They preempted that for this?

[anotherguyTN]

But I thought subchannels ALSO had to run 3 hrs of E/I programming a week. Here in Yakima, KIMA's .1 (CBS) airs the mandated E/I shows (CBS Dream Team plus America's Heartland), .2 (CW) airs One Magnificent Morning without preemptions, and the .3 (Grit TV) also airs mandated E/I shows. Dog Whisperer: Family Edition is about the only CW show we watch.

WBBJ 7.3 mainly carries CBS, but uses Me TV as filler during times when there is nothing from CBS or local programming. I've ranted about how they won't get off their wallets and rearrange their bandwidth to make Me TV a full time subchannel numerous times here. They carry CBS's E/I programming on Saturday mornings, so I guess that counts, and is the reason they pre-empt Me TV's E/I programming on Sundays with infomercials, and I guess it's legal.

 

[mvcg66b3r]

From the Michigan Buzzboard:

It's a bit early, but taking a peak at the Thanksgiving schedule, no "Macy's Thanksgiving Parade" on WADL or any other Detroit station. WDIV has the local "America's Thanksgiving Parade" at the same time as NBC's coverage of Macy's. Maybe WDIV will put the New York parade on one of their subchannels. It's so nice to get WDIV as well as WNWO and be able to flip back and forth between the two parades. I think CBS shows a few different parades that morning.

http://mibuzzboard.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=564237#p564193

 

[cvptvinvmericv]

Locally, I can think of some notable examples:

WHIO-TV preempted CBS News' Up to the Minute for Change of Heart, Blind Date and eventually programming from PAX TV until 2003... WBDT was the dual WB/Pax affiliate in Dayton and cleared the entire primetime lineup, while WHIO aired some secular shows (Sue Thomas, F.B.Eye; Just Cause)

WBDT preempted their primetime lineup one Saturday night for an NBC Sports special: the 2000 Olympic Trials, which aired on PAX TV.

 

[danderson6500]

Another great example was WDIV in 1987. as they had rights to the Detroit Tigers at the time, and a critical game (game 162) was also scheduled 3:00PM Sunday, and the AL East was still not decided between the Tigers and Toronto Blue Jays.

I thought that game was on ABC?

 

[paulsonj72]

I thought that game was on ABC?

Game was televised both nationally and locally as well as in Canada

 

[vchimpanzee]

Someone needs to explain this to me, and I think it has been done before on this site. I was watching a show I recorded on TiVo and it was interrupted by an Amber Alert. I don't recall that description being used but I saw a headline in one of the online newspapers saying the child had been found and using that term. The screen went blank except for a crawl at the top.

I couldn't get rid of it so I realized this was happening at the time. It also said it was 10:45 on November 17, and I recorded the episode on November 10. Once it was over, I was switched to "Two and a Half Men" and had to go back and restart the show I had recorded, which resumed from where it was interrupted.

 

[danderson6500]

I've previously mentioned a couple: in 1991 WXII Winston-Salem
pre-empted NBC's coverage of an AFC playoff game because of a
prior commitment to ACC basketball; CBS affiliate WFMY stepped in
and carried the football game.

In 1972 WSB routinely pre-empted the second game of NBC's AFC
doubleheaders (regardless of whether or not the Falcons were on
WAGA on any given Sunday) in order to accommodate Lawrence Welk.
Ted Turner (in his "the NBC network moves to Channel 17" days) stepped
in and aired the second game. That practice ended after that season;
WSB started airing Welk on Saturdays during football season and Sundays
the rest of the year, until it switched to ABC and a conflict with "Wide World
Of Sports" forced the station to drop Welk.

There was one case in 91, when WYFF/4 carried an AFC playoff game, while WSPA/7 carried the ACC game. Rather than WYFF fulfilling their prior commitment to ACC basketball, they let WSPA have that game instead.

And WHNS/21 carried some ACC games, so WYFF could air NBC's prime time lineup.(FOX hadn't started programming yet.)

 

[danderson6500]

yes, NBC had a lot of rain delays causing race postponements where the coverage moved to NBCSN. there's the 2015 Coke Zero 400 at Daytona debacle where NBC told NASCAR to schedule the race for Sunday night in primetime on July 5th day year so it wouldn't have to be on 4th of July. the race got a huge long rain delay so the start of the race was pushed into late night and they race all the way to 3 AM local time where the last lap saw Austin Dillon's #3 race car get into the catch-fence during the big one (which is what we in NASCAR call a multi-car wreck that has more the 4 cars involved) while Dale Earnhardt Jr. was taking the checker flag to win the race. the next year, they schedule the race for the first Saturday in July.

also NBC also saw the 2015 fall Phoniex race be ran on a Sunday night and move to NBCSN as you said, then you also had the 2016 fall races at Charlotte be postponed and moved to NBCSN in which the race was moved to a Sunday due to Hurricane Matthew hitting the Carolinas and the fall race at Texas Motor Speedway was delay from it's afternoon start on NBC to a evening start airing on NBCSN (and KXAS 5.2 in the DFW area) due to constant rains at that track which was made worse by problems with the track drying as the track had drainage problems and a surface hard to dry, even with NASCAR's trademark "Air Titan" track drying equipment. in fact the Texas race was called and cut short by more rain in the area and knowing the track was gonna be hard to dry and thus NASCAR was unable to resume the race. by the way, the Charlotte race was won by the guy who went on to win the 2016 NASCAR Cup Series championship was Jimmie Johnson who won his 7th career Cup Series championship which would tie a all time record of most championships won in NASCAR's Cup Series with "The King" Richard Petty and the late Dale Earnhardt Sr. meanwhile the Texas rained out race was the final career win of Carl Edwards who retired from the sport in a shocking fashion a week and 2 days ago.

I was surprised when the Brickyard 400 remained on NBC instead of moving to NBCSN for the news, since there was a delay because of weather.

 

[danderson6500]

Game was televised both nationally and locally as well as in Canada

Same thing with the 1982 Dodgers/Giants game.. ABC had it with Don Drysdale, but KTTV/11 aired that game in LA with Vin Scully and Ross Porter. In that case, was KABC/7 allowed to air the Dodgers/Giants game?

 

[danderson6500]

...I just remembered something -- WLUK/11 in Green Bay, then an ABC affiliate, pre-empted "Wide World of Entertainment" for most of its run in order to carry "The CBS Late Movie", with then-CBS affiliate WBAY-TV/2 running (I think) its own movie packages and, later, "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" and off-network repeats. Later, when indie WLRE/26 first signed on circa '80, "The CBS Late Movie" popped up on their schedule, too. I also recall WLUK running an NBC baseball game one Sunday afternoon in the early '70s because then-NBC affiliate WFRV/5 and satellite WJMN/3 Escanaba pre-empted it; for the life of me, I can't recall what 5 and 3 were running that led them to refuse an NBC sports event (as I recall, the Green Bay telethons of the era were either on WBAY-TV or WLUK)...

I wonder if their was a case where WLUK/11 carried a Bucks game that CBS was carrying in the "The CBS Late Movie" slot, because CBS affiliate WBAY-TV/2 running (I think) its own movie packages and, later, "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" and off-network repeats? or could WBAY drop "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" to pick up the Bucks game in that case?

 

[onairb2014]

Same thing with the 1982 Dodgers/Giants game.. ABC had it with Don Drysdale, but KTTV/11 aired that game in LA with Vin Scully and Ross Porter. In that case, was KABC/7 allowed to air the Dodgers/Giants game?

Some time back, a thread on the '506 Sports' forum (some of whose regular posters also post here) mentioned that the bulk of the country saw the Brewers-Orioles game, and ABC only had Drysdale at Candlestick Park for cut-ins.

 

[danderson6500]

Some time back, a thread on the '506 Sports' forum (some of whose regular posters also post here) mentioned that the bulk of the country saw the Brewers-Orioles game, and ABC only had Drysdale at Candlestick Park for cut-ins.

Whenever i see a highlight of Joe Morgan's home run that eventually gave the Braves the NL West title, it's the Giants telecast on KTVU or Vin Scully's call on KTTV, so unless ABC cut away from the Brewers-Orioles game when Morgan came to bat, I've never seen the footage of the Morgan homer from ABC.

 

[danderson6500]

Some time back, a thread on the '506 Sports' forum (some of whose regular posters also post here) mentioned that the bulk of the country saw the Brewers-Orioles game, and ABC only had Drysdale at Candlestick Park for cut-ins.

I think that ABC might have not been set up to carry the Dodgers/Giants game regionally, since they already were carrying the Brewers-Orioles game, and the Braves-Padres game too. NBC did all three games as a doubleheader the day before, though.

 

[danderson6500]

ESPN did the same thing in 1998; Gary Thorne and Joe Morgan were at the Cubs-Astros game, while Dave Campbell was at the Giants-Rockies game, since a Cub loss and a Giants win would clinch the NL wild Card for the Giants. I can't remember who was with Campbell in Denver, but ESPN would switch to the Giants-Rockies game via a split screen when runners were on base. Same thing in 99, expect that ESPN2 carried the Reds-Brewers game on a Sunday Night because of rain, and the Reds needed a win to force a playoff with the Mets. Dan Shulman did the Reds-Brewers game i think.

 

[danderson6500]

"Sportsworld" never aired in Atlanta until WXIA became the
NBC affiliate. WSB pre-empted it for the same reason it pre-
empted the second game of NFL doubleheaders in 1972:
Lawrence Welk. And WAGA was notorious for pre-empting CBS's
NBA coverage in the '70s; the games would invariably air on
WATL/36. Likewise, in the last few years before WAGA became
a Fox o&o it would pre-empt golf, especially on Saturdays, although
it did carry the Masters (can't pre-empt that prestigious event, after
all).

As an ABC affiliate, WXIA stayed pretty close to the network re sports,
although they did pre-empt the "Pro Bowlers Tour," which ended up on
Ch. 36. (WSB never carried it either.)

WLOS in Asheville always carried the "Pro Bowlers Tour" while WSOC Charlotte didn't. Maybe because WSOC could make more money airing reruns, i guess.(although both would carry "Wide World of Sports.")

 

[paulsonj72]

Some time back, a thread on the '506 Sports' forum (some of whose regular posters also post here) mentioned that the bulk of the country saw the Brewers-Orioles game, and ABC only had Drysdale at Candlestick Park for cut-ins.

Probably because Brewers/Orioles was winner take all for the AL East and the Dodgers/Giants needed a Dodgers win and Braves loss to force a tie for the NL West

 

[danderson6500]

Probably because Brewers/Orioles was winner take all for the AL East and the Dodgers/Giants needed a Dodgers win and Braves loss to force a tie for the NL West

Not unlike 1991, when CBS aired Braves/Astros in most of the nation, with Dick Stockton, but Jack Buck was at Candlestick Park for live cut-ins of the Dodgers/Giants game. They did air the Dodgers game in some areas though.

 

[MarcB]

Who knew? People complaining about their shows being pre-empted is not just a 2017 problem. Apparently they were doing it back in the 60s too. Last week was the anniversary of President Kennedy getting shot (and later passing away) and one of the news anchors from WFSB Channel 3 in Hartford posted on his Facebook Page that that day in 1963 Channel 3 got lots on angry phone calls that their soap operas were pre-empted for news coverage.

 

[mvcg66b3r]

From a similar-themed thread on TVNewsTalk:

Back in the old Group-W days KDKA-TV had frequent preemptions. Throughout the 70s and 80s until 1991 channel 2 preempted the daytime soap As The World Turns. Pittsburgh2Day aired at 2 during the 80s. Capitol aired at 1:30 instead of 2:30. During P2D's final year they moved up to 1:30 with Bold & the Beautiful at 2:30.

For two years, I think 1993-95 KDKA had local news until 7:30 am with a 90-minute Disney cartoon block (Disney KD Toon Time). This aired instead of CBS This Morning. In the late 80s/early 90s Three's Company reruns aired instead of Family Feud at 10 am. During the 80s Barney Miller repeats were at 11:30 pm, later on Inside Edition aired in that slot. Inside Edition pushed Letterman back to 12:05 for about a year or so.

During baseball season Pirates games would frequently air in prime time. As a child I couldn't tel you how many specials I missed out on because of baseball. For a few years in the early 90s KD also aired prime time Penguins hockey games. KDKA would also have frequent specials in prime time, often 'For Kids' Sake.

https://forums.tvnewstalk.net/index...-network-programming.13838/page-8#post-196940

 

[danderson6500]

"Sportsworld" never aired in Atlanta until WXIA became the
NBC affiliate. WSB pre-empted it for the same reason it pre-
empted the second game of NFL doubleheaders in 1972:
Lawrence Welk. And WAGA was notorious for pre-empting CBS's
NBA coverage in the '70s; the games would invariably air on
WATL/36. Likewise, in the last few years before WAGA became
a Fox o&o it would pre-empt golf, especially on Saturdays, although
it did carry the Masters (can't pre-empt that prestigious event, after
all).

As an ABC affiliate, WXIA stayed pretty close to the network re sports,
although they did pre-empt the "Pro Bowlers Tour," which ended up on
Ch. 36. (WSB never carried it either.)

In Asheville it was different; WLOS/13 sometimes would have to preempt Lawrence Welk if ABC aired a doubleheader, and the second game was at 5 p.m.; the Notre Dame-USC game in 1974 was a prime example. ABC never did many games after 4 p.m. too much. I wonder if the conflict with college football was the reason 13 dropped Welk; WSB in Atlanta did the same thing, but only because of "Wide World of Sports." conflicted.(and "Wide World" aired year round, unlike college football, which aired in the fall.) Maybe 13 could have aired Welk on Sunday Nights, instead of what ABC aired, at 7 p.m.