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They preempted that for this?

According to my TiVo listings, The Preakness was supposed to end at 7:15. I didn't actually see the listings to know what would come on at that time, but the recording stopped at 7:15 and I had to switch over to "Jeopardy". Which did not air at all. I always record what comes on at 7 on Saturday night on the NBC affiliate.

Apparently each of the Triple Crown races this year will have a controversy. It's not the complete explanation of why the race ran over by 15 minutes, but a jockey fell off his horse and that horse actually finished ahead of one other horse. I just wonder why they don't schedule the race to end at 7:30.
 
The Stanley Cup was listed immediately after the Preakness at 7:15 on Saturday. No NBC station would be airing Saturday Jeopardy! or Wheel of Fortune at its regular times, except for the very few that do not show it at the common 7:00/7:30 slots on Saturday night (for example, WCBD in Charleston, SC airs WOF on Sunday nights/Monday mornings at midnight, and KHQ in Spokane, WA airs WOF Sundays at 6:30).
 
Lubbock NBC affiliate KCBD's schedule showed that last night's Wheel of Fortune would be pre-empted by a local special on sex trafficking, with no make-good airing of WOF.

However, it probably got pre-empted anyway by live storm coverage because they received several complaints last night for pre-empting at least part of The Voice.
 
I know this also happens with TV News archive as well. You see, they usually start recording it when Sports is still going on, and it usually overruns. This also applies to shows that aired after overruns. For example, If you look at WTXF and go to 2017, there's a couple of episodes of Family Guy and Bob's Burgers on there. This is because they start recording the shows when those episodes are still in progress.
 
WKYT in Lexington, KY (CBS) pre-empted Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! with coverage of the Kentucky primary election tonight.

Both shows were moved to its CW subchannel at their regular times, in place of two new episodes of fellow game show Family Feud. To keep things fair for all game shows involved, the Feud airing at 6:00 PM that's normally a repeat was replaced with a new episode, while today's other new episode aired at 12:00 PM in a slot usually given to Paid Programming. (Feud airs minimum twice a day in pretty much all markets. Most markets carry three or four airings; the main two airings are usually new episodes while the third and fourth airings are always repeats)

Duopoly scenarios like this are the only times you will see Wheel of Fortune air on a CW affiliate. No CW's carry the main weekday run of WOF on a regular basis, although Baltimore airs its weekend run on CW affiliate WNUV on Sunday evenings (the weekday run airs on sister FOX station WBFF), although WOF never gets bumped there when it gets pre-empted on weekdays (it's affected by Thursday Night Football pregame during football season and gets bumped to 12:05 AM while Jeopardy! stays unaffected at 7:00). Weekday WOF is no longer carried on any MyTV's either. It used to air on Atlanta's MyTV affiliate WATL, but the weekday run moved to sister NBC station WXIA a few years ago. WATL still airs WOF and Jeopardy! on Saturdays and whenever either show is pre-empted on WXIA.
 
WheelRob said:
Lubbock NBC affiliate KCBD's schedule showed that last night's Wheel of Fortune would be pre-empted by a local special on sex trafficking, with no make-good airing of WOF.

However, it probably got pre-empted anyway by live storm coverage because they received several complaints last night for pre-empting at least part of The Voice.
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Indeed it did, so KCBD aired the special tonight, meaning Lubbock lost WOF two nights in a row.
 
WheelRob said:
The Stanley Cup was listed immediately after the Preakness at 7:15 on Saturday. No NBC station would be airing Saturday Jeopardy! or Wheel of Fortune at its regular times, except for the very few that do not show it at the common 7:00/7:30 slots on Saturday night (for example, WCBD in Charleston, SC airs WOF on Sunday nights/Monday mornings at midnight, and KHQ in Spokane, WA airs WOF Sundays at 6:30).
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My NBC station started "Wheel".
 
Last night, Wheel of Fortune got pre-empted by local specials in not one, not two, but three markets.

WETM Elmira (NBC) and WROC Rochester (CBS) both pre-empted WOF with preview specials on the Senior PGA Championships. WETM technically pre-empted Jeopardy! with the special, but because of Jeopardy!'s current champion bringing in higher ratings than normal for the show, they moved Jeopardy! to WOF's time slot at 7:30 (a d*ck move, IMO) and moved WOF to its subchannel at 7:00 (swapping the two shows' times), and their programming director confirmed to me that the champ was the sole reason they did this move; if he had already lost, they would have put J! on the subchannel and kept WOF as-is. WROC bumped WOF to 1:37 AM, as they always do when they pre-empt it (which is often, at least half a dozen times this season).

WAND Decatur (NBC) aired a one-hour special about violence and crime in the area from 6-7 Central, and this station never re-airs WOF when they pre-empt it. I contacted the station manager suggesting that they put WOF in the time slot normally occupied by a rerun of Jeopardy! He said he would attempt to ask their contacts at WOF/CBS TVD for permission for an early airing, but nothing ever came of it and last night's WOF didn't air at all.

It really sucks that Wheel is constantly a target for random local specials because it's forced to air between news and primetime and is generally considered "unimportant" because it doesn't have champions anymore. It'd be nice if somebody over there did something about it.
 
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Wheel of Fortune got beat like the Super Smash Bros. Sandbag this Memorial Day.

Obviously, the show was affected on all West Coast NBC affiliates by the first game of the Stanley Cup Final. Most are pretty accommodating. There are 4 affiliates in the Mountain Time Zone that carry Wheel and 7 in the Pacific Time Zone. Most of them are airing the show two hours later than usual after the game at 9:00 or 9:30 PM local time.

The exceptions: KYMA Yuma is airing it early at 4:00 PM Arizona time (7:00 Eastern); KNVN Chico is airing it immediately after the game at 8:00 PM Pacific (meaning if a game runs over, it will be cut off); KNSD San Diego (O&O) reportedly did not air it at all on 5/27 due to a three-hour news broadcast after the game from 8-11, but will air it at 9:00 on the other affected days; KKCO Colorado Springs is bumping it to 2:00 AM and is opting for a Dateline rerun at 9:00 instead; KCWY Casper is not airing it at all, as they are also airing Dateline at 9:00 and they never air Wheel or Jeopardy! outside of their usual timeslots or on their CW subchannel when pre-empted.

WMDB Peoria (CBS) had storm coverage Monday afternoon, which pre-empted Jeopardy!, so at the last minute, they decided to re-air it in Wheel of Fortune's time slot at 6:30 PM, and bump WOF to 12:37 AM after Corden. WOF also got pre-empted in full that night by storm coverage on WSBT South Bend (CBS) and Tuesday night (along with MasterChef Junior) on WDAF Kansas City (FOX).

Besides all that, WTHR Indianapolis decided the most important event Monday evening was the Indy 500 Victory Banquet, which included a Red Carpet show at 7:30 PM. This is normally Jeopardy!'s time slot, but since WTHR is one of several affiliates that is biased towards that show over WOF, they bumped it to WOF's time slot at 7:00. Both WOF and the Stanley Cup game were bumped to WALV, their MeTV sister station/subchannel, but M*A*S*H was still listed on the guide instead of WOF. Since WALV isn't carried on satellite providers in the area, they got serious backlash on social media for this move since many hockey fans were forced to miss out on the game.
 
unclehonkey said:
One other note to the above about the late local news having access to 2 CBS & 2 FOX affiliates its interesting how each handles news when the previous sports event runs long.
KMSP Minneapolis will run their 1 hour news in full regardless how long the previous show ran. So if they were scheduled for say 10pm and the game runs until 11:15, KMSP will run a full 1 hour newscast and pre-empt something in the middle of the night. KEYC-DT2 has a news at 9. If sports is scheduled until 9:30 then there is no news. If the sports is scheduled until say 9 (like when FOX has MLB) and if the game runs until 9:20, well then there is a 10 minute newscast and they're back on schedule at 9:30.
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My affiliates in Asheville North Carolina-Upstate South Carolina always run the news in full regardless how long the previous show ran. Like during the Stanley Cup Finals, lets say the Blues-Bruins game goes to OT, WYFF will run their news in full as soon as a goal is scored and NBC Sports signs off(postgame airs on NBCSN).
 
My TiVo listings showed "The Goldbergs". I went ahead and recorded it, forgetting I have to add a minute at the end. Only the Season Pass automatically does that and I had to remember to do that after missing the end numerous times. Only the ABC affiliate showed some news special. Maybe I need to remember to record the show on the TiVo with the antenna, because the other ABC affiliate never pre-empts anything.
 
vchimpanzee said:
My TiVo listings showed "The Goldbergs". I went ahead and recorded it, forgetting I have to add a minute at the end. Only the Season Pass automatically does that and I had to remember to do that after missing the end numerous times. Only the ABC affiliate showed some news special. Maybe I need to remember to record the show on the TiVo with the antenna, because the other ABC affiliate never pre-empts anything.
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Which market are you in?
 
I'm surprised no one on this thread yet has brought up WKEF-22.1 Dayton (ABC) and weather reports causing the interruption of the "Bachelorette" Memorial Day evening. And meteorologist Jamie Simpson justifiably flying off the handle at viewers complaining about missing Bachelorette when EF4 tornadoes were bearing down on the Dayton area:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weat...warning/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.18cb0512f527

YouTube clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vww1IeQ02is

YouTube has all 8 hours of tornado coverage from WKEF/Fox 45 from Monday night/early Tuesday. Simpson gets frustrated at Bachelorette viewers starting at the 20:54 point.
 
Tim from Springfield said:
I'm surprised no one on this thread yet has brought up WKEF-22.1 Dayton (ABC) and weather reports causing the interruption of the "Bachelorette" Memorial Day evening. And meteorologist Jamie Simpson justifiably flying off the handle at viewers complaining about missing Bachelorette when EF4 tornadoes were bearing down on the Dayton area:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weat...warning/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.18cb0512f527

YouTube clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vww1IeQ02is

YouTube has all 8 hours of tornado coverage from WKEF/Fox 45 from Monday night/early Tuesday. Simpson gets frustrated at Bachelorette viewers starting at the 20:54 point.
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Some people are calling for Jamie Simpson to be fired for his tirade. Some people are so ignorant. All of that destruction in Ohio and there are a good number of people who are complaining about not being able to see The Bachelorette. That is insane.
 
trippefontaine1 said:
Some people are calling for Jamie Simpson to be fired for his tirade. Some people are so ignorant. All of that destruction in Ohio and there are a good number of people who are complaining about not being able to see The Bachelorette. That is insane.
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Especially considering that since it's a network primetime show, they can just watch it on abc.com or On Demand the next day.

It's wrong when anybody has the audacity to call a station and complain about missing a show for storm coverage, though I can somewhat understand people doing it for syndicated shows since stations can easily reschedule them, they can't be streamed later (legally), and there's no telling whether the episode will get a repeat or not.


Last week, WABC New York pre-empted about 15-20 minutes of ABC's broadcast of The Lion King with storm updates. Before that, a crawl popped up right during Mufasa's death scene. Very awkward timing.
 
Last Friday was upsetting for Blindspot fans in one market...

Since last weekend was the Detroit Grand Prix, local NBC affiliate WDIV aired a one-hour special from 7-8 PM, pre-empting Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! Shockingly, rather than air them overnight or not at all, they instead moved the two shows to air in the 8-9 PM hour, pre-empting the first part of that night's two-part season finale of Blindspot. WDIV is also available on some providers' lineups in Canada, so of course many were dumbfounded when they tuned in and saw Pat Sajak instead of Sullivan Stapleton.

Very rare that an affiliate values syndies over network programming, especially primetime. A few months ago, WVIR in Charlottesville, Virginia did the opposite, pre-empting the WOF/J! hour with This Is Us the day after the episode's air date since its time slot the previous night was pre-empted by a local basketball game.

WDIV's attitude about handling WOF and/or Jeopardy! pre-emptions has changed drastically over the past couple of years. Previously, if both were pre-empted with an hour-long special broadcast, neither show's episodes would air at all for that day, and the remaining episodes of the week would not be delayed a day to accommodate like some stations will sometimes do. If there was a half-hour pre-emption, WOF was usually the first target. If Jeopardy!'s time slot at 7:30 was pre-empted (especially when NBC had Thursday Night Football), that show would move to 7:00 and that day's WOF would not air at all. However, if J! was a rerun that day (either the summer hiatus in August-September or any Saturday), WOF would keep its 7:00 slot. I don't think WDIV even airs J!'s Saturday run anymore at all. During the 2018 Winter Olympics, WOF got bumped to its ThisTV sub at varying time slots (due to The Olympic Zone airing at 7:30 and moving J! to 7:00), though it would return to WDIV on Saturdays. Then come January 2019, someone at WDIV decided to give WOF better treatment. In a two-week period, Jeopardy! got pre-empted three times by local specials (two on the North American International Auto Show and one on the US Figure Skating Championships), while WOF was only affected once. On January 19, WDIV oddly decided to pre-empt half of America's Got Talent (a two-hour repeat) with a rerun of WOF at 8:00 and an infomercial at 8:30. AGT would get joined in progress at 9:00, and it was even listed as "America's Got Talent (JIP)".
 
WheelRob said:
Pardon my ignorance, but I don't know what it is about stations in the midwest and "Survive the Storm" severe weather specials. Not breaking news coverage or a tornado watch, but pre-produced Powerpoint-like specials on how to prepare for a storm.

Several stations in the midwest have pre-empted Wheel of Fortune (regardless of its time slot) with such specials this season.

Wed March 20: WBNS Columbus, OH (CBS) bumped WOF to 1:37 AM after Corden.
Thu March 28: KYTV Springfield, MO (NBC) bumped that day's WOF to Saturday afternoon at 12:30 PM.
Thu Apr 4: KOMU Columbia, MO (NBC) didn't air that day's WOF at all. The real kicker was that the same special re-aired multiple times over the following weekend, so there was absolutely no reason to pre-empt WOF on a random weekday.
Thu Apr 18: WILX Lansing, MI (NBC) aired an hour-long special, bumping WOF and Jeopardy! to its AntennaTV subchannel, both of them replacing Archie Bunker's Place. This was the only weather special pre-emption that also affected Jeopardy!; all of the other affiliates aired J! as normal despite not airing WOF.
Wed May 15: KWWL Waterloo, IA (NBC) is bumping that day's WOF to Saturday night/Sunday morning at 1:32 AM, which will air as a double run with this weekend's Saturday rerun following it at 2:02 since NBC has the Preakness Stakes and Stanley Cup playoffs all day Saturday.

Is someone at Jeopardy! paying these stations to pick on WOF? :p
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And on Thursday, May 30, three affiliates all pre-empted WOF with local storm specials (none of them affecting Jeopardy! of course). WTVD Durham, NC (ABC O&O) bumped it to 1:37 AM, KIII Corpus Christi, TX (ABC) bumped it to 12:37 AM, and WJHG Panama City, FL (NBC) bumped it to 1:07 AM.

I really wish WOF wasn't stuck with its "must air between 6:00 news and primetime" mandate. I'm willing to bet it gets pre-empted by local affiliates more than any other syndicated show.


Last Monday, co-owned stations WYOU (CBS) and WBRE (NBC) in Wilkes-Barre, PA were scheduled to air a live one-hour telethon from 7-8 PM, pre-empting normal programming on both stations (Local News/ET on CBS; WOF/J! on NBC). Originally, WBRE was going to skip that day's WOF and J! episodes altogether, then they gave J! an overnight slot at 2:37 AM but did nothing for WOF. Then, a few days before the event, WBRE decided to only air the first half of the telethon from 7:00-7:30, still pre-empting WOF, but allowing them to put Jeopardy! back at its normal time, and putting WOF in the 2:37 slot. This was very likely because of Jeopardy!'s near-record-breaking champion streak coming to an end on that day's episode, an event that would undoubtedly be talked about all over the media the following day.

Previously, WBRE did not care to reschedule either game show at all if pre-empted. When NBC carried Thursday Night Football, WOF was unaffected and Thursday episodes of Jeopardy! would just get skipped. They even made a 30-second promo advising viewers that Jeopardy! would "return" on Friday. I think they should have at least had the courtesy to delay Thursday and Friday's episodes to air on Friday and Saturday, which is what WCNC Charlotte would do for WOF since the two shows are swapped there.
 
i don't know if this counts as a preemption, but last night, the entire first segment of the new episode of Conan on TBS was preempted for a rerun of the first segment of Monday's show, but returned with the new episode already in progress in the second segment which was Conan O'Biren interviewing Chelsea Handler. it seems to be a mess up at TBS' end with them accidently playing the wrong episode. Monday's episode had Thomas Middleditch promoting the new Godzilla movie he is in. the screw up happened durig the 10 PM CT debut airing of the episode. the 11: 30 PM CT encore airing ended up having the entire episode air like it was meant to air at 10 PM CT.
 


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