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S.C. "24" fans hit roof--last 10 min. pre-empted

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http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/13635789.htm

FOX has been promoting the show’s two-part, two-hour season premiere for weeks. It was scheduled to start at 8 p.m., after the conclusion of the NFL playoff game between the Carolina Panthers and the Chicago Bears.

The game went long, pushing the start of “24” back about 10 minutes — and ideally pushing back the start of the newscast.

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> http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/13635789.htm
>
> FOX has been promoting the show’s two-part, two-hour season
> premiere for weeks. It was scheduled to start at 8 p.m.,
> after the conclusion of the NFL playoff game between the
> Carolina Panthers and the Chicago Bears.
>
> The game went long, pushing the start of “24” back about 10
> minutes — and ideally pushing back the start of the
> newscast.
>
> (But it didn't; news started on time at 10...)
>
Wow...that sucks! I am a huge fan of "24" and watched it last night. The last 10 minutes were crucial to what happens tonight (Monday). I still don't understand how a station PRODUCING a newscast has control over the station airing the programming.

Is WIS set-up that they can take control at 10pm?? Who the hell was in master control? I would think someone should have a monitor to see that network was still on at 10pm (they weren't in a break).
 
Probably--pre-set. And if not, if they had some kind of board op, didn't they
notice the football game ran over and delayed everything?

> Is WIS set-up that they can take control at 10pm?? Who the
> hell was in master control? I would think someone should
> have a monitor to see that network was still on at 10pm
> (they weren't in a break).
>
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I think this was only the second or third time during the entire 2005/2006 NFL season that Fox's Sunday-night primetime scheduled was pushed back.

Usually, Fox's Sunday prime-time program schedule is joined in-progress so that it ends at 10 P.M. ET, allowing local affiliate newscasts to start on-schedule.

Maybe the "powers that be" thought that the same situation would have occured again last night (January 15th).
 
> I think this was only the second or third time during the
> entire 2005/2006 NFL season that Fox's Sunday-night
> primetime scheduled was pushed back.
>
> Usually, Fox's Sunday prime-time program schedule is joined
> in-progress so that it ends at 10 P.M. ET, allowing local
> affiliate newscasts to start on-schedule.
>
> Maybe the "powers that be" thought that the same situation
> would have occured again last night (January 15th).
>
For those in time zones where they can watch 3 hours later (Someone in NY, for example, watching a Seattle station, for example) Was timeshifting an option?
I do agree, no one should have to wait 3 hours just to watch the last ten minutes of a show.
Fox 29 Buffalo, as far as I know, doesn't do news...too bad that channel, or another fox channel carrying 24, that does not do news, wasn't an option to tune into for many. <P ID="signature">______________
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> For those in time zones where they can watch 3 hours later
> (Someone in NY, for example, watching a Seattle station, for
> example) Was timeshifting an option?
> I do agree, no one should have to wait 3 hours just to watch
> the last ten minutes of a show.
> Fox 29 Buffalo, as far as I know, doesn't do news...too bad
> that channel, or another fox channel carrying 24, that does
> not do news, wasn't an option to tune into for many.

One thing I thought of after I posted was (after reading the article)...if the station is going to show "24" in its' entirety tonite (Monday) AFTER the second night premiere, why doesn't this station just show the first 2-hours tonight between 8 and 10pm ET, then time-delay tonight's 2-hour episode and show it later (i.e. after their 10pm newscast).

TV is like radio: neither is brain surgery.
 
Not sure what they air at 7:30 p.m., but what about bumping that show and running the last 30 minutes of Sunday night's show leading into tonight's episode? There's no solution that doesn't pose some kind of problem for viewers of one show or another now that the damage is done, but there are ways to create the least amount of disruption to the largest number of viewers.

That said, while I would be the first to be mildly frustrated if it was my show that got inadertently snipped, I'd like to think I would keep things in perspective. Human error--that's all. I wouldn't call what happened "disrespectful," as one comment in the article stated. Rather, it was a miscommunication. It happens, and life goes on. It's just TV after all.


> One thing I thought of after I posted was (after reading the
> article)...if the station is going to show "24" in its'
> entirety tonite (Monday) AFTER the second night premiere,
> why doesn't this station just show the first 2-hours tonight
> between 8 and 10pm ET, then time-delay tonight's 2-hour
> episode and show it later (i.e. after their 10pm newscast).
>
> TV is like radio: neither is brain surgery.
>
 
I watched the WIS/10 newscast tonight at five. As mentioned earlier, WIS produces the 10 0'clock news for WACH-FOX57. WIS insisted they were not the cause of last night's difficulty, and read an apology from the WACH operations manager. They also reported that WACH would air all three 24 episodes tonight beginning at 7PM.
 
> I think this was only the second or third time during the
> entire 2005/2006 NFL season that Fox's Sunday-night
> primetime scheduled was pushed back.

One time, Simpsons started about 15 minutes late. The show's intro
started and I thought, well, they're pushing the whole lineup back.
But then an announcement: we now join our reg. scheduled program,
already in progress. Huh? They make you think the whole show
is coming up once the intro rolls, then make it "JIP-ed"
(joined in progress). Was prob. a rerun.
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Out here in the fine state of Illinois our stations (or at least our affiliate) didn't preempt. We got to see the episode in its entirety.


> http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/13635789.htm
>
> FOX has been promoting the show’s two-part, two-hour season
> premiere for weeks. It was scheduled to start at 8 p.m.,
> after the conclusion of the NFL playoff game between the
> Carolina Panthers and the Chicago Bears.
>
> The game went long, pushing the start of “24” back about 10
> minutes — and ideally pushing back the start of the
> newscast.
>
> (But it didn't; news started on time at 10...)
>
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> One time, Simpsons started about 15 minutes late. The show's
> intro
> started and I thought, well, they're pushing the whole
> lineup back.
> But then an announcement: we now join our reg. scheduled
> program,
> already in progress. Huh? They make you think the whole show
>
> is coming up once the intro rolls, then make it "JIP-ed"
> (joined in progress). Was prob. a rerun.
>
The last couple of years, Fox developed a bad habit of joining a show in progress after football, but not without showing that show's intro first. And both reruns and first-runs were treated like this. Malcolm in 2004 and King of the Hill in 2005 were the most-frequent victims, sometimes with only a couple of minutes left in the program.
 
> The last couple of years, Fox developed a bad habit of
> joining a show in progress after football, but not without
> showing that show's intro first. And both reruns and
> first-runs were treated like this. Malcolm in 2004 and King
> of the Hill in 2005 were the most-frequent victims,
> sometimes with only a couple of minutes left in the program.


Since I hardly watch new Simpsons episodes anymore and don't watch KOTH, MITM or FG, this does not directly affect me.

But I imagine Fox has received quite a few calls from non-News Corp. news outlets, all of those calls unreturned.

ixnay
 
Not being a fan, I don't care. But I'm a bit amused that people are honked off their fictional violence was interrupted by real-life violence.
 
Hi everyone:

> Out here in the fine state of Illinois our stations (or at
> least our affiliate) didn't preempt. We got to see the
> episode in its entirety.

But it helps when you consider that WFLD is a FOX O&O and is more than capable of producing its own newscasts though, which is unlike some of the FOX affiliates in some of the more rural parts of America. :)

FWIW...Here in Denver, not only did FOX O&O KDVR 31 air every second of the two hour opener, it also started on time @ 7:00 PM. Not sure what they aired after the game (I'm assuming either the post-game show "The OT" or an abbreviated edition of FOX 31 News if not both), but all I know is that right at 7:00 PM (after King Of The Hill), "24" was on the air.

Just my $.02 worth :)

Cheers for now :)

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