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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: bellbm on August 26, 2003, 12:37:39 AM
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I have a question about the weekend re-run of Jeopardy!.
In Chicago, they never show the fee plugs, it is just an edit from \"goodbye\" to the credits.
Now last week I was in Las Vegas, and caught the rerun, and they ran the fee plugs.
Was it just a flook that week, or is ABC-7 here in Chicago editing those out?
How does it air in other markets?
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[quote name=\'bellbm\' date=\'Aug 25 2003, 11:37 PM\'] I have a question about the weekend re-run of Jeopardy!.
In Chicago, they never show the fee plugs, it is just an edit from "goodbye" to the credits.
Now last week I was in Las Vegas, and caught the rerun, and they ran the fee plugs.
Was it just a flook that week, or is ABC-7 here in Chicago editing those out?
How does it air in other markets? [/quote]
We get the fee plugs on Norfolk reruns. BTW, are Ben Tritle's eps. still airing? When I last saw it, he had just won his 2nd match.
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Then WLS in Chicago must, for some odd reason, edit these out.
Also, it was announced in the paper today that WLS will expand their 11:30 newscast to an hour, and start it at 11 AM. This comes after ABC announce Port Charles will end. I was hoping for a rerun of Jeopardy or something, but apparently not.
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I think WLS is editing out the fee plugs because they're old plugs (I think), and WLS can use the extra time for fresh commercials. I don't know if WLS is allowed to cut the plugs, whether they're old or not.
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It's all in the contract. Back in 1989, LBS put an additional three fee plugs on the Combs Feud and WJBK in Detroit refused to air the fee plugs and inserted a PSA since more commercial time violated the contract.