These aren’t going to drag out for long. The committee is moving expeditiously through the witnesses. This is the packed week; after that, the cupboard is a little bare. Expect some live coverage of the votes, naturally. But we’re not talking months here.
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They preempted that for this?
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Probably just the O&O's. Days is moved to COZI in New York/WNBC too, with the consequence of it being broadcast in SD. The feed of COZI available on my IPTV app still had Adam on at noon.
CBS was around 1:13 CST because The Talk was on for like 30 seconds before they went to commercial
Connecticut Public Television - CPTV airs 11 1/2 hours of kids programming each weekday. Rather than pre-empt that with the impeachment hearings they blew out the programming on their .3 subchannel CPTV Spirit, which is basically a secondary PBS station and aired impeachment hearings on that channel.
Good call on their part. With the hearings on so many other OTA and cable channels -- with commentary from the right, left, and straight-down-the-middle C-Span -- CPTV could hardly be called remiss in its duty to serve the community by pre-empting the children's programming that's such an important part of its weekday schedule.
Small change yesterday: a local special titled "Aloha Authentic" aired at 8:00, sliding Wheel of Fortune to 8:30 and dropping Inside Edition for the day. Not sure if that was a one-off special or a new local series.
Due to a local Christmas parade, NBC affiliate KBJR in Superior, WI and Duluth, MN has some changes to their prime access, primetime, and overnight lineups tonight.
Parade coverage starts at 6:30 PM Central. Wheel of Fortune gets moved to the .3 MyTV sub. Since this would cut NUMB3RS in half, 6:00 is replaced with a one-off airing of MyDestination.TV, which normally airs Sunday mornings at 4:00 AM on KBJR.
The Blacklist is bumped to 1:07 AM in place of a Today with Hoda & Jenna repeat.
Parade coverage ends at 8:30, which cuts off the first quarter of tonight's two-hour episode of Dateline NBC. Rather than join it in progress, the remaining 90 minutes are filled with local programs. 8:30 is a construction special titled "Shaping Superior Street", and 9:00 is a special Duluth-centric episode of Minnesota-local program The Jason Show.
Tonight's Dateline NBC is bumped to 2:00 AM, replacing three consecutive reruns of 1st Look, and (ironically) part of the syndicated edition of Dateline, which normally runs from 3:30-4:30 AM on Saturday mornings. Since this would cut that show in half, the 4:00 time slot is replaced with Matter of Fact with Soledad O'Brien, which normally airs Sunday mornings at 5:30 AM on KBJR's .2 CBS sub.
Parade coverage starts at 6:30 PM Central. Wheel of Fortune gets moved to the .3 MyTV sub. Since this would cut NUMB3RS in half, 6:00 is replaced with a one-off airing of MyDestination.TV, which normally airs Sunday mornings at 4:00 AM on KBJR.
The Blacklist is bumped to 1:07 AM in place of a Today with Hoda & Jenna repeat.
Parade coverage ends at 8:30, which cuts off the first quarter of tonight's two-hour episode of Dateline NBC. Rather than join it in progress, the remaining 90 minutes are filled with local programs. 8:30 is a construction special titled "Shaping Superior Street", and 9:00 is a special Duluth-centric episode of Minnesota-local program The Jason Show.
Tonight's Dateline NBC is bumped to 2:00 AM, replacing three consecutive reruns of 1st Look, and (ironically) part of the syndicated edition of Dateline, which normally runs from 3:30-4:30 AM on Saturday mornings. Since this would cut that show in half, the 4:00 time slot is replaced with Matter of Fact with Soledad O'Brien, which normally airs Sunday mornings at 5:30 AM on KBJR's .2 CBS sub.
West Virginia University's basketball game against Boston is being aired on multiple WV-based affiliates tonight from 7-9 Eastern, affecting prime access and primetime shows.
On WOWK in Charleston (CBS), Hawaii Five-O is bumped to 2:30 AM in place of The Listener. Inside Edition is bumped to 3:30 AM, replacing what is usually the weekend edition of the show (which doesn't really matter as it airs a second time Saturday mornings at 6:00 AM).
On WBOY in Clarksburg (NBC), The Blacklist is bumped to 2:07 AM in place of Today - All Night. Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! are not airing at all, unless they decide to air them tomorrow in place of reruns, though their website still shows the reruns. Other listings do not have the game listed at all and have the usual lineup.
WTRF in Wheeling (CBS) is actually airing a local holiday parade tonight from 6:30-8:00. CBS Evening News is pre-empted entirely. Entertainment Tonight and Inside Edition are bumped to 2:00 and 2:30 AM which are normally Paid Programming slots. The WVU game will air on the .2 MyTV sub, pre-empting two Mom reruns and one of two CSI: Miami reruns.
On WVNS in Lewisberg (CBS), HFO is bumped to 2:07 AM, sliding The Game and Funny You Should Ask back an hour to 3:07 and 3:30 AM in Paid Programming slots. Both Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! are pre-empted by the game as well.
In yet another instance of a station giving preferential treatment to Jeopardy! over Wheel, WVNS is airing Friday's episode of J! in place of the Saturday rerun tomorrow at 7:30, bumping the rerun to 2:30 AM after Wheel. Wheel's Friday ep isn't airing at all, and the Saturday reruns are already airing at 2:00 AM during football season because of local news after college football at 7:00. Not sure what happens when SEC overruns; whether WVNS runs their newscast for 30+ minutes and pre-empts J!, or if they end it at 7:30 regardless, allowing J! to air in full (given the holy-grail treatment J! gets by most, the latter wouldn't surprise me). WVNS has a ton of Paid Programming slots on weekend mornings and they can bother to move a show like Funny You Should Ask to one of those slots, but not Wheel of Fortune? That's just sad.
On WOWK in Charleston (CBS), Hawaii Five-O is bumped to 2:30 AM in place of The Listener. Inside Edition is bumped to 3:30 AM, replacing what is usually the weekend edition of the show (which doesn't really matter as it airs a second time Saturday mornings at 6:00 AM).
On WBOY in Clarksburg (NBC), The Blacklist is bumped to 2:07 AM in place of Today - All Night. Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! are not airing at all, unless they decide to air them tomorrow in place of reruns, though their website still shows the reruns. Other listings do not have the game listed at all and have the usual lineup.
WTRF in Wheeling (CBS) is actually airing a local holiday parade tonight from 6:30-8:00. CBS Evening News is pre-empted entirely. Entertainment Tonight and Inside Edition are bumped to 2:00 and 2:30 AM which are normally Paid Programming slots. The WVU game will air on the .2 MyTV sub, pre-empting two Mom reruns and one of two CSI: Miami reruns.
On WVNS in Lewisberg (CBS), HFO is bumped to 2:07 AM, sliding The Game and Funny You Should Ask back an hour to 3:07 and 3:30 AM in Paid Programming slots. Both Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! are pre-empted by the game as well.
In yet another instance of a station giving preferential treatment to Jeopardy! over Wheel, WVNS is airing Friday's episode of J! in place of the Saturday rerun tomorrow at 7:30, bumping the rerun to 2:30 AM after Wheel. Wheel's Friday ep isn't airing at all, and the Saturday reruns are already airing at 2:00 AM during football season because of local news after college football at 7:00. Not sure what happens when SEC overruns; whether WVNS runs their newscast for 30+ minutes and pre-empts J!, or if they end it at 7:30 regardless, allowing J! to air in full (given the holy-grail treatment J! gets by most, the latter wouldn't surprise me). WVNS has a ton of Paid Programming slots on weekend mornings and they can bother to move a show like Funny You Should Ask to one of those slots, but not Wheel of Fortune? That's just sad.
Jeopardy has continuity. The constant whining about preferential treatment is silly.
It also has the Trebek factor. He's getting the dreaded "tragic last days" headlines in the supermarket tabloids now. While Wheel and Jeopardy all have huge numbers of loyal fans, people who haven't watched Jeopardy regularly for a while are likely watching now for their final look at the beloved host. If Sajak or White were in a similar situation, I'd imagine stations would find a way to make sure Wheel aired that day instead of pushing it to Saturday or not showing it at all.
That would be the "Christmas City of the North Parade" that has been going for 60 years now (started in 58...no parade in 63 due to obvious reasons). Its always the Friday before turkey day
SEC on CBS overran to about 7:08 Eastern. Most stations began news or programming around 7:10. WBZ Boston cut into Wheel of Fortune a few turns into the second round. This is the earliest CBS's 3:30 broadcast has signed off this season to date, but we still have yet to have a game actually sign off at the scheduled end of the time slot. While tonight's game did end around 6:53, the CBS Postgame Show ran for its minimum 15 minutes afterwards.
FOX ended on time for the second Saturday in a row. The game ended at 11:21 Eastern and postgame talk plus an additional commercial break filled the rest of the slot.
ABC overran roughly 15 minutes yet again. The game signed off at 11:11 and most stations began news or programming at 11:15. KABC Los Angeles has been airing Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune a day behind this week due to being pre-empted by the Chargers game on Monday. The Friday episode of Jeopardy! was joined in progress in time for the Double Jeopardy! round, and Friday's Wheel aired in full afterwards; neither show's Saturday reruns are airing on KABC this week or next. KGO San Francisco pre-empted Wheel's rerun with "After the Game" yet again because of the overrun.
FOX ended on time for the second Saturday in a row. The game ended at 11:21 Eastern and postgame talk plus an additional commercial break filled the rest of the slot.
ABC overran roughly 15 minutes yet again. The game signed off at 11:11 and most stations began news or programming at 11:15. KABC Los Angeles has been airing Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune a day behind this week due to being pre-empted by the Chargers game on Monday. The Friday episode of Jeopardy! was joined in progress in time for the Double Jeopardy! round, and Friday's Wheel aired in full afterwards; neither show's Saturday reruns are airing on KABC this week or next. KGO San Francisco pre-empted Wheel's rerun with "After the Game" yet again because of the overrun.
The lineup of city salutes this week ended up being: M-Boston/T-Chicago/W-Denver/Th-Nashville/F-San Diego. They didn't even end up doing a Philly salute this year at all. While three of those five cities do pre-empt WOF on a weekly basis, none of their episodes fell on the days where they wouldn't be seen locally (Nashville/WKRN on Tuesday, Denver/KDVR on Thursday, Boston/WBZ on Friday). Thank goodness for small miracles.
Is there any evidence that the Wheel affiliates get a measurable ratings boost on their days with the gimmick?
Speaking of which, do you remember a Wheel episode in which a woman from, I think, Evanston, Illinois, won a vacation in Chicago? I almost never watch Wheel, but I was visiting my parents, who do, and happened to see that one. We all laughed out loud. I think the winner said something about having a cab pick her up instead of having to fly there!
None. And likely the semi-comatose viewers couldn’t tell you either.
Was that comment really necessary? Just because Jeopardy! gets higher numbers than Wheel nowadays doesn't give you leverage to keep putting down Wheel and its viewers.
While there's no concrete proof (I don't know where to check ratings based on individual markets), it's likely there's at least some boost when they do the full "Great American City" weeks that are dedicated to just one city all week, because they are made in partnership with the affiliates, all of the contestants over the course of the week are local to the area, and the affiliates promote the show far more than usual for the week. The Nashville week was one of the only full weeks last season where WKRN aired all five episodes at their regular times, and the week featured interviews with Pat and Vanna during the newscasts. Even a rerun of the Nashville week suffered a pre-emption thanks to a preseason Titans game.
The week that just happened was a "compilation" version of "Great American Cities", where each day salutes a different city (that has had a full week in the past, so they re-use the on-location footage made for those weeks), and these episodes do not specifically have local contestants and are generally not promoted any differently by the local affiliates, so to have one of this week's episodes pre-empted in its own city wouldn't have been too much of a big deal, but it still would have looked bad. When Boston, Nashville, and Denver all had their weeks, they knew to wait until after football season to air them so that there wouldn't be any Pats All Access/Mike Vrabel Show/TNF pre-emptions.
As for your memory of that Chicago trip win, I don't recall that myself, and searching WOF archives come up empty. However, in 2010, back when they used to award trips to home viewers with SPIN IDs (they do not anymore), a viewer from Hawaii won a trip to Hawaii. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luir2wRAidw
Due to Thanksgiving and Black Friday college football KEYC Mankato is shuffling its schedule around (they do this when that happens)
CBS changes
5:30AM Protection Court (usually 10AM on FOX)...replaces news
6:00AM Dr Phil (usually on at 3pm)...replaces news
noon Wheel (pushed up from 6:30pm)...replaces news
2:00PM Live with Kelly and Ryan (normally on at 9)....replaces Lets Make a Deal (Parade is on from 8-11)
12:37am Ellen (normally on at 4pm)...replaces 2nd showing of Last Man Standing
sign off pushed back 1/2 hour
FOX 12 Mankato (KEYC-DT2)
Thursday is a cluster
9am Funny You Should Ask (pushed up from 2pm...usually double shot)
following are pushed up an hour replacing double run of Big Bang
9:30pm Mom
10:00 Mike & Molly
10:30 The Game
11:00 How I met Your Mother
11:30 Daily Mail TV
midnight Rachael (normally 9am)
1am Peoples Court (normally 11am)
2am Family Feud (normally 3pm but a double shot)
sign off at 3am
Friday is better
CBS
12:37 Ellen
FOX
1AM Jeopardy (usually at 4pm but double shot)
1:30am Peoples Court
All other syndicated shows on FOX not shown nor Phil on CBS
CBS changes
5:30AM Protection Court (usually 10AM on FOX)...replaces news
6:00AM Dr Phil (usually on at 3pm)...replaces news
noon Wheel (pushed up from 6:30pm)...replaces news
2:00PM Live with Kelly and Ryan (normally on at 9)....replaces Lets Make a Deal (Parade is on from 8-11)
12:37am Ellen (normally on at 4pm)...replaces 2nd showing of Last Man Standing
sign off pushed back 1/2 hour
FOX 12 Mankato (KEYC-DT2)
Thursday is a cluster
9am Funny You Should Ask (pushed up from 2pm...usually double shot)
following are pushed up an hour replacing double run of Big Bang
9:30pm Mom
10:00 Mike & Molly
10:30 The Game
11:00 How I met Your Mother
11:30 Daily Mail TV
midnight Rachael (normally 9am)
1am Peoples Court (normally 11am)
2am Family Feud (normally 3pm but a double shot)
sign off at 3am
Friday is better
CBS
12:37 Ellen
FOX
1AM Jeopardy (usually at 4pm but double shot)
1:30am Peoples Court
All other syndicated shows on FOX not shown nor Phil on CBS