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Vahan_Nisanian

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Re: NY TV listings observations (questions)
« Reply #15 on: January 04, 2014, 03:15:53 PM »
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catnap1972

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Re: NY TV listings observations (questions)
« Reply #16 on: January 04, 2014, 03:43:32 PM »
January 1976

7:30pm checkerboard (M-F):

WCBS: Bobby Vinton - New Treasure Hunt - Last of the Wild - $25K Pyr - Candid Camera
WNBC: HSQ -  Wild Kingdom - NTT - HSQ - Don Adams Screen Test
WABC: Snakes - MGPM - LMaD - Wild Wild World of animals - LMaD

No game shows at all on WOR or WPIX and only Cross-Wits (8pm) on WNEW

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Re: NY TV listings observations (questions)
« Reply #17 on: January 04, 2014, 05:50:12 PM »
Jimmy, did you get my PM?

I don't think a public forum is the appropriate place for such correspondences.  Maybe PM him instead.

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Re: NY TV listings observations (questions)
« Reply #18 on: January 05, 2014, 12:01:40 AM »
9 in the morning for Three's a Crowd? Seems a little early for them to be airing a weekly, no?
I thought it was a daily series.
It was available as either daily or weekly.

Then why was its replacement sold as a weekly?

I have to call for citation.
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Re: NY TV listings observations (questions)
« Reply #19 on: January 05, 2014, 11:38:14 AM »
Jimmy, did you get my PM?

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Re: NY TV listings observations (questions)
« Reply #20 on: January 05, 2014, 12:04:26 PM »
9 in the morning for Three's a Crowd? Seems a little early for them to be airing a weekly, no?
I thought it was a daily series.
It was available as either daily or weekly.
Then why was its replacement sold as a weekly?

I have to call for citation.
I can at least confirm the "available as daily" part -- the 7/24/79 Daily Variety mentions on Page 22 that 3's A Crowd and The Gong Show were going to be shown daily by some stations. The 11/28/79 Weekly issue notes on Page 54 that KNBC was going to preempt Crowd and Gong for a week to test an hour-long daily series called Closer Encounters.

I'm not sure (since all I can do is get partial blurbs), but the 11/14/79 Weekly issue seems to mention that WCBS was airing Crowd as a weekly on Page 54.

As for Camouflage, it's mentioned as being once-a-week on Page 26 of the January 2, 1980 Weekly issue, which also appears to be the earliest mention of the show in the Variety archives.
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Re: NY TV listings observations (questions)
« Reply #21 on: January 05, 2014, 12:07:24 PM »
Jimmy, did you get my PM?

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If it was about Family Feud going twice weekly, yes I got the message.  Twice a week on KNBC started in early 1979 if memory serves.
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Re: NY TV listings observations (questions)
« Reply #22 on: January 05, 2014, 01:57:29 PM »
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Vahan_Nisanian

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Re: NY TV listings observations (questions)
« Reply #23 on: January 05, 2014, 02:08:07 PM »
What do they mean by "260 strip, 52 weekly"? Especially when the show ran from September 17, 1979–February 1, 1980, hardly 52 weeks.

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Re: NY TV listings observations (questions)
« Reply #24 on: January 05, 2014, 02:43:14 PM »
The intention was to supply 260 shows (5x52). What the stations did was up to the individual stations. WCBS ran 3ac in the morning until around June of 80.
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Re: NY TV listings observations (questions)
« Reply #25 on: January 05, 2014, 05:46:05 PM »
What was the availability of the other Barris shows (NG, DG and Gong Show) by early 1980?  NY had DG 5/week on WOR (7:30) while NG and Gong were only 1/week (all three competed on Friday nights at 7:30)

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Re: NY TV listings observations (questions)
« Reply #26 on: January 05, 2014, 09:10:01 PM »
GONG was in strip reruns then (those started in the fall of 1978), as well as the nighttime version (which I think was twice a week in 1979-80).
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