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QUESTION ABOUT NBC & AFFILIATE PRE-EMPTIONS

"Remember when WROC (Rochester) pre-empted Laugh-In for its whole first season for syndicated shows? They ran Laugh-In the following Saturdays at 6pm, even after Rowan and Martin came to town to promote the show! I remember myself and all my friends working the rabbit ears Monday nights trying to catch the snowy images of a man riding a tricycle from WGR Buffalo."

I lived on a hill outside of town that got clear OTA signals from WSYR in Syracuse and WGR in Buffalo, so I remember seeing Laugh-In in regular network pattern from '68 to the end...I think TPTB at WROC (which had been taken over by some out-of-towners late in 1967, IIRC) finally woke up after their 11 pm news started losing steam in the May '68 sweeps, while they were passing up a show that led off the night literally #1 in the national ratings within a week or two after the premiere.

That was one of the first of a number of dumb decisions that Rust-Craft Broadcasting made while it owned WROC that sent it from first to third place within a few years--it's taken until just the last few years for the station, even with the help of its current CBS affiliation and another couple of ownership changes, to get back into a truly competitive position.
 
Just out of curiousity, and if you remember, what was the great programming that the Rochester station aired on Mondays in the 'Laugh-In' slot? I'm sure it would have beenbetter off on Saturdays at 6.
 
EJM said:
anotherguy said:
WMC in Memphis was the worst about pre-emptions in daytime from the late 70's to the early 90's.
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I'd say that Milwaukee's WTMJ would've given WMC a run for its money with preempting NBC's daytime shows during that era. Plus, for at least a few years in the '80s, it was one of the NBC stations that didn't carry Carson.
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...plus, WTMJ-TV/4 was the flagship station for both the Milwaukee Brewers and the Milwaukee Bucks during those franchises' earliest years, before both moved to indie WVTV/18. WTMJ-TV did a lot of bumping NBC's prime time programming the season after the Bucks won the NBA Championship...
 
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