In most cases I know of didn't a late game in prime time of any sport usually just delay the news, and then late night was worked out by the network or the local stations according to how late the game ran with either delays after the news or pre-emptions in case of extremely long overruns?
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Have you ever seen a sports event last so long, that it preempts a show?
- Thread starter danderson6500
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Most of the time the sports event either delays the news, or preempts a syndicated show.
While it didn't end as late as the 2005 Pepsi 400, this past Saturday's (4/28) Sharks-Golden Knights Stanley Cup Playoff game on NBC went into double overtime and pushed Saturday Night Live well past its normal start time. What has been the latest SNL started anyway?
In case you haven't seen ESPN's "30 for 30" special called "This is the XFL", there was a game early in that lone 2001 season that had technical difficulties, devastating injuries that took time to get players off the field, and went into overtime, so SNL wouldn't have started until around 1 AM Eastern, Midnight Central, after the late local news.
NBC has a policy that if it's a new SNL, the game gets switched either NBCSN or CNBC.
If the Capitals-Penguins game this coming Saturday does require a second OT, like this past Saturday's (4/28) Sharks-Golden Knights game did, it will switch to USA Network.
And if that happens, i'd say there will be complaints that NBC preempted an overtime game for "SNL," while there will be complaints that USA Network interrupted a show for hockey.
i usually don't bump a thread, but i do remember an ACC game in 1989, Wake Forest and NC State, that lasted 4 overtimes, ending just before whatever syndicated show WYFF/4 Greenville was showing. My mom wanted to watch WLOS/13's newscast, but i wouldn't let her, till the game was over. Outside of that game, don't remember it happening during ACC season much.
During College Football season, Wheel of Fortune's Saturday edition (mostly reruns) often gets pre-empted on WABC and other ABC affiliates due to the games rarely ending on time. A local newscast is scheduled for 7:00 after the game (which bumps Saturday Jeopardy! to either early Saturday or Sunday morning, or in rarer cases, Sunday afternoon), with WOF afterwards at 7:30.
If the game runs over less than 10 minutes or so, they'll simply truncate the news and still end it at 7:30. If the overrun is 10-20 minutes, it runs half an hour and WOF gets joined in progress around the third round. If the game runs over at least 20 minutes, the news will run straight to 8:00 with no WOF.
In November 2016, WOF scheduled a new episode on the Saturday of Election Day week because of a notable episode being initially scheduled for Election Day itself. They aired the week's episodes in a M-W-Th-F-S format, with no new episode on Tuesday. Unfortunately, the Saturday episode suffered overrun fate and was pre-empted completely in NYC and other markets that scheduled it for 7:30.
This also happened with the Black Friday NFL game last November. The game was scheduled to end at 7:00 with no news padding afterwards, so the 7:00 hour was listed as Jeopardy! and Wheel as usual on WABC. The game ended up not signing off until around 7:30, and then after several commercials, Wheel was joined in progress about 5 minutes in. NYC did not get that day's Jeopardy! episode at all, and they did not delay it to Saturday like some stations sometimes do. Other stations like WPVI Philadelphia did put news padding at 7:00 and bumped J! overnight, and J! ended up getting the last laugh in the end because the "7:00" news ended up running until 8:00 and Wheel wasn't seen at all.
If the game runs over less than 10 minutes or so, they'll simply truncate the news and still end it at 7:30. If the overrun is 10-20 minutes, it runs half an hour and WOF gets joined in progress around the third round. If the game runs over at least 20 minutes, the news will run straight to 8:00 with no WOF.
In November 2016, WOF scheduled a new episode on the Saturday of Election Day week because of a notable episode being initially scheduled for Election Day itself. They aired the week's episodes in a M-W-Th-F-S format, with no new episode on Tuesday. Unfortunately, the Saturday episode suffered overrun fate and was pre-empted completely in NYC and other markets that scheduled it for 7:30.
This also happened with the Black Friday NFL game last November. The game was scheduled to end at 7:00 with no news padding afterwards, so the 7:00 hour was listed as Jeopardy! and Wheel as usual on WABC. The game ended up not signing off until around 7:30, and then after several commercials, Wheel was joined in progress about 5 minutes in. NYC did not get that day's Jeopardy! episode at all, and they did not delay it to Saturday like some stations sometimes do. Other stations like WPVI Philadelphia did put news padding at 7:00 and bumped J! overnight, and J! ended up getting the last laugh in the end because the "7:00" news ended up running until 8:00 and Wheel wasn't seen at all.
Thankfully my affiliate for the Sajak/Trebek block (KNDO Yakima) airs the shows at 10-11PM (with Harvey Feud at 9:30) the same night when a game (football, Stanley Cup, etc.), State of the Union, presidential debate, etc. preempts it on a weeknight. Albeit it was REALLY weird watching an all-new Wheel at 2:30PM when the last Winter Olympics happened. One of those stations where both Wheel and Jeopardy! aired hours before anyone else.
Wheel airing before 7:00 ET on any station is abnormal, but Jeopardy! airs as early as 9:30 AM CT in the Central Time Zone. They have way more flexible scheduling. Wheel constantly gets screwed over by pre-emptions from sports and random local specials. It's very rare that a station will choose to air Wheel in an earlier time slot instead of later or not at all, as apparently this breaches contract and can only be done with advance permission.
With this year's March Madness, CBS affiliate KNOE in Monroe, LA moved Wheel to its CW subchannel at 5:30 AM CT that morning, more than 12 hours before anyone else.
With this year's March Madness, CBS affiliate KNOE in Monroe, LA moved Wheel to its CW subchannel at 5:30 AM CT that morning, more than 12 hours before anyone else.
Do you mean one of the Black Friday college games? Because the NFL never plays on Fridays. There may have been a very rare case where the NFL played a Friday game to avoid Christmas Eve or Day, but never the day after Thanksgiving.
I have a vague memory of Peter Jennings doing a short news update between half innings during that game. But Wheel of Fortune and the local news was left in the lurch.
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