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On 9/1/2023 at 8:45 PM, kalbir said:

Also to beat Oprah.

Which is exactly why WRAL and WLKY put Y&R at 4.  WLKY still runs it at 4, but WRAL is an NBC affiliate now and the current CBS affiliate in Raleigh-Durham, WNCN, carries Y&R at 12:30 (even though it did run Y&R at 4 when it first became a CBS affiliate).

WTVF Nashville is one of the very few stations in the Central time zone to carry Y&R at 11:30.  It has a local show, Talk of the Town, at 11.  Their lineup:

 9 AM Newschannel 5

10 AM TPIR

11 AM Talk of the Town

11:30 Y&R

12:30 B&B

  1 PM The Talk

  2 PM LMAD

The only other CBS stations I know of that carry Y&R at 11:30 instead of 11 are three o&os:

KCBS Los Angeles, WBBM Chicago, and KTVT Dallas-Fort Worth; and KOLR Springfield, MO.

On 8/6/2023 at 8:14 PM, GLATWT88 said:

The best move would have been for Edge to go to NBC and placed right after AW.

It may have prevented AW's expansion - solving another NBC catastrophe. EON was an established soap, AW's lead in would have been good for Edge as AW's numbers were strong at the time of EON's transition. The most important factor would be clearance, but NBC seemed pretty good at that. Even low rated Texas and Doctors maintained strong clearance in spite of their numbers unlike soaps on the other networks. 

NBC tried that with the AW spinoff, Somerset, and even though it lasted almost seven years it never really held the AW audience.  Somerset was very similar to Edge with its emphasis on crime drama.  The problem was that in the '70s more and more affiliates began pre-empting their network's 4 PM show.  Given that pre-emptions eventually killed Edge on ABC, I'm not convinced that things would have been any different on NBC.

On 3/3/2024 at 9:28 PM, GLATWT88 said:

Did CBS aquire that 10am timeslot again for the Let's Make a Deal reboot or is LMAD just in GL's timeslot according to market. I ask because GL was on at 10am in NYC and that's the timeslot LMAD took over. Would make it sense to be paired back to back with TPIR. 

CBS gives its affiliates the choice of LMAD at 10AM or 3 PM (ET).  For the most part, affiliates in the Eastern and Pacific time zones take the morning feed; the afternoon feed is more common in the Central and Mountain time zones.  LMAD tends to do better in the morning markets and yes, it is a perfect back-to-back combination with TPIR.

On 9/25/2023 at 10:46 AM, Matt Powers said:

There have been mentions of CAPITOL’s clearance dropping in 1986 and I was curious what the affiliates who didn’t carry the show did—did they just plug a 30 min syndicated show in that slot or did they time shift the other soaps? Such as moving Y&R back a half hour and just run ATWT and GL in pattern thereafter? 

WTVT, CBS in Tampa at the time (it's Fox now), had an hour-long newscast at noon.  It carried Y&R at 1, ATWT at 2, and GL at 3.  It also pre-empted B&B.  All of CBS's soaps began airing in pattern when the network switched to former ABC affiliate WTSP.

I can't remember the name of the program that pre-empted Capitol on KHOU Houston.

On 9/4/2023 at 1:57 PM, TVFAN1144 said:

On this date in 1972, CBS got back into the game show market with the premieres of Jokers Wild, The New Price is Right, and Gambit. They also changed schedules to put P and G soaps in one block 

Which was the death knell for Edge of Night on CBS.  Running at 2:30 (ET) it lost about half its audience--the men and teenage boys who had watched the show in the late afternoon but now couldn't make it home (and there were no VCRs then).  When CBS decided to expand ATWT to an hour in 1975, Edge's fate was sealed.  ABC, however, wanted Edge for several reasons.  One was to return it to late afternoon (4 PM ET), one was to get back the affiliates which had been pre-empting the game shows (Money Maze, You Don't Say!) that the network had been carrying (they were largely unsuccessful doing this), and one was because ABC had never had a Procter & Gamble show and wanted to work with them.  Edge tended to do better at 3 PM in the Central time zone.  But by the fall of 1984 the show was down to 106 out of 213 stations, and many of them were carrying Edge in the morning.  When 25 more stations said they were dropping Edge come January 1985, ABC and P&G threw in the towel.

WTVF cut Talk of the Town to 30 minutes and moved it to 11 AM.  That allowed B&B to air in pattern at 12:30, and ATWT in pattern at 1 (Y&R already aired at 11:30; GL at 2).  Their lineup, up to news time at 4, is now:

  9 AM Kelly Clarkson

10 AM TPIR

11 AM Talk of the Town

11:30  Y&R

12:30  B&B

   1 PM The Talk

   2 PM Let's Make A Deal

   3 PM Ellen

WXYZ aired all ABC soaps in pattern when it was an o&o except for Edge of Night; it aired in Detroit at 10:30 AM and a movie aired at 4.

In the Raleigh/Durham area we still get Y&R at 4, only on WNCN since it became the CBS affiliate in 2016.  GH airs here at 3, because WTVD is an ABC o&o and that is when its sister stations also air it (3 ET/2 CT&PT).  Days is on WRAL at 1; B&B on WNCN at 1:30.

When ABC had Ryan's Hope at 12 and Loving at 12:30, WSB Atlanta continued to carry RH at 12:30, after the noon news. Loving ended up on WUPA Channel 69 at noon.  WSB picked up Loving after RH was canceled in 1989.  WSB also carried Edge of Night at either 9:30 or 10 AM from 1980 (when the station switched to ABC) to Edge's cancellation in 1984.