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ClearThinker
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Any official word from ABC as to why they bailed on the championship game? Local affiliates getting ripped by viewers for it.
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> Any official word from ABC as to why they bailed on the
> championship game? Local affiliates getting ripped by
> viewers for it.
>
I can't understand it. I only saw the 6th inning so I dont know how they handled it but they should have had hurricane coverage throughout the game. As it turned out, Hawaii won with a walk off hom run in the 7th inning and they would have been off the air at the bottom of the hour anyway.
> championship game? Local affiliates getting ripped by
> viewers for it.
>
I can't understand it. I only saw the 6th inning so I dont know how they handled it but they should have had hurricane coverage throughout the game. As it turned out, Hawaii won with a walk off hom run in the 7th inning and they would have been off the air at the bottom of the hour anyway.
> > Any official word from ABC as to why they bailed on the
> > championship game? Local affiliates getting ripped by
> > viewers for it.
> >
> As it turned out, Hawaii won
> with a walk off hom run in the 7th inning and they would
> have been off the air at the bottom of the hour anyway.
>
It looks like Little League has "Heidi" on their team.
> > championship game? Local affiliates getting ripped by
> > viewers for it.
> >
> As it turned out, Hawaii won
> with a walk off hom run in the 7th inning and they would
> have been off the air at the bottom of the hour anyway.
>
It looks like Little League has "Heidi" on their team.
J
Joseph_Gallant
Guest
Two words: Local News.
For local affiliates, local news is a major moneymaker. ABC stations in the Eastern and Central time zones would have been irate at the network if their Sunday early-evening local news was pre-empted by a late-running game.
Perhaps ABC was also worried that if the telecast ran to 6:30 P.M. EDT, that the network's evening newscast would not air in most of the Eastern and Central time zones since prime-time began at 7 P.M. EDT, and had the Little League World Series telecast ended at 6:30, ABC's affiliates in the Eastern and Central time zones would have had local news, but no network news.
Normally, ABC probably could have dumped their network news in the East and Midwest. But Hurricane Katrina was approaching Louisiana, and the network may have wanted to have had at least an abbreviated network evening newscast.
Actually, I think ABC should have stayed with the game and should have given their local stations (in the Eastern and Central time zones) 30 minutes of local news after the game coverage ended. If the end of that local news was after 7 P.M. EDT, ABC should have pre-empted whatever was scheduled for 7 P.M. ET and run an expanded "World News Sunday" up until 8 P.M. EDT, with plenty of storm coverage.
For local affiliates, local news is a major moneymaker. ABC stations in the Eastern and Central time zones would have been irate at the network if their Sunday early-evening local news was pre-empted by a late-running game.
Perhaps ABC was also worried that if the telecast ran to 6:30 P.M. EDT, that the network's evening newscast would not air in most of the Eastern and Central time zones since prime-time began at 7 P.M. EDT, and had the Little League World Series telecast ended at 6:30, ABC's affiliates in the Eastern and Central time zones would have had local news, but no network news.
Normally, ABC probably could have dumped their network news in the East and Midwest. But Hurricane Katrina was approaching Louisiana, and the network may have wanted to have had at least an abbreviated network evening newscast.
Actually, I think ABC should have stayed with the game and should have given their local stations (in the Eastern and Central time zones) 30 minutes of local news after the game coverage ended. If the end of that local news was after 7 P.M. EDT, ABC should have pre-empted whatever was scheduled for 7 P.M. ET and run an expanded "World News Sunday" up until 8 P.M. EDT, with plenty of storm coverage.
> Actually, I think ABC should have stayed with the game and
> should have given their local stations (in the Eastern and
> Central time zones) 30 minutes of local news after the game
> coverage ended. If the end of that local news was after 7
> P.M. EDT, ABC should have pre-empted whatever was scheduled
> for 7 P.M. ET and run an expanded "World News Sunday" up
> until 8 P.M. EDT, with plenty of storm coverage.
>
Hurricane coverage was the explanation ABC gave. Coverage in the Eastern and Central time zones continued on ESPN2 and the announcers notified people to switch over.
Here in the west, coverage continued on ABC.
> should have given their local stations (in the Eastern and
> Central time zones) 30 minutes of local news after the game
> coverage ended. If the end of that local news was after 7
> P.M. EDT, ABC should have pre-empted whatever was scheduled
> for 7 P.M. ET and run an expanded "World News Sunday" up
> until 8 P.M. EDT, with plenty of storm coverage.
>
Hurricane coverage was the explanation ABC gave. Coverage in the Eastern and Central time zones continued on ESPN2 and the announcers notified people to switch over.
Here in the west, coverage continued on ABC.
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XL
Guest
> Two words: Local News.
One word: Nope!
One word: Nope!
T
toby
Guest
> Hurricane coverage was the explanation ABC gave. Coverage
> in the Eastern and Central time zones continued on ESPN2 and
> the announcers notified people to switch over.
>
> Here in the west, coverage continued on ABC.
And why can't they do that with things like golf?
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> in the Eastern and Central time zones continued on ESPN2 and
> the announcers notified people to switch over.
>
> Here in the west, coverage continued on ABC.
And why can't they do that with things like golf?
<P ID="signature">______________
WCBS = We're Crazy Buffoons and Schmucks
<a href=http://chuck.spotteddogs.org/tv/>Spotted Dog TV Talk - for all your non-news TV Talk</a></P>
> > Hurricane coverage was the explanation ABC gave. Coverage
>
> > in the Eastern and Central time zones continued on ESPN2
> and
> > the announcers notified people to switch over.
> >
> > Here in the west, coverage continued on ABC.
>
> And why can't they do that with things like golf?
>
What could CBS and NBC do in that situation? And back on topic, I didn't know ABC still had the LLWS final after all these years. /images/icons/blush.gif
ixnay
>
> > in the Eastern and Central time zones continued on ESPN2
> and
> > the announcers notified people to switch over.
> >
> > Here in the west, coverage continued on ABC.
>
> And why can't they do that with things like golf?
>
What could CBS and NBC do in that situation? And back on topic, I didn't know ABC still had the LLWS final after all these years. /images/icons/blush.gif
ixnay
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toby
Guest
> What could CBS and NBC do in that situation? And back on
> topic, I didn't know ABC still had the LLWS final after all
> these years.
NBC could shove it off to USA, Bravo or one of their other cable nets.<P ID="signature">______________
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> topic, I didn't know ABC still had the LLWS final after all
> these years.
NBC could shove it off to USA, Bravo or one of their other cable nets.<P ID="signature">______________
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<a href=http://chuck.spotteddogs.org/tv/>Spotted Dog TV Talk - for all your non-news TV Talk</a></P>
> > What could CBS and NBC do in that situation? And back on
> > topic, I didn't know ABC still had the LLWS final after
> all
> > these years.
>
> NBC could shove it off to USA, Bravo or one of their other
> cable nets.
>
That' right. I was thinking in terms of sports-intensive sister nets.
ixnay
> > topic, I didn't know ABC still had the LLWS final after
> all
> > these years.
>
> NBC could shove it off to USA, Bravo or one of their other
> cable nets.
>
That' right. I was thinking in terms of sports-intensive sister nets.
ixnay
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