The 1980 Miracle on Ice (itself shown on tape delay) was pre-empted in Memphis for a church service.
Monday Night Football was delayed by an hour in Seattle for years.
Monday Night Football was delayed by an hour in Seattle for years.
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Major sports events shown on tape delay or pre-empted in certain areas
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Beginning on Labor Day 1998 when WSPA 7 (CBS) broadcasting the opening of the Bilo Center in Greenville, SC it's sister station WASV 62 (then WB/UPN, later UPN, now WYCW 62) picked up the CBS Sports feed of The US Open in place of WSPA 7. This era I would call the The CBS Sports that's not on your local CBS station era!, and would carry more sporting events in place of WSPA 7 while they pre-empt CBS Sports' events for local programs, and other fare, and more often until 2000. Also WASV carried some sporting events from NBC which WYFF 4 pre-empted beginning in 1999 when WYFF pre-empted NBC Sports' programs when they broadcasted their annual Children's Miracle Network telethons (which WYFF 4 broadcasted them until 2004 I think), and the last sporting event from NBC which WASV broadcasted in place of WYFF was a MLB baseball game in Fall 2000.
Rival station WBSC 40 (then-WB now WMYA My40) carried some ABC Sports (now ESPN on ABC) coverages in which WLOS 13 pre-empted it for local college basketball, so the next day I call them to complain about it. They continued to do so until 2009 I think. Also on September 6, 2004 when WHNS 21 (FOX) broadcasted the final day of the ABC Sports coverage of the Deustche Bank Championship (aka the Labor Day golf game) in place of WLOS 13 because they commited to air Jerry Lewis' MDA Telethons (since 1976), and sister station WBSC 40 (now WMYA) was unable to broadcasted it also. So I wrote a letter to FOX Carolina about this, and Stan Crummley who's VP and GM (I don't know he's still there) told me that the golf game had featured Bill Haas, who happens to be a resident of Greenville, SC and that year became a Pro Golfer, and he was in 3rd place in that game, and he got consent from ABC to grant the rights to air the game without the ratings or money. It was five months after WHNS 21 aired Nightline: The Fallen which WLOS 13 pre-empted by TPTB at Sinclair because of "Political Agenda". Remember that inncodent?
A couple years before this, WLOS 13 broadcast college basketball games instead of ABC's coverage of NHL Hockey games. Lot's of hockey fans were very upset about this and they call this region "B-Ball Country!" as I recall reading on a now-defunct website about Greenville/Spartanburg/Asheville TV called MediaChatter.
Also in Seattle, Washington in 1990 CBS station KIRO 7 (then owned by Bonneville) delayed Daytona 500 a few hours for Seattle Supersonics game. Derek Cope (who's from near Seattle) won that years race.
Does anybody in the Houston, Texas area remember the 2001 NASCAR Pepsi 400 fiasco when KPRC 2 refused to air it because of a pagent and seen instead on indie KNWS?
Rival station WBSC 40 (then-WB now WMYA My40) carried some ABC Sports (now ESPN on ABC) coverages in which WLOS 13 pre-empted it for local college basketball, so the next day I call them to complain about it. They continued to do so until 2009 I think. Also on September 6, 2004 when WHNS 21 (FOX) broadcasted the final day of the ABC Sports coverage of the Deustche Bank Championship (aka the Labor Day golf game) in place of WLOS 13 because they commited to air Jerry Lewis' MDA Telethons (since 1976), and sister station WBSC 40 (now WMYA) was unable to broadcasted it also. So I wrote a letter to FOX Carolina about this, and Stan Crummley who's VP and GM (I don't know he's still there) told me that the golf game had featured Bill Haas, who happens to be a resident of Greenville, SC and that year became a Pro Golfer, and he was in 3rd place in that game, and he got consent from ABC to grant the rights to air the game without the ratings or money. It was five months after WHNS 21 aired Nightline: The Fallen which WLOS 13 pre-empted by TPTB at Sinclair because of "Political Agenda". Remember that inncodent?
A couple years before this, WLOS 13 broadcast college basketball games instead of ABC's coverage of NHL Hockey games. Lot's of hockey fans were very upset about this and they call this region "B-Ball Country!" as I recall reading on a now-defunct website about Greenville/Spartanburg/Asheville TV called MediaChatter.
Also in Seattle, Washington in 1990 CBS station KIRO 7 (then owned by Bonneville) delayed Daytona 500 a few hours for Seattle Supersonics game. Derek Cope (who's from near Seattle) won that years race.
Does anybody in the Houston, Texas area remember the 2001 NASCAR Pepsi 400 fiasco when KPRC 2 refused to air it because of a pagent and seen instead on indie KNWS?
As I've mentioned in other threads, San Francisco's CBS and NBC affiliates sometimes pre-empted network fare for local news, sports (Oakland A's and Golden State Warriors games on KPIX), or sometimes just random stuff that KRON 4 could put on for the local ads. KTZO/KOFY channel 20 occasionally picked up a CBS NBA game if KPIX had a conflict with local sports, but golf and other CBS sports events would not be cleared.
Later, channe 20 picked up more NBA games here and there when NBC had the rights and KRON had something else on(such as Sunday morning local news).
KRON's program director at the time apparently had grandiose ideas about the station's commitment to local programming, and made some rather elitist statements about the worth of local news above that of mere 'entertainment' programming. Ironically, a few short years later that GM was gone, and new management pulled off a deal to show A's games on KRON for six seasons starting in '93, taking them away from KPIX. True to KRON's luck, they were stuck with the A's for six of the worst seasons in the team's history.
Eventually, the animosity between KRON and NBC led to the network telling KRON where to go, and buying KNTV, and 20 years and several GMs later, KRON is a joke...but then, so is NBC...and the A's for that matter!
Later, channe 20 picked up more NBA games here and there when NBC had the rights and KRON had something else on(such as Sunday morning local news).
KRON's program director at the time apparently had grandiose ideas about the station's commitment to local programming, and made some rather elitist statements about the worth of local news above that of mere 'entertainment' programming. Ironically, a few short years later that GM was gone, and new management pulled off a deal to show A's games on KRON for six seasons starting in '93, taking them away from KPIX. True to KRON's luck, they were stuck with the A's for six of the worst seasons in the team's history.
Eventually, the animosity between KRON and NBC led to the network telling KRON where to go, and buying KNTV, and 20 years and several GMs later, KRON is a joke...but then, so is NBC...and the A's for that matter!
Then there was the year ('83, IIRC) WLOS pre-empted ABC's
college football games. They aired an SEC game early Saturday
afternoons, then syndicated programs and local news while the
network game was on (3:30 to conclusion). Late in the season,
when some of the games ABC was showing had bowl implications,
people started deluging the station with protests. Needless to say,
ABC's college football was back on WLOS the next year and has been
there ever since.
The one positive NBC could find in moving from WSB to WXIA in Atlanta
was that 11 Alive carried "Sportsworld" and other sporting events from the
Peacock Network. WSB didn't like to carry anything but baseball and football;
Sundays were reserved for movies and Lawrence Welk. When WSB went to
ABC, then-g.m. Fred Barber resolved to carry all of ABC sports programming
(he didn't carry the "Pro Bowlers Tour," however), and Welk and his bubble
machine ended up on Pat Robertson's station, the one that's now the CBS
affiliate in Atlanta. I should note that when WSB was the NBC affiliate it
would carry Welk on Saturdays in the fall and Sundays the rest of the year;
as an ABC affiliate the station would have "Wide World Of Sports" on Saturdays
(football permitting) year-round and Sundays from January-August, smack in
Welk's 5 PM timeslot. That was the main reason Barber let him go.
college football games. They aired an SEC game early Saturday
afternoons, then syndicated programs and local news while the
network game was on (3:30 to conclusion). Late in the season,
when some of the games ABC was showing had bowl implications,
people started deluging the station with protests. Needless to say,
ABC's college football was back on WLOS the next year and has been
there ever since.
The one positive NBC could find in moving from WSB to WXIA in Atlanta
was that 11 Alive carried "Sportsworld" and other sporting events from the
Peacock Network. WSB didn't like to carry anything but baseball and football;
Sundays were reserved for movies and Lawrence Welk. When WSB went to
ABC, then-g.m. Fred Barber resolved to carry all of ABC sports programming
(he didn't carry the "Pro Bowlers Tour," however), and Welk and his bubble
machine ended up on Pat Robertson's station, the one that's now the CBS
affiliate in Atlanta. I should note that when WSB was the NBC affiliate it
would carry Welk on Saturdays in the fall and Sundays the rest of the year;
as an ABC affiliate the station would have "Wide World Of Sports" on Saturdays
(football permitting) year-round and Sundays from January-August, smack in
Welk's 5 PM timeslot. That was the main reason Barber let him go.
WMC NBC 5 in Memphis came into Major League Baseball games in progress on Saturdays because nothing pre-empted Memfus Rasslin'. :
Also on days when there was a doubleheader on baseball WMC pre-empted the second game to carry their usual lineup of syndicated country music shows.
Another place where WMC pre-empted sports was that they would pre-empt Notre Dame Football on NBC and show the syndicated Southeastern Conference games instead. I really didn't mind this because I'd usually rather see the SEC game, and NBC having a college football deal with only Notre Dame never made much sense to me anyway. WLMT 30 would usually carry the ND games instead. This continued until the SEC package of games moved to WLMT, and WMC carried the ND games now.
Also on days when there was a doubleheader on baseball WMC pre-empted the second game to carry their usual lineup of syndicated country music shows.Another place where WMC pre-empted sports was that they would pre-empt Notre Dame Football on NBC and show the syndicated Southeastern Conference games instead. I really didn't mind this because I'd usually rather see the SEC game, and NBC having a college football deal with only Notre Dame never made much sense to me anyway. WLMT 30 would usually carry the ND games instead. This continued until the SEC package of games moved to WLMT, and WMC carried the ND games now.
anotherguy said:
What? You mean you don't understand that ND is the new "America's Team" (it worked so well for Dallas) and simply everybody wants to see the Fightin' Irish sputter and collapse on a weekly basis?
NBC's special deal with ND wastes a perfect football time period as far as I am concerned.
landtuna said:
ND could always start their own channel like Bevo ;D
Add to that that any week there isn't an ND game NBC carries no college football, except for a few special games with historically Black colleges. They need to make a deal with some major conference like CBS has done with the SEC to have weekly games.
IIRC, it was same night tape-delay everywhere until 1985 or 86. They started the same night tape-delay in the early 70s. Before that, it was shown on "Wide World Of Sports" maybe a week after the race was actually run.
Seltzer said:
That might have been true in the 1920's and 1940's when college football was in its infancy but it hasn't been true since. There have been many teams in the modern era that eclipsed that of ND and many played a stronger schedule. The last coach having a winning percentage over .700 was Lou Holtz ('86-'96). ND hasn't won a national championship since '88 and won only 3 in the previous 40 years. All this despite having virtually unlimited recruiting and playing opponents such as the service academies. Had ND been a member of the Big-10 in the past couple of decades or the SEC more recently they'd have a reputation that closely resembles their true talent. ND's accomplishments most closely resembles Penn State while the latter was also an independent.
Like the Four Horsemen, ND lives on an outdated reputation. Of course, when you change coaches every year or two I can well understand how that happens.
Recently, WLOS 13 pre-empted the ESPN on ABC college basketball games for local college basketball games and seen instead on WMYA 40 (MNT). When WMYA broadcast an ABC sporting event while WLOS pre-empts it for local stuff, let me tell you that ticks me off eventhough DirecTV or Dish and or AT&T U-Verse doesn't carry WMYA 40 in HD.
Off the subject, our local NBC station WYFF 4 pre-empted a repeat of Harry's Law for their Chronicle special earlier tonight at 8pm. I don't understand why they show it at 8pm instead of the off-network hours at 7pm and broadcast HL in the first place??? Just a hunch.
Off the subject, our local NBC station WYFF 4 pre-empted a repeat of Harry's Law for their Chronicle special earlier tonight at 8pm. I don't understand why they show it at 8pm instead of the off-network hours at 7pm and broadcast HL in the first place??? Just a hunch.
Corky Marlowe said:
1986 was when the live Indy 500 telecasts began.
But I remember KTVF airing the 1996 Daytona 500 on tape delay immediately after the NBA on NBC (they were in its last month and a half as a CBS affiliate anyway). And that June, KTUU in Anchorage delayed an NBA Finals game for extended coverage of the Mat-Su Valley wildfire.
Two from Minneapolis/St. Paul:
WCCO passed CBS Sports NBA coverage on Sundays to then indy KTMA (now CW's WUCW) 23 when WCCO had Twins baseball in 1988-90. 23 promoted the hell out of those games in May because it was easilu the biggest draw the station had.
In the early 2000s, KSTP ran the Big Ten basketball package Saturday afternoons, relegating ABC's ACC basketball package to 1:05am Sunday morning.
WCCO passed CBS Sports NBA coverage on Sundays to then indy KTMA (now CW's WUCW) 23 when WCCO had Twins baseball in 1988-90. 23 promoted the hell out of those games in May because it was easilu the biggest draw the station had.
In the early 2000s, KSTP ran the Big Ten basketball package Saturday afternoons, relegating ABC's ACC basketball package to 1:05am Sunday morning.
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