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They preempted that for this?

The big 3 networks had aired a special report during the 7:30pm ET slot. CBS cut in at around 7:33 including WBZ in Boston during the first round of the Jeopardy Tournament Of Champions second semifinal game. ABC and NBC has also cut into regular scheduled programming with NBC cutting in at 7:30 and ABC at 7:39. While CBS's coverage ended at 7:50 (it was the only one of the big three to sign off before 8pm), both ABC and NBC did not sign off until 8pm so the 7:30pm slot on all NBC stations in the East Coast were entirely preempted.

Speaking of preemptions, WBZ in Boston will be airing an NFL preseason game as the New England Patriots will be among one of the teams playing in the preseason. Tomorrow's episode of Jeopardy will air on WSBK at its regular time replacing the second half hour of TBBT due to the main WBZ channel airing Patriots Game Day. Wheel Of Fortune will air at its regular time on the main WBZ channel.
 
ryanmcclelland said:
The big 3 networks had aired a special report during the 7:30pm ET slot. CBS cut in at around 7:33 including WBZ in Boston during the first round of the Jeopardy Tournament Of Champions second semifinal game. ABC and NBC has also cut into regular scheduled programming with NBC cutting in at 7:30 and ABC at 7:39. While CBS's coverage ended at 7:50 (it was the only one of the big three to sign off before 8pm), both ABC and NBC did not sign off until 8pm so the 7:30pm slot on all NBC stations in the East Coast were entirely preempted.

Speaking of preemptions, WBZ in Boston will be airing an NFL preseason game as the New England Patriots will be among one of the teams playing in the preseason. Tomorrow's episode of Jeopardy will air on WSBK at its regular time replacing the second half hour of TBBT due to the main WBZ channel airing Patriots Game Day. Wheel Of Fortune will air at its regular time on the main WBZ channel.
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Notice that quite a bit recently when it comes to breaking news, CBS seems to leave coverage first before the others.
 
They pre-empt primetime shows for preseason football here too.

On Friday nights WHO 13 also pre-empts primetime with High School Football games from 6:55pm to 9pm showing the last hour of Dateline at 9-10pm if the game ends on time.

Dateline also airs in its entire 2 hour episode from 2am to 4am but whatever was on from 7-8pm on NBC central time they don't air that show at a later time or even on the weekend at a different time either so that show is completely missed on the schedule.
 
Let's not forget that both Wheel and J! will be airing on Fridays at their usual times on WBZ's sister channel WSBK replacing back-to-back episodes of The Big Bang Theory. This is because of the main WBZ channel airing PAA during the 7pm hour and that's a good thing too because it's been said that WSBK has been doing this for quite a long time and Jeopardy is no exception. However, there might be some rare exceptions to it as we all would expect but the real chances are that my Bell Fiber Op might choose to switch WSBK to CTV 2 Atlantic to simsub The Big Bang Theory as I've seen that happen before which had me confuzzled.

As far as PAA goes, it appears that WBZ has been airing that show for a long time now since the Pats are very important to them than both Wheel and J! airing on Fridays during the 7pm hour from September right to the very end of the NFL football season plummeting both shows to the early morning slot as it has always been in the past years.
 
I saw last night that in Charlotte on Sept. 18, Monday Night Football will air on WAXN in addition to pre-game coverage. This shouldn't be too big a deal since it's independent, but maybe someone else knows what normally airs.
 
retrothoughts said:
Re: Most Inexplicable Network Program Pre-Emption

WKRG-TV in Mobile, AL was legendary for its network pre-emptions during the '70s.As an example, they delayed "All in the Family" during the 1971-72 season from its scheduled 7 pm CT Saturday airing to 9:30 pm CT on Tuesdays. WKRG's "shell game" with the CBS schedule got so bad that a columnist for the Mobile Register wrote an article about it, adding at the end, "You are missing much, Mobilians, you are missing much."The article used a lot of ink, comparing WKRG's clearance pattern with that of WTVY in Dothan, AL, which apparently was much more faithful to the CBS lineup.
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I still wonder if CBS's dropping KXLY Spokane for shuffling network shows around was a wake-up call to WKRG, as if to say "start clearing prime time in pattern or you're next." Somebody else mentioned WBRC's playing fast and loose with the ABC schedule; there were times when I lived in Birmingham (1969-73) when the only night every network show aired in pattern was Tuesday, ABC's strongest night ("Mod Squad," "Movie of the Week," "Marcus Welby, M.D.") It just made me wish I'd had Channel 11 in Atlanta for ABC; about the worst they would do would be one two-hour movie on Wednesday (delaying Johnny Cash to Saturday) and Atlanta Hawks games from 1970-72.

One thing that irked me about both stations was pre-empting ABC's newscast. But after the tongue-lashing Harry Reasoner gave the holdout stations in 1971, Channel 11 finally started airing him and Howard K. Smith in December 1971; Channel 6 waited until August 1972.
 
About the only consistent delays I see now are in daytime: "The Young and the Restless" in San Diego and Louisville, "The Bold and the Beautiful" in Seattle and Tulsa; "NBC News Daily" on some stations that use it to lead into their 4 PM local newscasts. Also, WBBM is now carrying "Let's Make a Deal" at 3 PM (Central), CBS carries it at 2 (Central). And the only ABC non-o&o carrying "General Hospital" at some time other than 2/1 is KSAT San Antonio; they have it at 3 (Central).
 
only1moore said:
Re: Detroit pre-emptions, again



That would be WVTV-18 that carried "Carson" after WTMJ-4 opted to pre-empt it thanks to NBC rejecting their request to delay it.
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Which is when WTMJ had "Thicke of the Night." WMAR Baltimore, then an NBC affiliate, also dropped Johnny, who ended up on then-independent WBFF Channel 45.
 


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