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Affiliate Change: Maryland/Delaware Jun 24, 2019 13:03:50 GMT -5

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Post by MarioGS on Jun 24, 2019 13:03:50 GMT -5

Starting Monday, July 1, Wheel of Fortune will be moving stations in the Delmarva market, which serves Salisbury, Maryland and parts of Delaware.

The Wheel/Jeopardy! block and an hour of reruns of The Big Bang Theory will be swapping affiliates. The two game shows will be moving to NBC affiliate WDRE 31 at their same time slots (Wheel at 7:00PM ET, J! at 7:30), while BBT's block moves to sister station and Wheel's former home, FOX affiliate WBOC-DT2 21. This is one of only 11 (soon to be 10) FOX stations that carries Wheel from at least Mon-Fri on a regular basis (one FOX station, WLUC in Michigan, airs Wheel only on Mondays; it airs on NBC from Tue-Sat).

Moving from FOX to NBC should be beneficial for both shows. Aside from moving to a bigger overall network, both shows were subject to constant sports-related pre-emptions on FOX (with J! affected every Thursday during football season), and FOX 21 would never do make-good airings of either show.

The last episode of Wheel to air on FOX 21 will be show S-6920RR, a repeat of the show that aired January 18, 2019. The Saturday rerun scheduled for June 29 (S-6649RR, aired October 5, 2017) is pre-empted on all FOX affiliates by MLB Baseball and, as stated earlier, is not getting a make-good. Presumably, WDRE will also carry the Saturday reruns of both shows, although neither is airing on July 6 because of NBC airing NASCAR starting at 7:00.

Jeopardy!'s run on FOX 21 will end with the finale of the Teen Tournament. While listings appear to show that Jeopardy! also airs in first-run on the market's CBS affiliate WBOC (also under same ownership as WDRE and FOX 21) at 4:30 PM, this is actually Daytime Jeopardy! (AKA "Jeopardy! II"), and it will continue to air as normal after first-run J! moves to NBC.

Last Edit: Jun 24, 2019 13:05:56 GMT -5 by MarioGS

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Affiliate Change: Maryland/Delaware Jun 25, 2019 6:02:36 GMT -5

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Post by pannoni1 on Jun 25, 2019 6:02:36 GMT -5

IIRC growing up in the '90s while heading to our family's summer home, Wheel/Jeopardy! was once carried on WMDT 47 Salisbury, MD/27 Dover, DE, before the switch to FOX sometime during the '00s. Hard to believe, but that area didn't have an NBC affiliate until WDRE signed on around 2008; prior to that, you'd need either a cable box that would pick up the distant DC/Baltimore/Philadelphia station for NBC, or have a good antenna to pick up the NBC affiliate out of Atlantic City, NJ.

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Affiliate Change: Maryland/Delaware Jun 25, 2019 6:43:26 GMT -5

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Post by aaaa on Jun 25, 2019 6:43:26 GMT -5

WMGM ceased to be an NBC station on 12/31/2014. It was the NBC station serving the Atlantic city area, Channel 40. They picked up all the NBC daytime game shows from circa early 1982-June 1993, including those that KYW in Philly(then the NBC station, CBS since Sep 1995) didn't pick up, most notably most of the run of daytime $ale(KYW aired daytime $ale at 3PM from 1/7-9/13/85) and the original run of Classic Concentration(KYW aired it for a few months in reruns in 1992 when NBC still was). WMGM didn't broadcast pre-12 Noon EST until early 1982. WMGM stopped airing NBC daytime game shows on June 25, 1993, the end of the second week of Caesar's Challenge. WMGM even picked up an hour of ABC daytime programming from c. 1983-88, including all the ABC game shows of the period, and some of the sitcom reruns.

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Affiliate Change: Maryland/Delaware Jul 2, 2019 17:02:53 GMT -5

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Post by MarioGS on Jul 2, 2019 17:02:53 GMT -5

The new affiliate is actually WRDE, not WDRE - that's a radio station in Binghamton. Sorry about that.

Wheel's move may be for Mon-Fri only. On Saturdays, the 7:00 hour on WRDE is BBT reruns. This could mean that FOX 21 will keep Wheel and J!'s Saturday runs, but we won't know for sure for a while because MLB Baseball has been pre-empting the 7:00PM ET hour on FOX for the past several weeks, so the market hasn't seen either game show on a weekend for quite a while.

Anyway, these three shows were far from the only ones moving. Here is a full list of syndicated programming changes in the market:

WBOC Programming Change
Mon-Fri - Rachael Ray Show will air at 3 p.m., replacing Ellen

FOX21 Programming Changes
Mon - Fri - The Doctors will air at 10 a.m., replacing Steve Harvey
Mon - Fri - The Real will air at 11 a.m., replacing Judge Mathis.
Mon - Fri - The People's Court will air at 1 p.m.
Mon - Fri - Divorce Court will air at 2 p.m. and 2:30 p.m., replacing Rachael Ray Show
Mon - Fri - Judge Mathis airs at 3 p.m., replacing The Doctors
Mon - Fri - The People's Court will air at 4 p.m. - replacing Dr. Phil
Mon - Fri - Last Man Standing will air at 6 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. replacing Mom
Mon - Fri - Big Bang Theory will air at 7 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., replacing Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! respectively
Mon - Fri - Big Bang Theory will air at 10:30 p.m., replacing 2 Broke Girls
Mon - Fri - Mom will air at 11 p.m. and 11:30 p.m., replacing Friends
Mon - Fri - Two and a Half Men will air at 12 a.m. and 12:30 a.m., replacing Friends and Mike and Molly respectively
Mon - Fri - 2 Broke Girls will air at 1 a.m. and 1:30 a.m., replacing Mike and Molly and Two and a Half Men respectively
Mon - Fri - Friends will air at 2 a.m. and 2:30 a.m., replacing Two and a Half Men and The Game respectively
Mon - Fri - Mike and Molly will air at 3 a.m.
Mon - Fri - The Game will air at 3:30 a.m. and 4 a.m.
Mon - Fri - Pawn Stars will air at 4:30 a.m.

WRDE Programming Changes
Mon - Fri - Daily Mail TV will air at 5 a.m. and 5:30 a.m. replacing TMZ Live
Mon - Fri - Forensic Files will air at 6:30 a.m., replacing Big Bang Theory
Mon - Fri - TMZ Live will air at noon, replacing The Real
Mon - Fri - Ellen will air at 3 p.m., replacing Divorce Court
Mon - Fri - Dr. Phil will air at 4 p.m., replacing Extra and TMZ
Mon - Fri - Extra will air at 5 p.m., replacing Last Man Standing
Mon - Fri - TMZ will air at 5:30 p.m., replacing Last Man Standing
Mon - Fri - Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! will air at 7 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., respectively, replacing Big Bang Theory
Mon - Fri - Entertainment Tonight will air at 4:30 a.m., replacing Forensic Files

Source: www.wboc.com/story/40718307/several-programming-changes-for-wboc-wrde-and-fox21-effective-july-1

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Affiliate Change: Maryland/Delaware Jul 15, 2019 12:34:22 GMT -5

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Post by MarioGS on Jul 15, 2019 12:34:22 GMT -5

Jul 2, 2019 17:02:53 GMT -5 MarioGS said:

Wheel's move may be for Mon-Fri only. On Saturdays, the 7:00 hour on WRDE is BBT reruns. This could mean that FOX 21 will keep Wheel and J!'s Saturday runs, but we won't know for sure for a while because MLB Baseball has been pre-empting the 7:00PM ET hour on FOX for the past several weeks, so the market hasn't seen either game show on a weekend for quite a while.

WRDE has taken over the Saturday runs as well. However, they continue to appear as The Big Bang Theory in listings.

FOX has no 7:00 sporting events on Saturday 7/27, but listings for that day have the 7:00 and 7:30 slots listed as TBA on FOX 21. WBOC's website still has Wheel and Jeopardy! on FOX 21 in those slots (the last time FOX 21 aired the Saturday runs was back on May 11). TitanTV oddly shows the two shows on both WRDE and FOX 21 on 7/27. Presumably, FOX 21 will just air BBT reruns on days where the 7:00 hour is not affected by sports.

EDIT 7/18: The listings have been corrected. WRDE has WOF/J! on Saturdays at 7:00 and FOX 21 has BBT, just like on weekdays.

Last Edit: Jul 18, 2019 12:11:35 GMT -5 by MarioGS