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23 hours ago, SS8609 said:
Also wouldn't shock me if this eventually means Notre Dame will be tempted to go to the Big Ten, where they have always long been rumored to have a red carpet invite to join at any time, and would also create a natural rivalry with Northwestern, which like Notre Dame is an academically gifted private school with long traditions in various aspects of campus life including athletics (at least outside of basketball where Northwestern only recently got into the Big Dance), and also have sizable fanbases (albeit with Notre Dame's being far bigger) in the Chicago market for which South Bend has long been a key secondary market for Chicago's sports teams (which explains why WSJV went from ABC to Fox in the '90s with the Bears being a big reason why).
As far as Lorne Michaels is concerned, NBC will have no choice but to start its games exactly just after 7PM ET/4PM PT with the window going no later than Midnight ET/9PM PT. In other words, Saturday Night Live is going to become to college football and NBC what 60 Minutes has always been to the NFL and CBS. For instance, a college football game can run for about 3 to 3 1/2 hours, which allows enough time for NBC to carry some highlights in the void between circa 10:30PM and 11PM, allowing for the affiliates to air their drive-by Saturday newscast (which as @mrschimpfdescribed on the TEGNA thread under Corporate Chat recently, is merely about the weekend crime and fire blotter - which is actually quite big in Houston compared to other markets, plus weekend festivals/funruns/rallies and the usual mix of corporate must-runs + human interest fluff from the weekdays) before SNL.
If a game goes beyond four hours, then the affiliates can have the option to either push the late news either to a duopoly partner, another company's Fox or CW station with a news-share agreement (e.g. WPGH in the case of WPXI) or even to a sister streaming outlet (like what KPRC just launched under the KPRC+ banner), or simply not air a newscast altogether. Because when it comes to master control at 30 Rock on a Saturday night, even and especially during college football season (due to the political calendar, sweeps and the holiday shows all happening simultaneously as well), the most important job is NOT to push Saturday Night Live past midnight in New York City. In other words, NBC should be prepared to utilize Peacock or even USA in a situation where a Big Ten game goes past Midnight on the East Coast.
The Clemson-ND game gave me a taste of that XFL game in 01 (cant remember the teams, just remember how it delayed SNL). Lorne is going have to get used to it with CFB.
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i think that KTVU and KMSP should had been able to override the network and put the game back on. Or why not put it on FS1 (with the FS1 game going to FS2.)
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On 8/9/2022 at 2:02 AM, Megatron81 said:
I didn't see that one coming with Days leaving NBC for Peacock. I saw old promos when Wood TV was WOTV in the 80s a couple of months ago. I was surprised that they had Sally Jesse which I thought was always on WWMT & Phil Donahue as well which was also on WWMT and also primetime Wheel for 2 years 83 to 85 as I thought that WZZM aired primetime Wheel from the start before moving to WWMT in the fall of 93 along with Jeopardy. I heard that Wood TV didn't clear all of the NBC daytime lineup wasn't until 85 or 86 when they aired it in full. I think that Sale Of The Century was aired on WXMI for the last couple of years before Fox was a network.
I knew that daytime Wheel was on NBC in the 80s. Other shows from the promo in 83 & 84 Wood TV aired repeats of Different Strokes kinda surprised by that as I thought that WXMI aired it I watched Different Stroke on WKBD out of Detroit as that was Michigan's Superstation at the time as that was on Cablevision in the 80s & early 90s. Sorry for going off topic.
WYFF in Greeneville used to have Sally Jesse too but WLOS outbid them in 1987 or 88. Phil Donahue was on 4 before Sale Of The Century until WLOS outbid WYFF for Phil in 88, they ended up airing St. Elsewhere reruns before SOTC. 4 also aired Tic Tac Dough with Patrick Wayne in that timeslot in 1990 too.
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I think Days is the last relic of the era when NBC had Sale of the Century, Another World, Santa Barbara, Scrabble and Daytime Wheel of Fortune.
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Interesting, given that my ABC station WLOS will have double doses of Jeopardy on some nights the only difference will be the host....Kind of like when Price is Right had Bob Barker hosting the morning version, but Tom Kennedy hosted the evening version, but both were on the same station WSPA in Spartanburg which was a CBS station.
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2 hours ago, bmasters1 said:
The late Arlene Francis on the original Home show (1954-57) on NBC (the late Hugh Downs was the announcer): this particular broadcast (a partial one; the show ran for an hour daily) was 30 years before the other (similar) show of that name premiered on ABC in 1988 (that ABC one would go to 1994)...
On the other end of the spectrum, here is Downs in his most famous role, besides being host of Today in the 60s, he was the host of a game show that was later on brought back, but with Alex Trebek of Jeopardy as host in the 80s. Notice the cheesy sounding organ music too. As far as i know, he was the only Today host or panelist to have game show hosting duties.
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the eagles game is on Fox not NBC.
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I remember that too. Not because they tossed to NBC News, but because Brokaw was on-camera. It seem fitting that Brokaw would be the anchor, rather than Brian Williams, to announce Russert's death.
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Is it a rare thing when prime-time programming is interrupted for a bulletin? The impeachment votes, the Syria situation and Bin Laden being killed are a few examples.
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44 minutes ago, mrschimpf said:
As long as TPIR, Y&R and The View still exist at that time of day to Hoover up the eyeballs (and Wendy to a smaller extent), those NBC affiliates don't want to be stuck with that timeslot; 10am-noon on an NBC affiliate is a black hole where the worst of syndication goes to die otherwise. The same stations are still dealing with Santa Barbara's cancellation forcing them to fill the 3pm/2pm timeslot 25 years ago and outside a few lucky stations with CBSTD shows or Ellen, have never figured out any way outside of fluff talk or Access Live to have a pulse there.
I'll admit-WYFF has done pretty well with Ellen DeGeneres- she's the longest running show on 4 to air at 3pm since Santa Barbara ended in 93. WSPA has had Wendy Williams for a while at 3- and she does better than Guiding Light.
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When Today had their 30th anniversary show in 82, they had to make changes because of a plane crash. Sometimes the show has to be "thrown out". They didn't throw that show out, but they had Garroway there, so i wonder if they would have done that if it was something like the President being assassinated or something like that.
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I meant to say 3B. 8G was where Bob Costas or Marv Albert did the NFL or MLB pregame in the 80s. That was Letterman's studio too back then correct?
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Today was at 3G until 1994. That's where Palmer would have been usually if the main crew was overseas back then. I don't remember but when the newsreader start going on the road with the main cast?
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That's why the network has someone on duty: John Palmer was always in 1A when Bryant and Jane were overseas. When Tom and Jane read the news as well as co-hosted, i'd guess they would handle the interrupt, Frank McGee might have done it back in the day,but i doubt Hugh Downs did(although he'd do a pretty good job, he'd rather let Frank Blair do it.)
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I wonder back in the day, if the cast was on the road, who would handle the interrupt if there was a major breaking news event, that required an immediate interrupt?
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You are right but Roker looks more like a senile bitter man. They need to get Dylan Dreyer to replace him. People like her more anyway, Roker has worn out his welcome on that show. The Olympic Today coverage has been terrible and unprofessional, the anchors are to self centered. It seems like they care more about their antics then promoting the athletes.
More drama from the Today show.
I prefer Bryant Gumble as host then Matt Lauer even though Gumble was a douche he was an intelligent douche. Gumble would not let Al Roker get away with his antics and Gumble would keep the interview focused on the interviewer instead of the host or his co-anchors. Gumble should return and guest co-host, sure he was arrogant but he knew what he was doing. From the way, the reports have been circulating around the Today show it seems like Matt Lauer has turned that show into high school drama club.
I might add... Neither Bryant, nor Jane, nor Deborah or Katie EVER let any of that silly/stupid stuff happen when they were hosting. when she filled in once for Bryant, Faith Daniels(the newsreader) had that same attitude as Bryant or Deborah or Katie: she never let any of that stupid stuff get in the way of the interviews or reporting the news. In fact i think Arthur Kent was co-hosting that week, he had that kind of attitude too. Hugh Downs or Frank McGee, back in the day had that same kind of attitude towards the show. On GMA, David Hartman was doing the same thing and he didn't tolerate it either! I wish that ABC would tell them not to do that on GMA.
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As far as fill ins, i've seen Dick Enberg do it in the early 90s when he was the No. 1 football announcer at NBC. I remember how he(Enberg) looked out of place sitting next to Deborah Norville, maybe because Deborah had more experience at doing a morning show than he did(It didn't help that she did more of the heavyweight interviews that week: it was common for either her or Jane or Katie to do that when Bryant was off.) Costas did Today a few times too, once with Jane and another time with Katie. Arthur Kent did it once when both Bryant and Katie were off, with Faith Daniels who was the newsreader at the time. Kent looked out of place on a morning show too.
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He's been with Robin this week while George is away. Amy, Ginger and Jesse have been there this week as well.
Also I don't think David is cold, I just don't think his personality or presenting style is morning tv. I honesty don't enjoy him on the evening program much either, he just seems to be much better when he's in the field.
Perosnaly, i'd like to see George do both GMA and WNT. He seems better suited to do both, unlike David.
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Jane Pauley was also hazed, that probably lead to her becoming bipolar. I am sure there are more people but those were the ones that was publicize. It is ashame that grown adults mistreat each other in "professional" workplace. They could to most civil thing, pull them aside and help them develop. I heard that morning shows are the worse though. A glam job that most people want and that would mean more sharks willing to turn on each other and on air talent wanting to hold on to their pork chop.
I've always wondered around the time that Deborah Norville was on Today, that Bryant Gumbel, her co-host , was also anchoring NBC's golf coverage(and i think that was what he was doing in addition to his duites as Today co-host) Did NBC ever consider getting rid of him and putting him on golf(instead of bringing in Charlie Jones on golf) and having Norville as lead anchor? that would have hurt them in the long run.
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I'm assuming she's also on standby to anchor any NBC News special reports if needed, at least until they can get Lester in if it was something requiring long-form coverage.
i guess she is the one "standing by for bulletin duty" in case something really big happens like one of the candidates getting shot or a major attack takes place on US soil. She would be the best person to do that, although they would fly Lester in to help out.
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I think that was planned ahead for the RNC convention coverage. Lester and Scott anchored their respective broadcast for the same reason too.
Yeah you would want your top hitter, in ABC's case David to anchor. Did he do any special reports today?
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has ABC always done a 6pm feed of WNT on Saturdays? the reason i ask is when i had a dish id see two feeds of WNT after Wide World Of Sports on Saturdays in the late 80s/early 90s one for some stations then a second feed for others
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the interesting thing about 9/11 was that Charles Gibson said that at one point they were asking him to stand by to replace Peter Jennings because it was going to be a long day and night. Turned out to be correct but Peter just kept going until Elizabeth Vargas came in around midnight
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I could say that Tom would still be needed on duty(even though ABC has college football) so that he can anchor the west coast broadcast tomorrow(it could be someone else though)
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So, on ESPN+ there could be up to 3 streams of a game if it's a CBC/Sportsnet game.