On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Joe Hass <[email protected]> wrote: > > My guess is this: FOX had hoped that they could ask for the early game > on Sunday, so they could start the special at 7:00 pm ET. Instead, > stuck with an Arizona home game that forced them to take the late > slot, they had to assume they couldn't get anything on until 8:00 pm, > so they moved the special *after* the episode. Because instead of the > regular three Seth shows that would follow, they would only have the > one, they eliminated the joke. > > Going back to my original question: I don't think the networks know > which time slots they're going to get in the first weekend (IIRC, the > divisional late game goes to the Super Bowl broadcaster if it's CBS or > FOX, and it's predetermined if it's NBC because the other network gets > the late game for conference final Sunday).
The TV schedule in my local newspaper had the early game on Fox and the late game on CBS. It obviously went to press before the game times were known, but it does show that the networks couldn't count on time slots. Tom
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