One of my favourite topics: up until this point in the season , there were two
shows I was not able to tape: Christmas (because our station gave in to NBC
and broadcast figure skating, which they had avoided for the past two years),
and the Reagan funeral. I e-mailed the program director at Ch. 7 in Panama
City to see if they could move J! up to 4 PM where HS is at, but he said that
their contract with King World forbade them to move the show (I suppose
Saturdays are OK since they've done that with some of the reruns the past
few weeks.)
In past years, another plague was when NBC had the NBA on Christmas
and Memorial Day, plus Thansgiving NFL. Those are gone, so the only
potential disruptions are Christmas and New Years ("Figure Skating
Extravaganza") and the two days of Wimbledon (Why can't all stations
carry it at one time instead of this "12 Noon in all Time Zones" rule?)
So today, I had to improvise: the Montgomery, AL station that has the
show at 9:30 AM came in enough so I could see the ending; then at 6:30,
flip my radio over to 87.5 FM/WCTV ch. 6 in Tallahassee for "Radio
Jeopardy" - the only drawback is when video clues come up...
As for my local station, they probably won't be playing the show in the wee
hours of Friday morning because they don't want to mess with their
blockbuster lineup: "The Bankruptcy Hour" (two lawyers in that field);
"Jerry Springer"; and "Shepherd's Chapel" (maybe all three shows have
something in common....)