Season 41 Pre-emptions

Reminder of airings directly impacted on Thanksgiving:
- All East Coast CBS airings
- All West Coast NBC airings
- All East Coast FOX airings

Most Mountain CBS airings will be impacted if CBS's game runs over, since most 6:30 MT airings are on stations that prioritize running 6:00 news or J! in its entirety. The only one that does not is KDBC El Paso. KDVR (FOX) does not either, but Wheel will be impacted if the game runs past 6:30 MT.

All CBS Montana stations are pre-empting both J! and Wheel today with late local news and a local special, respectively, and not airing either show at all.

Interestingly, on most Central Time Zone NBC affiliates, Wheel is the only syndicated program that is able to air today, while it is the only one not airing tomorrow. I did not find any pre-emptions for today on East Coast NBC affiliates.

Three CBS affiliates have Wheel listed in early time slots today, but they will probably get pulled if CBS Media Ventures is watching as closely as they were on Thanksgiving 2020. I won't list them here, but I'll keep watch on all of them.

Unrelated to football, one ABC affiliate also has Wheel in an early time slot today due to a local special. This one isn't as early as the CBS's and I don't think it will get pulled, but I'll only mention it if it does happen.

Almost all CBS and FOX affiliates are airing tonight's Wheel overnight or not at all, so I won't bother listing those. Confirmed airings of #S-7869 on alternate stations or in odd time slots on Friday or the weekend are as follows:

• WRDW Augusta, GA - Moves to WRDW-DT3 (MyTV)
• WBZ Boston, MA - Moves to WSBK (Independent)
• WNEM Bay City, MI - Moves to WNEM-DT2 (MyTV)
• WIVB Buffalo, NY - Moves to WNLO (CW)
• WSYT Syracuse, NY - Moves to WSYT-DT3 (MyTV)
• KTVT Dallas, TX - Moves to KTXA (Independent)
• WDBJ Roanoke, VA - Moves to WZBJ (MyTV)

• KFSM Fort Smith, AR - 11:00 PM CT Saturday
• WSWG Albany, GA - 10:00 AM ET Friday
  
• KVEO-DT2 Harlingen, TX - Delayed to 6:30 PM CT Friday, but won't air in its entirety if college football runs over

For the record, this was WTOK in Meridian, Mississippi. They aired Wheel at 5:00 PM CT today due to a special celebrating the station's 70th anniversary.

CBS went until 7:44 ET. Wheel was JIP'd during R2. KHOU managed to air that round in its entirety even though 7:44 is usually around when R3 would start.

WJFW did indeed air Wheel instead of the beginning of the game.

WABC never updated their listings, not even on their own website. The overnight lineup was listed as the usual: Kelly & Mark/Daytime J!/ABC World News/Tamron Hall/Localish shows

The lineup ended up actually being: Kelly & Mark/J! (first-run)/Wheel/Daytime J!/Tamron Hall/Localish shows. The first four shows all slid back about 33 minutes and aired in their entirety. Tamron Hall slid back only half an hour and was JIP'd a little after 4:00 AM following Daytime J!; the first of the two Localish shows was skipped and the second began as scheduled at 4:30 after Tamron finished.

Wheel ran on WABC from about 3:04-3:33 AM ET. I recorded the World News Tonight slot with a 30 minute extension and managed to get both J! and Wheel in their entirety in one recording (though it's another half hour of DVR space wasted...).

#S-7871 is pre-empted on WLS Chicago due to the Bears playing in MNF tonight.

#S-7874 was pre-empted on WPVI Philadelphia by the annual "Philadelphia Celebrates the Holidays" special.


#S-7875 is pre-empted on West Coast ABC's by the Pac-12 Championship Game, scheduled from 8:00-11:30 PM ET. KABC has Wheel at 9:00 PT which means it will be impacted if college football runs more than half an hour over, which it did last Friday.

It may also be pre-empted on WABC. Xfinity has two airings of Wheel listed, at the normal 7:30 PM and 2:35 AM following the encore of Kelly & Mark. This is not the weekend rerun as that is listed Sunday at 5:00 AM. However, WABC's website and TV Passport do not have the overnight airing listed, and fellow East O&O's WPVI, WTVD, and WLS also have only one airing of Wheel at its normal time. In 2020 and 21, all the O&O's aired a holiday shopping special on the first Friday of December, but this did not happen in 2022, and there is no sign of any such special this year that I can find.

I'm hoping this is an error. WABC never does their own half-hour local specials on a weeknight. They always do them Saturdays at 7:00 PM when possible, or Sundays at 5:30 PM during football season.

Much of the West Coast will not be seeing #S-7876 in its entirety or at all. MNF has gone into overtime with a review and overran more than half an hour.


Assuming KATU is still (stupidly) sliding back infomercials to take priority over Wheel of Fortune after sports overruns (which they stopped doing for a while after I complained to them, only to resume it a short time later), this affects tonight's red contestant from Portland, and on an episode that likely won't rerun, no less.

This isn't really relevant to pre-emptions, but it's not worth starting a whole thread over. I wanted to post this on this thread, but it's locked:
buyavowel.boards.net/thread/10042/long-weekend-feed-on?page=2 (maybe a mod can move this there?)

In Season 40, there were only two markets that were not carrying Wheel of Fortune Weekend (Saturday reruns) at all year-round: Springfield, MA (WWLP) and Harrisonburg, VA (WHSV). In both cases, their expected Saturday slots (both air Wheel weekdays at 7:00) are pre-empted by long-running local shows; WWLP claims their show, "Reel to Real", has been running since even before Wheel offered a weekend run.

As of Season 41, that number is now reduced to one. WHSV now carries WOF Weekend; they air it at the expected Saturday at 7:00 PM ET if that time slot is available. When pre-empted by sports, it airs Sundays at 5:30 PM. WHSV's local show, "VA Dreams", now airs at 7:30 instead of 7:00; I can't remember if that show was originally an hour and got reduced to half an hour, or if it was always half an hour and a different local show aired at 7:30. I definitely know WHSV did not carry Jeopardy! Weekend either, and they still don't.

Either way, this now means WWLP is the only remaining affiliate that still does not carry Wheel of Fortune Weekend at all (counting affiliates that air it on a sister station such as WXIA/WATL). I know there are at least three that don't carry Jeopardy! Weekend, all of which do carry Wheel: WHSV, WBIR Knoxville (due to long-running local show "Heartland"), WSAZ Huntington, and newest WOF/J! affiliate WHIZ Zanesville, the latter two due to "Ohio Lottery Cash Explosion", which airs on several stations at 7:30 (unless that's a seasonal show?). WDIV Detroit also rarely airs J! Weekend; when they do, it's in a random Sunday afternoon slot as filler when there are little to no NBC sports.

Also, speaking of weekend anomalies, WTWO Terre Haute (NBC) swaps WOF and J!'s time slots on Saturdays only. I thought it was a listings error, but I tuned into it a couple weekends ago and it proved to be true.


EDIT: Actually, this is probably a better fit for the Saturday reruns thread.

It wouldn't knock the actual stations off the air, just off of Direct TV services.  Since they are all regular channels (broadcast), most anyone in those areas could opt to watch them by using a traditional antenna to pick them up