They preempted that for this?

[Mr Tony]

Those are starting to get few and far between these days because of the OVC's deal with ESPN+

The last couple years they have carried 3 or 4 doubleheaders at the end of the season. This year was 3

 

[Mr Tony]

Only reason I'm posting it is because its a lot this season. KMNF-DT3 (Mankato, MN) the365 pre-empts a lot of stuff for local sports like Minnesota State University football and hockey and some high school basketball and I usually dont post those because its all the time (Gray communications carries it in HD due to the pre-emptions for sports). This season they will be carrying the St Paul Saints home games (St Paul Saints is the Mn Twins AAA affiliate). Woo hoo!

Saints AAA baseball coming to KEYC’s 365 channel

The team’s home games will be broadcast starting with the home opener at CHS Field!

www.keyc.com

 

[coxchantal8]

Tonight, Independent station WMYD pre-empt their primetime program for Pistons basketball that being simulcast via FanDuel Sports Network Detroit and this coming Thursday, FOX affiliate WJBK is moving its FOX program to late night due to Red Wings hockey that being simulcast via FanDuel Sports Network Detroit.

 

[Cool_guy81]

Not really a pre-emption but thought I'd share. On WHO 13 at 3pm NBC News interrupted with a NBC News Special Report they talked for a little over a minute before WHO 13 cut them off and joined Jeopardy in progress in the middle of them talking.

 

[Mr Tony]

This year the MN Twins will have 10 Tuesday games on broadcast TV.
Here in Mankato Tuesday has the first on Fox. The Fox programming that is on from 7-9 will be shown at 11-1 after the news. Twins game scheduled for 6:30-9:30 and half hour postgame.

 

[Mr Tony]

In Minneapolis for the same Twins game Fox 9 moves the programming to 10:35ish. Kinda shocked they didn’t move it to Fox9+ like they usually do.
In Rochester, MN KXLT Fox 47 is carrying the game. Network programming moves to 11pm-1am

 

[Mr Tony]

In Duluth, MN the Brewers game is being shown on KDLH CW which moves WWE NXT to 10pm at the earliest.
(the Twins are also on KBJR-DT3 which is Heroes and Icons but they show TONS of sports on here so no biggie. Station is in HD)
In North Dakota the game is on Fox across the state. Network programming is being shown after the game.

 

[Mr Tony]

Today (Tuesday) is another Twins game on OTA stations. Same situations this week as the previous 3 posts for last week.

 

[Mr Tony]

KYOU (Fox Ottumwa, IA) also carrying Twins game. Fox programming moves to after news so 10:30-12:30

 

[ryanmcclelland]

Heads up Wheel Watchers living in the Boston area. Tomorrow night's episode of WOF will air on WBZ's sister channel WSBK at its usual time at 7pm ET replacing the first half-hour of The Big Bang Theory. It's because the main WBZ channel is airing a special half-hour edition of Patriots All Access. Jeopardy will air on WBZ as usual.

 

[NYAZSporty]

D'backs are playing the first of 10 games tonight on KPNX (NBC Phoenix) & as mentioned in the Phoenix TV board regarding this, NBC primetime tonight which consists of Grosse Pointe Garden Society & Dateline NBC will air late night tomorrow night after a repeat SNL. Initially, it was scheduled to air tonight after Late Night with Seth Myers, but got pushed back due to NBC News coverage of the Funeral of Pope Francis later tonight.

 

[Jman8606]

Re: Most Inexplicable Network Program Pre-Emption

I can't vouch for Nashville, but it's true that WTMJ pre-empted Johnny Carson during much of the 1980s. This was at a time, IIRC, when Johnny was regarded as starting to skew old and some NBC stations thought they'd do better running something else to attract a younger audience. In WTMJ's case, it was off-network reruns ranging from Soap to Trapper John MD to Magnum PI. This started around 1982 or 1983 and lasted until WTMJ decided to bring back Johnny in September 1989. Milwaukee wasn't without Johnny, though: then-independent WVTV picked up The Tonight Show during the time WTMJ didn't have it.

They also showed reruns of the game show Crosswits with Jack Clark IIRC.

On the preemption front WFTV in Orlando preempted Full House during it’s first season for new syndicated episodes of We Got it Made.

 

[Jman8606]

Re: Most Inexplicable Network Program Pre-Emption

Matlock has always been a staple on WXYZ (ABC) Channel 7 in Detroit. They have long pre-empted ABC prime-time programming to run it, especially on weekends. Over in Erie, PA, pre-emptions for infomercials on weekend mornings have always been common on WICU (NBC) Channel 12 and WJET (ABC) Channel 24.

I have heard that WVNY (ABC) Channel 22 in Burlington, VT has long pre-empted various ABC programming - General Hospital was not seen on WVNY in the late 80s, and ABC's Friday night programming was not seen either. In 1987, it replaced I Married Dora with Sea Hunt. Into The Night Starring Rick Dees and other ABC shows were replaced by infomercials in the early 90s, and more recently, Kimmel Live was replaced by infomercials.

Pre-emptions are almost unheard of in Canada nowadays, unless it's a regular basis issue such as with CBET 9 in Windsor with its position in the Detroit market. Some CBC shows are not shown on some CBC affiliates, although usually it is the least lucritive programming that isn't shown. Also, in the 70s and 80s, many CBC affiliates showed morning and afternoon CBC programming at different times than the O&O stations - it was not uncommon to see Mr. Dressup at (I'm making these up) 10:00 on CBLT, 9:00 on CFPL, and 11:30 on CKWS. CBC's Midday was shown at 2 PM on CFPL, instead of at noon.

CFCF 12 in Montreal and BCTV often pre-empted CTV for local stuff back in the 90s. CTV bought CFCF, and established its own station on Channel 32 to compete with BCTV which in turn moved to Global.

As stated WFTV in Orlando preempted the first two episodes of Full House for We Got it Made. They aired I Married Dora though. Ironically, John Stamos of FH dated Teri Copley of WGIM.

 

[Jman8606]

Re: Most Inexplicable Network Program Pre-Emption

I know in the mid-90s KWTV-9-Oklahoma City would push "The Price Is Right" to the 11am hour for "The Donnie and Marie" talk show. Young and the Restless would air at 4:00pm against Oprah. KWTV was interesting in that in the early years of online streaming, they threw up their entire signal to the internet. I was an office drone at the time and would watch TPiR on my lunch hour.

Some other stations that I can think of that would push Young and the Restless to the 4:00 hour was Belo's KMOV-4-St Louis. I don't know if they still air Y&R in that hour.

"Match Game 90" almost never aired on most ABC affiliates because they had midday newscasts. In Atlanta, it was punted over to WUPA-69 which ran it with the John Davidson-hosted "$100,000 Pyramid" in the early afternoon.

WTVW-7 (then ABC, now Fox) in Evansville would air "Ryans Hope" in the early 80s in the 9:30am slot (probably delayed 1-day) so they could air their midday newscast. Very fuzzy recollections of it, but I'm pretty sure their line was this:

9:00 Richard Simmons
9:30 Ryan's Hope
10:00 Love Boat/Fantasy Island
11:00 Family Feud (network)
11:30 News
11:45 Midday Farm Report (don't know if this was the actual name, I do remember some big guy in overalls standing behind feed barrels reading the grain and livestock prices).

Donny and Marie’s talk show was late 90s. So WUPA aired Davidson’s $100k Pyramid in during the first season? I know WATL aired it in the second season.

 

[Jman8606]

Re: Most Inexplicable Network Program Pre-Emption

In Memphis WMC NBC 5 used to pre-empt Notre Dame football on NBC for the SEC syndicated package when there was a time conflict. That's one case where I really didn't mind it because I'd usually rather see the SEC game. They'd show the ND game when there wasn't a conflict with the SEC game. They did this until recent years when the SEC package moved to WLMT 30.

WSFA in Montgomery did the same in the 90s for the syndicated package Jefferson-Pilot Sports. In the Wiregrass, future sister station WDFX carried the Notre Dame games.

 

[Jman8606]

Re: Most Inexplicable Network Program Pre-Emption



As part of Merv's severance agreement with NBC (to end the 1962-63 daytime talk show), he was allowed to create and produce shows for the network; the first, which he hosted, was "Word For Word" (1963-64); the second was "Jeopardy!".
Merv was also one of three hosts of the primetime game show "Keep Talking" (1958-60); Carl Reiner and Monty Hall also hosted that show.

Something similar happened when NBC canned J! And it was replaced by Wheel of Fortune.

 

[Jman8606]

Nationally Televised Network Sporting Events that were Pre-empted in your market

My reply to the "Most Inexplicable Network Preemption" thread in light of the Duke-UNC game on CBS bumped in my neighboring Peoria/Bloomington market (WMBD-31) due to the Easter Seals telethon got me thinking.

Any other notable instances--other than the usual Labor Day tradition in many markets of the US Open on CBS or NBC's golf coverage bumped in favor of the Jerry Lewis MDA telethon--where a major nationally-televised sporting event was preempted in favor of local programming in your markets of interest?

I know of a few other earlier examples involving Peoria stations (since I grew up within that market--plus also within Grade A/B range of the neighboring Quad Cities IA/IL DMA):

--In 1986, one of the seasons where Peoria's Bradley University won the Missouri Valley Conference and was going to The Dance, Easter Seals telethon coverage (IMO back in the days where it seemed like it was just as much of a big deal as Jerry's telethon on Labor Day) concluded on Selection Sunday--and the CBS NCAA selection show was scheduled before the telethon was slated to end. The CBS Selection Show that year was farmed out to NBC affiliate WEEK-25 (who carried many of the Bradley men's games locally)--and IMO if Bradley had not made the tourney that year the Selection Show probably would have went unseen in Peoria due to the Easter Seals telethon.

--The 1999 Army/Navy game coverage on CBS was also bumped by WMBD in favor of a Division I-AA (now Football Championship Series) playoff game involving Illinois State University in Normal, IL (the twin city of Bloomington).

--In the late '90s, back when ABC usually had Saturday college football doubleheaders weekly (IIRC), many times Peoria ABC affiliate WHOI-19 bumped the 11AM game in favor of ESPN Plus coverage of Big Ten games.

Any other major sporting event preemptions in your local markets? IIRC I have heard of some instances in parts of the country where the likes of NASCAR races were bumped in certain markets due to the likes of telethons, etc.

The proof in the pudding for Duke-UNC not playing in Peoria tonight is the Easter Seals telethon link on WMBD's website:

http://centralillinoisproud.com/easterseals-2010

Also a thread on one of the message boards sponsored by the Peoria Journal-Star alluded to tonight's preemption:

NameBright - Domain Expired

On Labor Day 1990 WSFA in Montgomery did not air the premiere of “To Tell the Truth” 1990 (which happened to be the pilot with Richard Kline hosting) instead airing the Jerry Lewis MDA telephon.

 

[Jman8606]

Re: Do your station still pre-empts network shows for local sports?

On now-defunct Guiding Light, Sacramento's then-CBS affiliate KXTV (now ABC) dropped it in 1992, and when KXTV and KOVR swapped in 1995, KOVR refused to do the same thing and even as a CBS O&O. Pretty uncommon for a network O&O station not clearing a show broadcast by their network. Fox's Weekend Marketplace, different story.

Congress, the NAB, and the FCC screwed us on the SHVERA and later STELA laws on distant network feeds. It would be nice if they let us watch network programming (ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX from NYC East/LA West) on like DirecTV for example on satellite incase of a local station pre-empts it for local or nonsense stuff. But never happen to satellite subs.

I know right? I missed watching WSB in Atlanta on my prime star! Along with WUSA, WHDH, and KTVU! I have been wanting to say something similar along those lines for YEARS! I wish I would have had WSB on Directv when I returned to South Alabama from Atlanta in 2001! Having WSB would have alleviated my homesickness for Atlanta!

 

[Jman8606]

Network shows killed by pre-emptions.

Do you guys know of any shows that aired on the networks primetime/daytime that were cancelled/killed do to too many affiliates pre-empting the show for their own fare? IMO this is probably what killed network daytime game shows in the 90's like Caesars Challenge. This is why I hate WTLV in Jacksonville pre-empting Caesars Challenge for Montel Williams, and didn't get to watch Caesars Challenge until it was re-run on the USA network and other NBC game shows of the 90's that I never got to watch until some of it's episodes were uploaded on YouTube. Obviously the Jacksonville TV market loves pre-empting network daytime shows.

So does the Orlando TV market! WCPX/WKMG never cleared $25k Pyramid, Press Your Luck, Card Sharks 86, Daytime Combs Feud, (they aired the nighttime version though ) Goen Wheel of Fortune, Now You See It 89 etc. Orlandans did not get to see PYL until it reran on USA Network.

WESH aired Classic Concentrstion in its original run. However, they did not air the daytime reruns from 1991-1993. Nor did they air the short-lived Bob Eubanks game show Family Secrets despite it being taped at Disney-MGM studios. Nor did they air Ceasar’s Challenge.

 

[Jman8606]

The 1990 Match Game got preempted in many markets as I recall. (The noon "death slot"!)

-crainbebo

There was talk of moving it to CBS and Ross Shaffer hinted about that it in the finale. But it never came to be unfortunately.