SYNDICATED SHOWS NOT AIRED IN MY CITY?

[sctvman]

Are there any syndicated shows that were first-run or from network TV that did not air in your city? For example, the Joan Rivers Show didn't air in Portland between 1991 and 1994. Also, I had to wait for All in the Family reruns in Portland until KPDX-TV (went on the air 10/1/1983) aired the show in 1983.

I know that a few markets don't air Jerry Springer!   Do you have any other shows?

[Ultimajock]

...perhaps DrBear can fill me in on this one, but, while "The Mike Douglas Show" ran in Green Bay on WLUK/11 (Westinghouse version) and WLRE/26 (Syndicast version; WLRE also had John Davidson's Westinghouse show. which forced Douglas to move to Syndicast, for a short while), I'm positive none of the other Westinghouse talk shows -- Steve Allen, Merv Griffin, David Frost -- ever ran in Green Bay; only the CBS version of Griffin was seen in the market during its last year on KFIZ-TV/34 in Fond du Lac, and in the early '80s Griffin even placed the audio track of his show on WHBY/1230, the Appleton radio station, as part of a way to possibly break into markets where he had previously been shut out of...

[jal41]

I know that a few markets don't air Jerry Springer!   Do you have any other shows?

In Atlanta, Wayne Brady's short lived talk show did not air until WUPA/69 picked it up for it's second year.

John Walsh's syndicated show also did not air immediately upon launch, It was picked up by WPXA/14 (while under the control of WXIA/11) a few months into it's run. (It was shocking that the then Pax station was giving up an hour of infomercial time).

BTW, WATL/36 (now sister to WXIA) currently airs Jerry Springer three times a day.

[Eric Stein]

Cheaters is not aired in many markets, including New York City. Many stations pass on the show despite its sometimes decent performance in some markets because of obvious reasons (content). Phoenix was one of the markets that didn't air the show until 2005, when the WB (now CW) station picked it up.

Phoenix did not get the last Percy Sutton-produced season of It's Showtime at the Apollo, and never had the short lived Tom Joyner Show. During its long run, Soul Train aired sporadically in the Phoenix market, with the longest duration going to KUSK in Prescott from 1986-96. The station had translators in the Phoenix metro, but not wide cable distribution at the time. Now as KAZT, it has wide cable and satellite coverage across the state, including Phoenix, and has a more powerful translator in the Phoenix metro as well.

[mleach]

The 1980s version of Divorce Court ( Judge William B. Keene & Jim Peck ) for the first year ( 1984 ) did NOT air in either the Washington or Baltimore markets though it did air in Norfolk. Baltimore's WBAL would pick up the show in 1985 but Washington would have to wait until 1987 to see it when WUSA picked it up.

As I mentioned in another thread Denver was the last market to get the Morton Downey Jr. Show, not long before it was cancelled.

[Tim from Springfield, IL]

I don't think any of the Peoria-Bloomington, IL stations even picked up the "Wayne Brady Show" during its two year run (2002-04).

The last Peoria station to carry "Donahue," WMBD-31 (CBS) (it had been aired by the other two Big 3 stations in the market during its run), bailed out on the show by January 1995 (1 1/2 years before its cancellation).  Before that time they did mothball the show to late night around late 1994. 

Also, NYC lost Donahue the entire final season of its run (95-96).

[ShawnHill1]

If I remember correctly, the first season of John Davidson's edition of Hollwyood Squares (1986-89) didn't air in Chicago or Madison, but aired in Rockford and Milwaukee from the beginning.  At least from what I remember, Chicago (WMAQ) and Madison (WKOW) didn't air the same episodes in pattern as Milwaukee (WISN) and Rockford (WREX) did.

In relation to Wayne Brady...the show that replaced it, the Tony Danza Show, got buried in late nights on KABC in its first year (2:05am, right after Oprah reruns) with zero promotion, but in its second year it moved to KCAL (Wayne's L.A. home station) at 9am, and stayed to its eventual cancellation.

[chris12]

In the Chicago market, it seemed quite a few syndicated game shows got passed up. Among the game shows passed on were the 1973-78 syndicated Concentration with Jack Narz, the original Crosswitts, the syndicated 1974-75 Jeopardy, Bullseye, the 1985 syndicated Tom Kennedy Price Is Right. The 1985-88 syndicated $100,000 Pyramid wasn't picked up until its third season on WPWR 50 in the fall of 1987 and the syndicated  Bill Rafferty Card Sharks aired a full year behind.

[genius]

In Atlanta, Wayne Brady's short lived talk show did not air until WUPA/69 picked it up for it's second year.

Albuquerque had the same thing happen. No where to be found its first year, but KWBQ picked it up the second year. I wonder if his Emmy win had anything to do with it. The same happened with Dick Clark's "The Other Half", though when KRQE picked it up it aired in the middle of the night.

Of other more recent syndicated shows, the show "Home Delivery" was not seen in Albquerque, along with a couple of Fox produced 1/2 hour reality shows...what were they? "Live Like A Star" and House Design or something to that effect? ANYONE KNOW? I don't think the "Beyond With James Van Praagh" a rip-off of Crossing Over ever aired here in Albuquerque. If it did it must have aired very very late at night. I don't recall The Ananda Lewis Show or  Queen Latifah's show being seen in Albuquerque either, but again I could be wrong.

[bpatrick]

In the Chicago market, it seemed quite a few syndicated game shows got passed up. Among the game shows passed on were the 1973-78 syndicated Concentration with Jack Narz, the original Crosswitts, the syndicated 1974-75 Jeopardy, Bullseye, the 1985 syndicated Tom Kennedy Price Is Right. The 1985-88 syndicated $100,000 Pyramid wasn't picked up until its third season on WPWR 50 in the fall of 1987 and the syndicated  Bill Rafferty Card Sharks aired a full year behind.

When I lived in Dallas (1976-79) we didn't get any of the syndicated
daily game shows (To Tell The Truth, Concentration, Crosswits, Liars
Club, etc.) except for The Dating Game and (IIRC) The Newlywed Game.
Yet we did get practically all the weekly syndicated games (this is when
many stations programmed a different show in access time each night):
Hollywood Squares, Name That Tune, Match Game PM, The Price Is Right,
$25,000 Pyramid.  By the early '80s, however, Family Feud was on KDFW/4
at 6:30 (Central) and Tic Tac Dough was on KXAS/5 (WFAA/8 had PM Magazine).