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Was driving past Richter Park around 10 PM last night while Mary Poppins was going on and a firetruck was outside and an ambulance was approaching with its lights and sirens on. Anyone know what happened?

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Flying out of JFK this week with both carry-on and checked luggage. I have this rechargeable taser. The battery cannot be removed without disassembling the whole thing. What is the best way to pack this, if any?

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Apparently, two different episodes (both reruns) were distributed to stations, depending on market and station owner. Most stations owned by Sinclair aired episode #S-8346 from Hawaiian Vacation week (originally aired 3/23/26, top picture), and most other stations aired episode #S-8311 from South of the Equator week (originally aired 2/2/26, bottom picture).

WABC-TV New York and ABC stations in the West Coast are not airing WOF tonight due to NBA Finals. KRQE 13 in Albuquerque, NM accidentally aired #S-8035 (originally aired 10/11/24) tonight, which was meant to be aired last Saturday, but this was likely an isolated error.

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For the past 25 years, we owned a Sony stereo with all the trimmings: cassette player, FM radio, 60 CD carousel, and RCA input. It had surround sound, so it could play on two sets of speakers (via speaker wire on clamps), and there were buttons on the front to switch between playing on just one pair of speakers or both pairs.

We had this stereo hooked up to one pair of speakers in the same room as the stereo, and another pair of speakers mounted to the outside of the house for playing in the backyard. We only ever used it for CD's for the longest time, until a few years ago when I bought a Bluetooth receiver and ran a 3.5mm to RCA cable from that to the stereo so we could also use the RCA function to play Bluetooth. We still have the manual and this appears to be the Sony MCH-MG110. Here is a picture of the back of it, with our two pairs of speaker wire connected. We do not have a center speaker or subwoofer.

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Recently, the CD carousel has stopped working, and we can't find any place that will repair it. My father is very attached to his CD's and I tried to explain to him that hardly anybody makes multi-CD players anymore, especially ones that store 60 at once. I told him most modern stereos will only play one CD if anything, and they often only output to one pair of speakers. He refuses to switch to a single CD player and he also refused my idea of getting an amp to hook up to a tablet to play his favorite albums off Spotify.

I did a lot of digging and could not find any modern multi-CD players with speaker wire output to more than one zone; most of them use 3.5mm or RCA out if anything. I have looked on eBay for stereos similar to our model, and the only functional ones I could find were ones that had just one pair of RCA out, and no input which meant no way to play Bluetooth through it. For newer stuff, I have found the Sharp CD-BH350, which has built-in Bluetooth and FM radio, and can store 5 CD's, but it has built in speakers and its only output is a 3.5mm headphone jack on the front.

As of now, the closest setup I can think of to support our two sets of speaker-wire speakers with a CD changer is to plug in a 3.5mm to female RCA adapter in front, run a pair of RCA to speaker wire cables to a 1-in/2-out switch with speaker wire clamps, and plug both sets of speakers into the switch so that we can turn one or both sets of speakers on or off. Here's a rough draft of how that would look: https://i.imgur.com/2AVCOvH.png

With this setup, everything would cost around $240; the Sharp alone is $200. I'm not too concerned about money but we could really use some advice on how to make a new setup for our speaker system that supports at least multiple CD's and Bluetooth. Recommendations for other subs that may also have tips for this are appreciated as well!

WABC 7 in New York will not be airing tonight’s episode. Instead, they will be airing pregame for the NBA Finals because the Knicks are in it. This may also be the case on Friday, the WOF season finale, for Game 2, but not confirmed yet.

There is a rapidly growing trend in broadcasting where local TV stations are quick to drop Wheel of Fortune for a day (rarely Jeopardy! or other shows) for an opportunity to hype a local sports team. Just yesterday, WTVD 11, the ABC in Raleigh, NC, dumped WOF for a pregame special for the Stanley Cup Final because the Carolina Hurricanes are in it. And during the NBA Playoffs, when the Detroit Pistons made it in, WDIV 4 aired a pregame special in Jeopardy!’s time slot and moved Jeopardy! to replace WOF for that day. Stations with WOF may be losing revenue from linear viewing since the show is streaming now.

West Coast ABC markets are also mostly unable to watch WOF on TV for the rest of this week due to ABC alternating the Stanley Cup and NBA Finals most days. Although most stations schedule WOF shortly after the games, it comes with the risk of the show not airing if the games run too long.

However, in addition to the usual next-day streaming, this whole week of episodes is rerunning in four weeks, from June 29-July 3, so there will be another opportunity to catch tonight’s episode pretty soon.