As a CBS affiliate, the station preempted or delayed some lower-rated daytime and late night programs (including the 9–10 a.m. morning block in the 1980s and early 1990s), while late night programs were absent from the schedule from the late 1980s until the "Late Show with David Letterman" debuted in 1993. KXTV also preempted the network's Sunday morning cartoons from the 1960s until the early 1980s. In 1991, KXTV dropped "The Price Is Right", due to its heavy syndicated programming lineup. After several months of complaints, KXTV restored the game show to its lineup, but to make room for syndicated programming it was committed to carry, channel 10 subsequently dropped "Guiding Light" due to low ratings. KXTV also aired "The Young and the Restless" at 3 p.m., instead of the program's recommended 11 a.m. timeslot beginning in 1994. As a CBS affiliate, KXTV's station ID included an electronic alarm-like version of the CBS "ding" used as the top-of-the-hour time signal on the network's co-owned radio stations and on its hourly radio news updates.