Following tonight's NHL game I stayed with NBC, something I very rarely do, and watched "Dateline". It was an interesting crime story but the thing that got my attention the most was that there were virtually no commercials. Just the same NBC promos over and over and over again. Even the local breaks were news promos with perhaps just 1 or 2 short commercials the whole hour.
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New Low At NBC
- Thread starter landtuna
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You are aware this Dateline was fill, aren't you? Only the left coast got to see it - assuming we coasters are desperate for entertainment or whatever.
Personally, I'll take a snooze. French Open's on at 6 AM. Must ... have ... ZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzz.
Personally, I'll take a snooze. French Open's on at 6 AM. Must ... have ... ZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzz.
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You'd think they could sell spots to somebody like MJB or Henry's.
SNL aired awful late Saturday night, but it was a rerun anyway, so who cares! 
landtuna said:
The complaint is you weren't subjected to non-NBC advertising? That's a low? Most folks would stand up and applaud.
landtuna said:
Was it programmed that way so local stations could do some 'make-goods' for local spots since (I assume) local news, etc., was pre-empted on the left coast?
SanDiegoInExile said:
If I was an investor in NBC I would complain that they are apparently so far down on viewers lists that they cannot sell two-hour blocks of time. Sad.
My only other complaint is that I was subjected to the same half-dozen promos at every break, and there were a ton of them, instead of varying examples of the genius of Madison Avenue.
Wright County Guy said:
For those of us who have lived on the Left Coast and paid attention for the past couple decades, what happened post-NHL is not anything new. NBC has always given us additional "network" programming, usually gutted of all national advertising when there is east-coast-timed sports programming. Sunday Night Football is generally long over by 9PM PT. Some stations plug in a newscast, others run some syndicated fare. And generally at 10PM, there's a random Dateline. A quick check of the listings for post-NHL games next few weeks has "Dateline" reruns every night @10PM.
CBS has fewer primetime sporting events, but when college football hits and they have a "primetime" game (which starts @5PM in the west), we get tossed a couple random, national-ad-free 48 Hours episodes on Saturday night or the occasional whatever-is-hot procedural (think CSI Miami in years past, Elementary or Person Of Interest these days). Usually all the ads are PSAs or local.
It looks like ABC is sending us random "What Would You Do?" reruns to fill the 10PM slot post NBA Finals. I suspect they aren't loaded with national ads. Fox has never provided west-coast programming. The affiliates just plop some of their syndicated inventory into the empty time slots.
I do. I didn't see it the first time. All those 10:00 (condensed) encores got me hooked. And now that it's a season pass it has an hour added.Yeziknoradio said:SNL aired awful late Saturday night, but it was a rerun anyway, so who cares!
Not enough, apparently. I can only hope I've seen it. I haven't watched yet.
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