I don't think so. I see WBBH adding yet another hour of news. WTVJ will be forced to carry it since they're an O&O.
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“Days of our Lives” to move the hourglass to Peacock
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I don't think so. I see WBBH adding yet another hour of news. WTVJ will be forced to carry it since they're an O&O.
Well, chances are if The Talk gets axed (which is highly unlikely), CBS will give the hour back to affiliates. Wouldn’t be surprised if WREG in Memphis added another newscast and move Jeopardy to 2pm if that were to happen.
What about General Hospital? Since ABC already has a midday news show called GMA3, if the show ever gets cancelled or moves to a streaming platform like Disney+(since Disney itself owns ABC), perhaps they should fill the second hour with either game shows or be given back to local affiliates for syndicated programming. Or worse yet, it could fill that hour with more news.
I also wouldn't be surprised if two remaining CBS soap operas like Young and The Restless and Bold and The Beautiful gets moved to Paramount+ in the not so distant future. Soap opera on traditional TV is becoming obsolete.....
I also wouldn't be surprised if two remaining CBS soap operas like Young and The Restless and Bold and The Beautiful gets moved to Paramount+ in the not so distant future. Soap opera on traditional TV is becoming obsolete.....
WAVE, the NBC affiliate in Louisville, has nothing but news and public affairs except from 1-2 PM, which will now be given over to a news program, primetime, and the Fallon/Meyers block in latenight. WAVE is a Gray-owned station, and that company would like to see all its stations drop syndicated programs and follow the lead of WAVE and sister CBS affiliate WBTV Charlotte, whose only entertainment shows are CBS daytime, primetime, and the Colbert/Corden latenight block.
WFAA, ABC in Dallas (Tegna, eventually moving to Cox) has only one entertainment show before 7 PM (CT), and that is "General Hospital." Otherwise the only entertainment shows are what air in primetime and "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" Shades of things to come?
Do you think NBC will even allow WBBH to pre-empt the new newscast?
I have a feeling that this could be one of those programs that will allow NBC affiliates to air more local news if they so wish to choose.
A daily serial program on traditional TV became obsolete a solid 40 years ago.
The audience for the soaps were originally housewives, and by the late 70s or early 80s, housewives were a dying breed. It was 1982 when workforce participation among women age 25 to 54 first reached 67%. Women's workforce participation has since risen into the mid 70% range.
Soaps have been surviving off of older viewers (mostly women) and a certain amount of DVR viewing for a long time now, even as their ranks have thinned.
And here in Phoenix, Y&R and B&B got shunted to the middle of the night. My mother was NOT happy.
LMAD depended on the time zone and when it was scheduled to air. It still aired here in Charlotte because WBTV airs it at 10am and soccer coverage didn’t start until 2. But it was preempted in the markets who still air it at 3 Eastern, 2 Central. However, when March Madness rolls around, LMAD is preempted everywhere. All stations are on their own at 10. Go figure. As that other poster pointed out, the soaps were also bumped to late night in most western markets due to soccer.
"Dynasty" lasted five seasons. I'd say that was a pretty good run. It was a fun show with a lot of good characters.
If I am remembering correctly, WRAL Raleigh NC put Y&R at 4 in the afternoon and had an hour of news at noon. Don't remember what they did at 1:00 but before Y&R became popular that was Betty Feezor's slot of WBTV. She was a host of a program for women who did things like cooking.
My grandmother, when there were prayer requests, once asked for prayer for a soap character. Or so I've been told.
It seemed to always be that of a soap or prime-time show was pre-empted in the East, it was pre-empted in the west. Did Phoenix get a new episode those days?
I'd guess in the Eastern and Central time zones the soccer matches on CBS may have rolled over into local time after LMAD as well.
The little old ladies are not happy.
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Oh well. Like sands through the hourglass and all that.
Yes, they were new episodes but got bumped to overnight because soccer aired live during their usual slots (11am Y&R, 12:30pm B&B in Phoenix). I assume it was the same in all or most western markets, while the East got these new episodes at their normal times.
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WRAL did do that, starting in 1993 because Golden Girls reruns were no match for Oprah on WTVD. At first they ran B&B a day behind at 1 and aired syndicated programming at 1:30, but then switched B&B back to 1:30 and aired syndicated programming at 1. WNCN continued this tradition when they picked up CBS in 2016, until this January.
As for WBTV I noticed on the listings on here they didn’t pick up Y&R until right before it went to an hour, on an hour delay at 1pm, around 1980. I think WCCB picked it up some, but not often. They did air it in pattern at 1pm when it first went to an hour. Briefly they were airing it a day behind at 10am but finally moved it to in pattern at 12:30, moved Top O’The Day from noon to 11:30am and moved The Price Is Right to 10:30 a day behind.
WLKY Louisville is the last CBS affiliate I know of to air Y&R at 4, and they do it for the same reason WRAL did.
They do an hour newscast at noon, followed by 25 Words or Less at 1, then rejoin CBS for B&B at 1:30. With Y&R as a lead-in, the station's 5 PM news usually runs first in the timeslot. However, I wonder if, since Days will no longer be on at 1, WLKY will cut its noon news to 30 minutes, move Y&R to 12:30, and start a 4 PM newscast.
That same market may be a preview of coming attractions: NBC affiliate WAVE, once Days is off its schedule, will offer precisely zero entertainment shows before 8 PM. It will have just five hours a day of non-news/public affairs: the three hours of primetime and the Fallon/Meyers block.
They do an hour newscast at noon, followed by 25 Words or Less at 1, then rejoin CBS for B&B at 1:30. With Y&R as a lead-in, the station's 5 PM news usually runs first in the timeslot. However, I wonder if, since Days will no longer be on at 1, WLKY will cut its noon news to 30 minutes, move Y&R to 12:30, and start a 4 PM newscast.
That same market may be a preview of coming attractions: NBC affiliate WAVE, once Days is off its schedule, will offer precisely zero entertainment shows before 8 PM. It will have just five hours a day of non-news/public affairs: the three hours of primetime and the Fallon/Meyers block.
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