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Several TV Stations in the Same Market Set to Broadcast the Same Program

I was wondering how long it would take for WJTC and WPMI to pick up Ring of Honor. Even though your article doesn't indicate WPMI has picked up ROH I would expect it to appear someday... especially after WEAR and WPMI started sharing reporters on their newscasts. So much for keeping Sinclair Mobile and Sinclair Pensacola/Tallahassee separate.
 
WPMI-TV would probably broadcast "Ring of Honor Wrestling" only on certain weekends when they do not have have enough "paid programming" to broadcast.
 
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That's kinda what ROH is, a glorified infomercial. Sinclair is obviously trying to saturate the Mobile DMA with hopes that they can draw 500-1000 folks to a live wraslin' show at a local national guard armory. All wraslin' shows on broadcast television stations have run this model. It was much more obvious with ECW and even back to the old days of CCW, NWA, and UWF, except those old shows had much larger audiences.
 
I recall that in the early 1990's, several broadcast and cable networks simulcast an animated cartoon special featuring nearly all of the top cartoon characters of the era (and a few "legends") in a show whose purpose, IIRC, was to fight drug abuse.

More recently, in December of 2007, CBS and NBC simulcast the NFL Network's coverage of the final regular-season game of the New England Patriots (they played the New York Giants at the old Meadowlands stadium) on a Saturday night since New England was going for a perfect 16-0 regular-season (they got the 16-0 record, but lost to those same Giants a few weeks later in the Super Bowl).

As a result of that situation, the NFL altered it's scheduling procedures so that all 16 games on the final weekend of the regular-season are scheduled for Sunday afternoon, with one of them moved to prime-time the prior Monday. Had that procedure been in place in 2007, the New England/New York Giants game would have been "flexed" to Sunday night from Sunday afternoon for a full national telecast on NBC.
 
Joseph_Gallant said:
I recall that in the early 1990's, several broadcast and cable networks simulcast an animated cartoon special featuring nearly all of the top cartoon characters of the era (and a few "legends") in a show whose purpose, IIRC, was to fight drug abuse.

More recently, in December of 2007, CBS and NBC simulcast the NFL Network's coverage of the final regular-season game of the New England Patriots (they played the New York Giants at the old Meadowlands stadium) on a Saturday night since New England was going for a perfect 16-0 regular-season (they got the 16-0 record, but lost to those same Giants a few weeks later in the Super Bowl).

As a result of that situation, the NFL altered it's scheduling procedures so that all 16 games on the final weekend of the regular-season are scheduled for Sunday afternoon, with one of them moved to prime-time the prior Monday. Had that procedure been in place in 2007, the New England/New York Giants game would have been "flexed" to Sunday night from Sunday afternoon for a full national telecast on NBC.
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And the year before the Giants clinched the last wild card berth with a win in that last Saturday game so Fox was stuck with a lot of meaningless NFC games on Sunday. Oops!
 
WCVB Boston and WMUR Manchester, NH are both in the Boston market and both are ABC affiliates owned by Hearst. They also air many of the same syndicated programs, often at the same time.
 
^Even though I found the situation above interesting (especially the part of the stations being affiliated with ABC), I had intended for this discussion to be about any TV market with three TV stations or more owned by the same company that share a TV program or more.
 
Many religious programs (The 700 Club, Joel Osteen, etc.) air on both a Big 4/CW/MNT affiliate and a TBN/Daystar/religious station in the same market.
 
For a few days earlier this month, somehow WTMJ in Milwaukee had not gotten the memo/read their competitor's TV listings to know that WITI was airing Access Hollywood starting on September 8; it had been an extreme victim of WTMJ's saturation news strategy and was moved to post-Carson Daly a few years back, which didn't please NBC. So they still aired it for three days until a few calls to the station pretty much told them 'um, you know you're running a show airing two hours earlier on Fox 6 now and it's not yours anymore'. :confused: Still they kept Access in their listings for a couple weeks until finally changing it to an infomercial slot.

Ironically? WTMJ now carries Access Hollywood Live in the afternoons.
 
E/I programming can air on multiple stations in major markets, even if those stations don't share an owner. (DragonFly TV, for example)

KVMD - Mondays at 2 PM
KXLA - Wednesdays at 2:30 PM
KCOP (My13) - Thursdays at 7 AM
 
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