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Time changes on network O & O's
SRIV94:
--- Quote from: Scrabbleship on February 26, 2025, 10:39:34 PM ---The 4:00 ET/3:00 elsewhere games CBS aired in the 1980s (Tattletales/Body Language/PYL) didn't air on any of their 5 (later 4) O&O's at that time. WCBS, WBBM, KMOX, and KNXT/KCBS aired a pre-feed at 12:00/11:00 while WCAU aired them on a day's delay at 9:30 AM.
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As stated before, WBBM did not air the pre-feed of the 11AM shows--they also aired on a one-day delay. Trust me--I was around. :)
PYLdude:
--- Quote ---WLoD by that point would've been the syndie run, daytime ended in September 1989. If memory serves that right, that moved up and 3rd Degree went to overnights.
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See, I was under the impression that syndie WLOD never left WCBS, and only moved to overnights after the channel picked up Hard Copy to air in its former timeslot.
TheInquisitiveOne:
--- Quote from: SRIV94 on February 26, 2025, 05:08:05 PM ---
--- Quote from: Sodboy13 on February 26, 2025, 02:15:51 PM ---For a good number of years, WBBM carried Donahue at 9:00am. So at 10:00am, they ran what would normally be the 9:00am hour, and TPIR ran at 3:00pm.
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And oddly enough, all on a one-day delay.
Finally, by 1986 (when Donahue moved to WMAQ) they had restored $25KP, CS and TPiR to their actual time slots, but continued to run PYL at 11 on delay.
And at some point in 1987, WMAQ started running daytime WoF at 3 (at least it was same day). That didn't last too long.
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I definitely remember that WBBM scheduling because TPIR at 3pm was my first exposure to the show (that I remember, anyway). This forum help set me straight as to what happened with that period (save for the one-day delay; this I wasn’t aware of).
I actually do remember Daytime Wheel airing briefly at 3pm in the afternoons; I actually have a couple of Chicago TV Guides where WMAQ advertised a local sweepstakes that encouraged watching the 90-minute daily block consisting of The New Newlywed Game, Daytime Wheel, and Hollywood Squares. As you said, that didn’t last long.
The Inquisitive One
PYLdude:
Just remembered another New York example: when NBC replaced the Scrabble/Scattergories hour at noon with the CC rerun/Caesars Challenge hour, WNBC opted to air Caesars Challenge earlier in the morning; if I remember they also flipped the order of airing.
SRIV94:
--- Quote from: TheInquisitiveOne on March 01, 2025, 04:33:07 PM ---I definitely remember that WBBM scheduling because TPIR at 3pm was my first exposure to the show (that I remember, anyway). This forum help set me straight as to what happened with that period (save for the one-day delay; this I wasn’t aware of).
I actually do remember Daytime Wheel airing briefly at 3pm in the afternoons; I actually have a couple of Chicago TV Guides where WMAQ advertised a local sweepstakes that encouraged watching the 90-minute daily block consisting of The New Newlywed Game, Daytime Wheel, and Hollywood Squares. As you said, that didn’t last long.
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Thought of another one while reading your post--for a time in 1985, WLS ran daytime FF at 3 to lead into J! at 3:30 (which remains to this day). (Then after FF's cancellation, WLS continued to air FF reruns at 3 for over a year.)
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