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Syndicated programs on local weather channels

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Iowan

I'm sure it's a very common practice since subchannels are also required to carry EI programs. Here's what the schedule is like for Davenport's KWQC 6.2:

Mon: 'Wild About Animals'
Tue: 'BETA Records TV'
Wed: 'Animal Rescue'
Thu: 'Passport To Explore'
Fri: 'Whaddyado?'
Sat: 'Awesome Adventures'
Sun: 'Aqua Kids'

It all starts at 5pm here
 
KCPQ's former AccuWeather channel aired Edgemont and Swap TV for E/I, and those also are on the main channel Saturday mornings to meet E/I. We don't get it anymore on Comcast/Xfinity.

-crainbebo
 
WBAY in Green Bay airs Jack Hanna's Animal Adventures weekdays at 5pm and Saturdays at 8am, and then Go 4 It TV on Saturdays at 8:30am on their DT2 weather station, all at times when a newscast is on their main channel able to give weather information. Good scheduling and actually much better than the 'shove it off to shame' move of Saturday mornings most take (KWQC and WBAY are owned by the same company, New Young Broadcasting, which does the 5pm E/I scheduling for all their DT2 weather stations, which are all locally outputted via internal weather computers rather than a national platform).

WTMJ's weather station in Milwaukee (under Local AccuWeather) goes with sprinkling in programs;
12pm Saturday, The Real Winning Edge (athletes giving health tips)
2pm The Outdoorsman w/Buck McNeely (not really educational, your basic 'track an animal for 28 minutes and shoot it dead in the last two' hunting show, but it had an educational writeup for the Kidvid form, so it counts)
4pm Ariel & Zoey & Eil Too (variety show about a sibling singing trio)
12pm Sunday Aqua Kids
2pm Swap TV (like Nick's A Walk in Your Shoes years back; imported TV Ontario show)
4pm Animal Rescue (one of Alex Paen's 42 shows, could be from 2010 or 2000 and we would never know the difference at all, a hallmark of all Alex Paen's shows, which really bugs me with Missing because stations have aired six year-old episodes of it without a shrug)

WMVS's weather station seems to be excluded due to its non-commercial status.
 
Real Winning Edge is seen here on KVOS/12, Swap TV also airs on KCPQ/13's main channel, Animal Rescue IIRC has always been weekends on KOMO/4, and Aqua Kids used to air on KCPQ but not now, Edgemont replaced it, probably due to the AccuWeather channel closing up shop. Go For It hasn't been seen in Seattle for years, used to be on KIRO/7 after all sports were done for the day on Saturdays.

Yes, PBS stations are excluded from the 3hrs of E/I. However, in the last several years I have noted E/I bugs on PBS children's programming [Super Why, Sesame Street, Arthur, etc].

-crainbebo
 
I thought "The Real Winning Edge" had a spiritual tinge to the show. It showcases young athletes and how their faith motivates them. Kind of like the now-defunct "Ultimate Choice."

One of our weather subchannels airs a three-hour block of the awful early-2000s preschoolers-and-below series "Gina D's Kids Club" on late afternoons/early evenings on Sundays for "E/I." Not useful if there's an afternoon storm on a Sunday afternoon. The other weather subchannel, if I recall correctly, airs a program that's produced by a sister station (Gannett's "The Whatever Show") which is "E/I" compliant.

And, unlike Byron Allen, Alex Paen doesn't produce every show he distributes. He just syndicates a lot of them (see Cassie Yde and TVS as another example).
 
Correct Eric. Alex Paen is the president of Telco Productions, which distributes "Animal Rescue", "Missing," "The Real Winning Edge," "Swap TV," "Dog Tales" and "Real Green."

-crainbebo
 
News 9 Now in Oklahoma City (KWTV's digital news channel on 9.2) actually airs four of the Telco-distributed programs (Swap TV, The Real Winning Edge, Animal Rescue and Dog Tales), Missing meanwhile airs on CW affil KOCB and Dog Tales also airs on KWTV's main channel on a weekend late night slot, IIRC. News 9 Now also runs Jack Hanna's Into the Wild (his Animal Adventures series has aired on KWTV's main channel since the early/mid-1990s) and Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks (which originally aired in the U.S. on PBS). Since they air the Saturday edition of CBS This Morning, there's a period between 8 a.m. and 1 p.m. that the channel doesn't serve its intended purpose to rebroadcast KWTV newscasts at times when they're not simulcasting them.

I'm not sure why the FCC didn't exempt digicasts that air programming from niche networks (Tuff TV, TheCoolTV, The Country Network, WeatherNation TV, etc.) or just local news and/or weather from carrying E/I shows. They don't really fit those channels, maybe they fit on diginets like Me-TV, This TV and Antenna TV, but not niche networks where E/I doesn't fit at all. Not to mention that I doubt that any kid that watches broadcast TV on Saturday mornings (if there are still any, unless they don't have cable or satellite) would turn to a news channel just to watch a kids show.
 
In the Quad Cities, WQAD replaced AccuWeather with Antenna TV in March 2011. 'Til then, channel 8.2 aired 'Jack Hanna's Animal Adventures' Monday thru Saturday at 2:30pm
 
I've noticed that not all local weather channel stations carry EI programming, or at least have any listed in any online guides like titantv.com. The following station(s) fall under this category (that I've discovered):

- KIMT 3.3 Mason City, IA
- KELO 11.3 Sioux Falls, S.D.
- KTKA 49.2 Topeka, KS
 
Eyewitness News Now - WFSB Channel 3.3 airs the god-awful Gina D's Clubhouse 9AM-Noon. The show has aired in the past on TBN and I would assume WFSB got the show when they purchased the TBN translator in Springfield, Massachusetts and converted it to CBS affiliate WSHM-LP channel 67 (now WSHM-LD Channel 21) CBS 3 Springfield. They don't show any of the weather or news information during programming.

NBC Plus WVIT Channnel 30.2 airs E/I programing 10AM-1PM

10AM Aqua Kids Adventures
1030 AM Angel's Friends
11AM Ariel & Zoey & Eli, Too (which is also E/I programming weekday afternoons on The CoolTV).
1130AM Aqua Kids Adventures
12Noon BETA Record TV
1230PM In The Zone Presents
 
KPNX 12.2 Phoenix NBC airs The Whatever Show Saturday mornings from 10 a.m. to Noon. It is/was produced by fellow Gannet owned and NBC affiliate KARE 11 of Minneapolis. Not sure if there are any new shows or if the are just showing repeats from the early 2000s.
 
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