On Wed, March 7, 2007 6:32 pm, Tracy R Reed wrote: > Christian Seberino wrote: >> I'm not a broadcaster but I would guess networks want to broadcast their >> best content at prime time (whatever that is) everywhere. >> Prime time will not be 1800Z in all of China. Now they have to have >> different advertising for each unofficial timezone with different >> showtimes. > > But that isn't a problem because each TV station can only broadcast for > a few hundred miles. So each TV station adjusts it programming schedule > for the local time and people in other areas generally don't care when > shows they can't see anyway are on. >
Well, shows are mostly piped when they're national (or satellite), and stations publish a schedule, and everybody's watch is set to the same time ... -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
