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NBC Stations delaying daytime Wheel Of Fortune to afternoons in mid-80s

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chris12

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I recall back in 1987 WMAQ 5 in Chicago opted to delay the daytime Wheel Of Fortune to 3:30 while airing the syndicated High Rollers at 10:00 am, ironically the slot that the Trebek NBC daytime run once occupied and I also rcall channel 17 in Rockford also bumping Wheel to afternoons and I've also seen Philadelphia and Boston doing the same around that time. Were there any other NBC stations that did this also as it seems that some station managers may have seen how sucessful the nighttime version had gotten and thought it would do better with the youger audience coming home from school.
 
WPXI in Pittsburgh did that from 1985-87 [?] running Super Password for a time and later Elaine Joyce's All-New Dating Game.
 
WTMJ 4 did indeed bump daytime Wheel for a time in the early 80s for syndicated fare although then indy WVTV 18 picked it up for a while along with other NBC Daytime game shows.
 
Oddbins said:
WMC-TV 5 in Memphis moved it to 2:30pm in the fall of 1986 when 5 started airing The Oprah Winfrey Show at 10:00am.
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By then, it was the only non-soap daytime show WMC cleared! I do remember Dick Hawley's voiceover during the opening theme - "This program was recorded earlier from the NBC television network." Sounded more 1960s than anything in the '80s.

In 1986, I was in college 70 miles away in Jonesboro, Ark. in an 8th-floor dorm room. My window faced toward the southwest, so if I had the need to see a program (okay, a lot of programs! ;D) Ch. 5 didn't carry, I'd unhook the cable, move my telly to the windowsill and watch it on KARK 4 in Little Rock, where from that height I was able to catch a fuzzy, but still tolerable picture. (4 preempted just the first hour of NBC daytime, but otherwise carried it intact)

--Russell
 
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