Mountain time zone CBS daytime

[joebtsflk1]

It doesn't seem like there's much of a pattern left to daytime schedules these days, but generally Mountain time zone stations follow the Central pattern by tape delaying the Eastern/Central feed by one hour. But while on vacation in NW Wyoming last week, I noticed the CBS stations in Idaho Falls/Pocatello and Billings MT both show The Price is Right at 9 AM Mountain.

Seems like there would be some advantages to be had for stations out here in the forgotten time zone. Any other examples? (besides CBS affiliated Keloland KCLO TV in Rapid City SD, the only Mountain zone station of an otherwise Central time zone statewide network)

 

[Mr Tony]

KXGN in Glendive, MT has always put CBS an hour earlier than "normal"....back in the analog days they put CBS primetime from 6-9 and the best of NBC from 9-10
Even though they have a NBC subchannel they still do CBS from 6-9.

 

[SteveRichards]

KRQE in Albuquerqe has a pretty jacked-up schedule for CBS daytime programming:

10 AM Let's Make a Deal
11 AM Price Is Right
12 PM News
12:30 Bold and the Beautiful (the only network daytime show "in pattern" for the Mountain Time Zone)
1 PM Young and the Restless
2 PM The Talk

If KRQE would flip Y&R and B&B, the station's schedule would technically be in pattern for the Eastern Time Zone.

And while obviously not in the Mountain Time Zone, KGMB in Hawaii runs CBS daytime all over the place, along with "CBS This Morning" an hour late:

8 AM CBS This Morning
10 AM Price Is Right (assuming KGMB follows a Central/Mountain pattern, as the station does in prime-time, this is the only daytime show "in pattern")
11 AM Infomercial
11:30 Bold and the Beautiful
12 PM Let's Make a Deal
1 PM Young and the Restless
2 PM The Talk

 

[crainbebo]

Let's Make a Deal at noon?! That's an odd schedule. And Y&R in the afternoon doesn't make sense...

KIRO-7 in Seattle turned CBS daytime out of pattern by airing Bold and the Beautiful at 3PM now. This is so that they can get more $$$ by broadcasting more NEWS at 12:30. Like they need more. 30 minutes was just fine. Same station didn't air B&B for many years, not until KSTW took over CBS briefly 1995-97.

-crainbebo

 

[bpatrick]

Don't kid yourself about Y&R. In the Eastern time zone, WRAL Raleigh and WLKY Louisville win the 4 PM slot against the ABC stations' local newscasts; in fact, WTVD is the only ABC o&o that isn't number one at 4 (and WABC and KABC go up against the number-one syndicated show, "Judge Judy"). In the Central time zone, KMOV St. Louis and WAFB Baton Rouge are also doing just fine with Y&R at 4.

Back to the Mountain time zone, CBS o&o KCNC Denver follows Central time; unless they've moved "Let's Make A Deal" to 9 AM and I simply haven't heard about it, their lineup is:

10 AM The Price Is Right
11 AM Young And The Restless
12 N News
12:30 Bold And The Beautiful
1 PM The Talk
2 PM Let's Make A Deal

What's more interesting to me is in the Pacific time zone: KCBS carries Y&R at 11:30, while sister station KPIX San Francisco carries it at 11 AM. And in the Central time zone, WCCO Minneapolis has it at 11 while sister stations WBBM Chicago and KTVT Dallas/Ft. Worth have it at 11:30.

 

[Mr Tony]

Minneapolis has a noon newscast (1/2 hour)

 

[Tim-In-Houston]

As do most central time zone CBS affiliates. I figured that's how TV worked...ABC and NBC aired news at 11:30, CBS at Noon.

Then I traveled for the first time to an eastern tz market and everything was off!

Anyway...

I recall WTVF Nashville, up until about a decade or so ago, really jacked with the CBS daytime schedule.

11AM NEWS
11:30 Y&R
12:30 Talk Of The Town (local)
1:30 B&B
2:00 As The World Turns
3:00 Guiding Light

Now, they air ToTT at 11 catching back up to the CBS pattern with The Talk at 1:00.

When I lived and worked in Great Falls, MT the CBS aired midday in pattern. While the ABC (the station i worked for) carried the central feed in pattern, starting at 11 am (we didn't have a midday newscast) and ending at 2 pm.

 

[nelsonincharlotte]

When KMGH in Denver was a CBS affiliate, they ran the Bold and the Beautiful at 10 am MT a day behind, followed by the Price Is Right at 10:30, then news at 11:30. I think they aired Young and the Restless at noon, then ATWT and Guiding Light in pattern at 1 and 2. I remember because we used to pick up the Denver stations on my grandparents' old satellite dish and I remember watching The Price Is Right at 12:30 Eastern.

 

[anotherguyTN]

As do most central time zone CBS affiliates. I figured that's how TV worked...ABC and NBC aired news at 11:30, CBS at Noon.

Then I traveled for the first time to an eastern tz market and everything was off!

Anyway...

I recall WTVF Nashville, up until about a decade or so ago, really jacked with the CBS daytime schedule.

11AM NEWS
11:30 Y&R
12:30 Talk Of The Town (local)
1:30 B&B
2:00 As The World Turns
3:00 Guiding Light

Now, they air ToTT at 11 catching back up to the CBS pattern with The Talk at 1:00.

When I lived and worked in Great Falls, MT the CBS aired midday in pattern. While the ABC (the station i worked for) carried the central feed in pattern, starting at 11 am (we didn't have a midday newscast) and ending at 2 pm.

According to a couple of retro schedules posted earlier WTVF's daytime schedule was even crazier in 1985:

http://www.radiodiscussions.com/showthread.php?633553-Retro-Nashville-Wednesday-Jun-19th-1985

http://www.radiodiscussions.com/showthread.php?654146-Retro-Nashville-Mon-June-17th-1985

8:00 Local News
8:30 Press Your Luck
9:00 Match Game - Syndicated reruns from the 1979-1982 version
9:30 The Price is Right
10:30 Talk of the Town
11:30 The Young and the Restless
12:30 As the World Turns
1:30 Capitol
2:00 Guiding Light
3:00 $25,000 Pyramid
3:30 The Joker's Wild - Syndicated

I don't know how they got away with so many changes, but I actually would have liked the fact that they had more game shows than most stations did at that time.

 

[bpatrick]

Actually, they catch back up to the CBS pattern at 11:30. The current schedule (unless it's been changed):

10 AM The Price Is Right
11 AM Talk Of The Town
11:30 Y&R
12:30 B&B
1 PM The Talk
2 PM Let's Make A Deal

Also, up until about the mid-2000s, WTVF ran "Guiding Light" at 2 and "ATWT" at 3. Nashville is in the Central time zone.

Also, re WCCO, it and KCNC are, I believe, the last two CBS o&os that run "Let's Make A Deal" in the afternoon; all the others have it at 10 AM (ET)/9 AM (CT/PT)

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

Didn't CBS (and the other networks) eventually start a Mountain Time Zone satellite feed for at least prime-time? And before 2006 this was also the feed used by Indiana stations when they did not follow Daylight Savings Time (so they could keep at least the prime-time schedule on the Eastern Time schedule all year).

 

[anotherguyTN]

Actually, they catch back up to the CBS pattern at 11:30. The current schedule (unless it's been changed):

10 AM The Price Is Right
11 AM Talk Of The Town
11:30 Y&R
12:30 B&B
1 PM The Talk
2 PM Let's Make A Deal

Also, up until about the mid-2000s, WTVF ran "Guiding Light" at 2 and "ATWT" at 3. Nashville is in the Central time zone.

Although I don't have a schedule to prove it, it seems like I can remember Y&R being shown on WTVF later in the afternoon (Possibly 3 or 4 PM) during the late 90's or early 2000's. This would have been when I had first moved to Jackson, TN and WTVF was still on Charter's lineup at the time. Did that actually happen or is that just my imagination?

 

[mvcg66b3r]

Actually, they catch back up to the CBS pattern at 11:30. The current schedule (unless it's been changed):

10 AM The Price Is Right
11 AM Talk Of The Town
11:30 Y&R
12:30 B&B
1 PM The Talk
2 PM Let's Make A Deal

Also, up until about the mid-2000s, WTVF ran "Guiding Light" at 2 and "ATWT" at 3. Nashville is in the Central time zone.

Although I don't have a schedule to prove it, it seems like I can remember Y&R being shown on WTVF later in the afternoon (Possibly 3 or 4 PM) during the late 90's or early 2000's. This would have been when I had first moved to Jackson, TN and WTVF was still on Charter's lineup at the time. Did that actually happen or is that just my imagination?

Fixed the quote.

 

[dave73]

Didn't CBS (and the other networks) eventually start a Mountain Time Zone satellite feed for at least prime-time? And before 2006 this was also the feed used by Indiana stations when they did not follow Daylight Savings Time (so they could keep at least the prime-time schedule on the Eastern Time schedule all year).

I don't know about WTHI Terre Haute, WISH-TV Indianapolis, WANE-TV Fort Wayne, or WLFI Lafayette, but WSBT-TV South Bend (along with the other South Bend stations) had their summer programming on at the same time as the central time zone, due to neighboring Michigan observing DST, & kept the schedule the same those people. What South Bend stations used to say in promos, is for the nightly news, they'd say 10pm/11 in Michigan. I would think that Fort Wayne stations were similar in their approach, since they also serve Ohio viewers. Since all of Indiana went to DST, that became moot. When counties were given the choice to switch time zones, only St Joseph County in the South Bend market wanted to switch, but their request was denied, due to the remaining counties (including Elkhart County) on the Indiana side wanted to remain on Eastern Time. Starke County is the only county in the South Bend DMA that was allowed to switch to central time, while Pulaski County did switch to central time in the beginning, businesses & residents refused to accept the change, resulting in students being late for school, & switched back to eastern time a year later.