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Hee Haw in Urban areas and other areas outside the South


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With Hee Haw reruns making their return this weekend to CMT, I thought this would be the perfect time to ask this question. In the South and parts of the Midwest, Hee Haw would air on Saturday nights at 7 eastern/ 6 central (on any of the big 3 networks or independent depending on the channel). But I was wandering how stations outside the South handled the hee haw syndicated package. What I mean for example is, did any tv station in places such as Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, Seattle, anywhere in New England, etc air Hee Haw since those markets were outside of Hee Haw's audience demographics? If so, did they air it at a decent time, or did it air very late at night?

I remember reading an old TV weekly for the New York City area published by the New York Times. Hee Haw did air in New York City on WPIX 11 (which was independent back then). However, WPIX ran Hee Haw very late Saturday night at 2 A.M. That tells me every large TV market was obliged to air Hee Haw on syndication whether the markets wanted to or not.

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I remember for several years starting in the early '70s seeing it on a Los Angeles station. It played early Sunday afternoon. I watched it after coming home from church.

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Wonder why they scheduled it in the daytime instead of the night?

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I grew up in Portland, OR and Hee Haw was on Sunday afternoon/evening. We would watch it before Wonderful World of Disney, which came on Sunday evenings at 7pm.

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I grew up in Queens NY, and we watched the show regularly in my home. As I recall I liked it for some reason.

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