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Time changes on network O & O's
Sodboy13:
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--- 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.
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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.
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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.
SRIV94:
--- 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.
thomas_meighan:
“The 20,000 Pyramid” and “Ryan’s Hope” aired at 12:30 and 2:00 (respectively) on WABC from May 30 through September 16, 1977. Years ago, when looking through NYT TV listings, I noticed the swap and assumed it was a *network* change — but no.
One sidebar to this topic is that ABC arranged its West Coast daytime feed in a different order between April 1974 and June 1980. In the spring of 1977, for example, it went Happy Days/$20K Pyramid/Second Chance/Family Feud/All My Children/Ryan’s Hope/One Life to Live/General Hospital/Edge of Night, from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Pacific. I wonder if they decided to do some experimenting with timeslots on WABC to determine whether to change the overall slotting.
More discussion of the differences between ABC’s Eastern and Pacific daytime feeds in that era is found at
https://www.davesfunstuff.com/a-sdn/0018-abc1974.htm
Scrabbleship:
--- Quote from: aaron sica on February 26, 2025, 08:18:42 AM ---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).
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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,.
Once NBC began pre-feeding the O&O's in 1990, WNBC became a mess. By May, House Party and the sitcom reruns swapped places. Then in September, the morning shows began airing a half hour early (LMaD at 9:30, Classic Concentration at 10:00, et Al.) Then in January 1991, the 10:00 hour went back to being in pattern with TTTT airing at 9:30 AM coming out of a relocated The Challengers.
Two other ones:
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.
Three of ABC's O&O's (KTRK, WPVI, WTVD) did not clear MG '90 as being ex-Cap Cities stations which had established noon newscasts they were exempt from having to clear what they didn't clear at the time the sale closed. No stations in those markets picked MG '90 up either, extra frustrating in Philly as WTXF aired the Perfect Strangers reruns that aired prior.
aaron sica:
--- Quote from: Scrabbleship on February 26, 2025, 10:39:34 PM ---extra frustrating in Philly as WTXF aired the Perfect Strangers reruns that aired prior.
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First, thanks for the clarifications on WNBC's 1990 shakeup! I remember that well. I was all but sure that WTXF would continue with MG90. Imagine my disappointment when I looked at the TV listings and saw "What's Happening!" slotted at 10am instead. I'm as much of a fan of the adventures of Raj, Rerun and Dwayne as the next guy but I really would have rathered MG90.
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