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They preempted that for this?

When CBS bought KOVR 13, I never understood how they couldn't carry Guiding Light--a network show. It seemed unheard of for a CBS O&O to not carry their own network's programming and set a bad example for other affiliates with carrying network programming. They claimed it was because the prior affiliate didn't carry the show, so they didn't. When Let's Make a Deal replaced Guiding Light in 2009, they carried it from the beginning.
 
Big preemption in my market (Springfield/Decatur/Champaign DMA) today.

All but the last scheduled hour of the NHL All-Star Game was wiped out on our local NBC affiliate (WAND-17.1 Decatur) for their local broadcast of the United Celebral Palsy (UCP) telethon from 11AM-5PM. As was skiing coverage prior to the ASG. (Strictly local UCP telethon coverage for about the past 20 years or so, no national segments like in its 70s-early 90s heyday).

The ASG was not bumped, AFAIK, to WAND's subchannels (17.2 Cozi, 17.3 ION).
 
Tim from Springfield said:
Big preemption in my market (Springfield/Decatur/Champaign DMA) today.

All but the last scheduled hour of the NHL All-Star Game was wiped out on our local NBC affiliate (WAND-17.1 Decatur) for their local broadcast of the United Celebral Palsy (UCP) telethon from 11AM-5PM. As was skiing coverage prior to the ASG. (Strictly local UCP telethon coverage for about the past 20 years or so, no national segments like in its 70s-early 90s heyday).

The ASG was not bumped, AFAIK, to WAND's subchannels (17.2 Cozi, 17.3 ION).
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This being the last Sunday in January, there was also the 700 Club Telethon. Did it preempt network sports where you live?
 
mvcg66b3r said:
This being the last Sunday in January, there was also the 700 Club Telethon. Did it preempt network sports where you live?
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I'm not aware of it airing in my market.

I also wonder if because of extended Grammy Awards coverage, if the main CBS switchboard and/or some individual CBS affiliates actually received some viewer complaints from people asking why "60 Minutes" was preempted entirely this week. :)
 
Tim from Springfield said:
I also wonder if because of extended Grammy Awards coverage, if the main CBS switchboard and/or some individual CBS affiliates actually received some viewer complaints from people asking why "60 Minutes" was preempted entirely this week. :)
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It'll be worse next year when CBS has the Super Bowl.
 
I don’t know if this counts as pre-emption, but CBS was scheduled to have an hour of Grammy Red Carpet Live coverage, but because of the PGA Golf tournament running overtime, the red carpet show was only about 25 minutes long. The reporters even stated that it went by quickly.
 
Yes, I noticed that waiting for the Grammy's, golf running long.
KCYU no longer runs the second run of Divorce Court and airs an infomercial at 1:30pm instead. Really? There's some time of day called 2am for running that stuff!
 
Tim from Springfield said:
Big preemption in my market (Springfield/Decatur/Champaign DMA) today.

All but the last scheduled hour of the NHL All-Star Game was wiped out on our local NBC affiliate (WAND-17.1 Decatur) for their local broadcast of the United Celebral Palsy (UCP) telethon from 11AM-5PM.
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I wonder if anyone would complain if this telethon pre-empted "Speechless"?
 
For many years throughout the 80s and 90s, the auxiliary PBS station in Boston, WGBX/44 had an airing of Sesame Street in the evening. It would vary between airing at 5:30 or 6:00 pm. But they would also air the Massachusetts Legislature which was basically when the state House was in session, and it would often run overtime, pre-empting that airing of Sesame Street. And as a little kid, I actually remember getting very upset and crying.
 
onairb2014 said:
Some time back, a thread on the '506 Sports' forum (some of whose regular posters also post here) mentioned that the bulk of the country saw the Brewers-Orioles game, and ABC only had Drysdale at Candlestick Park for cut-ins.
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NBC has done that too; Bob Costas was at the Tigers-Yankees game in 1980 for live cut-ins during the Phillies-Expos game(but the Yankees game would have been seen on KYW anyway since another station had the Phillies game). But the game in Montreal was delayed, so the Tigers-Yankees game was seen nationally.
 
Yesterday WVIT the NBC O&O in Hartford blew out the first 37 minutes of Days of Our Lives at Noon (yes WVIT airs Days of Our Lives at Noon) for continued coverage of the breaking news story about some screw ball who smashed his car loaded with gasoline containers into the emergency room at Middlesex Hospital and then lit himself on fire. (They air a newscast 11AM-Noon, so nothing else was pre-empted on WVIT).

Here's an article about this crazy breaking story. https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/Car-Hits-Middlesex-Hospital-in-Middletown-474841893.html
 
The listings did not change. I saw "Match Game" listed on WSOC-TV (Charlotte, where Billy Graham's museum is located) and when I started watching about 30 minutes after it started, my TiVo said I was watching it. But it was a special about Billy Graham. If they had changed the listing, I might have been able to find out when "Match Game" would actually be on. If I had started watching when it started, I would have known in time to miss less of it. WXLV never pre-empts anything. Instead, I ended up with only the second half of the show and have to wait for ABC to rerun it.
 
Not a pre-emption per se, but last week The Wendy Wiliams Show replaced 3 new shows with reruns because she had the flu. She was back on Monday and Tuesday (but part of Tuesday was pre-taped) this week, before they announced Wendy would be in reruns for the next 3 weeks due to health reasons relating to her thryoid condition and having another condition called Graves Diseasse.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/21/entertainment/wendy-williams-graves-disease/index.html
 
bpatrick said:
I lived in Maryland in the '80s, between D.C. and Baltimore,
and I agree, it was nice to have both; particularly when
WMAR (NBC then) was carrying an Orioles game and WRC
had the NBC network show. Likewise, WUSA pre-empted
some CBS shows (especially in daytime) that WBAL (CBS
then) carried.

For me, it was best when I attended the University of
Georgia in the '70s. At the time, the local cable system
brought in Atlanta, Greenville/Spartanburg/Asheville, and
Augusta stations. WSB was an NBC affiliate then, and much
more prone to pre-emption than it is today with ABC, so
it was nice to have NBC from Greenville, SC, which rarely
pre-empted. (It also gave us a lot of choices as to when
to watch the network news; ABC came on at 6 from Asheville,
6:30 from Atlanta and Augusta; CBS at 6:30 from Spartanburg
and Augusta, 7 from Atlanta; NBC at 7 from Atlanta and Greenville--
no Augusta NBC station on cable. But that's another story, off-
topic.)
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When i had a big dish, i could get the NBC network feeds; If WYFF aired a ACC game, but NBC had a bigger national game, i could see it. Same thing with the Breeders Cup, since the ACC game would overlap it usually. ABC was the same way, if WLOS showed Billy Graham, i could still see the preempted show; also i could see Ryan's Hope, which WLOS bumped too. And the one year WLOS didn't air ABC's cfb games, i could see those games on the dish.
 
danderson6500 said:
I'd expect WSOC to preempt for the funeral of Billy Graham. It is a private service, but it is being televised, no?
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Why would a "private" service be televised?

I finally got around to watching the part of "Match Game" that I was able to record. Sinful! One of the contestants filled in the blank with a word you can't say on TV, and Alec Baldwin lay down on the floor, and the audience went wild. I'm not even sure I can describe the synonyms from celebrities that did get past the censors without getting in trouble.
 


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