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WFMY latest to move "Let's Make A Deal" to 10 AM

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bpatrick

Starting tomorrow, WFMY Greensboro, NC, will flipflop
"Let's Make A Deal" and its morning back-to-back airings
of Andy Griffith; "Deal" will now air at 10, Andy from 3-4
(plus another episode at 5:30, meaning three episodes within
a three-hour period, 3-6 PM).

The idea, says the station, is to expose a new generation to
"The Andy Griffith Show." I have to say I'm from Missouri on
that one; I don't know how much kids care about that show.
But probably Andy will be on WFMY somewhere until the world
ends.

Personally, if I were programming a CBS affiliate up to 8 PM (ET)
I would look at WBTW Florence/Myrtle Beach; I think this is great
flow:

They run "CBS This Morning" at 7 (WFMY airs it at 8) followed by
"Dr. Phil" at 9. The rest of the way (10 AM-8 PM) looks like this:

10 AM Let's Make A Deal
11 AM The Price Is Right
12 N News
12:30 Young And The Restless
1:30 Bold And The Beautiful
2 PM The Talk
3 PM Katie
4 PM Ellen
5 PM News
5:30 Inside Edition
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Wheel Of Fortune
7:30 Jeopardy!

Two game shows, a local newscast, the two CBS soaps,
a three-hour talk-show block, a two-hour news block
(OK, "Inside Edition" isn't, strictly speaking, a news program),
and the two most popular game shows. That is a schedule
I would kill to have.

Anyone know how I can get this to WFMY? I can't find anyone
outside the on-air news talent to e-mail my idea to.
 
As long as Mount Airy is in the Greensboro/Winston-Salem/High Point DMA they will show Andy Griffith. And with the proximity of Mount Airy to Winston-Salem, I think Andy Griffith will be on WFMY until the end of terrestrial television (and the apocalypse).
 
WHP in Harrisburg was originally going to broadcast "The Doctors" at 10am and "Let's Make a Deal" at 3pm (they aired "Guiding Light" at 3pm before its cancellation as well), but shortly before LMaD premiered, they flip-flopped the two. "Doctors" aired at 3pm up until this past fall, when Jeff Probst's talk show replaced it. "Doctors" got moved to sister station WLYH (CW). Now that Jeff's show is cancelled, not sure what will happen to that 3pm hour come fall....
 
I seem to recall that WHP was one of the first to move "LMAD"
to 10 AM, also that WBZ carried "Guiding Light" at 10.

Only about 15 stations carried "GL" in the morning, mostly because
(with the possible exception of "Love Of Life," which aired in the
East at 11:30 AM for ten years; or "The Young And The Restless"
in the earlier time zones) soaps have a poor track record in the
morning. Game shows, OTOH, used to dominate the morning and
I still think "LMAD" and "TPIR" are similar enough to make a good
back-to-back block.

BTW, just to brag a little, I submitted my original posting comparing
WFMY and WBTW to WFMY's g.m. He reminded me that some of those
shows are not available to WFMY (Katie airs on WGHP; "Inside Edition"
on WXII), but he thought I have a pretty good sense of programming.
If I ran WFMY and had the chance to acquire those two shows, I might
take Katie but I'm not sure about "Inside Edition," since Ch. 2's audience
is pretty conservative (I remember once, back in the '80s, when they were
going to give Andy a rest and put "The Newlywed Game" at 5:30--boy, the
switchboard nearly blew up!).

I'm still working on the question of which is more overkill: three episodes
of Andy on WFMY or three hours of local news on another station on Ch. 2--
this one a certain ABC affiliate in Atlanta.
 
I've also noticed that WSPA Greenville/Spartanburg/Asheville has
moved "LMAD" to 9 AM and put "Dr. Phil" at 3; likewise, only two
CBS o&os are still carrying it in the afternoon; KPIX San Francisco
moved it to 9 AM (PT), so that leaves KCNC Denver and WCCO
Minneapolis/St. Paul still carrying it at 2 PM local time.

Back to WFMY, the station announced on Facebook that it is replacing
the 5:30 episode of Andy with "2 Wants To Know," a half news-half investigative
show, starting April 25 (I wonder if that date is correct, since April 25 is on a
Thursday). Personally, I think it's great; I think it's past time WFMY expanded its
news block into the 5:30-6 PM half hour. However, there are quite a few people
in the Triad who obviously disagree; WFMY has received some 200 calls, most of
them protesting the decision to drop Andy at 5:30 (one person said they watch
Andy when they get home from work and are preparing dinner--or supper, as we
say down here).

Andy's like a god in these parts, but to air him from 3 to 4, then again at 5:30?
Come on! Go get him on DVD if you want him so badly, Andy fans, and let's get
WFMY into the 21st century!
 
I watched the debut of "2 Wants To Know" and think it needs work.
There were a couple of "60 Minutes"-style interviews, but mostly it
was what "2 Wants To Know" had resolved, interspersed with the
weather and "what we're working on for 6." I admire WFMY for trying
something new, perhaps because I'm sick of Andy Griffith seemingly
every time I turn on the set. But I've been wishing for years that a
large-market station would try a weekly local "60 Minutes"-type program,
perhaps in Saturday access time (I saw something like it in Dallas once,
because I remember a story about a company that had a monopoly on
roofing and was being hit with lawsuits when the roofs burned).

This whole attitude on the part of the Triad audience, "if it ain't broke,
don't fix it," reminds me of a time back in the '70s when I asked an employee
of WBRC/6 Birmingham why they didn't adopt the then-hot "Eyewitness News"
format; his answer: "We're doing just fine with what we've got." (WCFT Tuscaloosa
did adopt it a little later.) I have little patience with the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it"
attitude, especially when the newscast looks like something from the '50s, as WBRC's
did at the time.

Nevertheless, I predict a short life for "2 Wants To Know"; I think popular demand will
have Andy back at the same old stand before the end of the summer.
 
As for the odd Thursday, April 25 start date for the program, I would say that might have to do with it being the first day of the all-important May sweeps period. Or it may not.
 
1069_KIFR said:
WFMY is right now completely focused on their new News Co-Anchor, Julie Luck. She moves over from WGHP FOX8.
Click to expand...

Yes, and she's just as silly, if a little less talkative, than she was at FOX8. Over there, Neill McNeill used to have
to cut her off when she'd go off on one of her tangents. But from what I saw of her first day with Frank Mickens,
I nominate the two of them to replace Pat and Vanna when they retire.

Personally, I wish DirecTV in Chatham County brought in WXII; they seem to be the most professional of all
the Triad newscasts, and some individual broadcasts I've seen are almost network quality. Meantime, the
best we have--and seemingly the preference of folks around here--is WRAL. God, how I miss Primestar, when
I could watch WSB, and I also wish Belo hadn't quit streaming their stations' local newscasts; I used to watch
WHAS every night. Both, IMHO, are better than anything coming out of either the Triangle or the Triad (I've never
seen a station in modern times that does as thorough a job of covering state government as WHAS does Kentucky).
 
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