[quote name=\'bellbm\' date=\'Apr 13 2005, 07:11 PM\'][quote name=\'DjohnsonCB\' date=\'Apr 9 2005, 03:28 PM\']With 5-WOI in Ames, Iowa, it was just the opposite. They didn't carry it at first, but once they did, they stayed with it to the end of the ABC run, IIRC. Back in that 1975-76 season, when the station was still primarily in Ames and owned by Iowa State University (and one would suspect that the way they ended up being a primary ABC station in 1955 when Omaha had to wait two years after that to get their own, led to a general sour grapes attitude about WOI having to be stuck with the last-place network), they continued their then-common practice of wiping out ABC series that weren't generally as beloved as their hits...although they never did show the daytime LMAD or American Bandstand.
But then a funny thing happened: ABC soared to #1 in 1976 and poor old stodgy WOI was caught with their pants down. "Welcome Back, Kotter" didn't debut on WOI till early December with the Debralee Scott "Hotsie Totsie" ep (and that was via a Sunday afternoon tape-delay that stayed with it till midseason), "Laverne & Shirley" didn't get on till a month after ABC began it (whereupon the local half-hour WOI used to bump it and "Kotter" got placed where it ALWAYS should have been: in the 6:30 access slot the FCC DESIGNED for stuff like that), and it took a very strong and strident letter to those dumbass Program Managers at WOI--sent by me--to cajole them into running the "Feud", which they did maybe a month or two after the ABC debut. They were airing at 12:30 weekdays a local discussion show, and they revamped and moved it to 11:30 AM to make room for the "Feud".
Fortunately, FF caught on in Central Iowa the way it did everywhere else.
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I lived in Eastern Iowa, and while WOI was not our main ABC Afiiliate, I remember watching Magic Window at 11:30, when did that show start, and when did it go off the air?
I also remember Channel 5 pre-empting the 11:00 ( or Noon EST) show in favor of reruns of One Day at a Time or Alice.
KCRG, the Cedar Rapids Affil ran Feud up until its end. They were pretty good about carrying ABC programming until they began running Donahue in 1987.
I also always found it strange that KCCI, the CBS affiliate in Des Moines, did not run the CBS version of Wheel of Fortune, yet they ran the syndicated version for a number of years. I guess they must have really been locked into that contract to re-run Jeopardy at 9:30 AM.
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I couldn't say when "The Magic Window" began, but I do know that I spent some of my first ten years watching it with my sister before we left Des Moines for K.C.
(For the benefit of those curious, it was one of those studio kiddie shows with a human host and puppet friends who introduced cartoons and showed craft segments, and was one of the last in the nation to go off the air after the station's long-overdue sale to Citadel, sometime in the mid-'90s, whereupon the show's host and many others lost their jobs).
As for KCCI not bothering to air WoF on CBS daytime when they had the nighttime show, that wasn't so unusual. They always had some 30-or-60 minute show in place of a CBS daytime show or two, from Mary Jane Chinn to Mary Brubaker to Merv Griffin to reruns of Real People to Headline Chasers, until finally picking up Regis & Kathie Lee in March 1990. Also, despite the success of LMAD, it never aired in the daytime there until the last AM incarnation (the NBC Sunday night show in 1967 and the once-weekly syndie version were picked up there), and they were the last market in the nation to clear the NBC soaps "Days Of Our Lives" and "The Doctors" in the '80s.
I don't want to go too far off topic and into detail here, but I did some research and found that the Des Moines affiliates ripped the nets' 1966-67 nighttime schedule to shreds even more than the K.C. stations did with the 1969-70 lineup. Suffice it to say that The Monkees' only airtime exposure there was on radio at first.
