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WBZ scrunching credits

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For quite a few years now, WBZ usually scrunches the credits of The Price is Right for a promo of the news at Noon. For those of you who watch TPIR regularly, you'll know that they go through all the promotional consideration, which is usually done old-style over shots of the contestants, crowd, and showcases won. Then the announcer says "This is George Gray speaking for The Price is Right, a Fremantle Media Production." And then they cut to the split-screen credits provided by CBS.

WBZ usually scrunches it right after Drew signs off, and they try hard to finish the promo before it cuts to the split screen credits. But for the past few days, they have not done a very good job, especially today. They waited until AFTER George's announcement, and the entire split screen was scrunched, and they weren't done with the news promo until halfway into the next CBS promo after the credits were over. Do you think CBS could sue them?
 
That would be CBS suing itself, which makes no sense.

And I doubt the Price is Right people are going to be highly upset anyway.
 
There's usually about a minute between the end of the show and noon Eastern. WFSB-TV channel 3 of Hartford usually waits for the CBS feed to finish before they say what's on Eyewitness News at Noon.
 
I just watched today and they didn't scrunch them at all. I've seen occasions where they forgot to. I can usually tell when they're going to, because I noticed that whenever WBZ runs a ticker on the bottom of the screen, goes to a split-screen breaking news report, or scrunches the credits, there's usually about a split second of audio cut out. So I don't know if WBZ is gonna decide to not do that news promo anymore, or if it was just a glitch. Maybe someone there read my post. ;)
 
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