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No sports on CBS this weekend - What does WREG do?

anotherguyTN

anotherguyTN

Five hours of infomercials on both Saturday and Sunday afternoons. And this isn't the first time. :p  :mad:

Come on WREG!!! Can't you do better than this? Why not just sign off if this is all you can do on a weekend without sports? I know the same thing probably happens at WMC and WPTY at times, but this is riduculous.  ??? :p  :mad:
 
If you count the St. Jude Special hosted by Marlo Thomas at 11am, then it's six hours of unimaginative / uninspired programming.

Just another reason to go outside, float in the pool, and listen to the radio....
 
What do you propose they air?

- Buy a syndicated program or movie package, at full rates even though you know you'll only air two or three episodes?
- Bring in a crew on (a lot of!) overtime to run a few hours of news, which will basically consist of reairing the same newscast over & over again?
- Find some old public-domain film to air?

Yeah, a test pattern would probably bring about the same audience... but if the infomercials bring in some revenue, they're better than the money-losing alternatives. (and no more likely to result in complaints!)
 
WREG had a wonderful film library at one time...about 40+ years ago and a world of short films like "Passing Parade" and "Cavalcade of History" and more. Perhaps they could show some of these on a non-sports afternoon. However, I doubt they have a 16mm film projector or a film vault at all.
Cal Crowell game me permission one time and my wife and I took along a dinner and some friends along and watched "Treasure of the Sierra Madre" in a lucky private showing back about 1970. Ain't progress grand?
 
Even a few years ago WREG would have shown reruns of MASH, Cheers, or Perry Mason when they had time on weekends to fill with no sports. Surely they could have filled the time with some of the syndicated programming they run at other times. Even simulcasting Antenna TV from 3.3 would have been better.

I also remember when they had a great movie library, but I guess they lost that when TCM started.
 
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