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They preempted that for this?

CTListener said:
Because drivers are playing the game, and NASCAR fans all have their favorite drivers. It would be different if it was just a racing simulation with the action being driven by a CPU -- several YouTubers are doing that with The Show 20 to simulate MLB games. I don't think that would attract many viewers at all, but the idea of the drivers themselves competing in a virtual race, with the outcome unknown, might be a decent draw for a few weeks for the sheer novelty of it. Whether any of this substitute programming has enough appeal to last through the spring and summer is doubtful.
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Is NASCARS key demo into virtual gaming?
 
It’s the dress rehearsal for the apocalypse. They may be into anything at this point.

Seriously though, I can understand stations, O&Os included, not taking it. These aren’t normal circumstances and getting hung up over “but the network is airing it” ignores that bigger picture.
 
unclehonkey said:
KSAZ is the only O&O in the bunch
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Here's another O&O: WNYW New York. I didn't realize until actually tuning in on TV that they were not airing any of the sports today, either. They were listed on TitanTV, though.

1:00 was an hour-long Emeril Lagasse infomercial, then two half-hour infomercials, In Depth with Graham Bensinger at 3:00, Raw Travel at 3:30, TMZ at 4:00 (weekend edition is an hour long like ET), and a repeat of Fire Fight Australia at 5:00 (a benefit concert that aired on FOX exactly one month ago; WNYW is also airing it 4/11 at 7:00 PM in place of infomercials).
 
Thanks to Zap2It still having previous-day listings available, it turns out WNYW did not air yesterday's WS Game 7 encore, either. They aired Whacked Out Sports x 2 at 3:00, then the movie "Abandon" from 4-6.
 
For some odd reason, WNYW's listings suggested that the iHeart Living Room concert would be cut off at 9:30 to show a rerun of Family Guy. This is not the case.
 
Did anyone mention this? Started on Thursday...WMC Memphis' Bounce TV subchannel (5.2) is airing instructional programming on weekdays now, preempting Bounce TV programs to another subchannel.

https://www.wmcactionnews5.com/2020...-home-lessons-students-during-covid-pandemic/

With a lot of low-income families in the Memphis area, that's an awesome service to provide for those students. Apparently the SCS facebook page also says that WKNO (PBS) will start broadcasting these home lessons. Like the old 'Instructional Television' blocks of the '70s and '80s.

I can only dream it, but I wish other stations (PBS or otherwise) would start providing these services during the COVID-19 pandemic. It could be very beneficial to a lot of students who are eager to go back to school but don't have the necessary internet connections, laptops or $$$ to do so. KLCS Los Angeles is airing PBS programming in blocks based off subject and grade level. Why not home lessons for the hundreds of thousands of LAUSD students, many who live below the poverty line?
 
crainbebo said:
Why not home lessons for the hundreds of thousands of LAUSD students, many who live below the poverty line?
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Maybe because very few students would tune in? If living below the poverty line, they probably can't afford cable either. Neither they, or their parents probably have any clue about OTA viewing.
 
crainbebo said:
Did anyone mention this? Started on Thursday...WMC Memphis' Bounce TV subchannel (5.2) is airing instructional programming on weekdays now, preempting Bounce TV programs to another subchannel.

https://www.wmcactionnews5.com/2020...-home-lessons-students-during-covid-pandemic/

With a lot of low-income families in the Memphis area, that's an awesome service to provide for those students. Apparently the SCS facebook page also says that WKNO (PBS) will start broadcasting these home lessons. Like the old 'Instructional Television' blocks of the '70s and '80s.

I can only dream it, but I wish other stations (PBS or otherwise) would start providing these services during the COVID-19 pandemic. It could be very beneficial to a lot of students who are eager to go back to school but don't have the necessary internet connections, laptops or $$$ to do so. KLCS Los Angeles is airing PBS programming in blocks based off subject and grade level. Why not home lessons for the hundreds of thousands of LAUSD students, many who live below the poverty line?
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KCSM-TV San Mateo used to be the Bay Area's PBS Telecourse station in the 1980's and 1990's but that was killed off one KQED inc forming a Duopoly with the former KTEH (Now KQED+ aka KQEH-TV). 2 KCSM lost their PBS affiliation due to low donations in comparison to KQED and colleges and universities in Northern California starting doing some classes online in the 2000's and in some cases broadcasting their lectures on youtube in the past decade.

As far as I know local Public Broadcasting outlets in California has been converted to put more emphasis on investigative journalism in the past 2 decades. San Francisco and Sacramento are just some of the examples where a public broadcasting's original intent to air "Educational Programming" has been replaced with investigative journalism as soon as the colleges and Khan Academy has done telecourse programming on youtube.
 
crainbebo said:
Did anyone mention this? Started on Thursday...WMC Memphis' Bounce TV subchannel (5.2) is airing instructional programming on weekdays now, preempting Bounce TV programs to another subchannel.

https://www.wmcactionnews5.com/2020...-home-lessons-students-during-covid-pandemic/

With a lot of low-income families in the Memphis area, that's an awesome service to provide for those students. Apparently the SCS facebook page also says that WKNO (PBS) will start broadcasting these home lessons. Like the old 'Instructional Television' blocks of the '70s and '80s.

I can only dream it, but I wish other stations (PBS or otherwise) would start providing these services during the COVID-19 pandemic. It could be very beneficial to a lot of students who are eager to go back to school but don't have the necessary internet connections, laptops or $$$ to do so. KLCS Los Angeles is airing PBS programming in blocks based off subject and grade level. Why not home lessons for the hundreds of thousands of LAUSD students, many who live below the poverty line?
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So THATS why Dish network added WMC-DT2 to the locals recently. Wondered why they were adding a Bounce Tv affiliate

oh as for the PBS thing...a few are doing that in the upper midwest
http://www.northpine.com/blog/2020/...curriculum-related-programming-amid-pandemic/

With schools closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, more educational programming will be available during the daytime on most regional PBS stations starting Monday, March 30, as a result of several separate efforts.

In Wisconsin, the state Department of Public Instruction teamed up with PBS Wisconsin and Milwaukee PBS to create a daytime lineup of curriculum-related programming that draws from the library of public TV programming. The day will begin with programs for pre-kindergarten to 3rd grade, followed by a midday block for grades 4 to 8 and an afternoon block for high schoolers. Milwaukee PBS will carry the programming on WMVT/36.1 from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., while PBS Wisconsin will air the lineup from 5 a.m. to 5 p.m. on its DT2 channels in Madison, Green Bay, Wausau, Park Falls, Eau Claire, and La Crosse.
Meanwhile, numerous public TV subchannels in Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota will carry at-home learning programming from World Channel. The programming, weekdays from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Central time, will include regular PBS shows that have an educational component for students in grades 6 to 12.

World Channel’s affiliates include Iowa PBS DT3, South Dakota Public Broadcasting DT2, Prairie Public DT2 in North Dakota and northwestern Minnesota, Pioneer Public DT4 in western Minnesota, and WMVT-DT2 (Milwaukee).

In Duluth, WDSE will air at-home learning programming for grades 6 to 12 beginning March 31. The lineup will air on WDSE’s primary DT1 “PBS North” channel from 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

And SDPB will also air its history series, Dakota Pathways, weekdays at 2 p.m. Central/1 p.m. Mountain on its main DT1 channel.

These efforts are in addition to numerous regularly-scheduled educational programs that already air on PBS stations, including the 24-hour PBS Kids subchannel.
 
I know the chances are as high as me becoming the next Pope, but I'd love for some districts to air instructional TV programming on CW and My Network stations.
Hey! Less Wilkos and Maury and more educational lessons are better for everyone ;-)
 
WheelRob said:
Other FOX stations that are opting not to air the NASCAR encore today...

WVUE in New Orleans has three Paid Programmings.

WXAA in Albany, NY has all Paid Programmings from 11A-3P Eastern with no NASCAR or "Gronk, Tony and Shannon: The Three GOATs".

WXIX in Cincinnati is airing the movie "Flushed Away" from 12-2P Eastern, followed by MyDestination.TV, then Friends in place of Three GOATs.


Several of the Mountain Time Zone FOX's aren't airing NASCAR nor the Super Bowl LI encore at 3E/1M.

KDVR in Denver has Paid Programmings from 11A-2P, followed by Matter of Fact, In Depth with Graham Bensinger, and two more Paid Programmings, then the usual Judge Judy x 2 at 4. KDVR does have next Sunday's encore of SBLXV listed, though.

KRQE-DT2 in Albuquerque has Greatest Sports Legends at 11, Paid Programming x 2, an hour episode of KRQE's local show "Legendary New Mexico", then a half-hour episode of the same show, then three more Paid Programmings to fill the rest of SBLI's slot.

KSAZ in Phoenix has all Paid Programmings from 9A-12P, Xploration Earth 2050, Xploration Weird but True, followed by the movie "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot" from 1:00-3:30, pre-empting one of two episodes of Raw Travel.

KSTU in Salt Lake City is one of the only Mountain FOX's that is airing the full FOX Sports lineup today.
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I actually checked that Flushed Away airing on WXIX (which is my FOX station) and it showed Fox News Sunday instead. Don't know why, but I'm guessing the station made a little schedule shakeup.

UPDATE: Turns out they aired some service, so that's why.

UPDATE #2: Flushed Away didn't start until 12:30 PM.
 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMYmA0vzH90


https://www.learner.org/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiDqKfK1ZE0


https://www.youtube.com/user/AnnenbergLearner


I remember Annenberg Learner used to have their instructional programming on PBS affiliates such as KOCE Los Angeles and former PBS station KCSM (Now known as KPJK as of 2020 owned by KRCB Public Media) back in the 1980's to 1990's until this production group had to compete against Khan Academy and Colleges with in house instructional programming in the past 15 years. Im wondering if some of the cities that are currently airing "Instructional Programming" because the K-12 and Colleges shutting down got the broadcasting rights from this group again as of 2020.
 
Most if not all Michigan-based Big Four affiliates are pre-empting programming from 7-8 PM tonight for a special broadcast with the Governor, anchored remotely by a split-screen of anchors from Detroit stations WDIV (NBC), WXYZ (ABC), and WJBK (FOX).
 
WheelRob said:
Most if not all Michigan-based Big Four affiliates are pre-empting programming from 7-8 PM tonight for a special broadcast with the Governor, anchored remotely by a split-screen of anchors from Detroit stations WDIV (NBC), WXYZ (ABC), and WJBK (FOX).
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My local NBC (WPBN) aired Wheel and Jeopardy! as normal last night. I'm assuming it was aired on sister ABC station WGTU
 
ftballfan said:
My local NBC (WPBN) aired Wheel and Jeopardy! as normal last night. I'm assuming it was aired on sister ABC station WGTU
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Interesting. I know for a fact that last night's Wheel and Jeopardy! were pre-empted on WDIV NBC 4 Detroit (obviously), WWMT CBS 3 Grand Rapids, WILX NBC 10 Lansing (crawl ran saying that they would air from 3-4 AM), and WNEM CBS 5 Bay City/Flint (which awkwardly plastered WDIV's bug with their own; the game shows were bumped to 5.2 MyTV). Couldn't check the Marquette or Alpena markets, though.

They were also pre-empted last night by a coronavirus news special on WROC CBS 8 Rochester, NY, bumped to 1:37 and 2:37, with a news repeat in between.
 
WheelRob said:
Interesting. I know for a fact that last night's Wheel and Jeopardy! were pre-empted on WDIV NBC 4 Detroit (obviously), WWMT CBS 3 Grand Rapids, WILX NBC 10 Lansing (crawl ran saying that they would air from 3-4 AM), and WNEM CBS 5 Bay City/Flint (which awkwardly plastered WDIV's bug with their own; the game shows were bumped to 5.2 MyTV). Couldn't check the Marquette or Alpena markets, though.

They were also pre-empted last night by a coronavirus news special on WROC CBS 8 Rochester, NY, bumped to 1:37 and 2:37, with a news repeat in between.
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Alpena gets Wheel and Jeopardy! via WPBN on cable. However, I think WBKB may also normally air the shows.
 


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