[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' date=\'Nov 8 2005, 09:48 PM\']I thought the pace was too frenetic, compared to WML? and TTTT, and I would presume that in most markets the once-a-week IGAS would have competed against WML or TTTT, splitting the panel show audience.
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If it was competing at all--in major markets, no major market network stations were doing stripping in access in 1972 and I assume that with a few exceptions, indies were very happy to counterprogram with the sitcom reruns.
That saying, in Rockford, Illinois, whose channels we picked up in DeKalb, Illinois, where I went to college, the CBS affil WCEE was stripping "TTTT" at 6:30 p.m. in 1974 (they were one year behind the major markets) and "T or C" was a 6 p.m. fixture at ABC affil WREX, complete with an old ID slide and V/O cart used every night that didn't sound like anyone else working at that station at the time (and the slide didn't look like the graphics department's current fonts). It went [Marc Summers] something like this... [MS]
(end of news)
NEWS ANNCR. (over perky synth theme): "Dateline 13 News" is a presentation of the Dateline 13 News Department.
(music up and under as news fades)
(slide on screen saying "Truth or Consequences"-WREX-TV Rockford and the station logo--what sounds like worn-out cart plays)
ANNCR. 2: "Truth or Consequences"--next on Channel 13, WREX-TV, Rockford, Illinois.
(Cut to audience laughing)
CHARLIE LYON: Well, hello there! Come on in, we've been waiting for you! It's time to play "Truth..."