When DS9 first aired...

[kkt]

Darned if I know. I didn't watch it until I could buy the disks.

 

[Turd Ferguson]

WDKY Fox 56 here in Kentucky. I believe it came on Sundays, because I can remember taping Emissary to watch, then getting to watch it the next day because school was cancelled because we got three feet of snow

I'm wanting to think Voyager came on Fox 56 too, but it came on after Smackdown, so on Monday nights. I feel like it got preempted non-stop for sports games, then it would get aired at rando times like 3 am on different nights or if a game or match went over, say 45 minutes, they'd only show the last fifteen minutes of the episode

 

[JoeD80]

It was on KASA-TV channel 2 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, which had Fox, PTEN, and other syndicated shows (they were a UHF channel I think right at the start and had just switched over to VHF in 1993). DS9 and Babylon 5 were played back-to-back for awhile once they both got going. I think DS9 was on at 9:00 PM Wednesday pretty consistently. UPN took a different channel in New Mexico so DS9 kept its time for the whole run (though I moved to Arizona in the last season).

 

[shivkala]

Well, I live in NYC, so it played on Channel 11, WPIX, which was as I recall still an independent local TV station. It played Saturday nights at 7 pm, as I recall, but I may be wrong.

I lived on Long Island at the time and WPIX was my station for Star Trek, as well. I also remember it being on Saturday nights, but early in the run, it was on after TNG (or maybe first, I can't remember) in a two-hour block. There might have been re-runs on Sunday, as well. This commercial confirms it was Saturdays at 7pm.

WPIX was independent, but became part of the WB in January 1995.

 

[1moreRobot]

DS9 was never accessible to me at home (western Maryland, no cable or satellite). The FOX affiliate in Johnstown Pennsylvania carried TNG but never picked up DS9.
I remember at one point they had pulled a daily weekday TNG airing off the schedule. I wrote a letter of complaint and faxed it to the station. They must have gotten quite a few similar responses, because within a couple weeks they were airing a funny ad about the debacle, with people walking up to the station manager and throwing pies in his face. Shortly thereafter they had TNG back on the daily schedule back-to-back with TOS (which was great for me, since I’d never gotten to watch them). But curiously DS9 never appeared.

 

[MakeshiftPython]

I did some research to look up TV listings on newspapers, just to see what the airdates/time slots were. My memory was correct, it was for several seasons on Thursdays at 8pm on KCOP 13, which was also a UPN station. But I went even further and looked back at TNG. So here’s the complete listing of TNG/DS9 on KCOP-13 at Los Angeles.

Regarding TNG, I read articles about how the show switching to weekday primetime gave a HUGE boost for KCOP-13, being able stand up to the competition of the big networks. Because of that DS9 got to enjoy itself for the first six seasons on weekday primetime, usually 8/9pm


1987-1988
TNG - Sundays 5pm

1988-1989
TNG Saturdays 8pm

1989-1990
TNG - Sundays 5pm

1990-1991
TNG - Wednesdays 8pm

1991-1992
TNG - Wednesdays 9pm

1992-1993
TNG - Mondays 9pm
DS9 - Tuesdays 9pm

1993-1994
TNG - Mondays 9pm
DS9 - Tuesdays 9pm

1994-1995
VOY - Mondays 8pm
DS9 - Mondays 9pm 1-12
Wednesdays 9pm 13-26

1995-1996
VOY - Mondays 8pm
DS9 - Wednesdays 8pm 1-11
Thursdays 8pm 11-26

1996-1997
VOY - Wednesdays 9pm
DS9 - Thursdays 8pm

1997-1998
VOY - Wednesdays 9pm
DS9 - Thursdays 8pm

1998-1999
VOY - Wednesdays 9pm
DS9 - Saturdays 8pm


As you can see, DS9 in LA got to enjoy most of its run on a weekday primetime slot. Once UPN launched, DS9 had to change to Wednesday nights, as UPN only started with Mondays and Tuesdays in its first season of broadcasting. For the next season, UPN started doing Wednesdays, so DS9 got moved to Thursdays for the remainder of S4 and stayed there up to the end of S6. By Fall 1998, UPN took all five weekdays and KCOP had to move DS9 to a Saturday primetime slot.

 

[trekshark]

WPIX when it was independent. Tng was on it too
I think voyager might have been for a season or too until upn came out. Either that or voyager started on the Buffalo fox affiliate. Our small town cable system didn't have a upn affiliate so we missed some of voyager's original airings.

 

[WAMTNG]

Back in the 1990s, what station was DS9 on in your television market?

Well I suspect my friends and I are unusual, as we bought the TNG and DS9 episodes as they came out on videotape. If we'd waited for them to come on TV it would have taken another year or more, and frankly £10 for two new episodes of Trek was a bargain with so many of us watching it together. (That's the price of two cinema tickets.) So I never watched any of these shows on broadcast TV! But I know that TNG aired on BBC2 in the UK (which meant: no advertisements). Beyond that, I have no clue!

 

[shivkala]

WPIX when it was independent. Tng was on it too
I think voyager might have been for a season or too until upn came out. Either that or voyager started on the Buffalo fox affiliate. Our small town cable system didn't have a upn affiliate so we missed some of voyager's original airings.

UPN launched with Voyager on Channel 9. Prior to the launch of UPN, Channel 9 was WWOR. I remember Trek was WPIX/WB Channel 11 and Babylon 5 was WWOR/UPN Channel 9.

 

[Patgosplat]

• What channel & tv market? KOTV channel 6 Tulsa OK, USA
• What network were they affiliated with/came to be affiliated with? CBS
• What day/time did it air? (always local time zone) Saturday after the local news, 10:30pm
• Were there any sports pre-emptions? Not that I remember
• Anything else interesting about it? Not that I recall
• Oh yeah, I'll tack this on. In that same market, was Voyager on its standard UPN network time or was it bumped to another timeslot because UPN had only a secondary affiliation in that market? Standard UPN time
• Was TNG syndicated on the same channel or a different one? It was on KOKI 23 which became the local Fox channel. 6pm on Saturdays