jwgreek8606 said:
bpatrick said:
Everyone please disregard my question about Nashville and Dayton.
Channel 6 in Orlando already had "Wheel" and could have had "Jeopardy!",
but the station was airing "PM Magazine" at 7 PM and refused to cancel it.
Then-syndicator King World tried to get it on in the late afternoon; no dice,
since at the time the station dominated with "Happy Days" at 4, "Three's
Company" at 4:30, and "M*A*S*H" at 5, leading into its 5:30 newscast.
Last resort: how about in the morning? Sorry, Donahue was on at 9, and
"Hour Magazine" at 10, leading into "The Price Is Right" at 11. Fine, said
the King brothers, if you won't take them both you won't get either one.
Both "Wheel" and "Jeopardy!" ended up on Channel 9 and have been there
ever since.
In Greensboro/Winston-Salem/High Point "Wheel" aired on WFMY and
"Jeopardy!" on WXII for a couple of years (1992-94); WFMY was airing
"Wheel" at 7 and "Family Feud" at 7:30, so WXII put "Jeopardy!" at 7:30.
Since 1994 both "Wheel" and "Jeopardy!" have been on WFMY at 7 and
7:30, respectively, and most mornings (unless they schedule an infomercial),
WFMY carries a rerun of "Jeopardy!" at 10:30.
Actually, bpatrick, I know that on WCPX they decided to air rituals instead in the late afternoon. As well as Three's Company and WKRP in Cincinnati and at 11:30 Taxi reruns. I know because I have a 1984 Fall Preview TV Guide. J! aired for one season on WFTV just before the $100,000 Name That Tune with Jim Lange and then Bill Cullen's Joker's Wild and then in the fall of 1985 WOF moved to WFTV to join J!
But anyway, WAGA aired J! when it first started while WXIA 11 aired WOF. I think in the fall of 1986 J! moved to WXIA to join WOF. Then both J! and WOF moved to WAGA and then went back to WXIA now they are on WXIA's sister station WATL. Also what all was on WCCO TV?
Thanks for the correction re Orlando; I didn't remember Channel 6 carrying "Rituals" (big mistake--there's never been a successful syndicated soap--I don't count "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" since that was more of a satire of a soap, although played straight). I do remember Channel 9 carrying "Joker's Wild" (I think "Tic Tac Dough" was on Channel 2).
And in Atlanta, yes, "Jeopardy!" started on Channel 5 as a late-afternoon show, while "Wheel" aired on Channel 11 at 7:30.
When 11 first got them both, they didn't run them in tandem, since "NBC Nightly News" was still on 11 at 7 PM. 11 was also one of the first stations in the country to show "Wheel" reruns on Saturdays.
