The View: Did Your ABC affiliate carry the show when it first aired?

[cbsfan95]

i don't know if this was also asked, but did your ABC affiliate first carry The View when it began on August 11, 1997. KVII in Amarillo didn't air it for a year until 1998. Cause i know the show was only available on certain ABC stations.

 

[crainbebo]

KOMO Seattle and KAPP Yakima have aired it from the beginning at the usual 10:00AM PT timeslot. Caryl & Marilyn also was cleared the whole time, same with Mike & Maty and most if not all of the Home series.

 

[ftballfan]

I'm not really old enough to remember, but from what I've seen, WGTU aired The View from day one. They also aired the entirety of Home (including the 90 minute version), Mike & Maty, and Caryl & Marilyn. WZZM pre-empted at least part of the latter two's runs to air Montel Williams, which wasn't a big deal at the time as most of WZZM's viewing area had access to another ABC affiliate (WOTV, WGTU, WJRT, or WBAY depending on location) either OTA or via cable

 

[MarcB]

I'm not sure about WTNH in New Haven. I know they bounced Caryl & Marilyn to sister station WB 59. I know at one time WTNH was clearing Rosie O'Donnell at 11AM.

 

[Scott2013]

WEWS in Cleveland did air The View since its premiere, but for the first two seasons, it was shown in the late night hours (2:05 AM). The station aired its local program, The Morning Exchange, from 9-11 AM, followed by Live with Regis and Kathie Lee at 11 AM. When The Morning Exchange went off the air in the fall of 1999, The View moved to its regular 11 AM time slot. In the days of Mike & Maty and Caryl & Marilyn, the same morning schedule was in place, leaving those two shows to be placed in the late night slot following the nightly Movie 5 presentation.

 

[RyanHoward]

WEWS in Cleveland did air The View since its premiere, but for the first two seasons, it was shown in the late night hours (2:05 AM). The station aired its local program, The Morning Exchange, from 9-11 AM, followed by Live with Regis and Kathie Lee at 11 AM. When The Morning Exchange went off the air in the fall of 1999, The View moved to its regular 11 AM time slot. In the days of Mike & Maty and Caryl & Marilyn, the same morning schedule was in place, leaving those two shows to be placed in the late night slot following the nightly Movie 5 presentation.

Same with WPVI in Philly. When The View first premiered in 1997, it was buried at 2:05 am in the morning. It was moved up to its regular 11 am slot on
November 3, 1997, after its local AM Live show, which had been on at 10 am, went off the air and Rosie O'Donnell was moved up to 10 am. (WPVI had
Rosie in the late hours when that show premiered on June 10, 1996; they moved it up to 11 am that September).

 

[Ccook55]

Same in Atlanta. At first, WSB did not. When they finally did, it was at 2 AM on delay then eventually moved it in pattern at 11 AM where it dominates the time period.

 

[howierules86]

Here are some other stations that had The View in the late-night hours or did not clear at all:

WRTV (Indianapolis, IN): Late-night hours until Jan. 1998
KATV (Little Rock, AR): Late-night hours until Sep. 1998
WCPO (Cincinnati, OH): Late-night hours until Sep. 1998
KTBS (Shreveport, LA): Late-night hours until Sep. 1999
KVIA (El Paso, TX): Did not clear until Jan. 2000
KTUL (Tulsa, OK): Did not clear until Sep. 2000

 

[howierules86]

Also, WJLA in Washington, DC had it in the late-night hours until Sep. 2000.

 

[LouRadio]

In Louisville, the UPN affiliate WFTE (now WBKI, although the programming that was on WFTE and later WMYO shifted to 58.2) aired The View (as well as other 11 AM ABC talk shows that preceded it), NYPD Blue, and Loving/The City/Port Charles when ABC affiliate WHAS was doing their own thing in the 90s. WHAS quickly changed their mind on NYPD Blue once they realized the ratings meant more than pandering to religious groups, but it took a while for The View to move over and I'm not sure that Port Charles ever did.

 

[nelsonincharlotte]

Same in Atlanta. At first, WSB did not. When they finally did, it was at 2 AM on delay then eventually moved it in pattern at 11 AM where it dominates the time period.

Sister station WSOC did not either. They didn’t even put it on WAXN. They continued to air Jenny Jones at 11am. I just found a schedule from August 25, 1997. I am not sure when exactly they cleared it. WLOS didn’t either. They continued to air Jerry Springer. Couldn’t really blame them at the time.