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Network Game Shows Uncleared by Affiliates

"Let's Make A Deal" continues to have stations moving it to 10 AM; in my
part of the country WBTV Charlotte, WNCT Greenville/New Bern/Washington, NC,
WILM Wilmington, NC, and WLTX Columbia, SC moved it to 10 this month, leaving
only WRAL Raleigh/Durham and WCSC Charleston, SC as the only stations in the
Carolinas still airing it at 3. In Virginia, WDBJ Roanoke is the only station carrying
it at 3, and I see on the West Coast that KPIX San Francisco is showing it at 9 (PT)
(leaving only WCCO Minneapolis and KCNC Denver as CBS o&os showing it at 2 PM
local time); likewise KFMB San Diego is running it at 9 (PT).

I wonder at what point "LMAD" will air at 10/9 on all affiliates, with CBS giving back
3/2, as ABC and NBC have already done. (Personally, I'd be for it; it's compatible with
"The Price Is Right" and tends to do better in the morning.)
 
"Let's Make A Deal" continues to have stations moving it to 10 AM; in my
part of the country WBTV Charlotte, WNCT Greenville/New Bern/Washington, NC,
WILM Wilmington, NC, and WLTX Columbia, SC moved it to 10 this month, leaving
only WRAL Raleigh/Durham and WCSC Charleston, SC as the only stations in the
Carolinas still airing it at 3. In Virginia, WDBJ Roanoke is the only station carrying
it at 3, and I see on the West Coast that KPIX San Francisco is showing it at 9 (PT)
(leaving only WCCO Minneapolis and KCNC Denver as CBS o&os showing it at 2 PM
local time); likewise KFMB San Diego is running it at 9 (PT). And WHNT Huntsville, AL
has become the second station in that state (WIAT Birmingham was the first) to run
it at 9 AM (CT).

I wonder at what point "LMAD" will air at 10/9 on all affiliates, with CBS giving back
3/2, as ABC and NBC have already done. (Personally, I'd be for it; it's compatible with
"The Price Is Right" and tends to do better in the morning.)
 
If CBS were to provide "Let's Make a Deal" at 9:00 a.m. (Central time) for all stations in the Central time zone, WKRG-TV in Mobile, Alabama would most likely broadcast it at that time instead of paid commercial programming and use their former timeslot for broadcasting "Let's Make a Deal" to broadcast a syndicated program they had not broadcast before or one they had not broadcast in years.
 
I doubt if WREG in Memphis would pick up LMAD at 9 AM CT since they have a local talk show at that time now. If CBS moved the show to 9 AM everywhere, WREG would probably move it back to 2 PM.
 
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CBS provides 2 separate feeds for LMAD - one at 10a, and one at 3p. (ET)

They give the affiliates the option of which one they want to use.

This is so all affiliates get the same episode, and nobody is a day behind.

In the late 90s/early 00s, some affiliates started airing "Guiding Light" on a 1 day delay at 10a because they wanted the 3p slot open for more profitable syndicated shows.

After awhile, CBS decided to make 2 separate feeds (10a/3p) so at least everybody would have the same episode, avoiding some parts of the country being a day behind.

This same set-up carried over to LMAD when "Guiding Light" was cancelled.
 
Although with the way LMAD is set up I don't see why it would matter much if an episode was a day behind except if they have certain special themed weeks.
 
Even that wouldn't matter if Friday's show aired on Monday somewhere. It's
not like a soap, where Friday is usually the day something big happens, if it does
at all, unless there's a cliffhanger element in the LMAD theme week.

Being a day-behind certainly doesn't bother the ABC affiliates in Dallas and San
Antonio re "The Chew."
 
During it's years as an NBC affiliate owned by Group W/Westinghouse, WBZ-4 in Boston declined to clear some NBC daytime programs, including game shows.

(From 1965 through 1972, Group W syndicated two daytime talk/variety shows, one hosted by Mike Douglas, which went national in 1963; the other hosted by Merv Griffin from 1965 to 1969, then by David Frost when Griffin left to do a late-night show on CBS; these shows took up a total of three hours of WBZ's daytime schedule)

For a short time in the mid-1960's, the then highly-rated original version of "Let's Make A Deal" wasn't cleared by WBZ, but was cleared by the then-ABC affiliate WNAC-7 (what's ironic about this is the fact that today, Boston's Channel 7 is known as WHDH and is an NBC affiliate). Even more ironic is that "Deal" returned to WNAC at the end of 1968 when the show moved from NBC to ABC!

Once WIHS-38 (later WSBK, ironically, now under the same ownership as WBZ) came onto the scene, it began clearing some daytime shows not cleared by the network stations including some NBC shows WBZ declined.
 
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The last time WSB carried a game show (or any network show until it became an ABC affiliate)
at 12:30 was "It Could Be You," which ended in 1961. Channel 2 had a long list of NBC game
shows airing between 12 N and 2 PM which it pre-empted; I won't go through them all, but
"Jeopardy!," "Who, What Or Where," and "Three On A Match" are the ones that normally come
to mind first (it didn't carry "Let's Make A Deal" on NBC at 1:30; WQXI (now WXIA) did pick it
up when it moved to ABC in 1968). For most of the '60s it ran movies at 12:30; in 1969 it picked
up Mike Douglas, and in 1972, Merv Griffin, all from 12:30-2; it had news at 12. (The pre-emption
of "Jeopardy!" has met with the disapproval of several of you.) Note, too, that the same day "LMAD"
moved to ABC (December 30, 1968), Channel 11 began carrying "Dream House," which it had been
pre-empting in favor of a local talk show called "Atlanta: Now."

Channel 2's return to clearing network programming at 12:30 was "Ryan's Hope" in 1980.

Another Atlanta station, WAGA/5, was notorious for pre-empting "Match Game" and "Tattletales"
in favor of syndicated programming starting at 3:30. And WXIA did not carry "Family Feud" when
it first aired in 1976; it had acquired Merv from Channel 2 and was running him at 1:30. "Feud"
didn't start airing in Atlanta until it moved to 11:30 AM.

Oddly, Channel 11 did not carry the nighttime versions of "Dating Game" and "Newlywed Game" on
Saturdays, even though it did carry the daytime versions of both. For a time it had country-music
shows in the 7:30-8:30 slot on Saturdays; in the fall of '68 it began carrying movies from 6:30-8:30,
a practice, IIRC, it continued until ABC moved Lawrence Welk to 7:30 in January 1971.
 
BobbyNBC10 said:
Now NBC daytime has The Today Show for 4 stinking hours and Days Of Our Lives. CBS has The Early Show, LMAD and TPIR, plus The Young &The Restless , The Bold & The Beautiful and ATWT, ABC has GMA, The View, All My Children, One Life To Live and General Hospital.
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ATWT(As The World Turns) is no longer on CBS. It was replaced by a View-like talkfest called, just simply, The Talk.
ABC canceled All My Children in September 2011 and One Life to Live the following January. The Chew is now in AMC's
old slot, and OLTL's slot was filled with The Revolution, which lasted only six months, and then Good Afternoon America,
a short-lived PM version of Good Morning America. Now, General Hospital is airing in OLTL's old slot, and GH's old slot
went back to the affiliates. Most of them are airing Katie Couric's syndicated talkfest in that slot.
 
WCSC moved LMAD to 10am this year. Now they have another talk show, Queen Latifah, at 3pm. All five stations in Charleston (2, 4, 5, 24, 36) have talk shows now at that hour.
 
Which leaves WRAL as the last station in the Carolinas airing "LMAD" at 3.
And given its dominance in the Triangle, I don't think it has to worry about
a challenge from Katie on WTVD, one that would force it to flipflop "LMAD"
and "The Doctors."
 
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