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Western affiliates and Monday Night Football

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installLSC

During the ABC run of Monday Night Football, the game usually started at 9pm Eastern--leaving a hour beforehand to air a regular TV show. But in the Mountain and Pacific Time Zones, the game would start at or before prime time. So what did your local affiliate do with the rest of the schedule? I remember watching "MacGyver" immediately after the game on my local affiliate (KAPP Yakima WA), followed by the local news instead of waiting until 11pm. I don't remember what happened after the local news, unfortunately.
 
installLSC said:
During the ABC run of Monday Night Football, the game usually started at 9pm Eastern--leaving a hour beforehand to air a regular TV show. But in the Mountain and Pacific Time Zones, the game would start at or before prime time. So what did your local affiliate do with the rest of the schedule? I remember watching "MacGyver" immediately after the game on my local affiliate (KAPP Yakima WA), followed by the local news instead of waiting until 11pm. I don't remember what happened after the local news, unfortunately.
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I can speak for Seattle's ABC KOMO. For most of the ABC MNF series, KOMO delayed it one hour, starting the games at 7pm pacific to get their local news in. However, toward the end of MNF on ABC they started to run it live, though I don't think it was more than a season or two. KATU Portland has a similar history, but I am not as familiar with their schedule.
 
seatownmedia said:
I can speak for Seattle's ABC KOMO. For most of the ABC MNF series, KOMO delayed it one hour, starting the games at 7pm pacific to get their local news in. However, toward the end of MNF on ABC they started to run it live, though I don't think it was more than a season or two. KATU Portland has a similar history, but I am not as familiar with their schedule.
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I'm surprised ABC or the NFL would let them get away with that. They definitely wouldn't now.

Although I live in the Central time zone I always thought that 9 PM ET (8 PM CT) was too late of a start. The start of Thursday night games on CBS and soon NBC at 8 ET and 7 CT makes more sense. Even with that they push local news and late night shows back, although not as much.
 
seatownmedia said:
I can speak for Seattle's ABC KOMO. For most of the ABC MNF series, KOMO delayed it one hour, starting the games at 7pm pacific to get their local news in. However, toward the end of MNF on ABC they started to run it live, though I don't think it was more than a season or two. KATU Portland has a similar history, but I am not as familiar with their schedule.
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Yeah, I remember that unless the Seahawks were in the Monday Night game, KOMO and KATU wouldn't air the games live.

As for Los Angeles, KABC used to air a postgame show ("Monday Night Live") immediately following the MNF game, followed by network programming at 10 (whatever the 8pm ET show was), then the news at 11. Because of that, KABC and most other ABC stations that carried "Jeopardy!" and "Wheel of Fortune" had to run first-run episodes on Tuesday-Saturday.
 
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