"Wheel" And "Jeopardy!" Leaving ABC Station For CW Affiliate?

[DToTheJ]

Washington-area media news website DCRTV.com is reporting that the popular prime-access game show tandem of "Wheel Of Fortune" and "Jeopardy!" are leaving longtime Baltimore affiliate WMAR/2 for both the local Fox affiliate (WBFF/45) and the local CW station (WNUV/54). However, I am a bit skeptical because the source is something called "Baltimore Media Blog", which is but a Facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Baltimore-Media-Blog/187576398289

 

[MarcB]

The story DCRTV has from the Baltimore Media Blog states the changes isn't happening until 2012. But if you recall a few years ago in Boston CBS moved the show from CBS 4 WBZ over to sister station TV 38 WSBK. They have since moved it back over to CBS 4.

 

[DToTheJ]

Meanwhile, both WBFF and WNUV are sister stations (both owned by Sinclair), whereas WMAR is run by Scripps. I wonder if it's a case of Sinclair wanting the shows more, or Scripps wanting them less. In the case of the latter, are there any other Scripps stations carrying the shows that might lose out on them in the future?

And both shows on both WBFF and WNUV? How's that going to work? Will one station air "Wheel" and the other carry "Jeopardy"?

 

[ding12]

WMAR/2 is a weak ABC affiliate, so it's not a surprise the station (or station ownership) will forgo expensive syndicated programming.

 

[Sammi Brie]

WMAR/2 is a weak ABC affiliate, so it's not a surprise the station (or station ownership) will forgo expensive syndicated programming.

Will KNXV/15 lose Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune too? I call them the barren desert of Phoenix TV news.

 

[bostonmediaguy]

The story DCRTV has from the Baltimore Media Blog states the changes isn't happening until 2012. But if you recall a few years ago in Boston CBS moved the show from CBS 4 WBZ over to sister station TV 38 WSBK. They have since moved it back over to CBS 4.

Wheel and Jeopardy! aired on WNEV/WHDH until 2001 when they moved to WSBK. They only moved to WBZ in October 2009.

 

[Tim-In-Houston]

In Nashville, Jeopardy! is on Sinclair-owned WUXP-30 (MNTV) while "Wheel" airs on the ABC affiliate, WKRN-2. But WKRN has only had "Wheel" since about 2001, prior to that WZTV, the market's Fox station, aired both programs against the other's 6pm newscasts (hour-long on both WSMV and WTVF and half-hour on WKRN followed by "Entertainment Tonight").

 

[ajc_trw]

WMAR/2 is a weak ABC affiliate, so it's not a surprise the station (or station ownership) will forgo expensive syndicated programming.

I hope weak doesn't refer to their transmitter. WMAR RF-38 runs a megawatt and is easily received in Dover, DE (56 miles away) on the ground floor with an indoor aerial.

If by not being a good ABC affiliate you are absolutely correct. I can't count the times they've shown local programming in lieu of ABC shows. I'm sure Baltimore residents felt lucky if they could get ABC from DC.

BTW I lived in Dover from 2003 till last July and remember when WJZ had megawatt 38. Always receivable in Delaware.

 

[bpatrick]

A few years back "Wheel" and "Jeopardy!" moved
from WXIA (NBC) to WATL (MyNet) in Atlanta; the advantage
is that the two shows are again back-to-back (7-8 PM),
whereas 11 Alive had moved "Jeopardy!" to 4:30 when it
started its 7 PM local news.

And lest we forget, the two game shows moved from WWL
(CBS) to WVUE (Fox) in New Orleans; I can think of only
one other Fox station that carries them: WALA Mobile, AL.

 

[nathannah]

Also WLUK in Green Bay; all three Fox examples got the shows under Emmis ownership before they sold out WALA and WLUK to LIN in 2005, then WVUE in 2009 post-Katrina.

 

[Capemill]

I can think of only one other Fox station that carries them: WALA Mobile, AL.

If I recall correctly, I believe WALA is also one of (if not the) only Fox station that carries Oprah.

 

[Mario500]

WALA-TV had "Wheel of Fortune", "Jeopardy!", and "The Oprah Winfrey Show" when it was an NBC station before it switched network affiliations with WPMI-TV, a FOX station, on December 31st, 1995. WKRG-TV in Mobile used to have both "Jeopardy!" and "Wheel of Fortune".