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They preempted that for this?

WheelRob said:
Reiterating my point that if we were talking about Jeopardy! being pre-empted somewhere in America every day, it would suddenly be a total outrage. But since it's Wheel... "lol who cares? that show sucks."
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They are not insinuating that wheel sucks it is no doubt an important program just as important as jeopardy in my opinion.
 
Not a pre-emption, but a cut-in. A mother in Ansonia, Connecticut was found murdered and her 1 year old daughter is missing. Initially just a "Silver Alert" was issued, but around 3:30PM it was upgraded to an "Amber Alert" and WFSB cut into Dr. Oz for around 5 minutes. Maybe the other stations did too I don't know I was at work. I DVR'd Dr. Oz just to see Chef Michael Symon on the show and of course they cut-in right in the middle of his segment.
 
I tried to DVR "Hoda and Jenna" yesterday (Wednesday) for my Mom because former QVC Host Jill Bauer was going to be a guest (My Mom likes Jill Bauer) and of course it was pre-empted for "Impeachment programming."

Is there more "Impeachment programming" today (Thursday)? If so I'm going to be so pissed that Rachael Ray is pre-empted when Chef Michael Symon is going to be a guest.
 
WheelRob said:
Reiterating my point that if we were talking about Jeopardy! being pre-empted somewhere in America every day, it would suddenly be a total outrage. But since it's Wheel... "lol who cares? that show sucks."
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It would not be sudden outrage, because virtually no one would actually track something like that, nor be irked about what happens where they don’t live and that doesn’t impact them.

The idea that it happened “somewhere” every day for a random period of time during a busy time of year really doesn’t matter, not because of the individual program but because by that very description no one experienced that long of a disruption.
 
MarcB said:
I tried to DVR "Hoda and Jenna" yesterday (Wednesday) for my Mom because former QVC Host Jill Bauer was going to be a guest (My Mom likes Jill Bauer) and of course it was pre-empted for "Impeachment programming."

Is there more "Impeachment programming" today (Thursday)? If so I'm going to be so pissed that Rachael Ray is pre-empted when Chef Michael Symon is going to be a guest.
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Are you too far to get the NYC stations? Here, every time RR is pre-empted by the hearings, it gets moved to WABC-DT2 7.2 Live Well Network.

But for today, I'm only seeing the regular daytime programming. Price is Right even aired a new episode today when it was presumed to be a rerun.

Apparently yesterday's coverage ended sometime between 1 and 2 Eastern, as West Coast Price fans reported they were able to watch the second half of a rerun.
 
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Syfy said:
They are not insinuating that wheel sucks it is no doubt an important program just as important as jeopardy in my opinion.
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Yes, it is. I may not like how the show is produced nowadays, but the name alone means it deserves respect; both shows deserve it equally. Although no TV show is more important than breaking news or a tornado warning, it is not fair to see one program (which is not available on demand or on any streaming platform aside from hit-or-miss bootleg YouTube uploads, and does not air reruns in a second feed) constantly get bumped for specials on matters like the dying giraffe population, only to have its sister program air unaffected, which reflects in both shows' ratings, and how 90% of these situations happen with the one show and never the other, regardless of what order they air in.

WPVI Philadelphia pre-empted Wheel without Jeopardy! again last night for the annual holiday festival. The only good thing about it is that now that the ABC O&O's are taking more advantage of their LWN subs as a backup, Wheel gets moved there (still listed as the usual LWN show, so the average viewer wouldn't know unless they were to air some quick promo or crawl towards the end of J!) instead of the 1 AM hour.

It was also pre-empted last night (along with a local 7:00 newscast) on WLUC (NBC) in Marquette, Michigan by their annual food drive "TV6 Canathon". However, this likely didn't deter too many local viewers; Wheel moved to its .2 FOX sub (where Jeopardy! airs), where it already airs there at least one weekday per week year-round. WLUC's NBC/FOX duopoly splits Wheel such that it airs on the FOX station on Mondays, and on the NBC station Tue-Sat because of a weekly local program on NBC Mondays, and of course it also airs on the FOX if there is any other pre-emption on NBC a weekday. Comparatively, the main run of Jeopardy! airs on the FOX on weekdays, and the NBC only on Saturdays with the reruns, although the weekday reruns of J! also air on the NBC at 5:30 PM. That and Dayton are the only Eastern Time Zone markets I know of where the two shows are on separate stations most of the time.

Since Gonzaga University had another basketball game last night, that aired on KHQ in Spokane (NBC) from 6-8 Pacific. The makegoods of the two Jeopardy!'s and Wheel were a bit different than usual this week. This time, the two Jeopardy!'s were moved to 11:30 AM and 12:00 PM instead of 11/11:30, allowing one episode of Hot Bench to stay on the schedule. Wheel usually gets moved to 12:00, but this time is moved to 2:00 in a Paid Programming slot.
 
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NBC's Christmas in Rockefeller Center event, which was last night, officially begins at 8 ET/PT, but affiliates can opt to carry additional coverage beginning at 7.

All of the O&O's aired at least half of the extended coverage:
- WNBC New York, WCAU Philadelphia, WTVJ Miami, WKAQ-DT3 Puerto Rico, WVIT Hartford, and KNTV San Francisco all pre-empted the Access Hollywood/All Access duo. The latter two do re-air AH at 3:30 AM, however.
- KNBC Los Angeles opted to begin CIRC at 7:30 instead of 7:00, allowing Access Hollywood to air, but pre-empting All Access.
- Since WRC Washington DC opts to air NBC Nightly News on a half hour delay at 7:00 to allow an hour-long 6:00 local newscast, they started CIRC at 7:30, pre-empting AH.
- WMAQ Chicago and KXAS Dallas still aired their local newscasts at 6:00 Central, but began CIRC at 6:30, pre-empting AH. KXAS re-airs it at 3:30 AM.
- WBTS Boston pre-empted local news at 7:00 and AH at 7:30. They do not air All Access.
- KNSD San Diego pre-empted Wheel and Jeopardy!, though Zap2It still had them listed (friend of mine in SD who DVR's both shows automatically confirmed his recordings showed CIRC). KNSD is the only NBC O&O that carries those shows. AH airs at 2:37 AM and the hour-long Access Daily airs at 1:00 PM; they do not air All Access.

At least four non-O&O's aired CIRC starting at 7:00 as well:
- WTLV Jacksonville moved Wheel and Jeopardy! to sister station WJXX (ABC), replacing a local newscast and Extra, which repeats on WTLV at 12:30 PM the following weekday.
- WETM Elmira, NY moved the game show duo to their indie sub 18.2, replacing a repeat of WETM's 6:00 news and Modern Family.
- WKTV Utica, NY and WVIR Charlottesville, VA both pre-empted the game show duo and they did not air at all. Last year, WKTV announced that the remaining episodes of both shows for the week would air a day behind through Saturday with no previous season reruns, though there was no such announcement this time, so Wednesday's eps are probably just skipped.
- KSNW Wichita apparently did plan to air CIRC at 6:00 Central at some point, but then reverted the hour to local news and Wheel.
 
You’re inventing a situation that doesn’t exist. No one in any market is seeing the show bumped all the time. They’re seeing one-offs. No one in Youngstown gives a rat’s read end about Yakima. New York doesn’t care about New Orleans.

It’s perfectly fair, because it’s business. Stations need to do what works for their business needs. They don’t sit around worried about people getting strangely over-upset because of how they make a business decision.

The shows aren’t actually siblings. They’re not people. They won’t be managed the same way because they’re inanimate things with different impacts on the bottom line.
 
Hi Gang..I like to know why CBS and college football dont start an hour earlier then its start time here on the east coast ...It will stop the over runs into the 7pm prime time access programming like ET,Wheel ,Jeopardy and other syndie shows and local news programming ...Its annoying to some viewers .Also what happens when the syndie show if it does not play at all or gets cut in at mid point.How that works with the syndie companies and the station money wise............
 
centerfreqradio said:
Hi Gang..I like to know why CBS and college football dont start an hour earlier then its start time here on the east coast ....
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Because the networks that televise college football don't want their early (noon Eastern) games spilling over into their late afternoon games. That would severely reduce the number of eyeballs watching the more valuable 3:30 games and cut into advertising revenue. The NCAA doesn't want this either. I'm sure the affiliates don't like sacrificing syndies and newscasts, but them's the breaks. The non-O&O's are always free to leave the network if they want ... and risk going dark in a few years.
 
CTListener said:
Because the networks that televise college football don't want their early (noon Eastern) games spilling over into their late afternoon games. That would severely reduce the number of eyeballs watching the more valuable 3:30 games and cut into advertising revenue. The NCAA doesn't want this either. I'm sure the affiliates don't like sacrificing syndies and newscasts, but them's the breaks. The non-O&O's are always free to leave the network if they want ... and risk going dark in a few years.
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Thanks CTListener for your input.I was wondering why the later start...
 
centerfreqradio said:
Also what happens when the syndie show if it does not play at all or gets cut in at mid point.How that works with the syndie companies and the station money wise............
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In general, if College Football overrun pre-empts a syndie in part or in full, it is what it is. Very few stations make up for it, at least while giving a heads up. And it's probably not possible to program them to air on sister stations or subchannels on the fly; I've never seen that done before. I know someone who was on the Black Friday episode of Wheel and I warned him that he could be affected by CF overrun. He called WABC and was told that the show would not re-air nor be bumped to 7.2 Live Well Network if that were to happen. Fortunately, it didn't.

When this happens with Wheel or Jeopardy! on Saturdays, since they're always reruns, nobody really bothers, and I believe ET Weekend is just a recap of their biggest stories from the prior week, maybe with one or two new stories thrown in if they're important. However, I did notice that WTVY in Dothan, Alabama delayed one of Wheel's reruns by a week possibly to make up for college football overrunning almost an hour the day it was supposed to air. And KRQE Albuquerque always starts Jeopardy! delayed if it's scheduled after an overrunning game, taking away the equivalent number of minutes from Wheel. If the overrun is so long that it covers all of J! and some of Wheel, they instead join J! in progress as if it were in Wheel's slot. They even do this on Saturdays with reruns. WBNS Columbus also re-airs J! overnight on Saturdays if it's cut off by overrun (Wheel is already slotted there in advance).

I do recall my home station WABC once making up a cut-off Wheel on the fly last year. On one weekend (I believe last January), ABC left a 25-minute window from 7:35-8:00 for news or syndies between two college football games. WABC initially put Wheel on Sunday afternoon (after Jeopardy! which was already scheduled there), but then moved it to that window on Saturday. The first game overran a few minutes so only the last 10-ish minutes of Wheel aired. They ended up re-airing that episode in full (a rerun featuring a $90K+ win) on Sunday after Jeopardy!, although there was no notice of it and it was still listed as the originally-scheduled syndie "50PlusPrime".
 
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Today, NBC affiliate KSBW in Monterey/Salinas, CA is pre-empting nearly all of their non-network time slots for special highlights of their news team's efforts to donate food and other goods to disadvantaged families, titled "Share Your Holiday". The only surviving syndies today are Tamron Hall, Ellen (moved to replace Rachael), and Access Hollywood which airs at 3:00 AM as an encore; it also airs at 7:00 PM on its ABC sub (except tonight because of the Pac-12 game).

Usual lineup:
10:00 - Tamron Hall
11:00 - Rachael Ray
12:00 - Local News
12:30 - Daily Blast Live
1:00 - Days of Our Lives
2:00 - The Kelly Clarkson Show
3:00 - Family Feud (A)
3:30 - Family Feud (B)
4:00 - Ellen
5:00 - Local News
5:30 - NBC Nightly News
6:00 - Local News (60 mins)
7:00 - Jeopardy!
7:30 - Wheel of Fortune

Today's lineup:
10:00 - Tamron Hall
11:00 - Ellen
12:00 - Local News
12:30 - Share Your Holiday
1:00 - Days of Our Lives
2:00 - Share Your Holiday x 7
5:30 - NBC Nightly News
6:00 - Local News (30 mins, cut down from 60)
6:30 - Share Your Holiday x 3
 


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