They preempted that for this?

[Wright County Guy]

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--In the late '90s, back when ABC usually had Saturday college football doubleheaders weekly (IIRC), many times Peoria ABC affiliate WHOI-19 bumped the 11AM game in favor of ESPN Plus coverage of Big Ten games.

I think that was pretty common all over the midwest in the days before the Big 10 Network.

True. KSTP in Minneapolis often did that with big ten basketball from ESPN Plus; ABC's ACC games would be relegated to 1:05 Sunday morning.

 

[anotherguyTN]

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In the 80's when NBC had Major League Baseball on Saturday afternoons WMC 5 in Memphis came into games already in progress at times because nothing pre-empted Memfus Rasslin', and when NBC had a doubleheader WMC would drop the second game and show their regular schedule of syndicated country music shows.

In the 90's WMC would pre-empt Notre Dame football on NBC and show Southeastern Conference games from Jefferson Pilot instead any time there was a scheduling conflict. This was one case where I didn't mind it because in most cases I'd rather see the SEC game.

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

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In the 80's when NBC had Major League Baseball on Saturday afternoons WMC 5 in Memphis came into games already in progress at times because nothing pre-empted Memfus Rasslin', and when NBC had a doubleheader WMC would drop the second game and show their regular schedule of syndicated country music shows.

Did this even happen when the St. Louis Cardinals--which also has a strong fan following in Memphis--were involved in the featured Games of the Week?

 

[anotherguyTN]

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The Cardinals games were usually on Sundays at that time. If NBC had anything on WMC usually pre-empted it. Once independents WPTY 24 and WLMT 30 came on, the Cardinals games moved there.

 

[nomadcowatbk]

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Some affiliates in the northeast used to pre-empt the Arkansas-LSU Iron Bowl Black Friday game with their regular weekday programming. KIRO in Seattle used to pre-empt non-Pac 10 Basketball games on CBS

 

[bpatrick]

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In 1972, whenever NBC had an NFL doubleheader, WSB
would pre-empt the second game in order to carry Lawrence
Welk. Ted Turner would pick up the second game. That
practice ceased after that year; WSB would carry Welk on
Saturdays in the fall until it moved to ABC, at which point it
picked up "Wide World Of Sports" and dropped Welk altogether.

 

[Cincinnati Kid]

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Until the 1965 season, NBC & CBS televised coverage of major league baseball games on Saturdays & Sundays was blacked out in cities that had teams as well as in surrounding markets whose signals could be seen in those cities. The thought was that such TV coverage would harm live attendance. As a result, Cincinnati never got to see games that were done by Dizzy Dean, Buddy Blattner and PeeWee Reese on CBS or Lindsey Nelson and the others who did the games on NBC. This changed in 1965 when ABC got the contract for major league telecasts.

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

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Until the 1965 season, NBC & CBS televised coverage of major league baseball games on Saturdays & Sundays was blacked out in cities that had teams as well as in surrounding markets whose signals could be seen in those cities. The thought was that such TV coverage would harm live attendance. As a result, Cincinnati never got to see games that were done by Dizzy Dean, Buddy Blattner and PeeWee Reese on CBS or Lindsey Nelson and the others who did the games on NBC. This changed in 1965 when ABC got the contract for major league telecasts.

I wonder if Dayton was also affected by this blackout in Cincy--as well as closer to home in markets like Rockford, IL (90 miles from Chicago), Madison, WI and perhaps even here in Springfield, IL (as we're 100 miles from St. Louis).

 

[charlestondxman]

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Here this has occurred hundreds of times. I could write several pages about this. WCSC just started a sub-channel last year to put all of their preempted games on, but before, it was bad.

ACC basketball has aired on WCSC 5 for decades, except for a few years it was on WCIV. We miss top CBS network games for second-rate ACC games all the time. It used to be worse. CBS had the SEC Championship, and it didn't even air because of the ACC Championship. Even the one year South Carolina was in it, it was moved to Comcast's local channel, which half the population can't get.

ACC and SEC football until two years ago both aired on network stations (NBC and CBS) respectively. Whenever CBS had a Noon game, we'd miss it for SEC games. They'd always join the CBS SEC game in progress, unless it was South Carolina, when they took the JP game off to put on SC. One year, FSU/Miami was preempted for another game, and aired on Comcast only. SEC moved to My, but ACC games still air on WCSC.

WCBD used to be bad too. In '97, the entire Ryder Cup was preempted because of an Army/Duke football game (in this huge golfing market). Only cable viewers got to see it. Back when ABC had golf, it was preempted for movies. Now, about the only preemption they have each year is for a local telethon on a Sunday, and even those events go on their CW.

 

[firepoint525]

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The Paducah, KY, NBC affiliate (WPSD-TV) was just the opposite. They would pre-empt "must-see TV" (although it wasn't called that at the time), Cosby Show, Family Ties, Cheers, Night Court, etc., for University of Kentucky basketball, this despite the fact that channel 6's signal could reach up to five additional states besides just Kentucky. They ran Cosby half an hour early, and then relegated all the rest of the programming to overnight hours for taping. :

 

[bpatrick]

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CBS affiliate WRAL Raleigh also has the ACC contract, and it cost
Triangle viewers a barn-burner today: Kentucky's come-from-behind
win at Tennessee, 64-58, that hopefully ended the Wildcats' jinx on
the road this season and at most got them a first-round bye in the
SEC tournament. WRAL had Boston College's blowout of Wake Forest;
fortunately, I can get WFMY Greensboro, as well as WCBS and KCBS,
all of which had the Cats and the Vols.

 

[azumanga]

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Up until a couple of years back (when the station was sold to new management), WGTU in Traverse City, Michigan would always pre-empt ABC's coverage of NBA basketball the week before Super Bowl Sunday to present, of all things, a "700 Club" telethon.

Since they showed Pat Robertson the door, another station picked up the telethon -- WFQX, the local Fox affiliate. While they have nothing to pre-empt, they do find themselves in the minority -- they're the only local station in Michigan that broadcasts the telethon.

 

[nomadcowatbk]

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Up until a couple of years back (when the station was sold to new management), WGTU in Traverse City, Michigan would always pre-empt ABC's coverage of NBA basketball the week before Super Bowl Sunday to present, of all things, a "700 Club" telethon.

Since they showed Pat Robertson the door, another station picked up the telethon -- WFQX, the local Fox affiliate. While they have nothing to pre-empt, they do find themselves in the minority -- they're the only local station in Michigan that broadcasts the telethon.

How many OTA stations broadcast the $700 Club telethon? ABC Family does each year

 

[Charles1]

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Similar to BPatrick's post (and I know I've commented on this before in other posts, but indulge me):

Back in the 70's, Birmingham's NBC affiliate WAPI-13 (now WVTM) would preempt the second game of the Peacock network's doubleheaders, leaving them to be picked up by CBS affiliates WBMG-42 in Birmingham (now WIAT), WCFT-33 in Tuscaloosa and WHMA-40 in Anniston-Gadsden. Channel 13 would instead show the Bear Bryant Show (Alabama football highlights) from 4:00-5:00, and the Auburn Football Review from 5:00-6:00.

Also, in the late '70's and early '80's Channel 13 would preempt NBC's Sunday afternoon college basketball package in order to carry the Sun Belt Conference Game of the Week. This was done because Channel 13 also produced a few telecasts of UAB games that were not shown over the Sun Belt network.

 

[SfanGoch]

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Not a pre-emption, per se, but, the most infamous termination of a broadcast was the "Heidi Game" (N.Y. Jets at Oakland), on Sunday, November 17, 1968. Short of a cataclysmic disaster/national catastrophe, it ain't gonna happen again. Money talks. Everything else is irrelevant.

 

[azumanga]

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Back in the 70's, Birmingham's NBC affiliate WAPI-13 (now WVTM) would preempt the second game of the Peacock network's doubleheaders, leaving them to be picked up by CBS affiliates WBMG-42 in Birmingham (now WIAT), WCFT-33 in Tuscaloosa and WHMA-40 in Anniston-Gadsden. Channel 13 would instead show the Bear Bryant Show (Alabama football highlights) from 4:00-5:00, and the Auburn Football Review from 5:00-6:00.

Not a pre-emption, per se, but, the most infamous termination of a broadcast was the "Heidi Game" (N.Y. Jets at Oakland), on Sunday, November 17, 1968. Short of a cataclysmic disaster/national catastrophe, it ain't gonna happen again. Money talks. Everything else is irrelevant.

In light of the above, I've read that WAPI pre-empted the Heidi Game for Bear Bryant and Auburn, punting the game to WBMG.

 

[Charles1]

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Before 13, 33, 40 and 42 became exclusive affiliates of NBC (13) and CBS (everyone else) in '70, 13 carried the CBS NFL package, leaving 33, 40 and 42 to carry the AFL package from NBC, so 13 really didn't punt on the Heidi game. They did, though, carry Heidi at 6:00.

 

[KML0224]

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Back when I lived in Old Orchard Beach, ME from 1985 to 1987, WCSH-TV (NBC) channel 6 of Portland would preempt NBC Sportsworld stuff on the weekends, in favor of local programming or a movie. They would also join NBC's Sunday NFL pregame show in progress at 12:30 PM. Why? Because they had the brilliant idea of a noon newscast on a weekend. In fact, I remember NBC's coverage of The Skins Game (golf) in 1986-87 airing on WPXT-TV channel 51 (a charter FOX station, now CW).

 

[cd637299]

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Re Heidi.....

NBC may have promised, but that must have only referred to pro football.

In 1979, when NBC had the Baseball Game of the Week, there was one Saturday when I had a rare chance to see the Atlanta Braves (no regular cable in Anchorage at the time)--they were playing the Mets, I believe.

This one Saturday, NBC was plugging something called the National Sports Festival---no idea what events were covered. Remember, the Braves stunk to high heaven in 1979, and in this game, they were losing 8-1 in the 8th inning (or similar situation). NBC decided to cut away to the Festival anyway. (After all, it was the Braves, and they won't come back, right?)

If anyone remembers this, I'd be shocked. But, the Heidi thing & the "promise" comes to mind.

cd

 

[Bluenoser]

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Back when I lived in Old Orchard Beach, ME from 1985 to 1987, WCSH-TV (NBC) channel 6 of Portland would preempt NBC Sportsworld stuff on the weekends, in favor of local programming or a movie. They would also join NBC's Sunday NFL pregame show in progress at 12:30 PM. Why? Because they had the brilliant idea of a noon newscast on a weekend. In fact, I remember NBC's coverage of The Skins Game (golf) in 1986-87 airing on WPXT-TV channel 51 (a charter FOX station, now CW).

6 Alive's sister station in Bangor, WLBZ, also pulled the same stunt