Bob Eubanks
Frequent Participant
WPVI is banishing Millionaire to just its overnight time slot this season (where that airing had previously been a repeat), yo make way for the new Tyra Banks hosted show.
WMC Memphis has Crime Watch Daily at 1:30am.
The show is owned and distributed by CBS Television Distribution and is paired with Entertainment Tonight on many CBS stations during the prime access period of 7-8 p.m. However, in some of the largest markets, The Insider airs at odd times, including Chicago (1 a.m.), Boston (12:30 a.m.), Minneapolis (3:30 a.m.) and Washington, D.C. (3 p.m).
Born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri, so here’s what I can recall from many a late night in the 90s/early 2000s…
KCTV aired “hardcopy“ weeknights at 11 PM for its first few years, before upgrading it to the 4 PM timeslot starting in the fall of 1993. Other late nighters on channel 5 include “Love Connection,” which was originally on at 3 PM on K NBC channel 9 until the fall of 1989, where upon it moved to 3 PM on channel 5 before Channel 5 relocated it to 12:37 AM following “real stories of the highway patrol“; this was done to make room for Ricki Lake which they placed at 3 PM. Jenny Jones also aired at 12:30 AM on channel 5 from its debut in the fall of 1991 until around 1995 or so, I believe, when it moved to WDAF and was carried on that station at 10 AM and/or 2 PM for several years. The syndicated run of “Family Feud“ hosted by Ray Combs was carried at 3 PM on WDAF channel 4 since at least 1990 but bye the fall of 1992, it had moved to KCTV Channel 5 where it aired at 2:30 AM following “The Judge,“ and then was moved to 3:07 AM for the 1993/94 season, following “Vicki“.
KCTV also carried Inside Edition in that time slot, for a number of years, starting around 2003.Another couple I just remembered! During the 2002/03 season, KCTV channel 5 carried the version of “Pyramid“ hosted by Donny Osmond at 11:35 PM following “The Late Show With David Letterman“. Not sure where it went in the 03/04 season as far as the Kansas City market is concerned, though.
Nothing terribly unusual or surprising about most such situations. Too many shows, only so many daylight hours.
It's better than filling the time with trash talk, courtroom shows, and infomercials. Granted, the celebrity talk shows are more tolerable than the others.Add to that the fact that there aren’t as many open slots on TV stations is there used to be. While stations affiliated with Fox, The CW, My Network TV and various Independent Stations do a fairly decent job of carrying syndicated shows, gone are the days when CBS, NBC and ABC affiliates did so extensively; these days, they fill a lot of their non-network slots with newscasts. Quite the overkill, if you ask me. I mean, do we really need newscasts at 9 AM, 4 PM and so on?