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Press Your Luck at 4:00 p.m. in 1986

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Vahan

Hey guys, new user here.

Does anyone know which stations on the east coast aired Press Your Luck at 4:00 p.m.? They were the only ones not to tape delay it for the next morning. The only one I know of it the Boston independent station of WQTV 68.
 
WTVY/ch. 4 in Dothan, Ala. ran it for sure (3 PM CT). A few CBS stations ran an early feed at 12 Noon. Our market--Atlanta--didn't clear Press Your Luck on a regular basis, but on September 22, 1986, that day's episode cleared. WVEU/ch. 69 (today CW's WUPA) was supposed to start running CBS's The $25,000 Pyramid at 4 PM on a delay but they forgot to tape that day's episode at the 10 AM feed. Left without something to air, they cleared that day's PYL.
 
Thanks.

Just discovered that there was also WABI-TV in Bangor, Maine, who ran it at 4 p.m.; ditto Body Langauge.
 
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Also found WBOC-TV in Salisbury, MD and and WCSC-TV Charleston, SC. Not sure if these carried PYL from January to September 1986.

For some really weird reason, despite the fact that it is on the East Coast, the latter preempted it on January 6 with the ABC-originated Dynasty.
 
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Vahan said:
Also found WBOC-TV in Salisbury, MD and and WCSC-TV Charleston, SC. Not sure if these carried PYL from January to September 1986.
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WBOC was typically very good in the past with the CBS 4:00pm offering; I don't have any concrete evidence but I would imagine they probably carried it all the way to the end.
 
WIFR, the CBS station in my hometown of Rockford, Ill., was also good about CBS' 4pm ET/3pm CT offerings, and because the station (at that time) also carried game shows in late afternoon as a lead-in to the 5pm news, the CBS game show in that slot (PYL, and "Body Language" before it) always served lead-off for the rest of that afternoon. I know in some markets, the 4/3pm CBS show would air in Noon ET/11am CT slot; in Rockford's case, WIFR aired "Tic-Tac-Dough" in-between "The Price is Right" and "The Young & the Restless".
 
WREG in Memphis was good about carrying all of CBS's daytime lineup except for 4 PM ET/3 PM CT because they carried an afternoon movie running from 3 to 5 PM and syndicated shows in later years. The only time it really bothered me was during the times when Match Game and Press Your Luck were in that time slot. The only other game show I remember running any length of time in that time slot was Tattletales, which I never really liked all that well. Otherwise the time was filled with various soaps, sitcom reruns, and game shows that either moved to a better time or died in that time slot, most of which I didn't care abut seeing anyway.
 
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