SYNDICATED SHOWS NOT AIRED IN MY CITY?

[sctvman]

Are there any syndicated shows that were first-run or from network TV that did not air in your city? For example, the Joan Rivers Show didn't air in Portland between 1991 and 1994. Also, I had to wait for All in the Family reruns in Portland until KPDX-TV (went on the air 10/1/1983) aired the show in 1983.

I know that a few markets don't air Jerry Springer! Do you have any other shows?

 

[Ultimajock]

...perhaps DrBear can fill me in on this one, but, while "The Mike Douglas Show" ran in Green Bay on WLUK/11 (Westinghouse version) and WLRE/26 (Syndicast version; WLRE also had John Davidson's Westinghouse show. which forced Douglas to move to Syndicast, for a short while), I'm positive none of the other Westinghouse talk shows -- Steve Allen, Merv Griffin, David Frost -- ever ran in Green Bay; only the CBS version of Griffin was seen in the market during its last year on KFIZ-TV/34 in Fond du Lac, and in the early '80s Griffin even placed the audio track of his show on WHBY/1230, the Appleton radio station, as part of a way to possibly break into markets where he had previously been shut out of...

 

[jal41]

I know that a few markets don't air Jerry Springer! Do you have any other shows?

In Atlanta, Wayne Brady's short lived talk show did not air until WUPA/69 picked it up for it's second year.

John Walsh's syndicated show also did not air immediately upon launch, It was picked up by WPXA/14 (while under the control of WXIA/11) a few months into it's run. (It was shocking that the then Pax station was giving up an hour of infomercial time).

BTW, WATL/36 (now sister to WXIA) currently airs Jerry Springer three times a day.

 

[EricStein]

Cheaters is not aired in many markets, including New York City. Many stations pass on the show despite its sometimes decent performance in some markets because of obvious reasons (content). Phoenix was one of the markets that didn't air the show until 2005, when the WB (now CW) station picked it up.

Phoenix did not get the last Percy Sutton-produced season of It's Showtime at the Apollo, and never had the short lived Tom Joyner Show. During its long run, Soul Train aired sporadically in the Phoenix market, with the longest duration going to KUSK in Prescott from 1986-96. The station had translators in the Phoenix metro, but not wide cable distribution at the time. Now as KAZT, it has wide cable and satellite coverage across the state, including Phoenix, and has a more powerful translator in the Phoenix metro as well.

 

[mleach]

The 1980s version of Divorce Court ( Judge William B. Keene & Jim Peck ) for the first year ( 1984 ) did NOT air in either the Washington or Baltimore markets though it did air in Norfolk. Baltimore's WBAL would pick up the show in 1985 but Washington would have to wait until 1987 to see it when WUSA picked it up.

As I mentioned in another thread Denver was the last market to get the Morton Downey Jr. Show, not long before it was cancelled.

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

I don't think any of the Peoria-Bloomington, IL stations even picked up the "Wayne Brady Show" during its two year run (2002-04).

The last Peoria station to carry "Donahue," WMBD-31 (CBS) (it had been aired by the other two Big 3 stations in the market during its run), bailed out on the show by January 1995 (1 1/2 years before its cancellation). Before that time they did mothball the show to late night around late 1994.

Also, NYC lost Donahue the entire final season of its run (95-96).

 

[ShawnHill1]

If I remember correctly, the first season of John Davidson's edition of Hollwyood Squares (1986-89) didn't air in Chicago or Madison, but aired in Rockford and Milwaukee from the beginning. At least from what I remember, Chicago (WMAQ) and Madison (WKOW) didn't air the same episodes in pattern as Milwaukee (WISN) and Rockford (WREX) did.

In relation to Wayne Brady...the show that replaced it, the Tony Danza Show, got buried in late nights on KABC in its first year (2:05am, right after Oprah reruns) with zero promotion, but in its second year it moved to KCAL (Wayne's L.A. home station) at 9am, and stayed to its eventual cancellation.

 

[chris12]

In the Chicago market, it seemed quite a few syndicated game shows got passed up. Among the game shows passed on were the 1973-78 syndicated Concentration with Jack Narz, the original Crosswitts, the syndicated 1974-75 Jeopardy, Bullseye, the 1985 syndicated Tom Kennedy Price Is Right. The 1985-88 syndicated $100,000 Pyramid wasn't picked up until its third season on WPWR 50 in the fall of 1987 and the syndicated Bill Rafferty Card Sharks aired a full year behind.

 

[genius]

In Atlanta, Wayne Brady's short lived talk show did not air until WUPA/69 picked it up for it's second year.

Albuquerque had the same thing happen. No where to be found its first year, but KWBQ picked it up the second year. I wonder if his Emmy win had anything to do with it. The same happened with Dick Clark's "The Other Half", though when KRQE picked it up it aired in the middle of the night.

Of other more recent syndicated shows, the show "Home Delivery" was not seen in Albquerque, along with a couple of Fox produced 1/2 hour reality shows...what were they? "Live Like A Star" and House Design or something to that effect? ANYONE KNOW? I don't think the "Beyond With James Van Praagh" a rip-off of Crossing Over ever aired here in Albuquerque. If it did it must have aired very very late at night. I don't recall The Ananda Lewis Show or Queen Latifah's show being seen in Albuquerque either, but again I could be wrong.

 

[bpatrick]

In the Chicago market, it seemed quite a few syndicated game shows got passed up. Among the game shows passed on were the 1973-78 syndicated Concentration with Jack Narz, the original Crosswitts, the syndicated 1974-75 Jeopardy, Bullseye, the 1985 syndicated Tom Kennedy Price Is Right. The 1985-88 syndicated $100,000 Pyramid wasn't picked up until its third season on WPWR 50 in the fall of 1987 and the syndicated Bill Rafferty Card Sharks aired a full year behind.

When I lived in Dallas (1976-79) we didn't get any of the syndicated
daily game shows (To Tell The Truth, Concentration, Crosswits, Liars
Club, etc.) except for The Dating Game and (IIRC) The Newlywed Game.
Yet we did get practically all the weekly syndicated games (this is when
many stations programmed a different show in access time each night):
Hollywood Squares, Name That Tune, Match Game PM, The Price Is Right,
$25,000 Pyramid. By the early '80s, however, Family Feud was on KDFW/4
at 6:30 (Central) and Tic Tac Dough was on KXAS/5 (WFAA/8 had PM Magazine).

 

[Apollo7979]

The Champaign/Urbana/Decatur/Springfield market in Illinois currently doesn't air South Park.

Back in the 1990s for about a season or two, Dayton didn't carry "Jeopardy!" WHIO-TV won the rights to air Wheel and Jeopardy! around 1990 or 1991 and ran Jeopardy! at 5 and Wheel at 7. However, when WHIO added a 5pm newscast, they moved Jeopardy! to 11:30 for a few months before eventually being dumped from the schedule. A year or two later, it reappeared on WKEF (the station that originally carried Jeopardy and Wheel), but after being there for one season, Jeopardy moved to WDTN where it remains to this day at 7:30.

Also around that same time, the Johnson City/Kingsport/Bristol market didn't carry the syndicated version of The Simpsons. Years went by before WEMT finally added it to their schedule (around 2000).

 

[jcs]

The Champaign/Urbana/Decatur/Springfield market in Illinois currently doesn't air South Park.

They're lucky! Here in Dayton the CW affiliate, WBDT 26, airs (or at least used to) it, so the Gem City was (or still is!) saddled with that show. Why they syndicate a cable show (which only some people get--fyi I don't get cable) and not a network show that has stood the test of time like "Happy Days" is beyond me.

 

[james32746]

In the Orlando market the program Day & Date (a newsmagazine from CBS/Group W in the mid 90's) and Inside Edition during the late 90's did not air at all.

 

[jcs]

The Champaign/Urbana/Decatur/Springfield market in Illinois currently doesn't air South Park.

They're lucky! Here in Dayton the CW affiliate, WBDT 26, airs (or at least used to) it, so the Gem City was (or still is!) saddled with that show. Why they syndicate a cable show (which only some people get--fyi I don't get cable) and not a network show that has stood the test of time like "Happy Days" is beyond me.

Oops, it airs on WRGT 45, the FOX affiliate. My mistake! (WRGT used to air "Happy Days" until at least the early 1990s, adding fuel to my argument that it should put "HD" back on!)

 

[tothedj]

Where is Sydnicated Television Heading?

With the upcoming 2007-2008 television season that starts in September,
i have noticed there is "very few" new programs that stations will be picking
up, most of them are "off-network" reruns, with a entry of a "one hour"
crime drama to air five days a week, it has been many years since this has
taken place, and it will be interesting to see how many markets will pick it
up, which will most likely air late at night because of the content.
There is one entry i'm interested to see, it's a new game show created by
Merv Griffin called "Let's Play Crosswords", and has been cleared to run in
places like New York & Los Angeles.

 

[MarcB]

HMMM. Christina's Court doesn't air in Hartdord. Charles Perez and Rolanda Watts didn't come to Hartford until after WTVU Channel 59 launched. Oh yeah. The ABC Show Carol and Marilyn didn't air on WTNH Channel 8. They aired it on sister station WTVU Channel 59 11AM-12PM. Channel 8 aired Carnie Wilson (after that show left the air Channel 8 carried Rosie O'Donnel in that time slot). It was funny because one Monday ABC was carrying a sporting event of somesort at 11AM, but Channel 59 was still carrying Carol & Marilyn. So it was like there were 2 ABC Networks. ;D

 

[sctvman]

Re: Where is Sydnicated Television Heading?

With the upcoming 2007-2008 television season that starts in September,
i have noticed there is "very few" new programs that stations will be picking
up, most of them are "off-network" reruns, with a entry of a "one hour"
crime drama to air five days a week, it has been many years since this has
taken place, and it will be interesting to see how many markets will pick it
up, which will most likely air late at night because of the content.
There is one entry i'm interested to see, it's a new game show created by
Merv Griffin called "Let's Play Crosswords", and has been cleared to run in
places like New York & Los Angeles.

Good point! I have noticed that "Let's Play Crosswords" has not been cleared in Portland or Columbia, SC yet, but stations could pick up the show before September. There are not that many interesting shows premiering in the Fall (syndication), but the "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" weekday syndication run should be great. There hasn't been a weekday drama program in syndication since "7th Heaven" went 5-days a week in 2000!

 

[jimmyt1962]

In 1975-76, The Philadelphia Area only saw the first 4 months of Space:1999. Channel 6 (ABC) carried the show from September through December of 1975. They aried it at Friday Night at 7 p.m. Due to low ratings, they dropped it, in January of 76. Channel 6 let the rest of the seaosn sit on the shelf, instead of showing it in another time slot. In the fall of 1976, when Space was renewed for a second season. Channel 17 picked the show up and aired it on Saturday Night at 6 p.m. Channel 17 aired the whole second season unilt Space ceased production in the spring of 77.

 

[bpatrick]

Prior to '72 it was almost impossible to get
a five-a-week syndicated game show in
Birmingham. WBMG (now WIAT) carried
Truth Or Consequences and (in '69) He
Said, She Said (the forerunner of Tattletales);
WBRC carried the original Pay Cards (its then-
owner, Taft Broadcasting, syndicated that show).
But What's My Line?, To Tell The Truth, Beat The
Clock, and The Movie Game were conspicuous by
their absence (Movie Game never did air in Birmingham).
Not until that part of the access rule which forced
affiliates in the top 50 markets to air first-run shows
from 6-7 PM (Central) did Line and TTTT show up
on Birmingham stations. WBMG aired Beat The Clock
at noon (Central).