It's also a question of whether they felt "Let's Make a Deal" would play better at 10 a.m. alongside 'Price' than at 3 p.m. after "The Talk."

So stations are still sent network programming at least a day before so they can choose where to air it?

It's kind of surprising to see that, even after CBS turned the 10:00 AM hour over to their affiliates more than ten years ago, some stations still choose to air a network show during that time slot. It would appear to be more advantageous to use that hour for local content or syndicated programming because that format allows the station to generate more revenue than it would to air a network show during a "local programming" hour.

It's a question of whether they might more success with a syndicated show in the 3 p.m. hour as a lead-in to a 4 p.m. newscast or a lead-in to another 4 p.m. syndie which, in turn, serves as lead-in to the 5 p.m. news.

It's also a question of whether they felt "Let's Make a Deal" would play better at 10 a.m. alongside 'Price' than at 3 p.m. after "The Talk."

It's definitely a matter of what era one grew up watching in, but I'd say it lasted from shortly after the hour expansion in 1976 up through Janice and Kathleen leaving in 2000. After the slew of new pricing games were finally in place, the show was able to offer up a feeling of variety that was unlike anything else on TV, and even the things that didn't work (Professor Price) were fascinating experiments. Plus, of course, the camaraderie between the cast (at least, the way they pretended to be friends).

2000-June 15, 2007 was the Silver Age. It was still a good show, but the lack of interaction between Bob, the announcer and the new faceless models made it feel colder and less personal, and the loss of airtime to commercials really started to become noticeable (and, I think, made Bob seem more irritable than previous).

Drew's first three seasons were the "Dork Age," to borrow from TV Tropes. The production staff tried way too hard to reinvent the wheel, and it just didn't work, on top of Drew's apparent lack of enthusiasm.

2011-present is the "Meh..." Age. It's not terrible, it's not great, it's just kinda there. But I'm sure that's as much a function of me getting older and more jaded as much as anything...

EDIT: Looking at it's timeslots, it was said to have a 3pm slot from the 80's to the end, so I assume it only established the morning position in some markets when Feud Challenge ended then? Would make the most sense.

That's correct - WCBS in NYC was the first one to slot GL at 10am. and this happened in 1995, two years after FFC ended.

Wasn't there a rumor when the last prime time specials aired that we wouldn't be seeing anymore because Drew simply didn't want to do them?