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They preempted that for this?

Syndies lost tonight because of NFL kickoff starting at 7:00 Eastern on NBC. WNBC and WVIT are pre-empting Access Hollywood and All Access. WVIT repeats AH at 3:30 AM, but WNBC does not repeat either show.


Wheel of Fortune has a new episode today (Jeopardy! is a repeat). As a result, several NBC stations are delaying that episode to Friday night; some are doing the same with Friday's rerun to replace Saturday's, while others are just skipping Friday's. Last night, WBBH in Fort Myers ran a crawl during both shows to alert viewers of the delay. A few have actually moved one or both shows early today. WWLP in Springfield, MA already aired tonight's Wheel at 4:30 AM Eastern this morning in a Paid Program slot on their CW+ subchannel. Thursday's Jeopardy! rerun will air at 3:00 AM tomorrow on CW+, also in a Paid Program slot. WPBN in Traverse City, MI is airing the shows this morning at 11:00 and 11:30 AM Eastern, replacing America Says and one of two Family Feuds. WLIO in Lima, OH is moving Wheel to 5:30 PM Eastern, replacing Entertainment Tonight.
 
KMNF-LD1 (KEYC NBC) Mankato showing Jeopardy (normally on at 6) to the 30 errr 35 minute slot after the NFL game
Normally KMNF-LD simulcasts KEYC CBS news at 10
 
NBC's coverage ran over to 11:32 PM Eastern thanks to their two segments of postgame coverage (clock ran out at 11:21). Most newscasts on the East Coast started around 11:35. Out West, KNVN 24 in Chico, CA started Wheel of Fortune from the beginning instead of JIP'ing it (it was scheduled for 8:30 PT). I'm guessing they will JIP 2 Broke Girls (which they normally only air on weekends) at 9:30 so they can be back on time for a Dateline NBC repeat at 10:00 and news at 11:00.

WHO 13 in Des Moines is airing Thursday's Wheel on Friday at 3:00 PM Central, replacing the older Jeopardy! run.
 
danderson6500 said:
I'd be interested in what NBC does if the NHL game on Sunday goes past one OT period. I just can't see the NHL trumping the NFL on network TV.
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Nor can I. NHL gets kicked off to NBCSN right before NFL kickoff, most likely. I'd imagine there are still quite a few affiliates in the south and west that don't take the NHL games and sell the time for infomercials, while every affiliate is in on the NFL, so no way a second of the football game is missed.
 
danderson6500 said:
I'd be interested in what NBC does if the NHL game on Sunday goes past one OT period. I just can't see the NHL trumping the NFL on network TV.
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they wont. They will push it to NBC SN just like they do NASCAR. Hell last Saturday they pushed the last 20 laps of the Xfinity race to NBS SN right at 1:30 so they can start their 5 hours of Kentucky Derby coverage
 
unclehonkey said:
they wont. They will push it to NBC SN just like they do NASCAR. Hell last Saturday they pushed the last 20 laps of the Xfinity race to NBS SN right at 1:30 so they can start their 5 hours of Kentucky Derby coverage
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like did you expect nbc to preempt the kentucky derby prerace for nascar? i mean, they move nhl to nbcsn for the derby too.
 
vchimpanzee said:
There's such a thing as too much. I'm not there for the hats and the celebrities. And neither was actually there this time.
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Good point. The fashion and beautiful people have always been featured as a way to get that advertiser-coveted 25-54 female demo watching and, they hope, making impulse buys, because that's what ad agencies believe women were put on this planet to do. I noticed more than the normal amount of talk about -- gasp! -- horse racing on this year's show, along with preliminary stakes races of zero interest to anyone but people with money to bet on them, which means, by and large, geezers like me. I assume the rating for this year's Derby was way down, because a huge part of its appeal is its spring date, not to mention that one leg of the Triple Crown had already been run, eliminating the viewers who always participate in office pools on the Derby and tune in to see who wins. So how bad was it, compared to last year's, and did this year's advertisers get any sort of rebate or make-good as a result?
 
danderson6500 said:
like did you expect nbc to preempt the kentucky derby prerace for nascar? i mean, they move nhl to nbcsn for the derby too.
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with 20 laps to go they could have easily pre-empted the first 15 minutes of the Kentucky derby "pomp and circumstance" which actually they went political and talked about the protests by the track.

The first race they showed did not go off until after 2pm CDT. They could have shown NASCAR til the end then moved the post race stuff to NBC SN (as they have done in the past). It just shows that FOX cares more about NASCAR than NBC does. FOX stays with NASCAR even if it runs past the time allotted. NBC apparently thinks local news is more important because more than once they have "rushed off" as soon as the checkered flag is shown for local news.
 
CTListener said:
Maybe when the NASCAR fad was at its peak, about 10-15 years ago. But now it's back to being the niche sport it had always been.
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It's hardly a "niche" sport, anymore than hockey is.

https://www.brentsherman.com/PDFS/NASCAR.pdf

It mirrors demographics, has considerable minority appeal, and is concentrated in the Midwest and South.

There are attendance issues, but most are due to other factors.

https://www.hotcars.com/these-are-the-reasons-why-nascar-is-losing-fans/

Similarly, network TV viewership is off because there are streaming alternatives.

It's not growing, and as America becomes more urban, it will decline. But it is hardly niche. And, in my opinion, it is not a "sport" as sports are human competitions. NASCAR is so significantly based on the equipment and not the individuals that it is no more of a true sport than playing video games.
 
Today, the NYC Big Four all aired 9/11 memorial coverage from 8:25 AM-12:00 PM, pre-empting network daytime and syndicated programming. Oddly, today's Let's Make a Deal was listed at 10:00 PM on WCBS' sister WLNY, but it was actually Judge Judy x 2 as usual.
 
FOX's College Football game this afternoon, scheduled to run until 4:00 PM Eastern, overran about 12 minutes. FOX followed it up with the sport documentary "TUA" from the beginning. WTXF in Philadelphia scheduled the filler FOX Fall Preview at 5:00, which was JIP'd after the film. WNYW had scheduled a one-hour Giants preview special at 5:00, and they started it from the beginning after TUA; the 6:00 newscast was truncated as a result.

ABC's first College Football broadcast of the season overran to 11:07 PM Eastern, with newscasts starting at 11:10 on the East Coast. Out West, KABC in LA scheduled a "Special Edition" newscast from 8-9 (followed by Jeopardy!, Wheel of Fortune, and a "Retail Rescue" special that's airing on all the ABC O&O's this weekend in various slots), which still signed off at 9:00 (unlike their "Slam Dunk" program that they air after NBA games that always runs for a full hour). WPVI in Philadelphia ran its 11:00 news for a full hour and JIP'd its midnight program (Castle); WABC in NY, as usual, delayed theirs (Wipeout) to start from the beginning.

FOX's MLB game ran to 11:29 Eastern. The ninth inning took a very long time.
 
WheelRob said:
FOX's MLB game ran to 11:29 Eastern. The ninth inning took a very long time.
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There were 2 games. The "backup game" (Twins/Indians) was done about 10:12 and FOX's network programming "Labor of Love" started at 10:15 for those networks who dont delay it for news. Areas that had the Twins/Indians game were MN, ND, SD, Iowa (sans counties in Omaha DMA), Northern WI, UP of MI, Northern IL, OH and Northern IN (plus a couple DMA's bordering Ohio)
 
Tonight, the First 2 games of Monday Night Football of the season will air.

I'm expecting preemptions in Pittsburgh, New York City, Denver and Nashville. I'm not sure what stations will those 2 games, but I'm pretty sure WPIX will air it in New York City. Not sure for the other 3.
 
bobgoodbob said:
Tonight, the First 2 games of Monday Night Football of the season will air.

I'm expecting preemptions in Pittsburgh, New York City, Denver and Nashville. I'm not sure what stations will those 2 games, but I'm pretty sure WPIX will air it in New York City. Not sure for the other 3.
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WTAE ABC Pittsburgh
WPIX CW New York
WZTV FOX Nashville
KTVD My Denver

WABC got first right of refusal in New York (as a O&O) which they refused (DWTS premiere)
WTAE got first right of refusal (Hearst) and took the game. DWTS shows at 1am in Pittsburgh

Thursday's Cincy/Cleveland game on NFL Net is simulcast on WKRC (CBS) Cincy and WEWS (ABC) Cleveland
 
unclehonkey said:
WTAE ABC Pittsburgh
WPIX CW New York
WZTV FOX Nashville
KTVD My Denver

WABC got first right of refusal in New York (as a O&O) which they refused (DWTS premiere)
WTAE got first right of refusal (Hearst) and took the game. DWTS shows at 1am in Pittsburgh

Thursday's Cincy/Cleveland game on NFL Net is simulcast on WKRC (CBS) Cincy and WEWS (ABC) Cleveland
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I wonder what's going to happen with the other shows. The second game doesn't start untill 10:15 so I'm pretty sure WZTV is airing the Fox shows tonight.
 


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