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Title: Temptation cutbacks?
Post by: tvmitch on March 25, 2008, 03:15:44 PM

WPMT, Fox affiliate for the Lancaster-Lebanon-York-Harrisburg, PA market, has cut back Temptation to one airing. It now airs once only at 12:30pm daily instead of a double run starting at noon. What fills the 12n slot? The infinitely more popular "Paid Programming," which will probably double PMT's ratings at noon!

WPMT still airs a double-run of Crosswords at 1 and FF at 2.

Anyone else see similar cutbacks for the Rossmeister?

EDIT: to the mods, would someone mind correcting my subject-verb agreement in the title? Thanks.

Title: Temptation cutbacks?
Post by: dzinkin on March 25, 2008, 03:21:46 PM

[quote name=\'mitchgroff\' post=\'182442\' date=\'Mar 25 2008, 03:15 PM\']
EDIT: to the mods, would someone mind correcting my subject-verb agreement in the title? Thanks.
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Us not wants to. :-P

Title: Temptation cutbacks?
Post by: Chelsea Thrasher on March 25, 2008, 10:15:55 PM

It didn't get cut back, as there wasn't a secondary airing to cut, but Temptation got majorly downgraded in Nashville a couple of months ago - from 5 PM CT to 3:30 AM CT.  And this is on a MyNetworkTV affiliate no less.

Title: Temptation cutbacks?
Post by: Tony Peters on March 26, 2008, 11:14:49 AM

[quote name=\'Seth Thrasher\' post=\'182475\' date=\'Mar 25 2008, 09:15 PM\']
It didn't get cut back, as there wasn't a secondary airing to cut, but Temptation got majorly downgraded in Nashville a couple of months ago - from 5 PM CT to 3:30 AM CT.  And this is on a MyNetworkTV affiliate no less.
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WUXP 30, which also has the distinction of being a MyNetworkTV station that airs Jeopardy!. I would say the only one, but I don't know for sure (didn't I read somewhere that the one in Atlanta - co-owned with WXIA 11 Alive - runs it and Wheel now?).
AFAIK, Jeopardy! has never done well in the Nashville market, hence its station placement.

Title: Temptation cutbacks?
Post by: colonial on March 26, 2008, 11:41:30 AM

[quote name='Tony Peters' date='Mar 26 2008, 11:14 AM' post='182515']
[quote name='Seth Thrasher' post='182475' date='Mar 25 2008, 09:15 PM']

WUXP 30, which also has the distinction of being a MyNetworkTV station that airs Jeopardy!. I would say the only one, but I don't know for sure (didn't I read somewhere that the one in Atlanta - co-owned with WXIA 11 Alive - runs it and Wheel now?).
AFAIK, Jeopardy! has never done well in the Nashville market, hence its station placement.
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Yes. the MyNet affiliate in Atlanta airs Wheel and J! weeknights from 7-8p ET, as well as the weekend encore Saturday nights from 7-8.

James

Title: Temptation cutbacks?
Post by: comicus on March 28, 2008, 05:59:13 AM

WBGN in Pittsburgh ran infomercials in place of the second 6:30 p.m. broadcast for several weeks, but seems to have resumed the full double run.  When they originally cut down to single run, that, to me, was the tell-tale sign that the show wasn't long for this world... if Temptation wasn't pulling in high enough numbers to satisfy WBGN ("59 isn't just our home on the dial, it's also our number of viewers"), then what prayer does it have on, y'know, a real TV station?

I will be stunned if Rossi sees a second season.

Title: Temptation cutbacks?
Post by: Jimmy Owen on March 28, 2008, 08:09:56 AM

Just think of infomercials as "Temptation" without all those silly game elements. :)