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Stations which haven't shown syndicated games in years
TimK2003:
IIRC, in the 14 years I've been out in Western Colorado, I don't ever recall seeing a syndicated game show on the Grand Junction ABC Affiliate, KJCT.
Their now-sister station, NBC-11/KKCO, has had the Wheel/J! franchise that whole time -- and they moved the latter to early afternoons at 4PM about 5 years ago to add an extra newscast at 6PM leaving Wheel at 6:30. And the CBS/Fox/MyTV combo of stations (KREX/KFQX/KGJT) have pretty much picked up all the other syndicated game shows over the years.
SuperMatch93:
--- Quote from: Strikerz04 on September 14, 2020, 08:05:49 PM ---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
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Didn't Karn Feud air on the U for a while, or was that pre-2004?
PYLdude:
Going back to New York for a second: if I’m not mistaken, they too hadn’t had a game show airing there in awhile before 25 Words or Less; they had the current Feud twice and the second season of Donnymid, and I believe To Tell the Truth for a brief period before it got cancelled, but they’ve never really been big on carrying game shows as long as I’ve been alive. They had Double Dare, Finders Keepers, the block with Talk About and Jackpot that went belly up midway through the 89-90 season, and then the revivals of the Dating and Newlywed Games from the late 90s. Anything else, unless you wanna count American Gladiators (for the sake of this argument, you might), has pretty much been network material like Greed or the last season of Fun House.
chargeradiocom:
In Cincinnati, it would probably be WLWT. The last syndie they ran was Bergeron Squares IIRC. All the other full-power stations currently run or have run something within the last 10 years. (If we count low-power WBQC, they may have gone longer, though they did run BUZZR on one of their subchannels for a couple years.)
On the flip side... In neighboring Dayton (whose channels can be received in northern parts of the Cincy market), each of the Big 4 affiliates currently runs at least one syndie game show. Dayton is one of the rare markets where Wheel & J! are on separate stations, with Wheel on WHIO & J! on WDTN. (It’s been that way for as long as I can remember, back to when I was a kid in the 80s, so I assume the two stations have a grandfathered arrangement.) WKEF has Feud & 25 Words. WRGT has Funny You Should Ask, albeit shoved into late nights. WBDT doesn’t run anything currently, but it’s one of those CW stations that kind of gets the syndie leftovers, so I’d be surprised if they haven’t run a syndie game show within the past few years.
danderson:
WYFF Greeneville SC hasn't run one since Tic Tac Dough with Patrick Wayne. That's 30 years ago.
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