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Bin Laden is dead no regular TV schedule the rest of the night.

KTTV in Los Angeles is showing FOX network programming. Right now The Cleveland Show is on. :-\
 
in a word yes.

people whose family members and friends were killed care and many people like me who believe that the man who masterminded 9/11 needed to be delt with care.

yes that will not stop the forces that want to commit terrorist attacks on our nation but it is an major victory.
 
ajc_trw said:
KTTV in Los Angeles is showing FOX network programming. Right now The Cleveland Show is on. :-\

KSAZ Phoenix ran regular programming until 8:30 PDT/MST. No excuses for any western Fox station not to interrupt normal programming as soon as Bin Laden's carcass was confirmed.
 
CBS has been live in 4:3 SD for this entire story... surprised my local (WRAL/Raleigh) didn't just say screw it and do their own coverage...
 
This is obviously a huge deal. It's hard to believe it's been nearly ten years since this manhunt started and this stage of it is finally over. Let's just all pray there is no retaliation against this country in the weeks and months ahead.

On a lighter note I see Fox News has his name as Usama Bin Laden. Is this some sort of alternate spelling I wasn't aware of or did FNC screw up again.
 
Fox has always spelled it that way; it is an alternate spelling. The FBI uses the same spelling on its 10 Most Wanted list.
 
The networks are going to be scrambling to refeed all these programs to their viewers. Expect some schedule shuffling as everything from The Amazing Race to The Celebrity Apprentice is reslotted.
 
Of course we care! The most anticipated and celebrated death since Adolph Hitler! And those two are probably becoming well acquainted with each other right about now!
 
adam95 said:
On a lighter note I see Fox News has his name as Usama Bin Laden. Is this some sort of alternate spelling I wasn't aware of or did FNC screw up again.

Usama. Osama. Potato. Potahto. Either way, Bin Laden has involuntarily assumed room temperature. No virgins for him!
 
ajc_trw said:
KTTV in Los Angeles is showing FOX network programming. Right now The Cleveland Show is on. :-\

Yep...the Big 3 networks, plus KTLA, KCAL (who already has a regularly-scheduled primetime newscast), and Telemundo all have wall-to-wall coverage. Even though there's already coverage on cable via Fox News Channel, Big Fox really dropped the ball on this one...
 
KTVU is currently carrying CNN's live coverage of the news pre-empting Family Guy. I'm visiting my sister who lives east of Tracy, CA in Banta, CA
 
JackBauer112 said:
KTVU is currently carrying CNN's live coverage of the news pre-empting Family Guy. I'm visiting my sister who lives east of Tracy, CA in Banta, CA

So was KTVK until 9 - they're running local coverage now instead of CNN. KPHO (CBS) and KPNX (NBC) in Phoenix have gone back to regular (on tape) network programming. ABC is still covering the story, and KSAZ runs news at this time anyway and is covering it (finally!).
 
Do people care? Uh...yes.

When was the last time the big three pre-empted prime-time for breaking news?

When was the last time a news event sparked immediate rallies in front of the White House and at ground zero?

People care, and the networks were all over it.
 
searadiofreak said:
Do people care? Uh...yes.

When was the last time the big three pre-empted prime-time for breaking news?

When was the last time a news event sparked immediate rallies in front of the White House and at ground zero?

People care, and the networks were all over it.
On a Sunday night, no less.
 
KeithE4 said:
KPHO (CBS) and KPNX (NBC) in Phoenix have gone back to regular (on tape) network programming.

And no doubt they'll be reporting breaking news of a miracle happening in Pakistan -- Osama bin Laden somehow brought back to life and killed once again through the power of tape delay.
 
In Canada, we watched Amazing Race uninterrupted, then switched to The Celebrity Apprentice, and Global broke away about an hour after Obama spoke, for a news break and PM Harper's address. Then the Apprentice resumed. ::)
 
And FOX said they were canceling the first run episodes of Animation Domination because of the Alabama tornadoes. HA!! They knew all along the REAL reason ;D
 
But did the Fox broadcast network provide wall-to-wall coverage, even as a simulcast of FNC?

I didn't see any evidence of that here on WJW/8 "Fox 8", though they probably carried the Presidential address somehow. WJW stuck to frequent bulletins during its regularly scheduled "Fox 8 News at 10", at least in the pre-11 PM time frame.
 
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