It appears the corporate overlords at Sinclair are going to prevent NBC 25 from showing Thursday’s much hyped 30 Rock special. Sinclair and other TV groups like Tegna, Nexstar, Hearst and Gray are upset over NBC’s launch of its new Peacock streaming service.
https://www.thewrap.com/multiple-nbc-af ... ck-promos/
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30 Rock Special preempted
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Re: 30 Rock Special preempted
WDIV and WNWO will not be airing the special either.
WDIV is airing the local special Something Good in it's place, while WNWO will be preempting the reunion/upfront with additional reruns of Family Feud.
WDIV is airing the local special Something Good in it's place, while WNWO will be preempting the reunion/upfront with additional reruns of Family Feud.
My furthest DTV tropo: KDKA Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at 202 miles for three days in January 2017 and a night in September 2017 with only an Antennas Direct C2V!
Current setup: Antennas Direct C2Max (2018-present)
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Re: 30 Rock Special preempted
Wood TV aired a COVID-19 special at 8PM then lake water levels up at the lakeshore at 8:30PM they didn't air The 30 Rock special either.
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Re: 30 Rock Special preempted
30 Rock was one big long boring SNL skit.
If it's in syndication, no station around here seems to be carrying it.
If it's in syndication, no station around here seems to be carrying it.
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Re: 30 Rock Special preempted
Did any of the NBC affiliates in Michigan air it? I was wondering why WILX was showing Full Court Press at 8:00 on a Thursday.
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Re: 30 Rock Special preempted
Ironically, despite being what started this thread, WEYI ended up airing it at it's normal time.
Here's what the other NBC affiliates in Michigan, including out-of-state-based stations with Michigan counties in their Nielsen DMAs, aired:
-WDIV (Graham, Detroit) aired a local special about "the best in humanity" titled Something Good.
-WOOD (Nexstar, Grand Rapids) aired a local COVID special followed by another local special about rising lakeshore levels.
-WILX (Gray, Lansing), WLUC (Gray, Marquette) and WNDU (Gray, South Bend) aired Full Court Press Now: COVID Crisis.
-WPBN/WTOM (Sinclair, Traverse City/Alpena) and WNWO (Sinclair, Toledo) aired two additional reruns of Family Feud.
-WGBA (Scripps, Green Bay) and KBJR (Quincy, Duluth) aired infomercials.
As for the two other NBC affiliates that can be seen normally in Michigan: WMAQ (O&O, Chicago) aired the special at it's normal time, while WJFW (Rockfleet, Wausau) aired Jeopardy! followed by Wheel of Fortune instead.
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Re: 30 Rock Special preempted
So apparently, WEYI was the only NBC affiliate in Michigan to show the special as scheduled, no doubt bucking Sinclair's orders to put something else on instead.