[quote name=\'aaron sica\' post=\'211874\' date=\'Apr 2 2009, 12:44 PM\']
Funny what a little 1-hour timeslot vacated by a long-running soap can do - this is the most active thread I've seen in a while.
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What a good point. Mostly because this is the first time since the internets began that we've talked about a network daytime game show launch that actually has a chance of happening.
I think Neumms is right -- CBS threw in the towel on the 4 PM slot (12 noon in some markets) after PYL failed to do business there; they must have figured it was the slot and not the programming. That was nearly two years after ABC gave that slot back to the affiliates, and almost a decade after NBC stopped programming there (they started programming 1 PM instead, which they hadn't done in years). By that time, Donahue, Oprah, and the enlarging of local news (or pushing it a half-hour earlier, to open up the 7:00 PM slot) had become fashionable.
I don't see any logic in making "The Early Show" any longer. "We've had the least popular early-morning news program for over 30 years, so let's make it bigger" isn't gonna fly.
No one's ever going to do this, but I'd love to see what would happen if some smaller-market station dared to program Pyramid and TPIR from, say, 3 to 5 PM rather than 10 AM to 12. I don't see the sense in having two or three court shows battling each other to death in that slot.