On Oct 20, 3:06 am, JW <[email protected]> wrote:
> In the '70s, on weeks where CBS' single game was early, I'd turn on my
> affiliate at 7:00 to see 60 Minutes, and they'd join the end of their
> late national game. I always assumed that was so they could keep the
> network together, and that technology has since made that unnecessary.
And until "60 Minutes" became the number one show on television
(thanks to NFL lead-ins and the nets getting 7 p.m. on Sunday back
with the understanding that programming had to be children's, news or
pubaffairs), if there was an overrun, Hewitt would cut segments so
that "60" would end right at 7:58:30 no matter what. When too many
viewers complained, they started delaying the entire schedule on NFL
overruns--although on this past Sunday night, Andy Rooney and the
letters (if they still do the letters) got cut to compensate for the
long overrun.
And I'm assuming that the general rule is that a reporter whose story
is not on that week is the one who's in the studio live each week in
case breaking news happens or they need to adjust an overrun.
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