Classic Saturday Morning Cartoons/shows that were preempted/delayed in your area

[gr8oldies]

This won't be exhaustive but I can remember that WHIO-TV 7 Dayton always ran their own childrens show at 12noon (a couple of different names, Charlie Goodtime and Courthouse Square were a couple of incarnations) so whatever CBS was feeding at noon was not carried. Fat Albert was at 12:30, and as far as I remember WHIO did not carry the CBS Children's Film Festival at 1. Don't remember what they did carry.

 

[JeffM]

XETV delayed several ABC Sunday toons to run weekdays at 8am or so around the second half of the 1960s, but quit carrying them altogether afterwards. CBS's Sunday morning lineup (all one hour of it) was carried by KFMB initially, but by the 1970s, never carried it again. Most of the toons were last year's toons rerun for the second or third year. CBS ran Tom and Jerry for many years, while ABC had Bullwinkle in its lineup until 1973. I guess "Mission: Magic" did so bad on ABC in 1973 that it didn't even make it to ABC's Sunday morning burnoff sked (reruns ran in syndication instead).

For some reason this thread made me remember a joke by a 70's stand-up comic (either Robert Klein or David Steinberg) who said, "ABC does Sunday morning TV for atheists...Three hours of old cartoons!"

 

[bpatrick]

I can't speak for WHIO's whole history of Saturday morning; I've heard of "Courthouse Square," but I do have the October 8, 1977 issue of TV Guide, Southern Ohio Edition, and it shows this lineup on WHIO from 12 N-2 PM

12 N Goodtime Invention
12:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
1 PM Secrets Of Isis
1:30 CBS Children's Film Festival (shorts about the legends of Paul Bunyan and John Henry)

WBNS Columbus was probably the worst about pre-empting; there was at the time a cable channel (Ch. 3, Special Network Channel) that picked up most of what the Columbus affiliates pre-empted. WBNS in 1977 pre-empted "The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour," "Wacko," "Secrets Of Isis," and the "CBS Children's Film Festival."

As for the other stations:

WDTN/2 Dayton (NBC) no pre-emptions
WCMH/4 Columbus (NBC): "Pink Panther," "Baggy Pants And The Nitwits," "The Red Hand Gang"
WLWT/5 Cincinnati (NBC): "Pink Panther"
WTVN (WSYX)/6 Columbus (ABC): "Krofft Supershow," "American Bandstand"
WCPO/9 Cincinnati (CBS): no pre-emptions
WKRC/12 Cincinnati (ABC): "ABC Weekend Special," "American Bandstand"
WHIZ/18 Zanesville (NBC/ABC): carried all NBC shows on Saturday mornings
WKEF/22 Dayton (ABC): no pre-emptions
WLIO/35 Lima (NBC/ABC): "The Red Hand Gang"

 

[bpatrick]

I remember a 1972 article in TV Guide about the inconveniences suffered by viewers in the Mountain time zone, mostly when a network program was pre-empted in the Eastern and Central time zones (for example, a space shot once pre-empted Dinah Shore, who was on at 10 AM/9 Central, when the Phoenix NBC affiliate had the "Today" show--Dinah aired at 11 AM in Phoenix--people called the station wanting to know where Dinah was. "She was pre-empted by the space shot," a station switchboard operator said. "But the space shot was at 6 AM!" was the comeback.

With that in mind, a Phoenix woman complained to TV Guide that her kids got up at 6 AM on Saturday to watch Bugs Bunny (the Mountain time zone apparently carried it along with the Eastern and Central time zones). Ch. 10 might have been smarter to do what WAGA often did (for different reasons, namely Dave Michaels' show, "Mr. Pix", Bugs sometimes aired in Atlanta at 2 PM) and delay Bugs until 12 N (MT), after the CBS schedule had ended, during the winter months (you noted that he aired at 11 AM in the summer).

 

[Ccook55]

Going back a bit further on Atlanta:

WSB/ch. 2 would not clear NBC's 8 AM and 8:30 shows when it expanded in 1969 (The Heckle & Jeckle Cartoon Show); later in the season it would air on independent WTCG/ch. 17. The pre-emption of NBC's 8 AM/8:30 shows would continue well into 1975. They would stop clearing the 12 Noon NBC shows in 1969 as well, running movies.

WAGA/ch. 5 began a local kids' show, Mr. Pix, which in its first year, 1966-67, bumped Captain Kangaroo on Saturdays. The 9 AM show, Mighty Mouse & The Mighty Heroes was delayed to 1:30 PM as the station aired Batfink cartoons at 9 AM. Mr. Pix would eventually be moved to time periods where the CBS show scheduled then would be delayed to the afternoon after CBS's regular schedule ended (1967: Frankenstein Jr.; 1968: The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour; 1969: Dastardly & Muttley; 1970: Sabrina & The Groovie Goolies; 1971: The Hair Bear Bunch). WAGA did not clear the Sunday morning shows. In 1969, WATL/ch. 36 cleared Tom & Jerry and Batman, and in 1970, WTCG cleared Tom & Jerry and The Perils of Penelope Pitstop. In 1979, WATL cleared The Three Robonic Stooges on a delay.

In 1972, WAGA bumped The Amazing Chan & The Chan Clan for a syndicated series for deaf children, Vision On. The show would bump Speed Buggy the following season.

In 1966-67, WAII/ch. 11 cleared The Porky Pig Show on a one-week delay to 9:30 AM (ABC ran it regularly Sunday afternoons at 4 PM). In the 1968-70 seasons, as WQXI, they ran ABC's Sunday shows weekdays at 7 AM. In 1980, as WXIA, the station switched to NBC and they would not clear the 12 Noon shows (WATL would clear Flash Gordon Sunday mornings). In 1986 they ran a local kids magazine show, Kids & Company at 11:30 AM once a month, bumping Punky Brewster. WVEU/ch. 69 would clear The Completely Misadventures of Ed Grimley, Punky Brewster and The New Fat Albert from NBC on a delay in 1988-89.

 

[johnnya2k6]

In my home state of Alaska:

As far as Anchorage is concerned, all of their network stations (KENI/KTUU, KTVA, KIMO/KYUR) I think pretty much cleared all of their Saturday morning shows.

But Fairbanks was a completely different story. Remember that during the '70s to mid-'90s, KATN-2 and KTVF-11 were hybrid network affiliates, meaning not all of the Saturday shows were seen here. That practice finally came to an end in 1996 when new ownership forced KATN to relinquish NBC and become a full-time ABC affiliate, KTVF switched from CBS to NBC, and CBS getting a brand new home in K13XD.