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They preempted that for this?

installLSC said:
Q13 Seattle has pre-empted the baseball games for infomercials too, although they did show the football rebroadcasts.
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That's because the sponsor bought that entire hour or thirty minute block of time, vs. a handful of local available spots. Especially these days; whoever pays the most, wins.
 
anotherguy said:
WJKT in Jackson, TN has both games scheduled, but WHBQ in Memphis has infomercials and syndicated programs as usual.
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same here in Minnesota
KEYC-DT2 Mankato showing both
KMSP Minneapolis has infomercials and syndicated shows (they've only shown one of the MLB games and that was the 91 WS since the Twins were in it)
 
in Seattle no morning shows from the networks. KOMO-4, KING-5 and KIRO-7, preempt GMA, Today and CBS this morning for live coverage of the clearing of the CHOP zone.
 
Yesterday, WFTV ABC 9 aired a hurricane season prep special at 7:00 PM. This is Jeopardy!'s time slot - oh no! So naturally, Jeopardy! was moved to 7:30 to replace Wheel of Fortune (even though Jeopardy! is just scattered repeats not in any particular order so continuity doesn't matter). WOF instead aired at 6:30 on indie sister WRDQ 27, but it was still listed as Judge Jerry.
 
vchimpanzee said:
It's been two weeks now but I should go ahead and mention it since people are interested in this stuff.

I finally watched a show on WSOC-TV, the ABC affiliate in Charlotte, and saw they were going to do a special at 7 P.M. on June 11 related to the protests. Maybe nelsonincharlotte can help me with this. I don't remember what it was called. I don't even know what shows WSOC-TV airs in that slot but I recall "E.T" being one of them, and of course I have no idea when or if those aired.
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I can’t remember what that show was now, I don’t read this thread much, but Inside Edition normally airs at 7 on WSOC. It has since 1995. The last program to air at 7 before that was American Journal which I had forgotten about.

ET has almost always aired at 7:30 on WSOC ever since its inception. The exception...when WSOC bought the rights to Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune from WBTV in 1990. This was a mistake in my opinion. Wheel and Jeopardy should’ve both gone to WCNC in 1990 or WBTV should’ve kept them instead of picking up Current Affair and Inside Edition and started 5 and 5:30 news at the same time and moved the CBS News to 6:30 to air them at 7 and 7:30 when PM Magazine was cancelled. When Wheel went to WCNC in 1993, ET went right back to 7:30. While Wheel was on WSOC at 7:30, ET first was bumped to 11:30 because WSOC’s 6:00 news was still an hour long, forcing them to air ABC World News now at 7. That meant 12:30am when MNF was on. This also forced WSOC to air Jeopardy at 11:30 am in 1990 but that only lasted less than a year because WCNC picked it up in 1991 and has been airing Jeopardy at 7 ever since. When ABC World News Tonight moved to 6:30, ET moved to 7. I was thinking all along that Wheel didn’t go to WCNC until 1996 until I saw all these listings which is where I got all this info from. American Journal replaced ET at 7 when Wheel went to WCNC. It had originally aired in late night.
 
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WheelRob said:
Yesterday, WFTV ABC 9 aired a hurricane season prep special at 7:00 PM. This is Jeopardy!'s time slot - oh no! So naturally, Jeopardy! was moved to 7:30 to replace Wheel of Fortune (even though Jeopardy! is just scattered repeats not in any particular order so continuity doesn't matter). WOF instead aired at 6:30 on indie sister WRDQ 27, but it was still listed as Judge Jerry.
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Except Jeopardy’s repeats are very specific, not scattered. They are showcasing tournament contestants.

And in the end, so what? If that’s what works for the station, that’s the correct decision. Not what someone in another city entirely thinks they’re supposed to do without the knowledge the people at the station have.
 
AbrahamJSimpson said:
Except Jeopardy’s repeats are very specific, not scattered. They are showcasing tournament contestants.

And in the end, so what? If that’s what works for the station, that’s the correct decision. Not what someone in another city entirely thinks they’re supposed to do without the knowledge the people at the station have.
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Compared to some of the other conspiracy theories on far more important matters that have circulated over the past three months, WheelRob's imagined bias against Wheel seems almost charming!
 
unclehonkey said:
no "optional" FOX sports programming this weekend. Its all in the hands of the affiliate on what to show
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WHBQ in Memphis is showing NHRA drag racing Sunday at 11 AM, but it's not listed on WJKT in Jackson, TN. Otherwise everything listed is syndicated shows at best and mostly infomercials at the worst. Even if it's not a show I care anything about seeing syndicated shows make more sense then infomercials.
 
Oddly, the afternoon lineup is identical on WNYW on Saturday and Sunday. On both days, it's infomercials until 3:00 Eastern, then one episode of Whacked Out Sports, then Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (the 2005 Johnny Depp film, not the 1971 Gene Wilder one) from 3:30-6:00 leading into the news.
 
vchimpanzee said:
I don't know everything that happened in Charlotte but here's what I experienced.

Dennis Rodman was innocent and naïve. Really? There was a time when he was that way? And that was it. Every time I checked on Charlotte's ABC affiliate, it had coverage of what was going on locally.

I was a little more than 30 minutes late starting, and TiVo only saves 30 minutes, but I recorded what I could with an antenna. I got 46 minutes starting when the Bulls got a new coach who would go on to make them a possible championship team. And by the end of the episode Rodman was with the Bulls because no one else wanted his antics. Since the events weren't chronological, I learned also that Rodman was a valuable player when Pippen was hurt. And Rodman wasn't pleased when Pippen came back and Rodman wasn't contributing all that much.
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WTF do DENNIS RODMAN & the CHICAGO BULLS have to do with THE PROTESTS & RIOTS SURROUNDING THE DEATH OF GEORGE FLOYD??

I don't get it...
 
WheelRob said:
Oddly, the afternoon lineup is identical on WNYW on Saturday and Sunday. On both days, it's infomercials until 3:00 Eastern, then one episode of Whacked Out Sports, then Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (the 2005 Johnny Depp film, not the 1971 Gene Wilder one) from 3:30-6:00 leading into the news.
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Whacked Out Sports? Are they gonna dig up Real Stories of the Highway Patrol or Cleopatra 2525 as well?
 
WNYW actually airs five episodes of Whacked Out Sports every weekend, so I guess it's a weekday run delayed. Saturdays at 3:00 and 3:30 PM, and Sundays at 12:30 AM, 3:00 PM, and 3:30 PM. They've had new episodes until at least 12/7/19 according to the listings' air dates. If a Sunday afternoon airing is pre-empted by sports or movies (the 3:30 one is this Sunday), it moves to sister WWOR My 9, but the Saturday airings do not move, so we only get four airings this weekend due to the Saturday 3:30 airing being pre-empted by Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
 
JeeperOne said:
WTF do DENNIS RODMAN & the CHICAGO BULLS have to do with THE PROTESTS & RIOTS SURROUNDING THE DEATH OF GEORGE FLOYD??

I don't get it...
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Because of the protests, I nearly missed this because I didn't have ESPN, but ABC was repeating it. I still missed part of it because i didn't know in time to change to a station not covering protests.
 
NASCAR Cup race on NBC from Indy ran long due to a lightning delay. Race was over at 8 CDT (scheduled in guides til 7) so rerun of The Titan Games was pre-empted. AGT rerun started at 8
 
unclehonkey said:
NASCAR Cup race on NBC from Indy ran long due to a lightning delay. Race was over at 8 CDT (scheduled in guides til 7) so rerun of The Titan Games was pre-empted. AGT rerun started at 8
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and it didn't help with the race being a caution heavy race with wrecks from failing tires blowing out which this race had mirror the 2008 Brickyard 400, which was infamously known for the tire problems where they had one too many competition cautions and there was more laps under caution then it was green flag racing and there was a red flag in the early part of the race after serveal cars piled up while entering pit road and injuring the rear tire changer of 12 car of Ryan Blaney, who drives for Roger Penske, the man who bought out the IndyCar Series and Indianapolis Motor Speedway, this was the first Brickyard 400 to happen in the Penske era at IMS.
 


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