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TBS & TNT are both showing The Wizard of Oz-at the same time.

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What a strange coindence. Is this the first time that it ever happened to both cable channels? I hope "A Christmas Story" might be next to get it simulcast.


"You'll shoot your eye out, kid. Ho, Ho, Ho!" -Santa Claus, "A Christmas Story"
 
They did it with Hitch a few months back as well. Were the ads the same on both networks?

There was also a time in the last few years that TBS and Turner Classic Movies were both carrying Back to the Future at the same time on a Saturday afternoon. They both ended at the same time, but TBS's broadcast started earlier since it had commercials and TCM's was commercial free. Also, TCM's version was unedited while TBS's version was the edited for TV version.

I'd definitely like to see a simulcast happen with A Christmas Story as well. It shows up on all the Turner networks during Christmas. The broadcast of 24 hours of A Christmas Story moved from TNT to TBS in the last few years, after TBS went to emphasizing carrying mostly comedies.
 
Why would they do this?

Interesting, at least on the digital tier or my cable service: -- on TNT-HD, the movie was 4x3, on TBS-HD, the movie was widescreen.
 
There could be a strong possibilty that "The Wizard of Oz" could pop up over on Cartoon Network, which has been for now, trying to show more live-action shows and other family programming as it tries to catch up with Nick.

I think TBS & TNT also showed SpiderMan (The First Movie) simultaneously as well. The Other 2 SpiderMan films are on F/X as we speak.
 
I think I may have one of the reasons. Here in the Raleigh/Durham Area (North Carolina), WTBS is on Tier 1 while TNT is on Tier 2.(Time Warner) Now everyone can watch the "Wizard" for the 300th time! ;D
 
They also do this for the SAG - Screen Actors Guild Awards. It used to just air on TNT, but now they simulcast it on TBS as well, but with different commercials.

I guess it's just another way to maximize ad revenue.
 
Troy Goodwin said:
There could be a strong possibilty that "The Wizard of Oz" could pop up over on Cartoon Network, which has been for now, trying to show more live-action shows and other family programming as it tries to catch up with Nick.

I think TBS & TNT also showed SpiderMan (The First Movie) simultaneously as well. The Other 2 SpiderMan films are on F/X as we speak.
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Several months ago, they aired the first Spider-Man film on Cartoon Network. Yes, the 2002 live-action film. Go figure. Then again, when SCI FI airs wrestling, episodes of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and Braveheart (as they did in 2002), and forsakes the genre it's named after, I guess all bets are off for other channels to stay genre-specific.
 
Stuart Greenberg said:
Mark,
I do not understand how the Screen Actors Guild Awards is part of the dual station concept. ???
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What do you mean by the "dual station concept?" They just air it on both networks. It gets more attention when it airs on both, even though most people get both stations.
 
Indeed, I have both...on channels 34 and 35. Another awards show *click*
Another Awards show *click*
Ice Hockey (Versus) *click*
More non Music Programming (MTV) *click*


Nothing good on my cable between channel 30 (ESPN 2) and 50 (A&E)

:p
 
Well, NBC has the rights to show the beloved Holiday Classic, "It's a Wonderful Life", I might have a hunch that the movie might pop up on its sibling cable networks USA & Bravo. Those latter 2 could show the movie simultaneously on and around Thanksgiving, like TBS & TNT did to "The Wizard of Oz".
 
anotherguy said:
I'd definitely like to see a simulcast happen with A Christmas Story as well. It shows up on all the Turner networks during Christmas. The broadcast of 24 hours of A Christmas Story moved from TNT to TBS in the last few years, after TBS went to emphasizing carrying mostly comedies.
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Same here, infact someone did the math once, and I think it turned out that if lets say TCM showed it ad free, unedited, and with 1 minute breaks between each movie, the movie could be shown 13 times in a 24hr period, over the standard 12 it gets now. That would nice, but ofcoarse would result in odd starting time.
 
Troy Goodwin said:
Well, NBC has the rights to show the beloved Holiday Classic, "It's a Wonderful Life", I might have a hunch that the movie might pop up on its sibling cable networks USA & Bravo.
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...of course, back when the copyright to that picture was considered to have been somewhere in the "public domain" no-man's-land of the '80s, IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE could be seen in Chicago on Christmas Day 1984 over WGN-TV/9, WXXW/20, WFLD/32 and WPWR/60 at overlapping times ;-) ...
 
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