...I heard over on another forum that last year the CBS and NBC affiliates in Peoria, Illinois preempted much network programs with infomercials. In fact, NBC Nightly News was preempted by a Humana infomercial and even CBS News' coverage of Pope Francis' US visit was preempted by infomercials befor...

In 1983, WTVT in Tampa, then with CBS, pre-empted a new Peanuts special, "Is This Goodbye, Charlie Brown?" -- with a Three's Company rerun... Now I wonder what kind of backlash could they have gotten from the veteran community had they done that to "What Have We Learned, Charlie Brown?" ...which, l...

Well, I hope WTOL didn't preempt any of the Peanuts specials for some talk thingamajig at all during the years CBS aired those specials. If so, then I'm sure hundreds would've be royally mad... They probably did it once or twice and assume people would tune to WJBK instead, I don't recall which spe...

sfpcc wrote:WDIV is preempting Hollywood Game night tomorrow for a special on Flint, (not the biggest loss in the world.)

Let me guess why -- it's sweeps, it's an election year, and they need every ad dollar that they can get.

One has to wonder why WFRV / WJMN didn't use electronics for everything -- not just promos and news? By using slides for IDs and bulletins, it's just like a 2015 Chevy Impala having a body of the 1972 model. I also noticed that one of the pics from WLUK's newscasts had "Pre-Recorded" superimposed on...