Our local CBS affiliate shows Craig Ferguson’s show a half hour later so they squeeze Friends in after Letterman, which pisses me off because I hate Friends and love Craig’s show. Late night shows seem to be moved back to later time slots in many, many, many markets. Conan used to do this bit about how one affiliate aired his show at something like 3AM and because of that really late/early time slot they would run really crappy commercials during it. One of them was for a mattress store. It was a running gag to show them for a good bit and I think they even had the guys from the ads on the show at one point.
Starting in two weeks, our local NBC station will move the fourth hour of the Today Show back to 11:00 a.m. so they can put an hour of something or other at 10:00 a.m.
Some googling seems to show it was some sort of experiment by CBS (it’s an owned and operated station, not a franchisee) and when it became obvious it wasn’t working they moved it back to 11:30 like the rest of the country.
well, 10:30 central is 11:30 eastern, and no one much cares about about mountain time except as an afterthough, mi rite?
My problem in the reverse of the OP’s. The local Fox and CBS affiliates routinely pre-empt their Sunday afternoon NFL games. I’ll hear the network talking heads shill the afternoon game, but come 3:30 pm, it’s off to X-games, professional bull riding, or some poker tour. Me not happy wi dat. Me want futball. :mad:
Letterman’s CBS run had a rough start. Network president Howard Stringer called in every marker he had amongst the affiliates, and the best he could do in the first year was a 75 percent “clearance” (i.e. the number of affiliates carrying that particular show). Even so, for his first year, Letterman was winning the ratings battle over Leno’s Tonight Show for about 90 weeks.
Are you sure the network has the double-header that week? For instance, this week Fox has the double-header, so on CBS you’ll get an early game or a late game (if there are any late AFC games this week) but not both.
For quite awhile, it seemed. I like that time slot better anyway. I wish all those shows started at 11 and had their follow-ups start at 12.