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Stations airing shows not typically seen on affiliates of their network

Don’t remember if WCNC cleared it because I wasn’t watching it yet, but I couldn’t believe NBC aired reruns of Full House, an ABC sitcom, (at 11am Eastern). It was in the summer of 1991, between the 4th and 5th seasons, right before it went into broadcast syndication. They might not have cleared it because I might would’ve have stumbled upon it changing channels one day.
 
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Wood TV never aired Full House when it was on NBC daytime I had to watch that on WNDU in South Bend as Adelphia Comm had WNDU right next to Wood TV on channel 9.

Wood TV aired Home Improvement in 2004 when John Walsh ended his talker first season was on WXSP moved to Wood TV in the fall of 2003. American Gladiators in 93-94 season 94-95 season in the weekend afternoons from time to time I couldn't tell where American Gladiators was airing on the West Michigan TV market I know WXMI Fox17 didn't air it in it's run I'm guessing that it was either WOTV or WZZM.

WZZM The Battle Dome was on a late-night in the 99-21 season sometimes on in the afternoon for filler on the weekends but was largely on late-night.
 
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In 2002-2003, It's Showtime at the Apollo was still on the air (I think Mo'Nique was the regular host), but the producers of the original Showtime went on to do a short-lived spin-off called 'Showtime in Harlem'. Here's the kicker...they were both buried in early Sunday morning overnight timeslots in Seattle...on DIFFERENT stations! It's Showtime at the Apollo aired at 2:05AM early Sunday morning on KIRO-7, after an hour of infomercials; while KOMO-4 aired an hour and a half of infomercials, followed by Showtime in Harlem - at 3:05AM.
Both also chomped up the Saturday morning E/I schedules, putting two of the shows at 5 AM on Sunday morning. Convenient for children - not! In order to fulfill the 3 hrs of E/I, both KOMO and KIRO aired syndicated programs to fill the remaining hour (2 hours of ABC Kids and Nick (Jr) on CBS were cleared on Saturday mornings). Animal Rescue was a longtime staple on KOMO; likewise, Wild About Animals spent many years on KIRO in the post-sports timeslot on Saturday afternoon.

KCYU-LP Yakima, and KAYU Spokane for that matter, aired Entertainment Tonight throughout most of the '90s. Yes, you had to watch an LPTV station in Yakima for one of the highest-rated syndicated shows. At least it was a FOX station.
 
Most ABC CBS and NBC networks air News talk shows and game shows but I seen that KWWL 7 an NBC affiliate airs Seinfeld reruns on Saturdays at 5pm and KCRG 9 an ABC affiliate airs The Big Bang Theory Monday through Saturday at 6:30pm
 
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At least around here, the afternoon cartoons aired on KNDO (they had Real Ghostbusters, DuckTales, Woody Woodpecker, Chip 'n Dale, a few others in the '80s and early '90s). They were aired in the 4 o'clock hour after Days of Our Lives, which they tape-delayed from the NBC west coast feed for years. Eventually, they would go away after K53CY came on, the low-power Fox station. They cleared all afternoon cartoons from Fox Kids and the Disney Afternoon. They were a little weird on scheduling - half of the Disney Afternoon aired in the morning (Tale Spin, Chip 'n Dale), and the other half came on in the afternoon (Darkwing Duck, Goof Troop).
However, I'm betting many Yakima kids with cable, and especially pay cable (with Disney), ignored some of the cartoons airing locally!

And speaking of tape-delays, KNDO tape-delayed the 'tape-delay' of Live with Regis & Kathie Lee for just about its whole run. Most west coast stations aired it live 'to tape' at 9AM Pacific time. Not KNDO. They were on at the noon hour - for years. That's because KNDO used the 9AM timeslot for NBC's game shows (Caesar's Challenge, Classic Concentration, etc.) and eventually The Other Half.
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I remember i would get so fed up with watching soaps because i would always ask my mom to please find a channel that didn't have one of those shows on "that's just a lot of grown-ups arguing" and that's how i ended up switching to WHNS in Greeneville........that's how i watched The Real Ghostbusters instead of the soaps. When i first got cable, I remember being so fed up with as soap that i changed the channel to Cartoon Network which had Wacky Races and The Perils of Penelope Pitstop instead of soaps too.
 
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A 1993 TV Guide I have from Northern Colorado lists 'Studs' at 2AM weeknights on KFNB/KFNR, the ABC (now Fox) affiliates in Wyoming, as well as midnight (1AM CT) on KCLO, CBS Rapid City and part of the Kelo-Land network from Sioux Falls. Mark DeCarlo's show was intended to mostly air on Fox stations, but when there's not a Fox station in town, it went to one of the Big 3 stations.
In addition, Richard Karn's first season of Family Feud was buried to 2:35 AM on KOMO-4 (ABC) in Seattle, 2002-03. And that was the only time the current Feud incarnation has aired on channel 4 - they did run the Ray Combs syndicated version. By the time Karn took over, Feud was being relegated to FOX/WB/UPN stations. Many Big 3 stations gave Louie's version a chance.
 
WBZ in Boston airs Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! at 7pm and 7:30pm respectively. It is the only CBS O&O to air Jeopardy!, and one of only 3 to air Wheel. The others being KTVT in Dallas-Fort Worth and WCCO in St. Paul-Minneapolis, both airing it at 6:30pm. In Dallas, Jeopardy! is seen on sister station KTXA at 6pm, immediately following a rerun at 5:30, and in Minneapolis it's on NBC affiliate KARE-11 at 4:30pm.

WBTS-CD NBC 10 Boston is the only NBC O&O not to air Ellen DeGeneres, as it's on 2 other affiliates here, WCVB Boston at 3pm and WMUR Manchester at 4pm. And I think KNSD San Diego is the only NBC O&O to air Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! Not sure what times they air them, though.

Also, I think most ABC O&Os DO air Wheel and Jeopardy! Can you think of any that don't?
 
From what I've heard, when KSHB-TV, Ch. 41 in Kansas City, MO, flipped from Fox to NBC in September 1994, they had some shows that would normally not be seen in syndication on NBC affiliates. For example, here is there schedule from June 20, 1995, about 9 months after their network affiliation switch (Link to where I found this schedule at.):
KSHB NBC41
05:00AM New Adventures of Captain Planet
05:30AM NBC News
06:00AM EXTRA
06:30AM NBC News
07:00AM Today
09:00AM Murphy Brown
09:30AM Newhart
10:00AM Leeza
11:00AM Other Side
12:00PM Andy Griffith
12:30PM Beverly Hillbillies
01:00PM Another World
02:00PM Days of Our Lives
03:00PM Full House
03:30PM Growing Pains
04:00PM Coach
04:30PM EXTRA
05:00PM News
05:30PM NBC News
06:00PM News
06:30PM The Simpsons
07:00PM Wings
07:30PM Something Wilder
08:00PM Frasier
08:30PM John Larroquette
09:00PM Dateline NBC
10:00PM News
10:35PM The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
11:37PM Night Court
12:07AM Late Night with Conan O'Brien
01:06AM Later with Greg Kinnear
01:35AM News
02:10AM NBC News Nightside
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Once they started programming KMCI-TV, most of their pre-NBC syndicated shows moved there. They also briefly aired reruns of Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, as well, around 1997-98.
 
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WBZ in Boston airs Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! at 7pm and 7:30pm respectively. It is the only CBS O&O to air Jeopardy!, and one of only 3 to air Wheel. The others being KTVT in Dallas-Fort Worth and WCCO in St. Paul-Minneapolis, both airing it at 6:30pm. In Dallas, Jeopardy! is seen on sister station KTXA at 6pm, immediately following a rerun at 5:30, and in Minneapolis it's on NBC affiliate KARE-11 at 4:30pm.

WBTS-CD NBC 10 Boston is the only NBC O&O not to air Ellen DeGeneres, as it's on 2 other affiliates here, WCVB Boston at 3pm and WMUR Manchester at 4pm. And I think KNSD San Diego is the only NBC O&O to air Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! Not sure what times they air them, though.

Also, I think most ABC O&Os DO air Wheel and Jeopardy! Can you think of any that don't?
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KNSD is the only NBC O&O to air Wheel & Jeopardy!, and both shows have aired on that station since they debuted in syndication in the '80s; they currently air at 7 & 7:30pm local time. Their carriage goes back to when they were still owned by the old Storer Broadcasting chain.

All eight ABC-owned stations air Jeopardy!, with KTRK Houston airing it since 2015; Wheel in Houston still airs on KHOU (CBS)
 
Not sure if this counts but when reruns of Fox's "Married With Children" first entered syndication in the 90s, starting in the Fall of 1991, they aired on WMAQ Channel 5 (NBC) right after the 6pm News and just before the NBC lineup. I always found that a bit weird as I always assumed that ABC/CBS/NBC affiliates didn't air as many syndicated reruns of network sitcoms or dramas during the weekday compared to Fox affiliates (which felt more independent during the early years) or independent stations (including those that featured the WB or UPN blocks). In comparison, WBBM Channel 2 (CBS) was (and still is) airing "Entertainment Tonight" and WLS Channel 7 (ABC) was (and still is) airing "Wheel of Fortune" in the 6:30pm slot. I'm more used to how Channel 5 aired either entertainment shows (such as "Extra" or "Access Hollywood") or tabloid news shows (such as "Hard Copy" or "A Current Affair") after the News rather than a sitcom that was still first-run (and on a competing network) when it first enter syndication. "Married With Children" reruns aired on WMAQ right after the 6pm news until 1996 (or maybe 1995) when they moved to WGN Channel 9 and WMAQ aired "Access Hollywood" instead, which they still run on that time slot to this day. Prior to 1991's fall lineup, "Hard Copy" aired after the 6pm News.

When the Kids WB block first launched in Sept. 1995, the Chicago market was an abnormality compared to other markets. While the primetime WB block (which was only Wednesdays and Sundays back then) did air on WGN Channel 9, the Kids WB block, on the other hand, aired on WCIU Channel 26, which was just in its first year as an English-speaking Independent (they were previously the affiliate for Spanish-speaking Univision, which since resides on WGBO 66). On top of that, the Kids WB block didn't air on Saturday Mornings at 7am or 8am (depending on the time zone). Instead, they aired on Sunday mornings at 10am to 2pm. The weekday programming also aired on WCIU. Oddly enough, the Kids WB block did air on the WGN Superstation in markets outside Chicago, where the local station opted to air "Bozo", local news, and talk shows (during the weekday) instead. By 2004, the Kids WB block (which would end in a few years anyway) ended up airing on WGN but I stopped watching Kids WB by 2000 and can only recall how that block was airing on WCIU during the 90s.
 
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Not sure if this counts but when reruns of Fox's "Married With Children" first entered syndication in the 90s, starting in the Fall of 1991, they aired on WMAQ Channel 5 (NBC) right after the 6pm News and just before the NBC lineup. I always found that a bit weird as I always assumed that ABC/CBS/NBC affiliates didn't air as many syndicated reruns of network sitcoms or dramas during the weekday compared to Fox affiliates (which felt more independent during the early years) or independent stations (including those that featured the WB or UPN blocks). In comparison, WBBM Channel 2 (CBS) was (and still is) airing "Entertainment Tonight" and WLS Channel 7 (ABC) was (and still is) airing "Wheel of Fortune" in the 6:30pm slot. I'm more used to how Channel 5 aired either entertainment shows (such as "Extra" or "Access Hollywood") or tabloid news shows (such as "Hard Copy" or "A Current Affair") after the News rather than a sitcom that was still first-run (and on a competing network) when it first enter syndication. "Married With Children" reruns aired on WMAQ right after the 6pm news until 1996 (or maybe 1995) when they moved to WGN Channel 9 and WMAQ aired "Access Hollywood" instead, which they still run on that time slot to this day. Prior to 1991's fall lineup, "Hard Copy" aired after the 6pm News.

When the Kids WB block first launched in Sept. 1995, the Chicago market was an abnormality compared to other markets. While the primetime WB block (which was only Wednesdays and Sundays back then) did air on WGN Channel 9, the Kids WB block, on the other hand, aired on WCIU Channel 26, which was just in its first year as an English-speaking Independent (they were previously the affiliate for Spanish-speaking Univision, which since resides on WGBO 66). On top of that, the Kids WB block didn't air on Saturday Mornings at 7am or 8am (depending on the time zone). Instead, they aired on Sunday mornings at 10am to 2pm. The weekday programming also aired on WCIU. Oddly enough, the Kids WB block did air on the WGN Superstation in markets outside Chicago, where the local station opted to air "Bozo", local news, and talk shows (during the weekday) instead. By 2004, the Kids WB block (which would end in a few years anyway) ended up airing on WGN but I stopped watching Kids WB by 2000 and can only recall how that block was airing on WCIU during the 90s.
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I know in the Des Moines Iowa market WOI ABC affiliate always aired reruns of comedy's in the 80's and 90's. Some of the sitcoms they aired before their Primetime lineup was The Cosby Show, Mash, Cheers, Family Ties, Roseanne and I think one of the last sitcoms to air on that network was Everybody Loves Raymond.

Kcci CBS affiliate didn't air reruns till late night like Murphy Brown, Newhart, the Jeffersons and Magnum P.I. and Rockford Files.

Who NBC affiliate didn't air much reruns in the 90's. They aired Cheers before it moved to Woi and Night Court before Wheel of Fortune moved to the 6:30pm time slot in 1990. The last sitcom rerun to air on that channel was Seinfeld before it moved to KDSM FOX affiliate around 1997 or 1998.

I remember the kids WB lineup on WGN Superstation aired on Sunday Morning instead of the usual Saturday Morning but they aired Bozo on that channel to in the early morning like around 7am
 
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I know in the Des Moines Iowa market WOI ABC affiliate always aired reruns of comedy's in the 80's and 90's. Some of the sitcoms they aired before their Primetime lineup was The Cosby Show, Mash, Cheers, Family Ties, Roseanne and I think one of the last sitcoms to air on that network was Everybody Loves Raymond.

Kcci CBS affiliate didn't air reruns till late night like Murphy Brown, Newhart, the Jeffersons and Magnum P.I. and Rockford Files.

Who NBC affiliate didn't air much reruns in the 90's. They aired Cheers before it moved to Woi and Night Court before Wheel of Fortune moved to the 6:30pm time slot in 1990. The last sitcom rerun to air on that channel was Seinfeld before it moved to KDSM FOX affiliate around 1997 or 1998.

I remember the kids WB lineup on WGN Superstation aired on Sunday Morning instead of the usual Saturday Morning but they aired Bozo on that channel to in the early morning like around 7am
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Didn't we have a rule at one time that stations in markets above a certain ranking couldn't air off-network reruns during prime-time access?
 
KTVI (ABC until 1995) aired the Fox kids lineup in the mid afternoon (when kids were still at school) in desperation move by the Fox Kids network to get away from Larry Rice who filled the local ad breaks with preaching about things like abortion to kids when the lineup aired on his station for about a year when when KDNL switched from ABC to FOX. The was also the largest market that lacked a primary UPN affiliate until about 2002
 
WWTV (CBS and the dominant station in its market) has always aired sitcom reruns in the 7-8pm hour as long as I can remember. They currently air The Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon. In the past, they've aired Mike & Molly, Everybody Loves Raymond, Two and a Half Men, Friends, Caroline in the City, Will and Grace, and Seinfeld, just to name a few. I'm probably missing a few in there.
 
What other CBS stations other than WWTV/WWUP, and KIMA/KEPR/KLEW, run Big Bang Theory weeknights? My family loves watching Big Bang reruns at 7:00 in Yakima. They are still laughing at Sheldon's jokes all these years later.
 
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