Daytime and Nighttime WOF on NBC affiliates from 1983 to 1988

[barker5000]

Since next year will be 30 years since Pat Sajak left the NBC daytime "Wheel Of Fortune" to host his own late night talk show on CBS opposite Johnny Carson, I'm just wondering what NBC television affiliates aired both the NBC Daytime version and the syndicated nighttime version of "Wheel" from 1983 to 1988?

[BrandonFG]

I know KXAS in Dallas did.

[oaklandfan2kx]

KRON did it as well.

[Mark McNeil]

WDAM in Laurel / Hattiesburg, MS started airing the nighttime version in Fall 1984.

[SamJ93]

WPXI in Pittsburgh--but only briefly, when they took over syndie Wheel/J! from KDKA (the CBS affiliate) in 1987, where they've been ever since. That lasted a little less than two years before daytime Wheel itself jumped ship over to CBS.

[brianhenke]

 WKEF (then NBC) aired both the daytime and syndie versions (they also aired the Ohio State Fair eps from 1983).

[jjman920]

While I'm not sure if they aired the daytime show, WMAR was an NBC affiliate at the time of Wheel's syndicated debut. My assumption is that they fall in that category.

[NickintheATL]

WCYB Tri-Cities TN/VA, which has always been an NBC affiliate and has had nighttime Wheel since the premiere in 1983.

Here in Knoxville, WBIR ran Wheel starting in fall 1984... but they were a CBS station at the time.  They swapped networks and did become an NBC affiliate in October 1988, so they had both for just a few months.

[PYLdude]

I'm curious to see if, once the daytime series switched networks in 1989, the amount of stations carrying both shows went up significantly. Most of their O&Os were airing the nighttime series at the time anyway, weren't they? (To the best of my knowledge the only one that wasn't was WCAU, because WPVI had the nighttime show from the word go)

[WhammyPower]

Milwaukee had Daytime Wheel at 10:00am on the NBC affiliate, and Jeopardy! at 9:00am.

/But that's just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Milwaukee's NBC schedule quirks.

[TimK2003]

I'm curious to see if, once the daytime series switched networks in 1989, the amount of stations carrying both shows went up significantly. Most of their O&Os were airing the nighttime series at the time anyway, weren't they?

WKYC in Cleveland, when it was an NBC O&O, did not air nighttime Wheel nor J!  WEWS already called shotgun on those shows.
To go back further, I believe that O&O WKYC aired both the nighttime High Rollers and Celebrity Sweepstakes.

[That Don Guy]

I'm curious to see if, once the daytime series switched networks in 1989, the amount of stations carrying both shows went up significantly. Most of their O&Os were airing the nighttime series at the time anyway, weren't they? (To the best of my knowledge the only one that wasn't was WCAU, because WPVI had the nighttime show from the word go)

IIRC, KRON had both until 1992, when, presumably because it decided to move its primetime shows back an hour so it could air its late local news at 10 PM instead of 11, so the 7-8 slot was now occupied, they moved to KGO, and Entertainment Tonight (and possibly Hard Copy - I'm not sure if that was on KGO or not) moved to KRON.

[byrd62]

From 1987-89, WFLA-8, the NBC affiliate in Tampa Bay, was showing nighttime Wheel + J!, so they must have also been showing daytime Wheel during much of that stretch, before the latter moved to CBS in the spring of '89.

[aaron sica]

I'm curious to see if, once the daytime series switched networks in 1989, the amount of stations carrying both shows went up significantly. Most of their O&Os were airing the nighttime series at the time anyway, weren't they? (To the best of my knowledge the only one that wasn't was WCAU, because WPVI had the nighttime show from the word go)

I can think of two instances (and I'm sure you already know one of them) - WCBS was already carrying nighttime WOF when the daytime show switched networks, as was WHP in Harrisburg and WYOU in Scranton. However, while the show was still in daytime on CBS, the nighttime version moved to WABC in September 1990. WHP still carries the nighttime version at 7pm (as it has done since 1984) but in Scranton the nighttime version moved to WBRE in 1992, where it and J! remain to this day.

[Bob Zager]

WOF is still airing on NBC affiliate WDIV in Detroit and has since it began in 1983!