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Stations delaying daytime soap operas

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spencerkarter85

Here's some daytime soap operas not airing in pattern in the past and present I know (Some CBS O&O's and other owned CBS stations carrying now defunct Guiding Light at 10am Eastern/9am Central instead of 3pm Eastern/2pm Central/Pacific around the 1990s-2009 are NOT included in this):

Raliegh, NC: CBS affiliate WRAL 5 delays Y&R at 4pm instead of it's in pattern schedule of 12:30pm Eastern.
Alberquerque, NM: CBS affiliate KRQE 13 used to carry now-defunct ATWT on one-day delay basis in the show's later and final years. Also they carry Y&R at 1pm instead of 11am or 11:30am Mountain in some markets.
Denver, CO: They carry DOOL at 2pm instead of it's 1pm Mountain slot on NBC station KUSA 9.
Washington, DC: When Ryan's Hope moved from 12:30pm to Noon in late 1984, WJLA 7 carried it on one day delay until they dropped it in the late 1980s and indie WFTY 50 picked up RH for the final years of the show.
Philadelphia, PA: Same thing when WPVI 6 (later ABC O&O) ran Ryan's Hope at 11:30am instead of it's Noon pattern because they broadcasting Action News at Noon and bumped Dawson's Family Feud for a short time on an indie.
Memphis,TN: Then-ABC affiliate (now FOX O&O) WHBQ 13 would later clear AMC in 1978 along with RH but broadcasting AMC a day-behind instead of it's Noon Central pattern because of local news.
Milwaukee, WI: Then-ABC station WITI 6 (later CBS and now FOX) carried Dark Shadows on a 30 minute delay after reruns of Divorce Court in the late 1960s-1971.
Greenville/Spartanburg, SC: After Dark Shadows was cleared by ABC station WLOS 13 on April Fools Day 1968 (three days before MLK was fatally wounded in Memphis) it carried in pattern from 3:30pm from April-July 1968, after OLTL debuted (which WLOS didn't cleared until five years later unfortunately) and carried DS in it's 4pm pattern. But on the November 1970 listings, WLOS 13 carried DS on a one day delay so they air Perry Mason reruns at 4pm. But DS returned in pattern until it's April 2, 1971 ending. Same story for the short-lived soap A World Apart originally carried in pattern at 12:30pm but later on one-day delay on the November 1970 listings of TV GUIDE Carolina-Tennessee Edition on this site I recall.

Do you know any other stations?
 
WRAL-TV (CBS) channel 5 of Raleigh still airs The Young and the Restless in that slot today. WRAL-TV airs The 12:30 Report and then The Insider in it's place.
 
Interesting...delaying soaps til 4pm might be the best way for the genre to survive now that the pack has been whittled down to one or two shows per network.
 
Who else did it besides Raleigh/Durham? WFSB-TV (CBS) channel 3 of Hartford has always aired it in pattern at 12:30. Guilding Light always aired here at 3 PM. However, soon after Let's Make A Deal came back, WFSB switched it from 3 PM to 10 AM with Better Connecticut.
 
"Y&R" is on at 3 PM on WGCL Atlanta, and at 4 PM on
WLKY Louisville, KMOV St. Louis, and WAFB Baton Rouge.

And don't get me started on how many ABC affiliates delayed
"Edge Of Night," but I know that WRAL did, as well as both
WXIA and WSB in Atlanta; WFAA Dallas/Ft. Worth moved it from
3 PM (CT) to 9:30 AM briefly before dropping it.

WTVM Columbus, GA holds "General Hospital" for an hour, to 4 PM,
as lead-in to its 5 PM news.
 
I kind of find it interesting about them tape delaying shows, especially soaps "back then." Now a days, it's very easy to tape delay anything as we have servers, but back then you had reel-to-reel... which was more expensive, had more chance of human error, and needed more human intervention. Just a thought.
 
Tell me about that...I worked at an Indiana station where we had to delay the whole CBS schedule by an hour with 3 one-inch reel machines because Indiana did not observe Daylight Time.
 
Regarding KRQE actually finally in 2009 after GL was cancelled did we start airing ATWT same day instead after a day behind as LMAD premiered in ATWT's old 10am slot while ATWT was sent over to a 2PM slot. Of course it only lasted a year before ATWT itself ended.

I could on about Denver and its soaps in the 90s like Days airing on KCNC at 3PM while B&B airing on KMGH at 10AM.
 
WBRC Birmingham always carried "All My Children" on delay when
it was an ABC affiliate; "AMC" aired at noon (CT) when WBRC had
local news, so "AMC" aired in the morning (exception: the period
from 1975-77 when "AMC" aired at 11:30 (CT) and "Ryan's Hope"
at noon; it got delayed instead). When ABC switched to WCFT/WJSU
"AMC" continued to air at 10 AM (where WBRC had it) but eventually
began airing in pattern at noon.

WFAA Dallas and KSAT San Antonio are two more that carried "AMC"
on a day-behind at 11 AM (CT).

For several years WKYT Lexington, KY carried "Y&R" on a day-behind
at 9 AM. Recently they began same-day airing at 1 PM, and "Bold And
The Beautiful" now airs on day-behind at 10:30 AM (WINK Ft. Myers does
this same thing).

NBC's affiliates in the Kentucky edition of TV Guide were notorious about
delaying "The Doctors" after "Another World" expanded to 90 minutes in
1979. All three carried "Days Of Our Lives" at 1:30 instead of 1 PM, followed
by "AW" at 2:30. NBC's preference for the Eastern time zone was "Days" at 1,
"The Doctors" at 2, and "AW" at 2:30. But WAVE carried Mike Douglas from
12:30-1:30, WLWT carried Bob Braun from 12-1:30, and WLEX carried Braun
from 12:30-1:30, so "The Doctors" aired in the morning on all three stations.

WHAS Louisville, then a CBS affiliate, had news at noon, followed by Braun
at 12:30, so "Y&R" and "Search For Tomorrow" aired in the 9-10 AM slot.

WLKY (ABC then) delayed "Edge Of Night" to 10:30 AM. Lexington's ABC
affiliate, WTVQ, carried "General Hospital" at 9 AM at one point, and pre-empted
"Edge" altogether.

And why did Cincinnati's then-CBS affiliate WCPO rarely, if ever, carry "Love
Of Life"?

Speaking of Denver, I seem to recall then-ABC affiliate KUSA delaying "One
Life To Live" two hours, from 12 N (MT) to 2 PM because of noon news. I'm
thinking that at one point in the late '70s "Edge Of Night" aired there at 12:30,
to fill the time between the end of the news and the start of "General Hospital"
at 1.
 
When WLNE in Providence was a CBS affiliate in the early 80s they used to tape delay Guiding Light by a day and air it at 10am. It was very convenient for me - they were on channel 6 and I could get it in on the radio if I were out and about during the summer!

WNAC Boston (now WHDH) was infamous for delaying most of ABC's daytime programming in the 1960s. They were an RKO-General station and aired the "Million Dollar Movie" every afternoon. That was ended by the time they went to CBS in 1972.
 
On when WNAC pre-empted Dark Shadows from 1966-1969 which means Beantown viewers missed the Alexandra Moltke era (first run I meant unless you watched Syfy reruns back then or DVDs of the shows). Another ironic thing, Bostonians didn't get to see their homegrown folks like Terry Crawford (aka Beth Chavez in her first episodes in 1968-69) and the late Thayer David (Prof. Stokes and other characters) appear on DS during it's original ABC run.
 
borderblaster said:
Tell me about that...I worked at an Indiana station where we had to delay the whole CBS schedule by an hour with 3 one-inch reel machines
because Indiana did not observe Daylight Time.
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You didn't record a backup (4th machine)?
 
spencerkarter85 said:
On when WNAC pre-empted Dark Shadows from 1966-1969 which means Beantown viewers missed the Alexandra Moltke era (first run I meant unless you watched Syfy reruns back then or DVDs of the shows). Another ironic thing, Bostonians didn't get to see their homegrown folks like Terry Crawford (aka Beth Chavez in her first episodes in 1968-69) and the late Thayer David (Prof. Stokes and other characters) appear on DS during it's original ABC run.
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I was too young to remember that time, but when I was a kid in the 70s and an ABC show was preempted by WCVB (and wasn't on in Providence on WTEV/WLNE before June 1978 and WPRI after) I would try to get in WMUR from Manchester. That's how I watched American Bandstand and occasionally Edge of Night.
 
spencerkarter85 said:
On when WNAC pre-empted Dark Shadows from 1966-1969 which means Beantown viewers missed the Alexandra Moltke era (first run I meant unless you watched Syfy reruns back then or DVDs of the shows). Another ironic thing, Bostonians didn't get to see their homegrown folks like Terry Crawford (aka Beth Chavez in her first episodes in 1968-69) and the late Thayer David (Prof. Stokes and other characters) appear on DS during it's original ABC run.
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At least initially channel 38 picked up Dark Shadows, according to a couple of July 1966 TV Guides I got recently. They were WIHS but I'm not sure if Storer had completed the purchase at that time. They also picked up Where the Action Is and some daytime game shows from NBC.
 
According to the Mobile Press-Register in March 1967, WEAR-TV in Pensacola, Florida had "Dark Shadows" scheduled for 8:30 AM and "Superman" (most likely "The Adventures of Superman", since the letter "R" for rerun appears in the programming guide) scheduled for 3:00 PM, which was the time ABC usually provided "Dark Shadows" for ABC stations in the Central time zone Monday through Friday. "Dark Shadows" was listed for 3:00 PM by the Mobile Press-Register in July 1966, November 1968, June 1969, February 1970, and January 1971.
 
There was a time (late '90s or early 2000s, IIRC) when WXIA
carried "Days Of Our Lives" at 4, against Oprah on WSB. It
should have stayed there; not only did it cut into Oprah's audience,
it provided a strong lead-in for Ch. 11's 5 PM news. Today, "Days"
is back at 1, Ellen airs at 4, and Dr. Phil is on at 5...and WSB is
cleaning their clock.

There was also a period in early 1976 when WXIA carried "One Life
To Live" and "Edge Of Night" from 10:30-11:30 AM instead of 3:30-
4:30 PM. They ran "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" for a short time
at 3:30, then moved her to 11:30 PM and put "Dark Shadows" reruns
in; they had a movie from 4-6. While "Edge" stayed in the morning until
WXIA went to NBC (and WSB also carried "Edge" in the morning when it
became the ABC affiliate in Atlanta), WXIA did carry the 45-minute "One
Life To Live" and "General Hospital" in pattern from 2:30-4 starting in the
summer of 1976. (11 Alive tried "GH" in the morning in the fall of '78 and
put a kids' block at 3; "GH" was back at 3 by January 1979.)

I recall several CBS affiliates delaying "Search For Tomorrow" a
half-hour to 1 PM because of hour-long local news/talk shows;
WBTV Charlotte did this, as did WTVT Tampa, WCPO Cincinnati,
and (off and on) WHAS Louisville. And before "Y&R" went to an hour, there
were a few CBS affiliates that carried it at 1: WAGA Atlanta, WDEF Chattanooga,
WTVR Richmond, and WNCT Greenville/New Bern/Washington, NC come to mind.
 
When Indiana didn't observe DST, all the network affiliates would delay shows by one hour to keep the Eastern time zone schedule. However, in the early 2000s, the ABC station WRTV 6 decided to switch to the Central time schedule which meant the soaps were on a one day delay so they could be on from Noon-3pm. This meant holding Friday's shows to Monday for the delay in the Fall, and in the Spring they had to show episodes on weekends to use the normal feed the following Monday. NBC affiliate WTHR had ratings success showing Another World at 10am and Days of Our Lives at 11am for several years, but NBC provided early feeds to avoid a one day delay. AW was #1 in the 10am time slot when NBC cancelled it in Indianapolis.
 
Added note on Atlanta: WAGA delayed Secret Storm to 1 PM the next day as CBS aired it at 4 PM and WAGA went with syndicated fare. This lasted to the show's 2/8/74 finale, after which WAGA would not clear any CBS 4 PM show. When Secret Storm left, WAGA replaced it at 1 PM with What's My Line?

In Macon, WMAZ serves as CBS and had ABC as secondary up to 1982. For a while in the mid-to-late 60s through the early seventies, they ran ABC's General Hospital on a week delay to 9 AM, first on kinescope as they didn't have videotape yet.
 
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