By John Carmody March 22, 1990
[WUSA] Channel 9 last night preempted Part IV of a five-part "Wiseguy" arc in favor of a 1980 movie called "
The Ninth Configuration." Vice president, broadcast operations Sandra Butler-Jones said the movie had been scheduled long before the station was aware of the continuing story on "Wiseguy," called "the Lynchboro arc" which began in mid-February ...
She said the station had sought to broadcast it at midnight last night on a delayed basis but that the network had balked (we'd guess the declining ratings of "The Pat Sajak Show" had something to do with that) ...
Butler-Jones said yesterday, "I really feel badly" about the preemption for the local movie, one of a series that she said is placed in the primetime schedules about once every three months by WUSA ...