Separating "Wheel of Fortune" and "Jeopardy!"

[Stitch]

Give me a hit of that before you throw it away.

I second that.

Back on topic...for a number of years in the late '80s/early '90s, "Jeopardy" wasn't even seen on the Terre Haute, IN stations (most of those with cable could view it from Indianapolis). The syndicated "Wheel of Fortune", however, was always seen on WTHI-TV. "Jeopardy" eventually showed up on WTWO, which would later pick up "Wheel", where both continue to run today in prime access.

 

[spb]

In Omaha, Nebraska, Jeopardy! runs at 4:30 on WOWT 6 (NBC) and Wheel runs at 6:30 on KETV 7 (ABC).

From September 1984 to June 1986, both shows ran opposite each other at 6:00, Wheel on KMTV 3 (then NBC) and Jeopardy! on KETV 7 (ABC).

When KMTV changed to CBS in June 1986, it moved Wheel to 6:30 after adding a 6:00 newscast. Both shows then ran on KMTV from September 1986 to September 1994, Jeopardy! at 4:30, Wheel at 6:30.

Both shows changed to their current stations and times in September 1994.

 

[harrisburgpatv]

In Scranton/Wilkes-Barre PA, WoF and J! aired on different stations for the first two years.

WNEP-16 (ABC) had Wheel at 7:30pm from July/August 1984 up until September 1986, when it moved to WYOU-22 (CBS).

WYOU-22, meanwhile (WDAU up until 1985 or 1986), had Jeopardy! from the 1984 premiere, first at 5pm (up until January 1985, then at 7). When 22 got WoF in 1986, they put it on at 7, followed by J! at 7:30.

Both shows moved to WBRE-28 (NBC) in September, 1992, where they remain to this day.

 

[bpatrick]

There is one market in the Mountain time zone where "Wheel"
and "Jeopardy!" do air back-to-back in access time: Denver.
KMGH/7 (ABC) starts its news at 4, carries Diane Sawyer at
5:30, then has "Jeopardy!" at 6 and "Wheel" at 6:30.

 

[Thomps2525]

Did anyone watch Jeopardy on June 3? Of course---this is a Jeopardy thread, after all. The final clue was "The first a cappella song to be number one." The correct answer was Bobby McFerrin's Don't Worry Be Happy (1988). But that was the show's correct answer---and it wasn't correct. The first a cappella number one was the Soul Spinners' Comin' In On A Wing & A Prayer (1943). This isn't the first time a Jeopardy answer has been wrong either!
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[sshuffield70]

Did anyone watch Jeopardy on June 3? Of course---this is a Jeopardy thread, after all. The final clue was "The first a cappella song to be number one." The correct answer was Bobby McFerrin's Don't Worry Be Happy (1988). But that was the show's correct answer---and it wasn't correct. The first a cappella number one was the Soul Spinners' Comin' In On A Wing & A Prayer (1943). This isn't the first time a Jeopardy answer has been wrong either!
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What are you trying to prove? That you're intellectually superior? Maybe you should try out and tell them that.

Per Wikipedia (usual caveats)

The first Music Popularity Chart was calculated in July 1940. A variety of song charts followed, which were eventually consolidated into the Hot 100 by mid-1958.

So, the Soul Spinners were on some chart at number 1. Bobby McFerrin was at the top of the main chart. Got that straight now?

 

[Thomps2525]

If I was intellectually superior, I would have gotten the group's name correct; it was the Song Spinners. And in 1943 Billboard had four regional "Best-Selling Retail Records" charts (West, Midwest, South, East) and a national "best-Selling Retail Records Chart." The Song Spinners were number one on the national chart for three weeks in July of 1943. Got that straight now?