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Question about network's tolerants of programmng pre-emptions

Stations do make use of their digital subchannels; for instance,
WFMY does not carry the Saturday edition of "CBS This Morning,"
choosing instead to air a Saturday edition of its local "Good Morning
Show." It hands off "CBS This Morning" to its digital subchannel on
Saturdays, although it airs it Monday-Friday, although on a one-hour
delay.

WRAL will often be in the middle of an ACC basketball game when a
key game (usually involving an out-of-area powerhouse such as Kentucky, Kansas,
Syracuse, Michigan State, and a few others) begins on CBS. The CBS
game will air on WRAL's subchannel until the ACC game ends, at which point
WRAL moves the game to 5-1; I'm sure we'll be seeing a lot more of Syracuse when
it begins play in the ACC.

To go back to what a couple of you have said about stations airing pre-empted
game shows if they'd had digital subchannels in the '70s and '80s: Charlotte might
have actually gotten "Press Your Luck," since WBTV could have handed it off to
its subchannel. And maybe Atlanta would have gotten the Art Fleming version of
"Jeopardy!", as well as "Who, What Or Where" and "Three On A Match" if WSB could
have handed them off to a subchannel.
 
WFSB Channel 3 in Hartford doesn't air The Saturday Early Show (or whatever it's called now). If you live in Connecticut and have an antenna you can pick it up on WFSB Channel 3.2, which is a simulcast of sister station WSHM-LD out of Springfield, Massachusetts.

And for as long as I remember WFSB has delayed the show that follows David Letterman by half an hour. It airs 1:07AM-2:07AM rather than 12:37-1:37AM. A repeat of the 7:30PM episode of Entertainment Tonight airs at 12:37AM.

WTNH Channel 8 in New Haven, CT used to air the ABC Kids block out of pattern. Showing most of the later shows in the early AM hours on Saturday.
 
Iowa's biggest offender in this department was WHO-TV 13 in Des Moines, the NBC affiliate. WHO in the 60s into the early 70s was Iowa's old movie station. A 12:30 - 2:00 pm movie slot knocked out quite a few NBC soaps. And although 4 - 5:30 pm wasn't network time, WHO ran yet another movie slot. Finally, WHO tended to ditch much of the Saturday night schedule during this time for The Big Show, that's right, more old movies!
 
joebtsflk1 said:
Iowa's biggest offender in this department was WHO-TV 13 in Des Moines, the NBC affiliate. WHO in the 60s into the early 70s was Iowa's old movie station. A 12:30 - 2:00 pm movie slot knocked out quite a few NBC soaps. And although 4 - 5:30 pm wasn't network time, WHO ran yet another movie slot. Finally, WHO tended to ditch much of the Saturday night schedule during this time for The Big Show, that's right, more old movies!
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NBC ran their own 'Saturday Night Movie' for many years in the '60s and '70s(9ET/8CT); did WHO ever pre-empt that first hour of network programming?
 
Memory is a little hazy after 40 years but I think WHO carried the net until 8pm central time on Saturdays when The Big Show
movie aired. I can say I didn't know there was a NBC Sat. Night at the Movies before.
 
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