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<blockquote data-quote="tommie" data-source="post: 394006" data-attributes="member: 370"><p>My understanding is that NBC also never had a firm grip on their affiliates and it certainly went south with the failed Another World experiment, so they had trouble with them airing shows out of their recommended time slots. It's probably why they seemed to struggle to get a hold on the soap market since soaps tend to take a while to iron out their problems, but affiliates are rarely so patient and a lot just put those shows in undesireable time slots. It also makes it harder to do national promotion I guess since everyone would have to check their local listings.</p><p></p><p>NBC were essentially lucky for DAYS and Another World caught fire in the 70s, which helped The Doctors since it was cushioned between them. Then they wrecked it with the ill-fated AW 90 minutes experiment and only DAYS seemed to be able to have occasional highs after that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tommie, post: 394006, member: 370"] My understanding is that NBC also never had a firm grip on their affiliates and it certainly went south with the failed Another World experiment, so they had trouble with them airing shows out of their recommended time slots. It's probably why they seemed to struggle to get a hold on the soap market since soaps tend to take a while to iron out their problems, but affiliates are rarely so patient and a lot just put those shows in undesireable time slots. It also makes it harder to do national promotion I guess since everyone would have to check their local listings. NBC were essentially lucky for DAYS and Another World caught fire in the 70s, which helped The Doctors since it was cushioned between them. Then they wrecked it with the ill-fated AW 90 minutes experiment and only DAYS seemed to be able to have occasional highs after that. [/QUOTE]
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