the other preemption thread cause people will go 'they preempted it for that".
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They preempted that for this?
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the other preemption thread cause people will go 'they preempted it for that".
Oh, THAT explains it. I wondered how the game ended so early. And then I forgot to see whether the Panthers won.
My NBC affiliate's newscast was recorded at the normal time.
In other WCNC news, I don't know what NBC is airing tomorrow night at 9:30, but WCNC has a news special.
NBC is airing a repeat of last Tuesday's two-hour AGT Semifinals from 8-10 Eastern. WCNC is opting to override that with "Love Them First: Lessons from Lucy Laney Elementary", a 90-minute documentary produced by Minneapolis NBC affiliate KARE, followed by a local special titled "I Can't Afford to Live Here: Solutions to Charlotte's Affordable Housing Crisis".
At one time a couple of years back WREG CBS 3 in Memphis would run the infomercial for Operation Smile every Saturday night at 7 PM CT in place of whatever program CBS had at that time unless there was an occasional SEC college football game on. Granted it was usually some sort of repeat, but it did happen. But I know now that it can still go on the other thread if it or something similar happens again. Thanks.
How about Billy Graham's Crusades. or the Lyndon LaRouche and Ross Perot long-form campaign ads of decades past? I assume all were paid programming.
That cleft-palate pityfest is the Kars 4 Kids of TV charity commercials.
The Operation Smile infomercial sometimes shows up on WCBS on Saturdays at 7:00 Eastern in place of the weekend edition of ET. It also randomly replaced Wheel of Fortune on all three of the CBS O&O's carrying it for a couple days in late 2017. I guess that was a half-hour version of it. WCBS never airs it on weekdays. I have seen it show up on a weekday on WFSB Hartford at least once.
How old is that thing, anyway? Seeing 4:3 programming on a major network at 7:00 PM in the late 2010's looks so jarring.
How old is that thing, anyway? Seeing 4:3 programming on a major network at 7:00 PM in the late 2010's looks so jarring.
all Tegna markets have or will be showing that documentary. It was very well done and since KARE 11 is my local NBC I've seen plenty of stories on Lucy Laney Elementary prior to the documentary
I remember that KCTV in Kansas City, MO would once in a while preempt Inside Edition for a Time-Life music collection informercial.
CBS had the Alabama/South Carolina SEC game scheduled until 7:00 Eastern, but they didn't sign off from the field until 7:08, and then a post game show ran until 7:30.
Whatever your CBS has scheduled at 7:00/6:00 Central on Saturdays with College Football, don't count on it airing in full if it's not local news. WCBS joined Entertainment Tonight Weekend in progress halfway through. Some affiliates that had half an hour of news scheduled at 7:00 skipped the news and went right to whatever was scheduled for 7:30, while other affiliates ran the news from 7:30-8:00 in place of whatever was scheduled for 7:30.
Whatever your CBS has scheduled at 7:00/6:00 Central on Saturdays with College Football, don't count on it airing in full if it's not local news. WCBS joined Entertainment Tonight Weekend in progress halfway through. Some affiliates that had half an hour of news scheduled at 7:00 skipped the news and went right to whatever was scheduled for 7:30, while other affiliates ran the news from 7:30-8:00 in place of whatever was scheduled for 7:30.
It's on the schedule so it isn't a preemption. It's considered Thursday programing on Fox.
FOX's Oklahoma/UCLA game overran by about 12 minutes. Of course this just led into the late-night local news on most of the East Coast.
ABC's Clemson/Syrcause game did not sign off until 11:26 Eastern. East Coast pretty much just started local news. During College Football season, KABC Los Angeles will be airing the Saturday reruns of Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune at 8:00 and 8:30 PM Pacific after the game, time permitting. Tonight, J! got joined in progress just in time for Final Jeopardy!
KGO had been airing J!/Wheel on a one-day delay this week because of the Raiders game on Monday pre-empting them both, with Friday's episodes scheduled for Saturday night after the game. Listings showed J! would air at 9:00 and Wheel at 9:30. However, their website said Wheel would be at 8:30, before J! and not after, with local show Bay Area Life at 9:30. The website was correct. Wheel did not air due to the overrun causing local sports show After the Game to run from 8:30-9:00, then Friday's Jeopardy! aired, and Bay Area Life aired at 9:30 while it was listed as Wheel. No idea why they suddenly decided, "Hey, let's put Wheel before Jeopardy! instead of after, even though there's a 90% chance it won't air because College Football takes so darn long!"
In other words, on College Football Saturdays, don't expect to see all of Jeopardy! in Los Angeles, or any of Wheel in San Francisco. They'll only air in full if the games end "on time" according to ABC's schedule.
ABC's Clemson/Syrcause game did not sign off until 11:26 Eastern. East Coast pretty much just started local news. During College Football season, KABC Los Angeles will be airing the Saturday reruns of Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune at 8:00 and 8:30 PM Pacific after the game, time permitting. Tonight, J! got joined in progress just in time for Final Jeopardy!
KGO had been airing J!/Wheel on a one-day delay this week because of the Raiders game on Monday pre-empting them both, with Friday's episodes scheduled for Saturday night after the game. Listings showed J! would air at 9:00 and Wheel at 9:30. However, their website said Wheel would be at 8:30, before J! and not after, with local show Bay Area Life at 9:30. The website was correct. Wheel did not air due to the overrun causing local sports show After the Game to run from 8:30-9:00, then Friday's Jeopardy! aired, and Bay Area Life aired at 9:30 while it was listed as Wheel. No idea why they suddenly decided, "Hey, let's put Wheel before Jeopardy! instead of after, even though there's a 90% chance it won't air because College Football takes so darn long!"
In other words, on College Football Saturdays, don't expect to see all of Jeopardy! in Los Angeles, or any of Wheel in San Francisco. They'll only air in full if the games end "on time" according to ABC's schedule.
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Exactly this. It. Was. Scheduled.
ABC and Fox had college football scheduled through the 7 PM ET/6 PM CT hour yesterday and filled it with games that ran over and scoreboard shows running into the next game which started at 7:30 ET. If some local stations ran other programming then they likely dropped the scoreboard show going into the next game. Next weekend ABC is doing the same thing again. Fox apparently doesn't have a late afternoon game scheduled next weekend (Yet) so they will go to local programming until the night game. College football taking up the 7 PM ET hour will probably be a regular thing on ABC and Fox, and also possibly CBS or NBC on the occasional times they have a late game.
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Yes, I remember last year, every other week ABC would leave a window from 7-8 Eastern between two games for programming or local news, which is exactly what CBS seems to be doing this year starting next week.
WABC would move Saturday Jeopardy! to early Saturday morning around 4:00 AM because its time slot would be replaced with Eyewitness News after the game. Wheel of Fortune remained at 7:30, but would only air in full if the game signed off no later than 7:10 or so. Any later than that, the news would spill over to the 7:30 slot, covering up either half of Wheel or the whole show depending on how late the game overran. Sometimes, they would bump Wheel to Saturday or Sunday morning and air local specials at 7:30 that would have to get delayed a week if they didn't air. Since ABC is no longer leaving that window, WABC will be airing J!/WOF Sunday mornings at 4:30 and 5:00 AM, and they don't start late if the nighttime game overran. I'm glad they're just scheduling football related stuff all the way through this year.
WCBD, the local NBC in Charleston, SC, preempted the Downton Abbey special scheduled at 8pm tonight for an hour-long special on the 30th anniversary of Hurricane Hugo. No time was set for the Downton Abbey to re-air.
The Cardinals/Cubs game on FOX ran even longer than last week's game thanks to the Cubs tying the game during the 9th inning and necessitating a 10th. Again, the time slot for the game ended at 10:00 Eastern. The final out was caught at 10:57, and then after commercials, field interviews, and more commercials, FOX signed off at 11:10.
Again, this resulted in Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune getting (pre-)pre-empted on KDVR Denver, as they were scheduled at 8:00 and 8:30 Mountain right after the game, but they were skipped straight to the local news.
Again, this resulted in Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune getting (pre-)pre-empted on KDVR Denver, as they were scheduled at 8:00 and 8:30 Mountain right after the game, but they were skipped straight to the local news.
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