Like if a station was going to preempted the network's 12pm or 4pm offerings for syndicated programs that the station forgot to push the button to switch over for instance. I assume when this happened they soon corrected it and switched over to the correct program. Once around 1995 or so a Washington Bullets game was blacked out on HTS in my area as the Charlotte Hornets claimed our area. In its place was Prime Network Sports with college basketball. (Southwest Conference game I think) Then at 10pm instead of going back to HTS feed it continued with Prime Network programming then it continued into the next day with the Sneaux Zone at 2pm. (that is how it was spelled) HTS never aired that show at all as they air college basketball coaches shows instead. I was glad that I got a chance to see it. Finally they fixed the problem by Friday of that week.
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Have you ever seen a station accidently show a preempted program by mistake?
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Here's a similar situation...a good friend of mine worked at WLKY-TV Louisville during the early 1980's in Master Control, responsible for the proper airing of movies, many of which were shown off reels via the film chain systen then.
One of the many films in the station's packages was a god-awful throw-in Roman Legion-era melodrama in three reels out of an Italian movie mill. Since the reels were loaded on the film chain before my friend came out from the news studio where he had just run camera on the 11:00 news, to take over master control at 11:35, he assumed the film run sheet with reel number, projector number and break timing was OK.
Oh, NO!!! Neither my friend nor his predecessor in the MC chair saw that reels #2 and #3 were reversed...my friend didn't realize it until the closing credit rolled on film 35 minutes early. He rolled a crawl on screen about the mistake and rolled reel #2 last, re-played the news and signed off on time.
No one...NOBODY...in the viewing audience complained about the mishap. In fact, a couple of viewer-jokesters said the movie made more sense run out of order than the intended order of reels! When the program director came out of his office laughing to tears, my friend knew all was OK. Didn't happen again, though!
One of the many films in the station's packages was a god-awful throw-in Roman Legion-era melodrama in three reels out of an Italian movie mill. Since the reels were loaded on the film chain before my friend came out from the news studio where he had just run camera on the 11:00 news, to take over master control at 11:35, he assumed the film run sheet with reel number, projector number and break timing was OK.
Oh, NO!!! Neither my friend nor his predecessor in the MC chair saw that reels #2 and #3 were reversed...my friend didn't realize it until the closing credit rolled on film 35 minutes early. He rolled a crawl on screen about the mistake and rolled reel #2 last, re-played the news and signed off on time.
No one...NOBODY...in the viewing audience complained about the mishap. In fact, a couple of viewer-jokesters said the movie made more sense run out of order than the intended order of reels! When the program director came out of his office laughing to tears, my friend knew all was OK. Didn't happen again, though!
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cd637299
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I suppose we are discussing *entire* pre-empted programs, but I will throw this out....
WCKT Miami (now WSVN), when it was NBC, pre-empted many game shows in the 60s & 70s, and they were pretty good at not slipping up.
Whenever an "NBC News Special Report" came on during a pre-empted show, I would carefully watch when it was over, to see if WCKT would slip. I saw about 1 second of "The Who What or Where Game" (not on WCKT) right before a commercial break on NBC.
Oh well, I know it ain't much....(but I think that some of you might have monitored like I did!)
cd
WCKT Miami (now WSVN), when it was NBC, pre-empted many game shows in the 60s & 70s, and they were pretty good at not slipping up.
Whenever an "NBC News Special Report" came on during a pre-empted show, I would carefully watch when it was over, to see if WCKT would slip. I saw about 1 second of "The Who What or Where Game" (not on WCKT) right before a commercial break on NBC.
Oh well, I know it ain't much....(but I think that some of you might have monitored like I did!)
cd
Until very recently, ME-TV ran Cheers, but it was blacked out in San Francisco, because another station airs it late on weekends. The ME affiliate ran an extra episode of Dick Van Dyke, which almost always started a few seconds late. Every night, SF got the 'Filmed before a studio audience' disclaimer for Cheers..and then Rob Petrie would make his entrance.
onairb said:
Sometimes, the same thing happens for us here in Los Angeles on our Me-TV affiliates when I Love Lucy comes, where it's suppose to be covered-up by The Lucy Show.
On a side note, whenever I watched WGN Superstation in the 90s, I was looking forward to see them slip-up whenever they airing a program meant for a national audience, and instead got something only meant for the Chicago audience. I imagine it may have happened a time or two before, but I couldn't tell you.
This may be semi-OT, but on Charter cable in Jackson, TN they will start local ads several seconds after network ads start and wil come back with a few seconds left in the last network ad or they run late coming back into the program. This happens regularly on every channel that I watch, and they apparently aren't doing anything to fix it.
And what about markets that didn't observe daylight time? in the old Toledo Blade archives on google. as a example, in the early 1970s, the listings of the Detroit stations would follow Central time for daytime network programming and Eastern Standard time for Network program in the years Michigan didn't go on daylight time.
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Capemill
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Not exactly a pre-emption per se, but back in 1995, WISN-TV in Milwaukee used to air All My Children on a one-day delay at 10am and showed the second-half of Mike and Maty joined in progress at 12:30pm after their noon news. There was a huge snowstorm and the coverage caused the noon news to run until 10 minutes before 1pm. Instead of switching right to the rest of Mike and Maty, WISN on accident landed onto ABC's east coast feed which was showing the tail end of an episode of All My Children, which Milwaukeeans wouldn't see the rest of until the next morning. I can't remember if they ever got complaints because of it (I can't imagine it; Mike and Maty was a horrible show), but it was a definite slip-up.
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