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How will TV handle the conventions?
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http://variety.com/2016/digital/news/abc-news-facebook-live-2016-conventions-1201815059/
Update ABC News has a distribution agreement with facebook to air the RNC Convention feed on the social media app.
Update ABC News has a distribution agreement with facebook to air the RNC Convention feed on the social media app.
I once watched a State of the Union address on C-SPAN at the beach. It was a different experience.
"BrainDead" didn't record. So I checked to see if it aired. CBS made the decision to air an hour of the convention at the last minute. I assume they are doing this all week. And I checked next week and found they are airing the Democratic Convention as well. I decided to record their coverage.
I have only seen Giuliani's speech and Trump's wife's speech. NBC kept interrupting Giuliani and didn't even show the start of his speech. I saw all of this later, so it's not like I could change channels and see what I missed.
"BrainDead" didn't record. So I checked to see if it aired. CBS made the decision to air an hour of the convention at the last minute. I assume they are doing this all week. And I checked next week and found they are airing the Democratic Convention as well. I decided to record their coverage.
I have only seen Giuliani's speech and Trump's wife's speech. NBC kept interrupting Giuliani and didn't even show the start of his speech. I saw all of this later, so it's not like I could change channels and see what I missed.
I live on the West Coast in California and we did not see any of our O&O's in San Francisco Pre-empt network Primetime shows for the convention. Primetime went as scheduled. In San Francisco, Los Angeles and Sacramento you have Local Newscasts air highlights of the Convention during their 6pm Newscasts and Network editions of the RNC convention at 7pm.
Also as usual the CBSN App, NPR News and PBS Newshour did extended editions of the convention on their apps/websites.
Note PBS and NPR News did joint coverage of the convention on Local NPR News/talk affiliates and PBS Member stations From 5pm to 8PM PST.
Did other parts of the country have to pre-empt shows because of the convention?
Also as usual the CBSN App, NPR News and PBS Newshour did extended editions of the convention on their apps/websites.
Note PBS and NPR News did joint coverage of the convention on Local NPR News/talk affiliates and PBS Member stations From 5pm to 8PM PST.
Did other parts of the country have to pre-empt shows because of the convention?
According to the listings on my Tivo, only the 10:00 hour aired on the Big Three. PBS had three hours.
I am having terrible flashbacks to a family vacation when I was a kid. We rented a house on one of the Great Lakes.
The weather was absolutely horrible all week. It was late July and one night the temperature went down to 38 F!
Lots of rain during the days.
There was a black-and-white TV there which got 3 channels, all of which carried gavel-to-gavel coverage
of the Democratic Convention. My brothers and I were not happy campers!
The weather was absolutely horrible all week. It was late July and one night the temperature went down to 38 F!
Lots of rain during the days.
There was a black-and-white TV there which got 3 channels, all of which carried gavel-to-gavel coverage
of the Democratic Convention. My brothers and I were not happy campers!
C-Span will re-air it. Uninterrupted, of course.
That's fine for those that pay for a full package, but see my previous post about why I don't.
Also see this post for my answer to another obvious question.
http://www.radiodiscussions.com/sho...aunch-a-soft-AC-network&p=6108484#post6108484
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/loca...-Trump-Plagiarism-Speech-Story-387635751.html. Update a Solano County Journalist listed as Laid-off has been credited for exposing Trump speech as being plagiarized.
You just gave me a flashback to 1954. I was visiting my grandmother's house near Phoenix - she had just gotten the only TV she ever owned and KPHO aired kid's cartoons (Porky Pig IIRC) every afternoon at 3PM. My home town stations didn't air cartoons so I was really looking forward to seeing them. BLAM! Usurped by a political convention (I don't remember which party it was). I determined then and there that political events were never as useful as cartoons and I would never watch one again. And I haven't. I think this year, more so than others, proves me correct.
For it to be 1954 that would have been an off year for presidential elections. Would it have been a state level convention? To me that sounds like an even bigger waste of airtime than the presidential conventions.
I probably have the year off by a couple of years. It was definitely circa 1954 but now that I think about it I think grandma got her TV set in 1955. Her favorite show was What's My Line? My family got our first TV set in '54. Picture tube went out 1 day after warranty expired and my dad went ballistic. However, they had that old 19" B&W Magnavox for more than 30 years after that and it never crapped out again. They got their money's worth.
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Not quite.
From perusing zap2it.com yesterday and today for a few markets...
What you saw LIVE! from 7-8 PT was the 10-11 ET hour (Convention coverage). Then, 8-10 PT = 8-10 ET. And finally, from 10-11 PT the networks ran "filler" for the left coast (a repeat of something)--OR the station scheduled its own filler 10-11 PT (KABC-TV is to air an extra hour of Eyewitless News at 10 tonight).
In Phoenix and Tucson ("we're Arizona..we don't know what time zone we're in"), the 10-11 ET Convention also aired LIVE! from 7-8 MST, followed by the 8-10 ET programs from 8-10 MST.
In the normal Mountain Time Zone (example: Denver), 10-11 ET Convention aired LIVE! 8-9 MT, with the other two hours of prime bookended around it.
We are always in the Mountain Time Zone but don't observe DST so......you could either say we are in MST half the year and PST the other half OR MST all year but without DST (except for the Navajo Reservation in the NE part of the state who do observe DST and which spans both Arizona and New Mexico).
Tonight's two-hour America's Got Talent is split into two parts for the Mountain Time Zone.
Wait I got to see the 6pm PST edition of the Convention and that even aired here in California before the national networks got involved. I suspect for Fox O&O's like KTVU aired the convention via Fox News Feed and replace the Fox News Pundits with KTVU Fox 2 News Staff and California Political experts. I saw the convention but it was cut because local stories has to be included in that newscasts. KGO ABC 7 and KPIX 5 the CBS TV O&O were airing sections of the convention from their networks feed and similar things happened in the 6pm hour. The only station that aired the entire convention was KQED the PBS and NPR station in the Bay Area they aired the extended version of the PBS Newshour.
The fact that gavel-to-gavel lasted as long as it did (until 1980) is stunning. Maybe three of those conventions in the TV era had any doubt over who would win. Yet the networks still threw their full resources at the two conventions.
Most likely it was to grease the candidates so no matter who won the next occupant in the White House would grant the networks camera time.
The conventions were a huge waste of time then and an even bigger waste this year.
Last night FOX 61's 10PM News was blown out. And the candidate was still talking so their 11PM News had not yet started at 11:15PM when I went to sleep. The same on 3, 8, and 30. As of 11:15PM their 11PM News had not yet started.
I don't know how much of the 10PM News aired on MY TV 9. When I was flipping through after 10PM I noticed MY TV 9 simulcasting coverage from sister station WTNH/8, but later around 10:48 "Sports Edge" which is what they call the sports report started.
I don't know how much of the 10PM News aired on MY TV 9. When I was flipping through after 10PM I noticed MY TV 9 simulcasting coverage from sister station WTNH/8, but later around 10:48 "Sports Edge" which is what they call the sports report started.
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