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Unusual and Special Local TV Programming for Thanksgiving Day and the Next Day

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Did any of your local TV stations plan on broadcasting special local programs or alternate programs in place of local news programs this Thanksgiving Day and/or the day after Thanksgiving Day?

Here is a link about an article about one station's plans for today and tomorrow in the Mobile, Alabama-Pensacola, Florida TV market:

"WKRG-TV to broadcast 'preview show' about Iron Bowl for 2013"
 
Nothing unusual in Seattle, but KREM 2 in Spokane is taking out their noon newscast for "The 700 Club" after today's CBS Thanksgiving parade.

-crainbebo
 
How about replacing network programming just to come off as greedy? NBC advertised an afternoon replay of the parade for those who didn't want to get up at 9am, but WTMJ in Milwaukee decided not to do that and replaced it with a mix of infomercials and programming from the Live Well Network packed with local ads (a channel nobody in the market can get except over the air because they bungled them off Time Warner Cable in their last carriage dispute).

Meanwhile their sister station in Green Bay WGBA is airing the Macy's replay, followed by a tape replay of the Green Bay Christmas parade leading into the game. WFRV/CBS already carried the Appleton parade Tuesday night, pre-empting Rudolph (they probably expected it on Friday as usual but since CBS carried it on Tuesday and the Appleton parade is set in stone they couldn't tell the city to reschedule it).

Otherwise it's nearly business as usual outside of some newscasts staying dark for the holiday.
 
WBBJ CBS 7.3 in Jackson, TN carried an infomercial in place of their normal Noon news. I would have rather seen dead air. :(
 
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I'm in Fort Wayne for the holiday (beg pardon - in deference to the original poster, make that "in Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA for the Thanksgiving Day national holiday"), and NBC affiliate WISE-TV (Channel 33) didn't do its evening newscasts tonight. WISE is jointly operated with the ABC affiliate, WPTA (Channel 21), and normally does its own hourlong newscast from 4-5 PM. WPTA then does news with separate anchors from 5-6 and 6-6:30, while the first half-hour of the WISE 4 PM show is replayed on WISE at 6.

Today, WISE was doing the parade replay (beg pardon - "Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade rebroadcast") at 4. At 6, it ran a half-hour special featuring area high school choirs performing holiday music. That same choir special is on the schedule to replay at 11:30 if the football (pardon, "National Football League telecast") runs late.
 
Fybush, it would really help us see the big picture if you included virtual channel numbers for WISE and WPTA in your post.
 
Actually forgot one thing - KONG 16 has a new 9PM newscast now in Seattle. That's gone, in it's place tonight is a dog competition from Missouri, syndicated, sponsored by Purina. Also airs on KING 5 tomorrow at 1PM after the NHL game.
Their 10PM newscast is only a half hour long (normally 1HR), then at 10:30 there will be a "Beyond the Forecast" local KING special.
KING is also axing their 7PM newscast TOMORROW so that they can show the Westlake Center tree lighting and fireworks. And speaking of KING, they have not shown the Macy's parade in Downtown Seattle for many years - they used to because I have a tape (minus commercials) of a cousin playing in the old Bon-Macy's Parade in Downtown Seattle, taped from KING 5 the day after Thanksgiving in 2003.

-crainbebo
 
The gentleman from Marysville didn't note this, but KING/5 stuck with its normal afternoon lineup Thursday between dogs and football. No Macy*s replay here.

mrschimpf said:
WFRV/CBS already carried the Appleton parade Tuesday night, pre-empting Rudolph ...
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They did their viewers a service, unexpected schedule conflict or not. Have you seen how badly chopped up that show is? Edited "Elf Practice" and the wrong footage for the "Misfits" song? Seriously? Next year is the 50th Anniversary of this TV gem. CBS had better bring us something spectacular to celebrate it - like a fully restored "Rudolph" with a "Making of" feature.

And, yes, I know CBS had a restored Neon Nose ten years ago. Then came HD, which put it back more than "two steps."
 
As always WBTV aired the Charlotte Thanksgiving parade. For many years it was the Carolinas Carousel Parade but this year the sponsor became Novant Health, who stepped up to save the parade in the 11th hour. There was almost no parade this year. On years CBS has the 4:30 Dallas game it airs at 1:00 or so, like yesterday. On years they have the 12:30 Detroit game they air it at 4 after the game. Apparently viewers were upset they cut out part of it but Brigida Mack stressed on Fox 46 it was due to time constraints. Could not go over 2 hours. They will probably rebroadcast the parade Christmas Day. They usually have in the past.

They also aired some kind of parade special at noon after the CBS coverage.
 
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Joe_Capitano said:
The gentleman from Marysville didn't note this, but KING/5 stuck with its normal afternoon lineup Thursday between dogs and football. No Macy*s replay here.



They did their viewers a service, unexpected schedule conflict or not. Have you seen how badly chopped up that show is? Edited "Elf Practice" and the wrong footage for the "Misfits" song? Seriously? Next year is the 50th Anniversary of this TV gem. CBS had better bring us something spectacular to celebrate it - like a fully restored "Rudolph" with a "Making of" feature.

And, yes, I know CBS had a restored Neon Nose ten years ago. Then came HD, which put it back more than "two steps."
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That and the fact CBS aired Rudolph 2 days before Thanksgiving.
 
Could there possibly be a second showing of Rudolph later in the season? I know that it's been done before, along with Charlie Brown and The Grinch being shown twice or possibly more with the Grinch.
 
KING kept with their talk fest after 2PM, yes. KNDO 23 in Yakima stayed with the rerun of Macy's however. There's no use for KING to show the rerun, since Miracle on 34th Street was taken off the Thanksgiving NBC lineup...

Also, I wonder how chopped up Frosty the Snowman is nowadays? The yearly airing airs December 6th at 8/7c on CBS.

-crainbebo
 
Here is a link to an article about other unusual programming that was planned for the Mobile, Alabama-Pensacola, Florida TV market yesterday:

"Unusual local TV programming for Thanksgiving Day 2013"

fybush said:
I'm in Fort Wayne for the holiday (beg pardon - in deference to the original poster, make that "in Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA for the Thanksgiving Day national holiday"), and NBC affiliate WISE-TV (Channel 33) didn't do its evening newscasts tonight. WISE is jointly operated with the ABC affiliate, WPTA (Channel 21), and normally does its own hourlong newscast from 4-5 PM. WPTA then does news with separate anchors from 5-6 and 6-6:30, while the first half-hour of the WISE 4 PM show is replayed on WISE at 6.

Today, WISE was doing the parade replay (beg pardon - "Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade rebroadcast") at 4. At 6, it ran a half-hour special featuring area high school choirs performing holiday music. That same choir special is on the schedule to replay at 11:30 if the football (pardon, "National Football League telecast") runs late.
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You could have posted this message without mocking my writing style. For example, you could have began your first sentence this way: I'm in Fort Wayne, Indiana for Thanksgiving Day and NBC affiliate WISE-TV (Channel 33) didn't do its evening newscasts tonight.
 
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In Greensboro, NC the Fox affiliate had a special featuring the people on their newscasts and their families. Normally celebrity news airs in the time slot.

In Charlotte "Carolina Camera" was on instead of "Elementary". It's usually "Criminal Minds" or "Undercover Boss" that gets bumped, but only if they're reruns.They had a story about a classic car museum, a restaurant that closes each day when they run out of fresh beef for the hamburgers, a fly fisherman who is winning competitions, and the 92-year-old former news anchor on the station.
 
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Apparently viewers were upset they cut out part of it but Brigida Mack stressed on Fox 46 it was due to time constraints. Could not go over 2 hours. They will probably rebroadcast the parade Christmas Day. They usually have in the past.
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I taped Queen Latifah just in case and they didn't cut it off. At least they did air more of the parade after 3.
 
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