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Did your locals carry Obama address?

PTBoardOp94

PTBoardOp94

Here in Central time, the address would have pre-empted the 6pm news. The ABC affiliate, WEHT not carry the address. The CBS affiliate, which doesn't do news anyway, stuck with syndicated 2.5 Men.

NBC, PBS, and our Independent, WTVW carried the address in its entirety. WTVW made it a part of their hour-long 6pm news.

What about your market?
 
The Green Bay and Milwaukee affiliates of all the networks outside of NBC carried it; both Green Bay (WGBA) and Milwaukee (WTMJ) NBC affiliates took kickoff coverage from Lambeau for obvious reasons and bumped the speech over to their .2's (which seem to exist on autopilot anyways and are in the 990's on cable).

In the Central and Mountain it's not much of a problem since it's local news time there anyway, and to a smaller extent Pacific stations are in their 4pm newscasts if they air them.
 
I think you will find that most locals carried it. There may have been a few network affiliate rebels, but for the most part, when networks carry speeches such as this, most locals will comply. The consequences of not running it are too high to risk it, from both a viewer and network standpoint.
 
In Seattle, I saw ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, Univision and NWCN (NorthWest Cable News) airing the address.

-crainbebo
 
I imagine the Portland locals likely carried it. I was on a long-distance call at work when it was on, so I didn't get to check.
 
mrschimpf said:
In the Central and Mountain it's not much of a problem since it's local news time there anyway, and to a smaller extent Pacific stations are in their 4pm newscasts if they air them.
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According to the Comcast listings (For what that's worth) KUSA 9 pre-empted their 5:00 PM news altogether for the speech but moved their 6:00 PM newscast over to duopoly sister station KTVD 20 due to Football (Who also aired the usual 9:00 PM newscast IN SIMULCAST with KUSA 9)

KUSA 9 also pre-empted the NBC Nightly News too by opting for a local 4:30 newscast instead

Cheers & 73 :D
 
no doubt it was the lowest rated Presidential address before a joint session of Congress
since very early in the Television era, if ever
 
FreddyE1977 said:
no doubt it was the lowest rated Presidential address before a joint session of Congress
since very early in the Television era, if ever
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I wouldn't say that -- people who would normally tune in to "Wheel of Fortune" or "Entertainment Tonight" would tune in, as would those who would watch the evening newscasts that fall during that time.

But for the record, the President usually waits until many of the stations are with the network, which is usually 9PM ET / 6PM PT -- during prime-time on the east coast and during the news on the west; as well as 11AM ET / 8AM PT, during TPIR and The View in the east and the morning news shows in the west.
 
Julius May said:
3, 6, 10 and 12 in Philly aired it.
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No surprise Julius. 3, 6 & 10 are all owned by their respective networks anyway. They do what the networks tell them to do

Besides the game didn't start until 8:15 PM which gave NBC & WCAU 10 plenty of time to join the game after the speech by moving continuing coverage over to MSNBC

Cheers & 73 :D
 
sdwulfdawg said:
San Diego Gas & Electric pre-empted Obama's speech.

It would have been the last thing on everybody's mind, as it is.
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LOL!! Big thumbs-up for the best (and most factual) comment in the thread. ;D :D ;D :D ;D :D
 
I hope I saw "Big Bang Theory" from the beginning the first time. Sometimes I would get there late. Now I have TiVo tape it, but that didn't do any good last week. How could someone be asleep at the switch and not give affiliates enough time to run their commercials? There was no need to spend so much time commenting. And it happened on both my CBS stations.

The good news is Scott Pelley seems more like a voice of authority than the cutesy babe we had before.
 
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