Wheel of Fortune airing before official premiere date?

[JohnHolder]

after Dream House premiered and KYW picked that up

Dream House was produced by Group W, KYW's parent company. That's about what it took to get KYW to carry NBC daytime shows in those days.

John

[imhomerjay]

Dream House was produced by Group W, KYW's parent company. That's about what it took to get KYW to carry NBC daytime shows in those days.

John

Indeed.  My only chance to watch MGHS was on a trip to the shore, when it aired on WMGM.  My family would normally vacation in the Poconos, and I loved the chance to see Classic Concentration on WBRE before heading out to the lake in the morning.  KYW later picked up the CC reruns, but not when it was in originals.  But hey, we got to see Group W's classic "Couch Potatoes."

[Ccook]

MGHS was aired here by WXIA, then was replaced with repeats of The Waltons by early February 1984. WXIA picked up Classic Concentration two weeks after its premiere (22 years ago this past Monday)--they were running Wordplay on a delay to 10:30 and was running it to its finale. WTLK/channel 14 (now WPXA) ran the CC replays.

[ssetta]

I have now found out all the air times for Wheel and Jeopardy! on WNEV Channel 7 in Boston.

September 19, 1983
Wheel debuts at 5:30 PM

September 10, 1984
Jeopardy! debuts at 9:00 AM

September 9, 1985
Jeopardy! moves to 5:00 PM, right before Wheel

January 2, 1986
Jeopardy! moves once again to 4:00 PM (and it isn't even a Monday, I wonder why they chose this day)

August 10, 1987
Wheel of Fortune moves to 7:00 PM

September 7, 1987
Jeopardy! moves to 7:30 PM, right after Wheel, leaving previous season reruns of J! still on at 4:00 PM

September 3, 2001
Both Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! leave WHDH, and move to WSBK, which was then UPN38.

[nowhammies11]

Really? Did you HAVE to bump this thread to post that?

Frank, if you don't mind, please.