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They preempted that for this?

Is the "holiday" season now the only time the broadcast networks even air full length movies? When a station pre-empts network programming, it gets more time to sell local ads. They can sell a lot of ads when 2 hour bomb no one remembers.
 
Will_H_69_9 said:
last night, the NASCAR race at Texas Motor Speedway was moved from the schedule network to broadcast the race NBC to it's cable sister network NBCSN (due to rain in North Texas pushing the start of the race to 6 PM due to the rain and the long track drying process at TMS) because NBC airs Sunday Night Football and Football is more important then the final 3 races of the NASCAR season , however, in the DFW area, KXAS NBC 5, the local NBC station moved the coverage (by simulcasting NBCSN's coverage of the race) to it's 5.2 subchannel so those in North Texas who don't have NBCSN could see the race.
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I'm pretty sure it is in the NASCAR contract with NBC that the NFL gets priority. Last years Phoenix race the same thing happened (it rains in Phoenix???? Who knew) ;)
 
unclehonkey said:
I'm pretty sure it is in the NASCAR contract with NBC that the NFL gets priority. Last years Phoenix race the same thing happened (it rains in Phoenix???? Who knew) ;)
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yeah, but i was referring to the fact that KXAS aired the race on it's subchannel 5.2 instead of letting viewers with no cable or had cable but didn't have NBCSN missed the race.
 
vchimpanzee said:
Candidates for N.C. governor debated October 11. I think every station in the state aired this. Which is ridiculous. Pick one station in each market. I should have investigated whether the "Jeopardy" episode I missed is available somewhere because I can't be sure that one will be one of the Saturday reruns.
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YouTube had them! The one pre-empted, and the one the night I didn't know my cable was out until it was too late. I was told by someone they get around the copyright violation rules by making the video something different from what originally aired. One episode had a lion taking up much of the screen and the show in the lower left corner, and music and sound effects were really high pitched, though unlike on "Saving Hope", a Canadian series I like, Alex Trebek was not talking like a munchkin.
 
Did anyone else get to see "Jeopardy" on Saturday? Two stations in my area air the show. One station's broadcast had Alex mention that it was Election Day, but until there were three clues that mentioned 2016, I didn't know it was the Tuesday episode. The other station aired the regular rerun, though it was joined in progress.
 
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mvcg66b3r said:
In Pittsburgh, WTAE is pushing Michigan-Ohio State ("The Game") to ThisTV (4.2) so 4.1 can air the more locally important Syracuse-Pitt.
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How is this "inexplicable"???

WTAE is the rights holder to the "ACC game of the week".....most games they show on their ThisTV sub but if its a local interest game it goes on the "mothership"

Folks with cable there could see Michigan-Ohio State in HD on ESPN2
 
http://richliebermanreport.blogspot.com/2016/12/enormity-of-oakland-fire-tragedy-hits.html

The Oakland Fire issue and its media criticism by 415 media. 415 media was complaining why CBS O&O didn't go wall to wall with the Oakland warehouse fire. But the KPIX News staff did go wall to wall with the Warehouse fire on CBSN feed. I saw them via CBS News app and aired press conferences from Oakland police via CBS N.

*Where was KPIX?

Lots of red faces at KPIX, I'm sure, at PIX--where were they? Nowhere --until late into the game.


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Oakland PD Spokesperson Johnna Watson, foreground and Sgt. Ray Kelly, AC Sheriff's Dept
Even as the story was getting more serious and garnering more attention from both local and national and international outlets, KPIX (the CBS O and O) was running regular programming. Even when college football was on the net screen, KPIX didn't even offer an update on the situation.

Even more embarrassing when PIX finally had reporters on scene in Oakland, information broadcast was old news.

*As bad as Channel 5, it couldn't beat KRON's woeful action of running canned programming, (like, for instance, "Dog Town USA") At KRON, who the heck is minding the store? Uh, maybe nobody; even mediocre-challenged KRON should be ashamed of itself particularly when, early on, it was a very capable outlet.

*Yes, what you saw was correct. The major stations in town began using their star anchors; Somerville, KNTV's Raj Mathai, (who reported, solo, direct from the scene) Dan Noyes from KGO (ABC7)
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MarcB said:
People on the Facebook Page for NECN (New England Cable News) were complaining that NECN was running infomercials yesterday instead of wall-to-wall coverage of the massive fire in Cambridge, Mass.
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Did WBTS (the future NBC Boston) have coverage?
 
RadioPatrol said:
http://richliebermanreport.blogspot.com/2016/12/enormity-of-oakland-fire-tragedy-hits.html

The Oakland Fire issue and its media criticism by 415 media. 415 media was complaining why CBS O&O didn't go wall to wall with the Oakland warehouse fire. But the KPIX News staff did go wall to wall with the Warehouse fire on CBSN feed. I saw them via CBS News app and aired press conferences from Oakland police via CBS N.
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Also KTVU was cited for having the best coverage of the Oakland Warehouse fire even though Fox2 news continued on KTVU plus according to 415 media.
 
How about the Tennessee stations they must have gone wall to wall with their recent wildfires and their largest.
These people did not expect the Santa Ana winds to be in their area and are not used to this stuff as Californians are in terms of fires.
 
The Notorious WSB is at it again, preempting the winter finale of "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D" tonight (12/6) for another of their so-called "investigative" specials.
 
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This preempts Leicester-Manchester City on NBC, as well as the first part of the Ironman Triathlon.
 


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