The longest running NFL Sunday afternoon game yet?

Iowan · Oct 18, 2009

I tune in at 9 P.M. and there's no Cold Case on yet. I don't think Three Rivers even aired yet! It's 9:07 P.M. (as I type) and The Amazing Race is still on! Which game is responsible for this long delay?

oldiesfan6479 · Oct 18, 2009

Iowan said:
Which game is responsible for this long delay?

BUF/NYJ (which most of the TN/NE audience was switched to at the top
of the 3Q due to the NE massacre) went into OT and didn't end until about
8:10 PM ET.

JP's NFL Maps Forum is all over this:

http://the506.com/yabb/YaBB.pl?num=1255910199

BTW, I'm not sure if Cold Case is the 9/8 or 10/9 show, but it's been
postponed tonight due to the NFL overrun--this is mentioned in the
linked thread.

JayR · Oct 19, 2009

From WHNT.com:

CBS Preempts Cold Case After NFL Runs Long

MarcB · Oct 19, 2009

Okay. So that explains why after Three Rivers Ended at 11:14 and they were running previews for next week's episode WFSB in Hartford switched to their local news despite it saying at the bottom of the screen above the credits for Three Rivers that Cold Case was coming up next. BTW, it was my first time watching Three Rivers. Good show.

azumanga · Oct 19, 2009

MarcB said:
Okay. So that explains why after Three Rivers Ended at 11:14 and they were running previews for next week's episode WFSB in Hartford switched to their local news despite it saying at the bottom of the screen above the credits for Three Rivers that Cold Case was coming up next.

Apparently, the "coming up next" note was mainly for the rerun carried "live" in Mountain Time, where stations there showed "Cold Case" while Eastern and Central stations went to news.

oldiesfan6479 · Oct 19, 2009

azumanga said:
Apparently, the "coming up next" note was mainly for the rerun carried "live" in Mountain Time, where stations there showed "Cold Case" while Eastern and Central stations went to news.

Unless it was a (rerun) episode-specific promo note, it was more likely the
pre-produced credits/next show promo built into end of the program on the
playback server, and since the pre-emption decision was made only a few
hours prior, there wouldn't be any network production control staff on duty
(to redo and reinsert a corrected piece), only network master control folks
running the on-air net. But it worked out for the Mountain zone (and the
left coast feed).

Curious if anyone knows how the Cold Case rerun was fed to the Mountain
zone stations. There wouldn't have been any network time earlier, from when
the pre-emption decision was made, unless it was fed on another transponder.

I'll second azumanga's thought, in that if the NYC origination goes dark after
prime time on Sundays, they probably just fed it on the regular bird after
Three Rivers, and assuming "CBS Aiah Control New Yawk" alerted all stations
this was a special rerun show for the Mountain zone only.

DToTheJ · Oct 20, 2009

MarcB said:
Okay. So that explains why after Three Rivers Ended at 11:14 and they were running previews for next week's episode WFSB in Hartford switched to their local news despite it saying at the bottom of the screen above the credits for Three Rivers that Cold Case was coming up next. BTW, it was my first time watching Three Rivers. Good show.

JayR · Oct 21, 2009

From the Futon Critic:

CBS ADDS SECOND RUN OF NFL-DELAYED "THREE RIVERS," "COLD CASE"

The episode of Cold Case originally scheduled to air this past Sunday will now air this upcoming Sunday.

Yeziknoradio · Oct 23, 2009

Here's a good question:

I'm in Canada. CTV Canada has the Cdn rights to the Amazing race.

Since Amazing race is not a live show, can CTV go ahead and air the show before CBS does (at 8pm)? Or do they actually have to wait until CBS is done with the game?

(CTV is not carrying the Bills game)

bpatrick · Oct 23, 2009

I don't know if it's still the practice, but Canadian
stations used to run U.S. shows several days before
their airing in this country. So I don't know why
"Amazing Race" couldn't start on time in Canada.

Do y'all mean to tell me that the Bills game ran longer
than a Falcons-Cowboys game I remember from 1976?
At the time the NFL was cracking down on holding, and
there must have been holding called on every other play.
I'm surprised that game isn't still in progress.

compubit · Oct 25, 2009

I watched CTV's coverage TAR last Sunday (18th), and it aired at the normal time (8 ET), more than 1 hour before it aired in the US...

I do know that Global TV, which used to carry most of the Fox Sunday night lineup used to delay to match US - for Simsub (simultaneous substitution) of the US Fox channels...

Jim

azumanga · Oct 25, 2009

Jim said:
I do know that Global TV, which used to carry most of the Fox Sunday night lineup used to delay to match US - for Simsub (simultaneous substitution) of the US Fox channels...

In 2008 following Super Bowl XLII, Fox had the game, and had scheduled a new episode of "House" following it. In Canada, CTV had the rights to the game, but Global had "House". At 10PM, when "House" was supposed to start on Fox, Global (in Ontario and Quebec, at least) instead presented a "special edition" of its newscast, "Global National", which remained until Fox began "House" at 10:18, which at that point Global began to "simsub" House over Fox.

vchimpanzee · Oct 26, 2009

bpatrick said:
I don't know if it's still the practice, but Canadian
stations used to run U.S. shows several days before
their airing in this country. So I don't know why
"Amazing Race" couldn't start on time in Canada.

The CW Smallville board last season had a special topic where Canadian viewers could post and not spoil things for the Americans who wouldn't get to see it until the next night.

I haven't seen that this year.