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Major affiliates still carrying classic B&w shows

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borderblaster

I'm wondering if Knoxville is unique. The CBS affiliate, WVLT, airs Black and White episodes (maybe color too I don't know) of the Andy Griffith Show--not on a subchannel, not at 4am, but T 7:30PM, against Jeopardy, Judge Judy and others. Not to be outdone, the NBC affiliate, WBIR, airs I Love Lucy at 12:30. Kinda cool that these shows are on major affiliates in good time slots. I'm not familiar with other markets with this situation...are there?
 
WFMY Greensboro runs the b&w Andy Griffith shows at 5:30 PM
(the color ones at 10 AM); WDBJ Roanoke has them both at 5:30.
WRAL Raleigh also has them both on Saturday nights at 7:30 but
usually has the b&w ones.
 
WKRG-TV, the CBS affiliate in Mobile, Alabama, usually broadcasts at episode of "The Andy Griffith Show" at 6:30 PM Monday through Friday and 10:35 PM on Sunday.
 
WYFF 4 (NBC) in Greenville, SC still airs Andy Griffith at 12:30pm Weekdays, and for an hour on 7pm Saturdays. WAGT 26 (NBC) in Augusta, GA airs Andy Griffith at 7:30pm weeknights I think.
 
Not in Pittsburgh. Can't find any shows on the primary channel broadcast schedule
older than about 1995.
 
WHEC TV10 in Rochester was running Andy Griffith at 2:30 PM a couple years ago. They interrupted whatever NBC was running at the time.
 
Does the 18-49 demographic even matter in small markets or do these stations think they can counter program younger skewing shows on other stations?
 
therealjm12 said:
WHEC TV10 in Rochester was running Andy Griffith at 2:30 PM a couple years ago. They interrupted whatever NBC was running at the time.
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As "Days Of Our Lives" is the only NBC show left in the afternoon (usually at 1PM ET), I believe there was nothing to pre-empt.
 
The OP mentioned "I Love Lucy", and all the other posts are "Andy Griffith." If we hypothetically took The Andy Griffith Show out of the equation, it's just possible that I Love Lucy in Knoxville just might be the only B&W show on a network affiliate left in the States!

To be honest, I dunno what B&W show on a Big-4 would really work anyway. I'm amazed that "Ange" has lasted this long on the Big 4's.

BTW....out of the stations still running Ange, I wonder how many have officially "nixed" its color episodes. Any?

cd
 
KPIX 5 in San Francisco used 'I Love Lucy' as weekend filler within the last few years; typically on an irregular basis during football season, against the 49ers when they couldn't show the Raiders.
 
WFMY carried Andy when he was on CBS and has been carrying
him in syndication since the early '70s. He easily beats WGHP and
WXII's newscasts at 5:30, and a friend of my dad's, who is retired
from WFMY, once told him they'll never drop "Ange." In fact, toward
the end of WFMY's 5 PM newscast the anchors will tease what's coming
up at 6 in a segment they like to call "After Andy."
 
The Andy Griffith Show (Both B&W and color shows) is on WJKT in Jackson, TN, and it also has gone back and forth between WPTY and WLMT in Memphis. To my knowledge there aren't any other B&W shows anywhere else in the market other than possibly PD shows on some LP stations.
 
In Cleveland, I don't there's been a B&W show on any of the "Big 3" stations, other than late-night movies, since the early 70's! WJW/8 as a Fox affiliate in the late 90s/early 2000s did run the "Abbott and Costello Show" on Saturday mornings, but that's the only exception I can think of.

All of the B&W reruns were on the "indie" stations back in the day.

Nowadays, you won't find anything older that Seinfeld or the Simpsons on ANY of the main Cleveland stations (not counting the subchannels like Me, This, and Antenna, obviously).

borderblaster said:
I'm wondering if Knoxville is unique. The CBS affiliate, WVLT, airs Black and White episodes (maybe color too I don't know) of the Andy Griffith Show--not on a subchannel, not at 4am, but T 7:30PM, against Jeopardy, Judge Judy and others. Not to be outdone, the NBC affiliate, WBIR, airs I Love Lucy at 12:30. Kinda cool that these shows are on major affiliates in good time slots. I'm not familiar with other markets with this situation...are there?
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KPRC Houston was running Andy Griffith during overnights a few years ago, but it's moved to independent KUBE (paired with I Love Lucy in the mornings). KUBE also airs The Twilight Zone and Alfred Hitchcock Presents; to my knowledge, no other B&W programming airs on any other Houston station (other than Antenna, Me, etc.).
 
WCSC in Charleston used to run Andy Griffith for about 2 or 3 years at 5:30 as the lead-in to the 6pm news hour. They dropped it in 1998, but still ran it regularly till about 2004 or 2005.
 
In Roanoke, VA, WDBJ 7 [CBS] carries Andy Griffith at 5:30pm weekdays, a tradition that has gone on for decades.

-crainbebo
 
Last I looked, WCBI-Columbus, MS airs "Andy Griffith" at 6:30 Monday-Friday...I do believe they only air the b&w package (I can't recall during the 4 years I was in school as MS State that I ever came across a color ep while channel surfing).
 
Arn't most of the stations mentioned in this thread in the bible belt, and didn't a guy publish a set of Sunday-School lesson plans based on the show? Just something to think about.
 
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