I also seem to remember awhile back that, when someone posted the New York listings, the last season of Hollywood Squares was split between WABC and WPIX.
Chicago had it too, between WGN and WLS. IIRC, there was some combination of Vegas shows and NBC reruns. I'm not sure how the pattern went.
I had a hard time finding it when I searched but if I’m not mistaken, at least here, the stations that had been airing the syndie Squares (WABC had been airing it for at least a couple of years at this point) had some sort of option in place where, if they carried it for the 1980-81 season, they weren’t obligated to do any expanding beyond the two days a week the show was already on. That’s how WPIX got involved. WABC had the show in its 7:30 checkerboard slot with MGPM and Name That Tune, and WPIX had it the other three days (might’ve been in daytime but I doubt that).
With two NBC reruns to fill in the gaps.
