The 4 news channels in Hartford/New Haven blew out their evening news due to coverage of several tornado warnings. That's what our stations do whenever there is a tornado warning - offering non-stop weather coverage. While the final warning expired at 6:30 and WFSB, WTNH, and WVIT aired their respective network newscasts, FOX 61 stayed with weather coverage til 7PM, pre empting 2 1/2 Men.
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They preempted that for this?
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I agree although lately trump has been talking a lot about this hurricane and the potential destruction it could cause his golf club/resort in Florida. He seemed more concerned about it than the actual people in danger.
It's been three days since WPB was projected to be anywhere near the path of the hurricane.
Let's not get political, please. Any resident, full or part time, of a storm threatened area, is qualified to talk about their own concerns about a storm.
I asked before, "have you ever been in a major hurricane?". It seems apparent that you have not been, as your observations and comments would be entirely different.
NBC has a national NFL game tonight (Packers/Bears) from 7:30-11:30 Eastern counting pregame. On the East Coast, this will pre-empt whatever syndicated or local program normally airs at 7:30/6:30 Central, and the whole evening lineup in the West.
O&O's WNBC New York and WVIT Hartford are both forced to drop Access (soon to go back to being Access Hollywood), with WNBC bumping it to 3:07 AM and WVIT not airing it at all tonight. Both stations will also be pre-empting Extra at 7:00 with a special advance airing of a new football-themed episode of NBC's "1st Look", which does not nationally air until this Saturday after SNL.
Of course, the most affected syndicated program tonight is Wheel of Fortune with its prime access mandate and 6:30 Central exclusivity. There are a total of 71 NBC affiliates that carry the show. 21 of them air WOF at 7:00 Eastern which is not affected by the game. However, two of those stations - WDIV Detroit and WTHR Indianapolis - are showing bias by replacing it with Jeopardy! for tonight. 29 stations will be airing WOF at another time and/or a subchannel (including WTHR which is airing it on 13.2 MeTV even though the listings still say M*A*S*H), while 23 stations (including WDIV) are not airing tonight's episode at all (though it's a repeat of a pretty bad game, TBH. Lady thought "PO_SE_ / _OR / _I_TOR_" was "POSING FOR HISTORY"). Several of the stations that are airing WOF tonight do not have it reflected in Gracenote/Zap2It listings, but do show it on their websites and TitanTV.
WDIV going back to giving WOF the Jeopardy!-replacement treatment is bizarre because there was a period in January where they pre-empted new episodes of Jeopardy! with local specials three times in a span of two weeks, but WOF only once, and around the same time, they pre-empted part of a repeat of AGT so they could air a repeat of WOF, and even once pre-empting a new episode of Blindspot to air both game shows in the 8 PM hour.
WDTN Dayton is moving Jeopardy! from 7:30 up to 7:00, pre-empting Inside Edition with no make-good of it. This puts J! on at the same time as WOF on WHIO/CBS, which is typically not allowed by Sony/CTD (though I believe Birmingham did this for a few years by airing both at 6:30).
O&O's WNBC New York and WVIT Hartford are both forced to drop Access (soon to go back to being Access Hollywood), with WNBC bumping it to 3:07 AM and WVIT not airing it at all tonight. Both stations will also be pre-empting Extra at 7:00 with a special advance airing of a new football-themed episode of NBC's "1st Look", which does not nationally air until this Saturday after SNL.
Of course, the most affected syndicated program tonight is Wheel of Fortune with its prime access mandate and 6:30 Central exclusivity. There are a total of 71 NBC affiliates that carry the show. 21 of them air WOF at 7:00 Eastern which is not affected by the game. However, two of those stations - WDIV Detroit and WTHR Indianapolis - are showing bias by replacing it with Jeopardy! for tonight. 29 stations will be airing WOF at another time and/or a subchannel (including WTHR which is airing it on 13.2 MeTV even though the listings still say M*A*S*H), while 23 stations (including WDIV) are not airing tonight's episode at all (though it's a repeat of a pretty bad game, TBH. Lady thought "PO_SE_ / _OR / _I_TOR_" was "POSING FOR HISTORY"). Several of the stations that are airing WOF tonight do not have it reflected in Gracenote/Zap2It listings, but do show it on their websites and TitanTV.
WDIV going back to giving WOF the Jeopardy!-replacement treatment is bizarre because there was a period in January where they pre-empted new episodes of Jeopardy! with local specials three times in a span of two weeks, but WOF only once, and around the same time, they pre-empted part of a repeat of AGT so they could air a repeat of WOF, and even once pre-empting a new episode of Blindspot to air both game shows in the 8 PM hour.
WDTN Dayton is moving Jeopardy! from 7:30 up to 7:00, pre-empting Inside Edition with no make-good of it. This puts J! on at the same time as WOF on WHIO/CBS, which is typically not allowed by Sony/CTD (though I believe Birmingham did this for a few years by airing both at 6:30).
WBTV Charlotte made a vow not to do this. It's not just being considerate of viewers who aren't affected and want their regular programming. They are concerned that people won't take this type of coverage seriously because it's overdone. If WBTV is pre-empting programming, you KNOW it's serious.
This “bias” stuff is silly.
Both game shows are in repeats; Jeopardy is kicking off the first day of its finals of the all-star games. That repeat is more consequential (all things considered) than a standard-issue Wheel repeat.
Though I think on this one they give away a trip as a prize puzzle. Again. And again. And again.
Both game shows are in repeats; Jeopardy is kicking off the first day of its finals of the all-star games. That repeat is more consequential (all things considered) than a standard-issue Wheel repeat.
Though I think on this one they give away a trip as a prize puzzle. Again. And again. And again.
It's just very bizarre that WDIV has suddenly gone back to "put Jeopardy! at 7:00 and skip Wheel altogether tonight" when they stopped doing it for a while earlier this year. And when they did do it, they only did it if Jeopardy! was a new episode that day. If it was a rerun, Wheel would stay at 7:00, and the Saturday edition of Wheel tends to flip-flop between 7:00 and 7:30, and WDIV no longer seems to carry Saturday Jeopardy! They also dropped its secondary/"daytime" run not too long ago IIRC.
And WTHR swapping the two shows' timeslots just feels unnecessary, although it's obviously to get Jeopardy! more eyeballs because their MeTV sub is not available on DirecTV (which led to a ton of backlash when they moved Wheel and the Stanley Cup there due to 7:30 onwards being pre-empted by the Indy 500 victory banquet), and half the time, the listings still say M*A*S*H so someone like me who schedules their DVR to auto-record any airing of Wheel will end up not getting it that day. At least when they have to bump both shows to MeTV, the time slots stay the same.
But again, there’s a reason, when comparing the reruns, that Jeopardy wins out when there’s network programming to account for. Sometimes circumstances change from one time of year to another.
Jeopardy repeats their tournaments of the season in the last 6 weeks each year so running that and pre-empting Wheel makes more sense. That would also apply in the case of a long running champion like James Holzhauer was this past spring.
Well, that's a strike against Wheel considering they haven't done any type of tournament or had any returning contestant (other than to make up for an error) since 1999. Family Feud also has returning champions and pulls higher ratings than both Jeopardy! and Wheel, yet I never see affiliates put it in place of a "non-continuous" show like Wheel or Judge Judy when its time slot is pre-empted.
WTVD Raleigh/Durham (ABC) had nonstop Dorian coverage today, moving all non-local-news programming to 11.2 Live Well Network.
WTSP Tampa (CBS) cut in with breaking news during Wheel of Fortune and part of Jeopardy! tonight according to a WOF fan in the show's Facebook group, likely either Dorian coverage or due to a deadly shooting that happened in the area today.
WTSP Tampa (CBS) cut in with breaking news during Wheel of Fortune and part of Jeopardy! tonight according to a WOF fan in the show's Facebook group, likely either Dorian coverage or due to a deadly shooting that happened in the area today.
WKRN Nashville pre-empted Wheel of Fortune yet again tonight with a "Town Hall" special on the future of Clarksville. This marks roughly 30 pre-emptions of WOF on this station on weekdays since the start of this current season in September, due to a mix of "The Mike Vrabel Show" every week during NFL season, Titans games, Titans specials, and Town Hall specials. They really should work out some kind of deal to see if they can get long-term permission to move WOF to an afternoon slot (or even its MeTV sub) since it gets pre-empted roughly every 1-2 weeks.
Good evening david what has your experience with hurricanes been? Since you reference it almost every time on a hurricane related thread on here Im just curious.
WBZ Boston's weekly local program "Patriots All Access" has officially started back up, bumping Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! to 2:07 and 2:37 AM on Friday nights through Super Bowl weekend. This resulted in another Friday episode of WOF getting pre-empted twice on the station, as tonight's episode was a repeat from November 2, 2018, where it was also affected by PAA.
Here in Minneapolis FOX O&O KMSP pre-empted a rerun of the Real (1pm) and a new TMZ Live (2pm) for.........E/I programming
yup since they legally have to show 3 hours of E/I a week and they have minimal time on weekends now they had to show it today. Saturdays they have news from 7-9 then an hour of E/I then at 10am starts the FOX football pregame. Normally they would just throw what is left (an hour usually) to Sunday but again news from 7-8, then FOX News Sunday from 8-9, then news again from 9-10 then Vikings Gameday (which always pushes the national Fox pre-pregame to Fox9+ WFTC). TMZLive is rerun at 4pm on WFTC Fox9+ so not a big deal there
Since next week The Real is in reruns again they'll probably do it again (listings dont reflect that but I saw it today)
yup since they legally have to show 3 hours of E/I a week and they have minimal time on weekends now they had to show it today. Saturdays they have news from 7-9 then an hour of E/I then at 10am starts the FOX football pregame. Normally they would just throw what is left (an hour usually) to Sunday but again news from 7-8, then FOX News Sunday from 8-9, then news again from 9-10 then Vikings Gameday (which always pushes the national Fox pre-pregame to Fox9+ WFTC). TMZLive is rerun at 4pm on WFTC Fox9+ so not a big deal there
Since next week The Real is in reruns again they'll probably do it again (listings dont reflect that but I saw it today)
Tonight, WBZ (re-)re-aired Friday's Jeopardy! (a rerun of the All Star Games finale) even though the listings still showed the usual previous-season repeat. Despite this, they did not also replace Wheel's repeat with Friday's episode; it was still the previous-season repeat as listed (and is also the last ever airing of the 35th anniversary season on television).
Listings aren’t always top of mind to worry about. And, really, virtually no one cares about which repeat was listed. And virtually no one would notice if a Wheel episode came from this season or last. It’s been nearly indistinguishable for years at this point.
I have been through so many during my 30 years living and working in Puerto Rico that it is hard to recall all of them.
Georges, David, Hugo, Allen, Eloise, Frederick, Luis, Marylin. And there were a number of near-misses with 8 to 10 inches of rain.
Frederick's eye came right over my home. Afterwards, the big sign from a gas station a mile away was on my neighbor's roof, and in some wood frame homes on a hill above us, all the walls and roofs were torn off... our stations were on generator for a week, one of them (WPRM) was off the air until we could raise an emergency antenna onto a phone pole... the tower atop Cerro La Santa was totally destroyed.
The stations that were on the air, including WKAQ, did all hurricane coverage for several days.
Depending on whether a hurricane sideswiped us or passed over, the danger was still flooding and bridges washing out. It made transportation and the delivery of fuel nearly impossible. On some occasions, we camped out at the stations and always had lots of supplies for that... and up to two weeks of fuel for the generator. We also had a hardened high-wheelbase vehicle we could use to get to the FM sites on the mountaintops around the island.
I remember on Election Day 2016, Wheel at the last minute replaced that day's episode nationally with the previous season repeat because they knew most affiliates would be pre-empting the show for coverage and figured it would hardly be seen that day anyway. Nonetheless, several cities did air it, especially markets that use a sister station as a backup for Wheel (such as Atlanta's WXIA/WATL duopoly). There was a lot of confusion in the fan community that night when people in Canada were namedropping contestants and puzzles that were nowhere to be seen on the scarce US airings and then several fans did not even realize the episode was from last season until the Bonus Round prize was revealed as $33,000 instead of the then-current $34,000. Crazy week, in more ways than one.
I personally didn't really care that WBZ didn't re-air Friday's Wheel. On that episode, the winner clearly never saw the show as she confidently guessed COTTON BOOTS for "CO__O_ / _OOTS", which is impossible because T and N are given at the start. Although I do wonder if viewers for the Saturday airing of Jeopardy! will count for the weekday run's Nielsens and not the weekend run, which is a separate entity there.
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Wow that sounds pretty crazy one hell of an experience to go through thanks for the insight gives me a better understanding of your defensive approach towards hurricanes and why wall to wall local coverage outweighs national tv coverage in your opinion. And the same could be said for radio as well because im sure a lot of the local stations might take off their syndicated programs like coast to coast am or rush limbaugh to cover the hurricane even though those shows would have a decent amount of national coverage on it.