My parents live in TN but can watch WOF on Charter cable which carries stations from the Tri-City and Knoxville area but the old man goes crazy if he can't watch it on the Knoxville station....no idea why because the shows are identical! And Heaven forbid if it gets pre-empted by something, he'll watch it on the Tri-City station but complain the whole damn time.
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Jeopardy & Wheel Of Fortune
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bpatrick said:
In the Bay Area, WXFL (the former, and current, WFLA) picked up Jeopardy during its first season, which ran at 7 PM opposite Wheel on WTSP -- apparently, unlike the WCPX example, King World did not care that the shows aired on different stations, or opposite each other. The following season, however, Jeopardy moved to 7:30PM on WTSP, after Wheel. While WTSP was well-known as the station that carried Wheel and Jeopardy, WFLA carried the shows for a couple of years in the 1990s before they returned to WTSP.
A little correction -- a couple of years back when Wheel and Jeopardy moved to WFTS, WTSP replaced them with Inside Edition and Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, as Dr. Phil was still on at 5 PM.
I can think back to when I live in Rockford in mid-80s, WIFR originally had Jeopardy! (at 4:30pm, leading into their 5pm news), while WTVO had Wheel of Fortune at 6:30 (of course, as the NBC affiliate back then, they had both daytime and nighttime Wheel). I came back to Los Angeles around '86, and by that time KCOP had both shows; KCBS had Jeopardy! on two occasions (1984 and 1989-92), while KCOP had Wheel until it moved to KCBS. While back in Rockford, coming back there in '87, WTVO got Jeopardy! (airing at 3:30pm, leading into Donahue), and still had Wheel.
However, WTVO originally had The Oprah Winfrey Show from its debut, it moved to WIFR (where it is still to this day), as I guess as a trade-off from King World for moving Jeopardy! J! and Wheel are on now on WREX, since the mid-90s.
However, WTVO originally had The Oprah Winfrey Show from its debut, it moved to WIFR (where it is still to this day), as I guess as a trade-off from King World for moving Jeopardy! J! and Wheel are on now on WREX, since the mid-90s.
ShawnHill1 said:
In reference to Jeopardy, in Alex Trebek's 1990 book, "The Jeopardy Book", Alex mentioned one time during the first season that he was being interviewed by a wire service reporter; at the time, "Jeopardy" was supposed to be on the air locally in Los Angeles, so he simply turned it on, only to find "Quincy" there instead. He then called the station, only to learn that they dropped Jeopardy due to poor ratings.
Was that when KCOP had it, or when KCBS had it the first time?
azumanga said:
It was certainly when KCBS had it the first time; KCBS also carried Quincy reruns during that time. Jeopardy! was initially part of Channel 2's late afternoon game-show block, with Body Language (or Press Your Luck, I forget which), the All-New Let's Make a Deal, Anything for Money with the late Fred Travalena, and J!, leading into the local news block from 5-7pm; the CBS Evening News was still on at 7pm back then.
In 1986 when I started watching, "Jeopardy" was on the CBS station at 5.
Then it moved to the ABC station. Or did it? I don't remember for sure. I remember a news bulletin which must have happened during Final Jeopardy, because I remember being mad about missing something. The other ABC affiliate had "Wheel of Fortune" at 7:30, probably airing in the other slot, and Vanna said she was still writing a certain year on her checks. Pat said, "But Vanna, it is" that year. Vanna said, "Ohhh!" like a dumb blonde. We know she isn't. Whatever I missed, it was for something that other ABC station didn't consider all that important, but what I was watching was important on the station I was watching.
For as long as I can remember, "Jeopardy" has been at 7 on the NBC station, followed by "Wheel", and I can pick up a CBS station which has "Jeopardy" at 7:30, follwoing "Wheel". This is very useful.
Then it moved to the ABC station. Or did it? I don't remember for sure. I remember a news bulletin which must have happened during Final Jeopardy, because I remember being mad about missing something. The other ABC affiliate had "Wheel of Fortune" at 7:30, probably airing in the other slot, and Vanna said she was still writing a certain year on her checks. Pat said, "But Vanna, it is" that year. Vanna said, "Ohhh!" like a dumb blonde. We know she isn't. Whatever I missed, it was for something that other ABC station didn't consider all that important, but what I was watching was important on the station I was watching.
For as long as I can remember, "Jeopardy" has been at 7 on the NBC station, followed by "Wheel", and I can pick up a CBS station which has "Jeopardy" at 7:30, follwoing "Wheel". This is very useful.
I should point out that, in addition to WABC/7 carrying both shows in the 7 PM hour in New York, there is also WLNY, the Long Island independent station carried on most cable systems, which used to carry both shows in the 6 PM hour, and after a recent schedule change which saw their nightly 8 PM movie shelved, the games moved to the 9 PM hour. With the current standoff between Cablevision and WABC in New York, I wonder if WLNY's signal will be blacked out on Cablevision from showing shows that WABC does, for the duration of the WABC blackout, should there be one?
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Mario500
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WKRG-TV in Mobile, Alabama aired the syndicated versions of "Jeopardy!" and "Wheel of Fortune" in September 1984 at their respective times of 12:00 PM and 6:30 PM. By September 1989, "Jeopardy!" was on WALA-TV at 4:30 PM. "Jeopardy!" and "Wheel of Fortune!" now air on WALA-TV at their respective times of 6:00 PM and 6:30 PM.
I would like to know if WKRG-TV carried "Wheel of Fortune" when it first went into syndication in 1983 and when the local broadcast rights transferred from WKRG-TV to WALA-TV.
I would like to know if WKRG-TV carried "Wheel of Fortune" when it first went into syndication in 1983 and when the local broadcast rights transferred from WKRG-TV to WALA-TV.
azumanga said:
I must correct you about WFLA. When my parents moved to the Bay Area in 1990, WFLA aired Entertainment Tonight and A Current Affair at 7 and 7:30 respectively. Then in 1993 WFLA dropped ACA and picked up Hard Copy from WTVT and then after the 1994 affiliate switch happened in 1995 WTVT and WFLA swapped night time shows with WTVT taking ET and HC and WFLA taking American Journal and Inside Edition (WFLA also picked up Oprah from WTVT which I believe was due to Oprah demanding to be on a top 3 network affiliated station, WTVT went to Fox) this lasted until 1998 when WFLA got ET back and picked up Extra which both are still on WFLA to this day. WTVT acquired reruns of Drew Carey and 3rd Rock, thus WTSP has always had Wheel and Jeopardy from 1985 until 2008
WPRI Channel 12 in Providence has aired both from the very start. They've been the station for Game shows in the 7 PM hour ever since 1975 when they aired Crosswits. Then Face The Music, Family Feud and Tic Tac Dough. Now Wheel and Jeopardy. 35 straight years of Game shows from 7 to 8 PM on Channel 12. That station loves it's games!
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Darth_vader
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In the Portland area, KOIN transmitted Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune (in that order) in the 19:00 PT and 19:30 PT time slots until sometime in or nearing the beginning of the 1990s, when KATU started running them instead. The programmes have been on KATU in the same order and time slots ever since. I want to say 1990 is when they switched, but I was a little kid at the time so it kind of escapes me now. ;o)
(Maybe a Portlander on this board can clarify?)
I can't even count how many episodes of Jeopardy! we used to hear on the car radio, via KOIN (used to be on channel 6 in the "Good Olde Daiys") on the way home from daycare after their having gotten off work!
(Maybe a Portlander on this board can clarify?)
I can't even count how many episodes of Jeopardy! we used to hear on the car radio, via KOIN (used to be on channel 6 in the "Good Olde Daiys") on the way home from daycare after their having gotten off work!
ET and ET/insider package is air on WCBS New York at 7pm.here in Connecticut,ET is on WFSB at 7.30pm and at the latenight run after David Letterman at 12.35am ,Which that pushes The Craig Ferguson's show a half hour later to 1.05am start.and the Insider is run on WTNH latenight after Jimmy Kimmel show.at 1am.also on WCTX at 11pm.Jeopardy & Wheel Of Fortune was on WTNH for ages as I remember,ET was on WVIT when it first premiered in fall of 1981 as my old brain remember I might be wrong.One question was or still is Jeopardy & the Wheel ever run at a latenight time slot? I've never remember seen it on after 8pm est.
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kenrayc
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KFSN ABC 30 in Fresno has aired game show in the 7-8PM slot since the early 70s, Crosswits and Tic-Tac-Dough to Family Fued to Jeopardy and Wheel when they came out in the early 80s.
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JackBauer112
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I'd say at the start of the 1991-1992 season is when KATU picked up the J! WoF block because I was visiting Portland, OR in January 1991 and it still aired on KOIN CBS Channel 6 at the time, so it would be the fall of '91.Darth_vader said:
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