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They preempted that for this?

WKRN-2 in Nashville broke away from the second game of a (ESPN on ABC) WNBA doubleheader on Sunday to run the results of the St. Jude Dream Home giveaway
 
RFCCRadioAudio said:
WKRN-2 in Nashville broke away from the second game of a (ESPN on ABC) WNBA doubleheader on Sunday to run the results of the St. Jude Dream Home giveaway
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Does the station have some sort of exclusive relationship with the children's hospital (or the saint, lol) that makes a raffle result worthy of a program interruption?
 
Wdiv preempted last night American ninja warrior for the ford fireworks in Detroit and tonight golf special on wxyz preempting celebrity wheel of fortune will air at 1:06 am
 
WZTV-17 used to run the St. Jude special, but never bumped sports for it.
 
NYCsporty said:
I'd think the Big 3 networks showed it. Whether or not specific affiliates took the network SR, passed it, or had their own feed shown during the 4PM newscast in ET/CT, I don't know.
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In my case I was checking on something on a DVR and the channel that is on the TV when I first turn it on was having its 4 P.M. newscast.
 
What in sam hill was WSOC and WAXN doing airing a special called “The Political Beat” on the 4th of July? I mean it’s good that they cut back on their news for the holiday but for that? Also for some special called “Finding Answers.”
 

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On Sunday July 16th, 2023 KCCI 8 (CBS) at 9pm will pre-empt NCIS Los Angeles for Floods of '93 special that happend 30 years ago in Iowa.

NCIS Los Angeles will air at 1am on Sunday / Early Monday morning pre-empting Major Crimes which airs in that time slot.
 
On Wednesday july 19 wroc 8 in Rochester will air a special on destination new York it will preempted a wheel of fortune rerun at 7 pm wheel will air at 2:37 am Thursday morning before the CBS morning news block
 
Tomorrow Friday July 28 2023, WBZ Boston is going to show PAA at 7pm ET as it is only a half hour. Wheel will be airing at its regular time on sister station WSBK replacing the first half-hour of TBBT.
 
IM42A said:
Secondary affiliations with ABC were common in the 1960s and 1970s (thinking here of the Wheeling-Steubenville, Clarksburg-Weston, and Bristol-Johnson City markets, among many others), as in the early 1960s it was very much the "me-too" network, kind of the Fox of its day, with quirkier programming (think Batman, Bewitched, Dark Shadows, The Addams Family, and so on).
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With a newscast NOBODY watched EVEN in places where ABC had a primary outlet (Like KBTV 9 (Now NBC affiliate KUSA 9) here in Denver)

Back when JFK was assassinated, America only remembers Walter Cronkite breaking into As The World Turns with the news of the shooting. But in Dallas, it was a near breathless Jay Watson who jumped on the air during the a local program on WFAA LONG before Cronkite took to the air (And WFAA had a hot camera FROM THE START too)

CBS tried to go back ATWT to get MOST of the episode in but it was in vain

NBC for its part just went on the air & STAYED on the air realizing they still had the Westt Coast & Mountain Time Zone stations to feed to (Albeit in audio only) & the rest of the network would likely join in once the cameras came on

ABC (While the first network to break the news on radio) was probably THE LAST network to break the news on TV as it stuck with a rerun of pi]Father Knows Best[/i] until nearly the end & then its cameras likely became ready during the station ID break

Meanwhile, in hindsight, ABC had the best coverage even though it had THE WORST viewership & lack of station clearances where it was only a secondary as it was able to plug into WFAA & integrate it with the network (Thus making it an extension of the network for the days that followed)
 
AbrahamJSimpson said:
Barring some rather exceptional, and rare, circumstances, an O&O for damn sure better be taking the network special reports. And the answer when the higher-ups come calling had better not be “but Wheel of Fortune was on.”

Frankly, you’d better have a good rationale regardless of being owned by a third party. But when it’s an address from a foreign leader during wartime? Good luck selling the
powers that be on that being a valid one to decline.
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Depending on the situation, stations do this ALL THE TIME (Even with our own President & ESPECIALLY with Trump)

They take the feed but unless it's important, they don't interrupt local programming although they will usually air a snippet of the speech

As for other reports, they don't neccessarily need their own network. They can use ANYTHING from the wire services to CNN to (Nowadays) streaming/diginet news outrlets Scripps News
 
They don’t do it all the time as O&Os, which was the statement. When you’re owned by the network, you air the special report. You may dump out at some point to return to local news, but even that differs from just picking up a live feed. When the whole special report thing is put in motion, you air it.
 
JeeperOne said:
With a newscast NOBODY watched EVEN in places where ABC had a primary outlet (Like KBTV 9 (Now NBC affiliate KUSA 9) here in Denver)

Back when JFK was assassinated, America only remembers Walter Cronkite breaking into As The World Turns with the news of the shooting. But in Dallas, it was a near breathless Jay Watson who jumped on the air during the a local program on WFAA LONG before Cronkite took to the air (And WFAA had a hot camera FROM THE START too)

CBS tried to go back ATWT to get MOST of the episode in but it was in vain
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I forget where, but I saw a clip of what was missed.
JeeperOne said:
NBC for its part just went on the air & STAYED on the air realizing they still had the Westt Coast & Mountain Time Zone stations to feed to (Albeit in audio only) & the rest of the network would likely join in once the cameras came on
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People don't remember it from back then but I remember a clip of Frank McGee being told what to say and repeating what he was told.

Frank McGee was the host of "Today" when I was a teeanger.
 
JeeperOne said:
NBC for its part just went on the air & STAYED on the air realizing they still had the Westt Coast & Mountain Time Zone stations to feed to (Albeit in audio only) & the rest of the network would likely join in once the cameras came on
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Not clear what you're getting at here. Why could the Mountain and Western time zones not get video?
 
vchimpanzee said:
I forget where, but I saw a clip of what was missed.

People don't remember it from back then but I remember a clip of Frank McGee being told what to say and repeating what he was told.

Frank McGee was the host of "Today" when I was a teeanger.
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Since NBC had phone line problems on their end, they cou;dn't talk ro Robert MacNeil directly whereas he could be heard, Frank McGee had to have Robert send in his report in bits & pieces so he could relay it to the viewers. The problem was finally fixed while Robert was breaking the news of the official announcement of JFK's death at which point they could've continued uninterrupted but chose not to
 
IM42A said:
Not clear what you're getting at here. Why could the Mountain and Western time zones not get video?
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They didn't but since NBC, CBS & ABC were still feeding normal programming out West & CBS had the East Coast & Central Time Zone all to themselves as ATWT was so popular that NBC & ABC had no idea how to counter program it, neither network had a hot camera during the initial bulletins & only WFAA had a hot studio camera while KRLD 4 (Now Fox O&O KDFW 4) had Eddie Barker on the air from The Trademart
 
Tonight, the latest Trump indictment was handed down in Georgia. Fortunately, outside of delaying local news, most viewers (ET/CT) hardly were affected, but out West different story in regards to ABC. The Bachelorette Men Tell All special was delayed an hour and 4 minutes on the West Coast due to coverage, but here in Arizona, it was worse as KNXV (Phoenix) & KGUN (Tucson), when the news broke, the episode was in hour 2, but after the coverage ended, they didn't bother going back to where it left off, instead opting to show Claim to Fame which followed & is being shown at the same time as well in the whole Mountain time zone.
 
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The Bachelorette. Oh the horror. The horror. The network special report did a public service.

But really, the show will be available to stream and possibly be available to air in whole or in part at an alternate time.
 


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