Celebrity Name Game to air on WGN this fall

[BrandonFG]

Weeknights at 10 p.m., replacing Arsenio. Still no word on the other cities' airdates. Does WGN still air a feed separate from WGN America, or are they one in the same?

Come to think of it, when's the last time WGN aired a syndicated game show on its national feed? Part of me is thinking Bzzz! in the late-90s? Either that or Dawson's Feud 2.0? Unless I'm thinking of WWOR's feed...

[PYLdude]

Weeknights at 10 p.m., replacing Arsenio. Still no word on the other cities' airdates. Does WGN still air a feed separate from WGN America, or are they one in the same?

I believe it's still separate and will be separated further once the Chicago sports teams disappear from the national feed at the end of the year.

Arsenio was only airing in my market on WPIX (FiOS carries WGN America, but IIRC most of the cable companies don't), and I don't know what they plan on replacing it with.

ETA: might well be Celebrity Name Game...it's been picked up by Tribune stations in the bigger markets and PIX is one of 'em. Although I'm willing to bet it'll be on earlier...Arsenio is on at 11:30 and they moved the first-run Steve Wilkos episodes from noon to 4 PM, maybe they're going to put it there in what I assume is gonna be a double run.

[aaron sica]

Come to think of it, when's the last time WGN aired a syndicated game show on its national feed? Part of me is thinking Bzzz! in the late-90s? Either that or Dawson's Feud 2.0? Unless I'm thinking of WWOR's feed...

I think MG98 aired on WGN?

[BrandonFG]

Come to think of it, when's the last time WGN aired a syndicated game show on its national feed? Part of me is thinking Bzzz! in the late-90s? Either that or Dawson's Feud 2.0? Unless I'm thinking of WWOR's feed...

I think MG98 aired on WGN?

That's right, it did! IIRC, it was in the middle of the night.

[PYLdude]

Come to think of it, when's the last time WGN aired a syndicated game show on its national feed? Part of me is thinking Bzzz! in the late-90s? Either that or Dawson's Feud 2.0? Unless I'm thinking of WWOR's feed...

I think MG98 aired on WGN?

That's right, it did! IIRC, it was in the middle of the night.

Was there any major market that didn't air MG98 in overnight? New York did for sure.

[aaron sica]

Come to think of it, when's the last time WGN aired a syndicated game show on its national feed? Part of me is thinking Bzzz! in the late-90s? Either that or Dawson's Feud 2.0? Unless I'm thinking of WWOR's feed...

I think MG98 aired on WGN?

That's right, it did! IIRC, it was in the middle of the night.

Was there any major market that didn't air MG98 in overnight? New York did for sure.

Not sure if you could call Harrisburg a major market, but they aired it at noon, right after TPiR. IIRC, Philly also aired it at the overnight (I think 2:05, same time as WCBS).

[BrandonFG]

Norfolk at the time was in the top 40...I'm counting that as a major market. ;-)

I do know that WTVZ aired it at 12:00 noon. However, I'm trying to remember if there was a secondary episode, and if it a) aired at 12:30 or b) sometime in the middle of the night.

{does a quick ATGS search} Single episode, 12 noon.

Interestingly enough, this post lists the top 50 markets that aired MG and Hollywood Squares in fall 1998. Roughly a third aired MG in overnight hours (16 by my count), while most stations aired HS in an early-evening slot (say, between 4-8 p.m.) A couple aired it after the late local news, some in the daytime, none on overnights.

[PYLdude]

Norfolk at the time was in the top 40...I'm counting that as a major market. ;-)

I do know that WTVZ aired it at 12:00 noon. However, I'm trying to remember if there was a secondary episode, and if it a) aired at 12:30 or b) sometime in the middle of the night.

{does a quick ATGS search} Single episode, 12 noon.

Interestingly enough, this post lists the top 50 markets that aired MG and Hollywood Squares in fall 1998. Roughly a third aired MG in overnight hours (16 by my count), while most stations aired HS in an early-evening slot (say, between 4-8 p.m.) A couple aired it after the late local news, some in the daytime, none on overnights.

St. Louis aired H2 at 11:55? What aired for the 20 minutes in between the end of Letterman and the start of H2, I wonder.

[rebelwrest]

Street Smarts aired on WGN for a few years at 3:30 ET.

[Sodboy13]

Was there any major market that didn't air MG98 in overnight? New York did for sure.

WPWR-50 in Chicago did a double-run at 11:00am, I believe.

[MikeK]

Was there any major market that didn't air MG98 in overnight?

Cleveland, the 10-11 AM hour for the entire run.

[tvmitch]

I think MG98 aired on WGN?

That's right, it did! IIRC, it was in the middle of the night.

I believe it was in the 5am hour. I remember waking up on the premiere day to watch it on WGN.

[bulldog_06]

Celebrity Name Game will air in St. Louis on KTVI...didn't say what time yet.

[SRIV94]

Come to think of it, when's the last time WGN aired a syndicated game show on its national feed? Part of me is thinking Bzzz! in the late-90s? Either that or Dawson's Feud 2.0? Unless I'm thinking of WWOR's feed...

I think MG98 aired on WGN?

The national feed, not the local feed.  As Mike (Sodboy) mentioned above, WPWR was the Chicago carrier for MG98.

[Johnissoevil]

Come to think of it, when's the last time WGN aired a syndicated game show on its national feed? Part of me is thinking Bzzz! in the late-90s? Either that or Dawson's Feud 2.0? Unless I'm thinking of WWOR's feed...

WWOR aired Dawson '94 Feud, on both the local and EMI feed, as no stations claimed SyndEx on the show.