Clooney Show, at 11 a.m. Other shows delayed by WKRC included Friday night sitcoms Here Come the Brides (delayed to nine days after their original ABC airing) and The Brady Bunch (delayed to the following afternoon). It also briefly ran instrumental music over the closing credits of prime time network shows in lieu of program promos during the 1973-74 season. At one point during the 1987-88 season, WKRC briefly preempted the 8:30 p.m. ABC prime time slot (occupied by such shows as I Married Dora, Mr. Belvedere and part of the first season of Full House) in favor of the syndicated sitcom Small Wonder. When ABC offered late night programming from 11:30 p.m. to about 2 a.m., WKRC, as with several other ABC affiliates, chose not to air it. However, it aired Nightline once that show began in 1979 as a program on the Iran hostage crisis. Occasionally, WKRC preempted a lower-rated prime time program or movie from ABC to air either a stronger movie or a locally based special. Most of the programs not shown on WKRC were widely preempted by many affiliates. Also, most every program not shown on WKRC-TV was aired on the ABC station in nearby Dayton, WKEF until 1980 and WDTN after 1980. WKEF provided grade B coverage to most of the market, while WDTN provided city-grade coverage to nearly the entire market. Locally, WKRC aired news, talk shows, movies, and a few off-network sitcoms at some points. Beginning in 1992, WKRC-TV began preempting portions of ABC's Saturday morning cartoons in favor of a local Saturday morning newscast. For a while, WKRC-TV was also one of the very few ABC affiliates that did not clear This Week with David Brinkley, choosing to air religious programs instead. Regardless of its network, at least one program airing on both, The Edge of Night, always had shabby treatment in Cincinnati, which was ironic because the series' producer Procter & Gamble was headquartered there, and Edges fictional locale of Monticello was loosely based on the city. WKRC did not clear that program as late as 1958, but by 1960–1961 (its last initial season as a CBS affiliate) it telecast the program at 10 a.m. When ABC picked the program up in 1975, it originally carried the ABC run at 11 a.m. By fall 1976 the show was airing on WKRC at 10:30 a.m., and by May 1981 it was