Was that either WLFI in Lafayette IN, WBKB in Alpena MI, or WAGM in Presque Isle ME? I can only think of three (at the time) single-station markets that would have been CBS. There may be others. (Though it really doesn't count as a market, WYMT in Hazard KY probably did whatever WKYT in Lexington, its parent station, did.)
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They preempted that for this?
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Was that either WLFI in Lafayette IN, WBKB in Alpena MI, or WAGM in Presque Isle ME? I can only think of three (at the time) single-station markets that would have been CBS. There may be others. (Though it really doesn't count as a market, WYMT in Hazard KY probably did whatever WKYT in Lexington, its parent station, did.)
That was WLFI.
Managers do indeed decide that on some occasions. An affiliate, no matter what the network, doesn't have to drop out of local programming to take a special report. In the case of Zalenskyy's visit, NBC had three special reports in the course of the day. I live in Chicago, where NBC-owned WMAQ took all three. Clearly, some other NBC stations did not. I suspect that would be the case for ABC and CBS affiliates as well. (And there are occasions when WMAQ doesn't take a network special report, usually during local news, or will leave it early.)
Barring some rather exceptional, and rare, circumstances, an O&O for damn sure better be taking the network special reports. And the answer when the higher-ups come calling had better not be “but Wheel of Fortune was on.”
Frankly, you’d better have a good rationale regardless of being owned by a third party. But when it’s an address from a foreign leader during wartime? Good luck selling the
powers that be on that being a valid one to decline.
Frankly, you’d better have a good rationale regardless of being owned by a third party. But when it’s an address from a foreign leader during wartime? Good luck selling the
powers that be on that being a valid one to decline.
There are normally procedures in place, or the News Director makes the call.
And again, best of luck explaining away that one.
reruns of ST:TNG were more important, did that area have a lot of trekies?
Just out of curiosity, where single-station markets were concerned back in the analog days (before stations could carry multiple networks on digital subchannels), I wonder how network affiliations broke out, or whether there was a decided preference for one network.
Examples that come to mind, just off the top of my head (primary affiliations only):
CBS - WLFI, WBKB, WAGM, WHMA/WJSU Anniston AL, WCFT Tuscaloosa AL (these later collapsed into "ABC 33/40")
NBC - WHIZ Zanesville, WLIO Lima, WTAP Parkersburg WV (all three of these in or near Ohio, BTW), WHAG Hagerstown MD (for a time it was its own TV market), WMGM Wildwood NJ (ditto), WVIR Charlottesville VA
ABC - KAVU (Victoria TX), WSVA/WHSV Harrisonburg VA, WBKO Bowling Green KY, WBBJ Jackson TN, KAIT Jonesboro AR
I have to think it might either be whichever network gave the station a better deal, or possibly driven by a station on that network in an adjacent market having a more difficult signal (e.g., WLKY Louisville which bordered the BG market).
Examples that come to mind, just off the top of my head (primary affiliations only):
CBS - WLFI, WBKB, WAGM, WHMA/WJSU Anniston AL, WCFT Tuscaloosa AL (these later collapsed into "ABC 33/40")
NBC - WHIZ Zanesville, WLIO Lima, WTAP Parkersburg WV (all three of these in or near Ohio, BTW), WHAG Hagerstown MD (for a time it was its own TV market), WMGM Wildwood NJ (ditto), WVIR Charlottesville VA
ABC - KAVU (Victoria TX), WSVA/WHSV Harrisonburg VA, WBKO Bowling Green KY, WBBJ Jackson TN, KAIT Jonesboro AR
I have to think it might either be whichever network gave the station a better deal, or possibly driven by a station on that network in an adjacent market having a more difficult signal (e.g., WLKY Louisville which bordered the BG market).
WLIO (WIMA-TV) was NBC as long as I can remember, but with a secondary ABC affiliation (mostly for ABC's college football package). Why? Who knows? WLFI has also been CBS seemingly forever, and I couldn't tell you why. Obviously Lima residents got CBS and ABC from somewhere (Fort Wayne and/or Dayton) and Lafayette got other networks from Indianapolis.
Mankato, MN was a single station market with KEYC CBS from 1961 (they were NBC for 6 months in 1960-61) until they added FOX as a sub in 2007. They did carry UPN as a secondary during their whole existence (95-06)
Toledo was also a default market for networks unavailable locally in Lima. Lima sits roughly equidistant from Toledo, Dayton, and Fort Wayne, with FW being just a little closer, but FW was a UHF island, which didn't make for the best reception back in the day.
Secondary affiliations with ABC were common in the 1960s and 1970s (thinking here of the Wheeling-Steubenville, Clarksburg-Weston, and Bristol-Johnson City markets, among many others), as in the early 1960s it was very much the "me-too" network, kind of the Fox of its day, with quirkier programming (think Batman, Bewitched, Dark Shadows, The Addams Family, and so on).
On March 4th 2023 WOI 5 (ABC) will join the 76ers @ Bucks Basketball game in progress at 8pm so they can air the Variety Telethon Spotlight 2023 at 7pm for one hour. It will pre-empt the NBA Countdown at 7pm and the first 30 minutes of the Basketball game at 7:30pm.
On Friday March 10 2023, KDSM Fox 17 will air Boys High School Basketball from 1pm-9p and will air WWE Friday Night Smackdown at 10pm-Midnight. Also not network related they are replacing ICrime from Midnight to 1am with reruns of the Big Bang Theory and replacing the double run of Judge Mathis at 2:30am-3:30am with Two and a Half Men.
That was a pretty huge story down this way, so that's not surprising. But they could easily have shown it on one of the subchannels, and perhaps run a crawler at the bottom of the CBS feed, directing viewers to tune there if they wanted to watch it instead. (But then you have a problem with cable and dish providers who don't carry all of the subchannels. Quest is the only WLTX subchannel that comes to mind that is carried on local Spectrum.)
I was surprised when they actually interrupted "Jeopardy" to show the verdict live. At that point I had another recording which I do "just in case" since I'm lucky enough to have two stations on my cable system that show the program.
this past Thursday was a really bad weather day for North Texas, as all of the Big 4 stations in the market (KDFW Fox 4, KXAS NBC 5, WFAA Channel 8 which is ABC in Dallas, and KTVT CBS 11/CBS Texas as they now call themselves as of the rebranding) preempted regularly schedule programing from 5 to 8 PM, meaning KXAS & WFAA preempted their networks evening news program while i'm sure KTVT aired The CBS Evening News on sister station KTXA 21. also all prime time programing in the first hour of primetime was preempted for severe weather coverage on KDFW, KXAS & WFAA while KTVT aired CBS Primetime on KTXA.
it wasn't just TV, as on the radio side of things, WBAP AM preempted The Mark Levin Show for their storm coverage with "Operation Storm Watch" as they called it and Rick Roberts, who show normally ends at 5 PM stayed on a little longer to cover the storms with chief meteorologist Brad Barton relaying the alerts as WBAP is the primary Emergency Alert System station for North Texas.
it wasn't just TV, as on the radio side of things, WBAP AM preempted The Mark Levin Show for their storm coverage with "Operation Storm Watch" as they called it and Rick Roberts, who show normally ends at 5 PM stayed on a little longer to cover the storms with chief meteorologist Brad Barton relaying the alerts as WBAP is the primary Emergency Alert System station for North Texas.
"BUT WHERE ARE MY STORIES!"
Wheel and/or Jeopardy goes to a subchannel whenever it is pre-empted, whether for a local special, Olympics or whatever