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They preempted that for this?

WheelRob said:
Houston won this game, bringing it to 2-2, which means Game 6 will be happening on Tuesday, which means Wheel of Fortune will be pre-empted in Baltimore, Kansas City, New Orleans, Denver, and also Hawaii if the game runs past midnight Eastern Time. Unfortunately, Tuesday's episode of WOF features a kindergarten teacher from Baltimore.
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Perhaps because of the local contestant, WBFF Baltimore is bumping tonight's WOF to 11:35 PM (plus however many minutes WS runs past 11:00) instead of the usual 12:05 AM. Not that this makes much of a difference for her local support. If WXIX Cincinnati and WLUK Green Bay can air the show earlier on sports days, then so can other stations. Or, to avoid breaking WOF's 7-8 PM rule, they could always move WOF to 7:00 and move Jeopardy! to an earlier time slot; that's what CBS affiliate KMEG in Sioux City would do when CBS had TNF. I recall WBFF once moved J! to 11:30 AM on either Thanksgiving or Black Friday last year because of College Football all day on FOX, but WOF did not air at all.


WANE in Fort Wayne (CBS) is airing the local mayoral debate tonight from 7-8, bumping WOF and Jeopardy! to 1:37 and 2:07 AM, although they are still listed as the usual shows for those time slots: ES.TV and Recipe.TV.
 
AbrahamJSimpson said:
Or maybe they don’t want to air it earlier. The world revolves around things other than Wheel of Fortune.
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Right. He mentioned Jeopardy!, too.

Do the syndicators of game shows really give affiliates a heads up when someone from their viewing area is going to be on? And do the affiliates really do stupid schedule tricks, like trained seals, just to accommodate those individuals' friends and family -- maybe a couple of dozen people in an audience of tens or hundreds of thousands? I'm just not buying it. We live in the age of time-shifted TV. Only 98-year-old great-great-grandma, who doesn't know how to program a microwave, let alone a DVR, might be in danger of missing a Wheel episode if it's moved to the wee hours because of some sporting event.
 
I'd appreciate it if you two would cut the attitude.

There's nothing wrong with pointing out how some stations handle rescheduling of certain shows compared to others, especially if there are clear double standards. I'm not breaking any rules. If you're sick of me talking about Wheel of Fortune or other shows, then just mute me.
 
CTListener said:
Do the syndicators of game shows really give affiliates a heads up when someone from their viewing area is going to be on? And do the affiliates really do stupid schedule tricks, like trained seals, just to accommodate those individuals' friends and family -- maybe a couple of dozen people in an audience of tens or hundreds of thousands? I'm just not buying it. We live in the age of time-shifted TV. Only 98-year-old great-great-grandma, who doesn't know how to program a microwave, let alone a DVR, might be in danger of missing a Wheel episode if it's moved to the wee hours because of some sporting event.
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As a matter of fact, they do. WBFF's Facebook page promoted tonight's contestant's appearance before the World Series began, and before we knew whether there would be at least six games, and they did not make any note about how the show would air if a Game 6 would happen. Contestants also make special promos to air on their local affiliates on the day of their show. They usually say something like, "Hi, I'm John Doe from Brooklyn. Watch me play Wheel of Fortune on ABC 7." Stations' social media pages will often promote locals on the day of their episode. I see them all the time just by searching "wheel of fortune" on Twitter.

And yes, stations do often pull extra strings if there is a local contestant. KSBY Santa Barbara (NBC) had to do this twice due to two local contestants appearing during the Winter Olympics. The first time, they aired the episode at 12:30 PM, 7 hours early. The rest of the pre-empted episodes in that period didn't air at all. The second local contestant's episode was delayed to the Monday after the Olympics finished, which replaced that day's actual episode and delayed it to the following afternoon, and WOF's producers sent her a DVD of her episode as well. Also, WTVD Raleigh (ABC) pre-empted WOF with the NFL Draft (along with all ABC stations) on a Friday in April last year, and they announced that because that episode featured a local couple, it would air Saturday night in place of the usual rerun, instead of overnight, on Live Well Network, or not at all. It really depends on the station. Some just don't bother, it's true, but it does happen.
 
Game 7 is a go, so more syndie and newscast pre-emptions on FOX tomorrow.

The final out of Game 6 was caught at 11:46 PM Eastern, but postgame discussion ran until 12:02 AM. WNYW New York began the news at 12:06. KHON Hawaii ended their newscast at 6:32 PM local time and joined Wheel of Fortune in progress during the first round a few minutes later.

When will FOX finally realize three hours isn't enough?
 
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WheelRob said:
It didn't help that they didn't tell the contestants that only vowels were left when they were supposed to. They waited until people actually started calling the vowels to give the signal.
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Right and then they are shocked they didn’t get the puzzle faster the producers probably expected somebody to just guess it though which is probably why the consonant sound was delayed.
 
CTListener said:
Only 98-year-old great-great-grandma, who doesn't know how to program a microwave, let alone a DVR, might be in danger of missing a Wheel episode if it's moved to the wee hours because of some sporting event.
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If they don't air it when they say they will it could happen to anyone. I've taped shows that were delayed to late night only to get mostly the show that preceded them, and not the ending.
 
CTListener makes a good point.

But the bigger picture? For almost everyone, it’s not remotely significant in the grand scheme of things. Inventing the highly improbable “what if” scenarios don’t change that. Sports and pre-emotions happen. Life goes on. You miss a puzzle or two and move on with life.
 
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Sorry for the misunderstanding on that last post guys. I got confused on those last posts and I thought this thread was going to get derailed. Again, my apologies. Let's go back and talk about preemptions.
 
Game 7 of WS basically padded postgame for the rest of the half-hour. It signed off at 12:27, well after the actual game ended. Because of local news pushback, KHON Hawaii will be skipping Wheel of Fortune entirely tonight.

Every game's broadcast lasted over four hours even though FOX only allocates three on the schedule. Perhaps next year, they'll look into four-hour time slots, or go back to starting the games at 7:00, maybe even 6:00.
 
Well then, stations shouldn't be scheduling first-run syndicated programs less than two hours after the game's "scheduled" end if they're not going to air them on a delay after they run their mandatory news potentially in their time slot. If any syndies get that treatment, they should just stick to sitcom, game show, or court reruns, not first-run game or talk shows. My listings on WNYW showed that Big Bang Theory would have been on at 12:00 if not for postgame and delayed news. Not sure if they delay it or just skip it, but since it's reruns of a sitcom that can easily be streamed everywhere, I highly doubt anyone would care.
 
That’s unrealistic. They’re not going to adjust their “primary” working plan because some people choose to get worked up. “That treatment” (it’s not “treatment,” it’s the reality of a certain number of hours in the day) comes with the territory. And in the grand scheme of things, it’s far outnumbered by the times the “usual” schedule runs.

Some people will choose to get riled up over an off-network program they enjoy being bumped. Some choose to get worked up over a game, court or talk show.
 
Due to West Virginia University's football team competing tonight on ESPN, Lewisberg's CBS affiliate WVNS is airing a one-hour pregame show from 7-8 PM, pre-empting Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy!. No make-goods of either show.
 
WheelRob said:
Due to West Virginia University's football team competing tonight on ESPN, Lewisberg's CBS affiliate WVNS is airing a one-hour pregame show from 7-8 PM, pre-empting Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy!. No make-goods of either show.
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I'm guessing other WV stations pre-empted 7-8pm programming for the pregame show (WVNS is on the opposite side of the state as WVU)
 
ftballfan said:
I'm guessing other WV stations pre-empted 7-8pm programming for the pregame show (WVNS is on the opposite side of the state as WVU)
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West Virginia is such a monolithic college sports state that it's hard to imagine WVU-related programming being turned down by any station. Maybe in Huntington, home of Marshall University, but I doubt it.
 
It's a good thing I get "Jeopardy!" on two stations. It took a while for the meteorologist on one of them to stop talking about the tornado warning. Sometimes I wonder if they're not overdoing the coverage. People subjected to too much of that are going to start ignoring it after a while.
 


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