TV host Dr. Oz recently announced that he is running for Senate in Pennsylvania. This is obviously going to affect stations airing his syndicated talk show, so I thought it would make sense to have a thread for it. There are already a few stations that have announced they will be canning his show, such as WNYW 5 in New York City and WGAL 8 in Lancaster. His website has since been changed to have political information and contains nothing about the TV series, but an archive of the site can be found here.
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Stations dumping Dr. Oz
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Dr. Oz was contracted to have his show run by Sony until 2023 season but that is now uncertain for now until he loses the election or gets the senate seat in 2022.
The L.A. Times has said that The Good Dish may be a replacement program.
Daphne Oz is named as the host of "The Good Dish"
She was already going to be the host... the show was going to come out next fall but they might start production earlier.
In the Lancaster-Harrisburg PA market, WGAL is moving The Kelly Clarkson Show to Dr. Oz's now former timesot of 3pm, and promoting Access Daily from 2:05am to 11am (that first time slot remains, now as an encore airing)
The move surprises me, but Oz isn't the first doctor to run for/become a senator. You've got Dr. John Barrasso in Wyoming, and he'll occasionally appear on local advertisements for the Health Fairs stuff. So far, Dr. Oz has not been removed from my local lineup
True we have Dr. Richard Pan of California who is a State Senator and is behind the Vaccine mandates debates. We had Ben Carson and his role in the Trump cabinet.
In NYC, WNYW Fox 5 has added The Real to their daytime lineup, replacing Dr. Oz at 1pm (The show will continue to air on WWOR My 9 at 5pm)
WTXF in Philadelphia is temporarily re-airing the 9a hour of Good Day Philadelphia in place of Dr. Oz.
This one surprised me. I guess they don't think much of the current Divorce Court to bump it up to the daypart line-up
WJW-TV Fox 8 Cleveland has announced that they had removed the Dr. Oz show due to its signal reaching parts of Pennsylvania and is now replacing it with New Day Cleveland according to the Nexstar release.
Starting Monday December 6 2021 The Kelly Clarkson Show will be moving to 3pm and Dr. Oz moves to 12:35am on KCCI 8 Des Moines Iowa.
That's good. They both deserve what they get.
This means they'll temporarily be all local from 4am-1pm thanks to the NDC repeat at 11am.
What station?
WFSB in Hartford dropped him from 3 pm to 2 am last year.
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