The Nighttime Price Is Right
Station List

Thanks to Michael Stroud for researching and sharing this list of stations that aired the syndicated Nighttime Price Is Right with Dennis James. Below are some edited notes about how this list was prepared.

The stations are arranged by state. The information is organized into the following fields:
Column 1:  City of station's location
Column 2:  Call letters of station
Column 3:  Channel number of station
Column 4:  Network with which station was affiliated at the time
The symbol "(p)" means that the station carried more than one network's programming but was a primary affiliate of the designated network.
Column 5:  Day of the week when the show aired
Column 6:  Time of the day (always P.M.) when the show aired
The symbol "@" means that the station is located in a region that did not observe Daylight Saving Time.
Column 7:  Date, in month/two-digit year format, of the TV Guide issue that was used to establish the show's broadcast schedule.

Note that The Nighttime Price Is Right typically filled one night of a weeknight "checkerboard" schedule of programs (e.g., the nighttime versions of Hollywood Squares and Let's Make a Deal and light fare such as Wild Kingdom) that some stations used to fill the "access" time period (7:00-8:00 P.M. in the Eastern and Pacific time zones; 6:30-7:00 P.M. in the Central time zone) before prime-time.

Stations received episodes of The Nighttime Price Is Right on videotapes that were "bicycled" from station to station. This was the standard distribution system for most syndicated programs prior to satellite delivery, which Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! somewhat pioneered.

Here are a few TV Guide print advertisements for the syndicated New Price Is Right:

October 1972 KNBC-TV   July 1972 WHO-TV   September 1974 KPIX-TV

1972 WABI-TV   1973 WTEN-TV   1974 WEAU-TV

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