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Me-TV Local Preemptions

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I found one here in Cleveland, where Me-TV launched a while back on WOIO 19.2.

"Cheers".

It's on the national schedule at 9:30 PM weeknights, but WOIO pops in another episode of "The Dick Van Dyke Show" instead. I presume someone else in the market has rights to "Cheers" - I believe it's WBNX/55. (Checking: yes, it is, though WBNX only airs it one day a week, Monday mornings at 5:30 AM.)

Any other similar local show preemptions in other markets?
 
KAZT 7.2 replaces "Perry Mason" with "Mission: Impossible" (KNXV has the rights to air PM, which they do only once a week, late Friday night/early Saturday morning).
 
WSB Atlanta does the same thing with Cheers (replaces with Dick Van Dyke) because WPCH 17 has the Cheers rights. I think I'd find something better than Dick Van Dyke to replace it with though.
 
gregg75 said:
WSB Atlanta does the same thing with Cheers (replaces with Dick Van Dyke) because WPCH 17 has the Cheers rights. I think I'd find something better than Dick Van Dyke to replace it with though.
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I like Dick Van Dyke, but I agree. I wouldn't mind a second MTM airing there, or perhaps airing one of their otherwise weekend only shows ("Taxi", "Get Smart", etc.) for that preemption.

BTW, someone asked why I call it "Me-TV" with a dash. I was not using the dash, but noticed that "Me-TV" is the form the network itself uses in printed references on its website.
 
Capitol broadcasting's WRAZ-TV 50.2 pre-empts the Me-TV schedule to cover home games of the company's AAA baseball club, the Durham Bulls.
 
......and I forgot. WSB is now preempting Me-TV on Thursday nights for local high school
football. I'd suspect they are now the #1 Me-TV preempter, just as regular WSB is probably the
#1 ABC preempter.
 
KFTY, the soon to be former ME-TV Bay Area affiliate, pre-empts 'M*A*S*H*' at 10, and whatever airs at 10:30(I think it's 'The Honeymooners') for 'Frasier' and 'Everybody Loves Raymond'(both of which aired in that slot on KFTY before it switched formats). KFTY runs 'M*A*S*H*' back to back from 7 to 8, so I'm not sure if that's a national ME-TV thing, or what.
 
KFTY? The station is being purchased by Una Vez Mas who will put Azteca America on it.

- Trip
 
gregg75 said:
Why are they leaving Me-TV? They have not been with them long at all.
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tripinva said:
KFTY? The station is being purchased by Una Vez Mas who will put Azteca America on it.
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But even so, there's no word if KFTY will dump MeTV wholesale, or if they would stick them on a subchannel, with Azteca broadcasting on .1. But as Una Vez Mas specialises in Spanish television, my bet is that MeTV will end up finding another home in SF soon.
 
gregg75 said:
......and I forgot. WSB is now preempting Me-TV on Thursday nights for local high school
football. I'd suspect they are now the #1 Me-TV preempter, just as regular WSB is probably the
#1 ABC preempter.
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I'm sure Little Rock's nominal ABC affiliate KATV would take issue with that ;)
 
As a sidenote, no such pre-emptions seem to exist on ThisTV or Antenna TV

At least not here in Denver anyways. Your mileage may vary however.....

Cheers :D
 
Same with This TV and Antenna TV here (WUAB/43.2 and WJW/8.2 respectively).

Heck, Antenna TV was pretty much straight off the national satellite feed until WJW installed a spot splicer.

Whenever "Live Well" starts up on WEWS 5.2 (set for early next month), it'll run the 12 noon edition of"NewsChannel 5" at 1 PM weekdays.
 
KVOS 12 in Bellingham/Seattle preempts about 35 hours a week of ME-TV because they have programming commitments to other programs that they purchased prior to the switch to full network affiliation.

Weekdays, they preempt the 5-7 am Pacific hours, the 10 am- 1pm Pacific hours, the 6-7 pm Pacific hour, and the 11:30 pm-12:30 am Pacific hours. We don't get to see Gomer Pyle USMC, Streets of San Francisco, Hogan's Heroes, Cannon, to name a few of the shows on weekdays. They also preempt about six hours on Saturday and Sunday to show other programs, i.e. House, the A-Team, Three Stooges, religious programming, and 3 hours of educational children's programs.

I am not sure how long these programming commitments run, but we do get good substitutes on the daily schedule:
Matlock, The Andy Griffith Show, America's Funniest Home Videos, All in the Family.
 
WOW, they're kind of in a pickle.....but it won't last forever.

Now WSB is showing Cheers at night. I guess WPCH gave the rights up or they
only have the rights to certain seasons/shows.
 
I just checked WBNX 55's schedule and I don't see Cheers. Maybe WOIO 19.2 can start showing it now at 9:30 pm instead of another dreadful episode of Dick Van Dyke.
 
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