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mmb5:
Too lazy to look up, but I don't think Detroit's NBC station has any syndicated games since Donnymid/Weakest Link.  The ABC station would have had a near 30-year streak if it wasn't for the one oddball year they decided to carry Funny You Should Ask.  Most of our games go the CBS station because without any local programming, they have a lot of time to fill.

I'm an idiot.  WOF+J has been on WDIV-NBC forever.  Nevermind me.

aaron sica:

--- Quote from: tvmitch on September 14, 2020, 09:52:52 AM ---This is an interesting topic starter for sure.

All the stations in the Harrisburg/Lancaster, PA market have aired at least one syndicated game show in the past 20 years. Off the top of my head, I know that Millionaire ran on all the major stations in the market for at least one season.

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I would say for the last 40 years, WGAL has only aired a smattering of syndicated game shows. Starting in fall 1980, the only syndicated offering they had for a season was "Hollywood Squares". Pretty sure they aired "Sweethearts" (the CNR one), and also "The Challengers" (both at 10:30am I believe, pre-empting the NBC offering). After Challengers, I don't think they aired another syndicated game show *until* Millionaire, not counting any lottery game shows or local quiz shows.

Strikerz04:
WMAQ (Chicago) last had DoND in 2010 and MG Crosswords in 2007, but before then? Combs' Feud?


WBBM hasn't had a syndie game since losing Hollywood Squares in 2004.


Unless my memory is shot, WCIU had a gap since Donnymid (2004) and Funny You Should Ask

PYLdude:

--- Quote from: BrandonFG on September 14, 2020, 05:09:33 PM ---
--- Quote from: JMFabiano on September 14, 2020, 04:52:14 PM ---Trying to remember what WNBC had.

(snip)

Was syndie DOND there?

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I wanna say Deal was WCBS or WWOR. Yes it was.

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And before that, they’d only had one other syndie game since they dropped Feud, that being Merv Griffin’s Crosswords. (I’m not counting Ruckus or Inside the Box and I believe The Challengers and Feud aired there at the same time.)

WCBS actually hasn’t had a syndie game since 2004, when Hollywood Squares bade farewell. The year before alone, there was three; they dropped Millionaire after season one and Weakest Link got cancelled.

With rare exceptions WPIX has been out of the game show biz for most of the last 30 years. The only one with any staying power was Street Smarts which they had for the whole run. Besides that there was Pictionary, Bzzz, the syndicated Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader, and Celebrity Name Game (and they really didn’t give a crap about it, if its airing schedule was any indication).

Chief-O:
I might be wild-a** wrong here, but I'm sure WFRV (Green Bay) hasn't had any syndie GS's since losing WOF and J! (WLUK airs both these days).

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