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Ian Wallis:
I was watching the June 5, 1975 Tattletales recently (with Gary Burghoff, Lynn Redgrave and Dionne Warwick).  At the beginning of the show, Bert stated that they're now being seen at 11 AM in New York, and on June 16th will be seen at 11 everywhere and 10 on the west coast.

I'm a little puzzled by this statement because it wasn't until June 16th that CBS officially changed the time slot.  I always believed the O&O's carried the network schedule in pattern.  Does it stand to reason that WCBS moved the show to the new time slot a couple of weeks early?  If so, did they move Now You See It to 4 PM until Musical Chairs was ready?

According to the production slates we have access to, the show was taping pretty close to airdate most of the time.  Anyone have NY TVGuides from those weeks?

SRIV94:
WCBS' move of TT to 11AM was prompted by them carrying The Mike Douglas Show at 4PM (previously they carried it at 4:30 for 90 minutes, then moved it to 4PM for an hour--they then put Dinah! on at 5PM instead of 9AM).  NYSI aired at 1PM (as did MC for its entire run).

trainman:

--- Quote from: Ian Wallis on February 25, 2025, 09:34:58 PM ---I always believed the O&O's carried the network schedule in pattern.

--- End quote ---

So did I, until I was in college in Chicago and found that WBBM was only airing the second half of "Family Feud Challenge."

Years later, I discovered that for a time in the late '80s/early '90s (because they were carrying "Donahue" at 9:00), KNBC bumped one of the NBC daytime game shows to the overnight hours.

aaron sica:
Two more examples of out of pattern O&O's:

There was a short time in the mid-to-late '70s (others can pin down exact dates, I'm sure) where WABC flip-flopped Ryan's Hope and $20K Pyramid. $20K aired in the RH timeslot of 12:30, and RH aired in the $20K timeslot of 2pm.

Also, in January 1990, WNBC shook things up a little when they moved "Santa Barbara" to the noon timeslot.

At first, Golden Girls and 227 reruns aired from 9am-10am, with the syndicated talk show "House Party" at 10. Later in the spring, these two switched. WLoD aired a half hour earlier at 11 (supplanted by Marsha Warfield in March), and Generations a full hour earlier at 11:30. Classic Concentration landed at 3pm, followed by Scrabble at 3:30 (which continued to air until September, long after it was cancelled by NBC).

Bob Zager:
For many years, WXYZ-TV in Detroit was an ABC O&O station.  They always carried all ABC Network programs for that reason, but there were a couple of interesting moves they made that involved the daytime schedule. 

The first was in 1976.  Channel 7 was airing "The 4:30 Movie" from 4:30 to 6 PM weekdays.  Then they decided on expanding/renaming it "The 4:00 Movie" from 4 to 6 PM.  They made some early morning local changes, and started airing ABC's "The Edge of Night," on a one-day delayed basis at 10:30 AM.  In 1977, "The 4:00 Movie" aired until only 5:30 PM for more local news, and in 1982 was cut down from 4 to 5 PM for likewise reasons.

In the summer/fall of 1982, ABC News began an early morning news program, called "World News This Morining."  Because Channel 7 was ABC O&O, they had to carry it, but they worked out a plan to air WNTM's first fifteen minutes, break away to air a local exercise program, and then air the last fifteen minutes of WMTM.

In 1986, WXYZ became part of Scripps Broadcasting, and thus was not always required to carry all ABC-TV programs.  Because of this, WXYZ did NOT air network game shows, (including Bargain Hunters and Match Game), but did choose to air "The Home Show" and for a few years "The View," in the overnight hours.  "The View," eventually began airing in its network feed slot.

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