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Syndicated shows produced at local stations

This may have been mentioned already, but in
the late '60s ABC encouraged its o&os to come
up with shows with syndication potential. For
a time it looked like a talk show hosted by "Peyton
Place"'s Ed Nelson on WABC might make the grade,
but it didn't. The only one that did was "The
Anniversary Game," out of KGO San Francisco. Alan
Hamel was the host and Suzanne Somers (the future
Mrs. Hamel) the model. That show lasted about a
year.
 
bpatrick said:
I'm not sure if the entire series was produced there,
but Justin Wilson's cooking shows were originally produced
at the studios of the Mississippi ETV network.
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No, I understand they were all done at WYES in New Orleans, since the shows were for PBS.
 
I remember some of Justin Wilson's shows in
the early and mid-'70s carrying the logo of the
Mississippi ETV system at the beginning. I think
that eventually he did tape at WYES but not in
the beginning.
 
IIRC, Dinah's syndicated show was produced at
CBS Television City (as was Mike Douglas's when
he moved to L.A.). Merv Griffin did his show from
the Hollywood Palace. If you're referring to Toni
Tennille's short-lived 1980 talk show I don't know
where it originated; it wasn't carried in Greenville, SC,
where I lived then. I just know the NBC o&os carried
it.
 
Our Lansing,Michigan Based ABC/CW station WLAJ did air a live interactive late night entertainment show called TEXT ME TV which was also beamed to CW stations in Layfayette,LA Alexandria ,LA, And Salsbury Maryland,and a MY TV affiliate in Ft. Wayne, Ind. and they were going for some more stations in Detroit and NYC (just to name a few) but sadly before they got the nod to go further into national distribution one of their three production partners pulled out (some say they ran out of money) and the show went off the air on november 5th
 
lugnuts6 said:
Our Lansing,Michigan Based ABC/CW station WLAJ did air a live interactive late night entertainment show called TEXT ME TV which was also beamed to CW stations in Layfayette,LA Alexandria ,LA, And Salsbury Maryland,and a MY TV affiliate in Ft. Wayne, Ind. and they were going for some more stations in Detroit and NYC (just to name a few) but sadly before they got the nod to go further into national distribution one of their three production partners pulled out (some say they ran out of money) and the show went off the air on november 5th
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OH THAT SUCKS!!

The show was interesting, different and unique.. but I loved it!

When they'd go to a break, they'd show a slide of something, then come back to music with the host eating!

The show's concept originated overseas, in Lithuania I think.
 
Actually it came from Oslo,Norway ..
and I tell you , it wouldve worked if they called WGN AMERICA to air it..

But I did talk to the head guy of RUBICON TV who said that they hoped to bring the show back when they can find a partner
 
lugnuts6 said:
Actually it came from Oslo,Norway ..
and I tell you , it wouldve worked if they called WGN AMERICA to air it..

But I did talk to the head guy of RUBICON TV who said that they hoped to bring the show back when they can find a partner
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Yeah, you're right.... it was Norway, I hope it comes back soon!
 
Riverbank Studios, the syndication arm of Media General's Tampa operation, originates two programmes from The News Center - which houses WFLA-TV 8 as well as co-owned Tampa Tribune and tbo.com: The Mon - Fri programme Daytime and the Reel Animals Fishing Show, a 30 minute programme which mainly focuses on fishing sites in and just off the coast of Florida.

And this only concerns public television, but the children's programme Between The Lions is produced at the Mississippi Public Broadcasting facility in Jackson.
 
WGAL-TV in Lancaster, PA produced a nightly entertainment show called PM Magazine in the 80s. I believe it started out local and then was syndicated to other markets.
 
How about "Morning Stretch" from KPIX/San Francisco.

Then there that live Saturday Morning "Wrestling" program that originated from WHBQ and later WMC-TV/Memphis. The only exception was the same two hosts - and that "Wrestling" disco theme song - presided over a 60 minute taped location version instead of the Memphis one (that wasn't until later in its final years).
 
Here's another:

Swift Justice with Nancy Grace--Georgia Public Broadcasting in Atlanta

Also, Justin Wilson's PBS cooking shows were first taped at Louisiana Public Broadcasting (LPB) in Baton Rouge and later WYES in New Orleans; they were never done in Mississippi (remember, the title was "Justin Wilson's Louisiana Cookin'").
 
RockMustLive said:
WGAL-TV in Lancaster, PA produced a nightly entertainment show called PM Magazine in the 80s. I believe it started out local and then was syndicated to other markets.
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PM Magazine actually dates back to the 70s, it originated on the old Group W stations.
 
Someone already mentioned Mike Douglas and the music show "Upbeat" (hosted by long-time WEWS/5 weatherman and executive Don Webster).

"Hollywood and Dine" originates here as well...it's produced from the kitchen set, with star footage from various media tours, at Local TV's WJW/8 in Cleveland. "Fox 8" entertainment reporter David "Mossman" Moss is the host. The show definitely airs on WGN America weekend afternoons - WGN America is a quasi-sister station to WJW through the Local TV/Tribune connection - and now apparently airs on the "ReelzChannel" cable/satellite network:

http://www.reelzchannel.com/show/94/hollywood-and-dine/

At the end, you'll note the "Community Television of Ohio" copyright notice, that's the local license company for Local TV LLC re: WJW...
 
"Everybody has forgotten the most famous one
of all: "Hee Haw," taped for most of its run at
WLAC (now WTVF) Nashville."

IIRC that started out in 1969 as a CBS network show, though it was always produced at WLAC (by a company named Yongestreet Productions with corporate HQ in Toronto, Canada).

"Midwestern Hayride" and "The Paul Dixon Show"
were syndicated out of WLWT Cincinnati (I remember
"Hayride" airing in Norfolk in 1966-67, and Dixon airing
in Tampa in 1973, just before he died). "

Also originally network shows...both of them carried, during the 1950s, by ABC.
 
Maybe I missed it, but did anyone mention that Oprah was produced out of WLS-TV in Chicago for years after it went into syndication in 1986, until Harpo Productions got its own production house.

Also, with regard to Hee Haw, while it was always produced from beginning to end at WLAC, for its first two years it wasn't syndicated, it was a CBS-TV network show.
 
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