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They preempted that for this?
- Thread starter Stanislav
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From what I saw on my Facebook feed from a friend of a friend who is a Redsox fan FOX 61 in Hartford (owned by Tribune) did their "11PM News" live at 3:40AM. For anyone that cares, that is two hours and twenty minutes before their morning news starts on Saturdays and twenty minutes before their morning news starts Monday-Friday.
What aired after the very late 11 p.m. news? Pre-empted programming from after the news or straight into infomercials?
The game only had 18 hits in it, which made me wonder how long it took to play a similar game, say, in the 1970s. I found one -- Mets 4, Expos 3, 18 innings, Sept. 16, 1975. The game featured 21 hits, 14 walks, 16 strikeouts. Red Sox-Dodgers had only 11 walks, but 34 strikeouts. I suppose that would slow the game down some ...
But that Expos-Mets game was completed in 4 hours, 29 minutes, nearly THREE FULL HOURS less than it took the Dodgers and Red Sox to play 18 innings 43 years later! OK, there was nothing at stake in the 1975 game (The Mets were average, the Expos bad), but even that fails to explain how baseball games evolved into their current bloated, turgid state. People are calling last night's game "epic" and "classic." At 4:29, it certainly would have been, and many more people would have been awake to see how it ended. At 7:20, it was a monstrosity.
My FOX Station (WXIX) didn't even ran the news. They just went to a rerun of The Goldbergs after the game was over.
Even during the regular season the schedule shows the game running for 3 hours from 8 to 11 PM ET, which almost never happens, especially with a postseason game.
In Los Angeles, as of this posting, network late-night talk shows on CBS, NBC, and ABC are being preempted by Ventura County wildfire coverage by the networks’ respective O&Os. KTLA 5 (CW) is a covering the wildfires instead of airing a Friends rerun, and CBS-owned independent KCAL 9 is covering the fires, preempting a 2 Broke Girls rerun. KVEA (Telemundo 52) is the only Spanish-language station covering the wildfires.
EDIT: KTTV (Fox 11) has now broken into TMZ to air coverage.
EDIT: KTTV (Fox 11) has now broken into TMZ to air coverage.
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Any reason why WSPA and WBTV did things different with daytime shows in 76? WSPA had Nancy Welch at 10am, but WBTV had Price is Right at 10am, but then TPIR airs on WSPA at 10:30? That's the opposite of what happened later on, when WSPA would show the network in pattern, but WBTV aired TPIR one day delayed. But in the 72-75 era, Nancy Welch aired at 9:30, to accommodate The Joker's Wild with Jack Barry at 10am.
WAGM-DT2 (FOX Presque Isle, Maine) pre empted the Ohio State/Michigan and Michigan State/Rutgers game for their annual Rotary auction that runs from 1-6pm
Listings show Wipeout and Extra before it (preempting the pregame and 1st hour) and Big Bang x2 and Mom up until 7:30 when they will join the pregame for the final game of the night
Listings show Wipeout and Extra before it (preempting the pregame and 1st hour) and Big Bang x2 and Mom up until 7:30 when they will join the pregame for the final game of the night
WBTV's schedule was changed because of the noon news show "Top O' the Day", which was followed by Betty Feezor's women's show. I don't even think they showed "The Young and the Restless", which quickly became my favorite soap opera when I was in college. I'm not sure how I watched that because I think that show was delayed.
That's interesting.
WYFF was pretty good about clearing the morning schedule, expect for their noon newscast. WSPA never had a noon newscast until Y&R moved to 12:30 in 81. even then, 7 carried "Love of Life," which 3 didn't.
Same thing with Edge of Night- if WLOS wanted to stay local, then WSPA could have aired it.(i know, EON was an ABC show from 75 on, but...)
WSPA carried "Where the Heart Is" which WBTV passed on too. And once WYFF started their noon news, Y&R was the opposition. I wonder how that went.....
WSPA carried "Where the Heart Is" which WBTV passed on too. And once WYFF started their noon news, Y&R was the opposition. I wonder how that went.....
Where the Heart Is had no chance against Jeopardy with Art Fleming on WYFF/4. If there were 2 shows where it was obvious what show was dominant, it was that 12:00 slot.
There was period of time where there was no noon newscast in Asheville or Greenville S.C.; WYFF started the trend in the late 70s, but WSPA held on to air The Young and the Restless. Y&R likely dominated, until the split feed started in 81.
I've always wondered why stations would air news instead of the network show, like The Doctors(soap opera), Super Password, etc. Couldn't have NBC kept the 1pm access slot?
In the central time zone CBS and NBC had a break from noon to 12:30, which is where stations would carry their news, but for some reason ABC always had shows in that time slot, so stations had to either pre-empt shows at that time or juggle the schedule to make room for news. Now ABC has their break from 11:00 to noon CT, and stations will put news or syndicated shows there. But then the way the big 3 do their daytime schedules now they all have breaks at different times.
If i was in charge, i'd would have put the access slot between The Doctors and Days of Our Lives. That way, stations could air a local newscast or some other programming. For example, WYFF/4 Greenville could put local news between The Doctors and Days of Our Lives. Meaning 1:00ET/12:00CT
To make more revenue. When they preempt, they make all the advertising money and don't have to split it with the network. Up until perhaps the late 60's, it was not uncommon for network affiliates (not O&Os) to even preempt a network show in prime time to run their own local show, or movie. They didn't dare do it more than once or twice a week, but it happened.
I have a feeling that those 11:00 a.m. to 12 noon breaks are geared for the eastern time zone, who get them from noon to 1:00 p.m. All of the big three here in Nashville have at least SOME local programming during the 11:00 a.m. hour. Newschannel5 goes to The Young and the Restless at 11:30.
I could put a long list of shows killed because most stations aired the news instead at noon. And 10am used be a issue too, when Mike Douglas or Merv Griffin ran for 90 minutes(not every station ran them at that length, though.) Tic Tac Dough(CBS version) is one example- if it had been at 11:30am instead of 10am, maybe it could have been successful. That led to a fury among station managers who had bought Tic Tac Dough for lucrative syndicated evening slots. However, the fears of general managers were unfounded, as TTD was a big hit.