Daytime Pre-emptions in your area

[genius]

Hey Fred,

I too made the same points you did more or less in this post in another thread a while when the orgininal poster asked a very similair question

http://www.radio-info.com/smf/index.php/topic,56231.msg392175.html#msg392175

It wasn't an uncommon thing for a station to run network daytime programs out-of pattern in the 70s, 80s, and early 90s. It mainly depended what was aired-usually a high-rated syndicated program or popular local program with good revenue would win out over a low-rated soap. This type of approach caused the deaths of many soaps, most notably Edge of Night, Search For Tomorrow, and Ryan's Hope, though the last one was mostly due to an ABC screw-up of programming. Of course O&Os weren't not immune to this*SNIP*

By the way Fred, I see your still more nit-picky than ever since your recent return...

First of all, network shows were not pre-empted. A station did not carry them. Pre-emption is when a show is replaced by a news event, ballgame or special.

Err, yes they were. Read that again, you definition doesn't make sense. What would you call it then if a local replaced a network show? A PRE-EMPTION.

Officially, a "pre-emption" is the act or right of claiming or purchasing before or in preference to others.

 

[jwgreek8606]

Orlando was bad at preemptions WCPX (now WKMG 6) preempted The $25,000 Pyramid, Press Your Luck, Card Sharks, Family Feud, Now You See It, Goen Wheel of Fortune, with Hour Magazine and Sally Jessey Raphael.
It would have been nice if WOFL carried those shows

 

[anotherguyTN]

In Memphis, WHBQ didn't carry All My Children until the end of 1975. They also didn't show Ryan's Hope for most of its run.

WMC as anotherguy pointed out didn't carry a lot of NBC's shows in the 80s and 90s. They were pretty good in the 70s although for awhile they carried Dinah in the mid morning instead of NBC. They also never cleared the NBC 9 am hour after they started showing Donahue in 1977.

WREG didn't show whatever CBS carried at 3 pm after about 1971, but otherwise cleared the whole schedule.

All 3 Memphis stations by 1972 had noon newscasts. That seems pretty unique.

Perhaps what really irritated me about WMC more than the other stations in Memphis was that they were the worst of the group in dropping network programs (in prime time and late night as well), and they dropped or moved more shows I wanted to see. I was more a fan of game shows and many times WMC showed none of them except for Wheel of Fortune. I really didn't know that WHBQ had dropped All My Children, and wouldn't have cared because I hated soaps. I knew that WREG had dropped CBS's 3 PM programming, but the only times that really bothered me were when Match Game or Press Your Luck ran at those times.

There were actually some times that I didn't mind stations dropping network shows. Through most of the 80's and early 90's until David Letterman moved to CBS, WREG carried reruns of MASH and later Cheers from 10:30 to 11:30 instead of the CBS late Movie.

 

[mleach]

Perhaps what really irritated me about WMC more than the other stations in Memphis was that they were the worst of the group in dropping network programs (in prime time and late night as well), and they dropped or moved more shows I wanted to see. I was more a fan of game shows and many times WMC showed none of them except for Wheel of Fortune. I really didn't know that WHBQ had dropped All My Children, and wouldn't have cared because I hated soaps. I knew that WREG had dropped CBS's 3 PM programming, but the only times that really bothered me were when Match Game or Press Your Luck ran at those times.

Memphis isn't alone when it comes to "No Press Your Luck" Washington DC's then WDVM ( WUSA ) channel 9 for YEARS never aired the 10am block of CBS game shows such as Press Your Luck, Child's Play and Pryamid. Sometime WDVM would even pre-empt Price Is Right. In its place was the horrible local talk show Morning Break. One morning the host of the show Carol Randolf received an award, live on Morning Break, when the presentation went into the 11am hour, WDVM kept showing Morning Break. Viewers who wanted to watch Bob Barker and Johnny Olson scream "Come On down" heard this from WDVM"...for those of you who are waiting for the Price Is Right, well this is more important than that garbage".

 

[ixnay]

Perhaps what really irritated me about WMC more than the other stations in Memphis was that they were the worst of the group in dropping network programs (in prime time and late night as well), and they dropped or moved more shows I wanted to see. I was more a fan of game shows and many times WMC showed none of them except for Wheel of Fortune. I really didn't know that WHBQ had dropped All My Children, and wouldn't have cared because I hated soaps. I knew that WREG had dropped CBS's 3 PM programming, but the only times that really bothered me were when Match Game or Press Your Luck ran at those times.

Memphis isn't alone when it comes to "No Press Your Luck" Washington DC's then WDVM ( WUSA ) channel 9 for YEARS never aired the 10am block of CBS game shows such as Press Your Luck, Child's Play and Pryamid. Sometime WDVM would even pre-empt Price Is Right. In its place was the horrible local talk show Morning Break. One morning the host of the show Carol Randolf received an award, live on Morning Break, when the presentation went into the 11am hour, WDVM kept showing Morning Break. Viewers who wanted to watch Bob Barker and Johnny Olson scream "Come On down" heard this from WDVM"...for those of you who are waiting for the Price Is Right, well this is more important than that garbage".

Baltimore's WBAL-11 (then CBS affil, now NBC-affil) bumped PYL too (for Let's Make a Deal IIRC).

ixnay

 

[anotherguyTN]

WREG in Memphis carried most of CBS's daytime programming except for whatever ended up at 3 PM. During the times that PYL was on at other times they carried it. The only other long running game show that I can remember being on at 3 PM was Tatletales, which I never really cared for. Most of the rest of the time it was either soaps or game shows that didn't last long, probably because of stations like WREG that didn't carry it.

 

[chris12]

In Milwaukee, WTMJ 4 usually bumped off 1-2 hours of daytime shows although it varied, sometimes it was 11-12, sometimes 9-10 or 10:30-11:30. They didn't carry Super Password until its last 6 months or so. In the eraly 80s they used shows like Richard Simmons and New Day and in the mid-80s they were airing reruns such as Little House On The paririe , Quincy, Magnum PI. Ironically for much of the early 80s they didn't air the daytime Wheel Of Fortune since it was until recently the longtime home of the syndicated version, although channel 18 picked up Wheel, Blockbusters and others. WISN 12 usually blocked out the 11-12 hour as Ryan's Hope and Loving didn't air for most of their runs and as mentioned WITI blocked out the 9-10 game shows putting Young and the Restless on delay at 9 although for a while they had $25,000 Pyramid on at 8 am.

 

[chris12]

Also, from seeing some old listings, it appears that most of the Westinghouse owned stations like KYW Phily, WBZ Boston, KPIX San Francisco were worst at bumping off programs for People Are Talking, Hour Magazine, Mike Douglas, although in those cities at least indies were willing to pick lots of the stuff up.

 

[Ultimajock]

WKOW in Madison didn't clear ABC World News Sunday nor American Bandstand either (but of course, both aired in Chicago, Rockford, and Milwaukee). In place of AB, WKOW aired a country-music program instead.

...in the '60s, WKOW and its satellite WAOW/9 Wausau ran "American Bandstand" on Sunday afternoons; I recall seeing "The Beatles" as a lead-in...

 

[newsmark]

From what I've been able to tell, KXAS/5 seems to have been the worst of the original big 3 (WFAA/8 and KDFW/4 not as much) about pre-emptions.Oh, well, misinformed again...thanx for the update. Has been a **while** ago....

WFAA didn't run The Edge of Night at 3 p.m., at least for the last few years it was on. I think the station did run it at some point.

(Side note: Before the nets used satellites, The Young and the Restless at 12:30 Eastern didn't work out for Central Time stations that wanted a noon newscast. CBS offered those stations a prefeed of Y&R at 3:30 a.m. KDFW recorded Y&R at 3:30 a.m. played it back at 11 a.m. That was good for KXII in Sherman. The station had no one on duty at 3:30 a.m., so they simply punched up KDFW's off-air signal for that hour. It looked horrible. Especially when KDFW, for whatever reason, would super their ID during Y&R.)