Tampa Bay TV

I know stations that used to air many network and syndicated game shows and other shows in the past.

WFLA-8 signed on the air in 1955 in black and white, but in that same year WTVT-13 signed on the air as a CBS station. 13 is now a Fox station.

The Price is Right, with Bob Barker, premiered on September 4, 1972 on 13, which aired the show until 1994 when 13 became a Fox station. A lot of CBS primetime shows had aired on 13.

Magnum PI, which now airs in syndicated repeats, first aired locally on 13 for its entire run. The original NBC version of Baywatch aired locally on 8 for its entire run before it could be moved to syndication. Seinfeld also aired locally on 8 for its entire run, but is now in local repeats on WTTA-38.

Jeopardy! returned to the air on September 10, 1984 on 8 (when it was WXFL) and aired on that station until September 1985, where it was moved to 10 when it was an ABC station (now CBS).

I think J! and the nighttime Wheel of Fortune actually stayed with 10 until September 2007. 10 aired Wheel every Monday through Saturday at 7:00 unless preempted for CBS Sports coverage such as the NCAA men's basketball tournaments. Wheel and J! moved to WFTS-28 from Tampa and WWSB-40 from Sarasota from September 2007 to September 2012 when both shows moved back to 10.

In the 1980s, 8 was one of the NBC stations to air reruns of Card Sharks, and starting in the fall of 1988, because of local news at noon, 8 put Super Password at 11:30 and preempted Scrabble for reruns of Alice after the news, at 12:30.

When I was a kid, on the days I skipped school, Maury Povich's talk show used to air on 10. It's now called Maury, and it later moved to 8 in the fall of 2000. Maury has been on 38 for a long time.

Also when I was a kid, The Jerry Springer Show and the original Ricki Lake Show were both on 13. Springer and Ricki would later move to WMOR-32, but Ricki was cancelled in 2004 and  returned in 2012 on WTOG-44. The 2012 revival aired on 44 for its entire run. So I watched Springer, Ricki, and The Rosie O'Donnell Show on 13 whenever I skipped school.

Another old talk show from when I was a kid was Sally Jessy Raphael. I used to watch Sally when I was a kid, first on 10 and later on 8. Sally moved to 8 for the rest of its run. Yet another talk show was The Jenny Jones Show and it was my mother's most-favorite talk show. After airing on 8, Jenny Jones  aired on 13 for a few years, before moving to 44 for the final season, but cable reruns of Jenny Jones aired on Superstation WGN (now WGN America). When Jenny Jones aired on 13 at 1:00 in the afternoon, it was followed by Springer at 2:00, Ricki at 3:00, and Rosie  at 4:00.

I also remember Real TV, a show that had been on the air since 1996. When it premiered, it aired on 13, but in 1998 it moved to 10. Later, the show moved to WTOG-44 for the rest of its run. I grew up watching reruns on the show, first on TNN/Spike TV and later on Fox Reality Channel. TNN/Spike picked up Real TV with the 1999-2001 seasons but later added the 1996-1999 seasons. The 1999-2001 seasons were later dropped, and the 1996-1999 seasons stayed on TNN/Spike. Fox Reality aired only the 1996-1999 seasons.

Local reruns of Sabrina the Teenage Witch and Clueless aired on 44 starting in the fall of 2000, but I remember watching them as a kid as well. I remember watching the PAX version of Supermarket Sweep locally on WXPX-66, but PAX is now ION Television and 66 has been affiliated with ION since it replaced I (Independent Television).

Another talk show I remember watching, The Montel Williams Show, aired on 28 during the late 1990s, but would later move to 8 for the rest of its run. The Oprah Winfrey Show was another talk show I remember watching.