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Article: NBC, ABC strike back with repeats: absence of baseball creates holes in new season schedules. (television networks use repeat broadcasts to fill schedule gaps created by baseball strike)
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- Broadcasting & Cable
- Article date:
- October 31, 1994
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Absence of baseball creates holes in new season schedules
Although the new season is only weeks old, NBC, and to a lesser extent ABC, are using last season's repeats to fill holes that would have featured the baseball playoffs and the World Series.
ABC was scheduled to air one of the League Championship Series as well as the World Series, and NBC was scheduled to televise the other League Championship Series. ABC potentially could have had 14 nights of programing preempted by baseball coverage, and NBC could have had seven nights preempted if all of the best-of-seven series went the distance.
Viewers who went looking for fresh episodes of NBC ...