This placement caused problems as many NBC affiliates on the East Coast aired local newscasts at Noon, thus resulting in some stations pre-empting all or part of the program.
included WSB-TV in Atlanta; WBZ-TV in Boston; WCIV in Charleston, South Carolina; WTLV in Jacksonville; WAVE-TV in Louisville; WCKT in Miami; WSYR-TV in Syracuse, New York; WFLA-TV in Tampa; and WPTV in West Palm Beach.
Other NBC affiliates, such as WBAL-TV in Baltimore; WIS-TV in Columbia, South Carolina; WSM-TV in Nashville; KYW-TV in Philadelphia; WAVY-TV in Portsmouth, Virginia; WJAR-TV in Providence, Rhode Island; and KSD-TV in St. Louis, aired only a half-hour of the show.
[1] The show particularly had trouble against two popular soap operas on CBS, The Young and the Restless and Search for Tomorrow, along with the added competition from ABC's The $20,000 Pyramid and Ryan's Hope, all of which were more successful than the NBC offering.
; the program aired its final episode on January 4, 1979, with a scheduled NBC News special featuring Betty Ford being shown in its slot the following day.