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Joining shows in progress after sports events

I've had several frustrating situations in the past few weeks.

I don't recall "Better Off Ted" being listed on January 1, and yet TiVo recorded it ... or at least the first 10 minutes. I don't even know if I would have remembered to add to the recording time.

Then last night, I didn't want to miss the "Simpsons" anniversary special, but when the game ran over and had 15 minutes left when "The Simpsons" came on, I just went ahead and added the maximum amount of time so I would get the entire prime-time schedule, whatever it was. I was told I would lose "ChucK', and I certainly couldn't do that, so I deleted "The Cleveland Show" instead, knowing that was in the time I added.

Except I didn't. I didn't even get all of the first "Simpsons" episode. But I didn't want to risk losing "Desperate Housewives", so I turned right over after "The Simpsons" was over. Another option would have been watching "Housewives" on the digital channel, but I'm not ready to risk that. I had another TV set for the digital Fox station, but I only recently got a dependable signal there, and it might not be.
 
Considering that that was the final night of The Simpson's 20th anniversary celebration, Fox wouldn't dare join them in progress.
 
What I should have done was TiVo the Simpsons' special. I would have gotten the end of the episode which I watched, but I would have gotten the end of the special as part of "The Cleveland Show". I just wasn't thinking. Hopefully they'll rerun both shows. With "The Cleveland Show" it's not too big a deal.

Amazingly, last night, "60 Minutes" was delayed a full hour and then some. I knew the TV listings showed a game on Fox, and yet I checked just to make sure. It's a good thing I did. Andy Rooney was good last night. I enjoy him a lot. He does NOT look 91. I had to watch the beginning of "Desperate Housewives", which was outstanding last night, on digital TV. No problems, but I went back to cable as soon as I could just to make sure there wouldn't be any.

Compicating matter further was my attempt to watch as much as possible of The Golden Globes. I have plenty of time to see the rest on TiVo.
 
i know that syndicated shows on the weekends can get preempted if you have a long game like sometimes happens with college football
 
Since this thread was dragged up from five years ago, I'm not willing to delve back through 84 posts. However, I would suggest that networks that carry sporting events that are likely to run over (like every NFL Sunday!), they should schedule a variable-length live post-game show to create a buffer with their regularly scheduled programming. If the last game were to surprisingly end before 7:00 PM, then the post game show might be over an hour. Otherwise, the post-game show would run from end-of-game until 8:00 PM.

There. The problem is solved. I'm positive that it ain't gonna happen. But it would work.
 
it is pretty hard for weekend syndicated shows to get any momentum because those college football games can go on for hours and the networks sometimes do double and triple headers prior to 1995 was not the case but when overtime was introduced in the 1996 season all that changed i was thinking back in the 1970s how it would have affected The Lawrence Welk Show i dont think Welk would be as poplaur if the college overtime was in effect back then
 
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Avid Listener said:
Since this thread was dragged up from five years ago, I'm not willing to delve back through 84 posts. However, I would suggest that networks that carry sporting events that are likely to run over (like every NFL Sunday!), they should schedule a variable-length live post-game show to create a buffer with their regularly scheduled programming. If the last game were to surprisingly end before 7:00 PM, then the post game show might be over an hour. Otherwise, the post-game show would run from end-of-game until 8:00 PM.

There. The problem is solved. I'm positive that it ain't gonna happen. But it would work.
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the thing about college football overtime is that it can go on and on i wonder if that is why they got rid of the Prime Time Access Rule?
 
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what are the most famous sports runovers in history i will give a few
1988 Chiefs Jets tie: delayed the Closing Ceremony of the Seoul Olympics both were on NBC
1981 Jets Dolphins tie preempted "Here's Boomer"
2003 Giants Redskins game almost preempts Emmy Awards
1982 "Epic in Miami" delays NBC prime time by more than a hour
1987 "The Fumble" delays Family Ties,My Two Dads and the movie Crash Course
1975 Raiders Redskins preempts Willy Wonka
1968 Raiders Chargers delays The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
just a few i know there are others
 
Yes. Also did one of our users talk about a Falcons Cowboys game in 1976 that ran quite long
 
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i think that instead of a show being jip i think i would rather have a post game show does anybody agree with me
 
danderson4411 said:
i think that instead of a show being jip i think i would rather have a post game show does anybody agree with me
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You might want to check back in this thread for earlier posts where that idea was already suggested several times.
 
this might be a good question how does a station decide wither to show a show in full or jip? does it depend on how long the game lasts
 
Avid Listener said:
You might want to check back in this thread for earlier posts where that idea was already suggested several times.
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Back in ye olde days when boxing was big on TV, they used to have an unrelated live interview, music, or game show standing by at the studio; if the bouts ran short (!), they would throw it back to the studio and the other show would fill the remainder of the time slot.

(NBC put Milton Berle on one of these gigs when they were trying to force him to break his long-term contract; "Uncle Miltie" just smiled thru it all and hosted "Jackpot Bowling"...)
 
danderson4411 said:
this might be a good question how does a station decide wither to show a show in full or jip? does it depend on how long the game lasts
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Stations don't decide. Networks do. Stations just pass along whatever the network feeds them.
 
maybe the networks need to have 4:30 starts of college football and nfl i remember when college games were done always before local programming maybe once or twice a year back then you would have a problem
 
i wonder about late night like local shows are they always shown in full or jip?
 
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