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bandit957:
I bet there was no other TV market as loaded with preemptions as Cincinnati. And they were often because of the show's content, not because the show they preempted it with was more popular.

One of the most ridiculous was the string of years in the late '80s/early '90s when Channel 12 preempted 'New Year's Rockin' Eve' because it was too much for Cincinnati to handle.

I remember Channel 5 preempting 'Diff'rent Strokes' for 'The Billy Graham Crusade'. It also once preempted 'The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air' for a department store infomercial.

Channel 19 constantly preempted 'The Simpsons' for college basketball games back when it was on Thursdays. I was so relieved when 'The Simpsons' moved to Sundays. But then there was a week when the team refused to play during the week because it was snowing outside (even though the game was indoors). So they moved the game to Sunday.

Channel 12 once preempted 'All My Children' to show an hour of whining from the team because they lost a game.

I know Channel 9 preempted some serious CBS news show once with a college basketball game. (It wasn't '60 Minutes'. I think it was a different show with Ed Bradley.)

Channel 5 once preempted 'American Dreams' to show an election rally by a candidate the station supported. The station never showed opponents' rallies.

Channel 19 once preempted 'Cops' with a 'Star Trek' rerun.

I remember many times having to break out the antenna to try to tune in Dayton stations to watch shows the Cincinnati stations preempted. So we had to settle for snowy reception much of the time. The most commonly repeated phrase in our household was "We have to watch it on Channel 45 again!"

When a station preempts a network show, other stations in town are allowed to pick up that show. But I don't remember this ever happening, even when we had one or two independents.

Big John:
CBS Station preempted the Maude episode where there was an abortion.

NBC Station in the early 1980s preempted  Saturday Night Live. The independent station picked it up for a little while.

ABC station refused to air Fridays.

Scott5114:
One time I called KOLR in Springfield MO to complain about them preempting The Price Is Right with some local show I don't know anything about. It reminded me of like a redneck version of Antiques Roadshow, though. The guy on the phone claimed they did it because George W. Bush gave a speech. But he was done by the time The Price Is Right was on. So why didn't they preempt the Redneck Roadshow instead?

roadman65:
I remember once during the Fall line up of CBS. Two weeks into the start of a season in the nineties, they preempted the shows for sporting events. Soon as those events were over, they cancelled the shows preempted due to low ratings.

How can you get ratings if the shows weren’t aired? Plus how can you assess the liking of a program from two airings unless the first episode totally bombed with maybe one in ten thousand TV sets nationwide turned on those two times.

Henry:

--- Quote from: roadman65 on September 26, 2023, 04:51:58 AM ---I remember once during the Fall line up of CBS. Two weeks into the start of a season in the nineties, they preempted the shows for sporting events. Soon as those events were over, they cancelled the shows preempted due to low ratings.

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I have a sneaking suspicion that you're talking about the baseball playoffs and/or World Series. Remember, CBS had exclusive rights to them for the first four years of the decade (1990-93).

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