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<blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 367716" data-attributes="member: 27">NBC had been the weakest when it came to &quot;enforcing&quot; timeslots, mostly because they&#039;d had so much trouble producing decent shows for the affiliates to air.&nbsp; We&#039;ve discussed the AW/SuBe/Passions thing in other threads, so I will only add that NBC was so lax in this area by 1999 (when AW went off the air) that it was basically understood that all three networks could play around with their dayparts as much as they wanted.&nbsp; But it had been that way for a while.When ABC took on The Edge of Night in 1975 from CBS, they had intended for its affiliates to air it at 3:30 or 4pm, which was where EON had been successful when it was on CBS.&nbsp; Most stations did this, but some wanted to keep the 4pm slot for their own programs, so over time (by 1980-81) more stations were airing it at weird times, like morning (where I lived, EON aired at 10am in its last few years) or late night.&nbsp; The batch of 1981 episodes I&#039;ve been watching were actually not even aired on an ABC affiliate--that ABC station in Philadelphia made some sort of side-deal to sell the series to an independent station, who aired it about three weeks behind.&nbsp; This &quot;do whatever you want&quot; mentality was what killed EON, since the show would have been just as successful as all of ABC&#039;s other soaps had it remained in the post-General Hospital slot nation-wide.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Daniel Avery, post: 367716, member: 27"] NBC had been the weakest when it came to "enforcing" timeslots, mostly because they'd had so much trouble producing decent shows for the affiliates to air. We've discussed the AW/SuBe/Passions thing in other threads, so I will only add that NBC was so lax in this area by 1999 (when AW went off the air) that it was basically understood that all three networks could play around with their dayparts as much as they wanted. But it had been that way for a while. When ABC took on [I]The Edge of Night[/I] in 1975 from CBS, they had intended for its affiliates to air it at 3:30 or 4pm, which was where EON had been successful when it was on CBS. Most stations did this, but some wanted to keep the 4pm slot for their own programs, so over time (by 1980-81) more stations were airing it at weird times, like morning (where I lived, EON aired at 10am in its last few years) or late night. The batch of 1981 episodes I've been watching were actually not even aired on an ABC affiliate--that ABC station in Philadelphia made some sort of side-deal to sell the series to an independent station, who aired it about three weeks behind. This "do whatever you want" mentality was what killed EON, since the show would have been just as successful as all of ABC's other soaps had it remained in the post-[I]General Hospital [/I]slot nation-wide. [/QUOTE]

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