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chrispw1

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In looking at old schedules from the mid 80s Wheel Of Fortune and Jeopardy aired on then indy channel 13 in Los Angeles, which seems a bit rare for them to be airing on a non ABC, CBS, or NBC station, and also I found in the mid 90s they were airing o n channel 30 in Nashville. Anyone know of any other instances of them airing on a non big three station?

chargeradiocom

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Re: Wheel Of Fortune and Jeopardy on non big 3 stations
« Reply #1 on: Today at 05:40:03 PM »
In Cincinnati and Kansas City, they air on the Fox affiliate. Though at this point, Fox is on par with the old Big 3.

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Re: Wheel Of Fortune and Jeopardy on non big 3 stations
« Reply #2 on: Today at 05:41:46 PM »
Baltimore also airs them on a FOX affiliate. I believe Nashville does too.

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Re: Wheel Of Fortune and Jeopardy on non big 3 stations
« Reply #3 on: Today at 05:48:33 PM »
For years WLIG/WLNY in New York carried them together. They would initially air them an hour before WABC did; this led to a weird arrangement for awhile where there was a separate feed of the channel broadcast on some cable systems where their viewers saw some other programming at 6 and 6:30, usually a Matlock rerun. They eventually moved the shows to 5 PM, and they stayed there (save for a brief period where they aired at 9) until CBS bought the station and dropped them.

Boston aired them on WSBK for years; can’t think of too many former UPN stations that carried either one.
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Re: Wheel Of Fortune and Jeopardy on non big 3 stations
« Reply #4 on: Today at 07:06:59 PM »
Baltimore also airs them on a FOX affiliate. I believe Nashville does too.

Nashville is J! on the MyNet pass-thru, Wheel on the ABC.

Syracuse, NY has both on Fox.

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Re: Wheel Of Fortune and Jeopardy on non big 3 stations
« Reply #5 on: Today at 07:22:30 PM »
Fox affil WLUK carries them both in the Green Bay market.
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Re: Wheel Of Fortune and Jeopardy on non big 3 stations
« Reply #6 on: Today at 09:20:56 PM »
The Fox affiliate in Denver (KDVR) also airs them.

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Re: Wheel Of Fortune and Jeopardy on non big 3 stations
« Reply #7 on: Today at 10:06:05 PM »
I was wondering for some of the affiliates if Wheel and/or J! was always on them it's just they changed their affiliation to FOX after the 1994 TV realignment? Green Bay and Denver did their changes around that time.
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