Author Topic: Super password and the noon news (Read 14667 times)

toetyper · « **on:** November 11, 2010, 10:26:00 PM »

by the time SP left in 89. how many NBC affiliates had already had noon newscasts preempting it?

i know wfla in tampa did

snowpeck · « **Reply #1 on:** November 11, 2010, 10:27:27 PM »

WCYB in Bristol, VA never aired Super Password. Not even once. The noon news preempted it the entire 4+ year run.

BrandonFG · « **Reply #2 on:** November 11, 2010, 10:32:27 PM »

WAVY-TV in Norfolk didn't air it. I've been told that they aired Hot Potato on Fridays though...

TheLastResort · « **Reply #3 on:** November 11, 2010, 10:33:23 PM »

I believe WWBT in Richmond, VA carried the entire run. They premiered their noon snoozecast the Monday after SP was canceled.

MTCesquire · « **Reply #4 on:** November 11, 2010, 11:31:24 PM »

[quote name=\'TheLastResort\' post=\'250763\' date=\'Nov 11 2010, 10:33 PM\']I believe WWBT in Richmond, VA carried the entire run. They premiered their noon snoozecast the Monday after SP was canceled.[/quote]

Are you sure? I know WWBT definitely carried it, but I want to say they aired it earlier the day before the noon news. I know they aired $ale and Scrabble later in the day, say, around 3pm or so.

Then again, I WAS only six at the time so I could be way off.

ET206 · « **Reply #5 on:** November 12, 2010, 12:09:06 AM »

The Charlotte affiliate aired SP at a different time on a one day delay.

TimK2003 · « **Reply #6 on:** November 12, 2010, 12:22:49 AM »

I know that Toledo's then NBC affiliate, WTVG/13 (now an ABC O&O), had favored a local Noon Newscast over SP, and I want to say that WDIV/Channel 4 in Detroit also nixed SP. I was bummed, since that was the first-ever game show I saw in person in March 1987, but I never could see the finished product on TV. It was a week of nothing-to-write-home about-episodes with Abby Dalton and some other actor whom I cannot remember.

pyrfan · « **Reply #7 on:** November 12, 2010, 02:19:49 AM »

WPXI in Pittsburgh never aired the show at noon, but they would occasionally show it at other times during the day. It would usually be a few episodes behind the national broadcast, though. Luckily, WTOV in Steubenville, Ohio, showed it at noon for the entire run.

Brendan

Craig Karlberg · « **Reply #8 on:** November 12, 2010, 03:15:48 AM »

In my neck of the woods, KYW-TV in Philly(then an NBC affiliate, now CBS) aired Super Password at a diffrent time(I wanna say 3:30 PM) during the entire run. There was no way they would've scrapped their noon newscast for SP.

aaron sica · « **Reply #9 on:** November 12, 2010, 05:13:24 AM »

WGAL in Lancaster also never aired an episode of SP as "Noonday on 8" aired instead. KYW in Philly aired NBC's game shows in an odd pattern - Scrabble at 3pm, SP at 3:30, and WoF at 4.

gameboy2000 · « **Reply #10 on:** November 12, 2010, 05:44:20 AM »

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WAVY-TV in Norfolk didn't air it. I've been told that they aired Hot Potato on Fridays though.

I think I remember seeing the SP back when I lived in Norfolk, though we moved to Illinois back in 1986, so it may have been from that time.

Long live Jeopardy · « **Reply #11 on:** November 12, 2010, 06:33:53 AM »

Here was WTHR in Indianapolis's lineup from the fall of 1987:

9:00 AM - Sale of the Century
9:30 AM - Classic Concentration
10:00 AM - A.M. Indiana (local talk show)
11:00 AM - Super Password
11:30 AM - Win, Lose, or Draw
12:00 PM - Noon News

As you can see, SP aired on a one-day delay at that time, and I don't think Scrabble cleared at that time.

golden-road · « **Reply #12 on:** November 12, 2010, 08:15:30 AM »

Didn't some indy stations pick it up?

TheLastResort · « **Reply #13 on:** November 12, 2010, 08:25:11 AM »

[quote name=\'MTCesquire\' post=\'250770\' date=\'Nov 12 2010, 12:31 AM\'][quote name=\'TheLastResort\' post=\'250763\' date=\'Nov 11 2010, 10:33 PM\']I believe WWBT in Richmond, VA carried the entire run. They premiered their noon snoozecast the Monday after SP was canceled.[/quote]

Are you sure? I know WWBT definitely carried it, but I want to say they aired it earlier the day before the noon news.[/quote]

Positive - I taped it every day starting around the middle of season 2. It could have been in a different time slot earlier, but I doubt it.

bradhig · « **Reply #14 on:** November 12, 2010, 10:49:29 AM »

KSDK channel 5 in St. Louis had it before Wheel of Fortune in the morning.