The Fall Clearance Thread, 2009

[Jimmy Owen]

Don't you wish there was some sort of well-designed, detailed, accurate publication that you could hold in your hand to get local TV listings?

[TimK2003]

For those of us in Western Colorado:  *--New show and/or new time slot.

8:30AM -- *Family Feud (2nd Run) -- KGJT/My Network 27
9:00AM -- Price Is Right (Regular Slot) -- KREX/CBS 5
11:00AM-- Family Feud (1st Run) -- KREX/CBS 5
11:30AM-- Millionaire (2nd Run) -- KREX/CBS 5
1:00PM -- *Price Is Right/Let's Make A Deal -- KREX/CBS 5
6:00PM -- Millionaire (1st Run) -- KREX/CBS 5
            -- Jeopardy (1st Run) -- KKCO/NBC 11
6:30PM -- Deal Or No Deal (1st Run) -- KREX/CBS 5
            -- Wheel Of Fortune (1st Run) -- KKCO/NBC 11

No sign of 5th Grader yet, although there are still slots to be filled (TBAs) on:

KFQX/Fox 4: 9-10AM and 11-12N
KJCT/ABC 8: 2PM and 4:30PM
My money is on KFQX, as KJCT is not big on game shows.

[TheInquisitiveOne]

[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' post=\'225480\' date=\'Sep 9 2009, 07:57 PM\']Don't you wish there was some sort of well-designed, detailed, accurate publication that you could hold in your hand to get local TV listings?[/quote]

I never stopped wishing.

Oh, the days when we could get decent ads promoting TV shows within reason, all without worrying about some people whose 15 minutes were up eons ago...

...but I digress.

The Inquisitive One

[mmb5]

[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' post=\'225480\' date=\'Sep 9 2009, 08:57 PM\']Don't you wish there was some sort of well-designed, detailed, accurate publication that you could hold in your hand to get local TV listings?[/quote]
Well, if it were profitable, there would be one.

[chad1m]

[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' post=\'225480\' date=\'Sep 9 2009, 08:57 PM\']Don't you wish there was some sort of well-designed, detailed, accurate publication that you could hold in your hand to get local TV listings?[/quote]Yeah, it's called Zap2it.com on my iPod Touch's Safari browser.

[Jimmy Owen]

[quote name=\'chad1m\' post=\'225498\' date=\'Sep 9 2009, 10:38 PM\'][quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' post=\'225480\' date=\'Sep 9 2009, 08:57 PM\']Don't you wish there was some sort of well-designed, detailed, accurate publication that you could hold in your hand to get local TV listings?[/quote]Yeah, it's called Zap2it.com on my iPod Touch's Safari browser.
[/quote]


Good point!  But how is it profitable?

[chad1m]

[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' post=\'225500\' date=\'Sep 9 2009, 10:43 PM\']Good point!  But how is it profitable? [/quote]Those lil' banner ads at the top of the page and after every fifteen channels in the grid.

[Unrealtor]

Just a quick update on Austin now that I've found "Fifth Grader" -- 1:30 AM on KTBC. I'm amazed by this, but the scheduling of Dr. Oz twice in four hours that I mentioned in my first post is apparently a permanent arrangement (as permanent as a TV schedule ever is,) according to a local newspaper.

[RealityFan129]

So nobody can answer if these double runs of 5th grader are new episodes?

[Matt Ottinger]

[quote name=\'RealityFan129\' post=\'225570\' date=\'Sep 10 2009, 04:39 PM\']So nobody can answer if these double runs of 5th grader are new episodes?[/quote]
In general, when people don't know the answer around here, they don't answer.  There are exceptions, but typically you learn not to pay attention to those people.

By definition, when the season starts, stations that are double running Fifth Grader are going to begin with two fresh episodes.  As stupid as I believe any double-running to be, stupider still would be to run an episode immediately followed by the same episode.  But how far along in the season will the second episode be a rerun?  That I couldn't tell you.

[WhammyPower]

And wrong again.  WMLW has picked up 5th Grader for 3pm and 3:30pm airings.

[Dbacksfan12]

[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' post=\'225480\' date=\'Sep 9 2009, 07:57 PM\']Don't you wish there was some sort of well-designed, detailed, accurate publication that you could hold in your hand to get local TV listings?[/quote]No.
This isn't the 1970s anymore; where we had 30 different gameshows on in one year.  Furthermore, there just isn't a market for it anymore.  Is it really that hard to boot up TVGuide.com?  Furthermore, if you look hard enough, you can still find such publications (i.e. the newspaper).

I can also see the above being one more rant about pining for the past.

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'Modor\' post=\'225670\' date=\'Sep 11 2009, 12:20 PM\']No.[/quote]
I simply MUST know: why not?

[BrandonFG]

[quote name=\'Modor\' post=\'225670\' date=\'Sep 11 2009, 03:20 PM\'][quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' post=\'225480\' date=\'Sep 9 2009, 07:57 PM\']Don't you wish there was some sort of well-designed, detailed, accurate publication that you could hold in your hand to get local TV listings?[/quote]No.
This isn't the 1970s anymore; where we had 30 different gameshows on in one year.  Furthermore, there just isn't a market for it anymore.  Is it really that hard to boot up TVGuide.com?  Furthermore, if you look hard enough, you can still find such publications (i.e. the newspaper).

I can also see the above being one more rant about pining for the past.
[/quote]
Mark, relax. Not everyone has the Internet or an on-screen TV listings, i.e. my 78-year-old grandmother. I like to have both physical and online listings too, just in case I'm not near a computer, I can have the paper to remind me that whatever show comes on at whatever time. Yes, print is a dwindling industry-it's not dead like most people think it is...some people do still read newspapers the old-fashioned way.

I see your comment being one more rant about not everyone moving into the 20th 21st Century.

[Matt Ottinger]

[quote name=\'fostergray82\' post=\'225674\' date=\'Sep 11 2009, 03:50 PM\']I see your comment being one more rant about not everyone moving into the 20th Century.[/quote]
Not to mention ranting over what was clearly a rhetorical question designed to amuse.