Today's Midwest/Mid-South severe weather and today's "Oprah" finale (& Idol)

[Tim from Springfield IL]

Today's Midwest/Mid-South severe weather and today's "Oprah" finale (& Idol)

One of my colleagues at work remarked that he had heard an unconfirmed report that the St. Louis Oprah affiliate, KSDK-5, was going to rebroadcast today's Oprah finale tomorrow due to the frequent severe weather cut-ins (if not going wall-to-wall weather) during the program. But I have not seen an official statement to that effect on KSDK's website.

Anyway, do you know (or live in) any markets where today's final episode of Oprah was preempted/bumped due to wall-to-wall severe weather coverage with the latest severe weather/tornado outbreak this afternoon (including two "Particularly Dangerous Situation" tornado watches in cities including St. Louis, Memphis, Paducah and Little Rock)? And if so, will they be rebroadcasting Oprah's finale tomorrow (or another time) or were there some markets where part of the final episode went unseen due to weather coverage?

And with American Idol's season finale now underway as severe weather now bears down on the likes of Indy, Louisville, Nashville and Cincinnati, are there (or could there be) any markets where Fox affiliates with news departments have gone wall-to-wall weather during Idol? And if so, could they rebroadcast Idol in its entirety at another time?

 

[Charles1]

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WBRC-6 in Birmingham repeated American Idol the next afternoon at 3.30 p.m. after they were wall-to-wall with weather coverage on 4/27. Of course, they, like the other stations in the market, spent all of Wednesday covering the storms that hit Birmingham, Tuscaloosa and central Alabama.

 

[Toledo Eleven]

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WTOL-TV in Toledo is showing the final show one day late because of severe weather coverage on Wednesday.

 

[shmee]

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hey Tim, i got your answer ---->

Severe storms forecast for this afternoon could interrupt the final "Oprah Winfrey Show," but KSDK has a plan.

The regular middle-of-the-night repeat will air as scheduled, but the station has also obtained permission from the syndicator to air the final episode at 4 p.m. Thursday if necessary, replacing the rerun scheduled for that hour.

Unfortunately, anyone who wanted to record and memorialize the final "Oprah" today will almost certainly have to do so with a weather map and "first alert" crawl taking up a big chunk of the screen.


http://www.stltoday.com/entertainme...cle_0c94f782-86f9-11e0-94b8-001a4bcf6878.html

 

[gregg75]

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I looked online for Oprah's last show. They don't allow the show to be seen on Hulu and
the like. But I did see a 6 minute snip...........and it was ok, but no super duper guests
like the other two shows this week had. It was in the studio instead of the Chicago center
also. The Tuesday show was the best of the 3 I thought.

 

[PTBoardOp94]

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WTVW gave soon-to-be-former partner FOX the finger tonight. Their news department typically does not go wall-to-wall weather, but they did during "Idol" - ironically starting during the time period when their two competitors (WFIE, WEHT) were both briefly off the air. They will air the finale of "Idol" in its entirety tomorrow after the late local news.

 

[upstate29651]

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....and I thought this is what .2 was for....


G

 

[DToTheJ]

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On Wednesday, Little Rock viewers expecting to watch the final Oprah Winfrey show got a special presentation of Mother Nature on the Rag... :
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/bl...re_empts_Oprah_Finale_With_Storm_Coverage.php

Per B&C, like KSDK, the finale is scheduled to be (re-)broadcast today at 4 PM local time; it had already aired (for the first time) in its usual overnight rerun time slot.

 

[easttxtv]

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I just saw an ad this morning on KDFW/4 that due to storm coverage, they would make the Glee finale available on the station's website viewable for free (apparently not showing it on TV later).

 

[azumanga]

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I just saw an ad this morning on KDFW/4 that due to storm coverage, they would make the Glee finale available on the station's website viewable for free (apparently not showing it on TV later).

Doesn't hulu usually make recent episodes of most Fox series available for online viewing after broadcast?

 

[easttxtv]

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I just saw an ad this morning on KDFW/4 that due to storm coverage, they would make the Glee finale available on the station's website viewable for free (apparently not showing it on TV later).

Doesn't hulu usually make recent episodes of most Fox series available for online viewing after broadcast?

I thought about that after I saw the ad, but they made it sound like it was some special arrangement or something. If it was so special, they'd rerun it on the air, not just later on Hulu.

 

[William_Yeager]

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WDRB/Louisville ran Idol, but sister station WMYO (My Network TV) carrried wall-to-wall severe weather coverage from WDRB. At 10:07 after Idol signed off, WDRB began its 10:00 newscast, which was still dominated by the severe weather coverage. WDRB/WMYO did not drop the severe weather coverage until Midnight.