Eastern time zone schedules differ from the other time zones in that the others follow the Central time zone pattern. In other words, The Price Is Right airs at 11 AM Eastern but 10 AM everywhere else. The choice-of-timeslots for Y&R is not offered to the Eastern time zone; it's 12:30 or delay the show, as is the case in Louisville. All other time zones have the option of 11 or 11:30 AM. NBC News Daily is offered four times and the affiliate has a choice of when to air it. Most markets carry it at 1 PM (local time) but there are exceptions: WRC in Washington carries it at 3 as a lead-in to its 4 PM local news.
CBS affiliates on the West Coast have always followed Central Time scheduling; ABC's used to follow Eastern but dropped the practice when KABC and KGO started 5 PM local newscasts in 1974 and needed time for their afternoon movies at 3:30. At one point, Edge of Night was on at 11 AM Pacific, and there were a few other deviations, but the West Coast eventually came to follow Central time. NBC used to have a weird practice of airing the morning shows from 9 AM-noon, then--rather than give the affiliates a half-hour to themselves--would go straight into the show that aired at 1:30 Eastern/12:30 Central. In the early '70s this meant that the game show Three on a Match was on at noon on the West Coast, followed by Days of Our Lives at 12:30, The Doctors at 1, Another World at 1:30, Return to Peyton Place at 2, and Somerset at 2:30; affiliate time started at 3. I don't know when this practice ended.
But re Beyond the Gates, there will be no choice of when to run it; it will be 2 PM (ET)/1 PM everywhere else.
