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Big 4 network affiliates airing infomercials during weekday daytime
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I can't believe I'm actually agreeing with TheBigA about this. In a forum that's overly spammed with ridiculous threads that are nothing more than stupid lists, this is one of the worst. And that's saying something.
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I like this topic; it's very educational for folks who may be unaware that they are not the only ones living with local TV stations affiliated with NBC, ABC, CBS, and FOX that would broadcast paid commercial programming on weekdays during the daytime.
I have to agree with this; it's station-shaming. I'd rather see an easily ignored infomercial making money for a station on the air (maybe not the ballroom house-flipping seminars, but personal opinion) than a terrible talkshow or sitcom taken out of contractual obligation that nobody in the market wants to watch and makes only skeezy for-profit college and lawyer ad money for a station, or an advertorial show which only exists to annoy the newsroom and cross the news/sales department line uncomfortably. Basically I can summarize the forum as this; network ditched soaps, syndicated talk shows bombed, infomercials fill the slot to make something out of nothing.
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As I asked in another thread, you are aware, are you not, that no network provides content 24/7, and that all stations are on their own to fill up the hours when the network they are affiliated with are not providing programming, right?
And just how many idiots do you think are (1) upset that their local OTA station airs infomercials while they're at work in the daytime and aren't watching TV anyway yet would somehow (2) find it "educational" to know that strangers in other cities also have infomercials on their local TV stations, even though they cannot actually see the content on those stations? After all, though some folks might stream out-of-town radio stations for God-knows-what reason, no one can stream an out-of-town network affiliate.
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I was aware indeed.
That was not nice.
I believe the reason some folks would be upset about such programs while they are working is because they believe the time could be used for better programs they may want to record and watch later.
Were you referring to sending radio and TV programming over the Internet or accessing radio and TV programming over the Internet? Even if you did either way, some folks can use either for network TV station too.
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The report about WDIV-TV in the previous message reminded me of the time WPMI-TV in the Mobile, Alabama-Pensacola, Florida TV market usually had paid commercial programming shortly after their local 12:00 p.m. news program between 12:30 p.m. and 1:00 p.m. from Monday through Friday and the news program's timeslot being expanded from 30 minutes to 60 minutes afterwards.
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Thank you for sharing that extremely interesting and important piece of information. I don't know how we all managed to exist without that knowledge. Of course, if you included the month and year, it would have been even more interesting. If I ever have to spend time in Mobile, Alabama-Pensacola, Florida, I'm sure I'll sleep better at night knowing that ever since some unspecified time in the past, WPMI stopped showing infomercials between 12:30 and 1:00 Monday through Friday. Otherwise, I might have set an alarm to remind myself that I needed to tune in WPMI at 12:30 to see an infomercial.
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^I believe you were using sarcasm against me.
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Really? What was your first clue?
In these markets where we're discussing infomercials in daytime slots, does anyone on this board have access to ratings? I'm curious whether these shows register any measurable audience and how much they hurt the audience of the following program, if at all. (To do that, we'd need to compare the ratings in the same time slots in a market that does not have infomercials in the same time slots.)
Neither of their shows is repeated ad nauseum like an infomercial. Therefore, they aren't.
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To have any real meaning, ratings would have to be combined with actual ad revenues. If a station can pull great ratings in a given time slot, but they can't sell the spots because there just aren't enough buying customers who want the spots, then an infomercial still might be more profitable.
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ARRRGGGHHH!!!! That damned "Cursed TV Market" thread!!!
Does any know where to find a list of what hours of the total broadcast day the networks are sending out any programming? That would be the times when local stations have to fill time with something other than the network feed? Or are there even empty slots in the network feeds any more?
I mentioned KNDO, right? Still airs a paid program at 12:30 every day.
KCYU airs 3 or 4 during the mid morning (our Fox station in Yakima).
KAPP-35 also airs infomercials at 11AM and DRAGNET (from Me-TV) at 11:30! Shocked they put that on instead of another Byron Allen fake court show.
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KCYU airs 3 or 4 during the mid morning (our Fox station in Yakima).
KAPP-35 also airs infomercials at 11AM and DRAGNET (from Me-TV) at 11:30! Shocked they put that on instead of another Byron Allen fake court show.
-crainbebo
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