TV Station Gets Flak For Interrupting "Jeopardy!" Rerun With Storm Updates

[azumanga]

Re: TV Station Gets Flak For Interrupting "Jeopardy!" Rerun With Storm Updates

There are some breaks in coverage for local ad time that can be used for local opt-outs at the station's discretion (for ABC affiliates, see http://www.abcnewsone.tv/?q=node/3347 )

What about Alaska and Hawaii? I think the ABC stations in Alaska use "Central" timing for their schedule, but as for KITV in Hawaii, no doubt the coverage will cut out the 10PM news, Nightline and Jimmy Kimmel entirely.

 

[recto101]

Re: TV Station Gets Flak For Interrupting "Jeopardy!" Rerun With Storm Updates

Remember back in 2003 didn't the Iraq War coverage had to give way to the Shuttle disaster that year? for a few days then back to the war again. What was the reaction that year?

 

[recto101]

Re: TV Station Gets Flak For Interrupting "Jeopardy!" Rerun With Storm Updates

Didn't any San Francisco TV station air the Barry Bonds verdict live or was this only seen on CNN and ESPN?

 

[JeeperOne]

Re: TV Station Gets Flak For Interrupting "Jeopardy!" Rerun With Storm Updates

Some people seem to think that their favorite TV shows are more important than INFORMATION THAT CAN SAVE THEIR LIVES !!!

Go figure :

 

[firepoint525]

Re: TV Station Gets Flak For Interrupting "Jeopardy!" Rerun With Storm Updates

There are some breaks in coverage for local ad time that can be used for local opt-outs at the station's discretion (for ABC affiliates, see http://www.abcnewsone.tv/?q=node/3347 )

What about Alaska and Hawaii? I think the ABC stations in Alaska use "Central" timing for their schedule, but as for KITV in Hawaii, no doubt the coverage will cut out the 10PM news, Nightline and Jimmy Kimmel entirely.

We here on central time use eastern time for our programming, so eastern and central times (for programming purposes) are essentially the same.

 

[firepoint525]

Re: TV Station Gets Flak For Interrupting "Jeopardy!" Rerun With Storm Updates

Remember back in 2003 didn't the Iraq War coverage had to give way to the Shuttle disaster that year? for a few days then back to the war again. What was the reaction that year?

The Iraq war hadn't officially started yet, so it may have been more of a coverage of the buildup to the Iraq war.

 

[recto101]

Re: TV Station Gets Flak For Interrupting "Jeopardy!" Rerun With Storm Updates

Remember back in 2003 didn't the Iraq War coverage had to give way to the Shuttle disaster that year? for a few days then back to the war again. What was the reaction that year?

The Iraq war hadn't officially started yet, so it may have been more of a coverage of the buildup to the Iraq war.

Wait Thats probably UN inspectors in Iraq when the Shuttle disaster happend in 2003.

 

[searadiofreak]

Re: TV Station Gets Flak For Interrupting "Jeopardy!" Rerun With Storm Updates

There are some breaks in coverage for local ad time that can be used for local opt-outs at the station's discretion (for ABC affiliates, see http://www.abcnewsone.tv/?q=node/3347 )

What about Alaska and Hawaii? I think the ABC stations in Alaska use "Central" timing for their schedule, but as for KITV in Hawaii, no doubt the coverage will cut out the 10PM news, Nightline and Jimmy Kimmel entirely.

We here on central time use eastern time for our programming, so eastern and central times (for programming purposes) are essentially the same.

Yes, the central feed of network programming has been at the same time as eastern almost since the beginning of network TV.
Not sure the history of that, but I'm sure in the early days it was determined that most of the population existed in those two time zones so why not send the feed at the same time, especially with live tv in play.

As for Alaska, yes they use the central time grid, but it is obviously delayed. The eastern/central feed would be fed to Alaska 4 hours early Alaska time.

 

[WPPCProductions]

Re: TV Station Gets Flak For Interrupting "Jeopardy!" Rerun With Storm Updates

Alot of people forget.the tv stations are there to serve the public.Who gives a bloody dam if they break into a program.whats more Important.saving peoples lives or some soap opera where someone in bed having a good ole time.This thread reminds me of the other thread about weather related break in's.Lives are more important then programing.

 

[BlueWanderer]

Re: TV Station Gets Flak For Interrupting "Jeopardy!" Rerun With Storm Updates

I don't mind the stations alerting the public about bad weather in the area. However, I do question their methods on alerting the public.

Trying to watch a new episode of House about a couple weeks ago on my local Fox affiliate was very frustrating. Now, I don't mind the weather crawls or maps on the screen that were already there. Those I completely understand. However, muting the program's audio on and off throughout the show and replacing it with that scary sounding weather alert computer voice seemed a little excessive in my opinion.

 

[azumanga]

Re: TV Station Gets Flak For Interrupting "Jeopardy!" Rerun With Storm Updates

As for Alaska, yes they use the central time grid, but it is obviously delayed. The eastern/central feed would be fed to Alaska 4 hours early Alaska time.

But doesn't most Alaska stations take their feed from the Pacific feed?

 

[vchimpanzee]

Re: TV Station Gets Flak For Interrupting "Jeopardy!" Rerun With Storm Updates

I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned that OTA tv stations, as well as radio stations, are licensed to "operate in the public interest". If stations fail to do this they are violating the law and could lose their license. Basic broadcasting 101, but that seems to have been lost.

a scroll at the bottom of the screen is probably enough

Absolutely. Only if you have a situation like what happened in and around Raleigh, NC on April 16 do you justify this wall-to-wall coverage. Because if you do that too much, people will get frustrated about missing their shows and just ignore it because ... oh, they're doing THAT again. But two stations where I live have a policy about not doing wall-to-wall coverage. So if they do it, you'd BETTER watch. The other two stations jump at the chance to go all evening shwoing off their fancy technology, which means nothing to me. Though during a newscast once, I did get to see a meteorologist try out his new gadget fresh out of the box, which he hand't done yet. That was interesting.

The best way to do it is Mary Alice Young coverage. I remember once a meteorologist ended his weather bulletin PRECISELY at the end of the recap of what had happened previously on "Desperate Housewives".

 

[vchimpanzee]

Re: TV Station Gets Flak For Interrupting "Jeopardy!" Rerun With Storm Updates

But granted, it's not the same thing: if I'm not mistaken, the episode of Jeopardy! that aired on Saturday was a rerun.

Well, what if I didn't see the episode the first time?

For example, because of STORM coverage.

 

[firepoint525]

Re: TV Station Gets Flak For Interrupting "Jeopardy!" Rerun With Storm Updates

Here in Nashville, two years ago on the Fourth of July, we had a series of storms on the same day that former Tennessee Titans quarterback Steve McNair was found murdered. So the news and weather teams took turns nearly all day alternating McNair coverage and storm tracking. It was a strange day, indeed.

Today, we had more storm coverage, and channel 5 has rescheduled the airing of today's episode of Ellen to overnight hours, weather permitting, of course. This is the only time (that I can recall, anyway) that anyone has ever bothered to reschedule a syndicated program that was originally interrupted for weather coverage.

 

[DToTheJ]

Re: TV Station Gets Flak For Interrupting "Jeopardy!" Rerun With Storm Updates

I saw St. Louis was hit with violent storms over the weekend. They even shifted the Cardinals game from the all-news station to an AC station on Friday night. Imagine if the "royal wedding" was last Friday instead of this Friday.

 

[kenglish]

Re: TV Station Gets Flak For Interrupting "Jeopardy!" Rerun With Storm Updates

"Your neighbors are dead. Tune in tonight at six, and see how it happened. We now return you to regular programming. BTW, You might be next." ;D

 

[azumanga]

Re: TV Station Gets Flak For Interrupting "Jeopardy!" Rerun With Storm Updates

"Your neighbors are dead. Tune in tonight at six, and see how it happened. We now return you to regular programming. BTW, You might be next." ;D

Where did that come from?

 

[kenglish]

Re: TV Station Gets Flak For Interrupting "Jeopardy!" Rerun With Storm Updates

Storm coverage...short, sweet and to the point. ;D

 

[bpatrick]

Re: TV Station Gets Flak For Interrupting "Jeopardy!" Rerun With Storm Updates

That's probably what those people who protested WJLA's interrupting
"Jeopardy!" would like. But I can tell you from experience it's no laughing
matter. While my immediate area dodged a bullet two weeks ago, I remember
one Sunday in 1973 when a tornado came through our section of Birmingham,
picking off houses (especially rooftops) at random, and doing considerable
damage to the business district of our suburb. Again, we were lucky our house
did not sustain any damage (especially given that we were in the process of
selling the house because we were moving to Tampa), but a lot of people did;
fortunately, no one was killed. It's times like those when some of us don't care
if "Jeopardy!" (or whatever regularly-scheduled program is on) gets pre-empted.

 

[w9wi]

Re: TV Station Gets Flak For Interrupting "Jeopardy!" Rerun With Storm Updates

Today, we had more storm coverage, and channel 5 has rescheduled the airing of today's episode of Ellen to overnight hours, weather permitting, of course. This is the only time (that I can recall, anyway) that anyone has ever bothered to reschedule a syndicated program that was originally interrupted for weather coverage.

Channel 4 has done that with Oprah several times.