It appears after a good 10 years or more, NBC 10 has dropped Montel. If I recall correctly, it started on KYW 3 for a year or so, but has been a staple on Channel 10's schedule, when many other daytime syndicated talk shows disapearred (Leeza, Maureen O'Boyle, Ananda Lewis, Roseanne, etc.). It's now on WB17. It appears WB17 is the home of declining talk show hosts (Montel, Jerry, Maury...prior Ricki and Jenny), popular from the 90's, and WTXF (FOX) is the court room channel. WTXF did pick up "Family Feud", displaced from WGTW 48. Channel 10 also moved their daytime soap "Days of Our Lives" back to 1PM to accomodate 'Martha'
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Programming notes: Montel on WB17, Martha
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> It appears after a good 10 years or more, NBC 10 has dropped
> Montel. If I recall correctly, it started on KYW 3 for a
> year or so, but has been a staple on Channel 10's schedule,
> when many other daytime syndicated talk shows disapearred
> (Leeza, Maureen O'Boyle, Ananda Lewis, Roseanne, etc.).
> It's now on WB17. It appears WB17 is the home of declining
> talk show hosts (Montel, Jerry, Maury...prior Ricki and
> Jenny), popular from the 90's, and WTXF (FOX) is the court
> room channel. WTXF did pick up "Family Feud", displaced
> from WGTW 48. Channel 10 also moved their daytime soap
> "Days of Our Lives" back to 1PM to accomodate 'Martha'
>
Kudos on one hand to Fox 29 for getting away from their game-show phobia and picking up a show that's generally overlooked in the syndicated world but continues to show good numbers and solid growth. However, the scheduling is a bit silly, putting Feud up against the one-and-only Price. It's almost like they're trying to set it up to crash and burn and justify running yet more court shows.
WB17 is indeed the home for displaced sleaze shows like Montel et al, though it's not quite the place they go to die, since Maury and Springer seem to be TV vampires--they just won't die.
Then there's UPN 57...the station that might as well run a test pattern in the daytime hours.
> Montel. If I recall correctly, it started on KYW 3 for a
> year or so, but has been a staple on Channel 10's schedule,
> when many other daytime syndicated talk shows disapearred
> (Leeza, Maureen O'Boyle, Ananda Lewis, Roseanne, etc.).
> It's now on WB17. It appears WB17 is the home of declining
> talk show hosts (Montel, Jerry, Maury...prior Ricki and
> Jenny), popular from the 90's, and WTXF (FOX) is the court
> room channel. WTXF did pick up "Family Feud", displaced
> from WGTW 48. Channel 10 also moved their daytime soap
> "Days of Our Lives" back to 1PM to accomodate 'Martha'
>
Kudos on one hand to Fox 29 for getting away from their game-show phobia and picking up a show that's generally overlooked in the syndicated world but continues to show good numbers and solid growth. However, the scheduling is a bit silly, putting Feud up against the one-and-only Price. It's almost like they're trying to set it up to crash and burn and justify running yet more court shows.
WB17 is indeed the home for displaced sleaze shows like Montel et al, though it's not quite the place they go to die, since Maury and Springer seem to be TV vampires--they just won't die.
Then there's UPN 57...the station that might as well run a test pattern in the daytime hours.
> > It appears after a good 10 years or more, NBC 10 has
> dropped
> > Montel. If I recall correctly, it started on KYW 3 for a
>
> > year or so, but has been a staple on Channel 10's
> schedule,
> > when many other daytime syndicated talk shows disapearred
> > (Leeza, Maureen O'Boyle, Ananda Lewis, Roseanne, etc.).
> > It's now on WB17. It appears WB17 is the home of
> declining
> > talk show hosts (Montel, Jerry, Maury...prior Ricki and
> > Jenny), popular from the 90's, and WTXF (FOX) is the court
>
> > room channel. WTXF did pick up "Family Feud", displaced
> > from WGTW 48. Channel 10 also moved their daytime soap
> > "Days of Our Lives" back to 1PM to accomodate 'Martha'
> >
> Kudos on one hand to Fox 29 for getting away from their
> game-show phobia and picking up a show that's generally
> overlooked in the syndicated world but continues to show
> good numbers and solid growth. However, the scheduling is a
> bit silly, putting Feud up against the one-and-only Price.
> It's almost like they're trying to set it up to crash and
> burn and justify running yet more court shows.
>
> WB17 is indeed the home for displaced sleaze shows like
> Montel et al, though it's not quite the place they go to
> die, since Maury and Springer seem to be TV vampires--they
> just won't die.
>
> Then there's UPN 57...the station that might as well run a
> test pattern in the daytime hours.
>
Montel's show seemed more sensible, on occasion informative, and less sleaze. But then there would be Sylvia Browne episode or something else that one might question. I wonder now that his show is on fewer CBS and NBC's across the country, if he will follow Maury and add more sleaze. The shows that didn't up the sleaze factor, like Leeza, were cancelled, so it may be a desperate but needed move to stay around couple years longer.
When Maury was on KYW when his show started, his show was tame. When Sally, Ricki, Jenny, Richard Bey and the other 1990-1999 sleaze shows were cancelled, and Maury moved to UHF WBs from NBC and CBS stations across the country, his show substituted lot those former sleazy shows, and he upped the sleaze.
It is silly Family Feud is at the same time as Price is Right. Back in the early 90s, I remember CBS 10 running Family Feud at 10AM, followed by the Price is Right at 11, which seemed a better fitting.
Tribune is also putting some comedies on WB17 in the early AM hours (2:30am), instead of just infomercials. It's something Tribune never did here, but NY's WB 11 always would with classic shows like Honeymooners and Taxi. It always seems Tribune treats WB17 as a second rate station, running far more infomercials, less special stuff, etc. on the station than a sister Tribune station from another city.
UPN 57 is somewhat of a mix station, with all sorts of stuff, like Dr. Phil rerun at night, some court room shows, some shows they know will fail, some shows that KYW will drop off to them, The 700 Club, UPN programming, hit comedies like Raymond, and then some second-rate leftover stuff.
There is WFMZ now that covers Philadelphia now, pretty well, though its still not a Philly indy.
Yesterday night, I picked signal from WPMT-DT (Fox) from Central PA here in Southern NJ, and watched clear programming from the station until 1am or so. The analog WPMT was fuzzy. I already get WFMZ-DT on a constant basis, where the analog is fuzzy. I wonder if WPMT's digital station has a broad and regular available signal reach into the PA side of Philly market like how WFMZ's digital gets into Southern NJ, or if my viewing of WPMT-DT was solely atmospheric conditions.
> dropped
> > Montel. If I recall correctly, it started on KYW 3 for a
>
> > year or so, but has been a staple on Channel 10's
> schedule,
> > when many other daytime syndicated talk shows disapearred
> > (Leeza, Maureen O'Boyle, Ananda Lewis, Roseanne, etc.).
> > It's now on WB17. It appears WB17 is the home of
> declining
> > talk show hosts (Montel, Jerry, Maury...prior Ricki and
> > Jenny), popular from the 90's, and WTXF (FOX) is the court
>
> > room channel. WTXF did pick up "Family Feud", displaced
> > from WGTW 48. Channel 10 also moved their daytime soap
> > "Days of Our Lives" back to 1PM to accomodate 'Martha'
> >
> Kudos on one hand to Fox 29 for getting away from their
> game-show phobia and picking up a show that's generally
> overlooked in the syndicated world but continues to show
> good numbers and solid growth. However, the scheduling is a
> bit silly, putting Feud up against the one-and-only Price.
> It's almost like they're trying to set it up to crash and
> burn and justify running yet more court shows.
>
> WB17 is indeed the home for displaced sleaze shows like
> Montel et al, though it's not quite the place they go to
> die, since Maury and Springer seem to be TV vampires--they
> just won't die.
>
> Then there's UPN 57...the station that might as well run a
> test pattern in the daytime hours.
>
Montel's show seemed more sensible, on occasion informative, and less sleaze. But then there would be Sylvia Browne episode or something else that one might question. I wonder now that his show is on fewer CBS and NBC's across the country, if he will follow Maury and add more sleaze. The shows that didn't up the sleaze factor, like Leeza, were cancelled, so it may be a desperate but needed move to stay around couple years longer.
When Maury was on KYW when his show started, his show was tame. When Sally, Ricki, Jenny, Richard Bey and the other 1990-1999 sleaze shows were cancelled, and Maury moved to UHF WBs from NBC and CBS stations across the country, his show substituted lot those former sleazy shows, and he upped the sleaze.
It is silly Family Feud is at the same time as Price is Right. Back in the early 90s, I remember CBS 10 running Family Feud at 10AM, followed by the Price is Right at 11, which seemed a better fitting.
Tribune is also putting some comedies on WB17 in the early AM hours (2:30am), instead of just infomercials. It's something Tribune never did here, but NY's WB 11 always would with classic shows like Honeymooners and Taxi. It always seems Tribune treats WB17 as a second rate station, running far more infomercials, less special stuff, etc. on the station than a sister Tribune station from another city.
UPN 57 is somewhat of a mix station, with all sorts of stuff, like Dr. Phil rerun at night, some court room shows, some shows they know will fail, some shows that KYW will drop off to them, The 700 Club, UPN programming, hit comedies like Raymond, and then some second-rate leftover stuff.
There is WFMZ now that covers Philadelphia now, pretty well, though its still not a Philly indy.
Yesterday night, I picked signal from WPMT-DT (Fox) from Central PA here in Southern NJ, and watched clear programming from the station until 1am or so. The analog WPMT was fuzzy. I already get WFMZ-DT on a constant basis, where the analog is fuzzy. I wonder if WPMT's digital station has a broad and regular available signal reach into the PA side of Philly market like how WFMZ's digital gets into Southern NJ, or if my viewing of WPMT-DT was solely atmospheric conditions.
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