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CBS's dysfunctional holiday Tuesday

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EricStein

On Tuesday, CBS has scheduled both "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" and "The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show," only separated by an episode of "NCIS." From a long-time animated Christmas staple to models strutting nearly naked in an hour's time.

Keeping on the topic, is any CBS affiliate pre-empting the Victoria's Secret show because of "community decency standards," or after ten years or so of doing this, the affiliates know what they're getting by now? It's basically an hour-long infomercial for the lingerie retailer anyway.
 
Oh no, underwear. Won't someone think of the children?!
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Oh wait, that's the parents' job. ;)
 
Nothing wrong with this at all.

Take a look at what cable networks. For example lastnight USA Network aired "Elf" after that movie they aired "Pretty Women" Then take a look at whats on FX tonight "Alvin and the Chipmunks Movie" then FX orginal series "Sons of Anarchy"
 
imhomerjay said:
Oh no, underwear. Won't someone think of the children?!
:D


Oh wait, that's the parents' job. ;)
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I could care less about the underwear part, I think the public should be warned of the noise which is Katy Perry's music! ;D
 
MarcB said:
Children should not be up at 10PM on a School Night.
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For the East Coast networks can air things outside of the safe harbor starting at 10pm. But does that apply in time zones where primetime is 7-10pm and not 8-11pm?
 
Raymie said:
For the East Coast networks can air things outside of the safe harbor starting at 10pm. But does that apply in time zones where primetime is 7-10pm and not 8-11pm?
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As I understand, Safe Harbor begins at 10PM local time in all time zones, meaning that a network program that is safe to show at 10 PM Eastern Time may get a Central or Mountain station fined for airing at 9PM.
 
And there's nothing in the show that's applicable to safe harbor rules. You'd see more flesh on a beach scene of CSI Miami, and there's no violence, supposed dirty language or sex.
 
I'm more disappointed with the family Christmas* show leading into a shoot em up show leading into an adult show...train wreck programming at its worst.

Normally youd stack the traditional Christmas show, and depending on whether it was an hour or half hour show, follow that up with another traditional christmas show, followed by a Christmas episode of the strongest prime time show of the night.



*For those of you unfamiliar with the word, Christmas was the traditional name, supplanted in much of the country by the word "Holiday".
 
azumanga said:
As I understand, Safe Harbor begins at 10PM local time in all time zones, meaning that a network program that is safe to show at 10 PM Eastern Time may get a Central or Mountain station fined for airing at 9PM.
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That doesn't seem terribly fair to me.
 
That was part of the reason the family hour rule was overturned
in the '70s. The rule applied to the first hour of primetime (8-9
ET/PT, 7-8 CT/MT) Monday-Saturday and the 8-9/7-8 hour Sunday
(7-8/6-7 was to be for public affairs or children's programming; "60
Minutes" is not what I would call family-friendly). That meant that
sex, language, andviolence had to be toned down from 8-9 on the two
coasts but anything went from 8-9 in the middle of the country (within reason,
you couldn't say the f-word for example). I seem to recall a proposal
to put the whole country on a clock-time schedule and have primetime
start at 8 everywhere, but viewers in the Central Time Zone didn't like
the idea of having their 10 PM newscasts moved to 11 (neither did the
stations, since that was their cash cow) or having Johnny Carson at
11:30 instead of 10:30. But the rule was unfair. Maybe somebody will
overturn this "Safe Harbor" thing on similar grounds.
 
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