Going into the summer recess of choice shows, champion Stefan Goodreau, a video game tester and camp counselor from Los Angeles, California, has a 5-game total of $84,870. Question for those in the know: Will his sixth game be telecast on Monday, September 7th or on the 14th? Thank you.

I would say probably September 14. In recent memory, the new season has started on the second full week of September, which is roughly the same time most other syndicated shows resume.

It would not be September 7 since that is Labor Day and they don't start the season on Labor Day -- probably due to the high risk of preemption for the Labor Day Telethon.

Not in the Tampa Bay area -- WFTS carries the telethon and Jeopardy, and the telethon is over with at 6PM, with Jeopardy and 7:30PM.

To try to avoid getting too deep into "(station X) airs it on Labor Day" and "(station Y) doesn't", I'll say that, to the best of my knowledge, every station that airs both J! and the telethon in Central Time has J! scheduled early enough in the day that the telethon pre-empts it. I missed several season premieres that way until they moved it back a week.

I'd assume that Mountain Time is similar, since both time zones only really have half an hour of prime access when a station has local news.

GSNN implied that it was the 14th.

Don't see why you couldn't premiere on the 8th.

A pretty interesting observation, and one I hadn't thoroughly considered until now. Check out the Jeopardy website list of markets and times. Overwhelmingly in the Eastern and Pacific zones, Jeopardy airs either at 7:00 or 7:30. What few Mountain markets there are tend to air it at 6:00, but not overwhelmingly so. Central times are all over the map.

Okay, kids, these are the official syndie start dates, per Katz Media, a company that should know a thing or two about when these shows are starting.

9/7: Millionaire, Feud, DoND
9/14: Wheel and J!
9/21: 5th Grader

That is all.

Indeed. I was quite surprised to see Houston's time slot as I clicked around -- 11:37 PM. The #10 market, and it's the only one in the country that I found where it airs in late night. It kind of surprises me that Sony tolerates that.

Also, a fair number of people, you know, don't watch TV on Labor Day.


--Mike