"Family Guy" And "American Dad" Both Seen In Full After President Bush's Speech!

[Joseph_Gallant]

Well, Fox's broadcast network carried President Bush's speech at 9 P.M. EST. The speech ended at 9:18, and a minute later, the network's coverage ended.

"Family Guy" started immediately thereafter, and guess what?? It was shown in full! This week's episode ended at 9:49 P.M. Eastern!

It gets even better if you're a fan of "American Dad": Fox also aired that show in full, resulting in the network's prime-time schedule "sliding". As a consequence, Fox affiliates' high-profit late local newscasts (in the Eastern and Central time zones) were pushed back to 10:19 P.M. EST.

For once, Fox did the right thing!

 

[KML0224]

How come I had absolutely 0% knowledge that this was gonna happen tonight? I watched "The War At Home" and there wasn't a single mention of this coming. Thank goodness FOX aired the entire episode! Well worth the wait! And to think I was about to e-mail a complaint off to FOX, too?

 

[tanim_95]

Looks like ABC (or at least KNXV-TV Phoenix) did the same thing. It is currently 9:20 here in the Mountain Time Zone, and "Desperate Housewives" (which is normally scheduled from 8:00-9:00) is just now wrapping up.

 

[SilentGreg]

> How come I had absolutely 0% knowledge that this was gonna
> happen tonight? I watched "The War At Home" and there wasn't
> a single mention of this coming. Thank goodness FOX aired
> the entire episode! Well worth the wait! And to think I was
> about to e-mail a complaint off to FOX, too?
>

Me either. I haven't paid attention to tv in days due to watching The Simpsons 7th Season dvd that just came out. I was a little worried when my Fox station showed a "joined in progress" graphic, but after I see the opening credits to Family Guy I was glad that Fox didn't do what they did to King of the Hill two years ago on their Christmas episode when NFL overrun it.

 

[-TJ-]

<font color=3333ff>As I amazingly announced it here, as it also amazingly disappeared.</font>

> Well, Fox's broadcast network carried President Bush's
> speech at 9 P.M. EST. The speech ended at 9:18, and a minute
> later, the network's coverage ended.
>
> "Family Guy" started immediately thereafter, and guess
> what?? It was shown in full! This week's episode ended at
> 9:49 P.M. Eastern!
>
> It gets even better if you're a fan of "American Dad": Fox
> also aired that show in full, resulting in the network's
> prime-time schedule "sliding". As a consequence, Fox
> affiliates' high-profit late local newscasts (in the Eastern
> and Central time zones) were pushed back to 10:19 P.M. EST.
>
>
> For once, Fox did the right thing!
>

 

[RockManAC]

> How come I had absolutely 0% knowledge that this was gonna
> happen tonight? I watched "The War At Home" and there wasn't
> a single mention of this coming. Thank goodness FOX aired
> the entire episode! Well worth the wait! And to think I was
> about to e-mail a complaint off to FOX, too?
>

NBC kept promoting it with both snipes and NIs. All the networks slid programming.. Our late news hit @ 10:20:31p CT last night.

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[bhayes1016]

> How come I had absolutely 0% knowledge that this was gonna
> happen tonight? I watched "The War At Home" and there wasn't
> a single mention of this coming. Thank goodness FOX aired
> the entire episode! Well worth the wait! And to think I was
> about to e-mail a complaint off to FOX, too?
>

They promoted their Sunday lineup at least a dozen times during the Cowboy game and never said a thing about Bush's speech. I assumed that, being a Sunday, the broadcast networks would pass on it.