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"Romper Room" question

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Sammy Reed

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"Romper Room" ran on a lot of stations in the mornings.
Were there any stations that ran "Romper Room" in any other time slot - midday, 4-6PM, or should I dare ask - the 7PM hour?!
 
Searching earlier for the answer to another poster's question, I noticed that in 1957, Romper Room aired at 12 noon in Wilmington, Delaware over WPFH-TV. In all my years of pouring over old TV schedules, I think that's the latest time slot I've ever seen it cleared in. Maybe somewhere at sometime it was in an after school slot? I can't see it being on at 7pm, but I'm often amazed at the weird scheduling choices of some stations. I'll be interested to see if this thread gets more responses.
 
Some stations, especially indies, signed on late in the morning back in the day. If they signed on later, RR ran later.

In my home market, when RR was on the NBC affiliate, it came on at 9am (after the Today Show). When they dropped it and an indie picked it up, it came on at 11 (after sign-on).

Early afternoon, pre-schoolers take naps. Late afternoon, older kids come home from school. Doesn't make sense to schedule shows for pre-schoolers in the afternoon (including Sesame Street).
 
FredLeonard said:
Some stations, especially indies, signed on late in the morning back in the day. If they signed on later, RR ran later.
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Late '60's - we started up channel 51, Ft. Lauderdale, FL with 4 live shows in the afternoon - the first was RR right after sign-on at 3:00 or 3:30 PM
 
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