Infomercials in prime time

[firepoint525]

7pm to 8pm is early pre primetime access .the affiliates can place any programming in these timeslots.shows like ET,Extra,Access Hollywood,Inside Edition, and the Wheel and Jeopardy live at that timeslot.I have to agree 100 percent them not running Infomercials at that time slots.I happen to get one of those Time and Like Country Cd's on my DVR timerset run which supposed to be Entertainment Tonight at the time.

Again, I hope that that is eastern time. I live on central time, and do not want to see that type of programming from 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. central time.

 

[firepoint525]

I wouldn't object to watching that classic country informercial if I just had some way to watch "Jeopardy". I watch every Satyurday night and it's rare that I can remember watching the first time,. There are three episodes from the past year that were pre-empted for weather and if those happen to come on I want to see them!
Two stations in my area seem to show the same ones, when they show them, on the same Saturday night. I would like to think the stations that pre-empted an episode could get THAT one.

Somehow, I don't think a TV station will set aside a particular episode of any given show (of that type, anyway) to air, instead of airing a rerun of the same program. They air whatever episode the syndicator feeds them over the satellite feed for airing that week.

Networks will occasionally set aside a pre-empted program for air at a later date if the earlier airing was missed for some reason beyond their control, like a breaking news event.

 

[bpatrick]

I get WABC on DirecTV and it's not uncommon for them to
pre-empt "Jeopardy!" on Saturdays for an infomercial or special
(usually having something to do with the weather), and during
college football season they do "Eyewitness News" at 7 or as
soon as the game ends, if before 7:30. "Wheel Of Fortune," AFAIK,
never gets pre-empted; on sister station WTVD the same thing goes.

 

[intx]

Those Billy Graham and St. Jude specials lots of stations air in place of network shows a couple times a year are paid programming, too ...

 

[quadraphonic]

I get WABC on DirecTV and it's not uncommon for them to
pre-empt "Jeopardy!" on Saturdays for an infomercial or special
(usually having something to do with the weather), and during
college football season they do "Eyewitness News" at 7 or as
soon as the game ends, if before 7:30. "Wheel Of Fortune," AFAIK,
never gets pre-empted; on sister station WTVD the same thing goes.

Isn't Saturday 7-8 the time WRAL usually does their "Focal Point Investigations" every quarter or so?

 

[MarcB]

Those Billy Graham and St. Jude specials lots of stations air in place of network shows a couple times a year are paid programming, too ...

Yeah and those ought to be airing 7PM-8PM, which is time for local programming rather then the times for network programming.

 

[quadraphonic]

Those Billy Graham and St. Jude specials lots of stations air in place of network shows a couple times a year are paid programming, too ...

Yeah and those ought to be airing 7PM-8PM, which is time for local programming rather then the times for network programming.

Don't forget the phrase "paid."
That money goes to the television station. They make the decisions on that.

 

[firepoint525]

Are Billy Graham specials still coming on? I haven't seen any in several years. I know that he is in declining health, and that his wife died a few years back, and that his son is in charge of the ministry now. If any specials are still being broadcast, I would assume that they were taped several years ago.

 

[DToTheJ]

Here in New York, WABC-TV ran a Time-Life infomercial in the 7:00 PM half-hour this past Saturday night (Jan. 1), pre-empting a Jeopardy! rerun. I'm not sure if the rerun of Wheel of Fortune that usually followed at 7:30 was also dumped in a similar manner, but I would not have been surprised...

That same hour on that same night, WCAU, the NBC O&O in Philadelphia, had a full hour of infomercials listed. Then again, I think they used to air an hour of infomercials during daytime, so that doesn't surprise me...

I suppose you're all waiting for me to bring up back when Mel Karmazin was working for CBS, that it was his idea to pre-empt first-run shows like "Entertainment Tonight" on WCBS in favor of Time-Life fare.

 

[quadraphonic]

Are Billy Graham specials still coming on? I haven't seen any in several years. I know that he is in declining health, and that his wife died a few years back, and that his son is in charge of the ministry now. If any specials are still being broadcast, I would assume that they were taped several years ago.

Here's one they had scheduled for Christmastime.
I don't know how many places it aired.
http://www.billygraham.org/mediarelations_pressrelease_detail.asp?id=6360