Anyone else disappointed that Funny You Should Ask is getting relegated to strange hours for the most part? I get that it's typical for Byron Allen's shows to not get the best timeslots, but I'd like for a station to try a FYSA/25 Words block.
An educated-guess-answer here is because of the way local commercials are sold. Commercial time slots are usually offered in convenient one-hour blocks to the ad agencies and clients, and the ratings are also reported this way. Since the majority of daytime programming is hour-long talk shows, it makes sense to run hour-long slots of the same game show for ad sales purposes.
There is more at play for the scheduling decisions than just local ad sales, but it is an important part of the discussion.
I never worked at a station that sold Wheel and J!, so I am not sure how ad time in those higher-profile programs are sold. One of the stations where I worked ran Millionaire at 12:30, adjacent to the noon news, so Millionaire was sold on its own there.
