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They preempted that for this?
- Thread starter Stanislav
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Thanks to FOX acquiring WWE Friday Night Smackdown, the first event of the season is preceded by a "Blue Carpet" kickoff show at 7:30 Eastern, once again pre-empting prime access syndies or news. Unlike Thursday Night Football, this will not be aired live west of CST.
This is one of the very rare occasions where Wheel of Fortune is pre-empted on KHON, Hawaii's FOX station. Most other sporting events end well before its time slot due to the huge time difference with EST. It's also rare that KDVR Denver has to pre-empt Wheel but not Jeopardy!, as most sporting events affect both shows' time slots in MST (KDVR is the only FOX station in MST that carries them; none do in PST). Just like with TNF, WXIX Cincinnati and WLUK Green Bay will move Wheel an hour early, and WSYT Syracuse will move Jeopardy! an hour early.
WWE is scheduled to end at 10:30 E/9:30 C. Programming for 10:30 seems to be up to the affiliate. WNYW NYC is airing local program "Street Soldiers". KHON Hawaii will be airing Wheel at 9:30 after WWE (hopefully it doesn't run long).
Interestingly, WVUE New Orleans is opting to air the kickoff show on its .2 Bounce TV sub so that Wheel can air at its normal time, even though they delay it to 11:00 PM Central on Thursdays (plus however many minutes TNF overruns). The actual WWE event will move to FOX.
Ironically, last year, FOX offered a huge bid to acquire Wheel and Jeopardy! for its O&O's, and away from the ABC O&O's that air them (all eight air Jeopardy! and seven of them air Wheel). CBS Television Distribution decided not to let FOX have them because such a network move in top markets would have thrown off too many viewers. And yet FOX is airing more and more "early prime" events that would have been a huge damper on Wheel and its ratings (all of the ABC O&O's air Wheel at 7:30/6:30, and 8 of the 11 FOX stations carrying it air it at that time slot as well). https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/wheel-of-fortune-jeopardy-abc-fox-cbs-1203019794/
This is one of the very rare occasions where Wheel of Fortune is pre-empted on KHON, Hawaii's FOX station. Most other sporting events end well before its time slot due to the huge time difference with EST. It's also rare that KDVR Denver has to pre-empt Wheel but not Jeopardy!, as most sporting events affect both shows' time slots in MST (KDVR is the only FOX station in MST that carries them; none do in PST). Just like with TNF, WXIX Cincinnati and WLUK Green Bay will move Wheel an hour early, and WSYT Syracuse will move Jeopardy! an hour early.
WWE is scheduled to end at 10:30 E/9:30 C. Programming for 10:30 seems to be up to the affiliate. WNYW NYC is airing local program "Street Soldiers". KHON Hawaii will be airing Wheel at 9:30 after WWE (hopefully it doesn't run long).
Interestingly, WVUE New Orleans is opting to air the kickoff show on its .2 Bounce TV sub so that Wheel can air at its normal time, even though they delay it to 11:00 PM Central on Thursdays (plus however many minutes TNF overruns). The actual WWE event will move to FOX.
Ironically, last year, FOX offered a huge bid to acquire Wheel and Jeopardy! for its O&O's, and away from the ABC O&O's that air them (all eight air Jeopardy! and seven of them air Wheel). CBS Television Distribution decided not to let FOX have them because such a network move in top markets would have thrown off too many viewers. And yet FOX is airing more and more "early prime" events that would have been a huge damper on Wheel and its ratings (all of the ABC O&O's air Wheel at 7:30/6:30, and 8 of the 11 FOX stations carrying it air it at that time slot as well). https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/wheel-of-fortune-jeopardy-abc-fox-cbs-1203019794/
Smackdown is only 2 hours so it runs from 7-9 CDT and wont run long. Dont know where you got info that it runs until 9:30
Also unlike Sporting events, Smackdown is only live in the East and Central time zone. The rest is "tape delayed" to be shown in the 7-9 or 8-10 slot
Oops. I must have swiped a little too fast when checking my listings on my phone. I figured it was odd that WNYW wasn't doing a post-event newscast, then saw that they did at 10:00. Pardon my mistake.
Not a preemption per see, but with weather issues, ABC and ESPN had to make some changes to their schedule today.
Texas at West Virginia will start on ABC as scheduled
▪️ Baylor at Kansas State will start on ESPN2 as scheduled
▪️ TCU at Iowa State moves to ESPNEWS (started late due to weather)
▪️ Okla at Kansas concludes on ESPNU
Texas at West Virginia will start on ABC as scheduled
▪️ Baylor at Kansas State will start on ESPN2 as scheduled
▪️ TCU at Iowa State moves to ESPNEWS (started late due to weather)
▪️ Okla at Kansas concludes on ESPNU
JeeperOne
Banned
Plus, it can also be moved over to WWOR 9 if needed too
JeeperOne
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As they should've done
Remember it was 9:10 PM when they finally got a chance to begin (Denver isn't like the coasts when the late news on fox, Cw 7 some MyNet affiliates & WJXT 4 all start at 10:00 PM)
Add to this that KUSA's newscast on MyNet affiliate KTVD 20 had a head start on them (KDVR 31 normally *DESTROYS* 9NEWS when the newscasts are on KTVD 20 & is likely why KMGH doesn't produce LIVE newscasts for Indie KCDO 3 & has limited them to airing previously recorded broadcasts instead)
And if you REALLY wanna go back into the 9:00 PM news war history, it was KDVR who DESTROYED KWGN's LONG RUNNING 9:00 PM newscast that dates back to (At least) the 1960s (I'd have to look that one up though)
So, if you think KDVR was going to give KUSA any more of an inch than they ABSOLUTELY HAD to - NO WAY JOSE !! That wouldn't have made sense
and Smackdown actually got done at :57 and FOX did a promo for Masked Singer
True, but I don't think WWOR would want to sacrifice Family Feud for Extra (even if there are three other airings of the former). Besides, I don't believe WNYW generally moves pre-empted programming there, do they? WCBS almost-always moves pre-empted CBS network shows (but not syndies) to sister station WLNY, but the other big NYC affiliates generally don't do that.
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Here in Minneapolis KMSP (FOX 9) shifts programming to sister station WFTC (FOX 9+ formerly My29) like news and on Sundays the FOX football pre-pregame (the one at 10 CDT) is always on Fox9+ due to local produced Vikings gameday on FOX 9
This has happened every Saturday so far this season. You'd think CBS would just take over the 7:00-7:30 Eastern slot by now so affiliates don't have to schedule "maybe/maybe not" shows or news in that slot. For those that schedule news that doesn't delay if there's overrun, like WCCO, I wonder if at some point, the anchors are basically told, "Yeah, they're running post game to 6:30 again tonight. You guys can go home". I'd be annoyed if I had to keep showing up to the studio on a Saturday evening and be ready for a newscast that we probably knew wouldn't happen. I have no idea how that works, though. Maybe CBS sends out some memo about their scheduling plans if the play clock is at a certain time at a certain hour?
As for the other two CBS O&O's that carry (Weekend) Wheel, WBZ Boston schedules it at 7:00, meaning it still has yet to air this season, and obviously it doesn't get delayed to 7:30 to replace Jeopardy! KTVT Dallas also forgoes its potential 6:00 newscast and goes straight to Wheel, though it usually gets a bit cut off at the beginning and starts during the contestant interviews, as KTVT tends to start the show at more like 6:28. I have seen several DFW area viewers complain that their DVR often cuts off the first Toss-Up. KTVT tends to be more unreliable with Weekend Wheel later in the season, though, sometimes pre-empting it on-the-fly with infomercials or specials, and sometimes, but not always, moving Wheel to KTXA while it's listed as local show "DFW Outdoorsman".
At least NBC's game ended on time tonight. The game moved fairly quickly with Notre Dame shutting out Bowling Green 52-0. The clock ran out around 6:20 Eastern, so there was a lot of postgame talk to fill the rest of the hour.
ABC's final game overran by 9 minutes. WABC New York ran the local news until roughly 12:10, starting Wipeout (syndie reruns) late but from the beginning. KABC Los Angeles joined Jeopardy! in progress during the break before the Double Jeopardy! round. Despite finally getting to air it last weekend, KGO San Francisco has dropped Weekend Wheel from its Saturday postgame lineup. Jeopardy! moves up to the 8:30 Pacific death slot after mandatory local postgame show "After the Game", and J!'s former 9:00 slot is now given to local show "Sips with Spencer", with fellow local show "Bay Area Life" still following at 9:30. Despite not losing the majority of the 8:00-8:30 slot, KGO opted to run "After the Game" all the way to 9:00 tonight, pre-empting Jeopardy! in full.
Zap2It does show Weekend Wheel back on KGO's schedule for 10/19 at 8:30, but that may change. Last season, it was never on the schedule during CF season (but Jeopardy! was, following ATG). KABC didn't carry either of the two shows in Saturday primetime in Sept-Oct 2018, but they were added the first weekend of November in the 9 PM hour following post-game local news (compared to the 8 PM hour they sit in this year, with no post-game news; 9-11 is now random local specials and/or reruns of Tamron Hall or ABC primetime shows).
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When I worked at a CBS affiliate in the 90s, CBS sent very detailed instructions on what was happening with college and NFL football and all possible contingencies, and would keep us updated in real time. I'm sure that still happens. Now that we are in the internet and app era, there are stations that go ahead and run a newscast online and on the app if there's a sports pre-emption.
If there is a regular postgame show on CBS until 6:30 CT WREG CBS 3 in Memphis and WBBJ 7.3 in Jackson, TN must be dropping it for news except if games run over, and they run a shortened news report if necessary. WREG has a local talk show called Informed Sources at 6:30 so that is something that can probably be dropped easily if necessary.
I checked the Saturday schedule and ABC is running college football and the scoreboard show as usual until going into the next game at 6:30 CT. NBC has a Notre Dame game scheduled at 6:30 which would pre-empt the weekend Wheel of Fortune. Fox has an early college game at 11 AM CT and then an ALCS playoff game with the pregame starting at 6:30.
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Every 3:30 Saturday CBS game to date did not end until after 7:00 ET (by "end", I mean the clock hitting zero). It's likely that CBS just wants to end their broadcast at an even half hour interval, similar to how KGO ran ATG from 8:10-9:00 PT and not 8:10-8:40. ABC generally doesn't care what time they sign off if it's past the time slot; if this is the case, the "Ford Wrap-Up" is very brief, but last weekend, with the game ending early, it was a full-on table discussion like what CBS does. I'm curious to see what CBS will do when the clock runs out before 7:00 - would they just do a brief post-game wrap-up segment in time to sign off at 7:00, or would they fill time with tons of field interviews and a full-on postgame discussion until 7:30 even if it's >30 minutes?
Speaking of WBBJ Jackson, 7.1/ABC carries Wheel and Jeopardy! on weekdays (J! at 11:30 AM CT, WOF at the typical 6:30 PM), but for the Saturday runs during CF season, with the sport taking over ABC the whole day, both shows have temporarily moved to 7.3/CBS, with J! at 6:30 PM (possibly pre-empted if the game runs long, as 6:00 is news) and WOF at 10:35 PM (although on 9/21, it was pre-empted by wrestling). If CBS has a 7-10 PM game, the 10:00 news and WOF get delayed if there's overrun, but not pre-empted. WBBJ announced this move on their Twitter a little while before the season began. Not very often stations make announcements on reschedulings of WOF or J! Weekend unless it's during a time like March Madness or the Olympics where surrounding weekdays are affected, too.
Tonight's MNF game is between the Browns and 49ers, and programming is affected in both teams' markets.
Cleveland is airing the game on NBC affiliate WKYC. An hour of pregame coverage begins at 7:00 Eastern, pre-empting a local newscast and Entertainment Tonight, and the game itself is slotted from 8:00-11:00, pre-empting The Voice and Bluff City Law. ET isn't airing at all, Voice is delayed to 2:07 AM (replacing Sister Circle, a repeat of NBC Nightly News, and Early Today), and BCL is delayed to 2:07 AM tomorrow night/Wednesday morning.
Over in SF, the game is on ABC O&O KGO, slotted from 5:00-8:30 PM Pacific with no pregame, pre-empting local news at 5:00 and 6:00, a repeat of ABC World News Tonight at 5:30 (it also airs live with the East Coast at 3:30), Jeopardy!, Wheel of Fortune, and part of Dancing With the Stars. KGO's entire primetime and late night lineup slides back half an hour (possibly further if there's overrun), with DWTS at 8:30, The Good Doctor at 10:30, the "11:00 news" at 11:30, Kimmel at 12:05, Nightline at 1:07, a news repeat at 1:42, and a repeat of Tamron Hall at 2:12. As for Jeopardy! and Wheel, KGO's site implies that Tamron will be cut off at 3:00 to show Jeopardy!, followed by Wheel at 3:30. However, Zap2It has a full hour of Tamron with Jeopardy! at 3:12 and only 18 minutes of Wheel from 3:42-4:00, implying a cutoff to start America This Morning on time.
Weird that WKYC Cleveland is not accounting for the last half hour in their schedule. Surely they will end up delaying the 11:00 news and likely cut off Fallon.
Cleveland is airing the game on NBC affiliate WKYC. An hour of pregame coverage begins at 7:00 Eastern, pre-empting a local newscast and Entertainment Tonight, and the game itself is slotted from 8:00-11:00, pre-empting The Voice and Bluff City Law. ET isn't airing at all, Voice is delayed to 2:07 AM (replacing Sister Circle, a repeat of NBC Nightly News, and Early Today), and BCL is delayed to 2:07 AM tomorrow night/Wednesday morning.
Over in SF, the game is on ABC O&O KGO, slotted from 5:00-8:30 PM Pacific with no pregame, pre-empting local news at 5:00 and 6:00, a repeat of ABC World News Tonight at 5:30 (it also airs live with the East Coast at 3:30), Jeopardy!, Wheel of Fortune, and part of Dancing With the Stars. KGO's entire primetime and late night lineup slides back half an hour (possibly further if there's overrun), with DWTS at 8:30, The Good Doctor at 10:30, the "11:00 news" at 11:30, Kimmel at 12:05, Nightline at 1:07, a news repeat at 1:42, and a repeat of Tamron Hall at 2:12. As for Jeopardy! and Wheel, KGO's site implies that Tamron will be cut off at 3:00 to show Jeopardy!, followed by Wheel at 3:30. However, Zap2It has a full hour of Tamron with Jeopardy! at 3:12 and only 18 minutes of Wheel from 3:42-4:00, implying a cutoff to start America This Morning on time.
Weird that WKYC Cleveland is not accounting for the last half hour in their schedule. Surely they will end up delaying the 11:00 news and likely cut off Fallon.
You forgot to mention about Last Week's MNF Game. In Cincinnati, WLWT Showed the game, moving The Voice and Buff City Law to the MeTV subchannel. In Pittsburgh, WTAE showed the game. Not sure if Dancing with the Stars and The Good Doctor got moved to the Cozi TV subchannel or they aired it overnight.
So the game ended on time and actually signed off at 11:15 Eastern, which was the end of the time slot on ESPN's national broadcast.
WKYC ran a full half hour of local news and Fallon started from the beginning around 11:49.
KGO started DWTS around 8:15 Pacific, 15 minutes before it was listed. Assuming the rest of primetime and late night air this way, this should allow the Tamron Hall repeat to air in full (or at least 95% of it) so that Jeopardy! and Wheel can air in full at 3:00 and 3:30 AM.
Baseball playoffs on TBS caused schedule changes on TNT yesterday. TNT had Star Wars episodes 4 through 6 scheduled for the afternoon and evening, and I attempted to record them on my DVR. I don't know what happened earlier in the day but it appears that TNT possibly pushed back the start times for A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back, possibly in case of overruns in baseball on TBS. As it turned out the Atlanta/St. Louis game ran over and they started the LA/Washington game on TNT until the first game on TBS was over. Even with this Return of the Jedi started earlier than scheduled and I don't know how this affected the schedule later. Needless to say none of the movies recorded correctly, but I was able to get The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi from On Demand.
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While not exactly a pre-emption, FOX affiliate WBFF in Baltimore accidentally aired the wrong episode of Wheel of Fortune tonight. They accidentally replayed yesterday's episode. And as luck would have it, one of the contestants on today's episode is from Owings Mills.
Presumably after viewer complaints, the feed went black during the commercial break before the Bonus Round, then it ran only commercials until 8, skipping the Bonus Round.
Presumably after viewer complaints, the feed went black during the commercial break before the Bonus Round, then it ran only commercials until 8, skipping the Bonus Round.
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