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Title: What U.S. markets/Canadian stations had the 1986 Split Second?
Post by: jlgarfield on March 13, 2020, 11:51:16 PM: This has piqued my interest, but what U.S. markets ACTUALLY aired the 1986 Monty Hall version of Split Second in first-run? And on stations did it air in the various Canadian markets? I hope we can shed some light on it.
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Post by: PYLdude on March 13, 2020, 11:58:38 PM: New York had it; 10:30 AM on WABC.
Title: Re: What U.S. markets/Canadian stations had the 1986 Split Second?
Post by: nowhammies10 on March 14, 2020, 04:43:44 PM: Retrontario has a Split Second promo from CFPL-TV 10 in London, ON. Given that it taped at CHCH in Hamilton, I imagine they aired it as well.
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Post by: tvmitch on March 15, 2020, 07:07:13 PM: I'm pretty sure it aired first-run on WHP in Harrisburg, PA.
Title: Re: What U.S. markets/Canadian stations had the 1986 Split Second?
Post by: aaron sica on March 16, 2020, 07:57:32 AM: Quote from: tvmitch on March 15, 2020, 07:07:13 PM
I'm pretty sure it aired first-run on WHP in Harrisburg, PA.

Everything I've found shows that Harrisburg didn't get it at all. Nearby WCAU in Philly ran it at 9:30 in the morning during the 1987-88 season.
Title: Re: What U.S. markets/Canadian stations had the 1986 Split Second?
Post by: Jamey Greek on March 16, 2020, 04:01:06 PM: Quote from: aaron sica on March 16, 2020, 07:57:32 AM
Quote from: tvmitch on March 15, 2020, 07:07:13 PM
I'm pretty sure it aired first-run on WHP in Harrisburg, PA.

Everything I've found shows that Harrisburg didn't get it at all. Nearby WCAU in Philly ran it at 9:30 in the morning during the 1987-88 season.

The ABC affiliate in Scranton, PA aired it in the 1987-88 season after High Rollers IIRC.
Title: Re: What U.S. markets/Canadian stations had the 1986 Split Second?
Post by: narzo on March 16, 2020, 07:20:26 PM: Quote from: nowhammies10 on March 14, 2020, 04:43:44 PM
Given that it taped at CHCH in Hamilton, I imagine they aired it as well.

Indeed they did, 7:30pm weeknights. I was visiting there Mid-June of 1987 and recorded an episode off air. Interestingly, it's the episode which is usually marked as episode #6 with Catherine, Gene, and Beverly, so they must have already exhausted all the first run episodes and started reruns.
Title: Re: What U.S. markets/Canadian stations had the 1986 Split Second?
Post by: BrandonFG on March 16, 2020, 09:16:06 PM: I mentioned in another thread having a few Dallas/Ft. Worth-area TV Guides from 1986-87. The one I magically can't find is the only one from when the show would've aired, but I thought I saw SS listed in the mornings. If/when I find it, I'll post an update.

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Title: Re: What U.S. markets/Canadian stations had the 1986 Split Second?
Post by: oaklandfan2kx on March 17, 2020, 01:21:47 AM: I Found Out KSLA (Channel 12 - CBS) in Shreveport, LA picked up Monty Hall's Split Second right before 2 Syndicated Talk Shows from Multimedia Television (Sally Jesse Raphael & Donahue)
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Post by: KrisW73 on March 17, 2020, 11:44:23 AM: Boston did on WHDH - I will dig and see if I can get more information about times etc
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Post by: aaron sica on March 17, 2020, 01:30:44 PM: Quote from: KrisW73 on March 17, 2020, 11:44:23 AM
Boston did on WHDH - I will dig and see if I can get more information about times etc

I'm bored, so I did it for you. :) Looks like in the spring of '87, WHDH aired it at 10:30am.
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Post by: mmb5 on March 17, 2020, 06:45:24 PM: It didn't air anywhere in the state of Michigan.
Title: Re: What U.S. markets/Canadian stations had the 1986 Split Second?
Post by: jlgarfield on March 24, 2020, 02:41:15 PM: Quote from: KrisW73 on March 17, 2020, 11:44:23 AM
Boston did on WHDH - I will dig and see if I can get more information about times etc

WHDH was then WNEV.
Title: Re: What U.S. markets/Canadian stations had the 1986 Split Second?
Post by: Scrabbleship on March 26, 2020, 10:26:57 AM: Quote from: oaklandfan2kx on March 17, 2020, 01:21:47 AM
I Found Out KSLA (Channel 12 - CBS) in Shreveport, LA picked up Monty Hall's Split Second right before 2 Syndicated Talk Shows from Multimedia Television (Sally Jesse Raphael & Donahue)

KSLA was owned by Viacom, which syndicated Split Second in the US and IIRC, all five of the stations they owned had it some capacity. I can vouch for two others.

WVIT 30 (NBC) New Britain-Hartford, CT: 12:30 PM (punting Wordplay to WHCT 18)
WNYT 13 (NBC) Albany, NY: 12:00 PM (Super Password was already airing on WUSV 45 until that station shut down in early 1987)

Regarding WNYT, they would continue using Split Second as random schedule filler well beyond 1987, to the point of airing it at 7:30 PM for a week in September 1989 as filler between losing Win Lose or Draw and Hard Copy premiering (http://"https://www.radiodiscussions.com/showthread.php?698969-Retro-Albany-Schenectady-Troy-Tuesday-September-12-1989").

Schedule data for the two other Viacom-owned stations of this period - KMOV 4 (CBS) St. Louis and WHEC 10 (CBS) Rochester, NY - seems to be unavailable online.
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Post by: byrd62 on March 26, 2020, 12:31:32 PM: Tampa-St Pete WTVT-13 (then CBS, now Fox) weekdays at 9:30 am, right before Pyramid, Card Sharks with Bob Eubanks, and TPiR.
Title: Re: What U.S. markets/Canadian stations had the 1986 Split Second?
Post by: Ian Wallis on March 26, 2020, 03:44:42 PM: Quote from: Scrabbleship on March 26, 2020, 10:26:57 AM

Schedule data for the two other Viacom-owned stations of this period - KMOV 4 (CBS) St. Louis and WHEC 10 (CBS) Rochester, NY - seems to be unavailable online.

The Rochester stations were listed in our TVGuides, and AKAIK, WHEC never carried it.

It was seen on CHCH Hamilton weeknights at 7:30 when it was in first-run. They aired repeats of it until the early '90s, I believe it was seen at something like 9:30 AM by then.
Title: Re: What U.S. markets/Canadian stations had the 1986 Split Second?
Post by: BrandonFG on April 13, 2020, 10:52:12 PM: Quote from: BrandonFG on March 16, 2020, 09:16:06 PM
I mentioned in another thread having a few Dallas/Ft. Worth-area TV Guides from 1986-87. The one I magically can't find is the only one from when the show would've aired, but I thought I saw SS listed in the mornings. If/when I find it, I'll post an update.
I haven't found that particular TV Guide, but I finally renewed my newspapers.com account and finally found a DFW-area newspaper that went as far as the 80s. I couldn't find a station that aired Split Second.
Title: Re: What U.S. markets/Canadian stations had the 1986 Split Second?
Post by: Ian Wallis on April 16, 2020, 02:28:50 PM: A former trading friend of mine - who's not a member here - e-mailed me and asked me to contribute that WXXV in Gulfport, Mississippi also carried the show.
Title: Re: What U.S. markets/Canadian stations had the 1986 Split Second?
Post by: johnnya2k3 on April 21, 2020, 09:55:20 PM: I said on another thread here years ago that WVEU (WUPA) had Split Second '86 in Atlanta.