Due to its commitment to local programming, the station was quick to preempt programs, including lower-rated ABC prime time shows. Most of the time, these programs were picked up by independent stations such as WQTV (channel 68, now WBPX-TV) or Worcester-based WHLL (channel 27, now WUNI). Since the mid-1990s, WCVB has carried ABC's entire programming schedule, although it occasionally preempts network programming in favor of locally produced specials and movies. Notable examples are the annual "MDA Labor Day Telethon" (before the program's 2013 move to ABC as a short-form broadcast; the program would be discontinued after the 2014 edition) and the 2004 preemption of "Saving Private Ryan" (one of several ABC stations that preempted the film out of concern over the graphic war battle scenes and profanity that were left intact in the uncut ABC telecast and fear of resulting FCC fines) for another movie, "Far and Away."