On another forum, posters were complaining the NCAA tournament coverage on CBS was delaying "60 Minutes". I was wondering "where have they been, Sunday night sports have been delaying '60 Minutes' for ages.". How many times have you seen sporting events go past their time slot and go to regular programming anyway? Was it a local or network decision? And was the sporting event moved to a subchannel, cable, or just not shown?
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Sporting events that DIDN'T delay programs
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The only sport i know of these days that gets that treatment is golf- but usually NBC or CBS use the Golf Channel if a round runs past 6pm.
the Heidi Bowl
Heidi was pretty big in 68 networks keep the sports on networks get complaints either way. But the game sure didn't hurt 60 minutes as it was the most watched since 08 I haven't watched 60 minutes in years was never a fan of the show. I never understand why CBS just doesn't put 60 Minutes on at 8PM during NFL season and do an NFL post game show like Fox has done with the late games.
Me and my friends always joke around when we get the inevitable stinger about "60 Minutes will air in it's entirety immediately following **insert sporting event here** coverage. We are on the West Coast so it's never been an issue but like clockwork whenever 4pm Pacific Sunday rolls around and we're watching a game we always go into old man and old woman voices declaring... "Hello, I would like to watch my 60 Minutes! Sir? Where is 60 Minutes? I wanna see Andy Roooooooney!"
Hey old people, this has happened for literally decades but it strikes me as hilarious that there is someone in the Eastern Time Zone getting fired up about this delay and is prepared to write the "Mother of All Letters" to their local CBS affiliate or start calling to voice their concern for this unacceptable travesty. Every.Single.Weekend.
Just a heads up, CBS will do the same next weekend for The Masters. They will NOT throw The Masters to another channel if it runs long... period.
Hey old people, this has happened for literally decades but it strikes me as hilarious that there is someone in the Eastern Time Zone getting fired up about this delay and is prepared to write the "Mother of All Letters" to their local CBS affiliate or start calling to voice their concern for this unacceptable travesty. Every.Single.Weekend.
Just a heads up, CBS will do the same next weekend for The Masters. They will NOT throw The Masters to another channel if it runs long... period.
'Old People With A Stopwatch follows the game. THIS IS...CEE-BEE-ESS!';-)
OMG--The Masters ended on time! Everyone can stay calm tonight that 60 Minutes started on time tonight.
Back in the mid-2000s, Fox was notorious with continuing live sports coverage (mainly NFL). For example, on Sundays after the game(s) were finished, Fox would air the postgame shows followed by 10-15 minute commercial breaks. Then the opening theme to Fox's Sunday sitcom lineup (mostly King of the Hill, Malcolm in the Middle, even the Simpsons) would show followed by another 10 minute commercial break and "we now resume to regular programming" cutting out a huge majority of the episode(s) airing all because of commercial breaks being TOO long.
Eventually, this led Fox to do a postgame show at 6pm in case of the NFL going past primetime.
Eventually, this led Fox to do a postgame show at 6pm in case of the NFL going past primetime.
OMG--The Masters ended on time! Everyone can stay calm tonight that 60 Minutes started on time tonight.
not to nitpick but it actually started at 6:02 Central
not to nitpick but it actually started at 6:02 Central
so it was on timeish
Even though this happens every year, CBS going long for NFL, basketball and golf drives my fiancee crazy. She is one of those people who doesn't understand why broadcast networks carry certain events "when there are a million sports channels." My annual explanations do not seem to sink in. But even I don't understand why CBS just doesn't put 60 Minutes at 7:30 on a day like two Sundays ago when there was no way in the world that regional final was going to end by 7.
Fox gets it right with football. They put the postgame show on until 8 and then launch into their Sunday night programming, almost always on time unless a 4:25 game goes really, really long. CBS could take a cue, shortening their Sunday prime time by an hour and doing a football postgame until 60 Minutes starts at 8.
Fox gets it right with football. They put the postgame show on until 8 and then launch into their Sunday night programming, almost always on time unless a 4:25 game goes really, really long. CBS could take a cue, shortening their Sunday prime time by an hour and doing a football postgame until 60 Minutes starts at 8.
Central. So for me it would have been 7:02.not to nitpick but it actually started at 6:02 Central
I remember reading somewhere that Fox was surprised shows airing at 7:00 did so poorly in the ratings. Well, of course they did. People in the East never got to see the 7:00 show in its entirety.
I remember those days (2004 and 2005 seasons for sure--IIRC the extra postgame might have started with the '06 season). I think on the predecessor board and the early days of this one in 2005, there was a period where there was likely either an ongoing thread (or a individual thread or a sidetopic on another thread) just for what Fox did on the weeks of NFL games delaying Fox's 7ET Sunday night programming.
But IIRC weren't those delayed episodes reruns to begin with--or were new original episodes affected? (Only to be aired in their entirety later in the season).
Maybe CBS isn't doing that since 9ET might be past bedtime for some members of the "60 Minutes" audience.
But I agree--that's what CBS needs to do. Delay 60 Minutes until 8/7 (or run an extended version of 60 Minutes with special extra inserts or even add a "Where Are They Now?" feature following up on a classic interview/investigation, or even a rerun of some of the best Andy Rooney segments too.
The one issue i've had with CBS- and it goes way back- was the quick dumps they do sometimes around 7pm ET to get to "60 Minutes"- such as after an exciting game- like the Texans-Seahawks game last year- since they could have spent another minute or two after the game.
but before then, they would always join a show in progress, like several episodes of Futurama
Mostly they were new episodes and Fox probably aired them later in the season or not at all (in syndication perhaps). Which really irritated me about Fox and why they would rather air long amounts of commercials instead of joining the program in progress only to catch the last 5 minutes of their programming before Family Guy showed up.
I feel bad for those working the CBS or local affiliate switchboards tonight, the PGA tournament coverage is running over tonight for the trophy presentation, even though it was determined that Brooks Kopeka won the tournament right at 7PM ET. Looks like 60 Minutes is being delayed for the trophy presentation--I don't know how well that's going over among some people.
I can hear it now: "No trophy . . . No talk . . . No celebration . . . No commericials . . . Say So Long and then Tick-Tick-Tick!!!"
UPDATE: "60 Minutes" started at 7:20 EDT.
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Didn't that treatment during NFL season eventually contribute to the cancellation of Malcolm and Futurama, and maybe even King of the Hill too?
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