Um yes, because it makes sense to air the special the evening before if you're trying to be supportive of it before the day actually happens.
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They preempted that for this?
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Um yes, because it makes sense to air the special the evening before if you're trying to be supportive of it before the day actually happens.
Same reason newspapers run advance stories about coming events on the day before they happen, or even earlier -- you don't just let people know something is happening mere hours before it happens. And in print's case, some readers may not even look at the paper the day of the event until it's too late.
From what I saw ABC still has a full day of of games Saturday with conference championship games for the Big 12, AAC, and ACC conferences. CBS has the SEC championship Saturday afternoon and Fox will only have the Big 10 championship in prime time.
correct
ABC has its usual 11:00, 2:30 and 6:30 kickoffs on Saturday (times CST)
CBS is 3:00
FOX is 7:00 with a 1 hour pregame
Oops, got my weeks mixed up. I remember reading at the beginning of the season that 12/7 would be the last Saturday with at least the evening games. For some reason I thought the other day that 12/7 was the first weekend to not have them. Yep, you're right. Sorry about that. Usual football scheduling on Saturday 12/7, but for 12/14, the only sports on ABC is a College Basketball game from 3-5 Eastern.
tv listings show Rudolph, Frosty and Frosty returns will be shown on Saturday the 14th
Tonight was the Faneuil Hall Christmas Tree lighting in Boston, which WBZ (CBS O&O) always airs live at 7:30 PM. This is Jeopardy!'s time slot... but of course, since everybody treats Jeopardy! like game show royalty, that show moves to Wheel of Fortune's time slot at 7:00 and bumps it to 1:37 AM.
This happens every year but it's infuriating that they almost-never take advantage of their sister station WSBK (MyTV). The only time any syndie gets moved there is if Jeopardy! is a tournament finals episode (where it also airs overnight on WBZ right after WOF as always); WOF and any other syndies never get moved there.
This happens every year but it's infuriating that they almost-never take advantage of their sister station WSBK (MyTV). The only time any syndie gets moved there is if Jeopardy! is a tournament finals episode (where it also airs overnight on WBZ right after WOF as always); WOF and any other syndies never get moved there.
If WOF wants to be treated like "game show royalty," it needs to bring back returning champions. The way it is now, the episodes stand alone. You can miss a night, or a couple of nights, or a week, or a month, and not feel as if you missed a thing, whereas with Jeopardy, you miss a night and you wonder "Gee! Did Ken finally lose? And I missed it? Dang it!" Nobody is making the next night's Wheel must-see TV because tonight the producers and everyone on stage pretended they were in Boston and got to stand in front of Fenway Park and Faneuil Hall and the USS Constitution, and tomorrow we'll get to see beautiful stock photos of the Rocky Mountains and the Coors brewery and whatever the stadium the Broncos play in is called these days on the screen behind four more idiotically exuberant goobers because Wheel wants us to make believe we're in freakin' Denver. What part of this isn't registering with you?
because the game ran long thats why. Wheel was suppose to be shown at 1:07 but due to the length of the game and the newscast after that they decided they cant push programming back further...because they were already pushing prime time right up to their 4:30am newscast
So treating your pet project in a way you imagine to be insulting is infuriating, but moving a show off another station, whatever fans it may have, is okely dokely. Do you see the logical fallacy there?
As you noted, if they only move Jeopardy over if it’s a tournament situation, then what’s the issue? (Never mind why something happening where one doesn’t live qualifies as “infuriating.”)
Preserving continuity for a program that has continuity is not favoritism. It’s logical business.
Maybe because I'm not a fan of Wheel of Fortune (never hated the show, but never bought into the hype either), but I just find this thread absolutely comical, especially between one guy's obsession with a game show preempted in cities he doesn't live in, and the condescending sniping by ol' Grampa Simpson.
Keep it up, fellas!
Keep it up, fellas!
Old man yells at cloud.
Maybe because I'm not a fan of Wheel of Fortune (never hated the show, but never bought into the hype either), but I just find this thread absolutely comical, especially between one guy's obsession with a game show preempted in cities he doesn't live in, and the condescending sniping by ol' Grampa Simpson.
Keep it up, fellas!
I'm glad you find it entertaining that WOF is the most pre-empted show in syndication right now by a mile, and is part of the reason why it is constantly overlooked nowadays...
At least one affiliate somewhere in the US has pre-empted WOF every weekday since November 7, and this streak will continue through at least December 13. Pretty sure even Entertainment Tonight doesn't have that dishonor.
Maybe because I'm not a fan of Wheel of Fortune (never hated the show, but never bought into the hype either), but I just find this thread absolutely comical, especially between one guy's obsession with a game show preempted in cities he doesn't live in, and the condescending sniping by ol' Grampa Simpson.
Keep it up, fellas!
Shawn,
If the thread is not of interest to you, just don't read it. Or click the "Ignore" function on the participants you don't enjoy.
There has been considerable interest, comment and controversy about this thread and subject. So the thread will continue, but, like I said, it is not for everyone.
And this is a problem, why exactly? And who keeps those stats?
Maybe you ought to blame NBC for not commissioning another movie for Vanna after "Goddess of Love"! That got WOF noticed for sure, and VW a whole lot of Rotten Tomatoes once the internet got going.
Was there a Vanna movie? I honestly don’t recall that at all. And I’ve seen more than a few bad movies. Interesting.
Yep, "Goddess of Love," with everyone's favorite letter-turner (because there are no others) as Venus. It aired on NBC in 1988. The reviewers were not kind -- probably all cross-dressing Jeopardy! fans disappointed that Alex Trebek didn't land the role.