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If you watch "Jeopardy" and "Wheel" on CBS

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vchimpanzee

It's up to the affiliate how they will handle it. I watch on NBC but my cable system has a CBS affiliate where I tape the show just in case something happens on the NBC station. I can also pick up that CBS affiliate with an antenna (though results have not been consistent). If I had to, that means I could watch "Jeopardy", on a digital channel. People with regular cable in that area won't have that and if they don't have an antenna or don't live where it would work, too bad. But that's how the CBS affiliate in that area is doing it. The same with soaps during the ACC Tournament--and where I live both CBS affiliates are airing that. The prime time shows at least are available to be taped in the middle of the night.

But next week, the NCAA Tournament is on all CBS stations.
 
Are you talking about CBS affiliates running Jeopardy and Wheel on their digital subchannels since those shows are preempted on the main channel? That has been done before.
 
Wheel and Jeopardy! are on our NBC affiliate here (WXIA). Whenever they get bumped due to, say, special local news programming (weather related, usually), the two shows will air on its sister station (WATL, My Network TV).
 
If they don't clear them on a sister station, won't they clear them in overnights? I realize this will impact watching them when they air, but they could be easily DVR'd and watched in the normal timeslot by the viewer just shifted by a day.
 
Minneapolis airs it really late at night. Looking at the schedule its on at 2:35AM after the 10:00 news replay and Comics Unleashed

Jeopardy is on NBC
 
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In Milwaukee on WDJT Jeopardy/WOF would usually air an hour later on their indie sister, WMLW (as they do during the TNF season), but they can't do that this week since the state boy's high school basketball tournament is on WMLW from Thursday to Saturday, so WDJT will just carry it at 9am on Thursday and Friday, in lieu of the not-airing Let's Make a Deal. Fine for those with DVR's, but of course the poor person having to work the phones those two days around 6pm is probably dreading that hour of fielding calls.
 
Jeopardy! isn't on CBS, and it isn't on NBC, either. It is a syndicated program (for what it's worth, this thread is on the wrong forum). It's on ABC affiliates in some Markets as well.

To this day, it's on the NBC affiliate in Detroit and the CBS affiliate in Toledo. Today they both carry Wheel of Fortune at 7:00 and Jeopardy! at 7:30 - but, decades ago, WTOL reversed the order. I was dating a girl who was living in Carleton at the time. I would watch Jeopardy on WTOL as she would be talking with her parents after dinner. When they finished, they would come downstairs to watch the same episode on WDIV. I would blurt out the answers (er, questions) I had heard on WTOL 30 minutes earlier. I had them thinking I was a super genius!
 
CBS now owns the programs - they acquired the former syndicator - "King World," IIRC. But in most cases, the shows continue to air on the stations that have had them for years, regardless of affiliation. In the Bay Area, they originally aired on the (then) NBC affiliate - KRON. But in themid 90s, KRON tried a failed attempt at early prime-time which pushed NBC programming into the 7:00 - 8:00 hour when Wheel and Jeopardy aired. So the syndicator pulled the shows from KRON, and sent them to the ABC O&O where they remain to this day.
 
"Jeopardy" and "Wheel" (well, "Jeopardy", anyway) have aired on all of the big three where I live.

I remember "Jeopardy" started out on the CBS station in 1984. I remember both of my ABC affiliates airing it when there was a news bulletin adn I missed the end of "Jeopardy". I turned to the other ABC station (now Fox, so this was before 1995) and Vanna was saying she was still writing [the year] on her checks. Pat said, "But Vanna, it IS [the year]." Vanna said, "Ohhhh." Obviously not a serious emergency. My usual ABC affiliate could have shown the rest of "Jeopardy", then.

Vanna actually has more brains than that, I have since learned.

My NBC affiliate has aired the shows for as long as I can remember. And a CBS affiliate I can also pick up, which my cable system has, also has. I don't know whether the NBC affiliate in that market ever did.

But if I had to watch on the CBS affiliate (meaning .2) during one of the games, it might work. I haven't tried it yet.
 
Here in the Denver area, both shows air on the local FOX affiliate KDVR 31. So, short of a NASCAR or MLB runover (In which case both would likely be moved to sister station KWGN 2 (CW) ), there won't be any problems here

Cheers & 73 :)
 
spekaing of preemption there was one time when wyff moved a acc game to fox carliona so to not preempt nbc
 
Speaking of ACC games.....

Even we in Denver get ACC Football games via ACC Network as Gannett owned KTVD 20 (MyNet) carries them. As far as I know, they don't carry ACC Basketball however.....

Cheers & 73 :)
 
I was at the beach and there was a crawl saying "Jeopardy" would be on .2 on Thursday.

Not good. It's a VHF station that covers a very large area. Unless you have a really high antenna--and who would if they have cable--apparently you're out of luck for the next several Thursdays. But I was at home before the game. Actually, "Iron Man 3" started at 7 Thursday so I took a chance that the show would get taped at home and it did.
 
vchimpanzee said:
I was at the beach and there was a crawl saying "Jeopardy" would be on .2 on Thursday.

Not good. It's a VHF station that covers a very large area. Unless you have a really high antenna--and who would if they have cable--apparently you're out of luck for the next several Thursdays. But I was at home before the game. Actually, "Iron Man 3" started at 7 Thursday so I took a chance that the show would get taped at home and it did.
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What station was that on? And I bet it's in SD.
 
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