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FOX to set a new "Extended Primetime" schedule come Jan, 2010

DToTheJ said:
Incidentally, last night, the cable guide listed the Fox network's primetime as the President's address at 8 PM, followed by "So You Think You Can Dance," starting at 8:30 PM and going all the way to 11 PM! Did anyone watch and find out if it ran that long? I don't think even "American Idol" ever ran past 10:05!
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I've forgotten exactly what happened, but I do rmember turning on a Fox station and finding this show on.

The truly weird thing was that TiVo recorded "The Simpsons", or said it did. It was actually "King of the Hill".

The important "Simpsons" episodes are on the digital channel and I have more to say about that on another thread.
 
American Idol with the 2 part finale live show normally ends after about 10:05 PM. On 5/21/2008, I recorded Dennis Richmond's last newscast on KTVU but missed the last part due to Idols 6-7 minute overlay. It was a shame for that to happen. ??? :mad: But I do agree that sometimes these things happen.
 
Stop. This thread is so insanely stupid. You all have turned a 1 shot scheduling event after a football game into some kind of fantasy about Fox expanding it's schedule pemanently. This just shows a huge ignorance of the business. It's embarrassing to watch and a total waste of space on this board.
 
tested said:
Stop. This thread is so insanely stupid. You all have turned a 1 shot scheduling event after a football game into some kind of fantasy about Fox expanding it's schedule pemanently. This just shows a huge ignorance of the business. It's embarrassing to watch and a total waste of space on this board.
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This is an interesting topic worthy of discussion and long discussions tend to evolve.
 
quadraphonic said:
vchimpanzee said:
The important "Simpsons" episodes...
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Dude you crack me up!
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Well, it's true. The Fox station keeps showing the same ones over and over.

While the station that's not on cable here has two a day and they're not the ones that other station generally shows.
 
My thinking is that FOX should make a new primetime schedule on some certain nights or if my logic is correct make Sunday night from 5-10 PM on non-football/baseball/NASCAR days. Make it like how WB/CW did their programming on Sundays from 2002-2009.
 
Does FOX still run unreliable and unannounced program schedules? I recall that during the 1995-96 season, Space Above and Beyond would skip a week or two at a time. The show would be listed on the TV guides, but sometimes some other show would occupy its 6PM (CDT) Sunday timeslot. We never knew if the show had been abruptly cancelled, rescheduled or suspended. Even when the show finally ended, we never knew if it was really the end or if it would reappear next week with a new episode. Have any other Fox shows suffered from this kind of hit or miss scheduling? As for our 9 O'clock news on KABB channel 29, its lucky that its still on air. If you ever wanted to see a high school amateur journalism TV pretend newscast with a bunch of no name, freckled faced kids who are not even old enough to shave or even drink, then tune in to KABB's Yesterday's News at Nine, all the unimportant news that the real TV stations won't bother to report, dogfights, dumpster fires, vagrants polled about their opinions of the city's holiday decorations, etc. I don't even know why they bother.
 
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As for our 9 O'clock news on KABB channel 29, its lucky that its still on air. If you ever wanted to see a high school amateur journalism TV pretend newscast... then tune in to KABB's Yesterday's News at Nine, all the unimportant news that the real TV stations won't bother to report... I don't even know why they bother.
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What do you expect? They're owned by Sinclair, where they always love to cut corners.
 
FOX 4 here only runs a short :30 news at 9pm (10pm ET)
Then Sports at 9:30pm (10:30 PM ET)
If Other Fox's Do this Then I doubt it will hurt them much
if Fox Carried Sunday till 10pm... (11pm ET)
 
LibertyNT said:
FOX 4 here only runs a short :30 news at 9pm (10pm ET)
Then Sports at 9:30pm (10:30 PM ET)
If Other Fox's Do this Then I doubt it will hurt them much
if Fox Carried Sunday till 10pm... (11pm ET)
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Oh mah gawd! I agree with the poster named Tested.

You don't say what market you're in, LibertyNT - but I'm assuming it's in the double digits. I can assure you that the Fox affiliates (not O&Os), some of which have real news departments - will never EVER give up their lucrative 10:00 hour (9:00 central) to Fox. Not even your "Fox 4." Crappy low budget local news and sports or not - the point is, they can sell all of the commercial time on that 60 minute block, and they're not going to give it up.

This reminds me of the mini-controversy in the 1980s when the Big 3 networks suggested expanding their evening news programs from 30 minutes to 1 hour. The O&O stations would have had no choice but to go along, but the affiliates said NO as loudly as they could. They were not going to shorten their local evening news to let the network grab one of their lucrative half-hour.s The networks had a lot more power in that era than they do today, but they backed down, regardless.

An expanded Fox prime time schedule is

NOT

GOING

TO

HAPPEN

EVER!
 
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