look Up And Live," and "Camera Three." KXAS (NBC) delayed "Sanford
And Son" reruns from 9 AM to 3:30 PM and didn't carry "NBC Nightly News" on weekends;
WFAA (ABC) delayed ABC's "Wide World Of Entertainment" until after its 10:30 PM movie and
pre-empted ABC's Saturday 5:30 PM newscast. The delays started coming after I left, especially
on KXAS, which played fast and loose with NBC's daytime schedule in the '80s.

For a time in the late 70s, WFAA aired whatever ABC had Sunday at 6, the following Saturday afternoon, instead airing public affairs programming in that time slot. KXAS aired a number of Rangers games until the early 80s (when KTVT got the rights), pre-empting NBC programming.

 

[nsa1]

Cleveland:

Back in the day (70's, 80's, early 90's, up to the 94-95 affiliate switches), both WEWS/5 (ABC) and WJW[WJKW]/8 (CBS) were fairly preemption-happy, especially during daytime. WEWS did not clear the second hour of GMA for years, and did not carry the show at all (and it's predecessor AM America) until the late 70's. Whatever ABC and CBS had at noon or 4PM was preempted or delayed by WEWS or WJW for noon news or syndicated programming, respectively. I think WJW also preempted CBS in the 3PM hour at times as well. WJW did not clear any CBS late night programming from the mid-70's until Letterman moved to CBS, and preempted CBS prime time often in the 70's when they had the Cleveland Indians games.

WKYC/3 (NBC) was an O&O, and cleared the entire NBC schedule in pattern.

The ABC situation was not as bad, because of the presence of WAKR/23 in Akron, receivable over much of the Cleveland market, which cleared all ABC shows that WEWS did not.

Except for WUAB/43 carrying some of the pre-empted CBS prime time shows in the 70's, and WCLQ/61 carrying the CBS Late Movies for a while in the 80's, the preempted shows generally were not picked up by the local indies.

Today, the king of pre-emptions is WKYC/3, which carries pre-season Browns games and 20 Cleveland Indians games, which usually conflict with NBC programming.

Which TV station in your market was/is pre-emption happy?

 

[71dude]

KDKA Pittsburgh pre-empted weak primetime shows in the 70's and 80's for "Channel to Pittsburgh" and "Fight Back with David Horowitz". They dumped the Pat Sajak show for sitcom reruns and initially delayed David Letterman for Inside Edition. And in the 70s they prempted controversial movies such as "Death Wish".

WPXI aired "Hee Haw" instead of "Diff'rent Strokes" and "Silver Spoons".

 

[Marckd]

In Pittsburgh all three network affiliates were preemption happy well into the 90's. KDKA TV in 1993 preempted CBS Morning News for Disney Afternoon Cartoons which they ran weekdays at 7 AM to 9 AM. They preempted a couple hours of Saturday Cartoons from CBS in favor of syndicated cartoons. They also from that late 80's until CBS gave the 10 AM hour back to affiliates in 1994, did not air whatever CBS had in teh 10 AM hour. In the fall of 1995 after the CBS/Group W deal to form an alliance began KDKA cleared the entire CBS schedule, eventually being an O & O in 1996.

WTAE was very preemption heavy. They preempted the 11 AM hour from ABC as well as whatever was on at noon from ABC for syndicated shows and local news. They eventually also preempted the 12:30 PM show Loving after Ryan's Hope was canceled (which they did not ever run). They also delayed Nightline to Midnight as well. They did run the entire Saturday Morning lineup of cartoons until June of 1992, when they abruptly dumped that in favor of a 4 and a half hour news block matching Channel 11 WPXI's block of news (which they had beginning in 1990). In 1994, WTAE began running Bugs & Tweety Saturday mornings at 7; the Weekend Special at 12:30; whatever ran in the 8 AM hour on Sunday mornings at 7. In 1996, WTAE ran Doug Sunday at 7 AM right before the news block; and Bugs & Tweety at 7 AM Saturdays. In 1998, WTAE began running Bugs & Tweety Sunday mornings at 7 AM, and Disney's One Saturday Morning Block 10 AM to Noon Saturdays. They made the Saturday Newscast 7 to 10 AM and Noon to 12:30.

They also preempted the Home SHow when it was 90 minutes, made into 60 minutes, from 1988 to 1994. They continued preempting Mike & Maty during their entire run followed in 1996 by Carol & Marylin, which they also did not clear. They did not clear Loving which aired at 12:30 till that was canceled nationally in 1995, They City did not clear in 1996 and 1997 either. They also did not run Port Charles at all during that run and continued preemptions of 12:30 time slot till ABC gave the time back. They eventually ran the View in 1998 overnights. By 2000, though they began running the View at 11 AM.

WPXI also preempted an hour of the weekday lineup, ran most of the Saturday Morning Cartoons till 1990 in the spring when they began a 4 & a half hour newscast 8-12:30. They continued to preempt the NBC lineup in 1992 when cartoons were dropped nationally in favor of Saturday Today. Eventually by 2000, WPXI began clearing the late Saturday teen lineup. WPTT ran some netowrk rejects till they affiliated with Home shopping Club in 1992. After that rejected Network shows could be viewed on NBC and CBS stations in Stubenville, Johnstown/Altonna, and Erie. After 1992, most rejected network offerins simply did noty air in Pittsburgh.

 

[crainbebo]

KIRO preempts Face the Nation to 12AM Monday Morning. KOMO last night preempted the ENTIRE ABC prime-time lineup for a Children's Miracle Network telethon. Plus, KZJO 22 pre-empts the MNTV programming to 12-2AM each morning so that they can air a double-run of The Simpsons and a newscast produced by sister station KCPQ.

-crainbebo

 

[anotherguyTN]

It seems like this thread comes up in some form every few months, but I'll mention WMC NBC 5 in Memphis again. They were at their worst from the late 70's to the early 90's, especially in daytime, pre-empting most of NBC's morning game shows.

 

[Tim L]

While WEWS was pre-emption happy at times, KYW was even worse..As mentioned in other threads, KYW would think nothing of putting a Westinghouse produced series during NBC prime time..WEWS from 1964-70 would carry a local movie package Fridays from 9-11 or maybe 7:30-9..WJW did the same thing on Mondays, except they would start the movie at 10, Interrupt the movie at 11 for news, and go back to the movie at 11:15 or 11:20..

WAKR-TV in Akron in the late 50's early 60's actually carried very little of ABC's Prime Time Schedule, going with Double Feature Movies, Akron U and High School Sports and other local programming. Channel 49 didnt begin really carrying ABC's Prime Time lineup till 1963-64..

 

[azumanga]

While WEWS was pre-emption happy at times, KYW was even worse..As mentioned in other threads, KYW would think nothing of putting a Westinghouse produced series during NBC prime time..WEWS from 1964-70 would carry a local movie package Fridays from 9-11 or maybe 7:30-9..WJW did the same thing on Mondays, except they would start the movie at 10, Interrupt the movie at 11 for news, and go back to the movie at 11:15 or 11:20..

KYW was also known for not carrying The Tonight Show with Jack Paar or Johnny Carson, instead passing it on to WEWS. Channel 3 would not pick up Johnny until a few months after it became WKYC.

 

[firepoint525]

It seems like this thread comes up in some form every few months, but I'll mention WMC NBC 5 in Memphis again. They were at their worst from the late 70's to the early 90's, especially in daytime, pre-empting most of NBC's morning game shows.

It does seem like this topic crops up again and again every few months here, doesn't it? ;D You always mention channel 5 in Memphis, while I mention channel 6 (WPSD) in Paducah. I no longer live near enough to Paducah to comment on their current programming, but they were known for pre-empting prime-time programming (including The Cosby Show one Thursday evening) for University of Kentucky basketball. They delayed Saturday Night Live by an hour for close to 20 years before they started presenting it on time. Of course, by then, everyone had lost interest in it! :

To get NBC programming back in those days, you would have had to have both of them on cable, or live in the Obion River bottoms (and risk flooding!) with a good pair of rabbit ears!

 

[jwk1979]

WBIR-TV 10 (CBS affliliate until 1988/NBC since) was notorious for pre-empting regular CBS programming, along with special such as Award Shows, Movies and other programming in order to show the lastest Country Music preformer special for the third time in two months (such as The Statler Brothers on the Mississippi River, Kenny Rogers at Home for Christmas, etc.). I remember one Wednesday night, CBS was showing a movie that I was really wanting to see only to be pre-empted by a Statler Brothers Special that had already been shown at least two times prior to that showing.

 

[Marckd]

In Philadelphia, Westinghouse's KYW TV Channel 3 was notorious for preemptions. In the 70's, they preempted about 90 minutes of the NBC Daytime lineup, usually the 12 Noon hour and the 1-1:30 PM offering joining NBC at 130 PM for Days Of Our Lives. That 90 minutes had NBC shows that came and went. Until the end of 1976, WPHL 17 ran the preempted NBC shows 9-10 AM (when KYW was only preempting the noon hour). KYW also occasionally preempted a prime time NBC show with lower ratings for local specials or some NBC movies for a syndicated movie. They were running the NBC Saturday Morning lineup in its entirity though. From Winter to Summer of 1977 WKBS TV Channel 48 ran preempted NBC daytime shows at 930 AM, Noon, and 1 PM. They would run Name that Tune at noon, Lucy Show at 1230 which was syndicated and back to NBC show at 1 which was The Gong Show.

That Fall, 17 WPHL ran the preempted NBC shows Noon to 130. KYW TV then got worse with preemptions in the fall of 1980. They preempted the 10 AM to 1 PM time slot for Hour Magazine, People Are Talking, and News. Channel 17 ran NBC rejects 9-10 AM, 1130-1 PM, leaving out one of the shows. In the Fall of 1981, KYW was back down to 2 hours worth of NBC preemptions and they ran about an hour of NBC game shows out of pattern in late afternoons mixed in with syndicated game shows. They would remain like this until 1991 when they went down to preempting only one hour a day due to the fact that NBC was giving that hour back to affiliates anyway. They remained like this till they became a CBS affiliate/quazi O & O (eventually a true O & O after the Westinghouse merger. 65 WRBV/WJST ran some NBC rejects from 1982 to 1985. Channel 29 WTAF/WTXF ran some rejects until 1989 or so. After that Channel 40 WIldwood would be on most of the cable systems to make up for the preemptions (they cleared NBC's whole schedule).

6 WPVI also preempted quite a bit of ABC shows. Not as bad as KYW. They would preempt whatever ABC offered at noon for local news. They also preempted Good Morning America entirely from its 1975 launch until 1977 for Captain Noah and his Magical Ark which was a kids show mixing in pre 41 colorized Porky Pig cartoons, post 48 Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck cartoons, Made for TV Popeyes, Mr Magoo, and Gumby. In 1977 they began running the 7 AM hour of Good Morning America and Captain Noah 8-9 AM. In the fall of 1978 as CHannel 17 acquired the Bugs & Porky Cartoons and 29 acquired the Popeyes, Channel 6 relegated Captain Noah to weekends. Channel 6 also began preempting the 4 PM ABC show in 1975 which was Edge of Night beginning in 1976. Channel 48 WKBS TV ran the ABC rejects 10 to 11 AM. Beginning in 1978, WPVI's rejects were 20,000 dollar Pyramid and Edge of Night. Beginning in the summer of 1980, WPVI preempted the 11 AM hour as well as the 4 PM hour. They ran Family Feud at 11:30 initially and at 10 AM eventually. That 11 AM offering was usually The Love Boat. Channel 48 ran those 2 shows 1030 to Noon.

In the Summer of 1983, WPVI preempted Loving, Edge Of Night, and Too Close For Comfort. Channel 48 decided to dump ABC rejects that May except for Too Close For Comfort with plans to drop that in the fall (unaware they would instead go dark end of August - that decsion being made July 14). Rejects moved to Channel 29 WTAF for a while and then to WSJT and then to NBC affiliate Channel 40 in Wildwood in the 9 AM hour and 4 PM slot. As an O & O they continued preempting the 11 AM to 1230 hour and a half. Finally when ABC canceled Ryans Hope, Loving began to be run on Channel 6 in 1988. Beginning in 1992 when ABC gave back the 12 Noon slot, Channel 6 began running 30 minutes of teh Home Show in 92 and then 30 minutes of Mike and Maty (which morphed out of the Home Show and replaced that show anyway). Finally in 1997, they began clearing the entire ABC schedule when the View premiered.

Saturday Morning cartoons were run in their entirety till 1978. Sunday Morning they ran the 11 AM hour from 930 to 1030 AM, ran 1030 in pattern and then Al Alberts at 11 AM. In 1978 they began preempting the 8 AM cartoon for Captian Noah which began at 730 AM. They also ran Captian Noah with Kids Are People Too Mixed in. At one point, they began mixing the 8 AM Saturday Morning 8 AM offering within the hour Captian Noah show. They also began preempting the 11 AM Saturday Morning offering for local public affairs in 1978. They continued this practice till the mid 80's. By 1986, they began running the 11 to 1230 PM Saturday morning cartoons from 6 to 730 AM. By 1995 they ran the Saturday Morning cartoons in pattern. What was so ironic about Channel 6 was after they became an O & O they continued to preempt ABC shows, though they no longer occasionally preempted prime time programs anymore. What happened was their owners Cap Cities bought ABC so Cap Cities had been running Channel 6 so they continued running it as they saw fit, while original ABC O & O stations wree run differently. It seemed the Cap Cities ABC O & O stations were run as their own seperate unit till Disney bought ABC.

Also Channel 10 WCAU preempted a small amount of CBS shows even as an O & O. This was only Saturday Morning and Sunday morning offerings. In 1975 WCAU preempted an hour of Sunday morning CBS public affairs offerings. In 1976 they ran only 30 minutes of the hour of CBS Sunday morning children's shows. In 1977 they preempted the entire sunday morning hour of cartoons. In the fall of 1978, they preempted the entire Sunday Morning cartoons and the 8 AM hour of Saturday morning cartoons. In the Winter of 79, they moved the syndicated Marlo Movie Machine show to Sunday mornings (which went to 30 minutes from 60) and began running the Sunday morning cartoons at 8 AM Saturday morning preempting the Saturday morning 8-9 AM offerings. In the Fall of 1979, they began running the Saturday morning cartoons in their entirity but preempted the Sunday morning ones. beginning in Spring 1980 they brought back the Sunday morning cartoons again. From the Fall of 1980 on WCAU began running the entire CBS lineup again.

In 1995 KYW became the CBS affiliate and then an O & O. They had begun preempting all but an hour of NBC teen shows and the Saturday Today SHow since its debut in 1992. But as a CBS O & O they ran Saturday morning news 6-10 AM (they ran this till Noon as an NBC affiliate). They ran the 10 AM to 1 PM cartoons in pattern. Then On Sunday Morning they ran the Saturday 8-10 AM cartoons from 7 AM to 9 AM Sunday morning. So they cleared the entire lineup but delayed 2 of the hours.