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They preempted that for this?

The NBA game on ABC overran to 11:09 Eastern. WABC news began at 11:11.

KGO San Francisco changed their post-sports Saturday lineup, which now puts Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune in their proper order and are now padded by localish so that they are unlikely to be pre-empted if the game overruns.

Before:
8:00 - After the Game
8:30 - Wheel of Fortune (briefly Jeopardy!)
9:00 - Jeopardy! (briefly "Sips with Spencer")
9:30 - Bay Area Life
10:00 - Rerun of Nightline or 20/20

New Lineup:
8:00 - After the Game
8:30 - Localish
9:00 - Jeopardy!
9:30 - Wheel of Fortune
10:00 - Localish
10:30 - Bay Area Life


KABC Los Angeles has their own postgame show, but they only have one for basketball, compared to KGO's which covers all sporting events. During College Football season, the game show weekend runs started immediately after the game, which often meant Jeopardy! got JIP'd. The game show hour is now an hour later because KABC's show, Slam Dunk Saturday, is an hour long, and it still runs for an hour even if the game overruns, so tonight's edition ran until about 9:11 Pacific.

Strangely, KABC swapped J!/WOF on Saturdays effective this weekend, with WOF first instead of second. Tonight's episode/rerun got JIP'd in the middle of Round 3, about halfway through the show. This now means WOF will be the show threatened by overrun, while J! was in that spot on CFB days. No idea why they decided to switch them. Some stations do schedule J! with caution to avoid overrun JIPs, but KABC had no problem with it happening the past several weeks (even affecting a new episode at least once).
 
WCBS New York is airing the infamous Operation Smile infomercial tonight, pre-empting Entertainment Tonight Weekend, although its 11:00 PM repeat on sister WLNY is unaffected.

WFSB Hartford still has ET for tonight, but they will be airing the infomercial on Tuesday 1/28 at 7:00, pre-empting both Inside Edition and ET with no makegoods; neither show has a late-night or next-day encore in this market.

As of right now my COX Program Guide still shows Inside Edition and ET listed for 7PM/7:30PM on Tuesday for WFSB.
 
Tonight's FOX's primetime lineup is being blown out for an NFL Playoff game. Then FOX is premiring a new show "9-1-1 Lonestar" a spin-off of the popular 9-1-1 at 10PM Eastern, which according to my COX Program Guide is airing for 90 minutes. That sends the FOX 61 News at 10 over to CW 20 which is a regular occurance, but its usually because of sports programming from FOX.
 
As of right now my COX Program Guide still shows Inside Edition and ET listed for 7PM/7:30PM on Tuesday for WFSB.

I'm referring to two Tuesdays from now, 1/28, not this Tuesday. My Xfinity app shows OS on that day and IE/ET gone, but things are normal this Tuesday 1/21.
 
Impeachment coverage is now starting at 1 PM Eastern/10 AM Pacific for the time being. Today, CBS was the first to return to regular programming at 3E/12P, then NBC at 5E/2P, then ABC signed off shortly afterwards at 5:07 Eastern.
 
Some stations, mainly NBC's, resumed national impeachment coverage at 7:00 Eastern through about 7:40-45, but most Big Three affiliates kept the regular prime access programming.

WWLP in Springfield, MA (NBC) showed the national coverage over Wheel of Fortune and about half of Jeopardy! Same story on WPBF in West Palm Beach, FL (ABC). KCEN in Temple, TX (NBC) pre-empted the first half of Wheel with the coverage, but JIP'd it during the middle of Round 2.

WNBC New York did not air any national coverage during the 7 PM hour. However, they did do a local newscast make-up at 7:00 PM in place of Access Hollywood. When signing off, it was said that All Access would air at 7:30 as usual, but WNBC instead aired Access Hollywood delayed. This doesn't surprise me in the slightest since WNBC (and WVIT) always give priority to AH when one of the two prime access slots is pre-empted, even back when AH was paired with Extra.
 
Maybe because the networks didn't know for sure how long it would last, or if something would suddenly come up shortly before 1:00, or if something would be forced to cancel it and let the networks return to programming. Everything about this matter is totally unpredictable. I've seen stations put out announcements saying "We will be pre-empting X due to the impeachment", then minutes later say "Never mind; we WILL be airing X but will be pre-empting Y".
 
Last night at 7:00 was the Massachusetts State of the Commonwealth address. The Springfield market did not carry it on any of the local stations, but did host it for online streaming. Boston carried it on the Big Four plus indie WHDH, but slotting varied.

WCVB (ABC) slotted it from 7-8, pre-empting a local newscast and long-running local program "Chronicle", although it also airs an hour early at 6:30 on 5.2 MeTV.
WBTS (NBC) also slotted it for a full hour, pre-empting a local newscast and Access Hollywood with no make-good.
WFXT (FOX) gave it a full hour as well, bumping Entertainment Tonight and TMZ to 11:35 PM and 12:05 AM, replacing TMZ Live.
WBZ (CBS) only gave it half an hour, bumping Wheel of Fortune to 1:37 AM but keeping Jeopardy! at 7:30.
WHDH (IND) also just gave it half the hour, pre-empting Inside Edition at 7:00 (a rare case of IE/ET being on separate stations in the Eastern Time Zone?) but keeping Extra at 7:30. However, both shows repeat at 11:35 PM and 12:05 AM.

The speech itself ran longer than half an hour, to roughly 7:45-ish. WBZ JIP'd Jeopardy! halfway through the episode as soon as it ended (and they did not re-air the full episode at 2:07 AM after WOF), and WBTS JIP'd AH. WCVB kept the coverage running for a little bit after the governor was done, then filled the rest of the hour with local news to make up the 7:00 newscast.
 
It looks like the WLWT MeTV Subchannel is airing the Impeachment Trial, because I checked and they are airing it. All of the MeTV programming were still listed on the guide.


Are there any other Subchannels owned by Hearst Television that are carrying the same Impeachment Trial? Because apparently I didn't know about this untill now.
 
I imagine all of the Big Three affiliates in Vegas pre-empted programming for coverage of the Fashion Show Mall Shooting, which happened around 6:15 PM Pacific last night. One fan in the Wheel of Fortune Facebook group said that only Rounds 2 and 3 of last night's episode aired on KLAS/CBS; it was JIP'd around 7:38 and then news cut in again about 10 minutes later through the rest of the show and possibly primetime.
 
As for today's impeachment coverage, ABC officially signed off at 4:00 PM Eastern. CBS continued until at least 5:00, but some stations switched to programming or local news before then. WCBS New York aired the coverage until 5:00, but WFSB Hartford switched to local news by 4:30. For the NBC affiliates, it was the opposite. WNBC New York cut away for local news at 4:00, while WVIT Hartford aired the national coverage until 5:00. All three networks were likely officially over by then. No coverage in the 7 PM hour tonight that I could find.

However, WNBC once again aired an extra half hour of local news at 7:00 with Access Hollywood sliding back to 7:30 and pre-empting All Access, despite Chuck Scarborough's prompt still saying "All Access is next".
 
KOMO/ABC in Seattle pre-empted World News Tonight, Wheel of Fortune, and likely Jeopardy! for coverage of the shooting. Not sure how long coverage lasted on the other stations.
 
KOMO/ABC in Seattle pre-empted World News Tonight, Wheel of Fortune, and likely Jeopardy! for coverage of the shooting. Not sure how long coverage lasted on the other stations.

Does anybody know if the Seattle stations pre-empted for coverage of the shooting earlier out there?
 
ABC affiliate KATV in Little Rock pre-empted Wheel of Fortune last night with the Landers Award Ceremony, an award for high school football in Arkansas. It is broadcast live every year on a Wednesday in January at 6:30 PM Central. WOF is bumped to 12:07 AM in a Paid Programming slot.
 
The WLWT MeTV Subchannel is airing the Impeachment Trial again. Yeah, I'm thinking all MeTV Subchannels owned by Hearst Television are carrying this. For what I seen, WCVB, WESH and WMTW are airing it.
 


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